MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY. THE anniversary meeting of this Society was holden on Friday, the 16th day of this month; the Right Honourable the Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., F.H.S., in the chair. The minutes of the previous anniversary meeting having been read and confirmed, the treasurer's secretaries', librarian's, and conservator's reports were severally read; and the thanks of the Society ordered to those different officers for their services during the past year. The secretaries' report gave a total increase of 245 members, of whom fifty-six were fellows; and a decrease of seven members, by the decease of four, and the resignation of three members. The librarian's report showed an addition of near 100 volumes, comprising many works of great scarcity .and value. The conservator's report exhibited an addition of near 7000 different species of plants, and other interesting articles to the collection of the Society. The following persons were then elected to form a Council for the year ensuing : The Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells; Henry Brandreth, Esq.; Commissioner William Burnett, M.D.; John Frost, Esq.; Humphrey Gibbs, Esq.; Thomas Gibbs, Esq.; Theodore Gordon, M.D.; the Right Honourable the Earl of Hardwicke, K. G.; Robert William Hay, Esq.; Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, Bart.; Thomas Jones, Esq.; Sir Alexander Johnston; Sir James M'Grigor, M. D.; the Right Honourable Robert Peel; Michael John Short, M.D.; William John Short, Esq.; the Right Honourable the Earl Stanhope; Sir John Edward Swinburne, Bart.; Joseph Fitzwilliam Vandercorn, Esq.; William Yarrell, Esq.; and John Peter Yosy, Esq. A letter was then read from Sir James M'Grigor, addressed to John P. Yosy, Esq., secretary, informing him that he had, in consequence of his very numerous avocations in the public service, felt it incumbent on him to cease to hold the honourable office of President of the Society, though he would ever continue to feel a warm interest in the welfare of the Institution, and hoped to be able to render himself as useful as he had hitherto attempted to be. The following were then elected officers for the year ensuing : The silver medal had been adjudged to Professor Fresco Caldi of Florence. the Society, and the means of promoting them by boHis Lordship then dwelt on the general objects of tanical inquiries, by chemical analysis, and, above all, by medical investigation. These researches would, in some cases, be directed by an analogy in the exterior forms of plants, in others by and also by the knowledge that they had already been a chemical analysis of their respective constituents, employed with success in the cure of diseases. He observed, that it woul: be of extreme importance if indigenous plants could be employed as satisfactory, and even more advantageous, substitutes for some of the expensive drugs which are imported. Many of these same plants were now despised from an ignorance of their qualities, which might, under further investigations, be found interesting and important. His Lordship very strongly enforced the necessity of the members making exertions commensurate to the magnitude of their views, by which they would deserve more and more the approbation of the world, and the gracious protection of their sovereign, and concluded by moving a vote of thanks to their late excellent and revered President. The thanks of the meeting were also passed to the Earl Stanhope, with a request that his Lordship would allow his comprehensive address to be printed for distribution amongst the members. The meeting then adjourned. THE DRAMA. Drury-Lane. After increasing, and ought to be diminished,' we can say THAT the popularity of 'Caswallon' 'has increased, is could have felt, when he brought forward his famous with quite as much confidence as Lord Ashburnham resolution respecting the influence of the crown. much wavering and indecision of the critics on all sides, it is now evident that nothing could have made it successful from the first, but the good acting of Young, judgment in getting over the ineffective parts in a and what was still more for its advantage, his extreme manner almost equivalent to their omission, and in tunity of producing effect, by tossing his arms and exseizing, on the other hand, every practicable opporerting the deep energies of his lungs. No doubt but another cause of its not failing was the prevailing destead of the author of 'Wallace.' But now that its real President, The Right Honourable Philip Henry, Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., F.H.S.-Director, John Frost, Esq.,lusion that it was the production of Miss Mitford, inF.R.S., &c.-Treasurer, Thomas Gibbs, Esq., F.H.S.— Secretaries, John Peter Yosy, Esq.; and Humphrey Gibbs, Esq., F.H.S.-Librarian, Henry Brandreth, jun. Esq., M.A., F.S.A.