fortunes of Buonaparte. We have no doubt | which human nature revolts, to which the state. The following is a specimen. On one but that the pristine idea of the carpet led to Eve of St. Bartholomew was a sport, and occasion, a band of hunters had surprised two his annexing Brussels to the French empire, which has no parallel of stain in the annals of elephants, a male and female, in an open spot and had much influence in his wars upon mankind? near the skirts of a thick and thorny jungle. Turkey. But it is not worth while to pursue such The animals fled towards the thickets; and the But our author's style is hardly equal on wild-goose foolery as this is any farther. In ten male, in spite of many balls which struck him some occasions to the exuberance of his hu- pages we have found as much sheer nonsense ineffectually, was soon safe from the reach of mour. For example: as might suffice for a whole fashionable novel; the pursuers; but the female was so sorely "Who, in reading history, where the cha- and wherever we have taken the trouble to wounded, that she was unable to retreat with racters are laid open and the circumstances dip, the same jejune abstractions, the same the same alacrity, and the hunters having got fairly stated, and where he himself has no false want of reasoning powers, the same ludicrous between her and the wood, were preparing bias to mislead him, does not take part with the attempts at paradox and effect, the same tur- speedily to finish her career-when, all at once, oppressed against the oppressor? Who is there gidness of language, blotted with every kind of the male rushed forth with the utmost fury that admires Nero at the distance of two thou- misconstruction, and (to generalise the matter) from his hiding-place, and with a shrill and sand years? Did not the Tartuffe in a man- the same rubbish, has offended grammar, taste, frightful scream, like the loud sound of a ner hoot religious hypocrisy out of France; sense, feeling, and judgment. It is in prin- trumpet, charged down upon the huntsmen. and was it not on this account constantly de-ciple a worthless, without being in execution So terrific was the animal's aspect, that all nounced by the clergy? What do those who a clever, book. read the annals of the Inquisition think of that dread tribunal? And what has softened its horrors but those annals being read? What figure does the massacre of St. Bartholomew make in the eyes of posterity? But books anticipate, and conform the decision of the public, of individuals, and even of the actors in such scenes, to that lofty and irrevocable standard, mould and fashion the heart and inmost thoughts upon it, so that something manly, liberal, and generous grows out of the fever of passion and the palsy of base fear; and this is what is meant by the progress of modern civilisation and modern philosophy." The Juvenile Keepsake for 1829. Edited by and Co. instinctively sprung to their horses, and fled for life. The elephant, disregarding the others, singled out an unfortunate man (Čobus Klopper I think was his name), who was the last person that had fired upon its wounded THE last and youngest of the Annuals, but no comrade, and who was standing, with his less deserving than its competitors of public horse's bridle over his arm, reloading his huge favour. Though addressed to juvenile readers, gun at the moment the infuriated animal burst its pages are meant for those beyond the age of from the wood. Cobus also leaped hastily on childhood; and though rather of a serious turn, horseback, but before he could seat himself in more especially the poetry, there is no want of his saddle the elephant was upon him. One amusement. The Deaf Filea, by the Author of blow from his proboscis struck poor Cobus to Holland Tide; the Flower Show; and the the earth; and, without troubling himself about Diamond Washers, are pretty tales, but too long for our limits at this late period. The following anecdotes of the elephant's sagacity are related by Mr. Pringle, whose residence in their native country well qualifies him to speak of their habits. the horse, which galloped off in terror, he thrust his gigantic tusks through the man's Finding by this extract that the Tartuffe is body, and then, after stamping it flat with his a history, we beg to recommend that particular ponderous feet, again seized it with his trunk, edition of it to our readers-if they can get it? and flung it high into the air. Having thus but perhaps they will understand all this quotawreaked vengeance upon his foes, he walked tion better than we do. Indeed, we confess "A few days before my arrival at Enon, a gently up to his consort, and affectionately with sorrow, that our author's grammar does not troop of elephants came down one dark and caressing her, supported her wounded side with always enable us to see clearly through his mean- rainy night, close to the outskirts of the village. his shoulder, and regardless of the volleys of ing, and that his style is, like his sentiments, The missionaries heard them bellowing and balls with which the hunters, who had again seldom what can be called English. Of the making an extraordinary noise for a long time rallied to the conflict, assailed them, he suc French revolution, he says " There was not at the upper end of their orchard; but knowing ceeded in conveying her from their reach into one of those abuses and grievances which the well how dangerous it is to encounter these the impenetrable recesses of the forest.