discipline and habitual obedience. The sailors, on the contrary, when their ship is paid off, are turned adrift and so completely scattered abroad, that they generally lose, in the riotous dissipation of a few weeks, or it may be days, all they have learned of good order during the previous three or four years. Even when both parties are placed on board ship, and the general discipline maintained in its fullest operation, the influence of regular order and exact subordination is at least twice as great over the marines as it ever can be over the sailors. Many, I may say most, of their duties are entirely different. It is true, both the marines and the seamen pull and haul at certain ropes leading along the quarter-deck; both assist in scrubbing and washing the deck; both eat salt junk, drink grog, sleep in hammocks, and keep watch at night; but in almost every other thing they differ. As far as the marines are concerned, the sails would never be let fall, or reefed, or rolled up. There is even a positive Admiralty order against their being made to go aloft; and, accordingly, a marine in the rigging is about as ridiculous and helpless an object, as a sailor would prove if thrust into a tight, well pipe-clayed pair of pantaloons, and barred round the throat with a stiff stock.-Basil Hall.

KINGLY ATTIRE.-The dress of the king of the Eboe country somewhat resembles that which is worn, on state occasions, by the monarch of Yarriba, Its appearance was altogether brilliant; and from the vast profusion of coral ornaments with which he was decorated, Obie might not inappropriately be styled the Coral King;' such an idea at all events entered our minds, as we contemplated the monarch, sitting on his throne of clay. His head was graced with a cap, shaped like a sugar-loaf, and covered thickly with strings of coral and pieces of broken looking-glass, so as to hide the materials of which it was made; his neck, or rather throat, was encircled with several strings of the same kind of bead, which were fastened so tightly, as in some degree to affect his respiration, and to give his throat and cheeks an inflated appearance. In opposition to those were four or five others hanging round his neck and reaching almost to his knees. He wore a short Spanish surtout of red cloth, which fitted close to his person, being much too small. It was ornamented with gold epaulettes, and the front of it

was overspread with gold lace, but which, like the cap, was entirely concealed unless on a close examination, owing to the vast quantity of coral which was fastened to it in strings. Thirteen or fourteen bracelets (for we had the curiosity to count them,) decorated each wrist, and to give them full effect, a few inches of the sleeves of the coat had been cut off purposely. The beads were fastened to the wrist with old copper buttons, which formed an odd contrast to them. The King's trowsers, composed of the same material as his coat, stuck as closely to the skin as that, and was similarly embroidered, but it reached no further than the middle of his legs, the lower part of it being ornamented like the wrists, and with precisely the same number of strings of beads; besides which, a string of little brass bells encircled each leg above the ankles, but the feet were naked. Thus splendidly clothed, Obie, smiling at his own magnificence, vain of the admiration which was paid him by his attendants, and flattered without doubt by the presence of white men, who he imagined were struck with amazement at the splendour of his appearance, shook his feet for the bells to tinkle, sat down with the utmost self-complacency, and looked around him.

Lander's Travels.

THE HORSE.-The horse commonly lives to the age of 20 or 25 years, but from the cruelty of men, and art misapplied, his days are very much diminished, by the early application of over exertion and the unremitting continuance of it. His race is frequently begun before he is three years old. In the brake, lunge, or riding-school at four years. At five and six, his utmost speed is exerted in the summer, on the trotting course, as a hackney, against time; and in winter, slipping and sliding about, when forced without feeling or fear, by an inhuman driver. At seven, he is either blind, foundered, or spavined. At eight, he gallantly shines in a stage-coach, mailcoach, or omnibus. At nine, he is seen to falter and stumble before the oyster or clam cart. At ten completely worn out by disease and inanition. And lastly he falls a victim to the instrument of a veterinary surgeon.

STEAM BOATS v. STAGES.-The passion for stage-travelling is not, we be lieve, very strong in this country; and it will not become very intense until our highways and by ways are materially

improved. Travelling in a steam-boat, to the fancy of most of our citizens, is indisputably preferable to any other mode; and the idea of " easy stages," to an invalid, is a hard one. An American, who has been transported over the turnpikes of his country, has found it essentially tormenting. The gratification which all passengers feel when the servants of steam-boats brush off their dust, after they have escaped from land carriages, will exemplify our opinion in all who have experienced it. In reading the description of good roads among people comparatively barbarous, as given in Steward's Visit to the South Seas, we are somewhat inclined to think, that their views of comfort are more serviceable than those in our States. The truth is undeniable, that this particular species of improvement lags comparatively far behind our advances in other desirable matters. Among so many schemes to enhance the march of mind, it is a pity that the march of bodies cannot be made more secure. Locomotion on land is perilous to human bones, and destructive to all external drapery.-Philadelphia Gazette.