-Conservator, Michael John Short, M.D. The noble President then proceeded to deliver an address, in which he pronounced a warm and well-merited eulogium on their late president, and expressed his most grateful sense for the honour the Society had that day conferred on himself, by electing him Sir James M'Grigor's successor. He regretted to say, that, though the Society had many subjects of congratulation, yet there were also others which called for their condolence, namely, the loss by death of Sir James Edward Smith, late president of the Linnæan Society; of Sir Charles Peter Thunberg, professor of botany and medicine at Upsal; of Mr. Bose of Paris; and of Mr Choris, a gentleman who had proceeded, under the auspices of the Geographical Society of Paris, to South America, and whose tragical death was some time since noticed in The Athenæum.' His Lordship then congratulated the Society very warmly on the distinguished mark of royal favour which it had received by the condescension of his Majesty in becoming patron of the Society, and expressed his earnest hope that the members would consider it as an additional stimulus to use their best exertions in promoting the valuable and important objects which they had in view. He afterwards noticed the appointment of a Committee of Correspondence, which had become requisite in consequence of the great increase of corresponding members, particularly on the Continent, which committee had already been of great service to the Society. In recapitulating the proceedings of the Society during the past year, his Lordship mentioned, in terms of just praise, many valuable papers which had been read at the meetings, and presented Dr. John Hancock with the Gold Medal, which had been awarded to him for his excellent and important communication on the Angostura bark-tree. Another dissertation had also been written by Dr. Hancock on the Vandellia diffusa. fraternity to the latter is generally known, and its publication has enabled people to judge of it from itself, and not from the actors who have supported it, also when much more than is due has been conceded to novelty, we conceive that now there is no earthly reason why it should not be quietly and decently withdrawn like its predecessor; and, if not withdrawn, why it should not be incontinently damned: if the play-going public could only be persuaded to awaken its better judgment, Caswallon' certainly would not be tolerated any longer. We are sure it has few merits of its own, either as a play or as a poem ; and it is a hard case, that at Drury-lane, our best theatre, and possessing the best company, we should hardly once in a season be treated with a genuine tragedy, because novelty is more attractive to the public than merit. Another source of annoyance on such occasions is the mean opinion forced upon us of the actors, who can affect to enter into and feel characters which nobody else can; and of all persons aggrieved in the matter, no one has more right to complain than poor Miss Phillips, subjected as she is in the beginning of her career to make her way through such disadvantages as modern tragedies must present, particularly such as · Caswallon,' which is no more to be compared to 'Rienzi,' than 'Rienzi' to a multitude of others, which the company at however, and as it were by accident, she has been Drury-lane might be performing instead; fortunately, allowed an opportunity of establishing herself perfectly in Juliet, and not even 'Caswallon' can now shake her reputation. either bodily or mental. We could not contemplate this wildly generous and high-spirited character without an interest and a feeling that had reference more particularly to the person of its representative himself. Playing in soberer years the semblance of a character, of which he had too well supported the reality in his better days, we felt that some retrospective glimpses of his own brilliant career, not unmingled as it was with disaster and mischance, must occasionally cross the mind of the actor; and, as in the present tranquil and quiet sun-setting of his fame and fortunes, such ideas could scarce be other than pleasurable to himself, we were delighted in referring to this source a reality in his tone and manner which was sometimes almost beyond the limits of acting. Rover is somewhat overdrawn, and on the whole, perhaps, less to our liking than his counterpart Jack Bunce in The Pirate ;' but in the last scene a finishing stroke is given to this character than which we scarce know anything more happy and striking in the Drama: it is where covered with shame and confusion at finding that it is the real Sir George Thunder, and the father of his friend, whom he has been treating with ridicule and contempt, be still remembers the blow he had received from him on that occasion, and, instead of offering any excuse, himself requires an apology for his wounded honour. The