ESE .pts 1 • . - _ . . • . . - ote' 2- 44'w - s' ' t ...• -` -. • -„,' t . ' • - - t-4 6-• . • .1- . . . • • • ' • . • ..,• • _ . '110271111122 ;TOW'ANDA.: Eiathrban tilorninu, 3amtarg ft, 1851. (From Grphain'allitaga4.) THE BURIAL OF 1001,E. Ai IVILLLUIt effiliES /911 ANT. Two dark•eyed maids, at shin of tlay, Sal, where a river rolled atkay. • With calm.; sad browi, and raventhair, And one was pale, and both were Ifair. Itring dowers. they sane, bring flowers unblown i Bring forest blooms of name unknown, Bring budding sprays from wood snd wild, To strew the tiler of Love. the , Child. • Close softly, w fondly, while e refit, His eyes, that death may seem sleep And lay his bands, in sign t zt Test, His waxen hands, across hut breaslt. And make his grave where vinletsihids, Where star-dowers strew the rivulet's side, And blue-bird., in the mists of Spiting, Older/less skies and Sumner sing. Place near him, as ye lay•him low,; His idle shafts, his loosened bow, Theriilken band that oft around , His waggish eyes in mirth he wound. But we Omit tftilorn him long and in ibs ~ _ Hie ready smile, hi. ready kiss, The patter of his little feet; Uweet Irowns, and stammered phrases sweet ; And graver topics tertme and high ' A light rf hearth in that young e, All these will haunt usoill i% he. t t Shall ache—and ache- , —and tears liball start. 'ma bow, the band, shall fall•to, Aid, 'F'e oliin ing arrows w.eite with ruNt, But he whom now, from sight of men, We l i le in earth shall Lire again ; Shall break these clods, a rblin of ligitt, With nobler mein and cleatcr sight, . And in the eternal glary stand • 111th tho s e who wait at God's right hand ''THE: USES OF WOKS." Klivered in the Sons et Temperance Hall, BY H-3411 . , BOOTHt !AMC; AND GENTLEME.N :—f have chosen a theme for this eveningtwith • the finding tit ti it r. one open, which something Might t otry profitably rather than with the idea of posse:49lllg the fei-ure or ability, myself, necessary to do it justice. i trill riot, however, apologise in adtiance, either tar my subject or manner of treating 4i —convinced, Mat if f succeed in enlisting your attention, no aixilogy trill be needed ; while it 1 tail to interest nr amuse you it viral be idle to thin roar censeie by any apology, howevel Who, that has erCt read any thing, be• book that [kat capirated inscy I Perhaps* was a hittory, petl "I the imagination—a romatice,or a ' , Ter it was, therlmpression that it pro& mind is fixed indelibly—beyond the Fewer of time In efface it. llitherto..the idea of a book ha.l been lipviated-with the4risorne task of the schoolroom, 'he ferule and the sour visage of the master. Ythi alien the yoang mind became genuinely interested n book, a new era of - thenght stud feeling dawned von the Fall. Than rtfatter thermal first heeanie I acquainted • vrith. It new wafir and the thinefor atiowledge was first aroused; a thirst as insatiable in its nature, as the supply-. Ihrhiabed for his grafi& !anon is tiotutillosat. With what keen telial; Uhl ow bay tarn_itver the historic pages that opened up ' , I ht. mind the .story of ancient Greece, her philoso • pliers, her poets, her orators and her heroes.. Anti how did ins nerves thrill att attention of her.me.... mil:lWe battle fields *here voter fought for free). dam; at the names of Marathon and Let:wire, of fhetmopyle and Salamis. History was then to 16 young enthusiast, what its name purports to' be y a veritable narration of facts ; for kondei and atli mention filled his whole soul said left tin room for Jr bt. Crltteleorne enough to him were the cold !ingenious of the skeptic who presumed to quer,- WI the veracity of the historic muse. Even.hetion rime to him under the garb of truth and the mild est tales of knight errantry seemed• truer to his Youtlifal*tesperierite then the moat sober stra tum of fact to his mature age. In the language of poetry " Tice child is father set the man," and happy is it for the. man if these riaddections of the Child have, been encodrwged ; it his thirst for knowledge, this love for the heroic it history has been cherished ant cultivated by the aid of proper books, opportunity and examples ;, if nribonnded belief has at length been taught to weigh,. diteriminate and jOdge; if chiftlisl vender bad been moderated and chastened into jest appreeia.: nun . if the treasures of knowledge hare been ar- , ringed, digested pondered 'until they Irave con ferred upon their possessor something of the rank and dignity of wisdom. II such is the history of his mental growth and progress the:advantages re- Inithig therefrom cannot easily be estimated, or , rather they are altogether inestimable, By acquir mg and cultivating a taste for literature he bag se flreff an enfailing Settee of instruction, amuse ment and delight; which' in' the present era of cheap books is but slightly dependent upon fortune or exteinal circumstances. Accustomed to find his enjoyment in the sportive exconsitmat of erre tmagi natiOn ttt in the sober etereises of the intellect, he. is in fittle 7 danger of resorting to gratifications of a haieretraracter. 