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Effects of Slavery.-"The influence of slavery in hardening the feelings, and in destroying even the most powerful of our natural affections, is almost incredible. Such facts, as masters selling their own children by slavewomen, are at the Cape far from unfrequent. I shall mention only one which occurred a few months ago. The wife of an extensive farmer (a person mentioned by Latrobe, and who resides about one hundred miles from Cape Town) died in 1825, when, in conformity with the Dutch law of succession, the conjunct property was brought to a public sale, in order that the children might receive their respective shares. The old woman bad exacted a promise from her husband on her death-bed, that he would emancipate certain slave-children in the household, and not allow them to be sold, because they were known to be the children of one of their own sons, who was now settled on a neighbouring estate. The old man, desirous to keep his promise, was resolutely opposed (incredible as it may seem) by his son, the very father of the children in question! The motive for this opposition to the dictates of nature-to his mother's dying request-and his father's solemn promise-was sordid avarice. If the children were not sold, he would lose his share of their price-of the price of his own flesh and blood! He insisted that they should be produced at the public sale. The law was on his side, and his father could not refuse his demand. But the old man's regard to his last promise to his deceased wife, and his indignation at his son's inhuman conduct, induced him to stand up at the sale, and after mentioning the above details to the whole assembly, to declare his determination to repurchase the children at whatever price, and to grant them their freedom, as he had pledged himself so to do. The old man's conduct was approved of, and no one offered to compete with him in bidding for the children; yet the relator of this anecdote, who was present on the occasion, heard neither surprise nor indignation expressed at the conduct of the son, nor any censure passed on him, with the exception of a remark made by a Moravian missionary."-Anti Slavery Monthly Reporter.

Physicians and Lawyers.-It has been ascertained from the Almanacks of the different departments, and of Paris, that there are in France no less than seventeen hundred thousand eight hundred and forty-three medical men. There are, according to another calculation, fourteen hundred thousand six hundred and fifty-one patients.-Turning to another class of public men, we find that there are nineteen hundred thousand four hundred and three pleaders, and upon the rolls there are only nine hundred and ninety-eight thousand causes; so that unless the nine hundred and two thousand four hundred and three superfluous lawyers see fit to fall sick of a lack of fees and employment, there must remain three hundred thousand one hundred and ninety-two doctors, with nothing to do but to sit with their arms across.

Lisbon Dogs.-The dogs of Lisbon are selflocated, strange as it may seem, into districts or parishes of their own allotment; thus some dozens, or sometimes some scores of dogs,

take a certain portion of the town, out of which they never remove willingly, nor without risk of their lives from the other dogs, as each set resents an intrusion by falling, en masse, on the unlucky hound who, lured by an agoa vai, may have been tempted to trespass on their domains. You may chase a Lisbon dog by stones in any direction you please, until you come to the border,' and then, whatever your force may be, he turns round and bolts through all, to make his escape from being forced into his enemy's country, where he knows full well he will have his carcase well near bitten and torn to pieces by the dogs of the ward in which he is a stranger. This may seem a traveller's tale; but any one who has resided more than a few weeks in Lisbon, will confirm as a fact this extraordinary instance of canine legislation.

Opening of an Egyptian Mummy.-One of these curious operations was recently performed in the Gallery of Egyptian Antiquities at Paris, and her Royal Highness the Dauphiness, together with a number of scientific persons, attended, to witness the process. The linen bands encircling the body from head to foot being unrolled, the mummy was found to be in wonderful preservation. The nails on the hands were remarkably long, the hair was quite perfect, and had preserved its flaxen colour untarnished; eyes of enamel had been substituted for the original, a singularity which has been observed only once before. The most curious circumstance, however, was the discovery of two papyrus manuscripts, one rolled round the head, the other round the breast: they were in such preservation, as to allow of being deciphered by M. Champollion, junior; the body, by this means, was found to be that of Tete-Muthis, daughter to the keeper of the Temple of Isis, at Thebes; different marks and ornaments also denoted that she had been one of high consideration among the Egyptians. It is supposed that the mummy cannot be less than 3000 years old, notwithstanding which the skin has preserved, in a great measure, its elasticity, and even its humidity in some parts. An attentive perusal of the manuscripts will, no doubt, bring to light some curious facts. The operation was managed by Doctors Delatre and De Verneuil.

Petrefaction. A very singular petrefaction has been dug from a seam of coal in Stonelaw Colliery, fifty fathoms below the ground. The petrefaction consists of a thin piece of coal, with the distinct impression of a shoal of small flounders, in the exact position in which these fish swim, being ranged in separate rows. The eyes are prominent; and the small bones of the back may be easily traced in all the fish.

