THE FRIENDS' EPISTLE, 1830. THE yearly meeting of the Society of Friends in London, whence a short address is issued to the body in general, has lately (see notice in L. G. of last year) led to these epistles being printed by Howlett and Brimmer in a variety of beautiful forms, such as gold letters on purple and white, or silver letters on crimson. We have not before seen so fine a specimen of the art as that of the gold printing on the white paper. With regard to the subject-matter, it is calm and Christian-like; mentions a separation from the Society in America; and states the charges of the year at above £14,000. The principal moral exhortations are for the mitigation of the criminal code, the abolition of slavery, and the more moderate use of ardent spirits. ARTS AND SCIENCES. ASTRONOMY. as 91m (9m 22), and that of Greenwich and by former proprietors was equal to fifty, sixty, Berlin 531m (53m 313) :— Nautical Connaissance Encke's B. M. Beginning of the eclipse 8 50 time. H. M. H. M. 8 491 .. 8 49 9 494 9 47 10 38 10 371 11 262 11 28 .. 12 261 .. 12 251 J. T. B. and even ninety guineas. The importance of this magnificent collection has been known for some years, in consequence of the quotations from various manuscripts given by Sir William Ouseley in the account of his travels; and overtures for the purchase of it have been made by the agents of a continental sovereign; and, more lately, by an English gentleman, desirous of adding these Eastern treasures to his library, which is already one of the most valuable and curious in this country. We trust, however, that, in the first instance, Sir William may DR. SCHULTZE, of Carlsruhe, has published a offer his collection to some of our great national made by the microscope in investigating the too many treasures of this description to escape pamphlet containing a detail of observations or academic institutions. We have suffered accuracy of Mr. Robert Brown's statement from England, the richest country in the world, "that all bodies, organised or unorganised, but unfortunately destitute of any distinct and contain animated particles, having a motion sufficient public organ to supply what indipeculiar to themselves; which particles in all vidual spirit may leave unperformed in regard bodies are of the same form and size, and have to such national objects. MOLECULES. THE BYZANTINE HISTORIANS. the same motion." Dr. Schultze has arrived Lunar Eclipse of the 2d of September last. at results quite opposite to those of Mr. Brown. The unfavourable state of the atmosphere He maintains-first, that the motion of the during the late lunar eclipse furnishes another molecules is by no means spontaneous, but is THE edition of the Byzantine Historians, pubmortifying instance of our fickle climate. owing to the evaporation of the liquid, and to lishing at Rome, under the superintendence of Eclipses of the moon have of late years been the imbibition, or to the dissolution of the parti- M. Niebuhr, goes on rapidly. A new volume particularly baffling, at least this has been the cles. If they are placed in a liquid which eva- has just appeared; containing Dexippus, Eucase in the neighbourhood of the metropolis ;- porates with difficulty-in oil, for instance- napius, Petrus Patricius, Priscus, Malchus, Methe lunar eclipse of the 14th November, 1826, the motion ceases; while it is greatly accele- nander, Olympiodorus, Nonnosus, Candid, was hidden by dark heavy clouds, which did rated in alcohol and ether. By attentively and Theophanus; and concluding with the not allow a momentary glance; the one that studying these motions, Dr. Schultze has been panegyrics of Procopius and Priscian. In the occurred Nov. 3, 1827, was concealed by an enabled to distinguish three kinds, arising from preface are some notices of the different histoimpenetrable mist, excepting for a very short three different causes-the first, ascent or de- rians above-mentioned. Dexippus was equally time before its termination; the eclipse on the scent, produced by the evaporation of the liquid; distinguished as an orator and a historian, and morning of the 13th of Sept. of last year, was the second, oscillation, (similar to the supina- the Athenians erected a statue to him. Milialso unseen, though the bright luminary had tion and pronation of the hand), produced by tary glory also ornamented his career; for he travelled through an unclouded sky, from its the successive imbibition of the particles; the defeated the Heruli, who attacked Athens, and rising to its passage of the meridian, and thence third, rotation, produced by the dissolution of killed three thousand of them. He lived until down the steep of heaven, till the moment of the particles in the liquid. 