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THE ANTI-SLA VEHY UUGLE
Miscellaneous.
THE FRIENDS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND
THE EASTERN WAR.
The following in the address of British Friends,
to which Kossuth replied in his exegesis in favor of
war, which we published week hofure lasti
.1 Christ inn Appeal from the Society of Frirn.1) to
their Fellow Countrymen on the present H r.
We would respectfully bespeak tho serious nttcn
tior. of our fellow-countrymen whilst we earnestly
plead with them, on behnlf of tlio claim of reli
figion aud humanity, in reference to the sanguina
ry conflict now raging in tlio East.
It is, wo reverently trut, in the love of Christ,
and it ia in the spirit of true patriotism, that we
make this nppoal. Our country is dear to ns; we
honour our (sovereign, and pme our free institu
tions; and wc can but desire that our national poli
cy may accord with the spitit and precepts of that
Redeemer who enmo "not to destroy men s lives
but to savo them." We feel it to be a solemn
thing thus to stand forth as the advocates of invio
lable peace; and the events which are passing
around us, and the warlike spirit which meets us
in every direction, have led us very seriously to
revio.f the grounds of our Christian testimony in
this mitter. But this review has only confirmed
the conviction, which we dare not shrink from
avftwing, however unpopular at a crisis like the
present, that all war, on whatever plea of policy or
necessity, is uulawful under the Gospel Uispensa-
will bo admitted as a truth applicable alike to
individuals and to nations, lluit it is only iu the
use of those means which are sanctioned by the
law of Christ that we enn expect the Divine bless
ing upon our efforts. When these means are ex
hausted, it becomes man, as a dependant being, to
coin di it all results unto God a trust which will
never be confounded.
Can it then be that war, with all its attendant
misery and crime, is a means the employment of
which is sanctioned by Christianity? We unreser
vedly make our appeal to those inspired records,
which, as Christians, we all profess to accept as a
revelation from Heaven. True it is that in the Old
Testament wo find not only war, out retaliation
also, permitted, and, under certain circumstances,
even command. As regards the command, wc pre
sume that no such commission to wage war against
the Lord's enemies, as that given to his chosen
pcoplo formerly, is pretended, or oven expected
now. And in icgard to the permission, it is suffi
cient to say, that the provisions of the Old Cove
nant, as to the return of evil for evil, like those
bearing upon the conjugal relation, are expressly
contrasted by our Lord himself with his own pre
cepts, for the purpose of showing that that which,
iu both these cases, was allowed to them of old
time, bv reason of the hardness of their hearts, is
prohibited by the higher and holier morality of the
New Covenant. To the Gospel standard, therefore,
whether exhibited by prophecy, or nioro fully de
veloped by Christ himself nnd his Apostles, must
his professed disciples resort for their practical
guidance. In the face then of all the glorious an
ticipations of prophecy in regard to the peaceable
reign of the Messiah, and of the deep significance
of that name by which He is called "The Frince
of Pjace :" in the face of tho annunciation of the
Heavenly Host which sharacterized tho new dis
pensation, as that wnictt was to Dring -uiory to
God in the highest, on earth peace, good will to
wards men;" in the face of the express commands
of our Redeemer biinsclt, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to them that
hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use
you nnd persecute you ;" who will venture to say
that Christianity affords any authority or justifi
cation for war?
And not alone by precept, but bv his example
also, has our Lord nnd Saviour emphatically taught
us the lesson of forgiveness, forbearance, and love.
How touching is bis prayer for his bitterest ene
mies 1 How wondrous the forbearance of Him
who said, "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray
to my Father, and He shall presently give me more
than twelve legions of angels 1" What power
miirht he not have commanded, and that not in any
doubtful controversy, but in the vindication of
eternal Right! yet he used it not: a forbearance,
eiarcised not merely with a view to the nccom
plishmeut of that most precious sacrifice w hich
IIh made of himself for our sins: but also, as we
learu from the testimony of the Apostle Peter, in
reference to this very subject, as a holy example
fur our imitation, an example of abstinence from
all self-defensive violence, even in the best of
causes. " For Christ also suffered for us, leaving
i.s an example that we should follow his steps; who
when he was reviled, roviled not again when he
suffered he threatened not, but committed himself
to Him thatjudgeth rigbtoously."
