ately on their arrival, His Majesty signified a wish to hear them again; and after their performance, was pleased to command their attendance at St. James's Palace on the following evening. The Masters Schulz have brought over a newly invented instrument, called the Eol-Harmonica, which, in concert with two guitars, produces a most beautiful and surprising effect. DRAMA. KING'S THEATRE. ON Thursday night Pasta's benefit took place, and an overwhelming audience contributed to swell her receipts. Pasta and Sontag appeared together in Otello and Desdemona, and were evidently performing out of their accustomed walks. Pasta's part (Otello) is the one usually assigned to Curioni; and Sontag, in Desde mona, could not have been placed in a situation less suited to her line of talent. Notwithstanding this, the performance went off well; and, indeed, the mere appearance of the two prime donne together, being "a sight," was enough to fill the house.* At REVIVALS are the order of the day. Drury Lane Colman's" paw-paw" farce of the Gay Deceivers followed on Saturday evening Cong eve's" fie-fie" comedy of Love for Love. Were either piece sent in new to the theatre at the present day, how the licenser's red ink and the printer's black would flow in judgment against it! But the ancient and the dead may sin with impunity.† Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew was revived on Thursday evening, with music composed and selected by Mr. Braham and Mr. T. Cooke, as a makeshift for the airs of Mr. Bishop, whose "linked sweetness" was so "long drawing out," that the manager lost his patience, and the composer gave up his engagement. We will deliver our important opinion respecting this revival in our next No. At Covent Garden the rival Aladdin has also been revived, with a label in his mouth like that of the Black Bear in Piccadilly" I am the original." The Drury Lane opera having been turned into a melo-drama, the Covent Garden melo-drama has been transformed into an opera. We do not think either has benefited • It is pretty well known, we believe, to all who attend the Opera, and to many who do not, that the late manager, Mr. Ebers, was a loser to a fearful extent by this concern, and that his bankruptcy was the consequence of his engagements connected with it. The responsibility of a lessee of the Opera is so extensive, and the success of the best management so precarious, that any one who engages and fails in the perilous enterprise, is entitled to all the assistance that can be rendered him by those to whose tastes the undertaking was to minister. In this situation we think the late manager stands. His shipwreck has been a total one. The object of these remarks is to impress on our readers the justice of affording Mr. Ebers some slight compensation for his losses, in the easiest and most appropriate way, by a benefit at the King's Theatre. The produce would, it is true, be trifling, compared to the amount of his losses; but it could not fail to be of service; and the testimony it would afford of public sympathy would be worth something. La Porte, who is, we believe, a liberal man, would of course permit the use of the house, on being Indemnified against the expenses; and many, if not all the performers, would, we are sure, contribute their services gratuitously. VARIETIES. LITERARY NOVELTIES. Surrey Literary Institution. On Monday evening a meeting of the inhabitants of Camberwell and its vicinity to consider a plan for the erection of a building in which was held at the Grove House tavern, Camberwell Grove, the Committee might conduct the affairs of the Institution on a more extended scale than had been hitherto practicable. The Rev. J. Vane, A. M. President of the Society, took the chair, and was supported by many of the most influential residents in the neighbourhood. The report of the Committee detailed at great length The last bad Puns, &c.-Why is the completion of the building of the King's New Pa- the financial state of the Institution, from which it apto its annual expenditure upon its present establishment, lace an event to be despaired of? Ans. Be-eared that the income of the Society was fully adequate and that very numerous advantages would result from the cause it has already had an untimely dome! Why is A the best letter in the alphabet for erection of a spacious and convenient lecture-room, with library, reading, and conversation-rooms, &c. to defray the expense of which it was proposed to issue proprietors' a deaf woman? It makes her hear !! shares at 107. 