garded as miraculous. The author is speaking of Lieutenant Price, and he says “At Sherfé,” (Lebanon), the traveller says, "We were received by the archbishop, who yesterday was not at home. He spoke Italian tolerably, having visited Rome eight years ago. He drew me by force into a theological dispute, and at the end of every sentence assured me, with inflexible severity, that I should most infallibly be damned if did not immediately turn catholick, which he earnestly exhorted me to do, and even proposed that I should begin on the spot by making to him a confession of my sins." with the poor Americans, who never lost any Jaffa, Damietta, Cairo, Mount Sinai and opportunity of turning an honest penny, by Alexandria. carrying on the trade of our enemies. Captain Otway was at that period serving in the It may, perhaps, be a pardonable digres-West Indies, in the Trent frigate, and hapsion here to notice how this officer, on one pened to be present at the discussion of this occasion, made a considerable sun of prize- affair of the shark. Being about to sail on a money in a very miraculous sort of manner. cruize, Mr. Waterhouse; the prize agent, Whilst cruizing of Cape Tiburoon, in desired him, if he met with a certain Ainethe Island of St. Domingo, in the Sparrow rican brig, (which he described), and could cutter, commanded by Lieutenant Wylie, find out the captain's name to be Pearl Dar-I they chased and came up with an American key, a name he was not likely to forget, to brig, whose cargo, added to other circuin- send him inf, for, by the same papers, it apstances, created such suspicion of her be-peared that he was deeply concerned in these ing enemy's property, that they thought pro-transactions. per to send her in to Port Royal for exanination. The American, captain, however, swore so positively, through thick and thin, to the truth of the papers which he produced, that the Admiralty-court was induced to set him at liberty, when he instantly commenced a prosecution for demurrage against Lieutenant Wylie for having detained him. "In Acre," he states, "I met with no The Trent sailed, and, among others, fell molestation, except now and then some chilin with a brig of a description similar to that dren laughing at me, and bawling out which Mr. Waterhouse had given; and the" Frankche cuckoo." On asking what this moment the master of her stepped on the meant, I was told that some Germans, some quarter-deck of the frigate, with his papers time ago, brought watches to sell here, which in his hand, Captain Otway, at a venture ad-repeated the hours by the figure and voice of. dressed him, "Mr. Pearl Darkey, how do a cuckoo, and this name is on that account you do-I am glad to see you, the very given to all Franks. It is certainly much inan I have been looking for." Jonathan more decent than the usual Turkish exIn this state of the affair, the present started and turned pale, on hearing his real pression of anger or contempt. In the fields Lieutenant Fitton of the navy, (then a mid-name thus familiarly mentioned, (for it was round Acre are many snakes and vipers. A shipman commanding a small tender,) ar- actually Darkey himself), and Captain Ot- young labourer cutting corn last year, was rived in Port Royal, and went on board the way added, by way of helping him out of bit by a viper, and in spite of all the assisSparrow to visit Wylie, whom he found ex- his dilemma, "I am in possession of your tance his friends could procure him, he died ceedingly low-spirited at the idea of the ruin- whole history, and connexion,-I know every in a few hours in this khan: and five or six ous damages which would be awarded against thing about you, and am now going to send years ago the Pasha lost a son eight months him, on account of the Yankee. you into Port Royal for judginent." The old, who had been left sleeping alone in his Fitton, en hearing the name of the captainman, in his dismay and confusion, naturally cradle, and was found dead with an immense and brig, and the nature of the cargo, desir- concluded that their schemes had been be- snake coiled upon his breast asleep, which ed his friend to be under no apprehension, trayed by some who were in the secret, and had not bitten him, but either suffocated him for she was yet a good prize. did not even attempt to defend himself under with its weight, or chilled him with its He then explained, that, cruizing in his his fictitious character. The ruse of confi- cold." tender, near the spot where the Sparrow had dently addressing him at once as Pearl Darchaced the vessel in question, and much key, threw him off his guard, and deprived about the same time, they had caught a him of every subterfuge. She was accordlarge shark, and were