Pacini has composed a new opera (Giovanna d'Arco) for the theatre of La Scala; but the representation has hitherto been postponed, in consequence of the illness of some of the principal performers. The inhabitants of Verona have requested Madame Pasta's acceptance of a medal representing the bust of the prima donna crowned by Melpomene and Euterpe. ARTS AND SCIENCES. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. Mademoiselle Sontag and Madame Malibran | among his musicians, in order to spoil the appear to have increased. The proportion of in Tancredi the powers displayed by the lat-effect. The trick, however, was discovered, deaths in Pembrokeshire had been estimated as ter in La Gazza Ladra, in Otello, and in and as a recompense for the signor leader's in- low as 1 in 83; and in another county, the Romeo, have left a lasting impression on the genuity, the commissary-general of police in-name of which we could not catch, it had been recollections of the dilettanti. It will be no vited him to take up his abode for a few days found as high as 1 in 224; in Russia, it was easy task again to unite a similar assemblage in prison. stated as 1 in 41, but attended with many reof talent on the boards of the same theatre. markable instances of great longevity, there Mademoiselle Sontag is engaged for a number having died in 1828, 895 persons between the of years at the theatre at Berlin; Madame ages of 100 and 120, and 53 between 120 and Malibran is about to visit England; Madame 160. The relative mortality in summer and Pisaroni retires from the stage; and Mademoiwinter was stated to be about as 57 to 72; and selle Heinefetter quits us for Italy. Madame the difference in the number of deaths in large Mérie Lalande and Lablache are engaged, it is towns and the country nearly as 2 to 1. The said, for October next. Meanwhile, definitive well-ascertained difference in the duration of arrangements have been made for the reprelife among males and females was also pointed sentation of a series of German operas at this At Dresden, a new opera of Wolfram is out, that of the females being the greatest at theatre. These performances, which are limit- much talked of: the title is said to be the all ages; and it was shewn that as a compen ed to twenty-four, will commence on the 13th Bergmanch, or Monk of the Mountain. sation for the greater mortality of males, the of April, and close on the 5th of June. An Mademoiselle Sontag arrived at Berlin on number born to the number of females was opera will be performed every Tuesday, Thurs- the 9th of March, and was expected to make very nearly as 20 to 19. day, and Saturday, during the above period. her first public appearance in the course of the The orchestra will be chiefly composed of the week, either in the opera of Otello, or of Don musicians belonging to the Italian theatre, as- Juan. On her way through Göttingen she sisted by a certain number of German artists. gave a concert, which was attended by up- SIR HENRY HALFORD, Bart., in the chair. Particular attention will be paid to the cho-wards of 1200 auditors. At the conclusion of The meeting of this evening was well and ruses, which form a prominent feature of the the entertainment the university students un-numerously attended. Dr. Francis Hawkins German opera. The public will, therefore, harnessed the horses from her carriage, which read a letter from Sir Robert Ker Porter, shortly have an opportunity of judging of the they drew in triumph to her hotel. addressed to the President of the College, on chefs-d'œuvre of the best German masters. the subject of a medicinal plant growing wild Among the compositions selected for representain South America, and called the guaco; retion are Spohr's Faust, the Oberon of Weber, specting the virtues attributed to which plant, the Bibiana by Pixis, the Vampire, and a new Sir Robert had been at great pains to collect opera of Marchner, which has obtained con- ON the different methods of constructing tables some facts and interesting information. It siderable success in Germany. of lives from which the values of annuities and appears that there are native Indians and In point of bisarrerie, an author of the ro-reversions might be computed. The lecturer negroes in some parts of South America, who mantic school could scarcely have chosen a more began by explaining the method of forming possess a wonderful power of handling the appropriate subject for dramatic representation such tables from parochial registers: from most venemous serpents with impunity. It than the career of Christina, queen of Sweden, which it appeared, that the lives embraced by has been ascertained that they owe their pro—a queen who abdicated the throne of her an- tables so formed are not selected, but are taken tection to the internal use and external apcestors to taste the charms of personal liberty, promiscuously at their births; and that the plication of the leaves and expressed juice of or rather to riot in the enjoyment of unbridled number living at every age, according to these the guaco. The same means are also found eflicentiousness. In the course of the