2. Because it is mine (coal-mine.)

83. Because it is only half well, thus:-we-ll.

34. Because there is much railing about it!

here, instead of amusing myself in the holydays as littlee |
girls ought to do, my unconscionable mamma has set m
to shirt-making (a plague on all brothers, say I, that they
offering, I hope, before the close of the season, to spare
a few minutes from gussets and wristbands, to select a
few more.-I remain, respectfully, your friend in days of
yorė,
LITTLE MISERY.

35. Because he is an eggs ham eater (i. e. hexameter, see cannot make their own shirts;) but if you accept of my
last Kaleidoscope.)

6. Because it is new ditty (i. e. nudity.) 7. Because they die late (i. e. dilate!)

88. Because it ends in wo (i. e. woe!)

19. Because it is between u and i (i. e. you and I.) Because he is a neck romancer (i. e. a necromancer!!) You man, hit I” (i. e. humanity !!!)

41. **
42. A cock.

3 Beneath this stone lies Catharine Gray,
Chang'd from a busy life to lifeless clay:
By earth and clay she got her pelf,
And now she's turned to earth herself.
Ye weeping friends, let me advise,
Abate your grief, and dry your eyes;
For what avails a flood of tears?
Who knows, but in a run of years,
In some tall piteher, or broad pan,
She in her shop may be again?

CHARADES, CONUNDRUMS, ENIGMAS, &c.

[Continued from our last.]

44.

[THE FOLLOWING FOUR ARE FROM LINELLA.] first is four-sixths of that word which we say en ideas of abundance we mean to convey,

at that pronoun by egotists often proclaimed,

d the river by poets Eridanus named,

If the number of grains that a scruple will make,
two-fifths of the river that runs by Rome take,
three-fourths of what every wise man will prove
raying a friend ere he ventures to love;
ath if you have found what by chance I have hit on,
will see what's oft sent between France and Great Britain.
45.

My first is a measure by no means uneommon,
My second a weight that three letters express,
My whole, an attendant on each man and woman,
Forms a requisite part of your dress.
46.

attend, ye enigmatists all, to my song,
Per to me, though I say it, great virtues belong;
fu in use every day, in your kitchens I'm sure,
And my services lend both to rich and to poor;
Of eyes I have fifty, a hundred, nay more,
top them up, I can see just as well as before;
Water-eresses and salad I frequently see,
loisture then is continually dropping from me;
=*ly figure is round; but stop, lest I reveal
The thing of all others I ought to conceal.

I

47.

st, by all grammarians, a preposition's reckoned,
use would be discord, unassisted by my second;
Bole, inconstant being, may appear not quite complete,
to bate her pursuers, she has fins, but, ah! no feet.
[PRO ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.]

49.

My first's a preposition known to all,
And used by every talker, great and small;

My second mostly grows aloft in air,
Sometimes likejet, sometimes like ivory fair;
Yet though to an exalted station used,
By cruel folks fm frequently abused;
Tortur'd by bones, and deck'd by shreds and rags,
Smother'd with dust, or cag'd in dismal bags;
My whole, when war is threaten'd, or invasion,
Has often prov'd the safeguard of a nation.
42.

My first is as white as a fleece,

My second we kick with our feet; My whole you may play with in peace, As long as you're absent from heat.

50.

My first is a worrying brute,

MT second a pastime for fools;

My whole is an excellent fruit,

Which in summer refreshingly cools,

TO THE EDITOR.

51. Why is a young nobleman travelling to a great eastern city like another going to put his father into a sack?

52. Why is an illiterate schoolmaster like a blind man ?
53. What two letters in the alphabet name two of the
pleasantest people in the world?

54. What is most like a horse's shoe?
55. There was a room with four corners, and a cat sat
in every corner, three cats before every cat, and a cat upon
every cat's tail:-how many cats were there in the room?

This reminds us of another, which used to amuse us in
days of yore:-Two legs sitting upon three legs with one leg
on her knee; in comes four legs and runs off with one leg;
up gets two legs, throws three legs after four legs, and brings
one leg back again.

56. Why is your eye like St. Dunstan's?
57. What is that which is neither animal, mineral, nor
vegetable, neither male nor female, yet often between both,
mentioned in the Old Testament, and strongly recom.
mended in the New?

