tual.

It may be difficult to account very satisfactorily for the effects tea produces on the sensations; but we are not better able to explain the inebriating principle we find in strong drinks. The researches of analytical chemistry have not yet cleared up this point, nor is the mode of action in which the intoxicating influence is produced, whether by absorption or through the medium of the nerves, better explained. Some wines, which contain very little alcohol, affect the head as soon as those containing treble the quantity: while those possessing the same absolute proportion of spirit, are found to vary considerably in their inebriating powers. It may be conceived, therefore, that such effects result rather from different principles, than one common element universally diffused. The action of tea on the stomach seems to be in some degree narcotic; and though narcotics differ from pure stimulants, they are still possessed of a true stimulant operation. That tea tends, like the strong stimulants, spirits, wine, and beer, to retard the digestion, there cannot be a doubt; and, for this reason, it may not always agree with already too tardy. But it is this quality that renders weak stomachs, in which the digestive process is

ceased, with eulogies on the greatness of his | the eating of opium would soon become less habi-
lineage, his wealth, bounty, strength, wisdom,
and valour. They are occasionally employed
through the day in shrouding the body, which
is supported in an erect position in the centre
of a house appropriated to the purpose; first,
with grass-cloths, fold over fold, each piece
being fastened to that immediately beneath,
and, last of all, with European and Asiatic
manufactures, web over web in a similar man-
ner, until it arrives at an enormous bulk.
These envelopes of costly materials;-chintz,
taffetas, brocades, &c. are sometimes carried
to the ruinous extent of two hundred cubic
feet, exhibiting the appearance of an oblong
package, with a protuberance arising from the
midst of the upper surface. To retard putre-
faction, some gallons of brandy are daily
poured upon the fabric, which, after perco-
lating through it, is collected in troughs, and
quaffed off by the attendant mourners, as the
most delicious and renovating beverage in
nature. It acts like a charm, for their songs
immediately assume a loftier strain of woe.
Thus, for the space of twelve months were
conducted the obsequies of a Malemba trader,
-Empollo Leumba,-a worthless character,
whose wealth, great alliances, and vanity, pro-
cured him that outward respect and honour
which his countrymen secretly denied him.
His ears were cropped for some misdeed of his
youth, and his countenance bespoke the insi-
dious betrayer. I was present at the conclu-
sion of the solemnities.

Among the thousands who thronged to his funeral, ardent spirits were distributed with an unsparing hand, which doubtless was the chief cause of their attendance. The corpse, placed on a low open bier, moving upon small wheels, was, with the assistance of ropes, dragged by the assembled multitude to the grave, a hole twelve feet deep. In this was an immense wicker basket, ready to receive the shrouded body, which being lowered into it by cords, the lid was closed, and the whole covered with earth; finally, two large elephant's tusks were placed over the head. A pathway led through the hollow dell, where the burial ground lay, and we may conclude, that the repository of the dead is held sacred, since the natives resist the strong temptation to open them offered by the great quantities of ivory deposited in these places.

One of the traders shewed me a spot where he once saw a lion devouring an antelope, and I must needs say, the valley, from its awful retirement, seemed a suitable haunt for the monarch of the forest.

To be continued.

REMARKS ON TEA.

The use of tea promotes, in most constitutions, sensations on the stomach, from its stimulative action which are highly grateful; and the production of a somewhat similar excitement on the coats of the digestive organs, seem to constitute the chief recommendation of some articles of diet very generally used in other nations. Thus the garlic of the Spaniards, the spices of the people of the East, the coffee of the French and Dutch, have, from this effect on the stomach, a considerable influence in diverting from the use of intoxicating liquors. If the Irish bad, in their damp climate, a warmer diet than their potatoes farnish, it is likely that whiskey would not be so generally used; and it is equally probable, if the Turks were permitted by their laws to drink wine,

