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Somerset in the chair. Our limits preclude which we shall be happy to contribute by every exceeding the duty performed in 1795 in the the possibility of minutely entering into the means in our power, especially as the idea was proportion of 3.865 to 1, and that of the details of the very satisfactory reports which originally thrown out and recommended in our atmospheric engine of 1778 in the proportion were read to the members: suffice to say, that columns more than twelve months ago. of 10.75 to 1. the proceeds of last year were more than those of any previous season; that the treaty for ground, which had been carried on between

NEW COMET.

The remainder of the paper relates to the friction in machinery, and the different modes MR. SOUTH, at his observatory, Kensington, of obviating its effects. With a view of rethe Commissioners of Woods and Forests and and with his noble five-feet equatorial glass ducing the amount of friction, the author is and twenty-feet achromatic, has been diligently for the teeth and cogs of wheels, and through led to consider what are the most proper forms watching this celestial stranger, discovered by M. Gambart, at Marseilles, on the 21st ult. what intermediate steps a given increase of in the constellation Pegasus. When found, it angular velocity may be most advantageously 8° 37′ N. declination. April 21st, when obtained, though at the expense of some degree was in about 21h 10m of right ascension, and communicated. Equability of velocity is observed by Mr. South, 15h 35m sidereal time, it of sliding friction, when the outline of the N. The nucleus was well defined, and the tail Friction, on the other hand, is wholly prewas right ascension 21h 35m, declination, 16° 27' teeth of the wheels are involutes of circles. distinct. Whether approaching or receding vented when their form is logarithmetic spifrom the earth, has not yet been ascertained; ral; but the angular velocities will then be

the Society has terminated in favour of the latter; that the land of the Kingston farm, though poor for agricultural purposes, is well adapted to the objects of the Society, viz. the breeding and rearing of rare beasts, birds, and fishes, of which some have already begun to breed, and others are soon expected from foreign parts for the same purposes. The report also eulogised Mr. Sabine, and stated that he was to resign the treasurership. A ballot for officers: was postponed till Thursday, in consequence of much confusion having arisen by the tardy arrival of the balloting lists.

At the meeting on Thursday, Lord Auckland took the chair; and there were present, Earls Winchelsea, Darnley, Essex, Caernarvon, and several others of the nobility. A noble lord gave notice that at the next meeting he should move that the composition monies of fellows be in future reserved; the interest only to be applied to the liquidation of the Society's expense. Council and officers for the year were

then chosen.

GEOGRAPHY: NEW SOCIETY.

so that we cannot inform our timid and terri

fied readers whether this is the visitant whose
threatened call upon us in 1832 is to excite so

strong a sensation.

LITERARY AND LEARNED.

ROYAL SOCIETY.

variable.

Hence these two advantages are

incompatible with one another; but, on the whole, the author gives the preference to the involute, which produces an equability of angular motion. The most advantageous mode of increasing velocity by a series of wheels, is to adjust them so that the multiplication of velocity shall proceed in a geometrical progression.

