R. Peel, in reference to the Present Crisis of Law Reform. Letter I. By Eunomus. 8vo. pp. 34. London, 1830. J. and W. T. THIS is the first of an intended series of letters Clarke. to an individual whose labours towards im wisdom to the future; or that, like the phos-politic honour, but a game for his selfishness or made of her matériel, which she has invested phoric stone, they must imbibe their light from his ambition;-but no man can sit beside the with the grace and excitement of her own the sunbeams alone, if they could hope to shine monuments of ancient valour and virtue with- poetical imagination. The character of Monia in their own twilight age. out feeling something of the holiness of the is a conception as original as it is exquisite. But it is evident, that if this admirable re-ground; no man can read the inscriptions even sult were fully worth the labour by which it on the wasted and fallen tombs of Greek and Juridical Letters; addressed to the Right Hon. was attained, still, the less unnecessary labour Roman glory, without some thirst of noble employed upon it the better. Human life has envy at the fate of the mighty dead; none can enough to do, without the burden of gratuitous follow, even in fancy, their splendid career, toil; and if the knowledge contained in the without honouring the magnificent qualities of treasures of the classics could be obtained with head and heart that raised them above their out the waste of time and power employed of species, and feeling himself, like one who has old to dig the literary mine, it would be so much gained for the general intellectual service of society. This is undoubtedly effected by translations, in a considerable degree even for the scholar. Of course, if his object be to feel the genius and skill of the classic in the highest degree, the original alone must be his to be tasted in perfection only at its fount. primary study. The purity of the stream is But even to the scholar, an able translation stood in the presence of superior natures, in proving the administration of the law in Engsome degree purified and exalted by the vision. land are prominent objects of public attention. A well-written preface tells us that due The writer's professed design is to controvert selection has been made in the subjects of the the opinions of the Benthamite school on the translations; a principal point being, that the work should be adapted for the library of both one hand, and on the other to rebut the arsexes: thus the chief portion of the work will guments of its ultra-antagonists, who have poets, of which the present volumes give achievous innovation." He evidently brings to be given up to the orators, historians, and pronounced any attempt to reform the existing system to be "an innocent foolery, or a mismost satisfactory specimen, in every sense of the consideration of this momentous subject a renders a service which he will be the last to the word. deny. It gives him the matured judgment of Having said so much on general merits, we and imbued with a just sense of the causes mind replete with every needful information, a scholar, perhaps of many, generally his own abstain from particularising the several works, which have produced the failure of the Prussian, superiors, in place of the crude conjectures of and content ourselves with congratulating Napoleon, Netherlands, and other continental his solitary perusal ; and it supplies at one view alike the projectors and the public on the pro- codes. The position he has taken is, in our those notes and illustrations which every stu-gress of this series, being perfectly secure of opinion, every way befitting the character of a dent knows to be, at once, among the most its value as a source of attractive and im- real friend to the institutions of his native valuable helps, and the most difficult to supply. portant knowledge to society; to the student land;of one neither blind to their imperfecTo the unlearned in the ancient languages, who desires to extend and reinforce his classical tions, nor insensible of their general value. translation is, obviously, the single resource, acquirements; and to the man of learning who the only entrance into that "garden of the desires to revive his early recollections. Hesperides," whose fruits are more excellent than if they were of gold and diamonds. To one half of the human race, and that portion too possessing the most powerful influence on our earlier years, and sometimes exerting the noblest influence on our more mature careerto woman, the classics are a sealed book, refusing, like the volumes of the old necromancers, to open one of their mysterious leaves, until the master of the spell pronounced the charm, and then flowed forth the words of power. No. V. Herodotus, from Beloe's translation, An Official Kalendar, &c. &c. 12mo. pp. 864 The second of Eunomus's Letters, which has this moment been put into our hands, appears every way worthy of his first. The Practical Planter; containing Directions for the planting of Waste Land, and management of Wood: with a new Method of rearing the Oak. By Thomas Cruickshank, Forester at Careston. 