Education of the mind, letter on, 49—Mercantile, 238, Gerard, Mr. the painter poet, poetical letter to, by S.T. 312

L.
246, 258.

-Interesting account of, 324, 329—Verses by, 329, 352. Ladies' Charity, of Liverpool, 200.
Education, Bell and Lancaster, respective merits of, 340, German student, 83— Pronunciation, 431.
340, 348, 359, 368, 375, 375, 384, 392, 392, 400, 400, Ghost story, by Madame Genlis, 415.

Lancashire, manners of the people of, 395.
408, 423-English and Scotch, 391.
Generva, portrait of, 28-Ginger beer, recipe for, 28.

Lancaster and Bell systems, 340-see Education.
Education-see also Humilloniun.

Landlord and tenant, law of, 175, 196.
Girl, a, weeping and smiling at the same time, 108.
Education of the people, 270
Glacier, solution of a, 66.

Languages, learned, 220-sce Learned and Quotations.
Edward the Black Prince, autograph of, 189.
Gloire militaire, 216– Translated, 233, 244.

Lapsus linguæ, whimsical, 31.
Eel, habits of the, 207 --Eggs, preserving, 6.
Glove, the, from Schiller, 233, 296.

Larder, economy of the, 71-Latin Grammars, 184.
Electrical telegraph, 133.
Golden age, verses, 285—Good-bye, lines so called, 140.

Latin verses, by a Westminster scholar, 233—And trans
Elephant bones, remains of, 325--see Earth, Geology, and Grammatical queries, controversy, 67, 76, 82, 92, 92, 92, Laughter, essay on, 235–Laurel, native oil of, 147.

lations, 240, 248, 260, 268.
Bones.

103, 104, 109, 119, 120, 195, 324, 348.
Emerson, life of, 129, 138.
Grasso, I1, the cabinet-maker, original translation, 397,402. Law'suit, pride and pleasure of a, 19—Ancient, 79,

Law, nice point of, 287.
Emperor, proclamation by a (verses) 115.

Gratitude, lines on, 240.
Enigmas-see Vive la Bagatelle.
Grease, spots of, to remove, 343.

Lawrence, River St. most wonderful escape down the falls
England, lines to a person leaving, 372.
Green colour for walls, 358.

of, 330.
Epigrams, 52, 60, 80, 160, 216, 248, 276, 284, 312, 320, Grief, for the loss of relatives, impropriety of, 255.

Lawyers wearing black, origin of, 358, 439.
372, 404-Editorial remarks on, 160, 168, 396. Gymnasia, original collection of active feats, with engrav. Lean poet, epigram on a, 284.

Lawyers' wigs, epigram on, 320.
Epilepsy, alleged cure for, 428.

'ings, 8, 16, 24, 29, 40, 48, 53, 76, 84, 88, 92, 96, 108, Learned quotations, letters on, 96, 123, 134, 139, 166, 160,
Escape, most extraordinary, in a fog, 311-Down the falls 127, 132, 144, 168, 173, 180, 201, 220, 332, 336, 360,
of ihe St. Lawrence, 330.

171, 178, 184, 195, 206, 207, 249.

363, 382.
Essay and Oration, paper on, 255.
Gymnastic performances, wonderful, at the Circus, 332, Lectures, public, property in, 286.

Learning, remarks on, 185–Leather liquid, 379.
Esteban, Don, memoirs of, a Spaniard, 365.

336.
Etna, Mount, eruption of, 265, 273.

Leg (putting out) pun on, 211-Loss of, whimsical te.
Euler, the mathematician, memoir of, 394.

H.

marks on the, 215.
" Even, how sweet,'' &c. (Verses) 260.
Hackney coachman, from the French, 370.

Leghorn, description of, 121, 129.
Exchange of coats, whimsical adventure, 211.
Hams, German method of curing, 99, 247.

Letter, rhyming, to the editor, 72.!
Exercise and employment, 350.
Hamiltonian system attacked, burlesqued, and defended, Libraries recommended for the Liverpool Infirmary, 244.

Leven Water, ode to, 345-Libels, legal, 171.
Exciseman outwitted, 223,

16, 23, 32, 48, 55, 55, 75, 83, 92, 108, 234, 214, 266, Life, retrospect of, an original essay, by 2, 78-Reflections
Egypt, manufactures and institutions of, 391.

290, 308.
Hancox, the late Mr. Joseph, of Liverpool, biographical Life-boat, how to form a, from a common boat, 405.

on, 79-Verses on, by G, 398.
F.

sketch of, 15.
Family, numerous, 189.-Fanaticism, 67.
Hanover, inundations in, 302.— IIappiness, lines on, 353. Lions, interesting anecdotes of, 107.

Lifting at Easter, 340.
Farewell, Farewell, to a distant land,” 216.

Haunted Chamber, the, (verses) 12.
• Fare thee well,” (stanzas) by G. 188.
Heaven (verses) by G. 248.

Literary dinner. 115-Literary German lady, 365,

Literary squabbles, 109, 119, 194-Plagiarist, see Plagi-
Fashions, Ladies'- '- see first number in each month. Health, mode of preserving, 335.
Father's lament over the body of his infant son, 60. Healths drinking, on the custom of, 206, 222.

arist-Literature, English, 43, 108, 194, 255, 437.
Fauntleroy, Mr. letter respecting the case of, 183–Me- Henry VIII. answer received by; on offering marriage, 337. Liverpool and the neighbourhood, notices of. 38, 287–

LIVER, the (notices of Liverpool)-see Liverpool.
moir of, with a portrait, 202.

in

Liverpool Apprentices' and Mechanics' Library, Mr.
Feeling, inan ot, query as to the author of, 136.