THE President in the chair. A paper on the occurrence of iodine and brome in mineral springs, by Dr. Daubeny, professor of cheKING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. mistry in the University of Oxford, was read. THE front elevation of this truly national in. A paper was lately read, "On the progressive stitution, which we have this day the gratifica improvements made in the efficiency of steam-tion of presenting to our readers, is deserving WE are very glad to have received the pro- engines in Cornwall; with investigations of of admiration for its noble simplicity. It has spectus of a plan for forming a London Geo- the methods best adapted for imparting great features of solidity, as well as harmony, about graphical Society, which we have long con- angular velocities," by Davies Gilbert, Esq., it, which, we cannot doubt, will hereafter prove sidered to be a great desideratum among our of which we give the following abstract. analogous with the qualities of its scholastic learned and useful national institutions. The The practical adaptation of the steam-engine character. Geographical Society of Paris has contributed, to mechanical purposes is considered by the The main building (the front of which faces and is constantly contributing, much valu-author as due to Mr. Newcomen, whose in- the west, and is rather more than three hunable information to the world; and assuredly quiries were introduced into Cornwall very dred feet in length,) will stand upon the same this maritime country, with colonies in every early in the last century, and soon superseded ground level with the Strand. In order to quarter of the earth, the most enterprising the rude machinery which had, till then, been accomplish this, a lofty sub-structure is raising, seamen, and the most zealous travellers, ought employed for raising water from the mines by of which the portion immediately beneath the not to be in the rear, where it has the means the labour of men and of horses. The terms front shewn in our plan will be appropriated of being at the head of such interesting inqui- of Mr. Watt's patent in 1769, which secured to the purposes of the institution, and contain a ries. The prospectus for the establishment to him, until the year 1800, the receipts of one series of spacious accommodations for the stuof the London Geographical Institution, after third of all the savings in fuel, resulting from dents of the high school, or lower department, remarking on the paramount consequence of the adoption of his improvements in the con- as it is called; as well as certain rooms congeographical science, and the want of any en-struction of the engine, rendered it necessary nected with the College, or higher department. couragement to its cultivation in England (of to institute an accurate comparison between Among the former will be one school-room all the countries in the world!!); and after the efficiency of his with former engines. A seventy-two feet long and fifty-two feet broad, describing the progress and beneficial results copy of the report drawn up on this occasion, and another, sixty by rather more than thirty of the Parisian association during the nine in October 1778, is given in the paper; but as feet; besides convenient class-rooms, refreshyears of its existence, goes on to propose the the dynamic unit of one pound, avoirdupois, ment-rooms, offices, &c. These form the baseformation of a similar society in London, whose raised through a height of one foot, by the ment, above which is the ground floor, where object shall be to collect and register all the consumption of one bushel of coal, had not yet are the various entrances to the higher deuseful facts comprehended under the two great been established as the measure of efficiency, partment, as seen in the annexed plan. This divisions of physical and political geography; the author, proceeding upon the data furnished floor will comprise eight lecture-rooms (the those of physical geography, including moun- by that report, calculates that the duty per- largest being about sixty by forty feet); attains, rivers, soil, climate, distribution of ani- formed by Watt's engine on that occasion was tached to which are as many apartments for mals, vegetables, minerals, &c.; and those of 7,037,800. In the year 1793 an account the use of the professors a hall for public political geography, comprehending ancient and was taken of the work performed by seventeen examinations, &c. above seventy feet long-a modern civil divisions of countries; sites of engines on Mr. Watt's construction, then noble public hall of entrance, and an entrance towns, both ancient and modern; nature of working in Cornwall. Their average duty to the lecture-rooms for the students; and, government; distribution of languages; roads, was 19,569,000, which exceeds the perform-adjoining the southern extremity of the front, canals, manufactures, population, education; ances of the former atmospheric engines in but turning immediately westwards and facing the whole statistics of a country, &c. A house the standard experiment in the proportion of the Thames, the ground floor of the principal's or chambers, a library to contain all the best 2.78 to 1. Some years afterwards, disputes residence, the erection of which will complete books on geography, with maps, charts, &c.; a having arisen as to the real performance of the eastern wing of Somerset House. correspondence to be formed with similar so- Mr. Watt's engines, the matter was referred first floor will contain the chapel, of the same cieties and individuals in different parts of the to five arbiters, of whom the author was one; dimensions as the hall for examinations, &c.world; prizes for the determination of parti-and their report, dated in May 1798, is given, calculated for the accommodation of nearly one calar questions, and inquiries which would ex- as far as relates to the duties of the engines. thousand auditors; two excellent lecture-rooms, tend our knowledge of geographical facts; and The general average of twenty-three engines with private rooms attached; fourteen apart. the occasional publication, in a small and cheap was 17,671,000. Since that period, so great ments, of suitable size, for scientific collections, form, of all the useful results at which the So- have been the improvements in the economy of museums, libraries, &c. The second floor is ciety arrives, are among the leading features fuel, and other parts of the machinery, that in also susceptible of being applied to various pur of this plan, of the success of which we cannot December 1829, the duty of the best engine, poses, which, so far as we can learn, will not entertain a doubt, and to the advancement of with a cylinder of eighty inches, was 75,628,000, receive any specific appropriation until experi

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ence shall shew in what manner it can be most beneficially applied.

We understand that the halls and rooms for the lower department, on the basement floor, are amply sufficient for the accommodation of between four and five hundred pupils; and that those for the higher department will afford space for the convenient reception of two thousand students. It is confidently calculated, as we gathered from the report read at the annual meeting on the 30th ultimo, that both of these departments will be opened in the autumn of the ensuing year; though hopes are entertained that the high school may be ready at a somewhat earlier period.

As all access from the quadrangle of Somer-every class of whom, from the monarch to the set House will be closed, a separate entrance to humblest citizen, such an institution as the the College will be formed across the site of present possesses claims of no ordinary magthe two houses recently pulled down, and nitude, and of no transient importance. May facing the New Church in the Strand. its founders live to reap their reward-"en

In giving the public a correct sketch of the couraged by the sight of that public benefit front elevation of the College, we have en- which will accrue to all mankind, and chiefly deavoured to convey as full information, with to our nation, by its foundation!"-(Abrarespect to its internal arrangements, as we have ham Cowley's proposition for a "Philosobeen enabled to collect from the ground plans phical College" at London. Vide his Works. and other sources of information. Whether these London, 1669, folio edition, p. 43 of the last shall be completed, to the full extent con- fourth part.) templated, is a question, which, we hope, and Having given this sketch of the plan and ar. feel confident, will be speedily determined by rangements of the building, here follows an the liberality of our fellow-countrymen; on engraving of the front elevation :

