a friend, and as it was past midnight when they again reached it on their return, the girl demanded the toll for another day. Deeming this an imposition, the companion, who had been sacrificing somewhat too liberally at the shrine of Bacchus, visited the claimant with a shower of opprobrious terms, uttered in so loud a key that they awakened the mother, who protruded her nightcapped head from a little window above the door, exclaiming, "Maggie, dear! for what is the gentleman abusing ye?» To which the girl replied with an arch smile, «It's no the gentleman that's speaking now, mither; it's the wine! » GRINNING GRAYBEARDS. We may admire a tear-drop on the cheek of yeuth and beauty, not less than a dew-drop on a rose; but a smirk upon the sickly and wrinkled features of old age displeases us as an incongruity. Its misplaced brightness is like the gloomy glitter of a coffin-plate or rather may we compare it to those clocks which play a merry tune just before they strike the hour of midnight. LIST OF NEW PATENTS. William Young, of Queen street, lamp-maker, for improvements in lamps and candlesticks. May 28; six months. Philip Jacob Kayser, of Gracechurch-street, manufacturer, for improvements in the construction of lamps. May 31; six months. Henry Phillips, of Exeter, chemist, for improvements in purifying gas for the purposes of light. May 31; six months. Richard Watson, Jun, of Cloth-fair, gas fitter, for improvements in draining land embankments, and cutting of Railways and other engineering works. May 31; six months. Henry Wilkinson, of Pall Mall, gun-maker, for improvements in unloading shipping, especially those vessels called colliers. May 31; six months. Louis Nicholas de Meckenheim, of Vienna, but now of London, engineer, for improvements in the art of depositing and manufacturing metals and metal articles by electro-galvanic agency, and in the apparatus connected therewith. June 1; six months. William Henry. Kempton, of South street, Pentonville, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of candles. June i; six months. James Reed, of Bishop's Stortford, statuary and mason, for im-provements in tiles, slating, and the construction of water-tight joints, and in the covering and casing of buildings and other erections. June 2; six mor ths. Henry Jubber, of Oxford, confectioner, for certain improvements in kitchen ranges, and apparatus for cooking. June 2; six months. Benjamin Aingworth, of Birmingham, gentleman, for certain improvements in the manufacture of glass, for the purpose of producing glass which may be used for the purposes to which plate glass and window glass are usually applied. June 4; six months. Edmund Tuck, of the Haymarket, St. James's, Westminster, silversmith, for certain improvements in the covering or plating with silver various metals and metallic alloys. June 4; six months. William Irving, of Regent-street, Lambeth, engineer, for an improved corn drill, or machine for sowing all kinds of seed or grain. June 7; six months. John Woodcock, of Manchester, millwright, for certain improvements in the construction of steam-engines. June 7; six months. James Nasmyth, of Patricroft, near Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for forging, stamping, and cutting iron and other substances. June 9; six months. Joseph Chatwin, of Birmingham, lamp-maker, for certain improvements in the construction of cocks. June 9; six months. John George Hughes, of No. 158, Strand, general agent, for a new application of telegraphic signals, and the mode of applying the same. June 9; six months. James Anthony Emslie, of the Borough and County of Newcastlenpon-Tyne, civil engineer, for certain improvements in pumps. June 9; six months. Stephen Bencraft, of Barnstaple, gentleman, for improvements in the construction of saddle-trees. June 9; six months. Arthur Howe Holdsworth, of Book-hill, Devon, gentleman, for improvements in constructing certain parts of ships and vessels in order to arrest the progress of fire, and for regulating temperature. June 11; six months. Richard Garrett, of Leiston Works, Suffolk, agricultural instrument-maker, for improvements in the construction of horse-hoes, scarifiers, drag-rakes, and drills, for cultivating land. June 13; six months. Thomas Banks, of Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements in the construction of wheels and tyres of wheels, to be employed upon railways. June 13; six months. Moses Poole, of Lincoln's-iun, gentleman, for improvements in obtaining the colouring matter from wool, and woollens dyed with indigo. June 13; six months. William Cotton, of Leytonstone, Essex, Esquire, for an improved weighing machine. June 13; two months. Daniel Williams, of Oxford, Slater, for improvements in covering ridges and hips on the roofs of buildings, June 13; six months. Isaac Moss, of Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk trimming manufacturer for improvemants in the manufacture of covered buttons, ornaments and fastenings for wearing apparel. June 13; six months. William Morrett Williams, of Bedford-place, Commercial