58. On which side of a village church should the trees

be set ?

By G. (a London correspondent.)

59. How is a seaman, waiting for a fair wind, like a good house-dog?

60. How is a young lady, who has received three epistles from her lover, like a cat?

61. When can it be said that a man is with a wig and

without at the same time?

90. We are a family of eight sisters living with our mother, a very old woman exceedingly religious, and extremely singular as you shall hear; her mode of thinking is so disconsonant to the age, that a stranger would think her in her dotage, but we are told that for the greater part of her life she has had the same propensities. great promoter of marriages, and has had many husbands She has been a herself, and it is generally supposed that she contracted from them the most of her narrow prejudices; though she is very learned herself, and has long been famed for her extensive eridition, she has always been adverse to the general dissemination of knowledge. Our education and treatment has been most extraordinary, music being the only instruction that was ever afforded us, so that we are We have many admirers, and we know not if our mother obliged to employ an amanuensis to write this narrative. is afraid of them running away with us, but we are locked up like nuns in the remostest attic of her house, and are having learnt from them so long, we despair of ever makseldom allowed any visitors but our music-masters, and ing any further proficiency, as our only choice of improvement is when some more scientific professors occasionally pay us a visit. Our mother has carefully instilled into us a high nationality of sentiment, and we are the first to exult at events denoting the prosperity of the empire, and to mourn for any public calamity, neither have her lessons of philanthropy been thrown away upon us, for it is our wont to rejoice with those who rejoice, and to weep with those who weep; and so far does the feeling of sympathy carry us, that we have been frequently known to waste the midnight oil in welcoming, with vocal harmony, those seasons most particularly acceptable and joyous to our neighbours. Though a life of seclusion is not calculated to improve the temper, or promote happiness, we live in perfect harmony together; this blessing is mainly owing to a laudable custom which we were early taught, of giving to each other alternate precedence in all our occupations, and notwithstanding seine of us are endowed by nature with those commanding qualifications peculiarly fitted to take the lead, we have invariably adhered to this salutary mode of life, and we have now neither the expectation maxim. Long habit has entirely reconciled us to our

69. When may a pair of coach-horses be said to be in-nor the wish for more liberty. Our recluse life would lead

74. Why is a red herring like a person recovered from Fargate, has made his accustomed pie, wherewith to treat

a fever?
75. Why is a foot-ball like a pitiful poltroon?

76. Why are bell-ringers, when at work, like oranges?
77. Why is the captain of the press-gang like an ardent
and amorous lover?

78. Why does a Westphalia ham resemble a drained mill-pond?

"Cetera desunt"-i. e. DECent.

The following are from other correspondents:
79. Why are the vowels a, e, i, o, and u, uncommonly
genteel?

80. Why are curds like shadows?

81. Into what conveyance does the letter S convert a part of the body?

82. Why is the letter N like a dirty pig?

his customers this Christmas. It weighed, before it was baked, from twelve to thirteen stones.Sheffield Iris.

In the vicarage of Market Rasen, in the gift of the crown, the vicar is, by the endowment, entitled to the upusual tithe of ale.

THE CROSS.

The following puzzle, although it is pretty generally known, has never, to oar recollection, been explained by a figure. We her supply the deficiency by a sketch of the mode of folding the paper, although we apprehend there will be some difficulty in rendering it perfectly intelligible.

An oblong piece of paper (say about the size and shape of a common card) may be folded in such a manner, that by one cut of the scissors, separate pieces may be pro

83. Why is our King, reclining on a sofa, like a but-duced, bearing considerable resemblance to the following

84. Why is a dog, with his tail in his mouth, like a careful couple ?

Not having observed the following bagatelles intered toast? using little work, and as I am one of those who rived great pleasure from it, I wish to contribute and therefore inclose a few. I cannot vouch iginality of them, having selected them from my get, as lost little girls have budgets of one kind . i should have made a larger selection; but

2.

85. What fruit would you name, if you were to desire
the dead to re-animate ?

36. I wish that some erudite friend would explain,
Why a teapot resembles a giddy girl's brain?

things: The cross, upon which Christ suffered; which,
from its perfect form, inay be called the crucifix-two m
perfect crosses, which may be considered the thieves' crosses
two pieces forming a pedestal for the principal cross;
a piece for the scroll or inscription over it-the spear with
which Christ was pierced; and two cubes, representing
the dice with which the soldiers cast lots for his garments.