1 1 1 is from their ignorance of re fined trulnobler pleasures, in general,. that men content themrelves with. the poor gratificafitent of sensuality aid 4' fa. thE mitts the la empty atoon • lwecnYieir . itreary of Itself and seeks for some eater. *Aire of excitement to retie* the tedium of tie heavy bouts. Alined against the sedtiellorts of 'cep', •no example s or just . eoneeptions of W'excelleut hi hurn'an eharacter,..it easily be• tones a victim. Very different in his condition to whose mind science anif history have laperied their eQtesiaar knowledge and set belut&liim their bright ). examples, who is at horse in the society of all the Muses. If he sins at all, he sins against great light. When be attxr i ps to visions indidgenee and vulgar excess, it is its should nee from the last of tfte gttils and straightway depart to wallow in filth with swine. It Undoubtedly is, sometimes the case that the man of letters is's-idol:is and vulgar in his habits ; but such is not the effect of literature; ,and it is a fit inquiry whether such t character would not have been sometbing worse if deprived of the humanizing and refineing tendency of literary cul ture. The cultivation of letters upcin the broadest and moat general Pan, never fall* refine and en• noble and elevate the sifec' bons, as well as strength. en kite-intellect and impro:e the judgment. The eforApardortship o f books makes a man acquainted with the - thoug hts and sentiments of thb bear of men uttered in their highest moments. Bad au thors, there may bd, and booktr - bf &onerous ten. dancy ;' but the general seopii and influence of lit erature in all nations and every age has been fa vorable to the cause of vinne. Does the man of Jitentry taste find 'society dull and without congeniality He quietly Withdrew's, and finds with his favotitemithors that consanguitii: , ty.of Soul, that spiritual aliment whiCh his innerria, cure demands, and the social - atmosphere around him denies. Is society exclusive, anti are the approaches to the circles °NM fashionable and the great, barred against him ? With a tufting sum of money he can collect around him the first corn. pany of wits that the world ever saw, all el-fged in their best efforts to entertain and delight him.— Who with such resources at his command would distress himself very much at being excluded from the society of the reputed fashionable and polite.— The peculiar beauty olliterature is that its spirit is Universal. The teachings of philosophy, of history and science, as well as the pleasures of the drama and poetin fiction come alike to all who can tan.!er• stand them, oflering the same kind Of enjoj merit to the highest and the lowest : to the prince and the peasant. They are like the beauties of universal nature which a;e spread out for the_ enjoyment of all her eh/Wren.- nor esters smiles as tweet I wren. To shepherds s to lamp, In this connection it might be considered natural to refer to another advantage possessed by the men of letters, which consists in tlie; respect and defei , ence that are auvoluntardy paid its superior literary acquirements and knowledge. As an evidence of the estimation placed Upon Poch ,dequirern..tcnts by the world, its respect and deference have a kind 0 1 value. Regarded in disi light of an °derma tei the vanity el him who -possesses superior literatat. taitonente,they hive art importance of a ritfle4n, character.. I;itegry fame, however, iAal.licat,only t the shadow of a 4ubstance, and as in the care of other kinds of fame the shadow may be verY large and at the saute time the substance be fiery thin. is not however with reference to these *luta sic advantages that f choose to considct the subject of letters or literary cohere; but I prefer rather to confine attention to those benefits which