Hermite en Italie-sce Translution.
Fernandcz's, Mr. Spanish graminar, critiques on, 194. Heroisin, female, 135.

Walker's lecture to the readers of, 176; Notices of,

258; Annual report of, 294; Lectures recommended
Fidelity, lines on, 224.
Heywood, B. A., address of at opening of the Manchester

for, 332-Liverpool Cemetery, with an engraving, 333,
Filtering machines, with an engraving, 6.

Mechanics' Institute, 346, 410.

see Burying-places-Liverpool exhibition of pietures, 86,
FINE ARTS, 86, 102, 106, 109, 119, 127.

Hippopotamus. 349.- Hoarseness, syrup for, 295.
Fire, best mode of lighting a, 391–Produced from water Hobbes, the celebrated Thomas, description of, 439.

102, 106, 109, 119, 127-Liverpool Mechanics' Institute,

or School of Arts, recommended, 253, 396, 400, 400, 408,
and ice, 288.
“ Home, sweet home," (song) lines on hearing, 80.

413; Established, and address of Dr. Traill at the pub.
Pires, hints for extinguishing, 272, 291.
Honour, point of, in an affair of love, 58.

lic meeting, 430; Speeches of the Rev. Mr. Wilson and
Fish, table of, when in and out of season, 247.
Hope, sonnet by G. on, 88.

of Mr. Egerton Smith, at, 438-Liverpool in 1855, an.
Fish frozen, and brought to life again, 15.
Horns of stags, found under Wallasey Pool, 80.

ticipations of a correspondent, 299, 299, 368-Liverpool
Fish, taine, &c. most interesting account of, 75.
Horse of a miser, recipe to cure, 231.

Royal Humane Society, 432.
· Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, 199.
Hot day, whimsical lines on, 81.

Loch Lomond, excursion to, 318, 331--Critique on, 344.
Housewife, The, a collection of receipts, &c. 6, 11: Lock of hair, lines on a, 304.
Florence, account of, 77, 105.-Flowers at Christmas, 47.
Foe, Daniel de, letter respecting, 263-Grand-daughter 28, 35, 47, 67, 71, 79, 99, 135, 147, 166, 192, 200, 247, Longevity, instances of, 286, 358_Lotteries, letter on, 376.
of, 287.

259, 267, 283, 295, 335, 343, 358, 363, 428.

Lottery, matrimonial, 135.
Fog, extraordinary escape in a, 311.

Hulks, description of the, 247.
Food and physic, 267.-Food, human, hints respecting, 67. Hydrophobia, editorial article on, 62, and letters, &c. Love at first sight, 47-Sonnet on, 72-Disappointed, 88

--Disinterested, 91--Verses on, by G. 125-Until death,
Foreigners, blunders of, 47.
respecting, 63, 68.

156-Hopeless, 168-A sonnet, by G. 284.
Forest, subterraneous, in Scotland, 189.
Iłym, “ Bow'd down," 224.

Lover's Dream, by G. 72.
Forgét, oh! when," &c. by G. 209.

1.

Lyra, the infant, a musical prodigy, 8, 338.-Lines to, 20,
" Forget me not" (verses) 268.

28,
Fortune-hunter, from the German, 154, 161, 170.
James's Park, St. in former days, 102.

M.
Forty years since, 50.
Jeffrey, Mr. speech of, respecting Watt's monument, 34.

M. Miss, lines to, by W. J. D. 328.
Fossil man, pretended, 183.–Fossil animal - see Bones.
Jenkins, Henry, of Ellerton, memoir of, 383.

M‘Culloch, Mr. lectures of soe Investigator,' and Na.
Fowls, Albanian, mode of killing, 189.
Imagination, power of, 403--sec Superstition and Ghost.

tional Wealth,
Fragment, by G. 372.

Immalee, by G. 352, 364.
Franklin, Captain, overland despatch of, 315-see Voyage.

Madman, shrewd remark of a, 31-Verses by, 188.

Magnetic (Thermo.) experiment, with a figure, 27.
Freischutz, Der, 236—Burlesque verses on, 249--Plot of, Imprisonment of debtors, absurdity of, 371.
Imprisonment, unintentional, 287.

Malediction, tremendous, 182.
Improvement of the mind, letter on the, 49.

Man of all work, 354.
French sorg, original translation of a, 125.
Indigestion, precautions against, 6, 203.

Manchester Mechanics' Institute, Mr. Heywood's address
French translations--spe Translations.

at the opening of, 346. 400.
French verses and translations, 125, 140, 148, 216, 233, Infant sleeping, Mrs. Robinson's verses to, 412.
Infirmary, Liverpool, annual report of, 86.

Manchester ship canal humbug, 272, 276, 276, 276, 279,
240, 248.
Inundations in Hanover, 302.

279, 279, 284, 284, 296, 353.
Frictiorasie Mechanical Paradox, and Roberts.

Inventions, singular, 192—sce Patents and Scientific.
Friday, Good, 858.-Friend, lines to a, 140,

Maniac (verses) by G. 164.
Jones, Paul, letter of, 286.

Manuscripts, ancient classical, found, 192.
Friendships, early, 110-Lines on, by G. 296.
Journal, interesting-sce Pepus.Irons in the fire, 439.

Marine Humane Society, of Liverpool, 8.
Fuzeli, the late Mr. notice of, 374.
Iron-trade, letter to Josephı Hume, on, 353.

Marriage, Voltaire's remarks on, 239-Epigram on, 372.
G.
Irving, the Rev. Mr. letter respecting, 211.

Married lady, lines to a, 188.
Islands newly discovered, 274.

Mary, death of, by Charles Wolfe, 216.
Gardens of Boboli and Cascine, 113.

