of the soul. From the prevalence of that symbol, and the consequent coincidence of the names, it happened that the Greek sculptors frequently represented Psyche a subject to Cupid in the shape of a butterfly; and that even when she appears in their works under the human form, we find her decorated with the light and filmy wings of that gay insect. (b) ment, and pithiness of expression, cannot be excelled, even by the ballads of Homer bound together for the amusement of the Dauphin, the crying but pious heroes of him of Mantua, or the pedantic absurdites of the "Cromwelian." This poem is a most exquisite specimen of the Doric; and its effect upon its reader so ) It is worthy of remark that in the north and west of Eng-prodigious, that to use the language of that learned and, the moths that fly into candles are called saules (souls,) per. starch of light. For the same reason probably the common eople in Germany call them ghosts (geistchen.) ups from the old notion, that the souls of the dead fly at night Vegetation in cold climates.-The following is a calen- Plants shed their seed................... Do. 10th. From August 18th to June 22, snow and ice.Thus appears, that from their first emerging from the ground o the ripening of their seeds, the plants take but a conth; and spring, summer and autumn, are crowded to the short space of 56 days. The month of November just closed, has been so much ilder than the corresponding month of last year, that te average range of the thermometer, according to an curate daily register, has been higher by four de rees. Correspondence. Now Billy vent to his shop-board to veep, And vept himself full fast asleep : This verse is quite soul-barrassing: irritated by his mistress's taunts and neglects, Billy rushes magnanimously to his shop; he surveys his board with the pedagogue, my good friend, Mr. Lemuel Losgpbiz, it hatred of despair, as the accursed cause of his misery; can either sublimate the soaring soul above the sub-then sits down (cross-legged we are to presume) and lunary system of solidities, or precipitate it to the dis- sinks into Morpheus' arms; but either the uneasiness mal depths of Dis, darkness and desperation. of his tortured mind, or Turk-like position, produces a dream so singular, that, blinded by his ideas of fatalism, he obeys the voice of the enemy of mankind, like another Santon Barissa, and prepares to murder the object of his idolatry, "Oh tempora, oh mores!" There is a good deal of fine poetry in this verse, but the succeeding one is evidently the chef d'œuvre of the whole poem. The poem is printed in black letter, in fine preservation, and bearing a date so early as 1650; but, alas! the author's name is concealed; nor have I, with all my researches, ascertained this important point: its date, however, and a few allusions in the preface, strongly incline me to believe it a translation from the Italian of Dante; and the deep horrific spirit it breathes, softened down and shaded by the lighter graces of poetry, bears ample testimony to its being the production of the author of the "Inferno." The poem is entitled "The ryght merry and gamesome lyfe and trystefull death of Gwylliam White, ycleped Billy." Then follows a long preface or proem, and finally comes the poem itself. The first stanzas are: "Willy Whyte was a tailor by trade, Now to poison her he was wery, wery loth, Yet he mixed it up in some sheep's-head broth; So she drank it all up, as long as she was able, And fell, smack dead, right under the table. This is most exquisite: the sound here is the complete echo of the sense. How fine is the delay pictured by the repetition of the word, "wery!" how tender is his care in mixing the deadly drug in a liquor it should seem his victim was partial to! then how awfully imposing the quick hurried monosyllables of the third line, betekening the length and depth of the And a beautifuller vench was not never seen. draft; and how agonizingly expressive the word In the first verse we ascertain the lowness of our "smack," in the fourth line! We feel, we hear the hero's origin, a circumstance which true merit can fall; the dead lumpy weight of the hapless maiden's SIR-Having had for a long time a great desire alone gild or efface; and this fine and original apothegm corpse is present to our view; the empty porringer; o appear upon the stage, I should with great plea. (my own) is beautifully introduced into the second the mute despair expressed in the elongated face, exure attend the amateur performance. The charac-line by the word "natty," a term which, though now tended eyes, and chattering teeth of the conscienceers i should choose would be Shylock, in the Mer- nearly obsolete, is matchless for conciseness and force; struck Billy. Let us draw a veil o'er this terrible hant of Venice; or Sir Giles Overreach, in A New and here the great art of the author is displayed.