6 sian merchant, or man of business, is not un-cately edged with rose colour, the emblematic | aloud that they stood betrothed, now and for mindful of the pleasure of associating with his figure of Hymen was represented on the one ever, even unto ages of ages,' which declaraequals; and even the most toilsome labour, or side, standing under a palm-tree, between the tion he repeated thrice to them, while they penurious disposition, leaves him some feeling sleeping dogs of fidelity, and inviting from the mutually exchanged the rings an equal number for the pleasures of society. The Burgher's other side the figures of the bride and bride-of times. The rings were now again surClub is a proof of this propensity. The Ameri- groom. I learned that the parties were wealthy rendered to the priest, who crossed the forecans have a club of their own; the English Russian hemp-commission agents, and most head of the couple with them, and put them have also a club, or rather there is a club under excellent people; and as such an invitation on the fore-finger of the right hand of each; that name, but into which Germans, as well as promised to afford me an opportunity of wit- and turning to the sanctuary, read another Russians, are admitted, and form a principal nessing the church marriage ceremony, of impressive part of the service, in which an part of the members. I was introduced to it which I had read so many dissimilar accounts, allusion is made to all the circumstances in the by Dr. Leighton, and dined there with him. I gladly accepted it. At two, the friends of Holy Testament, where a ring is mentioned as The club consists of 350 members, who are the parties assembled from all quarters in the the pledge of union, honour, and power; and balloted for. Strangers to be introduced must winter church of the Annunciation, in the Vas-prayed the Lord to bless the espousals of thy have their names entered every day by one of sileiostrow, where a great concourse of people servants, Anna Ivanowna and Nicholai Demethe members; a regulation found so inconve- had already collected-round the choristers or trivich, and confirm them in thy holy union; nient, that but few avail themselves of this chanters, who, in the most delightful manner for thou in the beginning didst create them, privilege. The house is commodious; but the imaginable, and in the fuga style, were sing-male and female, and appoint the woman for a rooms are neither so well furnished nor lighted ing hymns, mixing with skilful combination help to the man, and for the succession of manup as in the clubs of London or at Frankfort. the sopranos and bass voices. We beguiled kind. Let thine angel go before them to guide Play is the principal source of amusement, but half an hour in listening to their strains, wait- them all the days of their life.' The priest now not to the total exclusion of more serious and ing for the arrival of the bride. In the mean taking hold of the hands of both parties, led rational ways of passing the time. All the time I surveyed the picturesque groups of peo- them forward and caused them to stand on a Russian, and many of the foreign newspapers, ple that kept gradually forming in various parts silken carpet, which lay spread before them. among which I observed the English Courier, of the church, where the kaftaned Russian, with The congregation usually watch this moment are taken in, together with some monthly pub-his well-caressed beard, mixed with the throng with intense curiosity, for it is augured that lications; but the collection of books is trifling of young and good-looking females. Some of the party which steps first on the rich brocade indeed. There is a regular house dinner, à la the latter, dressed in the fashion of the country, will have the mastery over the other through Russe, every day, which is much frequented. their heads profusely ornamented with gold and life. In the present case, our fair bride seAnother club, known by the name of the Com-embroidered veils; and others, according to the cured possession of this prospective privilege mercial Club, is daily open for the admission more attractive garb of the French, presented with modest forwardness. Two silver impeof merchants and strangers on the English a striking contrast to many of the assembled rial crowns were next produced by a layman, Quay, in which the attendance and the din- men, whom I understood to belong to the class which the priest took, and first blessing the ners are said to be much superior. Some of of Russian merchants, but who wore neither bridegroom, placed one of them on his head, the English merchants who frequent this club the kaftan nor the beard. Their smooth and while the other, destined for the bride, was have formed a very select and valuable library, shaven faces, with the general style of dress merely held over her head by a friend, lest its principally of English books, both of reference common to most of the European nations, admirable superstructure, raised by Charles, and general reading, which is placed under the scarcely permitted their being distinguished the most fashionable perruquier of the capital, care of Mr. Moberley, a very well-informed from several English merchants present, who employed on this occasion, should be disturbed. mercantile gentleman, partner to Mr. Ander- had been invited on the occasion. The offi- That famed artist had successfully blended the son, the 'doyen' by seniority, and the most ciating priest, decked in his rich church vest-spotless flower, emblematic of innocence, with respected of the English merchants in St. Pe-ments, accompanied by the deacon, advanced the rich tresses of the bride, which were far. tersburgh. The late Emperor Alexander never from the sanctuary towards the door of en-ther embellished by a splendid tiara of large passed this genuine specimen of an old sterling | trance into the church, and there received the diamonds. Her white satin robe, from the English merchant without stopping to speak pair about to be made happy, to whom he de- hands of Mademoiselle Louise, gracefully pento him. There are a number of families among livered a lighted taper, making, at the same cilling the contours of her bust, was gathered the population of St. Petersburgh, forming, as time, the sign of the cross thrice on their fore- around her