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All Obituary Notices exceerling tix lines,And Uo:niinnications recominecndii.g Candilates for public oflices or trumi-r pufling Egxlibitions, will be charged as Advertisenents. . '-All letters by inail mwust be paid to .insure wunctuil attendance. UTDRev. Fnirouarcx Ruu, is a travelling A-ent for this paper, and is anutorize ito7 eaceive subscriptions and receipt for tne same. Fron the Southern raptist. TIIE ENGLISIT RE#G(CIDlis IN Al.. lI ICA. At the restoration of Charles I, a geneal amnesty was granted to all ex 4p hose who had been directly insru6tal in the execution of his -father. Amontr those thns excepted -wetgQoffer Whallev and Dixwell, JdgeIn tthigh ei ssion which sent Charles -Stuart -." mek. Driven away from '< ' t an Yiially, seek in vs. .- -tn w. *rica,ind on their arrii n, o.zhn, E'qjtertained by Mr. EwlE-,tL the vernor of the Colony, III every 'mark of respect. But as there soon comes a royal warrant for their at rpt, the regicides ar.Tfrced to leave .b otonsand E0 efuge among the for the officers et o King had tracked theim'thith. 'yr, they hid themselves in a cave .n Rock, and continue, for two years, unknown to any but a few kind frien Is, to whom they are indebted el~ir Ote necessaries of life. Again forced to flee, we next see them in a Mill at Milford, where the lnaid of the 'Mill, unconscious of their pre sence, often greeted their ears with .a cavalier song, setting forth the vir tues of the blessed Martyr, aned con signuing by name the two fugitives themselves to disgrace and infoniv. Following up their iiperf1ect his. tory, we next meet them: at liadle\, where they lived in a Cold, d1anp cellar, denied even the privilege of such homely joys as New Enugland then afforded. Their lot was, indeed sad, for New England was then one vast wilderness and had scarcely yet learned how to obtain from the eter nal granite of her hills tie mneans of subsistence, much less the ileans of -wealth. In that wide period of her history, the legicides lived in the (lens and caves of thme cat th, with two blood thirsty royalists in conc stant pursuit, who tracked thetm as mnen w'ith brandI and heounad track, from covert to covert, the wild beast of the forest. Concealed by dlay, by might they wandered forth to breathe the pure air atnd exercise their weary limbs. 'lTere were many to pity their misfortunes; many hearts to bcat in unison with theirs ; and there wore many) to excnte the spirit of' revenge which thirsted for their' blood!, but as a price was set upJonI their heads, no man ventured to en -tertain them openly. A t times, in. -deed, they suddenly came forth from their hiding places, and as suddenly .disappeared, leading the credulous of -the day to believe that they were 1)e ings of more than an earthly mould. And at last, in the samte cellar which had so long afforded them its prIotec tion, they die, far away frome the scenes of their childhood, and the the atre of their public otlice. And in the yard of Mr'. Russell, beneath whose house they lived, their bodies were secretly buried, and, at a period a little subsequent, were, with like secresy, taken uip and conveyedl to New Ihaven, where they have ever s ineco reposed. It was while the llegicides were at I [adley, that an event t~ranspired whic'e sceems to belong rather to ro t, ance thtan to real li fc. An event which has beeu ineterwoven in the Wist-Ton Wish of Cooper, the Oliver' Ne wman of' Southey, and the Peveril of' the Peak of Scott. In 1475 Kcing i hilip burst in fury upon the people of I [adley while they wore engaged inl public worship, arnd stunned them by the suddenness of the blow. A o'rito smile lightened un tho (lark features of the Indian' Chief as he looked on the success of his well con certed plais. But in the moment of victory, a tall old man, with his long white locks streaming in the breeze, bursts into the crowd and invokin the God of Battles in a voice heard above the din of conflict, rushed in petuously on the conquering foe. Animated by such a leader, they re new the fight and change the for. tunes of the day. And when the victory