Death And Resurrection Of Osiris.

these tempests , and restores the northerly winds , which drive before them the malignant vapours and preserve in Egypt coolness ancl salubrity under a burning sky . This is the triumph of Horns over Typhon . He is raised from the dead , he seeks new light , and commences his glorious reign . " As some natural philosophers have acknowledged the influence of the moon over the state of the atmosphere , they united her with this god to drive away

the usurper from the throne . The priests , considering Osiris as the father of time , might bestow the name of his son on Horus , who reigned three months in the year . Jablonski , who has interpreted the epithet of Arneri , which the Egyptians gave to Horus , pretends that it signifies efficacious virtue . " These expressions perfectly characterize the phenomena which happened during the reign of this god . It is in summerin factthat the sun manifests

, , all his powers in Egypt . It is then he swells the waters of the rivers with rains exhaled by him in the air , and driven against the summit ef the Abyssinian mountains ; it is then that the husbandman reckons on the treasures of agriculture . Was it not natural , then , that they should honour him with the name of efficacious virtue . " In our previous articles in the Dispatch we have considered the sun

principally as the potent star , the depository of all the energies of nature , who creates and measures time b y his march through the domain of the Grand Architect , and who , taking departure from the Summer solstice , or the most elevated point of his route , runs over the course of the twelve signs in which the celestial bodies move , and with them the different periods or revolutions of the stars . Under the name of Osiriswe see this benificent starwhobhis heatin

, , , y , Spring , calls forth all the powers of generation ; who governs the growth of plants and trees ; who ripens the fruits , aud who dispenses to all seeds that active sap which is the end of vegetation , and is the true character of the E gyptian Osiris .

" It is above all in Springtime that this humid generator develops itself , and circulates in all the rising productions ; ancl it is this sun b y its heat that impels its movements and gives it fertility . We may distinguish two points in the heavens which limit the duration of the creative action of the sun , and these two points are those where the night and day are of equal length . All the grand works of vegetation , in a great part of northern climates , appear to

be comprised between these two limits , and its progressive march is found to be in proportion to that of light and heat . Scarcely has the sun in his annual route attained one of the points , than an active and prolific force appear to emanate for his rays ancl to communicate movement and life to all sublunary bodies which he brings to the light b y a new organization . It is then that the resurrection of the great God takes placeand with this that of all nature .

, Dear brethren , what picture more effectual to render man sorrowful than that of the earth when , by absence of the sun , she finds herself deprived of her attire , of her verdure , of her foilage , and when she offers to our regard only the wreck of plants dried up , or turned to putrefaction , of naked tracks of arid lands without culture , or covered with snow ; of rivers overflowed in the fields , or chained in their bed b y ice ; or of violent winds that overturn everything .

What has become of that happy temperature which the earth enjoyed in the Spring , and during the Summer ? that harmony of the elements , which was in accord with that of the Heaven ? that richness , that beauty of our fields loaded with grain and fruits , or enamelled with flowers , whose odour perfumed the air , and whose variegated colours presented a spectacle so ravishing ? All has disappeared , and the happiness of man has departed with the sun , who , by his presence embellished our climes ; his retreat has plunged the earth into mourning from which nothing but his return can free her .

"Such were the inquietudes of these ancient people , who , seeing the sun retiring from their climate , feared that it mi ght one day happen that he would abandon them altogether . But if the hope of his approach was so sensibly felt ,