any decided extent,-perhaps as few have the | from any other source. It will be felt, that the relations between the sexes, what is meant faculty of dispensing it intelligibly; and all upon such occasions we can have no observa- by marriages of convenience, They generally must be restricted to a particular portion of tions to make-we insert the selection, simply turn out to be as inconvenient, as persons, who the immense districts that are now traversed. for the entertainment it may afford our readers. are said to have arrived at years of discretion, One traveller cuts across Asia Minor from "He was a warm politician, and thought are apt to be indiscreet. Lord Byron's was a Constantinople to Cyprus, by a line marked himself earnest in the cause of liberty. His marriage of convenience, certainly at least out in his firman, a deviation from which, if failure in the House of Lords is well known. on his own part. The lady, I have no doubt, half a mile to the right or left, would cost his He was very candid about it; said he was would never have heard of it under that title. throat. Another traveller winds his obscure much frightened, and should never be able to He married for money, but of course he wooed and frightened way by the Taurus, leaving do any thing that way. Lords of all parties with his genius; and the lady persuaded hermagnificent countries on either side, into came about him, and consoled him; he parti-self that she liked him, partly because he had a which his firman does not give him the key.cularly mentioned Lord Sidmouth, as being genius, and partly because it is natural to love A third intersects the lines of both, and fills unaffectedly kind.” those who take pains to please us. Furtherup the description. Of this kind of tour writ- "I remember one day, as he stood looking more, the poet was piqued to obtain his mising, England has abundant examples, unques- out of the window, he resembled in a lively tress, because she had a reputation for being tionably honourable to the intrepidity, research, manner the portrait of him by Phillips, by far delicate in such matters: and the lady was and literature of her travellers; but of such the best that has appeared; I mean the best of piqued to become a wife, not because she did slight value for a comprehensive acquaintance him at his best time of life, and the most like not know the gentleman previously to marriage, with, at least, any remote country, that we him in features as well as expression. He sat but because she did, and hoped that her love, might nearly as well not have them at all. one morning so long, that Lady Byron sent up and her sincerity, and her cleverness, would Their chief value is to be found only in the twice to let him know she was waiting. Her enable her to reform him. The experiment shape in which Mr. Duncan here offers them ladyship used to go on in the carriage to Hen- was dangerous, and did not succeed. Another to the world; they furnish materials for derson's nursery ground, to get flowers. I had couple might have sat still, and sacrificed their combination and concoction into knowledge. not the honour of knowing her, nor ever saw comfort to the vanity of appearing comfortable. The scattered works, collected and concen- her but once, when I caught a glimpse of her Lord Byron had too much self-will for this, trated into regular narrative, form the ground at the door. I thought she had a pretty earn- and his lady too much sincerity, perhaps too of a solid and satisfactory acquaintance with est look, with her pippin' face; an epithet much alarm and resentment. The excess of the countries in question. They are merely by which she playfully designated herself. The his moods, which, out of the spleen and even "mémoires pour servir" the personal inci- first visit I paid Lord Byron was just after self-reproach of the moment, he indulged in dents and observations which are by skilful their separation. The public, who took part perhaps beyond what he really felt, were so hands to be embodied into geographical history. with the lady, as they ought to do, (women in terrifying to a young and mortified woman, The series of the Modern Traveller has had their relations with the other sex being under that she began to doubt whether he was in for its object this combination of the various the most unhandsome disadvantages) had, possession of his senses. She took measures, and scattered intelligence of men of literature, nevertheless, no idea of the troubles which her which exceedingly mortified him, for solving of explorers, of residents in the respective coun- husband was suffering at that time. He was this doubt; and though they were on good tries, of philosophers and politicians,--in fact, very ill, his face jaundiced with bile; the re- terms when she left an uneasy house to visit of every class of society whose labours could nouncement of his society by Lady Byron had her friends in the country, and Lady Byron throw light upon its highly interesting topics. disconcerted him extremely, and was, I believe, might, I have no doubt, have been persuaded The editor, whose name has been long known utterly unlooked for; then the journals and by him to return, had there been as much love, to polite literature, has performed his task their attacks upon him were felt severely; and or even address, on his side, as there was a wish with very meritorious diligence, exactness, and to crown all, he had an execution in his house. to believe in his merit on her's, it is no wonder happiness of selection. All repulsive details I was struck with the real trouble he mani- that others, whom she had known and loved are avoided, the tediousness that will creep fested, compared with what the public thought so much longer, and who felt no interest in upon individual narrative is exchanged for of it. The adherence of his old friends was being blind to his defects, should persuade her animation; and the errors from which no in- also touching. I saw Mr. Hobhouse and Mr. to stay away. The Farewell' that he wrote, dividual writer can escape are extinguished. Scrope Davies (college friends of his) almost and that set so many tender-hearted white Our readers must not be deceived by the every time I called. Mr. Rogers was regular handkerchiefs in motion, only resulted from diminutiveness and moderate