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could have collected his thoughts so as to devise so many political improve ments as are aseribed to him, while ! the wind blew so violently through the chunks of his palace as to put out hls candles: and even the Roman world was hardly a compensation to Augustus for living in an age and country where chimney places were unknown, ard where the brazier of burning charcoal must have aggravated by it's fumes his chronic catarrh. What sorrows must Apicius have endured from having his best receipts spoiled by smoke in the cooking! And, to come nearer to our own time and progenitors, who wonders that the Percies sought 10 warm the blood in foray, when by their house. hold laws no fires were allowed after the 25th of March? We think it now-a- days great evil when the lady of the house vigorously banishes fires after the straw mating supplies the place of the carpet, which is not done more than fortnight before they can be dispensed with, nor continued much longer after me begin to want them again. It was aneently reekoned, we find, one of the qualifications of a good cook to know which way the smoke would move, that the dishes might not be spoiled. We need not mention our modern superiori- ty in this particular, not above half or three-fourths of our chimneys being giv- on to smoke at fhis day

 It seems even the reproach of effemi- macy is to be taken from us, it being as- certained that certain degree of luxu- ry is favorable to vigour. In the pe- ninsulaf campaigns, says our historian ofcomforts, the officers just from Bond street sustained the march and bivouac better than the veterans. IL this respect, we hope the doctrine will at length pre- vail, that pleasure is utility, and that a man isnot the less wise for being com fortable.

 The questions are curious which are discussed in the articles on the ''Laws of population and wages The next, on the ''Poetry and Romance of the Italians, is written apparently by one vefsed ia his subject. The s.ori.in and progress of the useful arts is an ar tiele of some entertainment, as also that on Popularsports and Festivals. The two following are "Pennsylyanian Bi- ography," and HThe Cherokee Case.' ? There is an article, also, on the North eastern Boundary, and a short one on 'Haryard University" In the sLife and character of Henry Broughdm,' , Justice is done to an extraordinary man, the hero ef an extraordinary epoch, who, as might be expected, has excited much abuse and rancour in his political adversaries and their adherents.

 'sile is master ofth English law, the most complicated and difhcult ofall the sciences-a science to ascend whose heights, and fathom whose depths, de- mands strong powers, strongly exerted. ;

 The reforms which are required in the law, though they may prove the partial and occasional inaptness of the system to the wants of society, do not detract from, but add to, the praise of those who have mastered the whole ex- traordina y mass. Mir. Brougham could not have devised all the reforms he has promoted, without a genius the most comprehensive, sustained by most inde- fatigable diligence.