of Rome, advanced by Beauclerk, and supported by the learned Niebuhr. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. 3 Dec. 7. George Buxton Browne, Esq. has appropriated 2,000l. free of legacy duty, part of a bequest left to him in trust, by the Rev. John Crosse, late of Bradford in Yorkshire, "for promoting the cause of true religion," and transferred the said sum to the University for the purpose of founding Three Theological Scholarships, to be called "The Crosse Scholarships," the candidates to be Bachelors of Arts, in the first year from their degree; and the scholarships tenable for three years. The first election is to be so arranged as to make one of them vacant yearly for ever. amination to turn upon a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in their original tongues, Hebrew and Greek, of ecclesiastical history, of the earlier and later heresies, and such other subjects of useful inquiry, as may be thought most likely to assist in the formation of valuable characters, fitted to sustain and adorn "the cause of true religion." The ex Dec. 21. The subject for the Chancellor's Gold Medal, for the ensuing year, is "Delphi." The subjects for the Members' Prizes are-for the Bachelors, "Quænam præcipue sint labentis imperii indicia ?"-For the Undergraduates," Uterum Servorum manumissio in Insulis Indorum Occidentalium confestim facta, plus boni aut mali secum offerat?" The subjects for Sir William Brown's The subject for the Porson Prize is That when the searching eye of heaven is hid; miliarity than was becoming. On one occasion, it is said, when some foreign prince or other, I rather think it was the Archduke Nicholas, now Emperor of Russia,—was passing through Selkirk, the populace, anxious to look on a live prince, crowded round him so closely, that Scott in vain attempted to approach him; the Poet's patience failed, and exclaiming, "Room for your Sheriff! Room for your Sheriff!" he pushed and elbowed the gazers impatiently aside, and apologized to the Prince for their curiosity.Allan Cunningham. His impartiality as a judge is so well known that no man, either rich or poor, ever attempts to move him from the right onward path. If he have a feeling of partiality in his whole disposition, it is for the poachers and fishers, at least I know that they all think he has a fellow feeling with them.-Hogg, in Quarterly Journal of Agriculture. His love of Field-sports. He has a little of the old outlaw blood in him, and, if he had been able, would have been a desperate poacher and blackfisher.~Hogg. He loved to ride in a short coat, with wide trousers, on a little stout galloway, and the steepest hill did not stop him, nor the deepest water daunt him. It was his pleasure moreover to walk out frequently among his plantations, with a small hatchet and hand-saw, with which he lopped off superfluous boughs, or removed an entire tree, when it was marring the growth of others.-Allan Cunningham. In the last note to Woodstock, Sir Walter relates the following anecdote:"It may interest some readers to know that Bevis, the gallant hound, one of the handsomest and most active of the ancient Highland deer-hounds, had its prototype of a dog called Maida, the gift of the late chief of Glengarry to the author. A beautiful sketch of him was made by Edwin Landseer, and afterwards engraved. I cannot suppress the avowal of some For heaven still guards the right." personal vanity when I mention that a friend, going through Munich, picked up a common snuff-box, such as are sold for one franc, on which was displayed the form of his veteran favourite, simply marked as Der leblung hund von Walter Scott. Mr. Landseer's painting is at Blair-Adam, the property of my venerable friend, the Right Hon. Lord Chief Commissioner Adam." DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. The prize subjects for the ensuing year are-For graduates, in Latin or English "On the advantages arising from prose, the study of Political Economy.' For undergraduates, in Greek, Latin, or English verse, 66 Druidæ." ANECDOTES OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. (Continued from p. 461.) He had a high notion of the dignity which belonged to his post of Sheriff, and sternly maintained it when any one seemed disposed to treat it with more fa Reception of Visitors, and style of Conver sation. Sir Walter's extensive hospitality has been already noticed in p. 375; but it is stated that, after the first day, his visitors were generally left to seek their morn ing's entertainment, by which arrangements his literary hours were less encroached upon than might at first be supposed. The writer in the Penny Magazine thus describes his first visit to Abbotsford in the autumn of 1819. "Exclusive of his own family, he found five or six visitors, some like himself from a distance, and others gentlemen of the neighbourhood; but all of them early and intimate friends of Sir Walter, and more than one of them honourably distinguished by name in his works. Owing to this circumstance, probably, the conversation after dinner turned much upon his earlier days; his moderate success as a barrister; his first ef forts in literature; his pecuniary difficulties about the time of his marriage, which induced him for the sake of 70%. to