to." Yet the world will not be at the trouble to seek this good, so easily obtained: but, on the contrary, put on their iron boots, and go asking for the road.

tears to drop; thus to repeat, will cause the hardened by a new process, without injury fires to extinguish, and the ashes to become to the most delicate lines. A cylinder of cold; thus to repeat, will inspire the celes- steel, of proper diameter and width, is then tial gods with awe, and the terrestrial demons prepared to receive the impression on its I advise you speedily to swear and vow with reverence, thus to repeat, will make periphery in relief; this is effected by being to this effect: "If I do not both now and heaven to rejoice, and the gods be glad! applied to a singularly constructed press, inhenceforth repeat the name of Fuh, and seek At the sound of Füh's name, the palace of vented expressly for the purpose. The cyto live in that western world of joy; then let the king of devils moves and shakes! At linder is then hardened, and fac-similies may me become an evil demon, fall down for ever the sound of Fuh's name, the wood of be produced upon steel or copper plates ad to the northern part of Hades, to the metro-swords and the mountain of knives, will be infinitum; and in this way, Bank Note polis of hell. Alas! Alas!" beaten small as dust! At the sound of Füh's plates may have the talents of the most eminame, a hundred miseries, multiplying into nent artists in England transferred to them. thousands, will all melt away! At the sound The great advantage of this invention, as apof Fuh's name, the road to pay the debt of plied to secure Bank Notes from forgery, is, gratitude to princes, parents, superiors, and that it produces perfect identity in all the the benevolent, and to obtain the three de- notes, and admits of a test, whereby each note sirable things, will instantly be opened. may be identified, as all the notes may be Thus, the man who would squeeze out the perfectly alike except the denomination; and oil, must cause the sound of the pressing every individual who will take the trouble to bodies to grind the more forcibly. Thus furnish himself with an original impression also the mariner, when his barge meets the from any one of the test dies, may, by comswelling of the wave, must ply the oar parison, determine whether the note is gemore vigorously. Having behind us the nuine or not. boiling cauldron, and before us the lotuspools, were thousand, and myriads of men to prevent our repeating, yet all their efforts would be vain.

Give up the three tsúngs and all books for others to fag at, and the fourteen thousand roads for others to walk in. Beyond the one sentence, "O-ne-to Fuh," you need not use a single word. Let each seek a retired room, and sweep it clean; place therein an image of Fuh; every day burn a pot of pure incense; place a cup of clear water; and, when evening comes, light a lamp [before the image]. whether painted on paper, or carved in wood, the figure is just the same as the true Fuh: [let us] love it as [our] father and mother; venerate it as our prince and ruler. Morning and evening, let us worship it with sincerity and rever ence; fall prostrate [before it], like the tumbling down of a mountain, and rise up with dignity, like the ascent of the clouds. On going out, let us inform it; returning, let us report the same; whether we travel to the distance of five or ten le (miles) let us act as in the presence of our Füh. Eating or drinking, let us first offer it up for [Fuh's] nourishment. Raising the eye, or moving the lips, all is [from] Fah. Let not our rosary ever leave our hands, or the sentence "Ne-to" depart from our mouth. Let us repeat it with a loud voice and with a low voice; repeat it in lines of six words, and of four words; repeat it quickly and slowly; repeat it audibly and silently; repeat it with clasped hands, and with a low voice on our bended knees; repeat it before Fuh, and with our faces towards the west; repeat it, and strike the wooden tablet, and beat the wooden fish; † repeat it, while fingering the beads of the rosary, and while walking in the road; repeat it when worshipping, and when alone; repeat it also in the midst of a crowd; let us repeat it in our own houses, and when abroad; repeat it when at leisure, and when in a bustle; repeat it while travelling, and while dwelling at home; repeat it sitting and lying, and let us repeat it even in our dreams; this is the true way of repeating. Thus to repeat, will make our hearts sour and our This is as literal as possible. It will be diff cult for those who maintain, that the heathens do not worship idols as gods, but only the spirit that is supposed to reside in them, to put a fair and unforced meaning on this passage (and there are hundreds of similar passages in Chinese books) without shaking the foundation of their own opinion. The writer of this paper does not seem to have been an ignorant man. The style of the original shews him to have been acquainted with letters, so that, to worship the work of one's own hands as a God, is not confined to the vulgar only.