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spurned its fetters, and denounced its oppres-examination in no common degree. First, ORIENTAL TRANSLATION COMMITTEE. sors. The greatest benefit that accrued to from its subject and character, we notice AT a recent meeting, a resolution of consider-German polite literature from the Reformation, No. 125. His Majesty King George the able interest to oriental scholars, and of im- was the elevation of the high German dialect Fourth received by the Nobles and People of portance to literature, was agreed to; viz. to the enviable supremacy of being the written Scotland, upon his Entrance to the Palace of that a sum, varying from 20 to 100 sovereigns, language of the empire; and this was effected Holyrood House, on the 15th of August, 1822. at the discretion of the committee, be given to by Luther's translation of the Bible. This D. Wilkie, R.A.It would have been extraany person who can point out a translation in literature, until within the last sixty years, ordinary if the talents of a Wilkie, operating the Arabic, or any other oriental language, of shared the baneful influence of the national upon such materials, had not produced a work lost Greek or Latin work, which may be so political alliances: its tendencies of late have at least equal in merit to any of his former circumstanced that the committee may be taken a more ennobling direction; it has dared productions. We cannot describe the compoenabled to obtain it for translation. to think for itself, to which it owes the mag-sition of this fine performance more perspicunificent spectacle it at present displays. We ously than in the words of the catalogue. shall have the opportunity of following the doctor into the details of his survey from week to week; and we again strenuously exhort all lovers of German poetry to avail themselves of these lectures.

LECTURES ON GERMAN POETRY.

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FINE ARTS.

EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY..

"In the principal station of the picture is ON Tuesday week we attended the first of represented the King, accompanied by a page, course of lectures upon German poetry, being and the exon of the yeoman of the guard, with delivered at Willis's Rooms, by Dr. Mühlenfels, horsemen behind, announcing, by sound of professor of German at the London University. trumpet, to all ranks of his expecting subjects, We much regretted to find so small an audience; the arrival of the royal visitor to the palace of it must have arisen, certainly, from the want his ancestors. In front of his Majesty, the of publicity. Our space will not admit of exDuke of Hamilton, first peer of Scotland, in patiating at large; we must restrict ourselves the plaid of the Earls of Arran, is presenting to a mere notice. The Dr. commenced with Or the Exhibition at Somerset House, which the keys of the palace, of which he is hereditary requesting (almost unnecessarily) the forbear-opened on Monday last, we are bound to say keeper. On the right of the King is the Duke ance of his auditors for the imperfections of that, although we do not think it equal to some of Montrose, lord chamberlain, pointing tohis address in the English language, and of its predecessors, and although it contains wards the entrance of the palace, where is stathen took a rapid survey of German poetry, various flagrant outrages against good sense tioned the Duke of Argyle, in his family tartan, from its infantile state in the northern sagas, and good feeling, it still displays so many fine as hereditary keeper of the household. Behind to its cycles of romance, and minnesongs, or and redeeming examples of genius and talent, him is the crown of Robert the Bruce, supported nubile age, when it commenced its alliance as amply to sustain the high character of the by Sir Alexander Keith, hereditary knightwith European literature, down to the period British School of Art. Before we proceed par- marshal, attended by his esquires with the of the Reformation, dilating upon the influence ticularly to notice any of the works of which it sceptre and the sword of state. Near him is that great event had upon its progress, when, is composed, we beg to make one remark with carried the mace of the exchequer, anciently for a time, it remained stationary, the whole respect to their arrangement. As far as re- the chancellor's mace, when Scotland was a energies of the human mind being directed to gards the centres (we speak of the Great Room) separate kingdom. On the left of the picture, the spiritual matters of soul and salvation, nothing can be better; but, in other respects, in the dress of the royal archers, who served as nicely criticising points of doctrine, and in- if there ever was a year in which especial dis- the King's body-guard, is the late Earl of vestigating the full force of faith. But the regard has been shewn to taste and justice, it Hopetoun; and close to him, in the character warblings of the Muse were still heard, her is the present. Pictures are placed on a level of historian or bard, is Sir Walter Scott. These lyrical effusions took the form of spiritual with the eye, which ought never to have been hymns, upwards of thirty thousand of which allowed to meet the eye at all; and others are are still preserved, as an evident testimony of hung above and below, and thrust into holes the religious inspiration or enthusiasm of five and corners, whose merits entitled them to hundred poets or poetasters. Germany, as very different description of treatment. the doctor justly observed, has paid most After the first glance round the room, and In this last-mentioned particular the artist dearly for the privileges derived from the after we had in some degree recovered from the has shewn peculiar taste and judgment. The valiant obstinacy of Luther;-its plains have dazzling and confusing effect of so many vivid earnest curiosity and pleasurable anxiety of the been incessantly inundated with blood, and colours, and of so much burnished gold, the loyal spectators to obtain a peep at their graits mountains illuminated by the lurid glow attractions of the mantel, as in former years, cious and royal visitor, who is the centre of of hostile beacons :-yet was the victory wor- drew us to their examination; and we are attraction to all, breaks in upon the formality thy of the sacrifice the human intellect happy to add, that we were gratified by that of the King's reception with the happiest effect.

