Behold that huge array,
Those spears that glitter far,
How fierce the coursers play!
How strong the ranks of war!

Like desert wolves they come,
All hungering for their prey;
And Rome, imperial Rome,
For vengeance cries this day;
Revenge for them who fell
On Judah's hostile hills,
Whose corpses fill each dell,
Whose blood hath dyed the rills.

High on their mountain throne,
Yon eagle-housing rock,
Abara's falchions shone,

Nor fear'd the coming shock;
Her haughty warriors stood,
Impregnable in soul;
Unshaken, unsubdued,
They watch'd the cohorts roll.

Up spake their chieftain then
Amidst the warrior throng;-
"Be patriots, heroes, men,
Be valiant, brave, and strong.
Judea's God, who led

Your fathers o'er the wave,
HIMSELF will be your head,
HIMSELF will come to save!"

With notes of loud acclaim,
Through all Abara's towers
They sang Jehovah's name-
Jehovah's guardian powers;—
"To arms, to arms," he cried,
As on the heroes trod ;
Whilst Judah's daughters sigh'd,
Our country and our God

But hark! they come, they come,
The warrior and his steed;
On, on, imperial Rome,
For all thy might there's need!
Fierce should thy falchion be,
And bold thine eagle's wing;
Abara must be free

Where God himself is King!

Like echoes of the rock,
Like thunders of the cloud,
The battering engine's shock
Struck terror through the crowd;
Each tower of massive stone,
Each giant battlement,

Heaved a convulsive groan,
As, crashing, on they went.

And wilder, wilder still,
Yon flames of piercing fire,
Along the hallow'd hill
The sacred groves aspire;
Abara's walls droop down,
Her palaces and towers,
O'er all the shrieking town,
A fiery tempest pours.

Up rose Elazar then-
Priest, prophet, warrior-all-
"Ye are fathers, husbands, men,
Will ye brook the tyrant's thrall?

When your daughters, lovers, wives,
In the foes' embraces lie;
O, how worthless then your lives!
Better bravely fight and die."

On, on, like rushing waves,
When ocean's storms are rife,
When winter's tempest raves,
Swept forth the men of strife;
Strike louder-louder still
Thou ponderous engine there;-
Take, wolves of war, your fill,
Those shrieks proclaim despair.

A shout that shook the pall
And cerements of the grave,-
And lo! that massive wall
Reels grimly o'er the wave;
Shout louder, haughty Rome,-
Fly banners in the sun;

One shriek," They come, they come," Abara's towers are won!

The gates swing idly round,
They enter rank and file;

What ho?-nor voice nor sound-
Still as cathedral aisle !
The warrior now no more
Uplifts his dauntless head,
Rome's legions trample o'er
A CITY OF THE DEAD!

THE TRANCE-SLEEPER.

WHAT hast thou, sleeper, seen
Whilst lying there
Even as marble pale,
And still, and fair?

Six times o'er hill and vale

The sun hath set,

Since last thy wakeful smile
In joy we met.

"Oh! tones of earth, again

Ye call my heart

From the bright scenes in which
It late had part;

Oh friends, I may not tell
Nor could ye deem

Of the rich sweetness link'd
With my long dream.

"I have been far away,
Away from all,

That holds on fading shores
The mind in thrall-

Each heavy chain unclasp'd-
Each fetter broken-
Soft words of music heard,-
By angels spoken.

"Sunlight that never set, Hung softly o'er Landscapes of hill and vale Ne'er seen before;

EMMA B

of the Order of the Garter attached to the shoulder by a diamond clasp.-From the Examiner.

DISEASED POTATOFS:-The change seems to M. Payen to be transmitted from the stalks to the tubercles. If a diseased potato be cut, the parts attacked can be discerned with the naked eye by their yellow color, and they emit a marked fungous odor; the tissue of these parts is softened and easily separated. Very thin slices under the microscope exhibit at the limits of the change a slightly yellow liquid, which insinuates itself into the intercellular spaces, and gradually envelopes almost the whole periphery of the cells. In the parts strongly attacked it destroys the adherence of the cells; and this explains the easy disaggregation of the tissue. The cells, by degrees invaded by the yellow liquid, preserve their grains of starch intact. When the dislocation of the cells has made new progress, the mass of the tissue becomes pulpy, semifluid, whitish, or of a brown color more or less deep; a great number of the cells are destroyed, even broken up. In this state, however, the grains of starch are still intact, their substance being insoluble even in water heated to +50°; and although with greater ease divided mechanically, they behave with iodine, sulphuric acid, &c., as normal starch.