surprised on hearing ingly sent in and condemned a good prize to the man employed in cutting it open, sing the Trent, after the fullest proof of her beout, Stand by to receive your letters, mying loaded with the property of the enemy. boys, for here's the post-man come on board," handing out at the same moment a bundle of papers from its maw. These were but little injured by the digestive powers of the animal, and Fitton retained them. They now appeared to be the real papers of the American, which he had thrown overboard when pressed in the chase, and which had been swallowed by this shark. They proved, beyond a doubt, that the cargo was French. The two gentlemen proceeded instantly up to Kingston with this new and decisive evidence, but all further investigation was rendered unnecessary, for the captain of the brig was so thunderstruck on hearing the c cumstance (naturally considering it as a visitation from heaven for his perjuries), that he immediately absconded, and the vessel, after all, was condemned to the Sparrow, giving Wylie three thousand, and my friend, fifteen hundred pounds, for their respective shares. Mr. Fitton sent up the jaw-bones of this shark to the Admiralty-court at Jamaica (where they now remain), with his compliments, observing that he considered them a very proper collar for all neutrals to swear through in future. But this tell-tale shark bad not yet done Of the Jews in the Holy Land we have the following account :— "There are fewer now than there were 150 years ago; that 74 years ago, when the Jews were driven from Spain, many came to the Levant (indeed, most of those here, and at In the whole of these transactions this Anti-Constantinople, still speak Spanish); but American shark was a solitary, but very their numbers have been dreadfully thinned convincing evidence. by the plague, of which 3000 died only last After so curious a talc, we should be year in the Holy Land. That the only new worse than critical sharks were we not coiners now, and lately, are old men, who to take leave of Dr. M. in amity. His more, leaving their worldly affairs in the come to die, mostly at the age of sixty, or book is certainly a fair half hour's amuse-hands of relations, who send them two or ment and pro tanto we recommend it; three piastres a day for sustenance; and that but as for promoting the civilization of most of these come from the Levant, from senses (as poor Turligood says) if we Africa, &c. &c." heaven bless our seven Barbary, and from Russia." can see the least chance of it. 1 It was Easter, the period of the grand resort of pilgrims, that Mr. Turner was at Jerusalem; and his description of the ceremonies and of the bathing in the Jordan, is by far the most interesting thing in his book. We select as much of it as our limits permit. "I issued," he says, "at twelve, to witness the most extraordinary scene I have ever beheld during the twenty-two years of TURNER'S TRAVELS IN THE LEVANT. We find little reason, on further acquaintance, to alter our first opinion of this work. The latter two thirds of the second volume applies to more interesting ground than what precedes; but still we have a superabundance * He always ended every denunciation by, of trivial matter, and it is with difficulty that "Mi scusi, Signore, io son Vescovo; e il mio we get to the end of 600 pages. Having dovere di dirgli cosi." This was the Syriac done so, however, we avail ourselves of the Archbishop of Jerusalem, who has lately been labour to lay a few of the most striking pas-we recognized each other immediately. On my in England. When I called on him in London, sages before our readers. The tour em- asking him how it happened he was not in Jebraces Rhodes, Cyprus, Barout, Mount rusalem during the Easter of 1815, he said that Lebanon, Sidon, Tyre, Acre, Nazareth, the Priest I had seen there was the Syriac Bi the Sea of Galilee, Samaria, Jerusalem, shop, but that he was the Archbishop. my life-the holy fire, as it is called, struck by the Greek and Armenian bishops within the tomb of our Saviour, and believed by the ignorant and credulous crowd to descend annually from heaven. This pious fraud,' | says Gibbon, chap, lvii., 'was first devised in the ninth century.' morning at ten withont moving, and had and in five more, nearly every candle was paid two dollars to get it. A ring was kept extinguished. But what enthusiasm! the as well as the tumult would allow, by the men rubbed them against their heads crowd round the Sepulchre, round which, and faces, their caps and handkerchiefs; and pilgrims (sometimes a single one, sometimes the women uncovered their breasts, directing four, sometimes six, together in a circle) the flame along their heads, necks, and were