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about A.D. 71, in the reign of Vespasian, and he was succeeded by Paulinus.

No. 12 would seem to be a continuation of No. 19 consists first of three Greek lines, No. 11, though not directly subjoined to it. containing the name, as very probably made No. 3, also in Latin, recites the same of It consists of thirteen Greek lines, more or less out by M. Letronne, of Julia Balbilla, who Lucius Junius Calvinus, prefect, and his wife, perfect iambic verses. They contain an ad- on Adrian's hearing the Memnon, on the 24th Minicia Rustica, on the 1st of April, in the dress of the same Charisius to Memnon, allud- of the Egyptian month Athyr, A.D. 130, fourth year of Vespasian, and at the second ing to the hour of his voice being heard, when composed ten long and short verses, (given hour. his mother, Aurora, greets [bathes?] his body by M. Letronne), and, thanks to his labours The Suedius Clemens, prefect of the camp, with drops of dew-to the sacrifices and liba- and learning, now nearly perfect. They are, mentioned in No. 4, is understood by M. Le-tions which the strategus had offered to him, as usual, flattering both to the emperor and tronne to be the person of that name men- and comparing him to the Argo, and to the to the Memnon of Egypt, whose voice was tioned by Tacitus as a friend of the Emperor vocal oak of the Dodonæan Jupiter. M. Le- three times heard by the emperor, king of the Otho; but as the date is the 3d of the ides of tronne presents on this occasion some learned world. On the first occasion the sound uttered November, and the third year of our emperor, remarks on the grammatical construction and was xaigny, the Doric infinitive for xaigu. The it must be assigned to the reign of Vespasian, poetic licenses of this military poet: as, where statue is called in the second line enainis aitos. as Suedius Clemens was only principilaris ing is used as the last foot of an iambus (per- In the sixth line the words i xi ga v are the time of Otho, and neither that emperor, haps the words in rng ought to have been remarkable, as expressing the shadow cast on nor Vitellius, nor Titus, reigned long enough transposed). The oak is called nyos, as in the dial by the gnomon; and in the seventh to admit of any other interpretation. Apollonius of Rhodes, and in the psuedo- line, that of s xunto cuivres, beaten brass, Orpheic poems. It was the Quercus esculus to which the second sound is compared. The of Linnæus. We refer to the original memoir inscription terminates with stating, that Adrian of M. Letronne for the various restorations saluted the statue twice-dis d'úsráccaro aurÒs with which his learning and ingenuity have Mirova: and the next inscription testifies that supplied him, to fill up the lacuna in this poeti- the sound was, in fact, only twice heard, so cal address. that probably the first sound (before sun-rise) was only in the imagination of the poetess.

No. 5, also in Latin, is remarkable for reciting no fewer than eleven occasions on which Hanicius, son of Julius, paymaster of the third Cyrenaic legion, had heard the same sound; namely, four times in the fourth year of the reign of Augustus, once in the third year, as M. Letronne thinks, of Vespasian, and six times in the fourth year of the same emperor. Another inscription found at Dakkeh testifies that this legion was in Upper Egypt, also, during the reign of Tiberius.

No. 6, is by Tiberius Claudius Heron, in the eighth year of Vespasian.

No. 7 bears the name of a woman, Funisulana Vetulla, wife of Caius Lælius Africanus, prefect of Egypt, and the date of the 31st Jan. A.D. 84, the first year of Domitian. This lady visited the statue three times, but heard the sound only the last time.

No. 8 is entire, but only states the same fact of a centurion of the twenty-second legion, in the fourth year of Domitian Cæsar Augustus Germanicus, 2. 85 A.D.

No. 13. Caius Bibius Maximus heard the
sound at 24h and 3 on the 14th calends of
March, in the seventh year of the Emperor
Cæsar Nerva Trajan, Augustus, Germanicus, the first hour.
Dacicus (16 Feb. A.D. 124).

No. 20 is the testimony of PaviaVOS VIDITTOS
to this fact: ivròs gas, i. e. within, during,
No. 21 offers four Greek hexameters and
No. 14, which contains nine imperfect Greek three pentameters, published with the former
trimeter iambic verses, gives us the name of in the Anthologia of Jacobs, after the notes
Celer, a Roman, as strategus, an exception to and corrections of Dorville; but the later la-
the general practice mentioned in No. 10. His bours of Mr. Salt have furnished several im-
first visit to Thebes was not to hear Memnon, proved readings, and the means of suggesting
but, as he says, to labour in the cause of the others, to the sagacity of M. Letronne. The
villagers (quære, was Thebes already reduced to same poetess Balbilla speaks:
the state of a village?) rv xwunray, though he
returned for that purpose, and at first Memnon
was silent; but two days after, he heard the
sound of the god, rorov xo. The date,
which is the 7th of the month Epiplis, and the
seventh of the reign of Adrian, answers to the
1st of July, A.D. 124, and the 2d hour.

