nose, true as Torricelli's best instrument, to make the discovery, and to warn his keeper by his cries and movements. With a knowledge of this fact, the conjecturers tell us he is the only animal who sees the wind.' by which means he is enabled, on the principle of carpe diem, to avoid foul weather and enjoy the fine. He is also endowed with sensibility as well as instinct, and has one quality which distinguishes him from all others of the brute creation that of running to the aid of his brother hogs in distress and difficulty, braving the greatest dangers and the rudest treatment for the love of kin. In all countries. except Scotland, the hog, out of gratitude for the eminent services his family has never ceased to render to man, from the most remote antiquity, is permitted to live in a state of what many erect hogs we know of would call luxury and ease. But who ever has visited that sage computer, the ever-saving sawney, in his Murrayshire, must have frequently seen the hog tackled with a small horse to the same plough. How different from the Mexicans, who, in driving their hogs to market, cover their feet and lower joints with a sort of boots, to prevent the ill effects of fatigue, while the peasant who conducts them goes bare-footed! Had it not been for some Egyptian goddesses who fell in love with a bull, and the clan of that wise legislator, Moses, whose cutaneous sympathies pork was supposed to increase (and, therefore, the patriot hog was by both proscribed), we moderns should entertain a much higher respect for him than we do; for it must be acknowledged, taking him altogether, soul and body (honi soit qui mal y pense), inside and out, that he is very superior to most animals, and the devoted friend of man, to whom he never fails to show his gratitude, by repaying him a hundred fold for all his favours. As to his habits, they are, to be sure, for the want of care and education, rather grovelling and dirty; but this, as in some biped cousin-germans of his, ought rather to be termed a genteel slovenliness, indicative of great natural gifts and contempt for artificial helps. Though we admit he is an excessive gormandiser, insomuch as he is not very choice of his viands and liquids, yet he has no hankering after whiskey, egg-hot, or juleps, which, with segars, tobacco, and snuff, he leaves to certain Cossack relatives of his, who, while ycleped lords of the creation, would do well to recollect, that The hog who works not, nor obeys their call, 'Lives on the labours of these lords of all.' Much has been said in praise of the hog, yet many a swinish excellence must be passed over in silence, and left, like virtue, to its own reward. The last advice of the dying, like the parting kiss of the lover, is the most impressive; so is the peroration of a discourse, the finish of an epigram, and last stanza of a poem, as well as the last hint of a moral, from Æsop to Franklin: so, precisely so, appears the last and most prominent character of our bristly personage a character of inestimable value in this great republic, the Pharos among nations. When nature created and endowed the hog with qualities surprising and rare, she seems to have presented him to the statesman, lawyer, judge, physician, and divine-to all the human race -as the perpetual model of that stubborn, rude, uncourtly integrity, commonly understood by the name of independence; and yet, strange incónsistency! this representative of honest obesity has given rise to the calumnious metaphor of bribery, implied by greasing a man's palm! as if the fat of a hog was synonimous with gold.-Our very aspersions are often times charged with precious confessions, detersive of the reputation they were intended to tarnish. Senators have been known to take bribes; Jugurtha bought the Roman and Walpole the British senate; and who has not heard of the Yazoo purchase?-Courtiers and sycophants, too, will flatter; but neither adulation nor money can tempt to deviate from the invariable laws of his nature, the even tenor of his ways,' this valuable quadruped, who, though like a candidate for public office, he will go through thick and thin to reach his object, will never be led or driven like a time-serving radical. The downy bed has no enchantment for him. With the Doric simplicity of a back woodsman, he lays himself down in the humblest hovel, or under the blue spangled arch of heaven,' and snores away the night with a full stomach and a clear conscience : 'Go! from the creatures thy instruction take.' When the Roman historian captivates us most, he recals that simple age of purity in which Cincinnatus culti vated his own ground, or Scipio roasted turnips and broiled his own pork on his Sabine farm; not that vile Epicurean epoch when emperors and courtezans melted pearls for a soup, gave thou sands for a turbot, and millions for a debauch. The incorruptible hog, with Roman simplicity, ploughs his own fields, and caters for himself. Truffles and mushrooms are his choicest dainties; for his heaven, like that of the gods, who, in the reign of Saturn, fought and ate with men, and held sweet converse with the women, is upon the earth. There he grunts and grumbles for his competency, which, like the fund of South American riches, is concealed partly under ground, as if the deity had foreseen that tyranny would enslave or cowardice surrender every thing above its surface. But all the crevices of despotism and its inquisition will not coerce him, like the Indian of the Mita, to dig dross for a master. -Literary Chronicle. BURNING DEAD BODIES. The city of Calcutta being very populous, about sixty or