10s. each, the holders of which might avail any annual payment. The managers, in conclusion, conthemselves of all the privileges of the Institution, without gratulated the meeting on the highly prosperous condition measure of public benefit and private convenience. At the of the Society, and urged the adoption of the plan as a close, a subscription was entered into, and a considerable sum raised. A French officer, appointed to command a storming party, to which some of the Irish brigade belonged, was delivering his opinion on the question, whether it was the duty of the commander, on such an occasion, to lead the men, or direct them from the rear; and seemed rather inclined to think the latter most expedient for the benefit of the service. "Bah!" cried an Irish officer, "I'll tell you what, Colonel, It is a custom more honoured in the breach, than in the observance." In making the sewer across Piccadilly, the gable of the corner house in White-horse-street gave way; the remainder was, however, supported by props; and it was remarked, there was no end to that house. In the Press. Subterraneous Travels of Niels Klim, from the Latin of Lewis Holberg.-A Manual of Ancient LIST OF NEW BOOKS. 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The prices, though considerable, have not appeared extravagant: the sale continues. Monday.. 3 51 W. of Greenwich. The number of the new works that have been published at the last Easter fair at Leipzig, as stated in the annual fair catalogue, amounts to 3234, viz.:-2852 books, including smaller works, as pamphlets; 191 novels and The managers of foreign theatres, it is known, have aid from their governments, under whose control and tales; 37 dramatic pieces, whole collections protection the theatres are, and are thus secured against counting each for one number; 116 maps, any important loss. If these things are ordered otherwise here, it is because it is considered that the liberality globes, &c.; 33 musical works; 5 games. The Pelham, the Croppy, Ward's Mexico, of the public supersedes the necessity of such an arrange books in foreign modern languages, exclusive our Review, though so largely occupied by one popular Atherstone's Nineveh, and other works, are thus unavoidment. We should be glad to see this opinion confirmed, of the preceding list, amount to 336. though we doubt not its justice;-a more favourable works eminently good, Professor Beck men-ably postponed besides many articles of a miscellaneous opportunity of practically evincing its truth cannot be pointed out, we think, than the one we have suggested. We had fallen here into the vulgar error of believing that the waggish author of My Night-gown and Slippers, &c. was no more. While this was passing through the press, however, a friend remarked to us, that George Colman the Younger could not possibly be dead yet, as he knew, from the best authority, that his publisher expected him to end his Life" in the course of à few weeks." The mass of interesting matters of a temporary nature, ceedings, and distant expeditions, which press upon us at relating to general literature, the fine arts, scientific prothe present hour, has compelled us this week to abridge publication. As tions, Ehrenberg's Natural-Historical Journey character. ERRATUM. In the account of Captain Kater's paper on the Vertical Floating Collimator, given in the last No. of the Literary Gazette, at line 34 the telescope of the is the length of the zenith telescope. It should have collimator is by mistake stated to be 40 inches long, which been stated that its focal length is 8 inches, and its aperture 1 inch and a quarter. SUBSCRIPTION for the WIDOW of the late Mr. WILLIAM JAMES, the Author of the "Naval History of Great Britain." EN Just published, in 4to. NCYCLOPEDIA LONDINENSIS. Vol. XXIII. containing the Articles Ship-BuildingThe Naval History" by the late Mr. James, is too well known Spain-Steam-Engine-Surgery-Sweden-Theory, &c. The to the Officers of his Majesty's Navy, and the Public in general, Subscribers, and the Public in general, are respectfully informed, to require any eulogium. All the Reviews and other Periodical that this Work will be complete in Twenty-Four closely-printed Publications, bear ample testimony to its merits, and to the talent 4to. Volumes, and will be illustrated with nearly 1600 beautiful and inflexible impartiality of its author. In the compilation of Copper-plate Engravings. his voluminous History, Mr. James spent the best years of his London: G. Jones, Ave Maria Lane. life, and prosecuted his arduous undertaking under difficulties that few could have surmounted. Although he laboured under great pecuniary embarrassments, and although promises and threats were exerted to subdue his moral courage, yet nothing could induce him to swerve, for a moment, from his duty as an impartial Historian. The incessant labour of twelve years' unremitting application to his important History, added to the cruel disappointment and loss which he experienced in the sale of an edition of his work lately published, on account of the failure of the Purchaser of the Copyright, induced a premature decay of body and mind, in ΕΝ NCYCLOPEDIA METROPOLITANA. The Publishers Have the satisfaction to announce, that the 23d Part is ready for delivery, completing very nearly half of the entire Work. The Parts appear almost undeviatingly every Three Months, and those Persons who take in the Work regularly have already the advantage of finding many of the departments quite com. pleted. 