SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. MAHOMET. gow; Blythswood House, the seat of Archi- An Introduction to the Study of Painting, arranged under three heads, viz. Geometry, Perspective, and Light and Shadow; elucidated by Question and Answer. By E. Rudge. Mahomet was naturally gay, affable, and of an even disposition. He listened patiently to every body; and, to use the expression of his historians, when he was in company he was never the first to rise. washed away his filth, and respectfully drank it; when he expectorated, they swallowed his saliva; when he cut his hair, they eagerly col, lected the fragments. In speaking of this subject, an idolater of Mecca, who had witnessed the splendour of the Cæsars of Constantinople, and that of the Cosroes of Persia, declared that no king had ever been so respected, that no prince had ever enjoyed such an empire, as Mahomet. WINE. The Vintage of 1829.-In this wine-drink His domestic establishment was simple, mo-ing age it may be satisfactory to the lovers of dest; in short, like that of a private individual. château margot, lafitte, and the genuine ail de Dates and water were the food most frequently perdrix, to learn that there has been no used; and sometimes two months would elapse falling off in the quantity of the produce of without the lighting of a fire. Mahomet those luxuries this season; and that the quadarned his own stockings, mended his own lity, although not quite so fine as that of clothes, swept his own room, and waited on the vintage of the comet, is yet good enough himself. to make it worth the while of the importer He constantly maintained forty persons at to lay them in his cellar for future consumphis own expense. Whatever they asked, he tion. An intelligent friend, for whose taste in never refused; so that more than once it hap- these matters we have great regard, informs pened to him to be in want of the necessaries us that the abundance of the ordinary French of life. God,-again to use the words of his wines has been such as to render it necessary London, Hurst, Chance, and Co.; historians,-offered him the keys of all the trea- to destroy a great part of the produce for want Stratford-upon-Avon, Ward. sures of the earth; but he declined them. of casks to put it in; and that the better sort MR. RUDGE, who is teacher of painting, perThe feeling which Mahomet was the least of wines, although they have not yet fallen in spective, &c. to Rugby School, and has dedi- able to control, especially towards the latter price, must, ere long, be sold at a reduced rate, cated his treatise to his pupils, justly observes, part of his life, was the love of women. That as the quantity warehoused renders the stock that the true principles of science are the only taste, and a liking for perfumes, were, after on hand of much less value. In Champagne, foundation of real excellence in the art of ambition, his two ruling passions. Two such has been the abundance of the vintage, painting. We find it difficult, however, to things," he himself said, "attract and excite believe that many of the boys in a public me-women and perfumes: these two things school will be induced to bestow the time and recreate me, and render me more disposed to attention requisite for the attainment of de- prayer." tails of which few of them can ever in their after-lives be required to avail themselves. To young professional artists we have no doubt that the work will be very useful. HANTS PICTURE GALLERY. It is gratifying to find provincial exhibitions of the Fine Arts meeting with encouragement and success. The second season of the Hants Picture Gallery, at Southampton, belonging to Mr. Buchan, has just closed. The exhibition consisted of two hundred and fifteen works of art, of various descriptions; many of them possessed of considerable merit; and of which above thirty were purchased by visitors to the gallery. ORIGINAL POETRY. YOUNG Rosa was gay, and her heart always Her cheek ever blooming, her eye ever bright, all three. But Colin, false Colin, soon stole all away; it fade! While her dim, sunken eye her soul's anguish that wines of the present year-that very good wine, which was sold last year at 30 francs per dozen, can now be had for 20 francs; and it is a fact, that a large consignment of vin de Mahomet married about a dozen women, not Champagne has reached this country at 24s. reckoning slaves. At his death he left nine of per dozen, exclusive of duty. In what is called them. This was an evident violation of the première qualité, the growers still ask 30 to precept which he had himself established, and 35 francs per dozen; but of this sort there is which fixed the number of wives