Earthquake.-The shock of an earthquake was felt at Caernarvon and its vicinity, in North Wales, for miles round, on Saturday, the 17th February, at 20 min. past 7 o'clock, P. M. Its duration was scarcely a minute, but it excited considerable alarm.

Turnpike Tolls.-In the case of H. Oxenham, Esq. and the keeper of the Mount Radford turnpike-gate, the magistrates at the Castle of Exeter, on the 16th ult. were unanimous in their opinion, that a carriage, whether empty or not, either in going to or returning from a place of religious worship tolerated by law, was exempt from any charge of toll.

Death's Doings.-(" But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee, then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?"-" I am now worth one bundred thousand pounds," said old Gregory, as he ascended a hill which commanded a full prospect of an estate he had just purchased; "I am now worth one hundred thousand pounds, and here (said he) I'll plant an orchard; and on that spot I'll have a pineryYon farm houses shall come down, (said old Gregory,) they interrupt my view."" Then, what will become of the farmers?" asked the steward, who attended him." That's their business," answered old Gregory. "And that mill must not stand upon the stream," said old Gregory." Then, how will the villagers grind their corn?" asked the steward." That's not my business," answered old Gregory. So old Gregory returned home-ate a hearty supper -drank a bottle of port-smoked two pipes of tobacco-and fell into a profound slumberand awoke no more! and the farmers reside on their lands-and the mill stands upon the stream-and the villagers rejoice that death did business with old Gregory.-Hone's Table Book.

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MEMOIR OF

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Lord Bishop of Salisbury. (With a Portrait.)

THE Church of England has at various periods produced many shining lights, who have enriched literature by their works, and edified the world by their example. But though the number of these luminaries has been great, never perhaps did there a brighter assemblage of talent and worth adorn the episcopal bench, than at present. In this constellation, the venerable prelate, to whose merits we are now paying a feeble tribute of respect, stands so pre-eminently distinguished, that it may be said of him, without an hyperbole, what the eloquent Nazianzen observed of Athanasius, that "to praise him, is to pronounce a panegyric upon Virtue."

DR. THOMAS BURGESS was born in 1756, at Odiam in Hampshire, where his father, a respectable tradesman, brought up a large family of sons and daughters with good repute. The subject of this sketch received his education at Winchester school, under that accomplished scholar, Dr. Joseph Warton. Here he had for his fellow-students and intimate friends, George Isaac Huntingford, the present Bishop of Hereford, and Henry Addington, now Viscount Sidmouth.

From Winchester Mr. Burgess was elected off, at a proper age, to a Hampshire scholarship in Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where, in proceeding to his bachelor's degree, he succeeded to a fellowship.

In 1780 he obtained the chancellor's prize of twenty pounds, for the best English composition on "The Study of Antiquities ;" and it merits notice, that in the preceding year, his friend Addington was the successful candidate, the subject of whose essay was, "The Affinity between Poetry and Painting!" The performance of Mr. Burgess was soon after printed, and so well received, that in less than two years a new edition was called for by the public, of which flattering

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occasion, the author availed himself, by formance. Previous to this display of his literary talents, he had acquired distinction, not only in the University, but among scholars in general, by an erudite edition of John Burton's "Pentalogia, seu Tragediarum Græcorum," 2 vols. and another of Richard Dawes's Miscellanea Critica, in one vol. 8vo.--two works of the first rank in classical learning, but which, notwithstanding their extreme value, had become so scarce as to be procured with difficulty.

The prize essay, though written in the usual panegyrical strain of composition, is a deep and comprehensive performance. It treats of classical and British antiquities, with political and monumental, as illustrative of the ancient manners, and conducive to elegance in the arts. One main object of the author, in publishing this piece, which he was not required to print, was to draw the attention of the learned world to the plan of a more extensive work,- an inquiry into the origin and formation of the Greek language. Of this projected undertaking, the scheme was, "to endeavour to trace the origin, progress, and connexion of ideas, as expressed by the primitive language of Greece; to shew, through the evidence afforded by language, that all ideas communicated by words, not denoting particular sounds, and certain external adjuncts, or personal relation, were originally made known through the means of one general idea, which is the principle of every action, and which, by the multiplex variety of its combinations, is suited to the expressing of every action; that all verbs, not imitative of sounds, are resolvable to that general idea: that the names of things are derived from verbs, and therefore return to the same universal origin whence that general idea was formed, and how transferred to different, and even opposite actions; and how far the elementary principles of the Greek may be supposed to have been the elements of universal language." To what cause the suspension of this great and ingenious

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