“➖➖➖➖ now will canker sorrow eat my, bud, there none is, Neirstein, or Geissenheim; but avoid like a pestilence Winckel:* cross, which his Majesty himself, the munifi-is deliciously pathetic. Nothing can exceed | Leibfraumilch, if you will, a pleasanter tipple cent founder of it, and its annual supporter by the sentiment in the countenance of Lady Pug, a royal gift of eleven hundred guineas, had as she sighs out, in the words of Constance,graciously expressed his wish to give as a site for his own Institution. Without a knowledge of the fact, we would hardly credit that so glorious and memorable a purpose in the king, as a patron of literature, could be frustrated in any And chase the native beauty from his cheek." We are happy to learn that Mr. Landseer of masterly studies, made by him in the Jardin has lately returned from Paris with a portfolio des Plantes. He had one day, we understand, quarter. rather a narrow escape. While he was very OXFORD, NOV. 1.—In a convocation, holden on Thursday attentively drawing some animal, an elephant, last, the honorary degree of M.A. was conferred on George who had contrived to unfasten and leave his date for a writership in India, given by the Right Hon. cell, came softly behind the abstracted artist, C. W. W. Wynn, as a prize for competition among the curled his trunk round his neck and face, and junior members of the University. Mr. Wynn having offered another writership, as a simi- held him firmly down for several minutes; but was unanimously resolved, in the same convocation-sufficiently to allow Mr. Landseer to retreat; lar prize for competition among the junior members, it at length, very fortunately, relaxed his hold That the thanks of the University be returned to Mr. which he immediately did, with great celerity Wynn, for this additional mark of his liberal attention, and that his offer of the writership be accepted." and satisfaction. On the same day the following degrees were conferred: Cotes, scholar of Trinity College, the successful candi Bachelor in Divinity. The Rev. D. F. Warner, Magda len Hall. The Spirit of the Plays of Shakspeare. Drawn and engraved by F. Howard. No. X. Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great ORIGINAL POETRY. Addressed to Lord Sefton. might be constructed in imitation of the ancient hex- ment."-Dr. Southey. Earl of Danby; and William Powlett, Mar-"Having been long of opinion that our English verse his friend, who was attending on him, asked whether he could convey any final request from HARK† 'tis the silver sound of the spoon im- Near you is à la Bauveau, and that is the Bru- Here is the soupe à la Reine-rich, regal, relishing, racy The Moselle wines I approve, and the best of them all is Pisporter,+ Spite of its name, which to ears polite hath a sound cacophonic. Pardon this prosing on wine, and let us return to the banquet : See, the Removes are at hand; to which of the two shall I help you? Turkey à la perigeux, do you choose, with a' Dishes divine of their kinds?—and now for a Remove the removes, if you please, and give Now for the triumph! behold, the savour of savours approachethThis is the gourmand's goût, this, this is the sauté Lucullus, Which but to name is to waken a sense of gustatory rapture, Higher, intenser, than fires the zealot for Mahomet's Eden; In this transcendent dish the ham insensibly mingles Its exquisite flavour with game, which again combines with the truffle, The truffle with spices unknown, but of richer odour than cassia, Or myrrh, or perfumes of the East, or whatever the poets may rave of : Let us dwell for a while on this, surnamed the "test of piquancy."+ See, from the misty cup foams high the loveliest of liquors, Champagne, chill, cold as ice:—another glass and another. Now the attack renew, here are cutlets of pork à la mirepoix, Timbales, with salpiçon croquettes of fowl au velouté (Not the Velluti we know, but a chose bien plus sensible): him to his majesty; to which the loyal but The beautiful broth, which is the fiue quint-Perdreaux à Barbarie (by no pious earl answered, "I will not die with a suit in my mouth to any king save to the King of heaven." Portrait of Lady de Clifford. Engraved by Wright, from a painting by Derby. THIS is the forty-seventh plate of the series of female nobility now publishing in La Belle Assemblée, and decorates the Number of that work for the present month. It is a very ladylike portrait; and, we have no doubt, is a strong resemblance. It consists of "The barous), fillets means barOf fowl à la Pompadour, and two small chickChampagne'tis a maxim true, that good ens poêlé, eating requires good drinking. Now, shall I send you a wing of the hare or a slice of the capon, Salsifis, snipe, noyeau jelly, bouchées petites, macaroni? (Par parenthèse, of liqueur a glass,-curaçoa,— maraschino, Medical men recommend, and for once I con- Choux à chantilli, choose you? ramequin, or Monkeyana; or Men in Miniature. Designed Hereafter I'll speak of the wines; but meantime treasure the axiom, you value yourself as a man of taste and good breeding, I was half killed with the cholera after drinking this detestable stuff at Wisbaden. All the others are good. The best for steady drinking is Markobrunner; for strength and flavour, Rudesheim.