at four. But but little in the English market, for in no exempted from the common law. He affected drinker to detect the varieties of quality, as in in his character of a prophet he pretended to be sort of wine is it so difficult for the ordinary to say, that all the prophets who had preceded the white effervescing wines of Champagne. A him had acted in the same manner. The truth very large proportion of the wines sold here is, that whether we regard his own life, or cer- and in the Netherlands as vin de Champagne, is tain passages in the Alcoran, it is manifest merely the light white wines of Burgundy, to that he placed sovereign happiness in sensual which a body has been given by the admixture pleasures. of the white wine of Spanish Estremadura, He loved to serve them with the same ardour pared on the spot for this commerce, by a Mahomet was very zealous for his friends. or the inferior sorts of Lisbon, which are prewith which they served him; which was in his stoppage of the fermenting process; but a eyes the surest method of attaching them to his nefarious trade is also carried on with some cause. But in proportion as he was disposed to parts of the world, by the exportation of a stuff serve his friends, was he implacable towards called champagne, which is merely the com his enemies. If any one interposed an obstacle monest wine of the environs of Paris, rendered to his designs, he gave himself up to excessive sweet with sugar of lead, and effervescing by In this respect he shared the vindictive feelings also, that a great deal of the claret which we resentment; fire, poison,—he stuck at nothing. means of a chemical management. It seems of his countrymen; and he did not begin to receive is the ordinary vin de Bordeaux, to manifest any greatness of soul, until the firm which a body is given by adding one-fourth of establishment of his power had placed him the red Spanish wine grown near Talavera de la above these horrible atrocities. Reyna, a wine really good and wholesome, but Mahomet treated religion as a political which is sold on the spot at the rate of less than means of arriving at his ends. On every occa- two-pence per quart, and which, when it arrives sion he made Heaven speak. Thus, by the at Bordeaux, does not cost the importer more assistance of the Alcoran alone, we may form a than three-pence. To this a flavour much renotion of the most important epochs of his sembling the true bouquet of the best clairet, life. He never failed to give to all his pro- or claret, is given, by the addition of orriceceedings a religious character. The Mussul- root, and other drugs, perfectly harmless in mans, in order to express the extreme atten- themselves; and it is then exported to England. And she who had seem'd never destin'd to sigh, tion of Mahomet to every thing which related In Portugal, the vintage has, on the whole, Felt the first wound of sorrow, and felt it to die. to the Deity, say, that even when he looked been good, but the quality is not remarkably down on the earth, his reflections were on fine. The wine called Collaris, from the name But o'er the green grave that poor Rosa contains, heaven. of the village near which it is grown, is much The flowers that wave are her beauty's remains; By such devices he inspired an enthusiasm in demand for the French market. It is a No mortal, the villagers say, placed them there, among his companions, of which it is difficult very fair kind of claret, with a port body, but Like her Nature's children, like her they are to find a second instance. When he cleansed until lately, it was so little esteemed in Portuhimself, his disciples took the water which had gal that it might be purchased at less than betray'd; fair, eight-pence English per bottle. It cannot now | Charles was dictating a letter to his secretary, | publish them if exasperated by its continuance. be had good under double that sum. It are ingeniously woven into the dramatic plot It is but natural and reasonable that the private seems, from the information which has been of the piece. The first leads to his discovery friends of an author or composer should feel given to us, that great improvements have of Vanberg's innocence, and the second to the interested in the fate of his new production, lately been made in the production of the knowledge of Gustavus's love for Ulrica. and seize every fair opportunity to swell the wines of Spanish Estremadura, and that ere Charles's narrow escape at the battle of S applause of the public, or counteract the efforts long some very good samples may be expected from the hands of a Danish lieutenant, also of prejudice and ill-nature; but, by dint of hamin the English market. Up