Junius' Letters, the real author of, at length detected, 437. Mary, lines to, by G. 268- Mary's Grave, by G. 2,6.
Gurrick and Lord Orrery, good anecdote of, 89.

INVESTIGATOR, new department of the Kaleidoscope i Mastodontes, extinct animals, 311.
Garning houses in Paris, 322.

including Political Economy, &c. 292, 294, 320, 3.39, Matrimonial partnership dissolved, 439.
Gas, nitrous oxide, respiration of see Smith, Egerton,

346, 353, 364, 372, 390, 406.

Mathews, Charles, biographical sketch of, 234, 354.
letter of:
Ivy, the, by Mirs. Hemans, 436.

Matthew's church, Manchester, view of, 342.
Gas vacuum machine-see Brown.

Maturin, the late Rev. Ms. lines of G. to. 180--Biographi.
Gas, Sir W. Congreve contracts to light various towns on

K.

cal sketch of the life of, 182, 216_Letter respecting, 204.
the Continent with, 287.
Gases, pump for compressing, 83.

Kaleidoscope, address of Editor, on corcluding the fifth Mauvaise honte, 198.
volume, 433_G.'s valedictory verses to, 428.

May, Dr. Darwin's lines on, 404.
Genealogists, puzzle for, 379.
Genius, extraordinary, for painting, 31-Definition of, 371. Kean, Mr. notices of, 152, 152.-Severe criticism upon, 10. Meat, eggs, butter, &c. how to choose, 11.
Kemble, Joho, humorous anecdote of, 819.

Mechanical paradox respecting locomotive machines, 214.
Gentleman, character of a, 176.

225, 250, 275, 275, 275, 287, 287, 297, 298, 313-And
GEOLOGY, 192, 935_Original translation of a French Kindred feeling (verses) 12.-Kissing, epigram on, 312.

editorial objections to, 215, 263, 270.
Kitchen drawer, whimsical catalogue of things found in, 148.
works on-CC Earth.

413.

Mechanics' Institute-see Lioerpool, and Manchester. Parasols, new species of, 286.

Rush-bearings and country wakes, 324, 328.
Medwin, Captain, and Lord Byron, 262, 267, 278_see Park, Mungo, reports concerning, 429, 432.

Ryley, Mr. takes benefit at the Theatre, 280.
Buroa.
Parry, Captain, and overland despatch, 315-see Voyoge.

S.
Menai bridge, 387–Prophecy about, 432.

Patents, new-sce generally the first wocek of each month.
Mercantile education and principles, 238, 246, 258. Paul in a strait, 96.

Sackville, Lord Viscount, the real Junius, 437.
Metais, precious, quantity of, 67-Duties on, 315. Peasant's daughter, lines on, 209.

Sadler, Mr. ascent of, from Dublin, 46–His dreadful
Meteorological weekly tables, commenced in March, and Pedestrianism, 286, 286.

death, and narrative of his life, 116.
carried through the volume.
Peg too low, origin of the phrase, 353.

Safety-lamp, 14.
Microscopic discoveries, 421.

Pepys, Samuel, Esq. F.R.S. interesting journal of, 433. Satire, remarks on, 305.
Militia return io doggerels, 168.
Permutation, the law 211.

Saturday's Liverpool paper, letter to the editor of, 160.
Mines in South America, 286-In Poland, 405.
Persia, atmosphere of, 67.

Scanzano, description of, 169, 177.
Miser, dead, epigram on a, 372.
Petrarch, sonnet from the Italian of, 60.

Screw, new, 288.
Monster, human, 434.

Philharmonic Society in Liverpool recommended, 278. Ships, extraordinary in former days, 167.
Nonebs, dames of the, explained, 251.
Philosophy versus theology, 287.

Ship, immense, for wood, 6,000 tons freight, 96.!
Moon, inhabitants of the, 79.
Phrenology, letter on, 127-Remarks on, 181.

Shipwreck, plans of rafts, &c. for preserving lives from,
Moore, Anacreon, charge of plagiarism brought against, Ficture-dealer-sec Connoisseur.

with engravings, 37, 45, 54.
and editor's defence of, 111, 223—Anacreontic song by, Pictures, price of some, 67.

Scientific information, 6, 13, 21, 27, 37, 46, 48, 51, 75,
285.
Pigs, dancing, 337.

81, 83, 97, 133, 173, 185, 189, 192, 214, 223, 235, 236,
Moore's Melodies, selection from, 173.
Pindar, paraphrase on, 88.

250, 263, 287, 288, 382, 399, 428-see Geology and
More, Sir Thomas, head of, discovered, 7.

Pirate chief, generous act of
8, 497.

Earth, also Patents,
Morris dancers, &e. 377.
Pisa, account of, 1, 8.

Scotch novels, doggerels on the, 364.
Mourning in the Sandwich Islands, 31.

Plagiarism, editorial remarks on, 360—Verses on, 396 Scott, Sir Walter's last novel, 19, and the Scotch novels,
Mummy, Egyptian, 288.
see Moore, Anacreon.

392.
Murder, extraordinary, 353.
Pluralist and favourite, 419.

Sca, sinking bottles in the, 48.
Murderer, extraordinary, 434.
POETRY-see cach number.

Seal, domesticated, 201.
Murdered maid, by G. 344.
Poetry, genius of, by G. 312.

Security, personal, 231.
Music, viz., by Salvator Rosa, 5-Esquimaux, specimens Poison, pump for extracting, from the stomach, 97. Segars, enormous in China, 211.
of, 16, 21-". My boat is on the shore," 35—Waltz, by Poisoning, good theatrical anecdote respecting, 319.

Serpents in the Tower, 100.
J.' Walker, 61-Answer to Fair Allen, 98-Echo Poisons, antidote to, 358.