seventy Hindoos are dying every day. After they are dead, their relations take their corpses to Cossy Miter's Ghaut (the only one in the town), where they burn them, and perform other funeral rites. This Ghaut is about fifteen cubits broad and forty long, within which space three, or at most four, piles of wood only can be heaped; therefore the inconvenience that is experienced in burning the dead bodies of the Hindoos will appear from the following description. When any person of a moderate fortune living at Jaun Bazar, and usually going about in a palanquin, has lost some of his relations, he experiences great difficulty in walking so far, in order to bring the body to Cossy Miter's Ghaut at Bagbazar. Again, when he has reached the Ghaut, he finds three or four piles already burning, while five or seven others are ready to be burnt: some brought in the morning, others at noon, and this, that is just coming from Jaun Bazar, at about four in the evening. When those three or four have been burnt away, those that were brought in the morning begin to be burnt about sunset, and are completed between ten and eleven at night. At this time, the water being raised, or, in other words, the flowing tide coming in, prevents those corpses which had been brought at noon from being burnt, and they that had brought them necessarily are obliged to wait the return of the ebb tide till six in the morning, when they begin their task, and leave those who have come from Jaun Bazar to burn their corpse about the noon, which they cannot finish before evening. This is the manner in which the Hindoo corpses are burnt. This is a very bad practice, and costs a great deal of trouble. First, as it is inconsistent with the general opinion and that of the Shasters, to stale the corpse; second, as our feelings are inexpressibly hurt, to wait at the burning ground with that object in our bosom for whose loss we lament; third, as those persons who take the dead body to the Ghaut have been obliged, before the death of the patient, to attend upon him, and keep up whole nights without any food to themselves, and are now again obliged to do the same on the river Ganges; and, fourth, as, until these persons return home, no one there is allowed to eat any thing, but all must lie down lamenting. We there fore sincerely wish, that either a very wide Ghaut, where twenty-five or thirty dead bodies may be burned, or three or four more of the present kind be made, so that the corpses, immediately upon being taken to the Ghaut, be burned without any opposition or inconvenience. I presume that, when this circumstance is publicly known, the merciful rulers of this land, who are doing eyery thing to make their subjects happy, will adopt some such measures as will tend to the abolition of this evil practice. They have granted extensive pieces of ground to the Moosulmans, Armenians, Portuguese, and many other nations for burying their dead, and they are more and more adding to those pieces of ground, for another corpse cannot be buried in the same place where one has already been interred: but such is not the case among the Hindoos, for they require only dif ferent piles of wood to burn their dead bodies, but not spots of ground. From this we presume to hope that the Hindoos will be able to meet with success from their generous and wise rulers. TWIN BROTHERS. In the famous town of Calcutta there are two twin brothers, Cossy and Crishno, at Simlah, who are so alike that no one can discover any difference between them except themselves. They are of the same colour, size, and height; wear the same kind of clothes, eat the same food, and sleep and rise together nose, true as Torricelli's best instrument, to make the discovery, and to warn his keeper by his cries and movements. With a knowledge of this fact, the conjecturers tell us he is the only animal who sees the wind,' by which means he is enabled, on the principle of carpe diem, to avoid foul weather and enjoy the fine. He is also endowed with sensibility as well as instinct, and has one quality which distinguishes him from all others of the brute creation that of running to the aid of his brother hogs in distress and difficulty, braving the greatest dangers and the rudest treatment for the love of kin. In all countries, except Scotland, the hog, out of gratitude for the eminent services his family has never ceased to render to man. from the most remote antiquity, is permitted to live in a state of what many erect hogs we know of would call luxury and ease. But whoever has visited that sage computer, the ever-saving sawney, in his Murrayshire, must have frequently seen the hog tackled with a small horse to the same plough. How different from the Mexicans, who, in driving their hogs to market, cover their feet and lower joints with a sort of boots, to prevent the ill effects of fatigue, while the peasant who conducts them goes bare-footed! Had it not been for some Egyptian goddesses who fell in love with a bull, and the clan of that wise legislator, Moses, whose cutaneous sympathies pork was supposed to increase (and, therefore, the patriot hog was by both proscribed), we moderns should entertain a much higher respect for him than we do; for it must be acknowledged, taking him altogether, soul and body (honi soit qui mal y pense), inside and out, that he is very superior to most animals, and the devoted friend of man, to whom he never fails to show his gratitude, by repaying him a hundred fold for all his favours. As to his habits, they are, to be sure, for the want of care and education, rather grovelling and dirty; but this, as in some