8vo. pp. 448. Edinburgh, 1830, Blackwood: London, Cadell. NOTWITHSTANDING all the improvements of IN these days, when every branch of useful late years in almanacs, directories, pocket-books, or ornamental culture becomes a science, and guides, &c., it must have been felt by every one is pursued and studied by active minds, we We look upon it as among the happiest cha- having occasion for particular references con- cannot be surprised that such a subject as is racteristics of this age, that its invention is so nected with public business and public men, at here discussed should have obtained its share of extensively occupied in bringing within the home or abroad, that there was still some ample attention. Its better knowledge Mr. Cruickbounds of literature the great outlying regions and well-arranged work of this description to shank's work is well calculated to increase; and of society; in reclaiming by a vigorous effort be desired. Such a performance we consider we can safely say he has produced a mass of of cultivation the wastes and wildernesses that the present to be; and having examined it suf-information which ought to be familiar to every negligence has suffered to usurp so large a portion ficiently to detect errors if they were common, particular improver of land, and to every one of the intellectual soil; in refusing to believe we are bound to say of it that it is compiled zealous for the more extended cultivation of that any province of the solid system has been with much care, and consequently contains a our national resources. The chief novelty in consigned to a providential barrenness, and in de- very small proportion of slight inaccuracies, the plan for rearing oaks is, previously to plant termining not to despair of the human capacity In alphabetical order, there are lists of public Scots firs or larches, to act as nurses to the of happiness and knowledge, in what remote- institutions of every kind, of national establishness from both man may be found. The at- ments, of army and navy, of parliament, of tempt will probably be often made on false foreign courts, and, in fine, of most matters for principles; there may even be instances in which it can be necessary to consult a publicawhich" tares will be sown with the wheat," tion of the kind. We therefore cordially reand the intention be directly mingled with commend the Official Kalendar: if possible, an purposes of future public evil: but those in- index of the names mentioned, with a reference stances can be but few; the harvest of good to the pages where, would add value to future will have a redundance and a richness that editions. will grow over the mischievous seed; and the result will be, as of every benevolent and sincere labour of man, a hallowed repayment in national peace and virtue. young trees. There are many interesting anecdotes, as well as much valuable intelligence, in this truly Practical Planter. The True Plan of a Living Temple; or, Man considered in his proper Relation to the ordinary Occupations and Pursuits of Life. By the Author of the "Morning and Evening Sacrifice," &c. &c. 3 vols. 12mo. Edinburgh, 1830, Oliver and Boyd: London, Simpkin and Marshall. The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck; a Romance. By the Author of "Frankenstein." 3 vols. London, 1830. Colburn and Bentley. THE author has acquired much popularity on It is on these principles that we would en- FULL of strange incident and mysterious in- religious subjects, which these volumes are well conrage the widest extension of works like terest, Perkin Warbeck, either as the last of calculated to increase. They possess a good the present, giving us the moral wisdom of the the Plantagenet's ill-fated race, or else as the deal of enthusiasm, together with rational piety; mind in some of its most illustrious forms. most picturesque of impostors, led a life ad- and are eminently deserving of praise for their The mere man of science may follow good or mirably adapted for the novelist; and Mrs. effort at dispersing those gloomy views which evil, with scarcely a higher restraint than the Shelley, taking up the belief that he really was are entertained by certain sects, and which natural influence exerted over the passions by Duke of York, flings over her subject all the would convert this fair natural world into a a vigorous intellect; the dull mathematician attraction belonging to the innocent and un- dungeon fit only for hypocrites and ascetics. may look upon the laws of his country with a fortunate. The story is so ill calculated for The notes and illustrations, which occupy nearly mutinous and hostile eye; the keen metaphy-extract, that we must content ourselves by all the third volume, are particularly interestsician may see nothing in the patriotism or commending the good use our fair author has ling. The New Bath Guide; or, Memoirs of the stage, was attacked with a violent fever in the wards pursued from the north of Ireland to the B-n-r-d Family, in a Series of Poetical course of the night, and the next morning was south." During the progress of these operaA public outcry was raised against the tions, Col. Colby resolved to measure a new Epistles. By Christopher Anstey, Esq. A a corse. new edition. By John Britton, Esq. pp. 176. grand chamberlain, who, aided by certain golden base in Ireland, independent of the bases before arguments, endeavoured to silence the murmurs measured in England and Scotland, and also to London, 1830. Hurst, Chance, and Co. A BIOGRAPHICAL and topographical Preface, of Danilowa's sole surviving parent. The hap- use such means and precautions as should enwith notes and anecdotes by Mr. Britton, less mother, however, refused to barter for gold sure the utmost possible accuracy which human enrich this new edition of a once extremely the last consolation of the wretched the privi- ingenuity could devise. The