CURRAN'S INGENUITY.- -A farmer, attending a fair with a hundred pounds in his pocket, took the precaution of depositing it in the hands of the landlord of the public-house at which he stopped. Having occasion for it shortly afterwards, he resorted to mine host for the bailment, but the landlord, too deep for the countryman, wondered what hundred was meant, and was quite sure no such sum had ever been lodged in his hands by the astonished rustic. After ineffectual appeals to the recollection, and finally to the honour of Bardolph, the farmer applied to the Curran for advice. "Have patience, my friend," said the counsel: "speak the landlord civilly, and tell him you are convinced 'you must have left your money with some other person. Take a friend with you, and lodge with him another hundred in the presence of your friend, and then come to me." We must imagine, and not commit to paper, the vociferations of the honest dupe, at such advice; however, moved by the rhetoric or authority of the worthy counsel, he followed it and returned to his legal friend. "And now, Sir, I don't see as I'm to be better off for this, if I get my second hundred again; but how is that to be done?" "Go and ask him for it when he is alone," said the counsel. Ay, Sir, but asking won't do, I'ze

afraid, without my witness at any rate." "Never mind, take my advice," said the counsel; "do as I bid you, and return to me. The farmer returned with his hundred, glad at any rate to find that safe again in his possession. "Now, Sir, I suppose I must be content; but don't see as I'm much better off." "Well then," said the counsel, "now take your friend with you, and ask the landlord for the hundred pounds your friend saw you leave with him."-We need not add that the wily landlord found he had been taken off his guard, while our honest friend (whom one would almost wish had tried two the second time) returned to thank his counsel exultingly with both hundreds in his pocket.

FASHION.-Let a man's moral and intellectual qualities be what they may, if he is the fashion, he can say or do nothing that will not be received with admiration and applause. His words are oracles; his wit must be exquisite, since he has received his patent for it from fashionable society; and where fashion speaks, the free Englishman is a slave. Besides, the vulgar feel that in all matters of art, talent, or taste, they are not very competent judges; they therefore think it safer blindly to applaud a' bon mot' when they see that it has made their superiors laugh; or repeat an opinion which has proceeded from privileged lips; just as the public were in the third heavens with ecstasy for a whole winter at a party of Tyrolese ballad-singers, and rained down money, which the green butcher family pocketed with a laugh.

count of Cornwall, the chough (Corvus SWING, A CROW.-In Camden's acGraculus) is thus described:-"In the rocks underneath, and all along this with red bill and red feet not peculiar coast, breeds the Pyrrhocorox, a crow bird is found by the inhabitants to be to the Alps, as Pliny imagined. This often sets houses on fire privately, steals an incendiary, and very thieving; for it pieces of money, and then hides them.'

THE AMERICANS.-Mrs. Trollope is very angry with America and Americans; and it is just and proper she should vent her spleen, like a true woman, in a hearty scold. It is not quite proper, however, in her to tell fibs, or what is just as bad, unaccredited stories, for the purpose of giving greater finish to her invective. Scarcely one of her anecdotes is given as the result of her

own observation; they are, for the most part, picked up at that fountain-head of trustworthy information, the tea-table. The atrocious calumny against Jefferson itself, is hazarded on no better authority. Not a few of her stories we recognise as old friends, whom we have met before in the pages of American Annuals. And even in what she saw herself, laying aside her splenetic microscope, and viewing objects in their natural size, we recognise, as in the case of Captain Hall, many traits common to us with the Americans. The proceedings at the Camp Meeting are very foolish indeed, but not without a parallel in the annals of the Southcotian, Rowite, and other heresies in our own land. The scene at the theatre in New York is odd enough-but then Mrs. Trollope was forewarned that no respectable person could go to that particular establishment. If ladies will go to naughty places, what can they expect?