ARTS AND SCIENCES.

SIDEROGRAPHY *.

Among the improvements of the day, not one appears to attract more notice than the Siderographic Art, which has been introduced into this country, by Messrs. Perkins and Fairman.

The principal object to which this invention has been applied, is to secure Paper Currencies from forgery; and, we believe, the most sanguine expectations of the inventors have been realized, as in no one instance has a successful attempt been made, to counterfeit their most simple notes. A short account of the invention will illustrate the value which is attached to it, and the advantages that will result from its introduction into this country. The chief merit of this invention consists in its power to multiply engravings of the most exquisite, as well as those of inferior kinds, and substituting steel in place of copper plates, in certain cases. This process of stereotyping the Fine Arts, is simple, and easily understood, and is effected in the following manner. Steel blocks or plates are prepared in a peculiar way, of sufficient softness to receive the tool of the engraver, who is able to produce upon them even better and sharper work than upon copper. This block or plate is then

Perhaps happiness, office, and age. * Taken from THE ARCADIAN, a new monthly work which has just started, and is so called from its being published under the Burlington Arcade. It is poetical, political, satirical, theatrical, and displays a degree of talent for irony and flogging, sufficient to get its makers into hot water, if no better encouragement. We mention it for the sake of quoting a short article on + Instruments used in worship in the Tem-a subject we have for some time intended to ples. bring before the public, and do not desire to Phrase used to denote the moving of the borrow from a contemporary without an acknowfeelings. ledgment.

"This invention appears capable of putting an entire stop to the forgery of all paper securities, of whatever description.

"We understand with pleasure, that the proprietors of this Patent have formed a connexion with Mr. Charles Heath, an eminent Engraver of this metropolis, and intend to have an extensive and permanent establishment in London, for the purpose of executing work for public or private Banking Institutions, and also all engravings of which a great number of impressions are required.

"Messrs. Perkins and Fairman, it was generally expected, would have had the contract with the Bank of England for furnishing their new notes, Their plan has received the approbation of the most eminent artists of this country, who have signed as testimonial of its excellence and its capability of answering the end proposed. The Report, however, from the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty, precludes that hope for the present."

We inspected this invention in October last, and can bear testimony to its excellence. We never saw any thing so minute and so beautiful as the engravings from the steel. By it the Charter of the Bank might be inserted five hundred times, in miniature, on every note. We understood,however, that the plans adopted by the Bank Directors, previous to the introduction of this American invention, had proceeded too far to admit of their rejection and its adoption, even were that step deemed adviseable. We hope and trust, however, that all ingenious men have fair play allowed them in these competitions, and that no authority (no matter how highly patronized) is allowed to interpose between them and the service of the State, as well as the reward of their labours. We say so much, because we have heard this evil complained of; and if it be well founded, this public notice will do no harm.

LEARNED SOCIETIES. CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 3. MEMBERS' PRIZES.-The subjects for the present year are, for the

his resemblance. It looks like that eminent sculptor disguised.

with the rounding of their members. The
scenery is wild and picturesque, and in
a style of grandeur which gives great cha- Nos. 235. 241.-M. A Shee, R. A.
racter to the subject; while the rich tone These also are portraits, under the titles of
of the animals and their appendages is "A Student," and " Design;" the design
opposed to the snow-covered ground, from being to give generic names to individual
which the head and hands of the man appear. subjects, in order to render them eligible to
We could certainly have wished that the a gallery which excludes portraiture. No-
latter had been less prominent, or that if thing can be purer than the colouring, no-
made so, that the hues given to his face thing more elegant than the forms, nothing
should have borne some resemblance to na- more pleasing than the expression of these.
ture, and not been a traditional copy of death, creations of Mr. Shce's art. But how un-
from ancient masters, who thought it was like the glow of real life is this lady (" De-
most perfectly imitated by a half-tint re-sign," whom we have, by the way, seen be-
fore-we do not mean seen before by the
way);-a figure of pure design charmingly
coloured, so as almost to look like nature.
No. 267. Rural Breakfast.-W. M. Craig.