waist by a zone studded with preit were, a class of society apart, which consists heads, and conducted them to the upper part of cious stones, which fastened to her side a bou of free people, who belong neither to the church, the nave. Incense was scattered before them, quet of white flowers. The common cup being the nobility, the public functionaries, nor to while maids, splendidly attired, walked be- now brought to the priest, he blessed it, and patented merchants. It comprehends les gens tween the paranymphy, or bridegroom and gave it to the bridegroom, who took a sip from de lettres, those who are engaged in the exer- bride. The Greek church requires not the its contents thrice, and transferred it to her cise of the liberal professions, and the artisans, presence of either of the parents of the bride who was to be his mate, for a repetition of the and might be said to bear some analogy to on such an occasion. Is it to spare them the same ceremony. After a short pause, and what in France was called the tiers-état. This pain of voluntarily surrendering every autho- some prayers from the responser, in which the class is not numerous, nor does it possess much rity over their child to one who is a stranger choristers joined with musical notes, the priest influence in society at St. Petersburgh. Still, to her blood? I stood by the side of the table took the bride and bridegroom by the hand, among themselves there is a cordial and grati- on which were deposited the rings, and before the friends holding their crowns, and walked fying intercourse kept up, which frequently which the priest halted at the conclusion of a with them round the desk thrice, having both affords, as it did me more than once, an oppor- litany, wherein the choristers assisted, and their right hands fast in his, from west to east, tunity of spending an hour or two in the even- from which he pronounced, in a loud and im-sayinging among clever, agreeable, and well-informed pressive voice, the following prayer, his face Exult, O Isaiah! for a virgin has conceived andTM persons. This class is designated in Russian being turned towards the sanctuary, and the brought forth a Son, Emanuel, God and man; the East by a particular name, which I have forgotten." bride and bridegroom placed immediately be-blessed!" The excellent and graphic account of a Rus-hind him, holding their lighted tapers: sian wedding will form a congenial second to this extract. Early one day in November, a kind young friend, the son of Mr. Anderson, the oldest English merchant in St. Petersburgh, whose attentions to me were unremitting, put a finely embossed card into my hands, on which was printed, in Russian characters, the following invitation, literally translated: Ivan Ivanovitch and Prascovia Constantinovna Ivanoff humbly request the favour of your attendance to the marriage ceremony of their daughter Anna Ivanowna with Nicholai Demetrivich Borissow, and to the dinner table, this November the 13th day, in the year 1827, at two o'clock in the afternoon.' O Eternal God! thou who didst collect together the The import of this beautiful invocation was, is his name. Him do we magnify, and call the virgin Then taking off the bridegroom's crown, he said— Be thou magnified, O bridegroom, as Abraham! Be in peace, and performing the commandments of God in thou blessed as Isaac, and multiplied as Jacob, walking righteousness." In removing the bride's crown, he exclaimed— And be thou magnified, O bride, as Sarah! Be thou joyful as Rebecca, and multiplied as Rachael; delighting in thine own husband, and observing the bounds of the law, according to the good pleasure of God.' The ceremony now drew to its conclusion, the tapers were extinguished and taken from the bride and bridegroom, who walking towards the holy screen were dismissed by the priest, received the congratulations of the company, On the embossed border of the card, deli-each, beginning with the man, and proclaiming and saluted each other. We all now hurried sion here for smoking, that children about ten years of age might be seen with pipes in their mouths, whiffing with great gravity and composure." In this way matters of every sort, and of not the slightest interest, are jumbled together throughout two long volumes. SCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S BOOKS. NO. VII. Lessons of Wisdom for the Young; or, Spring to our carriages, the youngest to their sledges, language, and the acumen of philosophical rea- laid out with taste, look down on the river”— and took the direction of the house of the soning, can hardly go farther than his descrip- a most strange and shameful proceeding!-and bride's father, where we were received by that tion of the wine-cellars at Hamburgh !! that" of all the objects in this quarter most person in his Russian costume, and with a "Under the most elegant mansions are to striking to a contemplative mind, is the sacred flowing beard, who conducted the company, at be found wine-cellars; while apartments for spot near it, where the ashes of the immortal the sound of a full band of music, into the drinking, bacchanalian carousing, and the sale Klopstock are deposited." Having sailed to banqueting-room, already prepared for about of all kinds of spirits, are to be seen in every Hamburgh, we are rather surprised, on the fifty guests, with tables decked with golden direction; and some of them are resorted to author's leaving that place, to be informed that plateaux and vases bearing artificial flowers, by the very lowest of the tippling tribe. It the road was one of the very worst he had mixed with piles of fruit and bonbons. Here a has been remarked somewhere, in reference to hitherto travelled-seeing that it happened to large assemblage of friends had already met, these petty traders in this Stygian comfort, be also the first; but we do not wonder at his through which we made our way to an inner that there is not a more miserable shift for a dislike to it for he adds, that the windings room, where the bride, seated by the side of livelihood than their calling. Whoever would were sharp, quick, and narrow ! But his her mother, and surrounded by matrons and be successful in the exercise of it, must, in- amazing tact for observation revives after getdamsels, received, with becoming modesty, our deed, be of a