کا

Ingland till the opening of the cave at Kirkdale; but
on afterwards some fossil bones were accidentally brought
the author from Lawford, near Rugby, in Warwick-
e; and the instant I saw them," he tells us, "I was
chanted to find the entire under jaw, and entire radius
una of a very old and large hyæna; supplying the
link that was deficient, to complete the evidence I
ted to establish of the hyæna's den at Kirkdale."-We
readily imagine his delight upon this occasion; it can
been exceeded only by his enjoyment in witnessing
romance of Mr. Wombwell's living hyæna, upon
bones that were presented to him at Oxford. There
the slightest marks of fracture in these remains;
ths, Mr. Buckland thinks, is consistent with the dif-
at circumstances of this individual, from those in the
for the byæna at Lawford appears, from its position
e diluvial clay, to have been one that perished by the
dation which extirpated the race, as well as the cle-
, rhinoceros, and other tribes that lie buried with it;
consequently, as it could have had no survivors to
tits bones," we should expect to find them entire.
discovery of the remains of this rare animal, in
tions so different as the interior of the cave at Kirk-
and the gravel of Warwickshire, and with appear
so distinct, leads naturally to the consideration of the
ce of a general inundation presented by the surface
gle-which forms the subject of the second part
volum. So much, however, had been already done
the subject, by preceding geological writers, that
was here little scope for novelty of observation; but
thor has brought the facts together so well, and so
cnected the result of his own researches, especially
agland, with information derived from other quarters,
make this portion of the book unquestionably one of
st satisfactory, in this department of inquiry, with
we are acquainted.

chief proofs of diluvial action on the surface of the
are derivable, 1st, From the accumulations of loam
gravel universally diffused over the surface, and the
of animals which they are generally found to con-
and, 2ily, From the form and structure of the val-
and other inequalities, by which the solid materials
je globe have been superficially hollowed out.
je loam, so widely diffused, possesses no character by
it is easy to ascertain its origin; but the gravel con-
fragments that can often be traced to their origin,
iderable distances, and which attest the agency of
ces that have separated and transported them. Both
deposits exist in vast quantity along the eastern
of England; and there, as every where else, they
and to contain the remains of animals, of the same
those which occur in eaves and fissures. The
fdphants especially, are very widely difused both
Canent and in this country; and not unfre-
are found in the gravel under the streets of London.
es, or masses of stone which form the gravel,
d, principally, from the wreck of the rocks of
et districts; but with these are almost always
ments frequently of great bulk, drifted from
ble distances,-the intervening spaces being,
tances, at present, intersected by deep valleys,
ces of the sea. Thus, in England, we have
which appear to have been transported from Nor-
the granites of Finland have been over the plains
and the north of Germany. A considerable
Weidence is produced by the author, to prove that
earrent from the north is the only adequate
that can account for these appearances; and he has,
Appendix, given a Memoir on the gravel of the
Tunes, and of the rivers that fall into it de-
g the agency of such a current in England;
pebbles of the quartz, which compose the
in Warwickshire, over the whole intervening
thence to London.

of that Island; and, on the Continent, from the writings
of various authors, and of Mr. Buckland himself.

The most important information, however, in proof of
the universality of a deluge, was to be obtained from
distant countries; and on this point the author refers to a
paper on the vicinity of Lake Huron, in North America,
by Dr. Bigsby; who has traced in that country, the
action of a violent flood from the north, and noticed effects
similar to the denudations of Europe; in the structure of
the valleys, the wearing away of the highest summits, &c.
and the formation of vast accumulations of sand and
gravel, containing fragments which also can be shown to
have come from the north. Similar evidence has been ob-
tained from other parts of North America, so as to leave
no doubt of general diluvial aciion in that country; and,
the author adds, that the presence of the bones of ele-
phants and other extinct animals, which are common to
both continents, shows that the time of its occurrence was
in each case the same;"an argument, the force of which
we must confess we cannot perceive, aurd to which we shall

have occasion to recur.

ORIGIN OF IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES.

