DUELLING.

Pride and bon ton will shoot a mortal foe,
Assassin-like, will pierce a brother through.
The diff'rence 'twixt a noble and a clown,
One kills his man the other knocks him down.
Cain was the first t' imbrue his hands in blood,
Foul murder ever since has stamp'd his brood.
Who courts grim war or perpetrates a duel,
Opens the gates of entrance into hell,
Grating like clangor of a funeral knell.
Woe to that man who takes a human life,
Unless defensive placed in fearful strife.
Resist, defend, but spare the fatal blow
Which lays a vanquish'd fellow-creature low,
Lest his avenging blood to heav'n may call,
For retribution on your head must fall.
Down rebel heart, upon your knees invoke
The Lord of mercy to avert the stroke,
In penitence of grief pray, and deplore
The deed of darkness, vow to sin no more.
Lo! where horror-stricken the murd'rer stands
O'er his fall'n victim, whose sad fate is seal'd,
Starts with wild anguish, flying from the field
To hide his guilt away in foreign lands.
Yet can he nee'r escape the envemon'd dart
That blights his hopes and lacerates his heart.
Yet God alone can soothe his tortur'd breast,
Save him from ruin, through his high behest,
And give to penitence eternal rest.

INVISIBLE GREEN. EYES AND NOSES.

Green is invisible to all we know,

In grass, when it is clad in winters snow.
So darkness visible doth much surprise,
Such as make use of both their gimlet eyes.
When nought is to be seen, indeed almost,
"Twere difficult to specify a ghost.

Should such a rara avis interlope,

Whilst thro' nights marky shades you

fearless grope.

EYES.

"Tis second sight discovers horrid spectres,
From phantoms of the brain and fools conjectures
As read in vapid books and heard in lectures.
Grimalkins can see clearly in the dark,

Their ogles then emit a vivid spark

To light them to their prey; quickly they souse,
With fangs destructive on the tim❜rous mouse.
The gift of scent is also in the cat,

To nose a musculus, or “smell a rat.”

NOSE.

Man likewise has his instinct, there he goes;
Led by the ruby proboscis, his nose.

That organ, first and foremost, takes the lead,
Whether you crawl along, or walk full speed,
It keeps its even tenour quite a head,
Guiding your steps and pointing out the way,
Unless you're drunk, it never leads astray,
Even should you get a drubbing in a fray.

Then should you get a downfall, quick pick up
Thy prostrate lumber limbs, with a hiccup,
Else will a policeman soon show you up.
In choice of food this nerve olfactory,
Performs its task quite satisfactory,

Teaching us what to shun, of which partake,
In viands roast or boil'd in fry or bake,

If fresh or stale your meat, should game sniff high,
Quick, like a brougham snout, 'twill testify
By spasm contorsive, and averted eye,

Oft at a pinch it recreates in snuff

From pipes and light cigars it keeps aloof.

From hungry mouths below whence fumes arise,
Which tetilate the nose and cloud the eyes.

EDUCATION.

"To teach the young idea how to shoot."

The learning of latin being nothing more than the learning of words, join as much other real knowledge to it as you can, some are learned in the dead languages and feel a degree of preeminence, over those who talk sense in the vernacular tongue the usual parlance, we may acquire a few languages in as many years, but the labour of life is required to be truly eloquent in one I consider the best education before a child goes to the University is a domestic one under the eye of a married divine, where twelve or eighteen juveniles are in

structed and treated as the family, their morals and comforts forming the chief objects of solicitude and care under their roof. Pitt and Fox were both educated under the immediate care of their parents. Latin and Greek are the universal panacea, they are elegant languages but are ill adapted to the middling classes of society. As a course of education those who are destined for the pulpit bar or senate are certainly required to cultivate those studies. Vaulting ambition, too often persuades the merchant and tradesman to place their sons at public schools to make verses and sometimes disqualify them from pursuing the even tenor of their way in busy life. Indeed, they will feel more instruction and delight in the beautiful authors of their father land than in wading through the inferior trash of heathen mythology; gods and goddesses in masquerade, Ovid and his indecorous metamorphoses, Jupiter assuming a bull dallying Europa, then as a swan with Leda, all quite at variance with codes of morals and Christian lore. Virgil's Æneid is a fine latin poem, so is the rural portion of his Georgics and Eclogues, but who should be invited to peruse the amours of youths and animals, or the satire of Horace ? both must be considered a licentious disparagement to the Latin classics. These works are indigenous to fair Italy, and there they might remain with many other follies and vicious errors, too often imported by English travellers in their excursive pursuits for pleasure or instruction. The most eminent men have sprung from the middle classes, which will ever be the case from many concomitant causes. The great stimulus is on their enter

ing life, where the world is all before them, where to choose their place of rest, and Providence their guide, when they are not independent nor enervated by the too early possesion of fortune, and the smiling acquaintance of gay associates or incipient libertines. Milton, Dr. Watts, and Locke, reprobate the study of Latin and Greek, as a course of universal education, for many classic youths have become curates, teachers, or tutors, others have failed in attempting to earn a livelihood in the paths of literature. Our language is so interwoven with the dead languages as almost to render their application unnecessary, often nugatory in the abstract.

The primary object appears to give the scholar an easy familiar pure style in his own native tongue, this accomplished, let the linguist study languages, the divine theology, the lawyer jurisprudence, the sailor navigation; and in all colleges and seminaries a knowledge of the higher branches of the mathematics, as chemistry, geology, mineralogy, botany, natural philosophy, political economy, and every science adapted to the capacity of the students. Music and singing may be cultivated as accomplishments, All should be based in religion or all is in vain. The sway of authority must be firm and decisive, but gently exercised. We should treat the tender minds as plaistic wax, warm them with affection; should we visit their early days with austerity or violence we shall make an unfavourable impression and probably destroy the mould. No physical coercion should be used, for what does not