drama, tables, must consist of both sick and healthy fectual for the cure of the bites of serpents and which has been represented at the Odéon thea-persons. The lecturer argued, that such tables other poisonous reptiles. It is further stated, tre under the denomination of a trilogie, the were therefore unfit to be used in computing that the use of this plant is the best preservative spectators are initiated into the secret of the the values of annuities on healthy lives. Hence from, and the only cure for, that most dreadful queen's amours with Monaldelchi, and the Ita- it becomes an important object to construct of diseases, hydrophobia. The plant has relian's tragical end. In short, M. Dumas seems other and more correct tables for this purpose; ceived its name from the manner in which its to have undertaken the task of exhibiting, and as the lives of the annuitants themselves properties were discovered. A bird of the through a sort of magic lantern, all the events appeared to afford the most certain data for kite kind, a great destroyer of serpents, had of Christina's life. At Paris we see her in the estimating the average duration of such lives, been observed to attack them always with midst of wits and favourites, and keeping up a on the supposition that the average state of impunity, after feeding on this plant;—the secret intelligence with Sweden, in the hope of health of this class of persons, at the time of bird is called the serpent-falcon, or guaco, recovering the crown which she formerly aban- their becoming annuitants, would not differ from the monotonous cry which it utters; and doned for the sake of freedom. At Rome she much in different individuals, it was stated that the plant has been named after the bird. It is finishes her career surrounded by cardinals, several tables of such lives had been constructed a creeper plant, corymbiferous, growing in the monks, grand seigneurs, and gallants. The within the last few years. hotter regions of the New World, along the fourth and fifth acts of this drama were loudly sides of rivulets, and in well-shaded spots. applauded; but a species of epilogue, with which Many other virtues are attributed to it; as, it concludes, was ungraciously received by the that it is a cure for rheumatism and consump. sovereign public, who seemed, on the whole, tion, and various other disorders. After making rather fatigued with a composition prolonged due allowance for some degree of exaggeration, to the romantic duration of six hours. and for the influence of superstition, it appears certain that it possesses some virtues as an antidote to animal poisons. On the table there were placed a bottle of the juice of the guaco, expressed in South America, as well as a dried flower, and a leaf from a plant raised in this country in a hot-house, where it grows readily. It was then shewn, that an increase had taken place in the population of the country, between 1801 and 1821, amounting to more than 1-3d of the number of inhabitants contained in the census of 1801; and that it was probable the number at this time would be to Private accounts from Italy, as well as vari- that in 1801 as 3 to 2, or more; an increase ous paragraphs inserted in the Italian journals, which might alone (observed the lecturer) be state that the lovers of harmony at Venice have expected to produce much of the distress now formed themselves into two opposite parties; complained of. The increase in the population the one violently in favour of Madselle. Grisi, of London had not, it appeared, kept pace with and the other as outrageous in support of that of the kingdom at large. In 1700 it was Madame Caradori Allan. It appears that the about 1-8th of the whole population; in 1801 it representations at the Opera seldom terminate was 1-10th; in 1811 and 1821 it was 1-12th; without a few broken heads given and received. the number of persons coming annually from The habitués of the pit are the partisans of the country and settling in London had been Ax election of five new members of council, in Madselle. Grisi, while the more aristocratic les-estimated at 1-4th of the yearly deaths in the lieu of Mr. Sabine and others, was proposed. sees of the boxes vouchsafe Madame Caradori metropolis. The proportion of deaths in the Mr. Stapleton objected to the election, and their gracious protection. A prodigious uproar kingdom at large was stated to have consider-moved a postponement, as well as a repeal of took place on the first representation of Maria ably diminished within the last century. In the by-laws, which he characterised as 66 indi Brabante. Madselle. Grisi not appearing in 1780 the proportion was supposed to be about famous:" these resolutions were put and nethis opera, the pitites declared open war against 1 in 40; in 1801, it was 1 in 47; in 1811, itgatived;-the election then commenced. the composer, and, it is said, even bribed the was 1 in 52; and in 1821, it was 1 in 58. The its close, Lord Caernarvon and others were leader of the orchestra to introduce confusion extreme duration of life does not, however, declared duly elected. Mr. Anderson, an old HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. At botanist, one of the earliest members of the Society, and among the first associates of the Linnean Society, complained loudly; his pocket, he said, had been picked of 671. by the Society for its Transactions, which, excepting the engravings, (pictures, we think, he called them), were not worth taking off the street, so trashy were they. Some members objected to the ballot; and we were informed, after we left the room, that the chairman acknowledged it was illegal, inasmuch as it had not taken place within the hours prescribed by the by-laws. LITERARY AND LEARNED. letters of the late Sir William Jones; in one (lib. 5). There were several other Greek settle- ETRUSCAN VASES." Enough has, it is hoped, been said to prove that the important antiquities in question, far from establishing "the claim which Italy puts In the account of the important discovery of forth to priority in the fine arts, compared with Etruscan vases published in our last Literary Greece," do but confirm the account of the Gazette, the writer observes, "There seems a introduction of the Greeks, their literature and pretty general idea that the opinion long since arts, supplied by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, entertained by many learned men, that their and other ancient writers; and thus far, like beloved Italy cultivated the fine arts in great the monuments of Egypt, contribute to the perfection, at a time when Greece was semi-verification of ancient history. It seems probarbarous, is now fully confirmed." bable, that when the general contents of the Ar a special meeting of the Council on SaturThis impression (upon which it was not in inscriptions on the vases are made known, conday last, to determine upon the appropria- our power to offer any observations at the siderable light may be thrown on this subject; tion of the two gold medals placed annually moment), so far as regards the early civi- but so little remains of primitive Italian hisby his Majesty at their disposal, to be lisation of Italy, appears amply borne out by tory, that any light thus derived must be very awarded to authors distinguished by works the subjects of the paintings on the vases, limited in its historical utility. honourable to themselves and to literature, their Greek inscriptions, and by the Vitulonian Thus much seems, however, already provedthe medals of the present year were voted inscription; all which tend to refer them to an that European civilisation was far more widely to Washington Irving and Henry Hallam, age between the taking of Troy and the founda- extended in the very early ages than has been Esqrs. The historical productions of the tion of Rome. Not so, however, as regards generally admitted; that as the age of the last-mentioned gentleman have entitled him the claim of Italy to a priority in the fine arts Eneada appears to have been an age of civilisato this honour; and we cannot notice the over Greece. For the inscriptions being chiefly tion and refinement in Italy, the vague hishigh claims of the first, without also expressing in the Greek character and language, and the tories of that period which have reached us a sense of additional pleasure upon the occasion, paintings commonly taken from Grecian sub-through Diodorus Siculus and Dionysius of from his being the son of another country, jects, as the Theban and Trojan wars, &c., Halicarnassus, &c. are not to be despised; and which, though British by descent, has not conclusions diametrically opposed to such a that, granting the arts to have been in a high before been gratified by such a mark of parental claim appear inevitable; viz. that Greece was state of cultivation in Italy long before the attention. We think this decision, however, the source of the arts as well as of the lan- foundation of Rome, it follows that the arts of justly due to Mr. Irving's talents, will be guage of Italy in the ages in question. The Greece were of a much older date. equally agreeable to the United States and to art of pottery may indeed have been carried on This is perfectly conformable to the accounts England, as an example of that right and kind more extensively, and consequently in greater we have of the arrival of Egyptian colonies in feeling which ought never to be interrupted perfection, in Italy than elsewhere; but it Attica and Argos, under Cecrops and Danaus, between two such nations. Nor can the com- seems quite gratuitous to seek any other de- about 1500 years before the Christian era; in pliment to Mr. Irving be considered with less rivation for those of painting and sculpture the days of Moses, as Diodorus affirms (lib. 40, than a general interest, when we observe that than the parent country indicated by the lan- apud Phocium). Thus, as history accounts for the body which conferred it consists of high guage of the inscriptions the country through the introduction of the arts into Italy by the and dignified churchmen, noblemen of great whose medium the arts of Egypt were refined means of Grecian colonies, it accounts for their rank and estimation, and gentlemen eminent and communicated