RATHER. TOO PRACTICAL.

Mr. Green was presented and ushered Into the service much in the same way as l. was; but he had not forgotten what I said to him, relative to the first lieutenant; and it so

, happened that, on the third day, he witneseed a jobation, delivered by the first lieutenant to one of the midshipmen, who, venturing to reply, Was ordered to the masthead for the remainder of the day, added to which, a few minutes

‘5, afterwards, the first lieutenant ordered two men to be put

' both legs in irons. Mr. Green trembled as he saw the men

led away by tho master-at-arms, and he came to lne—“ I do

.; wish, Keene, you would tell me those signs,” Said he; “ can’t

you be persuaded to part with them? I’ll give you any

thing that l have which you may like.” “ Well,” said I, “ 1

should like to have that long spy-glass of yours; for it’s a

. very good one, and, as signal lllldslliptnan,i\vill be useful to

me.” “I’ll give it you, with all my heart, replied he, “If

' you will tell me the signs.” “ Well, then, come down below; give me the glass, and 1 will tell them to you.” Mr. Green and 1 went dowa to the berth, and 1 received the spy-glass as a present, in due form. I then led him to my chest in the

‘ stoorage, and iii a low, confidential tone, told _him as fol- lows :-“You see, Green, you must be very purucularpbout

snaking those signs, for if you make a mistake, you Will bd worse ofi'tlian ifyou never made them at all; for the first lieutenant will suppose thatyOu are trying to persuade him that you are a mason, when you are .not. Now, observe, you must not attempt to make the first sign until he has scolded you well; then, at any pause, you must make it; thus, you must put your thumb to the tip of your nose, and your hand straight out from it, with all the fingers

' , ideas you can. Now, do it as I did it. Stop

I I a minute, till that marine passqgfl'es, Quit is it.

Won‘tth is considered the first prool'ofy r being a mason,

but it requires a second. The first lieutenant will, I tell you fi'lnltly, be, or rather pretend to be, In a terrible rage, and will continue to rail at you ; you must, therelore, wait a little till he pauses, and then, you observe, put up your thumb to your nose, with the fingers ofyour hand as before, and then addto it your other hand, by joining your other thumb to the little finger already up, and stretch your other hand and fingers out like the first. Then you will see the effects of the second Sign. Do you think you can recollect all this? for, as] said before, you mustinako no mistake.” Green put his hands as I told him, and after three or four essays declared himself perfect, and I left him. It was about three days afterwards that Mr. Green upset a kid of dirty water upon the lower deck, which had been dry liolystoned, and the mate ofthe lower deck, when the first lieutenant Went his round, reported the circumstance to exculpate himself Mr. Green was consequently summoned on the quarter deck, - and the first lieutenant, who was very angry, commenced, as usual, a volley of abuse on the unfortunate youngster. Green, recollecting my instructions, waited till the first lieu- tenant had paused, and then made the first freeinason sign, looking up very boldly at the first lieutenant, who actually drew back with astonishment at this contemptuous conduct,

‘ ‘ hitherto unwitnessed on board of a man-of-war. “ What!

” 43f," cried the first lieutenant. “Why, sir,‘ are you mad ?— u,jost come into the service,treating mi.- in this manner!

nan tell you, sir, that you will not be three days longer in ths'uervice—no, sir, not three days; for either you leave the service or Ido. Of all the impuilence, of all the insolence, ofall the contempt, I have heard of, this beats all—and from such a little animal as you ! Consider yourselfas Iinder an arrest, sir, till the captain comes on board, anti your conduct is reported: go down below, sir, immediately.” The lieu- tenant paused, .and now Green gave him sign the second, as it reply, thinking that they would then come to a right un- derstanding; but, to his astonishment, the first lieutenant was more furious than ever, and calling the serjcaiit of inn- fines, ordered him to take Mr. Green down, and put him in irons, under the half-dock. Poor Green was handed down, all astonishment at the want of success ofliis mason’s signs. I, who stood ahaft, Was delighted at the success of my jok‘e, while the first lieutenant walked hastily up and down the deck, as much astonished as enraged at such insulting and insolent conduct from a lad who had not been a week in the sorvice.—-“Percival Keene,” by Captain .‘lIarryat.

VIA! DOE! THAT YOUNG MAN DO F03 A DINING?

I! D. C. COLIStVOIlTHY.

’ “What does that young man do for a living?” is the com- mon inquiry, as some foppish, well-dressed individual pass- es “ Nothing—nothing at all,” is the frequent reply.