painfully anxious and conciliating tone in which Elliston gave these words, 'I am sure that you, Sir, the father of my friend, will have no objection to apologise for the blow,' was touching to the last degree; and the man of honour and high feeling spoke with equal force in his manner and countenance, as in the expression of his voice. Mrs. Fitzwilliam is a clever comic actress ; she played the part of Jane with a degree of humour which deserved all, and even more than all, the apsionally undiscriminating assemblage in the pit. plause it drew from a rather promiscuous and occa 'Virginius' was the after-piece; and, though we could not stay this out, yet we can say conscientiously that we were not once struck with any instance of bad taste in either of the performances; which, as the corps can scarcely be called more than respectable on the whole, reflects much credit on the management. Mr. Osbalrather a deserving actor, though quite without genius, diston, the hero of all tragedies performed here, is inasmuch as he rants within tolerable limits, and does not too much affect to imitate his betters, nor strain after things beyond his reach. POPULAR LITERATURE. Ut in vita, sic in studiis, pulcherrimum et humanissimum existimo, severitatem comitatemque miscere, ne illa in tristitiam, hæc in petulantiam, procedat.'-Plinii Epistolæ. I. 'Collecting toys As children gathering pebbles on the shore.' Ben Jonson inspired_byWine-The following curious memoranda, by Ben Jonson, are now preserved at Dulwich College: 'Mem.-I laid the plot of my "Volpone," and wrote most of it, after a present of ten dozen of palm sack from my very good Lord T―: that play I am positive will live to posterity, and be acted-when I and envy be friends-with applause. "Mem.-The first speech in my "Catilina," spoken by Sylla's ghost, was writ after I parted with my friend at the Devil Tavern [near Temple Bar, where Child's Place now stands]. I had drank well that that play which I think is flat. I resolve to drink no night, and had brave notions. There is a scene in more water with my wine.' 6 Mem.-Upon the 20th of May, the King (heaven reward him!) sent me a hundred pounds. At that time I went often to the Devil; and, before I had spent forty pounds of it, wrote my 66 Alchymist." "Mem.-"The Devil an Ass," "The Tale of a Tub," and some other comedies, which did not succeed, written by me in winter: honest Ralph died, when I and my boys drank bad wine at the Devil.' The Rose. Detente, aguarda, presumida rosa! Francisco de Borja. Translation. Words. Of words first; for it is one of the first things which we doe, they are but the lackeys of reason, of which to send more then will performe the businesse is superfluous; me thinkes an esse videatur at the close of a period is as nice as a tumbler ending his tricks with a caper; and Tullie's venit, imo in Senatum venit, mooues me no more against Catiline than the first venit. Me thinkes this same Rhetorick, the child of words, is but a pickled herring to bring on drinke, for his diuisions and repetitions are for nothing but to bring his memory acquainted with his tongue, and to make three works of one. How shall a man hope to come to an end of their works, when he cannot with two breathes saile through a period, and is sometimes grauelled in a parenthesis. wonder how Cicero got the people of Rome tyed so fast to his tongue; for, were his matter no better than his style, hee should not persuade men to looke vpon him? I make as great difference betweene Tacitus and Senecaes stile and his, as musicians betweene Trenchmone and lachrymæ. Me thinkes the braine should dance a jigge at the hearing of a Tullian sound, and sit in counsell when it heares the other.-Sir W. Cornwallis's Essays, 43. 4.-PICTURESQUE. The Vale of Urseren.-After passing the Devil's bridge and an undescribable chaos of granitic rocks, with the Reuss foaming down in cascades upon the right, we entered a dark passage, which has been made in the rocks, about nine feet high, eleven broad, and thirty toises long. On emerging from this subterraneous passage, the traveller is surprised to see opening on his view, a pretty oval plain, all smiling and verdant, and the Reuss, clear and tranquil, and winding through the meadows every where margined with shrubs and aulne trees. Wood cabins and isolated chalets are scattered up and down the valley; on the left of the valley, is the village of Indermatt, built some years ago with stone, while the back is finely terminated by Mount St. Gothard. The valley is a good league in length by a half-league in breadth, and has plainly been the bed of a lake, whose waters have escaped by the passage through which the Reuss now flows.-Tableau de la Suisse, 135-137. 5.-ROMANTIC. rejoicings, nor aught else that may either vex or affright my soul? This-this is liberty-who, while's I sit here [in the Tower of London] quietly locked up by my keeper, can pity the turmoils and distempers abroad, and bless my own immunity from those too common evils.