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?/ mm m POETRY. rilUM l HHII MfcUU'lM. THE LAST ROSE OF HUMMER. T1S the lost Hum of Sutuuicr, l^-fi blooming ?lone r All Ikt lovely companions .' re faded and goiw ; N?* h - .vr of Iter k mired, No true-bud t? n vli, To reflect back lier bln>he?. Or gi\c sigh for ? I'l' not leave iIkt, Uwmi loiw one ! To plno on tlic atctti i S'.nrc tin- lovely are kkeping, 4io, alocp Uiou witlt theiu i Tlnu kindly 1 w.Mtcr Thy leave* oVr tl.e hed, ? W lie re tliy mme? of tlic garden l/.e accntlcM and dead. So may I follow, When (VW'n<l?liipa decay. Ami from low's nhmiiiK circle The gcm? drop aw uy ? When true heart'* l>e witlicrM, And fond one* arc flown, Oh I who would inhabit This blcs.k w orld alone ' Aoincri/ruHK. ? ? i rHOM A LATI. KIHMtkURull CtrU. CLAY 11UKNINU FOR MANURK. The burning or roasting clay for manure id now become pretty general through Scot land* at least ! have seen in your paper va-1 I'ioiiH cominunication.s on that subject, from the county ol' Dumfries, Calloway, Mid. Lotliinu and Itosshire. About Mid*\. West ('alder* tbis system bns been carried on of late to a considerable extent* anil seemingly villi great success. Having at different times examined the operations conducted in Hiis neiglibourbood, I entertain no doubt ol" the practicability of roasting clay or' tena cious subsoil of any kind, at a small ex pence, and 1 am certain it may be don# alter a little practice* at sixpence per cart. I en tertain not (lie smallest doubt of the power ful efficacy of this manure on green crops of ever > description* having un self made the experiment ; but 1 have by no means the same opinion of its power on crops of a dif ferent description* such as wheat* oats, and barley. If it be useful as a manure for |h? tatoes, turnips, cabbages, &c. of which 1 have no doubt, it will become extremely va luable to the cultivator, as it will enable him to reserve all his other manure for wheat and other white crops ; and by securing a good crop of turnips and potatoes, it ran scarcely fail afterwards to produce good succeeding crops of oats jiml grass. Time will soon try the efficacy of this manure on all these* as the experiments made in tlds quurter, with roasted clay are very numer ous. There is uno objection stated to this manure* that it destroys the field, and al most requires ono acre to manure ? This, however, is a mistake, because, from my own ex|>erimeiits, I see that the surface of an acre of Iffawe bad land is sufllcient to manure at least fifty. When tho clay Is greatly mixed with sand, and when no pro per burning or roasting clay or subsoil can be procured, it may in general be most ad visable to burn the upper or top soil ; hut even if this should be the case, one foot of earth from the head or foot rig or side rig will, when burned, be iiinro than sufficient to manure tho whole field, and a little good dung spread upon that rig will in a year or two i\ nder it coiially good as before. There is a considerable degree of art requisite for burning or roasting clay, a^id without a lit tle experience, complete success ought not, to lie expected. In this country the clay in general is mixed with ngrcftt proportion of sand, perhaps a fifth or sixth part, and when this is the case, a proportion of the upper noil must lie burned with the species of sun dy clay, because when the skin is entirely composed of this foul sandy clay, it becomes vitrified, fc forms a crust which is impervi ous to the air, and th? fire is extinguished* Ah soon as this crust is lbrmed, the cold clay below subsides, and the fire is smothered by the sand, 'When the clay Is of this descrip tion, it ought to bo mixed with dry surfhre turf, to admit such air into the kiln. As to (lie quantity of clay ashes that may be sufficient for an acre, .10, or 40 carts may be laid on, according to circumstances* if for green crops, it will answer either in drills, or spread upon the surface ft plough ed down, hut I conceive that tho former is the preferable method. About mid and west Calder various ex periments have of tote been made in this sprvies of improvement, Mr* Young of Jlnrhurn* Mr. Aytouil of Murfston, mid Mr. Cunningham