-One rough grasp of the Revolution shook to air, powerful animals in the night, they kept close of my own friends, Lieut. John Moodie, of the that had not been the butt of ridicule, the within their houses till day-light. Next morn- Scotch Fusileers, now a settler in South Africa, theme of indignant invective, the subject of ing, on examining the spot where they had had an almost miraculous escape on an occasion serious reprobation, for near a century. They heard the elephants, they discovered the cause somewhat similar. He had gone out to an ele had been held up without ceasing and without of all this nocturnal uproar. There was at phant hunt with a party of friends; and they answer to the derision of the gay."- "Every this spot a ditch or trench, about four or five had already succeeded in killing one or two of public and private complaint had been sub- feet in width, and nearly fourteen feet in depth, a small herd, and the rest were retreating bejected to the touchstone of inquiry and argu- which the industrious missionaries had recently fore them towards their woody fastnesses, when ment; the page of history, of fiction, of the cut through the bank of the river, on purpose one of the females having been separated from drama, of philosophy, had been laid open, and to lead out the water to irrigate some part of her young one among the bushes, forgot all retheir contents poured into the public ear, which their garden ground, and to drive a corn mill. gard to her own safety in maternal anxiety, turned away disgusted from the arts of so- Into this trench, which was still unfinished and turned back in wrath upon her pursuers to phistry or the menace of authority."" Why and without water, one of the elephants had search for it. Mr. Moodie, who happened to (he continues, in his own facetious manner) evidently fallen, for the marks of his feet were be on foot at the time, was the individual that why should a nobleman be permitted to spit in distinctly visible at the bottom, as well as the the animal first caught sight of, and she inyour face, to rob you of an estate, or to de- impress of his huge body on its sides. How he stantly rushed upon him. To escape from an bauch your wife or daughter with impunity, had got into it was easy to conjecture, but how, angry elephant in open ground is often difficult when it was no longer deemed an honour for being once in, he had ever contrived to get out enough for a well-mounted horseman. him to do so?" Why, indeed? Mr. H. is again, was the marvel. By his own unaided friend gave himself up for lost: nor would the very fond of the interrogative, and we think, efforts it was obviously impossible for such an activity of despair have availed him—the anicalculating by what we have read of it, that animal to have extricated himself. Could his mal was close at his heels. But just at the four-fifths of his history must be in the form comrades, then, have assisted him? There moment when she was about to seize or strike of questions; but, unlike the books of instruc- can be no question but they had-though by him to the earth with her upraised proboscis, tion now so much in use, there happen to be what means, unless by hauling him out with he fortunately stumbled and fell. The ele no answers to his quæres. His how d'ye dos their trunks, it would not be easy to conjecture. phant, unable at once to arrest her impetuous have no very well I thank yes. His assertions, And in corroboration of this supposition, on career, made an attempt to thrust him through however, make up for this: they possess great examining the spot myself, I found the edges of with her tusks, as he lay on the ground before positive force. Ex. gr. "The old French this trench deeply indented with numerous her, and actually tore up the earth within an government became effete in all its branches, vestiges, as if the other elephants had stationed inch or two of his body, and slightly bruised and fell to the ground as a useless incum- themselves on either side, some of them kneel- him with one of her huge feet as she passed brance, almost without a struggle, and without ing, and others on their feet, and had thus by over him. Before, however, she could turn one feeling of regret in one worthy and well- united efforts, and probably after many failures, back to destroy him, Mr. Moodie contrived to informed mind.". "Almost without a strug- hoisted their unlucky brother out of the pit. scramble into the wood, and her young one at gle"!!! What, then, becomes of all "the Similar instances of intelligence and affec- the same instant raising its cry for her in anore-action" we hear of? where, then, was the tionate attachment have been frequently re-ther direction, the dangerous animal went off cause of all the torrents of blood that was shed lated to me by persons of veracity, familiar without searching further for him.” My in this horrid period, at the bare recollection of with the habits of the elephant in his wild It is but justice to observe, that the very of the Messrs. Roscoe themselves. Pelham; or, the Adventures of a Gentleman. Second edition. 