with him, when he beheld a very large beast with bristles in his face, and having an handsome pair of horns branching out of his head, (who he afterwards discovered to be an alderman) distend his jaws to such an extraordinary compass as to threaten instant destruction. However, it pleased the worshipful brute only to signify the state of his mind by a long and continued grunt, and to make a response to the grace which had been so abruptly terminated on O'Rourke's sudden appearance, the words of which, no doubt, were the old, and for its brevity much approved, supplication; "For what we "are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful."

The alarm of the morning visitor, and the amazement of his beholders, having partly diminished, he got as well as he could out of the breakfast bowl, and began to shake himself with the coolness and deliberation of a water spaniel after a good ducking. This ceremony had scarcely been concluded, when an animal of the appearance of an overgrown calf, though with the addition of an immense wig, a professor's gown, and a pair of spectacles, advanced to our adventurous friend, and in a language which the latter felt "sartain "was all moonshine," politely bowed and said, "May I be allowed "to examine your bumps?" Without further ceremony, many of O'Rourke's superfluous locks were severed from his battered skull, upon which the professor's paw was exceedingly busy making discoveries.

"Benevolence! Benevolence!" were his first delighted accents, as he pointed to a bump, which our hero had received in part payment of a score of ditto, paid on the cranium of an outrageous orangeman at the last Clonekilty Fair.

"Amativeness and conjugal love!" was the result of an elevation caused by a poker, which the gentle Mrs. O'Rourke occasionally exercised, in upholding the dignity of her sex. "Color!" as he passed his hoof under the eye that had received the affectionate token of Mr. Dennis Flaherty. "Adhesiveness!" as he felt a lump of the bog, which had taken up its quarters on Dan's crown. "Inha"bitiveness!" shrieked a female voice, as the professor retreated a few steps backward, as he proceeded a little further with his discoveries.

O'Rourke, who never showed his teeth, till he knew what sort of customers he had to deal with, had remained tolerably passive during this curious examination; but even an Irishman's patience may become exhausted, and he began to whistle with an alarming vehemence, "Moll Roe in the morning;" when the inspector shouted, "destruc“tiveness!" as he placed his forefoot under our hero's ear, and without waiting for another syllable, the whole party took to their legs and wings. The weazel crept between the legs of the parson, who was the first to fly; the lawyer sneaked off, and the professor caught fast hold of his tail; while the poor alderman, in a vain attempt to waddle to the door, fell prostrate at the threshold, and over his unfortunate carcase the whole of the enlightened assembly, cackling, lowing, screaming, hooting, and bellowing, passed, leaving their newly avowed visitor to form the best opinion he could of them.

In explanation of this wonderful scene it need scarcely be said, that the man of Cork had dropped into another world-that of the moon. The odd-looking beings he found to be, subsequently, the inhabitants, the forms of whose bodies were indebted to those parts of the brutal creation which they most resembled in mind; differing from the human creation of a planet with which he was more intimately acquainted in external appearance only-the mixture of man and brute unfortunately, by whose nature being not so readily distinguished by sight.

Had any other traveller but O'Rourke the opportunity here afforded him, the world (we mean our own) would have been enlightened by a brace of quartos, entitled, "Notes of a Journey to, and a temporary "Residence in, the Moon; containing a Full Account of the Laws, "Manners, and Customs of that most interesting World." But unlucky Dan was invariably brief in his descriptions; he only remembered sufficient to tell his wondering hearers, upon his return, that he had been taught the dozen languages of the moon, by a professor of the Hamiltonian system, who took upon himself the whole merit of the discovery, by declaring that the new mode was first taught in the moon; and that it was impossible it could be successful anywhere else.

His accounts of the classification of the different inhabitants were unfortunately very confused; and being strict admirers of veracity, we have rejected those portions of his narrative which appear visionary or imaginative. The population appeared principally to consist of a motley groupe of birds, beasts, and fish: for instance, he detected politicians by the different attributes of a spaniel and vulture lawyers bore a family likeness to sharks: priests had the benevolent and meek form of sheep, although Dan could not help remarking they had many black-legs among them. He was astonished at finding the strong resemblance which many of the nobility bore to the first-born of Judy, his favorite three-year-old short-horn; and upon making enquiries of a pensive looking dromedary, whether there were such beings as Mrs. O'Rourke in the world, he felt considerably surprised at being referred to a large flock of geese, which were cackling on a common, near the principal city. The military portion of the inhabitants he found remarkable for nothing, saving the extraordinary length of their ears.

His only visit to the courts of law, was during an important trial brought by a carrion crow against a magpie, for calling him "blacklegs and gallows bird." Upon the verdict being given, with enormous damages to the plaintiff, for the wound which his feelings and reputation had received, O'Rourke enquired the best plan of leaving a world, which, bad as his own undoubtedly was, he did not think altogether any better; being referred to a newly-established jointstock company, he found the safest and most expeditious manner of travelling, was to be rammed into a mortar, and shot through a moveable tunnel, by means of a fourteen pounder, the last invention of a member of the Lunarian "Mechanics' Institute."

From the style of our voyager's arrival at this wonderful globe, it may be expected that he was not over delicate in his enquiries respecting the safety of his return. A learned society having fixed the relative position which Dan's cabin, at Ballynarooga, in the county of Cork, bore to his present situation in the moon, fixed the spot where the tunnel was to be placed, and by a gentle application of steam, the mortar was instantaneously charged with our hero and his leaden companion; both of whom, in three quarters of an hour, five minutes, and twenty seconds, were shot upon the dear little dung-hill, opposite his own cabin door.

