FINE ARTS.

EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

[Fourth notice.]

British Museum, where he met with it by contemplate without the deepest interest the a centenary of the most admirable productions accident it is entitled the Triumphal Show, lovely and fragile being here représented as of the highly-gifted and lamented Lawrence. and was written and printed at Stuttgard in" uttering no complaint, nor imparting to any It is bringing the powers of any artist to a 1616, and contains a description of the festi- one the malady that is preying on her heart." most severe test when he is thus required, vities at that court on the occasion of the visit No. 279. Deoch-an-douris. A. Fraser.. single-handed, to furnish a whole exhibition; of Elizabeth, daughter of James I. of England," Rome," says Sterne, "never imposed a pen- and an exhibition, too, consisting almost exand consort of the unfortunate Elector of the ance half so severe as that of taking leave." clusively of portraits; but it is a test which Palatinate. The doctor read extracts from it, It has probably been, with reference to such a in this instance is most triumphantly borne. which were risible enough, and closed (although feeling, that "the stirrup-cup" was introduced Whether contemplated merely with reference our readers may smile) with the preface, where-in order to assuage the sorrows of separation. to their merit as works of art, or whether in Weckerlin apologises for his want of skill, Be that as it may, Mr. Fraser has entered into with that contemplation is associated the deeply and compliments the English nation. his subject con amore; and has produced a interesting recollections which many of these work equally pleasing to the lover of art and noble performances are calculated to awaken, the lover of hospitality. that visitor to the Gallery must indeed be cold No. 280. Recollection of a Morning's Ram- and phlegmatic, who does not feel strongly ble last Autumn. J. J. Chalon, A.-Much of impressed by the magnificent and delightful the interest belonging to this simple and ex-spectacle which presents itself to him. of the artist, who has communicated to it a how important is the single but comprehentensive landscape has proceeded from the mind It will here, among other things, be seen 305. La Place de la Fusterie (Fruiterie), Geneva, pencil. That high and rare quality it is almost natural and Rembrandt-like effect.-No. sive quality of TASTE in the creations of the on a Market-day, also by Mr. Chalon, shews lowed on all hands no artist ever possessed in the versatility of his powers. The one is all greater degree than Sir Thomas Lawrence. His mind was thoroughly imbued with it. It tranquillity, the other all bustle. Croix. From "Quentin Durward." The mo- panied the slightest and most careless touch of No. 328. The Boar of Ardenne. E. de la was inseparable from every effort. It accomment chosen is when the ferocious William de his crayon. Many of his groups of portraits, la Marck, having ordered the bishop of Liege refined and elevated by the pervading influence to be brought before him dressed in his pontifi- of that invaluable quality, almost assume the cals, commands his assassination. It is a very character of poetical or historical composiclever work; but the great number of figures, tions. It is extraordinary, indeed, to ob and the want of a concentrated effect, rather serve what a vast change portrait-painting in this country has undergone in that respect

No. 342. Attachment. E. Landseer, A.We shall not easily forget a similar subject-a dog refusing to quit the grave of his masterpainted by this able artist, and exhibited at the British Gallery some two years ago. The present equally interesting work is founded on a melancholy fact: In the spring of 1803 a young gentleman of talent and most amiable disposition perished by falling from a precipice of the mountain Helvellyn. His remains were not discovered till three months afterwards, when they were found guarded by his faithful terrier." No. 226. Jessica. J. M. W. Turner, R.A. -Surely these vagaries of Mr. Turner's must be the result of studying a kaleidescope. One of our critical contemporaries so happily characterises this production, that we feel the temptation to piracy to be irresistible:" It looks," he observes, like a lady getting out of a large mustard-pot."* No. 233. A Contadina Family, returning from a Festa, Prisoners with Banditti. C. L. Eastlake, R.A. Elect.-There is much varied and powerful expression in this exceedingly clever and well-painted picture; but "will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?" We strongly recommend Mr. Eastlake to close his series of banditti subjects.