-L. E. Ude. + Some wag wrote Barclay, Perkins, and Co. on the "wein preis" at an auberge at Coblentz. I have expressively designated it in my French Cook, the "ne plus ultra of the art."-L. E. Ude. Shun like the Styx the fire of port, and insufferable sherry Eschew as you would a dram, and stick to the luculent CLARET.* CLARET, I, UDE, PRONOUNCE ALONE THE WINE AFTER DINNER. Crockford's, St. James's Street. BIOGRAPHY. FURTHER ACCOUNT OF MR. BONINGTON. the old masters very respectable; but which, The new SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. ence, and unpublished Political and Literary Tracts of Paul Louis Courrier." The following confidential satire (in one of the letters) of a great political comedy, namely, the proclamation of Napoleon as emperor by the army of Rome, is amusing enough, and shews considerable acumen on the part of the writer: TO M. N "Broad in his handling, he perhaps pushed for the pecuniary loss which he sustained in that quality to excess. His figures, so beauti- consequence. "M. Gross, who, on what was, probably, ful in their design and action, are sometimes too vague in their details. Their colour is a very frivolous pretext, had shut his attelier charming, but the imparting of the touch does against Bonington, eventually did him justice. not correspond with the proportions of the He recalled him; and, in the presence of all heads and the members. This defect, to which, his pupils, who were enchanted with the suchowever, too much importance ought not to be cess their comrade had achieved, praised his attached, is especially apparent in that picture fine talents, which no one had directed, and of Bonington's which represents a View on begged that he would have the goodness to the Grand Canal at Venice.'* This work is become one of the ornaments of his school, IN Le Globe of Wednesday, the 8th of Octo-in other respects a very fine thing; I even "Bonington was tall, and appeared to be ber, is a short biographical notice of Mr. Bon- believe that it is the piece the most completely strongly built; and there was nothing in him ington, from which we have extracted the fol- characteristic of the talent of the author. It which could excite suspicions of consumption. lowing liberal and interesting passages. has been said to resemble a Canaletti. Certain A brain fever was the prelude of the malady of "Bonington was very young when he came it is that Bonington studied that as well as all which he died, in the arms of several friends to Paris. His vocation for the arts was decided other masters, much, in Italy; and that most whom he had made in London by his kindness from his infancy; but his taste for them did of his pictures are a little tinctured by his pre- and good-will. His countenance was truly not manifest itself in any childish fondness for dilection for them; but the resemblance which English; no other expression than that of shapeless scrawls. The little scenes which he exists between his View on the Grand Canal melancholy gave it character. designed, without any principles, indicated great intelligence; he imitated with ease and at Venice' and Canaletti's pictures, is only in school of painting has lost in him one of its the subject. Canaletti has a precision which most illustrious supporters." spirit; and learnt to see without any master's Bonington did not try to attain; he is a cohaving directed his talent. lourist, but not like the young Englishman, "When, having exercised his hand accord- whose tone is not only brilliant but poetical. ing to the principles which are first taught, he Thus, like almost all the young Anglo-Vene- A WORK has just appeared at Paris, after acquired the power of embodying his concep- tians of our school of romantic painting, Bon- having been for some time expected with great tions, it became evident what he would one ington imparted to many of his works that curiosity, entitled, "Memoirs, Correspondday be. His brilliant and striking composi-tint of age which renders the productions of tions were the admiration of the school. The contemporaries of Bonington foresaw that he would not servilely follow, in the train of a professor, any system, whatever it might be; "Bonington tried all styles, except that and that he was not born to copy any one, but which is called historical. What he had into create, by imitating nature. At sixteen tended to do, was to borrow from the middle years of age, he had already deserved that the chief of the school, to whose lessons he did not ages subjects for a series of easel pictures, in which he was desirous of combining and shewPlaisance, May 1804. very attentively listen, should reproach him for ing the value of the finish of the Dutch, the We have just made an emperor; and I have his want of submission to the precepts of pic-vigour of the Venetians, and the magic of the been of some service in the affair. The folturesque rhetoric. English. How deeply it is to be regretted lowing is the history of it: This morning "Bonington had quitted the beaten track; that death struck him ere he could put such d'Anthouard assembled us, and told us what he walked, at his own risk and peril, in paths a plan into execution! He succeeded equally was in agitation, but plainly, and without any which he traced for himself in advancing. He in marine subjects, in architecture, in land preamble or peroration. "An emperor or the recould no more feel and express himself like Girodet, Guérin, Gérard, or Gros, than Victor scape, and in interiors. Whether he disported public, which is to your taste ?"