Glass. It is certain, says Pliny, that the most valuable discoveries, have found their origin in the most trivial accidents. "As some merchants were carrying nitre, they stopped near a river which issues from Mount Carmel, and not happening to find stones for resting their kettles, they substituted in their place some pieces of the nitre, which the fire gradually dissolving, mixed with the sand, and occasioned a transparent matter to flow, which, in fact, was nothing else but glass.

Bark.-An Indian, in a delirious fever, having been left by his companions by the side of a river, for the purpose of quenching his thirst, conceiving him incurable, drank large and copious draughts of the stream, which, having imbibed the virtues of the bark from the trees which grew upon its margin, soon vanquished the fever, and he returned to his astonished friends perfectly restored. The singularity of the circumstance excited their surprise, and waked their superstition; the indisposed crowded round the holy stream, as they termed it, and experienced its healing effects, without being able to discover the cause from which it was derived. The sages of the tribes, however, found out, at length, in what it consisted, and disclosed the important secret. In the year 1640, the Americans became acquainted with the use of this excellent medicine; and, in 1649, its fame had extended into Spain, Italy, and Rome, through the representation of Cardinal Lugo, and other Jesuits, who had beheld its surprising and wonderful effects.

Telescopes. It is said that the use of telescopes was first discovered by one Hansen, a spectacle maker, at Middleburgh, in Holland, whose children playing in the shop, casually placed a convex and concave glass in such a manner, that, by looking through them at the weather cock, they observed it appeared much larger and nearer than usual, and, by their expressions of surprise, excited the attention of their father, who soon obtained greas credit for this useful discovery.

That such effects are not confined to the lower regions of the earth's surface, is proved, decidedly, 1st, By the forms of the highest mountains, which are universally modified in the same way as the lowest hills of the globe; the highest valleys also containing diluvial gravel like what occurs below. 2dly, By the existence of great masses of rock, transported across valleys from the most elevated points; as from Mont Blanc, the highest point of Europe, to the Jura. 3dly, By the discovery of the remains of animals in the diluvium of the highest regions; as of the mastodon, and fossil species of elephant in the lofty plains of Quito and Mexico; the former at the height of 7,800 feet above the sea;-and still more remarkably, by a re cent discovery of fossil hones in the Himalaya mountains. These last remains, which are now in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, were procured by Captain W. S. Webb, from the Chinese Tartars of Daba; who assured him that they were found in the north face of Coffee.-A Prior belonging to a monastery in that part the snowy ridge of Kylas, in lat. 32°, at a spot which he of Arabia, where this berry grows in the greatest abundance, calculated to be not less than 16,000 feet high. They are having observed that the goats which ate it, became exonly obtained from the masses that fall with the avalan-tremely brisk and alert, resolved to try the experiment ches, from the regions of perpetual snow; and are there- upon his monks, of whom he continually complained for fore supposed by the natives to have fallen from the clouds, their lethargic propensities. The experiment proved sucand to be the bones of genii. They belong to a small cessful, and it is said, that it is owing to this circumstance, species of deer. Their medullary cavities and cancelli that the use of this Arabian be.ry became universal. are filled with white crystalline carbonate of lime, and their matrix is a grey calcareous sand, interspersed with small concretions of carbonate of line. The occurrence of these bones," adds the author, at such an enormous elevation, in the regions of eternal snow, and consequently in a spot now unfrequented by such animals as the horse and deer, can, I think, be explained only by supposing them to be of antediluvian origin, and that the carcasses of the animals were drifted to their present place, and lodged in sand, by the deluvial waters.” pp. 222, 223.

• To be published in the Geol. Trans. Vol. i. Part 2. New
Series.

found, upon the same spot. Qy. Rev. No. 57. pp. 155, 156.
+ The bones of a species of bear have also it seems been

To produce an Electric Spark from a piece of Brown Paper.-Thoroughly dry before the fire a quarter of a sheet of stoutish brown paper; place it on your thigh, holding it at the edge with one hand, while with the cuff of the sleeve on the other you must rub it smartly backwards and forwards ten or fifteen times; if the knuckle be now placed near the paper, it will emit a brilliant spark, accompanied with a snapping noise; the prongs of a fork similarly placed will produce three distinct streams of light. The experiment must, of course, be performed in the dark, and the trowsers and coat be of woollen cloth.--Mechanics' Magazine.

