genius of war borne upon lightnings, and proclaimed, like a second Jove, "Soldiers! we finish this campaign by a thunderbolt that shall confound the pride of our enemies!" When, in reply, the hat and the tricolor waved on the gleaming bayonet, and "Long live the Emperor!" echoed like a tempest from 80,000 voices! When, at Jena, it was but necessary to say, "Are not we the soldiers of Austerlitz?" and Prussia became a cipher among the nations! When, with 900 men, he left the isle of his exile to, overturn a government that bore rule over 30,000,000 of souls-yea, backed by the united interest of Europe to boot-only exclaiming, "Paris or death!" -when his foot touched the soil of France, and he called out, "The Congress is dissolved!"—when meeting the force sent to oppose him, he advanced dauntless to the point of their weapons, and exclaimed, throw ing open his coat, and presenting his breast," Soldiers! you have been told that I fear death; if there be among you one soldier who would kill his Emperor, let him plunge his bayonet into this bosom !"-if there be not poetry in this,-in its effect, when 6000 hostile men instantaneously cast their arms upon the ground, and fell upon each other's neck, exclaiming, "Long live the Emperor !”—if the very soul of poetry be not in this, and in these things-what, in the name of prose and stupidity, what is Poetry? "be I HAVE met with very few unmarried ladies who have not appeared to me to feel, after the age of thirty, that their existence was thoroughly comfortless and wretched. Many have I heard express it openly; and that such is the fact, can very easily be discovered by an accurate observer of the human countenance. It is also certain, that three out of five of the young English ladies of the present day must remain unmarried; because no man can exist on less than two thousand a-year when married; and how few young men there are with two thousand ayear, compared with the number of young ladies! Five, six, eight, sometimes, in one family; generally all tolerably pretty, and most of them pleasing and accomplished If there be one born in Britain who can hear the name women-many possessing talents of no ordinary stamp— of Nelson pronounced without feelings of poetical enthu- yet, perhaps, in our salons these lovely and accomplished siasm, he is a bastard, and a bloat upon his country-beings are completely neglected by the other sex, coward, traitor, is written on his milky heart. No man can think of the hero of Teneriffe, of the Nile, of Copenhagen, and Trafalgar, without glorying in the idea that he is his countryman! The name of Nelson was the talisman of victory; his very presence was inspiration, and the record of his last triumph is a poem more sublime and imperishable than the Iliad itself. There was a volume of poetry in his last signal-“ England expects that every man will do his duty!" This was the last signal of Nelson, the last whisper of the God of Battles to his servant! The sentiment was a something hovering between the confines of earth and immortality, breathed only by the angel of death and of victory, as he descended to wait for the soul of the hero. Was there not poetry in the feeling that followed, when courage became sublimity, as the loud, long shout of ten thousand voices rushed along the line with the speed and the power of electricity, arresting the astonished sea-bird in its flight, silencing the deep-tongued.voice of the waters, and falling on the dismayed hearts of their enemies, saying, "Every EngLishman-wILL do his duty!" cause" (I must repeat the sentiments I have heard from It is of no use to quarrel with the state of society as it is at present constituted, for we cannot alter it; but I think it might be beneficial to give a few hints on the education of women, which might perhaps be useful in procuring them, in a state of single blessedness, as it is very falsely called, a greater share of happiness, or a less load of misery, than they at present appear to me to possess after the awful age of thirty. A girl at thirty is called an old maid-she goes to a ball, and generally sits neglected all the evening, or dances with some gentleman who has been often asked to dine at her father's house, and who, perhaps, remarks, "Miss But it is unnecessary to record the actions of the is rather passée-a good old girl and I must do mighty dead to illustrate poetry as existing in deeds; my duty there; and now I shall dance with the beautithere is ope, still with us whose whole life has been an ful Miss My heart always bleeds for the morexample; and in saying this, need I name the name of tifications I see endured by these poor old girls continuWellington—of Wellington the conqueror of Vimiera, | ally. There are certainly some single women whose of Talavera, of Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, talents have made them as much considered in society as Orthes, Thoulouse, and Waterloo? On the morning they ought to be; but then I have generally observed of his last battle, when the first shrill notes of the pibroch that they have fortunes, or have had advantages above rang in the streets of Brussels with the gathering air, others to bring them into notice, and to give to the na"Come to me and I will give you flesh!"