-scene: it is more horribly horrifying than the “rueing Way to pay Old Debts; or any such characters as these If any of your correspondents will be kind After having read the first line, we naturally set the of the babe unborn," in Chevy Chace," or the pumpenough to give me an answer to this, it will oblige, Yours, J. D. Nov. 30, 1820. TO THE EDITOR. TO THE EDITOR. SIR-1 should be obliged if you or any of your numerous readers would inform me, in what character the Prince of Wales, now his present Majesty, appeared in the celebrated masquerade given by the late Richard Walker, Esq. late of Dukestreet, Liverpool, then residing in Stanhope-street, Mayfair, London, about May, 1800. Nov. 29, 1820. M. C. hero down as a pusilanimous, weak creature, as form- kin nose of Cherubina, in the "Heroine." Old Nick sent me here to bring you away; After the execution of the foul deed, Billy takes a few drops of a composing draught, and steps into bed; when lo! appears to his astonished sight the ghost of a mutton, in all the composing dignity of head and tail, fore-quarter and hind-quarter, and in the calmest manner reproaches White for the double murder. The simple language of nature, exemplified in the word "Bah," is one of the happiest and most touching strokes in the whole poem; and swearing by its "word," is a strong and presumptive proof that the "olden poets" believed in the "Metempsychosis,” of literature, had robbed her mind of its feminine softness, and in its lieu imparted a rich soil for cultiva- and that the sheep was only practising a fashionable tion; in short, Sally was a blue stoeking. White pro- oath before its infusion into the body of some mincing bably had never let his studies migrate beyond "Read-macaroni, or birth-night belle. The devil here shows ing made easy," or the "Multiplication Table," and himself no better than he should be, an aider and consequently was despised by her he adored. The abettor of suicide; yet there is one exquisite touch of great beauty of this quadruplet consists in what Quin- sensibility,-in giving him his garters, as an instrument tilian calls the "Demonstrativum," and Dr. Blair of self-destruction; an article of wearing apparel, dear « The finger-post system,” (ex. gr.); "this here" and to every life-wearied, death-seeking Damon and "this;" it marks the objects very distinctly, and when Phillis, since the days of Sophonisba, and Hansi, the wife of Choary; to those of her, famous in song and well introduced, is far from being cacophonous. minstrelsy, ycleped "Bailly." With these instruments White tucks himself up, and makes his exit from “this Now this Sall Green, as you must know, Loved this here White but very so so; TO THE EDITOR. For she was a maid vell warsed in letters, And wery well fit to be this here White's betters. SIR,-Perhaps Addison was not fully aware how Alas poor White! thy fate was cruel indeed: with much he was verifying that trite motto of Horace's, all Sally's beauty her high soul disdained a connexion = dulce est desipere in loco," when he set his brains to where the feast of reason would not preside; her work to find out, and lay before the public, a disserta-finished education, and constant association with men ion on the beauties of "Chevy Chace;" yet I have known several respectable personages who, quite saisfied that every thing from that great master's pen must be good, have read the same critique with as great a ratio of pleasurable feelings, as the brother one, on "Paradise Lost," afforded them. Hoping, therefore, that the generality of my readers may be as purblind as the above-mentioned gentlemen, and with all due sense of my own audacity in following a path my illustrious prototype has trod before me, I beg leave to hand you a few critical remarks on a poem I discovered a few days ago, among my antiquarian researches, which for wastness of design, originality of idea, pathos of senti Billy, meo periculo. dull mundane orb, replete with sin and wickedness, (hem, my own) first putting his legs astride the sheep, who acts the part of a post-horse to carry him to his infernal journey's end. Fashions for December. Then off they wanished in a flame of fire, As how they'd not never seen such a sight before, This is sublimissimum sublimississimorum; every line is Dantean, every semi-demi-syllable terribly terrific; the images of horror in the first line, their effect in the second, and the unprecedented, unexampled, and unfuturable testimony in the third and fourth, are truly magnificent, and would pass the ordeal of the most fiery critic in Europe; all is grand, lofty, senorous and intelligible. In the first line we tremble, the next we shake; in the third we have a bad fit of the ague, and the fourth throws us into violent hysterics, from which the gentle anodyne of the "moral," as soft as sighing southern gales, and as effective as sal volatile, comes upon us, and, shedding its witching balm around us, restores our senses and ideas to their former harmony. Now all ye maids and married, FRENCH CARRIAGE DRESS.-Round dress of cam- ENGLISH CARRIAGE DRESS.