MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. PANORAMA OF THE ARCTIC EXPE. DITION.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 452, 14 August 1850, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. PANORAMA OF THE ARCTIC EXPE. DITION.

Panoramas have b< en cxlubi'ctl bcfme the i^v regions in the extreme Norib. More th.in thii ly years ago, if we remumber riyhily, Spitzbeigen was displayed to the London visitant — a day scene at midnight; Arctic expeditions have brought buck the sene to Leicester Square. Some fifteen yearß ago when 'Mr James Clarke lloss relumed from his discovery of tlie Magnetic Pole, Boothia was presented in the fro7ea dreariness tin Arctic night winter; and now we agum see the anme commander in the Arctic teas. The general character cf such regions is of course in a considerable degree the samu, but as yet its varieties have been by no means exhausted; uud in the present nistunce a new arrangement increases the variety. The largest of the circles in Mr. Burford'u rooms is parted in two, by a red curtnin, dividing summer and winter. On tho first side you see the ships Investigator and Enterprise in the waters of Glacier Harbour, on the coast of Greenland. This part of Greenland probably consists of islands, consolidated by the perdurible ice, of which an rnnrmous glacier forms the back to the view ; a few primitive rocks raisins iheir vast shoulders above the frozen platform : this Glacier extends far along the coast* of Greenland, and)■*d )■* in some parts thousands of feet thick. Immense icebergs are floating in the harbour, in the glassy waters.; their forms varied with every graceful and funtustie device that Frost can invent, mostly in his pointed style of architecture ; but tin* stylo varies indeed, from the pure Saxon aich of a cavern excavated in the transitory rock of solid water to the cathedtal Btall with its fietwoik and hanging canopy. The InvcstfgUor is half hidden by a vast rock of ice ; the crew of the enturpuse is engaged under its own captain, Sir James Ross, in pieparinjj to tow the ship out of its nook. The glassy WHtcru reflect tlif varied tints above; the Northern »ky blushes will) a crimson jrlow peculiar to these regions ; it is a picture of surpuaaing interest and beauty. Going through the curtain, you are in the midst of the Arctic tiiftht; the ship* frozen up ; the crews, clothed in iheir fur habiliments, strewed over the Irozen ice shore; the sky radiant with n wateiy moon and the sparkling aurora. The aurora here is ranged in more systematic strips than we remember to have seeiii either in other pictures of it or in nature so tor as it can be witnessed in more temparate regions ; its colour is also less yellow aud more uniformly pink thin the guide-book itself dtsenbes. We coujecturally iinpuie this to detective artistical kkill on the part of Lieut"nant Biowne, who furnished the drawings: smaller sketches from his hand aie in the room, in a dry hard manner, nearly destitute of |,ic'orial effect, nut lookiug likeexact <ra<isunpts : Messrß. Burford and Seiou-i probably had excellent materials for the hubstunti-.! parts of iheir pictuie ; the moon is a lannliar object in England ; but we luspect that Mr. Brown's diagram of the aurora was not so easily translated. Still the picture is, like the other, beautiful aud inteterrre»ting. The men are engaged in making the snow wall which ufiorded exercise in the building and then shelter agailiit the wind and blinding snow ; they are trapping white foxes, and pirpariig the transport of the provisions stored at Whaler's Point for the vie of Frnnktiu's part)'. In this group is a portrait of Captun Bird.— Spectator, Feb. 16.