carried on others' shoulders, singing faces, and all crossing themselves during this; "We entered the church of the Holy Se-religious songs in Arabic and Greek; while operation, with the utmost devotion and vepulchre with difficulty, our janizary carrying at other times, a party of ten or twelve ran locity. The candles, when a little of them before us a whip of several leathern thongs, rioting round it, knocking down every one is burnt, are carried home, and ever afterwhich he used most liberally, though not that stood in their way, and shouting as wards preserved as sacred. Messengers with unnecessarily, to make way for us. The loud as they were able. The Greek and Ar- lanterns, stand ready at the door, who imchurch was filled with pilgrims and specta- mnenian bishops were shut up in the Sepul- inediately carry the fire to the Greek contors, of whom there were not fewer than chre at ten o'clock with a single Turk, who vents of Bethlehem, of the Cross (at Sullah), 7,000. The Aga was at the door, vainly is well paid to declare that lie sees the fire and of Saint Saba, near the Dead Sea. Imattempting to keep order, with between forty descend miraculously, or at least to keep mediately after giving out the fire, the Greek and fifty soldiers, all using, unmercifully, silence. Before they enter, the Sepulchre bishop, coming out of the Sepulchre, was, whips of the description I have mentioned. is publicly inspected, and all the lamps ex- carried by the crowd to the Greek church, (After the paying pilgrims and inhabitants of tinguished; but the Turk, I was informed, immediately opposite to the door, holding in the city have entered, the procuratori has been heard to declare that they carry a each hand torches of the fire, from which of the Greek and Armenian convents com- flint and steel with them. I was inclined to the pilgrims scramble to light their candles. pound for a small sum with the Aga, for the think that the fire was phosphoriek, as the After this, the Turks guard the tomb, and admission of the poor pilgrims who cannot priests declare that it will not burn a person; the pilgrims who enter for the next three afford to pay entrance money, of whom there but on seeing it, I found it was common fire, days pay, the first ones from 80 to 100, and. are this year, not less than 500. The Aga and that the fable of its not burning is only the later from 10 to 20 piastres. When the was seated under a green pavilion, which he believed by enthusiasts. At two o'clock the candles were extinguished, the smoke for formally puts up on the Friday, and retains governor entered, preceded by soldiers, who the first ten minutes hid every thing from till the Sunday. He remains about the were forced to use the utmost violence to sight; but as the top of the dome is only an Sepulchre all the day of Friday, and the make way for him, and followed by his se- open lattice without glass, this soon cleared whole of Saturday, day and night). Within cretaries and servants. He took his place in away. The greater part of the pilgrims then the church (I give that name to the collective the Frank gallery, where a handsome divan left the circular apartment in which stands building) were held bazaars of bread, fruit, was prepared for him, and where he was the tomb, to make room for a procession of vegetables, beads, crucifixes, &c,; and I attended by the Roman Catholick procura-Armenian, Syrian, and Coptic priests, who saw many pilgrims higgling and swearing at tore and his dragomans. (If the fire be walked together in the order in which I have each other for a para, within fifty feet of the much delayed, he becomes impatient, and written them. tomb of Christ. The janizary made way for generally gives a sign, on which it immediately me by force, through the multitude, to the appears.) At five minutes past two, there gallery of the Roman Catholick monks, but was a Greek procession round the Sepulchre; "After writing all the morning I dined no care could prevent many Turkish boys I counted thirty-seven priests, besides the chez Mr Bogos with Sheikh Ibrahim, who, and servants from crowding in with us; these bishop and monks, and nuns. The bishop in the evening, introduced me at the house are mostly children of the Cadi, Mufti, &c. was dressed in a gilt inantle, with long crape of Mr. Aslin, the French Consul here; he of the city; and under pretence of being their over his bonnet, and carried a crosier in his lives in the French quarter, which was once attendants, numbers introduce themselves, hand. Of the priests, some wore green, exclusively occupied by the merchants of whom the monks do not like to turn out for some yellow, and some dark-coloured robes, that nation, but latterly since the