And first, bright-eyed Foote, that earthly divinity,

Smiling and wiling, intbralling each heart; Then SMITHSON! how vain stoics cry, 'Tis a sin to be

Sighing for Love, while all yield to his dart. Oh, what would be life without the sweet creatures,

My fancy flits o'er them unfetter'd and free; In the sparkling wine I now view their bright features,

And seizing the goblet, I drink, LOVE, to thee.

Here's to W AYLETT, whose eyes so bewitchingly

languish

EPISTOLARY ELEGANCE. THE following curious production appears in the Madras Courier, introduced by the letter prefixed to it :

Sir, I beg leave to submit the following for insertion in your paper at convenience, as exhibiting one of the most amusing attempts at our epistolary style that I have met with by a native. The writer, a Bengalee "copying clerk," was Baboo or Sircar to Mr. P in the

Board of Trade at Calcutta. Lieut. Hbelonged to the horse artillery, had a brother in the civil service, and had taken the subject of the letter under his protec.. tion. Your very obt. servant, J. C. -Paragraph 1st.-Sir, With extreme humility and debasement I beg pardon in presuming to interrupt your avocation, which, no doubt, is deeply consequential

and important; but the insatiable avidity of my Cravings has no boundary, therefore I hope to be excused mercifully, as there is no help for human frailty.

Paragraph 2nd.-Contemplating with adoration the sublime grandeur of English gentlemen, my heart and mind rebound and beat with such palpitation for joy, that it may be likened unto the vul. canic raptures of Mount Vusivious in England. In this ecstacy of charming bliss I avail myself of this spontaneous opportunity of notifying to your honor's remembrance the faithful and sincere promise you made me while in Calcutta, and feeding myself with sanguine hopes, I conceive advisable to recommend to your protection my nephew, who has been cankering my vitals for his subsistence in Life. Because with the intention of satisfying his ambitions and desires I eagerly implore your goodness in the abundance of your gracious gifts will be pleased to cast your Prosperous Eyes on his miserable case, and I recommend him to your brother, who is fortunately arrived from England safely on shore and is Inhabiting the Writer's Barracks near the long Church Monument adjacent to my Office called the Black Hole Remembrance.

Paragraph 3rd.-Offering in gladness of heart Thanksgiving and Prayers to the Worshipful Diety above the Stars and Moon, I will make a sacred vow on getting good tidings from your Honourable goodness. Please to be good enough to state to me particularly respecting your health and welfare, that will gladden my soul like Ghee, Sugar, and Milk mixed, which English Gentlemen's make sweet Puddin. I hope you are in happiness and this will meet in perfect good condition of circumstance.

Paragraph 4th.-Perhaps most probably your Honor may in your Benevolence take pity on ine and to reply to my address to you be moved to notice the consequence of it, therefore please to direct to me Board of Trade in Council Old Fort opposite the Government Custom House. I take leave with due respect, and remain, kind Sir,

Your humbly devoted serv.

GOURMOHUN CHUND,

Mr. R. C. Pn's Writer. N.B.-Please to recollect kindly to inclose the letter of favour to your brother in the answer you will send me to this. To Lieut. J. C. H- -e, Artillery Horse Cavalry, Cawnpore.

CELERIAC.

THIS delicious esculent is now becoming so common at our tables, that it is a mat