to the presen related by Voltaire, is made subservient to the mering, stamping, and shouting, to force an time, these wines have had an earthy flavour, general interest of the drama, as Vanberg is audience to hear that twice which is scarcely which was very disagreeable to an English discovered to be his preserver; and after dis- endurable once, is an impertinent tyranny, to palate; but the greatest fault has been in the pensing justice and mercy in a truly royal which we trust the town will no longer submit. mode of transporting them to the coast. This style of generosity, the curtain drops on the Let these people confine themselves to their being done in goat and pig-skins, the taste of eccentric monarch and his devoted subjects, as puffing advertisements, which, at any rate, which never can be got rid of thoroughly he is on the point of embarking for Carlscroon, benefit the revenue; or if even that will not enough, until they are nearly worn out with use, the danger of which retreat, through the midst help off their trash, why not follow the example the wine is spoiled for drinking to all but a of a hostile fleet, was the very reason which of respectable practitioners in other lines, and Spaniard, who would perhaps consider the induced Charles, says his historian, to under- chalk their address and the title of the songs absence of the goat and pig flavour as a great take it. upon the walls all around London ? defect. Indeed, the thong upon the palate is a boast in sherries, and why not in other wines? MUSIC. ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC. DRAMA. DRURY LANE. 66 Of the acting in this excellent piece we can- On Saturday last a Miss Nelson appeared at not speak too highly-the parts were literally this theatre as Peggy, in the Country Girl; and individualised by the attention given by the if it be (as indeed we have no right to doubt, performers to costume, and the careful study after the verbal and typographical assurances of manners and historical characteristics. Far- we have received from Mr. Fawcett), really a On Monday, at the English Opera House, there ren resembled the picture of Charles to so ex- first appearance, it is the most extraordinary was a performance by the pupils of this esta-traordinary a degree, that, were his lineage one that has been made by a female in our day, blishment, aided by the talents, and directed not known, and he should set up a claim to and that is a pretty long one. Mrs. Jordan's by the experience, of Signor de Begnis, who that monarch, through direct descent, we would as unfair that our admiration of that exquisite the Swedish throne, as the representative of image is yet fresh in our mind; but it would be performed Figaro. The patrons of the Royal Academy were much pleased with the progress Bernadotte, nor half a farthing for the succes- Nelson, as that our adoration of Mrs. Siddons not give a farthing for the possession of it by actress should blind us to the genius of Miss made and the promise given by the most pro- sion of his son Oscar. Liston, in Adam Brock, should prevent our acknowledging the talent of minent students, to whom they look for great must be more ideal, but it seems identity; and Miss Phillips. Comparisons are odorous," improvements in our national school of music. hereafter. Harley in the Burgómaster, and Cooper in says our dear friend Dogberry: we do not Vanberg, were all that could be desired. We agree with those who think that Miss Nelson ought also to mention Mr. Vining and the has been admirably taught; on the contrary, other officers with much commendation: their we feel convinced that she has not been taught dresses had a capital effect. But if we have at all; nay, we have heard that she disdains ON Thursday night was produced here, with left the ladies last, it is not because they less all tuition, and that she is as wild and as ingreat and deserved éclat, a drama, in two acts, deserve the tribute of our applause. Miss Love fantile off the stage as she is upon it. Were by Mr. Planché, entitled Charles the Twelfth, of played with great vivacity, and sang a beau- her voice and her person as pleasing as her which the following is the plot -Major Van- tiful song by Barnett, which was justly en- conception is judicious, her action natural, and berg has been accused of treasonable corre- cored. When she enacted the king, and imi- her fun exuberant and original, she would be spondence with the unfortunate Livonian, John tated the peculiar laugh (between the teeth, the greatest acquisition the stage has known Reinhold Patkul, who was delivered up by equally true of Charles and of his copy, Far- for many years; but we greatly fear that