2dly, that, Mr. the reign of Probus. The fragments which its entering the earth's shadow, when, at the Brown having advanced that the same particles remain of him relate to the Scythian war, and very commencement, the moon was received which he has perceived in the pollen of plants to the affairs of Macedonia. Photius speaks into a dense bank of clouds which hung over also appear as elementary molecules in all the highly of his style. Eunapius was born at the western horizon. The evening preceding organs of animals and vegetables, and are the Sardes in 347, and continued Dexippus's histhe recent eclipse, the heavens were remark- same as those described by Buffon, Needham, tory. It appears by Photius, that he carried it ably clear; the moon appeared as if shining Wrisberg, Müller, and Edwards,-Dr. Schultze to 404, the year of St. Jerome's banishment. from the pure skies of Italy, and afforded the denies the truth of the proposition as it respects To these historians, as also to Menander, have fairest prospect of the succeeding night being as organic particles. They differ in form and been united some fragments, discovered in the propitious as the most sanguine astronomer size, according to the animals, and according to Vatican by the Abbé Maï. Petrus, born in could desire. At the anticipated time (at Dept- the organs. And the reasoning upon this ac- Thessalonica, distinguished himself at Constan. ford) the moon was, from the commencement cords with the facts. For what explanation of tinople in the art of speaking. Justinian enof the eclipse till its conclusion, either entirely the different vital phenomena could we hope to trusted to him several important missions; in invisible, or seen only at intervals: "like angel- obtain, if these opinions of a complete similarity the execution of one of which he fell into the visits, few and far between," even these among all the elementary parts of organised power of the King of the Goths, at Ravenna, glimpses were very imperfect, as not for a and remained a prisoner for three years. After moment did the moon appear on the dark having concluded several treaties with the Perblue sky. The only observation made was at sians, he finished his long and brilliant career; 10h 15m; at which time a portion of the westleaving a son, who followed his steps. Petrus ern limb of the moon was distinctly seen to be wrote history, but it would be difficult to say illuminated-271 after the time predicted for where he began. It is presumed that he stopthe beginning of total darkness. ped where Eunapius commenced. Priscus of It might perhaps be wished by some, that a Thrace wrote eight books on Attila. Neither darker curtain than the fleecy screen that veiled is it known of him what was the commencethe phenomenon had been drawn over the ment of his history; all that has been remarked whole scene, and hidden from view that orb is, that he is not cited for any event anterior which is emphatically called "the faithful wit- tions. to 433; and there is reason to believe that he ness in heaven," and which on this occasion finished at 474, the year at which the history bore ample testimony to the variation between of Malchus commences. The latter, born at astronomical prediction and its fulfilment : it is, Philadelphia, in Palestine, carried on at Conhowever, due to the Nautical Almanac, and stantinople the profession of a sophist. He conother British astronomical works of a similar We understand that Sir William Ouseley is tinued Priscus until the year 480, the epoch of nature, to state that the times of the pheno- preparing for private circulation a catalogue of the death of the Emperor Leo. His work conmena of this eclipse as given by them, agree his manuscripts, in the Persian, Arabic, and tains seven books, and comprehends seven nearly with those in the Connaissance des Tems other Eastern languages; the number of arti-years. As for Menander, he continued the and Encke's Berlin Ephemeris, both of which cles amounting nearly to six hundred : among history of Agathios, from the invasion of the are deservedly held in the highest estimation. which are several splendidly illuminated and Huns, repelled by Belisarius in 558, to the The following will shew the slight variation adorned with paintings; other works of con- end of Tiberius in 582. Of Olympiodorus, which exists between each; the difference of siderable antiquity, and many of the utmost Candid, Nonnosus, and Theophanus, all that longitude in time between Greenwich and the rarity, and on the most interesting subjects. is known is the little communicated to us by Royal Observatory at Paris having been taken For some of the volumes, singly, the price paid Photius. bodies were confirmed by observation? As for There certainly seems reason to believe that, LITERARY AND LEARNED. ORIENTAL LITERATURE. FINE ARTS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. With reference to the last remark, we do most earnestly hope that in the approaching session of Parliament something may be done to diminish this very serious evil. We know that it was one of the liberal and enlightened objects which Mr. Canning had in view, if his valuable life had been prolonged, to attempt to relieve the literature and arts of the country from the heavy burdens by which they are now oppressed. that Salisbury was advanced in buildings and sterling worth and merit, it would soon be population at that time; for Henry de Bishop-found that there would neither be a lack of ston is mentioned as governor of the schools talent, nor of industry. Unfortunately for the Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities. in the city of Salisbury.' In October, 1225, literary character, and even for booksellers, Illustrated by a Series of Engravings of an immense concourse of people assembled at the sources now referred to, instead of fostering Ancient Buildings, Street Scenery, &c. with the new city, to dedicate three altars in the and encouraging fine and expensive books, levy Historical and Descriptive Accounts of each cathedral, and the bishop