Malta. THE LITERARY GAZETTE, AND but he never omitted those little attentions with an extraordinary degree of discretion; ing year was appointed to the government of the Divine will, in charity with all mankind, SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. NO. VIII. COINNACH OER. high festival of the M'Kenzie's at Castle Braan. One of the guests was so exhilarated by the scene On this occasion he happened to be at some of gaiety, that he could not forbear an eulogium on the gallantry, of the feast, and the nobleness of the guests. Kenneth, it appears, had no regard for the M'Kenzies, and was so provoked by this sally in their praise, that he not only nunciation of wrath and confusion upon their whole race, but gave vent to a prophetic debroke out into a severe satire against their having overheard a part) of this rhapsody, inposterity. stantly rose up with one accord to punish the The guests being informed (or manner look into that of himself; for this reahe foretold the fate of others, did not in any contumely of the prophet. Kenneth, though son, being doubtful of debating the propriety of his prediction upon such unequal terms, he fled with the greatest precipitation. M'Kenzies followed with infinite zeal; and more than one ball had whistled over the head of the neth with any farther exercise of his prophetic seer before he reached Loch Ousie. The concalling, that, in the anguish of his flight, he sosequences of this prediction so disgusted Kenlemnly renounced all communication with its power; and, as he ran along the margin of Loch Ousie, he took out the wonderful pebbles, and cast them with a fury into the water. Whether his evil genius had now forsaken him, or that his wind was better than that of his pursuers, is unknown; but certain it is, Kenneth, after the sacrifice of the pebbles, outstripped his enraged enemies, and never, so far as I have heard, made any attempt at prophecy, from the hour of his escape. The In the House of Lords, Lord Hastings, as Lord Rawdon and Earl of Moira, took part in all the debates of importance which occurred during his time, and was distinguished for his eloquence. His deportment while speaking was naturally dignified, and his manner graceful; his language, though figurative, animated, and glowing, was peculiarly classical and correct; and he was listened to always with the greatest attention. In the history COINNACH OER, which means Dun Kenneth, and constitution of his country he was tho was a celebrated man in his generation. He roughly versed, having deeply meditated on the has been called the Isaiah of the North. The subject; and he had clear opinions formed on all prophesies of this man are very frequently althe great questions which have been agitated in luded to and quoted in various parts of the later times with respect to our internal polity. Highlands; although little is known of the man Fully sensible of the value of our complex form himself, except in Rosshire. He was a small of government in its practical operation, and farmer in Strath Peffer, near Dingwall, and of the substantial benefits derived under it to for many years of his life neither exhibited all classes of the community, he was not over- any talents, nor claimed any intelligence concerned about its theoretical perfection, and above his fellows. The manner in which he would have been always found the decided obtained the prophetic gift was told by himself, opponent of speculative innovations. But for in the following manner :the removal of civil disabilities on account of religion, he was most earnestly anxious, re-ing (digging) peats, he heard a voice which Ian Dubh Mac Choinech (Black John, the As he was one day at work in the hill castgarding this measure as no innovation, but as seemed to call to him out of the air. It com- son of Kenneth), and lived in the village of Kenneth Oer had a son, who was called a restoration of the constitution, in a case manded him to dig under a little green knoll Miltoun, near Dingwall. His chief occupawhere it had been partially suspended, on which was near, and to gather up the small tion was brewing whisky; and he was killed grounds which had long ceased to exist. His white stones which he would discover beneath in a fray at Miltoun, about twenty-six years political conduct was uniformly temperate: the turf. The voice informed him, at the same since. His exit would not have formed the during the administration of Mr. Pitt, he was time, that while he kept these stones in his catastrophe of an epic poem, and appears generally considered a member of the opposi- possession he should be endued with the power to have been one of those events of which tion; but he was more particularly looked of supernatural foreknowledge. upon as the principal person of that party which was understood to comprise the friends aerial conversation, followed the directions of into a dispute with a man with whom he had Kenneth, though greatly alarmed at this pened in the following manner :-Having fallen his father had no intelligence, for it hapof his present Majesty, to whom, from the ear-his invisible instructor, and turning up the been previously on friendly terms, they pro liest period of his public life, to its final close, turf