As it was not yet sun-rise, Dan, with all the delicate sensibility of a husband and a father, disliked disturbing his family at so early an hour, and therefore determined to finish his nap where he was. In the course of his slumbers, the gabbling of the geese still appeared to ring upon his ears; but upon opening his eyes, how great was his satisfaction to find all that he had heard was nothing more than the morning salutation of Mrs. Daniel O'Rourke. Y.

ITALY.

"Rotta è l'alta Colonna, e'l verde Lauro."--- Petrarch, S. 229.

A beautiful victim, whose bosom is torn

And left bare by the hands of Oppression and Scorn;
Stricken deer of the nations,

*

who never may

lie

On one plant which a balm to her wounds would supply;
The flower of the earth, whose shrunk leaves are the token
Of death--the world's gem, in its diadem broken,

Is Italy. Glowing the minds that once sprang

To life in her fair clime, and battled and sang

With the voice of the free---with the arm of the brave,

And triumphed---the lords of the land and the wave!

But now, her fallen children are servile and tame;

And tho' wild thoughts assail them, and feelings of flame,
They are quickly subdued by corruption and wrong,
Nor dash to expression in deed, or in song---

As the streams that from Yemen's far mountains roll free,
By sand-deserts absorb'd, never rush to the sea.

Rome, the ocean of Empires, ingulphing the world

Into one mighty realm---with her dread thunders, hurl'd

The deer, when wounded, has been supposed to effect its own cure, by lying on a species of sanative plant. (Lancas. Asphodil.)

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From shore unto shore, made the shock'd nations wring---
Till, dove-like, they crouch'd to the proud eagle's wing!
And what is she now?---She hath shrunk to a name,
And ruins the pride of her Cæsar's proclaim;
Where great hearts scarce bow'd to a conqueror's sway,
A grey dotard commands, and drone bigots obey!

But grandeur anew hail'd Italia's clime:
For there, where of giant Rome's glories sublime
The strong Tuscan pillar lay shatter'd by foes,
The Corinthian column of Adria's rose:

And Florence the fair, with her poets divine,
Plac'd the bright camp of Genius on Liberty's shrine;
The Nine and the Three left their heaven once more,
To breathe their enchantment o'er Italy's shore:
Until wo heap'd on wo, like cloud pillar'd on cloud,
Arose, shading their beauteous-debasing the proud;
And patricide foes, and the Austrian and Gaul,
Have conspired, as the demons of death, to her fall:
Vile asps, fraught with poisonous sting, they have curl'd
Round the breast of the loveliest land of the world!
They have rifled the charms that had fairest repute,
As the summer-birds prey on the sweetest of fruit;—
Her laurel of glory is mantled by weeds,

Which dying, ten thousand spring fresh from their seeds.

She is daily devour'd-what the palmer-worm leaves,
The locust of bloom and of verdure bereaves;
The canker-worm follows the locust's repast,
And the lean caterpillar crawls forth at the last
Her remnant of beauty in thraldom expires,
And no prophet rekindles her heavenly firest,
And nought it avails that with gordeous array
Are impos'd the base fetters that load her decay.
The draught that is bitter no sweeter is made,
Tho' golden the chalice in which 'tis convey'd.

Joel, Chap. i. verse 4.

+ See the notes to the 3d. chapter of Sale's translation of the Koran.

T. W.

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Though it occurs but once in the Dictionary, there is no word in more general acceptation, I believe, than that of Fashion. Hence we may justly suppose that every genteel individual, between the ages of eighteen and eighty, who considers himself as one of the world, must, in some measure, be acquainted with its meaning. We all know this-that it originates with the higher classes, and is "article," as Mr. Huskisson would say, "occasionally of home manu"facture, but more frequently of foreign importation." We all know, too, that by an established graduated scale in society, the fashion descends from superior to inferior, through all the intermediate shades and classes, till it ultimately affects the whole body polite; which is a refutation of the old opinion, that "fashion rises." Fashion is always descending. We all know, too, that everybody now-a-days, who wears linen, belongs to a parish, and has had education sufficient to distinguish between a shilling and sixpence, considers himself a gentleman; and we know, that every gentleman necessarily subjects himself to the domination of fashion, to a more or less degree, in his habits, manners, pleasures, and desires. are justified, therefore, in supposing that that portion of our metropolitan mankind, who consider themselves genteel, from the possession of qualifications not inferior to those above-mentioned, must be aware of the signification of the term-fashion.

Under this impression, it has certainly surprised me to hear asserted, by several shrewd people, that the contrary was the case, and that, in fact, that portion of the world living in fashionable subjection, were, of all others, the most ignorant of the power which subjected them. Fashion, they averred, being capricious, was therefore indefinable, (like the character of a stock-broker, for instance ;) and being despotical, (as we may say of the sublime Porte, or Justice Park, or Mr. Price, the Yankee manager,) was unreasonable and compulsive; from which causes, it exercised an influence over its subjects, to be respected, rather than questioned, and to be obeyed, whether comprehended or not. In addition to this, an ingenious juvenile, of my acquaintance, who occasionally perpetrates funnycisms on the deaf side of his maiden aunt, remarked to me, that fashion reminded him of the story of the "Indian Philosopher "and his Tongue," who, go where he would, found it in everybody's mouth, but could get nobody to tell him what it was made of.-Now on the receipt of the reasoning above-mentioned, (the joke I pass