“ It what supports him in his extravagance ?” None can

tell—hut we, being a Yankee, have the privilege of guess-

ing. That young manthat dresses in broadcloth, carries a cane, and is so extremely polite to all his acquaintances-— especially the ladies—is the son ofa man in moderate cir-

cumstances, who finds it difiiciilt to sustain himself with a

moderate income. His son wishes to be a gentleman, tlltl

live without labour. The father, in his folly, refuses to put him to a trade, or send him to work on a farm, hoping that something may turn up, by and by, when business will be better, for his son to obtain a good living without work. He is now obliged to dispense with the luxuries oflife—perliaps mth some of its comforts-4hr his son to keep up appear- ances, and get into good society, as that kind ofcompany is normed, where young men have nothing to do but to dress

According to the latest fashions. He is quite independent,

and uses language to his seniors that might be considered

uncourteous in a king. He faces all classes and conditions

I a without a blush, and dares to look with contempt on the ,. honest a preiitice, whose generous soul would outweigh a ‘ thousan as light as his own. The companions he chooses are like himself, puffed up with vanity, swelling with import I ance, and who make a pretence ofdoing somethingpr oc- v‘ . caaionally visiting a lawyer’s office, to read a page or t‘viro of B_la_ckstone. The end ofeiicli ii youth it needs no prophetic

vision to see. “ It is.“ plain as the way to market,” as Dr.

Frankly! would say, that he will turn out a low, despised,

and miserable tool. Perhaps the Penitentiary will bring

.lllm. tip—perhaps the gallows. But if he escape these,

it Will be to hang like an incubus on those of his friends who

for pity’s sake have not the heart to send him where he deserves. The above is a true picture of many ofthe young men who may be seen daily in our streets. You Iiieet them at l 1",?! corner, in all public resorts, at all partiesofpleasure— riding, sailing, talking, laugliiiig,joking eternally, apparentlv With money enough, tnore impudencc, and less brains. Biit how they all contrive to keep body and soul together, with- out work, always spending, and never earning, we Confess is sometimes a mystery to us. When a project of plewre is talked of, the expenses are last thought ol'and the least con- sidered. 0f one thing we are certain, that we are fast verg— ipg to a nation ofpaupers. It is impossible for a people to ‘IVQ. long In Idlcness, enjoying the luxuries and the blessinwg of life, without greatly diminishing the resources of comfohrt and wealth. To be prosperous as a people, each Inust do his part—at least do sufficient labour to gain his own sup- 1”“ ‘ ‘

Parents are very guilty in this matter. They should not permit their great lubherly boys to hang on them for a sup- port, when they are well able to labour, and when to work, wou d promote their health and make them cheerful and hap- py. on do them a mighty wrong, while you dandle them In f y,'and nurture them in extravngflnce: and m” “'9'” how manly they appear, when you know—you must know —the deleterious consequences. lfyour great boys will not work, you should not supporttheni; drive them away if they are lazy, and it will be for their good and your glory in the end. Let them see that they must depend upon themselves, as you have done before. It is it burning shame for aged parents to be hurthened with the support of stout rugged boys , , 1 ——men in size, but pigmies in knowledge, sense and man-

‘ nets—at the time oflife when their children should take them under their protection and care, and provide for their health, comfort and happiness. ‘

Ex'rnaonoiuanv MECHANICAL lNVENTION.-—Alth0flgh at the late meeting of the British Association in Manchester, :there were many very interesting specimens of Mechanism exhibited, there was, nevertheless, one in particular, which

threw all others completely into the shade, when consider- ed either as to the novelty of the invention, or its evident practical applicability to tho every-day concerns of life—and may with truth be said to have been “the lion_oftlic_exhl- bition,” viz., a machine for the working or forgpig of "0'0, steel, &c. This truly surprismg machine is (lune, pertains, occupying only a space of three feet by four feet, and can- not be deemed other, even by the most critical jUilges,_thnll one as purely original in principle, as well as practical In its application, as much so perhapsas was the splendid Inven- tion of the fluted roller of Arkwright, by which the art and perfection of drawing the fibrous substances became known

or that other still more splendid discovery ol‘Watt, the con- densing of steam in a separate vessel ; by which the power ofthe steam engine ofthat day may be said to have been ,doubleil. But now for some explatiatlou of the machine, and its probable general application. TI is, then, as has be-

fore been said, very portable, not requiring more space than

from three to four feet, and may be Worked by steam or water power, and when moved by the former, iiswas the case at the exhibition, made 650 blows, or ltll[)l'esSlOIIs, per minute; but from their very quick succession, and the work being affected by an eccentric pressing,r down, not soaking

the hammer or swage, not the least IIOIse was heard. l‘bel'e are five or six sets of what may be called anvils and swages in the niacliiiie,eacli varying in size. The speed and cor— rectness with which the machine completes its work is per- fectly astonishin and must be seen in order that its capa-