great difficulty in Such are the feeble data which this part of the investigation consists in the popular production; and one which its wit, lege to mourn. humour, and knowledge of life, are likely to serve, though with sundry alterations, as the construction of a standard measure, which, continue in its popularity, long after the groundwork of the new opera. For the cata- whilst it may be capable of application over fashions and ton of Bath have passed away. strophe of a death, that of a marriage, the de-eight or ten miles of ground, shall be liable to Mr. Britton's Introductory Essay is very good-been substituted. Thus, of two evils the the force required to move it, and other cirnouement obligé of every modern opera, has no change in its dimensions by the influence of humoured; and, among other critical points, shews that Anstey could not have borrowed adapters have wisely chosen the least. Among other green-room chit-chat in Paris, any of his plan from Humphry Clinker's, which was published six or seven years after the Bath it is whispered, as a profound secret known Guide. The volume is got up with great only to a few hundred intimate friends, that neatness, and must be very acceptable to the M. Dumas is on the point of undertaking a public. journey to St. Petersburg, with the view of collecting materials for a drama on the subject of Peter the Great. Il ira loin, ce M. Dumas, as a Parisian wag lately observed. The Burial of the Righteous. A Sermon on ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. A new theatre is about to be erected on the site of the ancient Ambigu Comique ;-another temple of Satan, as Maw-worm might say, in addition to those already open for the seduction of the stray sheep that wander near the purlieus of the Boulevard du Temple. Alas for the sinful doings of this metropolis! One of the most celebrated ex-actors of Franconi's circus, the Arabian horse Aboukir, was lately sold in the public market of Valenciennes, at the ignoble price of 260 francs-about ten pounds eight shillings, good and lawful coin of the British realm. Sic transit gloria mundi! Marschner's opera of the Vampyre, though an imitation of Weber's manner, has been favourably received at Prague. The overture, it is said, bears some resemblance to that of Freyschutz, and the introduction strongly reminded A NEW Opera, in three acts, entitled Danilowa, the audience of Spohr's Faust. The Vampyre has been represented at the theatre of the has been succeeded by two unsuccessful compoOpéra Comique. The story is founded on an sitions of Skraup, les Amazones, and l'Ombra incident of real life that took place in Russia Notturna. At Leipsic, another opera of Marduring the reign of Catherine II. The ar- schner, le Templier et la Juive, has met with rangers, with true poetic license, have so ampli- decided success, if an overflowing audience at fied and embellished the original anecdote, that each representation may be reckoned a test of in its present costume it can scarcely be recog-success. An opera entitled le Prince Lieschen, nised. The following, however, is the "simple by an unknown composer, has not found equal story;" for the operatic compound I do not take favour in the eyes of the public. upon me to analyse. Danilowa, possessed of a cumstances attending its use, and above all by change of temperature. To obtain such a measure, Col. Colby conceived the design of constructing the measure of different metals, in such a manner that their expansion and contraction should always compensate each other, and so give an invariable standard of length. The construction of the apparatus was placed in the hands of Mr. Troughton, and, finally, measuring rods, perfect in their kind, were produced, and a base line 7 inches in extent, measured in the north of Ireland by the successive application of these bars over that extent of ground. At this meeting, Mr. Faraday undertook to give an account of these measuring bars, and of the Irish triangulation generally. Col. Colby had kindly placed his data at Mr. Faraday's disposal, for the better illustration of the discourse; and, through the kindness of Messrs. Troughton, Sims, and others, parts of a magnificent measuring apparatus, recently constructed by Messrs. Troughton and Sims for the East India Company, were placed in the lecture-room. Two of the compound compensation bars were arranged on tressels and tripods over the irregularities of the floor and benches, with all the care used in the measuring; the microscopes for observation of the points limiting the measures were in their places, as were also the standards, the bowling telescope, and other essential parts. The apparatus consists of two bars, one of brass and the other of iron; these are placed about one inch and a quarter apart, but strongly bound together at the middle by two cylinders of iron which act as rivets ; they are then fixed on to a strong iron pin, The new opera, der Bergmanch (the monk which is fastened within the box intended to handsome person and the ripened charms of of the mountain), which had been some time enclose the bars. The middle of the compound blushing sixteen, was a dancer at the Institut announced at Dresden, has made a hit. The bar being thus fixed permanently, the neighdes Arts-an academy under the direction of musical composer, M. Wolfram, was gratified bouring ends of brass and iron are also conthe grand chamberlain of Russia, and at which by a summons to appear on the scene of his nected, but not immovably; on