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no ordinary kind. The character of the composition, the depth of the tones, and the firmness of the penciling, shew the hand of No. 225. A Landscape-Morning. F. Finch. Slight; but, to the artist's eye, beautiful and

master.

confuse the spectator.

a

No. 332. Twilight. R. Westall, R.A.- since the days of Jervas, Richardson, and HudWe do not remember ever to have seen Gray's son. To Sir Joshua Reynolds is undoubtedly charming description of the soothing hour of due the glory of having struck out a new path, twilight more happily transferred to canvass. and of having invested his own branch of the It strikes us, however, that an extended form fine arts with a dignity and a charm, which, would have been more advantageous to the except in some few cases, it had never before picture than its present upright shape. possessed. How ably and successfully the ex

No. 343. A Peasant of the Island of Ceylon. ample of the first President of the Royal W. Daniell, R.A.-Life, motion, and grace, Academy was followed up by the last, the are the characteristics of this animated figure; walls of the British Gallery now abundantly which ought to have been placed as a pendant shew.

to No. 134, The Indian Widow visiting the The germ of epic art is very visible in such
Tomb of her Husband, by the same artist. They pictures as Sir Thomas's "Rolla," "Corio-
form a perfect contrast.
lanus,"
," "Cato," and "Hamlet;" although

No. 329.," Honest Izaak Walton."

treated.

No. 234. A Shooting Party regaling Scene in the Moors; Portraits. W. Simson. -It appears by the Catalogue that Mr. Simson J. the only work in which it is absolutely unfolded is a resident in Edinburgh. We do not recol-Inskipp.-An interesting subject, pleasingly is his "Satan ;"- —a grand and appalling conlect having seen any of his works before; but ception, which, however liable it may in some the picture under our notice exhibits powers of Of the portraits which the "School of Paint-points be to critical remark, proves of what No. 312, Portrait of the Earl of Hardwicke, the of the times, and the country in which he lived, ing" contains, two of the most striking are, this great artist was capable, had the sympathy late Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.; and No. encouraged him to devote himself to the more 281, Portrait of Henry Hoare, Esq., Mrs. W. intellectual and ambitious walks of his proCarpenter. A more admirable picture than fession. the latter we have never met with. There are Of the three apartments of which the Bri also very clever portraits by Phillips, Beechey, tish Gallery consists, the North Room, conwell, Clint, Reinagle, Green, Meyer, Joseph, them whole-lengths, painted by order of his Pickersgill, Jackson, Briggs, Simpson, Roth- taining twenty-one portraits, the majority of &c. Mrs. J. Robertson has a Portrait of a Majesty for the Waterloo Gallery at Windsor, and the able manner in which the satin is the pictures are new to the public, and because Young Lady, the graceful tournure of which, is peculiarly attractive; both because most of painted, remind us of Vandyke. As another they are the striking resemblances of distinexample of female talent in portrait painting, guished and celebrated persons; several of them Mrs. S. C. Hall. we would instance Mrs. Pearson's Portrait of "men of royal siege," and all of them sharers,

effective.

No. 238. A Scene in the Farce of Love, Law, and Physic; with Portraits of Messrs. Blanchard, Liston, and Mathews. G. Clint, A. -A superb resemblance of Liston. The whole is admirably executed.

(To be continued.) BRITISH GALLERY.

more or less conspicuous and important, in the events of one of the most extraordinary periods of history. It is not our intention to enter into any detailed description of these pictures; but we cannot refrain from expressing our

No. 244. Les Savoyards. Dubufe. From what we had seen of M. Dubufe's works, we had imagined that clothed figures made no part of his practice; and we were therefore agreeably surprised by the characteristic picture under our notice. It does him great credit, which is more than we are able to say of his Works of the late Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A. Psyche, No. 339. No. 269. The Pride of the Village. W. E. NEXT to the sensation which would be excited unbounded admiration of two of them in parWest. In this simple and quiet group there of monarchs, statesmen, heroes, and beauties, ent :-we mean "Francis the Second, Emperor by a sudden introduction to a living assembly ticular, which appear to us to be transcendis far more pathos than in many subjects of more active and appalling incident. For the to a galaxy of all that is dignified in rank, of Austria," and "His late Holiness, Pope suffering saint or expiring warrior human splendid in talent, memorable in warlike achieve- Pius VII." We know of no productions of a sympathy cannot always be roused; but extin-ment, and fascinating in female loveliness, is similar kind, by any artist, ancient or modern, guished must be all his social feelings who can moment on entering the Gallery of the British the comparison. It is said that Sir Thomas that which is actually produced at the present with which they would for an instant suffer in Institution, richly decorated as it is by nearly considered the portrait of the Emperor of Aus.