Shakspeare, original edition of the works of, discovered,
Waltz, from Der Freischutz, 118" Reviens à moi !" | Pneumatic engine, 64.

254, 200.
121-Air, by Rousseau, 133_Bohemian Air, 141- Polar seas, remarks upon, 51--see Voyage, and Richard. Sheathing ships' bottoms, 64.
130h Psalm, 156_Waltz, from Der Freischutz, 165 son, and Franklin and Party.

Sickness, a sonnet by G. 320.
_Mareh, from Der Freischutz, 172-Waltz, by Wilms, Polish, German, for furniture, 295.

Sick-room, verses by G. 404.
of Berlin, 180—Round, by Ferrare, 188—Christmas Political economy, 100, 207.

Sienna, description of, 145.
Carols, 208_Lima National Air, 217—Market Qua. Pompeii, modern discoveries in, 255, 371.

Silent woman, 311.
drille, 232—Original Waltz, 241-Original Mareh, 253 Pope, Mr. on shipping, navigation, and commerce, 372. Simnel, verses on, 420.
-Vr. Webb's Prize Catch, 269—"The kiss, dear Population and wages, 328.

Sleep, the bliss of (poetry) 20.
maid," original song, 277–Air, by Beethoven, 2896 Posse comitatus, whimsical mistake respecting, 215. Smith, a very common name, 190.
Coda, to ditto, 297—Original Quadrilles, 313, 329. 337 Presence of mind, extraordinary, 102.

Smith, Egerton, letter of, describing the effects of the
- Finland Peasant's Song, 345–The Snowdrops, 366— Prices, four brothers so called, remark on, 215.

nitrous oxide gas upon himself, 128-Extracts from his
Gipsy Dance, by Weber, 373—Burns's Song, 381– Primrose, lines on the appearance of the, by G., 156.

pamphlet on preservation from shipwreck, &c. 405–
Song, “O'er the heart of Childe Harold, 390—The Prize-fighting, 140_Law respecting, 371, 380.

Speech of, at the meeting to establish the Liverpool
Primrose, 399-A Round, "Poor Johnny is dead,” 405 Procrastination from the German, 121.

School of Arts, 438.
--Italian Trio, 414-Ecossaise movement, 421-Song, Profession, choice of, 113.

Smoke-hood, Roberts's, 358.
from Rothelan, 435.
Promises of a courtier, 287.

Snow.drops, verses by G, 304.
Music, adaptation of, to the sentiment, editorial remarks Pronunciation, vicious, 439.

Sofa, The, sce Vive la Bagatelle.
on, 156_Church or psalmody, 127, 156.
Psalmondy, letter on, 127, 156.

Song, 132.—“Oh, take no heed of Mary's Eye,” 304.
Musical department of the Kaleidoscope, editorial remarks Pugilism-see Prize-fighting.

Sonnet by G. 380— By T. H. S. 248.
on, 172.
Pulpits, two, in America, 199.

Southport, alias North Meols, lines on, 52.
Musical query, and replies, 241–And criticism, 264, 264, Puns, 15, 66, 79. 80, 189, 190, 211, 215, 337, 431. Spaniard, memoirs of a--see Esteban.
278, 291, 300, 359.
Punishment, capital-see Death.

Spanish language, grammar, and literature, observations
Musical prodigiessee Lyra, and Randles.

Putnam, Mr., lines addressed to, 96–His recitations, 103. on, 149, 167, 195, 242, 313, 416, 418, 431.
-Music said to have been heard before death, 54.
Puzzles, &c.-sce Vive la Bagutelie.

Spider, American, 189.
Mustard seed, white, alleged efficacy of, 81.

Q.

Spinning machines, improvements in, 64.
N.
Quill, piece of wood found in, 31.

Sports-spe Rural and Rush-bearings.
Quotations, learned-see Learned.

Spring, Latin lines on, and translation, 248, 260.
Name, effect of, 123.

Siag's horns found in Wallasy Pool, 81.

R.
Naples, King of, singular whims of, 15.

Stanhope, Lady Hester, interesting memoir of, 29, 203,
Napoleon and the Bourbons, 66—And the ants, 365– Rafts-sce Shipwreck.

Stanzas by G., 60.
Anecdote of, 389.
Rail-roads, or not Rail-roads” (a parody) 320.

Star, revolving, 288.
Narrative, wonderful and interesting.-sce Lawrence, Rail-ways and Mechanical Paradox, 214, 215, 224, 250, Steam-boat, dinner in the, humorous paper on, 90.
Riter, St.

263, 270, 292_Editorial objections to, 215_Greaves's Steam-boats, &c. progress of, 201.
National wealth, Mr. M.Culloch's lecture on, 406.

report on rail-roads, 225.

Steain-engines, &c. alleged improvements in, 14, 14-
NATURAL HISTORY, GEOLOGY, &c. original transla- | Ramsbottom, Dorothea, laughable letter from, respecting Washing by, 15.
tion of the whole of a new French work on-see Earth.
the fine arts, 254.

Steam-navigation to India, 13, 22.
Natural history, 75, 100, 107, 168, 176, 184, 185, 189, Randles, Miss, Cambrian prodigy, memoir of, 338. Stolen property, negociations for the recovery of, 286.
3)7, 228, 291, 426-see Scientific, Geology, and Earth. Ranks and dignities, book of, 87.

Stomach, cure for a pain in the, 358.
N'AT L'RALIST's Diary_see first or second Tuesduy in Razor, mode of sharpening, 67.

Stone, gravel, &c. alleged cure for the, 428.
mery month since Christmas.

Reugauntlet, critique on, 3, 11, 19-Extract from, 19. Stove, compendium, 288.
Nsrigation, coinmerce, &c. Mr. Pope's paper on, 372.