is won, and all hasten to thank their (leliverer, he suddenly disappears, leaving them in as great wonder and astonishnent as were the Roni Fathers when Castor and Pollix vanished hy "1 vesta's holy well.' That mau, long regarded as an angel fromn heaven was afterwards known to have been Goffe, the Regi cide. who, from an opening in his cellir, witnessed the chances of the contest and rushed to the fight with all the fires of Nasely kindled afresh im his veins. It is. indeed, interesting but mel anelly to trace the record of lives thus spent, and to dhvell on the emo. tions which must have agitated their breasts during the long period of their exile. Iow strange at that time was the contrast between the country inl which they lived as wan derers and outlaws, and the land which they left Iehind them. Strati ger still was the conrast between the rank which they ield in the one, and that which the' had bel in the oth er. For ini these inhabitants of the cave we discern the near relatives of Cromwell mid the heroes who had so oftei put to flight the bi-avoes of Luinsfird and I purt, and in the disguised waDIderers of ILoller, we see those %,ho in the 11,111 of William Itufus had sat in judgment on the life of a King, whi had witnessed the mauguration of Oliver and who had followed in procession as Lords of JkRA M ~ 4j jf$(W. wnleu l 1e was Not long since it was announced that the descendants of John Dix well, another of the llegicides, had (isintered the remains of their ances tor for the purpose of erecting a mon ument to his ieniory. Ilaving also fled to A merica, I.)xWell, under the feigned name of Davids, lIong resided in New Haven, aid at his death, was buried by the side of G arid Whally. As we 1taiid with his re latives by the opening grave of this Regicide we think of New Haven as it was in 1688, and we go with its weeping citizeis to the i use of mourning. We gather arounid the cIich of an- a geI seiiifhier, now in the eighty- bthird year of his age, who is oh. served to be troubled and resiless, 1r lie has been anxiously expecting a rev olution in ghmd. NIv nin the lied of 1ea.th, in his slight deleh liri lie mentions name anrcalli evenlts wlicl plainly indicate that h.s past lie has been oie of une iiconuiomn iite rest. Now he is on the field of hat tie cha-ging the enemies of the Com moinweailth. Now he is helling on the licenitions age of Chiarles I [, andi how on thle terrors of the loodly As sizes. But while we thus stanid around his bed, it is whisperied that a courir hias ju st ariiived from Rus ton with the news that James 11 had ben lhuriled fromin his thrioine,:nuil thati the glorious re volutioii of 1088 I had been achiieved. 'The welc-ome news falling upon thne ears of the dying ld man, starts him i from his deliriiunm. Hiis thou ghits iio loiiger- wand eriig, lhe thaniks God for this great victory of civil and religions freedomi, anid telling th e astonished grou p thamt his nam> is Dix well, that lie is one (if the Judges of Charles I. Without a struggle he breaithed his last, w~hen the evening sun had sunk behinid the noble rock which was once the home of Goffe and Whlally, his spirit was winiging its way to iregions wherec the drum heats no reveille and where the clarion sounds no alarms. Such wvere thei sad lives of the Rtegicideis in Aimerica, the story of whose exile, sufferinigs, and death has th rown a livelier interest around the pages of history, andI furnished themes foir poietry and romance. Thelu time has come when their characters may be dispiassionately reviewved by history. Andl the historian of whait ever party ini noting these public acts, will r-ecordI for the judlnnent of ages to Come that among those who hiav'e fought in the cause of civil and reli gious liberty, none werec more con sistcnt in their principles, and none mnore excemplary in their- lives. C (337 'Thi celebrated Ke~nucky' "inm," fifteen i years of age, and wveighing 500 poumnds, is in Cinc-innati. i:,rnium is en la;rg~inghuia Musucm n~ eI xp'ctation of himg arrival, ii'i LET MNE REST. lie does well who does 116 best; Is 1 weary! let him rest; ihrothers ! I ImLVe done my 1,est, I anm weary-let m rest. After toiling oft in vain, linifleci, yet to Otrtlgglid fairt; Aftvr toilitig lonig, to gailn .ittle gootd with inickle pain; Let me rest-but lcy rue low. Where tile hedge side rolscs blow; Witero glae little dluisea grow, When tile winds n.