Having thus noticed the principal features of the tragedy, we would wish, before paying a just tribute of applause to the actors, to add up, in one short sentence, that we think it not only a production of much promise, but one of great intrinsic merit, and extremely honourable to the writer, who, if he does not move among the giants of the highest order, has avoided all turgidity and ambitious bombast, and laid the public under a debt of gratitude, for a very natural, pathetic, and pleasing work.

are more frequent and just, than sustained and | Claudius; the faithful Servia; the friendly
deeply wrought; and, in general, that the Numatorius, &c.; are sufficiently distinguish-
effects are produced rather by brief and vi- ed for the purpose of general interest.
vid strokes, than by lofty and magnificent
bursts of passion. We further noticed some
sweet poetical images-such, for instance,
as a comparison of the heroine, between
girl and woman, to the season which is more
than spring, but not yet summer. Several
strongly expressed patriotic sentiments ob-
tained their due meed of applause from the
audience; and, with very few and unimpor-
tant exceptions, (which should, however,
be expunged") the language appeared to us
to be terse and forcible, and not inconsistent
with the dignity of the buskin. We, of
course, do not include in this observation
the passages intended to relieve the graver
colloquy, and in which one Siccius Denta-
tus very closely imitates Menenius Agrippa,
the humourist in Coriolanus. Of these it is
enough to say, that however puns may be
doomed extra-tragical by critics, they were
relished by the great majority of Mr. Bull's
family at the theatre on Wednesday.

minating; and Miss Foote, as Virginia,
though languid, affords a very fair semblance
of the hapless virgin. The minor parts were
very respectably performed, and the tragedy
was entirely successful.

VARIETIES.

chose."

The Vampire story has been dramatized for the Parisian Theatre of the Porte Saint Martin.

Macready's acting battles that praise which must be condensed within small compass. His transitions from affection to rage, from rage to grief, and from grief to madness, Our correspondents from St. Petersburgh are indescribably fine. They must be seen are full of the treasures brought from the East, and felt in order to have an adequate idea of by our countryman, Sir Robert Ker Porter, of their truth, their nature, and their force. and shipped for England, in the form of AnC. Kemble, with a severe hoarseness, played tiquities, Drawings, &c. His drawings of Asiup to this leading part in the first trial atic Architecture are very curious; particuscene, where he has most scope, he is also larly those of the times of Darius and Shah AbIn the construction of his plot, Mr. eminently effective. Abbott's portraiture of bas; and not a few novel beauties of architecKnowles has displayed considerable art, and the tyrant, is just and adinirable. Nothing tural decoration may be found in the ancient some want of skill. With the death of Vir- can be better conceived than the fierce classic and Saracenic fragments of the paginia under her father's knife, in the fourth and burning energy of his passion for Vir laces of Persepolis, Ispahan, Bagdad, &c. act, the great interest of the piece termi-ginia. Terry, in Dentatus, is finely diseri-Sir Robert brings home with him some intenates; and the fifth act, in which Virginius, resting specimens of, perhaps, the oldest rendered insane by his misfortunes, stranbuilding in the world: bricks and cement gles Appius in prison, is not only a work of from the foundation of the Temple of Belus, supererogatory horror, but improbable in at Babylon, believed by antiquaries to be action, and injurious to the nobler sensations the remains of the Tower of Nimrod. previously excited. The improbability consists in the free egress and regress to the dungeon where the fallen Decemvir is immured; and the horror, in the violent process of griping a man by the neck to suffocation upon the stage (though we have a precedent in Othello); and adding to this brutality, which could only be tolerated on the English stage, the Frenehified incident of bringing in Virginia's funeral urn, craped and palled, in order to restore her distracted parent to recollection and reason. These things, we are of opinion, are not only objectionable in themselves, but very badly associated together. In other respects, the author has evinced his judgement in making Numatorius the unele of Virginia; in giving her a betrothed husband, Icilius, and an affectionate matron nurse, Servia; and in the conduct by which he has contrived to render a second appearance before the tribunal of Ap-examining Mulready's picture in the exhibipius, (a great dramatic difficulty), so far tion, in which there is a sneaking cur dog; from being a dull repetition, a varied and and the following conversation ensued.-Dun affecting source of excellence. dy-primus. "Dd fine 'pon my soul! dd expressive! what is it?" Dandysecundus, (blowing over the leaves of his catalogue with a gentle breath, and assisting himself with a gloved hand).

