New SPANISH PLOUGH.

The Royal Society of Valladolid has published a description of an improved plough, presented to the Society by Don Andres Herrarle, one of its members. The improvement which this ingenious artist has given to an instrument of such importance to agriculture, preserving the same simplicity and the common uses, varying it only in the share, cause it to work with much less fatigue to the cattle and the driver, moving and penetrating the earth every where to the same depth, clearing away the weeds, and cutting through the deepest and largest roots.

MACHINERY.

'An inhabitant of Paris has invented a boat which is impelled forward by machinery, without the aid of steam, at the

rate of five miles an hour in smooth water. The machinery is worked by only two hands, and the boat will contain 100 per

sons.

M. Michel, mechanist, residing at Of fenbach, has contrived a machine, simple in its construction, and not bulky, by which a river may be crossed, and even the sea navigated, without danger of drowning. It is nearly five feet in diameter, when fully drawn out. An excavation of one foot, three inches in depth, is the place of reception for the voyager, The machine may easily be transported from one place to another, as it does not weigh above five pounds. The inventor has tried it on the Rhine, with perfect success. He can direct its movements at pleasure, and without any great efforts, and that in all directions.

ON THE LATE HARVEST.

FATHER Supreme, Thy bounteous hand Hath spread abundance round our land,

And fill'd our barns with food! The time to sow, the time to reap, Still their appointed Seasons keep,

And make Thy promise good.

With wearied limbs, and moisten'd brow,
Man tills the soil, and guides the plough,
And sows the precious grain;
Yet barren is the labour'd ground,
Unless with thy rich blessing crown'd,

And all his hopes are vain.

By Thee, with heavenly moisture fed,
The earth becomes a genial bed,

The new-sown corn to rear.
Fann'd by Thy winds, the blades aspire,
Warm'd by Thy sun's etherial fire,

The golden ears appear.

The furrow'd clods receive the seed;
The blade, the ear, the corn, succeed,
Yet we can never know
What secret process brings again
An hundred fold the buried grain,

And makes our crops to grow.
'Tis done, and lo! the reaper wields
His sickle o'er luxuriant fields,

Where cottage gleaners roam; Our barns are fill'd with future stores, And gratitude with pleasure pours The shout of-Harvest Home. H. W. S.

LOVE'S THE LIGHTEST, Occasioned by a neat Engraving so called. VAIN of her charms, a flippant fly, In painted plumage gay, One sultry noon came flaunting by, Where Love in ambush lay:

Beneath a full-blown rose reclin'd,
He seem'd the heat to shun:
When thus the spotted trifler cried,
A challenge; Love said, done.
Across the tender stem she press'd,

Chance dropp'd a wither'd leaf,
And here, said she, the lightest rest,
The heaviest sink with grief.
The boy consents, on either half
They light with equal bound,
Papilio sinks-the urchin laughs-
And Love's the lightest found.
J. A. G .

APOSTROPHE TO WAR.
Extracted from Mr. Wiffen's "Julia
Alpinula*," &c.

WAR! thou miscreating curse!
Dark juggler of the Universe!
How hast thou marr'd this glorious globe!
Throwing around thy scarlet robe,
And masking with the rainbow blaze
Of gem-like beauty thy fierce face;
Thou hast deceiv'd from Time's first ages,
Its mighty Captains, Lords, and Sages,
Till they and the strong multitude
Thy mad remorseless smiles have woo'd;
And drunk with thy bewildering song
From horn or harp or cymbalon,
Done deeds, which might the lion shame,
And make the Nations pale to name!
For Priests, their mitres are thy mirth,-
Thy panders are the Kings of earth;
From their high pagods dost thou come
Charioted with the hideous hum
Of thousands, who where'er it reels,
Perish beneath thy waggon wheels:

*This very interesting Poem shall be speedily noticed in our Review.

When

When given the groaning death they ask,
Thy visage thou dost then unmask
Like the veil'd fiend of Khorassan ;-
And on thy wolfish brow we scan,
The thunder-graven mark of Cain,
Heaven's warning impress stamp'd in
vain,-

Eye-balls that act the Gorgon's part,
A hydra's head-a viper's heart,—
The penal fire around whose core
Shall redly born for evermore!

Heaven's angry Angel pour wrath on
thee, War!

