Solitary confinement will work incalculable good-a bad, restless young man, can bear death better than his own company. The pang of a moment can be steadily met; but patient punishment tames the most brutal minded. Then, employment should be fully introduced into our prisonsand the police of our metropolis better ordered the rewards of officers should not depend upon the increase or decrease of crime; at present the rope bears a premium. If those persons who are anxious for the amendment of the penal code of laws in this country, would study the "Annals of Newgate," they would arm themselves with proofs sufficient to satisfy the most obstinate Parliament. MAGAZINE GLEANINGS. UNLUCKY DAYS.-Mrs, Holderness, in her work on the Crimea, says, " No Tartar would think of leaving home on a Tuesday, or entering upon any undertaking." The Quarterly Reviewers, in quoting the passage, ob serve, "We smile at this, without recollecting that many persons of our own age and country are equally superstitious respecting FRIDAY. When the Alceste was lost, every one at Portsmouth exclaimed, I thought so, she sailed on a Friday.' ("LADY'S.") APHORISMS.-He who after a loss, immediately, without staying to lament, sets about repairing it, has that within himself which can controul fortune. Thoroughly to try a man's patience, he must have the labour of years consumed before his eyes in a moment; thoroughly to prove it, he must instantly begin to renew his labour. WAR HORSES.-When horses are hit in battle, they stop, tremble in every muscle, and groan deeply, while their the battle of Waterloo, some of the shew wild astonishment. During eyes horses, as they lay on the ground, having recovered from the first agony of their wounds, fell to eating the grass about them-thus surrounding themselves with a circle of bare ground, the limited extent of which shewed their weakness. Others of these interesting animals to whom man so strongly attaches himself, were observed quietly grazing in the middle of the field, between the two hostile lines, their riders having been shot off their backs, and the balls that flew over their heads, and the roaring behind and be fore and about them, causing no respite of the usual instincts of their nature. When a charge of cavalry went He whose first emotion on viewing an excellent production is to under-past, near to any of the stray horses yalue it, will never have one of his own to shew. ("GENTLEMAN'S") already mentioned, the trained animals would set off, form themselves in the rear of their mounted companions, and though without riders, gallop strenuously along with the rest, not stopping or flinching when the fatal shock with the enemy took place. At the battle of the Kirk, 1745, Major Macdonald having dismounted an English officer, took possession of his horse, which was very beautiful, and immediately mounted it. When the English cavalry fled, the horse ran off with the victor, notwithstanding all his efforts to restrain him ; nor did it stop till it was at the head of the regiment, of which, apparently, its master was the commander! The melancholy, and at the same time ludicrous figure which Macdonald cut, when he thus saw himself the victim of his ambition to possess a fine horse, which ultimately cost him his life upon the scaffold, may easily be conceived. REMARKABLE SLEEPERS. In the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, published in 1777, is an account of an extraordinary sleeping disorder, which affected a lady at Nismes, in regular and periodical paroxysms, twice a day, at sun-rise and at noon; the first continued almost always until near the time that the second began, and the second ceased about seven or eight in the evening. It is remarkable that the paroxysm of the morning always came on at the break of day, in the different seasons of the year, and thus began sooner or later according to the length and shortness of the days; that the other commenced a little after noon; and that the former ceased in part during a short interval before 12 o'clock, during which the patient had only time to take a little broth before its return. The paroxysm ceased entirely between seven and eight in the evening, so that the patient recovered the use of her members until the dawn of the next morning, when her sleep returned with all the character of complete insensibility, except a feeble but free respiration, and a weak but regular motion of the pulse. Few lethargies, as we apprehend, have been recorded in the annals of physiology, that have been attended with such singular symptoms. What is very surprising, when the disorder had lasted six months, and then ceased, the patient had an interval of perfect health during the same space of time; when it lasted a year, the interval was in the same proportion. At length the disorder ceased entirely, without the least appearance of return. The woman lived many years after this; was always lively and active, though restless and illhumoured; and died in the 81st year of her age, of a dropsy, which did not seem to have any counexion with her preceding disorder. AN AFFECTIONATE MONKEY.