ORIGINAL POETRY. O! Is that Terror fled, indeed, from Earth? Ready to burst its dark Cimmerian ward,— wave, Too fierce a Spirit for clay, sunk through the "Behold our Bishops busy"-At St. James! "Nay, but Religion, still, is ", Quite the the same character as that of Père la Chaise, but rage! on a much more magnificent scale. This, at "Is not Morale"-The foible of the Age? the same time that it will supersede the ne"Are not our English Ladies most"-Demure? cessity for burying the dead within the me"Who is their pet at parties ?”—Simon Pure. tropolis, will add considerably to the archiWithin her monstrous womb? at Heaven's" When did so many Gifted Brethren" tectural improvements of the north side of this accord, Whine? [fine? great city. "When were so many Bibles"-Bound so We have been favoured with a view of all the "Has not almost each field a Church"-And drawings and plans explanatory of the genetub? [hubbub? ral scheme. It is intended to occupy a site of Did e'er new Preachers"-Make so much 150 acres, about Primrose Hill, to be divided "Swarms not the Land with Sermons"-And into three regions of tombs. The inner region, with Tracts? of 42 acres, to be adorned with several temples, exact copies, and of the same dimensions, of the most celebrated ancient Greek and Roman structures, intended for mausoleums, and to contain monumental memorials of those interred within the catacombs beneath. This region, to be surrounded by a double cloister, opening on the two outward sides to the inner and outer region. The second region to be appropriated to sepulture, and the site to be disposed of in single or family catacombs, and to be adorned with monuments, which will afford a rich and varied display of the architectural and sculptural taste of the British artists. These two regions to be planted and laid out in the modern style of ornamental gardening. The third region to be appropriated to the purposes of general sepulture, upon a plan that will secure the salubrity of the spot, and relieve the respective parishes from the danger and inconvenience of burying in churchyards.* The whole will provide dry and commodious sepulture for all classes, and secure the sanctuary of the grave from violation. And the Donors' wreath Names! [I own! Madly resuming, crowned himself as DEATH?" Missions dispersed That should disperse, Whether to Heaven, or his skull-structured" And the vile Slave-Trade driven no more"throne, In Blacks alone! Or to Cerberean slumber, he is gone! Find'st thou not, that beef-witted Britons are Prithee forgive this Hotspur mood of mine, SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. Proposed Grand National Cemetery. THE best efforts of scientific ingenuity and public spirit appear to be now in full operation for the architectural improvement of the British metropolis. This is as it should be. The metropolis of Scotland has long been designated "the Modern Athens ;" and justly has it ob- It is not possible, in this brief sketch, to tained that high distinction, from the classic notice all the advantages proposed by the structures which adorn that intellectual city. scheme; and we can only add, that the plan, Englishmen, it may be presumed, cannot generally, abounds in architectural grandeur behold with indifference the architectural im-and taste. It is proposed to accomplish the provements which have lately been made in project by raising a fund of 400,000l. in London and Westminster. Every thing tend-16,000 shares, at 25. each; and to form a ing to augment the splendour of the metropolis society for its management, under the direcof that kingdom on which all nations look with tion of a certain number of noblemen, who are veneration and respect, would, it should seem, to appoint governors, trustees, treasurers, &c. be regarded by its inhabitants with feelings From the statistical arrangements of the probecoming the occasion; yet such a considera- (jectors, it appears that they expect a vast retion has not, until of late, been cherished but venue to accrue from the disposal of the cataby the enlightened few; the far greater part combs, and to produce a large and constantly of its vast population having bestowed scarcely increasing interest to the subscribers. a thought upon the subject. The drawings of the general effect of the This must appear the more strange, when it site, the elevations, ground plans of temples, is considered, that the corporate bodies, sup- &c. which are very numerous, admirably exeported by the public spirit of the inhabitants of cuted, and sufficiently explanatory, will, it so many provincial cities and great towns, in appears, be shortly submitted to the public.