price of the work in his daily visits; and Lord Holland, he said, his poetical power of assuming an imaginary into the idea that it is only for children. Let was very kind to him. Finally, he took the position, and taking pity on himself in the them examine it, look at the crowd of authors blame of the quarrel to himself; and he en- shape of another man. He had no love for the quoted, and ascertain the force and fidelity of listed my self-love so far on the side of Lady object of it, or he would never have written the work, and they will find its use to men; Byron, as to tell me that she liked my poem, upon her in so different a style afterwards. a use so obvious and important, that we and had compared his temper to that of Gio- Indeed, I do not believe that he ever had the know not how any man who desires to under- vanni, my heroine's consort. In all this I good fortune of knowing what real love is,— stand the actual circumstances of any country beheld only a generous nature, subject perhaps meaning by love the desire that is ennobled by of the earth, can do without it—it is absolutely to ebullitions of ill temper, but candid, sensi- sentiment, and that seeks the good and exaltessential to mature knowledge. tive, extremely to be pitied, and, if a woman ation of the person beloved. He could write knew how, or was permitted by others to love a passage now and then which shewed that he him, extremely to be loved. What made me come the more warmly to this conclusion, was a letter which he shewed me, written by Lady Byron after her departure from the house, and when she was on her way to the relations, who persuaded her not to return. It was signed "There is no doubt that Lord Byron felt with the epithet above mentioned; and was the scandal of the separation severely. It is written in a spirit of good-humour, and even likely, also, that he began to long for his wife's fondness, which, though containing nothing adherence the more, when he saw that she but what a wife ought to write, and is the would not return. Perhaps he liked her the better for writing, was, I thought, almost too better. At all events, she piqued his will, LEIGH HUNT'S MEMOIRS OF BYRON, &c. good to shew. But the case was extreme; which was his tender side; the circles were EXTRACTS from this book, which (however it and the compliment to me, in shewing it, ap- loud in his condemnation; and he was in permay be considered when completely before the peared the greater. I was not aware at that plexity about his child, in whom, as his only world) possesses unquestionable interest, having time, that, with a (singular incontinence, to- representative, and the descendant of two found their way to publicity, we should be wards which it was lucky for a great many ancient families, he took great pride to the last. sorry not to yield our quota to the contingent people that his friends were as singularly con- But his feelings, whatever they were, did not of novelty and curiosity. The New Monthly siderate, his lordship was in the habit of hinder him from wreaking his resentment in a Magazine has gone before us; but we are making a confidant of every body he came nigh. manner which every one of his friends lament enabled to make the annexed selections from I will now tell the reader, very candidly, what ed; nor from availing himself, at a future a few sheets of the work, avoiding what has I think of the whole of that matter. Every day, of those rights of matrimonial property, already run the gauntlet of the newspapers body knows, in the present beautiful state of which the gallant and chivalrous justice of the A considerable number of its volumes have already appeared. Palestine began the series with an admirable detail of that most interesting country. Greece, and Turkey in Europe and Asia, are among the later numbers; and the publisher, by an advantageous adaptation to the time, now gives us, in two volumes, a view of the history, territory, politics, and present war of Persia. The volumes are illustrated with maps, sketches of costume, and remarkable scenery. was not incapable of it; but the passion on which he delights to dwell, is either that of boys and girls, extremely prone and boardingschool; or of heroines, who take a delight in sacrificing themselves to wilful gentlemen. 6 stranger sex has decreed to itself, as a conso-of comparisons to check it, he had made the He looked as blank as possible, and never again lacion for not being able to make the lady wise and blessed discovery, that women might criticised the personal appearance of those comfortable. love himself, though he could not return the whom I regarded. It was on accounts like - I will here mention what I have hap. passion; and that all women's love, the very these, that he talked of Mrs. Hunt as being pened to omit respecting another and greater best of it, was nothing but vanity. To be able no great things.' Myself, because I did matter. Two hundred pounds were sent me to love a quality for its own sake, exclusive of not take all his worldly common-places for from Italy, to enable me to leave England with any reaction upon one's self-love, seemed a granted, nor enter into the merit of his bad cumdort. They came from Lord Byron, and thing that never entered his head. If at any jokes on women, he represented as a 'proser;' taching was said to me of security, or any time, therefore, he ceased to love a woman's and the children, than whom, I will venture thing like it. Lord Byron had offered, a year person, and found leisure to detect in her the to say, it was impossible to have quieter or two before, through Mr. Shelley, to send vanities natural to a flattered beauty, he set no more respectable in the house, or any that me tour hundred pounds for a similar purpose, bounds to the light and coarse way in which he came less in his way, he pronounced to be which offer I declined. I now accepted the would speak of her. There was coarseness in impracticable.' two hundred pounds; but I found afterwards the way in which he would talk to women, "He condescended, among his other timid that his lordship had had a bond for the even when he was in his best humour with deferences to the town,' to be afraid of Gifmoney from Mr. Shelley. I make no comment them. I do not mean on the side of volup- ford. There was an interchange of