-Round high dress of bright grey bombasine; the skirt trimmed at the bot Take varning by this chap what's dead; For if he had not never done nobody no wrong, He might have been here to hear this here song. This is as refreshing as an ice-cream in July; and FULL DRESS. A pink figured satin slip, terminated here the poet reins in his gloomy imagination, and at the bottom by a full rouleau of gros de Naples to laying aside the tragic buskin, pours forth as soft manufacture, finished at the bottom by a very full fall correspond, over which is a white lace dress of Urling's and sweet a quadruplet as ever trilled from the pen of imitation Valenciennes lace, headed by a narrow rouof Petrarch, or the author of the "Babes in the wood;"leau of pink figured satin; bouquets of mingled white composing and allaying our disordered souls by his tances on this rouleau; a second flounce, headed in a and red roses and blue bells are placed at regular dismagical harmony, and leaving our ideas (like Tony similar manner, surmounts the one we have described. Lumpkin and his mother) in the precise same spot from which we had first commenced our journey. Oh hapless lovers! Oh divine Dante! Oh accursed sheep's head! Oh charming poesy! Son of Helicon, grandson of Pegasus, great grandson of Parnassus, and greatgreat grandson of Apollo, nurse to the nine graces, and three Muses; Minos, Rhadamanthus and Æacus, and lawful father of every good and beauty on the earth, I invoke thy potent aid; and whether you extacize my charmed ideality, or impale my Prometheanized soul with Tartarian torture, still I shall ever rest your's and Mr. Editor's servant to command, PALELOGUS MODESTUS. TO THE EDITOR. LIVERPOOL THEATRE. Our Theatre closed for the season on Friday last, "I am deputed by the Managers, on this, the "They trust that their endeavours to bring forward a constant succession of the principal performers of both the London theatres: their efforts to produce every expensive novelty, as originally acted in the metropolis; and the care with which they have collected one of the most respectable provincial companies in this country, have secured for them that at which they chiefly aim; the honour of your approbation. SIR,-Allow me, through the medium of your publication, to call the attention of the Common Council to a plan which I have just hit upon for effectually preventing those floods which Whitechapel has hitherto been occasionally subject to. Having understood that it is in contemplation to fill up the Old Dock, the basis of my plan is founded upon that circumstance. I propose that the Old Dock shall not be filled up, but be converted into a subterraneous reservoir, for the purpose of receiving the water which the common sewer may discharge during the time the tide is above the bottom of the sewer, which is the time the floods have always taken place. Such a reservoir, I am pretty confident, would be sufficiently spacious to receive all the water They beg to assure you, that however the pressure from the common sewer during the time the tide now of the times may have injured their individual interests, stops its discharge; the water afterwards to be discharged no exertion shall be wanting, no labour shall be spared into the river by means of a clow, on the ebbing of the tide, when the reservoir would be wholly emptied by the to deserve the approval of an enlightened public. time the tide again flowed as high as the clow which would then be dropped to prevent the tide flowing into the reservoir. A PARISHIONER. 66 tinuance of your patronage; and in expressing to y our sense of obligation for past favours, we beg lea most respectfully, to say, FAREWELL." To Correspondents. SIEGE OF LATHOM HOUSE.-We have reasons postponing the notes to the account of the Siege Lathom House, for a few weeks. The division the narrative into several portions will be of no in portance, as the whole will be contained in the annu volume of the Kaleidoscope. CHORAL CONCERT FOR THE BENEFIT OF TH PUBLIC CHARITIES.-We have only time to serve, in reply to several correspondents, that w entirely approve of the substitution of a Choral Ca cert for the Amateur performance at the Theatre. Although the whimsical article on the death of Te Ash, by Swift, which is recommended to our netie by a Subscriber, is pretty generally known, we shal give it a place in an early number. The account of Bilston shall be attended to. The Butterfly's Birth-day was some time since given i the Mercury, and shall also grace the poetical colum of the Kaleidoscope. The death of Voltaire, suggested by the same corresp dent, to whom we are indebted for the copy of t above-mentioned verses, is declined, as altogether consistent with the spirit of our work; because would lead to a controversy we wish to decline. correspondent must be aware that there is a very d ferent version of the death of Voltaire; which we shou probably be called upon to publish also; nor co we in fairness decline complying, if we once enten AMATEUR THEATRICALS.