I was conducted to the police-office.

'Whence are you?' inquired the superintendent. 'From the kingdom of Bavaria.' This was a complete terra incognita to mine examiner: so recourse was had to an old map of Europe; and, whilst the man was indulging in a hearty roar at the diminutiveness of the royal inheritance, another Jack-in-office pulled out an immense map of Portugal, and turned to me, exclaiming with a sneer, 'Look'ye, Sir, here is something like a kingdom for you!'"

Somnambulism.-An incredible story is told in a French paper of a child of twelve years of age, who was found standing up to his loins in the sea, near the Conquet, busy fishing for plaice with a focne, a sort of harpoon used for striking flat fish. Some boatmen having approached him, they were astonished to find that the urchin was asleep, though he had succeeded in catching five or six plaice. On waking him, the child was as much astonished as the fishermen. He was conveyed home and put to bed, but had not been long in it before he was seized with a raging fever.

Independence.-A Presbyterian clergyman in the north of Ireland replied to a person who boasted of his independence, "Sir, when I hear a man proclaim himself independent, I always find that he means he is not to be depended upon."

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Back-woods of America -
- a conversation.-
"Whose map did you use?" " 'Mogg's.".
"What is the land?" "6 Bugs."-"The atmo-
sphere ?" "
Fogs."-"What did you live on?"
Hogs." "Of what are the houses built?"
Logs."
."—" Any fish in the ponds?" "6 Frogs."
Who is my Neighbour?-We copy the following
from a Woodstock (Vermont, U. S.) paper.-
An incident occurred in this neighbourhood on
the 4th inst. so praiseworthy in itself, and so
creditable to the parties concerned, that we can-
not avoid noticing it.-The blacksmith's shop
of an old man named Philip Harman, living
near the North Mountain, took fire on the 3rd,
and was entirely consumed, together with all its
contents of a destructible nature, including his

account book. The next morning about 40 of UNIVAD MASTERS-Thomas Hewitt Key, M.A. Profeast

his neighbours assembled on the spot, with six
wagons and teams, and felled, hewed, and hauled
timber enough for another shop, which they
raised up before night, besides making the old
with the necessary tools to enable him to work
man up a purse of 16 dollars, to furnish him
again.

Gratitude.-An obscure cobbler once returned

partment for saving his stock. This caused
considerable laughter, when a person observed,
he supposed the poor fellow's stock was his awl.
-American Paper.

A pretty considerable Memory. The following is related by Dupin of the celebrated Cuvier, whom he has just succeeded as one of the forty members of the French Academy. "The labours, by which Cuvier immortalized himself, required immense powers of memory. His mind was stored not only with several thousand generic thanks through the newspapers, to the fire deand specific names of animals of every species, but with the names and complicated genealogies of every leading family in Europe, both of times past and present. Nay, as if there were a craving after eastern luxury in this play of the memorative faculties, he could quote off hand the names and dynasties of every Asiatic prince and tribe, little as they seem deserving of the toil. He was probably the best informed scholar in Europe; and yet his memory humbled itself to the meanest subjects, and, as one who sought no other kind of scholarship, it heaped together all sorts of curious anecdotes, not forgetting the names of the parties concerned; and over and above all these recreations, faithfully husbanded the very text of any lampoon, epigram, or occasional poem, which was likely to acquire historical importance."

When Madame de Staël and Madame Recamier

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were residing in the country, We imagined the idea," says the former, "of sitting round a green table after dinner, and writing letters to each other instead of conversing. These varied and multiplied têtes-à-têtes amused us so much, that we were impatient to get from table, where we were talking, in order to go and write to one another. When any strangers came in, we could not bear the interruption of our habits; and our penny-post always went its round. One day a gentleman, who had never thought of any thing but hunting, came to take my boys with him into the woods: he remained some time seated at our active, but silent table. Madame Recamier wrote a little note to this jolly sportsman, in order that he might not be too much a stranger to the circle in which he was placed. He excused himself from receiving it, assuring us that he never could read writing by daylight." -Ladies' Family Library.

Patience.-" Ben," said an angry father, the other day, "I am busy now, but when I can find time, I will give you a hearty flogging.""Don't hurry yourself, pa," said the patient boy, I can wait."