watchful and suspicious, as well ting through these quick windings; and he congratulations. I was surprised at finding in as of a bold and resolute temper, that he may remarks—“ The country now became pleasant the gynæceum of a class of society of this neither be imposed on by sharpers, nor bullied and wooded: some of the crops, especially the description, such agreeable and easy manners, by the oaths of coachmen and soldiers. He barley, were farther advanced than in England untainted by the least gaucherie or awkward ought to be a dabbler in jokes and loud laugh- at the same season. On some of the commons pretensions. My engagements prevented my ter, and have all the winning ways and the flocks of geese were in fact so numerous, remaining to dinner; but I returned time means' to allure customers, and be well versed that at a distance the ground appeared as if enough in the evening to be present at the in sallies the mob make use of to banter pru- actually covered with snow. Such is the pasconclusion of the day's ceremony. The dinner dence and frugality; be obsequious to the most had passed off without any remarkable occur- despicable; be able to endure with patience rence, and considering the enormous quantity and good humour the vilest language of drabs; of Champagne consumed (a very favourite be- and without a frown bear with all the squalid verage on all gala-days with the middle classes noise and impertinence that the utmost inof society at St. Petersburgh), I found the digence and laziness can produce in the most party almost philosophical. Toasts to the bride shameless and abandoned vulgar. On the suband bridegroom had been repeatedly drank, ject of tippling, it may be added, that nothing and the night was far advanced when the pas- is more destructive to the health or industry sajonaiatetz took the bride by the hand, and of the poor: it charms the inactive, the desconducted her into the bed-chamber, where he perate, and the crazy of either sex, and makes consigned her to the care of all the married the starving look on his rags with stupid inladies present, himself retiring immediately dolence. In a word, such a propensity falls after. Those matrons assisted in disrobing under the description of a fiery lake, that sets her of the bridal vestments, and in assuming the very brain in flames, burns up the entrails, the garb appropriate to the chamber in which scorches every internal part, and is at the same they were. The passajonaiatetz next per- time a Lethe of oblivion, in which the wretch formed the like office of conducting the bride- drowns his cares. Moreover, this liquid poison groom to the chamber, who put on his schla- makes him quarrelsome, renders him a perfect frack, or night-gown, the married ladies hav- savage, and, alas! it has often been the cause ing previously retired. These operations being of his shedding the blood of his fellow-creaconcluded, the doors of the bed-chamber were tures! Would that we could say that this thrown open, and we all walked in in proces- degrading and immoral practice-one that en- THE first-named work is intended to diminish sion, quaffing a goblet of Champagne to the tails such a train of distress and misery on the the toil of young beginners in learning gramhealth of the parties, kissing the bride's hands, lower orders and their families- pernicious mar, by giving easy and amusing illustrations who returned the salutations on our cheeks, alike to both body and mind-were confined to of the several parts of speech on the Abbé and embracing à la Française the cheeks of the city of Hamburgh. It is absolutely idle Gaultier's plan. The parts of speech, and their the bridegroom, who luckily, in the present for us to talk of the spread of intelligence rules, are first defined in a clear and simple instance, had neither the Russian beard nor among society, while so great a portion of the manner, and after each definition a pleasant the modern English whiskers. With one voice population abandon themselves to a habit that little tale follows, containing as many words as we then wished the happy pair a hearty bless- is not only highly pernicious and destructive possible of that part of speech which it is ining, and withdrew, when the doors were closed. in itself, but the propagator of wretchedness tended to illustrate: these words are printed in The company gradually dispersed. Dinners and crime." italics, so that the child may easily recognise and dancing went on for three successive days. them, and, by their frequent repetition, imOn the first of these I attended for a few press them, and the rule by which they are minutes, being determined to satisfy my curi- "The senate, or stadt-house, which stands regulated, on his memory. There is, howosity to the last. I had, however, to pay for in the centre of the city, is an irregular build- ever, a consequent stiffness in all the rest of this indulgence, having been compelled, by ing, it having been erected or repaired at dif- the sentences, which are constrained both in immemorial usage, on entering the room, to ferent periods. It is 258 feet in length; and language and construction, in order to introdrink a bumper of the sparkling juice to the it is a remarkable fact, and one which reflects duce the lesson words. The principal eledregs in honour of the bride, to undergo the credit on this public body [i. e. the stadt-house], mentary rules of syntax are simplified and same ceremony of bride and bridegroom's salu- that there exists only a solitary instance of a elucidated in like manner, and accompanied by tation, and to whirl half a round of a waltz member having been in bankrupt circum-exercises in concord and government. The with the former. But I had made up my stances: on that event he proceeded in state work is altogether cleverly executed, and mind to bear even worse inconveniences than to the assembly, and resigned his dignity; feel- well calculated to facilitate the first attainthese, should it have been necessary, rathering, under such a change of circumstance, that ment of grammatic rudiments, and to effect its than forego the advantage of judging for my-it was altogether inconsistent for him to remain author's object, of " innocently beguiling our self of the truth or falsehood of the many in office. The town-hall, which is spacious, is little friends into a knowledge of matters too exaggerated and fanciful descriptions given by ornamented with paintings; and at the east uninteresting to please in their crude and untravellers of a Russian wedding. To complete end of it are representations of the twelve digested form." this account of what I witnessed, I should add, apostles, with Christ in the centre. Here are that on the eighth day, the happy pair attended once more at the church, for the ceremony of 'dissolving the crowns,' which is performed by the priest, with appropriate prayers, in allusion to the rites of matrimony." By way of variety we must now turn again to our friend Mr. Rae Wilson. The force of The following, from the same author, is equally characteristic: five chests, with the names of the five parishes In short, Mr. Wilson's is absolutely about The Child's Duty; dedicated by a Mother to her Children. 