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other people, travelled with his head foremost. 'I do nousee, sir,' said the eel, why you should refuse to conform to the customs of the world and the habits of society, therefore I will thank you to turn about and walk as other people.' The crab maintained the right to walk as he pleased, more especially as it was the only way he could walk. The eel persisted. A quarrel ensued: meantime the tide went out, and neither party, backward or forward, being able to reach the water, they were left to die of thirst upon the sand.

Judea.-Judea, the country of the Jews, of which Jerusalem was the capital, was so exceedingly fertile, that it was ranked by the Greeks aud Romans amongst the finest of their provinces. The land has long since been brought into desolation. The country is overrun by rebel tribes; the Arabs pasture their flocks at freedom. The most fertile plains lie untilled. The art of cultivation is in the most deplorable state, and the countryman sows with the musket in his hands.-Companion to the Bible.

Magnificent Cypress Tree.-In the gardens of Chapultepec, near Mexico, the first object that strikes the eye is the magnificent cypress, called the cypress of Montezuma. It had attained its full growth when that monarch was on the throne, (1520,) so that it must now be at least 400 years old, yet it still retains all the vigour of youthful vegetation. The trunk is forty-one feet in circumference, yet the height is so majestic as to make even this enormous mass appear slender. At Santa Maria de Tula, in Oaxaca, is a cypress of ninety-three English feet in circumference, which yet does not shew the slightest symptom of decay.-Ward's Mexico.

Cotton. Of cotton, the Standard says,. 'The first cost of a year's cotton manufactured in England is estimated at £6,000,000 sterling; the wages paid to 833,000 persons employed in its manufacture in various ways, is £20,000,000, sterling; the profit of the manufacturers may be estimated at 6,000,000, at least. This gives a clear profit of £20,000,000, from the manufacture of not quite one third of the amount, or the increased value of the manufactured over that of the unwrought material, is 3 1-3 to 1; and nearly a million of persons besides get from it constant employment.

Ten Rules to be observed in Practical Life.-The following rules were given by the late Mr. Jefferson, in a letter of advice to his namesake, Thomas Jefferson Smith, in 1825. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble others for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pains have those evils cost us which never happened! 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.-Penny Mag.

A Patriarch.-The St. Petersburgh Gazette states, that there is living near Polosk, on the frontiers of Lithuania, an old man named Demetrius Crabowski, who is now 168 years old. This Russian Methusaleh has always led the humble but tranquil life of a shepherd, assisted by his two sons, the elder of whom, Paul, is 120, and the younger, Anatole, 97 years old. British Insects.-The total amount of known British insects (according to the last census) is 10,012, which is equal to nearly twice the number of ascertained birds, and to more than ten times the number of ascertained quadrupeds throughout the whole world.Quarterly Review.

Literary Notices.

Just Published.

Choix en Prose et en Vers, à L'Usage de MM. les élèves d'Eton, Qui Apprennent le Francais; Suivi de la Phraséologie Comparée, et précédé d'un Traité Concis de Versification. J. C. Tarver, Eton.

The Protestant Dissenter; a Juvenile Magazine for January 1833.

Producing Man's Companion; an Essay on the present state of Society, Moral, Political, and Physical, in England. By Junius Redivivus.

Tableau de la France Litteraire; being a History, with Specimens of the best authors of French Literature, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By Professor Merlet, of the University of London.

LONDON:

Part IV. Westmorland, &c. Illustrated. Part XXIV. Baines's History of Lancashire. Part XLVI. National Portrait Gallery. The Library of Romance. Edited by Leitch Ritchie. Vol. I. The Ghost Hunter.

Roscoe's Novelist's Library; illustrated by George Cruikshank. (Don Quixote, which will be followed by Gil Blas, and other works of equal interest.)

By Mr. Murray: a new Monthly Work, illustrative of the pages of Holy Writ, consisting of Views of the most remarkable Places mentioned in the Bible; to be called "Landscape Illustrations of the Old and New Testaments."

The Georgian Era, Vol. II.

The Three Histories. By Mrs. Fletcher (late Miss Jewsbury,) 2d edition.

The Child's Book, on the Creation. By the Rev. C. A. Goodrich of North America.

Missionary Reform. By a Missionary, 2d edit.
Anti-Slavery Reporter, No. CIV.

The Vegetable World. By C. Williams. Illustrations of Political Economy, No. XII. French Wines and Politics; a Tale. By Harriet Martineau.