it more valuable in general diet, since, in moderately
retarding this process, it preserves longer in the
stomach that sensation of satiety which gives the
feeling of strength. While the stimulants just men-
tioned produce these effects, persons drinking only
water have generally the digestion so much expedited,
that a feeling of sinking and emptiness sooner takes
place. From this cause water-drinkers require more
food, and are well known to have keener appetites
than the drinkers of fermented liquors. Tea appears
to have the same effect in rendering a smaller quantity
of food adequate to the feeling of full support, and
that without producing the dangerous consequences
of strong drinks: and, as one part of the art of diet
consists in making less food answer the purpose of
nourishment in a prepared, than would have done in
a natural state; another part extends to the considera-
tion of those articles of food, which, while they give
those sensations to the stomach that are so necessary
to the happiness of animal life, produce also, by an
indirect influence, effects equally salutary on the
morals and manners.—Palin.

Solution of No. 17, by Mr. W. M'Lawrie. Let a 1 be substituted for a in the given equation, and we shall have a3 = 9a; whence, by division, a2 9, or a = 3; and conse 1 = x = 2.

The Third Time.—The facetious Dr. B., of Wrquently a
having, inadvertently, preached one of his early ser-
mons for the third time, one of his parishoners having
observed it, said to him after service,- Doctor, the
sermon you gave us this morning, having had three
several readings, I move that it now be passed.'---We
recommend this little anecdote to a few of our resi-
dent Clergy.---ED.

A method of multiplying the delineations of natural
objects, has been invented by means of an instrument
called Hyalograph. Designs are traced on the glass
of the instrument, and these are transferred to paper
by a kind of ink; and this process may be repeated,
as is the case in lithography.

During the times of the very severe penal laws
against the Roman Catholics in Ireland, it is little
wonder that they were almost all Jacobites, or sus-
pected to be so. Their priests, from their foreign
education, were peculiarly objects of suspicion. On
one occasion, a priest, whose jovial manners render-
ed him a welcome guest even at tables where his.
politics were not acceptable, dined with a freebearted
loyalist in the county of 'Tipperary. He sat next the
host, and immediately under him a dragoon officer.
"The
After dinner the master of the house gave
King," adding with a smile, as he turned to his
neighbour, "but not your King, by G-" The
priest instantly turned to the officer, and, glass in
hand, gave," The King, but not your King, by G
"How, Sir!" cried the dragoon very angrily, "what
do you mean by such a toast?" "I don't know," an-
swered the priest," ask the gentleman at the head
of the table, for I give it as he gave it to me."

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=

Solution of the same by Mr. Wilson.
First x+3x2 = 6x + 8.
By adding the same quantity to each side,
x33x2 + 3x + 1 = 9x + 9,
That is, (x+1)3 = 9 (x + 1),
By division, (x +1)2 = 9,
Therefore, a 2 or 4.

Solutions were received from J. H. and Amicus.

Question No. 22, by Newtoniensis. Suppose the earth's radius = 6982000 yards, and that there is a mountain upon its surface of such a height, that a clock when on the earth's surface, shall point out equal time; but when carried to the top of the mountain, shall be so retarded as to err 2 minutes every day. It is required to determine the mountain's elevation.

Question No. 23, by Mr. John Mole, author of

the "Elements of Algebra."

from the top of a tower, was observed to fall A Ball descending by the force of gravity half the way in the last second of time; required the height of the tower, and the time of

descent?

-I admire dress,' said the Rector, as becoming, not fashionable; as good, not gaudy. The head of a lady should shine from within-not from without. I value her fingers by the work that they do-not by the work that has been done for them by the jeweller.' What!' said I, do you object to rings as memorials of departed friends? Rings, cried the Rector, are, in my opinion, fit only for the snouts of swine. I will show you my memorials: follow me.' I followed him into his study.

"This,' said the Rector, I call my Mausoleum.' It was a small book-case, made of ebony, and lined with black silk curtains. Under its cornice was inscribed, 'Your fathers, where are they? When the doors were opened, I saw two shelves unoccupied; the other two were filled with books very handsomely bound in black calf, with black edges to the leaves, and black linings to the covers.