to the rest of the civilised prior introduction into Greece by means of alike for station in society and for literary world. Egyptian colonies. This is all perfectly conattainments. We hail it as an auspicious omen of future good in the intercourse between of the colonisation of Italy, it is evident that tests of historical truth. Were history altogether silent on the subject sistent;-and consistency is one of the chief the countries not limited to science or letters, we need go no further than these vases for the It is remarkable, that, besides the Greek but extended to every possible relation of com- origin of the inhabitants (at least of the west-names of potters and painters given in the acmerce and politics. The medals will, of course, ern coast), their language, arts, and customs, count of these vases, we find the oriental names be presented at the general anniversary on the which, after this singular discovery, would be Tlesonchonearcho and Echsekias, both which no longer a secret. But as on this subject his- appear to be Phænician. This seems to argue tory speaks plainly, it may be well briefly to a commercial intercourse with other countries. SIR G. STAUNTON, Bart., in the chair.-A served by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. notice the outline of the peopling of Italy pre- Italy may have been the grand emporium for We pottery to the traders of those ages, when the variety of donations in natural history, lite- learn from this writer, that the Siculi, the in- Phoenicians were the great carriers of the world. rature, and art, were laid on the table; amongst digenous inhabitants of the land, were expelled This may perhaps account for the demotic which were a collection of fragments of human and succeeded by a colony of Arcadians from inscription (if it be really such) found on one bones, military weapons, vases, &c., taken Peloponnesus under Enotrus, seventeen gene- of the vases; the potters of Vitulonia might out of a tumulus near Hydrabad, with a plan rations before the Trojan war; that these have had orders to execute for the traders of and section of the tumulus, presented by Col. were afterwards joined by the Pelasgi, from Egypt. Such communication may moreover Hopkinson. This cemetery formed one of Thessaly, under their leader Tyrrhenus. Next account for the bronze sphynxes which have number noticed by Colonel H. near Hydrabad, came Evander, with a second colony of " Ar- been discovered with the vases; and perhaps having the appearance of a long low hill, com-cadians, who brought with them the Greek also for the celebrated pyramidal tomb of King posed of many circles, each about eighteen feet literature, laws, and musical instruments,"+ Porsenna. in diameter; at the bottom of one of which and settled in the neighbourhood where Rome An ancient tradition is preserved by John were found the remains now presented: they was afterwards built. The next were the Malala, Cedrenus, the author of the Paschal appear to have been a sword, a spear, two Heraclidæ from Peloponnesus, who fixed them- Chronicle, Suidas, &c., which, if well founded large vases, and several smaller relics, besides selves in Latium; and, lastly, the Eneada, (and all such obscure histories are proved by the bones: the metal fabrications, it is stated, from Troas. About the same time arrived the discoveries of the present resuscitating age seemed to be quite perfect when uncovered, but other Greek colonies, under Nestor and Dio- to be entitled to some consideration), shews crumbled to pieces on being touched. The medes, as Strabo informs us (lib. 6). The same how the progress of the Italian arts might bones have evidently been burnt; and it is writer acquaints us, that the Cumani, settled have become known in Egypt. It is, that therefore imagined that the tumulus must in Campania, left many vestiges of Grecian Faunus, called also Hermes, or Mercurius, have been the burial-place of a Hindu. The institutions at their colony of Naples (Neapolis) king of Latium, on the arrival of Hercules, sword and spear are very similar to those still father of Latinus (Lavinia's father), migrated in use in India; but the other articles are of a shape now unknown. The Pasha of Egypt was elected an honorary member of the Society. Among the papers read were a few original 29th. ASIATIC SOCIETY. a It is very apropos to this subject, that an Exhibition Vide Dion. Hal. cited in Euseb. Chron. Armen. ed. *These names are not unlike those of Sanchoniatho and Echnibal, the Phoenician historian and judge. The former flourished in the age to which these vases appear to belong, according to Porphyry. to Egypt, where he taught philosophy and praise. The spectre, however, strikes us as earth and sky, of sea and land, of mountain became a king, and was deified as the bestower being too substantial, and too well dressed, for and champaign, of wood and rock, and church of riches and the god of gold. He might have a ghost. and tower, and, in short, of every charm of been the same whom Manetho denominates No. 315. Travelling Tinker. G. Vincent. British scenery and artist-like composition. the second