Limes, in the arrondissement of Dieppe, vulgarly known by the name of Cæsar's Camp, have furnished new proofs that those remains are of the greatest antiquity, and belong to the time of the Belgians,-that warlike people, represented by Cæsar as the least civilised and the most formidable of the nations who inhabited the Gaulic countries, into which he carried the Roman arms and laws. Several curious antiquities, especially a cinerary urn, fourteen inches by eight, have been discovered during these excavations. The ruins of a Gallo-Roman village have also been found, between Bracquemont and Graincourt. The Olive-Tree.-There are on the southern borders of the Crimea two varieties of the olive-tree, which have become indigenous there. The one is pyramidal, and its fruit is perfectly oval; the branches of the other are pendent, and its fruit large, heart-shaped, and abundant. These valuable trees have resisted the injuries of centuries, and of successive nations of barbarians. In 1812, an imperial garden was formed at Nikita (Russia), into which the cultivation of these useful trees was introduced by means of cuttings or slips, which no extremity of cold has hitherto affected, although some olive-trees brought from France perished in the same garden in the winter of 1825-6. NATURAL VITRIFICATIONS. It is well known that on the highest mountains tubes of vitrified matter have been found, the exact mode of the production of which has hitherto been undiscovered; but which natural philosophers have in general ascribed to the effects of lightning falling on a sandy soil, and melting and vitrifying the sand to a a greater or less depth. All doubt on the subject is now removed, by similar tubes having been seen instantly formed in places where lightning has fallen. M. Fiedler, a young German philosopher, has collected several in Germany, which he has presented through M. Arago, to the French Academy. They are remarkably large: one is above nineteen feet long. It is difficult to conceive how the discharge of an electrical cloud can melt and vitrify a mass of sand so dense. A similar effect could scarcely be produced by the most intense furnaces. TRAVELS. The celebrated traveller Edward Rüppel is on the point of setting out for Abyssinia, with the purpose of exploring those parts which have not hitherto been visited by any European. The senate of Frankfort, by an unanimous resolution, bas granted him 1000 florins of annual income for the ensuing seven or eight years, as well in acknowledgment of his former services, as to enable him, agreeably to his wish, to continue his scientific travels and researches. INDIAN CUSTOMS. The following example of self-immolation occurred lately at Gwalior, as appears from a statement in a Madras Gazette. At Jaipur, an old Bairagi, above a hundred years of age, the head of an establishment, had assembled about seven or eight thousand mendicants of his order, whom he fed for two days on the third, he dug a pit, in which he placed the seat of his predecessor, and delivering over his own pillow to his spiritual successor, Sivinath, he announced, in a loud voice, that this year would be agitated by public calamities; and then entering the pit, the Bairagis present, by his desire, buried him alive. CHEMISTRY. A method, more simple than any hitherto known, has been discovered for distinguishing barytes from strontium. It consists in pouring several drops of sulphuric acid, at 66 degrees, on the oxide to be proved. A considerable disengagement of caloric is immediately produced; if this takes place without incandescence, the oxide is of strontium; if with incandescence, the oxide is of barytes ITALY. There are, at the foot of the Alps, on the German side, but on the soil, of Italy, certain villages, the inhabitants of which speak a peculiar language, and retain usages very different from those of the surrounding population. Learned persons and geographers have long sought in vain the origin of these people. Some have supposed that they were descended from the Rhotian races, from the Cimbri, from the Ligurians, or from the Germans. Count Giovellari, of Trent, maintains that they were a colony from Swabia. NEW PUBLICATIONS. A little Treatise consisting of upwards of 200 pages, has been just published in Edinburgh, price 3s. bearing the following title. "A brief view of the heavenly doctrines concerning Marriage, the Life of Man after Death, and the Second Advent: compiled from the writings of the Honourable E. Swedenborg." The Rev. T. Goyder has in the press a small work entitled "Glimmerings of Light from the Word of God." It will be published in the course of the ensuing month, the price will be about 3s. POETRY. THE PROSPECT OF ETERNITY. HAIL, sacred birthright of immortal man! In vain we strive by numbers to describe While each abortive effort but confounds Soon as the spirit quits this mortal coil, Years, months, and days, and hours, are gone for ever, And time and space unknown, which here prevail; No human sight sustains, heaven's ample dome And heat is love : but if, through fleeting years, For man, if true to heaven's pure laws, while here DIVINE LOVE. SWEETEST and loveliest of those living rays, Thou art the element of heaven above, Yet not to heaven's inhabitants confined; Maternal tenderness less kind appears Than his compassionate and gracious voice, Praise him archangels-ye who see his face, Yet not by those who in his presence rest, Its height, and depth, and length, and breadth unfold. None but the God of wisdom, and of might Almighty Love-unchangeably the same. Jesus Immanuel-in thee alone, Can fallen man that name and nature know The burning brightness of Jehovah's throne ; Is circled round with thine auspicicious bow.