On Monday the 21st ult. the Members of the Cambridge Philosophical Society held their first general meeting for the present year, in the great lecture room of the Physical Schools, in the Botanic Garden; when the following communications were read, viz. a paper, by the President, upon Isome trical Perspective, a paper, by Dr. Thack-sembling a bullock's hide just drawn from a eray, upon a remarkable mineralized organic tan-pit. This is the blemish of an otherwise body, found at Scarborough; a paper, com- exceedingly clever performance. municated to the secretary, from Captain Nos. 3. 111. 200. 214. 223. 259.-B. West, Fairfax, upon a new method of taking the soundings at sea. Dr. E. D. Clarke also gave notice of his discovery of Cadmium in the Derbyshire Silicates, and other English ores of Zinc. Many other communications were announced; the reading of which was unavoidably postponed until the next meeting of the society.

William Blackstone Rennell, Esq. Fellow of King's College, was last week admitted Bachelor of Arts.

FINE ARTS.

BRITISH GALLERY.

P. R. A.

Among these are the Sketch for the White
Horse and his legions, &c. Elisha raising the
Shunamite's Son, Elijah raising the Widow's
Son, and other pictures by the venerable
president, which have been long before the
eyes of the public. We doubt whether their
exhibition in such numbers is consistent
with the declared objects of the Institution;
but the Directors probably reconciled to their
minds the rejection of the works of young
and emulous artists to make room for these
pieces, by the consideration that, being
among the foremost productions of Mr.
West's pallet, they would be attractive to
the public, and thus augment the funds for
the encouragement of rising merit.
We
need not go into any critical remarks on
these able pictures, the spirit of some of
which, and the graceful composition of all,
render them worthy of being closely stu-
died.

No. 212. Devotion, a Study from Nature,
at Florence. No. 219. A Female in a
Roman costume :-J. Jackson, R. A.

If the whole business of life were to eat, this would be full of life's business. We never witnessed so much stuffing in so small a compass: man, woman, child, babies at breasts, dogs, cats, all animate nature at relentless feed. It occurs to us as an odd thing, that all this artist's pictures which we remember, are devoted to gastronomy-apoplexy, cook-shops, &c. as if inspired by his stomach instead of his brain. In this instance, the frame is as full of figures as the frames of the figures are full of meat; there is no empty place in either " to be let." The story is overloaded rather than well told. No. 4. A Country Girl. No. 173. The

finding of Edipus.-W. Ross.

We pass over the Country Giri, as an improvement on some of the former works of this young and promising artist, to remark, that on glancing at No. 173, our attention was arrested, and we examined the picture for a considerable time, recognizing qualities in art of no ordinary kind; such as the grace of the antique in the turn and form of the figures; a cleanness of colouring, and a viagorous style of penciling; a suitable tone of back ground, with other accessories, well calculated to contrast and give effect to the whole. We now turned to the catalogue for further information, not indeed expecting to find the name of so youthful a painter: from which it may be inferred, that our surprise went along with our approbation, and that, from this specimen, we angur more certainly than we did last year, that Mr. Ross will become an ornament to the British school of design. When such a work is produced at an early age, and after only a few years' study, nothing is wanting but perseverance to become eminent. No. 42. Hercules killing the Man of Culydon, &c.-W. Etty.

No. 277. Alpine Mastiff's re-animating a
distressed Traveller.-Edwin Landseer.
From the contemplation of men destroying
each other, with which we began the review
of this gallery in our last, we turn to the
very opposite picture, of brutes engaged in a
work of humanity: what a contrast between
the rational and irrational creation! The
dogs of St.Bernard, of an uncommonly
large breed, are, it is well known, sent To which last might have been added,
forth in couples during the most inclement study from nature at home; for we are in-
seasons, trained to rescue travellers from the formed that it is a likeness of the artist's wife.
perils of avalanche, perishing with cold, or It is the finest female head we have seen from
lying buried in snow. One of the two his very forcible pencil. A singular costume
animals in this piece, has a keg of brandy serves to set off a face of much beauty and
suspended to his collar, the other car-expression, and gives value to some of the
ries warm woollen drapery and, thus richest tints that could be employed, happily
furnished with the means of aiding the un-stopping short of the artificial. The hues
fortunate, their sagacity in finding, and their are indeed so delightfully harmonious, that
attention and skill in relieving, have pro- we could not be content with their influence
duced conduct almost too wonderful for be- at a due distance, but went close, to examine
lief. We have so often seen the faithful and the means. Here, we are compelled to say,
useful creatures of this species exhibited in we discovered that, after all, the colour is
acts of ferocious violence in tearing and not that of flesh. The black blotches and
being torn, that we deem it a lecture on good scumbling which many old pictures acquire
feeling to show them in the advantageous from time and cleaning and varnishing,
light of their nature, and in an employment are not allowable in a painting fresh from
suitable to the noblest end for which their the easel; and, however we may admire the
kind could have been formed. Mr. Land-general effect, it is impossible not to feel
seer is a very young artist, and has acquitted that it is produced by a process at variance
himself ably of his task. One of the dogs is with truth and nature. The difference be-
baying for further assistance, and the monks tween the tone of hands and face, in this
of St. Bernard are visible in the distance, portrait, will strike the most heedless eye.
hastening to answer the call; the other is Devotion" is no less vigorous and brilliant,
licking into warmth a traveller whom they
have discovered among the ice and snow.
The dogs are finely painted, and very judi-
ciously contrasted, both in form and colour.
Perhaps the mark of colouring interferes