-was it heard tural ambition of the human species some scope of action. by one of the tartaned mountaineers, who felt not in his I will suppose a case in which there are four girls-a breast the enthusiasm of a poet, and the heart of a Scots-moderate proportion in one family-and two sons; and man? When in the heat of the strife, the leader exclaimed, “Stand fast, 95th! we must not be beat! what would they say in England?" What would they say in England, was a volume of poetry bound up in six words. But if ever poetry were exemplified in action, it was at the crisis of Waterloo, when the Imperial Guard of the enemy, rushing like a torrent of fiery lava, amidst the thunderings and the roarings of artillery which covered them, sweeping away the opposing lines like chaff before the storm, had approached within a hundred yards of the dictator of the conflict, who, with his eagle eye, watching his opportunity to strike, to the veriest division of a moment, exclaimed to his troops, who had been re I will suppose their father possessed of fifteen hundred a-year. The estate, of course, goes to the eldest son; the second must be a clergyman, if his relations have any preferment, or he must be of some profession; of course, he can never marry without a large fortune-unless, at the age of forty-five, he has made one for himself. The eldest son, having been to Eton and Cambridge, has learnt that fifteen hundred a-year is nothing, and, in all probability, determines (not to be taken in) not to marry any lovely girl, without, at least, forty or fifty thousand pounds. I now come to my four young ladies. I will suppose one very pretty, one tolerably pretty, and the other two rather plain. They have been educated, in all probability, as the greater proportion of English girls are: First of all, they have a strong orthodox belief in the Christian religion-go every Sunday to church-and are, as I conceive all, or nearly all, the class of moderately rich English gentry to be, perfectly honourable, upright, and wellprincipled. It is only for their own happiness that I would propose any change in the education of a class for whom I entertain so high a respect. To return to the four young ladies: They have all been brought up with the idea that they will become wives and mothers, and are taught to cherish those natural affections which, if by some remote chance one out of the four ever does marry, make them so amiable and lovely as such. They are all allowed to read modern novels, at least all such as are considered to have a moral tendency. Now, I maintain that there is scarcely one of these works which does not impress any young woman with the idea that happiness can alone be found in love and marriage. The heroine is very amiable and perfect, surrounded with admirers, all contending for the honours of her least notice; but where is the novel which represents four poor, pretty, unnoticed girls, who are destined to pass their young years without perhaps so much as one admirer amongst them? Year after year passes—their bloom and beauty fade and my four lovely and accomplished warmhearted beings, having seen all their youthful castles fall one by one, become listless and unhappy. They have little in life to interest them ;-one dies of a complaint in the spine; another lives many years on arrow-root and calf'sfoot jelly, and is enveloped in flannel even in July; a third is under the care of Dr S., for indigestion; and perhaps the fourth, who is made of tougher materials, and born with less feeling than the others or perhaps from having something to occupy her mind, in preparing the arrow-root for one sister, and ordering the hard dumplings, prescribed by Dr S., for the other outlives her sorrows and disappointments; and, if she takes an interest in her brother's children, or a share in their education, or in something which gives vent to those affections which are implanted by nature in the breast of woman, she becomes happy. This, then, appears to me to be the secret too much neglected in female education. Teach them, by all means, that one great source of happiness consists in the indul`gence of virtuous affection; but do not teach them that there is no affection capable of producing this happiness, except such as may be felt for a lover or husband. If the heart be properly regulated, it may take a warm and sufficiently engrossing interest in many objects less intimately connected with it. Marriage is a sad lottery, 'and, at the best, is a state full of cares and anxieties. Freedom and independence ought not to be lightly parted with, or set down as possessions of little value. That sweet spot endureth, all shelter'd and green, And the nut and the nestling are still to be seen. There are feelings more deep, recollections more brigh Affection's bright morn, in its vision of bliss, I may see, I have seen it, what earth has to see,- ΤΟ By Laurence Macdonald. THEY tell me that thy heart's no longer free, And I believe it; for I've mark'd, of late, But I can meet this, as I've met my fate, T. G. Have borne, ere now, what should have crush'd a bear That still throbs high, with all its strings unbroke, But loves less