flatteries on these things. I merely state the truth, tuousness, which is rather an excess than a between them, not the less subtle for Gifford's because others have mistated it, and because coarseness; the latter being an impertinence occasionally affecting a paternal tone of remon I begin to be sick of maintaining a silence which is the reverse of the former. I have strance; and they were friends' to the last; which does no good to others, and is only seen him call their attention to circumstances, though Lord Byron (to say nothing of that turned against one's self. which made you wish yourself a hundred miles being a reason also) could not help giving him The public have been given to understand off. They were connected with any thing but a secret hit now and then, when the church. that Lord Byron's purse was at my command, the graces with which a poet would encircle and-state review became shy of him. Gifford and that I used it according to the spirit with his Venus. He said to me once of a friend of thought him a wonderful young man, but wild, which it was offered. I did so. Stern neces- his, that he had been spoilt by reading Swift. &c.; and he never forgot that he was a lord. sity, and a large family, compelled me; and He himself had certainly not escaped the infec- He least of all forgot it when he affected to during our residence at Pisa, I had from him, tion. What completed the distress of this play the schoolmaster. On the other hand, or rather from his steward, to whom he always connexion, with respect to the parties them- Lord Byron was happy to regard Mr. Gifford sent me for the money, and who doled it selves, was his want of generosity in money as a wonderful old gentleman, not indeed me out as if my disgraces were being counted, matters. The lady was independent of him, born gentleman, but the more honest in his thes wm of seventy pounds. This sum, together and disinterested; and he seemed resolved that patricianisms on that account, and quite with the payment of our expenses when we ac- she should have every mode but one of proving a born critic; sound,' as the saying is; companied him from Pisa to Genoa, and thirty that she could remain so. learned and all that, and full of good pounds with which he enabled us subsequently sense:' in short, one that was very sento go from Genoa to Florence, was all the sible of his lordship's merits, both as a poet money I ever received from Lord Byron, and a peer, and who had the art of making his exclusive of the two hundred pounds in the homage to a man of rank agreeable, by affectfrst instance, which he made a debt of Mr. ing independence without really feeling it. Shelley's by taking his bond." Murray he laughed at. He treated him afterwards, as he did most others, with strange alternations of spleen and good humour, of open panegyric and secret ridicule; but at the period in question, he at least thought him an honest man for the tribe of Barabbas;' who, said his lordship, was unquestionably a bookseller.' "Lord Byron painted his heroes criminal, wilful, even selfish in great things; but he took care not to paint them mean in little ones. He took care also to give them a great quantity of what he was singularly deficient in which was self-possession: for when it is added, that "But to return to the Gambas. The way he had no address, even in the ordinary sense in which the connexion between the young of the word that he hummed and hawed, and Countess and Lord Byron had originated, and looked confused, on very trivial occasions, TM mnctioned, was, I thought, clear enough; that he could much more easily get into a dibat unfortunately it soon became equally clear lemma than out of it, and with much greater that there was no real love on either side. The skill wound the self-love of others than relieve lady, I believe, was not unsusceptible of a real them, the most common-place believers in a attachment, and most undoubtedly she was poet's attractions will begin to suspect, that it desirous that Lord Byron should cultivate is possible for his books to be the best part of it, and make her as proud and as affectionate him. "Lord Byron was very proud of his rank. M. Beyle (Count Stendhal'), when he saw him at the opera in Venice, made this discovery at a glance; and it was a discovery no less subtle than true. He would appear sometimes mystify the sense of the motto to his fair friend, who wished particularly to know what Crede Byron' meant. The motto, it must be acknowledged, was awkward. The version to which her Italian helped her, was too provocative of comment to be allowed. she was anxious to be. But to hear "As I oftener went to his part of the house her talk of him, she must have pretty soon than he came to mine, he seldom saw her; discerned that this was impossible: and the and when he did, the conversation was awk-as jealous of his title as if he had usurped it. manner of her talking rendered it more than ward on his side, and provokingly self-possessed A friend told me, that an Italian apothecary doubtful whether she had ever loved, or could on her's. He said to her one day, 'What do having sent him one day a packet of medicines love him, to the extent that she supposed. I you think, Mrs. Hunt? Trelawney has been addressed to Mons. Byron,' this mock-heroic believe she would have taken great pride speaking against my morals! What do you mistake aroused his indignation, and he sent in the noble bard, if he would have let think of that ? It is the first time,' said back the physic to learn better manners. His ber; and remained a faithful and affectionate Mrs. Hunt, I ever heard of them.' This, coat of arms was fixed up in front of his bed. ompanion as long as he pleased to have which would have set a man of address upon I have heard that it was a joke with him to bar so; but this depended more of his treat- his wit, completely dashed, and reduced him ment of her, and still more on the way in to silence. But her greatest offence was in which he conducted himself towards others, something which I had occasion to tell him. than on any positive qualities of his own. On He was very bitter one day upon some friends the other hand, he was alternately vexed and of mine, criticising even their personal appeargratified by her jealousies. His regard being ance, and that in no good taste. At