we feel that we have witnessed the soundest body of illustatration, enlivened by the sweetest soul of intelligence that ever blessed our ears.

To do justice to the literary and oratorical abilities displayed by Mr. Ogilvie, this evening would require more talents than we can command, and more attention than the advanced state of our publication will admit. But we will still attempt a cursory review, consisting not of particular, but general observations.

We shall remark in the first place on his subject-which was one as happily chosen for the display of his extensive erudition as he could have wished, for the purpose of conveying truths, which the Bostonians not only ought to hear, but of which they ought to retain the impression.

If it is our pleasure to rank in the scale of enlightened nations; if we assume the attitude of classick respectability, we must render ourselves respectable, not only by the pomp of phrase, but by our scientifick information; we must give our children such an education, as will enable them to make not an essential distinction alone, but an honourable choice, between abuse and argument. We must not only build houses but minds ; those minds should be instructed not simply in the art of acquiring money, but in the knowledge how they can best serve their country in peace or war, how to estimate and encourage the productions of art and science, that they may hereafter prove the protectors of what will alone lay the foundation of permanent security, and freedom.

Mr. Ogilvie's oration on the subject of the Athenæum, was replete with solid scientifick and we hope effectual argument; embellished with many of the most beautiful figures that our language could produce.-We presume that the mind of Demosthenes had laboured, although the oration "smelt not of the oil," for the polishing art of Cicero had given it a sweeter odour.

We had indeed a nectareous bowl, which Apollo and the Muses might have quaffed with delight, and the many coloured wings of science were not expanded as we hope in vain.

If we dared trust to our memory for quotations of language so delicately modelled, and so appropriately and energetically directed, we should be proud of adorning our remarks with them.

We have had the pleasure of listening attentively to every oration heretofore delivered by Mr. Ogilvie, in Boston; but we must think that in every ornament necessary for a perfect work of this nature, the oration this evening was incomparably superiour to any we have before heard and in this opinion we feel a consciousness of support in the sanction of those present on the occasion.

The garden of nature seemed to have been at once laid open to the view of the author; but while he selected the most beautiful flowers from the parterre, he neglected not the medecinal herb. There were

in this oration all the prismatic rays of science, but at the call of reason they converged in one pure light; there was in it all the splendour of genius, but the chaste eye of taste could gaze on it unblenched.

BENEVOLENCE.

Ir heaven has to you assign'd

The power to relieve;
Examine well the suffering mind,
Ere you proceed to give.

Indulge not in a rude excess ;

Be gentle, but sincere ;
A bounteous shower might oppress

What pity's dew would cheer.

Lorenzo lost riches, his means were now scant,
The proud his retirement attend;

To pay their last visit, and beg, should he want,
To them for assistance he'd send.

Benignus stood by-he was poor, and said nought;
But his eye told the tale of his soul.

When alone, his friend's hand, he with eagerness caught,
"I've but little, but bring you the whole."

CHARITY.

Let not the charms of pleasure chase

Those feelings from your heart;

Which, while they give your feature's grace

Will real joys impart.

The pastimes of the rout or ball

Are often bought with pain;

But charity's persuasive call

Was ne'er obey'd in vain.

We had enter'd the carriage, and Emma appear'd

In splendour arrayed for the ball;

An orphan's soft murmur of sorrow was heard,

She stopp'd, and return'd to the hall.

She blush'd as her seat she resum'd; 'twas the glow

Of a feeling as warm as sincere.

I gaz'd-Pearls in clusters encircled her brow,

But the pearl that adorn'd was—a tear.

FOND as we are of oddities, our publishers tell us that we must make "Something" even.-We have therefore been obliged to raise our price to future subscribers, from three to four dollars; but the public may be assured that it is only because we wish to be upon even terms with them as well as with our printers.

THINKING.

A little man great in thought.-Some people are apt to imagine that others will suppose their intellectual faculties engaged in abstract elucidations, because they appear serious.-"Let him alone," says Bannister to those who attempted to interrupt Dibdin, while apparently thoughtful, for "he thinks he is thinking."

LADIES' COMBS.

FASHION, which will reconcile any thing to a subservient fancy, has commanded our sprightly damsels to attach two, three, or four combs to their head arrangement. And it is now only such hair-trained ladies that in fashionable circles are well-combed.

HOPE.

WHAT is it? An anxiety for something that will never come, an attempt to cross over a newly frozen stream-the ice breaks and you are-gone.

BETTER THAN THE REST.

Ar a late ball, a young lady being introduced by her partner to the supper hall, and requested to take some rest, observed that she thought the refreshment better than all the rest.

DEVIL.

THE gentleman politely (or politicly) introduced to us under this title, was formerly an intimate with many respectable families, and even surnamed several people of high estimation.-Witnesses,

Lord of Montresor, Rogerius Diabolus; lord of Lusignan, Hughes le diable; Robert, son to William the Conqueror, surnamed the Devil.-Beside which,

"In Norway and in Sweden there were two families of the name of Trolle, in English, Devil: and every branch of these families had an emblem of the Devil tor their coat of arms.

In Utrecht, there was a family called Teusil or Devil; likewise in Brittany there was a family of the name Diable.

MONKEYS.

WHILE these animals are continually reminding men how nearly the the brute creation approach to us, shall we receive no lesson how far we ought to retreat from them?

BRANDY.

THE first Sultan that was ever intoxicated, was Amarat the fourth, but he got drunk-with wine.

BELLS.

As a lately erected bell has made a great noise in this town, it may not be amiss while it is yet ringing in our ears to convey with its sounds a few impressions to the mind.

The invention of bells is attributed to the Egyptians-the feast of Osiris was announced by them.

English history says that large bells were not known (some say until the fourth, others) until the sixth century.

Pliny mentions bells under the denomination of tintinnabula, but such could not have weighed three thousand pounds.-Augustus too as we are

told, placed one before the temple of Jupiter, but thongh Homer tells us that his godship sometimes nodded, we are certain that he could not have slept while such a bell as our Brattle street meeting house can boast, was sounding in his ears; in the sixth century (or thereabouts) when Sens was besieged, a certain bishop, no matter who, ordered the church bells of St. Elienne to be rung, and by their proclamations so terrified the besieging army that they instantly raised the siege.A little while afterwards Charlemagne ordered all the church-bells to be baptized.

We are told that that there was in Peru, in the year 1554, a bell whose circumference was forty five hands.

TONGUE OF THE BELL.

THE bell itself made a great noise, but the breaking of its tongue made a greater.-All who set their wits to work to make a pun between bells and belles on its importation, had on this accident une belle occasion, to shew, un-bel-esprit.

Some say it broke because it struck too hard.

Others say that it proved its weakness by talking too long on one subject.

We think it failed because it had not sound met-al.

MANAGERS.

We acknowledge that we are usurpers, and that like all other usurpers we support our dominion by the assistance of spies and informers; we have also ears of our own, and eyes that are not very short-sighted; in addition, we have a mind that can re-flect. Let this observation account for "Something."

If the managers really think that we have done them wrong, why do they not make their remarks in the fair face of day openly and on the first story-why do they keep "grumbling in the cellarage." A candle should never be put under a bushel, place it on a candlestick and it will give light.

If while intending to careen the ship we have applied our purchase too partially to the main mast, have they not a foremast and a mizen ?

ATTACKED.

WE most heartily congratulate our subscribers and readers, on the prospect before us; instead of being laid up in ordinary, our paper gun