-We suppress the to on the subject at all. of J. B. M. to J. H. P. because it was written an erroneous impression which it is in our povert remove. J. H. P. in the last Kaleidoscope, in order accelerate the object he had in view, proposed view with the parties favourable to the mes contemplation, which meeting he had fix for the Friday evening. In our notice to correspond apologised for a liberty we had taken in substa the Thursday, because the following evening be the last of the season, and Mr. Banks' benett. 1 concluded that the change we ventured to su would tend to promote the object of our correspo and his friends. From a note with which we we subsequently favoured by J. H. P., it appeared, ever, that he was unavoidably engaged on the Th day evening; and we now regret that we didat prise the gentlemen who did meet, of this stance, as we were requested by J. H. P., bat the press of business on the Thursday evening dered impracticable. We trust that the measure has not been retarded by mere absence of J. H. P. and that the gentlemen w did meet, came to some clear understanding as to terior measures. As we do not wish to entail upon R. D. any superf trouble, we take the earliest opportunity of say that if we insert the narrative in question, we s follow the original work, to which we have ac We thank him for the labour he has incurred for accommodation. Printed, published, and sold Manchester, Mrs. Richardson. Leeds, Mr. Dewhirst. "For myself and brother performers, Ladies and OR, Literary and Scientific Mirror. “UTILE DULĢI.” No. 24.-NEW SERIES. Scientific Notices. ORIGINAL PAPER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1820. THE HARMONY OF ACTION IN THE ORGANS of it? Because, in the first case, two perceptions OF MAN. PRICE 34d. each, will thus become the seat of an imperfect im- | two nostrils; that is, superiority of organization in the "The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, A knowledge of the formation of our bodies has were originally unequal, and conveyed two different and windings as the object of his pursuit; the other The same reasoning applies to taste. The median line of the tongue sometimes separates an insensible portion of that organ, from that which still retains its sensibility. Now it is easy in this case to conceive that the taste shall be confused and irregular; because one precise perception cannot result from two unequal sensations. Thus certain bodies, which some conceive to be almost tasteless, afford to others the most agreeable or painful sensations; and the wine in which honest Sancho discovered the taste of leather and iron, was, to his friends, nowise nauseous or disagreeable. The perfection of touch is likewise essentially connected with the uniformity of action of the two symmetric halves of the body, and particularly of the two hands. Let us suppose, for instance, a blind person born with one hand completely organized, and the other deprived of the power of flexion and extension surface: this person would acquire, with great difficulty, of the fingers, so as to form a round and immoveable of them touch a small round globe, for instance, the one, by grasping it exactly with the fingers, will produce the idea of roundness; while the other, which touches it only at some points, will give rise to a totally The sense of smell comes next to be examined, and te eye when we augment the action of the other by the same reasoning will also hold good in regard to it the idea of size, shape, and direction, because an ntemplating objects through a convex glass, which Two dogs, for instance, pursue the same hare; one unique sensation will not arise from the successive apould otherwise disturb the harmony of the two never looses the track, and makes the same turnings plication of the two hands to the same object. If both gans. This fact is likewise strikingly exemplified in ose who squint. "We squint," says Buffon, "that we ay draw off the weaker eye from the object on which e stronger is fixed, in order to avoid the confusion hich would necessarily result from the perception of ro dissimilar images." On the other hand, an unity of ception is the consequence of an unity of action of le two organs on the same object; for how can it be pposed that this would take place if the same body ere to be presented to the sight and appear of a vivid pale colour, according as it is impinged on, or received 7, the one or the other retina? The same reasoning applies to the organ of hearing. a the two sensations which compose hearing, if one received by a stronger and better develloped organ, will produce a clearer and more distinct impression han the other; and the brain, differently affected by " Conscious of the recent stains, his heart So exquisitely delicate his sense." This dog receives a lively impression of thescent, which different sensation: thus he will find it difficult to form a correct judgment of the shape of the body. But his ideas would be much more precise, if he allowed one of his hands to remain