dered as a very natural consequence of the eruption; but the editors of the Bulletin, influenced by letters from Palermo, think that it was brought from the plains of Africa by an impetuous wind from the south-east, which bore it over the Mediterranean. In support of this, it is stated, that chemical analysis does not allow of this dust being assimilated with volcanic cinders. We should like to see the results of this analysis; for we are very doubtful if, in the great variety of volcanic products, analysis could decide upon the igneous origin

of a mineral.

Deep groan'd beneath their weight th' encum- And dogs contend his mangled carcass o'er.
ber'd shore;
[way,
Minerva arming for battle.
The while nine loud-voiced heralds forced their
Warn'd them to silence—and their kings obey. There, rushing o'er the war-resounding field,
Scarce was the clamour hush'd, the tumult In all the terror of her might revealed,
Mail'd in her panoply, Jove's martial maid
quell'd,
The shield of immortality display'd!
Bright blazed her ægis, as its orb around,
In braid all gold a hundred tassels wound,

given

might,

[fight;

And each in order due his station held,
When Agamemnon, rising up, display'd
The sceptre Vulcan's art divinely made.
Jove first that sceptre sway'd, by Vulcan All finely wreath'd in heaven's refulgent loom,
And, singly, each o'ermatch'd a hecatomb.
Hermes received it from the king of heaven-Thus arm'd, amid the host the goddess flew,
From Hermes, Pelops and from Pelops' hand, Each heart beat high, each arm felt tenfeld
The eye of battle kindled at the view;
Imperial Atreus, heir of his command;
And when imperial Atreus left the light,
Thyestes held it in his father's right;
His death its power to Agamemnon gave,
Alike to lord it o'er the land and wave;
And Argos and her isles confess'd its yoke,
When, leaning on its strength, Atrides spoke.
The Grecians, at the deceitful advice of Aga-
memnon, rush to their ships.

Each nerve, new-strung, thrill'd vibrating for
And sweeter to their ear the battle-roar,
Than winds soft wooing to their native shore.

ROYAL SOCIETY.

Dr. Gillies lately read an account of volcanic dust, borne to a very great distance during an eruption of the mountain of Penquenes, in the Andes of Chili, to the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh, which also could not, by analysis, be referred to ordinary volcanic products. We might observe, too, that the researches of Professor Cordier, of Paris, have established the same difference between A REQUISITION having been signed by thirtyred and white volcanic cinders as between red three of the fellows, amongst whom were Mr. and white lava, which are distinguished by a basis of augite or felspar. It is possible that Herschel, Capt. Beaufort, Drs. Wallich, Horsthe dust of African deserts may have been pro- He spake-and all who ne'er his counsel heard field, and Fitton, calling for a special meeting pelled as far as the shores of Sicily or Italy; All flew impatient at Atrides' word— of the council, a meeting was held accordingly though we do not see that the fact of a caravan The hosts rush'd rolling on, as wave on wave, on Thursday evening; but as it was strictly having perished under the sands in the middle When o'er th' Tearian sea swoln billows rave-private, and as another council is to be corof May is any thing more than an accidental When east and south in adverse fury sweep, vened on the same subject next Monday, we do Burst the dark clouds at once, and lash the not feel at liberty to publish what transpired, deep; further than that a debate of three hours took place. The anniversary, on the 30th, is looked to with increased interest.

connexion.

RUSSIA.

Or, as when Zephyrus o'er the harvest blows,
Waves the wide field, and rustles all its rows:
Thus the whole host was moved; and loud the

Ar various sittings of the Academy of Sciences
in Petersburgh, during the latter months of
last, and the earlier months of the present
year, a number of interesting papers were pre-As burst the living tempest on the shore.

roar,

pass'd,

away

Description of Thersites.

FINE ARTS.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

land; from the Norman Conquest to the present time: exhibiting the Succession in the Monarchy; the Ages of the several Sove. reigns when they began to reign, and the duration of their Reign; the principal Statesmen, Military Characters, Men of Genius, and most Remarkable Events in each Reign. Howlett and Brimmer.

