name Christopher Lee), was in a language, which he did not understand; the next witness stated that the inscription was all in English, except the words _Anno Domini_; and the last witness said it was not in English.'* * Times, May 10, 1828. All these witnesses agree as to the fact in dispute, but their variances in testimony illustrate the common inattention of observation--and this case farther admonishes us that if such differences may exist as to a question of fact, where the senses are the same, little wonder that differences exist as to matters of opinion, where intellectual capacity and information are so various. We know from experience that the sportsman sees a point which is hidden from the unpractised aimer--the painter sees traits of character of light and shade in an object which the untaught limner never observes; the musician distinguishes harmonies and discords that fall unnoted on the uneducated ear. Thus we learn that by cultivation we can increase natural susceptibility to observe. The extent is surprising to which the unanalytic are in ignorance of the real nature of phenomena. 'There is nothing which we appear to ourselves more directly conscious of, than the distance of an object from us. Yet it has long been ascertained, that what is perceived by the eye, is at most nothing more than a variously coloured surface; that when we fancy we see distance, all we really see is certain variation of apparent size, and more or less faintness of colour.'* In preparing to support an argument on any question, we must first determine the sources whence the facts are to be collected. Instance: The objects of municipal laws are rights and crimes. The evidence of rights are:-- 1. Public consent. 2. Testimony. 3. Records. The evidence of crimes are:-- 1. Confession. 2. Previous malice. 3. Testimony. This outline of the investigation prosecuted, the inquirer next consults the authors who treat of the rules which are applied for determining the facts of public consent, testimony, records, confessions: he is then able to support his own argument in a valid manner, or prepared to examine the facts offered by an opponent in support of an opposite view. The opinion may be hazarded that it is not so much from want of capacity to observe that error arises, as from the want of conviction that we should observe well before we attempt to infer. Nature is inventive, and desire, once awakened, will, without formal rules, find out a thousand modes of gratification. The foundation for a soldier logic than now prevails will be laid when the people are impressed with the great importance of looking well to facts as the data of all inferential truth.