—just as people Hugo could feel and express himself like the the credit of which he re-established), painted will you have?" His harangue finished, we with the crayon (so despised since Latour, but say, "Roast or boiled; pottage or soup; which Abbé Delille, Fontanes, or M. Parseval Grand-in oil or water-colours, or handled the litho- all sat still, looking at one another. "Genmaison. His spirit was independent, and re- graphic chalk or pen, he did remarkable things. tlemen, what is your opinion ?" Not a word; volted at routines. He escaped from them by Water-colours have not been much esteemed nobody opened his mouth. This lasted a quar. removing from the school where genius is in France for twenty years; Bonington re-ter of an hour or more, and was becoming emtaught as the art of putting a figure together, vived them, united them to aquarelle, and barrassing, both to d'Anthouard and to every and where the rudiments of old compositions produced that admirable picture, The Tomb one, when Maire, a young man, a lieutenant, are sacred. When he had studied the living of Saint Omer,' which may, in point of finish- whom you may have seen, rose and said, “If model at the Academy sufficiently to draw the ing, solidity of tone, and force of effect, com- he wishes to be an emperor, let him be so; but, figure correctly, he left it. "It was not to the representation of the pete with Granet's firmest works. The beau- to speak my sentiments, I do not think it at all tiful Picturesque Journey,' by Messrs. Taylor, advisable." "Be explicit," answered the cogreat events of history that Bonington applied Nodier, and Cailleaux, and a separate collec- lonel; "do you wish it, or not?" "I do not his talents; he confined himself to paint fami- tion published by our young artist, attest his wish it." "Very well." Renewed silence. liar scenes, and to represent the effects of light superiority as the draughtsman of romantic We recommenced looking at one another like ruins. That which ought not to have hap-people who had met for the first time; and we a pensive character, he was affected by the pened, happened. The Fragments,' into should have done so until the present moment, sight of an agitated sea; and whatever there is which Bonington had thrown all the originality if I had not spoken. "Gentlemen," said I, of poetry in the varied appearances of that of his genius, met with but moderate success. "it seems to me, under correction, that we imposing spectacle, powerfully animated and The amateurs did not understand those de- have nothing to do with this. The nation tinged his works. The studies and pictures lightful drawings; but the reception which wishes for an emperor: is it for us to deliwhich he produced at twenty years of age, they experienced from the artists, consoled berate about it?" This reasoning appeared when, liberating himself from the yoke, he Bonington for the bad taste of the public, and so powerful, so luminous, so ad rem, that I went to the western coast to give himself up to carried the meeting with me. Never had an his own imagination, are highly entitled to the We are diametrically opposed in opinion to the French esteem of amateurs. The colourist is recog-question, which was exhibited in the early part of the and went to play at billiards. critic on this point. We well remember the picture in orator more complete success. We rose, signed, "Faith, comnised in them, not by the exaggeration of present year at the British Gallery; and we also well 66 me, you speak like tones, or affected opposition of light and shade, remember being singularly struck by the broad, spirited, mandant," said Maire to deemed necessary by certain artists who have us strongly of the exquisite boar-hunting, or baiting, by that he should be an emperor ?" and intelligent handling of the figures. They reininded a Cicero; but, pray, why are you so desirous "To put an parodied the English system, but by a harmony Velasquez, which hung on the same wall, and nearly in end to the business, that we may go and play and a simplicity full of truth and taste. the same place, five or six years before. The following is a part of the notice of Mr. Bonington's picture which our game at billiards. Were we to stay there appeared in the Literary Gazette of the 9th of February, all day? Why do you not wish it ?" "I do of the present year. "The execution is masterly; not only in the buildings, water, &c., but also in the figures, not know," he replied; "but I thought him which are numerous, and to which, by a few bold and made for something better." Such was the well-placed touches, Mr. Bonington has given a character remark of the lieutenant, which is far from and an expression rarely to be seen in the productions of this branch of the arts." appearing to me to be a silly one. In fact, * * on an extensive country, or on the ocean. Of I appeal to the author of Pelham (a writer of great promise, as