sented. M. Ostrogrodsky announced that he On as they rush'd, the dust, where'er they Chronological Epitome of the History of Enghad resolved the problem of the propagation of [cast; waves on the surface of a liquid contained in a Poised o'er their brow th' o'ershadowing column vase having the shape of a cylindrical sector; And as their shouts immix'd, each urging each and that he believed he had discovered the To drag the gallies, sea-ward, down the beach, equation of partial differences respecting the To clear each trench, and strike the props propagation of heat in the interior of liquids. [bray. M. Kuffer communicated the geographical posi- Wide heaven's rent vault rebellow'd back the tion of several parts of the Oural mountains, and of Siberia, transmitted to him by M. Hansteen, and accompanied by important magnetic Save loud invectives from Thersites' brawl, They met all kept their stations-silent all, observations; as also a letter from M. Berzelius, containing an account of several minerals Still jibing, still loquacious, right or wrong, of the Oural mountains, compared with those Still vibrating 'gainst kings, his serpent tongue, of Norway. M. Hess described the result of Still prompt, if aught unseemly fed the jest, To give the vulgar laugh a keener zest. experiments made on the salt-springs of StaraïaRoussa, in Novogorod. M. Hary sent notice Foulest of form, the wretch to Ilion came→ from Odessa of the earthquakes which took one eye was squinting, and one leg was lame place there on the 26th of November, 1829 To close contraction pinch'd his pointed breast; The gibbous load that either shoulder prest and M. Hansteen, an account of the magnetic And on his sharp convexity of head Stray hairs, like wool, were here and there outspread

declension to the east of Siberia ; &c. &c.

LITERARY AND LEarned. EXTRACTS FROM MR. SOTHEBY'S VERSION

OF THE ILIAD: BOOK II.

(Read at the Royal Society of Literature. See our last Literary Gazette.*)

The Grecian army, by the advice of Nestor, thronging to council.

As when the bee's dense nations rise and rise

From the cleft rock, and cloud with life the

skies-

His bitter joy Ulysses to defame,
Or dim the lustre of Pelides' name.

THE title so fully explains the nature of this publication, that we have only to add that it is beautifully printed, in gold and silver characters, on a purple or white ground; and

that it contains as much useful information as
it is possible to comprise in so limited a space.

Views in the East; comprising India, Canton,
and the Shores of the Red Sea. From original
Sketches by Captain Robert Elliot, R.X.
Part III. Fisher, Son, and Co.
"ASSAR Mahal, Beejapore," drawn by T.
Boys, engraved by G. Hamilton; "The Jumma
Musjid, Agra," drawn by W. Purser, engraved
by T. Boys; and "Cawnpore," drawn by S.
Prout, engraved by C. Mottram; are the three

Part of Agamemnon's speech preparing his host embellishments of the third part of Captain for the ensuing battle.

Now, each away, where festive joys invite,
There gather up his strength to stand the
fight-
[shield,
New-edge the pointed lance, new-belt the
Pamper the steed to turn to flight the field;
New-brace from side to side the battle-car,

Cessation

In clusters hang o'er spring's unfolding flower, To bear from morn till eve the weight of war;
Sweep to and fro, and wind from bower to
bower:
[host,
none, no pause, no rest from fight,
Thus from their ships and tents, host urging Till spread o'er either host one veil of night;
To council swarm'd, and darken'd all the coast. Sweat from each breast down shield and baldric
flow,

Elliot's publication. Of these, the Jumma Musjid, at Agra, is unquestionably the most rich and beautiful. It is one of the finest specimens of Eastern architecture. "Agra, Captain Elliot observes, "like most other cities of India, consists of two portions; the one part other exhibiting a habitable and apparently presenting a scene of ruin and desolation, the prosperous condition. In some places the ancient and modern parts of a town are mingled together; in others they are separate; and of this last state both Agra and Delhi afford exspace of time, is sufficient to reduce the streets and bazars of an Indian city to a level with the earth from whence they rose, and to become almost as though they had never been;

Fame, wing'd by Jove, before the arm'd array, Fail the o'erwearied arm the lance to throw-amples. A single century, or even a shorter Waved her bright pennons, and illumed the way. Sweat from each courser's widely-floating mane, It has given us great pleasure to hear that this trans-Foam on the chariot sweeping o'er the slain. lation is destined for the press; Mr. Murray having, with Be timely warned: who lone amid the fleet his usual judgment and taste, undertaken its publication. Here willing lurks, and fears the foe to meet,

--Ed. L. G.

