Herculaneum And Pompeii.

native element when thus floating , as in standing or Avhen reposing on a couch . The furniture , moveable vrorlts of art , ornaments and everything not stationary , have been taken from Pompeii , for safety ancl for deliberate examination , to the Museo Borbonico , as it used to be called , UOAV the National Museum , forming one of the richest , most interesting and valuable collections of antiquities in the Avhole Avorld . AVith the help of this collection ,

AA'e cau easily , in imagination , furnish one of the many luxurious homes of Pompeii . Hero Ave find the various articles of furniture , Avhich , in reality , are few , the homes of the ancients not lieing filled with chairs and tables and all sorts of fancy work like our OAVU ; but to make up for such deficiency , Ave find the Avhole arrangement for a feast in perfect preservation . The viands as they AA'ere prepared for eating on thafc fatal night , remain in abundance—loaves of bread fresh from the oven ,

perfect in form , but charred almost to blackness ; fruits of various kinds , and nuts all unbroken . As the ladies are out and Avill not return to-day , Ave may enter their apartments . Here Ave find all the paraphernalia of the toilet , even to the rouge aud false hair . ( The apothecaries' shops have on hand a large quantity of cosmetics , shoAvilig that they AA'ere in great demand . ) Here are bracelets ancl JCAVCIS , some of exquisite workmanship , gold and precious stones . Hero are Avrifciug materials ; inkstands

and pons ; lamps as they lA'ent out when Pompeii Avas extinguished ; thimbles and distaffs and spinning Avheels—in short , the Avhole catalogue of a woman ' s domestic life in the Roman days of old . The shops Avith their contents are as great a curiosity as the homes . Some of them aro extensive , the property of wealthy

citizens , from which they derived their incomes . Iherc are several bakeries , or cook shops , in perfect preservation , from which large quantities of viands have been taken . In some the bread was found standing in the ovens . The advertisements around the doors and in the interior SIIOAV that the art of advertising is not a modern invention . Ancl though somewhat out of place , I may here mention thafc the candidates for office in Pompeii , as in our time , made known their superior

qualifications in glaring posters , Avhich remain to this day . Tbe cellars Avere stored Avith Avine , aud although the old Falernian has long since evaporated , the amphorae , or earthen jars Avhich contained the Avine , stand in rows along the Avails . In the house of Diomcde—one of the most extensiA'e aud elaborately ornamented villas in the toivn situated near one of the gates of the city—Avere several cellars in Avhich were large numbers of these Avine jars of great size . This house being

reniOA'ed from the centre of the town , Avas evidently resorted to by the friends of the owner as a place of comparative safety ; hut more persons probably lost their lives in it than in any other . The skeletons or forms of seventeen persons wore found in the cellars . On the Avomen Avere found gold necklaces aud bracelets and ornaments . Two wero little children , Avhose heads Avere still covered with beautiful hair ' Avhen found . In one of tbe bouses in Pompeii two of the bodies are kept in a

glass case , the attitudes and postures of tlie limbs expressing the mortal agony which came upon them Avhile they were in full vigour and health . Diomedo himself ( or one Avho is supposed to be the owner of the villa bearing his name , ) ivas found near the garden gate Avith a purse of gold and silver coin and other valuables in his hand , Avhile the attendant stood by his side grasping the key of the gate .

Marie Arthur Joseph De Beaufort.

MARIE ARTHUR JOSEPH DE BEAUFORT .

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Readers of the Freemasons' Magazine will nofc , wo believe , feel surprised afc finding in its columns fche copy of a circular-letter communicating , according to the Usage of France , intelligence of the death of a grandson of our Right Worshipful Brother Partem Cooper , Past Provincial Grand Master of Kent .

Marie Arthur Joseph De Beaufort.

It is inserted in order to evince esteem aud regard for an old and valued Contributor . Monsieur efc Madame Ernest de Beaufort , Madame la Douairicire de Beaufort , nee de Coucy , Monsieur C . Purton Cooper , Conseiller de la Heine d'Angleterre , Messieurs Edouard efc Charles de Beaufort ,

Mesdemoiselles Jeanne , Marguerite efc Marie de Beaufort , Monsieur le Vicomte efc Madame la Vicomfcesse du Pin de la Gruerivicre , Monsieur Edmond du Pin de la Gueriviere , * Monsieur Ecine de Beaufort , Monsieur le > Baron de Dion de Sioquebourg , Monsieur George Brine , Capitaine dans la marine royale d'Angleterre , et Madame

Brine , Monsieur de Coucy , ancien Conservateur des ForGfcs , Monsieur le Vicomte efc Madame la Yicomtesse do Broissia efc leurs enfanfcs , Mademoiselle Marie do Dion de Ricquebourg , Monsieur George Chandos Brine , Monsieur efc Madame Edmond de Coucy et leurs enfants , Monsieur efc Madame de Forges efc leur fils , out l'honneur

de vous faire part de la perfce douloureuse qu'ils vienneno du faire en la personne de MOXSIEUK MAKIE AETHUE JOSEPH DE BHAOTOKT , leur fils , petifc-fils , frere , oncle , neveu efc cousin , decode it Boulogne-surmer , le 19 Mars 1871 , dans sa dbuziSme annee , muni des Sacrements de 1 'Eglise . PKIEZ POUIt LTJI . Boulogne-sur-mer , lo * 22 Mars 1871 .

Life is beautifully compared to a fountain fed by a thousand streams , thafc perish if one is dried . It is a silver cord , twisted Avith a thousand strings , fchafc part ; a sunder if one is broken . Frail and thoughtless mortals are surrounded by innumerable dangers , which make ib much more strange thafc they escape so long , than that

they sometimes perish suddenly afc last . We are encompassed with accidents every day , to crush the mouldering tenements Avhich wo inhabit . The seeds of disease are planted in our constitution by nature . The earth and atmosphere , Avhence Ave draAV our breath , are impregnated Avith death . Health is made to operate fco

its own destruction . The food thafc nourishes contains the elements of decay ; the soul thafc animates ifc by a vivifying fire tends to Avear ifc out by its own action Death lurks in ambush along our path . Notwithstanding this is the truth , so palpably confirmed by the daily , example before our eyes , how little do Ave lay ib to heart /

AYe see our friends and nei ghbours perish among us , bufc how seldom does ifc occur in our thoughts that our knell shall , perhaps , give fche next ; fruitless warning to the world !