When he would steal the huddled nest away. call a tree leafy, and a bird hoppy, and a part of whose duties it is to teach the But to proceed somewhat more methodically with Mr. Leigh Hunt's volume, which we the rather treat unceremoniously, because he has the pen in his hand, and the means of publicly refuting any misrepresentation (advantages which few writers possess,) we have to state, that it consists of a dedication and preface, a principal poem in two parts, entitled 'The Nymphs,' six or eight short miscellaneous compositions, as many Epistles, twice as many Sonnets, and some translations from Homer, Theocritus, Catullus, and other ancient bards. The preface displays a little pardonable egotism and vanity. Mr. Hunt explains what he considers to be the properties of poetry, viz. “a sensativeness to the beauty of the external world, to the unsophisticated impulses of our nature, and above all, imagination, or the power to see, with verisimili. tude, what others do not"-and, quoth he, with much simplicity, "This is a secret which I saw very early; and I attribute to the knowledge of it whatever popularity I may have obtained, whether in verse or prose." He then mentions the three living poets whom he chuses to rank with himself in this meritorious discovery, which it appears is confined to Himself, Byron, Moore, and Wordsworth. The rest of this preface is not very remarkable for any thing but an ill-digested mass of notions respecting many writers of all ages and nations, as a sample of which we may quote one period alluding to the Greek mythology: "Spenser, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, evidently sparkled up, and had their most graceful perceptions upon them, whenever they turned to the fair forms and leafy luxuries of ancient imagination." Not pretending to understand this prose, we pass to what, from the shape of the lines and other indications, we take to be verse. THE NYMPHS is a sort of poetic vision, in which all the tribes which the Classical Dictionary mentioneth, are seen and described by the author in a woody walk. The minuteness is so task-like, that were we not sure the Rape of the Lock was itself a burlesque, we should have taken this as a burlesque, performed as a given exercise, on Pope's Gnomes and Sylphs. We have the Dryads, Hamadryads, Napeads, Limniads, Oreads, Ephydriads, Naiads, Nereids, &c. all as large as life, doing, bona fide before Mr. Hunt's eyes, the business which the old mythological writers in their various fancies assigned them. For example, There are the fair nymphs o' the woods, (Look ye, Whom kindred Fancies have brought after me!) There are the fair-limbed Dryads And next, Then, there the hamadriads are, their sisters, As for the Napeads, whom we expected to find at St. Helena, the guardian angels of poor Nap, they have the care of fresh flowers from the spoil Of beasts, and blasts, and other blind mishaps Of the Limniads little is told us, but as they take their pleasure in the lakes' we suppose, Mr. Hunt thought it polite not to trespass on the property of the Lake Poets. The Oreads 'frequent the lifted mountains,' and never was the adage more applicable than to their picture-Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus,-for some of them go leaping by the laughing fountains Down the touched crags and others Sit perfumed underneath the cedarn shades Feeding the gazel with his lamping eyes! The charge of the Ephydriads is not very clearly defined. They haunt islands in such situations as is laid down in the underwritten, and which baffles our topographical skill, there, where a gap Betwixt a heap of tree-tops, hollow and dun, Or by the rounder murmur, glib and flush That laughs and tumbles, like a conscious thing, For joy of all its future travelling. - glide With unsuperfluous lift of their proud wings. The Nereids are painted in a better manner, but still very affectedly, as - lifting ocean's billows, Upon whose springiness they lean and ride: Making them banks and pillows, Some with an inward back; some upward-eyed, Feeling the sky; and some with sidelong hips O'er which the surface of the water slips. They fly from the windy voices' of the clouds, and Most they love sleek seas and springy sands. not beauties scattered among these deformi- This hum in air, which the still ear perceives How very different is the following sweet natural sketch of the fragrant-living bee So happy, that he will not move, not he Without a song Or the well imagined time When morning runs along the sea Lord help us! But really this seems to us part displays poetical powers not easily to The lizard circuits them— (i. e. the Ephydriads) The frog, with reckoning leap, enjoys apart - As I thought this, a neighbouring wood of elms There fell a shade as on an awe-struck face; We have here extracted what in our opinion is infinitely the best passage in the poem, which is given to the description of à crowd of aerial figures sailing on the And more remain; (such things are in Heaven's ears Besides the grander spheres): There only remain the Translations to tions amounted to the sum of three notice. As themes in the second or third thalers, four groschens, and two pfenform they might merit praise, but they are nings."