entertained several a tax upon them by the imperious impost of Subject. By John Britton, F.S.A., M.R.S.L., archbishops, bishops, barons, &c. at his palace. eleven copies. The author of the present vo&c. London, 1830. Longman and Co. At this time the king had a palace at Claren-lume has been compelled to give to offer up WE have repeatedly mentioned this valuable don, in the vicinity of Salisbury. A fair of at the shrine of injustice and extortion-no and beautiful publication during its progress. eight days' continuance was granted to the less than twelve hundred pounds worth of his It is now completed, and assumes the appear-church, with a weekly market, and other pri- own publications, in the execution of which ance of an exceedingly handsome volume; of vileges, by a charter from King Henry the above FORTY THOUSAND POUNDS have been which it has, with perfect justice, been said, Third, in the eleventh year of his reign, who expended in paying artists, stationers, printers, that, "executed at an expense of nearly three therein states that he laid the first stone of binders, &c.; and nearly two thousand pounds thousand pounds, and containing, as it does, the cathedral. At this period an arrange- more in government duties and taxes!!! — such a Series of Illustrations of the Architec- ment was made relative to the disposition of When will literary emancipation' be protural Antiquities of English Cities, drawn and the buildings in the new city. The ground claimed by the English legislature?" engraved in a style surpassing all preceding was divided into spaces, or portions, each conspecimens, it claims the especial attention of taining seven perches in length, and three in the antiquary, topographer, and artist; and breadth; and these were again subdivided for challenges comparison with the very finest the advantage of settlers.' Such was the origin works of continental embellishment and lite- and first establishment of Salisbury; and that rature." As a specimen of Mr. Britton's ex- it was systematically laid out, and regularly tent and variety of research, and of the per- built, may be inferred from the present arspicuous and happy manner in which he treats rangement of its streets. Differences and conhis subject, we will transcribe the commence- tentions, however, arose between the citizens ment of his description of the Picturesque An- and the prelate; the latter having paramount tiquities of Salisbury. authority, and the former fancying that they In the sentiments and wishes with which The city of New Sarum, or Salisbury, could live and prosper better without eccle- Mr. Britton concludes his " Introduction,” we unlike most other English towns, has its origin siastical protection or influence. A year's trial also cordially concur. They are expressed with well defined, and its prominent historic annals convinced them of their error, and they again a feeling and a force which do him infinite duly recorded. Though not honoured with a sought the aid, and became subject to the credit. local historian, there are many scattered evi- bishop. In the time of Edward the Second, "After more than thirty years' devotion to dences of its foundation, rise, and general about 1315, they obtained a license to fortify the study and illustration of the Architectural characteristics. It has nothing Roman, Saxon, their city with a rampart and ditch; and from Antiquities of England, and with an assurance or even Norman, in its early annals; and is remains of walls, &c. which were standing that the subject is replete with amusement on therefore contra-distinguished from every other about half a century back, it is evident that all occasions, and intense interest on many, city of the kingdom. Of truly English origin, Salisbury was nearly of the same extent at the I will venture to entreat my countrymen, of unprecedented uniformity in plan and ar- commencement of the fourteenth century as at whenever and wherever they have power, to rangement of parts, with a provision for clean- the end of the eighteenth." protect the remaining antiquities from further liness and healthfulness, Salisbury may be con- Of the plates in the earlier portion of the demolition or defacement. Every castle, absidered as peculiarly indigenous, unique, and publication we have already spoken. Those bey, cathedral, fine church, and old mansion, admirable. While every other city of England in the sixth and closing number are equal, is a monument and memento of a former age, has, or had its castle, and claims either a Ro- if not superior to their predecessors. Among and of former persons. They are so many man or Saxon origin, we know that New the most striking are, "The New Inn, Glou- indexes to memorable events, to heroes, statesSarum was commenced under the auspices of cester;" "The Market-Cross, Chichester;" men, patriots, and philosophers. Architeca bishop, that it grew up under ecclesiastical," The Market-Place, with Old Conduit, tural antiquities are objects and evidences of not baronial, power and protection, and that Wells;" "Apartment in the Palace, Wells;" incalculable value and interest; whilst standthough it was surrounded by fortified walls," The Chapel, &c. in the Vicar's Close, ing-however mutilated-they are indications it never had a monarchial or baronial fortress. Wells;""The Ruins in the Bishop's Garden, of the vicissitudes and fluctuations of civilised The