No. 9 is partly in Latin, and in part Greek. The first part, in Latin, states, as read by M. Letronne, that Titus Petronius Secundus Νο. 15 (Greek) is in a very imperfect state, visited the statue in the seventeenth consul- particularly the first part of it: the second ship of Domitian, A.D. 96. The second part part, of which a large portion has been originally consists of an hexameter and a pentameter supplied by Mr. Salt, offers the name of QuinGreek verse, in which M. Letronne observes, tius, who was vinogos, or keeper of the great piyao, Ionicè for ipdiyža — Aúroida, Dorice temple of Serapis at Alexandria, and who was for Antoidu-Meuve in the vocative case, and one of those exempted from public charges the words τὸν γὰς μέρος ὧδε κάθηται, appear to (ἀτελῶν) and maintained in the museum, and prove that the statue was at this period a frag-who heard the sound in the fifth year of Adrian. ment. The third part, in Latin, is a notice No. 16 (Latin), quite perfect, or at least that the prefect's inscription was engraved by Titus Attius Musa, president of the second

cohort.

No. 10 serves only to prove, that in the fifth year of the Emperor Adrian, 12th calends of March, at half-past one, Titus Hatenius Nepos, prefect of Egypt, heard the sound (15 Feb. A.D. 121).

I, Balbilla, heard the speaking stone,

The divine voice of Memnon or Phamenoth.

I came along with the beloved Queen Sabinna;
The sun was holding the first course of the hour,
In the fifteenth year of King Adrian,
On the 24th day of - Athyr.

On the 25th day of the month Athyr.
Here we observe zeros deóuos, Doricè for g-
τους δρόμους. Adrian is called κοίρανος πίσυρα,
Eolice for rissaga. The last line is a correc-
tion of the date given in the last but one.

No. 22 commemorates the simple fact of the sound being heard during the first hour (is gas) by Sabina Augusta (wife) of the Emperor Cæsar Augustus.

No. 23 offers fourteen Greek verses of the same Balbilla, divided into two portions, one of six, the other of eight lines. It is addressed to offers no difficulty in being made so. Titus Memnon, and begins with χαῖρε καὶ αὐδάσαις Flavius Titianus, prefect of Egypt, heard the gogows. The allusion to the statue having Memnon on the 13th calends of April, under been mutilated by the impious Cambyses is the third consulship of Verus and Ambibulus imperfect; but we read the words dziv (20th March, A.D. 126, ninth year of Adrian). avèv, to shew that his sacrilegious act was not No. 17, Latin, and very imperfectly given unpunished. The poetess mentions her royal by those who preceded Mr. Salt. It tells us descent from Antiochus. Her father Balbillus that Caius Maenius Hanlochus, a native of is called raps, and was probably the individual The name of the person in the inscription Corinth and centurion of the twelfth legion of that name called by Tacitus virorum optimus, No. 11 is partly Roman and partly Greek; Fulminator, heard the Memnon during the in omni litterarum genere rarissimus. His name but the inscription itself is wholly Greek. The consulship of Gallicanus and Titianus, on the was Claudius Balbillus, and he was prefect of name is that of Lucius Funisulanus Charisius, 13th of the calends of July, which was in the Egypt under Nero, A.D. 57. The Antiochus and he was strategus of the nome of Hermon-year A.D. 127. mentioned may have been the king of Commagene, third of that name, who died U.C. 770, or A.D. 17. The inscription called that of the Busiritani mentions that this Balbillus visited the pyramids.

this, and a native of the neighbouring nome of The second section comprises those inscrip-
Latopolis. [An inscription at Phila shews that tions in which allusion is made to the visit paid
these two nomes, or districts, were comprehended to Thebes by the Emperor Adrian and Sabina
under the same strategia.] M. Letronne here his empress, in the month of November, A.D.
makes allusion to a peculiarity in the Egyptian | 130, viz. the fifteenth of the reign of that em-
government under the emperors
that the peror.

IMPERAT. A[D]

RIANOC.

No. 24, which offers two long and two short Greek verses, mentions that the Egyptian priests identified Memnon with the ancient king Amenoth; and it also adds its locality as opposite to Thebes, or the city of Jupiter, vra As but, from its extreme simplicity and shortness, ósos. It appears from this, that the Memnon, we may suppose it to have been engraved under son of Tithonus, of the Greeks, was the Amethe eye and by order of the emperor himself; noth of the Egyptians. We read here also vas and probably by a Greek, as the name is with-iviraci for as ivious: and the a in xaλaíav is out the initial is, and the final letter is Greek.made short.

strategi were Greeks. If so, the two Latin No. 18 contains merely the words
prænomina prove the application of the Greek
Charisius to a Roman family. His wife, too,
was a Roman lady of the name of Fulvia; they
visited the statue, and heard the sound before
and during the first hour of the day of the
month Thoth II L Z, answering to the 6th
Sept., A.D. 123.