• Morning Chronicle.

them and their countrymen the rights of free- | already been derived from them, the following the opportunity of my return to England, to men, unanimously resolved, that all children extracts from a letter written at his own re- express their gratitude through me to the Briborn of their slaves after the 12th of August, quest to the president of the board of control, tish government, for the valuable right of sitthe anniversary of his majesty's birth, in the by Sir Alexander Johnston, in the year 1825, ting upon juries, which had been conferred year 1816, should be considered as free, and be will give some idea :— upon them by his present majesty. brought up at their expense till the age of "The native jurymen, from knowing the "The difference between the conduct which fourteen; thus associating for ever in the minds different degrees of weight which may safely was observed by all the proprietors of slaves on of their posterity, the memory of his majesty be given to the testimony of their countrymen, Ceylon in 1806, which was before the introwith all the blessings which are to be derived decide upon questions of fact with so much duction of trial by jury, and that which was from a state of freedom.* more promptitude than Europeans could do, observed by them in 1816, which was five "The introduction of the trial by jury that, since the introduction of trial by jury, no years after the introduction of the trial by among all the classes of the natives of Ceylon, trial lasts above a day, and no session above a jury, is a strong proof of the change which without distinction, has been the means of gra-week or ten days at farthest; whereas, before may be brought about in public opinion, by dually removing the religious jealousies which the introduction of trial by jury, a single trial the judges availing themselves of the opporprevailed among them, and habituating the used sometimes to last six weeks or two months, tunity which their charging the jury on the people of all the different religions, and of all and a single session not unfrequently for three first day of session affords them, of circulating the different nations of Asia, resident in the months. All the natives who attend the courts among the natives of the country such opinions island, to attend together the proceedings of the as jurymen obtain so much information during as may promote the welfare of any particular supreme court, both as jurors and spectators. their attendance, relative to the modes of pro- class of society. As the right of every proHence the painter enjoyed the best opportunity ceeding and the rules of evidence, that since the prietor of slaves, to continue to hold slaves on of representing not only the costume of the establishment of jury trial, government have Ceylon, was guaranteed to him by the capitujurors, of the slaves, and of their masters, but been enabled to find amongst the half-castes lation under which the Dutch possessions had also that of the natives of every part of India. and native jurymen some of the most efficient been surrendered to the British arms in 1795, The engraving accordingly exhibits with great and respectable native magistrates in the coun- the British government of Ceylon conceived accuracy, not only the costume of the priests of try, who, under the control of the supreme that, however desirable the measure might be, the Hindoo, Budhoo, and Mahomedan religions, court, at little or no expense to government, they had not a right to abolish slavery on Ceylon but also that of the Protestant and Catholic administer justice in inferior offences to the by any legislative act. A proposition was, howmissionaries, that of the Malabar inhabitants native inhabitants. The introduction of the ever, made on the part of government by me to of the north, as well as that of the Cingalese trial by native juries, at the same time that it the proprietors of slaves in 1806, before trial inhabitants of the south and interior of Ceylon, has increased the efficiency and despatch of the by jury was introduced, urging them to adopt that of the Malay princes and their attendants courts, and has relieved both prisoners and some plan of their own accord for the gradual from the eastern islands; that of the people of witnesses from the hardships which they in- abolition of slavery: this proposition they at the Laccadive and Maldive islands, that of the curred from the protracted delay of the cri- that time unanimously rejected. The right of Hindoo population of the coasts of Malabar and minal sessions, has, independent of the savings sitting upon juries was granted to the inhabitCoromandel; and that of the Moguls, Arabs, it enabled the Ceylon government to make im- ants of Ceylon in 1811. From that period I and Parsees. mediately on its introduction, since afforded availed myself of the opportunities which were "Owing to the continual intercourse kept that government an opportunity of carrying into afforded to me when I delivered my charge, at up between the natives of Ceylon and the effect, in the judicial department of the island, the commencement of each session, to the jurypeople of Hindoostan, the privilege granted by a plan for a permanent saving of ten thousand men, most of whom were considerable propriehis majesty to the former soon became gene- pounds a year. No man, whose character for tors of slaves, of informing them of what was rally known and desired throughout the British honesty or veracity is impeached, can be en- doing in England upon the subject of the aboempire in the East; and, induced by the suc- rolled on the list of jurymen; the circumstance lition of slavery, and of pointing out to them cess which had attended the introduction of the of a man's name being upon the jury roll, is a the difficulties which they themselves must fremeasure in that island, the parliament, by an proof of his being a man of unexceptionable quently experience, in executing with imparact passed in 1826, extended the same right to character, and is that to which he appeals in tiality their duties as jurymen, in all cases in the natives of all the British territories in India. case his character be attacked in a court of which slaves were concerned. A change of Hence, the trial by jury is now become an object justice, or in case he solicits his government opinion upon the subject of slavery was graof general interest to more than one hundred for promotion in their service. As the rolls of dually perceptible amongst them; and in the and twenty millions of people, inhabiting coun- jurymen are revised by the supreme court at year 1816, the proprietors of slaves of all castes tries containing upwards of three hundred every session, they operate as a most powerful and religious persuasions in Ceylon, sent me thousand geographical square miles, and ex- engine in making the people of the country their unanimous resolutions, to be publicly retending from the Gulf of Cambay to the rivers more attentive than they used to be in their corded in court, declaring free all children Ganges and Barrumpooter, and from the Hima- adherence to truth. The right of sitting upon born of their slaves after the 12th of August, laya mountains to Cape Comorin. juries has given the natives of Ceylon a value 1816; which in the course of a few years "This engraving has been executed from a for character which they never felt before, and must put an end to the state of slavery which painting made by J. Stephanoff, after an ori- has raised, in a very remarkable manner, the had subsisted on Ceylon for more than three ginal sketch taken by a native of Ceylon, who standard of their moral feelings. All the natives centuries." was himself a juryman, and highly delighted of Ceylon who are enrolled as jurymen, conceive with the right conferred on himself and his themselves to be as much a part as the European countrymen; and many of the figures are por-judges themselves are, of the government of traits of the persons of different castes, nations, their country; and therefore feel, since they A Fading Scene. Written by R. Montgomery; and religions, who took an active part in the have possessed the right of sitting upon juries, introduction of trial by jury, and in the eman- an interest which they never felt before in upcipation of slave children."