-This is certainly not the way little calculated to add a value even to this in which Plutarch wrote the lives of publication. We wonder that when the title of Foliage was so prettily assumed in his illustrious men. imitation of the German Leaves', and when the paltry conceit was prolonged by naming these productions Evergreens,' it was not rendered still more puerile by adding instead of translated, 'transplanted from the ancient poets.' There is much of silliness in such doings, and we trust when the author's brain exfoliates in its next spring, he will give us less of his new-fangled blossomings' and more of old-fashioned fruit. As it is, his nymphs are not of the Hesperides. LUTHER'S MARRIAGE. He appears VOYAGE TO THE CONGO. (Captain Tuckey's Narrative continued.) At banza Inga, as we concluded in our last Number, the British found the government in a commission of the inferior officers, who at the very first displayed both jealousy and cupidity. To this junta Captain Tuckey thought it prudent to vary his tale, and instead of disclaiming traffic, gave them to understand that he was the fore-runner of them every thing they required, proother white men, who would bring vided his report of their conduct was favourable. A guide was promised to conduct the party to the place where the about half a day's journey from Inga; and river was again navigable for canoes, though four jars of brandy, and eight fathoms of baft, were the price of this concession, the guide was not forthThe coming at the appointed time. narrative then proceeds: Another only shewed On the far side a foot and leg, that glowed Under the cloud; a sweeping back another, Turning her from us like a suckling mother; She next, aside, lifting her arms to tie Her locks into a flowing knot; and she That followed her, a smooth down-arching thigh Tapering with tremulous mass internally. Here we are again gravelled, and our anatomical knowledge fails us as completely as our topographical. We shall conclude with one specimen more, which in ten lines comprehends nearly all the absurdities of Mr. There has just appeared in Germany Hunt's muse, being at once senseless in epithets, confused in metaphor, affected in a work entitled, A Description of all the style, nonsensical where intelligible, and Curiosities relative to Martin Luther; the incomprehensible in its other figures, simi-author is M. Berger, Director of the lies, and elucidations. Hospital of Eisleben. highly indignant at an assertion made by a Catholic of distinction, who con tends that Luther was in reality never married. M. Berger has taken infinite pains to collect authentic documents, in which the following facts are incontestably proved. The author regards them as highly important to pos-sation, being unable to buy a single fowl, Exasperated by this intolerable tergiverterity:monstrated in the strongest manner, and and having but three days provisions, I redeviated a little from my hitherto patient and conciliating uranners, by telling them that if they did not furnish a guide, I at the same time the ten men with me to should proceed in spite of them, ordering fall in under arms; at the sight of which the palaver broke up, and it was sauve qui peut. The women and children who had flocked to see white men for the first time, disappeared, and the banza became a desert; on inquiring for the men who had that they had vanished with their masters; come with me from Cooloo, I also found For as the racks came sleeking on, one fell Breaking with scatter of a thousand notes As though it had been wine in grapy coals; Were Mr. Hunt to exclaim with Lord Peter, he that does not understand let him die and be d-d,' we must bear the full brunt of the curse, for to us this whole passage is utterly inexplicable. "On the 13th of June 1523, whilst Dr. Pommer, the painter Cranach, and the advocate Apell, were discoursing with Martin Luther, the latter re We pass over the Miscellanies, which arequested that they would accompany very indifferent pieces, with all their fine- him to call on the notary Reichenbach. eyed' pure-eyed' far-eyed' and every kind Catharine Bora, a reformed nun, lodged but gimlet-eyed phraseology; and merely in Reichenbach's house, leading a life notice the Epistles, to say that they are ad- of modesty and piety. Luther asked dressed to Dear Byron' (My Lord), Dear Tom' (Moore), Dear Hazlitt,' and Dear her whether she was willing to become Field,' and other friends of the writer's. his wife? At first she did not know They attempt to be easy and facetious, but whether he was joking or in earnest, will not bear analysis either for wit or ver- and she returned no answer. Luther sification. Er. gr. in one to ‘Charles Lamb: however declared that he was serious, the following is the most humorous passage, and Catharine at length gave him her But now Charles, you never (so blissful you hand. The marriage ceremony was deem me) performed on the 27th of June. In order that it might be joyfully celebrated, the magistrates delivered to the Come lounging with twirl of umbrella to see me. By the rains, which you know used to bring Lamb and pease; Conciliating measures adopted, and after an hour's delay the Regency again appeared, attended by about fifty men, of whom fourteen had muskets. The Mambom, or War Mi In vain we look out like the children in Thomson, guests four bottles of Malmsey wine, nister, made a long speech, to which The people here