3 vols. 12mo. London, 1828. Colburn. "There is an indifference to please in a stocking down at heel-but there may be a malevolence in a diamond ring. best poetical contributions are from the pens [the wisest of living diplomatists, did you dis- | with her three daughters, once visited Mr. cover irresolution?' In its ns and gs!' was Nollekens, to shew him the drawings of her the answer. youngest, who was a natural genius. Upon his looking at them, he advised her to have a regular drawing-master; ' And I can recommend you one,' added he; he only lives over the way, and his name is John Varley. The lady asked him if he were a man of mind. Oh, yes,' said Nollekens, he's a clever felsend my maid for him; he'll soon tell you his mind;' so ignorant was our sculptor of the lady's meaning. losopher." Certainly our second perusal of Pelham makes us look forward with added pleasure to the appearance of the Disowned. Nollekens and his Times. (Third Notice.) IN our preceding papers we have observed that REVISED and improved, the second edition of "He who esteems trifles for themselves, is Pelham comes in evidence how much our early a trifler-he who esteems them for the conpraise has been confirmed by public appro-clusions to be drawn from them, or the adbation. We believe few novels have been more vantage to which they can be put, is a phi-low, one of our best: I'll ring the bell, and read, more talked of,-ay, or more criticised, (rather as if the hero were an actual and living person, than the principal character in a book), and his lively impertinences made matters of "Desenfans, the famous dealer in old picpersonal offence by the readers; thereby actures, whose remains rest in a splendid mauknowledging, somewhat unawares, the truth of soleum at Dulwich, erected after a design by the delineation. Pelham is the representative Soane, was originally a dealer in Brussels lace, of a certain class: the question is neither of and a teacher of the French language. A lady, its mental nor its moral excellence; but does however, one of his pupils, possessed of five that class exist, and is the likeness taken of thousand pounds, fell so desperately in love it an accurate one? And that, both in his with him, that she soon after married him. talents and follies, his higher qualities and During their honeymoon, they, like most peoaffectations, Pelham is a picture, as true as it ple in a similar situation, drove into the counis animated, of a large portion of young men of try for a little recreation, and there, at an the present day, no one can deny. We have auction, he purchased a few old pictures, which, heard it objected, that it is not a representation on his return to London, he sold to such adof human nature: what human nature acvantage, that he considered it his interest to tually is at this period, would be a matter of "Tresham, the royal academician, who had follow up the trade. By great industry, and some difficulty to ascertain, modified as it is been employed to decorate the front of the a little taste, he at length amassed so conby education, controlled by circumstance, and stage at the Pantheon, filled the tympanum siderable a sum, that he finally was enabled compounded of customs and costumes. The with a profusion of figures, displaying the to form a much better collection, which he novelist must take, not make, his materials; sciences, of which performance he was not a left to his protégé, Sir Francis Bourgeois, who, and in all states of society, whether one of little proud. Having taken his seat in the at the suggestion of the late John Kemble, furs, feathers, and paint, au naturel,-or of those furs turned into muffs, those feathers waving over helmets and barrettes, and that paint softened into rouge and pearl-powder,the view taken by an acute observer will be valuable as philosophy; and it is as an accurate, lively delineation of existing society, that we hold ourselves justified in predicting that Pelham will be a standard, as well as popular, work. There is a very clever preface, new to this edition, and some very amusing maxims: we will extract two or three for our readers' benefit. "Do not require your dress so much to fit, as to adorn you. Nature is not to be copied, but to be exalted by art. Apelles blamed Protogenes for being too natural. "Never in your dress altogether desert that taste which is general. The world considers eccentricity in great things, genius; in small things, folly. "Remember, that none but those whose courage is unquestionable, can venture to be effeminate. It was only in the field that the Lacedemonians were accustomed to use perfumes and curl their hair. "Never let the finery of chains and rings seem your own choice; that which naturally belongs to women, should appear only worn for their sake. We dignify foppery, when we invest it with a sentiment. "To win the affection of your mistress, appear negligent in your costume-to preserve it, assiduous: the first is a sign of the passion of love; the second, of its respect. "The most graceful principle of dress is neatness; the most vulgar is preciseness. -- "Dress contains the two codes of morality private and public. Attention is the duty we owe to others cleanliness that which we owe to ourselves. "Dress so that it may never be said of you 'What a well-dressed man!'