Civility. A young gentleman was found asleep in George Street, at an unreasonable hour. When brought before the magistrate, he confessed that he had been tipsy. "Young man, you should be very sorry.' "I am sorry." "You must be fined."-Handing over the money, "I am fined.”—American Paper,

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL

Days of Thermom. | Barometer.
W.&Mon. Max. Min. Noon.
29.85

Th. 6 73 47
Fr. 7 69 51

| Winds. | Weather.

29.70

E.
N. E. to N.
S.W.to W.

29.65

Ditto.

Clear.
Cloudy.
Ditto.
Ditto.

29.65

29.90
30.05

Prevailing Clouds.-Cirrostratus, Cirrocumulus, Cumulostratus.

Mean temperature of the week, 59°.

Nights fair, except on Thursday; Mornings fair, excepting Friday. Thunder and Lightning P.M. on Thursday.

Day decreased on Wednesday, 3h. 46 min.

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Picture of Dumfries and its Environs; consisting of Eight Views and Vignette, engraved by Gellatly, from Drawings by Masson; with copious Historical and Descriptive Notices, by John M'Diarmid. Edinburgh, J. Gellatly.

DUMFRIES, though the seventh town, we believe, in Scotland in point of population-the fifth in beauty, and the unquestioned capital of the south, has been till now without an historian.

She lay like some unheard-of isle

Besouth Magellan.

We heard of her, indeed, now and then,
through the medium of some scribbling
tourist, whom black game and black-strap
had united to mislead from the beaten path
to the highlands, and who returned to write
about the sands of Solway, the invention of
steam-boats, Paul Jones,the Admirable Crich-
ton, and show the six and thirtieth tooth pur-
loined from the bones of Burns, and give relic
hunters a pinch out of an oaken snuff-box
made from the poet's fir coffin. It is now
otherwise: Dumfries has got an historian of
her own fully competent to record her beauty
and antiquities, and give us a picture of her
people and her manners. Mr. M'Diarmid,
were he not widely known as the editor of a
very clever paper, the Dumfries and Gallo-
way Courier, might claim a higher distinc-
tion from sundry volumes, among which his
'Sketches from Nature' is the most original :
he is, besides, a ready-witted, kind-hearted
man, and an anxious and clever chronicler
of all county matters. He is as much at
home, too, among the wild glens and seques-
tered hills of the county, as he is on the
'plain stones" of Dumfries, or at his own
fire-side; and a ruined castle or a moulder-
ing abbey are as dear to his heart as even the
Reform Bill is, with all its new privileges and
immunities. We cannot, however, conceal
from our readers, that this same historian is
sometimes a mighty gossipper; that almost
all things he looks at are, in his sight, of equal
importance: a humble basket-maker takes
rank with merchants who created shipping
and extended commerce;
an indifferent
rhymer stands side by side with Burns; and
the herlings of the river are to him as le-
viathans. Besides all this, the current of
his history is as sinuous as the course of
the Nith itself, which signifies "winding":
he is, in short, a thorough will-o'-wisp of
a narrator, who dances from place to place,
showing here a stagnant pool, there an ivied
castle glimmering for a moment on the
waters of the Solway coming six feet deep
abreast, and for a minute on a stake net, or
on a man fishing shrimps. We have said
enough to interest our readers in the author
and his work we have read the letter-press

with great pleasure; nor have we failed to
find touches of beauty, and grandeur even, in
the barrenest places. The views, too, which
accompany the historical part, are clever, and
not so incorrect as some views are from higher
names than those of Gellatly and Masson.

fashion to which no language of ours can do justice. Sir Walter Scott must have been familiar with this peculiarity of our river and Frith when he penned the well-known line