st of England affords similar proofs of the currents; the highest summits of Devon and We have not yet experimentally ascertained this e being strewed over with pebbles, that must phenomenon, but it reminds us of another very simple lodged there before the excavation of the pre-mode of exciting electricity with which we have repeatedly In Scotland, Colonel Imrie has detected rition on the surfaces of the rocks, from the amused our young friends. ge of heavy bodies apparently driven by water. nes Hall concludes a very able paper, + in the agency of similar currents in the vicinity of gh, by stating, that all the diluvial facts in that rhood concur in denoting one inundation overthe solid mass of the district.-this inundation last catastrophe to which it has been, exposed." idence of diluvial action in Ireland, is derived memoir of Mr. Weaver, on the eastern portion

Trans. Vol. v.
RS. Edin. Vol vil

Let a piece of writing paper (half a sheet of letter paper for instance) be thoroughly dried at the fire, and then laid fiat on a clean mahogany table. Then take a piece of Indian rubber, and rub the whole surface of the paper briskly several times, until it is warm with the friction. If the paper be then lifted up by one corner it will be found slightly to adhere to the table by electrical influence, and when it is separated from the table it will be attracted by the face, and the hair of the head will also be sensibly affected.-Edit. Kal

Steering Ships.-Heylin, in his Cosmography, tells us that the art of steering was discovered by a man of the name of Typhis, who took his hints for making both the rudder and helm, from seeing a kite in fiying, guide her whole body by her tail.

The Purple Dye. The purple dye was found out at Tyre, by the simple circumstance of a dog seizing the fish conchilis or purpura, by which his lips were observed to be tinged with that beautiful colour.

The Pendulum.-It is said that Galileo accidentally fixing his eyes on the waving to and fro of a lamp suspended from the roof of a lofty building, had the first idea of a pendulum suggested to his mind.

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Correspondence.

TO MY COUSIN IN THE COUNTRY. DEAR COUSIN, I went from Liverpool to Preston yesterday. The coach was to set off at half-past four. I slept in town, at my sister's, and the watchman awoke me, as agreed on, at half-past three. I got up-breakfasted-put on my top-coat-hung my travelling surtout on my left arm, and shouldering an umbrella in my right, sallied forth, eu bonne heure.

Church-street was desolate, save where was heard the measured step and voice of the trusty guardian of the night. Lord-street, that throngs with noon-day crowds, I think had not a single being but myself in its borders; and Castle-street, that teems with myriads in working hours, was, at that period, still, almost as death.

The morning was beautiful: the air cool, but bracing. The stars twinkled sweetly over head: Venus was tripping gaily along the firmament, as if in lovely consciousness of her silvery lustre: Saturn was visible: Jupiter would have been more brilliant, but that the moon rode high in dignity and peerless splendour, and threw the bright attendants of her glory into comparative shade. Wrapt in the beauty of the scene, and in the solemn stillness of that early hour, the mind turned involuntarily to the contemplation and praise of the great Architect, by whose almighty fiut all nature sprang into being-and the heavens spread out themselves as open volume of their Maker's power, and wisdom, and harmony, for the meditation and study of

man.

An occasion for opening a conversation soon occurred. The elder of the two had borrowed the guard's ponderous water-proof coat; and when the coach drew up to an inn on the road, he asked the latter (as a sort of bonus for the use of it) if he would have a glass of anything. "I'd much rather have a good dinner of beef-steaks," said he. In fact, it appeared he had previously ordered breakfast: for there was a blazing fire in the bar, the maid was in waiting, the kettle was singing on the hob, the coffee smoking on the tray, the table spread, the toast made, every thing ready; and in less than five minutes he had broken his fast, and we were again bowling along the road.

Seated once more, and in motion, the younger observed,
that if his neighbour were at home with the guard, he
could treat him with snipe or other fowl. The elder as
would no doubt give him a dinner with pleasure, and
sented. Well," thinks I, "here is snipe and other
fowl;"" and eying more intently the man's front, as the
moon shed her soft rays on his features, I thought there
was something not exactly dark in his aspect, but like a
daring, hardihood, that spoke of past storms and rough
weather on the ocean of life. His clothes were ordinary
his language provincial. I could not set him down,
therefore, as a qualified sportsman; and, in my own mind,
I had already dubbed him a poacher. With this impres-
sion, and a desire to know, after a few preparatory off.
a gamekeeper?" I was wrong; but more in my next,
hand observations, I ventured to say, "Perhaps thou'rt
when I've time. At present I conclude, with love to thy
family, thy affectionate cousin.
Liverpool, 12 mo. 19th, 1823.