inactive, as they who squint turn the weaker eye from the object, in order to avoid that confusion, which is the inevitable effect of the two sensations. Thus we see both hands reciprocally assisting each other; the one confirming the ideas which the other produces; and hence the necessity of a uniformity in their structure. Let us conclude, therefore, from what has been said, that, in the structure of the sensitive system, the harmony of action of two symmetric organs, or of two similar halves of the same organ, is essentially necessary to the perfection of the sensations. As the order, regularity, and beauty of the sun and the belief that there is an all-intelligent Boing, who commands and is obeyed; so do the harmony, the acuteness, and perfection of our senses declare that they proceed from the same source. For to use the words of the great Roman orator, "Age ut a cælestibus rebus ad terrestres veniamus; quid est in his in quo non naturæ ratio intellegentis appareat? Que sit in figuris animantium et quam sofers, subtilisque descriptio partium, quamque admirabilis fabrica membro. rum: omnia enim quæ intus inclusa sunt, ita nata, atque ita locata sunt, ut nihil eorum supervacaneum sit, nihil ad vitam retinendam non necessarium.” moon, and the other heavenly bodies, impress us with Y. Z. THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION. PRELIMINARY NOTE. As the name of Captain Scorcesby is noticed in the following article, (taken from the Literary Gazette) and as that enterprising and estimable gentleman is now a resident in Liverpool, we conceived it to be due to him to examine how far the alledged discrepancy be☺ tween his theory and the fact upon the point alluded to, was borne out; and the result of our investigation is, that the mean annual temperature of the parallel of 78 N. about the meridian of London, was determined by Captain Scoresby to be 17° of Farenheit. This re Scoresby's conjecture with regard to the means temperature daring twelve months at has been mentioned tance in natural history were chiefly the arctic gull, the glaucus, the ptarmigan (which has been called the per tridge), and a singularly beautiful duck denominated the king-duck. It affords a gratifying instance of the when the summer returned, were the mustright feeling and characteristic perseverox, of which several were killed, the deer, ance of British sailors, to tell, that the men the fox, and the mouse; the latter remained (who could not be buoyed up by the same through the winter, were numerous, and ideas of future fame which solaced their changed from brown to white. The fowis officers in suffering hardships) bore every deprivation, not merely with patience and equanimity, but with good humour. Frequently, when they had returned from a day of fatiguing and unproductive search for sult he derived from upwards of 3000 observations on game, wrapped themselves in their blankts, temperature; made in the polar seas, during twelve to try by sleep to forget their exhaustion, and consecutive years, consequently it must have a much that appetite which they durst not satisfy, lest greater chance of accuracy than the more limited ob- they should, by encroaching on their next servations of Captain Parry. From an empyrical pro- day's scanty allowance or on their general the mean temperature of the North Pole at 10". In stock, be in the end confined to these dreary this he is 22° below the calculations of almost all the regions starving and without subsistence. meteorologists, and only a few degrees above the Notwithstanding this, never a murmer esaverage temperature observed by our late voyagers; caped one of them; but for patience, fortitude, and firmness, they displayed a picture unsurpassed even by the noblest examples of English seamen. dess connected with these observations, he estimates but from the nature of the process employed, and of the reasonings adduced, we have no doubt but he very near the truth. is The expedition arrived at the entrance of Lancaster Sound, on the 1st of August, 1819. On the 7th the ships were in the Regents inlet (see the chart), and there, in about 90° of long. the variation of the nee dle was, we understand, about 120° west Stopped by ice, they left the inlet, which is supposed either to extend to Hudson's Bay, or trend along the northern shore oi America, and resumed their progress Barrow's Straits, leaving behind them Cro ker Bay (the Croker mountains of Captai Ross.) They speedily discovered the greep The following anecdote is worth preserv- of islands, where Lowther Isle is mad ing-Acting plays was one of the amuse-nine in number, and named The New G ments, devised to while away the long night gia Isles. Proceeding onward, they of the polar circle. A drama was written served, when rather more than half way by Mr. Parry, solely to please the men, the ultimate point at which they arrived called "The North West Passage." The that the variation of the needle was aber scenery was painted by Mr. Beechy, and Desirous, for