on the hillock, in a little time discovered ceeded to blows: in the scuffle, a boy, the son he was devoted by feelings of the strongest the talismans. From that day forward, the mind of Ian's adversary, observing the two compersonal attachment. Lord Grenville's administration, he became a earthly light; and he made many predictions, contention, and being doubtful of the event, On the formation of of Kenneth was illuminated by gleams of un- batants locked in a close and firm gripe of eager member of the Cabinet, and was Master-Gene- of which the credulity of the people, and the ran into the house and brought out the iron ral of the Ordnance, which is the only minis- coincidence of accident, often found confirma-pot-crook, with which he saluted the head of terial office in this country which he ever tion; and he certainly became the most notable the unfortunate Ian so severely, that he not filled. This very slight outline of the public cha-able and well-known of his vaticinations is the life on the ensuing morning. of the Highland prophets. The most remark- only relinquished his combat, but departed this racter of this eminent person, it has been easy following: to trace: but to convey an adequate impression hands, a Fraser with a black spot on his face, a :- "Whenever a M'Lean with long of the various qualities which adorned his private life, and endeared him, enthusiastically almost, to those who approached him nearly, would be difficult indeed! All DRAMA M'Gregor with a black knee, and a club-footed M'Leod of Raza, shall have existed; whenever there shall have been successively three M'Don- THE affairs of this theatre have taken a very His manners were peculiarly striking.. The nons of the same Christian name,-oppressors than £600 a night; and the houses on the alds of the name of John, and three M'Kin- prosperous turn. dignity of his appearance, and the polished will appear in the country, and the people will other nights, owing to the united attractions urbanity of his address, marked him at once as change their own land for a strange one. Kean rarely plays to less a gentleman of the highest order; but his good- these personages have appeared since; and it is exceedingly productive to the treasury. breeding, though perfectly refined, always seem- the common opinion of the peasantry, that the manager, though not yet able to get rid of the of Braham, Liston, and Miss Stephens, are ed the natural impulse of his kind disposition; consummation of the prophesy was fulfilled, starving system" and the nightly salaries, and was as apparent in his intercourse with the when the exaction of the exorbitant rents re- has, nevertheless, done much towards bringing The humblest members of society as with persons of duced the Highlands to poverty, and the intro- the members of the " his own rank and station. To those with duction of the sheep banished the people to called, into something like decent order. whom he lived in habits of intimacy and friend-America. ship, he was not contented with rendering real profession,' " as it is services, whenever the opportunity occurred-neth Oer, he does not appear to have used it partiality, been reduced to good behaviour; and Whatever might have been the gift of Ken- this establishment have, by firmness and imMany troublesome ladies and gentlemen upon 66 VARIETIES. restored to them two, and the annual grant by the budget is forty millions: so that the actual revenue of the clergy may be estimated at forty-two millions. French Journal. one or two of the most refractory have been warrant much public patronage, and gratify a cafered to withdraw, or have been dismissed great deal of public curiosity. We should by their employer. A steady perseverance in think the Optische Panoramen would not wach conduct will not only prove highly ad- disappoint any visitor. vantages to Mr. Price himself, but will conAnecdote. Le Mercure de Londres, a French ter a lasting benefit upon the public at large. journal published weekly in London, has in On Tuesday a new one-act piece was perits last number the following anecdote: formed for the first time, called My Best The Duke of York's Baton. This trophy, "The Portuguese fancy themselves the first Friend, or £277. 78. 7d. It is taken from about which the newspapers report his royal people in the world; and the Spaniards, on L'Ama Intime, a little French drama; but we highness's executors and the prebendaries of the other hand, are convinced that there is are disposed to think that Mr. Beazley has not Windsor to be disputing, has not the intrinsic nothing more easy than to trick a Portuguese. exbited his usual judgment in the alterations value imputed to it. The staff is covered with These opinions lead to innumerable epigrams, he has made to adapt it to the English stage. crimson velvet studded with golden lions; the hoaxes, and jests: witness the following:. In the original, the subject—that of a bailiff lower end has a large ferrule, or termination, of One day last summer a Portuguese and a Casbeing introduced into a gentleman's house, in chased gold, bearing an inscription of its being tilian agreed to go out shooting together; but the character of a friend to a bridegroom is a gift of his Majesty's; and the upper