Hermes, and who first transcribed Under this title (the tinker being a very They are such prints as have adorned the most the sculptured annals of the Pharaohs into the subordinate feature in the performance) will finished of the Annuals; and we rejoice to see sacred Hermaic books (the source of Manetho's be found one of those picturesque and spiritedly- them addressed to the works of our great chronicle). It is certain that the time of this pencilled landscapes, for which Mr. Vincent is novelist. Faunus, or Hermes, in the 12th century B.C., so justly celebrated. No. 333, Landscape and quadrates with Egyptian history-for in that Cattle, by the same artist, is similar in The Hon. Mrs. Hope. Engraved by Scriven, century we find two princes of the name, ac- character. cording to the Theban chronicle of Eratosthenes, viz. No. 33. Sistosic-Hermes, B.C. 1298 to 1243. FINE ARTS. ARTISTS, SUFFOLK STREET. C. from Lawrence. National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and No. 354. The Frosty Reception. R. W. THIS very sweet portrait is the sixty-fifth Buss.-A good lesson for those who are un-embellishment of La Belle Assemblée; which, acquainted with the world. To break in upon really, with such a mass of female grace and the solitude of a gourmand, at the moment beauty, has well sustained its rights to the when he fancies that he has secured to himself name, by the assemblage. Mrs. Hope posthe exclusive enjoyment of some delicious dish, sesses greater simplicity, combined with eleand is lifting the first savoury morsel to his gance of costume, than is common to the EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH Buss has well depicted the fixed and ferocious composition is altogether very pleasing. mouth, is indeed a fearful experiment. Mr. pencil of the late admired President; and the glare of the annoyed host, the obsequious de(Third Notices) portment of the unwelcome guest, and the sly No.294. A Hindoo; a Sketch. H. C. Slous.delight of the servant who witnesses the scene. We should not have considered it just to have Perhaps the first is a little overcharged. called this performance a sketch, as, in the way No. 348. Moonlight. J. B. Crome.-Mr. of effect at least, we do not imagine that any Crome, in this pleasing work, as well as Mr. thing more could have been accomplished. The Hofland in No. 269, Composition Moonlight, THE memoirs which form the twelfth numsunbeam-light which crosses the lower part of have "visited the glimpses of the moon," not ber of the National Portrait Gallery are those the figure is admirable; and the strength and for the purpose of "making night hideons,' "of the Right Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, mellowness of the colour are equalled only by but in order to display its beauty and love- the Right Rev. William Carey, D.D., and the No. 295. Study of Fruit. J. Holland; inliness. Most Noble the Marquess of Ormonde, &c. ;which a similar power and richness of tone No. 347. Lane Scene, near Tissington, the first distinguished for his genius and misprevails. Derbyshire. T. Creswick. Although in the fortunes, the second for his learning and No. 296. October. S. A. Hart. If double-spirited execution of this picturesque subject virtue, the third for his illustrious descent. dealing be at all allowable, it is in the present we recognise much of the pencil and feeling of It is not surprising that the notice of Mr. instance, where the autumnal title is equally Gainsborough, yet we also see in it, as in the Sheridan should be more copious than that of applicable to the toper and to his beverage. other works of this able artist, an originality either of the eminent persons with whom he is Truth of character and beautiful execution and a variety of style and composition which here associated. Of course there cannot be mark this gem-like production. place him very high in the ranks of our land. any striking novelty in the incidents; but the No. 293. Ale-house Door. P. F. Poole.-scape painters. narrative occasionally gives rise to reflections, An appropriate neighbour to the last-mentioned Leaving, for the present, the North, we shall the perusal of which may be beneficial to the work, as shewing how the abuse of a good take a peep into the South Room. hasty and harsh-judging, who forget how thing produces, not enjoyment, but misery. No. 419. Pro and Con. H. Pidding. As frequently The style of this very clever picture is remark-in Wilkie's celebrated picture of a similar subthe light that led astray Was light from heaven!" able for its clearness and drawing-like transpa-ject, a batch of village politicians have assemrency. It may be in parts rather too slight bled, no doubt to set every thing right; but, This Number, completing the first volume, also and sketchy; but the finished portion conveys if a judgment may be formed from the apparent comprehends a title-page, a dedication (by perall that can be wished for of character and ardour of the principal antagonists, the debate mission) to his Majesty, and an address to the will end in setting every thing wrong. This public. In the last, the proprietors state the expression. No. 291. Dancing Dolls. W. Gill.