the contrary, the pupils are all lodged and supported at the triumph. a short cross-bar of iron may be considered as expense of the crown. Even females not nacommencing at the brass bar, then proceeding to tives of Russia are frequently educated at this. the iron one, beyond which it projects about two establishment, which, however, they are not at inches. This cross bar is attached firmly by liberty to quit till after the expiration of a ceraxes to the ends of the brass and iron, and has tain term. At the period during which the BEFORE we enter upon any report of the pro- no motion independent of that which is occascene of the opera is laid, two maîtres de ballets ceedings of a late assembly, it will be necessary sioned by their moving. A similar arrangewere attached to the institution, M. Didelot to premise that, in the year 1824, government ment is established at the other end of the comand M. Duport. The latter, having arranged resolved to institute a trigonometrical survey pound bar. Now, as the brass and iron expand a ballet in which Danilowa was prevented from of Ireland, under the direction of Lieut.-Col. by heat, it will be readily perceived, that this appearing by indisposition, imagined that his Colby, analogous to those surveys which had cross-bar is pushed forward, or away from the colleague, envious of his fame, had induced the been previously carried on and completed both middle of the whole arrangement-that, in fair votary of Terpsichore to withhold her in England and Scotland. Col. Colby determined fact, the measure is lengthened only as the talents on the occasion. A complaint was to make the survey as scientific and accurate as brass expands more than the iron; and the a cordingly preferred before the grand cham- the economical plan of government would admit. part of the cross-bar attached to the brass will berlain, who ordered a physician to inquire That no time might be lost, the triangulation was be thrust forward more than the part attached into the merits of the case. The Esculapius, carried across the Channel from Scotland to the to the iron; and, consequently, if at the first one of those considerate savans who imagine Dynes mountain, near Belfast, which was the the cross-bar were perpendicular to the long that nothing short of death should prove an first station taken up in that island, and after- bars, it would, when the latter were heated, excuse for the momentary postponement of a public performer's engagement, decided, in his tions of Le Roy, Heurteloup, and their predecessors, nor - It is neither indifference to the meritorious invention will therefore shew that there is a part of become inclined to them. A little considerawisdom, that Danilowa was well enough to to the able and satisfactory manner in which they were the cross-bar projecting on the iron side, which dance. In obedience to this absurd and cruel handled by Mr. Burnett-but the peculiar nature of the is not thrust forward at all, but is stationary, mandate, she made her appearance on the course, which enters much into medical details. subject itself, that obliges us to omit a notice of the dis- notwithstanding any change which may take ARTS AND SCIENCES. ROYAL INSTITUTION.* place in the length of the two bars, provided | the throat than in common attacks of inflam- utmost harmony, till next Thursday, when their expansion is by the uniform application mation. The disorder sometimes proves fatal, Mr. Babbage was requested to attend. No of heat to both at one time. This point is the chiefly through exhaustion, in consequence of paper was read. Mr. D'Alton's interesting one required; it is carefully sought for by the the inability to swallow. It must not there- work on the History, Learning, Religion, &c. most attentive and minute observation upon fore be treated by general bleeding, or other of Ireland, and Professor Quetelet's Scientific the bars themselves, whilst they are subject to measures calculated to reduce still farther the Tour through Germany, were presented. change of temperature; and as a similar point patient's strength.-Dr. Francis Hawkins af- At a recent meeting a paper entitled "On exists, and is found at the opposite extremity terwards read a paper, by Dr. Calvert, "On the quantities of water afforded by springs at of the arrangement, they are both marked by a the chemical and medical properties of the various periods of the year," by J. W. Henminute dot upon a silver stud, and constitute Sand-rock Spring in the Isle of Wight." The wood, Esq., F.G.S., communicated by the Prethe extremes of a measure invariable for regu-water of this spring contains a larger propor-sident, was read. The following is an epilar changes of temperature. The compound bars tion of iron than any other natural chalybeate tome of it : HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. are put into a box, supported upon the two inva-water. The metal is contained in it in the It has been a matter of dispute, whether the riable parts by ratlins, and surrounded within state of sulphate combined with the simple whole of the water afforded by such springs as by woollen cloth; but even under these circum-sulphate of alumina. The only natural springs are but little influenced by the change of the stances the precautions were found not quite that can be compared with it are those of seasons was derived from rain. With the sufficient, and an experimental correction had Hartfell, near Moffat, and of Horley Green, hope of elucidating this question, the author