the same unded solely on her person, and not surviving time, he was affecting to be very pleasant and "The first number of the Liberal was now in the shape of a considerate tenderness, had so good-humoured, and without any offence in on the anvil, and Mr. Shelley's death had given degmerated in a short space of time, that if you the world.' All this provoked me to mortify me a new uneasiness. The reader will see in vere startled to hear the lady complain of him him, and I asked if he knew what Mrs. Hunt Mr. Shelley's Letters, that Lord Byron had a she did, and that too with comparative had said one day to the Shelleys of his picture originally proposed a work of the kind to Mr. strangers, you were shocked at the license by Harlowe? (It is the fastidious, scornful Moore; at least, a periodical work of some sort, which he would allow his criticisms on her. portrait of him, affectedly looking down.) He which they were jointly to write. Mr. Moore The truth is, as I have said before, that he had said he did not, and was curious to know. An doubted the beatitude of such divided light, sever known any thing of love but the animal engraving of it, I told him, was shewn her, and declined it. His lordship then proposed it p. His poetry had given this its grace- and her opinion asked; upon which she ob- through Mr. Shelley to me. I wrote to both of faler aspect, when young-he could believe served, that it resembled a great school- them to say that I should be happy to take such is the passion of Romeo and Juliet. But the boy, who had had a plain bun given him, in- an opportunity of restoring the fortunes of a batat he thought he had attained to years of stead of a plum one. I did not add, that our tered race of patriots; and as soon as we met in incretion, what with the help of bad compa- friends shook with laughter at this idea of the Pisa, it was agreed that the work should be posinus, and a sense of his own merits, for want noble original, because it was so like him.' litical, and assist in carrying on the good cause. The title of Liberal was given it by Lord Byron. The Juvenile Forget-me-not; or Cabinet of man's head, we returned, but through a village, We were to share equally the profits, the work Entertainment and Instruction for 1828. to his utter discomfiture, it being their chief being printed and published by my brother; London, Hailes. care throughout, to keep us away from their and it was confidently anticipated that money WE have elsewhere in this sheet taken oc- houses, and particularly from seeing their would pour in upon all of us. Enemies, how-casion to commend the mixture of mirth with women. Perhaps they thought as they could ever, had been already at work. Lord Byron wisdom, and playfulness with tuition; but we not control us in one case, they would not be was alarmed for his credit with his fashionable are not the less disposed to bestow our praise able in another. Be that as it may, we have friends; among whom, although on the liberal upon a production like the present, which is seen their women and made drawings of them; side, patriotism was less in favour than the of a graver cast, tenderly pathetic and highly staid long enough, should no doubt have enwe have been inside their forts; and if we had talk about it. This man wrote to him, and moral. It is a pretty and an eligible little that wrote, and another came. Mr. Hobhouse volume to put into the hands of the good and tered their town. Before we departed, I longed the more awful, the mountains or the magarious conduct, and a pure source whence to would be able to make; but unfortunately they rushed over the Alps, not knowing which was deserving child;-a reward for past merito- very much for some occasion to put them to their mettle, and to see what defence they zine. Mr. Murray wondered, Mr. Gifford draw those principles which are likely to make smiled (a lofty symptom!), and Mr. Moore the future as gratifying and happy as the past. am convinced they would have consented to were much too civil; and rather than fight, I (tu quoque Horati!) said that the Liberal had The subjects are little tales, &c. interspersed any terms, however degrading. I never saw • a taint' in it! This, however, was after-with suitable poetry, and neatly adorned with such effeminate creatures in the shape of men before, and hope never to see such again. wards. But Lord Byron, who was as fond as a footman of communicating unpleasant intelligence, told us, from the first, that his friends' had all been at him; friends, whom he afterwards told me he had libelled all round,' and whom (to judge of what he did by some of them) he continued to treat in the same impartial manner." A History of France; with Conversations at the End of each Chapter. By Mrs. Markham, Author of the "History of England." For the use of Young Persons. 2 vols. 12mo. London, 1828. J. Murray. MRS. MARKHAM'S History of England, of this class, is one of the best books, "for the use of young persons," in circulation; but her History of France is still better; for a history of that country was infinitely more wanted, not only for the rising generation, but for the adult and mature. We have rarely met with a work of the kind to which we could ascribe such un engravings. ARTS AND SCIENCES. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS: LOO CHOO. [It is again our good fortune to be favoured with an I must say After We left Nappa after ten days' sojourn, and pursued our course to the eastward. On the 8th June we fell in with a group of islands which had long been expunged from our charts, and came to anchor in an excellent port. We were somewhat surprised to find here a Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday-two seamen who had belonged to the William, the old Tyne, which had been wrecked upon the island. H. M. S. Blossom, Petropaulowski, July 5, 1827. They were living there very comfortably, well I HAVE little time to communicate more than provided with hogs, pigeons, turtle, and fish, you will find in my public letter; but you shall and I supplied them with a he-goat, to match learn that we were very well received at Nappo- a female that is to arrive in one of the whalers. kiang, as Hall calls it, and were able to make They have planted water-melons, pumpkins, ourselves understood by means of the Chinese