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are accompanied by a varied crowd, among whom are some females and children, pressing forward with eagerness to see and to welcome their Sovereign upon this joyous and memor.

able occasion."

The reflected light upon his Majesty's counte- was unable to discover! It is a wretched and assemblage of figures and still-life well suited nance is beautifully managed, and the various abortive attempt to substitute certain qualities to attract by their character and arrangement, distinguished persons by whom he is surrounded of technical art, for character, expression, and as well as by the skill displayed in their exeare admirably depicted; especially the Duke all that belongs to the dignity and pathos of cution.

of Argyle, than whose head we never saw the subject.
any thing more firmly and characteristically
painted. We congratulate Mr. Wilkie on the
successful accomplishment of his very arduous
though inspiring task.

(To be continued.)

EXHIBITION

OF THE SOCIETY OF
PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS.
(Second Notice.)

No. 281. Preparing for the Festa; No. 286. A Peasant of Ischia, in a Festa Dress, praying to the Madonna. P. Williams.-Interesting, as well from their character and composition, as from the highly-wrought style in which they are executed. The flesh is perhaps a little too cold and marble-like in its hue.

(To be continued.)

Rome, March 23.

No. 124. Judith. W. Etty, R.A.-As it is
to be presumed that few persons are unac- No. 181. Byron's Dream. J. D. Harding.
quainted with the subject, it would have been If this be the quality of "such stuff as dreams
far better had the quotation been omitted; for are made of," we care not how much of the
if any thing could have lowered the tone of our manufacture meets our eye. The mutual ad-
admiration of the extraordinary powers dis-vantage which results from the reflected powers THE long-talked-of exhibition opened to-day
played in this noble painting, it would have of poetry and painting were never better ex-for the first time. The gallery is composed of
been the perusal of so ill-timed and ill-suited a emplified than in this beautiful composition. five spacious rooms, crowded with the works
passage. In contemplating the work itself, it Standing upon its own merits as a work of art, of native and foreign artists, some of whom are
is impossible to speak in the future tense, it is one of the most splendid specimens in the already known to us by the fame of their brush
and to say with the motto to the catalogue, present collection; and both as regards strik- or chisel. As I paced the vast rooms, I recog-
that "the spirit of the British artist will be ing contrast, rich variety, and dazzling and nised many artists whose productions I have seen
awakened." Here is one instance at least in powerful effect, it presents a coup d'œil of the noticed in your Gazette. I was most forcibly
which it has been awakened; and that with little most impressive and brilliant kind.
struck by the diversity of their several styles:
or none of "the patronage which raised and re- No. 195. Misty Morning; View in St. John's the English were conspicuous for science and
warded the Italian and Grecian masters." We Vale, Westmorland; with Cattle by R. Hills. colour; the French for grand conception and
have no hesitation in asserting, that this is a G. F. Robson.-A more complete union of vigorous drawing; the German for romantic
picture of which the British school may justly be talent cannot well be imagined than that which fancy and tedious precision; and the Italians
proud. Mr. Etty has, in our opinion, attained a appears in this performance; of which gran- for historical composition and stiff, academical
degree of excellence in it far superior to that of deur of scenery, truth of effect, and polish of figures. This exhibition has never been
any of his former productions. The academic execution, are the leading features. Nor have equalled here for variety and talent.
parts are more carefully studied, the drawing any of the works painted conjointly by Wilson The small painting of Mr. Severn, of Ariel
is more correct, than in his Benaiah, and other and Mortimer, or Barrett and Gilpin, exhibited represented flying on the bat's back, and hold-
works of a similar kind. The sleeping guard, a more perfect accordance than the joint labouring a peacock's feather, which forms a graceful
the midnight stillness in connexion with the of Messrs. Robson and Hills.
crescent with its golden plumage glittering in
act, are so well presented to the eye in part, No. 211. Scene in the Vicar of Wakefield. the sun, is very fine. Ariel looks that arch
and to the mind's eye altogether, as to become Miss L. Sharpe. This is perhaps the only little spirit so well described by Shakespeare.
appalling. As a composition it ranks highly. way in which a twice-told tale can be tolerated. The depth of space over which he soars, and
In brilliance of colouring, we know of nothing, There might be twenty graphic illustrations of the immeasurable regions in which he is
ancient or modern, that can go beyond it; and such a story; and all interesting and effective. imagined to range, are happily expressed by
indeed, but for the masterly hand which has In the present instance, the scene is beautifully the tone of the back-ground. The flesh is well
regulated the resplendent materials brought to- got up (if we may use such a phrase); and painted--the figure and bat in good drawing-
gether, they would be too vivid to be tolerated. with a truly feminine feeling. We question if and the subject being painted on gold, gives
On the opposite side of the room, in No. 20, any artist of the other sex could have hit the great richness and effect to the whole. As to
Ines de Castro parted from her Children (Al- character of the town ladies with so much the composition, I would write in golden cha-
phonso, King of Portugal, Donna Ines, Aboar, nicety;-preserving the attractive, yet shewing racters, that Mr. Severn has shewn poetry in
Gonzalez, Coello, &c.) H. P. Briggs, A. We enough of the meretricious. A little more every touch, science in every shade, and life
find another claimant to the honours of the positive and powerful expression in some of in every lineament. Mr. Robert Finch has
British school of historical painting; and one the other heads, especially in that of Dr. Prim- purchased this little gem, and possesses the
who, although his style and execution are en-rose, might not, perhaps, have been disad- original sketch.
tirely different from those of the last-mentioned vantageous.