the indi vidual feels in the daily experience of his own mind, of which those who know them not inks no co.Zizance and which would remain the same to their possessor if literature , had no name among men, and fame no echo. The consciousness of in tellectual growth, daily accessions of strer4th and knowledge to the mind, clearer views of butts, to- Tier with erveialied sympathy with the greatest and best of mens--114se constitute the pernliar sat isfaction and enjoyment of the man of letters, white himself attmecan understand°, emaciate. Nave * i io f» at a loss for aremsement or entertainment, nev er to be lonely in the absence of society, nor . to have the %limas of time drug heavily along during, the intervagi of business and amidst the vacancies of lift', iH peculiarly the privilege of the man who 'has found a genuine relish for books. There too in adversity or when the soul is overshadowed with sorrow, how. often Is trouble forgotten in turning over the pages of a taconite outlaw ; and the heart begniled of its grief. Greatness at soul to bear the el.*, of hie without mormtg, or greatly to contend against them. Li to sutler the sling rind arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arm. against a sea at troublet—aittl, by opposing, end them' - =this to be sure cannot be taught by books—it must be nature. Bot. weake'r natures may to spme extent be stayed , on glad! that are stronger ; a ores, by snowing with what philc*ophy or religion others have-borne the common as well as the tineOnnOn ills of life, may aid us in enduring the portion of calamity that LIN tb oer share. Nothing ti at appertains to oar common nature should be regarded as toreign to our sympathies or io our wants The experiences of man,torler all circumstances eat ia every3titua. Lion in which he may tie placed, are cr pahle of t hrowing light on oar own pathway of life and im parting lessons of wisdom. Let-it not for a moment be inferred from what we have said, that a man should become a book. Worm In order to enjoy the pleasures of science and literature. On the contrary it most be remembered that the end and purpose 01 life is not 1 laced, in thought or sunly, but in action. A man should read and think in Order to act, and that he may act wieety. The toncleiron whtltttrete been Mitred at in the closet are to he acted oat on the omen thea tre of lite where character:is observed and 'where example tells upon the entulnetof others. No man is 'at liberty to hate his light ender a ,bushel. Nor can anyone enjoy its tlteir full extent benefits . of literry and scientific attainments without render. ing them tributary to the welfare of his kill:tem.— intellectoalgifis, the ireasuretrof 'the mind, tarnish without use. The inental :ninonr must always be Oi e ept briaht. The sword meta not be suffered to rust in the seabbard,_ Besides it is only by action that the dealt:shone - 41 reason and all theory can fairly he tested. 'Many a there scholar when call. ed by the exigencies of life to the discharge of its sterner duties, with all his teaming haillatutil him self in a condition like that of young David when ,he girt on the war mail, put ihi; helmet - of brass on If/stead and aAttayett to' gcf against the Philistines, but could nut for he hail not. proved theta. of avediug oes not re ins Ctlik(lill ps a vroal. m. What until on the • • PUBLISHED iff-',6MEARA GOODRICH' - • ' • .." ;; "*NPiustritiitkti iiiitunettvtzm • tecti_ttXX Wr.mt s• lif—• Elli t• ❑., .. ' ' t ..sarrtoporitradkr, ire hitiralt - undeistoodihafarnati should' fie 11,01 bfread int into ituhallbft:eo as Vohs cornethertiare copyist pitta thoughts, the Mod Sentiments ot etherst s telowrii4i . ehlvateri ;they may be. Nature• intended every. Wan to be an original, rid that which each man can do best, none but his Maker ban ttesch him. The words, the writings and actions of - others are useful by way of ang,gestion, in aiding to develops each man's/na tive talent, be it greet or small. They were never detiigned 10 tie heed for burying ii. All attempts to be preminently great, or wise, or good, by imita• tion merely, must Etter prove a failure. Nature,' delighting to 4tattety through all her works, seta her lace against such a thing. She designs each one to be something of 'himself—a new production of hers instead of a repetition of something that is past. Only weak mind"- are an operated epee* the superiority of another as to fall to imitating. A strong