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The third section contains inscriptions of date posterior to Adrian's visit to Thebes.

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No. 25 presents to us the name of Artemidorus, ygappariùs, or public secretary of two nomes, who heard Memnon in the month Choiu, which begun on the 27th or 28th of November, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Adrian; and as Adrian left Thebes two or three days before that period, Artemidorus must have engraved the notice of his visit shortly after the emperor's. He was accompanied by his wife (riubos, conjux) Arsinoë, and his two sons Ailourion and Ptolemy: the former name is unique, and, from its derivation from augos, a cat, shews the usage of compounding Greek names from Egyptian manners. In No. 26 Quintus Apollonius Boethus testifies to his having heard the sound with the foregoing.

In No. 27 we learn the fact that for three generations the office of exidinaors, or chief judge, was held in the same family by father, son, and grandson; and as it is in the Greek language, it is probable that this office was given by the Romans to Greeks: the name is Caius Julius Dionysius. òg is used for vids.

inscription of the oasis, has the sense of public, though an Italian, composes in Greek, is, the
imperial, national: ulous viaxal were the frequency of visitors to the statue to verify the
public farms or revenues. The word occurs in fact of its uttering a sound at sun-rise, not-
no dictionary.
withstanding the violence of Cambyses, which
had deprived it of the head.

Second Part: Inscriptions without a Date.
First Section: Greek Inscriptions.
No. 39. Two imperfect iambics express the
wish of Tribulla that her mother too had heard
the sacred voice of Memnon.

No. 50 is of Heliodorus, the son of Zenon, native of Cæsaræa, in the province of Panias, who thought of his absent brothers, Zenon and Eanus, when he heard the sound twice.

No. 51 is a mere titleἔπαρχος λεγεώνας.
No. 40 is of the same poetess, and offers three No. 52, much mutilated, but mentions that
lines of introduction and five Greek iambics, Aponius wrote the gorxivna, or act of adora-
more correct and better expressed than the pre-tion, of Aphroditarius.
ceding. Cæcilia Tribulla, on her second visit,
No. 53. Claudius Germinus, arabarches and
observes that Memnon, son of Aurora and Ti. epistrategus of the Thebaid, heard the sound,
thonus, received her and her companions as both in going up and coming down the river.
friends and old acquaintances; and the address The desert between Egypt and the Red Sea
finishes with this question: Whether Nature, was called Arabia, and the expression avaλív,
the creatress of all, has given feeling and voice for going up the river, seems to imply that he
to stone? The only critical notices of M. Le- had his residence, not at Thebes, but lower
tronne on this inscription are, that axovoúvras down, probably at Ptolemais, which, under the
and Tuvoo terminate iambic lines, making Greeks and Romans, was the capital of the
them choliambic, and that iyyuara is written Thebaid.
with two yy. The place it occupies in refer- No. 54. Achilles, with his brother Eumenes,
ence to the preceding, the one being the highest having heard the sound, he leaves to his son
and the other the lowest on the leg of the sta-Ammonius the task of engraving the notice of
tue, proves that both of them must be more it on the stone.

Nos. 28 and 29 offer nothing remarkable.
No. 30 contains the name of a Petronius, pre-recent than the intermediate, i. e. later than No. 55 is of another epistrategus of the
Thebaid, probably Messalinus, who heard the
Memnon with his wife (vi) Publia Sasis.

fect of Egypt, and places the third consulship
of Servianus and first of Varus in A.D. 133.
In No. 31 we have three very indifferent
Latin lines

Horam cùm primam, cùmque horam sole secundam
Prolata oceano luminat alma dies,

Vox audita mihi est ter bene Memnoina.

By Viaticus, A.D. 133.

In No. 32 Memnon is called Quiratos, and mention is made of a month named Adgiavos. This appellation occurs also, according to M. Letronne, in an astrological papyrus preserved in the Royal Museum of Paris, where it is stated that the 8th of the month Adrian corresponded to the 18th of the old Egyptian Tybi. M. Letronne conjectures, with great probability, from the nonconcurrence of this month with any other, that it was introduced to flatter the emperor, and that it was made to begin on the 24th of Athyr, the month preceding Tybi, being the day on which Adrian arrived at Thebes. The thirty days, then, of the month of Agiavos would be from the 20th of November to the 19th of December.