prefix, New, shews that there was an Norwich;" "The View in Redcliffe Street, society: they shew man in his domestic ecoanterior Sarum, which obtained the name of Bristol;" and "The Blackfriar's Pulpit, nomy, and in his historical relations. old, when a younger, and a new town was Hereford." person, therefore, who protects one fine work established. Öld Sarum, about one mile north It is deeply to be regretted that Mr. Britton of antiquity is entitled to the applause of his of the modern city, was probably at first a has not been induced to proceed further with contemporaries and of posterity; he who deBritish town, and evidently a Roman station so interesting a work, and to apply the same stroys, or heedlessly neglects it, deserves the and fortress. It subsequently became a seat taste and talent to the "ancient castles, mo- reprobation of the civilised world. As Dr. of Saxon monarchs, and of national councils-nastic edifices, churches, chapels, and mansions, Stukeley indignantly hung, in graphic effigy, a place of sieges and conflicts by the Danes of almost endless diversity, beauty, and gran- the man who wantonly broke up the vast and -the see of a bishop, with his chapter; and deur," which still remain unillustrated. The wondrous Celtic Temple of Avebury, so every lastly, at this city, William the Conqueror following passage, however, in the "Introduc- other similar delinquent should be condemned summoned all the estates of England and tion" to the volume, accounts sufficiently, but to the literary gibbet. The miserable fanatio Normandy to swear allegiance to him, and to painfully, for the discontinuance of his under- who fired York Cathedral is properly incar introduce one of the most remarkable changes taking: cerated for life, and thus prevented from doing that ever happened' in the English constitu- "With the present work, and the Cathe- further public mischief; but there are other tion-the establishment of the feudal system. dral Antiquities,' now in progress, I propose to fanatics still roaming at large, and permitted In consequence of disputes, of brawles, and terminate my topographical labours; but hope to commit devastations on cathedrals and other sadde blowes,' as Holinshed states, between the to see the subject taken up by some other per-churches, on castles, old mansions, &c. clergy and the castillans, or men of war, the son equally zealous in the cause, and better men should not be trusted."" bishop and his associates removed their resi-qualified to do it justice. It will further augdences to a fertile valley, at the junction of ment my pleasure, to find the public come fortwo rivers. There they built houses, and com.ward liberally and promptly to patronise such menced the present magnificent cathedral in works. If the government of the country, and the year 1220. A very interesting account of some of the public institutions which were this ceremony, as well as of previous trans-founded for the encouragement of learning and actions at the old, and others at the new city, talent, were to appropriate only a very small I ENVY them those monks of old,— were recorded by William de Wanda, the first portion of their respective funds to reward Their book they read, and their beads they told; dean of the church, who lived at the time. authors and artists for their labours and expen- To human softness dead and cold, From a passage in this record, it is evident diture, in bringing forward publications of And all life's vanity. ORIGINAL POETRY. THE MONKS OF OLD. By the Author of Richelieu, De P'Orme, &c. The Such They dwelt like shadows on the earth, But charity. I envy them: their cloistered hearts Had linked in unity. The tomb to them was not a place To them it was the calmest bed And not with agony. No bonds they felt, no ties they broke, the Bible proves that, from the time of the gin Mary, and the Apostles. Mahomet had no Adam is with Mussulmans, as with Jews and Christians, the first man, the father of the human race. But they do not believe that after he was driven out of Paradise he had Mussulmans not being able, without an in- Eve to console him a little under so heavy an fraction of the law, to gratify the inclination affliction. The angel of the Lord threw Adam so natural to the man who indulges in it, of into the island of Ceylon, while Eve was tracing on some solid and durable material the banished to the shores of the Red Sea. It was fugitive scenes of life, and even the dreams not until two hundred years afterwards that which fill the imagination;-not being able to God, affected by their tears, consented to reexpress by emblematic figures the thoughts unite them in the neighbourhood of Mecca. which occupy them most vividly; it has be- Adam was also a prophet. He had on his come necessary that, in order to manifest their forehead the luminous beam, which afterwards ideas, their sentiments, their passions, they sparkled on the forehead of Moses. should have recourse to writing; however cold After Noah, whose history they have not and imperfect this mode of communicating much disfigured, the Mussulmans speak of two They loved not, dreamed not, for their sphere with their fellow-creatures must have appeared prophets not mentioned in the Bible;-Houd Held not joy's visions; but the tear To lose it suddenly. Peaceful they lived-peaceful they died; Of broken hope, of anxious fear, Was not their misery. I