ess.

a

one night to clime vp to the top of the to be cheerless in a country which boasts of
steeple, and tooke it downe: with the which, benevolent British feelings.
and a great summe of money which he had
got together by begging in his life time, he
builded a gate on the north side of the city,
which to this day is called Cripplegate."

SIGHTS OF BOOKS.

Poems on Various Subjects. By John Taylor,
Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. London, Payne and
Foss; Longman and Co.; J. Richardson;
J. Murray.

Treatise on the Disposition and Duties of Outposts: abridged from the German of Baron Reichlin Von Meldegg, &c. &c. By C. W. Short, Lieutenant and Captain Coldstream Guards. 8vo. pp. 82. London, Budd and Calkin.

Early Prose Romances. Edited by W. J. Thoms. No. IV. Robin Hood, from a MS. in the British Museum. London, Pickering.

by

arrest men, stood quiuering and quaking in a corner of the street to watch for Thomas Doue, and hauing long waited, at length he espied him; whereupon he prepared his mace ready, and with a pale countenance proceeded to his office; at what time comming behind the man, suddenly with his mace he knockt him on the pate, saying, I arrest you, giuing him such a blow, that he fell him to the ground. The catchpole thinking he had killed the man, he Or a treatise like this, what can we say? Our left his mace behind him and ranne away; the posts are literary not military outposts; and creditor he ran after him, calling and crying however well acquainted we may be with points, that he should turne again: but the Fleming and lines, and files, and sections, and columns, would not by any meanes turne backe, but got Few writers have contributed more to the and being attacked, by enemies, in the former him quite out of the city, and tooke sanctuary stock of harmless public amusement than the position, we confess that, in the latter, we hardly at Westminster. Doue being come to himselfe, author of these two volumes, during a long life, know the difference between a vidette and a arose and went to his inn, no man hindering in which he has mixed much with all classes of sentry, a patrole and a picquet, taking up your his passage, being not a little glad he so escaped society, from the statesman and peer, to the ground and measuring your length upon it! We the danger. Yet neuerthelesse, at his next humble votaries of literature and the stage. may, however, safely state that some of our most coming to London, another catchpole met with From a variety of circumstances connected distinguished officers speak highly of this pubhim, and arrested him in the king's name." lication, as explaining a very important branch with the press and the drama, being conThomas of Reading is murdered at Colebroke, tinually, as it were, before the public, there of tactics; and that it seems to us closely to resemble Colonel Fitzclarence's much approved (called so from his name) by his host and host- are not many men in London better known There is also a melancholy romance of upon what is called the town than Mr. Taylor-ably noticed in the Literary Gazette last year. manual on the same subject, which was favourduke's daughter in this little volume; but we whom not to know, indeed, was to argue onecannot enter upon the disasters of the faire self unknown. It is not always, however, that Margaret and her lover, whose eyes were put even talent and constant industry can secure out by the king's command. There is a simple the possessor of the former, and the applicant pathos in this catastrophe, however, which of the latter, from the shafts of ill fortune; and A CONTINUATION (and a necessary link in merits a place. "And now (exclaims the vicit is too generally understood to render it in- the chain) of a work noticed more at large in tim) let me take my leaue of thy beauty, for delicate here to mention, that, at an advanced a preceding page. It is the prose history neuer must I behold thy face: notwithstand-period of life, the author has suffered, from un-an Antiquary," (published 1678), with a neat ing I account my eyes well lost, in that I doe foreseen and unavoidable causes, so severely in and pleasing introduction by the editor: and forgoe them for so peerless a paragon. Now his circumstances, as to render this publication who is there of young, middle-aged, or old, faire heauens farewell, the sunne, moone, and of his productions at once a proof of his literary who will not yet take delight in reading the starres, shall I in this world neuer behold desert, and an expedient on the success of adventures of the bold and romantic outlaw? againe, and farewell also the fruitfull earth: which much of his future comfort must depend. well may I feele thee, but those poore windowes A flattering list of subscribers shews how geneof my body are now denyed to view thee any rally the appeal has been felt; but we trust more: and though the world hath euer bin my there are yet many whom it may not have foe, yet will I bid thee farewell too, and fare- reached, and who will be eager to contribute well all my friends, whiles I live here in this their aid to the good work in hand. But it is world, I must suppose to sleepe, and wake far from our intention to enforce the claim of when I come in heauen, where I hope to see Mr. Taylor to the consideration of the friends you all againe. Yet, had it pleased the king, I of literature as if we were pleading in formâ had rather haue lost my life then my eyes. pauperis. It is not his losses and consequent Life, why, what is it but a flowre, a bubble in situation alone which entitle him to their sucthe water, a spanne long, and full of miserie: cour and protection: though the major part of of such small account is life, that euery soldier these poems have been composed on the spur will sell it for six pence. And trust me, I doe of the moment, and addressed to temporary now detest life, worse than a goat doth hate and local subjects, there are a great number of basill. With that the doctor prepared his in- them which merit a lasting reputation, not strument, and being ready to set to the duke's only from their aptitude, but from their hueyes, he said, O stay master doctor, till I haue mour, ability, and spirit. The first volume conueyed my loue's countenance downe into contains "The Stage," a piece of considerable my heart: Come hither, my sweet, and let me length; and above seventy prologues, epigiue thee my last kisse, while mine eyes may logues, and addresses, spoken on various occadirect me to thy cherry lips. Then imbracing sions, chiefly at our national theatres. Sonnets; her in his armes, he said, O that I might giue thee a kisse of xx yeeres long, and to satisfie my greedy eyes with thy sight: yet it doth somewhat content me, because thou art present at my punishment, that I may hold thee by the hand, to comfort my heart, at the sudden pricke of my eye. This being said, the doctor performed his duty, and so put out the christall sight."

