sort of philosophic religion under the name of
_Brahma-Sabha_, or the "Reunion of Deists"]. General Jung
Bahadur, Kunwar, Ranaji, and his brothers are then in reality,
the first orthodox Hindoos who have honored Europe with their
presence. We do not know how these personages can have followed
the prescriptions of the _schastars_ in their passage across
the ocean, but we learn by the news from Europe, that they have
not taken a single meal with the English, and have neither
eaten nor drank with them, though this does not render it
certain that they have been free from fault in other respects.
It is said beside, that in order to repair every thing, when
the Ambassador returns to Nepaul, the King will cast water upon
him and thus will purify his _pabitra_ [Brahaminic insignia].
Should this arrangement take place and be adopted in other
parts of Hindostan, we can believe that many Hindoos of every
class will go to feast their eyes with the marvels of Europe."

_Original Poetry._

MUSIC.

By Alfred B. Street.

Music, how strange her power! her varied strains
Thrill with a magic spell the human heart.
She wakens memory--brightens hope--the pains,
The joys of being at her bidding start.
Now to her trumpet-call the spirit leaps;
Now to her brooding, tender tones it weeps.
Sweet music! is she portion of that breath
With which the worlds were born--on which they wheel?
One of lost Eden's tones, eluding death,
To make man what is best within him feel!
Keep open his else sealed up depths of heart,
And wake to active life the better part
Of his mixed nature, being thus the tie
That links us to our God, and draws us toward the sky!

_Authors and Books._

In a late number of the _Archives for Scientific Information Concerning
Russia_, a Russian publication, are some interesting facts upon the
colonization of Siberia, and its present population. It seems that that
country began to be settled in the reign of the Czar Alexis
Michaelowich, who issued a law requiring murderers, after suffering
corporeal punishment and three years' imprisonment, to be sent to the
frontier cities, among which the towns of Siberia were then included.
Indeed, under the Empress Elizabeth Petrowna (1741--1761), the whole of
Southern Siberia