Ev’n till thy latest hour, Lucretia! thou
  Didst cherish that which but consum’d thy frame. 
  ’Twas then it shone the brightest on thy brow,
  Like the last flickerings of an earthly flame—­
  Yes, thy brain harass’d by deep toil, became
  With all its fire, a tenant of the tomb,
  And dim is now thine eye, Belov’d of Fame! 
  Thy cheek is pale—­thy lip without perfume—­
  And there thou liest—­the child of Genius—­and its doom.

  Like the proud eagle soaring to the skies,
  Intent “the topmost arch” of heaven to scale,
  When heeding naught that would oppose its rise,
  It breaks with fearless nerve the tempest-gale—­
  And spreads its wings like a majestic sail,
  Full on the bosom of the raging blast,
  Thy spirit soar’d—­but ah! too like us frail,
  When the same breeze which bore it from the dust
  Wing’d home the fatal shaft that tore its bleeding breast.

  Would I could sing thy fame with thine own lyre,
  Then should I breathe a more deserving lay,
  A lay which every spirit would inspire,
  And melt each eye to tears of sympathy;
  But others at thy shrine, their tributes pay. 
  Offspring of Beauty! child of native song! 
  And I, ev’n I, would venture to essay,
  To raise my lauding voice amidst the throng
  Of those who weep thy loss—­and who shall weep it long!—­N.C.

    [2] See Memoir, and specimens of her Poetry, Mirror, vol.
    xiv. p. 340.

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SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY.

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IMPROVED RAW SUGAR.

    [We find the following information communicated to the
    Literary Gazette, apparently by the parties connected with
    the improvement.]

Considerable interest has been excited in the market by the introduction of an improved native raw sugar, which portends very great advantages to all who are engaged in this so long unprofitable branch of colonial and commercial intercourse.  It is pure raw sugar, obtained direct from the cane-juice, without any secondary process of decoloration or solution, and by which all necessity for any subsequent process of refining is entirely obviated.  It is obtained in perfectly pure, transparent, granular crystals, being entirely free from any portion of uncrystallisable sugar or colouring matter, and is prepared by the improved process of effecting the last stages of concentration in vacuum, and at a temperature insufficient to produce any changes in its chemical composition; the mode of operation first proposed by the late Hon. Ed. Charles Howard, and subsequently introduced, with the most important advantages and complete success, into the principal sugar-refineries of Great Britain.