picture, must, nevertheless, "have his claims No. 215. A Sea Gull. W. Hunt. Much
allowed," by every impartial judge of art. Mr. as we admire Mr. Hunt's talents, both in the
Briggs has also, we think, like Mr. Etty, made character of his figures, and in the sparkling
a great stride in his art; especially in respect effects by which they are generally accom-
to composition and colouring. There are, how-panied, we are of opinion that his forte lies in
ever, passages which we could wish somewhat subjects of still-life. With great fidelity of
changed. The expression of the mother is representation and power of execution, there is
scarcely agonised enough for the occasion; and a charming simplicity and pathos in this little
the head of the daughter is so introduced as drawing.
to create some confusion in form. Neverthe-
less, it is a very fine production, and is one of
the greatest ornaments of the room.

No. 220. View in the Grounds at Belton, the Seat of Earl Brownlow. P. De Wint. One of the most agreeable spots we ever contemplated: the grand and the placid unite in it to excite pleasing emotions. Mr. De Wint has done it ample justice.

No. 222. A Clay Pit. W. Hunt.-A rare example of the picturesque, both in character and in effect.

No. 7. Pilate washing his Hands. J. M. W. Turner, R.A.-Although it may be said that editors and reviewers are "nothing if not critical," yet we can with a safe conscience affirm, that we are always more disposed to "extenuate" than to "set down aught in malice." When offences like this come before No. 234. Sion, in the Valais, Switzerland. ús, however, we should be guilty of an unwar-H. Gastineau.-In former exhibitions we have rantable neglect of duty, if we were not to visit had occasion to admire the grand and elevated them with the severest chastisement. What character of Mr. Gastineau's Swiss views; but demon can have whispered to this great artist, we do not think that he ever presented one of so unapproachable in his proper sphere, that higher pretensions than this of Sion, nor has he possessed a talent for historic art! And the skill of his pencil ever been more advanwhat" kind friend" could have placed his per- tageously employed. formance thus conspicuously obtrusive, instead of concealing it in some out-of-the-way situation, where the spectator might be left to conjecture the existence of beauties which his eye

No. 265. China Mender. A. Chisholm. Upon the plan of Gerard Dow, Mieris, and others of the Flemish school, Mr. Chisholm in this carefully finished work has produced an

A bust of this gentleman, in Greek marble, by Mr. W. Ewing, is distinguished by elaborate chiselling and purity of style. A large painting by M. Horace Vernet, President of the French Academy of Rome, is also remarkable. The subject represents the pope carried in procession in the church of St. Peter's. His holiness appears in the chair of state, attended by the cardinals, priests, garde du corps, and other officers of dignity, as is usual on particular occasions. The whole group forms a most gorgeous and imposing coup-d'œil.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

SONGS.

1. The Absent.
THERE is no music on the strings
Of her neglected lute;

Her white hand wakes no more its chords
Her bird-like voice is mute.
She wreathes no flowers for her vase,
No roses for her hair-
She loiters in her favourite grove,
But her heart is not there.

The dancers gather in the hall—
She is amid the band,
With vacant smile and wandering glance
For those who claim her hand.

Her eyes fill with unbidden tears, Her cheek is pale with careLonely amid the festival,

For her heart is not there.

She broods above her own dear thoughts,
As o'er her nest the dove;
Memory and hope own but one dream-
Her first young dream of love.
She hears a gallant trumpet sound,-
A banner sweeps the air-

She sees a knight lead on the charge,-
And oh, her heart is there!

2. The Companions.

WITH thy step in the stirrup, one cup of bright wine,

We'll drink the success of thy sabre and mine:
When as boys we took down the bright arms
from the wall,
[hall,

And rushed, in mock combat, around the old
We longed in true warfare the weapons to wield:
-Now the foc is before us, and yonder the field.
We'll onward together, thy steed beside mine,
Our blow be as one when we rush on the line;
Should one fall, one only, the other will try
A step for his vengeance, another to die
On the neck of the fallen yield up his last breath,
And the vow of their boyhood be cancelled by
death.