-Hall's Free Prisoner. 7.-MUSICAL. A devilish good Musician.-Baltzar, a native of Lubeck, so far outdid any thing which had ever been heard in England from the violin, that Wilson, the professor of music at Oxford, in a humorous way, stooped down to examine his feet whether or not he was a devil incarnate, (which are always, it should seem, punished with pedes hircini,) so much did Baltzar perform beyond the power of man in exercising his fingers and his instrument.-Wood's Athen. Impress of Musicians.-Thuanus relates that it was very common for boys who had fine voices to be carried off clandestinely or otherwise, and retained by princes to contribute to their pleasures.-Burney, Hist. Mus., I. 313. 8.-CRITICAL. Anah's Mules.-The passage in Genesis xxxvi. 24, rendered in the received version, "This was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father,' has given some trouble to biblical critics. The Hebrew word Imim, here rendered ' mules,' is in the vulgate aquas calidas, ‘hot springs.' Bochart is of opinion, that Imim, or Emim, is the name of a people or tribe; while Canne, the annotator, tells us that Jemim, as he Romanizes the Hebrew, means neither mules, men, nor waters; but 'elsewhere.' Houbigant, agreeing with Bochart, renders metsa translated found' by 'fought,' or 'attacked,' Dimicavit in deserto contra Emeos. The question then, is, whether Anah found in the wilderness mules, hot springs, or nothing; or whether he made an attack upon a party of Emims. The latter is certainly the most improbable rendering while the translation in the vulgate is the most plausible. : 9.-CLERICAL. Canonical Dress.-What enemies were some ministers to per ques, to high-crowned or broad-brimmed hats, to long cloaks and canonical coats; and now to long Cassocks, since the Scotch jump is looked upon as the more military fashion, and a badge of a northern and a cold reformation.-Taylor, Artif. Hands., 119. Persons. ecclesiastical may use any comely and pinks, and that in public they do not go in their doubscholar-like apparel, provided that it be not cut and let and hose without coats.-Canon. Eccles., 74. His scanty salary compelled him to run deep in debt for a new gown, and now and then forced him to write some paper of wit or humour, or preach a sermon for ten shillings to supply his necessities.— Draper's Letters. 10. SUPERSTITIOUS. Bad Omens.-Among other things anciently held ominous, we find mentioned a hare crossing one's path, but, above all, the owl,- Maxime vero abominata est, tristis et dira avis, voce funesta et gemitu qui formidolosa dirasque necessitates et magnos moles instare portendit.-Alexand. ab Alexandro, v. 73. 11.-ONEIROLOGICAL. A Five Days' Dream.-In the British Museum, is a scarce tract, with the following verbose title :- The Sleepy Man awakened of his five days' dream; being a most strange and wonderful true account of one Nicholas Heart, a Dutchman, a patient of St. Bartholo Love of Danger.—Saussure gives the same account of the chamois-hunters of the Alps, as Kotzebue does of those of the Tyrol. The pursuit is exceedingly dangerous, by no means lucrative, but altogether most fascinating. A handsome young man, newly married to a charming wife, said to Saussure, My grand-mew's Hospital, in West Smithfield, who sleeps five father was killed in the chase, as well as my father; and so firmly persuaded am I that I shall end my life in the same manner, that this hunting-sack which I always carry with me, I call my winding-sheet, (mon drap mortuaire,) because I am certain I shall never have any other; and yet, Sir, though you would offer to give me a fortune on condition of giving up the chase, I would at once reject it.' 6.-ANCHORITICAL. Pleasures of Imprisonment.-For me, I do not envy, but wonder at, the licentious freedom which these men think themselves happy to enjoy, and hold it a weakness in those minds which cannot find more advantage in confinement and retiredness. Is it a small benefit that I am placed there, where no oaths, no blasphemies, beat my ears? Where my eyes are in no peril of wounding objects? Where I hear no invectives, no false doctrines, no sermonicinations of ironmongers, felt-makers, colliers, broom-men, grooms, or any other of those inspired ignorants? No curses, no ribaldries? Where I see no drunken conversations, no rebellious routs, no violent oppressions, no obscene days every August; and you have a true relation how his mother fell in one of her sleeps on the first of August, she then being near the time of her labour; and on the fifth day she awakened, and was delivered. As soon as he was born, he sleeped for five days and five nights; together with the true dream which he and his mother dreamt every year alike. But, what is more particular than all the rest, he gives an account of one Mr. William Morgan, whom he saw hurried to a dismal dark castle; and one Mr. John Paimer, he saw him going into a place of bliss: these two men were patients in the Hospital, and died while he was in his sleep. London: printed by Edward Midwinter, at the Sun, Pye Corner, Smithfield.' II. 