of Uftvfesfdo, are the most extensive improvers in tills new meth od. The materials used by the first of these gentlemen appear to be spongy,' and much mixed with sand, and therefore produce but a small quantity of ashes, according to the bulk of the sod burnt in the kiln?hot the turf made uso of by Mr. Aytoiin and Mr. i 'unniiigham, being more solid and earthly, the .ashes are of ft heavier body, and are more bulky ) but these gentlemen have chiefly used ton snll or turf, the clay being impure* and mixed with a large proportion of ^sand. Home formers, however, have lik ed the clay, which, when pure and well roasted, have produced excellent ashes j ? and the turnips manured with those ashes at present look better than those manured with stable dung. I cannot close this account without slat in# thai the crop of florin produced tl?i? year on Mr, Young'* estate at llarburn, ac tually exceeds belief. A considerable pleci of ground was dug last year chiolly of it spongy, mousy quality. It was planted with florin, and ton-urc8.sed with liiuo and gravel mixed, and afterwards rolled. The ground originally was of very little value, but tin whole Held, consisting of about 14 ucres, cannot have Jen*, on an average, than sot) or 350 stones (or 14 lbs.') of florin hay, and in Homo places of tin- field I should consider 400 Htones per acrA the nearest to the troth. On ground of this dencriptlon, florin grans may be cultivated to great advantage, al though drier and better soils may be very unsuitable for tills purisme. A considerable part of thin florin was also cut In February and March. If any person wishes to culti vate this H|H'ries of grass, or doubts tho a hove statement, 1 would advise hliii to exu mine this field. AN oHHKUvr.it. Turnips. ? A farmer hi the 8outli IlainH. Devon, lust winter made trial of the follow ing Hingulur method of preserving turnips, after removing them fVom the Held at the propel' period of Mowing wheat ; and it ans wered extremely well. lie had the largest of them drawn, without injuring their leaves ill October, and placed dose to each other to the gra^s of an orchard, in the same posi tion in which they grew. Their top nlfits shoot oat fibrous roots in the long grass in a short time At preserved tliem in the state of vegetation perfectly good till wonted. The farmer thought the turnips even increased somewhat ill size, while placed in this man ner. ? IsomloH paper. SCIENTIFIC. Cuunifc of Temperature. ? Not only ani main and vegetables, but minei'al bodies are also affected by the changes of atmospheric temperature. Metals tut) well known to expand or contract by such altc ration } and in tlio 7 5tli volume of the lNiilosouliic Trans* actions, Ucn. Hoy Iiuh shewn that the ex fiaiiHion of the steel pendulum of a clock is mu lt, that every four degree# of t|?e ther mometer will ratine a variation of a second per day in the going of the clock. jUrass will lie absolutely altered III it# nature lucre In by being suspended in the dark atmos phere. Madame lloland describes a very singular kind of harp which she says she saw in a garden of Mr* Jiux , letter-press founder, at II ante, in Switzerland, which must have been on tills principle of expan sion. " It 1h cQiniioacd," she says, <? of fourteen wires closely disposed, fastened at one end to a pavilion, ana at the other end to a wall aMhe extremity of the garden, anil at the distance of about 500 feet. The variations of tho temperature of the atmos phere excite tho vibrations of these wires, and make thein sound in a singular manner. In settled weather, constantly fair, or con stantly rainy, the Instrument is constantly silent. If any change is to Iiapp6n> if Any distant storm is rising of which no appear ance is yet perceived, if contrary wimfsare ready to contend for empire f tho aerial mu sic begins, and thus announces the revolu tions of its element sometimes 24 hum's beforehand." ? FurWt Chemical Essays. A JYtw Comet. ? Professor Wallace of Georgetown College, District of Columbia, communicates to the American Magazine* tiTiblished at Albany, a letter received by ilm (VottiDr. Gibers of Bremen, the famous discoverer of the planets PaUus and Vet la, containing