vers the right and wrong of things not by reasoning, but sagacity; most women, and many good ones, have a closeness and something selfish in their dispositions; she has a true generosity of temper; the most extravagant cannot be more unbounded in their liberality, the most covetous not more cautious in the distribution. No person of so few years can know the world better; no person was ever less corrupted by that knowledge. Her politeness seems to flow rather from a natural disposition to oblige than from any rules on that subject; and therefore never fails to strike those who understand good breeding, and those who do not. She does not run with a girlish eagerness into new friendships, which as they have no foundation in reason, serve only to multiply and imbitter disputes; it is long before she chooses, but then it is fixed for ever; and the first hours of romantic friendships are not warmer than hers after the lapse of years. As she never disgraces her good nature by severe reflections on any body, so she never degrades her judgment by immoderate or ill-placed praises; for every thing violent is contrary to her gentle ness of disposition, and the evenness of her virtue; she has a steady and firm mind, which takes no more from the female character than the solidity of marble does from its polish and lustre. She has such virtues as make us value the truly great of our own sex; she has all the winning graces that make us love even the faults we see in the weak and beautiful of hers.

WITH reference to future events prepare for the worst, but hope for the best. To distress our minds with imaginary fears before a trouble arrives is, (as the Spanish proverb words it,) "to feel our evils twice over." Why should we call in supernumerary ills, and destroy the duty and happiness of the present time with superfluous fears of futurity?

EXTRAORDINARY PRESERVATION.

A THRILLING Story is going the rounds of the papers, taken from the "Naval and Military Magazine," which, stripped of all embellishment, is to the following purport : On the day of the ever memorable battle of Waterloo, Captain Walter Leslie's young bride, Helen, with feelings more easily to be imagined than described, took her seat at a window overlooking the field of that dreadful conflict; but being within reach of random shot, she, with the other inmates, retired to a barn as a place of more safety, and there remained in anxious suspense during the whole day. Some time in the night Capt. Bryan was brought to the barn, badly wounded. Helen, with the necessaries which her forebodings had suggested, tenderly dressed young Bryan's wounds, and, after his revival, ventured to inquire after her Walter. Bryan's evasive answer but too fatally portended the worst. She begged him to tell her the circumstances, for she knew her husband was dead. Bryan then stated that just before going into action, Capt. Leslie thrust a small Bible into his bosom, charging him that if he fell in action, faithfully to deliver the sacred relic to his beloved Helen. But few moments elapsed before he did fall. After learning from Bryan the spot at which Walter fell, she went alone in the night, lantern in hand, into the field of the dead and dying, amidst the plunging of wounded horses and other frightful sights, in search of the remains of her beloved. On the point of returning, in despair of finding the object of her anxious search among such a mass of carnage, her attention was drawn to an outstretched hand on which was found the well-known ring of her husband, who was partly buried beneath a pile of other bodies. While alone engaged in the release of the object of her affection, two soldiers, sent by Capt. Bryan, came to her assistance, and bore "Acastor's dear remains" to

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the same room with the wounded captain. The surgeon, applying a glass to the lips of Leslie, declared that he yet lived. The shock of joy was too great for the delicate system of Helen; one vacant stare, and she fell senseless on the floor. Several hours were spent in restoring her to sensibility, and the embrace of her fond Walter. small Bible was presented to Leslie by Helen on their wedding day, neither of them dreaming that the holy book was to be the salvation of the captain's temporal life. The ball aimed at his bosom spent its force in the folds of the Bible, which is now religiously preserved in the family, as a perpetual memorial of that extraordinary providence.

WHAT IS POETRY?

THE Louisville Journal thus eloquently answers the question:

nature.

"A smile, a tear, a glory, a longing after the things of eternity! It lives in all created existence, in man and every object that surrounds him. There is poetry in the gentle influence of love and affection, in the quiet brooding of the soul over the memory of early years, and in the thoughts of that glory that chains our spirits to the gates of paradise. There is poetry, too, in the harmonies of It glitters in the wave, the rainbow, the lightning and star; its cadence is heard in the thunder and the cataract, its softer tones go sweetly up from the thousandvoiced harp of the wind, the rivulet, and forest, and the cloud and sky go floating over us, to the music of its melodies. There's not a moonlight ray that comes down upon the stream or hill, not a breeze, falling from its blue air, thrown to the birds of the summer valleys, or sounding through the midnight rains its mournful dirge over the perishing flowers of spring, not a cloud bathing itself like

an angel vision in the rose bushes of autumn twilight, nor a rock glowing in the star light, as if dreaming of the Eden land,--but is full of the beautiful influence of poetry. It is the soul of being. The earth and heaven are quickened by its spirit; and the great deep, in tempest and in calm, are but its accent and mysterious workings."

DESTROYING INSECTS BY CAMOMILE.

IN the Irish Gardiners' Magazine, it is stated, not only that decoctions of the leaves of the common camomile will destroy insects, but that nothing contributes so much. to the health of a garden as a number of camomile plants dispersed through it.

No green-house or hot-house should ever be without camomile in a green or dried state; either the stalks or the flowers will answer. It is a singular fact, that if a plant is drooping and apparently dying, in nine cases out of ten it will recover if you place a plant of camomile near it.

A NEW KIND OF TABLE.

A NEW arithmetical table has just been published. It is said to be curious and extremely correct, and contains several very minute divisions of time, which have been found necessary, in consequence of the extreme velocity at which we were going ahead. The following is the new method, viz. :—50 slicks, 1 idea; 20 ideas, 1 notion; 60 notions, 1 calculation; 2 calculations, 1 guess; 4 guesses, 1 probability; 2 probabilities, 1 second; 60 seconds, 1 minute.-Connecticut Athenæum.

A GOOD education is a better safeguard for liberty than a standing army or severe laws.

THE TOMB OF HOWARD.

Extract of a Letter from Barile Smith to James Leech.

It was with feelings of great interest I found myself on the spot which had been the scene of the death and burial of one of the best men, who, like his great Master, "went about doing good," and finally fell a sacrifice to his exertions for the welfare of others in a foreign country.

The tomb is situated near the village of Dauphiny, about five versts from Cherson, a spot, as I learned, previously chosen by himself as the place he preferred for his remains to be interred in.