-The well-filled interior exhibits great variety of difficulties with which they had to contend in delights of childhood are the favourite subjects character and expression. The apathy of some the commencement of their undertaking, the of Mr. Gill's cabinet pencil, with which he of the listeners, and the different degrees of gratification which they feel at the present fascinates equally those who are and those who excitement in others, are admirably discrimi-state of the work, and the confidence which are not familiar with the principles of the fine nated. Several amusing episodes add to the the promises they have received of original interest of the main story; and the whole does Mr. Pidding infinite credit.-No. 453. The Fair Penitent, by the same artist, is an enter taining piece of graphic wit,- -a painted pun. It represents a negro in the stocks! arts. No. 288. Moor Game. J. Oliver, A.R.A.Pictures of this class, like those of fruit and still-life, are essential to the agreeable variety of every well-arranged collection. We have seldom seen one more skilfully painted; and we strongly recommend Mr. Oliver in future to "keep the game in view." We echo his title," More Game." No. 431. Half-way House. E. Childe. All that belongs to the truly picturesque, and all that can render rustic scenery pleasing, are associated in this clever composition. Such scenes as these, whether in nature or in art, are, or ought to be, productive of tranquillising thoughts and gratifying feelings. NEW PUBLICATIONS. portraits and materials, from many of the most eminent individuals in the kingdom, justify them in indulging with respect to the future. NATIONAL CEMETERY. WE this week present our friends with a representation of the inmost region of the proposed National Cemetery, which is now exciting so much interest. This View looks towards the Parthenon; -for the design embraces the erection of temples after the models of the noblest architectural remains which have been preserved to us from classic antiquity; and would thus afford to the architect and the sculptor an almost exhaustless field for the exercise of their genius. No. 285. Portrait of a Horse. R. B. Davis. It is well for an artist when his reputation in his profession allows him occasionally to depart from what may be considered the common routine. In this point of view we regard Mr. Davis's animal portraits. The character of that noble creature the horse, in his free, unIllustrations of the Waverley Novels. constrained movements, is given by him in a FOUR landscape gems are now before us; viz., Our readers are aware that Mr. Goodwin's manner that renders his pictures as interesting Doune Castle, (see Waverley), drawn by drawings are objects of public exhibition; and to the general amateur as to the critic of the J. D. Harding, engraved by E. F. Finden; we are informed that great admiration of these stable. Penrith, by P. Dewint and E. Finden; Arran, splendid designs is so prevalent, that a society No. 328. The Giaour. E. F. Green.-The (see Heart of Mid Lothian), by W. Daniell of shareholders is already on the eve of being principal figure in this highly-imaginative sub-and W. Finden; and Windermere, by W. Wes-embodied for the purpose of carrying the plan ject is very ably treated. The wild expression tall and E. Finden. These are exquisite views into effect. Its novelty, beauty, and magniof the eye is well suited to the vision which of beautiful and varied scenes, executed in the tude, certainly recommend it to general notice; the fancy has conjured up. The colouring, sweetest and most skilful manner-a few inches and we shall have much pleasure in making it effect, and execution, are also entitled to great of paper affording to the eye all the details of better known to the world. IT is with much regret that we announce the death of Richard Chenevix, Esq. which took place at Paris on the 5th inst. after an illness of a few days. Mr. Chenevix was a fellow of the Royal Society, and a member of most of the scientific and literary institutions of Europe, to the promotion of which his time and fortune were devoted. In chemistry, his name ranks as one of the highest among those who have cultivated the analytical branches of that science; and a volume of plays, written in the style of the writers of the age of Elizabeth, full of poetical beauties, together with many contributions of great interest, on various topics, to the most eminent periodicals of the day, attest the versatility and extent of his talents and acquirements. In private life, Mr. Chenevix was universally beloved and esteemed, and his death will be long and deeply deplored by his numerous friends and admirers. SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. LADY BYRON'S REMARKS, &c. THIS strange matter has, as we noticed in our last, assumed another and a darker shade, from the interference of Mr. Campbell, who, assuming to be the personal champion of Lady Byron, has stepped forward to throw the most odious imputations upon the character of Lord Byron which can possibly be left to the worst imaginations to conceive. Against this course we protest, in the name of all that is honourable in human nature. We were the undeviating censurers of the poet's injurious productions during his life-time; but we cannot do otherwise than condemn, in far stronger terms, any attempt, after he is laid in his grave, to blast him for ever by mysterious and voiceless whisperings. Of what monstrous crime was he guilty ?