Tub Publishing Tradr We alluded some tiuip since to the hetthliy condition f the London publishing traJe, and ol th< htuto uf iho boon m.irk i throughout the iliree kingdoms. Wliat we ohaeivid tlieu has been mure than conniuud by the rehult ul Mr. Murnty's greul annual trade sale ut Albion Tuvcrn, in Aldcisgdte-strcet, during the present month. Few of our readers arc, perhaps, aime, that it i« the

I'mtoin of the two great London houses— Murray's a nd Lin^mans'—to put their books up to a kind of auction every year ; that the sale is prefaced by n dinner, at which all the book tilers of ''credit' 1 in London arc invited to be present; and that as rood as thfl cloth is removed, Mr. lloitgtson, the auctioneer, of Fleet 'Sti cut, commences the Imsiness of the day by oilcrm? the books seriatim, as in the printed catalogue, to ihe attention ol tlw, guebls. The piactiee is nor, as at other auctions, to knock the 1 it down to the highest bidder, but to put the book up at a certain price below what in usually railed " snbbUip.ion price," or, in other wok's, hcluw the figure at which the book ran be obtained on any oilier occasion. It is also the custom to put up boolfs nor ready t<-r delivery, but only nettily so ; and it is runous to watch the interest thai is felt throughout the room when a hook of teu.ie io ofFered foe the first time. It is a mutter of ancient and proper deference to the great houses to let "ihe Row" begin. Thus, with a popular woik, Longman will start with 350, Simpkin wilh tl.a same number, Whitaker with 2A(), Hamilton an'l Adams with the same number till at last it conn's " twenty-fives" and " lives," and at ti.nes to only " one," Not le>s ir;toei>ting is it to behold the eagci way in which tb< numbers called ont are placed promptly on paper liy the several booksellers, or the quick tiadexman like munner in which they cast up the several totals, und look with mute abtonighmtnt one at another at the greatness of the deinund. Sales of this desciiption we limited to the two houses we have nientiened, and me always looked forward to wi'h iiitereaL as alfoi cling .ai index of the approaching se«son.jMr. Mun.'.y'u lustsale{was ihe best he has hud since his father's death, he disposing of bookß on that day to the amount of £19,01)0* Nor will this be wondeic.i at when the numbeis Bold are put together. For instance, the tiade took on that occasion 2,000 of Loid Campbells " Chief Justices," 5,0*0 volumes of " The C'oloniul Library." 1,400 of Layard's " Nineveh," 1,4.00 of Byion'n Works in one volume, 1,300 copies ot Mr. Uonow's new work " L'Avengro," 900 of the uew ediion of Mr. Cunningham's '• Handbook for London," and 750 of Mr. Gioit's " Greece, 1 ' 750 of Mr. Cuizon'fl " Levant," and 600 ot M. Guizat's new work. School books sold in siill great* r proportions. 5, 0^0, Markhams Histories, 4,1 00 " Little Arthui's Hisloiy'of lingUnd," 2,000 WordswOMh'a "Latin Grammar," 1,200 Somcrville's " Ge/grupby,', nnd even Mrß. Rundell, though thought to he au'iq'uted, maintained her reputation with her new dishes and in her new dresi. Author« bmiefir as well as booksellers by u sale like this.— AlheiKEtim. Ai the. sale of the library of the late Mr. John Poynder, by Messrs. Sotheby uud Wilkmion, on Monday, a firit edm <n of the Ph.yu of Shakmpere and an autograph of Milton wcie sold. The woik to winch the aulo^nph was attached was entitled v( Ar.iti Solenaes Phanomen.i, rum scholiit Gr.,'' ticular value. The antut^r i|jh Bifc,nal«re wus — " Jo. Milton. Pie 2s. Gd. ; 1631." On the titlr-page were the words—" Cum aola et luna *einp. ai itus ent," Thine weie also numer« ous autograph annotations interspersed thronghout the booK. Attar tin active oomp>lition, tlic lot was gold for 40/. 1"«, The fiist edition of the Plays of ShukesI'ere vvus knocked down (or 35/. 10s. Archbishop Murray has published a letter in ths Dublin Kvcning Po'.t to correct an erroneous representation ot hi-, opinions regarding the Queen's Colleges The Tablet .Wrtibutcd to him the opinion that "no Catho'ic student could, under any circumstances, attend without sin tht> lectures to be given in tho newly established Queen's College*." This" mistake appeara t) have arisen from a supposition of mine, perhaps* «i very unfounded one, that die sacivd Congregation of Propaganda was impressed with a notion <.f that kind when the first ies>cri|H regarding the Colleges was issued, and wlien it was not, of course, accurately ac qn tinted with the v;irioUH checks ngainst the inroads of irrelig'On and immorality which weie then in preparation." Dr. Mai ray says— " Oa reviewing the two rescupts of which theiv is question, I cannot discover in either of them any declaration to that tffect; and it is neither my duty noi my wmh to make, any addition to them. The Sacred Congregation — always prudent, alvvsys dignified — gives no countenance in those documents to the absurdity of applying the epithet of " Godless" to institutions which cumpiise. initiiiters of