Now. although it may be admittod that the pre
cepts and example of our Lord have a primary ref
erence to tho conduct of individuals, they can
surelv be no loss binding upon a nation professing
allegfance to Christ the supreme Ruler, than upon
the individuals of whom it is composed. Let us
never forget the authority of Him who has thus
khnwn unto man what is good. Let us never for
got that the Gospel is not a transitory but an obid
ing dispensation ; that it is the dispensation under
which we are now actually living; ana that these
blessed principles are among its most glorious and
must essential characteristics. To affirm that they
arc impracticable, or not to be practised, is to set
at naugnt their supreme nuthority.and to put dis
honor upon their Divino Author. To postpone
tbeir application until all shall act upon them is,
in scarcely a less degree, to deny his present au
thority, and involves the practical contradiction of
supposing Ho has prescribed a scries of duties for
things in which the occasion for their exercise shall
have ceased to exist. It is now in this still tossed
nnd tempted world, that the Christian is called
upon to act out these lessons. It is now that he is
bound to prove his allegiance to his Divine Master,
and. so far as bis influence may extend, to promote
the spreading of His kingdom upon the earth.
That kingdom is one of righteousness ' and poace
" and all who adopt tho petition, " Thy kingdom
come," at once confess the duty of their preseut
subjection to it, and pray for its universal estab
lishment. With such precepts, nnd such an example, what
have Christians to do with the moral or political
standards of Greece oi Rome ; nations which, with
all their intellectual refinement, knew not the Gos
pel of Christ. Yet must it net be confessed that it
is from sources such as these that the maxims of
the military code, and the prevailing ideas of
glory in connection with successful bloodshed, are
principally drawn ? And what are the effects of
this heathen standard on the practice of the profes
sed followors of the Lord Jesus ? Without carry
ing our thoughts back to the miseries of past times,
if we turn to the aTecting details of the war in
which our country is now engaged, and contem
plate the vast amount of physical and moral suffer
ing inflicted on the dying and wounded, and on
innocent widows and children; when we see pro
' fessed Christians of one nation engaged in deadly
conflict with their fellow-Christians of another na-
tion, in the presence of the Infinite ; and above all
when we think of the thousands of immortal beings
believers and unbelievers, hurried into eternity,
many of them, we must fear, altogether unprepar-
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4 to meet me ngnieous juugineni ui uuu, can we
believe that these things, at which humanity shud
ders, brinz no dishonor on on the religion of Je-
. sus, or tnai nicy are not ocensive in me signi oi
llini whose name is love, who hath made of one
blood all nations of men, and on whose authority
wa learn the value of a single immortal soul? Can
any prospects of temporal good, either to ourselves
'or others, compensate for such evils? If these
thinirs were felt as we think that they ought to be
fc.lt imt as a calamity only, but as a national sin,
we believe that it would be the means of paving
the way for their early termination.
T members of the government of our be
tnmit nvrein. then, in the first place, would we
Address our earnest but respectful appeal, implor
ing them t ) Use every Christian effort for the res
toration of peace. We are not insensible to the
tiffi..,ili nf thfcir oosition. in this momentous cri-
sis, In having to deal with a powerful enemy, and
. at the same time U item the mighty irent of
'.martial etoltemeot In the pumiciuinq, or iu satis
fy its exaggerated cxpeotations with reference to
-(the war iuelf. and to the results to be obtained by
It let we believe that trust in God, combined
with bumbliug views of our national sins, and a
tempera'e estimate of our own position, even when
convinced that wo have clenily the right on our
side, will bo found at all times, and especially in
the present peculiar ana trvinir circumstances oi
the country, tho best preparation for obtaining
peace.
We implore our senators, now assembling in
both houses of parliament for the avowed purpose
of aiding the vigorous prosecution of the war,
to romomher that that which is morally or re
ligiously wrong cannot bo politically right) that
the non reeoenition of tho peaceable doctrines and-
precepts of the Gospel by the nation which is op
posed to us a nation too, intellectually and spirit
ually, far less enlightened than our own, consti
tutes no valid plea for our violation of them ; and
that parliament may more truly servo the country
by promoting tempnrate counsels, nnd wiso and
conciliatory ncgocintions, than by urging forward
a war which has already peen so fearlully destrnc'
live of British life and treasure, and which threat
ens in its progress to involve the whole of Europe
in one wide-spread conflagration.
