Both fall a prey to worms that have mouths as strong as sextons' pickaxes, and contribute, at last, to extend the domains of man, form buildings, medicinals, and personal ornaments. They prevent, by their rise and consolidation, the injurious superfluity of calcareous impregnations in the ocean'.

The SEA-ERYNGO2.

Th' Eryngo here

Sits as a queen among the scanty tribes
Of vegetable race. Around her neck
A gorgeous ruff of leaves, with arrowy points,
Averts all harsh intrusion. On her brow

She binds a crown of amethystine hue,
Bristling with spicula, thick interwove

With clustering florets, whose light anthers dance
In the fresh breeze, like tiny topaz gems.

Here the sweet rose would die.

But she imbibes

From arid sands, and salt-sea dew-drops, strength:
The native of the beach, by nature formed

To dwell among the ruder elements3.

For the amusement of our marine readers, we add two fine SEA-VIEWS, by eminent masters,—the one powerfully depicting the wild and terrible; and the other exhibiting the perfection of placid and tranquil beauty.

It was a wild and weather-beaten coast,

With cliffs above, and a broad sandy shore,
Guarded by shoals and rocks as by a host,

With bere and there a creek, whose aspect wore

A better welcome to the tempest-tost;

And rarely ceased the haughty billow's roar,
Save on the dead, long summer days, which make
The outstretched ocean glitter like a lake.

'See an elegant and interesting little work, called Corallina; or a Classical Arrangement of Flexible Coralline Polypidoms, selected from the French of J. V. F. Lamouroux.-An interesting paper on the Algæ, or sea-weeds, by Mr. Andrew Kerr Young, of Paisley, will be found in our last volume, p. 21.

2 The sea-eryngo is one of the repent-rooted plants which inhabit the barren sands, and draw their nourishment from a source in which we might naturally suppose nothing but sterility could exist.-Drummond's Botany, 2d edit.

3 Clontarf, a Poem, by the Rev. W. H. Drummond, D.D. Z

SEA-VIEW near NAPLES.

The sun is warm, the sky is clear,
The waves are dancing fast and bright,
Blue isles and snowy mountains wear
The purple noon's transparent light
Around its unexpanded buds;

Like many a voice of one delight,
The winds, the birds, the ocean floods,
The city's voice itself is soft, like Solitude's.
I see the deep's untrampled floor,

With green and purple sea-weeds strown;
I see the waves upon the shore,

Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown;
I sit upon the sands alone,

The lightning of the noon-tide ocean

Is flashing round me, and a tone

Arises from its measured motion:

How sweet did any heart now share in my emotion!

OCTOBER.

OCTOBER was named, like the preceding month, from the place it occupied in the Romulean calendar: it was the eighth. Scorpio is the sign into which the Sun enters during this month.

Remarkable Days

In OCTOBER 1828.

1.-SAINT REMIGIUS.

REMIGIUS, the great apostle of the French, was born in 439, and was chosen Archbishop of Rheims at 22 years of age. He died in his 96th year.

6.-SAINT FAITH.

This virgin martyr suffered death under Dacianus, about the year 290, the most cruel torments being inflicted upon her.

9.-SAINT DENYS,

Or Dionysius, was martyred under the persecution of Domitian, A.D. 96.

*9. 1826.-CHARLES MILls died,

At Southampton, from the effects of an illness, partly caused by application to a work which required much study, and by an enthusiastic devotion to literature. His first publication, the History of Mahomedanism,' appeared about the year 1817. His next was the well-known History of the Crusades,' which was distinguished beyond most productions of the day, by its deep and enlarged observation, its fearless inquisitive spirit, and its condensed vivacity of style. A few months after its appearance, accident led Mr. Mills to the study of Italian literature ; the result of which was a work of fiction, in two volumes, entitled 'The Travels of Theodore Ducas, on the Revival of Arts and Letters in Italy.' The model upon which this book was formed, was the 'Travels of Anacharsis;' but as the subject was comparatively uninteresting to the majority of modern readers, it was proportionately unsuccessful. Mr. Mills then directed his attention to his last and most popular work, the History of Chivalry,' which created such general interest from the very first moment of its announcement, that, in a few weeks, the whole first edition (an unusually large one) was disposed of; and he was called, but a few months before his death, to devote his attention to a second.