But rather this evening as victors we'll ride
O'er the field of our conquest, the place of our
pride,
[as one-
With our names on each lip, but named only
'Tis the glory of either what each may have

done.

Now on for the harvest that darkens yon plain, We come back in honour, or come not again.

3. Memory.

A VOICE of gentle singing
Went by upon the wind,
And an echo sweet is ringing-
The thought it left behind.
'Twas a song of other feelings

That belonged to other days,
Ere I marked the stern revealings

Of the curtain time must raise.
When my heart and step were lighter
Than they'll ever be again,
And the dream of hope was brighter-
For I believed it then.

That sweet song was of gladness,
Yet it has left with me

A shadow one-half sadness,

One-half dear memory.
Though the darkness of November
Around my heart be thrown,
Yet how pleasant to remember

The spring hours once its own!
4. The Departed.

SET thy spur to thy steed, thy sail to the wind,

You may leave the far vale and the mountain behind; may'st be; Like the storm o'er the south in thy flight thou But where may'st thou fly from the memory of me.?

The struggle, the pleasure, the toil, and the strife,

May fill up thy days with the hurry of life; But night cometh lonely o'er land and o'er sea, And in silence and shadow I still am with thee. With no rose on my cheek, with no rose in my hair,

But cold as the love whose remembrance I bear, Breathing vows that are broken, and hopes that are fled,

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Let thy loveliest slave lull thy sleep with her strain

Ay, drain the red wine-cup,-it all is in vain:
From the haunt of thy midnight I will not
depart,
[heart.
For thy guilt is my power-my home is thy
5. The Portrait.

AH! let me look upon thy face,
Fling back thy clustering hair;
It is a happiness to gaze

On any thing so fair.

'Tis such spring-morning loveliness—
The blushing and the bright-
Beneath whose sway, unconsciously,
The heaviest heart grows light.
The crimson flushing up the rose

When some fresh wind has past,
Parting the boughs-just such a hue
Upon thy cheek is cast.

Thy golden curls, where sunshine dwells
As in a summer home;

The brow whose snow is pure and white
As that of ocean foam.

For grief has thrown no shadow there,
And worldliness no stain;

It is as only flowers could grow

In such a charmed domain.

I would thy fate were in my hands:
I'd bid it but allow

Thy future to be like thy past,
And keep thee just as now.

L. E. L.

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This was the earliest sorrow known to me, 'Twas my first agony!

But thou hast forgot
The vow of truth in that dark moment spoken,
The heart that swore to rest on one dear
spot,
And never wander, though it should be broken.
And the memory

Of that last parting from thy heart is
gone,
Even like a raging billow of the sea,
That burst, and left no echo of its tone.

Thou wert lost to me;

Yet still I trusted I might keep thy heart:

But I have learnt thy falsehood; and for thee Could not one sweet, one soothing tear-drop

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MUSIC.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Lays of a Wanderer. First Series. The Music, with Accompaniments for PianoForte or Guitar, composed by C. Walther. Johanning and Whitmore.

AT a period when German music is making such an impression in England, when the compositions of that country have been so unanimously applauded, and when we look for the taste being further cultivated by the performances of natives who are expected to visit our metropolis, we esteem Mr. Walther to be particularly fortunate in the time of appearing before the public with this book of songs, which are in English and German. Of the seven airs, we consider every one to possess great merit, and to deserve popularity. "The Tippler" is very lively and original_" Farewell, my gentle Harp," sweet and plaintive; the poetry of the latter, by Mr. Croly, must further recommend it to the lovers of melody. Mr. T. H. Stirling has also furnished the English verses to several of the airs; and in others, Mr. Walther himself has combined the triple offices of composer, poet, and artist; for the lithographic plates are from his hands. On the whole, this is a very delightful volume, and will afford great pleasure to our fair musicians.

Will you buy my Matches? By R. Limpus. Mayhew and Co.

A BALLAD for Vestris, of the "Buy a Broom" order, and likely to please the trollers of these pretty things.

DRAMA.

KING'S THEATRE.

Matilde di Shabran e Corradino was reproduced on Tuesday evening, Madlle. Blasis sustaining the part of the heroine. The more this opera is heard, the more it is liked; it is certainly the most attractive composition Rossini matchless; and the whole opera is got up in a has ever produced the concerted pieces are The duet, Piacere egual gli Dei, between Donmanner highly creditable to the management. zelli and Blasis, was rapturously encored; and festly testified how much the audience felt the curtain dropped amid plaudits which manigratified by the general performance.

Matilde di Shabran was followed by the final scene in the third act of Zingarrelli's Romeo é Giulietta. The selection of this scene afforded to Madame Malibran, who enacted the part of Romeo, ample opportunity to display, in declamation, her rich and sound contralto tonesmore particularly as her voice has not to contend with orchestral accompaniments; but it appeared to us to be only in the execution of her recitative that she eminently succeeded. Her performance of " Ombra adorata" was, to our taste, disfigured by the introduction of chromatic runs and misplaced ornaments, which only went to mar the original melody.