holding the British government of Ceylon. The At a time when the future government of beneficial consequence of this feeling is strongly India is a subject of public discussion before exemplified in the difference between the conboth houses of parliament,+ it must be an object duct which the native inhabitants of the British of great interest and curiosity to trace the origin settlements on Ceylon observed in the Kandian and progress of measures which must ultimately war of 1803, and that which they observed in produce the greatest moral and political change the Kandian war of 1816. In the war between in the feelings and conduct of the natives of the British and Kandian government in 1803, India. Of a few of the benefits which have

MUSIC.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

A MELODIOUS composition, with sweet words composed by J. Barnett. J. Barnett. -plaintive and appropriate.

Helen Trevor. The Words by G. Sharp; composed by C. E. Horn. Goulding and

D'Almaine.

EVERY thing about this ballad seems to taste of music, from the writer, G. Sharp, to the composer, Horn. Nor have we met with a sweeter composition for many a day-it is simple, easy, and pathetic; and we should dearly like to hear it sung by Miss Paton, to whom it is inscribed.

which was before the introduction of trial by jury, the native inhabitants of the British setThe number of slave proprietors (being in fact the whole of the slave proprietors in Ceylon) who agreed to tlements were, for the most part, in a state of this resolution was 761; and the number of full-grown rebellion; in the war between the same governslaves, male and female, to whom the resolution applied, ments in 1816, which was five years after the + Sir Alexander Johnston, to whom India and the Bri-introduction of trial by jury, the native inhatish empire at large are indebted for these two invaluable bitants of the British settlements, so far from measures, was examined with respect to them before the Committee of the House of Lords on the 16th and 19th of shewing the smallest symptom of dissatisfac- WE do not remember to have heard of the tion, took, during the very heat of the war, name of Fase before; but from the taste here

was about 10,000.

last March.

Hasten o'er the Lea. The Words and Music by Henry Fase.

displayed, we are sure his compositions are likely to be favourites with our fair friends.

The Pride of the Village. Written and composed by J. Green. J. Green.

A PLEASING piece, in the old ballad style, and with something peculiarly fanciful to recom

mend the music.

maine.

The Soldier's Boy to his Mother. By
J. Macdonald Harris. Falkner.