man, white he assents to the superior ex:el lance of another, firetiatifity 01 some thing iu the work of Nature's hand of which be is by itoltiians to be ashamed. Why mould he war anti ilesticry its uuity by seeking_ to en,grukthcreen the thoughts, sentiments' and acts of other men which never can by any sort of magic or conjuration become bin own 1 Having Owe far i11115k:oil in observatinns 01 a general nature upon the uses to bh made td books, let us now briefly consider the diflerent kinds with a view to their relative importance. Since no matt, though should he smut his life in reading, could reed more than a shill! utirtioti of the txxiki es:isCtven in his native tongue, and since the hours that can be spared from the active duties o( life are few, and since life itself, “ emtt scrior• Theo Jae to look about as sad b duc,” one consideration must be impressed arm the mind at the outset, namely, the inipcntanro bf a good selection. :ft -is not my desigij.to'six.cify any particular authors as being specially worthy or at tentibn, tan I abaft aim tatailicrate those sublitets that arechietty desert , i4,1 - if regard, and of a high there is most shame that a man 'should be igne: Mut. In the departments of literature, ltkory endonbt eilly stands first in iinportaere, nor, the medium whereby the experience of mankind is handed down hem qv to age, wad Al rootaining is itigar nered treasures ail that now trillaino of nabonsend. families of naLorei that babe passed Sissy. Beau ty is to the rate what the faculty of memory is to the individual. The race of man has had its la tency or petted rorrespbnding sto•that reason in the Itle of the intlivitlinde Recollecion retains but fee bly and by fragments the events of that early ma. 4rteta'aud dadinessoverhourg the ormiwiroth of the rani and id each-individual mind, anti nei ther history in the one cage,. her Memory M tLe other will reveal to us from whence we came, To Maim and to senswall tr doubt and , enbittaitity but Leith whisper it was from God. According to_ the most generally rectairs*l calculating* the race* min has existed itpon the earth near .six thoust4l y ears. .Profane history, so called, speaks widen voice more nr less articulate lox a period. of more than four, theasand years, and its faintest in-cents the away in the distant age& &red history takes us back still farther, even , , to the beg i nning. Du-' ring this vast period, what natio:se and systems hare had their Hite and tall, what religious !are inured , etirldll Pwrithektidtakcities have been built and crumbled mintiest, yrhat nralutious, gene* moo lations, couguestit and einigsation have taken piece, ofs..gto kumiq Pre litlikPenubboinled and eieture navigated the glotwon which we dwell—ell these are handed down Inns upon the historic page, and .eousiingte one• g4and apirlmeukey uptat the mi. Lure ofmart. Earth, individual may road and ander belmsseettes in his own bream, in the the passions, the thoughts and the impelses that ste llate him, OM key Inc the sohNott Of every prob lem in history. Whale boot of interesting associa tions to the'Scholar arise at mention of the names of Nineveh, Babylon, Thebes, Troy, Tyre, Palmy re, Antioch, Athens, pyrantium and Home- And hdw stint:llJ l• 'moaned it wilful ignorance must be the mind thalean remain iMitent without so much as an outline of the events that have been transact. e4l upon globe. white our race has inhabited during so many ages The brute artimalitollows the iu stitiCts of hlf native, seeks its sustenance, propa gates its kind arils fill* its place. as a link in the chain of being to whlth it belongs, without a thought of what has gone before or what - shall fol. low. But front man something more than this is to be expected. 11 it. not,for him th lake things as a matter of counte, 4 .ll'itiaDi thelnieiligent inquiry a by the) are so era how they might be difterrrit. The system of things in whit* we now lire is bet a link in the sari chain of eanienod effect re:deb began from (lid, rindwhich extends through countless ages. The existeneinefeeerythingthessituiris, is pretli. eaten( upon the existence of everything that furl been. uut.i rlAt To 04; the form of republicanism that we enjoy in . the4tslMes, Seems a 'pew diftti; and we cele. brale.itin Aiew,spaperfacograer, and fourth of Jo ly orations, and with mock noise tif gentleman. Perhaps ten of us are really aware how much this boasied libtrty of6ur's, for wli;c11 