had never before seen a white man, and the European commodities we saw were reduced to a little stone jug, and some rags of clothing. The language is a dialect of the Embomma, but considerably differing. The Chenoo receives his cap from the Benzy N'Congo, who resides ten days journey to the NW. and not on the river. We bought half a dozen of fowls, but were obliged to pay for water, at the rate of three beads for a canteen. There is here a good deal of lignum vitæ, the largest seen about 4 inches in diameter. On the next morning, August 24th, it was found that the natives were disposed to throw every obstacle in the way of the progress of the Expedition. They said the people further on would shoot them from the bushes, and this determined the Cooloo porters to proceed no further. At length, the private bribe of a piece of baft induced one of the Inga gentlemen to offer himself as a guide, and five of his sons to carry the provisions. Leaving every thing else to the care of the Cooloo men, Captain T. at length marched with this escort at 11 o'clock. At the end of the banza they passed a blacksmith at work, fitting a hoe into a handle; his bellows was composed of two skin bags, and his anvil a large stone, but as the iron was never brought to a red heat, he got on very slowly with his job. After ten days in a canoe, we should come to a large sandy island which makes two channels, one to the NW. and the other to the NE.; that in the latter there is a fall, but that canoes are easily got above it; that twenty days above the island, the river issues by many small streams from a great marsh or lake of mud. This information appears to set the too ill to proceed, and set out with the showers of rain which they expect soon gam kissey passed through the banza, at- He had been sent for to a neighbouring village, to discover the cause of a man's death; and, in fact, denounced three men of another village as the poisoners. These unfortunate wretches deal of chewing poisoned bark, which, were thereupon condemned to the orif guilty, would remain in their stomach and destroy them, if innocent, would be rejected. The natives have idols, and in these priests, who are alan irremoveable confidence in their ways accompanied by a novice who succeeds them in their calling. A Soondy slave coming down, and an Embomma slave-trader going up, afforded our travellers no interesting intelligence. The former forgot even the name of his latter was evidently unwilling to enown town in the Ben country; and the was observed that courage European enterprise in this ing divinity named Mevonga. It is the in the East, a sacred tree, and planted. Each village has a grand Kissey or presid-quarter. The ficus religiosa is here, as figure of a man, the body stuck with bits of iron, feathers, old rags, &c. and resembles in every market-place. The hoe is the nothing so much as one of our scare-crows. only instrument of husbandry. Each house has its dii penates, male and Captain T. observes, that the impedi zation of Africa. Our road (says the Captain) lay chiefly along the winding bottom of a valley, between two ridges of hills; the valley generally very fertile, but now without water, though furrowed by extremely deep beds of torrents. In the valley we found two towns surrounded by plantations of manioc grow-female, who are invoked on all occasions. - -ments to communications, from the naing almost to the size of trees. 20 or 30 goats was a novel sight, but the of a girl prostitute her to every man who A flock of. Before marriage, the fathers or brothers ture of the country, and the want of rimaster being absent we could not purchase will pay two fathoms of cloth; nor does vers, is the grand obstacle to the civilione. The women sold us some manioc, this derogate in any way from her characand gave us a jar of water. At the upper ter, or prevent her being afterwards marend of the valley we found a complete banza ried. The wives are, however, never trafof ant-hills, placed with more regularity ficked in this manner, except to white men than the native banzas; they were very of consideration. The boys are taken from large, and had the shape of a mushroom, the mothers as soon as they can walk, and but sometimes with double and treble domes, the latter evidently intended to carry off the the father sits the whole day with them on water in the rains. At four o'clock we the father. a mat. The girls are entirely neglected by reached the river at Mavoonda Boaya, where we found it still lined with rocks and vast heaps of sand, but free from all obstruction in the middle, from two to three hundred yards wide; the current gentle (not above two miles an hour,) and a strong counter-current running up on the north shore; its direction NW. The Macaya of Mavoonda was civil: he presented palm wine, and got a cotton umbrella in return. The information respecting the upward course of the Zaire was here the most distinct yet obtained; every person agreeing that At Kincaya, in the valley of Bemba Ma- -When the natives first saw the new adds) though it will produce little or no The abolition of the Slave Trade (he (which is not incompatible with a high deeffect on the state of domestic slavery, gree of civilization) must in the end tend greatly to improve Africa, by rendering the communication between different parts of the