end has a the former fearing some roguery on the part of ently spun out; so much so indeed, as, like termination of chased gold, surmounted his companion, made him agree, à priori, that thout some relief, almost to become tedious: by an equestrian figure of St. George, also of whatever they killed was to be put into one beat the translator has gone a step further, and gold. Mentioning a subject connected with common bag, and in the end equally divided. by throwing a great deal of what is narrative the late funeral (which greatly disappointed Well, they shot their best all day, but with the French piece into action in the English public expectation), we may record the curious such bad luck, that at nightfall the bag conone, and by making several breaks and inter- fact, that the Black Horses so conspicuous on tained only a partridge and a crow! Now, rupts in the scene, has greatly weakened the the occasion, were those used by George III. friend,' quoth the Portuguese, how can we force of the comic situations. My best Friend, on state ceremonies, after his Majesty deter- divide our game fairly?' As conditioned, therefore, was coldly received in some parts, mined not to be drawn by the Cream-coloured without doubt,' answered the Castilian, each and out very well approved of in others. set. This resolution was taken in consequence his half.' Yes,' rejoined the other, but a Laporte, who is the hero of the piece, plays of Buonaparte's obtaining that breed when he crow and a partridge!' *Hold!' replied the wth great spirit; but he attempts too much, in occupied Hanover, and causing himself to be Spaniard, scratching his head, there are two endeavouring to master the slang dialect of a drawn by them in his triumphing pageants. ways to get out of this dilemma; either I take Led bailiff. The mixture of the French Scots Universities. The royal commission the partridge and you take the crow, or you went with that of the vulgar and vicious for inquiring into the state of the Scots Uni- take the crow and I take the partridge.' Conney, makes but a sorry compound. He versities have finished their business at Glas- Right, right,' said the Portuguese; and the aad satisfy himself with the acquirements gow in six days. The commissioners are about division was made accordingly.' i has already made in our tongue, without to propose a premium of a hundred guineas for gepung those peculiar graces which few the best essay, on a subject to be given, by a hakey-coachmen and costermongers can student of Edinburgh College. The adjudirive with proper effect. My best Friend, with cation is to take place in April next; and we mating comic actor in the principal charac- rejoice to observe a new stimulus of this kind, ter, acid do excellently at a minor theatre; imparted to the system of education, already so bear is not exactly the sort of person that we successfully cultivated in the North. wah to see taking the lead upon our regular TWELVE nights of the present season at Drury e of German operas. The selection walbe from the unpublished works of the most yular German composers, and in the German OPTISCHE PANORAMEN. 6 LITERARY NOVELTIES. the division of literary news, insert either advertisements or unauthenticated announcements. This will account for the non-appearance of a basketful of communications. lection of papers, illustrated by explanatory plates, relatWe hear that Colonel Trench purposes publishing a coling to the Thames Quay, with hints for some further improvements in the metropolis. We have very often mentioned that we cannot, under Mr. Allen's History of Lambeth, with upwards of a hundred engravings of curious objects connected with the Parish, is announced as nearly ready by J. Nichols and Son. Queen Anne's Farthing. The story of finding the third Queen Anne's farthing is again making its periodical tour of the newsand loss is well known to be a mere fabrication. Empire, Persia, Asia Minor, Turkey, &c., in the years papers; though the whole story of its coinage Travels from India to England, by way of the Burman Opera. Report says that Veluti has been 1825-26; containing a Chronological Epitome of the late induced to return to England in February; ander, Esq., H. P., late H. M. 13th Light Dragoons, is anMilitary Transactions in Ava. By James Edward Alexsed de hoc quære. Mademoiselle Ayton is now nounced in 4to. Also, Shigurf Namah-I-Valaet, or excelin London and Sontag is said to be absolutely lent Intelligence concerning Europe, being the Travels of engaged. Crivelli, the same journal (Le Mer-Shaikh Itesa Moodeen, Moonshee, in Great Britain and France. Translated from the original Persian Manucure) adds, is dead at New York. script into Hindoostanee. With an English Version and Notes. By the same. New London University.-Dr. Fellowes has LIST OF NEW BOOKS. Turners Henry VIII., second edition, 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 6. bds.-Gutteridge's Stereonometry, 12mo. 10. bds.-Wallace on Moxa, 8vo. . bds.-Scripture Stories from the New Testament, 12mo. 68. hf.-bd. Hawkins on Rheumatism, 8vo. 5s. bds.-Cornish on Remainders, 8vo. 9s. bds.-The Code Napoleon, royal 8vo. 17. 18. bds.Tales of a Pilgrim, 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds.-Truckleborough Hall, 3 vols. post 8vo. 17. &s. 6d. bds.--Amesbury's Syllabus of Lectures, 8vo. 12s. bds.--Soames's Reformation, vol. 3, 8vo. 18. bd.-D'Oyly's Sermons, 8vo. 12. bds.-ElizaItalian Classics, vol. 1, Dante, 24mo. 10s. 6d. bds. beth de Bruce, 3 vols. post 8vo. 11. 118. 6d. bds.--Cicchitti's METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1827. January. Thermometer. From 30. to 38. Tsza this German panoramic title, a very was called the Europorama: an odd Thursday.. 18 Barometer. 30.10 to 30.15 24.5 21. - 29.49 29.46 - 29.30 Generally cloudy, with CHARLES H. ADAMS. Longitude.... 0 3 51 W. of Greenwich. Prevailing wind, N. and N.E. frequent snow since the 19th. Edmonton. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We do not doubt J. L.'s poem being very acceptable to young persons: it is too long for our paper, To D. we would whisper, that near" and " Decree** sa rhyme which would not be tolerated by our country readers. articles are unavoidably postponed. Fitzjohn for hereafter, when we can. Malta. THE LITERARY GAZETTE, AND ing year was appointed to the government of | but he never omitted those little attentions with an extraordinary degree of discretion; Small as was the sphere in which he was change of which constitutes so pleasing a part near paying dear for his divination. which more frequently offer, and the inter- and the last time he exercised it, he was very there called upon to act, compared with that of private life. His mind was richly culti which he had so recently quitted, he did not vated; his information extensive, and at the therefore disdain to take an interest in what-same time minute: he was an excellent scholar, ever belonged to it; but, on the contrary, he and remarkable for the purity and eloquence of devoted himself to the business of the island his familiar language. His conversation was with an unremitting application, and was en- always interesting, and with his immediate gaged in maturing plans for its improvement friends and family, there was oftentimes a in every branch of administration: but he was playfulness and charm in it which constituted not permitted to bring his labours to a close their greatest pleasure. as the place, prematurely for its own advantage, was destined to be the last scene of his public with the happiest temper, and possessed the In addition to these qualities, he was blessed life, as well as the depositary of his mortal remains. In the grateful recollection of that peo-be truly said of him, as it was of another great warmest and most generous heart; and it may ple, however, his name will long be cherished man, that his ample fortune absolutely sank with affectionate veneration. under the benevolence of his nature. the Divine will, in charity with all mankind, SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. NO. VIII. COINNACH OER. high festival of the M'Kenzie's at Castle Braan. One of the guests was so exhilarated by the scene On this occasion he happened to be at some of gaiety, that he could not forbear an eulogium on the gallantry, of the feast, and the nobleness of the guests. Kenneth, it appears, had no regard for the M'Kenzies, and was so provoked by this sally in their praise, that he not only nunciation of wrath and confusion upon their whole race, but gave vent to a prophetic debroke out into a severe satire against their having overheard a part) of this rhapsody, inposterity. stantly rose up with one accord to punish the The guests being informed (or manner look into that of himself; for this reahe foretold the fate of others, did not in any contumely of the prophet. Kenneth, though son, being doubtful of debating the propriety of his prediction upon such unequal terms, he fled with the greatest precipitation. The M'Kenzies followed with infinite zeal; and more than one ball had whistled over the head of the neth with any farther exercise of his prophetic seer before he reached Loch Ousie. The concalling, that, in the anguish of his flight, he sosequences of this prediction so disgusted Kenlemnly renounced all communication with its power; and, as he ran along the margin of Loch Ousie, he took out the wonderful pebbles, and cast them with a fury into the water. Whether his evil genius had now forsaken him, or that his wind was better than that of his pursuers, is unknown; but certain it is, Kenneth, after the sacrifice of the pebbles, outstripped his enraged enemies, and never, so far as I have heard, made any attempt at prophecy, from the hour of his escape. In the House of Lords, Lord Hastings, as Lord Rawdon and Earl of Moira, took part in all the debates of importance which occurred during his time, and was distinguished for his eloquence. His deportment while speaking was naturally dignified, and his manner graceful; his language, though figurative, animated, and glowing, was peculiarly classical and correct; and he was listened to always with the greatest attention. In the history COINNACH OER, which means Dun Kenneth, and constitution of his country he was tho was a celebrated man in his generation. He roughly versed, having deeply meditated on the has been called the Isaiah of the North. The subject; and he had clear opinions formed on all prophesies of this man are very frequently