Reformation, Protestant, letters, &c. on, 282, 306, 310. Strength and activity, wonderful, of a man at the circus,
Nasy, average mortality in the, 286.
Relic, verses by G styled, 132.

332-sce Gymnasia.
Nigro intellect, 433.
Religious sects, enumeration of, 64.

Stuarts, the, rempant of, 67.
North American Review, 204.
Reply, singular, of a child, 439.

Sublime oratory, 54, 103-Writing, 196, 196,
Nah Briton's Society, of Liverpool, address of the Rev. Republic, small, 67.

Sublime, touch of the, 424.
Mr. Philip to, 198.

Respiration of nitrous oxide-sec Smith, Egerton, letter of. Sun, on the setting of (verses) 364.
Noribet expedition, 174–see Voyages.
Resurrection-men and plagiarists compared, 396.

Sunrise, as seen from the Pyrenees, 239.
Sat shell, a German story, original translation from the Retaliation, letter on, 426.

Sunset on the Mersey (verses) 296.
Caruan, 59, and the succeeding numbers.
Retreat, the, 436.

Superstitious customs, 320, 332, 340, 378, 403–sre Suttee.
Rhinoceros, account of the, 349.

Surgical operations and suspended animation-sce Ani.
0.
Ricardo, Mr. on foreign commerce, 100.

mation.
Orze, Mrs. and her Fudge family, 388.
Richardson, Dr. and the artic travellers, 436.

Suttee, or burning a widow, 95.
Tharan and essay, 255.
Riego, Madame, on the death of, 216.

Sweetmeats, copper in, test of, 47.
Rings, change of, in love of friendship, 189.

Swimming school-see Floating Bath.
Orhagraphy, whimsical, 31, 31, 39, 66.
Rising early, advantages of, 311.

Swiss horn, 135.
Varang Outang, singular species of, 427.
Roads, right of-sce Thoroughfaros.

T.
Roberts, Mr. experiment of, on friction, 298.

Tales of a Traveller, by Washington Irving, 83, 93, 110,
P.
Roberts's smoke-hood, 358.

115.
Pemberium-sce Animals extinct.
Rolls, Mrs. Henry, philanthropic verses by, 353.

Tallow, substitute for, 192.
Paterama of Algiers, 308.
Roman Lady, toilet of, 103.

Taste, essay on, by Q., 74.
Roses, otto or attar of, 99.

Tea, how to detect copper in, 193.
Panorama, circular, of Naples, 440.
is. Dr. Funeral of, 328.
Rob Roy, notice or him, 43.

Tea shrub of Louisiana, 343.
Rural amusements of England, 378, 388.

Teeth on edge, query respecting, 316.

Ort:sholoty, 286.

Telegraph, electrical, 138.
Translation, Il Grasso, the cabinet-maker, 397.

Walnuts recommended as medicine, 147.
“Tell me not of jocund spring," by G., 336.

Translations, original, paper on, 227, 231, 239, 250. Warning, giving, to a wife, 253.
Temperance recommended, 343.
Travelling six thousand miles for a guinea, 211.

Water, glass of, how to invert, without spilling, 287.
Ten, Council of, dramatic critiques by-sce Theatrical. Travelling, ancient and modern, 90.

Waters of the ocean, on the mass of, 385, 393.
Text, singular and appropriate, 79.
Tree, immense American, 358.

Watt, the late Mr. speech of Mr. Jeffrey, respecting, 34.
That, may occur eight times in uninterrupted succession, Trees, how to make names grow upon, 79—Subterrene, Wayte, Thomas, Esq. biographical notice of, 347, 351.
320.
189—Remarks upon planting, 189.

Whale, enormous, stranded, 388, 395, 401.
Thermo-micrometers, with engraving, 46, 51.
Trials, ludicrous, 91.

Whale found in a moss in Scotland, 189.
Theatre, Liverpool, notices of, 4, 12, 20, 29, 40, 44, 53, Truth, by G. 328.

Whalebones (burlesque lines) 200.
58, 65, 65, 68, 73, 81, 83, 101, 125, 128, 136, 143, 152, Tuscany, festivals of, 57.

Wealth, national, Mr. M‘Culloch's lecture on, 406.
193, 212, 280, 404, 413, 424, 424, 440.
“ 'Twas but a moment" (verses) 428.

Wealthy commoners in England, 287.
Theatrical notices, 223.
Twist, Dr. Timothy, letter from, 24.

Webbe, Mr. prize Catch, by, 269.
Theodric, by Mr. Campbell, 327.
Typographical punning, 80.

Week, explanation of the days of the, 250.
Thoroughfares, or right of road, 39.

Weights and measures, alterations in, 63, 163, 321--Ori.
“ Thou art lost unto me,” &c. (verses) 428.

V.

ginal letters respecting, 190, 191.
Though tears may dim, 336.
Thrush, lines to a, by G., 420.
Vacuum, pneumatic, engine, 64.

Wet feet, precautions against, 343.

White, Henry Kirke, lines by, 380.
Valentine of a sailor, 284.
Tick and Sheridan, 337.

