[2] It may be a test of the length of the reader's acquaintance with the MIRROR--but at page 450, vol. i. he will find a brief account of the means by which Mr. Hornor completed his sketches for the Panorama--his erection of an observatory--and a faint idea of the extreme perils, all which did not daunt the fearless mind of this aspiring artist. Mr. Britton says the sketches made for the projected picture, occupied 2,000 sheets of paper! [3] Mimic rocks and stones may be wrought into sublime effect; and have often been introduced into landscape-gardening with striking success. * * * * * TO ---- (_For the Mirror._) Yes! tis to thee love I waken the string: Yes! 'tis to thee love I only would sing; And in thine eyes love, I ask but to shine; With softest affection, As thou dost in mine. Dearest and kindest, I ask but to be Cherished by thee love, As thou art by me; Then shall our moments Glide sunnily o'er. And blest with each other, We sigh for no more. Wife of thy bosom, By thee loved alone, No dearer blessing This proud world can own: All its attractions Delighted I'll fly, For thee love, to live, And with thee love to die! H. * * * * * HIEROGLYPHICAL CHARACTERS. (_For the Mirror._) Hieroglyphics consist in certain symbols which are made to stand for invisible objects, on account of some analogy which such symbols were supposed to bear to the objects. Egypt was the country where this sort of writing was most studied, and brought into a regular science. In hieroglyphics was conveyed all the boasted knowledge of their priests. According to the properties which they ascribed to animals, they chose them to be the emblems of moral objects. Thus ingratitude was expressed by a viper; imprudence, by a fly; wisdom, by an ant; knowledge, by an eye; eternity, by a circle which has neither beginning nor end; a man universally shunned, by an eel, which they supposed to be found with no other fish. Sometimes they joined two or more of these characters together, as a serpent with a hawk's head, denoted nature, with God presiding over it. INA. * * * * * MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS. BULL-FIGHTS AT LIMA. _From General Miller's Memoirs. Second edition._