leligion, appointed lor the express purpobe of teaching the students to adore and love and serve God- It calmly expresnes its doulitb as to how far the proposed checks a^iinijt ii religion would bo busMined by ihe laws of thm- lealms, which it pulses not to uiuler<-tan(l ; it indicates otl cr giounds of feur which lead it apprehend that the new Collegis would not be sufficiently safe for ihe general education of Cutholic joutli ; and it therefore c joia» the Catholic Bitihopa to take no iiart in the exerution of the law in virtue of which they wer > to be "SUbhshed. I do not find any oth< r distinct prohibition in thohe lesenpts. With this injunction 1 at once p'edged myself to the Holy See that I would stuctly coufoim." " But," kajs he, " I stop here ; and will not anticipate what future dccla atious may tinanale ii'om the supreme authority," RoYAr. CoLLFor. or Sufghons — Tlie Hunterian Museum, foundtd l>y John Hunter, of whose executors it wab pnrciuised liy Govemment and prcsen'e'd to tho abo'.e insiiiu ion, ha« just rfcoived a princely donation from Mr. Kichupl Owen, F.R.S., and Hunteri<m Professor to the college. This viilnuble and bt.iutilul addition roiibibis of a eerii-s of 12 hitjhly-fiiiuhed, and appaiently mosl accurate niodch in wax, of the natuial size, or of puitn highly nugmfiud, of the entire ;matomv ot the electrical ivy, or torpedo {Torpedo Galianii), piepaied by Professor Cilatuai, the superintendent ol tbe wax mo lei department in the Museum, ot Mdiuiitl History at Florence, and who has prosecuted with much ability and success the Hitutomy of the torpedo, and hvs publishrd the rc-ult» of bin dissvctious, wliJ'h are so beau'ifully perpetualrd m the models n>'W in the Llunte.-ittn Mu-etim. Tliche magnificent preparations we,ic ordered by his Imperial and Uoyal tliglniess the Grand Dukeot Tuscimy, expressly to be nude for Profesbor Owen, after an interview with which the fiolesior was honoured during his Ti»it to Floiencein 1846, and aienow by ibis distinguished mturaliit piesenietl to the Royal Colkge of Surgeons, Jenny Lind has signed an agreement fo go to America and Havanna, and her stiy to b> about a year and » half. The terms are £S J.OOO, to be lodged in Messrs. Baring's hands before she btart^ ; all her exjieusch in every way paid ; and alter a en tain number nf nights the gets oneh'tth ot the profits ; making m all about £70,000 cle«r for the time. She has «greed to sing only m o ato ios ami concerts, and ieser\es her ri^lit to hin< for cliaritiea as oftcu as she ihoenes. Idleness is the badge of gentry, the bane of body an mind, the nurse of nauglitinets, tbe fctep-mother, of »i iii Lijiline the chief author of all mischief one of the seven deadly bins, the cv hion on wnich the devil (hully reposes, and a great cause not only of i melancholy, but of many other diseases ; for the mind is naturally a«nvi. — and it it be not occupied about tome honeat huxine^s, it runhts into miscuidi or sinki mo melancholy.

Early Rising.— Every young man, then, who deBiresto be intelligent, rool, and happy, should learn to rise early in the morning. He should do this for miki'ou*. aii'l strong reasons ; among which are the following, :— l . It is healthy to rise ear///.— It is scaicery possible to find a healthy person, very old, who ha*, not been, habitually, an enrly riser. Sickly and infirm old people I know there may be, who have been in the habit, through life.ofldte rising, but not many healthy oucs. The following are the names andageß of several men, most of whom were eminent and remarkably healthy, who were distinguished for early rising. S.-me of them roie as early as four o clock in winter and summer ; and one or two of them as early as three in summer:— Dr. Franklin, 84 ; Johtt Weilev 88; Buffon, the natuialist, 81 ; Stanislaus, King of Poland, 89; Lord Coke, 85; Fusel., the painter 81 • President Chauncey, of Howard College, 81 ; Washington, 68 ; Matthew Hale, 68 ; Dr. Priestly, 71 ; Dr. Samuel Bard, 79 j Bishop Burnet, 72 ; James Mason, 100 ; Lewis Cornaro, over 100. But to say that early rising has a tendency to make us live longer is not lo tell the whole truth. For people not only live the longer for early rising, but they are heal, thier for it while they do live. The peasants of Europe and the wandering Tartars of Asia (and what people are more healthy than these ? ) are habitually early risen. 2. // is delightful to rise early. — Can any one entertain a doubt on thit point 1 None can, lam lure who have tried it. All the early risers I have ever seen find early rising agreeable. One author, in treating on ihisiubject, has the following remarkable words: — "There is no time equal in beauty and freihneis to the morning, when Nature hau just parted with the gloomy mantle which night had flung over her. The forest leaves sparkle with crystal dew ; the flowers raise their rejoicing heads townrdi the sun ; the birds pour forth their anthems of gladness ; and the wide face of creation itself seems as if awakened and refreshed from a mighty slumber."