althe great questions which have been agitated in luded to and quoted in various parts of the later times with respect to our internal polity. Highlands; although little is known of the man Fully sensible of the value of our complex form himself, except in Rosshire. He was a small of government in its practical operation, and farmer in Strath Peffer, near Dingwall, and of the substantial benefits derived under it to for many years of his life neither exhibited all classes of the community, he was not over-any talents, nor claimed any intelligence concerned about its theoretical perfection, and above his fellows. The manner in which he would have been always found the decided obtained the prophetic gift was told by himself, opponent of speculative innovations. But for in the following manner :the removal of civil disabilities on account of religion, he was most earnestly anxious, re-ing (digging) peats, he heard a voice which Ian Dubh Mac Choinech (Black John, the As he was one day at work in the hill castgarding this measure as no innovation, but as seemed to call to him out of the air. It com- son of Kenneth), and lived in the village of Kenneth Oer had a son, who was called a restoration of the constitution, in a case manded him to dig under a little green knoll Miltoun, near Dingwall. His chief occupawhere it had been partially suspended, on which was near, and to gather up the small tion was brewing whisky; and he was killed grounds which had long ceased to exist. His white stones which he would discover beneath in a fray at Miltoun, about twenty-six years political conduct was uniformly temperate: the turf. The voice informed him, at the same since. during the administration of Mr. Pitt, he was time, that while he kept these stones in his catastrophe of an epic poem, and appears generally considered a member of the opposi-possession he should be endued with the power to have been one of those events of which His exit would not have formed the tion; but he was more particularly looked of supernatural foreknowledge. upon as the principal person of that party which was understood to comprise the friends aerial conversation, followed the directions of into a dispute with a man with whom he had Kenneth, though greatly alarmed at this pened in the following manner :-Having fallen his father had no intelligence, for it hapof his present Majesty, to whom, from the ear. his invisible instructor, and turning up the been previously on friendly terms, they proliest period of his public life, to its final close, turf on the hillock, in a little time discovered ceeded to blows: in the scuffle, a boy, the son he was devoted by feelings of the strongest the talismans. From that day forward, the mind of Ian's adversary, observing the two compersonal attachment. Lord Grenville's administration, he became a earthly light; and he made many predictions, contention, and being doubtful of the event, On the formation of of Kenneth was illuminated by gleams of un-batants locked in a close and firm gripe of eager member of the Cabinet, and was Master-Gene- of which the credulity of the people, and the ran into the house and brought out the iron ral of the Ordnance, which is the only minis- coincidence of accident, often found confirma-pot-crook, with which he saluted the head of terial office in this country which he ever tion; and he certainly became the most notable the unfortunate Ian so severely, that he not filled. This very slight outline of the public cha-able and well-known of his vaticinations is the life on the ensuing morning. of the Highland prophets. The most remark- only relinquished his combat, but departed this racter of this eminent person, it has been easy following:to trace: but to convey an adequate impression hands, a Fraser with a black spot on his face, a "Whenever a M'Lean with long of the various qualities which adorned his pri- M'Gregor with a black knee, and a club-footed vate life, and endeared him, enthusiastically M'Leod of Raza, shall have existed; whenever almost, to those who approached him nearly, there shall have been successively three M'Don- THE affairs of this theatre have taken a very would be difficult indeed! His manners were peculiarly striking.. The nous of the same Christian name,-oppressors than £600 a night; and the houses on the alds of the name of John, and three M'Kin- prosperous turn. dignity of his appearance, and the polished will appear in the country, and the people will other nights, owing to the united attractions urbanity of his address, marked him at once as change their own land for a strange one. Kean rarely plays to less a gentleman of the highest order; but his good-these personages have appeared since; and it is exceedingly productive to the treasury. breeding, though perfectly refined, always seem- the common opinion of the peasantry, that the manager, though not yet able to get rid of the All of Braham, Liston, and Miss Stephens, are ed the natural impulse of his kind disposition; consummation of the prophesy was fulfilled, and was as apparent in his intercourse with the when the exaction of the exorbitant rents re- has, nevertheless, done much towards bringing The humblest members of society as with persons of duced the