part with a favourite collection of coins and medals; and many similar topics, which, though treated chiefly in a humorous vein of conversational anecdote, were of the highest interest as connected with the personal history of this extraordinary man. But though thus talking with the most delightful openness respecting his own career, when led to do so by his old comrades, he evinced not the slightest appearance of egotistical assumption or literary vanity. Of arrogance or envy he seemed not to have the slightest tinge in his composition; and he spoke much and kindly of other eminent men who had been his companions or rivals in the race of life, or of other literary ambition. Some others of the little party were also men of conversational talent; but the object of all, as if by tacit agreement, was to draw out Scott to talk of bygone times.' In this they were very successful, and the result was an intellectual treat of the richest and most racy description-such as those only who have seen Sir Walter in his happiest, drollest, and most communicative moods can have any conception of." I visited him at Abbotsford about the end of July 1831; he was a degree more feeble than I had ever seen him, and his voice seemed affected; not so his activity of fancy and surprising resources of conversation. He told anecdotes, and recited scraps of verse, old and new, always tending to illustrate something passing. Allan Cunningham. He never entered the lists like Dr. Johnson, as a champion for the palm of conversational honour; he never talked for victory, but rather to amuse and promote kindly feelings; and he was always remarkably attentive to those who were diffident, gently encouraging them and drawing them on to take a share in the conversation, with a kindness and consi deration that was truly admirable.-Edinburgh Evening Courant. An English gentleman and his lady having arrived in the neighbourhood of Abbotsford, and being anxious to behold its owner, sent a card to him, stating that they had travelled thither from a distant part of England on purpose to see the great "Lion of the North," and requesting the honour of an interview. Sir Walter immediately returned for answer, that, as the Lion was seen to the most advantage at his feeding hours, he would be happy to see them that day at dinner. They went accordingly; and, it is needless to add, met with the greatest attention and hospitality. Edinburgh Paper, 1827. General Popularity. So much was he sought after while he sat to Chantrey, that strangers begged leave to stand in the sculptor's galleries, to see him as he went in and out. I told him that when he passed through Oxford, a lady, at whose house he took breakfast, desirous of doing him all honour, borrowed a silver tray from her neighbour, who lent it at once, begging to be allowed to carry it to the table herself, that she might look upon the author of Waverley. "The highest compliment," said Sir Walter, "I ever received, was paid me by a soldier of the Scots Greys; I strove to get down to Abingdon-street on the Coronation day, and applied for help to a sergeant who guarded the way; he shook his head, saying, Countryman, I can't help you.' I whispered my name : his face kindled up, and he said, Then, by G-d, Sir, you shall go down!' he instantly gave me an escort. A stranger was walking before his house at Edinburgh, with the view of seeing him return home; but was unexpectedly called in by the lady who lived next door to the Poet. The houses of Edinburgh are as like each other as bricks; and Sir Walter, in some reverie or abstraction of mind, walked up the steps of the house in which the stranger was. He no sooner saw the bonnets of three or four boys on the pegs where he was about to hang his hat, than he said loud enough for us to hear him, Heydey! here's oure mony bairns' bonnets for the house to be mine!" and apologizing to the servant, withdrew hastily.New Monthly Magazine, Jan. 1831. When on his way to Naples, his friends pressed upon him the necessity of not exerting himself, and of not allowing the objects which surrounded him to excite his strained imagination, he replied,"You may as well put a kettle of water on the fire, and bid it not boil." DESIGN FOR RAISING THE ROYAL GEORGE, OR OTHER SUNKEN VESSELS, BY JAMES WHITE, ENGINEER, PALACE ROAD, LAMBETH. Since the melancholy loss of this ill fated ship, many ingenious designs have doubtless been suggested, and various plans submitted to the Board of Admiralty, for the purpose of effecting her removal. Whatever might have been the merits of such inventions, it is certain that very few trials have been made, and those few have entirely failed. The proposed plan, however, which brings all the powers of pneumatics and hydrostatics into operation, if acted upon, presents every probability of being successful; and thus removing a dangerous obstruction from one of the most important roadsteads in the kingdom. The figures A B represent the elevations of two air-tight cylindrical vessels, eighty feet long and thirty feet in diameter, made of iron plate about one-eighth part of an inch thick, and strengthened by deep flanches inside. The ends are of a spherical form, as shewn in the elevations. The projection from the section C, marked d, re presents