.ADvooA<me* on*1nT»nnm.Ll IMPROVEMENTS.

beyond thernnge of the unassisted eye, and wander
smongsuns and worlds dispersed throughout the
bdimdless dimensions of space. He can fill up. in

. 'l'his'imagination, those blanks which astronomy has

never directly’ explored, and conceive thousands of
systerneond ten'thousunds of worlds,‘ beyond all
that is visible by the optic tube, stretching out to in.
finity on every hand,—'-new creations incessantly
starting into o,xistcnce'—~people‘d with intelligences
of various orders. and all underthe superintendsnce
and government of the “King Eternal, Immortal,
and Invisible," whose power is omnipotent, and the
limits‘ of his dominions‘ past finding out.

It isevident that a mind capable "of such excursions
and conteniplations is I have now supposed, must
experience enjoyments infinitely superior to those of
the individual whose soulis enveloped in intellectual
darkness." ‘ , ,

Tar; Azitsnxcau Coksr Pu.o'r, 121}: Edition, by
Exmtmn M. B1.un'r.-—Forne,arly,fony years asingle
individual, unaided, if not indeed repulsed and check.
ed by that department of the general government
most interested in the success of his labors, has car.
ricd on with constant improvements in each succes.
sive edition, the useful, elaborate, and expensive
publicstion, named at the head of this notice._ At
the end of this pcriod,'with a constitution broken by
exposure and fatigue, and with a fortune, us he him.
self expresses it, “ literally cast upon the waters,”
Mr.¢yEdrn_und ML Blunt retires. from the superinten.
dance oftbe work." In doing so,he expresses his warm
acltnowledgmentsl to our shipmasters and others,
whose “march is on the mountain wave,” for their
encouragement of him. He enumerates also officers
in the British, French, Spanish. Danish and Dutch
service. from whom he has received valuable and
important information, ‘most hnndsomelylfurnished;
but from the Navy Department of the United

tales, to which, of all others, hclhad a righttto
look for laid and countenance, he received neither.
This Mr. Blunt does not state; but surprised to
find no allusion to that department in the course of
his general acknowledgments in so many quarters,
we asked an explanation, and it was as we stste.--
Tyhcpublliication‘ will bee-ontinued as ‘heretofore by
the very capable sons of Mr. Blunt,~who are ctnula.
ting‘ their fathers skill sud accuracy as Hydro.
graphs-rs.e - ' L I ‘

Msiuom or ZERAH Connurm, written by himself.
Springfield: G. 6:. C. \isn;u.t.u._—-This is the "dull
mc_'m<;ir of one, who, beginning as a prodigy, leaves
off-as apersdn of very ordinary understanding. . ‘Ne
well remember the wonderful boy, and our own in.
creclulity almost, even after witnessing the results

of; bi,sl;in__stincti_ve, calculationsyof the possibility of

such things. * But iinfant Rosciuses,‘ and boy_calcula.

tors, seem reserved forthe same mediocrityin mid.
It is‘ however remarkable, we think, that

die life;
the pains taken in London and Paris, with Zerah
Colburn's education, by persons who hoped to mature
a wonderful gift into some useful‘ development, lsn-.l
the varied intercourse he had with the world. should
have left ;so little trace as this memoiryindicates.-§—
The calculating boy is now, we believe, aworthy
minis_ter,.and settled  Vermont, his native State.
TI{El'A_MEll1CnN Mortmnv Iihonzxus, Vol. II, No.

1, for Septiember.-’-We have observed this periodi.
cal from its commencement, and marked with increa.

sing 'grntifiou‘tion_ tlielability, taste, and excellent

tqne‘of‘iLs»articles.’ Its aim obviously is to shine
andlnot to glitter; to impress its readers‘ by the soli.
dityend sterling value ofits contents, more than by
isuperficisl‘briliinncy. There is a vciuof true clus-
cicul lit raturc runningythrouglh its pug-es,wliich we

confess recommends it verymuch to us ; while it is

sufiiciently d—iversifi_ed with lighter reading to make
it gencrallyaccoptzible. t I f 4  i I I T

* _rrA‘L‘l§S on ROMANCE, first seri:ss,by '1‘ho_’s Moore,

Mi:s,?_S.‘C.—Hull, Crofton Urolier, C,j ;Lamb,. Miss
Mitford, and others. Philarlelphia :iK,i.:r‘&. Bmnns.
--'I‘ltin"'l raw: club book under a new title, wherein

:5-=--.
ivarious talents are to display their differing attrac-
tions. Some of the tales in this volume, which is
prettily printed, have before appeared in print,‘ and
are of thrilling interest; — “ The Spanish Headsman”
was republished in this paper. It is quite, a readable
collection.

