"No, sir?" suddenly exclaimed Holt, with an en-he entertained towards the daring rebel gradually ergy that rather startled the magistrate, "of the Go- yielded to sentiments of pity for his misfortunes, and vernment only-not of the King! It is my belief, admiration at his magnanimity. Ardently did he that were the Lord Lieutenant to offer the poor man long to save him; but there was a bigoted council, his life and liberty, he would withdraw for ever from and justly exasperated Government, to be won over the scene of his past crimes, and from the country, in to the side of mercy. His chief hope rested on the which he has now neither house nor home, friend nor well-known humanity of the Lord Lieutenant. To protector." see his Excellency-to make the first impression"That may be your opinion, sir; but no terms will was the great object of the magistrate's solicitude. ever be made with the rebel until he is in the power A pledge once given by the humane Hardwicke, of Government; for what security could he offer for would ensure the safety of the rebel's life. His rehis compliance, even supposing that the Lord Lieu-solve was instantaneous. Ringing his bell, he ortenant humanely consented to accept of his submis- dered four horses for Dublin, without a moment's sion on these terms?" delay; and intimated to Holt the necessity for his “His honour, sir!" replied the rebel, with an em- being confined to the house till his return; assuring phasis which in an instant raised a feeling of suspi- him that his name should not be divulged, and that cion in the magistrate's mind that he was conversing, no restraint, beyond confinement to the House, would if not with Holt himself, with some one of his band be imposed on him. The officer next in command of in the immediate confidence of the chief. He grasp the troops was called in, and informed that the ed his pistol, while he alternately glanced at the stranger had made some important disclosures, and description given in the proclamation and the form had still further communications to make to Governand features of his visiter; then fixing his full dark ment, and must not be lost sight of for one instant; eye on the yet unmoved and firm countenance of the stranger, authoritatively demanded—

"And pray, sir, who are you that thus so confidently vouch for the honour of the rebel chief?" “Himself!—the unfortunate HOLT!"

The magistrate attempted to raise the pistol, on which his hand had for some time rested; but ere he could accomplish the movement, one was close to his head, in the firin grasp of the rebel's hand, who, in a tone of humility and supplication, cried—

but no questions were to be asked or answered, except as to his personal wants, which the servants were ordered to attend to. With a mind oppressed by anxiety, but still not wholly divested of hope, the worthy magistrate set off for Dublin Castle; and, in the course of a long and secret audience with the Lord Lieutenant and Chief Secretary, he rendered a full and, of course, the most favourable account of his most extraordinary interview that morning with the Rebel Chief, concluding with the announcement "Easy, easy, captain! Your hand, sir, must not of his unconditional submission to his Excellency's be soiled by my poor blood; or, if it must be so, we clemency. Pity, mercy, and sound policy prevailed die together! Hear me, sir. I promised to explain over all narrow or vengeful feelings. The pledge why I made you the instrument of the rebel's cap- was given; and Mr. H- that evening returned to ture. You have been a blessing to our poor country his mansion, the joyful messenger of pardon and of under all its misfortunes, and often arrested the hand peace.

of the murderer from the throat of his unresisting Next morning, without any parade, or even an victim. Unable to check the atrocities you hourly escort of troops, the magistrate conveyed Holt in his witnessed, without compromising your own character carriage to Dublin Castle, where, for safety, he was for loyally, (that hackneyed cant-word of the tyrants lodged in the apartments appropriated for State priof our island,) you have seen our poor houses in soners.

flames-our herds destroyed or plundered, our crops Every information which the grateful Holt could trampled upon and ourselves hunted like wild afford was given with fidelity, and with no ordinary beasts, by a brutal foreign soldiery, or the still more show of talent, shrewdness, and good sense, during savage native yeomanry let loose upon us to drive us his several examinations before the Privy Council. to that rebellion which the Government itself pro- He acted as guide to the band of general and engivoked. You have seen all this; but you, sir, never neer officers who proceeded to the Wicklow Mounwantonly oppressed us. Not a stick of your planta- tains to examine the various positions in which the tions, not a hair of your cattle, nor a sheaf of your rebel chief for so many years had sustained himself. crops, have ever been injured or plundered by me or Passes through apparently unfathomable gulphs, mine. Whilst others were the firebrands to keep (the mere existence of which rested but on traditional alive the flame of the rebellion, you, sir, were always accounts)-by means of which, communications the peace-maker to mediate between the weak mis- were held with distant posts with a rapidity which guided rebel and the all-powerful Government. To baffled all professional calculation-were explored you, sir, I surrender myself!-do all you can to pro- under his guidance. New lines of road, branching tect my poor wife and children, then dispose of me off from the great military way then in progress, as you please." were suggested and marked out by the intelligent Then drawing from beneath his coat another pis- Holt, as opening a ready access to the very heart of tol, he placed the muzzles of both towards his own the mountain recesses. These, and every other ser breast, while he thrust them forward to the hands of vice he could render, were his peace-offering and the magistrate, saying, “Now, sir, the Rebel Holt is atonement for past offences, and an humble testimony your defenceless prisoner." of gratitude for Royal clemency.