-for unless he was guilty of some monstrous crime, a foul wrong is done to his memory. His accusers are bound, by every moral and sacred tie, to be definite in their charge: against such there is a possibility of defence; but there can be no shield against the horribly vague denunciation which has been so intemperately hurled at the unprotected and unanswering dead. And what called this forth? A very slight surmise by Mr. Moore against the parents of Lady Byron-to repel which she comes rashly out with a statement that damns the husband of her bosom ; and, as if this were not enough, the zeal of Mr. Campbell advances to pour additional suspicion and ignominy upon his mouldering ashes. The fame of a Byron is public property; and, after what has passed, it music-room. DRAMA. His concerts is imperative on his adversaries either to fix great-grandmother worked in a garden.' A of the inquirer into the early and unpolluted some eternal brand upon it, such as can justify slight whispering of ambition tingled in Jean- sources of musical expression. their language, or confess that they have used nette's ear: I don't exactly refuse,' said she, expressions which no conduct of his could with a downcast look ;- you are his majesty's J. N. HUMMEL.-This celebrated composer authorise. And we are persuaded that they valet-de-chambre, and comptroller of the royal was to leave Paris on Tuesday last on his way must do the latter; for it is incredible that gardens?' Even so, child.' And in case of to England, where his arrival will make quite any woman of the spirit and honour of Lady accidents, mayhap you could become valet-de- an epoch in the musical world. Byron could have lived an hour with a man chambre in some other great house, or gard- are, we hear, to be given at the King's Theatre whom she knew to be a detested criminal; and ner ?' 'I don't promise that,-but-I am a far less that she should have corresponded with poet.' 'Oh, for the matter of that, your trade him in playful and soothing letters. The plea is not worth much. I wash for twenty poets, of insanity itself cannot reconcile this with any not one of whom pays me-but- Well! WE have no theatrical criticisms in Passion thing like the atrocious guilt now by circum- have you made up your mind? Here I amweek, though our Paris letter contains some stance imputed; and we do earnestly trust quite dressed; give me your arm,—we'll have curious dramatic reports from that capital. At that an explanation will yet be vouchsafed, the banns published immediately." With all home, the note of preparation is struck for the which shall set this painful discussion to rest in my heart,' said the washerwoman, taking the Easter spectacles, and Stanfield has been rea manner more satisfactory to the world. poet lovingly by the arm; and in a fortnight viving all his travelled recollections of China Having, in these few remarks, grappled with the fair starcher, whom we must now call the for the scenery of Planche's Chinese piece at the main point at issue, we abstain saying a grand-daughter of Henry IV., was obliged to Drury Lane. Nor is Covent Garden behind syllable on minor affairs: and we do not deem scrub and plait harder than ever to gain in efforts: we anticipate that both will be ourselves in a condition to blame any one of the another couple of hundred pistoles, her hus- gorgeous. parties we have been obliged to name. ROYAL DESCENT: AN ANECDOTE. WE extract the following from the third and fourth volumes (unpublished) of the "Chroniques de l'Eil de Bœuf." band having spent the first in a fruitless From the Edinburgh journals we gather, MUSIC. NEW PUBLICATIONS. 4 Collection of Peninsular Melodies. With VARIETIES. Sheep in Hungary.-There are in Hungary 7,000,000 sheep, of which three millions belong to Prince Esterhazy. Cincinnati. The inhabitants of this city in the year 1802 did not exceed 800, and at this moment they amount to more than 25,000; the population during the last three years alone having increased eight thousand souls. The "Dufresney, a descendant of Henry IV. by the left side, has just taken it into his head to marry; but only see to what excess a poet may carry his originality. A young and comely washerwoman, whose account with the wit might be compared to a theatrical piece without a dénouement, made her way one morning into the author's apartment, and in a positive tone demanded, once for all, as she termed it, the settlement of her account. "Your account!' exclaimed the poet, slipping on his clothes behind his bed-curtain, for the WHEN we first saw the announcement of this sake of decency; that's easily said, child; work, we entertained great expectation as to but the truth is, that for the last fortnight the the result, knowing, as