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national schools "should be instructed hy the several teachers as to the necessity of destroy- 



int; all weeds found on the farms of their parents, or on the higViways adjacent thereto." 



The Ihitish Association has granted one liundred and twenty-five dollars for further exami- 

 nation of the natural history of the ocean by dredging ; and fifty dollars for promoting the 



multiplication of salmon, particularly in the Tay. llapi)y the mortals whose building is 



restricted to castles iu the air, for they know not the bother, when once the bricklayers 

 have got into the house, of getting them out again I 



Emerson's Enolisii Traits has entertained us very much, and we venture to make a few 

 extracts below, the only ones, indeed, adapted to this journal : — 



" The native cattle are extinct, but the island is full of artificial breeds. The agricultu- 

 rist, Bakewell, created sheep, and cows, and horses, to order, and breeds in which everything 

 was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his surloin. 

 Stall-feeding makes sperm-mills of the cattle, and converts the stable to a chemical factory. 

 The rivers, lakes, and ponds, too much fished, or obstructed by factories, are artificially filled 

 with the eggs of salmon, turbot, and herring. 



" Whatever is excellent and beautiful in civil, rural, or ecclesiastic architecture ; in 

 fountain, garden, or grounds ; the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at 

 home. The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations ; the gardens which Evelyn 

 planted ; the temples and pleasure-houses which Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren built ; 

 the wood that Gibbons carved ; the taste of foreign and domestic artists, Shenstone, Pope, 

 Brown, Loudon, Paxton, are in the vast auction, and the hereditary principle heaps on the 

 owner of to-day the benefit of ages of owners. The present possessors are to the full as 

 absolute as any of their fathers, in choosing and procuring what they like. This comfort 

 and splendor, the breadth of lake and mountain, tillage, pasture, and park, sumptuous castle, 

 and modern villa — all consist with perfect order. They have no revolutions ; no horse-guards 

 dictating to the crown ; no Parisian poissardes and barricades ; no mob : but drowsy habitude, 

 daily dress-dinners, wine, and ale, and beer, and gin, and sleep. * * * 



"An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her 

 park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get.a coachway, and save her a mile to 

 the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone masonry, solid as the walls of 

 Cumse, and all Europe cannot prevail on him to sell or compound for an inch of the land. 

 They delight in a freak as the proof of their sovereign freedom. Sir Edward Boynton, at 

 Spic Park, at Cadenham, on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long 

 barn, which had not a window on the prospect side. Strawberry llill of Horace Walpole, 

 Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks ; and Newstead Abbey became one in the hands 

 of Lord Byron. * * * 



" On general grounds, whatever tends to form manners, or to finish men, has a great value. 

 Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship, will respect every social guard which 

 our manners can establish, tending to secure from the intrusion of frivolous and distasteful 

 people. The jealousy of every class to guard itself, is a testimony to the reality they have 

 found in life. When a man once knows that he has done justice to himself, let him dismiss 

 all terrors of aristocracy as superstitions, so far as he is concerned. He who keeps the door 

 of a mine, whether of colialt, or mercury, or nickel, or plumbago, securely knows that the 

 world cannot do without him. Everybody who is real, is open and ready for that which is 

 also real." 



Descriptions of places are rare, but we like the following so much that we must make 

 room for it : — 



" We came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall — the renowned seat of the Earls of Pembroke, 

 a house known to Shakspeare and Massinger, the fretjuent home of Sir Philip Sidney, where 

 he wrote the Arcadia ; where he conversed with Lord Brooke, a man of deep thought, and 

 a poet, who caused to be engraved on his tombstone, 'Here lies Fulke Greville Lord Brooke, 

 the friend of Sir Philip Sidney.' It is now the property of the Earl of Pembroke, and the 

 residence of his brother, Sidney Herbert, Esq., and is esteemed a noble specimen of the 

 English manor-hall. My friend had a letter from Mr. Herbert to his housekeeper, and the 

 house was shown. The state drawing-room is a double cube, thirty feet high by thirty feet 

 wide, by sixty feet long : the adjoining room is a single cube, of thirty feet every way 

 Although these apartments and the long library were full of good family portraits, Vandyk 

 and others ; and though there were some good pictures, and a quadrangle cloister " 