No. 33 only mentions the twentieth year of

Adrian.

the reign of Adrian.

No. 41 presents six Greek iambics, probably of another Cæcilia, daughter of the foregoing Cæcilia Tribulla. The injury done to the statue, and to the quality of the voice rendered by it, in consequence of the violence of Cambyses, are pathetically described.

No. 56, very imperfect, presents the names of Aguvos or Agusvos, a prefect, and of Cambyses.

No. 57. Only the proper name Saturninus. No. 58. The exívnua, or adoration, of one No. 59. Balbinianus, prefect and exidinarhs, or chief judge, admired Memnon.

No. 42. Panion? a native of Side, in Pam-Dionysias or Dianysia.
phylia? declares, in a Greek distich, that he
had verified what he had heard of the vocal
powers of Memnon.

In No. 43 Pardalas, of Sardis, promises
Memnon that he will remember him in his
tablets (Bio), having twice heard him.

No. 44 is of Catulus (Græce Károvλos), rayos, or chief governor of Egypt, who bears witness to having heard the voice, after having come to the statue at night, notwithstanding the injuries of the spoilers.

No. 45 is too imperfect for any thing else to be extracted from it than that more than one person had visited the statue in vain, no sound being heard.

No. 46, also very imperfect, offers only to M. Letronne the opportunity of referring the expression οὐκ ἀκάρηνος ἔης ποτ', to a testimony that Memnon was not always thus without a head.

Second Section of the Second Part:
Latin Inscriptions.

No. 60 presents the following hexameter: —
Auribus ipse meis cepi, sumpsique canorem.
Nos. 61, 62, 63, present nothing worth no-
tice.

No. 64 gives the names of M. Herennius Faustus and Julius Fadius, of the seventh cohort.

The following inscriptions, to No. 72 inclusive, the number of the whole which are on the statue, are very short and imperfect, and they only present a few titles of legions and cohorts; they are almost all notices of military visitors.

FINE ARTS.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Miss Mordaunt. On stone, by W. Sharp, from a Drawing by J. Hayter. Dickinson.

No. 34 offers the title of youuuariùs Carinos. No. 35 contains ten Greek hexameters, with many Homeric plagiarisms, in which the offi- No. 47 presents us with six very good and cial poet, Gemellus, prefect of Egypt, probably well-expressed Greek elegiac verses of the poet A.D. 149, in the reign of Antoninus Pius, Asclepiodotus, who was at the time irirgores, or A GRACEFUL and elegant sketch; and, as far celebrates his visit and the voice of Memnon, procurator of the emperor. The lines are well, in company with his wife Rafilla. The in-preserved, and required but very little correc-enables us to judge, a good likeness. as a theatrical knowledge of the fair original scription offers nothing very remarkable but tion from the ingenuity of our author. The the ingenious conjectural emendations and sub-subject of the epigram is an address to Thetis, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Church. stitutions of the learned author of our memoir. telling her that Memnon, warmed by his moNo. 36 is the notice of M. Ulpius Primianus, ther's torch, lives and speaks, where the Nile NEATLY executed; but by no means a favour. prefect of Egypt, who heard the Memnon twice parts the fair-gated Thebes under the brows of able view of the magnificent and venerable on the sixth of the calends of March in the se-Libya, while her son, the restless Achilles, is cathedral. This print revives a strong inclinacond consulship of Septimius Severus, 24th of dumb, whether in the plain of Troy or in tion we have frequently felt to endeavour to February, A.D. 194. This is the latest date Thessaly. blow up St. Margaret's church! which occurs in these inscriptions.

No. 48 contains four Homeric verses, or rather verses made up of scraps from that poet, by Arius, who calls himself an Homeric poet.

No. 37 gives the expression egi gratias. No. 38, also in Latin, must be attributed to the reign of Septimius Severus, from the ex- No. 49. We have here ten Greek long and pression AVGG. This Felix, freedman of the short verses, which are very well preserved, emperors, i. e. Severus and Caracalla, held the and of some merit for their expression and office of procurator usiacus. This last word poetry. Poetical licenses are taken, especially offers an instance of the facility with which in proper names; and M. Letronne has exhiGreek words were adopted into the Latin lan-bited his usual talent and research in the few guage in the decline of the empire. Usiacus corrections which he has proposed. The subcan be no other than ourxès, which, by theject of the little poem of Petronianus, who,

Drawn by O'Connor.

England and Wales.