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Should the Russians ever approach and lay siege to the city, a supply of water will be its first object. In its present state, if the beDr. Walsh took as companion a Swiss rene- siegers cut off the communication with the FOR this very entertaining and apropos volume gado, but of good character; his name was bendts, which it is to be presumed they would we are indebted to the pen of Dr. Walsh, a gen- Mustapha, and he was a Tartar janissary at- do in the first instance, the city could not hold tleman of great and various acquirements, who tached to the English palace. Previous to set-out for a week. It appears that the sultan was Chaplain to Lord Strangford, our Ambassa- ting out, we have some curious information has prudently supplied it with corn; it is prodor at Constantinople; and who, on leaving relative to the Jews in Constantinople, who are bable he will clear out the cisterns, and supply that city, performed a journey through the represented as being most inveterate enemies to it with water also. country now so interesting, as the theatre on the Greeks and their insurrection. This peo- "The city of Constantinople (he goes on to which the fate of Turkey is about to be decided ple, when driven from Spain, to the number of state) is built on a triangular promontory, proby its Russian invaders. To such a publica- 800,000, sought refuge in the East. 66 They jecting into the sea of Marmora; two sides are tion it will be felt that we cannot pay our de- settled at Salonichi, Smyrna, Rodosto, and washed by the sea, and the third is that which voirs too early; and we are gratified at having other large towns, where they, at this day, connects the triangle with the main land, and it in our power to analyse its most striking form an important part of the population. At may be called its base. These sides were all parts, for the benefit of our readers, before the Salonichi they have no less than thirty syna- well fortified with walls, which still remain, work itself can have issued from the press. In gogues. But the principal division of them though in several places so dilapidated as to be the present instance we shall address ourselves came to Constantinople, and were assigned a incapable of any defence, without great reparachiefly to those statements which bear upon large district, called Hassa Kui, to inhabit, tion. The whole circuit is estimated at more the approaching contest and throw light upon where they form a community of 50,000 per- than twelve miles; the side washed by the the character, relative positions, and prospects sons. The Turks call the different people who harbour, three; that washed by the sea of of the potent combatants. Marmora, four; and the base (i. e. the wall and fortifications) five miles: extending from sea to sea, and terminating in the Seven Towers.” reside under them by names indicative of the Dr. Walsh set out from Constantinople on estimation in which they hold them. The the 28th of October, to traverse the route which Greeks Yeshir, or slaves, as they were conDarius pursued in his memorable expedition sidered to have forfeited their life at the taking The narrative continues to rise in interest. against the Scythians 2300 years ago, and that of Constantinople, and hold it ever since on "We now arrived at the Top Kapousi,* or Gate which the Russians have already taken, and sufferance; the Armenians Rayas, or subjects, of the Cannon, which was the gate where Maare again taking, in their march against the as they were never a conquered people, but homet entered the devoted city. It is called Ottoman Porte. Like an agreeable traveller, merged insensibly into the population of the Top Kapousi, because the Turks have set over he tells us, as he proceeds, many anecdotes empire; but the Jews they call Mousaphir, or it some large globes of granite, such as they use suggested by the different places which he visitors, because they sought an asylum among for balls in their immense pieces of ordnance; visits; he revives recollections of ancient his-them. They treat them, therefore, as visitors, and they have placed them here to commetory; he illustrates the