The Ennvntmou Review, No. CXVI, from which
we extracted, some days ego,‘the’article on Mr.
Rush’: book, has severalvery good papers. At
present we only notice that on the narrative of Silvia
Pellico, 2-. young Italian of genius and letters, impri-

_..—....

Austria, for some political ofl'e_nce, in Lombardy-—in
order, to introduce the character drawn of that
Emperor--who is nevertheless» called "by his Ans.

and glowing description of the influence upon a gen.
erous mind of such a narrative as~Pellico’s.

The minds of kings are often kept by those a.
bout them in a thraldom more degrading even than
the letters of Spielberg. VVs spoil them, and then
blame them for being spoiled. It is the curse of
greatness to be attended by slaves, who not onlv
take their humor for a warrant, but who studiously
fence them in from the discipline and emotions, in
which every one else obtains his best security for
virtue- When Pellico and Maroncelli were releas.
ed, they passed through Vienna on their way to Its-
ly. Tlicy were taken by the coinmissary ofPolice,
who had them in charge, to the garden: —at Schon
brunn. The Emperor accidentally appeared. The
loyal servant made them stand aside, lost his
Imperial master should be saddened at the sight of
tlioirwasted persons! ‘Have Metternich and the
Aulic Chamber allowed him to be enlightened’ as
wellas saddened by the sight of these high minded
and deeply affecting Memoirs ? Does he know the
merit, the goodness, ‘the piety, of which he has
been made the gaoler? Has he been enabled to
measure the full extent of the barbarous injuries of
which God will one day make himself the avenger ?
Are his dreams, never haunted by the vision or the
scholars and gentlemen of Italy, working in prison
clothes in their Moravian dungeon,-—bent down by
» chains under whose weight they are unable to walk.
and the pressure of which will not let them sleep-
sickening at the smell of food souneatuble that the
famished cannot taste it——l'ainting,under the indirect
assassination of 8. sunless stniosp_h‘ere,, and a slow
starvation-——perisliing from tic he-art’s' longings after
friends to whom they may never write, after parents
from whom and of whom they must never hear-—
supporting each other by manly and religious hopes
against desperate temptations to self.destruction—-—

 

soned for ten years by order of the Emperor of:

trian subjects "the good Franz’4'--and the eloquent

“. 
reputation be now can make, is to throw open the

are still alive, whom Pellico left at San Michele;
and to return the noble Confalonieri, Zucehi, and
other Italian patriots, even now incarcerated st
Spielberg. to their Italian home. It would redeem
he to consider further, how great is the presump-‘
tion which disinterested martyrs raise inifavor of
their persecuted cause. Is therenone to teach him
that a government which once puts itael ‘at issue

stakes its temporary safety on a collision whoa‘:-cyvig;

him high enough to feel that It land which is the mo.
ther of such spirits, must be worthy of -a better fate 7

It is so easy to be'gen'eroun at the chsrge'ol"othezs,
that we all are patriotsfor former "ages and in’ dis.
tent lands. While traversing the crisis of our Stu.
nrt.sn-uggle. none is now so" base, but that he finds
himself in a jail with Hampden, pines away with
Elliott in his prison chamber, and bows his neck
upon the scsfibid with Russell and ‘with ‘Sydney ?--
Had the sins of our fatheraf doomed us to be born in
Italy, we often think what would have been our ’co:._.,
rage and our fate. Here, also, at least in imagine.‘
tion. and feeling, we range ourselves, side by side",
with her virtuous citizens, ‘Steadfast to the cause
of good government and oftruth, we follow the
men, who, looking forwards to the independence of
their country, and to the happiness of future gene-
rations, dared boldly to put to hazard all on earth
belonging to themselves. ‘They failed! In the
wandering: of their exile, in the living sepulchre of
their dungeons, what can we do but feel as if we
were reading our own story in the persons of better
men‘? ' Instead of this beautiful worldswhicb God
has given us-«instead of useful duties, interchanged
afiections, an enlarging sphere of brightening pros-
pects-—-all the love, theipromiso, and the poetry of
life--to what in crisis have they been called! Every
thing lost in one fatal moment. Were we to live a
thousand years, we should enter a prison walls with
very altered feelings from those of a more specte-
tor. since we have kept company with Pellico. We

peer down from the latlicegbars on the dome of St.
Mark, the glittering ‘cupolas, and the Lagune. We
have clung Wltl!~~l'liIIl to the grated _winciow_s for _u
glimpse of nature, and for something to look like
the smile of God, whilegdawn was breaking over the
Valley of Brunn upon his silent prayers. We have
brooded with him through ten long years of n soli-
tude so intense, th.at'tbe step of the turnkey, was a
pleasure, the whisper of a neighboringjprisoner 8
blessing, and the sound of an Italian air, lromia die-
tnnt dungeon, anevcnt. We have shared inall the
fluctuntions of the hopes and fears--in the spectrtbl

the objects of silent and tremulous compassion to
even the lowest ministers of abused justice,-—to all,
but tohim, who alone had the power of relieving
them’!