Enchiridion Roma; or Manual of detached Remarks on the Buildings, Pictures, Statues, Inscriptions, &c. of Ancient and Modern Rome. By J. Weston, F.R.S. S.A. 12mo. pp. 235. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. THOUGH published eight years ago, it was only within these few days that this useful little volume made its way to our laden table : we, therefore, not to lose more time, take the earliest opportunity of stating that it is full of intelligence respecting the antiquities of Rome. The author, besides visiting that city, has consulted the best authorities, and produced a work both of entertainment and reference.

The Mechanic's Magazine, Vol. VII. London, 1827, Knight and Lacey: Dublin, Westley and Tyrrell.

WITH a portrait of the King for a frontispiece. It is really remarkable to see what a quantity of useful information and productive inquiry is odes delivered on the anniversaries of the Pitt contained in this publication, addressed to the club; and miscellaneous effusions, mostly ad- mechanical and working classes, and issued at dressed to persons with whose names the public the imperceptible charge of threepence per week. are familiar, fill the remainder. The second There are also a multitude of cuts of machinery, volume is also miscellaneous, but embraces a new inventions, philosophical instruments, &c greater number of comic touches; and among Upon the whole, the periodicals of this, not these the capital tale of Monsieur Tonson takes low because low-priced, kind do great credit to a foremost rank. But we ought to add, that their editors, and well merit public encouragethe stories of Frank Hayman, of Parsons the ment. Some of them, such as that before us, But we have fairly transgressed bounds with Actor and the Lion, and others of the same shed the lights of science beneficially amongst this singular little volume, and must now con- kind, are not unworthy of being placed side by the generality of the people; others, such as clude with one brief notice of what the clothiers' side with our favourite Tonson. Altogether, the Mirror, by judicious selections, spread wives saw in London. there is abundance of variety, great facility in rational amusement, and a taste for literature "They proceeded, and came to S. Paul's versification, and a very diversified scope of and intelligence throughout the country; and church, whose steeple was so hie, that it talents, displayed in this publication,-sufficient there are, we believe, though we do not meet seemed to pierce the clowdes, on the top where-to recommend it to warm patronage on account with them, a number of similar performances of of was a great and mighty weather-cocke, of of its intrinsic qualities, were it not still more considerable value in contributing to the comcleane siluer, the which notwithstanding strongly recommended to the liberal and good mon cause of instruction, published not only seemed as small as a sparrow to men's eyes, by the facts to which we have (as gently as in London, but in most of the larger cities in it stood so exceeding high, the which goodly possible) alluded. We abstain from extracts, the kingdom. All these must do good, can. weathercocke was afterwards stolne away, and leave the work to speak for one who has ducted as they are with good sense and good by a cunning cripple, who found meanes seen better days, and whose old age ought not feeling,

ARTS AND SCIENCES.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

mate.

References to the Engraving.

A Litter Yard,

F Regent's Canal.

G Public Drive round the Regent's Park.

H Wild Aviary.