The talents which distinguished this artist's performance in the Manlius of last year, has been carried still further in the present exhibition. We have, in this picture, a greater variety of tint and colour, contrasting each other with fine effect. Much has been done in throwing down the barrier between ancient and modern art; more espebut appears to be too compact, and to occu- cially in what regards the texture or mechapy too small a space for the ground on which nism of their works; and, allowing for the it is painted. If Mr. Chantrey could nourish operation of time upon what has been now his beard-to the fit length, and look won-produced, we have no reason to think that drous devout, we think this might pass for any great disparity would appear between it ·

boards in several Italian cities, made his de- In Hungary the cold has been excessive Dr. Pariset, who was sent by the French bút. He is an admirable musician, and pos- during the present winter. On the 16th of government to Cadiz, to make observations sesses a fine compass of tenor voice. His January, a detachinent of an Austrian batal- on the fever which some time ago raged in reception was very flattering, and his quali- lion proceeding from Leopoldstadt to Na-that city and its vicinity, has returned to fications bid fair to render him a lasting fa- das, was overtaken by a dreadful hurricane. Paris. He is of opinion that the disease difvourite with the British public. Some of About twenty-four of the men were blown fered but little from the yellow fever of the scenes are pretty, and one, of an armon- down. The news of this circumstance did America, and that the gern, which had been ry, magnificent. We observed nothing wor-not reach the village of Spaeza till the fol- for some time in the country, was developed thy of particular remark in the perform-lowing day. Assistance was immediately by local circumstances. ances, or in the performers, whose talents dispatched to the sufferers, but the chief are known. The political events of the day part were frozen to death; only a very few are not auspicious to the King's Theatre; were saved. but we hope in a few weeks to see it in greater splendour.

Indian cure for the ear-ache. Take a piece of the lean of mutton, about the size DRURY LANE.-The Hebrew drags on; of a large walnut, put it into the fire and and, COVENT GARDEN-Invanhoe goes off. burn it for some time till it becomes reduced ORATORIOS-Sir George Smart provides almost to a cinder; then put it into a piece so delectable a treat, that his Wednesdays of clean rag, and squeeze it until some moismake full houses. Mrs. Salmon has en-ture is expressed, which must be dropped chanted us, and Brahamn, reserving his asto- into the ear as hot as the patient can bear it. nishing powers for the noblest efforts, sets This has been tried in a family at Madras, native art far above the range of any foreign in more than one instance, and gave immesinger with whose achievements we are ac-diate relief, after laudanum and other mediquainted. Ambrogetti does not shine in eines had been ineffectually applied.

oratorio.

VARIETIES.

Canova is employed in executing a statue of Jean Jacques Rousseau, for a public building in Geneva.

ANAGRAMS.-To the curions transpositions inserted in our last, we are requested to add the following; some of which, however, must be familiar to the amateurs in this sort of ingenuity. Gallantries.. Encyclopedia Breakfast Telegraphs

Asiatic Journal.