envy them those monks of old; I wish my heart as calm and still To beams that fleet, and blasts that chill, SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. ORIENTAL USAGES AND OPINIONS. MUSSULMANS prefer fine stones to metal for attribute strange virtues to some of them. to men naturally of an ardent and poetical and Saleh. The one went to preach the faith temperament. Inscriptions cover the walls of to some Arabs; giants, if ever there were their mosques; on the outside as well as on any; for the least of them measured sixty the inside. They cover the walls of all the cubits. But they refused to believe in the public buildings, of the palaces. Those are one God whom he came to announce to them. particularly celebrated which are found in the Saleh went into a valley of Arabia to preach to magnificent halls, in the baths, or the foun- a tribe of wicked Arabs, who mocked him. tains of the ancient and superb Alhambra; an In vain, to convince them by a miracle, did he inimitable structure, the eternal testimony to cause a camel, ready to foal, to come out of a the genius of the Moors. In the midst of gar-mountain. They killed the camel and its lands of flowers, and of a multitude of other young. parterre of roses. ornaments, executed with the most refined But the patriarch whose life they seem to taste, appear graceful and moral expressions; have taken most pleasure in loading with fables the most frequent of which is that which a was Abraham, whom they call Ibrahim, and who good Mussulman ought to have unceasingly on is held by them in great veneration. Accordhis lips-" God is great; there is no god but ing to the Koran and its commentators, at the their seals. Gold, in their opinion, announces tions which the Mussulmans engrave on their as a youth of fifteen years; and he could God." The Koran also furnishes the inscrip- age of fifteen months, Abraham was as stout the luxury proscribed by Mahomet; and iron is considered by them (but why, nobody arms, their vases, and their furniture of every maintain himself at a small expense, for he had knows) a source of impurity and stain. All kind. These inscriptions announce a lively nothing to do but to suck his fingers. From this, however, does not prevent them from and constant faith; and such is that of all the one he drew exquisite milk; from another the liking to have a great deal of gold coin, or from followers of Islamism. most delicious honey. Subsequently, he went employing iron in weapons, and in utensils of Superstition is the inseparable companion of to preach to the inhabitants of Babylon; but every description. As for fine stones, they lieve in magic, astrology, and the art of divi- pile, which was immediately changed into a excessive piety. The Mussulmans firmly be- Nimrod, their king, threw him on a funeral The ruby, for instance, strengthens the heart, East has always been the cradle of the most nation by various mysterious processes. The and preserves from the plague and from light-absurd creeds. It is thence that they have Joseph, or as the Mussulmans pronounce it, As for another patriarch, not less celebrated, ning; the emerald passes for an excellent specific against the bite of vipers; the diamond sallied to invade the world; and, therefore, it Joussouf, they have also embellished his hiscures the colic, &c. &c. These ridiculous opi- is not surprising it is there that still pro- tory, already so interesting in the Bible, with nions and prejudices are diffused among all the sper, without opposition, without obstacle, all various romantic occurrences. According to nations of the East, and form one of a thousand the fables, all the superstitions, which have so them, Joseph was so handsome, that no woman proofs of their profound ignorance. Human long contributed to the stultification of Europe, could see him without falling in love with figures, or even the figures of animals, are and from which we are only just beginning to him; which is some excuse for the extreme free ourselves. scarcely ever seen on these engraved stones. passion conceived for him by Potiphar's wife, Mahomet, in imitation of the Jewish legisThe Mussulmans have added many stories whose name is not given in the Bible, but lator, proscribed the representation of all that to the lives of the personages mentioned in the whom the Mussulmans call Zoleikha. breathed, of all that had soul. But the Mus- Bible. They have done more. They have they talked scandal about her in Egypt, and as sulman-artists find means of exhibiting their placed among them personages whom the Bible the ladies of the country disapproved especially talent in the ornaments with which they sur-tributed adventures, sometimes very singular, invited a party of them to come and eat pomenever mentions; and to whom they have at- of her having given her heart to a slave, she round the inscriptions in the sometimes rather whimsical embellishments which they adapt to But it would appear that those adventures table when Joseph made his appearance; and and entirely unknown to Jews and Christians. granates with her. The ladies were all at the Arabic letters. They also succeed remarkably well in the representation of plants were universally known in the time of Ma- were so dazzled and agitated by his beauty, and flowers, of which the people of the East, homet, because he alludes to them in the that, not knowing what they were about, they as is well known, frame a language as ex- Koran. The Talmud and the books of the cut their fingers, instead of the pomegranates! pressive as it is agreeable. The use of seals, Rabbis, the Gospels, false as well as true, Monumens Arabes, Persans, et Turcs, du rings, and ear-rings, is of the greatest anti- which were then circulating in the East, were, Cabinet de M. le Duc de Blacas. quity in the East. The most ancient book in no doubt, the sources of all the singular opinions which the people adopted with respect to the Hebrew patriarchs, Jesus Christ, the Vir• And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand."-Genesis, xli. 42. This pathetic poem was written on a melancholy occasion; the author having visited an old monastic church on the Continent to bury a beloved infant.-Ed. La G. DRAMA. ENGLISH OPERA, ADELPHI. As ON Thursday night, the Irish Girl, written by thanks to the exquisite acting of Miss Kelly, was not only received with great delight, but gave assurance of a popular run to the end of the season. It ought to be performed every night, were it for no other reason but to allow the public to witness (as many as can at one time in so small a theatre) this beautiful piece of histrionic art; of which, to say it is equal to the highest preceding effort of this matchless actress, is merely to render a just tribute to perfect excellence. In itself the piece has no claims to eulogy: it is made by Miss Kelly, who is, however, well supported by Miss H. Cawse, and the rest of the dramatic corps. VARIETIES. appearance. LIST OF NEW BOOKS. Fenn's Sermons, 8vo. 98. bds.-Chatfield's Measurer, had come under his treatment. Among other | He intends bringing out a version of four more tragedies from Shakespeare. facts, the report stated that the fragments of The Philosophy of Sleep, by Mr. Macnish, is nearly marble, and the small pebbles with which the ready.-A Gaelic Song Book, by Mr. Munroe of Cardel; people had, for want of balls, loaded their and the Practical Baker and Confectioner's Assistant, by John Turcan, Operative Baker, are announced.-Sixteen guns, had caused more serious wounds than Nos. of a Gaelic Journal, conducted by Dr. M.Leod, with leaden balls would have inflicted: and that the assistance of other Celtic scholars, have been published many of the wounds in the extremities had in the Highlands; and Gaelic Sermons, under the superintendence of Dr. Dewar, are also published monthly along produced lock jaw, which proved fatal. with the Journal.-The Book of Private Prayer, comAt the last sitting of the Institute of France, piled for the use of Members of the United Church of it was announced that the adjudication of the volution of 1830, by Thomas Haynes Bayly, Esq.; illus England and Ireland.-A little poem on the French Re prize for the best essay on the political state of trated by woodcuts from designs by George Cruikshank. the Greek cities of Europe, and the islands of The British Herald, or Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Asia Minor, from the commencement of the from the Earliest Period; with a History of Heraldry, second century before our era, to the esta- by Thomas Robson.-A Manual of Prayers, in easy lanMr. Arnold will, we believe, certainly be blishment of the empire of Constantinople, was guage, for every Day in the Week, by the Rev. J. Topham.-The Poetical Works of the late Dr. F. Sayers, and enabled to open on the 1st of July next year, postponed till 1831, none of the essays on the a Life, by W. Taylor, of Norwich.-A novel called Basil in his own new theatre, on the improved site, subject having been thought worthy of reward. Barrington and his Friends, will very shortly make its the corner of the new street crossing the Strand-At the same sitting it was announced that a from Wellington Bridge. What lover of music gold medal worth 1,500 francs will be given for or the drama is there who does not wish him the best critical essay on the passages relative every success? to the person and doctrines of Pythagoras, which are to be found in the writers of antiquity, for the purpose of distinguishing, as much as possible, what belongs to the history and mode of teaching of that philosopher. Two other gold medals, of similar value, are promised for next year; one for an essay on the changes which have taken place during the middle ages in ancient geography, and the other on the history of the decline and fall of Paganism in the provinces of the Empire of the West, from the time of Constantine. The precise form of the announcements may be seen in the Moniteur of the 6th of September. Literature, &c.