A thousand conflicting feelings agitated the breast In another month the fallen chieftain, from the of the magistrate, a man whose humanity was equal deck of the vessel which conveyed this wretched to his courage, (and both were unquestionable.) All family to a far distant shore, cast a long and lingerthat rancorous feeling which, a few moments before, ing look on the blue hills of romantic Wicklow, the

scene of his triumph and of his sorrows; and, press-They see a country which in its natural features is ing to his bosom the faithful partner of his past perils pleasing, bold to a certain degree, and picturesque to and future fortunes, he bestowed a tear and a blessing on the country of his heart.

From Chambers' Journal.

A PEEP AT THE STAFFODSHIRE POT

TERIES.

a still greater. There is the infant Trent, a small stream winding down from its source in the moorlands towards the lovely grounds of Trentham, the seat of the Duke of Sutherland, through a fine expanded and winding valley, beyond which rises the heathy heads of moorland hills towards Leek. Among and between the pottery towns are scattered well cultivated fields, and the houses of the wealthy potters, in sweet situations, and enveloped in noble trees; but the towns themselves are strange enough. SOME of the greatest distinctions amongst the As you overlook them from some height, they appear people of this country arise from the trades and con- huge, stretches of conglomerated brick houses, chiefly sequent habits of different districts. The weaving of one size and kind, interspersed with, here and and cotton spinning swains of Lancashire, the miners there, a much larger one, with great square manuof Derbyshire and Cornwall, the mechanics of Shef- factories; with tall engine chimneys vomiting black field and Birmingham, the carpet-weavers of Kidder- volumes of smoke, and with tall conical erections, minster, and ribbon-weavers of Coventry, the potters much like those of glass manufactories, which are of Staffordshire, the keelmen of Newcastle-on-Tyne, the pot-hovels in which they bake their wares in the colliers of that neighbourhood, the shephe of ovens or furnaces. As you advance, new characterthe North and the shepherds of the South Downs, istics present themselves at every step. Except just the agricultural peasantry, each and all have their in the centre of each town-for, to use the lofty lanown peculiar characteristics of personal aspect, language of a historian of the Potteries, they are a categuage, tastes and tone of mind, which it would be nation of several towns, though the dwellings of one worth while to trace out and record. It would reach pretty near to those of the other, as Lane-End, have the good effect of making the different dis- Lane-Delph, Stoke, Sheffon, Hanley, Burslem, tricts better acquainted with each other, and would Tunstal, &c.-You see no good shops, or houses present features that would surprise many who ima- which indicate a middle class, such as, in fact, the gine themselves pretty familiar with the population majority of common towns are composed of. of their native land. We will answer for it that are, generally speaking, but two classes of houses as there are few who have any accurate or lively idea of of people-the thousands of those of the working that singular district which furnishes us with the order, and the fine massy and palace-like abodes of earthenware we are daily using, from the common the wealthy employers. In the outskirts, and parred flower-pot to the most superb table-services of ticularly about Lane-End, you find an odd jumble of porcelain, from the child's plaything of a deer or houses, gardens, yards, heaps of cinders and scoria lamb resting under a highly verduous crockery tree, from the works, clay-pits, clay-heaps, roads made of to the richest ornaments for the mantel-piece, or broken pots, blacking and soda-water bottles that chaste and beautiful copies of the Portland or Bar- perished prematurely, not being able to bear "the berini vase. Who has a knowledge of this district? furnace of affliction," and so are cast out "to be Who is aware that it covers with its houses and trodden under foot of man;" garden walls partly factories a tract of ten miles in length, three or four raised of banks of black earth crumbling down in width, and that in it a population of upwards of again, partly an attempt at a post-and-rail, with some 70,000 persons is totally engaged in making pots, dead gorse thrust under it; but more especially by that cooks and scullions all over the world may enjoy piles of seggars, that is, a yellowish looking sort of the breaking of them? Such, however, is the reputed stone pot, having much the aspect of a bushel-meaextent and population of the Staffordshire Potteries. sure, in which they bake their pottery ware. Many