— 3. It is good for the menial or thinking powers to rise early. — Solomon says, "Let u< get up carley to the vineyard ; let us see if the vines flourish: if the pomenagrates bud forth." The wiie man takes for granted here that the mind is active at this hour in observation, as it truly is. There is not a little reason to believe that Solomon devoted this sacred season, as some have called it , to the study of the ••hyssop," the "cedar," and other plants and trees ; and that it was his morning studies that enabled him to become a teacher of all the kings of the llien known world.— 4. It is good for the feelings and affections to rise early. — See the peasants of Switzerland, for example, going forth to their labours — young and old, male and female— at the dawn of day, singing hymns about the rippling streams, the towering cliffs, the tall forests, and, ere long, to the rising tun, in strains scarcely exceeded by the most joyous of the feathered tribes ; and then, again, see them playing with their babes in all the tenderness of parents lovo. If there are hearts joyous, tender, and affectionate, to be found in the wide word, it is among; these very peasants of the easi. — 5. It is economical to rise early. — Frunklin used to say, Early to bed, and early to rise, Makes moil heal tli y, wealthy, and wise. j Exercise of the body, whether in recreation or at labour, is worth a great deal more in the morning" than at any other time of the day. An eaily walk is much more agreeable^as well as more useful, than ahveone. The labour of the farmer and the mechanic i» also more agreeable in the morning than at any other lime, to say nothing of its usefulness. The lesson of the school or of the family is easier studied, better understood, and more readily retaiued» thin at any other time. Devotion/, too, is more spiiitual at this hour than any other part of the day. —6. It is rational to rise early —To lie snoring in the morning after the sun is up, or even after eaily dawn, not only renders u« like brutes, but like the most stupid sort — the woo dchuck the bear, the marmot, and the swine. Active men and active brutes are ture always to be up early in the morning. — 7. The way lo rise early : Two or three things, if you chance to be a late riser, must be observed, in oider to gain your point, and have a complete triumph : He who awakes nnd finds it to be morning must rise {immediately. He who says deliberately. " Yet a little longer,' 1 will remain a sluggard in spite of all his resolutions, or even his prayers. No one who means to rise early must ever yield to his feeling*, when those feelings are contrary to his better judgment. Let me give an example of my meaning suppose r person awakes just before silnriie ; it is broad daylight, and be knows that the sun will soon be up, and that he ought to rise. He went to bed early, and has slept quietly and soundly ; and he knows that he ought to be sufficiently reited. But then he feels as if he had not slept enough, and nobody is yet stirring, or, at least, making any demands on him, and he is tempted to lie l( a little longer." Perhaps indeed, be does not mean to go to sleep ; bat ere he is aware, sleep seizes him, and when he awakes again the sun is an hour high ! He yielded to feeling contrary to bis better judgment ;ij and this is the consequence. The minute you are awake, and know it isjtime to get up, you should rise instantly. If you give way to your indolent feelings, and remain in bed one second, you may two, four, and six ; and if you remain six seconds, you may sixty or perhaps an hour. Start then at once. The leait delay is dangerous ; it may be fatal. •'I Don't Know, 1 Don't Know About That."— Of course you don't you endless croaker. No one ever knew you to be quite satisfied with anything, exct pt perhaps youi own opinion. There never was a plan proposed to which you did not object > nor an enterprise undertaken to which you did not complain ; if it failed, you knew it would ; and if it succeeded, it •was more by hit than wit in the projecter. No line can be drawn so straight that your squint eye cannot detect a curve in it ; no web can be woven that your sharp eye cunnot see through it; no wall can be builtso compactly that you cannot pick a flaw in it. You have indeed a wet cloth to lay ou every body and everything that comes within your reach. It never rains when it should, and as it should ; it is always too wet or to dry ;it is too hot, or it is too cold. You fret yousrclf, and you fret all around you, and that con~ tinually. In a word, you are a poor, unhappy croaker. Wow such chaiacters, more or less fully developed, are to be found in every community, ever surrounded by an atmosphere peculiarly their owu, in which neitlur the lungs nor the heart of any one but themselves can freely piny— an atlimosphere like that in which the poor needle-grinder labors— full of sharp and deadly participles,