diminution fear of offending the authorities. In spite, richly embroidered with gold; and the monks of their commerce, is mostly inhabited by however, of the crowd that filled the gallery, and nuns were all clothed in deep black. All Armenians and other Levantines. It has I succeeded in getting a very good place, wore, except, of course, the women who a small garden in it, now going fast to ruin, from which I was forced to drive back several had long veils, the common cap of the Greek and enjoys the privilege of being the only Turkish soldiers, who attempted to drive me priests. They walked, singing loudly, three quarter in which no soldiers are permitted to out of it; and one fellow among the rest, times round the tomb, preceded by six ban-lodge. Mr. Aslin is a little vif man, with who had the insolence to hold up his stick ners, representing the nativity, passion, and great volubility of conversation; he has crucifixion of our Saviour. As the time been in Egypt eight years, the whole of which "What a scene was before me! The approached for the coming of the fire, the time he has devoted to the study of Arabick Greek and Armenian galleries overlooking crowd became more tumultuous, and rolled and Persian literature, and is a great profi the dome were filled with female pilgrims of in a wave towards the window, whence no cient in both. Last year he sent to Mr. Listhose nations enthusiastically looking towards efforts of the Turks, and of the happy ones ton the book of Genesis translated into Abysthe Sepulchre, and crossing themselves. who had secured a place there, exerted in sinian, begging him to forward it to the Below me, the whole church, and particu- curses, blows, kicks, &c. could drive them. Prince Regent, to whom it was addressed, larly the circular apartment containing the At length, at twenty minutes part two, the with a letter. He tells me that his instruct dome, was absolutely crammed with pilgrims, fire was given from the window, and was or has since finished the whole Bible, which men and women, hallooing, shouting, sing-received with a tremendous and universal he (Mr. A.) has by him. The history of his ing, and violently struggling to be near the studies in Abyssinian is interesting. When Sepulchre, while the Turkish soldiers were he came to Cairo, he found here, in great driving them back with their whips. One poverty and sickness, Abram, the old Abysman I saw in the contention, had his right sinian Christian, who had taught his language ear literally torn off. The place immediately to Bruce and Sir William Jones. Mr. A. near the windows, whence the fire is given, immediately got him assistance, set him on was occupied by the richest pilgrims, who, his legs again, learnt some Abyssinian from. for this precedence, pay to the Greeks and him, and set him about trauslating the Bible. Turks 200 and 300 sequins. One old woman I collected from Mr. A.'s conversation that sitting on the door of the Greek church, had the old man had done it all or most of it kept that place (a Roman Catholick monk himself, for he said that during the last who was shut in told me) since yesterday plague he brought to his door, (within which We shall add but two other quotations. At Cairo, the author says— at me. shout through the whole church. On its les historicos. Part 1. Madrid, 1682. Part II. Salamanca, 1684, folio. Contains the years 612-1516. Abravilla vide Bernardo da Parigi.—Abbildungen vide Kilian and Schwan.-Abbot, J. vide J. Ed. Smith. 7. Abet, Th. Vermischte Schrr. Berl. and St. Nicolai, 1771.-81. 8vo. 6 vol. (3 Thalers. 8 groschen.) the booksellers' shops in Germany, are ex-16. Abarca, Pt. Los reyes de Aragon en anacluded from the Lexicon, as are all the ordinary publications of the trade in that coun try. The author is keeper of the Royal Library at Dresden; and, in mentioning this, we cannot help remarking as a circumstance not a little singular, that a work lately published with the view of giving an account of the principal libraries of Europe, should not even name the collection of the Saxon capital. Far from being unworthy of notice, Part I. Von Verdienste. Part II. Fragm. the Library of Dresden is important and ex-z. portug. Gesch. u. v. Tode f. Vaterl. Part tensive. It occupies thirty-four large rooms, III. Correspond. Parts IV-VI. Verm. and the plan of arrangement is excellent. Aufsätze, Brr. u. Fragm. There is a 4to. Speaking from what we perceive in the small edition of the part entitled Verdienste, ib. portion of M. Ebert's work, as yet before 1790. 8vo. (16 groschen). us, it appears that great numbers of scarce and valuable editions are to be found in this Library; for he has marked the copies it contains by an asterisk. To shew the manner in which the work is executed, we extract the examples with which it commences, though they are certainly not the most fa A a, Pt. v. d., Effigies u. Gallerie. 