DRAMA. THE theatres during this week present no novelty, except Mr. Kean's (the younger) performance of Romeo to Miss Philips's Juliet. Having been prevented from witnessing it, we can only say for the present, that it bears a good report in the theatrical circles. Great preparations have been made for the Christmas pantomimes; but we must be at press before they begin on Friday night. perfectly clear, is warmed up for use, and a gradual improvement. Two Frenchmen of served as café noir, without milk, in small considerable talent have in contemplation the cups, demi tasses, or with boiling milk, in the establishment of a French newspaper at Napoli, Proportion of one-third coffee to two-thirds or Navarin; and a similar undertaking is prothis country, the coffee is made by infusion, will probably be given by the French governmilk. In private families in France, as injected at Corfu. To the first of these, support without chicorée, or the latter is used only ment, as it is not likely that, in the present medicinally. Where the frequent use of coffee state of society in Greece, the work would sucis found to over-stimulate the stomach, and ceed upon its own merits. to distress the nerves, occasioning pain and Jerusalem Artichokes.-In some parts of the acidities, the París physicians order a little North of France, the root of the Jerusalem Castile soap to be scraped into the cup with artichoke has been introduced into use for the the coffee. This produces scarcely any un- purpose of distillation. The wash made from pleasant taste, although the contrary might this vegetable is found to yield a very pure but be expected, and is very highly extolled by strong spirit, which resembles that obtained persons who use it. In Portugal, coffee is from the grape, more than any other substitute always made by infusion, and is taken very that has hitherto been tried. As the root strong,-an ounce being used for one good-sized grows readily in this country, and might be cup; yet, from its cheapness, a small cup of cultivated abundantly, it would be well to try coffee, including sugar and milk, may be had the experiment here, as we have now no medium Bavaria. The population of Bavaria con- in a first-rate coffee-house for a penny. In spirit between genuine French brandy, which is sists of about 3,960,000 individuals, spread over most parts of Spain coffee is but little used, so much overtaxed, and the fiery produce of 229 towns, 399 burghs, 2,920 villages, and and is then made very weak, an ounce only grain, sold under the denominations of gin and 28,450 hamlets. Divided according to their being used for eight or ten persons, Where whisky. VARIETIES. Phrenology. Dr. Spurzheim, the pupil and friend of the late Dr. Gall, is now at Toulon, examining, by permission of the government, the skulls of all the convicts. He writes to his friends, that he expects, from these examinations, to produce many decided proofs of the correctness of his doctrine. religious faith, this population comprehends there are French coffee-houses, the French Adulterated Bread. It was stated some time 2,720,000 Catholics, 1,103,000 Christians of mode of preparing it is adopted. In France ago in the Literary Gazette, that an epidemic the Angsburg confession, 80,000 reformed the ground coffee at the grocers' shops is fre- disease of great virulence, which was attributed Christians, 56,000 Israelites, and 1,000 per- quently adulterated with burnt chestnuts. It to the adulteration of the bread, had manifested sons of various other sects. Public instruction ought to be added, that the coffee which is itself in many parts of Paris, but particularly costs the government annually 735,000 florins, used in private families in France, owes much in hospitals and other public institutions. Á which is about a sixth of the whole expense of of its delicious flavour to the fact of its being the administration of the interior. The num- used soon after roasting. The process of roastber of establishments devoted to education is ing is carried on there by retail grocers and about 5,530; viz. three universities, two schools private families every day; whereas in this of law, seven normal schools, 118 lyceums, country, the berries from which our coffee is gymnasiums, colleges, particular schools, &c.; prepared, has, generally speaking, been roasted and 5,400 primary schools. The number of several months previously, professors is 7,114, without reckoning nearly 300 inspectors, whose duty is to superintend and improve the various institutions. The Jews have an especial school for their children, and a learned academy at Furth. The total number of persons thus receiving education in the kingdom is 500,000; that is to say, about an eighth of the population. There are also many Sunday schools. M. Caille.There is some idea in France of sending out M. Caillé, and two or three others to Africa; but the