w p areilloprwed to take all the err n So ourselves, juts :ia'st . ; dim' what tribulation and seas of blood. the human Voce had travelled; how many martyrs to the cause of rill .pion, science and fieeilorh; bad fallen, how many sages bad written, and heroes bled, below it be fame pos= las-in-the march of ages fora tuition of statesmen to arise, vllOll4O tOgb'Veming,themsehres, and rd ilenjoyln4eifirdral liberty, based upon equal ity Oiwohrdiation, here in the 19111 cep tory, dates its origin from the first man who lem ma! tri Smelt the rough ore, and extract therefrotu *Witold Metal to bir used hi Making tools for the conning artigger, or 'woiker in wood and &Mr and Prom him who first , Snipped die under . bark uni manufactured ittilhres itito those ncedfolganments; which in ,11 , iter times have been tOperstiled by 110 costly draper) of wealth awl Widen. Evety art that conitibutcs to our present cornfiiit and coure. mence, tly- that helixe lci atlqm tlnclliteliittify, par so cial Ilte„ teed - toducedl in the course Of ages, at infinitO coat an t i labor. Our present civilization is in the direct ,line of iibabent, from that of ancient Nineveh 'and Tyre. It 414147414 We to build -Itnag nificent etties now, because magnificent cities ogre built ages ago tvhieh have crumbled into dust to gether with their founders. Our arts, our invert. firms, ourlinstitutions, and oar laws as well as our. selves are descended "ram tut ancestry of most re. Spectable antiquity. Nothing is entirely nei , r, btu every thing is a growth, an 'olf-stinot-'or develop- . meat of scimething,that has gone before. The pre sett order, of things strikCi deep root into the (ohm dation of an ordef that has passed away. To tract; this grundt , law of cansli and effect, or development, as it is exhibited in the human race.,to observe how the civilization of our age grows out from that of a prcce.hoc j age, to watch the tldvelovhnent of jos ' tics as erObralieil fit thb Ititris ottlifk , rent ages : to see what Glirms of governthent and systemS of reli gion have 'ettecessively appeared, and note what progress has been made from age to "le, in civil and . religious liberty, this surely is an:mlytritigation worthy of the human mind, molt tbii Is involved in the study of history. Nothind*iso so much .enlar ges aria expands the Mind, imparting the power to. jedge carelessly of {owing events, and to give eatl new object that is presented to-view in the woild's shifting scenes ha due consideration and importance. !thing so much elevates the soul above the little accidents of fortune, preserving its eqigeoise in every situation. timitiet 46fi g g or oover . "The mind that is familiar with the wothra history is rot likely to be carried away by entliti siann lawvitism, or by popular evraragance of ;Any That which the maSses do blindly, he discovers to be in accbrtlance 'with unalterable laws, and whether the eitr is it:. perte or the per). pie rage anti imagine vain things, 'Whether the temple of Janus is shut, or the, horrid din of tilt, salu es his ears, he is undisturbed; he recognizes in.bistory as well asthre passing seesiei before him, Irwitich are shortly ;o become Fuch s the hand of aii ecif prebent God. Next to the rtudy of hiMory and eohjointly with ,those books that treat or the ditTerent departments oracle:lre, enfolding the laws of the ma.e.sill, the moral and intellectual wmld, demand the attention of him who would treasure up valuable knowledge. The phenomena rittlre natural world have alWrits been the subject of observation and tinily. The serene attnn-phbre that we breathe was:bre:rifled by the MMient Assyrian. 14 looked forth upon an environment of earth and "lies iu,riiest :epee's dm satire kith our own. The same nylon and stars over his head, the rummer eloutht beautifying; the Ifininaneitt and icre angij s (win?! eating rain and hail, the docks on tire bills, and the t3-bea in the rrea, ligtenings and earthquaksi t s, to well as the gansitore of the fields mid the autumn —there and the thousand other pte'netnena of No turti, 'tere ob;ects as familiar to the earliest of man kind, as they are to us. Th,.riets of creation we're atwoys th itre on elver._ hifld voltin, elstervatuin • 1 / 4, and study. The knowledge' which mankind has acn i niml respecting the nature of things and the bawd t - i which they - aie . , governed constitutes the pec l uliar treasure of tatienee. The son sod moorr to.: gether with