-Mayig go; Where the footpath rusties plod, Wihere llt- br'eze-bow'el ijplarA nol; Where the oll waox<ls worsimip God; Where IIis wneil paints the sod; Where- tile wedel thrstle sings; Where tie yoing tbird tries hi wings; WIwre the wailing plover seings, Near the rtnilet. rniihy ieprings! Sincerity is the ground work of all that is good and valuable. However beautiful in appearance the structure may be, if it stand not on this found ation it Cannot last. But sincerit V can hardly be called a vit tue in itsel', though a deviation from it is a fault. A man may be sincere in his vices, as well as in his virtues. Now lie who throws off all remorse or shame, and even makes a boast of his vices, canli claim no merit from the sincerity lie expresses in so doitig. If lie who is sincere cannot nppear amiable, his heart is wrong, and his sincerity, far from being a virtue, seems only to add to the rest of his faults that of be ing willing to give pain to others. and able to throw aside that shaine which would atten(d on every fault, whether great or small, lind which is some times a restraint to such as are inca pable of being influeiiced by nobler motives. lloig!hness of manner is, in fact, so far from being in itself a tark ofsiiieerity, that it is merely the natural expression of one character, as gentleness is of another. And it should always be remembered, that to connect the idea of a good quality '.'.?f Mm -lajf g d sa iuch more pernicious coscriences than may at first be apprehiended. Yet this is too often done, in many intitances, not only' by those who are ititerested to promote such a decep tion, but also by those who take up :naxiiii upon credit, and believe what others have believel, withint inqpiir inig into the grotuids f(i such opininwis. This is too muchi tle case with the world in general. There are mnyiv different species of heat ache itn this wtorl(l, and many sharper and deadlier pangs than that of absence; but still seperation from thoese we love is a hard thing to bear. Inl that respect, as in mnny others, mieni ha-e the nilvanta gte over women. Wlerev er the lover g 's, n itti:; her presence to whom his heart is boiid, he goes to action and to active life-to life that demands the exer tioni of his menit al, perhaps even &f his bodily energies, that brin.gs limi bit little time for the weary pi1iig ' the heart, wih is the worst pain of absence. An.1 hire -ti him w ith whlose own eifeerts it at least part'lyv rests to change hope into cei'taiinty wecars an aspect bi~rihter far', and1( speatks in at tonite of' ar inore joyeus pr'onuise, thman slthidos toi that heart which has nthiing to do butt to wait - to suiffer andi lie still" T'he du-. Stes of a woman are rarely suchl as to~ lini dei' ier though~l s from d welliti ' on the ptast. Di st 'oxni:x-r.-.-D isce ntent is a sin that is its own itunishmena'it, and makes men-i tormiient themttselvyes; it imakes the sp ji'it sad- the ha d v sick-and all enjoymnent situ'; it arises not fr'om coitflfion, buit thei mmnid. Pauil was contenited in pirisoin-Ahab was dlisc-on tenited int a pa~lace~; lie Ihad all the de lighs oS(f C'atnaan. the p leasantt landl thte wealth of' a k:ingdom, the le'a a re of' a cour it, thot htmnor's and p oweris of a thirone; yet, all thItis avails him t inothinig withouat Naboth's vinetvard. Iniortdiniate dlesires ex pose mten to) coi tinual vexations; mund heing (disposed to fret, they will always finid somec thing to fret about.