BEARDS. It is supposed that Serlon d'Abon, Bishop of Seez, induced the laity as well as the clergy to cut off their beards. History informs us, that on Easter Sunday, A. D. 1105, Abon preached before Henry the First of England, against the custom of wearing beards. As soon as the service was concluded, his majesty had his beard taken off by the bishop himself, before the whole court. The prelate performed the same office for all who were present, with a pair of scissars with which he had provided himself. E.M.A.

TOURNAMENTS.-The knights who entered the lists were so completely cased in iron, that they were invulnerable; but this ponderous security, obliged them to exert much address to preserve their seats on horseback, for if once they were unhorsed, they were exposed to imminent danger from the horses feet, and incapacitated from re

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covering their situations. Accidents of many descriptions were of frequent occurrence at these spectacles, which were originally called justs, jousts, or joustings, and it was not until the introdnction of the manœuvre of wheeling round, in French, tournoyer, that they obtained the appellation of tournaments. An old author informs us, that the knights skirmished with blunted swords, the points and edges being taken off. They were not permitted to strike so as to draw blood, and he who demeaned himself contrary to these regulations, forfeited all claims to the prizes and incurred a fine. Richard the First having often experienced the disadvantages of fighting with the troops of Philip Augustus, who were accustomed to these military games, introduced them into England, and they were subsequently practised throughout Europe. It was in consequence of a victory over the French at the battle of Fretteval in 1195, that Richard, elated at his success against his tilting adversaries, adopted the motto, "Dieu et mon droit." E. M. A.

THE RELIGION OF THE EARLY PARISIANS, as well as all other Gauls, was idolatry, and although they worshipped Jupiter, Minerva and Apollo, Mercury, whom they named Theutates, was, nevertheless, apparently considered as one of the greatest of their gods, as was also Mars, or Esus; and, in fact, there still remain at Montmartre some ruins. of their temple, which is the reason that Fredegaire calls that mountain Mons Mercurie, and Abbon, Mons Martis, whence the word Montmartre is derived.-Sauval.

BISHOP BURNETT.-Bishop Burnett was extravagantly fond of tobacco and writing; to enjoy both at the same time, he perforated the broad brim of his large hat, and putting his long pipe through it, puffed and wrote, and wrote and puffed again.

ST. NICOMEDE.

High Water, 46m. after 10 morn.

St. Nicomede was a disciple of St. Peter, and during the horrible persecution of the Christians by the Emperor Domitian, he did all in his power to protect them, for which, and for causing the dead bodies of the martyrs to be solemnly interred, he was scourged to death. The precise time of his birth and of his martyrdom are not known.

June 21.

CORPUS CHRISTI.

High Water, 20m. after 12 morn. This festival is still held by Roman Catholics, and

formerly in England dramatic representations of stories from the Scriptures were often given. The term hocus pocus' had been derived by some from hoc est corpus christi!' the words pronounced by the priest when he elevates the host.

June 21.

LONGEST DAY.

The longest day at Greenwich, is sixteen hours, thirty four minutes and five seconds; the shortest day, seven hours, forty-four minutes and seventeen seconds, allowing nine minutes, sixteen seconds for refraction on the longest day, and nine minutes five seconds on the shortest.

Ellustrated Article.

OLD STORIES OF THE RHINE
CASTLES.-No. 2.

THE VEIL AND THE DIADEM.
A STORY OF ALSACE

By Roger Calverley.

FOR THE OLIO.

No! thou proud dream, That play'st so subtly with a king's repose, I am a king that find thee, and I know "Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl, The farced title running 'fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world,No! not all these (thrice gorgeous ceremony)Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave!

SHAKSPEARE.

On the extinction of the Carlovingian dynasty, Germany was for some time in the most deplorable state of anarchy. The whole country was distributed into independent sovereignties and factions, and, on every opportunity of aggression, such as the death of a prince or baron, the invasion of his territory VOL. IX.

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by another potentate, the internal disorganisation of his dominions, or (above all) the vacancy of the imperial throne, the Germanic Magnates were always ready to afford a practical illustration of Rob Roy's good old rule

That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.

It was near the close of the thirteenth century, that the Emperor Adolf of Nassau was engaged in a war with Philip the Fair of France; it having been long the policy of that crafty and cruel monarch to foment dissentions in the empire, with a view to his individal aggrandisement.