potatoes, cocoa nuts, &c.; and I think purpose characters, which are equally those of Loo Choo, remaining there if they can get wives from the though the languages are essentially different. Sandwich Islands or the Ladrones. We found they had forts, muskets, swords, and completing our survey of this harbour, we copper money; and that they were, in fact, weighed with 16000 lbs. of turtle crawling nothing more than Japanese. Would you about the decks, which lasted us into Petrobelieve it, ? I hardly dare speak it, they paulowski, and furnished the governor and qualified praise. The leading points of the have thieves and rogues among them just like garrison here with turtle soup for six months. annals are well preserved, in right proportions all the rest of mankind: they actually stole We have the credit, besides, of having brought and keeping the style is plain and perspicuour best thermometer; and the Head Mandarin to the place two things which the natives had ous; and the reflections are highly moral and sent me a set of their hair pins, declaring they never seen before-turtle and water-melons. instructive. Nothing can be more interesting were silver, which I yesterday found trans- We are now ready to depart in search of than the narrative; and much skill is shewn in formed into brass, the plating or lacker having Franklin once more, and sincerely do I hope making the interrogatories and answers not all corroded! They are, however, with all that we may fall in with him early. After only subservient to the main purpose of in- this, a good sort of people; and whether they that, our return to England may be said to ducing correctness of opinion, but also a relief act from fear or principle, is not for us, who commence; but it will be June or July before instead of an interruption to the reader. Of were kindly treated, to canvass. we can expect to arrive there. I have really the accomplished authoress we know nothing, of them, that they were always willing to no time to say any more, being wholly taken but that her labours deserve the gratitude of oblige us whenever it could be done without up with the survey of this extensive bay and every lover of what is good; and we are sure any expense-they even sometimes treated us magnetical observations-so adieu till the next that she will reap a higher reward in that con- with tea, and on one occasion gave us some opportunity. sciousness than in the success which must at- gingerbread cakes! With all this kindness, The volumes are very however, there was not a single individual in neatly adorned with cuts of costume, portrait, the ship who was not heartily sick of Loo Choo before we weighed. The illusion which had hung over the island before we anchored was too soon removed, and we found nothing in the inhabitants to inspire us with more than As the real and genuine confessions of an old common-place sentiments. Their conduct was, maid would most probably be unintelligible to at bottom, certainly artificial. When we first us, except in so far as the study of human cast anchor, they said we must immediately nature might enable us to guess at the likely depart; but this I did not understand, and inand the improbable, we are not sorry to dismiss sisted on being allowed to go on shore: the these volumes with a very short notice. They next day permission was granted, but they appear to be the production of a person (a wanted to confine us to the beach-a restriction male person) who has mixed with society of which was of course not attended to; and we various kinds in London; and, consequently, had walked nearly half over the island, when some of his sketches are amusing, and some of our conductor, who had long been declaring his satire founded on observation. But the that the Mandarin would cut off his head if he sketch of old maidism is a caricature of the attended us any farther, went down on his common-place character,—the ancient vestal of knees, and begged us so pathetically to stop, comedy, farce, and novel, for the witlings of that we could not refuse his petition. Will it long years; and in the spirit of portraiture, we be credited in England, that a Loo Choo Manhave Irish fortune-hunters, bluff naval oficers, darin is capable of ordering a man's head to be &c. &c., more to be praised for their resem- cut off? Perhaps it is performed symbolically blance to established models, than for the ori- with a fan-there cannot be scarcely any blood ginality or delicacy of their lineaments. spilt. Well, as I told you, to save the poor tend her exertions. and other illustrations. Confessions of an Old Maid. 3 vols. London, 1828. Colburn. In our Literary Gazettes of last July 14th and 21st, we had the pleasure of inserting a circumstantial account of the voyage of the Blossom, Captain Beechey's ship, which was performed up Behring's Straits, to meet Captain Franklin, had it been possible for that able and gallant officer to proceed farther along the North American coast than he did, under such appalling difficulties, towards the Pacific. We beg our readers to refresh their memories by reference to these numbers, in order that they may peruse with greater interest the following sequel of the voyage of the Blossom, after leaving the ice-bound Straits, and proceeding to refit at St. Francisco, whence the last letter from a youthful navigator, in our number 548, was dated in November 1826. Resuming his pen at Macao, in April 1827, in the same free and sailor-like style, (which personally renders his communication extremely agreeable and characteristic of the young English seaman to our minds) he says: "I believe my last letter was dated at San Francisco, where we completely refreshed ourselves after our fruitless exploits in the dreary regions of the North, accompanied by the un CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR JANUARY. timely reduction in our provisions. At San should not have much relished the treat. I must AFRICA. M. Gerardin, the French traFrancis nothing particular took place; we now beg leave to recall the hasty opinion I formed veller, who some time ago visited the west of had our hearts' content of riding, horses being of the natives of these islands on our last visit, Africa, is about to quit Paris for the purpose as canon as blank prizes in an English lot- Their savage and somewhat