There

The general aspect of the Potteries is striking. of these seggars are piled up also into walls of sheds The great extent of workmen's houses, street after and pig-stys. The prospects which you get as you street, all of one size and character, has a singular march along, particularly between one town and effect on the stranger. From the vicinity to the another, consist chiefly of coal-pits, and huge steammoorlands and to the Peak of Derbyshire, the country engines to clear them of water, clay-pits, brickin which the Potteries are situated is diversified with yards, ironstone mines, and new roads making and long ridges of considerable elevation, and intervening hollows levelling with the inexhaustible material of vallies, and to those who travel through it by night, the place, fragments of stoneware. presents a remarkable appearance. The whole reAs you proceed, you find, in the dirtiest places, gion appears one of mingled light and darkness. troops of dirty children, and, if it be during working Lights are seen scattered all over a great extent in hours, you will see few people besides. You pass every direction-some burning steadily, others huge large factory after factory, which are generally built flitting flames, as if vomited from the numerous round a quadrangle with a great archway of approach mouths of furnaces or pits on fire. Some are far for people and waggons. There you see a chaos of below you, some glare aloft as in mountainous holds. crates and casks in the quadrangle; and in the winThe darkness exaggerates the apparent heights and dows of the factory next the street, earthenware of all depths at which these flames appear, and you ima- sorts ped up, cups, saucers, mugs, jugs, tea-pots, gine yourself in a much more rugged and wild region mustard-pots, inkstands, pyramids and basins, painted than you really are. Daylight undeceives you in dishes and beautifully enamelled china dishes and this respect, but yet reveals scenery that to the covers, and, ever and anon, a giant jug, filling half a greater number of passengers is strange and new. window with its bulk, and fit only to hold the beer

of a Brobdignag monarch. In smaller factories, and been noted for the freedom of their opinious, as well house windows, you see similar displays of wares of as for the roughness of their manners. But in this a common stamp; copper-lustre jugs, and tee things, latter respect they are daily improving. Nearly as they call them, of tawdry colouring and coarse twenty years ago, we have seen some things there quality, and heaps of figures of dogs, cats, mice, men, which inade us stare. We have seen a whole mob, sheep, goats, horses, cows, &c., &c., all painted in men, women, and children, collect round a couple of flaring tints laid plentifully on; painted pot marbles, young Quaker ladies, and follow them along the and drinking mugs for Anne, and Charlotte and streets in perfect wonder at their costume; and we William, with their names upon them in letters of have seen a great potter walk straight through a pink or purple, or, where the mugs are of porcelain, group of ladies, on the footpath, in his white apron in letters of gold. and dusty clothes, instead of stepping off the path; While you are thus advancing, and making your and all that with the most perfect air of innocent observations, you will generally find your feet on a simplicity, as if it were the most proper and polite good foot-path, paved with the flat sides of a darkish thing in the world. We also remarked at that time sort of brick; but, ever and anon, you will also find that scarcely a dog was kept by the workmen but it your soles crunching and grinding on others, com- was a bull-dog; a pretty clear indication of their posed of the fragments of cockspurs, stilts and tri- prevailing tastes. But their chapels and schools, angles, or, in other words, of little white sticks of temperance societies, and literary societies, and pot, which they put between their wares in the fur-mechanics' institutions, have produced their natural nace, to prevent them from running together. You effects, and there is no reason to believe that the pass the large and handsonie mansions of the master population of the Potteries is behind the population potters, standing amid the ocean of dwellings of of other manufacturing districts in manners or morals. their workmen. You meet huge barrels on wheels, Were it otherwise, indeed, a world of social and rewhite with the overflowing of their contents, which ligious exertion would have been made in vain. It is slip, or the materials for earthenware in a liquid is not to be supposed that such men as the Wedgstate as it comes from the mills where it is ground; woods, the Spodes, the Ridgways, the Meighs, &c. and at the hour of leaving the factories for meals, or &c., men who not only have acquired princely forfor the night, out pour and swarm about you men in tunes there, but have laboured to diffuse the influence long white aprons, all whitened themselves as if of their intelligence and good taste around them with they had been working amongst pipe-clay, young indefatigable activity, should have worked to no purwomen in troops, and boys without number. All pose. Nay, the air of growing cleanliness and comthis time imagine yourself marching beneath great fort, the increase of more elegant shops, of banks, clouds of smoke, and breathing various vapours of and covered markets, are of themselves evidence of arsenic, muriatic acid, sulphur, and spirits of tartar, increased refinement, and therefore of knowledge. and you will have some taste and smell, as well as a One proof of the growth of knowledge we could not view, of the Potteries; and, notwithstanding all help smiling at the other day. We had noticed some which, they are as healthy as any manufacturing years ago that a public-house with the sign of a district whatever. leopard was always called the Spotted Cat; nobody