bilities in this I'eziect may be duly appreciated; for Instance, when it was put into motion, for the purpose of producing what is known as a roller, with” a coupling square upon It (and which had to be afterwards turned and fluted), the thin},r was accomplished in fifteen seconds! ol course at one heat, to the astonishment ofthe bystanders. lint what ap- peared as the most extraordinary part ofthe allair, was, that the coupling square was produced‘ direct from the machine, so matliciiiaticiilly correct, that no labour can make it more so!!! The ii‘iachine will perform the labour oftliree men and their assistant strikers, and not only so, but complete Its work in a vastly superior manner to that executed by Ina- nual labour. For engineers, iiiacliil‘ie—mukers, smiths In

general, file makers, bolt and screw makers, or for any de-‘ scription of work, parallel or taper, it is most cepecially

adapted; and 'for what is technically known as rctlucin 1, It. cannot possibly have a successful competitor—in pi-oo of which, it may be stated, that a piece ofrouiid iron, 1:} inches in tliaiiieter, was reduced to a square of in., 2 ft. 5 in. long, at one heat. The merit ofthis invention belongs, it is said, to a gentleman at Bolton, ofthe name of Ryder.

TURKISH “(mans—The Turkish houses in Cotitnntinople, as it is well known, are commonly of wood. The best of them, ofample dimensions, giiily painted, are pleasing to the eye; and all of'tliem, however poor, are, from their form, invariably picturesque. Even the most splendid of the palaces of the Sultan are of the same destructible material. The preference is given to wood by the Turks, not chiefly on account of economy, but from the persuasion that it Is more Wholesmne‘lhnn stone, and also, it is said, from a feel- ing ofhumility; it being considered by them presumptuous to dwell in buildings like their mosques, made, as it were, for eternity, and keeping no measure with the frailty of the occupants. The idea ofthe uuwliolcsomcness ofstone buil- dings is not, perhaps, without ‘foundation in such it climate. The stone houses in Galata, built by the Genoese, with walls of extraordinary thickness, are in bad repute. Unless the

rooms are kept warm in winter, they must be dump in the spring and early summer; so long as the walls are cold, on the occurrence ofa southerly wind, they will act as refriger- atories, and occasion a precipitation of moisture from the humid warm air. The thin walls of wood, on the contrary, conform more to the temperature of the atmosphere. None of the sitting-romns of the houses have fixed fire-plows m“ chimneys; they are heated in the winter chiefly b a char- coal-fire, contained in the open iiiangcl, or covcre iiiidour. The mode of warming their rooms is also suits to the manner in which they are constructed, The re incs in the wooden work allow of a certain admixture of couitnou air and escape of carbonic acid gas, sufficient to prevept'piiy

easily warmed, and kept warm and dry, without riskot'lile

dangerous accumulation ofthe gas, so that the rooqu ,ai‘ f.

Were the doors and windows of Turkish rooms sudden Inade air-tight, and the fissures iii the wood-work clpsed, there being no chimney to give vent to the fixed air,,half the population of Constantinople might be suffocated :uny winter night between sunset and sunrise—Dr. Davy’s Malta and the Ionian Islands. ' ' REFLECTIONS 0N Oven-\VORKING.-—No extra gain can ever pay a man for the loss of health and life before IiiS‘natu- ral time for dropping ofl‘; and it is surprising, thattliose em- ployed in public offices, ctnIIItiIig-bouscs, or any sedentary labour, should not divide their time so as to give themselves at least two hours in the day for exercise. To say it cannot be done is absurd. lftbe work is really so heavy that a man must continue at it twelve or fourteen hours a day to get it done, an additional band should be put to it. The saving of expense is no excuse, where there is such a benefit to be gained as a continued state of good health; and the work would be better done. When the mind is on the full stretch for so many hours a day, it loses its power; its elasticity is gone; and in many cases justice, absolutely justice, is Iiot done, for he who administers it is not himself—his mind is gone from over fatigue. This class of persons, and the young girl kept hard at work at her needle, often both day and night, are most to be pitied. The poor girl, shut tip in a little back room, looking to a dead wall ; the face growing pale, the mind growing melancholy; no day let out but Sunday, and then perhaps ii lover meets her; he may be true, he may not; and here the hardness of woman’s Llot on earth commences. ‘ HEALTH IN OUR OWN Powem—Loss of health is in every instance the result ofthe infringement of one or more ofthe laws or conditions essential to the well-being and activity of every organ, the knowledge and observance of which are, to 9 great extent, within our own power. Errors in relation to diet, to muscular exercise, to clothing, to ventilation, and to other every day concerns-morbid states of mind,-thc re- sult ofthese errors—of excessive mental activity and excite- ment, and of defective education—not only prepare the way for disease, but are themselves the immediate exciting caus- es ofIt. By learning to avoid, modify, or control them, we may secure for ourselves a large amount ofliealtli, both of bodyand mind—in other words, ofliappiness. How much it is in the power of every one to efi'ect. by attention to these apparently trifling things, in preserving his health, prolong- ing his life, and thus increasing his happiness, the nume- rous cases of persons attaining old age in the possession of great bodily and mental powers are decisive proof. Galen, though of an infirm constitution up to the age of thirty, at- tained to a great age by taking much regular exercise; so did Herodicus, the preceptor of Hippocrates, who was liill ofliumours in his youth ; Socrates and Agesiliius'wcl‘e also convinced of the good effects of exercise, and the former constantly enjoined it on his scholars. Asclepiades, a ce- lebrated physician in ancient Rome, publicly declared that he was content to pass for an idiot if ever attacked by ill- ness, or if his death was caused by any thing but old ave or accident; nor was be deceived in his estimate of whiit he could accomplish by conformity to the laws of nature ; he lived more than a century without any illness, and died at last from the effects ofa violentfall.-—Curtis on Health. Tin: MISERIES Aim EviLs or lusunasvrxom—The im- mediate. consequence of popular insurrection is, that all bu- siness ll suspended, and the great body of artisans are poured forth into the streets Without work or wages; then of course, famine begins; men cannot live without wagesZ all the. bakers’ and victuollers’ houses are plundered ‘ hill. provnpous soon fail, and the country people will not briiig in supphes to the market, where they will probably be robbed. The famished town’s-people go out in bands to collect pro- Visions in the country, and are either cut ofl‘ by the 'yeoman- ry and soldiers, or else plunder every farm and country- house they come to, and murder all who oppose them. Then comes the horrible state of things which exists when law is disregarded, and might is right. The glare of mid- night fires—the distant sliot—the'sound of horses’ hoofs, breaking the hour of silence—soldiers and armed bands bur-