New Patents.

PHILEMON.

At a quarter before five, we started. The walls of the houses on each side Dale-street now echoed with the Sir W. Congreve, of Cecil-street, Strand, Bart. for va sound of the wheels, as the coach rattled over the pave-rious improvements in fire-works.-Oct. 16. ment; and we seemed passing through a solitude, in a A. Buchanan, of Catharine Cotton Works, Glasgow, place, where, in a few hours more, the busy hum of com- merchant, for his improvement in the construction of merce would issue from innumerable haunts, and the din weaving looms impelled by machinery.-Oct. 16. J. Ranking, Esq. New Bond-street, Westminster, for of labour rend the welkin with a thousand reverberations. his newly-invented means of securing valuable property Indulging the luxury of such reflections, as all around in mail and other stage coaches, travelling carriages, wagand above was well calculated to excite, the mind was gons, caravans, and other similar public and private venot much disposed to seek inferior gratifications: but, hicles, from robbery.-Nov. 1. having once cleared the town, hailed the mild and moonlight aspect of the country-and devoured, with eager eye, the contrast of the works of nature with the works of att; then, indeed, I turned round to examine the composition of my stage-coach company, and, if possible, pick up some useful speculation, or derive some amusing

or substantial instruction.

Opposite me sat the guard, a jolly pleasant-looking man, with traits of intelligence in his features, and what is more rare, and yet more commendable in this useful class of people, I believe also he was a sober and temperate character. Beside him, on the same seat, sat two men, who seemed to be neighbours or acquaintances, not exactly of a labouring, but say of the working sort. One was young; he might be thirty: the other was evidently older, from the additional and deeper furrows in his brow. They both seemed (from what transpired) to have addicted themselves to the baneful and degrading practice of taking what is called an extra glass, on friendship's account; or, as the mischievous song says, "for the sake of auld lang syne." Thou inquirest what I mean. Sweet innocence! I'll tell thee. They come to town on business-meet a tradesman they have to do with-call him "My good old friend!" -or, "My hearty good fellow !"-extend the band, and the proportion and strength of friendship is often estimated with these poor creatures by the force of the squeeze for shake, and the width and number of the vibrations. Then off they go together to the alehouse, finish business, sit down to the bottle, and tamely submitting to the tyranny of custom and opinion, they rashly disfranchise Reason (Heaven's precious and distinguishing gift) and to show their kind friends how highly they esteem and look up to them as men, ignobly place themselves down below the level of the beasts!

Town, Middlesex, ship-builder, for his improvement in
G. Hawkes, Lucas-place, Commercial-road, Stepney Old
the construction of ship-anchors.-Nov. 1.

G. Hawkes, Lucas-place, Commercial-road, Stepney Old
Town, Middlesex, ship-builder, for certain improvements
on capstans.-Nov. 1.

W. Burdy, Fulham, mathematical-instrument maker,
for his anti-evaporating cooler to facilitate and regulate the
refrigerating of worts, or wash, in all seasons of the year,
from any degree of heat between boiling and the tempe-
rature required for fermenting.-Nov. 1.
improvements in addition to machinery now in use for
T. F. Gimson, Tiverton, Devonshire, Gent. for various
doubling and twisting cotton, silk, and other fibrous sub-
stances.-Nov. 6.

T. Gowan, Fleet-street, London, truss-manufacturer,
for certain improvements on trusses.Nov. 11.

J. Day, Esq. of Barnstaple, Devonshire, for certain im-
descriptions of fire-arms.-Nov. 13.
provements in percussion gun-locks applicable to various

J. Ward, Grove-road, Mile-end-road, Middlesex, iron-
founder, for certain improvements in the construction of
locks and other fastenings.Nov. 18.

S. Servill, of Brower's Hill, Bisley, Gloucestershire, clothier, for his new mode or improvement for dressing of woollen or other cloths. No. 18.