You well knew,' said the Rector, my excellent father, his devotedness to the welfare of his family, and his general beneficence: he was beloved by his children, esteemed by his friends, respected by his neighbours, lamented by all. This is my memorial of him,

'The Duties of Men,' which he put into my hands, had the following inscription in gold letters on one cover of each volume

M. P. Died, Et. 74.

This great statesman and orator was born in Dublin, where his father was an eminent barrister. He was brought up to the same profession, but, becoming disgusted with it, retired from its avocations; and, in 1775, entered the Irish House of Commons: here he soon distinguished himself, both by his superior talents and his zealous patriotism. Throughout his whole parliamentary career he was assiduous in labouring to obtain an entire abolition of all the penal laws against the Catholics-and, in this cause, he at last expired. His remains are deposited in Westminster Abbey, not far from those of PITT and Fox The following elegant tribute to his memory is from the pen of the admired author of 'Lalla Rookh.'

Shall the harp then be silent, when he, who first gave

To onr country a name, is withdrawn from all eyes?
Shall a minstrel of Erin stand mute by the grave,
Where the first-where the last of her patriots lies?
No-faint though the death-song may fall from his lips,
Though his harp, like his soul, may with shadows be crost,
Yet, yet shall it sound, 'mid a nation's eclipse,

And proclaim to the world what a star has been lost!
What a union of all the affections and powers,
By which life is exalted, embellished, refined,
Was embraced in that spirit-whose centre was ours,
While its mighty circumference circled mankind.
Oh, who that loves Erin-or who that can see
Through the waste of her annals, that epoch sublime-
Like a pyramid, raised in the desert-where he
And his glory stand out to the eyes of all time!-
That one lucid interval, snatched from the gloom
And the madness of ages, when, filled with his soul,
A nation o'erleaped the dark bounds of her doom,
And, for one sacred instant, touched Liberty's goal!
Who, that ever hath heard him-hath drank at the source
Of that wonderful eloquence, all Erin's own,
In whose high-thoughted daring, the fire, and the force,
And the yet untamed spring of her spirit are shown-
An eloquence, rich-wheresoever its wave

Is there one, who bath thus, through his orbit of life,

But at distance observed him-through glory, through if as friends, one vessel would be sufficient.

enemies, that force would be insignificant; but

blame,

In the calm of retreat, in the grandeur of strife,
Whether shining or clouded, still high and the same→→→
Such a union of all that enriches life's hour,
Of the sweetness we love and the greatness we praise,
As that type of simplicity blended with power,

A child with a thunderbolt only pourtrays ;-
Oh, no-not a heart, that e'er knew him, but mourns,
Deep, deep o'er the grave, where such glory is shrined-
O'er a monument Fame will preserve, 'mong the urns
Of the wisest, the bravest, the best of mankind!

WEDNESDAY, 5.-Saint Boniface.
Boniface was a Saxon presbyter, born in
England, and at first called Winfrid. He was
sent as a missionary by Pope Gregory II. into
Germany, where he made so many converts,
that he was distinguished by the title of the
German Apostle. He was created Bishop of
Mentz in the year 445. Boniface was one of
the first priests of his day, and was also a
great friend and admirer of the Venerable
Bede. He was murdered in a barbarous man-
ner by the populace near Utrecht, while
preaching the Christian religion.

THURSDAY, 6.-Corpus Christi.

This festival, the body of Christ.' was appointed in honour of the Eucharist, and always falls on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. It is called the Fete Dieu, or Corpus Christi, and is one of the most remarkable festivals of the Romish church, begining on Trinity Sunday, and ending on the Sunday following. The common mode of celebrating this festival is by grand masses, and cessions of the holy sacrament only.

ANECDOTES OF PHOCION.