while the larger mosques and tombs remain of its contents, and of the manner of its execu-ward the enclosed statement, which, however with little deterioration, and stand as melan- tion, it appears to us that the hope expressed strong, I pledge my honour to prove beyond choly monuments of the earlier splendour and by Mr. Rubie, that the work "will be found the possibility of doubt. I have the honour ANDREW DUNCAN.* prosperity of Eastern capitals. The Jumma equally useful to families, the conductors of to be, &c. Musjid, or principal mosque, at Agra, stands schools, private students, and mariners," is 4, Felix Terrace, Liverpool Road, Islington, Nov. 6th, 1830. nearly fronting the Delhi gate of the fort, justified by its merits. A game for young perSir,-Having read in your paper a critique (dated Oct. leaving an open space, about the size of a Lon- sons, described in the present Part under the 23d) on a plate called the Orphans," published in the don square, between them. This building, name of "the Military Orrery," seems to us to Remembrance,-I take the liberty to inform you, that the though it wears the appearance of antiquity, is be admirably calculated to facilitate the acqui-plate in question is not Mr. C. Rolls' engraving; it was still quite perfect, and seems, together with the sition of astronomical knowledge. fort, to form a connecting link between the ancient and modern parts of the city; so that, viewing them in their present state, a question might almost arise, as to which portion they most properly belong."

engraved by me for Mr. Sharpe; but having been (very
unaccountably) in Mr. C. Rolls' possession at the time of
Mr. Sharpe's bankruptcy, it was detained, "to indemnify
him for the very heavy losses sustained by him on that
occasion:" not only was the plate detained, but without
any reference to Mr. Gill, the painter, that extreme black-
ness was given to it, of which you so justly complain;
and, to crown the whole of this honourable proceeding,
Mr. C. Rolls "sold the plate to the assignees of the estate."
It now goes forth to the world as his own; and I, who
did the plate at a comparatively small price, in considera-
tion of reaping the benefit of any merit, however small,
attached to it, am unjustly deprived of that advantage,
and obliged to suffer another man's name to be attached
to my work, merely because Mr. Rolls happened to have
money to accommodate Mr. Sharpe when he wanted it.
Probably I should never have taken the liberty to address
you on this subject, but that there seems a disposition to
expose this sort of quackery, which has now arrived at
such an infamous pitch, that any man possessing money
is enabled to buy the reputation of talent he does not
possess; and trading on the brains of others, with or
without their consent, make his way to eminence in a
profession, in which, if his course had been honestly pur-
sued, his own talent would never have raised him to me-
diocrity. As you have thought the plate worth noticing,
trust you will be kind enough to publish this statement
of the affair, which is the fact, Mr. Rolls being furnished
rusal, if necessary.
ANDREW DUNCAN.
with extracts from his own letters, which wait your pe-

ARTISTS' AND AMATEURS' CONVERSAZIONE. ON the 3d, the first annual meeting of this useful and interesting Society was held at the Freemasons' Tavern. Several of the new members, including the President of the Royal Ireland Illustrated: from original Drawings Academy, Lieutenant-Col. Batty, Messrs. W. by G. Petrie, R.H.A., and W. H. Bartlett, D. Roberts and Prout, were present; and, Esqrs. With Descriptions by G. N. Wright, altogether, about one hundred gentlemen atM.A. Nos. 11, 12, 13, and 14. Fisher, tended. An extensive collection of works of art Son, and Co. was laid upon the tables. The following apAMONG others, views of "The Custom House peared to be the most attractive. A large at Dublin,' "Bantry House,' 99.66 Glengariffe," volume of drawings of forest and other trees, "Waterford," "The Lake of Killarney," and landscapes, by F. C. Lewis-a store-house The Giant's Causeway," and "Coltsman's of the richest materials for the painter-once Castle," at once attest the rich mine of the pictu- the property of Sir Thomas Lawrence, and resque which exists in Ireland, and maintain now in the possession of Lord Northwick ;-a the character of this cheap and pleasing publi- painting of extraordinary power by Etty, of I cation. one of the children of Clarkson Stanfield ;-an

The English Counties Delineated; or, Descrip- etching by Wilmore, of Harding's drawing, Lord Byron's dream, which promises to form tive View of the present state of England and one of the most excellent and effective of Wales. By Thomas Moule. No. I. Virtue; modern engravings;-two or three studies from SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. Simpkin and Marshall; and Jennings and the life, by Mr. J. Wood, (a member of the POLITICS IN THE LITERARY GAZETTE! Chaplin. THIS is the first number of a publication, the Musidora of Thompson;-a collection of EVERY body is excited and how can we be Society), and, in particular, a design from City Alarm: the Wellington Era. which is intended to consist of forty-eight drawings, made during a recent tour in Eng- nobody? Spite of prudence, we must dabble a monthly numbers; and to "form a complete land, by Mr. George Sheppard, (also a mem- little in politics, like the rest of the world. It English Atlas, containing a vast body of topo-ber,) containing many of a highly pictu- is an awful crisis in the City of London: we graphical information in a digested order: exhibiting the situation, extent, climate, and productions of the country, natural and artifi cial, with its government, &c., as well as the improvement in the arts, manufactures, and commerce of the kingdom." As far as a glance will enable us to judge, this work will, in a very unpretending form, and at a very reasonable rate, communicate much detailed and accurate knowledge.

