s; and in the chateau, where the harp and the organ have
mingled their fine sounds with the well modulated tones of an
accomplished family of sons and daughters. My thoughts, at the moment
I am writing this, are at Chateau Blonay, but most of the voices,
which I heard there, are now silent in death! I am thoroughly
convinced that family worship, and congregational worship lose a great
auxiliary to piety, when there is not the power or the inclination to
join in psalmody.

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LINES

_Written after reading the Memoir and Poems of Miss Lucretia
Davidson._[2]

Ev'n till thy latest hour, Lucretia! thou
Didst cherish _that_ which but consum'd thy frame.
'Twas _then_ it shone the brightest on thy brow,
Like the last flickerings of an earthly flame--
Yes, thy brain harass'd by deep toil, became
With all its fire, a tenant of the tomb,
And dim is now thine eye, Belov'd of Fame!
Thy cheek is pale--thy lip without perfume--
And there thou liest--the child of Genius--and its doom.

Like the proud eagle soaring to the skies,
Intent "the topmost arch" of heaven to scale,
When heeding naught that would oppose its rise,
It breaks with fearless nerve the tempest-gale--
And spreads its wings like a majestic sail,
Full on the bosom of the raging blast,
Thy spirit soar'd--but ah! too like us frail,
When the same breeze which bore it from the dust
Wing'd home the fatal shaft that tore its bleeding breast.

Would I could sing thy fame with thine own lyre,
Then should I breathe a more deserving lay,
A lay which every spirit would inspire,
And melt each eye to tears of sympathy;
But others at thy shrine, their tributes pay.
Offspring of Beauty! child of native song!
And I, ev'n I, would venture to essay,
To raise my lauding voice amidst the throng
Of those who weep thy loss--and who shall weep it long!--N.C.

[2] See Memoir, and specimens of her Poetry, _Mirror_, vol.
xiv. p. 340.

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SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY.

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IMPROVED RAW SUGAR.

[We find the following information communicated to the
_Literary Gazette_, apparently by the parties connected with
the improvement.]

Considerable interest has been excited in the market by the
introduction of an improved native raw sugar, which portends very
great advantages to all who are eng