18mo. pp. 106. London, Harris. The Lessons of Wisdom, by the same author, are a series of brief moral essays on the beauties and wonders of creation and nature, conveyed in a very pleasing form, so as to afford both amusement and instruction to the tiny race of humanity for whom they are intended. This petit volume is fully described by its title; and is better suited to children . The title of the last of the three works under notice sufficiently explains its purport; and we have much gratification in observing that the Child's Duty is clearly and scripturally defined by its amiable authoress: we therefore recommend it, as highly proper to be put into the hands of youth, from infancy to a much riper age. SIGHTS OF BOOKS. than the trashy fictions which are so univer-it. But the gun was not discharged, and the ther can its absence arise from the want of sally resorted to for their amusement. The instant he removed his mouth from the barrel means for effectively executing the purposes latter tend to no good purpose, while such use- it went off. He says, in reference to this for which such a society should be instituted; ful little works as these are equally well calcu- occurrence, I was so surprised, alarmed, and for we have active and intelligent fellowlated to amuse and even to instruct. Both of shocked, that I sat down on a bank, extremely countrymen either constantly visiting or rethe above are embellished with a number of sick with the fright; but never thought of siding in almost every part of the habitable very nice engravings on copper. God, Providence, or eternity. God speaketh globe. once, yea twice, and man perceiveth it not."' As we enjoy the benefit and pleasure deAnother instance of an equally narrow escape rived from geography, and are better circumfrom sudden death, occurred when he was stanced in reference to its cultivation than any about fifteen. He got upon a cart loaded with other European nation-it may be inquired, wet manure. The cart suddenly fell back- why a Geographical Society has not long since wards, and himself under it. The whole been established in England? It is simply weight of the load fell upon him, and in a because no person possessing influence and short time he must have been suffocated, had energy has proposed its establishment. If the not two men, at a considerable distance, seen formation of a Geographical Society was prothe cart tip backwards, and the boy upon it. posed or zealously patronised by a few distinThey ran to his relief, and happily succeeded guished individuals, there is no doubt that a in removing the pressure before he was smo- society, which would unite the suffrages of the thered. These were memorable deliverances, politician, the man of letters, and the merbut they produced. only a momentary impres- chant-would rapidly become eminent for its MR. COOKE was, during forty-three years, sion; like most youths, he soon lost sight of numbers and its utility. pastor of the Independent church, Maiden- the hand that had saved him. These provi head, Berks; and this is a collection of reli-dences, however, in after life were not forgious papers of every description connected gotten; they were reviewed and recorded with with his ministry. Considering the gravity of a lively sense of the divine goodness, and with the matters contained in the volume, it is oddly the cheerful consecration of a life, so preserved, enough introduced by a preface commencing to the glory of God." thus: "A book without a preface is liable to be looked upon as a stranger entering a company without a bow"!! The memoir is hardly less curious: but we can afford only one ex. tract as a sample: it will speak plainly enough the character of the work, coming under the head of remarkable providences in early life. Memoirs and Select Remains of the late Rev. John Cooke. By George Redford, M.A. 8vo. pp. 601. London, 1828. Hurst, Chance, and Co. planters' interests. State of Slavery ARTS AND SCIENCES. W. H. THE NATIONAL REPOSITORY. It would be easy to enumerate the objects to which a Geographical Society should direct its attention, and the means by which they might be attained; but I will limit myself to stating, that I think statistics, the topography of the British empire, and history so far as it is intimately connected with geography, should be A Practical View of the Present included among its objects; and that furnishin the West Indies, &c. ing travellers with topics of inquiry connected Barclay. 8vo. pp. 490. with the countries they visit, and encouraging Smith, Elder, and Co. them by conferring honorary distinctions, or THIS is the third edition of a work from the pecuniary rewards, and by the publication of pen of a gentleman of great experience and their observations, should be employed as "When it was supposed he had acquired great ability. It charges the advocates for means of increasing our geographical knowknowledge enough for the business of farming, emancipation, &c. with having aimed for years, ledge. he was removed from school. His years passed in their speeches and writings, at effects more In conclusion, I take the liberty of stating away in the ordinary labours of that homely than at truth, and avows its purpose to be my conviction of the strong probability, that but healthful occupation. Still he had no reli- that of setting the condition of the slaves in geography, through being honoured and pagious impressions, and was not in a situation the West Indies fairly and honestly before the tronised, would be more generally and deeply likely to receive any. He enjoyed, however, public. With this view, and on this side, it studied, and thereby attain the rank of a sciseveral very merciful deliverances from danger, embraces every topic connected with the ques-ence which it should, but does not at present, which, at the time, affected and impressed his tion at issue, and may be considered a vade possess in England. I am yours, &c. mind. 