Six Views of Brussels, exhibiting some of the Principal Points where the recent Contests took place; with a Plan of the City. Drawn and etched by Lieutenant-Colonel Batty. Jennings and Chaplin.

number of sketches by the lamented Boning-
resque character, and exquisitely finished;-a
ton;-a miniature copy of the late President's
picture of Master Lambton, by Mr. G. R.

Ward-an artist whose excellence in this

being no day in the calendar, has given rise to
were there on Tuesday, which, by the by,
the new name of the present epoch; videlicet,
THE WELLINGTON PERIOD!-as we say
assured us, there was no ninth of November,
the Julian, &c.; for a very wealthy citizen
this year; and, in consequence, as a native of
the Sister Isle remarked of this "intercalation,"
did of old.
we might commence another new style, as we

The late

branch of the profession is quite unrivalled, and who has, we believe, copied the greater proportion of the works of Sir Thomas Lawrence, at his own especial recommendation. Mr. Henry Behnes Burlowe, the sculptor, exhibited a bust of Mr. Clint, A.R.A.; and as the original happened to be in the room, we and at the parliamentary end of the town, was But what puzzled us most, both in the city had an opportunity of judging it to be as ex- the origin assigned for the alarm so suddenly traordinary a likeness as ever came under our and unexpectedly spread. A riot was, it seems, notice; as a work of art, it is also excellent. intended; and no sooner had ministers got a Mr. George Morant submitted a portfolio of AT a period when the disturbances in the drawings, which contained several from the ad-Key to the whole business, than they were Netherlands have created so painful an inte- mirable pencil of Prout, (" a brave painter," Lord Mayor's procession implied no dangeroverwhelmed with consternation. rest in this country, a publication like the pre- according to Barry Cornwall,) D. Roberts, he was only a Crowd-er; but with the Lord sent is very appositely timed; and is calculated Copley Fielding, Stothard, Cox, and Thomas Mayor elect affairs had assumed a more threatmaterially to assist persons who have never Boys, a young artist of rich promise. visited the magnificent city of Brussels, in It is one of the primary regulations of the ening aspect— understanding the accounts of those recent Society, that such members as are artists be With Blacking Hunt and Porcupine Cobbett; contests by which some of its finest edifices expected to submit their own works to the and if the Premier ventured into the city, have been either destroyed or greatly injured. inspection of the meeting. We regret that the instead of the usual present of the Freedom in The etchings are executed in a slight, but rule is not sufficiently attended to. masterly manner. We regret that they are individuals who claim our thanks upon this a gold box, the anonymous and other blacknot accompanied by a typographical notice, head are, Mr. Behnes Burlowe, Mr. G. R. guards swore they would use the freedom of however brief, of the events which they are Ward, Mr. J. Wood, and Mr. Sheppard. In boxing his ears, or at least battering his coachHere was a pretty plot !--all the wards, our future notices of the Conversazione, we with their aldermen, turned out, besides Thomas shall conceive it our duty to point out for Ward, the late Sheriff; and they all, upon the especial attention such gentlemen, as afford premises, refused to admit the opening of proofs of their industry, talent, and liberality, their master-Key. Indeed, they spoke scornby exhibiting the efforts of their pencils to their brother artists, and to the amateurs who Chief of Candlewick; the thing is not to be fully. Cut off our lights! exclaimed the desire to derive instruction and enjoyment from done; I'll engage to find Birch enough to whip the demagogues out of the city. P-Shaw!

intended to illustrate.

The British Celestial Atlas. By G. Rubie.

The only

Part IV. Baldwin and Cradock. THIS ingenious publication is now complete, and comprehends "a Familiar Treatise on Astronomy; two Movable Plates of the Celestial Globe, with Problems thereon; a Manual their society. Planetarium, on which a variety of instructive and amusing experiments may be performed; and a complete Atlas of the Starry Heavens." SIR, -Relying on the candour with which From the cursory view which we have taken your Journal is conducted, I beg leave to for

To the Editor, &c.

box.