† various parts of the kingdom, particularly in The whole is designed by Mr. Goodwin, arthe northern districts, have manifested so en-chitect of several of the national churches and lightened a spirit for architectural improve- other public structures. ment. The superb buildings erected at Liver- It remains to be ascertained, whether the pool, Manchester, Bristol, and other places, do honour to the taste of their inhabitants; whilst, in the metropolis, very few public works have been produced, whether under the auspices of [race! the state, or the direction of the corporation, that are commensurate with the wealth, or worthy of the taste of the British capital. "Why, therefore, bend no contrite necks, When for the brood of crimes our Nation bred Heaven's scourge hung, blood-bedropt, above its head ?" Wherefore, indeed, not bend? A stiff-necked heads of the church, the parochial clergy, and the public feelings or prejudices, are to be enlisted on behalf of this speculation, which has many good points to recommend it, and many obstacles to surmount; for all which, however, Mr. Goodwin has, as far as we could ascertain by inquiry, ingenious explanations and answers DRAMA. KING'S THEATRE. Roused at length from that apathy which so to offer. long continued a stigma upon the metropolitan taste, we now hear of newly projected spacious streets and squares, new markets, and splendid plans of structures for scientific institutions; MERCANDANTE's chef-d'œuvre, Elisa e Clauall of which, their utility once admitted, readily dio, has been the novelty of the week. On obtain ample support, and vigorously proceed towards completion. Amongst the most prominent ingenious schemes of the day, we have to notice one, which, for architectural splendour, surpasses aught we have yet seen or heard of. It is a scheme for a National Cemetery, somewhat of The necessity for burying annually upwards of 30,000 bodies in the churchyards of the metropolis cannot inhabitants, particularly in closely-built and very pobut be fraught with danger and inconvenience to the pulous districts. enabled to embellish our columns with a wood engraving, Next week, or the week following, we trust to be illustrative of this extraordinary undertaking VARIETIES. Saturday, the first night of its representation, the house was crowded; and on Tuesday it was more fashionably attended than we have before seen it this season. receipts of the different Paris theatres during Paris Theatres.-The following were the the month of February :— Comic Opera.. Théâtre de Madame .... Variétés Théâtre Français. Ambigu Comique 78,908 fr. 74,899 47,344 40,051 35,873 34,612 33,860 30,815 30,083 24,733 21,703 21,287 16,777 Marseilles Lazaretto, has made a number of experiments, from which he concludes that the Coffee. It appears from some parlia-vaccine eruption had no other origin than the Some eight years since, this opera had a country has increased considerably during the of man to the udder of a cow, and its consementary returns, that the use of coffee in this accidental transmission of the variolous virus considerable run at Milan; Belloc, Schira, last few years. A still more striking increase quent mitigation. Degrecis, Lablache, Donzelli, and other artists is manifested in the Netherlands. The quan- covery will diminish the number of the oppoHe thinks that this disof eminence, contributed much to its success; tity of coffee consumed there annually is nents of vaccination; as it will shew that the and though the maestro has taken many ideas 29,500,000lbs., of which seventeen millions are vaccine virus does not proceed from any impure from the Cenerentola of Rossini, and borrowed used in the southern provinces. largely, particularly in the buffo parts, from sumption averages above 5lbs. a-head. The con- and disgusting animal malady, but is simply a the Matrimonio Segreto of Cimarosa, yet, we mild and local small-pox. think, were the characters of the piece more fifty daily newspapers in the United States, Newspapers in America.-There are now equally cast, the opera would be better relished two-thirds of which are supposed to be yielding by a London audience. Neither Castelli nor fair profits. Specchi can afford the support necessarily required to give effect to some of the really pretty ago in the papers, that a person had arrived from The Cow-tree. It was stated a short while concerted pieces in this opera. Of the entire Colombia, bringing with him some specimens distribution of the parts, there are only three of this curious tree. who can do justice to the author; and the American paper, that a bottle of the juice, and We now find, by an whole weight of the performance falls on Blasis, a piece of the bark, have been received at the Donzelli, and Santini; - Castelli, Specchi, Harvard University from Mr. Litchfield, the D'Angeli, Devile, and Ambrogi, should indis-American consul at Puerto Cabello. This milk putably take their leave of the London boards. was taken from a tree about seven feet in cirAmbrogi might be tolerated, were he any thing cumference, and one hundred and forty feet in of a musician; but he is a wretched timist, height. It is white, and bears a close resemand, whether in solos or concerted pieces, is blance to cow's milk, or rather cream. By always astray with the orchestra. The acting and singing (we are emphatic drying it is changed into wax, which burns exposure to the air it becomes brown, and by on the former) of Blasis saved the piece. duet with Santini, in the second act, we con- taste of the milk are like those of our sour Her with a pure and strong light. The odour and sider (and we are convinced the musical world | cream. will support us in our opinion) to have been one described the cow-tree; the milk flows from Humboldt and other travellers have of the best morceaux heard within the walls of incisions made in the trunk. The natives and Artesian Wells.