to be applied for the difference of radiating near Halifax, in this country; and those at endeavours to ascertain the comparative quanpower between brass and iron, and also for their Alais, at Vals, and at Passy, in France; and tities of water yielded by the same spring at difference in capacity. This was effected by they are all much weaker chalybeates. The different periods; and to obtain simultaneous giving such surfaces to the two bars as should medical properties of the Sand-rock Spring observations in springs rising in different strata enable them to heat and cool exactly in the were experienced in the case of the soldiers and existing at considerable depths in the same ratio: the points marked on the silver stationed in the depôt at Newport, who had earth. For this purpose he has availed himself studs then became invariable. These bars are suffered from the Walcheren fever; and Dr. of the information contained in a paper by the ten feet long, and the double microscopes by Calvert has since found it a useful remedy in President of the Royal Society, given in a rewhich the dots upon two consecutive bars are numerous complaints arising from relaxation cent No. of the Literary Gazette, on the perobserved, are six inches apart, and are also and debility. formance of steam-engines in the Cornish constructed upon the compensation principle, mines. The details of these investigations ocso as to be invariables The application of the cupy several tables. After making due allowbars, and the measurement of the base, was THE first quiet meeting since the exposé, was ance for the loss of water, owing to imperfecintrusted to Captain Pringle, and Lieutenants held on Tuesday last; Mr. Knight in the tions in the engine, which he considers as Henderson, Drummond, Murphy, and Mould. chair.Mr. Lindley read a paper on certain nearly balanced by the amount of rain-water It was executed in the years 1828-9, on the plants of the class Parasite. Of this curious, which penetrates from the surface and is careastern shore of Loch Foyle; the part measured and in a variety of instances useful class, ried off by the adit, he thinks himself warwas about 7 inches long, and 24 inches more there are not twenty species to be found either ranted in assuming the actual quantity of were added by triangulation. It is concluded in the Jardin du Roi at Paris, or in the water raised by the engine as representing that the error cannot extend to above 14 inches Bavarian Botanic Garden, both of which are with sufficient accuracy that which would be in the whole distance; and in proof of the celebrated for their collections; whilst England naturally afforded by the springs of the mine. general accuracy, the results obtained by a possesses two hundred species. The paper was On comparing the known quantity of rain double measurement in one part of the base a clever one; still the meeting was marked falling in any district with the quantity of may be mentioned. A tide river intersects the by a kind of absurdity in horticulture, which water given out by its springs, added to that plain on the shore of the Loch, and the mea- must have made the judicious grieve. A returned to the atmosphere by evaporation from sured line had to cross it at a part where the stunted cherry-tree, bearing a handful of forced the same district, which he estimates according width was 460 feet. Piles were driven into fruit, which, though ripe, was as sour as to Mr. Daniell's method, he finds the former the river, and all other arrangements made to vinegar, had been brought all the way from of these quantities is to the latter nearly in the secure accurate results; yet, as the observers Northampton per waggon: it is quite im- proportion of two to three. After adverting had to work in water sometimes breast-high, possible to say what points in science this to the hypothesis of the infiltration of seaand were liable to other inconveniences, the exhibition was meant to illustrate. Again, a water, which might be proposed in explanation measurement was repeated, that any error (if bundle of asparagus lay on the table, 125 stalks of this excess in the supply of springs, he resuch existed) might be discovered. The whole of which weighed 281bs: its disagreeable size marks that he was not able to detect the predifference in the two measurements, made en- was matter of curiosity; but not a word was sence of sea-salt in the water from the bottom tirely independent of each other, was part of said about flavour. The president, in a very of the mine of Huel Towan, which he exaan inch in the 460 feet. candid manner, directed the attention of the mined in August 1828. Mr. Faraday then went into a brief account meeting to the state of the garden, and other of some circumstances connected with the tri-property belonging to the Society; pointed out angulation of Ireland generally, and gave many some past faults, stated that they should not On Thursday last, Mr. Hamilton in the chair.interesting particulars relating to it; but as again be allowed, and courted the visits of Davies Gilbert, Esq. exhibited two plaster we are led to expect from what he stated, that the fellows, that they might judge for them-casts, from an ancient cross at Penzance in the subject will be resumed at a future meet-selves. From the economical plans now adopt- Cornwall, with faint traces of inscriptions. ing, we shall reserve further observations on ed, and which it is understood will be prosethis very interesting and scientific process until cuted still further, the Society might, it was it is again brought forward. alleged, be considered as in a fair way of re We noticed in the library an exceedingly covery. beautiful, and at the same time simple, deadbeat escapement for clocks, quite new, and the invention, we were informed, of Mr. Chancellor. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. LITERARY AND LEARNED. ROYAL SOCIETY. THE President in the chair.-Considerable discussion, arising out of certain statements DR. TURNER in the chair. The Registrar contained in Mr. Babbage's "Decline of Sciread a paper, communicated by Dr. Burne, on ence in England," took place at the meeting a peculiar disorder of the throat, which con- on Thursday, in which the President, Mr. sists in a severe attack of inflammation con- South, Drs. Roget, Lardner, and Granville, fined to the epiglottis. The peculiarities of Mr. B. Kerr, and others, took a part. It is this disorder are, 1st, an extreme difficulty of but fair to state, to the honour of the disdeglutition, not accounted for by the condition putants, that the debate, though warmly carof the throat as seen by an ordinary inspec- ried on, was not characterised by any thing of tion; 2d, the undisturbed performance of re- an unbecoming tone. The greatest attention spiration; 3d, the situation of the pain, which was paid to the explanations of the worthy occurs in a lower and more anterior part of president; and the meeting adjourned, in the SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. Dr. Meyrick exhibited a pair of elegant ancient candlesticks of brass, engraved and enamelled. They were bought at Aix-la-Chapelle, of a general dealer, therefore all trace of their history is lost; but from the costume of the figures on them, the doctor assigns the commencement of the 12th century as the date of their manufacture. The same gentleman also exhibited a pix, which, from the style of the ornaments, he considers to be about of the same age with the candlesticks. A communication from Mr. Townsend of Preston, Sussex, accompanied by two drawings, was read, descriptive of some ancient fresco paintings discovered on the wall of Preston church. The subject of one was the murder of Becket; and the other the archangel weighing the souls of the departed, and Satan endeavouring to force down the scale. Mr. Townsend considers these paintings to be of about the time of Edward the First. ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. briefly, but with great elegance, feeling, and of the picture.-Of The Countess of Jersey On Wednesday six new members were pro- the scene. judgment, added much to the impression of there is a whole-length by the Baron Gerard. posed; and Lord Prudhoe, one of the number, the pains taken to render these adjudications glish notions of portraiture, it is very carefully It is not necessary for us to detail Although not exactly accordant with the Enbeing a peer, was immediately balloted for and elected. A paper of great interest from Mr. Pure and just-the plan adopted by the several and finely painted. Mr. Rothwell has a porprofessors appeared to guard against every trait of Lord Downes; so disadvantageously Millingen, on the splendid Tyrrhenian vases chance of partiality or erroneous decision; and placed, that it is scarcely possible to see it. recently exhumed in several parts of ancient we must observe that the general effect was In the ante-room is his masterly picture Etruria, was read by Mr. Hamilton (a memtruly delightful. The taste and ability dis- which we noticed when at Mr. Colnaghi's: ber of the council). Of this we shall give an epitome; and it will be found an admirable played by the chairman throughout crowned his other portraits are not of so high an sequel to the general account of these dis- dicious addresses of the masters and the modest length Portrait of H. R. H. the Duke of the day (otherwise made pleasing by the ju- order, at least in exhibition light.-A wholecoveries, which we had the pleasure to publish demeanour of the students) with (éclat we Clarence does Mr. Morton great credit.-We a few weeks ago. would say, but that better feelings suggest the were also highly pleased with a Portrait of words) deep gratification. a Hong Merchant, by Mr. Chinnery.-There are many other clever portraits in the room, which our limits will not allow us to particularise, from the pencils of Messrs. Clint, Reinagle, Simpson, Briggs, Lane, Thompson, Lonsdale, Ramsay, R. T. Bone, S. W. Reynolds, Linnell, Faulkner, Wyatt, Hurlstone, Say, Davis, Tannock, Partridge, Mrs. Carpenter, Mrs. Pearson, Mrs. J. Robertson, &c. ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. be held on the 7th of June. FINE ARTS. EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. clever and very entertaining. Very R. Edmonstone.-There is great character, SCHOOL OF PAINTING. THE Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn in the chair. A paper by Col. Tod was read; it communicated his remarks on a gold ring, of supposed Hindu workmanship, found sometime ago on the Fort Hill of Montrose in Scotland. Colonel Fitzclarence having seen it, was convinced of its eastern origin, and obtained the permission of its noble owner, the Countess of Cassilis, to submit it to the inspection of Col. Tod, in order that he might lay his remarks, No. 284. Mount St. Michael, Cornwall. iu elucidation of its origin, before the Society. C. Stanfield. It is no disparagement to the The relic bears certain signs of Hindu worship, round and over which is wreathed the serpent; No. 199. Romps. T. Clater.