singular aspect of returning to a post which he had established ty. Had we been provided with saddles, it (no two being ever dressed alike), very soon in the higher parts of the Senegal, above the wweld have cost us no trouble; but this, of wore off, and we experienced nothing but the cataract of Felou, where he may not only extre, was not the case, and we were greatly most friendly and hospitable treatment wher- obtain information with respect to the various piled to remedy the inconveniency, for these ever we went. In Tahiti nothing went down nations inhabiting the neighbourhood of the ware of, sometimes, twice the value of the but "dorrar" (dollar) for every thing you course of the Dioliba, but facilitate the opera, although of very inferior workmanship. asked; but here we never entered a hut where tions of other travellers who may be endea The governor promised, if possible, to enter- any eating, &c. was going on, but they always vouring to follow its banks. us with the exhibition of an encounter of made room for us, inviting us to join them. a bear against a wild bull; but not being con- In doing any duty on shore, such as getting off ted with what we offered, in consideration provisions, &c. I was always assisted by the THE earth is now in that part of its orbit of the trouble attending the procuring of the natives who happened to be present. "Ás for nearest the sun, and consequently, being more beasts, the soldiers refused to proceed in the the ladies, I have nought to say,” at any rate powerfully attracted than when at its aphelion, undertaking. The bears, at a little distance in here; for their manners and behaviour, though it moves with its greatest angular velocity; the interior, are exceedingly numerous, and sincerely kind, are so totally different from the line drawn from the sun to the earth, aften prove dangerous to travellers, as they those at home, that I had better remain silent though much shorter than at the opposite point ace of the most savage nature, if we are to be on that head. All are alike, from the princess of its orbit, passes over an equal area at the ve the statements of those who are, in this royal down to the poorest. The town of Ho- winter solstice, thus compensating for its shortlace, best acquainted with them. Leaving San naruru is composed of huts in the shape of ness by the rapidity of the motion; the earth, Francisco on the 28th of December, 1826, we haystacks, but many of them are fitted up in being in its perihelion, increases the angle under ted down to Monterrey, where, after a a very convenient and pleasant style, having an which the sun is seen to its maximum of 32. sant stay of three days, we sailed for the enclosure before them, containing banana trees, min. 34-16 sec. Notwithstanding this proxiSandwich Islands once more. After a fine, &c. Altogether, we should have found it a mity of the earth to the fountain of light and tagh perhaps longer passage than we ex- very pleasant place, but for the great excess of heat, the temperature in these northern climes perted, owing to the delay occasioned by our Americans in comparison with the English resi- is not raised; for (exclusive of the brevity of rigating the sea among the low islands, dents, and they are trying to gain an ascend- the sun's continuance above the horizon) the through which it is not considered safe to run ancy over the king in every possible way, same quantity of parallel solar rays that are night, we arrived at Oahu, that island of headed by the missionaries: they have even now falling perpendicularly to the tropic of the Sandwich Islands which is now patronised gone so far as to try the substituting of the Capricorn are received in these latitudes on a by the king, and contains the chief town, Ho- American stars and stripes in lieu of the Eng- very oblique plane; the spaces, therefore, on maruru. Here we were particularly gratified lish Union Jack, which is at present in the this oblique plane between the rays are greater, finding ourselves in a most secure and con- national colours; but this, of course, was put and diffused over a larger surface; having also sent birth, within pistol-shot of the shore, a stop to by the English consul. Many other a larger portion of the atmosphere to pass wing, I may say, entirely to the promptness attempts have been made with interested views. through, a considerable quantity of these rays with which the captain ordered the pilot to This is enough of Oahu, perhaps too much, you are reflected back, and never reach the earth. Be the ship through the passage, which, as will say, for the subject of a letter. After a Lunar Phases and Conjunctions. I think I mentioned before, is rather intricate month's stay, we departed once more, whither Ar a ship of our size, and was not practicable we did not exactly know, but our hopes were earing our former visit. All the natives wel- pretty sanguine for China. For China, indeed, ted us in a most friendly way, apparently it really turned out, running between the Lagrind at the prospect of our long stay. So much drone Íslands in our passage; but these are not has been, and, indeed, may still be said con- worth a description; at least, those that we saw, erning the Sandwich Islands, which are now as they were uninhabited. On the 10th of April being of some importance among the ci. we made the great Lemma Island, after some xed world, that it will not be worth while fun on the preceding night, running amongst ime to fill up a letter, which is not at all the Chinese fishermen, which were so close adapted to convey such matter. No: I hope that we could scarcely find our way, to their s you will feel more interested in our evident danger. Here we anchored for the ert proceedings. To begin, then; the Blos- night. On the following morning we weighed, was in a short time decorated, not very and made sail for Macao, the Portuguese setperbly, but I think very appropriately, for tlement. We arrived about noon, and anchored e reception of the king and his chiefs, who in the Typa, much closer than is allowed to ened on board, together with the English and other ships; and it was consequently objected American consuls, and some more American to, both by the Portuguese and Chinese; but captains of merchantmen. The whole went off we remained, notwithstanding all their