it ere brilliant points seen by night in thitefirrnanentiabove, from the earliest period at• ipleted the eye of mani a ittl hence arose the se1•: elate cif astronomy; the oldest. the most dutilittte, 44 ,i-oi ax the most useful of at! the sciences. tt i th the as:4state° thereof, the mariner crosses the tracitless ocean tclflrt !et:Tilde(' [ion, beir:ng the Aches of eileurterce, together with newly invented aria from country to country, making the whole race the reciptrints of a cornmoribleising. Aftc.y arid importer t are its bearittt,t upon the whole eh-- CIO trf the seitinees, upon government, religion and the ante. And great too, ii its power in elevating and etpanding the 'Mod, in subduing and Chasten lug the feelings into a holy harmony with ilndiora; tale Nature in her grandest mood. Splendid and elevating beyond all other splendid sights, ever to the uninitiated, is the appearance of the starry hea vend opCt a tl-Cate;s night. Rut when to this ex hibition thus presented to the eye, .k added the tee flection that each of those shining points i 3 a P.& and OSitos of a stopend.rits system o f 3 ,4 0/ 1,1,:, rind that it afi thrisd sans and systems that we visible to the unaided eye, were blotted tram 'existence they would srareely be missed from the Immensi ty of the number, and the limber reflection that by the same Almighty Intel cute, that wheels those tionderrms orbs through the rerdmi of space the ve ry hairs of our fre'ada are all numbered—surely the mind that-can contemplate these rttul.,Wther kiinlied thoughts that astronomy 51r,p4e$::., v Afloat emotion, must be incapable of any noble sentiment or gene rous feeling. Kell has it been said that It the on.: &trent astrunomer is mad:" The stars hie been fitly denominated the poetiy of heaven'. To'the roftronelifer, flit poet, the saint, the moralist and the phih*oplier. three 'shining mkt have ever bfreet . 4 Theme for study, for pions and poetic rapture, for speculationarul wonder. Nit ht t 3 411 her null,' wit • nesses Over head, his ever been the chosen sea eon fur reflection, arid Mgh resolve. • Beneath her artlrmn irmplo mrtf Pindn ein.ka in t.n.e inipreannrr. And (Indult... *ertvri hit It.rtolrel ertrar , ' To tornifnero rnpnrr Yet rrit• 'Tint F a ris hit. n.iNrrni v ail. - 1 e ere no fferietrit rhetttehtl Imo": •t Winano. ye awn I beyond the pate Ot raid men and stern cusbnicd! An ye innnorto) , do yr Above The deathless. rniurr ihr wool • ' MOH "44% Own Rower, beforn ? Minnlto kat", deaf dee4i • Cati oar Ohnnge.nr are% nt Marla Lekliof üba Wised ! on your .ea of • . ir 11411 nilfikilltg yet ore r ' Moot indrlrro of Or things dial te And neatest itutrattotitl, The s Sabianot of old . worshipped the Ann anti Awn anti all the host of the heavenly bodies, It w 4v . • as a hint riloretry, alll6fiolt it mistook the pealed form fur the• orrea'or. The or , rnhili that, hrthe absence of better inlinttnation, adopted 04, symb o l s of th e inlh!;te Power and Inteltwneit,„ trianitesteti in the eni-rerse4ed nothing in It that low or disiTtipting, even to 4m!n , own m6fs: •Ae tionurny by penahatinz, those awful depths of space anti scanning the bcidies fl> tie.tre *e!n_lets bed.i t ite divinities of thessfliCienti of Their gldry ; and .try demonstrating toe:harmony that prevails among those 'Mallet Worlds; in obedience to the nniventdl latrir of gravitation, has proved them.serr sibly to be under the ~domittion of the one Gail of Nature. The4likoveriee olestmriorny are beyond liotibt'the crowning achieiroments of the hi:IMA Nothing else that it has ever accomprtsherl, conveys so exalted an idel k. of its powers. As the mudy isthe moat sublime ilff all pursnae, so it has, in every age, employed• the best talents that the world has prodtreed. it is estimated that them are not now living upon the earth, above a dozen men who can read and fully comprehend . the works of the great French astionoiner La fllttne. The Gods upon mount Olympus • are fabled: by Greek and Roman poets, to have Mt apart from earth oth er, conversing at awfulllistances. So the great as tronomers of wded,Pathagotas,Pdomey .Coper nice*, Gallileo, Kepler, Tycho Braehe, La Piece, Newton, and Herschel, sit each ipart upon his watch-fowerot the skies, !canning the heavens with long and patient observation; or else engaged in the Intilrematicial problems that require the la bar of years, for their solution I nod they ennoence to each other and to thegrorld, from