"Ah! who hath torn the blooming bays Ill-fated Isle, where are they now? As through the stately ranks he rides : Fierce as their stormy, wintry waves; In yon famed field,* they found their graves." Play'd o'er her face a smile of pride, That firm the threats of tyrants braves!! Like Erin's rocks the heroes stand Which dash to foam the assaulting waves- Three on one stalk united strong, Draw, for the harp, the flaming sword, And dare the world to do you wrong." MADRIGAUX. En riant, la jeune Isabelle Me dêfia de la baiser; Enfin, à force de ruser, J'en viens á bout, je m'em vante. Oh, dittelle, De ton addresse à tort t'applaudis-tu, Compte que je l'ai bien voulu. A translation is requested. Clontarf. Catholic Committee. The Shamrock, emblematic of the, three prevailing religions of Ireland, which seem at present to be happily uniting. 1 VARIETY. "But, alas! what is taste! A disease of the mind, Natural History of the Hare. This weak and defenceless crea ture is the most persecuted of animals. But to compensate its danger, it is remarkably timid and cautious, which makes it perpetually attentive to every alarm. That it may be apprized of distant danger, so as to effect a timely escape, nature has provided it with such long ears, as convey sounds almost like speaking trumpets. And to enable it still more to perceive its danger, the eyes are so prominent as to be capable of discerning objects almost behind them. It is so watchful as to sleep with the eyes open. And as it depends on flight for its safety, the muscles are strong, and without fat; so that the animal has no superfluous burthen to impede its fleetness, which still to increase, nature has provided it with long legs. REFLECTIONS ON THE SIZE OF OUR GLOBE. It is not as easy as we imagine to be certain of the size of our earth. There is indeed but one longitude, yet there are two latitudes, north and south. Both begin at the equator: the one extends towards the north, and the other towards the south, as far as the poles, either arctic or antarctic. But no one has yet been able to go as far as either pole, because the mountains of ice in Greenland, and in the northern seas, have always obstructed the passage. However, thanks to the geometricians, we at present know nearly the size of our globe; and according to the most exact calculations, the surface of the earth is nine millions, two hundred thousand, and eighty-eight square leagues. The water takes up two thirds of that space; so that what remains for terra firma is reduced to three millions and ninety-six thousand square leagues. It has been calculated, that there may be, at least, three thousand millions of men upon the earth; but, perhaps, in reality, there are not more than one thousand and fourscore millions; of which there are, in Asia, six hundred and fifty millions; in Africa, one hundred and fifty millions; in America, one hundred and fifty millions; in Europe, one hundred and thirty millions. If, then, we suppose the earth is inhabited by one thousand millions of men, or thereabouts, and that thirty-three years make a generation, it follows, that, in that space of time, there die one thousand millions. number who die on earth amounts to, Thus, the This calculation must necessarily strike us. If the mortality is so great every year, and even every hour, is it not probable that he who reflects on it may himself be one of those which swell the list of the dead? It is at least certain that it ought to lead us often to serious reflections. Now, at this moment, one of our fellow creatures is going out of the world; and, before this hour be passed, more than three thousand souls will have entered into eternity. What a motive for thinking often and seriously upon death! Prodigiously great as the earth appears, its greatness vanishes at once, when we come to compare this globe to the other worlds which roll over our heads. The earth is then, in comparison of the whole universe, what a grain of sand is to the highest mountain. But, how does this thought exalt thee in our eyes! How inexpressible and infinite does thy greatness appear, O thou Creator of heaven and earth! The world, and all its inhabitants, are before thee as a drop in the ocean, or as the light atoms which float in the air. And what am I, amongst these thousand millions of inhabitants of the earth? What am I before thee! thou immense, infinite, and eternal Being! A German dramatic author has published a new play, called The Benevolent Cut-throat, in which he has a most felicitous idea, that of the moon fainting away. This is certainly an improvement on Shakspeare, who, by the bye, must be allowed to have had a pretty knack at writing, for he only makes the moon sleep. "As good die for a Sheep as for a Lamb." This old proverb has been the source of much evil in the world, because it is a great false. It is a levelling saying, and what consolidates sin, without just and proper distinctions: it makes all crimes