Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

I know . Colonel Wildman , no doubt , was right ; they have every appearance of having come from the same foundry as the eagle . " The conduct of our late Bro . Wildman , in choosing to be unsuccessfvil in his researches for the buried treasure , rather than to again risk the needless sacrifice of human life , ivas Avorthy of him , as a man and a Mason .

The late Sir James M'Grigor , Bart ., in his recently- published Autobiography , thus sketches the Duke of Cumberland , brother to George III .: — " On either the first or second day , being Sunday , after I came to AVinchester , I had occasion to be engaged in ivriting at my lodging , when a Serjeant came in , and said that his royal highness desired I would attend divine service in the cathedral with tho other officers of the staff ancl the troops in garrison . I tolcl the Serjeant

that I ivould not fail to attend . Perhaps in about seven or eight minutes afterwards , when I ivas engaged in sealing my letters and putting up my papers , another Serjeant appeared , add told me that the Duke desired I n-ould instantly attend at the cathedral . I buckled on my sword accordingly , and immediately followed the serjeant to the cathedral . I ivas directed to fche jieiv ivhere his Royal Highness ivas ivith the Avhole of his staft ^ viz ., the

adjutantgeneral , quarfcer-master-general , commissary-general , brigade-major , and aides-de-camp . On my entering the pew , the Duke addressed me , raising very loud his squeaking voice : ' Dr . M'Grigor , ifc is very strange that you take upon yourself to disobey orders , and so soon after you have joined fche district . ' I pleaded ignorance of the order ; but he silenced me by telling me that it ivas my duty to have * made myself acquainted AA'ith all his orders upon joining the district . All this passed before fche assembled congregation , consisting of five regiments , and not a feiv citizens , AVIIO had followed the bands of the five regiments into the cathedral . When I sat down , I

observed the Duke holding his watch in his hand , and I soon discovered that I ivas not the only delinquent . Addressing Major Foster , he inquired if he had again sent for Captain Shandy , AVIIO was the deputy barrack-master-general , then considered as a civil officer , for ivhich reason he , a half-pay officer , as a civilian , was without uniform , which indeed he was not entitled to wear . In addition , Captain Shandy , a very gentlemanlike man , was A'ery defective in his vision , ancl ivas in delicate health . At length he appeared in the a

pew , Serjeant following him . Tho Duke instantly addressed him , and , looking at his watch , informed the barrack-master that he had kept him , the clergyman , and the whole congregation a quarter of an hour waiting his arrival , and desired him immediately to give an account of himself , and further , to explain his presuming to come there out of uniform . To the first of these categorical questions the captain respectfully pleaded the state of his health , and to tlie

second that his majesty nofc having appointed a uniform for the barrack department , he could not presume to wear that of any other department . The Duke , rather foiled , said , ' There is an uni : form ; and if there is not one , there must be one , and you are not to leave the house till you appear in uniform / The captain boived most submissively , hut to me and others it appeared a kind of mock humility , as though he were playing the part of Corporal Trim to Captain Shandy . Immediately after the bow of Captain Shandy the Duke nodded to the clergyman , saying , ' Go on now / when he proceeded with the sen-ice . "

A Saunter through the West End , by tho late Leigh Hunt , has just been published . Mr . Edivard Dicey is preparing for publication a memoir of Count Cavour . Saunder ' s News Letter , an old established Dublin daily paper , has been reduced in price to a penny , : in anticipation of the repeal

of the paper duty . It appears that this ivas a penny paper more than a hundred years ago , and ivas raised in price by " the taxes on knowledge . "