'At twelve years of age,' he says, I mecum of what can be urged on behalf of the went with a young man, who was eighteen years old, to a river to learn to swim. This was the first attempt. With a strong rope across my chest, and a two-gallon bottle at ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. THIS infant design is every day acquiring new each end of the string, I walked out of my GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY PROPOSED. claims to encouragement, and bids fair to bedepth. Feeling the buoyancy of the water, I To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. come, as we hoped it would, extensively benecried to the young man. He could not swim; SIR,-After your favourable mention, in the ficial to the mechanical arts, the manufactures, and in attempting to reach me, found himself Literary Gazette of the 24th of May, of the and the commerce of the country. The old in danger of being lifted from his feet.' In hint relating to the establishment of a Geogra- proverb says, ye must creep ere ye walk;" this situation, it appears, the youth could ren-phical Society, I confidently expected that some and we hold it not to be the worst sign of sucder him no assistance without greatly endan- of your correspondents would immediately dis- cess, that any novelty starts with a small begering his own life. Providentially for John cuss the formation of such an institution. ginning, and gradually gathers strength and Cooke, the bottles sustained him above water, My expectation having, however, been dis- importance, as is the case with the National until the wind, which was strong, by degrees appointed, and fearing that the answer to your Repository: this is better than a great and blew the bottles towards the shore. Had not correspondent may have escaped the notice of sudden blaze, which as suddenly expires. In a the wind been strong enough to overcome the those who feel desirous of promoting geographi- former notice of this Gallery, we pointed out current, so far at least as to make the bottles cal knowledge, I request you will spare me a some of the causes which operated against it; flow towards the side, he must have been small portion of your columns to direct or re- but still, even supposing them to remain in borne away, and in all probability would have call attention to this important subject. full force, there was and is room enough for sunk to the bottom. Another very remark- No country is so deeply interested as Eng- an Institution of this sort to do much good, able case of providential preservation occurred and promote many useful and profitable ob when he was only thirteen years of age. Mr. jects. It has been reproached with being an Laver had left him, one Sabbath afternoon, in imitation of the French; but if the French be the house by himself. Wanting amusement, a good institution, why should not the example he thought he would take his master's gun, be followed? And there is no question but and go into a neighbouring field of oats, to fire that the Parisian exhibition operates as a powat a large number of rooks there collected. erful stimulus in promoting the improvement The rooks swarmed over his head, and so great of a multitude of trades-the manufacture of was their noise, that when he had pulled the The non-existence of a Geographical Society paper, of cutlery, of woollens, of silks, of dyes, trigger of his gun he thought it had discharged in England cannot, I am certain, be traced and, in short, of almost every article in demand its contents; and in anticipation of his exploit, to the want of proper persons to constitute it: for general use or consumption. Let us only imagined that he had hit some of the rooks. for no nation abounds so much as this country look back and see, by a few instances, from He then rested his gun upon the ground, and in voyagers and travellers; and the reading what insignificant commencements very imblew into the barrel to clear it, as he had seen public generally considers the study of geogra-portant branches of produce have sprung. Mr. Laver often do, when he had discharged phy not less agreeable than instructive. Nei- It was at the Chateau of Madrid, in the land in the acquisition of a correct knowledge 66 Bois de Boulogne, that the first manufactory | jesty, carved by F. C. Phillips, and began to gleanings, and be almost blessed by this simple of wove stockings was established, in 1656. fear for another Charles the First affair; but contrivance. We earnestly recommend it. Until the year 1665 there was no manufactory luckily the deed was done in sardonyx, and We add the annexed rather as curiosities, to of plate-glass in France. Colbert induced another, still more natural, in mother-of-pearl. shew the diversity of matters which the Reposome Venetian workmen, of whom Nicolas du The same artist has the portrait of a youth sitory embraces, than as being of extraordinary Royer was at the head, to come to Paris, in its fittest emblem, wax; flexible, susceptible utility. "No. 230, 231. Portable Guns, in the granting them an exclusive privilege for twenty of any impressions-not durable! Wood en- shape of Walking-sticks; manufactured by years (since continually renewed). They es-gravings, printing, and other works of the J. P. Hubbard. No. 232. Portable Pistols, tablished themselves at St. Gobin; and French class, followed; and among these was "a de- in the shape of a Whip; manufactured by plate-glass, for size and beauty, soon surpassed sign for a Waterloo monument, proposed to J. P. Hubbard. No. 243. A Walking-stick, the Venetian. In November 1674, the exclu- be erected (of all places in the world) in St. covered with Whalebone: containing a masive privilege of manufacturing tobacco and James's canal." A splendid fountain would bet-riner's compass, with opera-glass, telescope, snuff was granted, on a lease of six years, to ter suit the site; and such a work is, we have pens, ink, &c. &c. &c.