-The King of the French, METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1830. Louis Philip, has given instructions to a distinguished littérateur to obtain for him a correct list of all the literary and scientific bodies in Europe, with a precise account of their charitable institutions, in order that he may subscribe to those which he considers the most deserving of support. It is stated, that at present the king bestows nearly one million of francs per annum, directly or indirectly, in the encouragement of literature and science; and that he insists upon each of his children patronising works of art to an extent justified by the pecuniary means which he has placed at their disposal. Pharos. The first light-house was constructed by Ptolemy in Egypt on the Isle of Pharos, from which they derive also their name in modern languages. It is said that this building cost 800 talents. Bicephalous Calf-At the last sitting of the Paris Academy of Sciences, M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire read a report relative to a bicephalous calf, which was born in the Cantal, and which resembled precisely, as to the mode of junction, &c. the double girl, Ritta-Christina, who died in Paris. Aerostation. In America, M. Genet and his coadjutors, and in France three rivals, Messrs. Dupuis-Delcourt, Chabrier, and Vallot, are all busily engaged in the construction of machines for travelling in the air; and are all equally sanguine as to the result! Of course, the nature of their respective inventions has not transpired. Medal. A beautiful bronze medal has been struck at Paris, bearing on one side, "The French People to the English Nation. Paris, 27th, 28th, and 29th of July, 1830;" and on the other, emblems of liberty, with the words, "Peace and Liberty-all mankind are brothers." It is admirably executed; and large numbers have been purchased in France for presents to the English residents. Bon-Mot.Sir George Smart was much startled and alarmed by the sudden flash of lightning which broke through our storm on Monday afternoon; which Bartley happening to mention in the green-room of the Adelphi in the evening, Peake, with his ever-ready wit, rejoined, that he was not surprised at Sir George's fright, as he was aware he was a conductor. The "New York American" paper records the death of Mr. Oliver, a medical student, who was drowned at Trenton Falls, while shewing them to "several young female friends," the party consisting of his sister, his uncle, and two cousins. Light.-M. Morel, a French naturalist, has presented the Paris Academy of Sciences a work on the influence of light, in which he shews that the animalculæ common to water in which vegetable or animal matter is in maceration, would not be developed in the absence of light, which is absolutely essential to their existence. Paris. At the last sitting of the Paris Academy of Sciences, M. Larrey, the principal surgeon of the military hospital of Gros Caillore, read an interesting report of the wounded in the affairs of the 27th, 28th, and 29th July, who Gas.-There is no doubt that the late Mr. F. A. Winsor was the first who applied gas to the lighting of streets and cities; but to J. J. Becher, a native of Germany (born at Spire 1635, and who died in London 1685), belongs the discovery of extracting gas from coals. He was at that time a very clever chemist, and occupied himself a great deal with the theory of combustion. Method of destroying Locusts.-The Journal des Connaissances Usuelles gives a method of catching locusts, by means of a sort of dragnet, formed of two sheets, from which they may be shaken into boiling water, and destroyed. It also states that they then become red, and will afford excellent food for pigs or chickens. LITERARY NOVELTIES. Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. XXXVII. 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D. F. exactly: by the statement made to us, we would say, from fifteen to twenty thousand. been too often repeated. We thank W. E. T., and think well of his talents; but we must decline the series of Sketches so obligingly offered. We are not aware of any publication which would, pethaps, exactly suit A. Z. An abridgment of Bardwell's Street. It is, we believe, entitled, the Art of Painting well-known treatise may be had at Laurie's, in Fleet in Oil Colours, and contains much useful information. A. Z. may also consult with advantage Pinnock's Catechism on Art. ERRATUM.-In our last No., page 579, column 3, line 49, for "monstrous," read "monotonous." ADVERTISEMENTS, Connected with Literature and the Arts. NIVERSITY of LONDON. The Medical Classes will Open on Friday the 1st of October. The Council have sanctioned a new division of the instruction in Anatomy. UN Mr. Bell will still teach Physiology, illustrating that Science by continual reference to the pieces of Anatomy; and thus combining the knowledge of Structure with that of the Properties of Life. At the suggestion of Mr. Pattison, Mr. Bennett has been associated with him in the Chair of Anatomy. In order that this department may be most efficiently taught, but without needless repetition, Mr. Pattison will teach Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy; and Mr. Bennett General Anatomy, comprising the De velopment and Organisation of the several Tissues; and he will likewise teach the Descriptive Anatomy of the Viscera. The following are the Medical Classes. 