wildly as the years depart! The goaded ox grows callous to the stroke, Nor heeds the pricking needle, nor doth smart, As it was wont when first it bore the yoke. Thus I've become all harden'd; life's ills now Press harmless on me, nor can make me bow. Nor love, nor hate, nor aught that thou dost keep I'll make companions of my thoughts, and place With mind's immortal beings, that endure Then farewell pleasures of the gay and vain; I never loved them much, now less than ever, Thy charms have wove around me; my nerves quiver 'Tis done! my pride of heart hath set me free, Happy I ne'er shall witness aught so fair, So full of light and loveliness, as thee! And if this breath of mine could shape a prayer That might avail in heaven, its scope would be, That thy bright brow should be untouch'd by care; That thy dark eye should be undimm'd by tears, And every joy that life can feel should crown thy years. ANE NEWE SANGE TO ANE Aulde tune. By J. Imlach, Author of " May Flowers." WE'VE drank to them that's hereabout, A health to her we needna name! I gie you joy, wha hae found grace Wi' ane that's comely, kind, and true; I feel for you-I ken the case Whom some fair thief o' hearts gars rue, Though nocht you say, and swear, and do, Can wauk in her's the tender flame, Yet we're forgiving when we're fouHere's health to her-whate'er her name! O! wearie fa' the womankind, They've been, sin' first the world began, The bonnie dears we canna blame; Sae a benison gae wi' our ban, And health to her whom we could name! Auld Adam won a wearie life, Till Eve, in Eden's bach'lor bowers, Was made the first o' men's gudewife The fairest o' the garden's flowers; Though dearly bought the social hours, Wi' dool and death-wi' sin and shame→→ We think them cheap, when pass we ours Wi' her we'll drink-but daurna name. The waukrife cock fu' loudly craws, The merry morn begins to blink, And troth it's time to wear our wa's When folk begin to lisp and wink; Whate'er we thole, whate'er we think, In this we'll do and say the same, We'll brim the bowl, and deep we'll drink A health to her—that each could name! THE GLOAMIN'. By the Author of " May Flowers." WHEN day wanes to the gloamin', And night glooms o'er the glen, my boys! When cogs are fou and foamin', A jovial time 'tis then, my boys! Let daffin' youth gang roamin' By burn and trysting tree, my boys, But when day wanes to the gloamin' We meet for mirth and glee, my boys! See, the drouthie sun is sinking Should kirkyard ghaists be gliding At night's mirk eerie noon, my boys! When the broad waves of midnight gush Up from the sea around thy side, And o'er thy front the storm-winds rush, And rend thee in their wrath and pride,Upon their strength thou shouldst arise, And hurry to the ocean's breast, And, torn by their fierce energies, Sink in the waves to rest! WRITTEN ON THE FRITH OF FORTH. All's life and motion, and the winds on high With fond and fairy forms that look like thee! I'll call thee forth to chase life's gloomiest hour➡ SONNET. WHEN I look round upon the goodly crowd And think scarce one would give a pause to mirth, Am bound to life by links so passing few, Even in my prime, when every pulse beats high, And much of nature still is fresh and new. I am a miser in my wish to hoard A mint of deep affections, for to me The love of others is the golden key That doth unlock the shrine where lieth stored My hope of happiness. Let glory go! H. G. B. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT AND VARIETIES. A NEW Annual, called The Remembrance, is to be added to those already on the list for 1831. It is to be edited by Thomas Roscoe, Esq., and will contain twelve fine engravings. Among these will be the following subjects:-Her most excellent Majesty, Queen Adelaide--the Coliseum at Rome-Mont Blanc-the Draugh t-playersWindsor Castle-the Girl at the Brook-Warwick Castle-the Blackbird at Home-Who'd be a Butterfly-and John Gilpin. Most of these engravings we have already seen, and can safely pronounce some of them exceedingly beautiful., The readers and admirers of the Life of Sir Thomas Munro wil be gratified to learn, that a third volume of the Correspondence o that distinguished individual is about to be published. Besides continuation of the letters to his family, which formed a principa charm of the preceding volumes, there are, we understand, in the present, his familiar communications to the Duke of Wellington. the Marquis of Hastings, Mr Elphinstone, Sir Graham Moore, and a great number of the most conspicuous public characters of the age. The forthcoming Heiress of Bruges, by Mr Grattan, is, it appears an historical novel, founded on events in the History of the Nether lands in the year 1660, and the scene varies between Bruges, Brus sels, and the romantic country towards the Meuse. A lady of the name of Mrs Harding, who must be the very concen trated essence of all the blues, announces a work, to be entitled 6 Πλουτος ὁ της ψυχής, πλουτος μόνος εστιν αληθης. The Midsummer Medley, about to be published by the author of Brambletye House, consists of a series of comic tales and sketches in prose and verse. An Analysis of Elocution, exhibiting the most useful observations and rules on the art of reading and speaking, together with princi ples of gesture-a dissertation on the passions-and strictures on former writers on these subjects;-with select extracts, peculiarly adapted for delivery, by John D. Russell, teacher of clocution in Edinburgh, is preparing for publication. THE SIAMESE TWINS.