Dr. Richardson acknowledges the liberal assistance afforded him by the Hudson's Bay Company, in the collection of specimens. Indeed, to this public-spirited body are we indebted for our earliest systematic knowledge of the Hudson's Bay birds. The reader may likewise witness a few living evidences of the Company's liberality, in the fine collection of eagles and owls presented by them to the Zoological Society, and exhibiting in the Gardens in the Regent's Park. Such devotion to the advancement of science cannot be too proudly perpetuated in the history of a society established for commercial objects. * * * * * SONNET. TO H----C. ON MY FRIEND H---- S---- BEING IN LOVE WITH HER. (_For the Mirror._) Thou that art like the sun, that on its way, Across the cloudless distance of the skies Gives pleasure to us all--no rivalries Lessen'ng the love we bear it--as a day Of shower-glad April or the month of May, Thou that art cheerful--see yon youth that lies Weeping for want of sunshine from thine eyes, And hope that thou canst only give him--say: "Sweet youth, and art thou weeping for a heart All passion, joy, and gladness--come unto me, Oft by the evening sunset thou shalt woo me, And as thou hast the gentleness and art Or rather truth-kind nature thou mayst tear it From all its other likings, win and wear it." J.H.H. * * * * * MRS. HEMANS. (_To the Editor._) I have just been perusing in No. 16, of Chambers's _Edinburgh Journal_, a short and incorrect sketch of that highly-gifted and moral poetess, Mrs. Hemans, "who," the writer says, "first came into public notice about twelve or fourteen years ago;" whereas, her literary career commenced as far back as the year 1809, in an elegantly printed quarto of poems, which were highly spoken of by the present T. Roscoe, Esq. and were dedicated by permission to his late Majesty, when Prince Regent. Permit me to say that this accomplished daughter of the Muse is a native of Denbighshire, North Wales, and was born at the family mansion named "Grwych," about one and a half mile distant from Abergele; and at the period of her first appearance as an authoress, she had not, I think, reached her thirteenth year. I had the pleasure of then being her neighbour, and our Appenine mansion, the Signal Station, at Cave Hill, has been more than once enlivened by Lady, then Miss Felicia Dorothea Browne's society, accompanied by her excellent mother. She has since married ---- Hemans, Esq., then an Adjutant in the army. A great number of her pieces have appeared in the _Monthly Magazine_, as well as the _New Monthly_, and although a pleasing pensiveness and sombre cast of mind seem to pervade her beautifully mental pictures, she was, I may say, noted in her youth for the buoyancy and sprightliness of her conversation and manner, which made her the delight and charm of every society with which she mixed.