-No. 261. Macintosh's Jean Breton, the first two years at 500,000 reason to believe, in contemplation. Another Elastic Air Pillow. The jean or canvass is francs per annum, the other four at 700,000: remarkable design is, the "project of a pyra- rendered impervious to air, by a thin stratum it was ceded in 1720 to the India Company, midal metropolitan sepulchre. By Thomas of caoutchouc, or India rubber, dissolved in pyroat 1,500,000; and in 1771 it was let for Willson, Architect. The edifice is to consist ligneous ether.”—And, strange to say, No. 27,000,000.* of brick-work, to be faced with square blocks 289. Cook's Life Preserver for Carriages!" An. Having such proofs of benefit from public note of granite. The base of it would, according other rather droll entry is, "Quarrel's Albion and competition before us, we ought rather to to the project, occupy an area of 40 acres, State Lamp”—but we never meddle with polirepeat fas est ab hoste doceri, than set our (about as large as Russell Square,) the length tics; and as this is intended to keep up a confaces against any judicious effort to learn from of the ground-line being 1200 feet. The height stant flame, we must leave it to the care of its the proceedings of another country how to of it is intended to be 1500 feet, (nearly four (as far as a name goes) ill-omened inventor. promote the interests of our own. With these times the height of St. Paul's). The pro- Altogether, though we recognise many old impressions, we have recently visited the Na-jector has published a prospectus of the work, acquaintances from the Society of Arts in these tional Repository, taking the Catalogue (se- which will be found annexed to the painting rooms, we consider them to be eminently encond edition, with additions) of 295 articles exhibited in the gallery." This monstrous titled to the public countenance. there at present exhibited, in our hand; and piece of folly, the object of which is to have we cannot help thinking the subject eminently generations rotting in one vast pyramid of CURE OF CONSUMPTIVE DISEASES. (VI.) worthy of attention. Endeavouring to pro- Death, instead of being quietly mingled with OUR readers need not be afraid that we are cure it that attention, our remarks must, their parent earth, and forgotten, is perhaps the going to weary them with any controversy: nevertheless, be very cursory and unconnected. most ridiculous of the schemes broached in we have but a few words to add to the stateIn the first place, we were struck with the our scheming age. The desire to accomplish ment in our last Number, and we finally beoddness, we had almost said the absurdity, of that which every wise and philosophical mind stow them on Dr. Johnson, and on the far more many of the names given to new productions. must wish not to have accomplished, is in- interesting topic to which his unmannerly atThey are quite unintelligible, and convey no deed worthy of a professor of that art or tack referred. It may be necessary to notice, idea of the substances to which they relate. science, Architecture, which is at so low an in the first place, that we have received a letThus we have Phanozine, Grenadine, Harle- ebb in this country, as to stand at the bottom ter from Dr. J., in which he, like another quin-anglo-oriental, &c. for silks; Crystallo- of the whole list. Quixote, challenges us to appeal to a third ceramie incrustations for glass; Keramogra- No. 200 is a most ingenious and clever per-party, to decide between him and Mr. St. John phic for globes, &c. &c. One ought to know formance: "Model of the Human Eye; con- Long; and offers us the College of Physicians, Greek, Hebrew, and Sanscrit, to make out structed by G. Francis. Objects are very ac- the College of Surgeons, and the Company of what such appellations mean: plain, sensible curately depicted on an artificial retina, and Apothecaries, out of which to select some of English names would be far preferable. An- the image, as in the human eye, is inverted." other defect we find in the Catalogue is, that prices are not mentioned; as it is only by comparisons in this essential particular that we can decide on the merit of the article; for if it be twice or thrice as dear as that at which This is well deserving of the notice of the the most eminent members to sit as umpires, while the combatants enter the lists and do battle. Now, we refuse this trial, because we have no authority over Mr. Long to compel him to fight with Dr. Johnson; though we "No. 218. Patent Hinges; manufactured by understand him to declare, that he has not the the foreign produce can be imported, it ought D. Redmund. They are so arranged as to slightest objection to bring the success of his to be discouraged as of no value. Ex. gr. close a door without the use of springs.practice to proof even before the tribunal of when we read of a " fine specimen of Valencia No. 222. Filtering Machine by Capillary At- the faculty, which it is very natural to suppose Shawl of British manufacture, equal in every traction; sent in by C. F. Partington. The must be prejudiced against him. In truth, we respect to the Lyonese," we ask what is the water to be filtered is placed in an inverted should hold any physician, surgeon, or apoprice of the British, and what of the Lyonese ? vessel, and then ascends through the cotton, thecary, in London, to be wrong, if he did not without which our intelligence is worthless. from whence it passes to the reservoir beneath. doubt the efficacy of any discovery in medicine, The same remark applies to a very beautiful It is found useful in those cases of chemical such as Mr. St. John Long, or any other gen. article of female adornment-" English Mech- manipulation in which the gaseous compounds tleman not professionally educated, advances a lin Lace; manufactured by Miss Sophia Wood- united with the water are to be prevented from claim to have made: but, at the same time, inward, New Basford, near Nottingham. The contact with the atmosphere.-No. 225. Dyna-timate as we are with not a few of the leading fabric the same as French Mechlin; manufac- nometer; manufactured by H. Marriott. This men in these three branches, we should also extured entirely of English materials, only by instrument is employed to measure the strength pect, from their liberality and justice, that the the inventor of the machinery." of animals.