I Paddock for Animals, Birds, &c.

heat of the season, which seems to have restored | tion. This we shall copy for our readers. It him to the vigour imparted by his native cli- may be a subject of interest to look back to the We also noticed a black parrot, from infant state of this establishment, at a future ALTHOUGH the great attractions of the So- Madagascar, which we are informed is the day, when it shall have attained that extent ciety, the weekly meetings and lectures, have" grand vasa" of M. Le Vaillant; a bird of and importance, suited to the scientific views terminated with the season, we have not failed extraordinary rarity, not having been seen in of the nation that supports it, which is now to call occasionally in Bruton Street, and in- Europe since the species was described and sanguinely, and with good grounds, anticispect the progress of the museum. In each figured by that naturalist, from a specimen in pated. succeeding visit we have been highly gratified, the collection of M. Raye of Amsterdam. Its important additions having been made every light and active movements are very different day to the collection, from the liberality of from those of the parrot's in general. the members and other friends to the Society. The works in the Regent's Park are also Many of the Sumatran animals, in particular, advancing rapidly. Several aviaries, enclosures, which had been presented by the late Sir T. S. ponds, &c. have been completed, and various Raffles, some of them of the rarest description, animals already occupy them. We have been have been set up and exhibited. The whole particularly attracted by a llama, which occucollection indeed already forms an extensive, pies a rustic hut and enclosure, and is the and from the manner in which it is arranged, finest specimen we have ever had an opportu a most instructive zoological series. A greater nity of seeing of that animal. He was presented LECTURES ON BATHING.-A Dublin Jourpart of the living animals have been removed to the Society by the Duke of Bedford. It has to the Regent's Park. A few, however, of the been stated, that the Council will open the nal, speaking of Sir Arthur Clarke's publicamore delicate and familiar still remain in Bru-gardens, under certain restrictions, to the pub-tions on bathing for the cure of cutaneous Lon Street. Among these we recognised our lic, during the present month. We have been diseases, states, that he has just concluded his old friend the toucan, who is in brilliant plu- favoured with a lithographic sketch of the plan summer course of lectures on what may be Image and exuberant spirits, rejoicing in the for these gardens which is at present in execu-termed scientific bathing; and adds,

K Garden Seats.

L Elevation of the Menagerie under the Terrace at D.

M Sunk open Yards for the Beasts.

N Pens for the Beasts.

O Passage.

P Concealed Area for the use of the Keepers.

Q Aviaries at B and E.

R Keeper's Lodge at C.

66 we can

enough.

Twenty Select Views of (the) Roman Antiqui-
ties; from Original Drawings made on the
spot, by G. Wightwick, Architect; with de-
scriptive Letter-press. Drawn on Stone by
T. M. Baynes.

THIS design is to be completed in four parts,
each containing five views. The present has
the Pantheon, Nerva's Temple, the Temple of
Pallus, the Forum, and the Arch of Janus.
The plates are executed in a very clear style.
The preface is in so-so taste,

not avoid noticing the simplicity of a vapour this publication: for us, it is hardly distinct
bathing apparatus, which he constructed for
restoring animal heat in cases of suspended
animation from drowning, as well as for the
purposes of bathing. The facility and expedi
tion with which this apparatus may be applied
is almost incredible. It needs but the flame of
a candle to produce any necessary degree of
heat that may be required, and is so portable
that it may be carried any distance by a single
person, without the least inconvenience. A
chamber is formed by hoops, or arches, over
which a covering of leather is to be drawn. In
this the patient is placed, either lying in a bed,
reclining on a couch, or sitting on a chair.
By means of a number of tubes, which fit one Greek Marine Views. Arranged by W. J.
within another, and which can be carried in
Huggins, and engraved by E. Duncan.
the pocket, a small stove with a flue is formed, OUR fasciculus has three prints; two of them
one end being introduced into the chamber, a afford good ideas of the Greek vessels employed
medicated fluid is then put into a small caul-in the present contest for emancipation from
dron in the bottom of the stove, and ignited by the Turkish yoke. The last is of Patras. The
the flame of a candle. The apparatus is then whole are sketched by an officer, who, we are
complete, and the process may be carried on assured, has enjoyed the best opportunities, as
for any length of time. In this hot-air bath, he certainly possesses abilities, to be correct.
the vapour of sulphur, of camphor, of iodine,
and other gazeous substances, were introduced,
and their operations on the body explained."
By these processes, it is affirmed that great
cures have been performed,

MR. HOBDAY'S GALLERY-In his judi. cious plan for promoting the interests of British artists, Mr. Hobday has this week opened a new room, with an exhibition of pictures painted by Mr. Reinagle, R.A. It is a various and pleasing sight, and does credit to our native arts. At a late and rather hurried inspection, we were principally struck with No. 4. a View of Millbank; No. 5. Monkeys (very like old monks) in a Monastery; and No. 7. a small, beautiful Pynnaker-looking landscape. But the pieces, altogether, display much diversity of style, and may severally be likened to the works of distinguished ancient artists.