EVIDENTLY intended as a companion to "the
Mariner's Child to his Mother," to which we
gave such well-merited praise. It is enough,
therefore, to say that we approve as highly of
this song. It would make a delightful duet
with very little alteration. Mr. Harris sets
compositions rather high for many voices to
execute them perfectly.

the character of Idreno, the distribution of the duced on Tuesday, from the pen of Mr. Howard parts was altogether novel; Lalande was the Payne. In plot it nearly resembles Bertram, Assyrian queen, Malibran Arsace, Lablache the interest hinging on the return of a lady's Assur, Ambrogi Oroe, chief of the magi, and first love, after she has been induced by her Santini the Spirit of Ninus. We notice the father to marry another. In language it is performers as they appear on the scene. The far inferior to its prototype, and its conclusion voice of Lablache, we must premise, is, by is most lame and impotent. A beloved son and some of our contemporaries, erroneously pro- brother is seen borne off, mortally wounded, nounced to be a bass: it is a baritone, of which with the greatest unconcern, by his father and The Castanet. By E. Fitz Ball; the Music the upper notes are decidedly the best. Nor is sister; the latter of whom is coquettishly by G. H. Rodwell. Goulding and D'Al- his voice of that immense volume, or gigantic arranging some matrimonial business with a tone, which many were led to imagine he volatile sprig of royalty, and the curtain falls THE nice merry little ballad sung with so possessed, from the manner in which he bellow- upon the happy party. In the second act, too, much effect by the nice merry little Mrs. ed out his D, in his inimitable performance of amongst other incongruities, we have a strange Keeley in the Spring Lock. The accompani- the deaf Geronimo. The fact is, the voice of artist introduced into a Spanish nobleman's ment to the second part possesses much no- Lablache is very unequal; nor, in the lower study, where he stands with his hat flapped velty, and does great credit to Mr. Rodwell. register, is there aught of roundness, depth, or over his eyes in the nobleman's presence, and The Bower of Love; and From Distant Climes force. The style of his singing resembles that paints a whole-length of his wife, and as finely a Troubadour, by the same parties, and in the of Remorini; but those who remember that as Titian (at least, so says the gentleman), in same opera, deserve equal praise. As in the excellent artiste must give the preference to the course of five minutes. To be sure, if he Bottle Imp, the music of these compositions Remorini in serious songs. Neither does he took off his hat, the husband would see it was requires only to be heard to become very po- possess the fire of Galli, or feeling of Zuchelli. his rival, and there would be an end of the pular, and contribute to rank the composer's In a word, the serious is not the forte of Signor business; but would it not have been possible works generally with the most brilliant song Lablache; comedy best suits his person and to have invented a better disguise, and at the efforts of the day. powers. Nevertheless, we should like to see same time avoided the staring improbability of him in Fernando, in La Gazza Ladra. a fine painting being made as quickly as they Although the Semiramide of Lalande is not take a black profile in the Strand? (for the to our taste, inasmuch as there is a want of painting itself, be it noticed, has no influence majesty in her mien, which considerably de- whatever on the plot). We think so; but, tracts from her merits as an actress, yet we then, we are simple souls, and no dramatists, are free to confess that her singing in this and are most likely mistaken. Defective, howcharacter has raised her somewhat in our esti- ever, as the piece is, we must, in justice to the mation as a vocalist. Madame Lalande is nei- author, observe, that, with one or two excepther devoid of taste nor feeling; her voice is tions, little was done for it in the way of acting, peculiarly adapted for the delivery of pathetic and less in the getting up. A conflagration, in passages; but she does not excel in the bra- the last scene of the second act, was so poorly precision in her execution of those runs which interest was sadly injured, and the drama for vura; and there is a great want of closeness and and clumsily managed, that a situation of real scale. are more immediately confined to the diatonic some moments in jeopardy. Mr. Wallack was superbly drest, but seemed to feel the improbaOf Madame Malibran's Arsace we cannot bility of his situations and the repulsiveness of speak in very high terms. We do not deny his character. Jones and Harley had nothing her the merit of looking and dressing the to do worthy of them; but Bianca and Julia SIGNOR DE BEGNIS' Concert on Friday last character better than her gifted predecessor; were, surely, susceptible of treble the interest week was one of the most attractive of the but to say that, either in acting or singing, imparted to them by Miss Phillips and Miss season, and the entertainments of the most she can compete with Pisaroni in the part, is Mordaunt: the latter lady, indeed, little more varied and excellent description. The humour praise beyond her merit. Her style of singing than walked through the part. Mrs. Glover and talent of the Signor himself are enough to is at once unmeaning and meretricious, the was admirable, as, indeed, she always is; and give éclat to such a performance; but he was sound being always at variance with the sense. Cooper had the best of it among the gentlemen. surrounded by many of the most popular From her extravagant fondness for what she We must not forget to mention, that Mr. artistes now in the metropolis; and their com- may imagine to be ornament, the original me- Robinson, one of the counter-tenors of this bined exertions rendered the treat particularly lodies of some of the most beautiful cavatinas theatre, sung a version of "Le gallant Troubafull and agreeable. extant are totally deprived of their "fair pro- dour" with much sweetness and taste, in the portions." We said, on a former occasion, in masquerade scene, and was honoured with a a notice of Madame Malibran's performance, very general encore. The drama was announced that "the music of Rossini was sufficiently for repetition by Mr. Wallack, amidst applause; embroidered, without adding to its original but will scarcely live through the season, we IN our last number we expressed our anxiety garb aught of gingerbread gaudery;" and imagine, near as it now is to a close. to see Lalande and Lablache in Semiramide. added, "how different in this particular is Within the week the opera has been twice Pasta! Pasta rather diminishes than adds represented. Before we touch upon the vocal to the numberless notes of this popular comperformance, we shall make a few remarks on poser: any alteration she makes in the text of On Tuesday, one of the most deservedly poputhe execution of the instrumental music, more her author is always for the better. With lar actresses that has adorned the stage in our especially as the orchestral department of this Malibran it is quite the reverse." We con- time, Mrs. Davenport, took her farewell benefit, theatre seldom comes under the notice of the clude by observing, that we perceive, with recritic. We did not suppose it possible that the gret, that many of our metropolitan critics, absence of one individual (need we say we together with a considerable portion of the allude to Spagnioletti ?) could cause, on both bald-pated public (no allusion to the soi-disant nights, so sensible a deterioration in the execu- dilettanti who nightly occupy the front row in tion of the general performance, vocal and the pit), are fast making Madame M. more of instrumental. The slovenly and ineffective an enfant gâté than she has yet become. manner in which the beautiful overture of this opera was played, particularly on Saturday, was any thing but creditable to the theatre.