time' to time, thestupereluoutt results 01 their investigations. Bur though the more lifilcollg/mbierall of estrottOrnicdl science . , require the higliest,teder of talent as well a. th e m ost pati ent investir,d'ioni yet descriptive rue trcrnorny, and the main facts developed by this sci• mice can be read and understood by all. And is it aot the most strange of all strange things, that there are thoumnds of intelligent - men—intelligent so fur as, regards the hrinesiroperat ions of life--who walk the earth, and kern whom the splendid exhibitbe in the heaven over their heads, scarcely receives more tlL'ari d erinsual übserrtition 't Surely it must be said or such that, in mailer sense than the one intended iu rite scriptural, "they are of the earth, earthly:l It would bb tedious., besides Elquiriteg, Me to tretapaso I;eyerni the linos prerperke a discourse 1-ke the present, were I to point out separately the i the advalitays to he derived horn an acquaintance i With each department of natural science. tine ad vantage they all possess in comment; th at .of . en- I Waging the mind by the cont./tuna:anon of solid 1 and substantial katauleilftnt the Creetor'S works, 3. 1 / 4 1 through his m.orks - 60.44 treater Itinnielf. The l i subjects of these scieticea are the facts around% in i Nature, claisitied and arranged, nigether , %vith the - 1 1 priziciples discovered by bug observation and tor- I ily of those 'facts. Starting trtyri this solid haSis I there is little comparative danger of errot. The mind is trot expased to etre hazard of grasping _ at t. itnsub4Unial shadows tvli4e in pursuit tit LioW ' ledge. Tee facts are then mails rhatiioait to nu: seises; disclosed by ilia telescepe, chronicled in the strata of the solid rock, or deancussaateil horn ,the alembic. System% at metaphysics, the p:o i doction of human ingenuity, forms of religion, the , work of the vain imaginatien of men, may change 1 or fall and be superseded by others, but the stem, 1 soul facts of nature,terhain for ages,cataltered. Nt tysteni of philaSnplry, teligich * trietaaDYsies ever has Leeu, or ever will be able to stand in edntra- ' diction to the clear unmistateable .truths of natural science. r‘talVt•O is hcttre3f st revelation hem the Dieine fraud, of most vinopestionableauthentietty and the record which she beans of her maker is true, There ispo contradictical,kl be found in , Alk, l her volume.. _Whatever else lays claini to verity .or, to .Divide original, wilt be found either to liar- ' monike with her out° be misapprehended, or false. She is petite/natty challenging . orpearaocei of eve- ry !tied to the prOof. The solid anglitarny of her facts itianils . jrcinfotable while the airy systems that 1 human ingenuity bas construeleil, the swept envier! 1 against it, and dissipated like misty clouds, borne against the mountains. The forms of error and fatsehixxlmare innumerable, hut none of them con -1 (lame. - An error is promulgated to day, which alarms all Chr:stendom, and threatens to subvert the foundation of social order ; but Nature moves Oil in her everlasting circle, and soon the error be comes a forgotten superstition, or a poetic fable. without power In molest or mislead tine weakest brothel. flow Cuireee.:fry was all our alarm ; even as the foolish apprehensions of children who fear but that the mountains will fall open them. lt new truth is iliskori! , red and predefine:: to tbs. world turd again the. fears of men 'ere amused, the here sy condemned, and the . artillery of the Church brought to bear tor its soppression. Bet Nattire. 121'ot:sand Voiced as Ara ;24, is not thus to be stilled -in the utterance of her laws, Vitheri h er owii go o d time to publiA them has come ; anikihough Galli leo on !be rock may be. kneed t0..-Zeny that the earth tarns on its asis,Jaill i% . hints, and all the in quisitions in , the world_ eamtat as ?fie milli Oace uttered , fur nature owns it as here and every other troth liannoutzetr with it. ...., . . • !tri.r.mt 11tOrift4. A alVir firg, i'weileßtigte• *t. did 46'111 in the mine chop rut dtit "%aeNteet in ? 