They were determined to mob it,

Our sense of justice demands the insertion of this letter; and we shall be equally open to any counter statement from Mr. Rolls.

cried he of Portsoken. The maimed and lamed that Pall Mall had moved to the east of Tem- brilliancy, and been the gazing delight of all (if any much doubt) may be sent to Cripple-ple Bar: but it was not so-Pall Mall was beholders, was every where lowered to the gate, quoth the witty Wood. Very Fair-brother, almost Stranded by griefs of its own, and had dust. W.'s and A.'s were treated like the re-echoed Lime Street; while Vintry thought little more than a Cross to choose between. most common letters of the alphabet; nay, the of his own name of Winchester, and wished, in But there is seldom any case so bad as not very anchor of England (as if it were a pique) the event of a real riot, he were there. Wil- to have a spice of good to season it; and was thrown overboard and all, like a worthles liam Thompson, Esq., M.P., delivered his sen- though there were bones of contention out of thing, and timents more seriously: As all the necessaries doors, there were crumbs of comfort and some- Hope for a season bade the world farewell! of life, said he, are like my ward, Cheap, I am thing more substantial within. Along the Union jacks and British banners lay on the really surprised at all this clamour and hubbub. whole line of street from the Palace to the flags profane-laurels from their palmy eleraThe Common-sergeant offered to put himself at Guild, in every house, the master or mistress, tion were planted in the mud (oh, improper the head of any recruits, and to die for, if he or both, or both in one (where there was no manure!), and hundreds of rows of lamps were could not live by, the city; and the Clerk of divided sway), had shewn themselves worthy sacrificed to the dread of one row. the Peace vowed he was not afraid of war. of the enviable station they enjoyed. Aware Having witnessed these signs of the times The Sword-bearer volunteered his single ser- of the possibility of their being besieged by the with our own eyes, is it strange that, filled vices; but the Common Crier evidently felt revolutionary rogues who had menaced the as others are with wonderment and amaze. for the difficulties of the times, as his despond- tranquillity and tranquil eating of London, ment, we should endeavour on one small spot ing looks too plainly testified. The City Mar- they, every housekeeper of them, had pro- of our quiet, soft, and green literary field, (a shals pledged themselves to protect their bro-visioned their Englishman's castles, and many field of relaxation and enjoyment, where all ther Marshal Wellington; and the Coroner of them called in their friends from remote else is turbulence and noise), to expatiate on expressed his extreme readiness to perform his parts, such as Brompton, Hampstead, High- the engrossing topic of politics in our own duty, whatever might be the result; for, as he gate, Paddington, &c. &c., to assist in their way? England will right herself. She ought observed, there might be visitations of Provi-gallant defence; while others, more mercenary, to be well and honestly governed and there is dence, and finis coronat opus. had, by a capital ruse, persuaded bold and ad-nothing to create alarm. Alarm! Why it The city being in this bold and masculine venturous strangers to pay them for (the post resembles a common full of asses. One silly position, and not terrified by the fulminations of honour! i. e.) the privilege of fronting the ass brays, and another brays; and, anon, most of the thieves and pick-pockets, now known by enemy. of the herd, separately or in concerto, exalt the appellation of "the people," it was a their melodious voices; till, astounded by their grievous disappointment on that day, which, as The preparations for holding out were on own vociferations, they fancy the common we have noticed, turned out to be no day, that a very magnificent scale; and the whole about to be invaded, over-run, eaten up, and there was no royal visit-no Lord Mayor's was rendered nugatory by the non-inter- consumed. Poor beasts! the uproar and the Show-no dinner in Guildhall. Then, in-ference of the foe. Of course the entire danger are all their own: there will always be deed, the condition of the citizens became line of defence was abandoned, and the ordi- browsing for them, in spite of the radicals atfrightful. O dear! resounded along Cheap-nary population left to consume the extraordi- tacking the roots. In truth, it is the idle, the side-prayers for safety were breathed in Pater-nary supplies. Gluttons as they were, and timid, the prating, the repeaters of every silly noster Row, and clerkly answered by Amen with every stomach for the fight, they could rumour, that swell the loud and empty blast of Corner. From St. Paul's westward, as the not do it. It was pitiable to witness the ef- Britain's peril. Cockneys truly said, it was Ludgate Ill; and forts that were made, and made in vain. With regard to the burnings in Kent, they Fleet Street reminded the melancholious of the There was a perfect glut of turtle soup (in are rather more distressing than the fears of fleeting nature of human hopes and anticipa- some cases, to be sure, a mere mockery), which London. Better marry than burn, said Paultions. To see the jostling and hustling of the went down, and down, and down, till it was better not marry, says Malthus; but, in the passers-by and groups, one would have fancied below par. Pies were poison; rounds of beef teeth of apostle and economist, the unhappy Apropos of these dinners: we do not think our read-met no longer with rounds of applause; chick-people do marry, and thus beget (according to ers and musical friends are sufficiently acquainted with ens were at a discount, and turned out neck the new lights) a surplus population, which, the humorous and amusing duet lately sung, so feel- and crop; hams, tongues, and other salt meats, not being adequately supported, add their ingly, by Gog and Magog on a festive occasion; and which appeared in the Second No. of Hood's Comic Melo-Were no longer looked upon as refreshments; burnings to their parents' marriages-so that, turkeys were pouted at, and pigeons in every in reality, they both marry and burn! Then, way absolutely viewed with loathing detesta- there is that phantom, “ Swing!” a very Rock tion for their proprietors could not help re- for the alarmists to split on. In a few weeks, membering they had already been pigeoned we will predict, this bugbear of a Guy Fawkes, enough; the stews were disrelished-for every this Swing of Kent, will very likely come to family was in a stew itself; unable to stuff the other swing at Newgate; and there will any more, hares, with their own stuffing, were be two swings to terrify those who are afraid absolutely sold ready dressed; and, in fine, in- of ghosts.