the elements of a Comet disco vered by him in March 1815. What renders this Comet very remarkable is its orbit, which is an elipsis, differing much from a parabola. The jicriodicul time of this Co met is calculated by Olbers, Nicholas and others to be about 73 years. (inn Light ?. ? Wo are happy to loam, fsays a late New-York paper) that Mr. James Karle, of this city, who haw juKt re turned from jUmdon, after much expenee and trouble, Ijau succeeded in' bringing to this country an ingenious manufacturer of the improved Gun Light Jpparolu*, ax now used for lighting the streets of l/mdon, the Theatres, and all places of publie. amuse ment, lie. lie linn also brought with him a complete net of the Apparatus. The l?ondon Monthly Magazine for Oc tober last says, ??' Coveni < iurden Theatre during the punt month haw exhibited the tri umph of thy fi as Lights. Never was illu mination more brilliant, more precise, more innoxious, and at the same time more eco nomical* There is n blaze of white light round the Theatre, and in all its avenues, differing little from the light of day, at half thecxpenceof oil lamps, which serve only to render ** the darkness visible." There are altogether about sixty burners, besides globes, frdtn which issue streams of Illum ined gas, almost too intense for the eye to look iit. lite whole is transmitted above a mile and a half, from the (ias Light manu factory in I'eter-atrect, Westminster, which also lights most of the intermediate streets and houses. Fleet-street* Ludgate Hill, and other adjacent streets, Are lighted from the manufactory in Water-Lane, and exhi bit a blaze of fight which excites astonish ment ami pleasure In all tint behold It.? The cost Is three pounds per annum, or two pence per night, tor ahop window lamps j Tour pound** or two pcnco half penny per night, for indoor und street lumps $ sud an one liHH-lxinuT is to twenty or thirty voiiimon-Mtrcct lumjw, and to two or three of ttio IicmI Argnnd lamps, the savin# Is in all cow#' very 1'onHidcruble, independently jf the vast increase of tin- intensity of the illmniiiiition. Wo iut anxious to feum the ?ftl'f t in (tome of tho country towns, where it litis been propost d to hitiodiice this modi of lighting, and wliirh a single station may mvlcr hh light ?h day/* variety: The Cogitation of my L'mir Jottii . ? A stuic of society, in wliieu nlone true liberty ran u. eiijoyed. is yet 11 stytc of mutual d<'pcndunce. This is not only one of the strongest lies that bind mankind together, hat one ofHieWin cipul sources of our happiness. The limits ill' (lib paper will not permit me to truce the subject in both its partN ; but it ih a inutrei worthy the attention of tlio curioifii* to nb. serve how our interests are connected with 4he interests of hundreds of others, whose biiNiiu'HH in a^ain dependant on the buniums of as many more* until wc find tlio body of Hiiriety bound together in one chain of de pendancc? the rich indebted to the poor no less than the poor to tiie bountv and employ nicnt of the ric h. Am I furnish tlio Gleaner with n?y cogitations, the printer permits me to visit his olflco and to rrad the papers*? As I won sitting by his stovo the other day* hi a sort of reverie, the thought struck me, how many iiersons and trades must bo ein nld M il tn eimlilit him to mililluli l.iu iwiu.i. t?f - ---- - ? 1 ? l'"I" ? ? and benefit tin* public by my lahoi-s : llitt ncv \ Itonuldson, the type-founders, nnd Adam Hamate tli?* press-maker, muHt first be put in requisition ; but to set their trades in motion* a dozen more mechanics must first be put ill operation ? How endless would b? (he labor to mention every person who uiuhI lie employed before the pivss At types could be procured ! There iH then paper to be obtained. lHess me, what numbers muNt be set to work to furniHh this indispensable article. Methinks I see the rosy-cheeked Irish girl pulling flax on the plcnfmut burd en* of the liana. The rotting, breaking, dressing, spinning, weaving blenching and putting up, give employment and bread to an innumerable multitude ; the shipwright, tuid the Heuinen and the uurchants, combine to furnish us oil (hUi tide the Atlantic with Uio fine fabrlca