Wife, right of, to a dower, 287—How to choose a, 428.
Time, voice of, by G., 44—Sonnet on, by G., 80-Epi- Vapour bathing recommended for the poor, 884, 384_see Wilson, the Rev. Mr. speech of, at the meeting to establista
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Men and Manners. ancient, and is supposed to have been founded by a Greek | tude for a prince, who had, as they said, withdrawn them

colony. The founders came from a city of Greece, of the from the tyrannical dominion of the Florentines. “We' name of Pisa, built on the shores of the river Alpheus, in owe to the French," said they, “our liberty, which is Elis, a province of Peloponesus.

dearer to us than life, and we are determined never to be Virgil says, speaking of Pisa, verses 179 and 180 of the separated from that generous people. Our town formerly ARRIVAL AT PISA. tenth book of the Æneid:

constituted a part of the Duchy of Milan; we therefore

belong to France. Let the king deign to receive us VOX L'HERMITE EN ITALIE, THE LATEST WORK OF MR. JOUY. “ Hos parere jubent Alpheæ ab origine Pisæ,

Urbs Etrusca solo. - Sequitur pulcherimus Astur."

among the number of his subjects, and we will willingly [Translated expressly for the Kaleidoscope.)

submit to the conditions he shall impose, however severe Pisa is situated in a vast, richly cultivated, and popu. they may be ; but let him not abandon us to pitiless I set out on horseback from Spezzia, accompanied by a lous plain. The marshes which once infected the purity wolves, to inexorable tyrants; to the Florentines, our inguide, and we soon arrived at Lerici, the ancient Erix, of the air, have been drained, and its climate is now placable enemies. If we cannot obtain this favour, let or Portus Erici of Ptolemy. This town, situated at the esteemed one of the finest in Italy, the extremes both of him at least grant us an asylum in his kingom, since we foot of a range of rocks, is excluded from every view heat and cold being less frequent than at Florence. except that of the sea. Its gulf is separated by a narrow Snow never falls there, and the frost does not continue prefer exile and poverty to the horrors of servitude which

would await us in our own country.” Deck of land from that of Spezzia. Towards sunset, we above eight days in the year. It is usual, in the months

Whilst the captains, affected by this appeal, were enreached Sarzana, situated on the frontiers of Tuscany of December and January, to dine with the windows open; deavouring to persuade the people to submit by promises and the territory of Genoa, and separated from Lerici by and the mild spring weather begins as early as the month to alleviate the severity of their fate, the gates of the hall » mountainous country, about five or six leagues in ex. of February. The heats of summer are constantly tem

were thrown open, and five hundred young girls, dressed lett. Sarzana, called by the Latins Sarazana, Sergiamum, pered by the sea winds.

in white, and with dishevelled hair, entered, conducted by nd Lux4 ma, forms a part of the Genoese territory, and

Pisa was, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, a

two venerable matrons, and throwing themselves at the eighteen leagues distant from the city of Genoa. It republic no less powerful than that of Genoa. She then feet of the two envoys, conjured them to remember the ormerly belonged to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, but made conquests in Africa and the Mediterranean, pos- solomn oath they had taken, on receiving the order of se ceded it in the fifteenth century to the Republic of sessed herself of Carthage, and took from the Sarrasins chivalry, to be the defenders of the fair sex, and not to Benoa, in exchange for a small hamlet of fishermen's the Balearic Isles, Corsica, and Sardinia. She sustained abandon them to the brutality of their enemies. Arboukuts , called Leghom, a name still retained by the great long wars with the Florentines and Genoese, to whom ville and Mortemar vent their eyes to the ground,

much dan which now occupies the same site. Sarzana has a she finally owed the destruction of her power.

embar ressed, and attempted to withdraw, but these young full uninteresting appearance, and the houses are of a A village of the name of San-Pietro is built upon the girls, surrounding them, dragged them before an image gray dusky hue, like those of most of the old towns in land formerly bathed by the waves of the ancient port, of the Virgin, and would not allow them to depart, until luiy. The most remarkable buildings are the cathedral w nich fell in o ruin, when fortune and the Mediterranear they had moved them to tears by the earnestness of their and publie palace. Near Lunen za are quarries contain- deserted it. A large loose stone, in the middle of the entreaties. The envoys then returned to their camp, ing a part of marble called by the Latins lupidi lunensi. nave of the parish church, designates the spot, where, loaded with presents, and related what they had seen and It is of the purest white, and the grain is exceedingly according to tradition, Saint Peter landed and fastened heard. ine. It is so transparent that it has often been mistaken the anchor of his vessel, when he visited Pisa, one of the

It was difficult for an army of French soldiers to attack the Parian marble, the latter being even inferior to it in so- tirst towns where Christianity was established. The Flo- a people who opposed to them arms like these, but though klits and whiteness. The house of Benedetli, at Sarzana, rentines deprived the inhabitants of Pisa of their liberty the principal officers wished the assault to be deferred until built of this marble.

and government in 1406. Charles the Eighth, at the further orders were received from the king, Beaumont 1 passed the night at Sarzana, and the next day hired a time of his journey into Italy, assisted them in recovering persisted in his resolution to invest the town. He could arriage, which conveyed me to Pisa, a large and fine city both; but, in 1609, they again lost them; and have, from not, however, prevent a friendly intercourse from being Tuscany.

that time, remained in the power of the Grand Dukes of established between the besiegers and the besieged. All The quay of the Arno is the finest ornament of Pisa, Tuscany.

the French soldiers who presented themselves at the gates, na has even been thought to surpass in beauty the quay In 1500, Lewis tlie Twelfth, in conformity with his either during the day, or in the night time, were hospitably | tte Ardo at Florence. It extends in the form of a promise to assist the Florentines in their attempts upon entertained, and often dismissed with wine and meat for tex.dat from the gate delle Piage to that called del Mare, Pisa, lent then 6,000 good in fantry and a large body of their comrades in the camp. When the attack was comtad presents a magnificent coup d'ail from whatever cavalry. Determined to allow the inhabitants of Pisa ng menced, the inhabitants pointed out to them the places

is curveyed. Palaces and fine houses are erected quarter, the Florentines insisted upon choosing their upon which the cannons of the town were to fire, in order quay,

which is also adorned by three bridges general themselves, and demanded of the King of France that they might avoid them. Some assaults were made, Bring a communication between the quarters of St. Hugh de Beaumont, as a man whose stern and inflexible but little slaughter was committed. The soldiers by delery and St. Antony. The scene is enlivened by the character rendered him a fit instrument of their ani- grees abandoned their posts, until the desertion became Bergen's barks, and boats laden with merchandise, mosity.