appears by his admiration of my French Cook,) whether this axiom be not correct. I am sorry I did not see the second edition of his work before it went to press, as I might have corrected some errors into which he has fallen-touching me. CHARACTER AND ANECDOTE.NO. XII. week." MUSIC. NEW PUBLICATIONS. The First Book of Shakespeare's revived Comedy of the Taming of the Shrew; containing four Vocal Compositions by Mr. Braham. Willis and Co. tell me to what purpose is this? A man like ful of her duty to the Holy Virgin. "Where him-Buonaparte a soldier-the head of the could she find such an all-sufficient intercessor army-the first captain in the world to wish for sinful creatures as the blessed mother of to be called " your majesty!" To be Buona- our Lord ?" "Please your honours," quoth parte-and to become "sire!" He aspires to she, "alloo me to answer ye in a hamely descend. But, no; he thinks he is rising, in way; but by your favours no sae far I reckon placing himself on an equality with kings: he frae the soobject in han'. Ye weel ken, ma prefers a title to a name. Poor man! his lord, that I hae a sma' farm under yere lord- THE first, entitled Music and Poetry, is a ideas are below his fortune. I suspected it, ship, and for some years hard hae we striven, pleasing melody with piano-forte accompaniwhen I saw him give his young sister to Borg-my twa callants and mysel, to mak the twa ment, well arranged for the moderate abilities hèse, and believe that Borghèse did her too ends meet. Few as our comforts hae been, of amateurs. The second, Love's Paradise, is much honour. they hae been seasoned wi' content, whilk is a a very pretty air, with a lively accompaniment, pleasant, though uncommon, drap in the cup easy and natural in its style; and though it of poverty: but, alake, noo we're aboot to has no pretensions to originality, yet we think A Barefaced Joke.-The facetious Jh be turned oot of house and haddin by a factor, it likely to become a general favourite. The Gn, one of the legal agents of the late who shuts his ears to the widow's moan and the third is very incorrect in the harmony, and the Duke of B-cl-gh, having on a certain occa- orphan's cry. I too hae made supplication melody commonplace and uninteresting, except sion a request to make to his grace, posted out to intercessors of weel-kent power and favour when sung by the parties announced in the one morning to D-th House in such a wi' your honourable lordship. I hae applied title. The fourth is a very effective composihurry, that he neglected to undergo the ton- to little Sandy Gordon, and got neither solace tion, possessing spirit and originality. The sorial operation. The duke, surprised at the nor satisfaction frae him. Syne I applied to enharmonic transition at p. 5 has a pleasing unseemly and slovenly appearance of the man muckle Sandy Gordon, but got still less frae effect; but we do not admire the B flat in the of law, said to him" Good Heavens, J-s-ph, him. In short, a's proved vanity and vexation sixth bar of the first line of p. 6: perhaps A flat what a pickle you are in! I don't think the o' speerit. Before I and my bairns gae forth, or F would have a better effect. Though but razor and you have been acquainted for a the sport of the winds of heaven, I noo do a small speck in a brilliant composition, it "My lord duke," replied the witty what I suld hae dune at the outset,-I apply might be advisable to obliterate it. and wily lawyer, "I have a favour to ask of for remeid to the great Gordon himsel!" This The Second Book of this production has your grace; and I never in my life could ask most judicious and touching appeal produced an ten vocal compositions, of which No. 1 (by a favour in a barefaced manner." electrical effect on the noble persons to whom Cooke) consisting of two movements, possesses Muckle and Little Sandy Gordon. Before it was made. The widow and her sons ob- a natural flow of elegant and interesting methe Reformation in Scotland, a good old gentle-tained a long lease of an excellent farm, on a lody, with a well-arranged accompaniment, woman, who had seen better days, was re-rent merely nominal; and it is believed that attainable by musical amateurs in general, and duced to the necessity of taking a small moor- her descendants enjoy it to this very day.* sufficiently scientific to satisfy the most fastiand farm under the Earl of Huntley, ancestor Hugo Arnot. The late learned historian of dious. No. 2 (Cooke) is showy, and perhaps of the Dukes of Gordon. On this barren spot Edinburgh was much in the habit of loun- well calculated for such an accomplished singer the poor widow and her two sons, by their ging in the bibliothèque of that prince of biblio- as Miss F. Ayton; but we cannot help regretunwearied industry, contrived to glean a scanty poles, Provost Creech. One day an old woman ting that our great bard should have the drasubsistence. But miserable as this dependence came into the shop, and asked for a sight of pery of foreign music thrown over his poetry: was, they were likely soon to be deprived of some Bibles. Whilst, with spectacles on nose, Shakespeare ought to have none but legitiit by the practices of a greedy, ruthless, land- she was sapiently peering over the sacred