power, capable of effecting these and similar changes, it can, assuredly, with as little difficulty as any of the minor operations of chemistry, reconvert that dust,-if dust it ever has been,-into an essence, which we, in utter ignorance of its nature, designate spirit.

We know nothing, by ocular demonstration, of the soul's flight. Neither do we know the uses or the means, employed by Nature, in many of her operations. We do not know the uses of the nipple or the dream of a man; we are at a loss for the uses of the zebra and the camelopard; of the hunch of the dromedary; and of the enormous excrescences of the hornbill and the toucan. We are ignorant of the uses of zircon and glucine, two of the simple earths; we are ignorant of the process by which the diamond is crystallised; and we are equally ignorant of the end, for which insects undergo their respective changes. Yet we know, that all these things are. Let the good man, then, calculate on the power and justice of the ETERNAL; who, in time most fitting for the purpose, will not only elicit the soul from the body; but convert its present anxious condition into a sabbath of eternal rest.

Feigned is the pleasure, that appears,

And false the triumph of our eyes;
Our draughts of joy are dashed with tears,
Our joys imperfect end in sighs.

From Stobaus-Bland.

For my own part, I regard death in the same manner, as I do those waters, which flow for many leagues under the earth, and then suddenly burst forth into open day, to fertilise all the land.

the truth of my prediction, and had almost given it up, when, to my great satisfaction, I learned that FARADAY, seven years after I had predicted it, obtained this very magnetical-electric visibility by means of an electro-magnet; and that NOBILI and ANTINORI, soon after, had done the same from induction by a natural one.

July 20, 1834.

To feel thus is to feel assured of immortality;-the best consolation of the wretched; the best hope for the unrestrained majesty of a rich and magnificent mind. To feel thus is comparatively to be advanced a thousand steps towards perfection; and as this feeling is almost as innate, in our vocabulary of enjoyments, as those arising from love, and all the more estimable passions and affections, virtue becomes more agreeable to us; the past more capable of understanding; the present more endurable; and the future more pregnant with hope and admiration.

The hope of immortality, indeed, gives an interest and an importance to the creation, which, without it, would lose more than half of its embellishments; leaving the present a dreary and unhallowed waste. DEATH, on the other hand, presenting to our acceptance oblivion for the past, and a beautiful perspective for the future, may be truly styled the Nightingale flower of existence. When, therefore, he arrives before our gates, may we, in the soundness of our reason, hail the sacredness of his coming, as a weary pilgrim hails the sun's

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blushing orb" behind the temple of Jerusalem. Let us then, Lelius, endeavour to divest ourselves of that ignorant and unmanly fear, which afflicts the imaginations of most so powerfully; and, throwing off the trammels of association, accustom ourselves to regard him as an instrument of emancipation from a frail and anxious being; and, also, as an instrument of translation to a perpetual state of pure, active, and divine enjoyment.