so general, that Beaumont was obliged to retire with his trually crossing each other upon the river, which Having arrived before Pisa, Beaumont seni D'Arbou- army in the night time, leaving the sick and wounded at bexists itself into the sca, at the distance of two or three ville and Hector de Mortemar, two of his principal cap- the mercy of the besieged. The inhabitants of Pisa, at

tains, to summon the inhabitants, in the name of the tracted by the groans uttered by the disabled soldiers upon fine grase, which is permitted to grow in many of the king, to return to the yoke of their former masters. The seeing their comrades depart from them, came out from e streets, gives to the interior of the town a solitary magistrates received the envoys with great ceremony, and the gates of the city, carrying torches, and removed these ciznal aspect. The population, which once amounted led them to the town-hall. They there shewed them the wretched men into the town, where they bestowed upon sore than a hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, portrait of Charles the Eighth, honourably placed under them every care necessary for the re-establishment of their aut reduced to sixteen thousand. This town is very a canopy, and surrounded by the emblems of their grati- health. They then permitted them to return to Milan,

t, as

Nome las estimo en nada."-Moorish Ballad.

,nd furnished them with money for their journey, still

TIIE BACHELOR'S STORY.

Zenophon, Tully, Herodotus, Homer, Virgil, Plato, Cato, expressing to them their desire to belong to l'rance. We

and the whole host of Romans and Greeks marshalled in must do Napolcon the justice to own that less entreaty

[ORIGINAL.]

battle array on the tablet of my memory, but the utile was vas necessary to induce him to grant a people the honour

quite forgotten. Of our own history I knew little or no of forming a part of the great empire.

thing; whether the Normans conquered the Saxons, or the

"Perdi una hija donzella My mind continued occupied with these remembrances

Saxons the Normans, I was quite ignorant. Geography was

Que era la fior desta tierra a'l passed through the streets. I at length alighted at

put aside; astronomy ne'er enlightened my mind; the

Cien doblas dava por eila an inn, situated on the quay. The bridge is said to be of

Black Sea might unite with the Baltic, and the Wolga n arble, which does not answer to the descriptions given

with the Ganges, for all that I knew about the matler: of it. The surface of its free-stone parapets is covered

the course of the celestial bodics might have attracted my to the height of at l'ast (welve feet with pieces of marble, I was born in London, in the year 1775, just about the attention, but to believe that the earth moved round the joined togeiher. The inhabitants, taking a part for the b:e.sking out of the American war. My father was re- sun, seemed to m" too large a draft on my credulity. I whole, boast that their bridge is built of marble, and as putably established in lite as a callow.chandler, and was will not tire you with an account of my school pranks, the causeway and pavement are composed of fays of considered by many as a man of property. He loved me, they were like those of others, and if I was a little more common stone, much res a bling, at the first glaner, un and I loved him, and never shall Liorget the kind manner in daring than the rest of my competitors, I generally sufhewn marble, the deception is not easily discovered. which he used to make me a small present for my own use, fered in a proportionable ratio. At sixteen I was taken

At one extremity of the quay, near the gate of Lucca, though he certainly hud a very queer way of lacking to from school, and homewards bent my way. My father is an immense square, part of which is occupied by the his gift this phrase "there, and don't make a beast of was then getting old, and even my mother's “ vast mind" done, baptistry, Campanile, or steeple, and, Cumpo Sunto yourselt.” He was not much informed, but was what the had fallen considerably away. By dint of diligence and or cemetery. These four buildings are very lofty, and of wo. ld call an easy man; easily imposed upon he was, 'tis economy my father had now amassed a very handsome great extent. They are entirely composed of white mar. true; " but then, he could not help inankind being vil- fortune, and one morning as I passed him on the stairs, he ble, and surrounded on the outside by antique columns of lains, and if he was more unfortunate than his neighbours, called after me to come up into his own room, " for I diff:rent orders, incrustated with marbles of various why, he could not help it so there it might end." My want to speak to thee, my lad, atout thy future welfare,” colours, and adorned by gothic sculptures. The Campa. mother, be it known, was completely different; in oppo. said he, with a laugh upon his face. When we were fastnile, a circular building, situated at the western extremity sition to my father's corpulency, she was slim and lengthy ened up (for he had a great dislike to an open door) he of the dome, is the most deserving of attention. It is a in her person, and possessed what she termed a “vast commenced his harangue thus :-"Will, my boy, I am hundred and ninety feet high, and its summit inclines mind." This vast mind" of hers was, however, only filled old, and have scraped together more than thou'lt spend, so from its base more than forty feet; it is ornamented by with scraps froin badly selected novels; and armed with I don't see why I should go on in business, wasting myself seven rows of pillars. The interior staircase is so easy of every quotation from the last romance, she assaulted my for nothing-I'll shut up shop, and we'll live in sone ascen., that it is said to be practicable fo a man on horse. father with a vigorous display of her transcendant talents. comfortable place in the country, and thou, my lad, shall back. The inhabitants call this

ir Torre Ratta. Some Some one had cold her that every clever woman was ab. be a gentleman." Of course I did not dissent from such assert that the architect sported w his art, when he gave sent and thou zhtful; she, too, would therefore be absent, a proposal ; for, to tell the truth, I had a natural aversion this tower so marked an inclination ; others maintain, that and would frequrotly, in some of her reveries, overturn to business: I answered as became a dutiful child, " that after having been regularly constructed, it gradually as. the tea urn with her arm, or upset the whole tea equipage their will was mine.” So the shop was shut up, and every sumed an inclined position, as the suil sunk under its with her foot, and she could not be brought back to her thing sold, and away we posted to our country-house, my weight.