* The rich effulgence of that love thou art, And by the truth, its healing glories shine; Then let thy worshippers reflect thy rays, And by their spirits prove that God is love; This shall in better language speak thy praise Than songs like those which angels sing above. *Rev. iv. 3. THE NEW JERUSALEM MAGAZINE, AND Theological Inspector. MAY, 1828. THE JOY IN HEAVEN OVER ONE SINNER THAT REPENTETH. LUKE XV. 7. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance. THERE is a natural inclination in every man to better his condition and to escape calamities of every description: but this inclination is too often confined to the temporal things of this world! there the inclination ends, and with it all desire of future bliss! The doctrines of the gospel teach us the important-the consoling truth, that man was created for the enjoyment of eternal realities! and not only so, but that he is strongly and forcibly appealed to in the Word of Revelation, and constrained to make choice of celestial treasures, in order that he may live and die encircled by the arms of Divine Mercy, and that his latter end may be peace and joy and life eternal. In the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are taught to believe in the existence of another world, which world is called heaven! This is altogether of a spiritual nature and into this world, the true disciples of the Lord enter immediately after bodily death. We may, however, state that the universal spiritual world is divided into two parts or divisions, one called heaven and the other hell! The former the residence of the good, and the latter, of the evil. Now it should appear that the spiritual world, and this our world of nature, are connected together in some way or other; for if they were not, it would be impossible to account for that joy among the angels of God, when even but one sinner turns from the error No. 5.-1828. I and evil of his ways. If the angels feel more joy over one sinner that repenteth, than over the ninety and nine just persons who need no repentence, it is clear that there must be a connection between heaven and earth, otherwise the angels of heaven could not at all be affected by any change of state in man! But the truth is, heaven and earth are closely connected, as closely as are the soul and body, and it only requires the latter to crumble into ruins, for the former, which is the real living man, to appear among spiritual beings like himself, in the full possession of every faculty, sense and power, which constitute a human being, and in the exercise of which he finds his true delight. The nature of heavenly joy, is but little known. It is deemed quite sufficient, by the religionists of our day, to speak of heaven in general terms, and to describe it as a place of happiness: but in what heavenly felicity consists, the great bulk of Christians give themselves no concern whatever! as though it was a matter of indifference to them, to know or learn any thing of that country in which they had hopes of residing for ever. Before we shall be able to discern the doctrine inculcated in these words "there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance," it will be necessary to make some remarks upon the nature of heavenly joy, and show the reason why that joy is increased upon the repentance of an individual. First as to the nature of heavenly joy.-This joy, is the joy of angels! and as such must be exquisite and refined! But in order to know in what heavenly joy consists, it will be necessary to know who and what are meant by angels. It is believed by some that angels are a different race of beings from men; that they were by the Almighty created angels at the beginning, and that consequently they never did inhabit a natural world! How this idea first found its way into the world, we know not; but this we know, that in the Sacred Word of Divine Revelation, there is not the least ground for such a supposition. We do not read in the Word of God of the creation of angels, as a totally different and distinct race of intelligent beings from men, and as we read of no such creation, it is proper and rational to conclude that no such creation ever took place. Perhaps this might be objected to by stating that the creation of angels was not necessarily connected with that of man, and as it was not connected, it is, therefore, not the subject of Divine Revelation! This, however, will not be found to be a valid objection; for upon turning to the first chapter of Genesis, where the creation is treated of, we find, that, after mentioning the creation of all things in the kingdoms of nature, and |