31. for each division. Fee Gl.; or Surgery and Clinical Surgery-Mr. Charles Bell. Fee 41.; or Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children-Dr. D. D. Davis. Fee 51.; first division 34.: second division 21. for each division 27. Clinical Medicine-Dr. Watson. Fee for the whole Course 4.; and for half the Course 21. Materia Medica and Therapeutics-Dr. A. T. Thomson. Fee 61.; or for each division 3. Chymistry-Dr. E. Turner. Fee 71.; first division 41.; second division 37. Comparative Anatomy-Dr. R. E. Grant, terminating at the end of January. Fee 21. Medical Jurisprudence-Dr. J. Gordon Smith. Fee 4.; or for each division 2!. Hospital attendance daily from Half.") past Twelve to Half-past One Dispensary-ditto ditto Fee for the Session 57. On Friday the 1st of October, at Three o'Clock precisely, Dr. A Medical Library has been formed for the use of the Students. September 2, 1830. ROYAL SON,6,186. OYAL INSTITUTION of GREAT for Ellipses. To which is prefixed, a short Treatise on the Docthe Classics, and with References to Vigerus for Idioms, and Bos Notes, 2d edition, containing copious Critical, Philological, and Explanatory Notes; with Parallel Passages, &c. from Granville Sharpe, &c. briefly and compendiously explained, as trines of the Greek Article, according to Bishop Middleton, Mr. applicable to the Criticism of the New Testament. The various Readings are recorded under the Text. Greek and English Indexes are added. Two Plates are added, one illustrative of the "Travels of the Apostles," and the other, a "Map of Judea, and a Plan of the City and Temple of Jerusalem." By the Rev. E. VALPY, B.D. This work is intended for the Use of Students in Divinity, as well as for the Library. 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Price 24. in 1 vol. 8vo. boards, GREEK GRADUS; or, Greek, Latin, and English Prosodial Lexicon, containing the Interpretacombining the Advantages of a Lexicon of the Greek Poets and tion, in Latin and English, of all Words which occur in the Philadelphus, and also the Quantities of each Syllable, -thus Greek Poets, from the earliest Period to the Time of Ptolemy a Greek Gradus; for Schools and Colleges. the Greek Gradus is manifest, and we heartily recommend the By the Rev. J. BRASSE, D.D. Late Fellow of Trin. Coll. Cam. "The indefatigable application required in the compilation of to be advantageously used to a very wide extent."-Literary work as supplying a desideratum in our school books, and likely Printed by A. J. Valpy; and sold by all Booksellers. In 3 vols. post 8vo. Chronicle. THE HE KING'S OWN. A Tale of the Sea. By the Author of the "Naval Officer." "The author may take his place at the head of the naval novelists of the day."-United Service Journal. 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Original Letter of General Lafayette to Lady Morde Segur-Société Philotechnique-French Philosophy-Anglogan, on the Revolution of 1830-Our First Days in Paris-Old Friends and New-General Lafayette-Count de Tracy-Count Hôtel de la Terrasse-Beranger-Visit to La Force-the Orleans mania-Public Opinion-Tortoni's-Royalism-the Rue RivoliToilette-Readers and Authors-Archives of France-Primoge Gallery-Morning Drives-Meudon Sévres-Public Gardens-the niture-Curiosity Shops-Napoleon-the Theatres-a Dinner in the Faubourg-New Novels-Music-Soirée at the Prince and Princess de Salm's-Ball at the English Embassy-Fête DieuRomanticists and Classicists-Gerard-le Sacre du Roi Charles X. Saunders and Otley, Public Library, Conduit Street. tecture and Archæology of the Middle Ages, including the Words The Work, of which the first portion is now submitted to the reader, has long been regarded as a desideratum in literature, and has often been anxiously inquired for, both by professional and amateur readers. It has been progressively forming for the last illustrated by Engravings and Woodcuts, 158. THE JOURNAL of a NATURALIST. Plants, trees, and stones, we note, volume to the attention of every lover of nature, and more partiBirds, insects, beasts, and many rural things. cularly of our country readers. It will induce them, we are sure, "We again most strongly recommend this little unpretending to examine more closely than they have been accustomed to do, ILLUSTRATIONS of NATURAL twenty-five years, during which period the author has asiduously into the objects of animated nature the most satisfactory sources Now publishing, in monthly Numbers, a Series of finely executed Engravings, with Descriptive Accounts of the most interesting and popular Genera and Species of the Animal World. Conducted by J. LE KEUX, by whom, and R. SANDS, the Engravings are executed. Each Number contains Six finely engraved Subjects on Steel, and at least Sixteen Pages of Letterpress, price is. The first volume is just completed. "The exhaustless varieties of nature, For ever seen and yet for ever new,' are likely from the specimens of this work we have seen, to be brought more completely home to the reader than they have ever yet been. The engravings are remarkably spirited and true to life. These alone would give the work value; but the accompanying descriptions and anecdotes of animals are particularly entitled to notice, as, while conveying to the mind important infor mation, they are as amusing as an Arabian Tale."-Sunday ing the "Architectural and Cathedral Antiquities of England." of gratification and amusement. It is a book that ought to find completed in Four Parts, in the Year 1831. Price, each, royal Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster Row; and J. Le ing held out by no means the most luscious tit-bits, either to the man of minute research, or get the general philosopher."-Sport. the entire book; therefore we must abruptly break off, after hav"To notice every thing of interest would be nearly to transcribe ing Magazine. NA John Murray, Albemarle Street. The 4th edition, 8vo. price 8. of ATURAL HISTORY of ENTHU. SIASM, in Ten Sections, is now ready. "It is full of admirable observation."-Literary Gazette. "An able disquisition."-Blackwood's Magazine. Holdsworth and Ball, 18, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. |