Adolf had entered Alsace, at the head of a division of his troops, for the purpose of attacking the Bishop of Strasburgh, who adhered to the French interests. It happened that he was severely wounded in a skirmish, near the village of Schwarzach, distinguished, even to the present day, by the magnificent edifice of its ancient Benedictine Abbey. Found by some of the sisterhood, on the field, he was carried insensible into the convent, where the compas

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sionate nuns left no means untried for his recovery. The manly beauty of his person, and the mild and melodious tones of his voice, when he became able to thank his kind leeches for their cares, quite won the hearts of the simple nuns. None of them, however, for a moment, imagined the illustrious rank of the handsome patient; and many a white hand, that now so skilfully removed and replaced the dressings from his wounded bosom, would have trembled at the thought that it was the Emperor it was seeking to heal;-many a gentle eye, that mingled pity for the ghastly wound with admiration of the white skin that it disfigured, would have been downcast in submissive awe ;-many a hooded cheek, that lost its conventual paleness in the blush which the wounded monarch's ardent gratitude awakened, would have grown thrice pale, to have known that the Sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire-the Germanic Cæsar himself was receiving his life again from a lowly Benedictine sisterhood. Meanwhile, Adolf himself was in a very perplexing situation: his wound, though at first highly alarming, had yielded to the pharmacy of the amiable Benedictines;-but, among those Benedictines, there was one, who, from the moment the Emperor had begun to recover his senses, had gone far towards depriving him of them again, and who, while closing the gash in his anointed body, had effected a monstrous breach in his heart. Amidst the many fair faces that gleamed, like stars, successively, or in constellations, through the curtains of his sick couch, there was one the Diana of the rest. Such a majestic stature !-such an imperial gait,-eyes! whose lustre lightened along her clear olive cheek, like watchfires to the shipwrecked, and full coral lips that seemed loath to leave off kissing each other, even when the voice, a note of music, gushed through them, redolent of kindness and encouragement. Sister Imagine was of a noble family, whose chateau elevates its white towers over the wildly-forested mountains of the Vosges, a great chain extending, nearly parallel to the course of the Rhine, from Bale to Spires. She had been a professed nun about two years; and though

Warm with youth she bade the world farewell. She had never yet experienced the passion of love. Now, we would appeal to any man who happens to be about his Imperial Majesty's age and

our own-namely, thirty, who finds himself gradually emerging from the cavern of death, in which he had reason to suppose himself shut up for ever, and who, with reviving consciousness and strength, perceives that he is led thence by an escort of fair gentle girls, and, amongst them, a stoled queen, as pre-eminent in her beauty, as she is distinguished by her unwearied watch over his recovery,-what could the Emperor do? What he did tradition hath ascertained:-he had been nearly a month confined to his monastic sick room, and, his wound rapidly healing, the return of health brought with it its usual concomitants; the lusty blood bounded merrily from the heart to the wrist; and, when the taper fingers of Imagine pressed that broad wrist, to ascertain the patient's pulse, it could not stop the tide from tingling to the very ends of a large white hand, that suddenly closed upon the little ivory palm, and as suddenly transported it to a pair of moustached lips, stopping thereby a murmured jargon of admiration and delight. Now, Sister Imagine was certainly rather astounded at this proceeding par voie de fait; but, it seemed such a very natural ebullition of gratitude, that she knew not how exactly to reprove, so she e'en said nothing; but, doubtless, the kindling of her large black eye, and the flushing of her majestic brow, answered the same purpose that the levin flash of artillery and the enfurled blazon of the banner does on an assaulted fortress, shewing that it is prepared to defend and repulse. When, however, a few days afterwards, those imperial moustaches, grown saucy with success, dared to invade the very lips that had breathed a vestal's vow, Imagine, though no prude, thought it high time to keep her distance;-she neither exclaimed nor scolded; but, giving him a glance that might have melted every jewel in the Cæsarean diadem, she quietly but statelily marched out of the room. Adolf was in despair; his own imperial soul recognised the glow of kindred majesty in that offended eye, and he felt as if he had insulted the sanctity of an archangel. Oh! how impatiently did he endure the presence of the other nuns, as they came in turn to take their watch in his chamber. How ardently did he expect the reappearance of Imagine, that he might express the lowliest contrition for his offence, and atone for it by the most delicate and respectful conduct. The hour had long past, and