-but, What a gentleman-like man!' "Nothing is superficial to a deep observer! It is in trifles that the mind betrays itself. 'In what part of that letter,' said a king to 6 6 front, to see the effect of his pencil, on looking left it to Dulwich College, merely because that Fear not, old fellow! for you hoard: ders for a packing-case, he was always obliged | said to Nollekens, when he was busy in setting water, and pen, ink, and paper. The gentleto state precisely what it would amount to, his trap, and then Mr. Nollekens would strengthen the bargain, by insisting upon it being sent home well stuffed with shavings; but these he never suffered the servants to have at their mercy; they were locked up in a place called a winecellar, and given out by himself the night before they were wanted for morning use. In some instances, however, Mr. Nollekens was, according to the old adage, Penny wise and pound foolish;' and this was particularly the case as to sweeping his chimneys, since he thought that many persons had them swept too often. However, after having been several times annoyed by the fire-engines and their regular attendants, the mob, he was determined to have them more frequently cleaned, though some of them, for the want of fires, yielded no soot. man, astonished at his want of decency, referred him to the servant; and Nollekens, after I come to lodge, and not to board.'" he had taken the mask, muttered the following "One rainy morning, Nollekens, after con- soliloquy: Now, let me see, I must begin to fession, invited his holy father to stay till the measure him; where's my callipers? I must weather cleared up. The wet, however, con- take him from his chin to the upper pinnacle tinued till dinner was ready, and Nollekens of his head; I'll put him down in ink; ay, felt obliged to ask the priest to partake of a that will do; now, I must have him from his bird, one of the last of a present from his grace nose to the back part of his skull; well, now the Duke of Newcastle. Down they sat; the let's take his shoulders; now for his neck; reverend man helped his host to a wing, and well, now I've got him all.'-On Mr. Nollethen carved for himself, assuring Nollekens kens's return from Putney Common, after takthat he never indulged in much food; though ing Mr. Pitt's mask, he observed to Mr. Gahahe soon picked the rest of the bones. I have gan, pointing to it on the opposite seat of the no pudding,' said Nollekens; but won't you coach, There, I would not take fifty guineas have a glass of wine? Oh! you have got some for that mask, I can tell ye.' He would have ale.' However, Bronze brought in a bottle of done wrong if he had; for from this mask and wine; and on the remove, Nollekens, after Hoppner's picture, which was lent him by taking a glass, went, as usual, to sleep. The Lord Mulgrave, he was enabled to produce "One evening, Bronze happening to place priest, after enjoying himself, was desired by the statue erected in the Senate-house of Camthe tea-kettle over the fire, Nollekens imme- Nollekens, while removing the handkerchief bridge, for which he received three thousand diately cried out, You careless devil! you from his head, to take another glass. Tank guineas." don't care for the work you'll have in the you, sare, I have a finish de bottel.' The morning to get it clean!'-and when she left devil you have!' muttered Nollekens. "Now, the room, he angrily muttered, Extravagant sare,' continued his reverence, ass de rain be creature! burning out the kettle!'-Mr. Nol-ovare, I vil take my leaf.' Well, do so,' said lekens, when he dined out of late years, al- Nollekens, who was not only determined to let ways over-ate himself, particularly with the him go without his coffee, but gave strict orpastry and dessert. However, he contrived to ders to Bronze not to let the old rascal in again. purloin a small quantity of sweetmeats from Why, do you know,' continued he, that he the table, which he carried to Bronze, saying, ate up all that large bird, for he only gave me There, Betty, you see what I have brought one wing; and he swallowed all the ale; and you home; I don't forget you.' out of a whole bottle of wine, I had only one "When Mr. Jackson was once making a glass!' After this, being without a confessor, drawing of a monument at the sculptor's house, Mrs. Holt, his kind attendant, read his prayers Nollekens came into the room and said, I'm to him; but when she had gone through them, afraid you're cold here.' 'I am, indeed,' said his feelings were so little affected by his reliJackson. Ay,' answered the sculptor, Igious duties, that he always made her conclude don't wonder at it; why, do you know, there her labours by reading either Gay's Fables,' has not been a fire in this room for these forty or the Beggar's Opera!' at the latter of years!' 