111irs. 1C _u Hoof, ‘inman: nae irrinder at a*:' Mrs. -LoWeal'how aid it Iniiipen f" Mrs t-. "ru lett fog litw : it hattened. Ye mann ken, When Taut and Mie tteggli tiimrirtum. tlize we took paritch, night and morning, and tail to ont t4mner—when things greie better, we l ee k tea to 'itei Ineakfast. A weet, ViOrtlPll, Things aye meottek . mnt &+h - a i;?mb.reg rui a Sunday tiinner,..itai; before , lcieg; .Op, filTle timeS eoft a eitnekiewe were doing tine Weal Non. fir maw ken, when Johnnie. began to met ettanne, hb begtufit the chniiie'fi`rst." " Poesy, is walls aromd forts any relation Sheep f 9 " my lose. Why 'do you ask-r— -" Cattier-1 lima Unt le Bob tolling, about the TM parts of a fort, the other 414 ?"' "Be finial, Child, I mat go to your ma.7 — u-Birt Poppy, them : ire men par% Ballem they "No MY elrilii —• .W4hit en eatth put., that into your, fie!drt , u W hy. eo Vi t ae said when he was fo Flanders one %sight, he was obliged to 541 e the tampacs!" MEI DAILY HA arrs,..nr %mix Vrevoitth.—The'persert- • al daily habits of file Qneen arid hei tensity ate err-, meltingly simple and plain. Breakfast is over by _ nine, th en a eon* of 1144 i are . 4evotert to the pet mild of 'tenets and the 4 despatch bf Jn=iness i "- trhirh of reading ate -trade ;tribe doctiments aluth she has to sign: Between twelve and two, the Qeeen and tier family &tally *elk in the I -fit-ate emends of the palace, flitTbe fine the weather dues not perMit of out door • exercise, Prince -Albert anti she applying thernselvea to draw. ieg and etching.. liothitare acquired skill •in that use of the.guiver, rind hatre a small press put op its one of ; the rooms of Buckingliam`pilarm at which they work with their own hands. A printout- of a set of royal etehinds is Considered.' a very especial „, compliment, anti Prized as tech. I knoti dial the '• Dochass of Bevlktrd'ebentleir, of Woburn Abbeybs hung round with the royal etchings. borne of them are neatly dime--moat of them in good drawing.— All of them ate cotriereiiies its seTt l inrs4l of royal all • and industry. fietikeen 2 and a. :the royal part . . runt h . Tbia,repast—which is,'ln tart, au early din ner—it is a very private our. The • Queen, Prince Albert, Princess. Royal, mad - Priebe of Wales sit lon to a single inint,, (usually a roast shoulder of mutton,) and d tew AIJe ili'ithes. There is a very little slot paytaken of -tat- this weal. t Wtitii it is -; euJed Prince. Albeit goes ihtrther.garden, (tor the Qneen allowirno smoking Within her walls) and disposes of a couple of cigars. Whflb the roy at luncheon is going, on, the aubiltiants at the palace, who are very numerous,-taketheir"dinner— a p'.aitt, strbstatitial betas , n v t . which the liveried-oertanta atit allotted ale. For dioie'cif a higher rank, the al lowance is halt a pint of wine to each. '• I happen to know that when any -article are at work or ill wealth?, at the palace at the tionrkil lunch, meat i4t served hp ,to them, iinil hail a pint of sheet Y ' ia broUght up for each. This is very aiderent twin the waste whit•lt did prevail in. the royal henSeinahl, • and Queen Addaide was the Bic to pin a check . 10 It. r lte tdto got indignant at the female serviws wearing silks and satins, and caused a menial rt - .•• volt by ordering them to wear muslins anti studs,. The economy of ail household how allows 'the Queen to sat e Aunt half dig tnoi!ey lent:tally i oted fur its maintainaitte. Thesb Oaring. nib .con;i4er -1 able, and being duly invested, ate rapidly accents. . latir.g. Then, in additiim to his 430,000 a yat, allowanee Cohsutt, mote has been 4 irr t l• to Pt ince Albert itt rations appointments, the has a day as field marshal.] and as he doer tit t ~speud4 . loo,ono a year, his savings mast be glom. There is a thud hope that he stmt the Queen Mean • to appropriate this Money to the rutin* pentiens of their children ; and not rt..,k the people lb i.lippoit • them.: IS YOU R NA3I F. BOW Or oar ae=tern etc change,: relates an amnetr4 story on the ttivhtority of the eaptaen of a Marissiptri eteatrlET: . • " Ad; Whit, and fdtrifttiiai purbitnif old gentfe man, paiing ii drat down the ripper - ealtsiSit; stop pad in front of a large full )engtit mirror ; flied .stet gazing at fthtt egfird presented for a momentertirr•, ingtlir&l in 4 vert tial/behitit hitie•="lo taitr inert*, Bititrr?" No awnrer. QuegtiOn repeated harder -="le !ma- name Brown .t" Stit itoitnewer. (bee. Lion. repeatedloadefStili—"lS TOUR iraiis itaotcs no :Lauer. Well," said the queitioner, uron are either noxentleman, or caned tUrkt"" Sirsav or gPfnittr.-;-4n niiiveritty doctor, Me nrim rising to see bird Cnial 0 elerrise his employ ment, nem niml him In the field. As POORI .14 he P.lir the blots, hO hollowed in Latin, "'Them they are." 'The sportsmen, inditniant dill shows