-These remarkable youths are at present in Edinburgh, and have already been visited by many of the scientific characters of this city, as well as by a great crowd of miscellaneous enquirers into the wonderful and the curious. We may probably take an opportunity next week of speaking of the exhibition at greater length, and in the meantime beg to point it out as one well worthy the attention of our readers. CHIT-CHAT FROM LONDON.-Mr Buckingham, the Oriental tra veller, is anxious to have a ship built for him at the public expense, in order to perform a voyage round the world, from which he expects numerous mercantile advantages to accrue to this country. A public meeting has been held by those friendly to the plan; and the public generally are invited to lend it their support. Mr Bucking ham is a stirring man, and may perhaps succeed in carrying it through-Jeremy Bentham has amused himself in his old age with drawing up a code of laws for the Horticultural Society-Boai, the person who plays tunes upon his chin, put off his performance the other day in consequence of his having caught a cold, it must certainly have been the chin-cough. A lady has made her appearance in Germany who almost beats Boai, for she plays beautifully on the piano-forte with her nose! What will these people do next?-Edward Irving has preached a funeral sermon for George IV., which contains some odd passages, and is consequently talked of a littleall that the orator wished, no doubt.-The King has sent a gracious message to the President of the Royal Academy, (Sir Martin Archer Shee,) enquiring in what way his Majesty can most promote the interests of the Fine Arts; and the President has laid the royal communication before the members of the Academy, who will of course give the matter their most serious attention. Theatrical Gossip.-This is a dull time at the Theatres. Nothing new is going on in London worth mentioning.-Miss Paton has been performing in Cork with applause, but Wood was not allowed to appear along with her. When she played Polly in the “Beggar's Opera," a Miss Dyer played Lucy. We suppose this is the same Miss Dyer who disappeared from the Edinburgh Theatre rather mysteriously some years ago.-Miss Cubitt, a young lady who sang and was addicted to the bottle, has died.-Many of the provincial managers have opened their Theatres for a few weeks during the slack time in London.—Miss Jarman is performing in Worthing. As she is not to appear at Drury-Lane next winter, we take it for granted that we shall have her here, as we are not aware that the manager could engage any one nearly so likely of being generally popular, or so able to make herself useful in almost every department of her profession. -Kean is paying a farewell visit to Liverpool.-Rossini and Catalani have been together at Florence for some time.-We are glad to learn that Jones has been drawing better houses of late at Perth. He has been playing Lord Ogleby in the "Clandestine Marriage" with great eclat. Are we not to have Jones once more on our stage next win. ter? TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS. WE regret that the "Sketches of Character in Low Life," by "W. H. G." of Glasgow, will not exactly suit us.-Our Correspondent at West Barns will perceive we have made considerable alterations on his obliging communication.-We fear we shall not be able to make room for the paper by "H." of Peterhead. -The letter from Dunfermline is sensibly written, but the subject has become rather trite. Our poetical Correspondents in Dumfries, Selkirk, and elsewhere, must excuse us till next week, Our readers will perceive that we this week present them with half a sheet of additional matter. LITERARY CRITICISM. THE PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF FRANCE. PRICE 6d. the office of a public prosecutor. The officials composing this branch of the administration were known by the name of the Parquet, consisted of general procurators and general advocates, together with a king's procurator and ed in all to 969 persons. The tribunals over which this two substitutes for every tribunal in France, and amountbody kept watch were the courts in each arrondissement, which judge in the first instance; the courts of appeal, whose jurisdiction extended over one or more departments; and the Court of Cassation. The number of the district courts amounted to 361, each consisting of three judges; the king's procurator and his substitute; the clerks and ushers of court; and three or more suppléants, distinguished lawyers, whose vote was taken in the necessary absence of a judge, or when there happened to be partage des voix." Each of these courts dispensed law through a population of from fifty to eighty thousand souls. The courts of appeal were divided into three classes. The first class (thirteen in number) consisted 8 Bulletin Universel: Sections des Sciences Mathematiques, des Sciences