government will not come to any decision on the subject until the report of the Geographical Society on the accounts given by this traveller of Timbuctoo and other places, have been delivered. Bremen Wine. The cellars of the senate of Bremen had long been famous for good old wine, of which no one was allowed to have even a few bottles without an express permission from the illustrious body to which it belonged. During the occupation of Bremen by the French troops, however, the rule requiring this permission was disregarded. The cellar at that period contained a great deal of Rhenish wine, two centuries old. As the tuns were drawn off, the deficiency was supplied with new wine; but the mixture is still passed off as being 200 years of age! recent French paper states that the disorder has not yet entirely disappeared, and that a rigid analysis of the bread used in the hospitals and other public places infested with it, has been ordered by the government. M. Recamier says the disease resembles very much the convulsio raphania of Linnæus, which that botanist ascribed to the raphæum raphanistrum, the seeds of which plant are frequently found mixed with the ears of wheat and other grain. The malady to which Linnæus has given the name of convulsio raphania, consists of violent agitation, and pains in the limbs, with contractions of various duration. M. Recamier, in consequence of its striking analogy to the epidemic which has existed in Paris for the last six months, has given to the latter the name of morbus raphaniformis;-but nothing has yet transpired, either from the most careful investigation of symptoms or dissection after death, to add to the slender knowledge already possessed of this curious affection. The Medical Profession. A great stir is making in France among the members of the medical profession, on account of a communication from the government that it is intended to revise all the laws which affect the faculty,-for the purpose, as it should seem, of putting an end to empiricism, and making the study of medicine and surgery more beneficial to the public, There have been several meetings of the faculty of Paris on the subject; and a committee has been appointed by them to confer with the government. Steam Cannon. The late failure of Mr. Perkins, at Vincennes, has not had the effect of discouraging the French government from Coffee A general belief prevails in this other attempts to make steam cannon. We country, that the acknowledged superiority of hear that Messrs. Perrier and Edwards, who the coffee which is made in France is to be are eminent engineers at Chaillot, near Paris, attributed to the chicorée powder which is put have been employed to prepare something in into it before boiling. The truth, however, is, this way from models furnished by the French that this powder, which is made from the dried government; and that hopes are entertained and roasted root of the cultivated dandelion, is of being able to produce a cannon as formidable only used in coffee-houses and other places of in proportion as the steam musket-barrel exhipublic entertainment in France for the pur-bited by Mr. Perkins. Yet it is difficult to pose of adulteration, as the addition of a tea-conceive how, even if success attend the atspoonful of it to an ounce of coffee will give tempt to produce an engine of this kind, it as much colour and flavour as the addition of can be made available in a field of battle. On Extraordinary Vase. At one of the recent half an ounce of genuine coffee. The cost of board ship, however, or in siege, it might prove sittings of the Geographical Society in Paris, the chicorée is something under three pence very destructive to an enemy. after a communication had been read from the per pound in France; but in this country, Greece. It has already been stated in the minister of marine, stating his readiness to where it is justly recommended to be mixed Lit. Gaz. that the French government had re.comply with the suggestions made by the Sowith coffee to correct its heating properties, it solved to send out another scientific expedition ciety in favour of M. Caillé, the traveller has been modestly advertised at half-a-crown. to Greece. We now find that the minister of lately arrived from Timbuctoo, M. Warden The usual mode in which coffee is prepared the interior has desired the Academy of Sci. communicated the extract of a letter from the in France at the coffee-houses, is this. Cold ences, and two or three similar institutions, Count de Saqui, dated from the Havannah, in water is poured upon the ground coffee, in the to select each one or two persons of scientific which he announces, that in digging a well at proportion of one pint to two ounces of the knowledge, to form part of the projected expe. a house within twelve leagues of the city, his powder, with one sixth or eighth part of thedition. It is also intended