-'Ji/tthw IHen iTue:PnoonE:34 OF LIFE:-Men re joice when the suit is kien, they ire joice ilso when it goes down, whilst they aire unconmsciousg of thme decay of their own lives. Men rejoice on see ingi thte face of' a no w season, as at tho arrival of' one greatly dlesired. Nev ei'theless the r'evolutionm of seasons is the diecay of humani life. Fi'agments of' drtift wood mneeting ini the wide ocean continue together a little space; thus parents, wives, children, rela tives, friends, ond richies remain with us for a short imo, then soporate and separation, is inevitable. .Bo mortal can escane theo commro n ant h who mourns for his departed relatives has no power to cause them to return. One standing on the road would read ily say to a number of persons pass. ing by, I will follow you. Why, then, should a person grieve, when journeying the same road which has been assuredly trodden by all his forefathers ? Life resembles a catar act rushing down with irresistable impetuosity. Knowing the end of life is death, every right minded man ought to pursue that which is connec ted with happiness and ultimate bliss. -Dubhlin University Magazine. To Youva AINEN.-Don't rely up on friends. Don't rely upon the good name of your ancestors. Thousands have spett the prime of life in vain hopes of aid from those whom they call friends, and thousands have starved because they had a rich father. Re ly only upon the good name which is made by your own exertions, and know that the best friend you can have is an unconquerable determina tion, united with decision of charac ter. SoCrTry Ix CALUFORnNa.-An in. telligent correspondent of the Journ al of Conineree, gives the following picture of California Society: "This mining business rusts a man wonderfully, and yet I find more lit erary men engaged in it than of any other class. In fact, the mines n.te well stocked with lawyers, doctor-s and schoolmasters. The first of these have little in their calling to at tend to; the second, plenty of physick ing, but no pay-the third undoubt edly find gold-digging a much more agreeable occupation than ramming ideas into thick skulls, or belaboring the unfeeling backs of stubborn ur-I chins. Of ministers, the number is I not a great deal, nor the deihrd; every effort here to get u lbath 'no is tohlo~f lA , . ofr ence meeting among 3, 5, 6 or .. ,-. professing christians of different d,-. nominations. The ravines are frmn one to six miles apart, with high hills intervening, and the cabins ate even more scattered. Sunday, to), as I have heretofore told you, is washing day, mending d.y, prcspect hunting and gala-day. There is no narrying to do--no children here to haptise no sacramental feast--no females to exert a hallowed iniluence--.-no homes to tie men down. Such a state of society, I venture to assei t, has ncv er before existed in the world's histo Iy. I am impatient to get back to soine spot where the thirst for gold has not lrunk ip the tbler qualities )f lie hm.tn heart, anl made inca brutish, selfish and unihilv. I admit there are soine excepti.'tis, but gen. erally si eaking, inflcf hero art! not what they were at home. All re straints are removed, and the cloven foUt was boldly displayed." I .ITaIUO I)NA t. StI-LATrox. - So me years ago, when the wor-ld was inad1 uiponi lott"ries, the cootk of a middtle-aged gentleman drew from his hanmds the. saving's of some y-ears. Ier mnastet-, elmiotis to kitow the eaulse, leatrned that she hadl repeated ly d reamed that a certin number was a great prize, and had btoutght it. lie called her a fo'ol for lier- pains, anti never omittedi ani occasioni to tease heri on the subject. Onte day, however, the mma-ster saiw ini a newspaper thtat the. tmlmber was actually a prtize of' ?20,000. Coo k is calle uc1 p---a pal aver' enisues-h ad knIowit lier imaniiy yea:rs-lthl to. pait, &c., in: short, lie ptopoIses miari'a ge andlis acceptted. Thle y were married thle next Inorning and' as thme car-riage htok the'm from the~ chturchel the folltowiiing dliahoguc eni suted: "Well, \lii11y, two happy eventts in one day. You have tmrriedl, I tr-ust a goad t hsanad; y'ou Ite soimethiiing else. lBut first let mec a~sk vou where yourT lottery tic-ket is ?"' Alollj1y, who thought he was begin ning to banter- the old sub'ject, re plied "D~on't you say more abmout that. I thought how it woul lhe, I ntever should heiar- thet end1 ott: so 1 sold it tt the baker for a gineia profit--so tieednm't make any more fuss about A C'AI'ITA. R.\Tr S'oRtY.