Such is a tolerable picture of the external aspect of knew it by any other name; but now, such is the the Potteries, but it would be very imperfect still, if advance of natural history, that, as if to eradicate we did not point out all the large chapels that are the name of spotted cat for ever, the figure of the scattered throughout the whole region, and the plas- beast is dashed out by the painter's brush, and the tering of huge placard on placard on almost every words, The Leopard, painted in large letters, in its blank wall, and at every street corner, giving you stead.

notice of-plays, and horse riders, and raffles? No: As in most populous districts, the Methodists have but of sermons upon sermons; sermons here, ser- here done much to improve and reform the mass. mons there, sermons every where! There are ser- John Wesley planted his church here, and his dismons for the opening of schools and chapels, ser- ciples, under the various names of Wesleyans, New mons for aiding the infirmary, for Sunday schools and Primitive Methodists, are numerous. The New and infant schools, announcements of missionary Methodists have in Shelton one of the largest chapels meetings and temperance meetings, and, perhaps, for they have in the kingdom. The very Christian political meetings also, for it is difficult to say whe- names abounding here seem to imply that there has ther the spirit of religion or politics flourishes most long been in the people a great veneration for the in the district. Scriptures. In no part of the country do the names The Potteries are, in fact, one of the strongholds of of the Old Testament so much prevail. We verily dissent and democracy. Nine-tenths of the popula- believe that a complete catalogue of the population tion are dissenters. The towns have sprung up would present a majority of such names. Every rapidly, and, comparatively, in a few years, and the other name that you meet is Moses, or Aaron, Elisha, inhabitants naturally associate themselves with popu- Daniel, or Job. This peculiarity may be seen in the lar opinions both in government and religion. They names of almost all the potters of eminence. It is do not belong to the ancient times, nor therefore to Josiah and Aaron Wedgwood, Josiah Spode, Enoch the ancient order of things. They seem to have as Wood and Aaron Wood, Jacob Warburton, Elijah little natural alliance with aristocratic interests and Mayer, Ephraim Chatterley, Joshua Heath, Enoch establishments of religion as America itself. This Booth, Ephraim Hobson, Job Meigh, &c. &c. Fenpeople, indeed, are a busy swarm, that seem to have ton the poet, who was from Fenton in the Potteries, sprung out of the ground on which they tread, and was Elijah Fenton. claim as much right to mould their own opinions as to mould their own pottery. The men have always

But if the potters have been fond of ancient and patriarchal names, they have been equally fond of

modern improvements and discoveries in their art; [ment, his reason, were all in perpetual conflict, and and when we recollect that little more than a century impelling him in ever-varying directions! ago the Potteries were mere villages, their wares And so he pilgrimed it on through life, latterly, rude, their names almost unknown in the country, in his native vale of Glamorgan, with a walking-stick and now behold the beauty and variety of their higher than his head, and a wallet of books and articles, which they send to every part of the world, papers across his shoulder. Often he might be seen, not excepting China itself; when we see the vast like Ben Jonson, with a book in one hand and his population here employed and maintained in comfort, towel in the other. When he had learned to fabrithe wealth which has been accumulated, and the cate his thoughts and fancies into Welsh phrase and noble warehouses full of earthenware of every de-metre, he entered the Bardic order after the rites scription, we must feel that there is no part of Eng- transmitted from the Druids, and was then everyland in which the spirit and enterprise of the nation where welcomed by the Cymry, for the sake of the have been more conspicuous.

From the Metropolitan.