Passions of the Horse. By H. B. Chalon.
Plate VI. Terror. London, J. Dickinson;
Ackermann, &c.

HAS Mr. Chalon kept his talents back for his
sixth plate? Unless we had seen such merit in
its precursors we should have thought so, from
the admirable character of the three horses in
this design. It is so seldom that we have seen
this animal terrified, that we cannot vouch for
the entire truth of the treble illustration; but
it is so consistent with what we have witnessed,
and at the same time so artist-like and poetical,
that we have no hesitation in pronouncing it
an admirable production.

Select Views in Greece. By H. W. Williams,
Edinburgh. No. IX. London, Longman and
Co.; Edinburgh, Black.

THE mountains of Locri Ozolæ mingling
with the sky, and a rich and picturesque
foreground; Mount Olympus, the very
heart of mythological and classical recollec
tions; -a Fountain at Vostizza, of remark.
able architecture;-Mount Helicon," in am-
brosis oris;"-and Mount Citharon, from the
tombs of Platea-are the subjects of this most
interesting continuation of Mr. Williams's ad-
mirable work, than which nothing can be
better conceived, or more perfectly finished.
As we cannot invent new terms of praise, we
shall only repeat, that it is fully equal to the
preceding parts, and a treasure alike to the
lovers of polite literature and elegant art.

saw him at night-on his bed he lay dying,
His lips were fast changing from vermil to
blue;

And his children around him were bitterly
crying,

As he kiss'd them, and blest them, and bade

them adieu.

Eidodendron Views of the general Character
and Appearance of Trees, Foreign and In-
digenous, as connected with Picturesque
Scenery. By. H. W. Burgess. Dickinson; I saw him again on the dawn of the morrow
Colnaghi and Co.
But nature was vanquish'd, the struggle was
o'er,

LITHOGRAPHIC views of trees, as described in the title. The general forms of the beech, the thorn, the oak, the alder, and the spruce fir, are given with spirit and effect. Young artists might avail themselves advantageously of

His soul had forsaken her partner in sorrow,
And fled to that place where distress is no

TO AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY..

O THOU! who, hid from human sight,
Hast past a long and lonely night
In silent gloom,
Aspirant to immortal fame!
What were thy race, thy deeds, thy name?
Dark as the tomb.

They loved thee well who fondly wound
Those cerements thy dead form around,
To bar decay;

And placed thee in a regal tomb,
To wait the morn of general doom-
Hid from the day.

Little they dreamed that all their care
Would but avail to place thee where
Thou'dst be the gaze

Of dwellers in a distant isle,
Unheard of when thy funeral pile
Did all amaze.

Thy tomb hath been the nameless boast
Of Egypt's desolated coast,

For ages past;

An awe-inspiring, sacred spot,
Where silence reigned, and man came not-
Lofty and vast.

High rose its head to bear thy name,
In Time's despite, to deathless fame,
A dazzling mark :

Time stalked along with haughty air,
The traveller asked, "Why stands it there?"
And all was dark.

And now, a truant from the grave,
Thou com'st, unconscious, o'er the wave,
To let us know

That men were born, and lived, and died,
In more than Babylonian pride,

Ages ago:

And, when bereft of life, were laid
In that deep, consecrated shade,

To rest with thee-
Still, as though some magician's wand
Had charmed ye to endure beyond
Mortality.

Oh! if thou canst, that thing define
For which our race yet madly pine!
Say-what is fame?

There's something tangible in thee;
But he who conquered earth and sea
Left but a name.

PEREGRINE WILTON.

BIOGRAPHY.

MR. CANNING.