-1ev. W~alter. Colton, in his agroeable attd chiristiman-like diar-y of , voyage to California in a man of-war, etititled "Decck and Port." (iP which, by the way, much is ildly.and convincingly said against the qiirit ration and~ flog ging in the naug,) relates the follow ing ca, ital mt story: "i; av, always felt aomo regardi for ai since my eruisft in the Con-1 stellation. We were fitting for sea at Norfolk, and taking in water and provisions; a plank was resting on the sill of one of the ports which com municated with the wharf. On a bright moonlight evening, we discov ered two rats on the plank coming into the ship. The foremost was leading the other by a straw, one end of which each held n his mouth. We managed to capture them both, and found, to our surprise, the one led the other was stone blind. His faithful friend was trying to get him on board, where he would have com fortable quarters during a three years cruise. We felt no disp~sition to kill either, and landed them on the wharf. How many there are in this world to whom the fidelity of that rat readeth a lesson !" INCIDENT OF THE PENINSU. LA WAR. BY MRS. E. F. ELETT. It was a bloody and critical period of the war in the Peninsula, that Morrillo, then commanding the fifth Spanish army, about four thousand strong, in conjunction with Penne Vilemur, passed down the Portugues frontier to the Lower Guadina, inten ding to fall on Seville as soon as Soult should advance to the succor of Badajos. In the beginning of April, while the French were dis heartened by the sudden news of the fall of the city, Penne Villemur and Morillo, issuing out of Portugal, cross ed the Lower Guadina and seized San Lucar de Eayor. This place was ten miles from Seville, which was on ly garrisoned by a Spanish Swiss bat tallion in Joseph's service, aided by "Escopetors," and by sick and con valescent men. The Spaniards soon occupied the heights in front of the Triana bridge and attacked the French cutrenchments, hoping to raiQen nnula'r "'zanntion~,Jlaai teros, on th1e other sie, ima . cod mth eleven thousand men, intend. ingLP to fall on Seville fmnm thn left of the Gau1quirer. But the hopes entertained'f1f Spaniards of being speedily in posses sion of Seville, were cut off by a piece of (leceit. False information adroitly given by a Spaniard in the French interest, led Ballasteros to believe Soult was close at hand whereupon he immediately returned to the Ron dai; while Penneo Villemur, also warn ed that the French would soon re turn, retired to Gilbralcon. This disappointment and failure in the execution of a favorite project, cherished for many mouths, irritated bievond control the natural severe temper of Morillo. It was evening, and the division of the army uder him, was encamp ed some hours march on their re treat. Preparations might have been seen for a military execution, and a couplelof prisoners captured in their last skirmish, were according to the cruel practice ofsoume chiefs in those times, to he put to death. The cap tives were guiarded by a file of sol (iers, and the executioners, waiting the wor-d of commanad to draw up, were leaning on their weapons and talking of the evenats of the last two Just then, one of the inferior ofhi eei s returning to his tent, after giv inug somec order to the men, was in terruipted by a boy apparently tenm yarsd ofae, who, seizing his hand, adspeakinig in an accent slightly foreign, bes.ught him with piteous entreaties, to procure him admittance to the general. The officer found, onm inqjuir-y, that he was the son of one of the p risoncrs, a soldier distinuguish ed for his eminent personal bravery, who had nmot beena taken, even when overp~owered( by numberms, without giving and receiving many severe wounds. This soldier, weary and wondm~ed, but invincible in courage andl spirit, for- he scorned to ask clemn e-ncy of his conqumerer, was now to sutfer detath with his companion ;n misfortuine. The terrible or-der had been given, for Morrihlo would not be imfpedled in his march by prisoners; and lhe so hated his country's cne mies, that the bravest andl mfoat gen crous amnig them could have found no rmercy at his haads. The