every one must do who jade Fortune has been in a most spiteful humour has ever heard a Spanish national tune, that in American. Mr. Halleck, one of the most with me. Faro, and all his host to boot, have originality of melody and strength of expres-popular and sweetest bards of America, is been most unmerciful.' The sum is but a sion, no music can surpass the traditional airs about to give the world a new poem. trifle of thirty pistoles. A trifle! thirty pis- of the Peninsula. The guarachas and boleros, subject is supposed to be the "Minute Men," toles! If I had only one, I might take ad- with which we have been familiarised here, from which, it is hinted, his lines on Convantage of a lucky vein which I am positive have begotten, in all lovers of sweet sounds, a necticut are extracted. A translation of the was going to begin just as I left off last night.' longing for more tunes from the same source; French novel, "La Chronique du Charles IX,” But in eight days I am to be married; and not scholastic compositions from modern Spanish is also forthcoming from an able pen. it's no use talking; you must in the meantime musicians; not mere elegancies, common to all New York. We learn from New York, find wherewithal to pay your debt.' Ah! countries where music is cultivated, and which that a plan is in agitation for establishing in you are going to be married! then it seems have become wearisome common-places; but that city a university, on the plan of the you have money; for alas! if you count upon vigorous and peculiar strains, born in old London College. May we notice, as another my thirty pistoles-' I lean upon a rotten times of strong feeling, and finding a vent, sign of the march of mind, that masquerades staff, is that your meaning? Not exactly, without what Ben Jonson calls "the adulteries were begun there last year, and are to be child: I will assuredly pay you one of these of art;"-we mean, in one word, "national continued this season!! days; some morning when you chance to find airs." Of these, one of the finest, as regards Astronomy. Mr. South has mounted the me in possession of the vein that I was Spain, is to be found in Corelli's violin solos: extraordinary glass which he so dashingly seforced to abandon last night. But, a moment: it is there called, we believe, La Follia, and a cured at Paris (see Literary Gazette); and it thirty pistoles are not your entire portion ? volume of such tunes would be inestimable. now forms a striking feature in his superb Ob'Certainly not: by dint of washing, and scour- The work before us has done much towards servatory at Kensington. The cloudy state of ing, and plaiting, and starching, I have amassed satisfying the hitherto ungratified wishes of the the weather has hitherto prevented us from enabout a couple of hundred ducats.' The lover of music; but it does not wholly fill the joying the study of the heavenly bodies through devil you have! Jeannette; you have indeed void. Many of the airs are not original, not this powerful tube; but we rejoice to find it starched and plaited to some purpose. And national in the emphatic sense of the word. employed in hands so well calculated to deduce who is the bridegroom?' An honest Norman They consist too much of smooth prettinesses, important scientific results from its use. coachee, who has promised to manage our without distinctive character. They abound in French Dramatic Readings.-Monsieur Dulittle household matters as carefully as he apoggiaturas, and other effeminate luxuries of pont finished his course of French readings drives his master's carriage.' A coachman! art; and they seem to have been compiled with last Wednesday at Willis's Rooms. Previously Fie! fie! a girl like you might do better.' too cautious a view to the sensibilities of the to entering upon the exquisite comedy of Le Whom then would you have me marry? a boarding-school and drawing-room. Some songs Joueur, he eloquently traced the principles of duke, I suppose?' In truth, Jeannette, there are, however, which are genuine things, dramatic composition, and with great skill there are dukes who do not deserve you, and new to this country, and in themselves worth brought them to bear on the productions of his who are incapable of amassing in a century the the whole price of the volume. Of these, three own country. Monsieur Dupont's exhibition two hundred ducats which your little hands have fixed themselves on our memory, namely, has been, indeed, one of considerable interest; have put together in so short a time. What a trio called "Expostulation;" a zorcico, "The and such as must place him in the foremost say you to me, girl, for a husband,—his ma- Biscayen to his Mistress," and an epigrama, rank of professional teachers. jesty's valet-de-chambre, and comptroller of the entitled "Mary's Glance." The last is exquisite. New Invention. The Journal de Cadiz, of royal gardens?' You, M. Dufresney! you Altogether, we cordially recommend the work March 14, states, that a French watch-maker, marry a washerwoman?' Why not? my to the notice of the cultivator of melody, and named Auguste Morieau, residing in that city, |