an air-chamber, shown in the ele- For particulars respecting the sinking of the Royal George off Spithead, in 1782, see vol. LII. p. 450: In vol. LIV. also appears an engraved plan for raising her by means of four vessels lashed by chains to the wreck at low water, which, on the rising of the tide, were to raise it from its bed. the situations of valves or cocks, to allow the air, which the cylinders contain, to escape, as they fill at the opening e when sinking. The air-chambers d are calculated to equalize the difference of weight between the iron and the water displaced by the cylinders when they are fairly immerged with the chains a, and grappling irons attached thereto. The cylinders will therefore sink with the cylindrical part full of water, and the chambers full of air. When the water is to be expelled from the cylinders, as will be afterwards explained, the pressure from the air-chambers on the water will be equal the whole length of the cylinders. To make a survey of the situation of the ship, and to ascertain the best method to be adopted for securing the cylinders, would be essentially necessary as a preliminary step. If the results of such inquiry were favourable, the work might go on; but the whole of the operations under water I propose effecting on a new plan -a method whereby the depth does not materially affect the workmen. Had I not contemplated something of this sort, I might not have presumed on the possibility of effecting a work of such unparalleled difficulty. Suppose two such cylindrical air-tight vessels as described (to be made at Portsmouth or the nearest station where they are to be used, and towed to Spithead roads,) were lowered above the Royal George, and strongly secured thereto by grappling irons, on the chains marked a, through her gun ports, or otherwise, as might be devised. The depth to which the cylinders should be lowered, in the first instance, must not be more, from the surface of the water, than the depth which the ship has sunk in the sand. By having the cylinders as near the surface of the water as possible, they will be exposed to perpetual agitation, and this will loosen the ship in her bed. The cylinders being secured, the flexible tubes c are connected with pumps worked by the engines of two steam-boats, as shown in the drawing. A powerful injection of air is forced into the air-chambers of the cylinders, and the water which they contain expelled through the opening at the bottom. The dark place in the section C, at the top, shows the water partly expelled. When the entire expulsion of the water has been effected, the cylinders will obtain a buoyancy equal to the difference of the weight of the compressed air and the water displaced -a difference that will rather exceed than be under three thousand tons? Although the Royal George may still for some time remain immoveable, if the fastenings can be made sufficiently strong to bear the strain such will be the im mense power of the cylinders, when agitated by the incessant rolling of the waves, that the ship must eventually break up, or be loosened in her bed, and recovered entire the superincumbent pressure, which is most to be dreaded, being thus effectually overcome. In the event of the ship rising from her bed entire, the cylinders will probably ascend to some height above the surface of the waves. The cylinders are then to be towed by steam-boats into shallower water, and the ship lowered on chains prepared for that purpose; after which the cylinders are to be secured to the chains, one on each side of the ship, as low in the water and as close to her sides as possible. The water may then be expelled from the cylinders, as in the former instance; when it is presumed, with the cylinders so situated, the ship will be raised above water. If we imagine, for the sake of illustration, a monster of the deep, of the enormous strength of three thousand strong horses, grappling with the ship day and night, without a moment's intermission, little doubt would be entertained as to the eventual result; and such, it is presumed, would be the mighty power of the apparatus here proposed for the recovery of the Royal George. Few subjects in mechanics have been pursued with more research, by men of science and practical engineers, than the discovery of some simple and efficient means for the raising of great weights. If a first-rate man-of-war, sunk in the Baltic or Mediterranean seas, where there are no tides, required a power equal to the united strength of three thousand strong horses to raise her, with fastenings of sufficient strength to bear the strain, it is a question whether there is any other description of apparatus practically simple and sufficiently powerful to effect the object. pre If the Royal George be a nuisance to the Spithead roads, (which the circumstance of a buoy denotes), it may be sumed the Admiralty would be ready to assist in its removal. To clear the roads of an obstruction which has bid defiance to the mechanical energies of half a century, is no unworthy object of ambition; but to raise a first-rate man-of-war, with all the available treasure therein contained, over which the deep sea has rolled for so long a period, cannot be less than a work worthy of their best endeavours. But