country free from the danger of being kidnapped, which now represses all curiosity, or all desire of the people of one banza to go beyond the neighbouring one. Every man I have conversed with, indeed, acknowledges, that if white men did not come for slaves, the practice of kidnapping would no longer exist; and the wars, which nine times out of ten result from the European Slave Trade, would be proportionably less frequent. It is not, however, to be expected that the effects of the abolition will be immediately perceptible; on the one generation to become apparent : for contrary, it will probably require more than effects which have been the consequence of a practice of three centuries, will certainly continue long after the cause is removed; | Prince of Luxemburg inquired how he did; and, in fact, if we mean to accelerate the progress of civilization, it can only be done by colonization, and certainly there could be no better point to commence at than the banks of the Zaire. (To be continued.) ABBE GEORGEL'S MEMOIR. At a subsequent period, when the Jesuits in France saw that measures were seriously carrying on in that kingdom to abolish their Order, they caused a memoir to be drawn up by Father de Neuville, in which, in order to ruin the Duke de Choiseul, the minister, who was their most dangerous enemy, they accused him of lavish extravagance, and abuse of the power confided to him. They succeeded in getting this memorial presented to the King by the Dauphin (father of Louis XVI.) 'After some violent scenes between the latter, the Marchioness de Pompadour and the Minister, the King at last threw the memorial into the fire, and would not hear any more of the matter. From this moment, says the author, the Dauphin, by incessant calumnies, lost more and more the confidence of his father. From this time a lingering sickness, the cause of which he himself very well knew, brought him day by day nearer to the grave. I will not revive the suspicion concerning the author of his death; but so much I must remark, that in a private company at the Dowager Princess Esterhazy's, where I was present, the Emperor Joseph II. said aloud, that there was great reason to suspect the Duke of Choiseul.The editor of these memoirs, however, the author's nephew, adds in a note, that there was no reasonable ground to be found for this suspicion, and that the Duke of Choiseul was of far too mild and humane a disposition to be capable of so enormous a crime. The author relates at great length the disgrace of this powerful minister after the death of Madame de Pompadour, and the manner in which it was effected by his enemies, particularly the Countess du Barry. Among the many anecdotes which he relates on this occasion, he informs us that the minister's cousin, the Duke of Choiseul Praslin, Minister of the Marine, who was disgraced along with him, had a mistress, named Mademoiselle D'Angeville, an actress, who had a very considerable pension on the contract for straw for the galley slaves. The Duke of Choiseul himself was banished to his estate, whither he repaired, accompanied by a crowd of friends, in a kind of triumph. After the death of Louis XV. he obtained permission to return to Paris, where he lived many years in the most splendid manner. His death, says our author, resembled his life; he would hear nothing of God, nor of his servants, and gave orders in his will, that instead of a cross, a cypress should be planted on his grave. While he was on his death bed, the with tears in his eyes, the porter answered, "Ah, Prince! except when he appears before God, he cannot be worse!" This simple answer of the porter, indicates, in the opinion of our author, the fate that awaited the soul of that enemy of the Jesuits, in the other world. (To be continued.) ANALYSIS OF THE JOURNAL DES SAVANS FOR FEBRUARY 1818. cultivated. The numerous mistakes which antiquarians have committed respecting this period, oblige M. de Quatremere to take a view of what is called the school of Dedalus. It appears from Pausanias (IX. c. 3.) that before the time of Dedalus the Athenian, who lived 1400 years before the Christian era, statues of wood were made, which were called Daidala, whence it should seem that the artist had taken his name from the kind of works which he executed. The author concludes from this, not that Dedalus never existed, but that the word Aadanos, ingenious, made with art, may Art. IV. The Olympian Jupiter. By M. have become the surname of one particular Quatremere de Quincy. artist. He also thinks there were many artists of the same name: in fact, we find ar(Second and concluding Article on that interesting tists named Dedalus at a much later period: Subject.) hence, a confused tradition may have attriIn explaining in our first article the ge-buted to one the works and historical facts neral ideas and the principal facts which which belong to many. form the basis of the theory of M. Quatremere de Quincy, we have followed the whole history of the Toreutic Art, or Sculpture on Metals, leaving to another occasion the analysis of his work at the interesting epoch when successive improvements had led to the introduction of the great and magnificent works in gold and ivory forming the branch which he calls the Chryselephantine Statuary. We have now therefore to resume the history of this important