Correspondece.

or apotheosis . Fish were the natural emblems of the jn-oductive powers of the waters , they being more prolific than any other class of animals or even vegetables . I will here venture so far to digress from my immediate subject as to copy a statement from Dr . Hale ' s " Vegetable , Statics , " which appears to contradict my assertion that fish i are more productive than vegetables . He states that the produce of a single jdant of the acan / hum vulgare , in its fourth or most prolific year , supposing every seed to strike , would be 7 . 0 G 2 trillions , 024 , 000 billions—more than enough ,

TIVE 111 PPA TRICEPS . to stock all the p lanets in the solar system , so that no other plant could possibl y grow , allowin g onl y one square foot to each plant . On tho other hand , Mason Good asserts that the power of fecundity in fishes surpasses all calculation , and Appears almost incredible . A single herring , if suffered to

multi pl y unmolested and undiminished for twent y years , wouhl shew a progeny greater in bulk than thc globe itself . These calculations are , I confess , beyond my power , but some of my readers may determine , perhaps , which has the advance , the acanthum , which occupying ono superficial foot to (¦ ac-li jilaut can cover a surface equal to that of the solar

system ; or the herring , at least sixty of whicli may bo stowed ni the space allotted to one acanthum , and which will form a s ° lid mass equal in bulk to the whole globe , occupying entirel y the length , the width and depth thereof . While thus di gressing , I will mention one animal which forms an 0 j ject of domestic care , the prolific nature of which is perhaps not

generall y known , "but has been accurately ascertained b y several close observers ; among them Htiber ( says Dr . Mason * d ) has sufficientl y proved , that one single impregnation | m serve to fecundate all the eggs ivhich a queen bee will V for tivo years at least ( Htiber believes for the whole of ler « fe ) , but he has had repeated proofs of the former , viz ., Wo years , She begins to lay her eggs forty-six hours after

j impregnation , and will commonly lay about three thousand iu two months , being at the rate of fifty eggs daily , thus one impregnation will to a certainty produce in tivo years ( no accident happening to the queen ) , 36 , o 00 fecundated eggs .

'mi : SUA IIOKSE . But to return ; it will bo found that the creative or generative attribute has over formed a part of the divine triad of every nation ; a more full account of which I reserve Cor its proper place in the concluding part of this essay . ( To be continued . )

JJROTIIKE Uisir . v , Tin : VKTEHAN TRUMPETEE . —Wo understand that a Grand Masonie Concert is shortly to be given at Exeter Hall , under the distinguished patronage of the right honourable the Earl of Zetland , ' M . W . Grand Master , by Bro . Distin , sen ., Avhose last concert took place afc the Crystal Palace , iu October , 185 S . Wo luwo no doubt it will surprise many of our renders ivlien Ai-e inform them , that instead of being a source of considerable profit to him , as he had hoped , the Crystal Palace

Concert was , on the contrary , a severe loss ( between . £ 70 and .-fc'SO ) , the enormous expenses incurred having absorbed the whole of his share oi ' the proceeds . Bro . 'Distin has always been ready to give his gratuitous services on all charitable occasions , and IIOAV , after a career of half a century ' s labour as a performer on that most trying instrument , the trumpet , although ho has had twenty-seven years' . servitude under the Crown , viz ., eleven years in tho old militiaseven years in the . Grenadier

, Guards , and nine years in tho private band of George IV ., he is Avithout any provision , arrd noiv requires that assistance ivhich he has ever been ready to render to others . "Wc sincerely lmpe that his Mawinc bre . tbrc-n and the public will respond tu his mi'viit appeal ,