The folloAving description of a cigar manufactory at Manilla is given by Mr . Henry Arthur Tilley , in his recent work , Japan , the Amoor , and tlie Pacific : — "The largest of the cigar manufactories of Manilla is in the suburb of Binondo , ancl affords occupation to 4000 women and half that number of males . In this and other Government manufactories in fche neighbourhood , there are altogether 7000 men and 9000 women employed . On entering the

first portion of the building the ear is assailed by an almost deafening noise , caused by some hundreds of women seated on the floor and hammering the leaves on a stone or block ivith a mallet , to polish them for outsides . These Avomen form a motley group , some being , half naked , others in rags , many in gay colours , and a few dressed ivith care and neatness . Among them were several whose personal appearance ivas prepossessing , but on the ivhole I judged that beauty found a more profitable occupation than making

cigars for a few cents a day . . . . The leaves are first placed wider coi-er , in heaps , to ferment ,- then sorted by ivomeu into five classes according to their size , ancl suspended in a current of air to dry . Each packet thus sorted contains ten leaves , ancl is called a ' palilo ;' ten such make a ' mano / ancl thirty a ' farda / weighing from , seventy to seventy-five pounds . The tobacco is of three qualities , the first being paid for at the rate of SJ- dollars per farda ; the second 7 Jand the third 5 dollars . This is iho-atG } d . English money

, _ per pound , for the first quality ; manufactured in cigars it is sold at the Government depot for 1 J dollar , or more than 5 s . All this tobacco is sent up under an escort to tho different factories around Manilla . AVomen , called Dobladores , then wet it with water , or sometimes rum and vinegar , and make ifc up into rough cigars , which are finished by the Celladores , as the girls are called ; the refuse is made up into cigarettes . Most of the cigars are packed

in cases of 500 , numbering from one to four , according to size ; they are sold at the rates of 14 , 10 , 8 , 6 dollars per thousand , the better sorts being in boxes of 125 each . On the ivhole , very little care is taken in the manufacture ; the tobacco is of good flavour , but carelessly made up , and in the cases which we received on board m any cigars ivere disgusting from the odour ancl taste of palm oil , or other grease with Avhich tho work girls are accustomed to rub

their bodies . Nearly the ivhole of the population , men , women , and children smoke , and quantities of leaves are exported to Spain . " Fan , Feeling , and Fancy : being a Series of Lays and Lyrics , is the title of a recent volume by John George Watts . The folloiving poem is pleasantly written , hut the ideas seem to folloiv remarkably close to those in " The English Hearth , " first published in April , 1845 , ancl given afc page 405 of fche Freemasons Magazine for March , 1 S 59 : —

AVhen summer's roseate eouch is stript , And Autumn ' s fruit our garner fills , Ancl winter lifts his hoary head Above the bare-browed northern hills AVhen gables quaint ancl sloping eaves Are hung with ornaments of ice , And window-panes traced o ' er and o ' er

With tree , and flower , and strange device : AVhen lawn and paddock for awhile Are carpeted with virgin snow , And truant feet betray themselves AVhen from the beaten path they go : How pleasant 'tis to draw one's chair About the fireas night descends ;

, And cosy con some favourite page , Or join in chat with genial friends . To quaff the social cup of tea , And talk about the olden time , Ere we had known the cares of men , Or joy of putting thoughts in rhyme .

Ere we had joined the field of fight , To battle for our daily bread , Or learned how oft fair truth is crushed Beneath the money-seeker ' s tread . The table cleared , the caudles trimni'd , Ancl wife's accustomed corner ta'en , Erom joke to anecdote we

slip—Prom gay to grave , from land to main . AVe ivander ' neath a burning sun , AVith Bruce , or Park , or Livingston ; AA ith Ross or hapless Franklin track The ice-wastes of the frigid zone . A pause : Song noiv becomes the theme , We dwell on Milton ' s sacred lay ; Seek Shelley in his mystic flight , Or Keats , ivho died ivhile yet the bay

His brow had won ivas being wove ; Then list Avhile Tennyson cloth fling Rare notes upon the wind , and then Take freshening draughts from Browning ' s spring . Thus lured by pleasantries , Old Time Glides swiftly on ; afc length we start To find hoiv late ifc is—shake hands

, Yet grieve that Ave ' re compelled to part . Then , while ye sing of verdant Spring , Of Summer ivith her birds and flowers—And Autum ' ns fruitage—add a strain To AVinter , for his social hours .