dies.

Magog. Why, Gog, I say, it's after one,

And yet no dinner carved;

Shall we endure this sort of fun,

And stand here to be starved.

Gog. I really think our city lords

Must be a shabby set;

I've stood here since King Charles's time,
And had no dinner yet.

Magog. I vow I can no longer stay;

I say are we to dine to day?

Gog. My hunger would provoke a saint

I've waited till I'm sick and faint.
I'll tell you what, they'll starve us both-
Magog. I'll tell you what, they'll stop our growth!
Magog. I wish I had a round of beef,

My hungry tooth to charm-
I've wind enough in my inside
To play the Hundredth Psalm.

Gog. And yet they feast beneath our eyes,
Without the least remorse-
This very week I saw the Mayor
A-feeding like a horse.

Magog. Such loads of fish and flesh and fowl,
To think upon it makes me growl-
Are we to dine to day, &c.
Gog. I wonder where the fools were taught,
That they should keep a giant short.
They'll stop our growth-

Magog. They'll starve us both, &c.
Magog. They said, a hundred years ago,
That we should dine at one;

Why, Gog, I say, our meat by this
Is rather over-done.

Gog. I do not want it done at all,

So hungry is my maw-
Give me an alderman in chains,
And I will eat him raw.

Magog. Of starving weavers they discuss,
And yet they never think of us-

I say are we to dine to day, &c.

Gog. O dear, the pang it is to feel

So mealy-mouth'd without a meal!

I tell you what they'll starve us both

Magog, I tell you what, they'll stop our growth, &c."

"Large was their bounty, and their souls sincere."

crease of appetite could no longer grow with In the meantime, with a good and popular
what it fed on. On the contrary, Amen stuck King, with a people of whom the great mass
in the throats of the gorged inhabitants, who enjoy many blessings, and among the rest the
had done all they could to remove the loads blessing of common sense-and, above all, with
with which they were oppressed; but, like a firm purpose to apply every means to alleviate
most reformers, discovered long before they the sufferings and improve the condition of
got their dessert, that they only lightened one the poorer classes-“ England 'gainst all the
place to surcharge another. How it will ter- world!"
minate, no one can pretend to predicate; bnt it
is whispered in private circles, that Apothe-
caries' Hall is to be illuminated. So much for
prophets.
Another of the vexations which arose out of hersh's opera, before the royal family and a
ON Saturday the performance of Lord Burg.
this metropolitan calamity, fell upon the pro- splendid auditory, went off with much applause.
gress of intellect. Preparations had been Lade There is a great deal of sweet music in the
to enlighten and illuminate the city, when composition; but we cannot, now, afford room
the gloom gathered, and the march of lamp- for a detailed criticism.
light was so suddenly suspended. It was

woful to think of the hundreds of thousands of

DRAMA.

KING'S THEATRE.