equal, (which neither the all-wise God, nor men who have derived wisdom from him, have any where taught us is the genuine truth) and would have us believe, that it is the same thing, whether we offend little or much; whether, having begun to do wrong, it be not as well to proceed and go on, as to stop and make a stand. The oracles of God speak of presumptuous sins; of the great transgression; of sinning with a high hand; and, as it were, with a cart-rope. And intelligent and discerning men, when they speak and write of the nature of sin, speak according to the doctrine of degrees, guard us against it at first, and bid us even abstain from all appearance of evil. Insta principis, oppose sin in its beginnings, is a well known maxim with the moral writers, who equally caution us against proceeding in it, if we have unhappily fallen and given way to it. Whatever has neither the countenance of God, nor the suffrage of good men, should be looked upon with an evil eye, as hurtful and destructive to the soul. "Shun evil, because it is evil," is a well-digested saying of a well-instructed scribe; dashes this hurtful adage out of countenance, and is the proper antidote to the evil of it. Sin is no exotic, but progresses in its growth and appearance; and the hell it forms to itself, is exactly agreeable to its nature. Here again, the scripture speaks according to the doctrine of degrees, telling us of many and of few stripes; of greater damnation, and of the lowest Hell all which militates and brings to nought the said saying. under consideration, showing it is not of God, but of blind and short-sighted man; the last refuge he takes to, in the last stage of his iniquity; but which will leave him an ugly form of the great and ugly monster, instead of a happy feature in the happy and Grand Man. Hearer! reader! discard and give it up, as inimical to your peace here, and to your liberty and happiness hereafter. EXTRACT FROM AN ABRIDGMENT OF COOK'S VOYAGES. "Their reasoning (that of the Otaheitans) is similar with regard to the meeting of a man and his consort. If the husband departs this life first, the soul of his wife is no stranger to him, on its arrival into the land of spirits. They renew their former intimacy in a capacious building called Tourooa, where departed souls as semble to recreate themselves with the gods. The husband then conducts her to his separate habitation, where they eternally reside, and have an offspring, which, however, is purely spiritual, as their embraces are supposed to be far different from those of corporeal beings. "They even maintain, that all other animals have souls; and even trees, fruit, and stones; which at their decease, or upon their being consumed or broken, ascend to the Deity, from whom they pass into the destined mansions." Of apparent Creation. Take of dry mould a sufficient quantity for the purpose, and weigh it; put it in a pot, in which place the seed of some bulky plant; keep watering it till the plant comes to perfection; take the plant from the pot, dry the mould, and it will be found of the same weight as before, be the plant which is taken from it ever so large. Whether this be a creation from the spiritual world, or a transmutation of the water into the plant, I cannot say. Of apparent Annihilation. Take any natural body, the less dense the easier the process, place it within two crucibles of a known weight, which are to be luted together, place them in a fire till red hot; then taken from the fire, and opened, the inclosed body will be found to have lost part of its bulk and weight, and the crucibles the same weight as before. As a moderate fire is not sufficient to affect them, the greater the degree of fire, the more will the inclosed substance be destroyed. Quere. If all nature were to fall into the natural sun, and then to the spiritual sun, if it would not be annihilated therein? God created this natural system from himself, and also man, and can without doubt return so much of it to himself as his good pleasure requires; the nature of our Lord's human flesh may be proved from his miracles; for instance, when he said to them with withered limbs, be whole, a creation of flesh must come forth at his word, for it is well known that withered limbs are always scant of flesh. So also in respect to the miracles of the fishes and loaves, his transfiguration, &c. From the above it is evident our Lord could create and annihilate his own flesh instantaneously; instance his appearances after his resurrection; and without doubt the Lord was equally the same when the body was on the cross, or in the grave; for it was not the human flesh merely the Lord came to glorify, but the humanity, or that nature of equilibrium in which man is created. M. K. [The following fragment we consider as the most genuine, the truest picture that ever was drawn of the state of mankind.] "Man comes into this passing world in weakness, Without, inclemency, the wrath of seasons, |