To the Gay Tournament. By T. H. Bayly, Esq.; Music by T. Cooke. Cramer and Co. SUNG by Vestris in Perfection, and a charming lively air, with which, as all the world are pleased, we need only encore the common opinion.

DRAMA.

KING'S THEATRE.

DRURY LANE.

Mr. Mori is, unquestionably, a solo player of A NEW drama, in three acts, called the Spanish
the very first order; but there is a wide differ-Husband; or, First and Last Love, was pro-
ence between fiddling a concerto and leading an
orchestra.

Of the vocal cast of Semiramide we have now to speak. With the exception of Curioni, in

On Tuesday night an amateur observed to a friend seated beside him in the pit, that "Malibran's embelto Newcastle." "No," replied a wag, "not coals, coke lishing Rossini's music was something like sending coals

you mean."

COVENT GARDEN.

and final leave of the stage. The house, need we say it? was crowded on the occasion. This week, Miss F. Kemble has performed no fewer than four characters, requiring great variety of talent (at least, we take it for granted she played Lady Townly last night); and, when we consider the youth of this sweet and gifted creature, we cannot wonder at the attraction which has attended them all, filling the theatre, and being warmly applauded whenever she appears. On one evening, Teddy the Tyler made us laugh as much as ever, though about its fiftieth repetition.

VARIETIES.

Constantinople. By permission of the sultan, a journal is about to be published at Constantinople, in the Turkish and French languages.

thousand francs to assist in defraying the ex- homicide; and 106 of sudden death. During pense of his work, which will be in four vo- the whole year there was not a single person The late winter.-It is extraordinary, that lumes, and will embrace the history of Spanish condemned to capital punishment. although the late winter was so rigorous in this architecture from the most remote period down Fossil Bones. An immense quantity of the part of the world, letters have been received to the present time. Spain is indeed a country fossil bones of the hippopotamus, the elephant, from Kamtschatka stating, that the oldest inha-well entitled to attract the attention and ex- the mammoth, and other species of animals no bitants do not remember one so mild. cite the interest of the lovers of the fine arts. longer in existence, has been recently disSuccessively occupied by the Phoenicians, the covered in a cavern near Palermo. Carthaginians, the Romans, and the Arabs, it contains monuments of the domination of LITERARY NOVELTIES. all these nations-so different in their origin, [Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. XXII. May 29.] language, and manners. From the fifteenth The March of Intellect, a Comic Poem, by W. T. Moncentury, and during the period of the power of crieff; with wood engravings by R. Cruikshank.-Leaves the Spanish monarchy, the arts made great and Flowers for an Album, by a Ci-devant Author.-A progress, and have left the stamp of their Second Series of the Irish Pulpit; Original Sermons by Clergymen of the Established Church in Ireland.-Pracgrandeur in the magnificent productions of tical Remarks on the Book of Exodus, for Family Worarchitecture which are the admiration of con- ship.-A Brief View of the different Editions of the Scripnoisseurs, and of which the Spanish people have a right to be proud.

