. The Saturday magazine . at Corfe Castle in Dorsetshire, are bothmuch inferior to that at Caerphilly. They were placedin their preeent position by the use of gunpowder inthe civil war which unhappily raged between KingCharles and his Parliament. Whether they weremined or battered is not certain. Corfe Castlewas bravely defended for some time by Lady Banks,who although her husband, the Chief Justice ofEngland, was absent, compelled the troops of theParliament to raise the siege, who were thus, in thewords of one of our best modem poets, alluding tothe defence of Saragossa, Foild by a womans ha
. The Saturday magazine . at Corfe Castle in Dorsetshire, are bothmuch inferior to that at Caerphilly. They were placedin their preeent position by the use of gunpowder inthe civil war which unhappily raged between KingCharles and his Parliament. Whether they weremined or battered is not certain. Corfe Castlewas bravely defended for some time by Lady Banks,who although her husband, the Chief Justice ofEngland, was absent, compelled the troops of theParliament to raise the siege, who were thus, in thewords of one of our best modem poets, alluding tothe defence of Saragossa, Foild by a womans hand before a shatterd wall. The present state of these towers is not withotttits moral; for, in recalling to our thoughts, timeshappily for us gone by, when the fury of faction andthe violence of civil war rent the kingdom to its 1833.] THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE. 197 foundation, disfiguring and distorting what they yetfailed to destroy, we may look upon such ruins atonce as monuments of the past, and as warnings forthe «,.vi5e*P-5 BniDGEKOUTH CASTLE, SIinOFSHIRE, THE SCORPION. The Scorpion is placed by naturalists between theCrustacea, or shell-fish, and the spiders. Its bodyis protected by a hard shelly covering, like theformer, but approaches in form to some species of•the latter. The Scorpion has been noticed by all writers on these subjects, from the earliest ages ofantiquity, and many dreadful tales are related of thefatal eiFe«ts of its poison. There is no doubt thatthe venom of this creature has, in some instances,produced death; but, in general, the efifects of itssting have been less serious than is usually most poisonous are the larger species, which in-habit countries under the tropics. Scorpions arefound, in general, concealed in holes in the ground,hollow trees, and buildings in a state of ruin. A French physician, who paid great attention tothe habits of these animals, has related many parti-culars respecting them. The care with which thefemal
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