'That knowledge is not to be reckoned useless, which, though useless in itself, sharpens genius, and sets the mind in order.'-LORD BACON. 1.-POLITICAL. Poor Laws of Switzerland.—We are not informed whether the custom is general in Switzerland; but all around Chamouni, it is the custom for an orphan, or Honorius.-The chief amusement of the Roman Emperor Honorius was the feeding of poultry, in which he spent the greater part of his time; and, so childish and imbecile did he become, that, if we are to believe the reports of the time, he was greatly ala rmed when Rome was taken by the Goths, till he was given to understand that it was not a favourite chicken of that name, but only the capital of the world, which he had lost.-Procopius, de Bello Vandal., i. 2. Ancient Ireland.-Hume had something bes ides conjecture and alleged prejudice to go upon, when ke said that the Irish had been buried in the most profound barbarism and ignorance at the coming of the English." Orpheus, indeed, the earliest writer who mentions Ireland, saying that the Argonauts touching at lerne in their expedition, does not tell us any thing about the inhabitants; but Diodorus expressly affirms., that the Irish were cannibals: Dicunt ex iis nonnull os anthropophagos esse, sicut Britannos qui Irim ir colunt.'— (Lib. v.) Pomponius Mela says, the Irish in his time were destitute of every virtue: Cultores (Hibern.) inconditi sunt et omnium virtutum ignari magis quam aliæ gentes, aliquatenus tamen gnari, ↑ɔietatis admodum expertes.' We lately also quoted from one of their own historians, (Keating,) a shocki ng instance of Irish cannibalism.-See The Athenæun, January 7, P. 15. LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED DURING THE WEEK. 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This edition has been most carefully revised, and The sale of twelve very large editions, within a few years, London: printed for Harding and Lepard; Longman, Rees, Just published, [No. 66. HE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW, THE No. VI., Contents: Art. 1.-1. Discours prononcé à la 4me Séance Annuelle du Conseil de Perfectionnement de l'Ecole spéciale de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris. Par M. Adolphe Blanqui. 2. Histoire de l'Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie Française en 1827. Par M. Adolphe Blanqui. 3. Discours de S. E. le Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat du Commerce et des Manufactures, sur le Budget de son Département.-II. Essai Politique sur l'Isle de Cuba. Par Alexander de Humboldt.-III. Esprit, Origine et Progrès des Institutions Judiciaires des principaux pays de l'Europe. Par J. D. Meyer.-IV. Mémoires de Michel Oginski, sur la Pologne et les Polonais.-V. Introduction à 'Etude de l'Harmonic, ou Exposition d'une nouvelle Théorie de cette Science. Par Victor Derode.-VI. 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[A CONSIDERABLE portion of the following extraordinary composition is inserted by Madame de Stael in her work on Germany, (part ii., chap. xxviii.) But it is greatly defaced there, in part by the ragged and disjointed condition in which it is brought forward, and partly by that haze of indistinctness. which French translators seem to be led by their language to throw over every thing lying beyond the narrow scope of their poetical eye-sight, not to mention sundry inaccuracies to which the English version has superadded the somewhat ludicrous substitution of splendid basilics for fiery basilisks, thus converting a serpent into a church, a place such reptiles are not in the habit of frequenting, unless we can bestow that name on the temple of Pandemonium. Still, even under that form, it has been read by many who have been strongly impressed with the power and intensity of the conception; and perhaps these, and others too, it may be, will not be displeased to see it in a dress more resembling the one it received from its father. A variety of like compositions are scattered through the sixty volumes of John Paul's works; and the reader may find one done into excellent English by his great admirer amongst us, an admirer, too, who is almost his rival in portraying the fantastic progeny of sleep, in the ninth volume of The London Magazine,' p. 242.] Ir my heart should ever become so hapless and so withered, that every feeling in it which asserts the being of God should be destroyed, I would appal myself by reading over the following composition of mine; and it would cure me and give me back the feelings I had lost. On being told in our childhood, that at mid