1. Abaelardi, Pt. et Heloisae opp. nune pr. edita ex MSS. Codd. Fr. Amboesii. C. ejusd. praef. apolog. et censura doctor. Paris. (cur. And. Duchesne) Par., Buon, 1516, 4to. There are several copies of the above. The generality have on the title page the name of Fr. d'Amboise, from whom the præf. apolog, proceeds. Others (which have Duchesne's name) have, instead of the praf. apolog., a dedication, preface, and testimonies, which are wanting in the first mentioned copies. On large paper, very scarce. 2. 3 epistolæ, a prioris edit. errorib. pur. gatæ et e. cod. MS. collatæ cura Rch. Rawlinson. Lond. 1718. 8vo. large paper, scarce. Lettres d'Héloise et d'Abailard, nouv. traduct. av. le texte à coté, par J. Fr. Bastien. Par. 1782. 12mo. two vol. (6 fr.) Also in 8vo. and large paper. A few copies on parchment (with 2 plates, 792 fr. Paris and 245 fr. M'Carthy). 8. 9. V. Verdienste. Vienna, Degen, 1804, large 4to. and large 8vo. (Vellum paper, 24 Thl. and 12 Thl.) Abcontrafactur u. Bildnis all. Grosherzog. Chur-u. Fürst., welche v. 842-1586 in Sachs. regier. hab. Dresd. Gimel Berg, 1586, 4to. with woodcuts. On parchment, with beautiful illuminated woodcuts, Dresden. 10. Abdalla Berdavæi Historia Sinensis, pers. et. lat. ab And. Mullero. Acc. ej notæ. Nunc. c. additam, ed. a Quodvuldt. Abr. Mullero. Jen. 1689, 4to. The fullest copies also contain :-Itinera ria duo, comm. alphabetica, basilicon Sin., imp. Sin. nomenclator geogr. Some other works of Mullero's are collected under the following title.-And. Mulleri opusce. nonn. orientalin. Frankfort on the Oder, 1695, 4to. 11. Abdollatiphi historia Egypti compend. arab. et lat. partim ipse vert. part. a Pocockio versum edend. curav. et notis illustr. Jos. White. Ox., typ Clar. 1800. 4to. XXXII. u. 321 pp. (1 pound, 4 sh.) Together with Abdollatiphi vita Auct. Ibn Abi Osaiba e codd. MSS. Bodlej. descrips. et lat. vert. J. Mouseley. ib. 1808. 4to. VII. u. 78, pp. (6 sh.) he was not admitted,) the last books finished. Poor Abram died of the plague here last May, aged 83, and was unhappy to his last moment at not being able to lay his bones in Jerusalem." At Mount Sinai, "On the other side of the rock that overhangs the Greek convent on the east, is another valley of the same width and long shape as that in which stands the convent, and shut in by another ridge of rocks opposite, equally high, in which is shewn a large stone, said to be that from which Moses struck out water; and this has been rendered by the artifices of the Greek priests the most plausible theatre of a miracle, that is imputed to the neighbourhood of Sinai. The stone, of a reddish granite, is partly buried in the ground: what is seen above it is about fifteen feet high, fifteen long, and ten broad. It has twenty-four cracks in it, (twelve on each side,) whence the water is said to have issued; these are in general au inch or an inch and a half deep, and on each side and at the top (which in that part is nar-vourable. row and shelving,) is a smoothed passage about four inches wide in the narrowest, and ten in the widest part, down which they pretend the water trickled. It was so hard that it required great and continued efforts to knock a piece off it, and loud and long were the echoes round the rocks as we were hammering at it." GERMAN PUBLICATIONS. Whatever truth there may be in the complaints relative to the difficulties which are still said to oppose the extension of our commercial relations on the continent, it must be admitted that our literary intercourse with the other countries of Europe has rapidly increased since the restoration of peace. If the barter of agricultural articles and manufactures unfortunately languishes, we perceive no want of activity in the interchange of mental productions, notwithstanding that foreign books imported into this country are subject to a very heavy duty. The best works that issue from the British press quickly find their way to Leipsick, the great mart of literature for Germany; and every book of merit which appears in Germany, is to be found at Bohte's, in York Street, within a few weeks after its publication. Among the recent importations is the first part of a work, which, though at first sight it may seem dry and unattractive, will be found on closer inspection, highly interesting. It is entitled, "Allgemeines Bibliographisches Lexicon," General Bibliographical Lexicon, by F. A. Ebert. This Lexicon gives an exact description of the form, and what may be called the material properties, of all books, old or new, which on account of their literary