AMBITION and CRUELTY harness thy car,
And Ruin and Rapine and fell decay
Herald thee on thy blighting way!
Thou cancellest Treaty at thy nod,
Crumblest the robes of the Priest of God;
On the palace of Kings, and the peasant's

cot,

Thou turnést thy visage-and they are not! Where thy hurricane hurtles, a capitol burns,

And infancy's ashes fill innocent urns. Wrath on thee, War! thou hast given to the tomb [doorn ;Tens of thousands to dread the day of Thou hast fix'd on the age that is rolling by, [eye; The terrible charm of the rattle snake's They have come to thy altar with fire and spell,

To people the chambers of death and hell. Yet Royalty smiles, and yet Beauty vows, They crown thee with laurel and myrtleboughs;

And minstrels throng to their hallow'd spring,

Thy sanction'd homicides to sing; Dealing on nations a frenzied fire, Sorrow to mercy, and shame to the lyre!

To send his Provost, Bruno, to the wight, Who from his cubicle abruptly rais'd him, And with a death-warrant full sore amaz'd him,

Soon as the Provost had the wretch confess'd, [pollution,

And cleans'd from all his errors and In march'd a hangman in black vesture dress'd, [lation, Who, when the culprit got full absoHaul'd him away to instant execution,

It happen'd that this Provost had a friend, Whose nerves he wish'd to try one night when mellow;

So to his tent, with warrat duly penn'd, He went, attended by a monk and one grim fellow, [black and yellow. With halters in his hand, and visage "Carlo, awake;" says he, "arise! I come,"

With smother'd sighs, and stammering

accents speaking,

"To bring the dismal tidings of your doom;

Alas! with horror all my bones are quaking[is breaking. Oh, my dear friend, farewell, my heart

Carlo had just compos'd himself to sleep, Musing alone on something not worth

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 20.

The House having gone into a Committee on the Irish Court of Chaneery Bill, Lord Redesdale moved an amendment on the clause disqualifying Masters in Chancery from sitting in the House of Commons, so as to make it have only a retrospective operation.

The amendment was opposed by Lords Limerick, Holland, and Lauderdale, and supported by Lords Enniskillen and Liverpool.

The Lord Chancellor opposed the clause in toto, because the principle on which it proceeded would go to the exclusion of the Attorney and Solicitor General, and all the officers of the army and navy.

On a division, the amendment was carried by 22 to 10. The question was then put, "that the clause so amended stand part of the Bill," which was carried in the negative by 22 to 10.

The Insolvent Debtors' Bill was recommitted, after a few observations from Lord Auckland, the Lord Chancellor, and Lord Redesdale, on the clause appointing three Commissioners instead of one, which was agreed to.

July 24.

Lord Erskine said, it was his duty to present a Petition to their Lordships on the part of her Majesty; and, in present ing it, he must state to the House that her Majesty, as it appeared to him, had made a very just and reasonable request to their Lordships. She begged of them, as a list of the witnesses bad been refused to her, that she should be furnished with a specification of the times and places when and where it was alleged that she had acted licentiously. The Petition was read by his Lordship; after which be ably supported the object of the Petition; and concluded with moving that Counsel be heard in its support.

The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, and Earl Bathurst, objected to the prayer of the Petition.

Lord Holland made a few observations. The House then divided on Lord Erskine's motion, which was rejected by 37 to 12.

In the Commons, the same day, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to Sir W. De Crespigny, stated that when the House should meet on the 21st of August, Ministers would be enabled to inform Members of the course of proceed

ings in the other House, by which their own must, to a certain degree, be regnlated.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 25.

The Royal Assent was given, by Commission, to the Felonies Commutation Bill, the Stealing in Shops Bill, and Stealing in Dwelling Houses Bill.

Lord Shaftesbury read the Report of the Committee of Privileges, which recommended a fine of 100l. for the absence of any Peer for each of the three first days of the approaching proceedings of the House against the Queen; and of 50%. for each day after, while these proceedings last. That no Peer be allowed to absent himself from the second reading, and other proceedings on the Bill of Pains and Penalties, unless his age be 70 and upwards; or except on account of the death of his nearest relative. The Report also went on to state the best mode of accommodating Peers during the approaching proceedings. The House agreed with the Committee in its Report; and also to an Address to the King on the subject.

In the Commons, the same day, Mr. Wetherell called the attention of the House to a gross libel on the Queen, which had appeared in a late Number of Flyndell's Western Luminary, published at Exeter. After some observations, he moved that the paper in question, Flyndell's Western Luminary, should be laid upon the table.