6 6 which, when she came to certain songs, he This Mrs. Holt (during the last two years of The lives of Nollekens's contemporaries contain much interesting matter, from which a selection cannot fail to be very acceptable to our readers, and especially to those in distant countries who cannot have access to the work itself. Of Ozias Humphrey, the miniature painter, we are told— "Having a wish to try his fortune at Bath, he went thither, in 1762, and took lodgings with Lindley, the musician, whose lovely daughter, Eliza-Anne (afterwards Mrs. Sheridan, the Saint Cecilia of Sir Joshua), was then in her ninth year. She knew all the songs in Thomas and Sally,' 'the Beggar's Opera,'' the Chaplet,' and Love in a Village;' and these she would sing so sweetly, that many a day, at the young painter's solicitation, she chanted them, seated at the foot of his easel, looking up to him, unconscious of her heavenly features: with such features and such looks, as prevailed upon the motley visiters of Bath, when she so gracefully held up her little basket, with her father's benefit-tickets, at the "For many years, every summer's morn, Mr. Nollekens was up with the rising sun. He began his work by watering his clay, when he modelled till eight o'clock, at which hour he generally breakfasted; and then, as he the poor creature's life) "rested (says the au-door as they passed in and out of the pumpentered his studio, would observe to his work- thor) upon a hard sofa by the side of his bed, and men, that every man should earn his break-when he called would answer, I'm here, sir; fast before he ate it. can I give you any thing?' Nollekens. Sit up: "Nollekens's old coal-box was of a square I can't sleep; I can't rest. Is there any body shape; it had been a lawyer's wig-box, that that I know that wants a little money to do 'em had been sent with a barrister's wig to be good?' Mrs. Holt. Yes, sir, there is Mrs. modelled from. This box had been mended -' Nollekens. Well, in the morning I'll with bits of tin, which he had picked up of send her ten pounds.' That's a good old boy,' a morning near the dust-heaps in the fields; said she, patting him on the back, you will but his house contained neither coal-hods nor eat a better dinner for it to-morrow, and enjoy scoops, nor any thing like the splendour of it.' And Mrs. Holt has added, that she never a certain created lord, who had his coronet knew him to forget his promise. painted upon his coal-scuttles.-Bronze, who, Nollekens (he continues), after reading the as the reader will recollect, was called Black death of any great person in the newspaper, Bet' by the Oxford-market butchers, would, generally ordered some plaster to be got ready, in her master's dotage, put her arm round his so that he might attend at a minute's notice. neck, and ask him how he did. 'What!' ob- One day, when a lady who had sent for him served Nollekens, now you want some money desired him not to make so free with her dear -I've got none.' Why, sir, how am I to buy husband's corpse, he observed, · Oh, bless ye, things for your table, without it? You have you had better let me close his eyelids; for enough of it, fresh and blooming, and all alive, then, when I cast him in my mould, he'll look at Chambers's.'-Nollekens. ‘Can you dance?' for all the world as if he was asleep. Why do 'Dance, sir! to be sure I can. Give me the you take on so? you do wrong to prey upon cat; and then she jigged about with it, at such a dismal prospect; do leave the room to which he would laugh heartily.-Nollekens me and my man; I am used to it, it makes no often baited his rat-trap with an unusual quan-impression on me; I have got a good many tity of cheese, thinking to catch all the vermin noted down in my journal. Mr. Sebastian at once; never dreaming that when one was caught, the trap would shut the rest out, and that the solitary visiter would eat up the whole. Why the rats infested his house, Bronze declared she never could make out. Food they certainly had not; and an old rat might have room." Opie was recommended to Humphrey by Dr. Wolcott, as an uncouth, raw-boned, country lad, about fifteen years of age, who had run mad with paint." This youth offered his services to Mr. Humphrey, to clean his brushes and palette, and make himself useful in the common concerns of his house; and all for the pleasure of being with a painter of his knowledge and eminence. He said, that he wanted no wages, for that if he would give him his food and a little money to keep the devil out of his pocket, he would be perfectly contented." " And Mr. Smith oddly enough adds, (what he means, we cannot guess), But I think I hear the reader ask, Who was this aspiring youth ?' Reader, believe thine ears, he was no less a person than John Oppy, alias Opie, afterwards an esquire and R.A., and Lecturer on Painting to the Royal Academy. This eminent artist's society was sincerely enjoyed by his second wife, the authoress now residing at Norwich, and who is in possession of some of his best works." The following is related of Mr. West:When the late venerable president was sitting to Mr. Nollekens for a bust, which the Gahagan, the sculptor, Mr. Nollekens's assist-members of the British Institution had reant, attended him to cast the face of Lord Lake, quested to have, his Royal Highness the Duke after nis decease; his lordship's brother was of York arrived, accompanied by his royal then inconsolably pacing the room, but Mr. brother, the Duke of Cumberland. The Duke Nollekens shook him by the elbow, and applied of York, at that time, was also sitting for his to him for a little sweet-oil, a large basin, some bust, when Mr. West heard Nollekens inquire of him, How's your father?" on which the duke, with his, usual condescension, smilingly informed him that the king was better. The Duke of Cumberland then asked Mr. Nollekens, why a man of his years wore so high a toupee to his wig? Mr. Nollekens, instead of answering, wished to know why his royal highness wore those mustaquies? The Duke of York smiled and said, 'You have it now, Cumberland."" [To be continued.] SIGHTS OF BOOKS. The Vale of Bolton; a Poetical Sketch, and The Register of Arts, and Journal of Patent Inventions. Vol. II. New series. 