character, scarcity, or other circumstances, are valued and sought after, with the prices occasionally paid for them at well known auctions or public sales; the name of the sale is sometimes added; but, in ordinary cases, a medium price, calculated on an average of prices at which the book has sold, in different German sales, is given. Works easily obtained at regular prices, in les mém. en lat. et en fr. (par Armand Fr. Gervaise). Par. impr., de Didot J. 1796, large 4to. 3 vol. with 8 copper plates. (vellum paper, 90 fr.) Of Pococke's edition (1691,) only 96 pp. in 8vo. were printed. In 1782 White printed the Arabic text, and transferred the copies to Professor Paulus, who published them under the title of Abdoll. compend. memorabill. Egypti. Tub. 1789, 8vo. (2 Sh.) The work is in large 4to. printed in a very 5. Abano ad Apono, Pt. de Conciliator dif- The first edition is extremely scarce. Both Some remains of Kotzebue, consisting of Dramatic Sketches and Fragments, have lately been published. A life of the author has also issued from the press at Leipsick. It consists chiefly of extracts from the works in which Kotzebue has spoken of himself, and the transactions in which he was engaged. These extracts are dexterously put together; but they have been selected by no friendly hand; and, with the comments which accompany them, are calculated to produce a very unfavourable impression as to the prin A translation of this has been published by Boosey and Sons; whose stores of German literary productions form another of our most extensive concerns in that line, LEARNED SOCIETIES. OXFORD, JUNE 3. Yesterday the following degrees were conferred: BACHELOR AND DOCTOR IN MEDICINE. ciples of the deceased. To those, however, not to be surprised at the increase of insanwho are interested in the literary discussions ity when we consider that no means, geneof Germany, the book will afford entertain- rally speaking, have been adopted towards ment. It contains an account of the libel, its cure. The reservoir, however large, must entitled:-"Doktor Bahrdt mit der eiser-run over, where the subducting bears no nen stirn," for which Kotzebue was prose-proportion to the accumulating power. cuted, but escaped, in consequence of the When a patient, labouring under bodily disprotection he received from the Empress ease, suffers from its increase, he imminedi-C. Littlehales, New College, Grand Comately sends for his physician, being fully pounder. BACHELOR IN MEDICINE.-F. Hawkins, aware of his condition, (which the excited Fellow of St. John's College. maniac never is,) and also of the advantages of checking its progress in time, as leading to an ultimate cure. Can any just reason be assigned for not following the same line Catharine of Russia. ORIGINAL ARTICLES. INSANITY. Ore trahit quodcunque potest atque addit acervo. Hor. of conduct towards the diseased in tnind as BACHELORS IN CIVIL LAW.-Rev. R. Pain, Pembroke College; and Rev. C. F. MASTERS OF ARTS.-Rev. J. A. Part BACHELORS OF ARTS.-J. Marshall, and CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 2. Parvula nam exemplo est magni formica laboris towards those afflicted in body? We believe ridge, Brasennose College, Rev. John Jones, none; on the contrary, the reasons are more F. C. Plumptre, Fellow of University Colcogent for the latter than the former, by as The horrors that are invariably associated much as mental is an infinitely greater afllic-lege; Rev. C. Hodges, Queen's College. with the names of a Nero, and a Caligula, tion than bodily disease. Indeed, death is Joseph Hordern, Brasennose College; Rev. Rev. W. Hutcheson, St. Mary Hall; Rev. are not more terrible than the most afflict-a blessing compared to being the permanent T. Lea, Trinity College; Hon. and Rev. P. ing details, that are to follow in a sub- victim of this malady. We are therefore J. Noel, Trinity College; Rev. W. Mos sequent Gazette; as a very little reflec- of opinion, that in all recent cases of this tion must convince us, that the number complaint, inany advantages would result King, and Rev. G. H. Glyn, Students of of human beings immolated under the in- from an extension of the same principles and Rickards, Fellows of Oriel College. Christ Church; Joseph Dornford, and S. fluence of such barbarism and ignorance must practice, as far as practicable,in visiting the exhave been incalculable. There is, assuredly, acerbations of the insane, as is adopted in J. Digby Wingfield, Exeter College; T. H. no man who will devote an hour to reading the treatment of all bodily diseases. The these accounts, who will question the utility medical and moral treatment of the de-White, and F. Aston, University College; of education which improves the