DEEPLY to deplore the loss of this truly illus. trious man, is but to breathe the British air, and participate in the common feeling of human nature, Honoured in our humble sphere with a share of that condescension and regard which endeared Mr. Canning, beyond expression, to the circle of private life, we add a peculiar and individual grief, of the most poignant kind, to the vast sum of national, of universal mourning which his untimely death has caused. Never, indeed, did we witness so intense a sorrow pro duced by what might be esteemed a public cala. mity. It seems as if every one did not merely admire but love him who has been so suddenly and so unhappily removed for ever from our admiration and love. Those who have not even seen him, the remote, the hitherto almost uninterested; those who have at no time listened to his splendid eloquence, a watched with kindling enthusiasm the high bearing of his soul in the intellectual flash of his dazzling eye; those who have not met him where, the minister and the statesman forgotten,

truth in all her simplicity streamed from his | nager appears to us to have consulted the taste day the unequalled Mathews appeared as Nicandid lips,-where ingenuousness, only to be of the English public, by whom Madame Pasta cholas Trefoil, in Before Breakfast, and was compared with that of virgin innocence, marked is more highly prized than by any other people. the pink of valets. He introduced a new every word he uttered and every look he gave, The continental schools of acting, in general, comic song on country sports, which will soon -where all that could distinguish the accom- are not understood here; for the most part mellow into popularity. He also played Peter plished gentleman and scholar, where wit and they appeal not so much to universal nature as Fidget in the Boarding House; and his recepwisdom, where playful ease and profoundness of to the particular mode of expression which tion throughout shewed how high he stood in thought, where amenity towards all and friend-custom and education have imposed on parti-public favour. This, in turn, put him in fine ship for some, imparted indescribable charms cular nations, and which, therefore, cannot be spirits, and his performances went off with to that favoured society,-those, even those, truly relished by foreigners: but as Pasta has brilliant effect. Bartley's Sir William Buffer weep him with fond and unavailing regret ;- formed her style on general principles, every is as irresistible as ever. In these pieces, and what must they do, and how bitter must their look and tone are recognised even by those who Lying made Easy, Wrench, Power, and Keeley, tears be, who were conversant with all the do not comprehend her language. She is not added much to the comique of the evening. steps of his pure and patriotic career, and ad- contented with appealing to the feelings of her mitted to the inestimable enjoyment of his peculiar countrymen alone,but her ambition esteem and confidence? There is no language is satisfied with nothing less than the sympato speak the weight of affliction which oppresses thies of human beings of every part of the their hearts. As there is no eulogy which can earth, which, indeed, she commands with podo justice to the character of him whom they tent sway. lament, so do we believe and know that there was no sacrifice which they would not cheerfully have made to save him, had it been possible, for the sake of his family, the good of his country, and the welfare of millions of mankind. But the law of our existence is unalterable the greatest and the best must pass away, leaving only the memory of their genius and virtues to

"Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust." About ten minutes before four o'clock on Wednesday morning, the eighth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, the Right Honourable George

Canning, Prime Minister of England, died.

DRAMA.

KING'S THEATRE.

The visit to this country of Rossini, too, though not so productive as might have been expected, was a very laudable act of Mr. Ebers. Since Winter was here, engaged by Mr. Goold to superintend the opera, now upwards of twenty years ago, Rossini and Weber have been the only eminent dramatic composers whom we have seen.

HAYMARKET.- -Vestris could not help being ill on Tuesday night, so that an apology was made for her, and Mrs. Humby personated Justine, in the Rencontre, with an additional verse to the song of Love was once a little Boy, which she sang very well.

CHIT-CHAT.Madame Pasta is going to Dublin, accompanied by Spagnoletti, Seguin, and Madame Castelli.

Mr. Abbott is to be manager of the English Theatre in Paris. It could not be in more

efficient hands.

boasted this summer. Madame Catalani and

The experience at length attained by the present lessee will, we doubt not, lead to further im- been known to possess a more brilliant assemBerlin, they write from abroad, has never provements, especially if his activity and enterprise are supported by adequate influence. So blage of first-rate vocal talent than it has gigantic and perplexing an establishment re- Madamoiselle Sontag, far from monopolising quires the straining of every nerve, and the the public favour, have, according to these acwarmest patronage, to make it what it ought to be. Nothing, indeed, short of a perfect portions of it apart for a Damoiselle Schechner counts, been obliged to set two very handsome knowledge of the intricacies of the manage; from Vienna, and for Mademoiselle Keinement could make a concern answer, the annual expenses of which are 47,000.; the rent alone fettes from Cassel. Both these young singers being 2501. a night! A new adventurer would, miration. The former has contracted an enare held up as deserving of very high adtherefore, in all probability, make a speedy wreck of it; and in the hands of a committee,gagement for life with the court of Bavaria, the Italian Opera would, we are convinced, though, it is said, she received an offer from a Berlin theatre fof 6000 dollars per annum,share the ruinous fate of Drury Lane Theatre when conducted by noblemen and gentlemen. nearly 1000 pounds. To complete this musical The actual property is vested, at present, we congress of the sovereigns of the art, the celebelieve, in the hands of a very respectable combrated Marianna Sessi, dowager baronesse of mittee, whose chairman, Mr. Groom, is a gen-to sing at her concert a duet with Madame Natorp, has also arrived at Berlin, and intends Catalani. They are both natives of Rome.