part, that is, to give the substance of 300 pages in folio. The first fact with which we are struck on entering into the examination of this branch of the art, is to see the Greeks so extremely lavish of a material like gold, which, notwithstanding the considerable quantities sent from Asia to Greece, was always from 10 to 13 times dearer than silver, and about 37,000 times dearer than corn. M. de Quincy clearly shews the influence of religion on this custom, which astonishes us, because luxury has taken, among the moderns, an entirely different direction. At the time of Dipones and Seyllis, who lived in the 50th Olympiad, the art of sculpture in marble had made the first steps in the hands of Malas, Miciades, Anthermus of Chios; Theodorus and Rhocus, perfecting the methods of casting and moulding, had greatly advanced statuary in bronze; Gitiadas had covered with bas-reliefs of bronze the temple of Minerva Chalciæcos, at Sparta; lastly, Batycles, of Magnesia, a contemporary of Dipones and Scyllis, was executing the throne of Apollo at Amycle, on which he employed all the resources of Toreutic. But to these two artists are due the first statues in gold and ivory; works of a kind till then unknown. Of all the temples in Greece which contained these works, that of Juno at Olympia possessed the most ancient; it is therefore with the statues in this temple that M. Quatremere begins his grand review of all the monuments of Chryselephantine Statuary. He first endeavours to explain every thing relative to the temple; to which he denies the high degree of antiquity Before examining the structure and the which the text of Pausanias would lead us composition of the statues in which ivory to attribute to it. There is every reason to and gold were the principal materials, it believe that this temple had become a kind was necessary strictly to define the terms of museum of arts and antiquities, of which which authors have used, particularly in re- M. Quatremere gives the detail: Pausanias spect to statues of gold, because the small-characterizes them by saying, they were in est mistake might lead to absurdities, or at least to serious improbabilities. To these preliminary researches, M. Qua-mensions of the human stature; and it does tremere adds an instructive and succinct view of the use and abundance of ivory, before that substance was employed to imitate the human body. In fact, says the author, it would be more easy to enumerate, among the works of taste and industry of the ancients, those in which ivory was not employed, than to give an account of all those in which this substance constituted the value and the ornament. It was doubtless by degrees, or after a succession of ages, that artists, from using ivory in articles of luxury, applied it to sculpture. The union of gold and ivory in the decoration of furniture, was communicated to works in bas-relief, during the long period in which, according to the author's theory, sculpture in wood was chiefly a simple style. None of the statues in the Hereum seem to have exceeded the di not appear that Chryselephantine statuary had yet ventured on colossal enterprises: doubtless, on account of the scarcity of the materials, and probably because so bold an art, where all the processes must have so much precision, in order that its productions may be durable, had not yet attained sufficient perfection. It is evident the cause cannot be looked for in want of taste for works of colossal size, for this taste was very ancient in Greece, where it resulted from the influence of the arts of Egypt: and, in fact, colossal statues of a very remote era may be mentioned. Such was that in the temple of Apollo, at Amycle; it was 30 cubits (42 feet 9 inches Parisian measure) in height, and, standing upright on its pedestal, resembled, says Pausanias, a great column of bronze: the head was co- LEARNED SOCIETIES. OXFORD, March 28.-Yesterday, Mr. Henry Jenkins, of Corpus Christi College, was elected Fellow of Oriel College. FINE ARTS IN SCOTLAND. himself various advantages. His gas yields | upon the latitude, but upon the dip of the light and warmth, and the material of needle; and in all places where the dip is which it is made, is of more value when it alike, the quantity of this variation will be comes out of the retort where it is burnt similar, and, hence, was enabled to establish than when it is put in. "We will leave," this most important rule: That the error says he, "coals and charcoal to the manu-produced at any direction of the ship's head, factories; my gas is derived from a finer would be to the error at E. or W. at the material, which we have in abundance in same dip, as the sine of the angle between our country." the ship's head and the magnetic meridian, was to the sine of 8 points of the compass or the radius. This rule has since been estaTHE ROYAL INSTITUTION. blished by trials on board several of his PROFESSOR MILLINGTON'S fifth and last Majesty's 'ships, and ought to be known to lecture on Magnetism was delivered on every one connected with maritime affairs Wednesday the 11th ult. and we lament Mr. Millington paid some highly deserved that the press of matter in our last two compliments to Captain Flinders, for his inNumbers prevented our noticing it, as it defatigable exertions in the investigation of contained several