Lord Castlereagh said, there could be only one opinion that the libel was of a very gross description. It was of recent date but still, recent as it was, it had attracted the notice of his Majesty's Attorney General. In the conflict of libels which now issued daily from the press (loud cheering on the ministerial benches, re-echoed from those of the opposition), it was not within the power of his hon. and learned friend to repress all which seemed deserving of punishment. In the course of his speech Lord Castlereagh read libellous extracts from several of the Opposition papers. He must say, that if the attainment of justice was the only object which the honourable and learned gentleman had in view, prosecutions ought to be instituted against the writers on both sides of this question. If the hon. and learned gentleman persisted in pressing his motion upon this particular paper, he

should

should hand in to the clerk those papers from which he had read so many extracts.

The Attorney General said, if the publication complained of was a breach of privilege, it was a breach of the privileges of the other House, hot of their own; he was inclined to think that the wisest course would be to withdraw the motion.

Lord Archibald Hamilton deemed the libel so gross, as to be beneath her Majesty's attention, and was calculated only to be detrimental to the author.

Mr. Wetherell intimated his satisfaction that the libel would be proceeded against.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 26.

The Royal Assent was given, by Commission, to the Insolvent Debtors' Bill.

It was ordered that the Judges do attend the service of this House on the 17th of August next; to which time their Lordships adjourned.

The Commons met this day, and after going through some routine business, adjourned till the 21st August.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, August 21. A motion having been made by Lord Castlereagh, that the House should adjourn to the 18th Sept.; it was moved, as an amendment, by Lord F. Osborne, that an Address should be presented to the King, for the purpose of proroguing Parliament. The motion gave rise to a discussion of some interest.

Mr. Wilberforce lamented that he had not been able to make a second attempt at reconciliation before the last adjourn ment, though he thought it was due to her Majesty that the charges should now be gone into.

Mr. Brougham said, the case had been opened against the Queen, and the chief witness had been examined, but not yet cross-examined. This was not, therefore, the time to bid Parliament to stop the proceedings. He took occasion to observe that the Lords had acted differently from what they had done upon the comparatively unimportant case of Lord Melville: then no part of the evidence had been allowed to be published till the whole had been concluded; but at present the whole was to appear morning after morning. He hoped his noble friend would withdraw his motion. The motion was finally negatived without a division, and the House adjourned to the 18th of September.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Sept. 18.. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved that a Committee should be appointed to inspect the Journals of the Lords, in order to ascertain what progress had been made with the Bill of Pains and Penalties against the Queen.

Mr. Serjeant Onslow signified his intention of bringing in a Bill to enable the House to receive the depositions of witnesses on oath. He explained that his object was to give additional solemnity to their proceedings.

Mr. Hobhouse declared his opinion that the Bill of Pains and Penalties should be rejected in limine. As to the public, their opinion had been pronounced against it in the most convincing way. He proceeded to argue that no benefit could result to any one from the Bill, one part of which having been given up in deference to public opinion, why was not the other part given up from the same motive? He then moved an amendment for an humble Address to be presented to his Majesty, humbly praying him to prorogue the Parlia

meut.

Sir R. Wilson supported the amendment, declaring his conviction that the whole case originated in a foul and hateful conspiracy: he felt himself quite competent to pass his judgment on the case.

Dr. Phillimore expressed much surprise at the sentiments of the last speaker, who thus broke in on the solemn order of a judicial proceeding for the sake of indulg. ing in ex-parte statements (loud cries of hear on both sides). It was the sincere conviction of his mind, that whatever might be the result, the Queen would have perfect justice done to her (hear, hear!) Certain he was that she would not be found guilty, unless she were proved to be so. He reminded the House of the necessity of not giving way to popular clamour. The public ought not to have it bruited amongst them that the Parliament were likely to do injustice.

Mr. Bennett was convinced that a more foul and diabolical conspiracy never existed than that from the effects of which her Majesty was suffering. The fearless manner in which the Queen had faced ber accusers, convinced him of her innocence; observing as he did, that the present was the strongest instance within his memory in which a single class, composed of the judges in the case, were in direct opposition to all the other classes of the community.

The Attorney General assured the hon. gent. that he should not shrink from the painful duty he had to perform.

Mr. Hume believed there was a foul conspiracy against the Queen, and spoke at some length on the impediments thrown in the way of her Majesty's witnesses by foreign Governments.

Lord Castlereagh began by pointing out the injustice of thus agitating a subject now before the other House; he thought that the predetermined opposition of gentlemen on the other side, would not much raise their character before the country. Much