the reasons stated in our the officers were the performers. The deFast, to supply as much intelligence as we light of the crews was so great that they could obtain on the subject of this interest- not only clapped, but loudly cheered the ing expedition, we have copied the Admi- actors on every favourable impression. One ralty Chart of its course, &c. in a manner of the latter was so amused with this, that suitable to the Literary Gazette; and have to state the following particulars, on which the public may rely. [Consult Vol. I. page 360 to 365, and appendix (49) of Scoreby's Account of the Arctic Regions, a recent most interesting and intelligent work, which we take this occasion to recommend to the particular notice of our readers, and from which we purpose shortly to insert some extracts in the Kaleidoscope, under the head Gleaner.-Edit. Kaleidoscope. (See a Note to Correspondents.) on making an exit, he was induced to go into the house, to see how the thing looked He happened to place himself immediately behind the boatswain and another man, who exclaimed with rapture, "Oh, it's beautiful! it's beautiful!" Beautiful, do you entered the Polar Sea call it," returned the Boatswain, "BeautiOur readers may remember Captain ful! I say by G it's philosophy !" It is as certain as important to notice, that there can be no doubt of the vessels having crossed the Magnetic Meridian, and 120° east: thus it appears that the magn meridian must lie between that degree in the degree of 90, which we observe from the chart, runs through the inlet, where the riation was towards the west. At scat compass had been quite useless since th 7th August, and it was only on land th the needle traversed. The greatest dip s above 88°; and our scientific readers, p ting these data together, will perhaps ag with us in supposing that the magnetic pe is situated somewhere on the American c tinent, between the longitudes we br mentioned, and below the latitude of " zero. On the 7th of September, after encoun- and pointed rocks, it became gently undu- steep in descent. and about ten feet broad, with tering many dangers, the vessels were an-lated. chored in Winter Harbour, Melville Island. In the beginning of November their night began, and it lasted till the beginning of February 1820, when the sun was seen for a few minutes above the horizon. This luminary gradually prolonged the time during which it rose, till in June it became constantly visible, circling round and making changeless day. On the 1st of August the vessels were released from the ice, nearly as suddenly as they had been overtaken by the winter; and our hardy countrymen with the blessing of Providence, were enabled to pursue a homeward, but still perilous course. These are the chief facts which we have Their furthest point was beyond 114° west. gathered respecting this truly gratifying exThe ice all round them in the Polar Sea was pedition, which not only reflects honour on above 50 feet thick; and no vessel could by all concerned in it, but on the country. Mr. possibility navigate farther in that direction, Barrow's prescience is happily illustrated orth, west, or south. It is probable there-by its results, which have so completely esore that Regent's Inlet will be more mi-tablished all that he predicated. Nor is lutely explored by the next expedition sent Captain Parry's eulogy to be lightly spoken: nto these parts, and that hardly any other his whole conduct has been admirable; and ttempt will be made to the westward of we imagine that this sketch will greatly in iddon's Gulph The ships were roofed crease the public anxiety to see the precise ver during the winter, and the crews details of a voyage which has opened a new id not, as reported, erect huts on shore. sea to British navigation, and gone far to Helville Island was however explored by indicate the very seat of one of the greatest unting parties, and Captain Parry crossed wonders in nature. Upon this subject, we and was absent for three weeks together. have heard that Sir H. Davy has made some is reckoned about 150 miles long, and important discoveries by experiments with from 30 to 40 broad. It is also supposed the galvanic battery at home; and we look that the whole Sea north of the American continent is broken into islands. high walls on one side. At the summit from the Hurdwar side, there is an ascent by a broad flight The distance between Winter Harbour of steps; at the tops of these the guards were stationed, to prevent the crowds pressing indiscrimi and Copper-mine River may be about 150 nately; a little before day-break the Sunyassees and or 200 miles. The whole distance which Byragees, who had the quarrel in 1796, vied with the expedition went from the mouth of Lan- each other at the top, for presedency of bathing, and made a sudden rush, in which the unfortunate caster's Sound, was about 500 miles. There sepoys, and all the multitude who were descending, were traces of old Esquimaux huts on Mel-were carried down with such violence