road, and of 163, Fenchurch-street, lock manufacturer, for certain improvements in the construction of locks and keys, which he proposes to call Williams' Lock and Key improved.» June 13; six months. Henry Hough Watson, of Bolton-le-Moors, consulting chemist, for certain improvements in bleaching, changing the colour of, and otherwise preparing, purifying and refining tallow, and certain other organic substances, mixtures, compounds, and manufactures. June 21; six months. Joseph Bunnett, of Deptford, Kent, engineer, for certain improvements in pavements, for streets, roads, and other surfaces, and in machinery for producing and repairing the same. June 21; six months. John Dickson, of Brook-street, Holborn, engineer, for improvements in rotary engines, and boilers, in stopping railway carriages, and in machinery for propelling vessels, part of which improvements are applicable to propelling air and gases. June 21; six months. Frederick Gye, jun., of South Lambeth, gent., for improvements in binding pamphlets, paper and other documents. June 21; six months. Thomas Gaunt, of 10, Dalby Terrace, City Road, gent., for improvements in the means of applying any such power as is, or may be used for propelling vessels or carriages to produce locomotion thereof. June 21; six months. Henry Bewley, of Dublin, licentiate apothecary and chemist, for an improved chalybeate water. June 23; six months. PERMITTED TO BE PRINTED, St. Petersburg, August 15th, 1842. P. KORSAKOFF, CENSOR. Printed at the Office of the Journal de St. Petersbourg. » COLLIERS AND COLLIERIES. I. Report of the Commissioners for Inquiring into the Condition of Children employed in Mines, &c., with two Appendices of Evi-, dence. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. 2 vols. Folio. pp. 2022. London. 1842. 2. History of Fossil Fuel, the Coal-trade and Collieries, &c. London. 8vo. 1841. Second Edition. 3. Speech of Lord Ashley in the House of Commons on the 7th June, 1842, on moving for leave to bring in a Bill to make Regulations respecting the Age and Scx of Children and Young Persons employed in Mines and Collieries. London. 8vo. pp. 58. On this our fair Earth, with its canopy of air and cincture of waters, the prying mind of man observes a host of animated forms, which, with every apparent capacity for liberty and power of change, seem each in its kind to be tethered to its own region by invisible influences of such potency, that to transgress them is to die. A certain zone is allotted to each of the four-footed races-a certain range and altitude to the bird -and a certain stratum of waters to the finny tribe; the surface and the caverns of the ocean have each their inhabitants, ever embraced by the same common element, yet ever remaining strangers to each other. Something of the same complexity and economy is visible in the ordering of that great VOL. III. 48 moral universe, which is made visible here through the agency of man-who, whatever may be the capacity of the individual for intellectual advancement, has his brotherhood with his humbler companions of earth; and, like them, is chained to those regions where he can alone procure the conditions of physical existence. Practically, we always find, and have ever found, large sections of our race exhibiting grades and differences of action and suffering; so that we are compelled to acknowledge that that which is to sustain and perfect the social fabric, considered as a whole, is not one in form and shape-not found in one spot-but scattered over the earthacquired by a variety of efforts under varying circumstances, but everywhere, and under all its varieties, taxing all the faculties of mind and body in the individual, that the great destinies of the race may be fulfilled. Here, however, the parallel between the physical world and the social ceases. The author of both has ordained, in the former, that so long as each tribe of animals plays its appointed part, so essential to the great organism of nature, all its capacities for enjoyment shall be satisfied. To man alone he has intrusted the perilous duty of guarding his own happiness. Labour for sustenance is his lot, in common with all flesh; variety in the kind, and intensity in the degree of labour, is a necessary inheritance, on which the very existence of the social and moral system hinges. But whether or not he shall vindicate, in the midst of this, his nobler nature and destinies, depends greatly upon himself, and also in no small degree on the society in which his lot is cast. Here, by three ponderous folios, we have disclosed to usin our own land, and within our own ken modes of existence, thoughts, feelings, actions, sufferings, virtues, and vices, which are as strange and as new as the wildest dreams of fiction. The earth seems now for the first time to have heaved from its entrails another race, to astonish and to move us to reflection and to sympathy. Here we find tens of thousands of our countrymen living apart from the rest of the world — intermarrying — having habits, manners, and almost a language, peculiar to them |