remongrand style, embellished with some very loyal strances. We were very soon boarded by num. patriotic toasts, and some pretty good bers of Chinamen, who saluted us very civilly, of which the Sandwich Islanders took exclaiming, How you do? Me sawy your er torn, although unintelligible to us, and facy last voyagy,' &c. They certainly cut a ed in the same tone of voice through- most ludicrous figure about the decks, with The fete was given on the quarter- their long pigtails, on which they kept a bright ; and after dinner a rather poor display look-out, for fear of any tricks being played wg to the dampness of the ship) of fire- with them. Macao is a very pretty little town, varka formed the conclusion. In return for and has a pleasing appearance from the sea, fern-out, the king, whose example was after- having the English factory, a neatly-built row cts followed by the Americans, gave us at dif- of buildings, in front. At the back are placed best times invitations to a "Loohau," of all the Chinese shops, on both sides of very I must give some short description. It de- narrow streets, having all sorts of articles exits name from the chief dish on the table, posed for sale, for which they always demand is nothing more than a piece of salt twice as much as they expect to get. wa, garnished most profusely with stewed , which resemble almost precisely our rable marrow in England. As we attended, warmer, they took care to introduce plenty of wed for is along with the pork, otherwise we *This we thought Owyhee in our former letter. A trip to Canton, though delightfully described by our young friend, has nothing of novelty worthy of publication. His next date is, Petropaulowski Kamtschatka, July 1st;" but having given the extract from Captain Beechey's letter, we need not go into the matters treated of by his youthful companion. The C Last Quarter, in Virgo 5 First Quarter, in Åries D. H. N. 9 19 15 16 12 24 23 8 45 31 13 A Moon will be in conjunction with Jupiter in Libra. Mars in Libra. Mercury in Sagittarius D. H. M. 11 10 45 11 16 30 15 17 30 Occultation.The most interesting phenomenon of the month will be an occultation of 1 a Cancri, a star of the fourth magnitude, by the moon, which will occur on the 31st day; the moon's north-eastern limb will come in contact with the star at 11 hrs. 1 min. 14 sec., and the star will re-appear at 22 min. 16 sec. past midnight: the occultation will occur within an hour of the moon being at the full. Mercury invisible through the month. 19th day-Venus, 11 digits of the western limb illuminated; apparent diameter, 11 sec. Mars and Jupiter are exceedingly beautiful objects in Libra, as morning stars; they are very close to each other, and afford an excellent opportunity of comparing their relative diameters and colours,-Mars appearing of a rosy hue, and Jupiter of a silvery whiteness. Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites that will be visible. 66 COVENT GARDEN. ADELPHI THEATRE. working man a' the week, but Sabbath; and | duet with Liston was irresistible, and extorted though I like the kirk and our minister weel, that compliment even from the impatient and WE hasten to redeem our promise to the unless ye ca' the head off me, I canna keep ma uncomfortable gods. What crime has Great ""Weel then, John, if ye will allow Britain committed, that it is the only empire merit is the Theatre Naval, Adelphi. The eneen open." minors, of which the first in rank and in Satan to exercise his power over you in this in Europe where the theatres are cursed with tertainment provided for the Christmas holydovering dwamming way in the very kirk uproarious galleries?-where any half-dozen day-makers at this snug little temple of itsell, what gars you sit in the front laft, where blackguards, who can muster up twelve half- laughter, is entitled Harlequin and the White a' body amaist sees you? Can you no tak a pence each, are permitted to annoy and insult Mouse, or the Frog in an Opera Hat; and in back seat, and there your sin will be less seen some thousand respectable persons, who, from all the true points of pantomime far surpasses and heard." "Tak a back seat?" said John; the local situation of the offenders, have no its rivals, both great and little, metropolitan na, na, I'll never quat my cozie corner; possible means of quelling the nuisance them- and transaquatical. The tricks have much my great-grandfather, my grandfather, and selves, and are unprotected by the proper au- whim and novelty; the pantomimic company my father, a' sat there, and there sit will thorities. is active and entertaining (Paulo is, perhaps, John, come o't what will!" The elders, with the best clown now on the stage); the scenery, heavy hearts, returned to the minister, and reported the stubborn, truculent, and unchrist- Love in a Village, or at least what is now nious, beyond what we could have imagined machinery, and dresses, beautiful and ingeian-like behaviour of the incorrigibly drowsy called so, was performed here yesterday week, the space and resources of the theatre would wabster. "Let him alone," replied the worthy for the purpose of introducing a Mr. Wood, admit. "The Palace of the Green Swamp," "I think the best way to cure him pupil of Mr. Phillips, to a metropolitan au- Madgalore Marsh," "The Interior of of his sinful malady, is to affront him he is dience, in the character of Hawthorn. His Mouse's Hall," and "Farrier's Shop and a poor, but proud creature; I'll rebuke him voice is a barritone, and he possesses the rare distant Country," all by Tomkins, are well before the whole congregation." Next Sab-quality of distinct articulation, the which conceived and executed. bath forenoon, the text was hardly given out, novelty, added to some taste, produced a very Suspension Bridge," by Pitt, is creditable to when, as usual, down sinks John, and begins pleasing effect, particularly in the beautiful so young an artist; but his "Temple of the to serenade his neighbours with, if possible, song, My Dolly is the fairest thing." His Glow-worms" is a misnomer, and we think a more than his accustomed berrs. "Sit up, manners are unaffected, and his action natural. good idea has been lost. It is gay enough as John Thomson!" cried the minister, with a He sung the songs of the opera, and those only; a scene, but it is not a temple of glow-worms. loud and ear-splitting voice. "I'm no sleep- and on the whole, we rather like him. Where The great charm of the pantomime, however, ing, sir," quoth John. "O John, John, can there is modesty there is generally talent; and to us, is the opening, cleverly arranged by you tell what I said last ?" "Ou ay, sir; we have no doubt Mr. Wood will improve Mr. Buckstone, from the fine old ballad of the ye said, Sit up, John Thamson !" vastly upon acquaintance. Mr. Sapio favoured Frog in the Opera Hat, one of the most moral us with an Irish melody to the words of a song and affecting pieces of lyrical poetry in the from Oscar and Malvina; and Miss Hughes language. tried "Lo here the gentle lark!" which had man; SIGHTS OF LONDON. 