M. Philipper attributes the cause of the malady to the state of the atmosphere only, during the summer of 1845

MUSEUM AT HYDERABAD.-A proposition for the establishment of a museum at Hyderabad having been submitted to Major-General Fraser, he has expressed his cordial approbation of the undertaking and his desire to forward it by every means in his power. The object in view is twofold: 1st, the collection of matters of interest to which an easy reference may be made; 2d, the supply of similar institutions in Europe from the superfluity of the collection. It is believed that H. H. the Nizam's territory is in many respects well fitted for the supply of an institution of the nature contemplated; the field has long lain fallow. Besides the well-known cave-temples of Ellora and Adjuntah, the remains of ruined cities and extinct tribes are profusely scattered over the land; and in the Arts, the Beda ware and manufacture of steel at Maiduck by a process believed to be different from that pursued in other parts of India, offer a branch for mechanical inquiry. In Botany, many plants unknown to naturalists must, it is thought, exist in the unexplored jungles of Neermul and the jungles to the north; and attention is particularly directed to plants used by the natives for medicinal and dietetic purposes, also to dye-stuffs.-Literary Gazette.

VOLCANIC ERUPTION.-An immense fall of dust and ashes in the vicinity of the Orkney Isles is supposed to indicate some great volcanic eruption in another locality. Hecla is 400 miles distant; too far, we should think, to produce such an effect, though smaller quantities of light matter from volcanoes have been shed on the decks of vessels as far from the scene of action. "The men at the herring-fishery (says the Edinburgh Advertiser of Friday) describe it as being like a thick shower of snow-drift from the north-west. It began to fall before day-light, and continued very thick for a few hours, and afterwards more slightly till about midday. Those who had clothes out bleaching had them completely blackened, and it seems very difficult to wash off. The white flowers in the gardens are quite destroyed, and every "kail blade" is covered. The only way of accounting for it is by supposing that Mount Hecla has had an eruption, as the wind was exactly from that quarter, and it is quite evident the dust is volcanic. Dr. Barry, in his History of Orkney, says that, in 1783, the last dreadful eruption of Mount Hecla, the dust fell here in the same manner, though it does seem surprising that it could be carried so far-upwards of 400 miles. The fishermen were so terrified at the uncommon and inexplicable sight, that several of them refused to go out to sea next day."-Literary Ga

zette.

TYROLESE ARCHEOLOGICAL SPECULATIONS.From the strata of ancient remains found in Tyrol, some of the ingenious theorists of that mountain-land, athirst for national antiquity and fame, are building up an hypothesis that three periods belong to their history: 1st, Etrurian; 2d, Roman; 3d, mixed Gaulish, Frankish, Gothic, &c. &c.-Literary Gazette.

MILES COVERDALE BIBLE.-A paragraph, going the rounds of the papers, states that a copy of Miles Coverdale's first complete edition of the Bible, printed in 1535, has been discovered in the false bottom of an old oak chest, at Holkham Hall, the seat of the Earl of Leicester. This copy is said to be the most valuable specimen yet brought to light; being the only one, amongst the many examples which are scattered through the public and other libraries of Britain, to which many leaves are not wanting. These lacunæ, commonly occurring at the two extremities of the volumes, are attributed to humidity, acting on their external parts, at a time when, the possession of this book involving a suspicion of heresy, the copies of the impression were very generally buried.The Holkham example is said to be in every respect perfect; and a London bookseller, it is asserted, has offered 500l. for its purchase. The noble proprietor, however, it is added, has had the book appropriately bound, and enclosed in an oaken box,-and it now graces the shelves of his magnificent library.—Athenæum.