In fine, learning has this further value: it not only sets us above other men, but it helps us to conquer our own infirmities. It draws a man off from a habit of idleness, play, and debauchery; and not only fills up, but renders their leisure agreeable, which hang so heavy upon the hands of the ignorant, and without the assistance of literature, is a kind of death to the soul, and, in a manner, the grave of a man alive. By this we are enabled to pass a right judgment upon other men's labours, to associate with men of understanding, to share in the discourses of the learned, and to adorn our own for though we cannot often have any thing to do with the Greek and Roman history, philosophy, or mathematics, in our common conversation, business, or public discourses, yet the study of these sciences, when well digested, gives a regular way of thinking, adds a solidity and exactness, and a grace that is distinguished by the learned, and recommendatory to all people.

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The House-keeper's Guide.

To improve the Quality of Potatoes.-A picce of lime, the size of a walnut, put into the water in which potatoes are boiling, will render the heaviest light and farinaceous.

To sweeten Meat, Fish, &c. that is tainted.-Put a few pieces of charcoal, each the size of an egg, into the pot or sauce pan wherein the fish or flesh are to be boiled, and they will come out perfectly sweet and sound.

To purify fly-blown Meat.--Put it into a vessel containing a certain quantity of beer. The meat will become sweet and the liquor have a putrid smell.

Quick Tanning.-Mr. Gybbon uses pressure in tanning of leather, by which the process is complete in six weeks, and the leather is equal in strength and toughness to any produced.

To kill Cockroaches.-Take the roots of Black hellebore; strew the floor with them at night, and next morning you will find all the family of Cockroaches, dead or dying.

Toprevent Moths from attacking Woollen Clothes and Worms Books.-Place in the drawers, or corners of the shelves, some of the roots or leaves of the sweet flag.

Method of cutting Steel by soft Iron.-Place a circular plate of soft iron, the 20th of an inch thick in a lathe, and when it is made to revolve with a speed equal to ten thousand feet of its circumference per minute, it will cut a common iron file with great facility.

To obtain the Fragrant Essences from the Fresh Rinds of Citrons, Oranges, &c.—Procare as many fresh citrons as will supply the required stock of essence; after cleaning off any speck in the outer rinds of the fruit, break off a large piece of loaf sugar, and rub the citron on it till the yellow rind is completely absorbed. Those parts of the sugar which are impregnated with the essence, are from time to time to be cut away with a knife, and put in an earthen dish. The whole being thus taken off, the sugared essence is to be closely pressed, and put by in pots; where it is to be squeezed down hard; have a bladder over the paper by which it is covered, and tie it tightly up. It is at any time fit for use, and will keep for many years. Exactly in the same manner may be obtained and preserved, at the proper seasons, from the fresh fruit, the essences of the rinds of Seville oranges, lemons, bergamots, &c. This mode of extracting and preserving these essences is superior to the common practices of pealing, rasping, or grating off the rind, and afterwards mixing it up with powdered sugar, &c.

To preserve Seeds for a long Time.-When seeds are to be preserved longer than the usual period, or when they are to be sent to a great distance, sugar, salt, cotton, saw-dust, sand, paper, &c. have been adopted with different degrees of success. Chinese seeds, dried by means of sulphuric acid, may be afterwards preserved in a vegetating state for any necessary length of time, by keeping them in an airy situation in common brown paper, and occasionally exposing them to the air in a fine day, especially after damp weather. This method will succeed with all the larger mucilaginous seeds. Very small seeds, berries, and oily seeds, may probably require to be kept in sugar, or among currants or raisins.

To preserve Arms, and to clean gilt Buttons.-It may be useful to some of our militia to know, that when arms are well cleaned, they can be preserved from rust by rubbing them with a piece of the skin from boiled salt pork. This is preferable to sweet oil or tallow, and is always at hand. The buttons of their coats also may be restored to their original polish by rubbing them with a common razor strap. This much improves the appearance of an old coat.

Certain Cure for Tooth-ach when the Tooth is hollow. -Take equal parts of rosin and gunpowder and pound them fine; then add sweet oil or suet sufficient to make a hard paste. Fill the hollow of the tooth with this, and the most severe pain will be speedily relieved. This may be renewed when required.

The Cornwall Correspondent.