of progheds, that our girls w " rfbr awed ding or a dance process of reducing it to ..... ... . Je to yield a kiss Willi pro coyness, the sleeve get* torn, and my iy'ft tiiuid, in a 111 of good humor, receives a present ; the maid in doe time cuts it up for ait humbler though 110^ less necessary puriiose j and In a few more transitions, it finds itH way to the rug-basket and the paper mill f? at length, having employed the ex cellent .manufactory atlliickingliam it comes forth a pure white sheet, and receiving the impression of ? The Cogitations of Lucie John," again Amis its way to the toilet of beauty. Still giving the' rein to my imagi nation, I fell Into this train of thought : ? That the napkin and table-cloth of the epi cure ought to bo mufftfacturcd into paper & converted into rookery books ; the sails of a man of war into charts, journals and Ha milton Moore's Navigation } the parsons' li nen and baud Into sermons ; the luriies' into love-letter paper ; tin*. politicians* shirts into newspaper ; the merchants* into day-books nnd ledgers j" the lawyers* into bonus, writs and reports j the speculators* into maps of lands and paper money ; the misers' into ludgniontsjjugu mortgages; the soldiers* into 'l)uane*s Hand- Hook and Wilklnson'ft Me molt* ; tWrpnnters' (poor devil*, if tlioy have any) into Munchausen*# Travels and Tales of Wonder ! A ft it all, reader* what are wo but rag* ? Sonic counter, some ft tier J Home u*ed fur a better, hoiiic for a more ignoble piirpoHc? - Hut Death, that inexorable rag-man, shall pick iih all up at lust } and whether we shall come out from our pollutions a white unit pure sheet, or whether a different lot await* iih, is u mlHtery too profound for the Cogita tions of Uncle John t? unravel* ? Gleaner , Itev. Timothy PrietUey^ The following amusing Article is copied from the European Magazine : ? " Died lately, the Itev, llmo thy Priestley.? He wan brother to the cele brated l)r. I'rieatlevf and formerly milliliter of the diHHcnting chapel, in Canon street, Mancheater, from the pulpit of which ho ut' tered many cccentriclUe*, which have been attributed erroheounly to other preacher*. | Observing one of Ilia congregation anleep, i he called to him (atonping in IiIh dlacourse for the purpose,) ** Awake, I Hay, George ituuiHuy, or I'll mention your name." lie had an unconquerable aversion to candles which exhibited long burning wicks j and often, in the midst of- his moot interenUng diHcourseH, on the winter evenings, he would call out to the man appointed for that pur pose?" Tommy ! 'loin my ! top tficae can dles," lie was a man of great humor, which he even carried to the pulpit, lie was the | preacher, though others have bom the cre^ dit or the odium of the circmnHtance, who pulled out of IiIh pocket half u crown, ami laid it down upon the pulptt cushion, offer* ing to het with Ht, Paul, that the passage where he nays <? ho could do alt tiling*," was not true i but reading on " by faith"*-* 'V/if- i ' '.A ' " - # lie put np his money, and said, " nay, nnv, I'aul, if that'a tlio case* I*il not bet witli thee." ft it* known tliat hit principles worn decidedly Calviuisde, of count? dimueiri caily opposite to those of his brother. Dr. Priestly, who whs un 'Unitarian. lie um-e paid hlin a IVuternal visit ut Hiruiintfham, and in thu course of it, wished to preach in the room of the Doctor, who objected, ill eotisc<|u(itieo of tlfoir difference of opinion. .Mr* i'rh'stjey, however* overcame hisscru |d.'S, hy promising to keep clear of doctrin al points, ami conflno hitupelf to the gene ral duties of Christianity# However, when he mounted the pulpit, lit* laid by his pro mts, nnd commenced U|is ? " I have been fl-iiliy of mi hoiiottt IVand to gain your at l nti m, which f wan determined to have ut ,.ny price. My brotlitr Joseph's p ilpit lias ii' Vor had the Gospel Of Christ preached from it j for once. hoWcycr, Mvlyg-toossrs sion'of it, 1 am determined you shall hear it, so here goes" ? and he preached n l'ori ous h('1'i no 1 1 1 in which In: insisted on nil pe culiar tenets of Calvanlsin, and his own views of the Christian dispensation. Ho loll Manchester' many yearn ngo? to reside, and preach in the