and it may be reasonably expected that by the study of such objects, much information relative to the history, mythology, laws, and manners, of the ancient Egyptians, may be obtained. ANTEDILUVIAN MUMMIES. Two Mummies of the Gaunche species, male and female, have lately been brought from the Island of Teneriffe, and appear to have belonged to the primitive people of the Atlantides, of which the Canary Islands are the relics, which escaped the grand catastrophe that overwhelmed that continent. Their peculiar method of preservation by being enveloped in a disembowelled state, in bulls hides, confirm the account given of them by Plato. They are in a fine state of preservation, considering that they existed previously to the Deluge, a period of more than 4,000 years. Mr. Brettell, the printer, of Rupert-street, has them in his possession. TOMBSTONE AT CHESTER. Some time since, while some workmen were employed in sinking a water-course on the west side of Chester cathedral, they discovered an ancient tombstone about four feet below the surface. It is about five feet in length, at the top two feet across, and at the bottom 1 foot; on its centre is cut a cross, beautifully ornamented with leaves of the fleur de lys; and op the edge is the following inscription: "Hic jacet Henricus de Bebyntonn, quondam Armiger Domini Willielmi Abbatis; qui obiit in Festu Sancte Cadde anno D'ni MCCCXLV." On widening the city end of Aldersgatestreet, contiguous to the new Post-office, a stone was discovered on the corner house of Bull and Mouth-street, which shows the original name of that street and the date of its erection to have been "Stewkley's-street, 1668." SELECT THE MOONLIGHT EVENING. POETRY. To that most high and lofty One, Who, from his everlasting throne, THE Sun's broad orb, whose ling'ring Directs each motion of those spheres bea:n Shed trembling lustre o'er the stream, Hail! solemn season, when the sound Hail! Contemplation's choicest hour! Which mark the lapse of days and years, God and his Christ, Creation's scheme, His soul the glorious work renews, A FAREWELL TO ENGLAND. BY THE REV. JOHN GRAHAM, M. A. Inscribed to Lord KENYON and the Countess Dowager of Rosse. (Air—"Let us haste to Kelvin Grove.") OH what we love and have, we never duly prize, [flies; Nor value what is dear to us until away it And so the fickle find it, when thro' foreign fields they roam, [sweet home. Forsaking all that love them in their owa I would rather see Benyevenagh than Richmond Hill; I'd give the Thames and Medway for old Tamlaght rill; Though all the wealth around me I could fairly call my own, [hearth-stone. I would rather sit in Claggan on my own For there I'd meet the partner of my early day, [weary way; Who long and sweetly cheer'd me on a And there are those who joyfully would climb upon my knee, [versing the sea. To welcome home their wanderer from tra I'd see the friends who lately stood intrepid at my side, [tide; And stemm'd the raging fury of Oppression's I would shake the Londonderry lads all kindly by the hand, [post will ever stand. Who for King and Constitution on their Then farewell, peerless England, all attractive as thou art, You hold, indeed, my right good will, but ERIN holds my heart; Adieu, kind friends on British ground, and kindest of them all, Ye noble souls of Gredington and lovely Stretton Hall! Westminster Abbey, Nov. 11, 1826. Unfeeling hundreds fill the crowded strand, Oh, lovely ERIN, Heaven's favour'd isle, The rifled seaman's body to a grave. Naked and pale, and mangled on your strand, Reproaching silently your hearts unkind, Would no man o'er him roll a wreath of sand, To hide his ringlets from the wanton wind? And unmolested in the face of day, Shall hungry dogs feast on these features fine,- Shall vermin vile or prowling birds of prey Dishonour thus the human face divine? Yes, Rapine harden'd here each sordid heart, Till to the horrid scene a stranger came, Who acting the Samaritan's good part, Entomb'd the hapless boy without a name. Perhaps that boy reluctantly and slow His tender parents had but lately left, Wishing to stay, but forc'd, alas! to go, And leave them of their fondest hope bereft. That mother's eye which nightly on his bed But soon in bitter agony will weep! dren too like you, FAREWELL to the friends that I love, My soul soars to regions above, Dear mother, attentive and kind, view. For I soon shall be lost to your What a debt does your Caroline ove For parental affection so true, I could wish-but it must not be so, Who so oft have return'd my caress, Let me still be remember'd by you When no longer my love I express. For attentions so soothing and kind In the hour of affliction and death, With reluctance I leave you behind, And with gratitude draw my last breath. To your filial affection and care I now my dear parents bequeath, And with them may you often repair To the sod that I slumber beneath. R. LIFE-A TEEtotum. WHERE'ER we go, whate'er we see, A trifle yet this life must be. A Totum still of whirling power, Of joy, of grief, of hope, of woe That varies with the varying hour; All that it boots us here to know, Or pleas'd, or sad, or grave, or gay, Still, still, in Life's frail passing day The ceaseless toy its motion keeps, No instant pauses-never sleeps. Ambition, in thy whirling round. No hour of peace shall e'er be found. Will Joy its quick vibrations still, Or Fear obey the fruitless will? Does Hate its purpose now arrest, And smile, as on a pleasant guest? Will Love, that busy restless foe, The cup of Circe now forego? Or now when pleas'd, or now when bless'd, Indiff'rence is it then express'd? The want, the wish, the joy, the woe, All ills that restless mortals know, Commingling, form, with varying strife, The blended web of human life; Till Death shall bid the tumult cease, As Ocean's storms subside in peace., C. WARD. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. Canning acquiesced in the fairness of Mr. Huskisson's conclusion from the correspondence, but added in a toue of great candour, that he could not exclude from his consideration, the possibility that even so great a man as the Duke of Wellington might have been something like an instrument in the hands of others (loud cheers). There were instances of equally great men having been so made use of. Adding, that unless better advised than he was at present, he should certainly introduce a Bill next session tending to the same end. The Amendment was then carried by a majority of 238 to 52. The third reading of the Coventry Magistrates Bill, was then carried by a majority of 65 to 55. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 20. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 18. Mr. Canning stated that it was his intention to bring forward a restricted and temporary measure which had become necessary to avert the temporary evils result ing from the loss of the CORN BILL. He would do this, either by a distinct motion, or by an amendment upon the promised motion of the Member for Essex, if that hon. gent. should persist in bringing it forward.-Mr. Western brought forward his motion; it was to repeal the clause of the Act of 1822, which prevents the importa tion of foreign grain when the averages are below 80s.; 70s. being the minimum established by the principle of the law of 1822, though suspended by the clause which Mr. Western proposed to repeal. Mr. Canning, in a speech of some length, moved an Amendment to the effect that, "all foreign grain or flour, now in British The Earl of Winchelsea presented a per warehouses, be admitted into the market tition from the inhabitants of Great Marfrom the 1st of July, 1827, to the 1st of low, against concession to the Roman CaMay, 1828, upon the same terms as laid tholics; and having declared his hearty condown in the late Bill." The right hon. currence in the Petition, he proceeded to gent. professed to feel great sorrow and se- animadvert in a becoming tone of indignarious alarm at the loss of the Bill, which tion, upon the imputation of unworthy mohe seemed to impute to the effect of party tives cast by persons in another place, upon spirit and to management.-Mr. Peel said, the majority who had voted for the Duke that he would vote for the Amendment, be- of Wellington's amendment. - The Lord cause he had been all along friendly to the Chancellor and Lord Goodrich complained late Bill. He then vindicated the Duke of of the Noble Earl's observations as disorWellington from the unworthy imputation derly, and deprecated the keeping up of a which had been cast upon him, and declar- controvery, which might tend to evil coned his perfect conviction, that the illustrisequences.-Earl Grey admitted the irreguous nobleman in question had acted upon larity of such allusions, but remarked that a misapprehension of Mr. Huskisson's mean- the blame of the altercation must revert to ing. Sir E. Knatchbull expressed his regret him who commenced it, who was responand humiliation that such a line of animad- sible not only for his own violation of order, version upon the Duke of Wellington's mo- but also for the retaliation which it neces tives should be taken upon the anniversary sarily provoked. He (Earl Grey) had read of the Battle of Waterloo. The unexpected speeches in which their Lordship's house allusion to the occasion upon which the had been vilified in a manner which struck Duke had saved this empire from great at the root of its legislative independence, danger was, as might be expected, followed and he trusted that some means would be by a tremendous burst of feeling: the ap adopted to warn the authors of such plause lasted several minutes.-Mr. A. Bar speeches, against a repetition of the ofing highly eulogised the Corn Bill, and ri- fence.-The Marquis of Lansdown suggestdiculed the Duke of Wellington's amended, that it was open to the House, to call ment. Mr. Peel defended the conduct of the Duke of Wellington against the ridi cule which the Hon. Member attempted to throw upon it-ridicule which equally applied to his Right Hon. friend the President of the Board of Trade.-Mr. Huskisson read the letters which passed be tween him and the Duke of Wellington, for the purpose of shewing that the Duke could not have misunderstood him-Mr. GENT. MAG. Suppl. XCVII. PART I. H the printer of the offensive speeches to the bar. Lord Ellenborough contended, that as their Lordships connived at the printing of their own speeches, it would be neither generous nor consistent to do so.The Marquis of Londonderry wished to know from his friends whether the author of the speech would venture to publish it at his own risk.