numismatics, geo- with kindness and hospitality." All the sub-morate the spot where they entered and took graphy, botany, antiquities, &c. that occur jects of Turkey, who are not Turks, are loosely possession of this capital of the Christian world. throughout his path; and his classical allu- called Rayas. At some distance, in front of this gate, is an sions fill up the measure of what is justly styled The author also notices a different matter in artificial mound, called Maltepe, which I pleasant reading, in a way at once so copious Constantinople, which may form a feature in ascended. The summit commands a magniand amusing, that we admire the extent of his its immediate destinies. We allude to a cis- ficent view of the city, the sea of Marmora, and information, and are delighted by his fashion tern mentioned by Gillius, which Dr. Clarke the country for a very great extent all round of communicating it. It resembles the easy searched for in vain, but which our author dis- it. Here it was that Mahomet displayed the and unconstrained conversation of a person of covered, and found it exactly as described by standard of his prophet, and directed the attack great natural and cultivated talents; and variety him. "We entered (says he) a private house, on this side." The author then expresses his and instruction are the results of the out-descended a deep flight of steps, and found our-admiration at the resistance offered by the pourings. Without further preface, we come, selves on the borders of a subterranean lake, disheartened Greeks, which he imputes to the however, to the journey, the Pisgah of which extending under several streets. The roof was genius and spirit of one individual, and says: is not of the most tempting kind. arched and supported by 336 magnificent mar- "That one man was Constantine Palæo "Conceive (says the author) travelling ble pillars; a number of tubes descended into logus. The name of Constantine occurs more through a country in winter, where, generally the water, and supplied the streets above; the frequently than that of any other in the hisspeaking, there are no roads, no carriages, no inhabitants of which, as Gillius justly observes, tory of the lower empire: it was borne by inns, no suppers, and no beds! The only did not know whence the water came- In- fourteen emperors; but they were all marked roads are beaten pathways, made by one horse-colas ignorare cisternam infra ædes suas posi- by imbecility, except the first and the last-he man and followed by another, and every man tam. Of all the reservoirs which the prudent who founded the empire, and he in whom it may make one for himself if he pleases. The precautions of the Greek emperors established, terminated. The details given of this teronly carriages are wooden planks, laid upon this is the only one which now exists as a cis- mination, and of the character and conduct of rough wheels, called arubas, drawn with cords tern; and such is the apathy and ignorance of him who endeavoured to avert or delay it, by buffaloes, which are seldom used except for the Turks, that they themselves, it appears, are particularly affecting; and his devotion burdens. The only inns are large stables, did not, in the time of Gillius, three hundred of himself to the cause of his country, when where nothing is to be had but chopped straw. years ago, and do not at present, generally it could no longer be preserved, and seeking The only suppers are what you may pick up on know of its existence. The Turk through death in the midst of his enemies, are worthy the road, if you are so fortunate, and bring it whose house we had access to it, called it Yeré to where you stop for the night; and the only batan Sarai, or the Subterranean Palace; and beds are the chopped straw in the stable, or a said, that his neighbours, whose houses were deal board in a cock-loft over it; and even this, also over it, did not know any thing about it. in many places, is not to be had. There are, Indeed, from the state of neglect in which the This gate, we observe, from a good map of Constandoubtless, exceptions to this general picture, as walls and every thing about it appeared, it tinople and the adjacent territory, is about the centre of I myself experienced; but, in the main, it is seemed probable that it had not been visited or harbour to the sea, and is the northern line of defence, the wall (five miles in length) which stretches from the true: and such is the actual state of travelling repaired since the Turks entered Constanti-land indeed the whole land defence, against attack.-Ed of the best ages of Greece or Rome. The breaches which remain in the wall for a considerable extent, near this Top Kapousi gate, and which the Turks have never since repaired, |