8vo. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Paris, Nov. 2. other Poems. By Frederic Charles Spencer. THERE is much cultivated taste and feeling and the epoch when friendship renews its offerLondon, Hurst, Chance, and Co. YESTERDAY being the festival of All Saints, for the loveliness of nature displayed in these ings at the shrine of sorrow, the cemetery of which alone can command popularity amid such Each mourner arrived there bearing baskets pages; but the usual want of that originality Père-la-Chaise was crowded at an early hour. a host of predecessors and compeers as the poet of flowers, crowns of immortal amaranth, and has to contend with in the present day. wreaths of ever-greens, to decorate the graves of bled a beautiful garden, breathing with life and relatives; so that this sanctuary of decay resemverdure. The freshness, however, of this scene, ONE of those meritorious and useful works in forming a strong contrast to faded hopes which contribute so much to disseminate in- and blighted affections, aggravates rather than formation at the present day through all classes, softens the impressions of melancholy. As the by being published weekly at a small price. heart can gather no sympathy from surroundCollected into the form of a volume, this Re-ing objects, it here but doubly feels its degister is not less worthy of public favour. solation. There were innumerable priests, marching in processional order, praying souls Life of Professor Woodrow, A.M. Professor of out of limbo,-fortunately for those who found Divinity in the University of Glasgow from it too great an exertion to be virtuous dur1692 to 1707. Written by his Son, Robert ing their sojourn on earth. In the evening Woodrow, A.M. 12mo. pp. 245. Edin- the theatres were closed, in honour of their burgh, 1828. Blackwood. saintships, who, it appears, are neither amaPROFESSOR WOODROW was one of the worthy teurs of the comic nor the tragic muse; but, lights of the old Scottish kirk; and this bio- en revanche, they have no objection to amusgraphy of him not only details some of the ing passetemps; for M. Le Comte gave a grave forms of the covenanting times, but also soirée extraordinaire, and fantasmagoria scenes displays the religious feelings and principles of were represented, physical experiments, and that period. The volume will be acceptable to magie blanc. a large class of readers, and contains nothing of cant to sully its pure and holy views of a Christian's duties. Experience; a Tale for all Ages. By the 66 An Etymological Dictionary of the Latin Lan- circle. a Epistle to Harriet, Duchess of St. Albans; or, words which have since become obsolete. Le Petit Bijou. Edit par Mons. Embden. On Friday night curiosity tempted me to go to Franconi to see the famous Siege of Corinth. The house was crowded to excess, but the company was rather of the tag, rag, and bob-tail description, at least en apparence. Notwith standing the beauty of the decorations, I cannot say that I was remunerated for shivering during three long hours, and being half suffocated from the smoke of gunpowder. The actors, indeed, are so very miserable, that they would render the deepest tragedy ridiculous: the equestrian exercises were, however, worth seeing. A French author pretends, that on the development of the nerves and sinews depends the expansion of the mind. If this be the case, equestrians must possess very superior advantages over other mortals ! A new salon is opened in the Rue Mont Blanc, under the auspices of two noble dukes. admitted to lose or win money there; nor is None but select and honourable men are to be the title of gambling-house to be applied to this the name is every thing-reality, nothing. receptacle for gamblers: they are right; for Civita Vecchia, has been nominated Chevalier A translation of Anacreon into verse, by M. as a chef-d'œuvre, and as the only one which Descombes, is spoken of in the literary world renders the genius of the Greek language into the French idiom. ARTS AND SCIENCES. attacks and falsehood: at all events, though IN the sitting of the Académie des Sciences of every person of sense in the country who gives the 13th of last month, M. Jomard addressed the matter a thought at all, must condemn to the Academy a letter on the journey of the silly or mischievous clamour kept up about M. Caillé to Timbuctoo. At the request of the Duchess of St. Albans, it is clear that to several members, M. Jomard, in the first place, A VERY pretty little volume, and one both of and descend to an arena the very appearance October 10; of which the following are exanswer the assailants is to play their game, read two letters from M. Caillé, dated Toulon, utility and amusement to the young French in which