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And how to gayne a neuer-fading blisse.
"Twill make thee see that truely none doe raigne,

But those who serue our common souuerayne.
Nulla Fides.

For God's sake marcke that fly:

See what a poore, weake, little thing itt is. When thou hast marck'd, and scorn'd itt; know that this

and its breadth thirty degrees of latitude, | Chinese, Hindu, Arabian, Dutch, and Spanish from the parallel of 11° south to 19° north colonists; aud the whole population, displays latitude, thus comprehending, with the in- man in every intermediate condition, from tervening seas, an area of 4 millions of ge- the brute savage of New Guinea, to the more ographical, or about 5 millions of statute civilized inhabitant of Sumatra or Java. miles."

Borneo, New Guinea, and Sumatra, are islands of the first rank; and among the other innumerable islands, (exclusive of the Has kill'd a pope; can make an emp'rour dye. Malayan Peninsula) are Java, Celebes, LuBehold yon sparcke of fire :

This little, poore, weake fly

How little hott! how neare to nothing 'tis !
When thou hast donne despising, know that this,
This contemn'd sparcke of fire,

Has burn't whole townes; can burne a world

entire.

That crawling worme there see:
Ponder how ugly, filthy, uild itt is.

this

This base worme thou doest see,

Has quite deuour'd thy parents; shall eate thee.
Honour, the world, and man,

What trifles are thoy! Since most true itt is
That this poore fly, this little sparcke, this
So much abhorr'd worm, can
Honour destroy; burne worlds; deuoure up

man.

such as Macassar, Molucca, China Sea,
Bay of Bengal, &c. &c.

where else subsists upon. The productions
of the ocean are not less reinarkable for
abundance and variety than those of the
land."