-M. Raphael Garrette, a the King's Theatre for many a day. The solo negroes go to the trees in the morning and merchant of Madrid, has proposed to the Spaprego per me—ma i figli," was fill vessels; some drink the milk under the nish government to form a company to estadelivered by Blasis with a touching pathos tree, and others carry it to their children.blish Artesian wells for the irrigation of the that called down the plaudits of the whole The trees near the road are full of incisions country, and the supply of water to the towns. house, the duet was unanimously encored on made by travellers, who appease their hunger According to his statement, few of the towns in both nights. We were glad to perceive on and thirst with the milk. Tuesday that Santini had washed his face; Spain, including Madrid, have a supply of for on Saturday evening no coal-porter's was really necessary. more than two-thirds of the quantity of water more besmeared. Would that we could congratulate him upon his change of attire! An Italian count should not assume the garb, or rather the livery, of a London lord mayor's alluding to the extraordinary severity of the Vesuvius.-Private accounts from Naples, late winter in that part of Italy, mention, that Corn in France. It is stated in a recent Mount Vesuvius was covered with snow for French work on the comparative quantity of ten days, -a most unusual occurrence, and corn produced in France and in this country, that during the whole of the period, the column that by dividing France into three portions, of smoke from its crater, which usually serves each a little larger than England and Wales, the Neapolitans as a weathercock, had entirely it will be found that one of these portions ON Wednesday, the sublime oratorio of the heard from the mountain. The Barrache del quantity, and the other a third more. ceased to issue; while not an explosion was produces less by one half, the second an equal Messiah supplied the true lovers of sacred Carmine and the Convent of Sta. Theresa music with a sterling treat, which was enhanced were both struck with lightning about the same by the circumstance of the whole being pro- time; but the electric fluid appears to have duced by native talent. Miss Paton (who is been so weakened, that no damage was done in certainly in finer voice than ever) and Phillips either case. were most effective; and Miss Bruce, Messrs. Atkinson, Bennett, Goulden, J. O. Atkins, among archæologists with respect to the exact Quentovic.- Much doubt has long prevailed and J. Smith, ably supported them. On the position of the ancient port of Quentovicus, or preceding Friday, Miss Edgard, a pupil of Quentovic; which was sacked and destroyed M. Sola's, made a favourable début, though by the Normans, in the year 822 or 824. evidently under the dominion of excessive ap- The result of inquiries into the subject, comprehension. She has, nevertheless, a fine con- municated to the French Academy by M. tralto, and runs the gamut well; so that an air from La Donna del Lago gave us a very favourable opinion of her capabilities. Boacher, of Abbeville, seems to prove that it AMONG Our Lenten entertainments we ought to notice Lectures on Astronomy at Willis's Rivers. In order, if possible, to anticipate Rooms, on Wednesday and Friday evenings, by and be prepared for the evils which frequently the intelligent correspondent of our Gazette, arise from the Neva's overflowing its banks, Mr. Adams, whose weekly meteorological re- Colonel Raucourt, a Russian officer, has been ports have been long contributed to our sci- making a number of curious experiments with entific columns. His apparatus is most im-two instruments of his invention; the one posing and splendid; including a zodiac fifty called a hydrotachymeter, by which he ascerfeet in circumference, the mundane system tains the swiftness of the current of a river,explained by transparent machinery, and a the other a hydrosynometer, by which he ascermagnificent vertical orrery. Nor are the lec-tains the pressure of water at different depths. turer's able explanations less worthy of public The result of these experiments has been compatronage: such lessons can never be forgotten municated to the Académie des Sciences. by young or old. Vaccination.-M. Robert, a physician at the des Sciences Agricoles quotes from the Gaceta Atmospheric Phenomenon. The Bulletin de Boyona a curious account of the destruction of the vines at Villanueva del Campo, in Spain, in September last, and of a strange atmospheric of September, at half-past four o'clock in the phenomenon which preceded it. On the 20th afternoon, before which time the atmosphere was perfectly serene, the sun was suddenly obscured by a white cloud, and in a short time afterwards there were perceived round the sun two concentric circles, exhibiting all the colours of the rainbow. At the end of six minutes they disappeared; and in the evening a cold came on as severe as is usually felt in January. The vines were frozen, and the leaves and stems had the appearance of having been burnt. To keep Cabbages fresh. When the cabbages are cut, leave about two or three inches of the stalk, the pith of which is to be hollowed out, taking care not to cut or bruise the rind; tie the cabbages up by their stalks, and then fill the hollow with water. By repeating this daily, they may be kept for several months.-Bulletin Universel. Literal Despatch from the late George Canning to Sir IN matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch WANTED, in a long-established Finishing MAJOR-GENERAL STEWART, late LITERARY NOVELTIES. 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