the dread of failing in such an attempt does certainly justify the greatest caution in engaging in it. It is for the Admiralty to judge whether this plan is worthy of their patronage. Admitting it is not, and therefore rejected, must the treasure still be lost, and the nuisance still remain, because the task of removing it is too Herculean for themselves? Would it be too much to expect, in testimony of their desire to promote public good, that they would abandon all claim over the vessel, and consign her to the spirit of public enterprise? If such liberality exist with the present Commissioners, I entertain a reasonable hope, some time next year, that the Royal George will be above water entire; or otherwise broken up, and the property saved in detail, a work of great enterprise, which might benefit science, provide employment for a number of individuals while it lasted, and sufficiently remunerate those who might engage in the speculation. J. WHITE. SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S LIBRARY. The sale of the library of the late Rt. Hon. Sir James Mackintosh occupied nine days at the beginning of November in Mr. Evans's sale-rooms in Pall-Mall. The company was most numerous, including many persons of rank, and others eminently distinguished in literature:Prince Cimitelli, Sir Robert Inglis, M.P. Mr. Hallam, Mr. Samuel Rogers, Mr. Wilks, M.P., &c. Many of the books sold extremely well. Sir James, like the poet Lucilius, seems to have considered his books as the faithful depositories of his opinions. In " Adolphus's History of George the Third" is this critique of the work:- "A mere apology for the reign, a Treasury pamphlet in three volumes, but more decent and specious than Gifford;" and on the margin in numerous places the eye is arrested by the words "stuff!" "What does be mean?"&c. Burke's character is summed up, "elegant, acute, verbose, vague." It was sold for 1. 11s. 6d. In "Brodie's British Empire" are numerous calculations on the decrease of crime in the present century, as compared with earlier ages of our history. In a volume of Bentham's works he has recorded that it was presented to him whilst dining tete-a-tete with the great reformer. The Antijacobin, 2 vols., with the names annexed to some of the poems, from Mr. Canning's copy in MS., produced 31. 8s.; and Alfieri's Tragedie scelte da Montucci, 3 vols. printed in Edinburgh in 1812, a present from Lord Byron to Sir J. Mackintosh, with an interesting autograph inscription by Lord Byron, was bought by the same gentleman (Mr. Wilks, M.P.) for four guineas and a half. The library, upon the whole, was not a very valuable or important collection. ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES. SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. Nov. 29. Hudson Gurney, esq. V. P. -A Comparison of Architecture in England and part of France, by Thomas Rickman, esq. was read, preparatory to some further communication from that gentleman of his recent architectural observations in Normandy, &c. In this paper he took a rapid but interesting survey of the several styles, from the first employment of the Roman architecture in England, to the period when the Italian style was again imported. He thinks it probable (regarding the tympanum of the Temple of Bath as the best fragment) that nothing very good of Roman work ever existed in Britain. With regard to Saxon work, he remarked, that, although Stukeley and Horace Walpole, and the students of their day, had been too ready to admit Saxon dates to our ancient structures, there had of late years been, on the contrary, too great and total a rejection of that idea. The number of churches mentioned in Domesday Book is alone a presumptive evidence that some of them are still remaining. After casually noticing the rude and somewhat inexplicable churches of Brixworth, Earls Barton, Barton-on-the-Humber, one at Cambridge, and some others, in which Roman work or materials are remarkable, he fixed the era 1000 for the introduction of the Norman style; which is characterised by round arches, square piers, and imposts, of which a good example is at Kirkdale. In Lincoln cathedral is an extraordinary combination of the early and late Norman, The square pillar was next made round; secondly, reduced in size; and thirdly, assumed an octagon form. In the enrichments we discover the first formation of the pointed arch by the intersection of semicircular tracery. The Norman forms are seen with Early English details; and the Early English forms with Norman details. In the Early English style the Norman square pier with shafts is converted into a cluster of shafts. After noticing the doors, windows, and ornaments of this style, Mr. Rickman proceeded to state, that the commencement of the Decorated style may be fixed about the year 1300; St. Mary's Abbey at York and Newstead Abbey are fine specimens of the transition from Early English to Decorated. At this period the windows became very large, and the tracery very various and beautiful; there is one window at Carlisle of so many as nine lights, and it is equal to any of the kind. The Decorated style is the most difficult to imitate, and equally difficult to describe. Good examples are the naves of York and Exeter cathedrals, and the |