66 no business there. a "The Hammersmith Had it appeared originally in a ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM.-Among the pleascollection of Metrical Romances, or a volume ing and instructive sights which at present of the Reliques of Ancient Poetry, instead of court the visits of the young holiday inhabitOn Tuesday evening the Marriage of Figaro being ushered into the world by a comic singer ants of the metropolis, we ought to mention to was repeated; and Madame Sala achieved her at Astley's, it would not have been left to our them the Zoological Museum, in the Egyptian second appearance in the Countess. We made humble pen to pay this tardy tribute to its Hall. Here is an extensive and admirable col-point of attending, feeling convinced, from the merits. We cannot resist the temptation to lection of birds, animals, insects, reptiles, insertion of a letter from Madame Vestris in gratify our readers by a slight "retrospective shells, &c. &c. in every branch of natural his- the papers of Monday and Tuesday, that some- review" of this extraordinary production, out tory. From contemplating these, much useful thing comical would occur. Her letter was a of place, as we acknowledge such a notice may knowledge is to be acquired in a very short sensible one; at least we are bound to say so, seem in the theatrical portion of our Gazette; time; and correct ideas are fixed on the mind, as it repeated the very arguments we had urged but from its first publication to the present moin a way superior to what is done by mere pic-in her favour a fortnight ago; but the time ment it has been identified with the drama of tures or descriptions. There are, besides, a chosen for its appearance we do not think our country, to which, through the ingenuity of number of curiosities from all quarters of the equally judicious, as it was certain to create Mr. Buckstone, it is likely to become as great globe; and an assemblage of Chinese manu- a disturbance. Accordingly, when the Coun- an ornament as it has ever been, in our opinion, factures (for sale), which complete a museum tess desired Susannah to sing, instead of to its literature. How simply grand is the the Page, Susannah begged to be exof great variety and interest. cused;" and immediately the cry of "Song! song!" "I've been roaming," &c. arose As Dryden says of the Æneid-" Our author from some of those worthy persons apples;" to whom the canse is nothing-the clangor of a trumpet:" thunder at a playhouse, and fight for bitten seems to sound a charge, and begins like the row every thing. Bless their " The demand, however, was not complied with, and the opera proceeded; but scarcely had the curtain fallen on the Marriage of Figaro, when DRAMA. KING'S THEATRE. THIS theatre was advertised to open to-night, and we believe all was prepared for the occasion; but in consequence of Mr. Laurent not having returned from Paris, the Lord Chamberlain sent his commands on Thursday to forbid the opening. On the other hand, the proprietors are in a dilemma; for they looked for their tenant, and his deposit of 4000l. which was, according to agreement, to have been deposited by the 1st of January; and are, in their turn, disappointed by his nonappearance. The concern is apparently in great confusion. DRURY LANE. "who sweet voices." the hubbub recommenced Heaven knows commencement! "A frog he would a wooing go." "Arma virumque cano, Trojæ qui primus ab oris," &c. Like Virgil, he dashes at once into the subject, "A frog he would a wooing go- Whether his mother would let him or no, With a Rowley, powley, gammon and spinnage, wherefore; and the interlude of the Scape Goat was not permitted to succeed it till Mr. Faucett came forward, still in his gardener's How much is here told in two or three lines! dress, and quietly asked what the ladies and The birth, parentage, life, character, and begentlemen wanted? "The song was not in haviour, of the Frog, are instantly before you. the opera-it was not announced in the bill; Volumes could not more clearly develop his nevertheless, if it was their pleasure, of course previous history. The fact is established, that it should be sung," &c. &c.; and sure enough he had a mother (“ an ugly old toad," accordI've been roaming" was sung, and so ended ing to the bill)a prudent parent, who foresaw the farce of Susannah and the Elders. We the misery likely to accrue from an unequal We were had nearly forgotten to say, that Mad. Sala's marriage, and vainly exerted her eloquence performance displayed more self possession, and and her authority to avert the impending The Letter Duet danger. consequently more ability. was sweetly sung and loudly encored.+ On Monday night Mr. Mathews made his first "Si quam voles aptè nubere, nube pari," saith Ovid; and so, doubtlessly, in her own both pieces went off with as much effect as the can a poor maiden do?" but no notice was taken of it by language, said the anxious old lady. But her intolerable noise of the galleries would permit. The song of Short Stages, introduced by Mathews, partly from the latter circumstance perhaps, passed off without an encore; but his * Madame Vestris omitted, also, the song of "What the audience. Since our exposé of the bribery and corruption made a similar discovery, and were, of course, perfectly going forward in the musical world, we have been unconscious that we had noticed it. Provided, however, amused by the appearance of some letters in the the desired explosion takes place, we care very little how Morning Post, whose writers seem suddenly to have many torches are applied to the train. |