The Plague. A long letter has been received from Dr. Pariset, dated Abouzabil, in Egypt, Feb. 25. It contains curious and afflicting details of the ravages of the plague in 1824, and of some recent cases. It appears that, in 1824, in the hamlet of Fishabauch, the number of the inhabitants of which was only 300, not fewer than 125 were carried off in two nights, and that the mortality in many other places was equally extensive and rapid. Dr. Pariset confirms the statement of Paré, that the plague is sometimes propagated by means of a particular kind of fly, which sucks the dead body, and afterwards biting living subjects, introduces the disease.

tures of the Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches.-
Irish Cottagers, by Mr. Martin Doyle.-O'Donoughoe,
Prince of Killarney, a Poem, by Miss Bourke.-The
Northern Tourist, or Stranger's Guide to the North and
North-west of Ireland, by P. D. Hardy.-Ten Views of
Picturesque Scenery in the same quarter.-Letters from
France, Savoy, &c., by George Downes, A.M.

LIST OF NEW BOOKS.

Literary Piracy. An ordinance of the Emperor of Austria has just prohibited, under severe penalties, the forgery of books. It is well known that Vienna has been from time immemorial the resort of the forgers of Ger- Horsley's Works, 9 vols. 8vo. 41. 78. bds.; Charges, man works. In Paris, the editors of the new edition, 8vo. 98. bds.--Wiffen's Tasso, third edition, 2 vols. fcp. 158. bds.-Burke's Official Calendar, 1830, Revue Française, the Revue de Paris, and the 8vo. 10s. 6d. cloth.-Cruickshank's Planter, 8vo. 128. bds. Gazette Littéraire, have combined in a resolu--Mornings with Mamma, royal 18mo. 4s. bds.-Gregson on Friendly Societies, 8vo. 78. bds.-Hull's Discourses, tion to prosecute the publishers of sheets, who 8vo. 78. bds.-Butler's Life of D'Agnesseau, 8vo. 6s. 6d. appropriate to themselves entire compositions bds.-Bicheno's Ireland and its Economy, crown 8vo. extracted from interesting periodical works. 8s. 6d. bds.-Coleridge's Introduction to the Classics, post 8vo. 68. 6d. bds.-Theological Meditations, 12mo. This question of literary property is about to 78. 6d. bds.-Porter on the Sugar-Cane, 8vo. 15s. bds.be submitted to the decision of the tribunals. Review of the Principles of Contingent Truth, 8vo. A summons has already been issued to the 8s. 6d. bds.-Dwarris on Statutes, 8vo. 11. 18. bds.-Fiction without Romance, 2 vols. 8vo. 168. bds. conductor of the Pirate.

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1830.

May.

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Thermometer.

Barometer.

From 45. to 66. 29.86 Stationary

Water-proof Cloth, &c.-At the last sitting of the Paris Society for the Encouragement of National Industry, upon reading a report on the means of making cloth water-proof, by a solution of caoutchouc (Indian rubber), placed between two thin cloths, which being passed under heavy pressure becomes solid, it was stated, that the discovery of dissolving this gum for such purposes was made by the Weber.-A Paris paper contains an account French chemists, Marquer, Laffond, &c. This of the residence and death of this great comis incorrect. It is an English invention. At poser in London, which is curious for its Thursday.. 20 this sitting it was stated, that, in consequence misrepresentations. The writer, who pretends Friday Saturday 22 of great improvements made in the manu- to have been the friend of Weber, tells us that Sunday.... 23 facture of glass in France for optical and other Weber was in great distress. that he lost Monday purposes, that country has ceased to be tri- 2,000 francs by his concert-that the Prussian Tuesday Wednesday 26 butary to Great Britain for a supply; and it and Saxon ambassadors, hearing of his distress, Prevailing wind, N.E. and S.W. Except the 21st, gewas even boasted that some of the largest offered him pecuniary aid, which he refused; nerally cloudy, with frequent and heavy rain. Thunder, glasses now used in this country for telescopes and that finally, in order to defray the ex- accompanied with vivid lightning, from eleven till midare of French manufacture. Mention was penses of his funeral, a guinea subscription night on the 21st. The storm of the 23d, which in the neighbourhood of London was attended with fatal conmade of a steam-engine of sixteen-horse power, was opened, each subscriber to be entitled to a sequences, was here first noticed about three in the afterin the establishment of M. Pihet, which has ticket of admission to St. Paul's, and to write noon, when distant thunder was heard in the S.W., which approached us till due south, when the lightning been at work daily for the last four years, and was most vivid and the thunder most intense: it passed which consumes only 96lbs. of coals in the over to the E. and N.E., where, when at a considerable distance, the thunder rolled for half an hour without an 025 of an inch.