night, when our sleep comes nigh to our soul and darkens our very dreams, the dead raise themselves out of theirs, and walk into the house of God, and there mimic the worship offered to him by the living, we are wont to shudder at death for the sake of the dead and in our lonely walks at night we turn away our eyes from the long windows of the still church, and fear to examine the gleams upon them, whether they fall from the moon. : Childhood, with her joys, and still more with her fears, resumes her wings, and sparkles anew in our dreams, and plays like a glow-worm in the little night of the soul. Do not extinguish these flitting sparks. Leave us even our dismal and painful dreams; they are half-shadows that set off the realities of life. And what have they to Price 1s. for prayer; but the arms lengthened and lowered themselves from his body, and the clasped hands dropped off. Overhead, in the vault of the church, stood the dial-plate of Eternity, on which no number was to be read, nor any characters except its own name; only there was a black hand pointing thereat, on which the dead said they saw Time. At this moment, a tall majestic form with a countenance of imperishable anguish sank down from on high upon the altar; and all the dead cried: Christ! is there no God? He answered:-There is none!' The shadow of every dead man trembled all other, their trembling dispersed them. over, not his breast merely; and, one after an Christ spake on I have gone through the midst of the worlds, I mounted into the suns, and flew with the milky way across the wilderness of heaven; but there is no God. I plunged down, as far as Being flings its shadow, and pried into the abyss, and cried :-Father, where art thou? but I heard only the everlasting te pest, which no one sways; and the glittering rainbow of beings was hanging, without a sun that had formed it, over the abyss, and trickling down into it. And, when I looked up towards the limitme with an empty bottomless eyesocket; and youred.Scream on, ye discords! scatter these Eternity was lying upon chaos, and gnawing it to pieces, and chewing the cud of what it had de shades with your screaming: for He is not!' The aim of this poem is the excuse for its give us in the room of these dreams, which carry less world for the eye of God, the world stared at boldness. Men deny God's being with just as Just so was I terrified by the poisonous vapour that steams forth to choke the heart of him who I was lying once, on a summer evening, in the sun, upon a hill, and fell asleep. Then I dreamt I awoke in a church-yard. The rolling wheels of the clock in the tower that was striking eleven, had awakened me. I searched through the dark empty sky for the sun; for I imagined that an eclipse had drawn the veil of the moon over it. the charnel-house were swung to and fro by inAll the graves were open, and the iron doors of visible hands along the walls shadows were The shades grew pale and dissolved, as white vapour that the frost has given birth to is melted by a breath of warmth; and the whole church be came empty. Then-Oh it was terrible to the heart!-the dead children, who had awaked in the church-yard, ran into the church, and threw and said: Jesus! have we no father? And he themselves before the lofty form upon the altar, answered with tears streaming down:- We are for the first time sets foot in the ante-church of fitting, which no one cast; and other shadows all orphans, I and you; we are without a father.' atheism. It would give me less pain to deny immortality, than to deny God: the former act only robs me of a world that is enveloped in clouds; the latter snatches from me the present world; that is, its sun: the whole spiritual universe is blown up and shattered by the hand of atheism into numberless quicksilver atoms of beings, that glimmer, and course, and roam, and rush together and asunder, without unity or permanence. No one is so utterly forlorn in the universe as the denier of God: he moans with an orphan heart that has lost its Almighty Father, beside the vast corpse of nature, which no living spirit animates or holds together, but which grows in the grave; and his mourning ceases not until he crumbles away from that corpse. The whole world lies before him, like the great Egyptian stone Sphynx, half-buried in the sand; and the universe is the cold iron mask of a formless eternity. It is my further view, by this poem to alarm certain reading or deep-read doctors; for, of a truth, these people now-a-days, since they have been taken, like captives condemned to hard labour, by our new philosophy for the task-work of its drainage and mining, will canvass the existence of God as coldbloodedly, and as coldheartedly, as if the question were about the existence of the unicorn or the kraken. For the sake of others who have not advanced were walking upright through the naked air. Here the screeching of