Love flows like the Solway, and ebbs like its tide. In the novel of Redgauntlet he returns to the subject, and pictures scenes, the reality of which not unfrequently exceed the fictitious descrip

rises with prodigious rapidity. A loud booming noise indicates its approach, and is distinguishable at the distance of several miles. At Caerlaverock and Glencaple, where it enters the and it is beautiful to see a mighty volume of Nith, the scene is singularly grand and imposing; water advancing foam-crested, and with a deThe vale of Dumfries is of almost ungree of rapidity which, were the race a long one, equalled beauty: it is bold and picturesque, would outmatch the speed of the swiftest horses. yet soft and lovely, and combines all the The tide-head, as it is called, is often from four finer materials of poetic landscape. Let those to six feet high, chaffed into spray, with a mighty who wish to view it aright, stand on the trough of blue water behind-swelling in some summit of Dalswinton hill, and look around. places into little hills, and in others scooped They will see at their feet a valley some into tiny valleys, which, when sun-lit, form a twelve or fifteen miles long by five or more brilliant picture of themselves. From the tidehead proceed two huge jets of water, which run broad; a thousand farm-houses and many gentlemen's seats looking out of the woods roaring along searching the banks on either side -the antennæ, as it were, which the ocean puts which skirt the clear and winding Nith; forth, and by which it feels its way when conDumfries, with its three steeples and thick- fined within narrow limits. A large fire-engine piled houses in the distance: on the left discharging a strong stream of water bears a hand, the hills of Tinwald and Mousewold: close resemblance to this part of the phenomena on the right, those of Galloway, terminating of a strong spring tide: but the sea water is in Criffel, the most beautiful of all the low- broken while the other is smooth, and runs hissland mountains; with the Frith of Solwaying, or rather gallops, along in a manner or rolling between; and beyond its waters the mountains of Skiddaw and Saddleback, and the sinuous coast of Cumberland, studded with its flourishing towns. Such is the bounding line of the land: there is much more, however, to be seen, even in the first hurried glance the old castles of Amisfield, Tortherald, and Comlongan. On the one side, the Tower of the Isle-the ruined College of Lincluden on the right-while Caerlaverock Castle stands in the centre, the finest of all the old baronial mansions in the island. There are, besides, many fair and interesting matters which must be examined more closely the castle of The Comyn, whom Bruce slew, which, in our memory, was visible beside Dalswinton house, with burnt wood still adhering to its walls, is now no more; but we believe a curiosity still greater may yet be seen the whole or part of the first of all steam-boats, a two-keeled one and with paddles which we saw carrying pleasure parties round the Loch of Dalswinton, in 1789. Let those also possessed with the antiquarian demon, go to the Friar's Carse; the pleasure grounds contain more curious memorials of the olden time, than all the south of Scotland besides; it would be endless to enumerate all the remarkable things. One change, however, deserves mention: so powerful was the family of Nithsdale once in this land, that no less than seventy gentlemen's seatsall Maxwells-might be counted between Cosincon and Caerlaverock; one half the number cannot be reckoned now.

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tion."

The introduction of gas light called forth these poetic observations from two old women on the many inventions of man: we think them excellent :

"Na, the like o' that!" said Jenny Bryden. "I wonder what the world 'll come to at last. Gas light they ca't, but elf light wad be a better name. My certy! but there's an unco difference atween a low that needs neither oil, tallow, nor wick, an' a bawbee cannel, an auld cruizie, or a bit fir stick ta'en oot o' the moss. My mither, honest woman! was weel eneuch pleased wi' sic a taper; and am doubtin' whether she wad hae been unco fond o' reading her Bible at a witch-light. Puir spunkie! am maist wae for him. His bit dancin' light was cheerie as well as eerie whan twa war thegither an' no that far frae hame; but he may douce his glim an' gang his wa's hame whene'er he likes, if it be true that the man at the gas-wark can mak' hae changed noo."-" Aye," said Betty Cameten thousand spunkies at ae brewin'. A' things ron, "if it's no enchantment, it's unco like it. In place o' being fashed with weeks and creesh, ye just turn a bit spigot thing, an' oot spcots a light like sour milk out o' a barrel. Changed times indeed! Atween Liverpool an' Manchester the coaches rin their lane; an' noo we hae a bonny clear light, ta'en like water in pipes under the grund, that'll spoot up at ony pairt ye like, if ye only bore a hole no muckle bigger than a preen-head. Weel, weel, I wish them muckle luck o't: but it'll be a while afore the gudeman catches me darnin' his stockings wi' a witch-taper at the chumley lug. The brownies langsyne war very helpfu'; but we've nae use

for brownies noo. The Yediter, as they ca' him, says the only salamander kent noo's the spark bred in the blacksmith's throat, and the only brownie a steam-engine, sic as they hae in the infirmary at Liverpool, that pumps water, kirns the kirn, washes claes, minches turnips, champs potatoes, and wad even mak' the bed wi' its iron arms if they wad let it. Everything's dune wi' machinery that can be dune, an' a great deal mair than should be dune-that's what I say."