Domestic Portraiture; or, Memoirs of Three Children. By Leigh Richmond.

Fifty-one Original Fables; with Morals and Ethical Index; also, a Translation of Plutarch's Banquet of the Seven Ages.

The Pulpit, No. 532.

The Existing Monopoly, an Inadequate Protection of the Authorised Version of Scripture. By T. Curtis. India's Cries to British Humanity. By J. Peggs. A Compendium of Civil Architecture, in Questions and Answers. By Robert Brindley.

A Compendium of Modern Geography. By the Rev. Alex, Stewart. 3d edition.

Vegetable Cookery. By a Lady.

Rolls Plumbe; an Authentic Memoir of a Child. By Andrew Reed,

The Infant School Melodist; containing Rhymes on Religious, Moral, and Natural Subjects. By G. W. Russell.

A Teacher's Lessons on Scripture Characters; with Catechisms. By C. Baker.

The Weekly Visitor. Part I.

The Anti-Slavery Record. No. X.

A Sermon occasioned by the Sudden Death of the Rev. John James. By W. Naylor.

The Doctrine of the Two Covenants. By Ezekiel Hopkins, D.D. Bishop of Londonderry.

A Biographical History of the Wesley Family. By John Dove.

Tales of My Father. By the Rev. J. Young.
An Address to Traders.

Ancient Chronology Made Easy and Interesting. By J. Keyworth.

The Revivalist, Vol. I.

The Plays and Poems of Shakspeare, Vol. III. Edited by A. J. Valpy, M.A.

Dr. Lardner's Cyclopædia.

History of Spain and Portugal, No. XXXVIII. Maternal Advice to Daughters on Leaving Home. The Protestant Dissenters' Juvenile Magazine. Discourses delivered at the Public Recognition of the Rev. N. M. Harry, at New Broad Street Meeting House, London.

A Historical Sketch of the Baptist Denomination. The Adieu; a Farewell Token to a Christian Friend, consisting of entirely Original Pieces, in Prose and Verse.

Bagster's Improved Edition of Cruden's Concordauce of the New Testament.

A Charge Delivered at the Settlement of the Rev. Luke Forster, at Saffron Walden. By J. Ely.

Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, founded on Authentic and Original Documents, some of them never before published.

In the Press.

An Essay on Woman, in three Parts. By N. Michell, author of the Siege of Constantinople, will shortly appear.

Vol. II. of Carne's Life of Eminent Missionaries. Nubia and Abyssinia; comprehending their Civil History, Antiquities, Arts, Religion, Literature, and Natural History. By the Rev. M. Russell, LL.D.; James Wilson, Esq., F. R. S. E. and M. W. S.; and R. K. Greville, LL.D. Illustrated by a Map and 12 Engravings.

Naturalist's Library. Conducted by Sir William Jardine, Bart., F. R.S. E. F. L. S., &c. Illustrated with numerous coloured Plates, engraved by W. H. Lizars. Foolscap, 8vo.; the first Vol. will shortly appear.

The Angushire Album; a Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse.

PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY H. FISHER, SON, AND CO.

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THE IMPERIAL MAGAZINE.

MARCH, 1833.

MEMOIR OF THE REV. GEORGE CLARK.

(With a Portrait.)

We

THERE is a tribute of respect due to the memory of every man who has filled any public station with credit to himself and benefit to others. are too apt to estimate the talents of an individual by the station which he occupies, without once considering that the same energies, if opportunity offered, which fill a circle of limited dimensions, could, with equal ease command one that included, perhaps, a more than seven-fold extended area. Exalted spheres of action are not numerous, and can therefore be occupied by only a few; but we invariably perceive, that whenever an individual is removed by death, or any other cause, there is no difficulty in furnishing the vacancy with an adequate supply.

The preceding remarks are not merely applicable to the temporal affairs of mankind. They extend to the church, and to all its ministers who have gone forth to call sinners to repentance, and whose labours have been owned and blessed of God. In all these respects, it may be justly said, that,

"Honour and fame from no condition rise,
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

This is strictly applicable to the subject of this memoir, whose name and character are surrounded with an imperishable halo, for which many a philosopher and hero must sigh in vain.