vo- mate English music to his words, and a person steward, or factor, as he is denominated in lumes, Hugo, who was abundantly loose in his of Mr. Cooke's eminent abilities should have Scotland. This unfeeling scoundrel strain- religious notions, said to her: "Ye'auld fule! felt himself superior to foreign aid. No. 3 ed every nerve to dispossess the widow and what gude d'ye expect from that rubbish? (Cooke). A bold, spirited production, in which her orphan children; and adopted an infal- 'twad be mair wiselike to lay oot your siller in the composer has evidently had Mr. Braham's lible method to obtain his diabolical object, gude sappy herrings and mealy potatoes." The style of singing the spirit-stirring songs of the viz. raising a rent already almost beyond their horrified carline, surveying the long and gaunt Death of Abercrombie, the Battle of Trafalgar, means of paying. In this emergency she applied figure of the blasphemer with looks expressive &c. strongly in his mind. We think the conto several persons who were said to possess the of her expectation that the earth would forth-clusion too much resembles them; but it is, on favour of the earl; but all in vain. Seeing with open and swallow him up, like another the whole, an excellent song in its style. No. 5 ruin inevitable, she summoned up resolution Korah at last cried out: "The Lord be wi' (Cooke) has, no doubt, a good theatrical effect, to wait on his lordship himself. The earl, us! did ony body ever hear sic a graceless but must be uninteresting out of its place. who was a man of a bluff, open, and generous monster; and the meeserable creature's just No. 6 (by Mr. Hughes) is a pleasing melody, disposition, received her with great kindness, an atomy!" Truly, save in the matter of his and well adapted to the words: the accompa and, after some conversation, found her to be being a pedestrian, the historical scoffer was niment is very appropriate. No. 7 (Cooke). a person of superior sense and worth, and ex- a perfect counterpart to Death on the Pale We do not admire the first movement; but we pressed much surprise that the poorest of his Horse. Arnot took little notice of her zealous think the song will meet with approbation for cot-farms should be occupied by one who had rebukes, but, turning to Creech, said: "By the sake of the second air. The Hunting Song once obviously moved in a higher sphere. Jupiter! Creech, I am going very fast: this is excellent, and may with great propriety be "But," quoth the worthy nobleman," you pain in my breast will carry me off like a sky-sung as a detached piece. No. 8 (Cooke) is in must dine with me and my family to-day; I rocket, one of these odd days." "Like a sky- a light lively style, but will not satisfy those must let them see of what sicker stuff at least racket ?" cried out the old wife, who was going who have had the pleasure of hearing Mr. one of my tenants is made." The astounded out at the door with her Bible; "gude faith, Shield's matchless trio to the same words, with widow was very reluctant to accept the in- ma man, gif ye dinna mend yere mainners, the very effective orchestral accompaniments vitation; but the earl would not be denied. ye'll likely tak a vera different direction!" added by Mr. Greatorex. We think Mr. Shield's She had the good fortune to make herself The above singular character was once coming composition would have been the fittest for equally acceptable to the countess and all the up Leith Walk, munching, with much apparent selection; as, by comparison, the one before us family. After dinner she was shewn over the relish, a speldrin, or dried split haddock. He is a complete failure. No. 9 (by Sir J. Stevencastle, and finally was conducted into the cha- was met by that soul of wit and whim, Harry son and Mr. Cooke) is a quartett with a sweet pel, where there was no lack of images. But Erskine, who thus accosted him: "How d'ye fearfully scandalised were the feelings of the do, friend Hugo? But I need not ask you good woman, when, coming in front one of the that question, for I am sure you look like your Virgin Mary, she saw her noble hostess and meat!" her children sink down before it, as if a signal had been given for their immediate prostration. When they had ended their devotions, they were equally astonished at the unbending posture and horrified looks of their heretical guest. The earl, who had been absent, now made his appearance; and seeing how matters stood, asked her how she could be so neglect The common people in Aberdeenshire believe the tholic to the Protestant religion, to be in no small degree conversion of the Gordon family from the Roman Caowing to the above pithy and seasonable address. soothing melody, smoothly flowing in a very natural and unaffected harmony, and a wellarranged accompaniment. No. 10 (Cooke). An air with a soft and pleasing melody, but very common-place. The chorus reminds us of Purcell's well-known, "Come unto these yellow sands." We cannot too strongly recommend to Messrs. Willis and Co. the necessity of publishing their works in a more correct manner than they have done these two books, as even the orthography | is neglected, besides errors in the music. of those Paper Linen. A new invention, called THE popular