rying to and fro—such are the dreadful accompaniments of

“1,71,... ; Oh, what a heavy, sorrowful thing to live in continual danger! When the peaceful firesttfl'othli rendered gloomy by fear—when the merry game 0d 3 children is hushed, the silent tears chase. each other ow,

the mother’s check, the stern resolve Sits on the fathers brow, the arms are burnished and loaded, the doors’bolte f and barred, the barking ofthe house dog or the sjglitng o

the wind seems to tell ofa baud of'ruthless assassins piou- ling around like beasts ofprey. Such is.the picture of revo- lution—Such was it in France and lreland—spch It is now in Spain; and, if God had Iiot spared them in bounds—such, if God iii his great mercy preserves us not—such It may be here.—-Clement Walton.

Buxmo Cains—Let it never be forgotten, that one cause of people getting duped is their over-eager fondness for ob- taining low priced commodities, thinking they Will turn out to be CHEAP also, than which no two things can, iii a gene- ral way, be more unaccm'dant; and so long astiusyveakness. continues with us (and we have all a spice of this kind of folly, more or less.) it will be vain for divmes to thunder from the pulpit, for moralists to declaim from the ethical rostium, for patriots (real or pseudo) from the tribune, against the “devil” ofcheatery, and all his “ powder.’ ——Magazme of Domestic Economy.

Tar. Misroit'ronss or A Desron.-—Men generally look upon a debtor as in some degree their own property. Pccpmary difiicultics break all ties, absolve from all courtesy, raise the creditor to the eminence of a despot, and often Insplre'him with the desire of exercising‘the arbitrary powers of one. The helpless debtor must be suspected, accused, insulted, in silence. The attacks of others are unsupported by self- iipprobation and the natural independence ofa man. He is a slave, chained, to be spit upon by the angry, and laughed at by the unfeeling; and his own heart, alas! joms his ene- mies and pleads against him.

“Our church clock,” says the editor ofa down east pa- per. "keeps time so well, that We get a day out of every week b it.”

yTHlI‘. Woes-r msn or Ours—Ont of humour, out ofhealtb and out of money. Tim Wonsr KIND or INS.—-1ll love, in gaol, and in water over your head.

a state of revolution.

On the 24th Sept., to Messrs. Pope, of Plymouth, was towed from the Downs, having made her passage across the.Atlan- tic under circumstances of peculiar difficulty. During the voyage from Quebec, with timber, lier cargo shifted, and threw the vessel completely on her beam ends. _ The wea- ther was fortunately calm, or the ship must ichItably have been lost. Her appearance in passing up the river attracted much attention—the masts. instead of being perpendicular, formed till angle ofabout 45 degrees. _

Leave of absence to an officer cannot now be given without the express emotion in writing of his Grace the Duke of \Vellington. .

Anewspaper has just made its apperance In Egypt, the first ever published in that country; it Is entitled the Rharos offllexandria, and is printed iii French.