We appeal to all who possess power or influence
whether ny their secular or thoir religi
ous position, nnd especially to those who are look
ed up to as Ministers of the Gospel of 1'caco, to
use that authority and influence of which they are
stewards, not In stirring up the martini spirit ot
tho nation, or in nervine the arm of war, but in
promoting pence on earth and good
men, even towards their enemies
n-;il n-rH
We appeal as Christians to our fellow Christians
as Englishmen to our fellow eountrym.n of every
class: we implore them to view their present posi
tion and duties calmly and temperntcly, not under
the impulse of vindictive excitement, but with tha
practical wisdom which recognizes it as a political
not less than a religious trulh, that rightnousnoss
exalteth a nation, nnd with thatfar-sightod patriot
ism which comprehends within its scope the moral
not less than the material, the future as well as the
present welfaro of cur country, and the still more
enduring interests of eternity.
We pray tho Almighty Father of tho Universe to
breathe the spirit of reconciliation into the hearts
of his contending children, British, French, Turk
ish, nnd Russian, and guide them to the promotion
of their mutual well-being in conforming them
selves to His universal law of love.
Given forth by a meeting representing the Soci
ety of Friends in Great Brituin, held in London,
this Cth day of Twelfth Month, 1854, and signed
in and oil behalf thereof by
ROBERT FORSTER, Clerk.
From the Evening Post.
MY VISITOR.
BY THOMAS G. HARRISSON.
Sweet spirit of light, thou art with mo to-night ;
How cam'st thou so close to my bed ?
I feel thou art nearer, covh thought makes thee
dearer,
But thy beauty unnerves me with dread.
May I speak to thee low, like the falling of snow,
So softly, so slowly, so cold ;
I will seem nil ice, I will so chill my voice,
Though a volcano burns in my soul,
0, my cowardly heart, that doth wildly upstart,
As thy soft rustling wings move in play ;
I feel thou art weeping, although I am sleeping
Dewy tears sprinkle from them like spray.
I was down on the shore, where the wild breakers
roar,
And the sea-gull shrieks loud in his flight.
And there on the wave, like a form from tho grave,
Thou wcrt with me, as thou nrt to night.
For thy sake I will strive, like the bee in its hive, j
Awe shoots from tbine eyes, like the fire that flies
Where darkly tho thunder-clouds roll ;
let thou nightly dost come (o my sad, lonely room.
To be good like thec, up in the sky ;
And thou must not upbraid, for thou know'ut I'm
afraid, I
Of the seraph that lives in thine eye.
With those eyes locking into my soul.
I am nevor without thee, I feel thee about me,
Still calming my slumbors and making them
light,
And oft there is stealing around me a feeling,
That abashes the terrible silence of night.
Thou know est I love thee, although far above me
In thy home amongst amaranth bowers.
Thou liv'st not as I do, thou woo'st not ns I woo,
Thou smilest and pressed thy lips to the flowers.
Come, smile on me sweetly,
gently,
come kiss my soul
For I love thy sweet innocense better than gold ;
Come toach me to greet thee, with smiles when I
meet theo,
And I'll love thee the more when the sky is unrolled.
JUST AND EQUAL RIGHTS OF WOMAN.
HEARING BEFORE THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE.
SATURDAY EVENING, Feb. 17, 1855.
The Select Committee of the Assembly, to whom
was referred the petition for Woman's Rights, con
sisting of Messrs. Riekerson, Wells, Rider, Baker,
Stanton, Lourie, J. Bonnet and Aitken, granted a
hearing to the petitioners, who were represented by
the Rev. Antoinette L. Brown, Miss Susan B. An
thony, and Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose, in tho Assem
bly Chamber, Saturday evening.
Mr. llickcrson, the Chairman of the Select Com
mittee, first introduced to the meeting the Rev. An
toinette L. lirown, who opened by saying that it
was probably understood that they claimed equal
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llglllO Willi UlOil, UIIU, IU IL'UUU UlUbB TlglllH, IUCJ
demanded the right of suffrage. She said, ever, in
the history of the world, had woman been denied
her rights been the subordinate in all govern
ments. Man was first created physically the
stronger, which accounts for his always ruling.
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woman s maiernny ana ner vnuuren nnu kept per
under that rule. She did not believe woman would
ever equal man physically, but could not concede
from this any necessity for a deprivation of her
rights. She alluded to the first condition, in re
mote ages, of owned and oirner, and the causes that
led to the change to protector and protected. This
theory, she claimed, must be considered that of the
onene of the male and female. And she only
desired that either should represent that one that
both should be upon the same footing.
Man, said she, cannot represent woman, unless
they are essentially alike ; and, if they are alike,
she can as well represent him as he, represent her.
Why, she asked, if they were alike, could not man,
for awhile, be relieved of the burden and responsi
bility gf making the laws? And, if it was a priv
ilege, should not they share that privilege?