-A well-told talents which the School of Painting otherwise on each side is one of the sacred kine, with the story. The confusion which the entrance of displays, to speak of this performance as the mamma has occasioned is very happily depicted; lion of the place; and a magnificent lion it is— humped shoulders. Col. Tod observes, that and the chiaroscuro and Terburgh-like exe- roaring, "that it would do any man's heart the first inspection of the ring would naturally cution deserve high praise. good to hear it," and lashing out its tail with lead to the supposition that it was of Hindu origin; but there are strong arguments, on the Art's labour lost;". No. 28. The auld Friends. J. Knight.a rage well befitting the noble and powerful -an expression equally monarch of wild animals. The gigantic and other hand, for conjecturing it to have belonged to one of those "giant Getes" from Scania, who applicable to many other able performances in lofty forms of the headland, with its venerable the Exhibition, which are hung either so high crowning pile-the tumultuous motion of the found sepulture in some of their ravaging deor so low as to render fruitless the pains which mighty waters foaming at its base--the gleams scents upon Scotland. The arguments in sup- have been bestowed upon their production. of sun which splendidly illuminate one portion port of the theory attributing a common origin We are quite aware that it is impossible to of the subject the deep and impenetrable mist to the Indo-Scythic martial races of India and place all the pictures to advantage; but surely in which another portion of it is shroudedthe early colonists of Europe, occupy the re-works of the class to which this of Mr. Knight's the happy introduction and appropriate emmainder of the paper, which is concluded with the observation, that the ring is a relic of sin- belongs, are entitled to a situation in which ployment of the figures, and the masterly style they could be seen. in which the whole scene of awful grandeur is gular curiosity, even had it been found upon Of the numerous portraits in the Great executed-are all admirable. This fine work the plains of India. Many donations in li- Room we must speak generally. Those by the increases the high opinion which we have alterature and the arts were made; and it was late Sir Thomas Lawrence are the most in-ways entertained and expressed of Mr. Stanannounced, that the anniversary meeting would teresting; both from their intrinsic merit, and field's genius. We state this the more strongly, from the mournful reflection, that it is the because there seems to be an unjust and unlast time that the walls of the Academy will generous disposition in some quarters to underMiss Fry, the Archbishop of Armagh, the Earl be so decorated. His portraits of Lady Belfast, value it. of Aberdeen, and Thomas Moore, Esq., although Another charming picture of beauty, grace, the draperies and backgrounds are unfinished, and amiable sentiment, from this highly gifted was crowded on the occasion. We have selare admirable proofs of his splendid and unri- and rapidly rising artist's pencil. Again we dom witnessed a more interesting sight. The valled genius. The head of the poet, especially, ask, Why was such a finished production amphitheatrical seats were occupied by stu-is life itself.-Mr. Shee, the present able and shoved into a corner, instead of being placed in dents and their parents and friends: in the centre sat the professors (about ten of the accomplished President, has several very plea- a situation in which the visitors to the Exsing portraits. That of The Right Hon. hibition might have had an opportunity of number only were present*), the warden, and Charles W. Williams Wynn, in particular, is examining its various excellences without ina few friends; while the stage or platform behind the chair, which was occupied by Sir powerfully painted, and is a most faithful and convenience? But we recollect that it fared James Graham, were Lords Darnley, Auck-that we ever saw the sweet and pearly tones of ton. characteristic resemblance.-We do not think the same, or indeed worse, with poor BoningIs it a system pursued by the Academy land, John Russell, and other eminent patrons Mr. Phillips's colouring to greater advantage for the purpose of checking the aspirations of of the University. The finance report and than in his beautiful portrait of The Hon. talent? Nevertheless, we are pleased to unother routine business having been gone Mrs. Ramsden. He has five other portraits in derstand that, after some competition," the through, the adjudication of the prizes was the room; among which is a remarkably fine Welcome" has been purchased by Mr. Wynne determined by opening the letters containing whole-length of A Gentleman.-Of four por-Ellis, who is also the possessor of Mr. Parris's the names of the successful candidates; and a traits by Sir William Beechey, executed with "Reflection." lively sensation (like that of the drawing of a his usual skill and taste, that of His Grace the No. 287. Naiades. G. Arnald, A.-A sweet lottery) was produced as the various victors Duke of Somerset is the most striking.