biped cousin-germans of his, ought rather to be termed a genteel slovenliness, indicative of great natural gifts and contempt for artificial helps. Though we admit he is an excessive gormandiser, insomuch as he is not very choice of his viands and liquids, yet he has no hankering after whiskey, egg-hot, or juleps, which, with segars, tobacco, and snuff, he leaves to certain Cossack relatives of his, who, while ycleped lords of the creation, would do well to recollect, that The hog who works not, nor obeys their call, 'Lives on the labours of these lords of all.' Much has been said in praise of the hog, yet many a swinish excellence must be passed over in silence, and left, like virtue, to its own reward. The last advice of the dying, like the parting kiss of the lover, is the most impressive; so is the peroration of a discourse, the finish of an epigram, and last stanza of a poem, as well as the last hint of a moral, from sop to Franklin: so, precisely so, appears the last and most prominent character of our bristly personage a character of inestimable value in this great republic, the Pharos among nations. When nature created and endowed the hog with qualities surprising and rare, she seems to have presented him to the statesman, lawyer, judge, physician, and divine-to all the human race -as the perpetual model of that stubborn, rude, uncourtly integrity, commonly understood by the name of independence; and yet, strange inconsistency! this representative of honest obesity has given rise to the calum. nious metaphor of bribery, implied by greasing a man's palm! as if the fat of a hog was synonimous with gold.-Our very aspersions are often times charged with precious confessions, detersive of the reputation they were intended to tarnish. Senators have been known to take bribes; Jugurtha bought the Roman and Walpole the British senate; and who has not heard of the Yazoo purchase ?-Courtiers and sycophants, too, will flatter; but neither adulation nor money can tempt to deviate from the invariable laws of his nature, the even tenor of his ways,' this valuable quadruped, who, though like a candidate for public office, he will go through thick and thin to reach his object, will never be led or driven like a time-serving radical. The downy bed has no enchantment for him. With the Doric simplicity of a back woodsman, he lays himself down in the humblest hovel, or under the blue spangled arch of heaven,' and snores away the night with a full stomach and a clear conscience : 'Go! from the creatures thy instruction take.' When the Roman historian captivates us most, he recals that simple age of purity in which Cincinnatus culti vated his own ground, or Scipio roasted turnips and broiled his own pork on his Sabine farm; not that vile Epicurean epoch when emperors and courtezans melted pearls for a soup, gave thou sands for a turbot, and millions for a debauch. The incorruptible hog, with Roman simplicity, ploughs his own fields, and caters for himself. Truffles and mushrooms are his choicest dainties; for his heaven, like that of the gods, who, in the reign of Saturn, fought and ate with men, and held sweet converse with the women, is upon the earth. There he grunts and grumbles for his competency, which, like the fund of South American riches, is concealed partly under ground, as if the deity had foreseen that tyranny would enslave or cowardice surrender every thing above its surface. But all the crevices of despotism and its inquisition will not coerce him, like the Indian of the Mita, to dig dross for a master. -Literary Chronicle. BURNING DEAD BODIES. The city of Calcutta being very populous, about sixty or seventy Hindoos are dying every day. After they are dead, their relations take their corpses to Cossy Miter's Ghaut (the only one in the town), where they burn them, and perform other funeral rites. This Ghaut is about fifteen cubits broad and forty long, within which space three, or at most four, piles of wood only can be heaped; therefore the inconvenience that is experienced in burning the dead bodies of the Hindoos will appear from the following description. When any person of a moderate fortune living at Jaun Bazar, and usually going about in a palanquin, has lost some of his relations, he experiences great difficulty in walking so far, in order to bring the body to Cossy Miter's Ghaut at Bagbazar. Again, when he has reached the Ghaut, he finds three or four piles already burning, while five or seven others are ready to be burnt: some brought in the morning, others at noon, and this, that is just coming from Jaun Bazar, at about four in the evening. When those three or four have been burnt away, those that were brought in the morning begin to be burnt about sunset, and are completed between ten and eleven at night. At this time, the water being raised, or, in other words, the flowing tide coming in, prevents those corpses which had been brought at noon from being burnt, and they that had brought them necessarily are obliged to wait the return of the ebb tide till six in the morning, when they begin their task, and leave those who have come from Jaun Bazar to burn their corpse about the noon, which they cannot fi nish before evening. This is the manner in which the Hindoo corpses are burnt. This is a very bad practice, and costs a great deal of trouble. First, as it is inconsistent with the general opinion and that of the Shasters, to stale the corpse; second, as our feelings are inexpressibly hurt, to wait at the burning ground with that object in our bosom for whose loss we lament; third, as those persons who take the dead body to