novel of Sir John Chiverton has, we perceive, been dramatised at Manchester. papier linge, has within the last few days We wonder it never occurred to any of our attracted much notice in Paris. It consists of town managers or playwrights. Half an hour a paper made to resemble damask and other would convert it (so dramatic are its situations, linen so closely, that it is impossible without of the most effective modern melo-dramas. to the touch, the articles made from the papier so written, as it were, for the stage) into one examination to detect the difference; and even The characters of Sir John, the Moor, the linge are very much like linen. They are Physician, and the felon Niel Jagger, are used for every purpose to which linen is apexcellent: nor does it lack female interest of plicable, with the exception, of course, a very novel kind. We hope this hint will in which strength and durability are required. A French paper, indeed, says that they are almost as solid as those manufactured from linen; but this cannot be possible. The price is very low a napkin costs only five or six centimes (about a halfpenny); and when they are dirty, they are taken back at half price. A good-sized table-cloth sells for only a franc; and for the same price one may have a rouleau of paper, with one or two colours, for papering rooms, or for bed-curtains. not be thrown away. VARIETIES. Meteoric Iron.-A mass of iron of extraordinary dimensions, which has for the last hundred and fifty years been lying in the village of Caille, in the department of the Var, having lately been examined by several scientific persons, proves to be, without doubt, meteoric. Its weight is said to be from five to six hundred kilogrammes a thousand or twelve hundred French pounds. Application has been made by the French Academy to the minister of the interior, to cause this remarkable specimen of meteoric phenomena, supposed to be the largest aerolite at present known, be transported to the A NEW piece, called a comedy, because it is in The French Scientific Expedition.--Several of the scientific persons who have been sent to Egypt by the French government, arrived at Cairo on the 21st and 22d of September. As they were the bearers of letters from the viceroy himself to the Governor of Cairo, they were received with great distinction, and every assistance which they could require for the Natural History and Gastronomy !-There prosecution of their researches was given to is to be a dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern them. They were not to remain many days on the 29th (the birth-day of the celebrated at Cairo, as it was their intention to proceed Ray, and two centuries from that date), at to Upper Egypt and Nubia, so as to arrive which the friends of the natural sciences, zoo- there when the heat is least intense. The logy, botany, &c. &c., are to meet. The pre- French sanitary commission from Navarin sident of the Royal Society, Mr. Davies Gilbert, were expected at Alexandria on the 6th ult., takes the chair; and it is anticipated that a but they had not then arrived. One or two number of the most distinguished naturalists of them will proceed to join the expedition in and philosophical inquirers of the age will be Nubia. present at this entertainment. painting the portraits of private individuals he The Fever at Gibraltar.-After repeated The lovers of the art of painting have sus- delays, the French government have appointed considerable humour. The baron's daughter tained a great, if not an irreparable, loss in the a physician to proceed to Gibraltar, for the and her waiting-maid were sufficiently well death of the celebrated Gilbert Stuart. By the purpose of obtaining information as to the represented by Miss Forde and Mrs. J. Hughes, decision of Mr. West, by the common consent nature of the fever now raging there, and also the former of whom sang one song too many; of the best judges on both sides of the Atlantic, of co-operating with the resident physicians we mean the first. The dialogue of this piece Mr. Stuart has been pointed out as the first and surgeons in endeavouring to arrest its is exceedingly unequal, but there are portions historical portrait-painter in the world. In progress. He has been joined by another of it lively enough; and if it be unsparingly physician, appointed by the Paris Academy of cut down, put into two acts, called a farce, and Medicine; but it is thought that they will clapped at the bottom of the bill, it may be be too late, either to be of service to the played occasionally through the season: as a Laleham. Perhaps it is not generally known, inhabitants, or to obtain information as to the three-act comedy, we doubt its seeing its nine that in the little church of the little village character of the disease. The presumption nights. Mr. Lacy is its reputed parent. The of Laleham, near Staines, where the young is, that before they arrive, the change of Soldiers' Stratagems was followed by Rosina, Queen of Portugal at present resides, there temperature will have materially lessened, in which we had the pleasure of hearing Miss is an altar-piece by Harlowe. It was painted if not entirely subdued, the malady: but there Byfield, and confirming ourselves in