But she denied that man and woman were suffi
ciently alike to be represented one by the other.
The laws look upon woman as a suhordinato, ana
under them, man has rights that she docs not pos
sess. she would not institute a comparison bo-
tween man nnd woman. As well, said she, may
you ask, " Which is the largest a railroad or a
steamboat ? Which the longest a day in June, or
a boa constrictor ?" Ac. Men and women would
not bear a comparison ; they were essentially
unlike.
There were rights common to humanity; these,
woman oould not, unrepresented, secure or entoy,
An unrepresented party in any Government, is
always a dependent To prove this, she cited the
conditional Ireland and Scotland contrasted.
The one idea of the law is, that woman is to own
nothing to have but a support. She does not get
the common right to own property, because unrep
resented. -
She then referred to woman as a criminal, and
asked if she eould have justice done her while she
was not tried by her peor. No man was a peer of
woman. Women never had been jurymen, hither,
aid she, take back the principle thai man has a
right to trial by his peois, or grant woman the
same : or, at least, ie envn o incu Dy a jury oi
the race men and women together. Man could
not, from his different position, understand the
temptations to which woman niigiu ne exposed.
Man can lalxir and lie honored. ot so woman.
She pictured faithfully the temptations to woman
to commit sins In order te retain her social position,
that might exist, and claimed that man was inca
pable of appreciating porfoctly all these things.
Of our laws, she said they containod not one wo-
mnnlv plttfncnt.
They were hence incapable of judging mattore of
difference between '.no two. in uiiinrences levwecn
a marriod pair, woman is compelled tocomeboforc
tho mi.sculine court, and there lay bare her femi
nine soul, and before a court that cannot understand
her nature. Sho will rathor suffer in silence than
thus reveal herself. Since the matrimonial rela
tions exist between man and woman, lot mnn nnd
woman make Unlaw regulating that union,-and
regulating divorce. 1 he justice ol t ns was to her
very apparent, and she could not but fcplthatit
u-nubi I m granted.
Miss B. then proceeded to diStuss the injustice
of property-luxation without representation, and
claimed that woman's moral naturo, too, must sub
mit to bo taxod by certain lnws, in which it was
unrepresented. In the license-laws sho is taxed
morally, and not reprcsenica. uovernmenis are
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of the governed. If that was true, wo had not in
our Government just powers, for the consont of the
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iroverned was not granted
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hat good reason, sue asKou, eouin do urgei to
granting woman nt once her right of suffrage?
Suppose her rights were now granted her, they
could not be retained unless sho was tcpresented
in the Government nnd at the ballot-box.
A few years ago this subject was ridiculed ; now
it was attracting serious attention, and the very
first jrinoiples of right give to woman the light of
suffrage in common with man. No matter, she
said, whether woman claimed tho right nnd desired
to exercise it pr not, it was hers by right, by rea
son of her humanity. Suppose but one woman
demands her rights, must she wait till all the rest
demand the same? But, she said, there were
hundreds of thousands in the State who desired
the right of suffrage. The objections urged to
this were, first, that woman did not desire political
privileges.
If you have perfect faith, said she, that it is in
consistent with her naturo to vote, don't show your
want of contidenco in her naturo by declaring she
shall not vote. Permit her to determine whether
she desires it or not. Do not cast contempt into
her face nnd that of her God, by attempting to leg
islnie as to her nature. Woman ought not to be
tempted to enter tho political held, by tolling her
sho shaii not. Let her prove whether sho have tho
right talent cr not whether she isadaptcd to pub
lic life or not.
Let this question be determined by trial once,
and it will be forever settled.
Another objection urged wns, that public life is
coarse and gross, she did not like to say, a low life,
but pcoplo talked ns if it was. If this were indeed
so, sho thought woman ought to be permitted to
seek to improve, to refine the character of the po
litical world. Sho thought it the very argument
for giving woman access to tho ballot-box, that it
was a coarse and low field that needed improving.
Sho did did not claim that woman wns more holy
than man, but that the effect of tho ono upon the
other was beneficial, restraining nnd harmonizing.
It was this effect that wls wanted everywhere, even
perhnps in so grave a hall as this.
The womanly presence sho would extend every
where that hunii.n etlort in put forth
She alluded to the remarks of an cx-Scnntor of,
the danger of our democracy going back to a mon
archy, and claimed that it could only be diminished
by enlarging our democracy ; cniier woman must
bo made free ns ninn is, or wc shall go back to
monarchy. We may have another monarchy, and i
then out of it a greater republic, where nil the peo-
pie snail try tne experiment oi sen-government.