From Drawings by J. M. W. Turner, Esq. R.A. No. IX. Jennings and Chaplin. MR. TURNER has the rare faculty of communicating to his local views an interest similar to that which Reynolds and Lawrence so frequently communicated to their portraits: he makes pictures of them, highly valuable in themselves, independently of their resemblance to the scenes from which the hint for them has

been derived. "Stamford" and "Alnwick and like "swift Camilla scoured along the Their tongues (lithe bows of falsehood!) let Castle," in the present number, the one under plain" without the appearance of exertion, or the them bend, the effect of a violent thunder-storm, the other waste of one spring or muscle more than caused And call me any thing-except their friend! wrapped in the dun shades of night, are singu- him to skim the ground with exquisite grace So be my grave my resting-place on Earth, larly fine examples of his power in that respect. and rapidity. The accurate portrait of so su-The scorn my soul is big with shall have birth! perior an animal is not only a fit treat for the Stand forth, Sir Thomas !-upright, if you can, Views of the Canterbury and Whitstable Rail- sporting world, but a thing to be admired by And dare assert yourself an honest man! way, taken on the opening Day, May 3, 1830. all the lovers of mere beauty: and we would lay" Honest!" and yet, without remorse or dread, Executed in lithography by T. M. Baynes. eleven to two, therefore, that Priam will be an Defraud the people of their daily bread! Canterbury, Ward; London, Tilt. especial favourite not only for the St. Leger, To save your Country this your sole device, THE picturesque and the useful seldom have but for many a tapestried wall, and many a That corn be kept-just at the starving price! any great analogy. Mr. Baynes has, however, select portfolio. communicated as much of the former quality as appears to have been possible to these two views; which are exceedingly interesting, when contemplated as representing one of those undertakings which will, no doubt, in a few years spread over the whole land, and produce changes that it would at present foil the most active imagination fully to anticipate.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

JUVENALIA.NO. III.

Wo unto him! who, though the proverb warn,
Sits down in the satiric chair of scorn!
That moment, Villany sets up its howl,
Worse than the Hell-dog's rugged-throated
growl

The King. J. D. delt. Dickinson.
A STRIKING and pleasing resemblance of his When, by Alcides dragged into the light,
Majesty, in his favourite pony-chaise. Would His form obscene stood full exposed to sight.
that his faithful subjects might have the grati-Wo to the keen Inquisitor of Hearts
fication of again seeing him with such good
looks, and enjoying a similar recreation!
Amy Robsart. Drawn on stone by W. Sharp,
from an original Painting by G. S. Newton,
A.R.A. Dickinson.

Who, even to whispering reeds, the tale imparts! Even though the deep disdain he mutely feels, His nostril, looped and buttoned, half reveals! But should he, with TERRIFIC TRUTH, declare Aloud, what sinks of sinfulness they are,Lo! what a host of human fiends arise! WE recollect in our boyish days an old idiotic Hark! what a foul-mouthed din of bestial cries! beggar, "of the north countrie," exceedingly Like one who in some ruin gropes his way ugly, but of whom, as he was well known in Where skulking Owls avoid detective day; the neighbourhood, an itinerant artist painted His ears with shrieks, screams, hootings, they a portrait, as a specimen of his abilities. When it was finished, the original gazed at it very Whir up the dust, and flap him round and attentively for some minutes, and then, turn- Thus fares the Satirist! who says but sooth; ing round with a countenance of great delight, For the severest satire now is-truth. amused the spectators of the scene by the No need to polish sentences, like swords, exclamation of, " pretty creature!" Although Nor dip in venom his sharp-pointed words. on perfectly opposite grounds, the same words Yet, though he but speak out what is confest rose to our lips on the first glance at this sweet By each man's conscience smothered in his little print; " pretty creature!" [days,

The Playfellows. Drawn on stone by W.
Sharp, from an original Drawing by John
Hayter. Dickinson.

TASTEFULLY executed; but we wish the
attention of the boy had been monopolised by
his favourite. There is a want of unity in the
action; the arm and the countenance have dif-
ferent interests.

A Series of Subjects from the Works of the late R. P. Bonington. Drawn on stone by J. D. Harding. Part III. Carpenter and Son. THE more we see of Mr. Bonington's works, the more sensible we become of the loss which the arts sustained by his death. The five subjects introduced in the present part of Messrs. Carpenters' most interesting publication, are and the characteristic manner in which they delightful specimens of his taste and feeling are executed on stone is equally creditable to Mr. Harding.

astound,

breast,

[round!