prison Dr's littlo boy refusing to be separa ted from his father, hMd been sulfered y the Spaniards to follow him. "You shall see the general, boy, 4ince yon wish it," said the officor, a reply to the child's passionate en ~reaties; 'hut be will niot grant your ather's life. San Luicas ! but these French dogs have given us too much rouible already.' T1hey entered the general's tent; MIorillo, by the light of a lam p burn ng on a table was reading a despatch is had innt received Two o his officers stood near him; there was no one else in the tent. The brow of the chief was contracted, and his eye flashed as if what he read displeased him; and he looked up with an impa tient exclamation as the officer Ofiter ed wivh the boy. The child, as soon as Morillo was pointed out to him, rushed forward and knelt at his feet. 'What does this mean ?' demanded the general. 'Spare him! spare my father!' sob bed the youthful supplicant The officer explained hip relation ship to one of the prisoners about to be executed. 'Ali! that reminds tme,' said the chief, looking at his watch. 'Pedro, nine is the hour. Let them be punc tual, and have the business soon over.' Again with moving entreaties, the child besought his fathers life. 'Did thy father send thee hither!' asked the general, sternly. 'No, senor, he did not.' 'And how darest thou then-?' My father has done nothing to deserve death ,' answered the lad. 'Ile is a prisoner of war.' 'Ia! who taught thee to question my justice? answer me.' 'No one, senor, but brave generals do not always kill their prisoners. 'I kill whom I choose,' thundered Morillo; 'and I hate the French. Roy, thy father shall die. I have said it, begone. The officer made a silent sign to the petitioner to intimate that there was no hope, and that lie must be gone. But the boy's countenance suddenly changed.-Ie walked up to the gen 'ral, who had turned away, and pla ced himself directly before him, with a look of calm resolution worthy of a martyr. 'llear me, senor,' said he; 'm father is gray headed, lie is wounded his strength is failing even now, though eo stands up to receive the fire of y ur men. I am young and Strong, and well. Let them shoot me n uhis place, anud let my father- go t the devoted child was/ ,, -thewith a holy enthusiasmn. A dark flush rushed to the brow of Morillo, and for a moment lie looked on the boy in silence. 'Thou art willing to die,' at length lie said 'for thy father ? Then to stiffer pain for him will be nothing. Wilt thou lose one of thy ears to save him? 'I will,' was the firm reply. 'Lend me thy sword, Padlin;' and in an instant at one blow, the gener al 'struck off the boy's ear-The victim wept, but resisted not; nor raised his hand to wipe away the blood. 'So far, good. Wilt though lose the other ear?' 'I will to save my father!' answer. ed the boy convulsively. Morillo's eyes Ilashed. The hero isn of a child compelled even his ad miration; but unmoved from his crued purpose, he smote off the other ear with his still reaking sword! There was a dead silence. 'And now senor,' said the boy, breathing, quickly, and looking up into the general's face. 'Arid now,' answered Morillo, 'dlepart. THlE FATHER OF SU'cH A CHfLDnr Ii ANGIEROLS To SPMNtx: HEI MU'ST PAY THlE FORFEIT OF HiS The maimned child went forth from the presence of his inihumnan fi. Presently the report of firearms an nounced that he witnessed the execu tion of his father. Must we blame the cruelty of in dividuials for such enormities?-or not rather the relentiness spirit of war, that builds up the glory of its heroes of a seaffoldinig of death, and sacr-ifices daily to the projects of am bition, the prompting of humanity ? ([From tide New York Ibiune.] STEAM NAVIGATION. Pn~feumilaco Shieroidal Sytem for the p'rodnectio'n of Steamn, invented by, Air. Cestud de* Be'auregard. Two months have scarcely elapsed since we spoke in the Tribuno of a great physical discovery made by Mr. lloutigny in Paris, and we have al ready received the news of its re duction to practico, which if it prove true, will produce a great revolution in manufactures and the moans of lo comotion. Everybody