Salt Lake to the Pacific, is thickly sown with the precious ore. Admitting this to be true, we see no reason why the fabulous city of Manoa may not find a rival in the future glories of San Francisco.

What no

In the head-long rush towards this new fountain of wealth, words of warning will be little heeded. Reason and argument are wasted on the victims of the mighty Temptation. ble resolves, what holy aspirations, what rational plans of home joy and domestic happiness, will yield to its baleful enticement! How many calm fire-sides of contented and honest industry will it disturb and darken! How will it unsettle the sober habitude of thrift, and embitter with envy and regret the quiet enjoyment of the fruits of daily labor in the field and workshop! What a fever will it waken in the already too rapid pulses of society! What madness will it infuse into the already excited and overtasked brain of the new generation! The light which history sheds upon the consequences of similar acquisitions, on the part of Spain and Portugal, is by no means calculated to lessen the fears with which every thoughtful friend of his country, and of the moral progress of his race, must regard this remarkable discovery.

At the date of the last accounts from California, the harvests were left to rot in the fields, their owners having all gone to the mines, and provisions of all kinds were scarce, and commanding the most exorbitant prices. Already there was actual suffering for food in the midst of gold; and probably long ere this more than one unfortunate adventurer has looked with more satisfaction upon an edible root or fruit than upon his hoards of yellow dust, exclaiming, like Timon, when faint and hungry, after the discovery of his golden treasures,

"Common mother,

Yield from thy plenteous bosom one poor root."

Bunyan, in his description of the infernal regions, describes a covetous woman who had spent her life in hoarding riches, condemned to the task of swallowing liquid gold, with which the mocking demons were always ready to supply her. We can imagine a counterpart to Bunyan's picture in some luckless digger of the California mines, starving in the midst of his abundance, and vainly seeking to barter all his worthless gains for an ear of corn or a handful of ground nuts.

J. G. W.

AUBREY'S ANECDOTES.

"John Aubrey (1626-1700) studied at Oxford, and, while there, aided in the collection of materials for Dugdale's "Monasticon Anglicanum." At a later period, he furnished valuable assistance to Anthony Wood. His only published work is a collection of popular superstitions relative to dreams, portents, ghosts, witchcraft, &c., under the title of Miscellanies. His manuscripts, of which many are preserved in the Ashmolean museum, and the library of the Royal Society, prove his researches to have been very extensive, and have furnished much useful information to later antiquaries. Three volumes, published in 1813, under the title of "Letters written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, &c., with Lives of Eminent Men," are occupied principally by very curious literary anecdotes, which Aubrey communicated to Anthony Wood." Chambers' Cyclopædia, vol. 1st, p. 527: Chambers gives us no extracts from this writer; but we find the following Anecdotes taken from his MSS. &c., in "Knight's Half-Hours with the best Authors," and readily adopt them into our work.

SIR MILES FLEETWOOD.

He was of the Middle Temple, was Recorder of London when King James came into England. Made his harangue to the city of London-"When I consider your wealth I do admire your wisdom, and when I consider your wisdom I do admire your wealth." It was a two-handed rhetorication, but the citizens took it in the best sense. He was a very severe hanger of highwaymen, so that the fraternity were resolved to make an example of his worship, which they executed in this manner :-They lay in wait for him not far from Tyburn, as he was to come from his house at-Bucks; had a halter in readiness; brought him under the gallows, fastened the rope about his neck, his hands tied behind him, (and servants bound,) and then left him to the mercy of his horse, which he called Ball. So he cried, "Ho, Ball! Ho, Ball!" and it pleased God that his horse stood still, till somebody came along, which was half a quarter of an hour, or more. He ordered that his horse should be kept as long as he would live, which was so; he lived till 1645.

HENRY MARTIN.

His speeches in the house were not long, but wondrous poignant, pertinent, and witty. He was exceeding happy in apt instances; he alone had sometimes turned the whole house. Making an invective speech one time against old Sir Henry Vane, when he had done with him, he said, But for young Sir Harry Vane-and so sat him down. Several cried out-" What have you to say of young Sir Harry?" He rises up: Why if young Sir Harry lives to be old, he will be old Sir Harry! and so sat down, and so set the whole house a laughing, as he oftentimes did. Oliver Cromwell once in the house called him, jestingly or scoffingly, Sir Harry Martin. H. M. rises and bows: "I thank your majesty, I always thought when you were king, that I should be knighted." A godly member made a motion to have all profane and unsanctified persons expelled the house. H. M. stood up and moved that all fools should be put out likewise, and then there would be a thin house. He was wont to sleep much in the house (at least dog-sleep ;) Alderman Atkins made a motion that such scandalous members as slept and minded not the business of the house shonld be put out. H. M. starts up—" Mr. Speaker, a motion has been made to turn out the Nodders; I desire the Noddees may also be turned out."

THE CIVIL WAR.

When the civil war broke out, the Lord Marshal had leave to go beyond the sea. Mr. Hollar went into the Low Countries where he stayed till about 1649. I remember he told me, that when he first came into England, (which was a serene time of peace,) that the people, both poor and rich, did look cheerfully, but at his return, he found the countenances of the people all changed, melancholy, spiteful, as if bewitched.

TOBACCO.

Sir Walter Raleigh was the first that brought tobacco into England, and into fashion. In our part of North Wilts-Malmesbury hundred-it came first into fashion by Sir Walter Long. They

had first silver pipes. The ordinary sort made use of a walnut shell and a straw. I have heard my grandfather Lyte say, that one pipe was handed from man to man round the table. Sir W. R. standing in a stand at Sir Ro. Poyntz's park at Acton, took a pipe of tobacco, which made the ladies quit it till he had done. Within these thirty-five years 'twas scandalous for a divine to take tobacco. It was sold then for its weight in silver. I have heard some of our old yeomen neighbors say, that when they went to Malmesbury or Chippenham market, they culled out their biggest shillings to lay in the scales against the tobacco; now the customs of it are the greatest his majesty hath.

DR. WILLIAM HARVEY.

He was always very contemplative, and the first that I hear of that was curious in anatomy in England. He had made dissections of frogs, toads, and a number of other animals, and had curious observations on them; which papers, together with his goods, in his lodgings at Whitehall, were plundered at the beginning of the rebellion; he being for the king, and then with him at Oxon; but he often said, that of all the losses he sustained, no grief was so crucifying to him as the loss of these papers, which for love or money he could never retrieve or obtain. When king Charles I., by reason of the tumults left London, he attended him, and was at the fight of Edgehill with him; and during the fight, the Prince and Duke of York were committed to his He told me that he withdrew with them under a hedge, and took out of his pocket a book and read; but he had not read very long before a bullet of a great gun grazed on the ground near him, which made him remove his station. He told me that Sir Adrian Scrope was dangerously wounded there; and left for dead amongst the dead men, stript; which happened to be the saving of his life. It was cold, clear weather, and a frost that night which stanched his bleeding, and about midnight, or some hours after his hurt, he awaked, and was fain to draw a dead body upon him for warmth's sake. I have heard him say that after his book of the circulation of blood came out, he fell migh

care.

tily in his practice, and 'twas believed by the vulgar that he was crackbrained; and all the physicians were against his opinion, and envied him; with much ado at last, in about twenty or thirty years' time, it was received in all the universities in the world, and as Mr. Hobbes says in his book, "De Corpore," he is the only man, perhaps, that ever lived to see his own doctrine established in his lifetime.