DRURY LANE.

A PRODIGIOUS hit has been made at this house, by the production of an historical opera, with Rossini's music of Guillaume Tell, entitled Hofer; or, the Tell of the Tyrol. For this we are indebted to the taste and talents of Mr. Planché, who, with great judgment, departing from the story so hackneyed on the stage, has constructed a drama entirely new to it, as a vehicle for this beautiful music. As ours is not a military critique, we shall not describe the insurrection of Hofer against the Bavarians,

nor detail the vicissitudes and adventures of great attention and made him many presents, | Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese. The medal the struggle,-suffice it to notice, that they are he states that it was his intention to proceed will be awarded in 1832. told in a dramatic and interesting manner. along the Delta, and to be at Abouzabel in A Paris paper contains some interesting But the music is really fine, the concerted February. If the plague should continue to details relative to the Polytechnic School of pieces most delightful and effective; and the rage there, he was to stay until it subsided; if Copenhagen. This account of the establishwhole (sung, too, by native singers) such a not, he would be ready to return to France or ment states, that it is on the most extensive treat as has rarely been heard on the boards Syria in April. The Libyan authorities had scale and in a flourishing condition. It is under of an English theatre. Miss Stephens and undertaken to build an hospital, and to found the superintendence of the celebrated Ersted, Madame Vestris are two of the sweetest of a medical school, under the direction of French- and five professors. The students are obliged cousins; Mr. H. Phillips (as Hofer) superb, men. Dr. Pariset states that the Maronites to have a thorough knowledge of German and and Sinclair charming; the latter has never are very kind and hospitable towards French-French, and are said to get on surprisingly. enjoyed such an opportunity for the display of men, from the circumstance of their being Berlin. The Academy of Sciences at Berlin his powers since he has been before the public, Catholics; but that they give no encourage- have elected MM. Arago and Poisson to fill and he has availed himself of it in a style ment to the English. He speaks highly of his the seats vacant by the deaths of MM. Lawhich must greatly enhance his high reputa- success in using the chlorurets of lime and soda place and Volta. tion. We ought not to pass unnamed Miss in cases of plague against infection; and in a Faucit, Mr. and Mrs. Bedford, Messrs. Bland, subsequent letter, dated Abouzabel, Feb. 19, Webster, Salter, and Miss Chickini, who, gives an interesting account of a public examiwith the rest of the corps, contribute essentially nation of the pupils of the school of medicine to the triumph of the opera. The scenery is in that place. He informs us that in this Rail-Roads. An iron railway is about to be also excellent; and, rare to say, the poetry is school there are about twenty of the pupils constructed in France, from the coal mine of poetry-eminently lyric, and an honour to the very far advanced in medical and surgical Epinal to the Canal de Bourgoyne, which will author. A new farce has also been produced knowledge, and that children of nine or ten be six leagues in length. here this week, called A Joke's a Joke; or, too years of age were able to give satisfactory much for Friendship: but it unfortunately demonstrations of the human skeleton. The turned out to be no joke at all, being a very poor affair.

Covent Garden has likewise given birth to a farce this week; but, like that at Drury Lane, it was unsuccessful, and the Colonel was dismissed the service.

EXHIBITIONS.

examination took place in presence of Mussul-
mans of every rank, who seemed to be much
pleased with it. There were very few symp-
toms of plague; and the doctor imagines that
the part of Egypt in which he was sojourning
would this year escape.

Emigration.-A great number of Alsatians, Swiss, and Germans, with their families, are on the point of embarking at Havre for America.

LITERARY NOVELTIES. [Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. XIX. May 8.] We are informed that a clever writer is far engaged in the singular title of Satanic Records! or Autobiography a work of an original character, which is to appear under of a Nobleman. The Drama of Nature, a Poem, by Joseph Mitchell Burton.-George Cruikshank is etching a series of Illustrations of Popular Works, by which we will be bound to say he will make them more popular. The Rev. Dr. Wiseman, rector of the English college at Rome, is now engaged in translating some oriental works in the Vatican: he is a great friend of M. Angelo Mai.