(Some kill the brat that shames them, now-a-
And even to keep a conscience is some praise!)
That moment he is wished (devoutly!) dead,
And thousand hard words knock him on the

head;

With missile curses whizzing in his ears,
He sinks to Hades every oath he hears.
Each classic name our City Mermaids quote,
Which swells the Whitefriar linnet's Attic
throat,
Which parrots, kitchen-bred, have learned by
[rote;
Each title, from old honour's fount, King Lud,
Which runs the public guttur, slick as mud;
Each vapid epithet of stale abuse,
Unseasoned even by common salt for use;
These, like the boarded Frenchman's savoury
On JACK's anointed head, unceasing pour,
show'r,
Assaults, Iniquity! thy coward crew.
To whelm the wight whose cutlass keen and true
That moment, every fool becomes his foe,
And gnashing teeth grin round in many a
The only shining parts that blockheads shew!
Like him who wanders Afric lands unknown,
To find out Niger's head, or lose his own,
And, curious, to some wilderness repairs
Of Monkeys, swinging in their forest chairs;
A sudden squall succeeds to fixt grimace!
And senseless words distort each jabbering face;
Some overhead, the threatening branches shake,
Some through the stems a mask of fury make;
Their fangs they grind with more than human
spite,

And you, Sir John!-whose genealogic roots,
Rotten by age, sprout fungi and not fruits;
You that, erewhile, cried out for blood alone,
French, German, Spanish,-any but your own!
Rabid for fight,-where others were to bleed;
Of victory vain,-where others won the meed;
Promised of war the sinews to supply,
And did!—from every lusty tenant's thigh;
Oped to the general need the public purse,
And put your own five fingers in of course!
Voted large sums for mercenary aid,
And sure! for that, at least, you should be paid!
With liberal soul conceded state demands,-
But raised, meanwhile, the rents of all your
Are you, Sir John! the honest man we seek ?-
No! but perchance we'll catch white crows

lands!

next week!

MUSIC.

CIANCHETTINI'S CONCERT.

than Cianchettini; and that this feeling was a FEW performers deserve better of the public general one, his well-attended concert sufficiently proved. Mlle. Blasis sung her best; and La Blache was, as usual, melodious thun. der. A solo on the harp, by Miss Gautherot, was played with most brilliant execution, only softened by exquisite taste; and a composition of Cianchettini's own, sung by Donzelli, well merited the immense applause it received.

DRAMA.

KING'S THEATRE. WHETHER it be that Terpsichore has triumphantly trampled Euterpe under foot, or that seeing, as being nearer the "naked truth," has become more fashionable than hearing, we cannot exactly determine; but certes, never were people professing to be "passionately fond of ing passion than the thousands who congremusic" less disposed to indulge in the prevailgated at this theatre during the last week to sleep out operatic performances. Notwithstanding the inimitable representation of Gli Orazi e Curiazi and Il Turco in Italia, the merits

of the vocalists were quite overlooked. All ears appeared to have been shut; and it was not till auditors were told to become spectators,

the legs Talionis being in sight, that the very (query, pseudo?) musical multitude could be induced to open their eyes. Previous to the row-ballet not a hand was heard. All digits were reserved for the dancer's toes; and when Terpsichore stood upon these extreme points, the Bulls in the pit were absolutely roaring with delight, and seemed ready to stand on their heads, if not their horns. What the dilettanti are to do upon the dancer's departure, Laporte only can tell; doubtless the manager has something in reserve to rouse the dormant propensities of the musical world. We had intended to have offered a few ra[not bite! tional remarks upon the "borrowed plumes" Throw sticks, hurl nuts, fling dirt, but dare and huge umbrella bonnets which nightly obCome what come will, Truth shall rebuke the struct the view in the pit of this theatre; but [shout; not being exactly in the vein, we shall content fast-sailing vessel before a favouring breeze; Her sharp, small voice, will rise above their ourselves by substituting instead, part of a col

Priam, the Winner of the Derby Stakes, May
27, 1830. The Property of W. Chiffney.
London, published by S. Maunder.
IN our last, on noticing Rowton, we mentioned
that the publisher had also announced Priam:
but in a race of this kind there is much in the
start; and we find from a beautiful and very
cheap portrait of this celebrated horse just
sent to us, that Mr. Maunder has taken the
field so early as to distance all competition.
We saw Priam win this famous race; and
never, even with eyes inexperienced in these
matters, witnessed such fine action in the
animal creation. He ran like a well-built and

rout!

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1st Dandy. "I wish you could call her a tailor's wifeI'd borrow Mr. Snip's shears, and clip her feathers as close as her crop."

for less."

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2d Dandy. " D-d nuisance-people have been indited 1st Dandy, "I can't stand it any longer-I have not seen a leg of her yet." (Addressing Dame.) I beg your pardon, ma'am; may I request you to doff your wig.' Dame. "My wig, sir! Pray who told you I wore a wig?" 1st Dandy, "Your bonnet, ma'am"-[Remaining conversation lost in the Taglioni applause; and a quantity of Opera wit and eloquence buried in oblivion for ever.