Metropolis, ' where ho \vas very popular >IS MlnWscr of the Inde pendent C nil pel, in Jews strci^,* Jlomnnilc fitortf. ? An anonymous corres pondent lias favored us with the following curious account, wlilcli lu* us.su re; i us is ge nuine : ho whh walking in the neighborhood ?if Edmonton, wJtli a friend, who requested I lis particular attention to a female then hap pening to ho in the same path way- with them, ?ho having attracted much notice in that <|iiartcr, in consequence of her recent mar ring'' under very peculiar circumstances. ? ? Jilie had horn a servant at a tavern there, tc waite d on tin* guests of tin* Sunday ordinary which is In Id throughout the year. At this ordinary one g^n'leinau was a constant at tend in', and \\ as generally MU|?|KMft*il to ho minil' the numerous clerks of the city, who have no other opportunity of droving the change of n- sh air. ? He usually occupied the Hume seat, and appeared much reserved, except when addressing the maid servant, towards whom his demeanor wart very kind and condescending- ? anil at length he inado a formal proposal of marriage to her. ? The girl* who had more sense than often fails to the lot of pci sons in that sphere of life, did not object to the proposal, but earnestly in Irenteil that a small sum might he settled as a jiroviHinn against any casualties which. In consequence of her intended elevation, Hhe might he. less able to hear. This sug gestion met with all the attention that could ho hoped for. The gentleman agreed to settle one thousand pounds, and lost no time in Helling out stock nnMclpnt for vising that sunt. 'I he liappy da v was now apismited, hut not before the lover had explained to the fair objcct of his choice* thatthev could only mcet'oiico a week, ami had. exacted from hci* n promise never to urge him tu ft further explanation of the ciiTumHtan',es which reduced him to the necessity of suit mitting to so i>ainfiil a separation !; They were according}' married, and wcrft on ve ry pleasantly, until the lady prompted, by ii curiosity, which (whether truly or .not <vo will not venture to affirm) is Haiti to he pecu liar to the aex ret) nested that he would voii fidethe secret to her. ' At thin request the iiiuuner of the enamoured HjmiHC became much altered, and, after betraying a. Consi derable decree of irritation, ho commanded lier never again to obtrude the subject upon him. The storm wuS thus suffct'ed to lilow ovef for a time ; but curiosity, p'rhaps. is one of tlie most powerful motives agitating the humnn breast, and thifl new rsvche had not philosophy enough to withstand It. jSlio again entreated a solution of the mystery ; but the entreaty was met only by a frown she pleaded her aflfcctlon?aud finding all of no avail, she threatened to liavo him watched to the place of his retreat. Tftis had the effect of extorting a declaration from htm | and he assured her that 9I10 plight probably discover his secret, hut if she di<f she never would see him afterward*. Notwithstanding this declaration, the Im prudent woman persisted, and, by the help of some busy friends, was introduced to her husband in hisluisbsnd in Ids disguise, as one of the common beggars of tlie me tropolis 1 she spnkft to him in that situation, butt as he then told her, for the last time ? Hhe has never seen him since. ? tendon pup. Fiddle Fiahlnj?, or a IHve to totifc time. ? A young path-man, having ft fainoun water spaniel, walking near 8t. Clcinciit*M Church, ManeliCHtci*, threw ft atone Into a (Kind there* Tor (lie (Mirpofle of shewing ilio aquatic ymw era of SiIh dog in (living I'm- It, The animal immediately jumped in At eagerly explored jthei bottom | when after about a niinute'a Itripieraion* ho brought up a green hag* which* on/>prnljig? to the antoniMhment of all* contained an excellent violin and Addle Htirlc. An honeat Hibernian proacnt, called out ? ? .Throw in m'-ither stone, young Jon* tlrman, and who know* but he may bring Up iUofitUUfr." S'parlinx Royal When it w?? aa1d, at tho French Court that flip Venut wu gnno to England* loui* XV HI, observed to thoae a about bim, thai ifthat wefco. true. C Jingle - (trre dim* unc beUefemnw dt ptui ft t in gm id hommt du tnoim.