When shall this soul, so long borne down By Fate's despite and with'ring frown, A rescue know from care? Friend! when that dark home is thine, Never more thy heart shall pine-- Grim sorrow comes not there. When thy name is of that number, Sound and sweet will be thy slumber;-- All earthly pangs and troubles cease, Nor dare invade that house of peace. On that pillow, ozier drest, The worn, the "weary are at rest." Thy broken heart shall cease to sigh, And tears forsake that sunken eye;-- No dreams distract that holy sleep-- No tempests break that calm so deep. Come, then!--forsaken, wearied, come! Here is for thee a peaceful home. _Sarum._ COLBOURNE. * * * * * THE HORSE "ECLIPSE." A warm--hearted Correspondent, "W.C." of _Milton_ (who is anxious for our accuracy on all points), wishes us to correct an error or two in the account of _Eclipse_, at p. 362, vol. xix. of _The Mirror_. It is there stated that Mr. Wildman sold the moiety of Eclipse to Colonel O'Kelly, for 650 guineas; and that O'Kelly subsequently bought the other moiety for 1,100 guineas. But, our Correspondent, who was for many years intimate with both the above gentlemen, assures us that "the Colonel gave to Mr. Wildman 2,000_l._ for a moiety of Eclipse, and subsequently 2,000_l._ for the other moiety--making the whole purchase-money 4,000_l_." In the page wherein the above mis-statement appears is another error, respecting the speed of _Childers_--"over the round course at Newmarket, 3 miles, 6 furlongs, and 93 yards, in 6 minutes and 40 seconds; to perform which, he must have moved 82-1/2 feet in a second of time, or at the rate of nearly one mile in a minute." We have referred to the work whence the above was quoted (_Hist. Epsom_, p. 103), and find it to correspond with our reprint. The calculation is evidently incorrect: for Childers would thus appear scarcely to have exceeded half a mile a minute. * * * * * THE NATURALIST. * * * * * POISON OF THE HORNED VIPER. (_Cerastes Coluber._) Mr. Madden, whilst in Thebes, killed one of these animals, for the purpose of extracting its poison, which he found in a small membrane in the front of the jaw under the two hollow teeth. Having collected the venom carefully on a piece of glass, he examined it with a microscope, and found it to consist of sharp, saline spiculae, of a reticular appearance, extremely minute. "Half of this I gave to a dog, in a piece of meat--it produced no sensible effect; I then diluted the remainder, smeared the point of a lancet with it, and wounded the dog in the shoulder: this application he only survived three hours."'--_Madden's Travels._ MEDICUS. * * * * * FISH BATTLE.