As a literary man, he was of no mean rank; Mr. Jeffery strongly pointed him out as one of the most promising writers of his day; and, indeed, he was rapidly rising to the fondest object of his daily and nightly prayers, intellectual supremacy; when his constitution, always delicate, broke down under the severe exertions of his mind, and brought him to the grave at the early age of 38!

*9. 1826.-MICHAEL KELLY DIED.

He was born at Dublin, about the year 1762; at seven years of age he evinced a strong passion for music, and as his father was enabled to procure the

best masters for him, among whom was Michael Arne, the son of Dr. Arne, before he had reached his eleventh year, he could perform on the piano-forte some of the most difficult sonatas then in fashion. At the age of sixteen he went to Italy, and remained on the continent for nine years. In 1787, Kelly returned to England, where, in the month of April, he made his first appearance at Drury-Lane Theatre, in the character of Lionel, in the Opera of Lionel and Clarissa. Independently of many provincial engagements, in which he was often accompanied by Mrs. Crouch, he remained at Drury-Lane, as first singer, until he retired from the stage. He was several years musical director of that theatre; he was accustomed to sing at the king's ancient concerts, at Westminster Abbey, and at all the principal theatres and musical festivals in Britain; he was, for several years, principal tenor singer at the King's Theatre, where he was stage-manager, a situation which, we believe, he nominally held till the period of his death; he was also musical director at Colman's Haymarket Theatre.

He composed and selected the music for nearly sixty dramatic pieces. He also composed numbers of Italian and English songs, duetts, trios, &c., many of which are established favourites in the musical world. His own very entertaining Reminiscences' furnish so full and interesting an account of his life and adventures, that we cannot do better than recommend this work to the notice of our readers. 11.-OLD MICHAELMAS DAY,

Still observed, in many places, as the end of one year, and beginning of another, in hiring servants. *12.-NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. Hymn.

Oh blest were the accents of early creation,

When the Word of Jehovah came down from above;

In the clods of the earth to infuse animation,

And wake their cold atoms to life and to love!

And mighty the tones which the firmament rended,
When on wheels of the thunder, and wings of the wind,
By lightning, and hail, and thick darkness attended,
He uttered on Sinai His laws to mankind.

And sweet was the voice of the First-born of Heaven,
(Though poor His apparel, though earthly His form),
Who said to the mourner, 'Thy sins are forgiven!'

'Be whole!' to the sick,-and 'Be still!' to the storm.
Oh, Judge of the world! when, arrayed in Thy glory,
Thy summons again shall be heard from on high,
While Nature stands trembling and naked before Thee,
And waits on Thy sentence to live or to die;

When the Heav'n shall fly fast from the sound of Thy thunder,
And the sun, in thy lightnings, grow languid and pale,
And the sea yield her dead, and the tomb cleave asunder,
In the hour of Thy terrors, let mercy prevail!

Bp. Heber's Hymns. 13. TRANSLATION OF K. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. He built Westminster Abbey, and was the first that was buried in the new building, in 1066. 17. SAINT ETHELDREDA.

Etheldreda was daughter of Annas, King of the East Angles, and lived under a vow of perpetual chastity. She erected an abbey at Ely, and died there in 679.

18.-SAINT LUKE THE EVANGELIST.

The period and manner of the death of St. Luke are alike unknown. His festival was first instituted A.D. 1130. See T. T. for 1826, p. 251, for an account of a curious custom at Stoke Verdon, in Wiltshire.

25.-SAINT CRISPIN.

Crispin, and his brother, Crispianus, born at Rome, in the year 303, maintained themselves by exercising the trade of shoe-makers; a circumstance which, naturally enough, led to their being regarded as the patrons of the gentle craft.' These brothers were both beheaded.-There is a curious anecdote relative to this day in T.T. for 1816, p. 291. See also T.T. for 1824, p. 259.