Small-Pox. It appears that, owing to the hostility of the ignorant classes of the people in We have taken a hasty glance at Mr. Lough's Paris to vaccination, the most frightful morglorious group, the Battle of the Standard, at tality is constantly occurring from small-pox, in LIST OF NEW BOOKS. the Egyptian Hall; and have no hesitation in the Hôpital des Énfans Malades. Nor is that Abernethy's Physiological Lectures, 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds.-ranking it among the noblest efforts of the the only evil; for children, leaving the hos-Thomson's Life of Ralegh, 8vo. 14s. bds.-A. M. Porter's Barony, 3 vols. 12mo. 17. 78. bds.--Roby's Traditions of sculptor's art, modern or ancient. Indeed, in pital full of the variolous poison, spread the Lancashire, second edition, 2 vols. 8vo. 21. 28. bds.-Paul some respects, we would say it is the most ex-infection throughout the city. Clifford, by the Author of Pelham, 3 vols. post 8vo. 17. 11s. 6d. bds.-The Mussulman, by R. Madden, 3 vols. traordinary production of that kind that ever Antiquarian Research.-A good example of post 8vo. 17. 11s. Gd. bds.-Original Letters of Locke, exalted the fame of an artist. Twelve war- the certainty of antiquarian research occurs in Sydney, &c. post 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds.-Sadler on the Law of riora and seven horses engaged in deadly com- the last Gentleman's Magazine; where Mr. F. Population, Vols. I. and II. 11. 10, bds.-Bowles' Life of Bishop Ken, Vol. I. 8vo. 15s. bds.-Blake on Delirium bat-the fierce, the overthrown, the dying and Madden in a letter notices, that the inscription Tremens, 8vo. 48. bds.-Stoke's Botanical Commentaries, the dead, seem to be a subject beyond the on a plate representing a Squirrel, in a pre- 8vo. 14. bds.-The Armenians, by C. Mac Farlane, reach of the boldest ambition and the greatest ceding No., had been made out to be Ignare royal 8vo. 10s. 6d.; imperial 8vo. 12s. 6d. ; 4to. proofs, 3 vols. post 8vo. 17. 118. 6d. bds.-Gell's Pompeii, Part I. talents. But our young sculptor has grappled notis; whereas it happens to be in allusion to 185.-Barker's New First Class-Book, 12mo. 5s. 6d. bd.with it nobly; and his performance is truly the animal, I crave notis, i. e. I crave nuts. Babbage on the Decline of Science in England, 8vo. wonderful. We can find no words to express New Leather.-It is stated, that a French 108. 6d. bds.-First Love, a Novel, 3 vols. post 8vo. 78. 6d. bds.-Mitford's Village, Fourth Series, post 8vo. our admiration of it. In the room are other tanner has discovered a method of tanning 17. 11. 6d. bds.-Carpenter's Guide to Reading the Bible, compositions by the same hand, and all display-hare and rabbit skins, so as to fit them for the 18mo. 58. bds.-The Pleasures of Benevolence, 12mo. 58. 6d. bds.-Hitchin's Christian Friend, 12mo. 58. bds. ing genius of the highest order. manufacture of shoes, gloves, &c. equal to calf-On the 17th of May (containing thirty-six Portraits), Vol. I. of the National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Memoirs, by W. Jerdan, F.S.A. &c. &c. imperial 8vo. Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century; with hf.-bd. in morocco, 21. 28.; proofs, on India paper, 34. &s. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1830.

While at the Egyptian Hall, we may note a or kid. striking picture of the Deluge, painted and ex- Paris Academy of Inscriptions and Belles hibited by Mr. Rawson Walker ;-and also Lettres.-There are eight candidates for the that our musical favourites, the Prague Min-six places vacant in this Academy. They are, strel band, daily continue to attract fashionable M. Champollion, sen., M. Champollion, jun., audiences, their new selection of music giving M. Cousin, M. Reynaud, M. Augustin Thierri, higher gratification than that of the preceding M. Thurot, the Count d'Hauterive, and M. week. A vacant hour, which is the length of Amediée Jaubert. The election was to take the performance, can hardly be occupied more place yesterday (May 7). agreeably than in hearing pleasing music well played, and in the company of a large portion of that rank and beauty which the metropolis has to boast of at this gay season.

VARIETIES.

The oldest of the French journalists, M. Prudhomme, author of the Journal des Révolutions de Paris, which commenced in 1789, has just died at Paris of apoplexy, at the age of 77.

The Paris Geographical Society have offered a gold medal, value 2,400 francs, for the most German History.-As a reward for the great complete and faithful description of the ruins labour undergone, and zeal evinced, by Dr. of Santo Domingo Palanqué, near the river Pertz, in editing that valuable and interesting Micol, in the ancient kingdom of Guatemala. work, Monumenta Germania Historica, he The candidates for this medal are expected to has been appointed to the office of principal furnish the most faithful description possible librarian at Hanover; which had remained of these ruins, with drawings and observations vacant from the death of the illustrious relative to the manners, habits, customs, and Leibnitz. language, of this ancient people. Some inEgypt.-A letter has been received at Paris formation is also expected concerning the Votan from Dr. Pariset, dated Cairo, Jan. 5. After or Wodan of the Chiaparese, who has been comgiving an interesting account of his favourable pared to Odin or Boudda. It is wished that reception by the Patriarch of Antioch, and the paper should be written in Latin, but it other distinguished persons, who had shewn him will not be objected to if written in English,

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