THE performances at the Italian Opera House
will close, we believe, this evening, after a
season characterised by much energy on the
part of the management, and rewarded by
unusual encouragement on the part of the
public. This is as it should be; and we verily
believe that no instance in the history of thea-
tres can be adduced wherein unremitting exer-
tion and spirited enterprise have failed of
success. Compared with the system upon which | tleman of great intelligence. These individuals
this immense concern has been sometimes con- are, no doubt, competent to the care of the
ducted, it must be acknowledged, that the year house, to the providing an efficient lessee, and
now concluded has been remarkable, not only to the adjustment of the old claims upon the pro-
for the variety and value of the operas property:-but we advise them not to venture upon
duced, but also for the talent of the performers theatrical management, as they would avoid
brought forward. The expense of providing the perils and impositions which have attended
this entertainment for the lovers of the Italian similar ill-judged attempts; but congratulate
Opera in this country has been, as may be themselves, and those whom they represent,
imagined, very great; and it may almost be when their interests are committed to able
doubted whether the lessee, in engaging these hands.

continental stars, has not been actuated more Among the improvements which might be
by a desire to provide the best possible gratifi- made in the administration of next season, it
cation for his patrons, than by any likelihood would not be amiss, if instead of M. Bochsa,
of large profit to himself. Mr. Ebers secured who is a Frenchman, an able Italian musician
the services of perhaps the first actress and could be found to superintend the musical
singer in Europe (Madame Pasta), at a salary department. Bochsa is a good musician; but
of between two and three thousand guineas for he is not familiar with the Italian language,
twenty-three nights! besides a free benefit, the and is not very well versed in the Italian school
whole expenses of which he had to defray, of music. As a composer for the ballets, if
though the produce, to the lady, was fifteen there is no other objection to him, he may be
hundred guineas! It cannot therefore be sup-efficient.
posed that he has reaped much from this en- Altogether, the public may, in our opinion,
gagement; but as Pasta is without a rival, he
probably conceived it to be a duty to his sub-
scribers to secure her talent, even though he
should not gain by the bargain. In this, the ma-

• It is not unlikely, that when we can command more of composure than at the present moment, we may submit some recollections of this lamented patriot to our readers. The far-famed Sontag is reported to be engaged for next year.

The speculation has, however, we believe, for the most part, succeeded.

look forward to the next season, under the
same management, with every expectation of
a course of performances of a higher character
even than that which has marked the present
successful one.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.

HERE novelty succeeds novelty, and every
week adds something grateful to the public to
the entertainments of the theatre. On Tues-I

Mademoiselle Sontag, according to a Berlin the Paris stage, and remains in the Prussian newspaper, has given up her engagement for capital, with an annual salary of 12,000 dollars. Spontini's latest opera, Agnes von Hobenstanfen, composed for the marriage ceremony Maria of Saxe Weimar, is, according to one foreign writer, Rellstab, a miserable production; and according to another, H. Kuhn, one Kuhn stands so low as an author, that his opiof the most sublime works of that composer. nion seems be of little value; and we are not surprised that the majority of critics lean to the dictum of Rellstab on this point.

of Prince Carl of Prussia with the Princess

VARIETIES.

Egypt.-M. Drovetty, late Consul-General of France at Alexandria, has arrived in Europe, and was recently performing quarantine at Toulon. It is supposed that he will not return to Egypt. His collection is very rich.

Camelopard. An animal of this species, a present from the Pasha of Egypt to the King, has, we hear, arrived in the river. It will, it is said, be exhibited in London, previous to its being sent to Windsor, or other ulterior destination. We should think it would find its way to the Zoological Establishment in the Regent's Park.