A WELSH BARD AND THE PROPHET
BROTHERS.

song, the Englyn, or the tale of old times. He also wooed the muse, not unsuccessfully, in English; and having attracted attention by some electioneering verses, he was presently encouraged to give to the public two volumes of English poems by subscription. While in London, under the cares of publica tion, upon this and other similar occasions, several who moved in the higher walks of literature distinguished him with their notice; and by some of SOME ten or a dozen years ago, death robbed them haply, he may not yet be forgotten. Indeed, Wales of a worthy known there by the title of Jolo there is a letter of Mr. Southey's published, in which Morganwg, bardd with frait, a defod Beirdd yrys he says, that in memorial of respect he had shadowed Pridain; "Bard according to the rights and insti- the old bard under the name of Jolo, in his Roderick. tutes of the bards of the island of Britain:" whose It has also been said that at the literary meetings of lot, although cast unfortunate and in a humble Saturday nights at Longman's the bard had attended sphere, prevented not a poetical existence from hear- and astonished them all, particularly Mr. Ellis, Mr. ing traits of interest, or from echoing to our social Canning's friend, who was pleased to invite our agitations in the profound retreats of thought and journeyman mason" to his house. In his "garfancy, as may the depths of ocean to the storms rulous old age" he used to take credit for having along its surface. once posed Godwin with a long-winded argument This late successor to the harp of "wilde Cam- at a Mr. Clive's; where they used to dine weekly, bria" had come of a father who was a mason, and with Gilbert Wakefield, Harris, Priestly, Aikin, who brought up his sons to the same craft; but of a Barbauld, Dr. Abraham Rees, and some others. He mother of whom it was ever a pride to him to relate had even asked Dr. Johnson, at a bookseller's shop, how she descended from a superior though decayed which of the two English grammars was the best; family, and that of her he had learned to read Eng- and received for answer, that "either was good lish, in a book of verses called the Vocal Miscellany, enongh for him." But beyond all was the advenShe also sang; and the hyrans she warbled to his ture which our title indicates, to hold his admiring infancy thrilled in his memory through life. By all countrymen agape. but her he had been looked upon in his youth as stupid and unintelligent; for he was then silent and moody; without language for what he felt; a frequenter of woods and solitudes, meditating on nature as on a volume full of matter, but in an unknown tongue.

For the fame of the prophet RICHARD BROTHER'S had extended into Wales, and lingers even yet amongst her mountains. It is not forgotten there with what high pretension he came forward as Nephew of God and King of the Hebrews, to lead his people into the plains of Jordan, there to establish Such he continued until about twenty-five years the New Jerusalem. Nor was his mission to those old, when, his mother dying, he fled his home, and only who at present belonged to the synagogne: but, travelled as a journeyman mason into England. adopting the doctrine of Metempsychosis, he would And now it was that he first betook himself seriously recognise by a peculiar light in the left eye all whose to books, as to the study of the great outward type souls had ever animated a circumcised body; and he of other men's thoughts;-in vain seeking a medium even made honourable distinction of those who had for the deeper vibrations of his own being,-in vain been of the tribe of Judah in any former stage of any key to the shadows which encompassed him, existence. It was as such that he challenged Mr. or some glimpse into the mysteries that beset and Pitt, and some of the royal family, for his especial appalled him like enigmas of the Sphinx. And assistants. His plans, too, for the projected city while thus straggling down the "broad way" of amazed even persons skilled in architecture, by the Society, he continued to the end fiery and indignant magnificence and beauty of his celestial order." in resisting the modern Procrustes, and preserving Neither were his implicit followers few nor despicahis nature from the trivial standard, a warfare of ble. The gifted Haltred, whose story was so tinged manifold sufferings! Notwithstanding which, and with the colours of romance, and whose accomplished the neglect and penury that were its ultimate conse-minderrant seemed to escape from one Magick-Castle quences, perhaps the part of his destiny which more of Thought, only to tall spell-bound into another, had peculiarly oppressed him, lay in certain hard thoughts now come forward with this conviction that this was and misconstructions, and in the perplexity in which the predicted lion of the tribe of Judah.

even himself lived and died, about his own princi- Our bard, happening to be in London in those ples; for his emotions, his sensibilities, his senti- days, was easily led by curiosity, and that David VOL. XXXVIII.-JANUARY, 1840.

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Williams to whom poor authors are indebted for the thus disconcerted all the bard's plans for a dis-overy. Literary Fund, to pay a personal visit to Brothers, Yet he presently cast about, and taking pen in hand, under guise of purchasing his Book of Prophecies, indicted an epistle to Mr. Pitt, setting forth his which, after a custom formerly not uncommon, he opinion of the manner in which Brothers had been sold at his own house. Here they met Brothers practised upon, and how the origin of the matter aphimself, who invited them into a parlour, where they peared likely to be French. In reply came a note took seats, and were courteously entertained by him. from the minister, requesting an interview at the Nor was it long before they felt themselves strangely Treasury, at a time appointed. When the bard reaffected by his converse. For as he described to paired thither, he was shown, as he used with some them the manner in which the revelations had been complacency to relate, into a room of great length, communicated to him by angels,-often heard in the from one end to the other of which extended a table, very room where they then sat, and often visibly surrounded with chairs, each opposite a portable crossing him in his solitary walks, the lustre of writing-desk. Presently the "heaven-born minister" countenance with which his heaven-ward soul rayed entered, and astonished him with the presence of a forth on them, made our Welshmen's hearts burn civil, ordinary, snub-nosed, gentleman. When the within them while he spoke, and ceased not for a merits, as above, had been canvassed, Pitt intimated long while after to haunt their imaginations. an intention to sift the matter, and promised further