"The Rev. GEORGE CLARK, late pastor of the Independent chapel, Ponder's End, near Enfield, in the county of Middlesex, departed this life, after a short illness, April 3, 1832, in the 56th year of his age. He was born in London, and received his education in Christ's Hospital. When about eleven years of age, he lost his mother; and, soon after he was apprenticed, his father, through ill health, was obliged to leave town for his native air in Somersetshire. Thus, young Clark, who was of a gay disposition, was exposed to the various temptations which the metropolis presents, without one seriously disposed friend or relative to control or advise him. It is not surprising that the pleasures and amusements around him were too powerful for him to withstand; yet, in the midst of all, he maintained the strictest integrity. His master, who was a mercer in Leicester-fields, failed before the term of his apprenticeship expired. Here Providence most remarkably interposed, by introducing him, unsolicited, into the service of the Bank of England. He continued there twenty-eight years, esteemed by all for his punctuality, industry, honour, and integrity. The following anecdote speaks volumes :

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During the late war, the clerks formed themselves into a voluuteer corps. On one occasion, being reviewed by his late majesty George the Third, when the king reached the ground, he said to the colonel (the late Sir Thomas Neave, a bank director,) Now, colonel, shew me an honest man for your feugal man.' The colonel went to the ranks, and immediately selected Mr. Clark, whom he introduced to his majesty, saying, Please 20. SERIES, NO. 27.—VOL. III.

171.-VOL. XV.

other people, travelled with his head foremost. 'I do nousee, sir,' said the eel, why you should refuse to conform to the customs of the world and the habits of society, therefore I will thank you to turn about and walk as other people.' The crab maintained the right to walk as he pleased, more especially as it was the only way he could walk. The eel persisted. A quarrel ensued: meantime the tide went out, and neither party, backward or forward, being able to reach the water, they were left to die of thirst upon the sand.

Judea. Judea, the country of the Jews, of which Jerusalem was the capital, was so exceedingly fertile, that it was ranked by the Greeks aud Romans amongst the finest of their provinces. The land has long since been brought into desolation. The country is overrun by rebel tribes; the Arabs pasture their flocks at freedom. The most fertile plains lie untilled. The art of cultivation is in the most deplorable state, and the countryman sows with the musket in his hands.-Companion to the Bible.

Magnificent Cypress Tree. In the gardens of Chapultepec, near Mexico, the first object that strikes the eye is the magnificent cypress, called the cypress of Montezuma. It had attained its full growth when that monarch was on the throne, (1520,) so that it must now be at least 400 years old, yet it still retains all the vigour of youthful vegetation. The trunk is forty-one feet in circumference, yet the height is so majestic as to make even this enormous mass appear slender. At Santa Maria de Tula, in Oaxaca, is a cypress of ninety-three English feet in circumference, which yet does not shew the slightest symptom of decay.-Ward's Mexico.

Cotton. Of cotton, the Standard says, 'The first cost of a year's cotton manufactured in England is estimated at £6,000,000 sterling; the wages paid to 833,000 persons employed in its manufacture in various ways, is £20,000,000, sterling; the profit of the manufacturers may be estimated at 6,000,000, at least. This gives a clear profit of £20,000,000, from the manufacture of not quite one third of the amount, or the increased value of the manufactured over that of the unwrought material, is 3 1-3 to 1; and nearly a million of persons besides get from it constant employment.

Ten Rules to be observed in Practical Life.-The following rules were given by the late Mr. Jefferson, in a letter of advice to his namesake, Thomas Jefferson Smith, in 1825. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble others for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pains have those evils cost us which never happened! 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.-Penny Mag.

A Patriarch.-The St. Petersburgh Gazette states, that there is living near Polosk, on the frontiers of Lithuania, an old man named Demetrius Crabowski, who is now 168 years old. This Russian Methusaleh has always led the humble but tranquil life of a shepherd, assisted by his two sons, the elder of whom, Paul, is 120, and the younger, Anatole, 97 years old. British Insects.-The total amount of known British insects (according to the last census) is 10,012, which is equal to nearly twice the number of ascertained birds, and to more than ten times the number of ascertained quadrupeds throughout the whole world.Quarterly Review.

Literary Notices.

Just Published.

Choix en Prose et en Vers, à L'Usage de MM. les élèves d'Eton, Qui Apprennent le Francais; Suivi de la Phraséologie Comparée, et précédé d'un Traité Concis de Versification. J. C. Tarver, Eton.

The Protestant Dissenter; a Juvenile Magazine for January 1833.