Naturelles, et des Sciences Historiques. Avril, 1830. Edinburgh: Thomas Clark. Annales des Mines, ou Recueil des Memoires sur l'Exploitation des Mines et sur les Sciences qui s'y rapportent; rédigées par le Conseil Général des Mines. A Paris; chez Treuttel et Wurtz. Edinburgh: Thomas Clark. Dictionnaire Technologique, ou Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel des Arts et Métiers, et de l'Economie Industrielle et Commerciale; par une Société de Savans et d'Artistes. Tome Quinzième A Paris; chez Thomine Libraire. Edinburgh: Thomas Clark. Veber die Gerichtsverfassung und das gerichtliche Verfahren Frankreichs, in besonderer Beziehung auf die Oeffentlichkeit und Mündlichkeit der Gerechtegkeitspflege. Von Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach. (On the Legal of four presidents, twenty councillors, a general-procuraInstitutions and Forms of Process in France, as tend- tor, five general advocates and substitutes, clerks and ing to illustrate the effects of Publicity and Oral Plead-ushers, and was divided into three chambers-la chambre ings in Courts of Justice. By Anselm von Feuerbach.) civile, la chambre d'appels de police correctionelle, et la chambre de mise en accusation. The second class (ten in THE nature of our last importation from France is of number) consisted of five presidents and twenty-five couna kind to confirm our inclination to take, instead of enter-cillors, and was divided into four chambers, of which two ing at present into a criticism of any individual work, a more general view of the state and prospects of society which have just received so rude a shock in their progress towards maturity. Our remarks labour under a disadvantage from the extreme condensation imposed upon us by our limits; they are, however, the fruits of a long and extensive examination into French affairs. When we say that France was a representative monarchy, we must guard against an impression, easily prodaced by the vagueness of the term, that her constitution was similar to that of England. With us, not only a portion of the legislative, but a large share of the executive management of the country, remains in the hands of the people or of their representatives. In France, the whole executive, down to its pettiest details, was vested exclusively in the sovereign. In England, the rights of the subject are as undoubtedly and originally his as those of the monarch—the origin of both lies hid in the same antiquity. In France, the rights of the subject were a gift from the king, and dated no farther back than the charter. The king performed the public duties through the medium of six ministers, whose inferior agents, all nofinated by the crown, were spread in the strictest subordination and organization through every department of the kingdom. The first minister was the Minister of Justice. The office of this minister was, by means of deputies, to communicate to the different tribunals all new laws, rescripts, and ordonnances—to enforce the strict observance of legal forms and discipline in all the courts of France to appear in every private case for the interest of the law, when it is strained and perverted by the interests of contending parties to act as the advocate of the state in all fiscal questions-and to discharge were devoted to civil affairs. The third class (of which there were only two, Rennes and Paris) were divided into five chambers. Civil questions can only reach these courts, by way of appeal from the courts of the different arrondissements, or from the chambres de commerce, instituted for the judgment of purely mercantile matters, in two hundred and twelve of the principal towns and cities. In questions of criminal law it was their office to decide on the relevancy of the accusations against persons whom it was proposed to try at the assizes, and to give final sentences in such police matters as might be tried without a jury. With this court lay the nomination of the judges of assize, who sat every quarter of a year in the head town of every department, to try criminal cases with a jury. There were, in general, named to this office, a councillor of the court of appeal, and four judges of the arrondissement in which the assizes were held. The decrees of the courts of appeal were final, and could not be altered by any other tribunal. The Court of Cassation, which sat at Paris, consisted of four presidents, forty-four councillors, a general procurator, with six general advocates, a principal and four depute clerks, with ushers; and was divided into three sections, one of which was devoted to criminal, and two to civil matters. To this court appertained the decision in all questions of contested jurisdiction, and the pronouncing sentence in the case of any judge accused of improper discharge of his office. It had likewise a power of reviewing such decisions of any court of appeal that might be submitted to its consideration; of declaring them null when contrary to law, and remitting such cases to be tried anew by some other court of appeal. These courts are freed from a mass of trifling cases, by the justice of peace courts established in each canton. Each of these consists of a justice of peace, remunerated by |