We read with pleasure what the author, who has the best means of knowing, has related of the fortunes of the family of Burns.

"At the time of her husband's death, Mrs. Burns was left in very narrow circumstances, with a family of four children, the youngest of whom was born the very day his father was buried, and was speedily interred in the same grave. Indeed Mrs. Burns, at this time, had no fixed pecuniary resources beyond an annuity of 101 or 121., arising from a fund to which her

We must make brief work, we fear, with other matters, such as the trade and business of Dumfries; on this, Mr. M'Diarmid is full and satisfactory. The town contains with its suburb, 13,000 souls; there are seven incorporated trades; 5000 tons of shipping carry the annual exports abroad, and 20,000 tons import timber, sugar, coals, &c., to her markets; four hundred dozens of stockings are manufactured weekly; 3500 husband had subscribed-a sort of benefit sohides are tanned annually; 300 shoe-makers ciety in connexion with the Excise. But at are daily labouring to supply the demand of length even a feeling of shame that the poet had feet at home and abroad; 1000l. are annually been so much neglected while living, led to a realized by cloggs, that is, shoes with wooden re-action in favour of his family. Their more soles; an English basket-maker has prosimmediate and pressing wants were speedily pered in the construction of creels and provided for by a generous public; and when cradles. Of cattle, 20,000 are fed in the the late amiable and talented Dr. Currie, of county for the English market, worth at a Liverpool, at the request of Mr. Syme, of Rye-guess, 200,000l.; during the season, 8000

dale, and others, consented to become the poet's biographer, and published his writings in four octavo volumes, the work of literary philanthropy was consummated, and the independence of the family to some extent assured. Every

stones of pork are sold weekly, averaging
50,000l. annually. For much that is curious,
and more that is interesting-particularly to
all the sons of Dumfriesshire and Galloway
-we must refer to the work itself, which we

one knows how well the Doctor executed his
task, and the deep impression which his beau-heartily recommend to our readers.
tiful memoir made on the minds of the universal
British people. The work had a very extensive
sale, and we believe the available proceeds,
under every deduction, amounted to within a
trifle of 20001. Part of this sum was spent in
educating the children, and fitting two of them
out for India; but to this day 10001. remains
intact, and is secured over an estate in the
Stewartry of Kircudbright-a rare instance of
mortgage arising from posthumous fame and
literary exertion, and of itself a circumstance
pleasing to contemplate. From this sacred de-
posit Mrs. Burns for many years received in-
terest at the rate of five per cent. ; and payment,
we rejoice to say, was continued at the same
liberal rate, even after interest had fallen, until
her sons were in a situation to place at her
disposal resources alike ample and endearing.
But even when her income was limited to 627.
per annum, the subject of this notice main-
tained by frugality a decent and respectable
station in society, and has all her life been re-
markable for prudence and propriety of con-
duct. And now that her means are sufficient
for her wants, and something more, she gives
freely from her abundance to her poorer neigh-
bours, subscribing like others to the different
public and occasional charities within the lo-
cality in which she resides, but acting much
oftener as her own almoner. Certain authors,
themselves misled by imperfect information,
have induced the public to believe that the poet
Burns, at the time of his death, was absolutely
drowned in debt and difficulties; but than this
there never was a greater misstatement. His
wife's prudence, and his own lofty unbending
spirit, uniformly preserved him from plunging
into an abyss which has soured the temper and
affected the character of too many literary men.
His friendly intimacy with the late Mr. Syme,
of Ryedale, is well known; and occasionally he
may have made that gentleman his banker to
the extent of a few pounds till quarter-day came
round: but these loans,-at most few and far
between, were never of any lengthened dura-
tion; and the deceased has himself borne public
testimony to the obstinacy with which the poet

Wanderung durch Vaterhaus, Schule, Kriegs-
lager, und Akademie zur Kirche, &c.-i. e.
Wanderings through Home, School, the
Camp, and the University, into the Church;
or, Scenes from the chequered Life of a
Protestant Clergyman. Magdeburg.