the discords became more violent; the walls of the church tottered and sank down; and the whole earth and the sun burst asunder; and the church and the children sank after; and the whole of the immeasurable universe sank before us; and Christ remained standing upon the highest pinnacle of nature, and through by a thousand suns, as it were into a gazed into the globe of the universe, pierced cavern, burrowed into the heart of eternal night, wherein the suns were running like miners' lights and the galaxies like veins of silver. And, when Christ saw the crushing throng of worlds, the torch-dance of the heavenly ignes fatui, and the coral banks of beating hearts, and when he saw how one globe after another poured out its glimmering souls upon the dead sea, as a water-balloon strews its floating lights upon the waves; then with a grandeur that betokened the highest of finite beings, he lifted up his eye toward the nothingness and toward the infinite void above him, and said :-Moveless and voiceless nothing! cold eternal necessity! frantic chance! can ye, or any of you, tell me? when do you dash to pieces the building and me? Dost thou know it, O chance! even thou, when thou stridest with thy hurricanes athwart the snowdust of the stars, and puffest out one sun after another, while the sparkling dew of the constellations is parched up as thou passest along! How desolate is every one in the vast catacomb of the universe! There is none beside me save myself.-O, Father! Father! where is thy worldsustaining breast, that I may rest on it! Alas! if every being is its own father and creator, why may it not also become its own destroying angel? Is that a man still beside me? Poor wretch! your little life is one of nature's sighs, or the mere echo of it; a mirror flings its rays on the clouds of dust from the ashes of the dead on your earth, and, forthwith, ye spring up, ye beclouded, fleeting images. Look down into the abyss, over which clouds of ashes are floating; mists, full of worlds, are rising out of the dead sea; the future is that rising mist, and that which is falling is the present. Dost thou know thy own earth? Here Christ looked down, and his eye filled with tears, and he said: Alas, I was once upon it; then I was still happy; then I had still an Almighty Father, and still looked with gladness from the mountains to the unfathomable heavens; and, when my breast was pierced through, I pressed it to his soothing image, and said, even in the bitterness of death-Father, draw forth thy son from his bleeding tabernacle, and raise him to thy heart. Ah! ye over-happy inhabitants of the earth, ye still believe in Him. Perchance, at this moment, your sun is setting, and ye are falling on your knees in the midst of blossoms and radiance and dew, and are lifting up your blessed hands, and, while shedding a thousand tears of joy, are crying to the open heavens: Me, too, even me, dost thou know, thou Almighty One, and all my wounds, and after my death thou wilt receive me and close them all. Miserable creatures, after death they will never be closed. The woe-begone mortal who lays his bleeding back in the earth, to sleep till the coming of a fairer morning, full of truth, full of goodness and joy, will awake amid the storms of chaos, in the eternity of midnight; and no morning comes, and no healing hand, and no Almighty Father. Thou mortal beside me, if thou still livest, pray to Him now, else thou hast lost him for ever.' And, as I fell down and beheld the shining world, I saw the uplifted scales of the giant snake, Eternity, that had spread itself around the universe; and the scales dropped down, and it wreathed itself twice round the universe; then it twined in a thousand folds around Nature, and squeezed world against world; and, with a crushing force, compressed the temple of infinity into a village church; and every thing grew dense, and murky, and dismal, and the clapper of a bell stretched out its measureless length, about to strike the last hour of time, and to split the fabric of the world to atomsI awoke. -when My soul wept with joy that it was again able to worship God; and my joy, and my tears, and my faith in him, were my prayer. And, as I stood up, the sun was glowing low down behind the full purple ears of corn, and was quietly throwing the reflection of its evening glory to the little moon that was rising without a dawn in the east; and between heaven and earth a joyous shortlived world was spreading out its tiny wings, and, living, as I was, in the presence of an Almighty Father; and from the whole of nature around me came sounds of peace, like the voices of evening I. C. H. bells from afar. CONTRE-PROJET TO THE HUMPHREYSIAN CODE. A Contre-Projet to the Humphreysian Code; and to the Projects of Redaction by Messrs. Hammond, Uniacke, and Twiss. By John James Park, Barrister-at-law. Svo., pp. 260. J. and W. T. Clarke. London, 