He embarked with one vessel only, and returned with all the arrears due from the allies. He was of a peaceable temper, yet almost always engaged in wars, for he would not decline military employments, when called thereto by the necessity of his country: he was forty-five times chosen general of the Athenians, by the voice of the people, and not once present at his election. In peaceable times the Athenians, who entertained themselves with spruce speakers and trim orators, would often insult Pho cion; but when it came to the field of action, he was chosen as the ablest general and wisest politician. This great man was remarkable for his firmness; for when the oracle of Delphi was read, which informed them, that the rest of the citizens being unanimous, there was one person amongst them who was so presump tuous, as to dissent from the general opinion. Whereupon Phocion arose, and said he was the person pointed at by the oracle; that they need look no farther; that, in short, he disliked all their proceedings. Upon another occasion, giving his opinion in a debate, it was received with such general applause by the assembly, that he turned to a friend, and asked him, if any thing silly or impertinent had dropped from him unawares?

The Athenians urging him at an unseasonable time to fall upon the enemy, he peremptorily refused; and being upbraided with pusillanimity, he replied, gentlemen, we unpro-derstand one another very well; you cannot make me valiant at this time: nor I you wise." When they had declared war against Philip, and in his absence chosen other generals, upon his return he advised them to accept of such conditions as were offered, since Philip desired to be at peace with them, and he himself was very apprehensive of the event of a war with that Prince. One of the sycophants asked him, "darest thou, Phocion, think of dissuading the Athenians from the war when the sword is "Yes, said he, I dare: notwithdrawn?" standing I am satisfied I shall be thy master in time of war, but thou (perhaps) mine in time of peace." When he found he could not prevail, but that Demosthenes's advice was taken, to engage Philip as far from Attica as possible, Phocion said, let us not be so careful about the place where we are to engage, as how to get the victory: that is the only way to keep the war at a distance: whereas, if we are overcome, the worst of calamities will soon be at our doors."

Phocion was a pupil of Plato, and afterwards received instructions under Zenocrates; was addicted from his youth to such studies as tended to the most valuable accomplishments; easy in his conversation, and of very great humanity, but had something morose in his countenance: his discourse was grave and pithy, replete with just remarks and sententious brevity, awful and austere, though unpleasant. Demosthenes was reckoned the better orator, but Phocion the more powerful speaker. Being taken notice of walking behind the scenes, very thoughtful, when the theatre was filled with spectators; he was asked what he was so intent upon; to which he replied, "I am considering how to retrench something in a speech I am to make to the Athenians." In military knowledge he was instructed by Chabrias, a very worthy general, but rather of a choleric and fiery temper, too apt to run precipitately into danger, which indeed at last cost him his life: Phocion helped much to correct his temper, by sometimes warming his phlegm, and at other times cooling the impetuosity of his unreasonable fury. Chabrias was by no means ignorant of his

Wandered free and triumphant-with thoughts that shone merit, and preferred him accordingly: the

through,

As clear as the brook's stone of lustre, and gave
With the flash of the gem, its solidity too.

Who, that ever approached him, when, free from the crowd,

In a home full of love, he delighted to tread

Mong the trees which a nation had giv'n, and which bow'd,

As if each brought a new civic crown for his head-
That home, where-like him who, as fable hath told,
Put the rays from his brow, that his child might come

near

Every glory forgot, the most wise of the old

Became all that the simplest and youngest hold dear,

first time he distinguished himself in this station
was at the memorable battle of Naxos, where
he had the command of the left squadron of
the Athenian fleet, which entirely routed the
enemy, and gained a complete victory. After
this, he was sent by Chabrias to demand the
quotas of the charges of the war from their
allies, and being offered twenty sail of ships,
he said, if he intended going against them as