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Scottish National Monument.-The Scots Magazine for February contains a letter addressed to the Lord Advocate of Scotland, ably written, and earnestly recommending the erection of a building on the Calton Hill, similar to the Parthenon, as the national It is not generally known, that cloth may monument for which a subscription has been be manufactured from the fruit of the Ana- entered into in that country. The arguments nas. The fine and strong fibres of this de- appear to us to be very cogent, if not unanlicious fruit, on being spun, produce a shirt-swerable; and we feel assured that if so grand ing cloth of very good quality. The Ananas a design were undertaken, the patriotic hearts cloth is easily bleached in Brazil; and indeed of Caledonians all over the world, would it is only there that the cloth can be success- warm to promote its splendid completion. fully manufactured, for in that fertile climate We are decidedly of opinion, that the true the Ananas grows abundantly in the open character of such works is perverted by the air, particularly in those parts where the erection of churches. Let us in these matsoil is mixed with clay. ters, as in others, remember the divine cept-render unto Cæsar that which is Casars's, and unto God that which is God's. A place in which to worship our Creator ought by no means to be confounded with a place to do honour to our fellow mortals. A very remarkable surgical operation has recently been performed by M. Gubian of Lyons. A little girl, eight years of age, was holding in her mouth a pebble, about the size of a bean, when it accidentally fell into the trachea. This substance, coming in contact with the delicate membrane which lines the trachea, speedily produced a violent inflammation in the organ of respiration. The inflammation abated in a few days; but it was succeeded by every symptom of pulmonary phthysis. Six weeks elapsed, and the state of the patient became daily more alarming, when she was taken to Dr. Gubian, who made an incision in the throat, and succeeded in reaching the trachea, and extracting the pebble. This operation, which is so difficult, on account of the moveable nature of the larynx, and the rapid flowing of the blood in the trachea, was executed with a degree of confidence and dexterity surpassing all praise. The wound is already cicatrized. Many years ago Dr. Caron performed the same cure, with equal success, in Paris.

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All great sin.
A nice cold pie.
Fat bakers.
Great helps.
Moon-starers.
No more stars.
Sly ware.

May I repent it.
Comical trade.
To love ruin.

Tis ye govern. Nine thumps. Letters from Rome, more recent than those we last alluded to, state that, Sir Humphrey Davy has perfectly succeeded in unrolling the manuscripts of Pompeii and Herculaneum. This operation now requires but little time; but unfortunately, most of the MSS. are entirely spoiled and illegible.

Two interesting memoirs have lately been sent to the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres. One is by M. Duchevreuil, relative to the antiquities of Cherbourg and Valognes. The other is by M. Gerville, concerning some medals found in the Department of La Manche.

The late Musical Festival at Edinburgh netted 12797. which has been distributed among the charitable institutions of that city and neighbourhood.

Duke Ho, with whom the accounts of Lord Amherst's late embassy made us so well acquainted, has since been promoted to the presidency over the Western Tartar dominions of China. It seems that the sovereign of the Celestial Empire has not considered his negociations with the British in an unfavourable light, as, besides the Government, he has granted his Empress's brother permission to wear yellow cloths !

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL.

MARCH, 1820.
Thursday, 2-Thermometer from 31 to 40.
Barometer from 29, 09 to 29, 51.
Wind W. and N. W. 6 and 4 - Generally

cloudy, sunshine at times. A little snow in the
morning.

Rain fallen,1 of an inch. Friday, 3-Thermometer from 26 to 36.

Barometer from 29, 63 to 30, 10. Wind N. 4 and 2-Generally clear, clouds passing.

Saturday, 4-Thermometer from 25 to 37.

Barometer, from 30, 14 to 30, 20. Wind N. and N. E. — Middle of the day cloudy, with a little snow, the rest generally

clear.

Sunday, 5- Thermometer from 24 to 34.

Barometer from 30, 35 to 30, 41. Wind N. E. 1 and 3.-Generally clear. Monday, 6-Thermometer from 24 to 35.

Barometer from 30, 35 to 30, 37.
Wind N. E. 1 — Clouds generally passing,
clear at times.
Tuesday, 7-Thermometer from 22 to 38.

Barometer from 30, 36 to 30, 26.
Wind N. b. W.. and N. 2-Generally cloudy.

Wednesday, 8-Thermometer from 31 to 42.

Barometer from 30, 41 to 30, 44.
Wind N. E.-Generally clear.
Edmonton, Middlesex,

JOHN ADAMS.