Come it must. The application of equal rights to
woman are Been: let them then. bo granted, and
throw down all restraints. Tho State that firRt
I grants her equality will be blessed. At least give
! her n reason ithu she should not irovcrn nnd rcpre-
I sent herself. Wherever man can yo, and be trve to
mannooa woman ., ami oc , t
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round her; yet, when her spirit rouses within her,
and she feels that she has a mission to perforin,
these barriers will fall down bclore her.
If women were worthy to net in Government,
they would suun bo permitted to net in it; but
make her worthy by giving her the motive. She
felt sure of ultimate results, nnd only asked for
help now, that the world might be better now.
Woman asks justice, and that justice will bo es
teemed by her a favor. She feels that she has n
mission to perforin ; and if you see tho justice of
her claims, that they are in accordance with the
law of God, "what ye would men should do to you,
do yo even so to them," givo her this, give her
iu:4ice.
Airs. Ernestine J.. Jloso tollowcd, alluding nrst
to the fundamental principle of our Revolutionary
, fathers, that "all men nrereated equal," and said".
that under that principle, all that woman asked
had been granted already. She only asked in fact
what is grunted m theory tho right ot life, libor-
ty, nnd the pursuit of happiness. V ill any one
say woman is not included in that glorious Decla
ration ? That principle required no sex, for it was
based upon humanity and mind, and they knew no
sex. Happiness nnd misery, lile and death, recog
nize no sex. In nil the essentials of human Iifo,
woman is like man. Where the dividing line be
gins or ends, we need not sock to know. Her
cl'iims nre based above these,' and she claims
nothing she ought not to possess, and she ought to
tako no less, lor principle knows no compromise,
She repented the idea, that without the right to
the elective franchise, woman was not secure in the
possession of any of her lights ; and replied to the
objections urged to it. She thought it time that
woman helped man in securing peace and quiet at
the bnliot-box
It was urged that woman, with political rights.
would neglect her family. She replied that she
would know hotter her dutios to tier lamily, and
would the better discharge them. It was asked
why, when woman wns represented by her father,
brother, and son, she would seek to represent her
self. The question was worthy of consideration,
but she claimed that even if not wronged by their
representation, self-representation would be her
right, lint facts were stubborn things, and she
could cite tacts to show nor position.
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The Btntute bonks say "he and "his" and in but
few instances, "she" and "hers."
It is said, "husband nnd wife are one;" avo
said she, but that one is the husband. She wished
they were truly one; if so, there would be far loss
reason tor the claims she urged, w hen woman
marries, in almost every sense she dies, lezallv
If she commits crime in the presence of her hus
band, he is held responsible. The Iaws make no
distinction between man ana man, but between
man and woman. Sho is on our statute books
classed with children and idiots.
The distinction should be between good men and
bad men, between right and wrong, not between
sexes.
Mrs. R. noticed in detail the laws of our land
dwelling upon the property features of existing
laws respecting women. .-?ne auuucd to the legal
right possesssed by the husband to take the earn
ing of his wife and spend for liquor. The hus
band has entire controll over her, and all business
must be transacted in his name, let his character
be ever so bad. She desired that woman be al
lowed to control her own earnings when the hus
band did not provide. It was just, that the laws
pertaining to co-partnership be applied to hus
bands and wives. The right of the husband to
bind out the children without the consent of the
mother, was a gross injustice to woman.
She claimed equal rights for the mother in this
particular, and urged the passage of a law upon
these subjects now before the Legislature.
Woman was a piece of property, belonging to
father, guardian, or husband, transferred from one
to the other her feelings harrassed from the era
die to the grave. And oppressions inflicted upon
woman must fall back upon man. Her place was
to lay the foundation for the after-character of her
child, and upon that child would be visited the
effects of the mother s position and treatment,
Human right and human freedom were necessary
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iq tne cnuoonng oi any numan pcing. xuc claim
of woman ia not for herself alone ; it is for sooiety
nt large. . . . . .
Air. 1(. dented that to man alone boiongoa tne
head, and to woman tho heart, claiming that both
head and heart wero necessary for a human being,
nnd that the figure of speech ought not to be the
bnsis of our laws.
Woman ncvor had the chance to prove what she
might bo. Insult is added to oppression when man
says her capacity is unequal to his. It is yet to be
seen, under a more favorable state of things, what
her capacity is.