The Emperor is one of those amiable sort ofper.
sons who pats children son‘ the head when he meets
them out a.walking, and who has established among
his Austrian subjecltsapreputation for good-narure,
which the -ordinary kingcraft of generalized political
a1fnbit‘ion"has' not been tlrouglit sufficiently personal
“to»bel‘io.~ Thereeiss stupid constitutional gooclma.

tore which isno more meritorious than the good-
nature of’a drunken man. The individual horrors
of Spielberg are 9. different, and we fear 9. personal
affair‘. Thewomen of Venus, who came round the
carriages of Pellico»and‘Maron_celli, told them tube
of good cheer. 'Our‘Emperor is-so good'——lie will
‘never leave you long at Spielberg; we are sure
‘our I"rarn;:. will remember you.’ If Franz did re-
member them at all, so much the worse for Frmzx.
Politics are of course, excluded fromso ticklish a
sulrject as the present volume, printed at the Turin
press. There can be, however,‘ only one imprcs.
sion left upon its readers ; that is, that the Emperor"
does not want to readit to become’acquuinted with
the worst.p2_irt of its cements. The ’positivcness ol
the regulations by which the‘ officers on the spot
were lriglitened from the comrnoncst acts of huma.
nity‘-, the constant reicrenco to Vienna for the slight-
est mitigzttions which might be required by the Iie~
ccssities of a dying ,man,—-—-such us permission in
licnrimzissgor to have 9., leg cut 0fl'—-3-8'per.:iul com-
missionerssentdown to .1'eps+_‘t upon the condition of
the prison--occasional direct messages‘ from the
_Emperor hirztself-_—-all COlIlll'c7.rl"ri:H(:‘.C3 the general be.
lief that S;iielue.if'g“w’.i'sskoptas n‘ k_i-ml of State l‘.7.-3.
lingerie wliiclfthc lumpeior persbnitlly supcrintentlcel.
It the Emperor has it lie'ai‘;t,-pthis "is a book to break

terrors of his nights, in the day dreams of his:furni__-
ly affections : we thrilled with him at his glimpse of
Gioja, at his chance embrziceof Oroboni, and. above
all, at his overflowing testimony to the nobleness with

hearts of kings and sycophantmyet vindicated it;
riglits, in a thousand other bosnms, to our:confi-
dence and love Streams of moral lustreyand hen-
venly charity broke in. and lighten_ed"the darkness
most, where the monotony of selfishness, andlthe
servile drudgery of a long acquaintance with, and
ministry onthe wretched, were most likely to have

Malta, ‘of Angiola at Venice, and of Schiller in
Spielbe_rg,'_ belong to scenes, which’, in honor of child .
hood, and of women, ofthe virtue which makes semi-

sovereigns whom they have the niisfcitune to repre.
sent, we pray never to forget. ‘ ‘ 

*%r;

isuiurus RY.

....

ark, Captain Bre wor,l went to sea from this port on
Thursday, with a cztrgo of nicrcliandizc valued at
from 3 to 400.000 dollars. The.Bt, Louis, which
sailed on the 7th inst. for theisalme port, had ,3"
cargo of still greatenvalue for that flourishing inur-
ket. v . ,, ‘
[From the C5l32.’.’Il7irL Repu.’>lz',ca_'.n.]
incur, wliicli is now completed, was "erected, by the
.1li.l7.L3‘.’1S ofliudson ti.) the memory oftheir late fellow
citizen, I.r..,wm. H. Allen. It str;si»ls uponn com.

c_ernetcry._ It is .composed ofa column of the Grecian

it. If he has a. conscience, the best penance and

Doric order elevated ‘upon .91" pods ate} and nr.:n'=.ounted

57-,1? 

prison doors of '-the Les.ds'iof Venice (di tanti—cfte A
gzaceamo .’) to set free as many of the hundred,’ as I

hischaracter with the present and future ages-, were‘ '

with therising intelligence *and‘virtuc~o &‘¥m!i0n_

tory is disgrace? Is there nobodywho -can elevate-‘

have mounted with him on his chair and tsble,.to .

which huirnxn_nature, when cold and forsaken in the .,

trodden out the germ of every tender feeling. The"
characters of the dumb boy, and of Mnddulene st"

ncls and turnkeys a thousand times’ nobler than the '

Another. packet ship bound to Natchez, (the New. '

ii£l7'i‘EN.§.;‘E’I’ .-?u.r.nn"s i\'ioNu:uun'r.——‘This Menu;

mjnnding site at the, northern. _estremity_of the ,olt;g{