heart, ranged, their diet, their clothing, their Poyntz Stewart Ward, and E. H. Wain which expands and opens the compressed abodes, have been most shockingly neglect-wright, Wadham College; John Evered, faculties of the mind, as nature unfolds the ed; and their feelings, as men and women, S. Howe Harrion, St. John's College; JoQueen's College; H. Tippets Tucker, and beauties of the Nymphaea alba, and the rose; most wantonly and diabolically outraged: spread around our existence, to which we were, in every degree, calculated to destroy Ward, W. White, and J. Marsden Wright, and thus are a thousand charms and virtues in short, the means that have been employed seph Haythorne, and J. Johnston Hodson, St. Mary Hall; Marmaduke Vavasour, C. should otherwise be strangers. When the the most robust constitution of body, and representation we are about to enter on the firmest character of mind, if subjected Scholar of Trinity College; J. Williams and Brasennose College; C. Alleyne Anstey, is contemplated, we are not so much to their action; and when directed towards overwhelmed with sorrow, from the actual the deranged, they could not fail to overturn Hugh Bold, Christ Church; George Tiernature of the malady brought before us, as what remained of intellect. Do not let it ney and Henry Wilson, Oriel College; from the false views of its character, which be imagined that the maniac was dead to Peter Williams, Scholar of Jesus College; have inflicted such an extent of misery and the shocking spectacles, to those cruel, John Wootten, Balliol College.. degradation on our fellow-creatures. abominable, and brutal degradations, wheThis leads us to consider, with peculiar ther they affected himself or others, that are delight, the labours of the Committee of about to be unfolded. The truest picture the House of Commons on Madhouses; but of excited madness is before the world, by in justice to the course pursued by these the powers of the bewitching and immortal able men with so much patience, we inust Cervantes, whose heart was elevated, undeclare that it is necessary that they should daunted, and whose genius was of the highest not abandon, but continue to advance in the order. Here the faculties of the mind are tract which they so vigorously entered upon, justly portrayed as warped by the imagination; with the sole object of protecting the yet mark the extent of sensibility, the extent friendless, and the most unfortunate of the of observation and of mental faculty that human species. There are still many remained. Nothing has led to so much within the British dominions, suffering error in the management of insanity, as the under miseries little short of those about to supposition that the maniac is insensible to the be detailed. In the cure of mental derange-degradations to which he may be subjected. ment much remains to be done in the way The want of steady attention on the side of of improvement in what respects diet, me- the maniac to the objects of his reflection, dical, and moral treatment. This statement is applicable to the private as well as to the public treatment of the malady in our hospitals. It will also apply to the army and the navy, the deranged in which services might be converted into distinct schools of observation and intruction; and thus the nation that supports them be rewarded by the diffusion of correct notions of a disease that has by many able and intelligent men, been hitherto considered incurable. We ought Emulation, which is almost unknown in this branch of the Medical Profession, would be the vivid, the entertaining, the witty, the thus called into action, and would here constitute The following gentlemen were on Wednesday last admitted to the undermentioned degrees. HONORARY MASTER OF ARTS.-Hon. E. Southwell Keppel, of Caius College, son of the Earl of Albemarle. MASTERS OF ARTS.-W. Wade Gery, of Emmanuel College; the Rev. S. Brereton, of Queen's College; and the Rev. N. Every, of Clare Hall. BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW.-Rev. W. H. George, of St. Peter's College. BACHELOR IN PHYSIC.-G. Leith Roupell, of Caius College. BACHELORS OF ARTS.-F. J. Hilliard and W. C. Faulkner, of St. Peters College; Jermyn Pratt, Waties Corbett, T.O. Rogers, T. Nash, and W. T. Hadow, of Trinity College; H. Norman, of Catherine Hall; J. Hill, of Jesus College; J. E. Everitt, of Corpus Christi College. June 30th.-The annual prizes of fifteen guineas each, given by the Representatives in Parliament of this University, for the best dissertations in Latin prose, were on Monday last adjudged to Thomas Thorp, of Trinity College, and Edward Boteler, of Sidney College, Middle Bachelors.-Subject,In GEORGIUM TERTIUM, τον μακαρίτην, Oratio Funebris. 4 |