1828. IN our foriner notice of Mr. Park's volume we took occasion to class him with that division of jurists on whom we bestowed the epithet of historical. From this, however, our readers must not conclude that the object of his book is to defend the general principles of any school. All who maintain that the goodness of a system of laws, THE ATHENEUM. This instead of being tried by maxims of pure reason, To this last class Mr. Park belongs; and his 'But it may be asked, if the combination of facts, subject matter which, though then veritably existent dancy of which I here speak. By an unnecessary rule, continue to encumber the science. This is the redun causes. (No. 67. requires no explanatory remarks. exists, although the rules themselves be indifferent, or tency of the other parts of a system, or to fulfilling dundancy is its being unnecessary to the consisThe test of any part of a system being a rethe idea of the system. To apply this test in the English law to a science. But can this be done? case before us, we must reduce the system of Is it possible, that, in that which has been so often called a medley of contradictions and barbarisms, there can be any principle of combination, any internal law? Hear Mr. Park's answer : 'But the common law of England, as it now stands before us in a connected stream of decision to the present time, may be stated to be a system for substituting argumentative corollary or inference for arbitrary and pre-constituted rule. In other words, it is an infinite mises already given. It has in so far the semblance of series of conclusions drawn from some judicial preof positive demonstration. a mathematical science; though without its capability decided becomes a datum from which to reason to the Every proposition once conclusion upon a new combination; and it is commonly for this purpose that decisions, or precedents as they are called, are quoted by lawyers in legal disquicision (for such in fact is the argumentative judgment sition or argument. It is consequently a system of analogies and dependencies, the proof of every new deor conclusion pronounced by the judge) being-its coherence and conformity to the principles established by grounds of distinction from those other decisions from former decisions, as its data; and its demonstrable which it appears to depart. It is important, in passing, to inquire in what the value of such a system consists; and it is remarkable that the same materials will conduct us to an equally important consideration; its specific inconveniences. volving index, turn upon one centre. Both these qualities, like the opposed points of a re impossible to have any series of pre-conceived proposi The transactions of mankind, and the internal combinations of those transactions, being infinite, it is tions (which must necessarily be a finite series) co-extensive with the questions of right which arise upon the infinite series. ever, If, then, there were no means furnished by the law, considered as a science, for adjudicating on the new combination, but the fiat of the jude, two consequences law, must go to the tribunal of justice to be adjudiwould follow: 1st, that every new combination whathowever close in its analogies to existing rules of cated, with all the delay and cost involved by that process; and 2ndly, that the declaration of the judge, when obtained, would be an arbitrary resolution on the case, governed by the temperament, views, and notions, which the individual judge might happen to entertain of justice, policy, or convenience; to say nothing of partiality or prejudice. by a theory of its own, concludes every new combinaThe common law of England, on the contrary, tion to be under the influence of some one or more judge as merely declaring the law, not promulgating pre-established principles or rules of adjudication, and to be capable of being driven or hunted home to those it ;-in point of fact, he is deciding between contendprinciples by a dialectic force. Hence it considers the of law already declared, or the reasons upon which ing intellectual gladiators, which of the two has proved his thesis;-that thesis necessarily being, on either hand, that the question of right arising upon the new combination is governed by such of the rules logies, the right of the party who in his turn pro- This passage seems to us to sweep away, at accumulating for the last fifty years about this once, immense heaps of rubbish which have been question. Ever since the establishment of the Vinerian Professorship at Oxford, there has been public notions of the common law. Mr. Justice a vast quantity of confusion congealing about the Blackstone carried with him into his new situation a very high, and, probably, a very just, notion of the merits of the English law and of the English 1. Vices, or inconveniences, in the rules themselves. constitution. But, in expressing that high opi |