The sun, the moon, the stars, he made
    To all his creatures free;
  And spread o’er earth the grassy blade
    For worms as well as thee.

  Let them enjoy their little day,
    Their lowly hiss receive;
  Oh! do not lightly take away
    The life thou canst not give.

Here we may remark, that much wanton cruelty has been abolished by the extended education of the people.  Brutal sports among boys are much less indulged than formerly, and the worrying of domestic animals almost invariably denotes a bad boy, in the worst sense of the phrase, likely to make a bad man; “so true to nature is the admirable aphorism of Wordsworth:—­

    The boy’s the father of the man.”

But we do not so much complain of boyish as of adult cruelties; though, according to the above showing, such atrocities will be less rare in the next than in the present generation.  To conclude, we hope that the present notice may awaken the sympathy of the reader towards the laudable objects of the Society, under whose guidance the Voice of Humanity is published.  It is a difficult matter to point out “the uneducated,” and writers of all grades are eternally babbling of our high state of civilization and refinement, yet, we repeat, the necessity of this association is an anomaly which amounts to a national disgrace.

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THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

VISIT TO THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT ETNA.

BY LIEUTENANT G.H.P.  WHITE, ROYAL NAVY.

On the evening of the 13th of July, 1830, I set off from Catania with a party of my messmates, to ascend Mount Etna, taking the necessary guides, and two sumpter mules to carry the provisions, &c., as nothing in that way can be procured after leaving Nicolosi, which is a small village about twelve miles from Catania.  Etna is divided by the Sicilians into three several regions.  The first is called Pie de Montagna, the second Nemerosa, and the third Discoperta.  The ascent, though very gradual, commences immediately on leaving the city of Catania, over a tolerably constructed road; the country around is formed on an ancient volcanic soil; probably the third eruption mentioned by Thucydides, which happened in the sixth year of the Peloponnesian war, and the second of the eighty-eighth Olympiad.  Traversing the lands of Battianti, and St. Giovanni della Punta, the road is constantly over the lava, and the country on either side is delicious.  Trecastagne, nine miles from Catania, is seated on the acclivity of a high volcanic mountain.  The scene here is beautiful and picturesque.  Near the principal church the view is most extensive.  Towards the east the mountains of Calabria, the sea stretching from Taormina to Catania, bathing the sides of Etna, covered with vineyards, woods and villages:  northward rises the mountain itself, surrounded by