the Augustus, king of Saxony, to Charles XII. in ren), it produced a roar of laughter. Miss small "childish treble" which is the characviolation of all the laws of nations, and broken Ellen Tree looked fascinating in Ulrica, and teristic of the one, and, despite a fine pair of upon the wheel. Through the influence of an performed very sweetly. Altogether, we have black eyes, the-the-we had almost said vul. enemy high in the council of regency, Vanberg rarely, if ever, seen a drama of this class got garity of the other, will necessarily limit her is condemned, during Charles's absence in the up in so perfect a style, nor one which pos- performances to so small a range of characters, Ukraine, to perpetual banishment; but trusting sessed more sterling attractions. The history as to render her next to useless on our metroat the return of the king to Sweden, that he of Charles has chiefly furnished Mr. Planché politan boards. Her reception was, however, shall be able to prove his innocence, the major with the hints which he has made eminently enthusiastic, and there was a pathos, indeed, recrosses the frontier, and takes refuge in a effective on the stage; and the whole thing is in her final appeal to the audience, sequestered village in the island of Rugen, a genuine picture of the times, admirably emSwedish Pomerania, where his foster brother, bodied, and strikingly carried into action. Adam Brock, resides, who sends privately for the major's daughter, Ulrica, and, to baffle suspicion, sets them up in the little inn of the AN alteration of Bickerstaff's obsolete and stuplace, under the name of Firmann. The king pid farce of the Sultan, which the acting A MOST splendid and extraordinary display of at last returns from Turkey and repairs to of a Jordan could scarcely render tolerable, has scenery, machinery, dresses, and decorations, Stralsund, where he is besieged by the Danes been produced here, with new music by Mr. A. has been made at this popular little theatre in a and Prussians. The former threatening a Lee, under the title of the Sublime and Beau-new melo-drama entitled, the Earthquake, or descent on the neighbouring island of Rugen, tiful. We shall only say, the king secretly crosses the Straits of Gelex, "The name of Morton honours this corruption, and, unknown to any of the inhabitants, arrives And chastisement doth therefore hide its head." at the little village where Vanberg has turned We are happy to perceive that some of the innkeeper, and takes up his abode in the house. newspapers have properly reprobated the conCharles having been absent from his country duct of the music-sellers, who make a point of since the age of seventeen, was scarcely recol- sending some dozens of their engravers, prinlected on his return by any of his subjects; and ters, and shopmen, into the theatre, for the this circumstance involved the monarch in a purpose of encoring every song which is their series of whimsical adventures, which end in property, to the great annoyance of the audihis being arrested by a meddling burgomaster, ence, and in many instances to the detriment at the close of the first act, the panorama of as the traitor Vanberg. The discovery of his of the piece itself. We were the first to exreal rank, and the announcement of the land- pose their practice of feeing the singers to in. ing of the Danes, terminate the first act. Introduce particular songs, in violation of all prothe second, the historical facts of his taking priety, upon every occasion, and we will cothe guard for a wounded colonel named Reichel, operate most heartily in striving to abate this as related by Voltaire, and the better-known abominable nuisance. We are in possession of explosion of a shell in the antechamber, while some curious facts, and shall not hesitate to COVENT GARDEN. "Have I done amiss?" which could not have been resisted had she been far less entitled to their approbation. ADELPHI. the Phantom of the Nile. We must confess, for our own parts, we had been better pleased if the author had done more for his reputation, and the carpenter less: but when such a piece as the Sublime and Beautiful is tolerated at Covent Garden, we see no reason why Mr. Fitz-Ball should not be allowed to string his effects together at the Adelphi with as little common sense as possible. The ascent of the mechanical chair of Orchus the Nile, and the earthquake in the last scene of the piece, are equal, if not superior, to any thing we have ever witnessed in the shape of scenic illusion, and, when the size and resources of this theatre are taken into consi. deration, appear absolutely miraculous. The music, by Mr, Rodwell, is pretty and appro priate, though not