has remarked that when drops of water fall upon the cover of a hot stove, they aggregato themselves into little balls, rolling for an instant like mercury .In a glass, anid a itoment after dispok gin stean. ap itg 'Mr D lgy BautierhtMbia t1 maker, starting from this fact, unex' plained by any theory known at the time, some years ago zhade a aerid - of experiments upon what the learia now call the Spheroidal or fousth state of water. Two yedts since Mr. B. publishedgen this subject, a book which is of the most attractive kind, and he says at the close that he is in the way of finding th 'princi. pie of a practical application to tho formation of steam. On speaking with Mr. Boutigiy on this subject, you recognise a first rate chemist, but though he has a theoretical knowledge of mechanics, he is not an engineer. Happily, at this point of 4be dis covery, a civil engineer, Mr. Cestud do Beauregard entered the field, and, as will be seen by the following, has reaped a rich harvest. Ii the Rue du Fauborg St. Den. nis, No. 162, at Paris, Mr. C. de B. has erected a steam engine of 500 horse power on his new plan 'In place of the common boiler with its tubes and other complications, Je employed a single vessel with a flat bottom, about one-fiftieth as large as an ordinary boiler of the same power. It is inclosed in a brick turnace above a fire-gite of reduced dimen sions. This vessel is always empty of water. Connected with the bot tom are two pigometers to indicafe its temperature, and on the cover is a valve, which you open when you wish to stop the engine in an instant. X manometer or safety apparatus needed. The work is so constructed as to keep the bottom of the boilers attho temperature of 750 Firenheit, and the principle which se a for a basi s is this: When a small quantity of watedr cast upon a surface heated to 750 Fahrenheit or more, it is reduced to stean which 1A forme-- and remazmt& at the same temperature of 750. To use.the en ne ose o, to e bic inchesofwt re W th6 hot vessWj egins to setthe pitho t After that the engine itself Iauppe the boiler with the- :equisio -AM quantity of water. - The steam leaves the cylinder- at the temperature of 580 and pas iPg through the water reservoir ofa coil of pipe, heats that water and raises it to 212 before escaping into the at mosphere, or before being reduced to water. For the last three months Mr. Beauregard's works have been acces sible to every body. The first En gineers and men of science in Paris have been there engaged dtiring that period in every kind of experiments; the result of which is perfectly satig factory and leads to the following conclusion, with regard to the new invention: 1st. Economy of fuel of over fifty per cent. TIhe best boilers known* require three pound of coal per hour for each horse power. The new sys tem, only from one to one and a half. 2d. Reduction in the weight of machinery over fifty per cent. 3d. Security from explosion. The safety apparatus used in it is simu ply to prevent the boiler from being mijured by the fire; none is necessary to prevent explosions; the vessel be ing always empty of water and empty of water and steam, when the engitio. rests. Supposing all this to be true, as we hope it will prove to he, the dis covery must produce a greet ocrggs in all branches of mechanics with a reduction of the cost of many airticles of first necessity. 1But the main ro' sult will surely be, increased speed in steam navigation The reductiono weight in the new boiler will give ii power dlouble that of those now in use without changing the draft of the vessel; and by the reduction in the consumption of fuel the same cargo of coal will be sufficient to sail the same number of days even with en gines of double the present power. But as the trip will be performed int less number of days, a diminution -in the quantity of coal taken on board will still be possible. VICTOn BEAUMONT, Civil igit cer. AnSENCE OF MIND.--.--Awea Ohio put her baby into a waahfi* ( and its dirty frock and parI6stidf@@e cradle, and sent her little o it. She did no i 0e s until ie shabyo'f4iel e its talete cIVli n f~ ut in :y, t~t