-Ge- and elevated character of landscape composiwere named and called up to the president to neral Sir Hew Dalrymple, and The Marquess tion. The figures are only of subordinate inreceive the meeds of their industry and talent. Most of them seemed to be intelligent and fine of Chandos, are excellent specimens of Mr. terest; yet they are well suited to the scene. Jackson's talents;-as are The Earl of Surrey, No. 306. The Orchard. W. F. Witheringyoung men; and the discriminating way in The Duke of Norfolk, and Mr. Lockhart, (the ton. In addition to the other merits of this which Sir James Graham delivered their ho-latter an admirable likeness), of those of Mr. very clever work, Mr. Witherington has connours into their hands, addressing them very Pickersgill. We wish we could speak of the quered the difficulties arising from the angular It is known that an unfortunate schism has arisen and unpicturesque ramification of fruit-trees, among the teachers of the University, and spread into its and, with his usual skill, has compelled them councils. This is much to be regretted where unanimity is so essential: we fear there has been great weakness and to assume a shape and character singularly trimming, if not utter mismanagement.-Ed. L. G. pleasing. On the ground! LONDON UNIVERSITY. ON Saturday last the annual distribution of medals and certificates of honours took place at the theatre of the London University, which head in Mr. Wilkie's whole-length of His No. 297. The Welcome. E. T. Parris. Hush!-England's child is at prayer ; With an only daughter's care. No. 331. Candaules, King of Lydia, shews | our immediate notice. We have never, in the There's a heavenly sound in that breeze, his Wife by stealth to Gyges, one of his Minis- most expensive publications of the kind, met ters, as she goes to bed. W. Etty, R.A.-We with more admirable plates than those of "The She asks for a father's life, have on former occasions reproved Mr. Etty Interior of St. John's Market, Liverpool," and for his occasional tendency to a debasing sen- the view of "Storrs, Windermere Lake." suality in his smaller productions. Have we The drawing and engraving of the former alone not enough of the voluptuous from the pencils cost, it appears, upwards of thirty-five guineas. of foreign artists, but is one of our own purer Nothing but the most extensive sale can warschool a man too so capable of better things rant such an expenditure. to mistake the proper direction of art, and thus to offend against decency and good taste? As an academic study, the central figure of this group might be admissible; but, in connexion with the disgraceful story, it deserves to be warmly reprehended. [To be continued.] NEW PUBLICATIONS. Select Views of the Principal Cities of Europe. GIBRALTAR is the subject of the present Part of Col. Batty's highly interesting work. Few places in the world are more celebrated than this gigantic, formidable, and important proViews of the Principal Objects in the direct montory; and in no respect is it more reRoute from Genoa to Naples, Sketches taken markable than for its exceedingly picturesque during a Residence at Palermo; and Views of character. Of this Col. Batty has most sucthe different Islands of the Mediterranean, cessfully availed himself, and has combined returning by Sea to Genoa; to which are with the naturally grand and varied forms of added a few Sketches in Savoy. Taken in the rock, accidental effects of storm, shipwreck, 1829 by H. Stretton, Esq.; drawn on stone &c.; which, ably seconded as he has been by by H. M. Whichelo. No. I. Dickenson. the talents of Messrs. Wallis, Cooke, Smith, THIS publication is to consist of ten Numbers, Varrall, Goodall, and Willmore, the engravers, each to contain three large views or five small render the six views, (including the vignette), Those in the present No. are "the of which the Part consists, among the most Coast of Palermo," "the Bay of Palermo," spirited and beautiful that were perhaps ever and "the Plain of Bagaria.' If we are unable to bestow very high praise upon these views as works of art, we have no doubt of their perfect fidelity, a quality which renders any delineation valuable and interesting. ones. England and Wales. From Drawings by Lawrence. From a Plaster Cast taken at the in the front view. Illustrations of Popular Works. By George Cruikshank. Part I. Longman and Co. OUR anticipation that these Illustrations would add popularity to the most popular works, is more than justified by this first sample. They are most humorous, most laughable, and most cleverly executed. The Vicar of Wakefield preaching, and the Family Picture; Weazel's combat, from Roderick Random (a parallel, by the by, to Baillie Nicol Jarvie's); Ten Breeches, from Knickerbocker; and the Deil fiddling away with the Exciseman, from Burns's songare the truly ludicrous ornaments in this No. The two last are of the drollest possible cast. Fisher's Illustrations of England. Nos. 17, 18, and 19. THE statement of the publishers, that this work has improved as it has proceeded, is undoubtedly justified by the Numbers under assembled. Portrait of His Majesty. From the original Characteristic Sketches of Animals. Drawn But I feel that a father can, die." FIRST AND LAST.- NO. V. It was a splendid palace-room, Around with tapestry spread, Where strong and still despair A pencil was within her hand, At length the letters, slowly traced, She sat awhile, then started up, To her cheek rushed back the blood- Of wine that near her stood: It was in vain her hands, too weak, Profaned the palace bower. The golden lamp was quenched; Grief on his forehead high, His love, so beautiful and young, They placed him in this prison strong 66 Ay, be it so," he cried; "I care not-in yon heaven ere long I'll meet my murdered bride.” |