equal to his late efforts in th Mason of Buda. The piece was remarkably well received, and we hope will repay the spirited proprietors for the expense of its outfit. VARIETIES. Bees. A new manual, for the proprietors of bees, has been published at Paris by a M. Martin. It treats successively of the natural history of bees, of their maladies, of their different forms of government, and of the construction of their hives. It collects the most striking observations that have been made upon these industrious republics by preceding writers; and finishes by a summary of the principles of education which M. Martin lays down, and by a bibliography of bees! Annexed is an abridged treatise on the culture of sainfoin and buck wheat, which M. Manuel considers to be the two plants most favourable to the production of honey. Antiquities. We learn from Rome, that workmen being employed in making a drain to carry off the rain-water from the Baths of Paulus Emilius, found near the church of S. Maria, in the Campo Carleo, large masses of marble, with most beautiful ornaments, belonging to the portico which surrounded the Forum; a long piece of a fluted column, of Phrygian or purple marble, about three Roman feet in diameter; a bracket of colossal dimensions, likewise enriched with the finest ornaments; the torso of a statue of a captive king, resembling others which have been found in the Forum ;-and a fragment of an inscription of the time of Septimus Severus. LITERARY NOVELTIES. Memoirs of the extraordinary military career of John Shipp, late a Lieutenant in his Majesty's 87th regiment, written by himself, is announced for early publication, by subscription. The narrative extends over a period of thirty-four years of a very eventful life. The author in his prospectus assures us as a fact that he is still alive to write these memoirs, after having led four forlorn hopes and received six ball wounds! But, added to this, there will be found interspersed throughout the work various amusing and affecting anecdotes. declares, that in a population of thirty-two morning, and afterwards spent the day with, Friendly and Seasonable Advice to the Roman Catholics of England, fourth edition, with an Appendix and ordinary to the King,-is nearly ready. Notes, by Walter Farquhar Hook, A.M. Chaplain in Mr. Rutter, of Shaftesbury, announces a Descriptive Account of the North-western Division of Somersetshire, and of the Antediluvian Bone Caverns in the Mendip Hills; to be embellished with seven plates and six vignettes." pleasure, rapidly run through a first edition. Thus, in spite of the outcry that poetry is a drug, we now find that it is a drug which sells as well as any other kind of lite rature. Mrs. Norton's Sorrows of Rosalie have, we learn with Mr. Crofton Croker's Sayings and Doings at Killarney are on the eve of appearance. They are the record, we understand, of the author's personal adventures at the sketches, which he uttered, collected, sung, or designed, lakes, and contain all the jokes, stories, songs, and during his sojourn there. It is to contain, besides, a narworth's, visit to the lakes, to the latter of whom Mr. rative of Sir Walter Scott's, Lockhart's, and Miss EdgeCroker has dedicated his work. In the Press-Moral and Sacred Poetry, selected from the Works of the most admired Authors, Ancient and Modern.-A new work, in one volume, by the Author of LIST OF NEW BOOKS. Electricity. An important fact has lately been ascertained with reference to electricity. It is well known that if the two poles of a voltaic pile are united by a short metal wire, a proper charge will make that wire red-hot in the middle. Philosophers have explained this by stating that the temperature of the wire was actually the same throughout; but that the extremities feeling the cooling effect of their contact with the pile, it followed that the mid- Loudon's Gardener's Magazine, Vol. IV. 8vo. 17s. bds.dle must manifest a higher temperature. Ex-Journey from the Bank to Barnes, 12mo. 58. bds.Craigie's Elements of Anatomy, 8vo. 168. bds.-My Grandperiments have, however, been recently made father's Farm, 12mo. 75. bds.-Howell's Alexander Selon the operation of the electrical current on a kirk, 12mo. 58. bds.-Malcolm's Scenes of War, &c. fcp. 78. bds.-Diversions of Holycott, 18mo. 38. 6d. bds.wire so long as to remove the possibility of any Spirit of the Age Newspaper, 12mo. 78. 6d. bds.-Rigby cooling effect on the extremities interfering on the Mechanism of Parturition, from the German, with the result. By those experiments it dis-12mo. 58. bds.-Wallace on Medical Education, 8vo. 68. bds.Tales and Confessions, by Leitch Ritchie, post 8vo. tinctly appears that the temperature of the 10s. 6d. bds.