bespeaks weakness of character or scholar. Partly original and partly selected, the editor has shewn much judgment in his injudiciousness of conduct. Parasites are more choice; and we cordially recommend Le Petit injurious than enemies. Bijou to a place among the gifts of the season. tracts: ("Being in Senegal in 1824, I conceived the project of exploring Central Africa, of visiting the towns of Jenne and Timbuctoo (that object of European research which has cost the lives THE COMET. of so many illustrious travellers), and, finally, which was entertained beforehand, that this always to have a current of sea-water. In this of surpassing, if possible, the English, who had great town is not far from the fourth degree manner they could observe the habits and pecuforestalled us. I determined, in consequence, of longitude, east of Paris, and the sixteenth liar propensities of animals which had before to set off for the interior, aided only by my degree of north latitude.-Le Globe. been only studied in collections, where they had own resources; persuaded that, on my return, remained some time in spirits of wine. By government would know how to appreciate my this means they discovered that animals which services. commonly collect and fix themselves upon rocks (ascidies composées), were at all times free at issuing from the egg, and could move with considerable vivacity. It is not until one or two days after that they choose a spot for their definitive habitation. “On the 19th of April, 1827, I quitted Cacandy, on the Rio-Mines, and followed a caravan of Mandingo merchants going to the Niger. Thanks to the Arab dress, and to the religion of the country, which I assumed, the numerous difficulties attached to this painful journey were removed. I passed, without any obstacle, the high mountains of Senegambia and the FoutaDhialou, the countries of Kankan, Wassoulo, &c., and arrived at Time, a village inhabited by Mahometan Mandingos, in the southern part of Bambarra, where I remained for six months, being laid up with a very serious ill ness. The comet By the aid of an excellent microscope, Messrs. Andouin and Edwards were enabled to observe numberless curious particularities relative to the animals classed as polypi. They give a great many details relative to the animal which produces those incrustations which they name flustre et cellepore; and describe a number of polypi completely invisible to the naked eye. They also made observations on the animals which inhabit the cavities in many kinds of shell-fish; and, lastly, they describe with great care the interior structure of several zoophites, sponges, and the insects which inhabit them, and marine plants. THE PAUPER COLONIES OF HOLLAND. M. BOUVARD recently announced to the Académie des Sciences, that the comet with a short orbit had been discovered at Florence, on the 5th of October, by M. Pons. This comet is extremely faint, and without any visible nucleus. M. Pons has been unable to determine its position; all that he is certain of, is, that he found it exactly in the part of the heavens in which the ephemeris, calculated by M. Encke, and printed in the "Connoissance des Temps, 1830," places it. M. Bouvard added, that it was impossible to perceive the comet from the Observatory at Paris. He presumes, nevertheless, that a small whitish nebulosity, which has been observed to move in the region "On the 9th of January, 1828, I recom- of the heavens in which the comet ought to be menced my journey. I visited the island and actually found, may possibly be the comet itself. the town of Jenne; and embarking on the M. Arago was of opinion that the moonlight Niger, in a boat of about sixty tons burden, would not allow of its being seen. bound to Timbuctoo, I arrived there, after a in question possesses several particularities, month of laborious navigation. This town is which fix the attention of astronomers upon Messrs. Edwards and Andouin presented an situated five miles to the north of Kabra, in a it. It is, of all the heavenly bodies of that atlas to the Academy, with seventy coloured plain of quicksands, in which nothing grows description, the one which belongs the most plates of objects either entirely new, or which but some stunted shrubs. There I remained exclusively to our planetary system. As it have been hitherto imperfectly described. — fourteen days. I studied the manners and appears to be composed of matter of little den- Messrs. Cuvier and Dumeril were named to customs of the inhabitants, and the commerce sity, and is probably constituted of only a vast form part of a commission to investigate the and the resources of the country, obtaining all mass of vapours, it is very important to ascer-subject. the information that I was able to procure; tain the modifications which the laws of Newand I then directed my steps towards the north, tonian attraction undergo with reference to in order to cross the Great Desert, and arrived such a body; and especially to observe, if, IN a letter which has been received by an emi. at El-Arrawan. This town is situated six owing to its extreme tenuity, the ether is not nent barrister in this country, who has devoted days' journey northward of Timbuctoo, and is capable of opposing a sensible obstacle to its much of his attention