Perhaps the Italian Opera will be anglicised human beings left, as the saints say, in dark-and Madame Vestris are engaged. The Haynext season, if, as is rumoured, Miss Paton ness and ignorance; and it was most afflicting, market Theatre, on dit, (see Furet de Londres) in a political sense, to see the apathy and dis-is to be opened by the French company in loyalty generated on the occasion. The royal crown, which should have shone with so much

January.

DRURY LANE.

a

|(Platanus occidentalis), after a long immersion which has been found in a ziran granite in the in water, diminished in size by one-tenth environs of Miarsk in Siberia. Its lustre is A NEW divertisement was brought out here on of its diameter, and became so hard as scarcely vitreous, colour brick-red, or reddish brown, Monday last, after the performance of Henry V. to be affected by the axe. translucid on the borders. Its crystals are Les Trois Sultanes introduced a Mademoiselle Tubercles of Potatoes.-M. Vilmorin pre- rhomboidal prisms. Its hardness is equal to 6. Rosalia Guet to a Drury Lane audience. She sented to the Royal and Central Society of Sp. gr. 4.93. It has not yet been analysed. is a respectable second-rate dancer, who has Agriculture of France, a specimen of the eyes Movable Houses.-A French engineer, of evidently chosen Taglioni for her model; and or tubercles of potatoes, which had been com- the name of Blown, lately presented a memoir better she could not have. We beg to decline pletely frozen, and which he succeeded in pre- to the Academy, on the construction of movotherwise noticing the divertisement. This is serving by simple drying in the air, so that able houses. Movable houses have long been Mons. Simon's second essay, and unless he is they would serve for the nourishment of used in Sweden; but the mason as well as the labouring under great restrictions, the less we animals. carpenter has been employed in their construcsee of his productions, the better for all parties. New Nutritious Plant.-M. Henri pre- tion. Those invented by M. Blown, on the The glorious music of Guillaume Tell (Anglicè, sented to the same society a specimen of fecula contrary, are entirely of wood, can be erected or rather Hibernicè, Hofer,) drew a suffocating obtained from the root of a plant called arra- in a very short time, so as to be perfectly house on Thursday, backed as it was by the cacha, of the family of Umbelliferæ, indige- habitable, and can be transported with facility. announcement of a new farce for Liston, from nous in the provinces of Santa Fé of Bogota, One of these houses has been eight times taken the popular pen of Poole. In the opera, Miss and of Caraccas in Southern America, where down in the course of eight years; and has Pearson and Miss Russel made their first ap- this root is employed as food. This substance travelled over a space of a hundred and fifty pearances as Bertha and Josephine, characters has all the physical and chemical characters of miles. M. Blown thinks that this kind of sustained last season by Stephens and Vestris. the true fecula, and possesses all their aliment- building may be usefully employed in African Without trying them by so dangerous a standary properties. expeditions. The committee of the Academy ard, we are compelled to say that both the ladies New Café. We observe the preparations in to whom his memoir was referred are of a are utterly incapable of executing the music of St. James's Street, and hear of the engagement different opinion: they say that the extreme Rossini. Philips and Sinclair drew down re- of Vestris, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Goldsmid the heat of the climate would soon warp the wood, peatedly the enthusiastic applause of the audi- clever imitator, &c. for morning lounges and and render the adjustment of the parts imence. The grouping, scenery, dresses, and the refreshments: but as the plan seems new to possible. lancer-dance, kept them also in good humour; the metropolis, we must stop and see before French Coinage.-The gold and silver coinand, notwithstanding the desperate drawbacks age of Philip the First was announced for before mentioned, the curtain fell amidst rounds issue on the 5th of November: by the by, our of approbation.—The new farce succeeded, in Guy Fawkes Day. The king's profile is to both senses of the word. Turning the Tables the right; the reverse has a crown of laurels, is founded (it were unfair to say translated) with the device, Dieu protége la France. upon Scribe's Nouveau Pourçeauguac. Its title explains its plot. Three would-be-wits of Uxbridge the exciseman, a lawyer's clerk, and his cousin lay their heads together to hoax an obnoxious visitor from Coventry, and have the tables turned upon them by the said visitor. Liston, as the Exciseman, was drollery itself; and Cooper played the hoaxee with great tact. The two Vinings performed the very inferior parts allotted to them with spirit and vivacity but perhaps the most difficult, as well as one of the best supported characters in the piece, was Patty Larkins, a Dunstable girl, by Mrs. Orger, who is decidedly one of the cleverest women on the stage. The little farce is very pleasantly written, and will no doubt be a lasting fa

vourite.

