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The following song, in which the pipe is alluded to, cannot fail to amuse :

Song. The Wish.

Where the Pipe is never cold,
Where the Bowl is never dry,
Where the Women never scold
The Men for drinking merrily;

Where the Rose for ever blows,
Where the more we drink the better,
Where Repletion health bestows,

And by laughing we get fatter;

Where the fairest Girls are found,
Where Time rests at five and twenty,
Where the toast goes always round,
And o'erflows the Horn of Plenty;
Where chaste Mirth can trample care,
Where her blue eyes roll in pleasure,
While Bacchantes tarrying there,

Fill the goblet without measure;

Where the Dance is never still,

Where the Lute is silent never,

There of joy I'll have my fill,

There I'll dwell and live for ever.

CHORUS.

But before 1 hasten there,

Where is there? O tell me where?

We subjoin from Brand, the following observations on the use of Tobacco :

"A foreign weed, which has made so many Englishmen, especially of the common sort, become its slaves, must not be omitted in our Catalogue of Popular Antiquities. It is said to have been first brought into England by Captain R. Greenfield and Sir Francis Drake about the year 1586, during the reign of Elizabeth."

Invective against Tobacco in Ale Houses.

Let it be damned to Hell; and called from thence,
Proserpine's wine, the furies' frankincense,

The Devil's addle eggs: or else to these

A sacrifice grim Pluto to appease.

A deadly weed, which its beginning had

From the foam of Cerberus when the cur was mad.

Brand says, "Our British Solomon James the First, who was a great opponent of the Devil, and even wrote a book against witchcraft, made a formidable attack also upon this Invention of Satan,' in a learned performance, which he called a Counterblaste to Tobacco.' It is printed in the edition of his works by Barker and Bill, London 1616."

"He concludes this Bitter Blast of his with a sulphureous invective against this transmarine weed.

"The following extraordinary account of a Buckinghamshire Parson who abandoned himself to the use of Tobacco, is worth quoting. It may be found in Lilly's History of his Life and Times, p. 44:-In this year also, William Breedon, Parson or Vicar of Thornton in Bucks, was living, a profound divine, but absolutely the most polite person for nativities in that age, strictly adhering to Ptolemy, which he well understood; he had a hand in composing Sir Christopher Heydon's Defence of Judicial Astrology, being at that time his chaplain; he was so given over to Tobacco and drink, that when he had no Tobacco, and I suppose too much drink, he would cut the bellropes and smoke them!""

How widely different the strains of the subsequent Parody on the stile of Ambrose Phillips :

Little Tube of mighty power,
Charmer of an idle hour,
Object of my warm desire,
Lip of amber-eye of fire:
And thy pliant taper waist,
With my finger gently braced;
And thy pretty swelling crest,
With my little stopper prest.

The following is in imitation of Dr. Young, by Mr. Hawkins Browne:

Critics avaunt, Tobacco is my theme;

Tremble like Hornets at the blasting steam.
And you, Court Insects, flutter not too near
Its light, nor buzz within the scorching sphere.
Pollio, with flame like thine my verse inspire,
So shall the muse from smoke elicit fire.
Coxcombs prefer the tickling sting of Snuff;
Yet all their claim to wisdom is-a puff.
Lord Foplin smokes not-for his teeth afraid;
Sir Tawdry smokes not-for he wears brocade.
Ladies, when pipes are brought, affect to swoon;
They love no smoke, except the smoke of town;
But Courtiers hate the puffing tribe-no matter,
Strange, if they love the breath that cannot flatter!
Its foes but show their ignorance; can he
Who scorns the Leaf of Knowledge, love the tree?
Yet crouds remain, who still its worth proclaim,
While some for pleasure smoke, and some for fame:
Fame, of our actions universal spring,

For which we drink, eat, sleep, smoke-every thing.

In "The London Medley," 8vo, 1731, p. 8, is the following panegyric on Tobacco :

Hail, Indian Plant, to ancient times unknown,

A modern truly thou, of all our own;

If through the tube thy virtues be conveyed,
The old man's solace, and the student's aid!
Thou dear concomitant of nappy ale,

Thou sweet prolonger of a harmless tale;
Or if, when pulverized in smart Rappee,
Thou'lt reach Sir Fopling's brain, if brain there be;
He shines in dedications, poems, plays,
Soars in Pindaricks, and asserts the bays;
Thus dost thou every taste and genius hit,

In smoke thou'rt wisdom, and in snuff thou'rt wit.

Great additional delight in smoking is derived from the mellow and more agreeable taste of smoke from an old pipe made of Merschaum or Ecume de Mer, a perfectly sui generis substance used for making pipes. It is usually boiled in oil after being cut out into the shape of the pipe; but we have found the raw Merschaum answer quite as well, and in time to become a better pipe than when the clay is boiled as above described.

November 9. DEDICATION OF THE CHURCH CALLED ST. JOHN LATERAN. St. Theodorus Tyro Martyr. St. Mathurin Priest and Confessor. St. Vanne Bishop and Confessor. St. Benignus Bishop..