THE writer of this work happened to live in
a period of unusual excitement; and the
current of war, which so often alters the
course of men's fortunes, carried him forth
into the field of carnage and into the loath-
some chambers of the lazaretto, ere the down
had

yet grown upon his chin, or either body
or mind was well fitted to undergo the trials
connected with a military life.

At the first call of the sovereign of Prussia on his people to arm against France, (in the year 1813,) our hero, who had then scarcely completed his fifteenth year, was ready to venture life and limb in his country's cause; but the commands of his father, a clergyman on the confines of Hesse, prevailed on the boy to leave the battle to the strong, and pursue his studies. But when, in the year 1815, Napoleon had returned from Elba, and the torrent of French invasion again threatened to overrun the "German fatherland," the venerable sire blessed the renewed resolution of the son to fight in its defence; and before the king's proclamation had even reached them, he, with the noblest youths of his native city, was on his march to join the Prussian army.

We had heard thus much of the nature of this work, and the report induced us to send for it. We have been, however, disappointed on perusal. The Life of this clergyman does not materially differ from that of hundreds of other young Germans, who about the same time were being educated for the church; and the writer, though an honest

and intelligent man, has not the power to make the most of his materials. We shall therefore confine our translations to an account of the young soldier's first battle: it interested us, and may therefore interest our readers. It was after a fatiguing march, that, on the 16th June, the writer, with his regiment, arrived in sight of the since celebrated village of Ligny, two hours before the commencement of the battle which formed the terrible prelude to that of Waterloo.

"What I am about to notice," he observes, "is what forcibly obtrudes itself on every one engaged in a battle. The corn was waving beautifully before us; but no sooner had one troop passed through, than the glory of the field vanished, and the green stalks lay level on the

earth.

"Every man now threw away his superfluous baggage: the finest and the coarsest linen was lying scattered around, intermixed with cards and dice, which the love of pleasure had collected, and which superstitious fear now discarded. Here, friends were imparting to each other their last injunctions; there, cowards drained the bottle for that courage which fails them, or hid their fears under the most disgusting bravadoes. * * *

"On both sides of us regiments of cavalry of the artillery was terrible. Here, a powderwere passing and charging the enemy: the roar waggon blew up-there, a wounded man came galloping with five or six led horses, which were frightfully scattered by a pursuing shot. We already saw many wounded; but the most appalling sight was that of horses torn to pieces by cannon balls, and rolling themselves with agonized strength in their own gore. In the midst of this awful scene we were disgusted by the profane jokes of a private, who kept caper ing and throwing his arms about in mockery whenever a ball came flying our way. He had even gone so far as to fasten a false beard to his chin; and we were all wishing to see his indecencies put a stop to, when a ball struck him, and carried off both his beard and a portion of his face. Awful as the sight was, it excited a general laugh.

"It was four o'clock when an adjutant informed us that we should soon be engaged. We sang one of Körner's battle hymns, and had scarcely finished it, and formed our lines, when Blucher, with his suite, came up to us. The enthusiasm with which the hoary commander was greeted could not dispel the gloom which hovered on his brow, and which told us all that we had a hot day before us. Now the longedfor moment arrived, when we volunteers were ordered forward. With loud hurras we rushed against the village of Ligny, which was then crowded with enemies, but were soon started at the sight of a ravine which separated us from the place. The major, who was riding behind us, and composedly smoking his pipe, merely when we to a man jumped or slid down into the said, 'Children, do honour to the regiment!" hollow, and climbing up on the opposite side, broke, wherever we could, through the hedges, out of which a discharge of musketry received us. Separated by the plantation with which each house was surrounded, every one had now to fight by his own guidance. The village was intersected by a deep brook, in which, however, there was at the time but little water; and the communication between the two sides was kept up by means of single planks laid across the fell from every aperture of the houses, between stream. *** It was a murderous fight. Shots

and behind which the French kept up a con stant firing in columns, while cannon balls were pouring down on us from a neighbouring eminence, and several houses were on fire. This

hailstorm of balls, which every moment scat