herself, but by the cups and saucers clattering about her mother quite delighted with the change, and I myself not The interior of the Metropolitan church is majestic; it feet; and after being wet and scalded in every direction, less 80. We had purchased the manson of a gentleman is ornamented by seventy-six pillars, numerous basso-re. she just found out that she was not in the midst of a near the pleasant town of —, most charmingly situated, lievos, and paintings by the first masters. I remarked wood, but sitting down with her “clump of a husband," and commanding a fine view of the river --, as it swept particularly a Saint Agnes, of Andrea del Sarte. The as she called him, at the odious tea table. She would sit along with its rapid current. Mr. F-, the gentleman pavement is of Musaic; the choir rises in the form of an

up all morning, poring over the “lettered page," and from whom the house was purchased, had once been inverted half globe, and is composed of a substance having feasting herself and her “vast mind” on the rich stores a very considerable merchant, but owing to a reverse the appearance of painted glass, penetrable to the light, of the impenetrable secret, or a romance of the sixteenth of fortune, he had been obliged to sell his estate, and live and in which the rays of the sun are refracted. At the century, she would exclaim—"Oh that I should be wedded in a more retired manner at a small house in the neigh. bottom of this half sphere is observed an imge of the to a tallow.chandler"

bourhood. The mansion had been uninhabited for some Almighty, of gigantic size, painted several centuries ayo. My father bore all this with patience (but as in my own time, for the grass was on the walks, and the trees were

The doors at the bottom of the church are of bronze, story I should wish to adhere to truth, so in that of others scattering their wild branches in every direction, but sull and covered with numerous fi rures moulded witir them, the same principle ought to be observed.) I must in- it was evident that the whole had been planned and exe. which the inhabitants pretend to have been brought from form you inat he was rather henpecked, and feared my cuted in an elegant and tasteful manner. Jerusalem by their ancestors ia 1070). These figures repre. mother's vast tongue a great deal more than her “ vast Sheltered from the northern blast by a row of stately sent traits in holy writ. The lateral doors possess nothing mind.” They lived, however, as happily as a literate firs, vur garden bloomed in the severest weather. The ra. remarkable.

wife could live with an illiterate husband, and if they nunculus, the hyacinth, the modest lily of the valley, and The Campo Santo, or cemetery, is about a thousand often quarrelled, they did, to do them justice, very often the blushing anemone, were scattered in profusion over feet in circumference. It is rendered interesting by the agree: one point they did differ on, and had they lived to the ground. Ruse trees inyumerable shed their fragrance paintings, in fresco, which adorn the whole extent of its eternity, would have still diifered on,-this was politics. in the air; but one in pariicular attracted my attention : interior walls. The figures are of the thirteenth and My father was a tory, my mother was a whig; he loved this was close under one of the windows, and, from its fourteenth centuries, and represent the histories of the peace, she loved war; he was contented with the then height and beauty, seemed to have received no common Old and New Testament, and views of Paradise, Purga: present state of affiirs, she railed against thein; he sided care. In a few days my father set to, got the garden tory, and Hell. The latter are particularly worthy of with the ministers, the opposed them. Amidst this clash of cleared of its incumbranees, and again brought it is to its study. On one of the walls is painted the celebrated pic opinions no wonder there were sparks; but my mother got original state. Being myself fond of exercise, I frequently ture of Vergogna, or Modestina, who, to avoid seeing her the better in the argument, if argument it could be called, (for want of betur employment) busied myself in digging father Noalı, extended near her, naked and intoxicated, and in the whirlpool of liberty, rights of man, privilege around the different trees, not forgetting my favourite one covers her eyes with her hands, the fingers of which re. I of women, tyrany, and oppression, my poor father was I had been occupied thus one evening, and had left the main separated. Tlie dampness has spoiled most of these lost. The only rı» urce he had was his shop; to that he earth perfectly level round the root of the finest, when, on paintings. Copies of them may be found in a collection hastened as his ** sanctum sanctorum, "for there my mother returning in the morning to view its opening beauties, I of engravings published by Jorghen, in 1810, and the would not condescend to enter; and, shrouded in its gloom, was surpriseż to find the prints of feet about it.

Robin. years following:

he dipped on in price and quietness. Whether my father son Crusoc could not have been more agitated when he The inhabitants of Pisa afirm that the reddish earth of bad suttered enough from his own ignorance, or wh.ther saw the marks of footsteps on his barren and desolate this ce netery, in hic?thrir dead are interred, was brought he imagined that the knowledge of Latin and Greek would shore, than I was then ; for, upon examining them more from Mount Calvary, near Jerusalem, in the twelfth prevent me from enduring the yoke which he so quietly particularly, from the size, I discovered them to be thoseci Cir.tury, and that it cursumes the body in the course of bore, I could never determine, but he took great pains to a female! “ Perhaps 'tis the servant's ?-ro, no; we biedt twenty-fvur hours.

select for me a school where these necessary accomplish- but one female, and she had never such a fout as this A vast gallery, contained in the cemetery, is bordered meats to a man of any pretensions to ability were most Perhaps 'tis my mother's ?-oh, Lord, said I to myseit, by ancient tombs, of which the sculpture attests the great completely of the greatest importance, and where every her foot would make six of these! Then whose could i untiquity. The inscriptions are unfortunately for the mest thing else but the classics were quite neglected. I went be?-a stranger's—thui's certain. But when could she part illegible.

through the wsual rouride of a classical education; had' cone? not in the morning, fun I was an early riser, a