Supposed Volcano.-A Havre journal, of the

20th ult. says "Captain Lesauvage, of the ship La-bonne-Emma, which arrived in this port yesterday from Senegal, reports, that on the 29th of June, being then twenty leagues east of the Azores, he passed over a space of three leagues covered with volcanic ashes, sugar-canes, straw, and fragments of wood. He conceives that they proceeded from the eruption of some volcano."

An Austrian nobleman, favourably known as a writer on musical subjects, has produced the life of the celebrated Anton Salieri, Maestro di Capella, &c. &c.; on which the Leipzig Musical Gazette bestows great praise.

traordinary drought has prevailed in the north. Roman Antiquities.- The French Journal
It is so great in many of the provinces of the the Narrateur de la Meuse states, that suc-
Baltic, and is accompanied with so much heat, cessful excavations are making on a site be-
that apprehensions are entertained that the tween Virtun and St. Mard in that province,
corn will dry before it comes to maturity. where many Roman antiquities have hereto-
French Travellers.-Messrs. Taillefer and fore been turned up by the labours of agricul
Peyronneau, who are about to set out for ture. The remains of habitations, tombs, im-
South America, attended the last meeting of plements of various kinds, domestic utensils,
the Société de Géographie, on the 6th ult., at money, pieces of armour, fragments of vases,
Paris, and announced their intention to visit statues, rings, engraved stones, &c. &c. have
Cumana, the Caraccas, Lake of Maracaibo, been found.
Santa Fé, and Popayan; to follow the course
of the River Magdalena, from its origin to its
mouth; see Carthagena, Porto-Bello, and Pa-
The Leipzig Literary Gazette of last month, under the
nama, whence they would embark for Guaya-head of St. Petersburg, again mentions various princely
After this they purpose to cross the donations and honours which the emperor had recently
Andes, and descend the Oronoko to the sea. Isaac Jacob Schmidt, the erudite author of so many dis-
bestowed upon men of learning resident in his dominions.
It was announced, at the same meeting, that tinguished works, has received from his majesty 10,000
M. de Gamba, the Consul-general of France at roubles for editing Ssanang Ssatsan's History of the Esst
Tiflis, had arrived in Mingrelia, after ten days'
original, with a German translation, accompanied by an
dangerous navigation of the Black Sea.
ample commentary.

St. James's Park. The improvements in St. James's Park, of which we gave a descrip-quil. tion several months ago, are now being rapidly carried into effect. Before the end of the year it will present entirely a new scene.

The London University. This fine building is rising with great celerity, and has already a very grand and imposing appearance. Within a few months, apparently, it will be roofed in. The Thames Tunnel. The extraordinary exertions of Mr. Brunel on this work seem, at length, to have surmounted its greatest difficulties. Most of the intrusive materials have been cleared out, and the curious have it again in their power to inspect the excavation.

The Ionian Islands.-The system of education which was so laudably introduced into the Ionian Islands by the liberal efforts of Lord Guildford, has been productive of the following results:No. of Pupils. 239 40

Names of the Islands.
Corfu............

Рахо
Zante

Cephalonica..
Ithaca
Santa Maura
Cerigo

Inhabit-
ants.

No. of
Schools.

48,737

3

3,970

1

40,063

13

363

49,857

2

157

Belzoni.-The Milan Gazette speaks of a fete which took place at Padua last month in honour of Belzoni; on the occasion of consecrating, in the presence of the magistrates and, a large concourse of the inhabitants, a medallion designed to transmit to posterity the feaWhile to the inferior classes the blessings of tures and the memory of that celebrated but unfortunate traveller. One of the public education are thus dispensed, colleges have authorities pronounced a speech, in which he been established for the young nobility, who related the adventures of this illustrious Pa- were absolutely destitute of all knowledge! duan, his transmission to England of the colos- The Greek Patois, which has hitherto been sal bust of Memnon, his discovery of the tomb spoken in the Ionian Islands, is gradually of Psammeticus, his opening of the second py-changing into the more elegant and copious language of continental Greece. A library has also been established by Lord Guildford. Although it has existed but two years, it contains above 30,000 volumes of select authors; most of them contributed by the noble lord.