that they got jammed together within three steps of the water, ville Island. where an angle of the old sacred Pyree Muth, and We had forgotten to mention, that the an angle of the Munder of the Mahadee closes the passage to about seven feet, and opeus with a swell owl, in full beauty of feather, seemed to behind. Here the unfortunate beings were craminhabit this inhospitable place throughout med together with such violence, that motion or use of limbs, was unavailing; the weak, the strong, in the year. vain made efforts; it was all the same, the more cxThe lowest temperature was 551o below ertion made, the more entwined their limbs became. At half-past seven, A. M. I was a witness to this horrid scene; the cries, the moans of the unfortunate multitude were heart-rending in the extreme; them was in vain. I made several attempts to exstrength, force, or any contrivance or effort to assist tract those who were in the foremost files below, but it was impossible to extract one of them, and notheir bodies, legs, and arms were so entwined, that thing equals the apathy of the rascally. Pojaree Bralıof a bright hue on the sepoys of the 5th and 27th, mins. A pleasing part of this recital throws a ray and on the Gorkeeah corps, who, though people of bigh cast and prepossessions, were stript and actively employed in extracting the dead. This was a labour of no small exertion, as they had to clear away the dead from near sixty feet, iu an angle of fifty-six were below. Colonel Patten, and several officers, degrees, before they could extract the living who by their exertions, and cheering the sepoys, induced the living who were below were extracted in a most them to clear the mass of dead away. At ten A. M. horrid state; their limbs blistered, inflamed, and in exceed thirty beings, and an extraordinary instance a state of putrefaction; the number alive did not I must record, which was a young woman who was had merely her head and arms free, under the whole mass in the centre and alive, who To this hasty enumeration of interesting articulars we shall not now add much. We eed only notice, that natural history has ot been much enriched by the objects obained. Only one bear was seen during the at Melville Island: there were no fish, have been the multitude who rushed over them "From the information I could collect from those with profound curiosity to the further deve-stance occurred, the time as stated was three, or who were present when this unfortunate circumlopement of the principles of magnetism, half-past three, A. M. and what must have been the electricity, and attraction, to which these cause of the death of those on the upper steps, must circumstances will stimulate and help the downwards, and who could not return until the miliscientific world. The tables and other data tary stopped up all the passages above, and prein Captain Parry's work, must be of im-the Brahmin's prediction of sickness has not been vented the other crowds following them. Although fulfilled, the deaths at the sacred place have given some sort of sanction to their prophecy, and even of this unfortunate accident they will make a plea still to delude the ignorant multitude. No exact account of the dead can be given, bat it must ex mense consequence. The Griper is now at Deptford, having been nearly lost off Sheerness: the Hecla HORRIBLE CATASTROPHE. The Calcutta Gazette of the 4th of May contains the following melancholy narrative : Sunyasses and Byragees. I saw four of the Gorkeeah corps, only one alive, and who was jammed close to the angle of the small muth. "Two boats have been sunk by the press of per. sons on board, and many people drowned; the fair has commenced thinning, the crowds going away are mostly from the nearer places; the merchants unable to dispose of any thing from the bustle; most of the purchases and sales will commence to nd no game of any kind till the summer ame, when those birds and animals we have has been refitted at Leith, and is daily exceed 400 persons; a vast number of these were tentioned made their appearance. Grass,pected in the river. xafragium, and poppies, formed the herage, in patches and tufts, which looked. reen and gay at a distance, but was very hinly scattered over the marly surface of he earth. In geology, limestone, sandstone, nd slate were most prominent; coarse gra ite was found in round detached pieces in he ravines, and other mineral specimens were picked up. Some of the isles were mazingly precipitous, rising from 3 to 800 eet above the water. From the entrance of Lancaster's Sound to Melville Island, the Hand gradually declined, till from towering "Camp, Hurdwur, April 11, 1820. "As most people who have been up the country, "P. S. The report of the dead amounts to 430. Lieutenant Boyes, of the 5th, as soon as intelligence with a company, and it is said stones were thrown reached him of the guards being forced, moved up from the houses. At daylight he began removing. the dead dodies. The dead were all floated in the |