COVENT GARDEN.

we praise.

New Bazars.-Bazars are still the rage:
the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly is rapidly un-
dergoing conversion for this object; though if
it be to the total exclusion of all those exhibi-
tions of art and curiosity which we have been
for ourselves, shall regret the change.
so long accustomed to enjoy at this place, we,

The French Academy.-The French Academy
having required from the French government
the power of immediately restoring to its body
the academicians who were expelled by an
arbitrary measure in 1815, the government has
replied, that the Academy possessed the means
of effecting the desired object by successive
elections of the members of which it had been
deprived.

Diamonds. Several diamonds have lately been discovered at the foot of the Oural Mountains; and there is every reason to believe that

more will soon be found.

LITERARY NOVELTIES.
[Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. XLVI. Nov. 13.]
Roxobel, by Mrs. Sherwood.-Remarks on a New and
Humphreys Doddridge, Surgeon.-The Life of Thomas

Important Remedy in Consumptive Diseases, by John
Fanshawe Middleton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Calcutta, by
the Rev. C. W. Le Bas, M.A.

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November.

Sunday

5

9

Thermometer.
From 43. to 54.

38. 1 55.

47.

60.

Barometer. 29.74 to 29.80 29.86 29.66

29.66

29.20

Imperial Society of Naturalists at Moscow.The Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow receives annually 10,000 roubles from the METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1830. THE Carnival at Naples, supported solely by Out of this sum, 3,000 are de- Thursday.. 4 emperor. the talent of Miss Taylor, and somewhat of voted to journeys of natural history in Russia; Friday Power, still "drags its slow length along." 3,000 for the publication of the discoveries Saturday 6 This clever young actress is, however, we are which result from these journeys; 1850 for Monday.... 8 happy to perceive, announced for Rosalind, a the drawer and engraver; 800 for the Tuesday character in which, we trust, she will speedily stuffer; 800 for the expenses of the office; Wednesday 10 assert her rights as a legitimate performer. and 650 for incidental expenses. The Society We look forward with pleasure to Thursday was founded in 1805 by its present director, next. As You like It is of itself a treat; and so Mr. Fischer. It has published seven volumes is Charles Kemble's Orlando: we have great of memoirs; and from the beginning of 1829 it hopes that Miss Taylor will prove herself has printed a bulletin of its labours. worthy both of the one and the other. Shake- Method of obtaining the Skeletons of Fish.Mr. Bluell's plan is to suspend a fish in a vessel

speare is the touchstone.

Wind, S.W.
Clear on the 8th and 9th-otherwise cloudy, with fre-
quent rain.

Rain fallen, 1 inch and ⚫075 of an inch.
Edmonton.
CHARLES H. ADAMS.
Longitude.... 0 3 51 W. of Greenwich.

Latitude...... 51° 37' 32" N.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A. J.'s thought is affecting; but there are imperfections

Our worthy friend M. T. S., of Long Strattan, must

take an excuse from us, for reasons too long to explain.

A new-old farce, or interlude, the hundred- full of water, into which he introduces a num-in the execution which forbid insertion.
and-first adaptation of Le Prisonnier, ou la
Ressemblance, which, under the title of the
Secret, the Prisoner, &c. &c., has been acted at
every minor theatre in London, was produced
here last Thursday, with the appellation of

S., of Kew, declined. He must write to Miss H.: we cannot print it.

The adapter of the Wreck Ashore, at the Adelphi Theatre, ought to have acknowledged his obligation for that delightful drama, to the author of Tales of a Voyager in the Arctic Ocean, on whose story of Letitia it is so

Discovery of Bromine in the Baltic.-M. Kastner, in the Archiv für die Ges. Natur-closely founded. lehre, announces the discovery of bromine and Councils of the Royal Society was delayed too long in Sir James South's Charges against the President and iodine in the waters of the Baltic, near Swine-reaching us for consideration this week; we can only say, munde. that they are confoundedly peppery.

Monazite, a new Mineral.--Breithaupt has given the name of monazite to a mineral

• From oval, to be alone, from its not being capable of being compared with any other mineral.

In our review of the Amulet last week, we accidentally omitted the intended quotation from Mr. Carne's Eastern Story Tellers: it shall appear in our next.

Puffing-Having spared a few columns to the farce in the City, as a temporary subject, we have postponed our remarks on the Puff-System.

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