At that time Brothers was everywhere the topic of communication; but afterwards again the object of conversation; and our bard omitted not, upon occa- government proved to be sufficiently answered by sion, to entertain his companions with the narrative having the influence of this spiritual monarch limited of his own visit to the prophet. But one day, at a to Bedlam. dinner-party, he had come, after sundry ambages, to

To our bard, however, the "divine madness" of

a somewhat high flown description of the angelic the prophet was never any proof that he had not sounds in which the revelations had been communi- been the dupe of others; and he would often contend cated to Brothers, when he was suddenly dumb- before his admiring Cymry, that such an hypothesis founded by a fiery navy captain, with only one arm had no small corroboration in the fact that not only and one eye, who cffered to wager him a thousand among the prophet's followers were Bryan and pounds that it was all the doings of a certain little Wright, who declared that such a deliverer of the French ventriloquist, by whom the said captain, Jews had been shadowed in the revelations at Avigamongst the rest, had been frightened out of " Will's" non; but also in that Bryan (who was not unlike to only a night or two before. The Welsh stone-cutter, Brothers in radiancy of countenance, and a calm but altogether gravelled by the offer of such a bet, was most infectious enthusiasm) had been himself in the fain to retreat from his position by promising to pay first place spirited to Avignon by a voice heard in the a second visit to Brothers, to try and detect the night, while he resided at Bristol. To that cabal at practices of this Frenchman; who was described, by Avignon, therefore, it appeared to him not unreasonthe way, as a person of low stature, affecting a naval able to attribute the origin of these projects of Brodress, and addicted to the display of a pair of legs, thers, as well, perhaps, as of others, that have now the calves of which cut in at a right angle. and then startled us with their explosion beneath the

But when, in much simplicity, he set about to re-feet of Time. Our bard also learned of his friend deem his promise, the object of this second visit had Mr. Southey, (whose attention and interest had been well-nigh been defeated, even at the threshhold; for caught by the same matter,) that a commission once Brothers now recognised the mark of his elect in the issued from the Inquisition at Rome to ferret out the twinkling gray eye of his visitant, and with a bright constitution, aims, and practices of the Avigon Soand beaming countenance was about to welcome him ciety; but that the report which the commissioners into the new faith. The bard, however, recovered published so quickly disappeared, that Mr. Southey himself enough to bring about the projected ques-never could procure a copy, even although he sought tions. Nor at first, indeed, did Brothers show any for it through persons of no inconsiderable influence reluctance in his replies. He said that the angels, in Italy.

three or four in number, always met him in his walks veiled, and never appeared in his house, although often heard there; and that the revelations, although clothed in varied aerial sounds, did seem to come

From the Metropolitan..

EDUCATION.

from only one voice. He even acknowledged, with WHAT DE FELLENBERG HAS DONE FOR some hesitation, that beneath their veils the angels appeared dressed in no celestial fashion.

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But why,"

said he, "should they not assume the garb of the THIS is a little book, but the subject of which it time and place of their appearance? And who, now. treats is the greatest which can occupy the attention could bear the splendour of immortal countenances ?" of civilized man. This subject is education, in its However he soon became unable to restrain his agi- widest and highest sense, including moral training, tation; and upon the inquiry as to whether he had as also the art of bettering the physical condition of observed anything peculiar in the legs of one of the poor, by teaching them practically and theoretithem, he besought the object of such interrogation, cally the great science of agriculture. We believe with an emotion that to our bard was altogether con- that while preserving the secrecy of the name, we vincing. Yet, wishing to proceed circumspectly in may state that the volume has been published under so grave a matter, he postponed the explanation to a the auspices of a person not less distinguished by future day. rank than an ardent philanthropy, and a generous anxiety for all that tends to promote the morals and well-being of society. It is sad to reflect how little

But to poor Brothers that day never arrived; for, of a sudden, government threw him into prison, and