-No. 226. Indicator of Repulsion, moment they had inquired, and were convinced Having examined the silks and the looms at to shew the force of a blow; manufactured by of the validity of the pretension, they would work on various curious patterns,-the mus- H. Marriott.-No. 259. Improved Recumbent as decidedly pronounce in its favour, and prolins, table-covers, cloaks, straw plait, glass- Chair; manufactured by R. Dawe. By ele-mote its success. Several medical gentlemen ware, steam-engine models, engine wheels, vating a spring beneath the arm where the have, indeed, already done so, and given suspension bridges, bronzes, plate, &c. &c., hand rests, it may readily be converted into written testimonies of their conviction to our notice was attracted by an ornamental a couch, and any required inclination given Mr. Long. (1.) Blackwood box, illustrative of the nature of to the back or arms; and by drawing out a eccentric turning," which we thought at once sliding pannel beneath, its length may be in- rience, having carefully examined Mr. Long's proceedings, must be a new edition of our worthy friend creased. No. 271. Portable Flour-dressing writes to a friend, who had asked his opinion, and was a Christopher North's Magazine-but, to our Machine; manufactured by J. Yearsley:"-an patient of Mr. L.'s, after some very sensible remarks on disappointment, discovered to be literally an admirable invention, and one which may be stamina are so completely exhausted as to leave nothing the impossibility of restoring those whose strength and Ebony box, manufactured by a firm, the pro- employed with the utmost advantage to so- to act upon," it must be conceded, where those of the nouncing of which would give Christopher the ciety. By it, private families may enjoy pure highest professional information and talents have failed to render any benefit, Mr. Long has been extraordinarily jaws'-ache, viz, “Holtzapffel and Co." Run- and unadulterated bread, with the least pos- and wonderfully successful. Witness the cases of Miss ning on, we found the head of his present Ma-sible trouble. The poor in parishes, having E., Miss H., the Rev. Mr. N., Mr. Y., and a host of The government at present keeps the manufacture one placed at their service by a benevolent others: (we conceal the names, but the letter is in our possession). In all these instances, extreme emaciation, pastor or squire, might grind their harvest-hectic fever, purulent expectoration, and the long and in its own hands. (1.) A Physician (Dr. M.), of great practice and expe METALLIC ELECTRICITY. To the Editor. engraved in the line manner, and accompanied by letter-press descriptions in English and executed, and give a very good idea of the French. The plates in No. I. are pleasingly different scenes which they are intended to represent. But, it seems (according to Dr. Johnson, and in spite of the letter from a physician like himself, on which we have just supported our- SIR,-In your Literary Gazette of Aug. 23, selves,) the grand question is, that the diseases is inserted a translation from Le Globe, on which he acknowledges to be cured by Mr. Metallic Electricity; wherein it is stated, "that Long are not bona fide consumption; and in M. Agnote Delarive, of Geneva, has successthe case on which he founded his charge, the fully repeated the experiments of an English The Souvenir.-In the Literary Gazette of stethoscope was more to be relied upon than chemist, who produced electricity by means of the 6th inst. we mentioned the beautiful enthe positive declaration of the patient respect- a pile composed exclusively of zinc, one face gravings which are to illustrate and adorn the ing his symptoms! Upon this point, all we of each plate of which was rough, and the other forthcoming "Souvenir." Their excellence, have to say is, that Mr. St. John Long has laid polished: these plates, which, placed at a cer- however, demands a fuller notice of some of before us not only many cases in which the tain distance from one another, had no commu- them. One of the most fascinating is "The parties aver themselves to have been relieved nication except by means of the ambient air, Sisters," engraved by J. H. Robinson, after and saved from complaints, all the appearances nevertheless exhibited a considerable degree of F. P. Stephanoff, and replete with grace, viof which were those hitherto considered to be electricity." Now, I have every reason to be- vacity, and expression. We know not whether evidence of consumption (2), and of the most lieve that the pile here alluded to, was con- to assign the higher meed of praise to the deimmediate and fatal kind too (2), but has also structed by myself, the first and only one of signer or to the engraver. It is, indeed, an shewn us the diagnostics of distinguished me- the kind, until I exhibited it in my lecture on exquisite gem. Another extraordinary prodical authorities, previously consulted, stating galvanism, delivered before the Western Lite-duction is Cleopatra embarking on the Cydthese very instances to be consumption, which rary and Scientific Institution, on the 17th of nus," engraved by E. Goodall. The picture, he has speedily arrested, and ultimately eradi- January last. I have, since that time, ex-by F. Danby, A., was the admiration of the cated. We are not, therefore, going into an hibited its electrical powers in my lectures public, when in the Exhibition of the Royal argument on the pathology of the disease; before some other similar societies, and at Academy; and it is perfectly astonishing to all that we want to be sure of, is, that what is several academies. This pile was first con- see how successfully Mr. Goodall has copied like consumption, what not only patients but structed early in the summer of 1827, and its effects, and introduced almost all its des physicians call consumption, is precisely that its publication was reserved purposely for the tails, in the space of a few inches! The sunny species of disease of which Mr. Long professes illustration of my lectures the following season, haze of the distance, in particular, is miracu the cure, and produces a multitude of testi- and giving to them