the Ghaut have been obliged, before the death of the patient, to attend upon him, and keep up whole nights without any food to themselves, and are now again obliged to do the same on the river Ganges; and, fourth, as, until these persons return home, no one there is allowed to eat any thing, but all must lie down lamenting. We there fore sincerely wish, that either a very wide Ghaut, where twenty-five or thirty dead bodies may be burned, or three or four more of the present kind be made, so that the corpses, immediately upon being taken to the Ghaut, be burned without any opposition or inconvenience. I presume that, when this circumstance is publicly known, the merciful rulers of this land, who are doing eyery thing to make their subjects happy, will adopt some such measures as will tend to the abolition of this evil practice. They have granted extensive pieces of ground to the Moosulmans, Armenians, Portuguese, and many other nations for burying their dead, and they are more and more adding to those pieces of ground, for another corpse cannot be buried in the same place where one has already been interred: but such is not the case among the Hindoos, for they require only dif ferent piles of wood to burn their dead bodies, but not spots of ground. From this we presume to hope that the Hindoos will be able to meet with success from their generous and wise rulers. and at the same time. They love each other so tenderly, that they have not married yet, knowing that wives are generally the cause of separation between brothers; and as they are both the same, they think the wives would not be able to distinguish each other's husband, and preserve their chastity. One day a milkman was passing by their door with a pot of curds in his hand for sale, and these two brothers resolved to play a trick upon him. Cossy told him that he wished to buy some curds; the milkman presented him the pot, which contained about twelve seers of curds, and demanded the price. Cossy said that it was a very small quantity. "Do you think twelve seers a small quantity?" said the milkman, and told him that if he could eat that whole quantity of curds, he should get them for nothing. Cossy consented to it: and eating six seers, he went into his room, telling the milkman he would instantly return; and Crishno coming out, ate the remainder. The milkman being much confounded, returned home and told this circumstance to his family. Asiatic Journal. ELECTION EXPENSES. The following remarkable account of the economy with which members of Parliament were formerly elected, is taken from a MS. of J. Harrington, Esq. of Kelston, in Somersetshire. It is dated 1646, and is called, “A note of my BATH business, about the Parliament." "Saturday, December 26, 1646, went to Bath, and dined with the mayor and citizens; conferred about my election to serve in Parliament, as my father was helpless and ill able to go any more. Went to the George Inn at night, met the bailiffs, and desired to be dismissed from serving; drank strong beer and metheglin; expended about three shillings; went home late, but got excused, as they entertained a good opinion of my father. "Monday, December 28, went to Bath; met Sir John Horner; we were chosen by the citizens to serve for the city. The mayor and citizens conferred about Parliament business. The mayor promised Sir John Horner and myself a horse a piece, when we went to London, to the Parliament, which was accepted of: and we talked about the synod and ecclesiastical dismissions. I am to go again on Thursday, and meet the citizens about all such matters, and take advice thereon. Thursday, 31, went to Bath; Mr. Ashe preached. Dined at the George Inn, with the mayor and four citizens; spent at dinner six shillings in wine. Laid out in victuals at the George Inn lls. 4d. ........ 7 2 Laid out in drinking "Jan. 1, my father gave me four pounds to bear my expenses at Bath. "Mr. Chapman, the mayor, came to Kelston, and returned thanks for my being chosen to serve in Parliament, to my father, in the name of all the citizens. My father gave me good advice, touching my speaking in Parliament, as the city should direct me. Came home late at night from Bath, much troubled thereat, concerning my proceeding truly for man's good report, and my own safety. "Note. I gave the city messenger two shillings for bearing the mayor's letter to me. Laid out in all, three pounds seven shillings for victuals, drink, and horse hire, together with divers gifts." As a contrast to the singular economy of the Bath election, in 1646, it may not be amiss to subjoin the following list of "charges of ONE DAY'S EXPENSES at a small POT-HOUSE at Ilchester, in the contest for the county of Somerset, in 1813." 353 bottles, rum and gin, at 6s. ...... £105 18 0 57 ditto, French brandy, at 10s. 6d... 29 18 6 514 gallons, beer, at 2s. 8d. 68 10 8 792 dinners, at 2s. 6d. · 99 0 0 £303 7 2 WHAT IS CORRUPTION? Mr. Beckford brought in a bill for preventing bribery and corruption at elections, in which was a clause to oblige every member to swear, on his admission to the House, that he had not, directly or indirectly, given a bribe to any elector. This clause was so universally opposed, as answering no other end but that of perjuring the members, that Mr. Beckford was compelled to withdraw it. Mr. Thurlow opposed the bill in a long speech, to which Mr. Beckford very smartly replied. "The honourable gentleman,' says he, "in his learned discourse, gave us first one definition of corruption, then he gave us another definition of it, and I think he was about to give us a third. Pray, does that gentleman |