the fa- in the year 1811, at the house of a friend is no certainty on this subject; for there vourable opinion we from the first entertained of the artist's, in the village; and was li- are extraordinary anomalies of temperaand have expressed concerning her. The voice berally presented by Harlowe to the church. ture in that part of Europe. The yelof this young lady is in quality unexception- The subject is the fear which suddenly seized low fever of 1804, which broke out at Los able, her execution is tasteful, and she never Peter, while he was walking on the sea to- Barrios, a town containing 3000 inhabitants, attempts any thing beyond her power. Good wards Jesus: St. Matthew, chap. xiv. verses at four leagues from Gibraltar, did not make teaching is evident in every note she sings; 30 and 31. its appearance until the middle of October, and seeing, as we do daily, the promising déand remained in full force up to the beginbutantes who, with fine natural powers, are ning of the ensuing January. On that occaruined entirely by ignorant and vulgar massion the use of bark was resorted to with great ters, we congratulate Miss Byfield on having success; but it seems that even the sulphate of such an instructor as Mr. Lejeune. Although the style of the picture is not quinine has been used in the present instance exactly of the firm and sober character which without effect. The introduction of this fever ought to belong to a scriptural composition, it is attributed to communications between the THIS pleasant theatre has been crammed to nevertheless possesses considerable merit. The shore and a Swedish vessel, called the Digden, the ceiling every night since our last notice; panic of the sinking Apostle, and the dignified from Havannah, which anchored in the bay. and to its standard attractions, the May Queen rebuke of the Saviour, are finely expressed. Literary Curiosity.-The first of the followand the Mason of Buda, a new piece was added We regret to add, that, owing to damp, the ing paragraphs is on a morsel of paper, printed on Monday, from the pen of Mr. Lunn. What painting is in a bad state. It ought to be and left with a pamphlet at houses throughout carefully cleaned, and then protected by a the country: the second speaks for itself,-is powerful coat of varnish; for it would be ex-original and unique. ceedingly disgraceful to allow so generous and valuable a gift to go to decay. ADELPHI. it was like, we cannot pretend to say, not being able to get further than the stair-head for the crowd; but we understand it has since been withdrawn. • An apology was made for this accident, and wax candles are now employed. "But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; "Permit your goodness to excuse the liberty an unfortanate Author has taken, in causing this Book to be left for your perusal. He is sorry that he is under the painful Under the title of Hulme Hall, or Manchester in the necessity of thus intruding, but being reduced, through a variety of events (over which he had no control), from a Olden Time. respectable situation in life, to distress, is therefore destitute of any other means of support.-The price is One Shilling, which, or the Book unsoiled, will be called for next day and thankfully received." My Lord I bag pardon Inddressing your Lordship being a poor Man and traveling with a Laght House Book to geet a Lively hood for my selfe and fomly sences I Lost all my propperty by fire in Chancerey Lane in July 1824 and as the Book having been presented to his Magety and the duses of Kent and other nable men of Hy Rank 1 Brought one directed to your Lordship on friday Last and Comeing again on Munday for an unsure your footman only give me one sheling meerly the prise of the book after walking seven Mills which convinces me that your Lordship Never had the book as well as the Woman at the Lodg gate as the Arle of Plemouth geve Me five sheling for the same Book as well as Other Noble Men and gentlemen and if your Lordship pleses to take My Case into Consideratation as having no Other Mens of geeting an Lively hood I will Bring the Book again to your Lordship as your Lordship Cannot have the Book of Einy Other Man but My selfe I Only haveing a patent for it "I hope your Lordships goodness will be plezed to Charles 11. and Rochester: an old Story versified. Whose word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." ""Tis true," says Charles, "ye graceless curs, My witty words my own are!" 12,000 10,000 8,000 5,000 384,000 To these are to be added, first, 12,000 men of every class from the military colonies, where they have been formed for service with the most rigorous cruelty,-a soldier of the line being placed in each house, with full authority to dispose of its male inmates as he pleases, so as to prepare them for the field of battle; and next are the troops called garrison regiments, who are armed, equipped, and exercised in the same way as the troops of the line, with the exception of wearing a gray uniform, instead of the green which is common to the troops of the line, in which also it is of rather a superior quality. These garrison regiments are employed principally as militia are in other countries, and also for the protection of fortresses and the