Producing Man's Companion; an Essay on the present state of Society, Moral, Political, and Physical, in England. By Junius Redivivus.

Tableau de la France Litteraire; being a History, with Specimens of the best authors of French Literature, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By Professor Merlet, of the University of London.

Part IV. Westmorland, &c. Illustrated.
Part XXIV. Baines's History of Lancashire.
Part XLVI. National Portrait Gallery.

The Library of Romance. Edited by Leitch Ritchie. Vol. I. The Ghost Hunter.

Roscoe's Novelist's Library; illustrated by George Cruikshank. (Don Quixote, which will be followed by Gil Blas, and other works of equal interest.)

By Mr. Murray: a new Monthly Work, illustrative of the pages of Holy Writ, consisting of Views of the most remarkable Places mentioned in the Bible; to be called "Landscape Illustrations of the Old and New Testaments."

The Georgian Era, Vol. II.

The Three Histories. By Mrs. Fletcher (late Miss Jewsbury,) 2d edition.

The Child's Book, on the Creation. By the Rev. C. A. Goodrich of North America.

Missionary Reform. By a Missionary, 2d edit.
Anti-Slavery Reporter, No. CIV.

The Vegetable World. By C. Williams. Illustrations of Political Economy, No. XII. French Wines and Politics; a Tale. By Harriet Martineau.

Domestic Portraiture; or, Memoirs of Three Children. By Leigh Richmond.

Fifty-one Original Fables; with Morals and Ethical Index; also, a Translation of Plutarch's Banquet of the Seven Ages.

The Pulpit, No. 532.

The Existing Monopoly, an Inadequate Protection of the Authorised Version of Scripture. By T. Curtis. India's Cries to British Humanity. By J. Peggs. A Compendium of Civil Architecture, in Questions and Answers. By Robert Brindley.

A Compendium of Modern Geography.
Rev. Alex, Stewart. 3d edition.
Vegetable Cookery. By a Lady.

By the

Rolls Plumbe; an Authentic Memoir of a Child. By Andrew Reed,

The Infant School Melodist; containing Rhymes on Religious, Moral, and Natural Subjects. By G. W. Russell.

A Teacher's Lessons on Scripture Characters; with Catechisms. By C. Baker.

The Weekly Visitor. Part I.

The Anti-Slavery Record. No. X.

A Sermon occasioned by the Sudden Death of the Rev. John James. By W. Naylor.

The Doctrine of the Two Covenants. By Ezekiel Hopkins, D.D. Bishop of Londonderry.

A Biographical History of the Wesley Family. By John Dove.

Tales of My Father. By the Rev. J. Young.
An Address to Traders.

Ancient Chronology Made Easy and Interesting. By J. Keyworth.

The Revivalist, Vol. I.

The Plays and Poems of Shakspeare, Vol. III. Edited by A. J. Valpy, M.A.

Dr. Lardner's Cyclopædia.

History of Spain and Portugal, No. XXXVIII. Maternal Advice to Daughters on Leaving Home. The Protestant Dissenters' Juvenile Magazine. Discourses delivered at the Public Recognition of the Rev. N. M. Harry, at New Broad Street Meeting House, London.

A Historical Sketch of the Baptist Denomination. The Adieu; a Farewell Token to a Christian Friend, consisting of entirely Original Pieces, in Prose and Verse.

Bagster's Improved Edition of Cruden's Concordance of the New Testament.

A Charge Delivered at the Settlement of the Rev. Luke Forster, at Saffron Walden. By J. Ely.

Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, founded on Authentic and Original Documents, some of them never before published.

In the Press.

An Essay on Woman, in three Parts. By N. Michell, author, of the Siege of Constantinople, will shortly appear.

Vol. II. of Carne's Life of Eminent Missionaries. Nubia and Abyssinia; comprehending their Civil History, Antiquities, Arts, Religion, Literature, and Natural History. By the Rev. M. Russell, LL.D.; James Wilson, Esq., F. R. S. E. and M. W. S.; and R. K. Greville, LL.D. Illustrated by a Map and 12 Engravings.

Naturalist's Library. Conducted by Sir William Jardine, Bart., F. R.S. E. F. L. S., &c. Illustrated with numerous coloured Plates, engraved by W. H. Lizars. Foolscap, 8vo.; the first Vol. will shortly

appear.

The Angushire Album; a Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse.

LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY H. FISHER, SON, AND CO.

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