interesting particulars this principle, as well as to Colonel M. which cannot be too generally known by Beaufoy, for his accurate and careful exathe public. Its first object was to point mination of the changes in Terrestrial Magout the diurnal variation of the Needle, or netism, and spoke highly of a small work of that which occurs each day in addition to Mr. Bain's, which, with Captain Flinders's the principal or general variation. This Narrative, are the only two books yet pubdaily change is from 4 to 12 minutes of a lished, which contain an account of the degree; and since it is always greatest at change of variation as affected by the ship's the hottest part of the day, or about position. The remainder of this Lecture 3 o'clock, and least at an early hour in consisted of the account of some new exthe morning, and also varies with the sea-periments, to show the connexion between sons, being much more perceptible in sum- Magnetism and Electricity, which subject mer than in winter; it seems to point out was proposed to be entered upon after the a connexion between Solar influence and the Easter recess. magnetism of the Earth, which appears to have been confirmed by the experiments of Marquis Ridolfi, who asserts, that he can Morichini, and the more recent ones of the (HIGHLAND SOCIETY.) render needles magnetic by exposing them Our sole design being through the to the violet ray produced by a glass prism. medium of the Literary Gazette to serve An attempt was then made to account for sun's influence. The most important part are slow even to contrast, and slower the change of the needle's variations by the the cause of the Fine Arts in general, we the very curious and valuable observations connect themselves with the object of of this Lecture was a simple explanation of still to condemn any public bodies which made by Captain Flinders, in his voyage to Terra Australis, and the deductions he would be worse than invidious were our regard. But at the same time it made from them. By this account, it ap-we to withhold the meed of approbapears that many ships are annually lost, for want of a knowledge and understanding tion from those who step conspicuously of the principle he discovered, viz. that the forward as the encouragers of the arts, variation of the compass on board a ship is for fear of having it imputed to us that materially affected by the direction of the we thereby threw a slur on others, who ship's head and stern, owing to the iron, either neglected a duty in that respect which is in every vessel, becoming magne- or did not seem moved with the spirit tic by induction, and thus influencing the which alone can give energy and supecompass. In both hemispheres, when the direction of a ship is due N. and S. the variority to our national school. In this The Royal Antiquarian Society of France riation on board will not differ from the point of view, we make no excuse for has lately renewed its officers. The Che- truth; but in the Northern hemisphere, when-devoting a considerable portion of our valier Langles, a member of the Institute, ever a ship's head points towards the W. the and one of the Keepers of the Royal true variation is increased, while if it points Library, has been appointed president; to the E. it will be diminished, and this as Count Malleville, and M. Michel Berr, are much as 89, as appeared in an experiment nominated vice-presidents; and the Che-which was tried off the Start Point. The valier Bottin, a member of several literary opposite effects take place in the Southern societies, is to be secretary. hemisphere. Any ship, therefore, whose voyage lies due N. and S. may depend upon her common observations; but in all other cases she must not steer the exact reverse course in coming home, which she did in going out, as this will inevitably deceive her, unless allowance be made for this singular effect of variation. Captain Flinders ascertained that the quantity of this change of variation did not depend CAMBRIDGE, March 27.- Professor Christian will begin his Lectures upon the Constitution and the Laws of England, on Monday the 6th of April next, at 11 o'clock in the morning. The Regius Professor of Botany being unable, on account of age and infirmities, to undertake a course of Lectures, Sir James Edward Smith, F.R.S. President of the Linnæan Society, will, at the request of the Professor, and with the permission of the Vice-Chancellor, give a Botanical Course during the next term.-Camb. Chronicle. At a late sitting of the French Academy of Sciences, M. Delambre read the eloges on Rochon and Messier; M. Cuvier those oa Werner and Desmarets; and M. Girard an Historical Notice on Internal Navigation. ARTS AND SCIENCES. A NEW KIND OF GAS. Mr. George Liebig, in Darmstadt, announces, that he has made a discovery respecting gas light, from which he promises present publication to the proceedings of the HIGHLAND SOCIETY, which we trust are not only the commencement of a much more enlarged sphere of action, directed to the effectual patronage of the Fine Arts in Scotland, but also an example which will not fail to excite competition both in England and Ireland. We are indeed happy, at length, to witness genius in art acknowledged, and honour conferred, by at least one public body, by a Corporation equally distinguished for the exalted rank of |