The two aboriginal races of human beings inhabiting the Indian Islands, are as different from each other" as both are from all the rest of their species. This is the only portion of the globe which presents so unusual a zon or Luconia, Mindanao, Bali, Lambok, phenomenon. One of these races may geSambawa, Chandana, Flores, or Mangarai, nerally be described as a brown complexionTimur, Ceram, Buroe, Gelolo, Pulawan, ed people, with lank hair, and the other as Negros, Samar, Mondora, Panay, Leyte, a black, or rather sooty-coloured race, with Zebu, &c. &c. better known to the majority woolly or frizzled hair. The brown and neof our readers, as the Philippine Islands,gro races of the Archipelago may be consiIsles of Sunda, &c. &c. or by the names of dered to present, in their physical and moral When thou hast seene and loath'd itt, know that the more frequented seas that are near them, character, a complete parallel with the white and negro races of the western world. The first have always displayed as eminent a re"The Indian Archipelago is throughout lative superiority over the second as the race of a mountainous nature, and its principal of white men have done over the negroes of mountains from one extremity to another are the west. All the indigenous civilization volcanoes. It is very generally covered with of the Archipelago has sprung from them, deep forests of stupendous trees. The num-and the negro race is constantly found in the ber of grassy plains is very small, and there most savage state. That race is to be traced are no arid sandy deserts. It is distinguish- from one extremity of the Archipelago to ed from every cluster of islands in the another, but is necessarily least frequent History of the Indian Archipelago; con-world by the presence of periodical winds, where the most civilized race is most numertaining an Account of the Manners, liar character of these. Animal and vege- where the civilization of the fairer race has and from all countries whatever by the pecu- ous, and seems utterly to have disappeared Arts, Languages, Religions, Institu- table productions either differ wholly from proceeded farthest." The brown coloured tions, and Commerce of its Inhabitants. those of other countries, or are important tribes are in person short, squat, and roBy John Crawfurd, F. R. S. late Bri-varieties of them. In one quarter, even the bust; their medium height, males about tish Resident at the Court of the Sul-principal article of food is such as man no-5 feet, 2 inches; females, about 4 foot, 11 tan of Java. Edinburgh and London. inches, or nearly four inches below the Eu1820. 8vq. 3 vols. ropean standard." They are not a well looking people. The Papua, or woolly-haired This copious work is so abundant in race, is a dwarf African negro. A full useful information, that it will be quite The aboriginal inhabitants are, like those of grown male brought from the mountains of impossible, confined as our limits are, the most southern promontory of Africa, of Queda, was no more than 4 feet, 9 inches to furnish more than a very cursory in-two distinct races; one of a fair, or brown high; and the author never saw one from sight into its contents. Its general cha-complexion, and the other a negro race. any part whose height exceeded 5 feet. racter may, however, be very briefly There are besides many varieties introduced by Their frames are spare and puny; their skins summed up it is a complete history of Since Mr. Crawfurd wrote, two savages not the jet black of Africa, but of a sooty that interesting portion of the earth, from the Andaman islands have been brought to colour; and they are in several physical known by the name of the Indian Archi-Penang, by the crew of a Chinese Junk, who points so strikingly distinguished from the captured them. When pursued in the water, African Negro, as to be considered a distinct pelago; and which consists of by far they dived like ducks, and reappeared at a dis- and very inferior variety of the human spethe largest group of islands on the globe: tance. Their limbs and arms are uncommonly cies. Whenever they are encountered by and it places in one point of view the small; but they are not ill-formed. One is 4 ft. the fairer races, they are hunted down like 6 in., the other 4 ft. 7 in. high; and the weight the wild animals of the forest, and driven intelligence heretofore to be sought for of each only 76 lbs. avoirdupois. They have large to the mountains or fastnesses for the only in Harris's Collection of Voyages, (in-paunches. One is elderly and of ferocious ascluding Stavorinus), Old Purchas, Mar-pect; the other a boy of 17, and of a pleasing safety they can find. co Polo, Dampier, Sonnerat, Linscho-expression of countenance. They appear dull ten, Symes, Forrest, Marsden, Hamil- and heavy, extremely averse to speaking: when alone, and they think unobserved, they make a ton, Raffles, and other authors, to noise like the cackling of turkies. Their skins whose stores Mr. Crawfurd has added are jet black, and of an extraordinary glossiness; the fruits of his own observation, during their bodies tattooed all over; their appetites a residence of nine years in the coun- as dogs would do. In climbing trees they revoracious; and they crunch the bones of fowls tries of which he gives an account. semble monkeys. They go quite naked, and being much plagued with insects, their first operation in the morning is, to cover themselves with mud, which drying on, preserves them from bites and stings. Their salutations are perlower part of the thigh with their hand. They formed by lifting up one leg, and smacking the are altogether in the most deplorable state of the western extremity of the Island of Su-savage nature; and an Andaman (one of a po-bability is, that he can tell neither the hour matra, to the parallel of the Araoe Islands,pulation of from 2 to 3000) may be ranked pernot including in this estimate, the greater haps as the lowest human being in the scale of portion of the immense island of New Guinea, creation. Ed.

From the north of the great continent of New Holland, to the southern shores of Africa, this mighty clustering of islands extends and fills the ocean. In length, the whole chain "embraces forty degrees of longitude close to the line, namely, from

And their cruel hunters are as weak as

they are cruel. "All the faculties of their minds are in a state of comparative feebleness; their memories are treacherous and uncertain; their imaginations wanton and childish; and their reason more defective above the more vulgar train of thought, comthan the rest, when exerted on any subject monly erroneous and mistaken. No man can tell his own age, nor the date of any remarkable transaction in the history of his tribe or country. If a peasant has been preas a murder or a robbery, and is examined sent at some remarkable transaction, such ten days after in a court of justice, the pro

of the day, nor the day at which such transaction took place, still less give a clear account of what happened."