Highlands to poverty, and the intro- the members of the "profession,' starving system" and the nightly salaries, his own rank and station. To those with duction of the sheep banished the people to called, into something like decent whom he lived in habits of intimacy and friend-America. ship, he was not contented with rendering real as it is services, whenever the opportunity occurred-neth Oer, he does not appear to have used it partiality, been reduced to good behaviour; and Whatever might have been the gift of Ken- this establishment have, by firmness and imMany troublesome ladies and gentlemen upon 66 DRAMA DRURY LANE. order. VARIETIES. restored to them two, and the annual grant by the budget is forty millions: so that the actual revenue of the clergy may be estimated at forty-two millions. -- French Journal. Anecdote. Le Mercure de Londres, a French journal published weekly in London, has in its last number the following anecdote: one or two of the most refractory have been warrant much public patronage, and gratify a The Duke of York's Baton. — This trophy," The Portuguese fancy themselves the first TWELVE nights of the present season at Drury lane Theatre will be appropriated to the perormance of German operas. The selection will be from the unpublished works of the most >pular German composers, and in the German dage. OPTISCHE PANORAMEN. TYDER this German panoramic title, a very Scots Universities. The royal commission for inquiring into the state of the Scots Universities have finished their business at Glasgow in six days. The commissioners are about to propose a premium of a hundred guineas for the best essay, on a subject to be given, by a student of Edinburgh College. The adjudication is to take place in April next; and we rejoice to observe a new stimulus of this kind, imparted to the system of education, already so successfully cultivated in the North. Queen Anne's Farthing. The story of finding the third Queen Anne's farthing is again making its periodical tour of the newsand loss is well known to be a mere fabrication. papers; though the whole story of its coinage induced to return to England in February; Opera.- Report says that Veluti has been sed de hoc quare. Mademoiselle Ayton is now in London: and Sontag is said to be absolutely engaged. Crivelli, the same journal (Le Mercure) adds, is dead at New York. and clever exhibition has been opened in New London University.-Dr. Fellowes has Bond Street. It is the work of Mr. Christo- made a very princely bequest to this InstituMer Suhr, of Hamburgh, assisted, as we tion:-as much ground in the Regent's Park serve from the German prospectus, by his as the Council may deem requisite for a comther; and is a remarkable specimen of plete Botanic Garden. stry and ingenuity. The principal scene Steam Vessels. At Calcutta, the Indians, panorama of Moscow, so arranged, that by from seeing the steam-boat stemming wind, g the glasses, through which the spec- tide, and current, have called it Sheitaun Koo locks, round in a groove, you have as noo, the devil's boat; and an intelligent Perre a view of that splendid city as in the sian Syyud, wishing to compliment our nateramas where you are placed in the middle tional ingenuity, thus expressed himself :— the room. The figures on the left are far" When arts were in their infancy, it was nalarge; but the buildings and general effect tural to give the devil credit for any new inexcellently given. The other views are, vention; but now, so advanced are the English Waterloo, as now cultivated, also with sliding in every kind of improvement, that they are asses, to take in more of that famous field; more than a match for the devil himself!”_ Sound a very spirited representation of Capt. Keppel's Journal. The sea and the adjoining castles, &c.; St. Pe- French Clergy. The gifts made to the clergy tersburg in winter; the Coronation of Charles of France between 1802 and 1822, are 384 the Tenth; the noble Church of St. Stephen's, houses, 1077 pieces of ground, 309 hectares of , with an indifferent imperial proces- land, and 28 libraries, besides which there have a; a view of Hanover, and another of been restored to them, 56 churches, 37 chapels Rechenbach, in Switzerland. There is, there- and abbeys, 3 convents, and 174 parsonageeat variety in the designs, as well as houses. From this statement it is concluded, talent in the contrivance for displaying that one inhabitant out of 6,000 bequeaths the The figures, throughout, are the worst whole or part of his property to the clergy. The ted; but, altogether, there is enough to revenue of the Church, previous to the RevoluPar it was called the Europorama: an odd tion, is estimated at seventy or eighty millions. The legacies of the above twenty years have LITERARY NOVELTIES. 6 the division of literary news, insert either advertisements We have very often mentioned that we cannot, under or unauthenticated announcements. This will account for the non-appearance of a basketful of communications. lection of papers, illustrated by explanatory plates, relatWe hear that Colonel Trench purposes publishing a coling to the Thames Quay, with hints for some further improvements in the metropolis. 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