-On a shooting party, one of my friends killed a female monkey and carried it to his tent, which was soon surrounded by 40 or 50 of the tribe, who made a great noise, and seemed disposed to attack the aggressor. They retreated when he presented his fowling-piece, the dreadful effect of which they had witnessed, and seemed perfectly to understand. The head of the troop, however, stood his ground, chattering furiously: the sportsman, did not like to fire at the creature, and nothing short of firing would suffice to drive him off. At length he came to the door of the tent, and finding threats of no avail, began a lamentable moaning, and, by the most expressive gestures, to beg for the dead body. It was given him: he took it sorrowfully in his arms, and bore it away to his expecting companions. They who were witnesses of the extraordinary scene, resolved never again to fire at one of the monkey race. (FORBES'S ORIENTAL MEMOIRS.) THE STATE ROOMS OF THE PRUSSIAN COURT, IN THE TIME OF FREDERIC I. (From Memoirs of the Margravine of Bareith.) THEY form a suite of six large rooms, which lead to a hall magnificently adorned, and equally remarkable for its paintings and its architecture. At the end of this hall are two richly decorated chambers, forming the passage to a gallery of very fine paintings. All these apartments communicate in a straight line. The gallery, which is ninety feet long, leads to a second suite of fourteen rooms, as spacious and as well decorated at the first; at the extremity of which there is a very extensive hall, destined for the grand ceremonies. There is nothing extraordinary in what I have described: but now comes the marvellous. The first room contains a silver chandelier which weighs ten thousand Prussian dollars; the whole assortment is equally heavy in proportion. The second room is still more superb; the pier glasses are of massy silver, and the mirrors twelve feet in height; twelve persons may conveniently sit at the tables placed under these glasses. The chandelier is much larger than in The in such a place, struck him to the heart. He became serious, he preached in earnest, and he affirmed afterwards, that his own hair stood erect at the feelings which then came upon him, and the awful denunciations which he uttered. His companions heard him with the deepest silence. When he came down, not a word was said concerning the wager; he left the room immediately without speaking a word to any one, went home in a state of agitation, and resigned himself to the impulse which had thus strangely been produced. In consequence he joined the Methodists, and became an itinerant preacher; but he would often say, when he related this story, that if ever he preached by the assistance of the spirit of God, it was at that time." the first room, and the furniture of THE SCOFFER CONVERTED.-The following remarkable anecdote is extracted from Southey's "Life of Wesley."-" A party of men were amusing themselves one day at an alehouse, in Rotherham, by mimicking the methodists. It was disputed who succeeded best, and this led to a wager. There were four performers, and the rest of company were to decide, after a fair specimen from each. A bible was produced, and three of the rivals, each in turn, mounted the table and held forth in a style of irreverent buffoonery, wherein the scriptures were not spared. John Thorpe, who was the last exhibitor, got upon the table in high spirits, exclaiming, I shall beat you all.' He opened the book for a text, and his eyes rested upon these words:- Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.'These words, at such a moment, and BRITISH NAVY. TONS. MEN. The fleet which Queen the accession of Queen 104,754 41,000 On the accession of 790,950 120,000 TO CORRESPONDENTS. Curiosus was meant. Henry will find his wish complied with. The offer of G. is kind, but circumstances which we cannot here explain compel us to decline it. Susan's" Sonnet" and "First Love" in a week or two. Some more paid letters have been returned this week to the post-office. Albumania's articles shall appear, but "Gernutus," we think, is printed in Evan's "Old Ballads" or Percy's Relics." G. W.'s approbation is highly encouraging; we thank him for his advice,and shall endeavour to profit by his hints: the poem may perhaps appear. RECEIVED. Frank-W.V.-Brennan -Timothy-and C. In the Index to vol. i, after the article "Youthful Decoration," add " page 132," LONDON-Printed and Published by T. WALLIS Camden Town; and also Published by J. Harris, Bow Street, Covent Garden, THE SOUTHERN MOSQUE, AT MOCHA. MOCHA, an extensive city of Yemen, were followed by the French, and soon after by the English. The latter nearly monopolized the trade for about a century, when the Americans, animated by the genius of enterprize, established a communfcation with Mocha, and now possess the principal share of its commerce. Mocha was founded not more than 400 years ago, and owes its origin to a Saint, the celebrated Scheik, Schodeli, whose hermitage being established here, was visited by mu'titudes of persons from distant countries, to accommodate whom, huts were built, which formed a village, and this by degrees became enlarged into a city. |