Upon the news of Philip's death, he would not suffer the people to sacrifice or give any other demonstrations of joy; "For nothing, said he, can be a greater mark of a mean spirit, than to rejoice at the misfortunes of others: besides, you are to remember the army you fought against a Cheronæa is lessened only one man." His fame soon reached Alexander's ears, who was so pleased with his conversation, that he contracted an intimate friendship with him, though an enemy. He sent him a present at one time of an hundred talents; which being brought to Athens, Phocion asked the messengers, how alone of all the Athenians he should be indebted to Alexander's bounty? Being answered, that Alexander esteemed him alone a man of honour and worth." May it please him then, said he, to let me continue such, and be still so reputed." However, they

a

followed him to his house, and earnestly pres-night in the watch-house. There was nothing| His, looks were rivetted on his son, who sed him to accept it. "We are ashamed, said very formidable in all this and I thought it seemed to shrink from his gaze, as if his they, that one in so high favour with so great scarcely sufficient cause for me to have been father's sufferings added tenfold bitterness to a prince, should live so meanly." A poor old dragged out of my bed at owl-light in the his own. When the young man's name was fellow in tattered cloaths passing by, he asked morning. My young friend, however, felt called, a shudder seemed to pass over his them, if they thought him worse than that somewhat less than comfortable in his novel si-frame, but he stepped forward to the bar with poor wretch? They were amazed at the com-tuation, and wished me to see him through the a firm step, and a countenance sufficiently parison. "Yet, said he, the man has less than business. In the mean time as our case was composed. His case proved to be one by no 1, and is content, and in short, I must tell not the first to be gone through, I had leisure means uncommon, but always most distressing. you, if this sum be more than I can use, it is to take a survey of the place which I was in, He had early shewn talents superior to his altogether superfluous. If I live up to it, I and the people by whom I was surrounded. station, and his parents had pinched themselves shall give cause of jealousy, both of your This was the first time I had ever been at to give education to their favourite boy. A master and myself, and to the rest of the Bow-street, and the scene was sufficiently few years back they had with difficulty procitizens." Thus he dismissed them. Alex- striking. The low ill-lighted room, with its cured him a situation in a merchant's count ander was displeased with his answer, and said dingy walls and barred windows, was a locale ing-house in London. And here, he yielded he could not esteem those his friends, who well adapted to the figures of want, vice, and to those temptations under which so many thought much of receiving favours from him: wretchedness with which it was filled. Some have sunk. He passed from expence to extrábut he made a nobler use of his favour, by in- few, like my friend, seemed to be there for vagance, and from extravagance to dishonesty terceding for two persons who were convicted some slight offence, and their appearance and he was at last discovered to have forged of certain crimes, and were in custody at Sardis. evinced only the desire to escape from obser- bill to a considerable amount, on which Phocion at length fell a sacrifice to the injustice vation in such a place. Others, with looks of charge he was being now examined. As the of his fellow-citizens. It is true he gave them shame far greater, and with the air of the examination proceeded, and the proofs against some colour for what they did, by the fault deepest depression, seemed to await their turn him became full and decisive, the sorrow of he committed, in not arresting Nicanor, who of hearing with the most anxious fear, rarely the father's countenance darkened into utter afterwards betrayed the city. But this, if it and slightly varied by a faint degree of hope. hopelessness; and when the Magistrate signed were a fault, was not only pardonable, but But by far the greatest number had that look the committal, the unfortunate old man fell commendable. No doubt if he had known of hardened reckless vice, which is perhaps back senseless into the arms of a by-stander. what Nicanor designed, he would have pre- the most degraded and revolting aspect in The Magistrate was visibly affected, and even ferred the preservation of his country to the which humanity ever appears these faces be- the officers were not unmoved. Nature, interest and safety of his friend; but he was spoke the total absence of shame, and the though hardened and deadened, is Nature still; ignorant of it; and to betray a friend in whom callous indifference to consequence, which and the heart must indeed be closed, which has we have entire confidence, is a thing mean habitual wickedness gives, and which seem to no touch of softness at an appeal like this to and base, for a man of honour even to think of. regard detection and punishment as but the her first and purest feelings. After his death, a lady of Megara deposited adverse chances of a game, in which they his bones secretly, he not being allowed sepul- must sometimes necessarily occur. But what chral rites. The Athenians, made wise by was chiefly jarring to my feelings, was the their calamities, lamented what a watchful matter-of-course air, with which the officers magistrate, and upright guardian, they had and even the magistrate looked on a scene from put to death; and, stung with remorse, they which I shrank with disgust and loathing. See, conducted his ashes back to Athens, interred said I to myself, the hardening effects of hathem honourably at the public expence, raised bit! That magistrate is, I doubt not, a man a statue of brass to his memory, and punished of humanity, and once had the feelings natuhis accusers with death. ral to one of his station in life;--but now, from the constantly witnessing misery and guilt, he has come to look unmoved on these the most degraded appearances of human nature-the very dregs and offal of misfortune

ŽENO.