Religion. The following estimate appears
in a work (said to be compiled from official
documents) which has been recently published
in France, on the subject of the religious per-
suasions of the population of Europe :-
England and Wales

Scotland

ramid, his excavations at Berenice. The ora-
tor also dwelt on Belzoni's private virtues and
his love for his native town (on which he be-
stowed a precious monument of antiquity);
and described the sad event of his death, at the
very moment at which he seemed to be on the
point of accomplishing one of the objects most
interesting to civilization. This speech was
frequently interrupted by the loudest plaudits.
University of Edinburgh.-On Wednesday
the Senatus Academicus of the University of
Edinburgh conferred the degree of Doctor in
Medicine on one hundred and sixty gentlemen,
after having gone through the appointed ex- Ireland
aminations, and publicly defended their in-
augural dissertations. This is by far the
greatest number that ever graduated in any Spain.....
one year at this University. Of these there Portugal
were fifty-four from Scotland, fifty-four from
England and Wales, thirty-seven from Ireland, Hungary
and fifteen from the British Colonies and
foreign countries.-Edinburgh Saturday Post.
Religion. A man of high station in Prussia,
the Privy-counsellor Beckedorf, director in the
ministry for churches and schools, &c. &c. has
been dismissed from all his offices by a royal
decree of the 11th of June, on account of his Switzerland..........................
having adopted the Catholic religion. The
Sweden and Norway
editor of the Leipzig Gazette accuses the coun-
Denmark
sellor, upon the evidence of his own works, of
having been for many years a secret adherent
to the Catholic faith; and accuses him of being
only externally Protestant, that he might the
better serve the Catholic church, and enjoy Russia in Europe
his pension the more quietly.

Sweden. Letters from Stockholm state,

Austria

6,000,000 Church of England.

-6,000,000 Dissenters.
1,500,000 Presbyterians.
500,000 Other Sects.
500,000 Church of England.

5,500,000 Catholics.

800,000 Presbyterians.
300,000 Methodists, &c.

11,660,000 Catholics.
3,173,300 Catholics.

14,000,000 Catholics.

2,000,000 Protestants.
4,200,000 Catholics.

Greek Calvinists,

3,646,000 Lutherans, &c.

Germanic Confederation.. 6,700,000 Catholics.
6,750,000 Protestants.
Low Countries
3,500,000 Catholics.
Prussia

Italy

France

....

1,500,000 Protestants.

6,000,000 Lutherans. 4,500,000 Catholics. 1,000,000 Calvinists, &c. 1,167,000 Calvinists. 580,000 Catholics. 3,550,000 Lutherans. 1,700,000 Lutherans. 20,210,000 Catholics. -30,855,428 Catholics.

LITERARY NOVELTIES.

gols. The work is to be published in the Mongolic

to appear, under the title-On the Relation of the TheoAnother important work by the same author is shortly sophicgnostic Doctrines to the Religious Systems of the East, principally of Buddism.

demy of St. Petersburg has lost through death within the The distinguished literary characters whom the Acalast three years, are stated in one of the Russian periodicals to be, Scherer (chemistry), Sewastianoff (zoology), Schubert (astronomy), Fuss (mathematics), and Sewergin (mineralogy); and as instances of royal munificence deserving of mention, it is added, that the Empe ror Nicholas has settled upon each of the four unmarried daughters of Professor Schubert an annual pension of 1000 roubles; and upon the two children of Professor Fuss an annuity of 5,600 roubles.

Mr. Butler, of Hackney, is about to publish Questions in Roman History, with Geographical Illustrations and Maps.

Dr. Gordon Smith has been re-appointed to lecture en State Medicine at the Royal Institution, and will commence proceedings in October. If we may judge from the prospectus, the course promises to be highly interesting.

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TO CORRESPONDENTS. Continuations of Arnott and Cunningham, and various other articles of interest intended for the present Number, are of necessity postponed till our next.

A correspondent states to us, that the lines signed F. Sh, and imposed upon us as original (see L. G July 28th), were printed in a novel called Calebs Suited. published by W. Lloyd, of Harley Street. We cannot be aware of such silly tricks.

Ellen Lee shall be sent to our office by Monday.

We can assure A Druggist, that in recommending the sulphate of quinine as procured at Apothecaries' Hall, we never had the most distant idea of casting any stigma 659,000 Calvinists. whatever on the druggists and medical men in London 280,000 Lutherans. It is not unlikely that the low quacks in the trade of 51,000 Jews. drugs, as in the trade of wines, or teas, or other expensive ..39,000,000tholics. Greeks, not Ca- articles, are in the practice of adulterating a preparation so high-priced as the quinine, (reckless of the diseases and deaths which may ensue); but we are equally conversa that the respectable and honourable number of druggists in town, who go to the same market with the committer of Apothecaries' Hall, both purchase and re-sell the medicine in as pure and genuine a state.--Ed