[9] 'PATER ABRAHAM,' mark! You had better examine your Bible 'with especial care' once more. Did not Pharaoh make the children of Israel turn out the regular quantity of brick, whether they had _straw_, or not? Our modern version, however, may not answer to the Pater's original. EDS. KNICKERBOCKER. [10] Literally _strohkopf_, a straw-head, a dunce. NATURE. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF MATTHISON. I. ILLUM'D by reddening skies, stands glittering On tender blade the dew; And undulates the landscape of the spring Upon the clear stream's blue. II. Fair is the rocky rill, the blossom'd tree, The grove with gold that gleams; Fair is the star of eve, which close we see To yonder purple gleams. III. Fair is the meadow's green, the dale's thick bush, The hill's bright robe of flowers; The alder-stream, the pond's surrounding rush, And lilies' snowy showers. IV. Oh! how the host of beings are made one By Love's enduring band! The glow-worm, and the fiëry flood of sun, Spring from one Father's hand. V. Thou beckonest, Almighty, if the tree Lose but a bud that's blown; Thou beckonest, if in immensity One sun is sunk and gone! FRANCIS MITFORD. NUMBER THREE. WE spake of BRUMMELL's opinions of Canada. 'Canada,' said he, 'is a mere incubus on the already bloated back of England. The profits derived from the trade of that colony scarcely defray the enormous expenses of her establishments. Nor is this the worst. The question of her boundary will one day involve us in a most bloody and expensive war, demanded, perhaps, by national pride, but repugnant to our most vital interests; a war, too, with a nation of brothers, with whom we ought to have but one common view; that of peaceably extending our laws, language, and commerce, over the most distant part of the globe. Should there be a war, whether England emerges from that contest vanquished or triumphant, the consequences must be equally fatal. Alienation of the present strong and growing friendship will result, which must tend, more or less, to restrict the extensive commerce between the two countries, to the great injury of Great Britain; for though the United States may easily obtain from other countries the manufactures which she now obtains from us, at, in the first instance, a triflingly-enhanced price, yet the grand staple article of cotton cannot be purchased any where so good, or on such advantageous terms, as in the United States. The necessity imposed by war on that country of procuring manufactured commodities elsewhere, would, no doubt, continue in a great measure, by choice, after peace. The best thing England can do with Canada, is to present her (with her own consent) to the United States, or to manumit her from all colonial trammels, and declare her independent.