Lord Mayor's Day.-Until the year 1214 the office of Chief Magistrate of London was held for life. The title of Lord, in addition to that of Mayor, was first granted by Richard II. in 1381, when Walworth, who was the Mayor of that time, slew Wat Tyler in Smithfield, then at the head of a dangerous insurrection. He first struck the ruffian from his horse with his mace of office, and instantly despatched him with his dagger; from which time the dagger was added to the city arms. The Lord Mayor of London acts as chief butler at a coronation, and in that capacity serves the sovereign with a cup of wine.

The convivial preparations for the celebration of Lord Mayor's Day, in London, are usually upon a very large

scale :

Now countless turbots and unnumbered soles
Fill the wide kitchens of each livery hall:
From pot to spit, to kettle, stew, and pan,
The busy hum of greasy scullions sounds,
That the fixed beadles do almost perceive
The secret dainties of each other's watch:
Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
Each table sees the other's bill of fare:
Cook threatens cook in high and saucy vaunt
Of rare and newmade dishes; confectioners

Both Pastrycooks and Fruiterers in league,
With candied art their rivets closing up,
Give pleasing notice of a rich dessert.

The order of the procession is well described in the following parody of a speech in Shakespeare's Henry V. :— Suppose that you have seen

The new appointed Mayor at Queenstairs
Embark his royalty: his own company

With silken streamers the young gazers pleasing,
Painted with different fancies;-have beheld
Upon the golden galleries music playing,
And the horns echo, which do take the lead
Of other sounds:-now view the city barge

Draw its huge bottom thro' the furrowed Thames,
Breasting the adverse surge: O do but think
You stand in Temple Gardens, and behold
London herself, on her proud stream afloat,
For so appears this fleet of magistracy
Holding due course to Westminster.

A very splendid banquet is on these occasions provided at Guildhall, at the expense of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and about 1300 persons, male and female, sit down to dinner; which, from the disposition of the tables, the sumptuousness of the vrands, the arrangement of the company, the brilliancy of the lights, music, and decorations, and the general good humour and hilarity that prevails, is one of the most interesting spectacles that can be seen in the British capital.

The following epigram was written on an Alderman who eat so hearty that he fell asleep in his chair, and found, at least so the story goes, the verses in his plate on waking:— Ricco Inglese, vostra vita E appunto un festino

Dolce cosa, ma vicino

A quel pranzare e il dormir.

CHRONOLOGY.-A remarkable spot seen on the Sun early this morning in 1789. The morning was foggy, as is usual at this time.

He was born

Mr. William Camden who wrote Britannia died in 1623. in 1551. The best edition of his works is that by Mr. Richard Gough.

November 10. St. Andrew Avellino Confessor. SS. Trypho and Respicicus Martyrs and Nympha Virgin. St. Justus Bishop and Confessor. SS. Milles Bishop, Abrosimus Priest, and Sina Deacon, Martyrs.

Orises at VII. 26'. and sets at Iv. 34'.

FLORA. We have still many of the aestival and autumnal flowers in blow when the weather permits; and those plants which flower all the year often afford delight at this dreary

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time, and enliven a bright November day. As this is the season when borders are dug, and the business of planting the gardens and parterres goes on, it may be as well to admonish the amateur in gardening, that plants like men have their likes and dislikes. Darwin has written on the loves of plants; but we think no writer has sufficiently explained their wars. A good gardener should not only consider what plants are likely to overrun one another, and what are likely to destroy others, but should attend to certain sympathies and antipathies, which, however strange it may appear, certainly do exist in the vegetable kingdom. We do not allude merely to the power which some plants have to overrun and destroy others mechanically, as Crowfoot, all the Coltsfoot tribe, and other notorious weeds, but to a mode of influencing each other by their proximity alone, as if by some secret influence on the powers of vegetation. Perhaps this may in reality arise from the circumstance that different plants take up different modifications of nutriment from the soil; and in cases of apparent antipathies it may happen that the incongruous plants destroy the soil, and perhaps the surrounding air for each other. However this may be, the fact is certain that there exists such an influence, of which Phillips is mindful in the following lines:

On the Antipathies of Plants.

The prudent will observe what passions reign
In various plants, for not to man alone
But all the wide creation Nature gave

Love and aversion. Everlasting hate

The Vine to Ivy bears, which yet abhors

The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine
Clasps the tall Elm. The Paestan Rose unfolds
Her bud more lovely near the fetid Leek,
Crest of stout Britons, and enhances thence
The price of her celestial scent. The Gourd
And thirsty Cucumber, when they perceive
The approaching Olive, with resentment fly
Her fatty fibres, and with tendrils creep
Diverse, detesting contact; whilst the Fig
Contemns not Rue nor Sage's humble leaf
Close neighbouring. The Herefordian plant
Caresses freely the contiguous Peach,
Hazel, and weightresisting Palm, and likes

To approach the Quince, and the Elder's pithy stem,
Uneasy seated by funereal Yew

Or Walnut, whose malignant touch impairs
All generous fruits, or near the bitter dews
Of Cherries: therefore weigh the habits well
Of plants, how they associate best, nor let
Ill neighbourhood corrupt thy hopeful plants.

We may add, that the Ash and all trees which spread

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