hour.

Chin-chopper !!—Wonders, to be sure, will never cease! A German, of the name of Michael Boai, we understand, has been found to execute the most difficult pieces of music, producing a tone and effect far beyond what can be conceived possible, by simply striking upon his chin!

his or her name on Weber's tomb! This,
says the writer, was a good speculation: St.
Paul's was hardly large enough to contain the
guinea spectators, and a sum was collected
which would have sufficed for the support of
his family; but every shilling remained in
London. We should not be surprised if the
Parisians were to believe this story!

French Bible Society. By a report made to He has already performed the Protestant Bible Society in Paris, it apbefore the courts of Vienna, Berlin, St. Peters- pears that the receipts of the Society amounted burgh, Copenhagen, and lastly at the Hague, in the year 1829 to 43,377 francs, and its to the astonishment of all the musical pro- expenditure to 30,943 francs. fessors of those capitals. There is a certain attraction about the British metropolis, which rarely escapes the penetration of artists of this description; and therefore our readers will not be surprised to learn that he is now actually upon his way to London. By what term his extraordinary performance should be designated, will, we think, become a puzzle for the ingenious-chin-chopper, we suppose he would deem hardly sufficiently high sounding.

46.

67.

29.80 to 29.75

Lowest ........ 28.93
Mean
29.502

Population of Vienna.-According to official Number of days of rain, 14. returns, it appears that in 1829 Vienna con- Quantity of rain in inches and decimals, 3·19375. tained 289,785 inhabitants; of whom 142,654 Winds. 3 East-4 West-0 North-4 South-2 Northwere men, and 147,131 women. The number east-1 South-east-12 South-west-4 North-west. of births in 1829 had been 13,291 legitimate the quantity was great for the season, though not equal General Observations.-Rain fell on fourteen days, and children; of whom 6,999 were boys, and 5,474 to what was experienced in April last year, which was an illegitimate children, of whom 2,197 were extraordinarily wet month: the mean temperature congirls; 13,099 were Catholics, 161 belonged to and cold greater than in any one of the corresponding siderably higher than since 1825, and the extremes of heat the Reformed church, 30 to the Greek church, months of the last seven years-the barometer was geneand 30 were Jews. The number of deaths in rally, higher than for the last two years, although the maximum did not reach the average: a rainbow seen on Spanish Architecture. The first volume has 1829 had been 13,829, of whom 7,295 were the 23d, about 3 P.M., and soon after, the thunder was recently been published at Madrid of a History males, and 6,534 females; 13,453 were Catho-heard. The evaporation 0-475 of an inch. of Spanish Architecture and Architects, by lics, 233 Protestants, 117 Jews, and 26 Greeks: M. Céan Bermudez, a man most profoundly 4,588 died before attaining the age of a twelveversed in the fine arts, who has devoted his month; 1,175 before they were 4 years old; whole life (and he is now 80 years of age) to the 1,186 from 4 to 20 years old; 2,470 from 20 to study of Spanish archæology. The merit of the 40; 2,087 from 40 to 60; 1,984 from 60 to 80; author being universally acknowledged in his 337 from 80 to 100; and 4 above 100 years of own country, and his object being national and age: 13,338 died of common disorders; 342 patriotic, King Ferdinand has sent him twenty of the small-pox; 45 by suicide; only 1 by

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

N. R.'s lines are feeling enough; but we cannot insert them. H. H. is in the same order.

Neither having seen designs, plans, nor estimates, we are unable to speak of the proposed triumphal arch near Battle Bridge, in honour of his Majesty George IV. We are, however, of opinion, that in the centre of all very wide openings, or where several streets cross, there ought to be some object interposed for the safety of pedestrians.