THE new lessee of Drury Lane has appointed Morton reader of plays, vice Fred. Reynolds, who is, we hear, about to make his first appearance as a novelist; and if he display as much originality in this character, as he formerly did in that of dramatist, his new novel will not, at any rate, prove" caviare to

the million."

VARIETIES.

and Policy, as well as those of the Party with whom he

there, five hundred persons were buried in the tory: it is to be entitled, Hampden's Character, Conduct,
ruins of their houses, or of the temples in
which they had taken refuge. One of the
mountains opened, and a part of it, which was
detached, filled up a rich valley, overwhelming
every thing.

Butter. The Journal des Connaissances Usuelles gives an account of the means used in the canton d'Issigny to procure excellent butter in winter. The cows are warmly clothed, so as to cause them to calve in the autumn, as it is found that the milk, after this process of nature at that time, becomes more abundant and richer in quantity; and during the severest weather in the winter, they were constantly kept clothed, and fed in the open air, as the taste of the butter is said to be much injured by confinement in the stable. The butter of this district is superior to any other on the continent.

acted. We are assured that the noble author has discovered new traits in the character and conduct of Hampden; and we trust that, not only by his own assiduity and research, but by the communications of literary friends, he may be enabled to illustrate the era he has chosen with much original information.

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METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1830. Animalised Bread.-A new kind of bread, June. called pain animalisé, is now manufactured in Thursday.. 17 From 43. to 55. 29.83 Paris. It having been found that the gelatine Friday 19 Saturday of bones, used for soups, was exceedingly nu- Sunday.... 20 tritious, it was imagined that if this gelatine Monday .. 21 could be introduced into bread from potato Tuesday .. 22 Wednesday 23 flour, which is very much less nutritious than Wind very variable, N.W. and N.E. prevailing. The wheaten flour, the former would be equally 17th and 18th generally cloudy, with rain at times: the Public Education in France. The French pleasant, and even more nutritive than wheat-19th generally clear, till late in the evening, when it minister of public instruction has addressed a en bread. The experiment has been tried with took place on the 20th, and happening to be "new moon" rained. The favourable change in the weather which circular to the heads of the colleges and great success; and beautiful loaves of bread, on the afternoon of the same day, induced persons to other public establishments for the education made in this way, are now sold in Paris, at a commence cutting their grass on the 21st; unfortunately, however, without any second change of the moon, the of youth, calling upon them to furnish an much lower price than bread from wheat flour.rain again fell, and continued to do so during the night account of the system of instruction pursued, The gelatine is so purified as to impart no un-of the 21st and the greater part of the 22d: the next and and of the food, clothing, and general care of pleasant flavour; and the potato bread, thus this day (24th) have been very favourable to hay-making, the pupils. This is understood to be prepa- manufactured, is as agreeable as it is wholeratory to a reform in all these institutions. some. As a cheap, nutritious, and useful artiVolcano.Letters from Sicily give lament-cle of food for the poor, the potato bread thus able details of the late eruption of Mount Etna. made is unequalled. A large quantity of the Eight villages, not one of which was ever be- biscuit sent out with the African expedition fore affected by the flames or lava of the vol- was prepared in this manner. cano, have been buried under enormous masses of stones and cinders. The coasts of Calabria, and some parts of Italy, exposed to the wind, have been covered with the same red dust as the vicinity of Etna. The country round the volcano has been completely desolated.

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Human Horns.-At a recent sitting of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris, a paper was read relative to two human horns, which were submitted to inspection. One of them, resembling, in every respect, a ram's horn, had grown from a man's thigh, immediately over Vegetable Extract. In the north of France the great trochanter. The second, which is an excellent extract of the herbs used in soups exactly like the other, grew from the posterior and broths is made by boiling them very slowly part of the leg of the same individual. The with a sufficient quantity of salt, and after- horns were removed, in January last, by a sur-meter has not been so low in the month of May since 1827, wards evaporating the fluid. A little of this geon; and the wounds, being cauterised, healed

extract, dissolved with gum arabic in hot water, speedily. They gave no pain or uneasiness. is said to make capital soup.

Yellow Dye from Potatoes.-A French paper disputes with Sir John Sinclair the honour of having discovered a yellow dye in the potato flower. The discovery is stated to have been made in 1794 by M. Dambourney, a merchant at Rouen, who published a treatise respecting it at the time.

Bread.-Baron Ferrusac states, that there are in Paris 500,000 persons who subsist chiefly on bread, and that an increase in the price of this article, at the rate of one halfpenny per day, makes a difference in the year of 9,125,000 francs.