escort of prisoners; but they are liable to be called into service in the same way as the regular troops: their number is estimated at 60,000. The irregular cavalry, in which are included all the Cossacks already trained to the warfare for which they are found to be so useful and enduring, are calculated at 50,000, that being the number which can be called out with ease, although it is supposed that a third more than that number might be brought forward without much difficulty. The total force of the Russian army, either in actual service or liable to be called out at a short notice, is thus stated: Troops of the line... Imperial guard Colonised troops Garrison regiments Irregular cavalry Legends of the Lakes; or, Sayings and Doings at Killar- Mr. Strong, the Bookseller, of Bristol, announces a ADVERTISEMENTS. Connected with Literature and the Arts. 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THE ENGLISHMAN, This highly lished at No. 170, in the Strand, every Sunday morning at Four period has invariably pursued the same course in all its depart o'Clock, at the price of Seven-pence only. The Englishman has now been published Twenty-six Years, and during that long ments-that of the strictest impartiality. It may truly be said of the Englishman, that it is "open to all parties, influenced by none." As a family newspaper, the Englishman stands unri valled; not a line or an advertisement of an immoral tendency is allowed under any circumstances to stain its pages. The Englishman is a 20 folio column journal, the same size and price as the lent sort, and the type almost new; indeed, for variety, quantity, "Observer." The paper upon which it is printed is of an exceland quality, it is the most perfect. In speaking of Sunday Newspapers, it is proverbial to say, the Englishman is almost a library in itself; and to such readers who do not desire a party paper, a trial of the Englishman is strongly recommended as a neutral. journal, in which such a combination of literary talent is engaged as cannot be excelled by any weekly newspaper whatever. The Englishman is sent from London by the mails on Sunday, and may be had in the country on the blank post days. BOOKS PUBLISHED THIS DAY. resting Articles,-I. The Penenden Heath Meeting-11. Irish THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE Proceedings; the Clare Election, Catholic Leaders and Associa tions-III. Professional Sketches, No. I; Mr. Abernethy-IV., The Annuals-V. Dr. Granville's St. Petersburgh-VI. Walks in Rome and its Environs; the Roman Theatre-VII. The Deathin the Wall-IX. Gipsies-X. D'Israeli's Commentaries on Boat of Heligoland-VIII. The Philosophy of Clubs; the Hole Charles I.-XI. Stanzas on Life-XII. Travelling Oddities, No. 2-XIII. My Public-XIV. Folly-XV. Broken Ties-XVI. Sketches of Parisian Society, Politics, and Literature-XVII. The Dying Klepht to his Companions-XVIII. The New Tragedy of Rienzi, by Miss Mitford-XIX. Mr. Haydon's New Picture; and the usual Varieties in Politics, Critical Notices of New Publications, Fine Arts, Domestic and Foreign Varieties, Blo METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1828. graphical Particulars of Persons lately deceased, Provincial Oc October. Thursday.. 30 384,000 ... 31 November. Saturday 1 Sunday.... 2 90,000 Monday 3 34. 120,000 Tuesday 60,000 50,000 60,000 764,000 Of this force upwards of 300,000 were ready at the commencement of the present campaign to pass the Pruth, and proceed at once to the Balkan; but it was considered necessary to leave a portion behind to keep a check upon any movement which might be contemplated by the Emperor of Austria, and, to supply the deficiency, the imperial guards were ordered to march; and a perfect understanding having been effected between the Russian and Prussian courts, an army of more than 100,000 men, which was on the Prussian frontiers, has been placed at the disposal of the emperor. A new edition of Thucydides, printed at the Clarendon Press, illustrated with Maps drawn from actual Surveys, and accompanied with Notes, chiefly Historical and Geographical, by the Rev. T. Arnold, Head Master of Rugby School, is preparing for publication. Nearly ready, What is Luxury? 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There are also a very few Copies on royal paper, the Plates to which are early Proofs, and which will be sold for 12. 16s. in boards. ** There being a few extra Sets of Smollett, persons who may happen to have the Hume alone, have now an opportunity of completing their Sets. There are also some odd volumes, if wanted. London: Published by Robert Scholey, Paternoster-Row; and the other Proprietors. script, because we-burnt it; and there is no use in mak-impress us with any idea of the full extent of their genius and Poro has mistaken the position of the letters in his signature: the last o should be before, not after the r. Literum sat, as the good scholars say. Messrs. Ebers and Co. announce a new series of Ima position from him can be of attention, and his papers A. C. C.'s impertinence shews how unworthy any proginary Conversations, by Walter Savage Landor;-The I shall be thrown behind the fire, 2. Ismael; or, the Kuzzilbash. 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