We are glad to see the spirited address of the Hon. Richard Barrett to the Electors of St. James's. It is a general and candid avowal of his political sentiments, and however proudly tenacious we may be of our colonial dignity and pre-eminence, a blind and obdurate and headstrong policy in resisting rational and salutary measures, suggested by our disinterested friends at home, is the sure and certain way to be ultimately "shorn of our beams." This is not patriotism, but insanity, and instead of maintaining and strengthening would ultimately disorganize and overthrow all the fine institutions of the country. We are glad to find such a salutary change of public opinion on this point as is everywhere manifested by men of sense and discrimination.

Falmouth Chit-chat.

Original Metaphor.-The classical Courier informs us, that a passage in Earl Bathurst's speech, on the Slave Question, if it does not SILENCE, will at least NEUTRALIZE the VENOM of the fanatics!!!' If his Lordship neutralize the venom he will destroy it; but if he only silence it, it will unquestionably SPEAK again. We regret that there is no Society for rewarding such useful, scientific, and enlightened discoverers. We beg, however, to record the fact, on the authority of the Cornwall Courier, that Earl Bathurst has discovered a mode of silencing animal venom!!! His grace of the Courier has graciously condescended of late to bestow very graceful panegyrics on the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. A correspondent calls it fishing! but adds, " their Lordships have a great repugnance to tainted bait!"

Will Tattle is highly offended, and calls the Gossip a filthy publication, an opprobrium of periodicals. Now who would expect such a thing from so noted a gossip as Will? Didst thou ever, kind reader, meet with a revolting crim. con. an indelicate and filthy report of any kind, or a gross and filthy extract from Harriette Wilson's Memoirs in the Gossip? When a virtuous female lifts a newspaper she does not expect to find it pervaded with obscenity. Tattle, observing a most respectable person honouring our amusing pages by an attentive perusal, a short time back. "What!" said Tattle, with a sardonic grin, "do you read that filthy publication?"—____ ` ` Yes," replied the gentleman, "and other filthy publications, sometimes, as well as the Gossip." It is needless to describe the precipitate retreat and chagrin of the mortified Tattle.

PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR, BY A. HOLMES.

BY FRANCIS FIDDLEWOOD.

"A CHIEL'S AMANG YE TAKIN' NOTES,.
AN' FAITH HE'LL PRENT IT."

The consternation of Gabriel Birch might be conceived by a Wilkie, a Hogarth, or a Jan Steen, but it is not in the power of language, even of a Cervantes himself, to convey to the reader the most imperfect idea of the disorganised and mutinous state of the pedagogue's nerves on this trying occasion. His resent ment was uttered in interjections and broken sentences, which, though incoherent from passion, yet contained terms, minced oaths and curses totally unbecoming the cloth, he had so often stained by his infuriated and uncontrollable temper. His eye revolved indignantly in every direction, and was occasionally encountered by the stolen glance of some tiny urchin, who, the moment the theft was perpetrated, and thus detected, rivetted his eyes on his book and conned his task with all the apparent intensity he was

master of. Pate Plumtree, one of the elder boys, who sometimes officiated as usher, was singled out to explain this bold act of rebellion against their tutor.But, with the most imperturbable effrontery, he said he knew nothing at all of the matter, having been engaged in ruling the copy books. Others were called up, accused, abused, and threatened; and at length that "rascal Fiddlewood." He said, “I know, sir, that you will not tell, though murder had been committed, and the present is a step towards it." I told him I was sorry he thought so; that he had formed far too unfavourable an opinion of me, and that as such, what I knew of the present affair could be of no service to him-that I could not, in fact that I would not if I could, give him the desired information. This was sufficient for him to fix it on me. I was accordingly put in 'durance vile' in a dark room, till the rest of the boys had undergone a like examination. In a few minutes two others were sent in who relieved the tedium and aroused the drooping spirits which such incarceration naturally inflicts upon giddyheaded boys. We were kept thus locked up for nearly three hours, and then brought out to receive condign punishment from the hand of Mr. Birch himself. In the meantime, every inducement was held But this was out to procure evidence against us.

firmly withstood, even among the junior boys. As soon as we were brought out, and after pinching our ears, we were ordered successively to hold up our hands to receive a certain portion of stripes with a leather strap, divided into three tails, called tawse. Tom Fairlie, who was an active country lad, was the He had first who was to undergo this punishment.

muscles like a young lion, and in him we placed the greatest confidence. He had scarcely received three stripes, when he nimbly seized the tawse, and threw them out of the door."

Mr. Birch now exhibited his prowess in a more tangible, though even less successful way, and fistycuffs concluded the achievements, for the present, of the Reverend Gabriel Birch. We were not backward in shewing that we were beyond his fear, since he bad forfeited our esteem, and a general onset was the consequence, in which Mr. Birch was completely