to the provision of the the entrepôt of the salt which is transported to motion. An opinion has been expressed with poor, a very satisfactory account is given of the Sansarding and Yamina. It is upon an arid regard to this same comet, which is not desti- pauper colonies which have been established in soil, destitute of shrubs; and the burning east-tute of all probability. Some astronomers have Holland. In the colony for the repression of wind constantly prevails there. mendicity, and where the colonists appear to "I continued my route to the north, and have been chiefly employed in agricultural laarrived at the wells of Teligue, eight days' bour, the harvest, notwithstanding the state of journey from El-Arrawan; whence I plunged the season, has turned out so profitably, that in into the Desert, towards the N.N.W. The soil two or three districts the founders of the colony is entirely composed of quicksand, and of rocks not only expect to be reimbursed all that they of grey quartz, veined with white. After two Ar a late sitting of the Academy of Sciences but even to receive a considerable surplus, with have expended for the support of the colonists, months' march, and the most painful priva- in Paris, Messrs. Victor, Andouin, and Milne which they will form a fund to enable them to tions, in this horrible desert, I at length arrived Edwards, read an account of their investigations put into cultivation a larger quantity of land, at Tafile. Thence I went on to Fez, Mequi- with respect to animals without vertebræ, made and thus provide for additional numbers. The nez, Rabat, and Tanger; where I was received in the islands of Chausey. by M. Delaporte, the French vice-consul, who situated opposite Granville, in the department have been assiduously attended to; for of the These islands, mental instruction of the colonists appears to procured for me all the assistance which my of La Manche, are fifty-three in number, and 703 paupers in the depôt of Merxplas-Ryckesituation required. Soon after, I embarked in form a small archipelago, where very few re-versel, some have made such progress as to be a schooner, which brought me to Toulon, where searches relative to marine animals had been able to take subordinate situations in mercanI now am, in a convalescent state." M. Jomard's letter contained details of the have been exploring the coasts of France for however, in which the paupers who quit the made. Messrs. Andouin and Edwards, who tile establishments. The classes of society, results of the journey so happily accomplished several years, made during the last twelve colony are usually provided for, are shepherds, by M. Caillé. The first part of his journey months the most minute and careful inquiries husbandry-labourers, and waggoners; and, gecoincides exactly with that of Captain Camp-in these islands. The objects which they col-nerally speaking, the persons who have left the bell. Afterwards he crossed the various ranges lected have been deposited in the museum of establishment have given great satisfaction to of the lofty chain of mountains of the Fouta- natural history, and they are about to publish their employers. Dhialou; in the middle of which he cut the believed that they saw its volume progressively ANIMALS WITHOUT VERTEBRE. LITERARY AND LEARNED. ON Wednesday the Royal Society of Literature route to the south followed by M. Mollien, discoveries. At this sitting they merely gave a numerous series of papers relative to their and perhaps the Senegal, near its source. As M. Caillé did not travel above twelve geogra- labours. a few particulars of the principal results of their phical miles a-day, he had time to observe They established themselves in these almost places with attention. He traversed the coun- uninhabited islands with great facility, and, by tries of Belia, Kankan, and Wassoulo, scarcely means of a sort of fish-pond, they were enabled usual routine of business was gone through, known to us; and, before he arrived at Djenny, was enabled to see Sansarding, Sego, Yamina, * Respecting the Encke comet, we have felt convinced, and Bammakou. Such is a sketch of the jour- that through a powerful glass it has been visible for two ney of about fifteen hundred leagues which or three weeks, and have little doubt but that we have M. Caillé has just completed, a thousand of South, of Kensington, has, since we wrote this, published seen it, though not sufficiently positive to assert it. [Mr. which were through countries almost unknown. a letter to the same effect: he has noticed a nebulous It may already be concluded from it, that Tim-spot of light where the comet should be seen.] If any buctoo is more to the south, and nearer to the sea, than it is set down in all the maps. M. Caille's labours confirm the conjecture man can identify it, it must be M. Pons-it is his own new members proposed, others balloted for, presentations of books, &c. &c. acknowledged, the secretary read a portion of a very curious respecting which the chairman, Archdeacon paper by Dr. Nolan, on ancient Greek music; Nares, made several interesting remarks. It was mentioned in the meeting that the Lords of the Treasury, for what reason it would be difficult to conjecture, had refused to grant the Society the ground to build upon at Charing |