ter of some importance to the public to be made acquainted with the most successful method of cultivating it; and the more especially because its excellence depends in a high degree upon the perfect manner in which it is grown. The author, himself a native of Denmark, where the management of this root is very skilfully practised, recommends "a light, moist, and well-manured or rich soil; the dung to be made use of must be in a most per fect state of decomposition. The seed, for a summer or autumn crop, is to be sown in a hot bed in February; for a winter crop, at the latter end of March or thereabouts. The young plants are to be inured to the open air by degrees, and, when strong enough, to be planted in rows about a foot apart. When they have acquired about half their growth, part of the mould is to be removed from about their roots, and all the side roots are to be carefully cut off, the mould being replaced as soon as the operation is performed, and the plants refreshed by a plentiful watering. In Denmark, and the northern parts of Germany, the roots are generally taken out of the ground at the end of October, and preserved for winter use in sand, in a dry house, or in a pit made in the open ground secured from frost." Celeriac is, we believe, little known in this country, and would doubtless repay the trouble of cultivation to most market-gardeners. It may be designated a turnip-rooted celery; the roots are from three to five inches in diameter; sliced they are excellent in soups, or may be eaten with vinegar as a pleasant winter salad. The Germans prepare the roots by boiling, till a fork easily passes through them, and when cold they are used with oil and vinegar; when boiled, the coat and fibres of the roots ought to be cut away, and the roots placed in cold water on the fire, not in boiling water. roots are also excellent stewed in rich

gravy.

The Gatherer.

The

EXTRAORDINARY MURDER. IT is the custom in Russia to place a corpse on the night before the burial, in the church, where the priest accompanied by a chorister is obliged to pray. It once happened in a village, to the amazement of the priest, the corpse suddenly arose, came out of the coffin, and marched up to him. In vain the priest sprinkled him with holy water, he was seized, thrown to the ground, and killed. This story was related on the following morning by the terrified chorister, who had crept into a corner and concealed himself. He positively added that after having perpetrated the crime, the dead man laid himself down in the coffin again. He was really found so. Nobody could conceive how this murder could have been committed. At length, after a lapse of many years it was discovered. A robber, who among many other crimes, confessed this also, had slipped in the dark into the church, put the corpse aside, and taken his place in the coffin. After perpe trating the crime, he had put everything in order, and then retreated without being perceived. The motive of this murder was hatred to the priest, occasioned by an old quarrel.

THE following notice is taken from a newspaper of 1761:-"The ladies of distinction at the west end of the town have determined to bestow on the poor all the winnings at cards during the holidays."

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THE ancient town of Great Yarmouth, which derives its name from its situation at the mouth of the river Yare, and containing a population of upwards of eighteen thousand persons, forms but one parish: the church is one of the largest in the kingdom. Its original foundation is attributed to Herbert de Lozinga, the first bishop of Norwich, in the reign or William Rufus, who appropriated it to the prior and monks of the Holy Trinity, at Norwich, who had formerly a cell here. It is a perpetual curacy, with the appropriation of great and small tithes ; and at the dissolution, the patronage devolved to the dean and chapter of Norwich, with whom it now remains.

A late author, in his history of Great Yarmouth, says, "There is no part of the present building that can be assigned to the early period of Bishop Herbert, in whose time the circular arch and massive shafts showed the remote connection of the Norman architecture with the works of the Romans; but the most ancient parts of this church may be readily assigned to the year 1250, the 35th of Henry III., when the structure is recorded to have been greatly enlarged, and was at that VOL. IX.

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time most probably rebuilt, as in the fol lowing year it was dedicated to St. Nicholas, a personage held in the greatest repute by mariners, from the circumstance of his prayers having preserved the ship in which he sailed to the Holy Land, from a storm that threatened its destruction." The noble and interesting edifice (the above engraving of which presents a correct view) is situated near the north entrance of the town, by the Norwich road; and although it has undergone many injudicious repairs, when considered in regard to its appearance and ex. ternal effect, it still retains the character. istic features of the architecture of the reign of Henry III. The building com. prises, in its plan, a nave and two aisles, which latter are larger, in regard to height and breadth, than the body, but do not extend so far eastward. length of the church from east to west is 230 feet, and the breadth, including the aisles, is 108 feet.