Cæsarian Operation. This operation was performed a few days ago in Paris, with complete success, by M. Dubois. At the date of the last account, the mother and child were living, and likely to do well. Weather. It is stated, in letters from Berne in Switzerland, that on the 24th of May a large quantity of snow fell in that canton; and the cold was so severe, that the inhabitants were all obliged to light fires.

Earthquake.-A letter from Kisliar, in the Caucasus, dated March 9th, states, that during an earthquake, which had just taken place

LITERARY NOVELTIES.
[Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. XXVI. June 96.]
The first volume of Sharpe's Library of the Belles Let-
tres.-The Anatomy of Society, by Mr. St. John.-An
Exposition of the Doctrine of Original Sin, by a Layman.
Mr. Dyce announces the Dramatic Works of Robert

east-1 South-east-6 South-west-2 North-west.

General Observations.-The month was not so warm as

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year: the quantity of rain remarkably great, being much more than in any of the corresponding months of the last seven years, and more than seven times as much as in May 1829. On the 21st thunder was heard about midnight, attended by vivid lightning; there was also a slight thunder-storm on the 23d, about 3 P.M., with very heavy rain: large hail fell on the 30th, in the afternoon, during a squall, with thunder and some lightning. The evaporation, 0,46875 of an inch.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We beg to refer particularly to the two very important papers to literature and to science which will be and the College of Physicians: the former most interestfound under our reports of the Royal Society of Literature ing in regard to the gradual light which is breaking upon ancient Egyptian history; and the other to the pathology and cure of that appalling disorder, hydrophobia, which is at present so anxious a subject with the public at large. We cannot do what Hint, jun. advises.

Greene, uniform with his editions of Peele and Webster;
to which are to be added, the Poems contained in his Prose
Tracts; with an Account of the Author and his Writings.
the Spanish Minstrel of 1828 and 1829, through Great
-The Journal of a Tour made by Senor Juan de Vega,
Britain and Ireland: a Character performed by an En-
glish Gentleman.-Mr. Ackermann announces a new An-
nual for 1831, entitled the Humorist, from the pen of
W. H. Harrison, author of "Tales of a Physician;" with
wood engravings from drawings by the late Mr. Row-
landson. Mr. Guy, of Oxford, announces Geographia A Constant Reader suggests that old English eccle-
Antiqua, or School Treatise on Ancient Geography. -
siastical architecture would be far more eligible for a na-
The Rev. J. Topham announces a small Collection of tional cemetery and Christian burial-ground than the
Prayers, in easy language, for every Day in the Week.-imitation of heathen temples.
Major Leith Hay is preparing for publication a Narrative "Amicus" is little acquainted with the provincial press
of the Peninsular Campaigns, extending over a period of to fancy such a matter as he mentions worthy of notice.
nearly six years' service.-The Elements of the Theory of If true, the paragraph could only be considered a confes-
Mechanics, by the Rev. R. Walker, M.A., Wadham sion of folly; and if false, that the Editor of such a Jour-
rhyme, on the Preservation of Health, by Giovanni di
College, Oxford.-Schola Salernitana; a Poem, in Latin nal was equally unfit to give public information.
Milano, addressed to Robert of Normandy, son of Wil-
liam the Conqueror; with an Introduction and Notes by
Sir Alexander Croke, an English Translation, engrav-
ings, &c.-A Translation of Professor Heeren's Works:
one of the most valuable gifts that could be offered to
English knowledge and literature: sic ait Ed. L. G.
Lord Nugent has been for a considerable time engaged
upon a work embracing an interesting period of our his-

To Captain Blakiston's communication, all that we shall at present say is, that he seems to have made a very loose bargain in the first instance, and afterwards to have shewn as much impatience as his publishers did dilatoriness in replying to his letters. This dilatoriness is a grievous fault, and is often visited as severely as absolute wrong. The price given appears to us to have been liberal; and the edition of 1500 fair, considering the expense and risk.

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Price Six Shillings, No. XI. of

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MUSIC.

REVIEW.

Contents.-I. Daemonology and Witchcraft-II. Danish and Norwegian Literature-111. Dutrochet's New Researches on Ve getable Physiology-IV. Caillie's Travels in Africa-V. Modern Swedish Poetry-VI. History of the Amphictyonic Confederacy VII. The English in India-VIII. State and Prospects of the Wool-Growers-IX. Fetis; Music made Easy-X. Fontanier's Travels in Asiatic Turkey. Critical Sketches: XI. Plutarchi Vita; curá G. H. Schaefer-XII. A Disquisition upon Robert Tables Astronomiques et Hydrographiques-XIV. Sacchi; Antichite Romantiche d'Italia-XV. Antologia Straniera-XVI. Prophetæ Minores, perpet. annot. illustr. D. Ackermann-XVII. I.

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Music by Mrs. Robert Arkwright. Price 128. Containing
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