When woman has her full rights in forming
and executing laws, her rights to property and her
offspring, then will there be a union of the intellet
and tho sentiment in man and woman, and her real
capacity can be truly estimntod.
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that give tho wile only the uso of one-third of
tho property at the death of tho husband, but
upon her death, gives him all. And also against
tho implication, from that law, that the mother
had not a heart for her children' wants as the
father had. !
She did not desire much legislation we had too
much already; but only that laws be just and
equal. Right always rewards itself, and wrong
punishes itself.
After the closo of her remarks, members of the
committee, and individuals in the audience, sent
up quite a number of questions respecting the
effect of granting to woman the elective franchise
which Airs. Rose answered, in a characteristic
manner, and greatly to tho entertainment of the
audience.
In answer to the question, whether, by entering
public life, woman would not be degraded instead
of man elevated MiBs Brown remarked that when
equals and uncquals meet, the higher is brought
down; but when they meet as equals, there is no
such thing as evil resulting.
She said there were yet no type-men and no
type-women ; she hoped not to elevate man to the
standard of woman, but greatly above the present
position of either sex. 4. he lnlluence ot the sexes
upon each other is always good when they meet as
equals.
After continuing this exercise until 11 o'clock,
the large company in Attendance dispersed.
THE DIAMOND LIGHT OF SYLVIC OIL.
In the heading of this article wo give the name
of a new kind of light for lamps, and of the oil
from which it is obtained, the method of using
which wns perfected only a few days since.
It is rosin-oil, obtained by a peculiar procoss of
distillation from the hard residuum ot turpentine.
Until hitclv vast nuantitics of rosin were thrown
awav ns worthless. Ditches were filled with it, in
North Carolina, where pino forests cover immense
tracts ot country ; it wns used to make hard paths,
and to form a pavement for wharves. For about
four years, Messrs. Lcavitt, Wadswnrth & Com
pany, tho inventors of tho diamond light, have
been engaged in making from it, by distillation, a
kind of nil which, being mixed with animal oil,
was extensively used for lubricating machinery,
for pninting, for oiling hides in tanning and wool
in the clothiers' shops. In consequcuce, however,
of the quantity of smoke which it gave out, it was
found impossible to burn in any of the lamps in
common use. When in a flame it threw out vol
umes of smoke like a pine torch, and filled the air
with flakes of lamp-black
A further improvement in the process by which
this oil is obtained, the contrivance of a lamp of
peculiar construction, has, within a short time past,
enabled tho firm, who now offer this oil for sale, to
burn it without smoke, and with a beautiful nnd
hrillinnt lii-ht. Thev cull the newlv invented oil the
"eyh-ic oil," nnd the light obtained from it they
name tho "diamond light." It is a fine white light,
0f perfect steadiness, in which rospect it has the
advantage of gas. For both the oil and the lamp in
which it is bnrned they have taken out a patent, and
nre now engnged in the nttcmpt to bring them into
general uso. In this they have the most flattering
prospect ot success,
We have had the opportunity of useing this light
nud und it easily managed, in the lamp which
Messrs. Lcevitt.W adswortliAComnanv have invent
ed for tho purpose. It is perfectly safe, there
being no dancer of explosion or sudden combustion.
Dip a lighted wisp ot paper into it, nnd tho name
instantly extinguished. Neither is it subject,
ike sperm oil, to becomo gradually fainter and
fainter by the clogging of the wick, and thus, at
length, to expire. Une ot the lamps once tilled,
will burn ten or twelve hours without trimming or
being replenished a socond time. It gives n light
t
equal to that of six sperm candles burning togetl:
er. The oil is sold for fifty cents a gallon, so that
tho light is obtained for about half a cent an hour,
a light ns chenp ns that of pine-knots in North
Carolina. The lamps resemble gas in one respect
they are stationary, and do not bear to be carried
about.
In respect to brilliancy, the diamond light is only
inferior to that of gas in steadiness it has the ad
vantage over that of gas in safety it is equal to
the light obtained trom sperm oil, nnd in cheapness
it takes the prcedence of any mode of lighting
dwellings that we ever heard of. There is nothing
complicated, or which one mny not easily learn, in
the management ot the lamp. iv. i. Evening
Post.
THE SUN.
Sir David Brewster makes the following remarks
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which he maintained that the light ot the sun pro
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surface beneath, and yet be at such a distance
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fair weather, and 'that, as the light and the seasons
must be eternal,' the 'sun may easily be conceived
to be by far the most blissfull habitation of the
whole system.' In less than ten years after this
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