-Ministers declined answering the question. In the House of COMMONS, the same day, on Mr. Warburton presenting a petition connected with the medical profession, Mr. Peel took occasion to intimate that it might be a desirable improvement in the law, and a benefit to medical science, if the bodies of all persons dying under executiou for felony were delivered over for dissection, as is now enjoined in the case of murderers. Mr. Peel moved for leave to bring in a Bill to facilitate the recovery of Small Debts. No means of recovering these debts at present existed. He should propose a system similar to that of the County Court of Lancashire, where the sheriff appointed an assessor. He would have a jury of five only. He intended that the creditor having explained the nature of his claim, instead of a writ being issued against the debtor, he should be served with a summons. In place of counsel, attornies should be employed, their fee being limited to 10s. As summary execution after verdict frequently occasioned the ruin of the parties, he would leave it to the judge to require payment of the debt by instalments, and in the event of failure in the instalments, he would limit the remedy to execution on the property, instead of allowing it to be extended to the person (hear, hear)-the judgment of this court being made final.-The Attorney General also highly approved of the principle and details of the Bill.-Mr. Hobhouse regretted that the measure had been delayed so long. Mr. Peel did hope to have brought forward the measure early in the session, but was prevented by circumstances. He would endeavour to have it perfected in the recess, so as to have it passed into a law early in the next session.-Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. The CORN TRADE BILL was read a second time, on the motion of Mr. Herries. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 21. Mr. Hume moved two resolutions. The first was to the following effect:-Resolved, that according to the returns laid upon the table of the House on the 1st of Jan. 1827, it appears that the total number of officers in the naval service of Great Britain in 5558, of which number not more than 842 are employed. In the second Resolution, put by the Hon. Member, the total amount of the naval dead weight, and the total amount of the navy estimates voted this year were stated, and he concluded by moving an address to the Crown, praying that his Majesty would be graciously pleased to give directions that no further promotions should take place in the navy, except upon extraordinary occasions, when merit or length of service called for it.-Sir George Cockburn explained the two-fold purpose of naval promotion-first to reward merit; secondly, to keep up a succession of officers of all ranks in the vigour of life; he would therefore move the previous question on the resolu tion, and negative the address. — Sir J. Yorke argued for the necessity of establishing some check upon the system of naval promotion. The previous question was carried upon the resolutions, and the address was negatived. The House went into a Committee, on the Warehoused Corn Bill.-Sir Edward Knatchbull confessed that he was not displeased that the measure should be tried as an experiment, but stated an opinion that the late Corn Bill was not so much the measure of Lord Liverpool, as it has been said to be.-Mr. Canning asserted that in introducing the Bill he used Lord Liverpool's memoranda, as a brief; and added that he had heard from Lord Liverpool that the measure was likely to have the support of the Hon. Baronet.-After a few words from Sir E. Knatchbull, Mr. Bankes, Mr. Huskisson, and Mr. Ward, the report was brought up, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third tine. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 22. Lord Goderich moved the committal of the CORN AVERAGES BILL-Lord Farnham proposed, as an amendment, that the words England and Wales be omitted, and the words Great Britain and Ireland' inserted instead of them." Upon which, the question was put, first, that the words England and Wales' do stand pert of the clause." Content, 44; Not Content, 44. Upon which the Chairman, as bound by precedent, gave his casting vote against the question. The words Eng land and Wales," therefore, were excluded from the clause. The amendment was then put, "that the words Great Britain and Ireland' be inserted." Content, 37; Not Content, 43. Majority against the insertion of the words, 6. The Bill by this decision not applying to any part of the King's dominions, Lord Goderich stated that he would endeavour to rescue it from this ludicrous position at a future stage. June 25. Lord Goderich moved the second reading of the WAREHOUSED CORN BILL. His Lordship explained the nature of this temporary measure, and the metives of Ministers in bringing it forward, but offered nothing new upon the subject. -The Earl of Malmesbury vindicated the agricultural interests in the line of conduct they had pursued on this occasion.-The Duke of Wellington entered into an explanation of his motives in proposing the amendment to the late Bill, which it was clear was in no respect adverse to the principle of that measure, the abandonment of which, by ministers, was as unnecessary as it was injurious. His Grace produced a further correspondence between himself and Mr. Huskisson, and concluded by declaring that he had no view to defeat the Bill, or to render it ineffectual; |