A MORNING AT BOW STREET.

I was awakened in the morning by a note being delivered to me from a young friend of mine, telling me that he was in trouble-i. e., in St. Martin's watch-house--and requesting me to come down to Bow-street, to be his bail, if need were; and, at all events, to give him my advice and assistance to get out of the scrape. Now I am one of those persons who, like the beau in Gil Blas, "would not rise before noon for the best party of pleasure which could be proposed:" it therefore gave me no particular delight to turn out before nine o'clock on a cold morning on an errand like this. Go, however, I did and I arrived at Bow-street just in time to see my friend alight from a hackney-coach, with five companions in misfortune."Sa toilette du soir, un pue fanée ce matin," added to his dim sunken eye, his pale cheek, and matted hair, made his appearance sufficiently forlorn; which was not improved by the shame which he very visibly felt of his situation. He had no sort of inclínation, I soon perceived, to figure in a Police Report. His story was, that he had been foolish enough the night before to go to a gaming-house--usually and most appropriately called a Hell; and that after losing fifty pounds, he was bagged, as he phrased it, by an irruption of Bow-street officers, and had the satisfaction of passing the remainder of the

and of crime !

It was

The next prisoner who was brought up, was a man who had been caught in the act of breaking into a Jeweller's shop. The tools of his trade were produced: for with him theft was a regular calling. He was well known by the officers, and appeared to belong to that class, alas! but too numerous in London, who, born in its sinks of misery and vice, pass their lives in violence and crime, and end them, probably, at the gallows. To these wretched beings ill name is the sole inheritance; dishonesty the only birth-right. The prisoner seemed the very epitome of the race. His coarse straight hair-his small deep-seated pig-like eyes---his cheek bones prominent, and distant from each other--his wide thick-lipped mouth--all combined to give his countenance every expression of brutality and degradation. His situation appeared by no means new to him, and he shewed total unconcern for the danger in which he stood. He seemed to understand all the forms of the examination, and he went to jail with the air of a man to whom it is a place of usual abode.

The first case which was called was not of a nature calculated to remove the impressions to which the scene before me gave rise. that of a young man accused of forgery. Like many of those guilty of this crime, he seemed to be of superior manners and talents. His appearance was very interesting: he was not more than three or four and twenty, and his countenance, like that of the fallen Eblis, betokened energies and capabilities, which should After him were brought up three young have led to far different results. He was one sparks for a street-row. They had been enactof those instances of misdirected powers, and ing the parts of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, and advantages perverted to evil, which, though so the scene had ended, as usual, in the watchfrequent, do not the less excite compassion and house. One of them exhibited the marks of regret. It was his second examination; and, the prowess of the "Charlies" in an eye porsince the last, his friends had been informed of tentously swollen and blackened; the two his perilous situation. His father had hurried others seemed to have undergone complete from the country to console and to assist his immersion in the kennel; the mud of which, son. The old man was now present---and I being now dried on their clothes, gave their have seldom seen grief more pitiable. He evening finery a most dilapidated aspect. It seemed to be between sixty and seventy. His appeared that these young men had been vastly white hair was thinly scattered on his forehead taken with the refined humour, brilliant wit, over which and his sunken cheek the most and gentlemanly knowledge of the world of the deadly paleness was spread. The furrows of production called "Life in London ;" and that his aged face appeared deepened and contracted they had determined to emulate the deeds of with grief. His eye, which was becoming dim its triumvirate of worthies as soon as opportuwith years, had regained for the time a lus-nity served. In pursuance of this exalted trous expression,---but it was that of agony. ambition, they had sallied forth the night be