a greater degree of interest lously imitated. "The Departure of Mary by bringing before my auditors this novel elec- Queen of Scots from France," is also a deWith this we take our leave of the subject:trical apparatus. M. Delarive became informed lightful little print; in the highest degree all that we have had to do with which has of the pile in question, in a conversation which creditable to the talents both of Mr. Leahy been to open it, as it well merited from its he had with Mr. Watkins, philosophical instru- and of Mr. Goodyear. In "Ehrenbreitstein," importance, for public scrutiny. It was our ment maker, and curator of philosophical appa- Mr. Pye has very happily preserved the breadth misfortune, an accident not essential to the ratus in the University of London, who had and grandeur by which Mr. Turner, in his investigation, to excite the morbid humours seen it at my lecture at the Western Insti- best works, is distinguished above all his comof Dr. Johnson, and provoke his ire against tution. Mr. Watkins has mentioned this petitors. "Love taught by the Graces" is "that prostituted, venal, and talentless jour-electric column" at page 17 of his Popular sweetly engraved by J. C. Edwards, after the nal that sink of prostitution-the Literary Sketch of Electro-Magnetism; but not having pleasing original by W. Hilton, R.A. "The Gazette." We are sure that we have sufficiently ascribed its invention, or the discovery of its Proposal," engraved by C. Rolls, from a picvindicated ourselves from such imputations powers, to any particular individual, I was ture by C. R. Leslie, R.A., is also admirable. with the public at large; but we are anxious ready to suppose that that gentleman possibly Nothing can exceed the characteristic expres to stand better in the opinion of even our might have seen or heard of some other pile sion both of the lover and of his fair-one. accuser; and to shew him that we are not of the same kind. I have, since the publication In short, we have seldom witnessed so rare an deserving of this abuse from an able person of that work, had an opportunity of seeing Mr. assemblage of talent, in so small a compass, as very high in his own esteem, we will copy Watkins, who has assured me that the pile this highly finished publication will be enabled the note sent to us by Dr. James Johnson, which I exhibited at the above-mentioned lec- to boast. with his "Essay on Morbid Sensibility." ture was the only one of the kind he had ever "Dr. James Johnson, Editor of the Medico-Chirur-seen or heard of: Mr. Watkins likewise ingical Review, begs to present the accompanying essay to formed me of the conversation which took the Editor of the Literary Gazette. Should the essay be found to merit half a column in the L. G., it would be place on this subject between himself and M. Delarive. very gratifying to the author." monials that he has cured. Alas, hinc ille lachrymæ! the half-column gratification was unluckily not given, and hence the terrible bad character of the then esteemed and valuable Literary Gazette. frightful train of symptoms usually indicative of tuberculated lungs, and the approach of death, were present, but, as you already know, removed by the means employed by Mr. Long: thereby conferring on them a character and value far beyond what the remedial measures usually prescribed by the more regularly initiated in the profession are entitled to." [Can any thing be stronger?] This infallible machine, it must be recollected, is a thing put to your chest, with a tube passing to your ear, which enables you to hear and comprehend how all is going on inside with your heart, liver, lungs, &c. &c. &c. In this case the individual appears to have lost the greater portion of his disease before Dr. J. applied his Instrument to ascertain that he had no consumptive symptoms! As my views of the nature of the action of dry electric piles do not exactly harmonise with any hypothesis yet made public, I purpose to notice them in an early communication for insertion in your journal. I shall, at the same time, have to notice other electric piles, with different kinds of metal, each pile containing only one kind. W. STURGEon. Artillery Place, Woolwich, Aug. 27. FINE ARTS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. The proofs of the Forget-me-not, and Friendship's Offering, have reached us; but too late for notice this week. Bunbury's Whims. Two Plates. For the THESE plates comprehend five representations tion. The Child's Dream. Engraved by G. Parker, Bulcock. Album. W. B. Cooke. the same class as that which we have just mentioned. It consists of what are called "Implemental Characters;" that is, of heads, (2.) We would ask if the following documents, from THIS is a picture which has been repeatedly THIS little whimsical publication belongs to many testimonies voluntarily and gratefully offered to us engraved. Mr. Parker has executed his task as public journalists by the parties, are not our sufficient with much ability: the tone of the flesh is very warrant for what we have said? The Rev. Mr. N. declares beautiful; and the masses of light and shade that his lungs were decidedly in a tuberculated state, &c. describing the worst symptoms. Mr. H., a personal ac- are well preserved. It is in stipple. quaintance, describes the most wasting decline. Miss E. relates the utmost debility, and a dreadful state of noisome expectoration. Miss H., cough, hæmorrhage, and utter prostration of strength. And, in short, we did not utter a word till we were overwhelmed by testimonies of this nature, from intelligent persons in the upper walks of life; and therefore, instead of regretting what we have published, we should consider ourselves inexcusable if, as friends of humanity, we had not brought the matter for ward. Paris and its Environs. Engraved under the THIS is the first Number of a little work which one. the features of which are formed of the implements used by the originals in their respective occupations. A palette, a colour-box, a portfolio, a mall-stick, &c. make up the head of an artist; a loaf of sugar, a pestle and mortar, a pound of candles, &c. the head of a grocer; an anvil, a vice, a hammer, a pair of bellows, &c. the head of a blacksmith; and a milk-pan, a skimming-dish, sundry jugs and kettles, &c. the head of a dairy-maid. As in |