R. Green, Lisle-street, St. Anne, Middlesex, sadlers' ironmonger, for certain improvements in constructing gambadoes or mud-boots, and attaching spurs thereto, and part of which said improvements are also applicable to other boots.Nov. 13.

R. Stein, Tower Brewery, Tower-hill, brewer, for his improved construction of a blast-furnace, and certain apparatus to be connected therewith, which is adapted to burn or consume fuel in a more economical and useful manner than has been hitherto practised.-Nov. 13.

J. Gillman, Newgate-street, silk warehouseman, and J. H. Wilson, Manchester, silk and cotton manufacturer, for certain improvements in the manufacture of hats and bonnets.-Nov. 18.

J. Heathcoat, Tiverton, Devonshire, lace-manufacturer, for a machine for the manufacture of a platted substance They were both aching under the consequences of the composed either of silk, cotton, or other thread or yarn. last night's intemperance. Nov. 20.

To Correspondents.

VIVE LA BAGATELLE.”—The department of our paper which we usually allot to the amusement of our holiday friends, in this week so fully occupied that we have been under the necessity of postponing several New Year's offerings, amongst which is the clever enigma, commencing "We are a family of eight sisters." Whilst we are upon this sube ject, we shall take the liberty to say a few words to the manufacturers of such "motley ware" as conundrums, charades, &c. We would not be over scrupulous in og selection of such bagatelles, at this season of the year Christmas is the English Saturnalia, when all jokes free; when the master winks at the very pranks of little urchins, for which he might use the rod or ferries other times. We would, in like marmer, give great latim to those who amuse themselves or others by the species badinage under consideration. There are, however, s rules by which even the eccentric professor of conundr and charade must consent to be regulated. In the change we conceive that the regular syllabie division of each way ought to be strictly preserved. Thus, the words coo surgeon, ought not for the sake of the charade to be dis cated thus coo-ling, surge-on, according to the practice Jemima's young friend. The conundrum, also, whimsi as it is in its very nature, has proper bounds, beyond whe it ought not to be permitted to trespass. The conundr as we observed before, is twin brother to the pun. Now, th pun is addressed to the ear, not to the eye, as some of its p fessors seem to conceive. Thus, one of our correspondet! splits the word comedian into come-dian/ which altho it is perfect to the eye, has none of the requisites of p The pun is often perfect to the ear when it is as dive as light and dark to the eye;-suppose, for instany, d query was to discover an English pronoun, which the same time, a French verb. We might produce ve 108 out; which are perfeet to the ear, but, to the eye, pre no points of resemblance, as they have no one letter common, neither do they consist of the same number letters. With this hint, for the guidance of punsters, w must, for the present, take our leave.

We intreat the indulgence of any correspondent, whom we may have appeared to slight at this particularseas, owing to the attention we have bestowed upon subjects, calculated to amuse a portion of our readers with whom we can only hold communion at the Christmas or Midsummer holidays. GEOLOGY OF THE DELUGE—A correspondent who has addresse us on the subject of the interesting article we have set on this subject from the Edinburgh Review, observes, th the majority of our readers have access to the Review which we have transcribed it. This may be true, and e reason for the selection be at the same time setista The article is highly interesting as our correspont admits; but it was the unusual circumstance of the mission of engravings in the Edinburgh Review, that termined us upon adopting the article; as those thr whose hands the original work has passed, will be ple to have these illustrative engravings in their own posses for reference, at so a cheap rate as we afford them. Th gravings, with which we occasionally embellish our pub ations, form no trifling item of our establishment

AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY.—In our next we purpose gelag description of a Mummy, now exhibiting at New Y together with an engraving, which we have faith copied from the journals of that city.

GAMBLING HOUSES.If A Father will wait until next week
will find that we shall more than keep our pledge t
readers, on this subject.

GUSTAVUS MANSFIELD from its unusual length,
cannot be given entire at ene insertion.
The pieces of Triangle are under consideration.
Salterto shall be attended to.

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Harvey does not state whether his communication is origi ERRATUM-We apologize for an error in the numbering pages: 210 and 211 should be 218 and 219, and 214 215 should be 222 and 223.We wish those who hid Kaleidoscope to alter the figures with a pen.

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