people such topics will, however, be discussed; and, in seasons of great domestic distress, will excite irritations which the specious argument of giving employment, or taking labour for the money collected from others, does not allay. Our opinion is not called for; but we confess that we are no enemies to splendid architecture, provided those who indulge in such expensive gratifications, are at the same time equally anxious about the humble comforts of cottages; and do not forget their brotherhood with their species, and all those obligations to the sources of wealth which are created by its possession. 'The limited size of this elegant structure precludes, however, serious alarm in regard to the expenses of its completion. We know nothing of the estimates; but it is generally rumoured, in the circles of Brighton, that the completion of the known plans may cost nearly a million. The principal front, as represented in the engraving, is but 100 yards, and the wings will probably add 50 yards each to the north and south. The pinnacles of the highest domes are from 90 to 100 feet high. The dining-room, at the south or left side, is 72 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 40 high. The centre constitutes a series of three drawing-rooms, behind which is a superb gallery of communication; and at the north end, on the right hand, is the music saloon. For descriptions of the ornamental finishings, and decorated furniture, of these apartments, we must refer to the Arabian Tales, to the drawings of Daniel, and to the Travels of Forbes, when they describe the Taje Mahl of Shah Jehan at Agra, or the Jumma Musjed at Delhi. They are, or they are to be, every thing which wealth and power, aided by the arts of gilding, painting, carving, and sculpture, can render them. 'The walls are of brick, and covered and ornamented with the patent mastic, which dries of the most delicate stone-colour, and acquires the hardness and apparent durability of granite. The cupolas and minarets are framed and covered with iron, and finished with a coating of mastic. The quantities of massive timber and iron-work from Woolwich, which have long employed trains of artillery-waggons in their transport, prove that durability is not neglected for splendour. ART. VIII.-Going to Boarding School. THE annexed plate is taken from a spirited sketch by Krimmel, and is a good specimen of that artist's manner. In this and its companion picture he has intended to portray the change affected by fashionable boarding schools, upon the tastes and manners of country lasses. The view now presented, shows the successful farmer counting over the golden returns of his harvest; the implements of husbandry close at hand, and the rustic decorations of the room are all indicative of his occupation. The old grandmother withdraws her attention from her bible, and raises her spectacles to gaze on the splendid heaps of money. The wife reproves the farmer's incivility, and removes his hat in compliment to the presence of the mistress of the boarding school, who having called to take her intended pupil to the city, looks with great scorn upon the vulgar rustics among whom she is obliged to pass a few moments. The girl appears to be taking leave of her lover, and is seen in all the simplicity of mien characteristic of a farmer's daughter. The stage coach is seen through the open dour, and the driver is urging the departure of his passengers. The little girl packing up her young mistresses trunk, which seems to be providently furnished with a large bible, forms also a consistent part of the scene. The return from boarding school, to be published next month, will show a very natural and striking alteration produced by the refinement of a city education. L 422 Extract from Parmly's Lectures on the Teeth.-THE advantages of cleanliness to the well being of animal life, are too obvious to require illustration; and the influence it exerts on contagious and various other diseases, is more than a sufficient groundwork for this position. Since it applies no less as an axiom to local than to general circumstances, those important instruments of the animal machine, the teeth, demand its fullest exertion; for these, when disordered, produce the seeds of constitutional disease. By a chymical agency on those relics of the food, which accidentally lodge between them, a deleterious change takes place, constituting an active poison, which corrodes their structure. The importance of the teeth to the functions of the System, and the perfect enjoyment of health, is apparent from the moment of their development, a process which constitutes the most critical period of infancy, and which shows at once their extensive influence on the constitution at large. The effects of those aches and pains that then distress the child excite a general derangement of the whole machine; fever accedes, the functions in every part are disturbed, and the brain not unfrequently suffers by an attack of convulsion. The teeth are alone the cause of this dangerous attack on health and existence; and they display an influence no less serious at an after period of life when they become diseas ed. Hence, we should bear in mind the care that ought to be taken of this important part of our frame. Nature, to guard the teeth against disease, has placed them as extraneous bodies; and it is only from neglect in allowing their structure to be acted upon by what ought to be removed, that disease occurs. But although nature has guarded them thus far against the attacks of incidental disease, she has deprived them of that power of freeing themselves by their own efforts, which other organs possess, by a dense and compact structure to fit them for their mechanical use. But the healthy condition of the teeth is necessary even to the perfect exercise of our senses, in consequence of their connexion with the nervous system. The secretions of the mouth furnish a stimulus to the nerves, which excite the sensation of taste, and these form an intimate communication with those of the organs of hearing, of smell, and of vision. This view alone should establish the importance of preserving the mouth and its apparatus in a healthful condition, the better to derive, through the use of our senses, the full and perfect enjoyment of life from every surrounding object presented to them. In a vitiated state of the mouth, where the secretions are loaded with disease, and impregnated with noxious matter, the offspring of uncleanliness, the general feelings are annoyed to such a degree, that the individual is often in a manner deranged. In that state, can the palate convey the proper sensation of taste? Can the olfactory nerves receive the free impression of pleasing odours, or the ear be duly acted on by sound? Thus, a want of cleanliness counteracts the harmony of the system, by which the growth of a child is unprosperous, and the senses do not receive that full evolution which they would have made, if not thus restrained. Since in childhood the first sufferings begin, in childhood also the foundation of a good or bad constitution is laid. Hence, as these sufferings are in part unavoidable, it is at this stage of life, in particular, |