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The principal entrance to the church is by the south-east porch, near the large window of the cross aisle, or transept. The extreme angles of this transept are supported by graduated buttresses, ter

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minating in towers and pinnacles; between them is a handsome window, divided by mullions into compartments, which in the upper part are multiplied and diversified in their form. The three windows on the south side of the church are various in their tracery, without being uniforin in their appearance; the centre one is the most ornamented; they were formerly fitted with painted glass, of which not a vestige now remains. At the intersection of the transepts with the nave rises the tower, which is now embattled, but was originally decorated with pinnacles: it demands attention as the oldest part of the present structure. The tower is now surmounted by a spire, which was erected in the year 1807, and is extremely useful and conspicuous as a sea-mark. The height of the old spire was 186 feet, somewhat higher than the present one, and was of wood, covered with lead; which having been injured from the shrinking of the timber, or the effects of lightning, in 1683, was crooked in its appearance, and was at length taken down in the year 1803. The tower contains a peal of ten bells, esteemed exceedingly harmonious.

That part of the church which extends to the west of the tower forms, with the aisles on each side, a spacious choir, having an appearance of much grandeur. The ceiling is ancient, and panelled in compartments; at the intersections of which are bosses, containing coats of arms, and various emblems and devices, carved.

The whole has been painted to represent dark marble, veined with white; and although tolerably well executed, is a very injudicious colouring for what should always appear light and airy. Would it not have been much better to have adhered to the ancient design, (which is still to be seen in the roof of the north aisle,) where the small moulded ribs and bosses ⚫ are painted a light colour, and the panels studded with gilded cinque foils, radiated like stars? The pulpit is at the southwest end of the choir, and adjoining to it, on the same level, is the vicar's pew, enclosed with a screen, and ascended by a staircase from the cross aisle; the whole is of singular construction, and is un doubtedly of the age of Elizabeth, or James I.

The reading-desk and clerk's pew are opposite to the pulpit, on the north-west. The communion-table, being apart from the choir, every part of the divine service is read here. On the south side is the alderman's gallery; at the west end of which, near the pulpit, is the seat of the mayor, under a canopy, supported by four fluted columns, ornamented with gilding, &c.; over it are the royal arms.

The access to this seat is through the gallery; over which, between the windows on the south wall, are armorial ensigns, &c.: near the centre of the above-mentioned gallery is a marble tablet, bearing the arms of the town, erected by the corporation.

On the north side of the choir is another gallery, erected by John Fuller and Rachael his wife, in 1765, at the expense of £130 for the benefit of the fisherman's hospital in this town, when two pillars of the nave were actually removed to admit light to this gallery, which, in itself, disfigures the appearance of the church considerably.

The organ at the west-end of the church, is said to excel, in tone and power, every instrument of the kind in Europe, (that at Haerlem excepted.) It was originally erected in 1733, but was repaired in 1812, and consists of three parts, viz.-the great organ, the choir organ, and the small, together with two octaves of pedal pipes. It stands in a gallery, supported by four Doric columns.

At the north-west end of the middle aisle is the font, raised upon three steps; it is octangular, and is covered by an ornamented pyramidical wooden top, painted and gilt, with a glory in the

centre.

The new chancel is situated at the east end of the church; and over the communion-table is painted the decalogue, the Lord's prayer, and creed. The whole enclosed by a wooden balustrade. This part of the church measures in extent, from east to west, 57 feet, and 108 feet from north to south, but is only used at the time of administering the sacrament, and for the celebration of marriages.

Before the reformation, this church, like most others in the kingdom, had its holy rood, or crucifix, with the figures of Mary and John.

Swinden's account of this, in his "History of Yarmouth," is curious and interesting to the admirers of church antiquities.

"In the east end of the middle aisle stands the communion-table, where formerly stood the great, or high altar, and over it a loft or perch, called the roodloft, erected by Robert de Haddesco, prior of St. Olave's in 1370, and ornamented with curious decorations and devices at his own cost and charges. It is called opus pretiosum circa magnum altare, and by means of illuminations with lamps and candles, the whole appeared exceeding splendid and solemn. These lights before the altars, in ancient times, were with great care and expense,