-Bell (B.) on the Bones, crown 8vo. 78. bds. wire goes on augmenting from each end of the Affection's Offering, 1829, 48. bds.-Park's Contre-Prowire to the middle; and, consequently, that the jet to Humphreyian Code, royal 8vo. 158. bds.--Flood's Anatomy of the Nervous System, Vol. I. 12mo. 5s. bds. cause which produces an electrical current, the Simplicity of Health, 12mo. 48. bds.-Nicholl's Law intensity of which is uniform in every part of Assistant, 8vo. 68. bds.--Carpenter's Scripture Difficulties, 8vo. 10s, bds.-Stewart's Discourses on Christian Docthe wire, acts as an accelerating power in the trine, 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds. development of heat. December. 29 2 Thermometer. From 42. to 50. 41:- 55. 48. 60. 45.- 55. Barometer. 29.86 to 30.00 30.00 29.99 30.05 - 29.96 Stat. 30.08 45. 29.72 - 30.16 30.34 -Stat. 30.11 - 30.00 Consumption. A number of experiments METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL 1828. has been made in France on ducks and chick- November. ens, by M. Flourens; from which he draws Thursday.. 27 Friday .... 28 the following conclusions:-first, that cold ex- Saturday. ercises a constant and decided action on the Sunday... 30 lungs of animals; secondly, that the effect of Monday 1 that action is more rapid and serious in propor-Tuesday tion to the youth of the animal; thirdly, that when cold does not produce an acute pulmonary inflammation, speedily mortal, it produces a chronic inflammation, which is in fact pulmonary consumption; fourthly, that heat constantly prevents the inroad of pulmonary consumption, that when it has actually commenced, heat suspends its progress, and that sometimes heat even leads to a perfect cure; fifthly, that to whatever height it may have arrived, this malady is never contagious. evening of the 3d. Barometer. 30.10 to 30.16 30.11 - 29.91 The Italian Theatre in Lisbon. In the best days of the Constitution, when it was the rage to go to the San Carlos at Lisbon to call for the Constitutional Hymn and Rey! Rey! (God save the King) and to make extempore speeches from the pit and boxes, the manager of the theatre, a coffee-house keeper, was able to pay salaries of 101. and 157. English per week to each of four really first-rate singers, who in this country would have had each 1500l. to 20007. for the season; and about 21. to 31. per week to the second-rate actors and actresses, going down to a crusada novo (2s. 4d.) per night to the figurantes and chorus-singers. In those days, however, the instrumental part of the establishment was on a much more economical scale. Two thirds of the musicians were Spaniards; some of them noblemen, who were glad to earn a subsistence by playing in the orchestra for a crusada novo a-night, and the Portuguese musicians were from that circumstance obliged to lower their demands. Now, however, things are altered. The salaries of the singers have been reduced one half, and the refugee Spaniards being in prison, the native fiddlers have had a strike for wages, and compelled the manager to double the Legal Anecdote.--On the day of Lord El-companied by a tremendous clap of thunder and a few don's resignation of the great seal, a certain The Rev. Dr. Chalmers having been in- little lawyer, after expatiating, at a dinner ducted to the divinity chair in the University party, on the public merits of that noble and Longitude 0 3 51 W. of Greenwich. of Edinburgh, the Senatus Academicus of St. | learned person, proceeded to speak of his kindAndrews have supplied the vacancy thus oc-ness and condescension towards the barristers casioned in the chair of moral philosophy of his court. "To me," added he, "the loss there, by inducting the Rev. Dr. Geo. Cook, is irreparable, for Lord Eldon always behaved of Lawrence-kirk, to that place.-Edinburgh to me quite like a father." "Yes," said Brougham, who was one of the company, understand that he always treated you quite like a child." amount of their remuneration. Journals. The State of France. According to a pamphlet which has lately appeared in Paris, and which professes to be founded on authentic documents, the state of France, with reference to the number of paupers, robbers, &c., seems to be worse than that of England. The author 66 I Wednesday 3 5 52. 43. 6 32. - 52. 7 44. 52. 8 45. - 39. .. 9 32. 43. 33. We are not sure that we could do any public good from seeing the medical work offered." Where the shoe Murder and Sociability.-An Irish news-pinches, private inquiry will probably be far more efficapaper of last week contains the following para-cious than critical discussion. ERRATUM. 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