to send to the Mo-nephew discovered, at a depth of about 100 feet, powder of chicorée added. This is then placed rea a complete printing apparatus, for the pur- a vase, in the most perfect state of preservain the ashes of a wood fire, and left stewing pose of getting up works in the French lan-tion, covered with hieroglyphics and with some for several hours. It is then taken away and guage, adapted to the present state of intellect figures, one of which bears a resemblance to allowed to settle, and being poured off when in the country, but so contrived as to promote the Sagittarius of our zodiac, in the act of it discharging an arrow at two persons who sented to the library by Sultan Mahmoud), Schamai- than it was under the imperial government; and that the appear chained or linked together by the hands. Schawashidu-Nubuve (Sacred History of the Prophet, of of six to one of the number admitted during the peace of lennebi (Description of the Qualities of the Prophet), foreign papers admitted into France are in the proportion The figures generally resemble the Egyptian. his Governors, and his House), &c.; Poems in the Arabic Amiens, when a shew of liberty was awarded to the The vase has been presented to the city of language, by Kasside-Buride and Abbaleba; in Persian press. Within the last few days, the prohibition of the Orleans. by Hafiz, in Turkish by Ragib, Issabit, &c. We have French government against the admission of certain Enalso found in Achmed's mosque several of the books glish newspapers has been taken off. This prohibition Superstition. At Freshford, if the church which, at the request of some of our friends learned in had, indeed, long been nominal; for although lists of the clock happen to strike while the choir is sing-order, but in vain, in Persia, particularly in the library there has for two or three years past been no instance of oriental literature, were looked for by the emperor's prohibited papers were stuck up in the custom-houses, ing, during divine service, it is almost univer-at Etchmiudzin; namely, 1.'Anwaru Tansil, composed by seizure; and one of the perquisites of the department of sally considered by the lower class of the inha-Kasi-Beisawi; 2. Keschaf; 3. Schakankunneiman (?); foreign affairs in Paris, was the receipt, on account of difbitants as a sign that some person in the parish Tarfat, by Seyl-Scharif; and, 7. Kitab Siase, by Aristotle. every kind, including, of course, those against which 4. Ochtari Kabir; 5. Hafiz, with the explanations; 6. ferent reading-rooms in Paris, of English newspapers of will die before the next Sunday. Captain Sy- The library taken at Akhalzik cannot be compared there was a nominal prohibition. It is now generally monds's gamekeeper, who recently died very in other respects. Most of the books from the library seizure of works denounced to the police, and previously with that at Ardebil for splendid MSS., but is superior to believed in Paris, that the law authorising the arbitrary suddenly, lived at Freshford, attended the at Ardebil are written in the Tarsi language, and consist to their being declared libellous by a jury, will be abolished church the Sunday before his decease, and on almost exclusively of the works of poets and historians, next session. his return home, told his wife that the church which have been collected at different times, without any systematic arrangement; whereas the library at Akhalzik clock had struck during the singing, and that contains works on every branch of knowledge requisite somebody in the parish would die before the in a learned institution, such as grammar, rhetoric, next Sabbath day. His own awful end veri- mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, theology, legislation, jurisprudence, &c. Most of these books are in fied the omen in that instance, and infested it Arabic, which gives an advantage to this library, as the with tenfold dread; and has afforded matter Persians, Turks, and Tartars, are known to have enriched their language from the Arabic. for many grave discussions by the nurses and N.B. In the proper names the orthography of the Germidwives of the village.-York Courant. man journal from which the article is taken has been scrupulously retained, for fear of still farther disfiguring them, by attempting to accommodate them to the English pronunciation. " Planning. Some wag in the provincial journals is gravely circulating a paragraph, under the title of "a hint to the learned,' Another work from the pen of the Rev. Richard Warin which he proposes to establish a subscrip-ner, entitled, What must I do to be saved? may soon be tion society for publishing such books as book-expected. The Annual Peerage for 1829, with new Plates of the sellers will not publish. Why not have other Arms, is also announced. establishments for selling such meat or fish as butchers or fishmongers will not sell?! A Dutchman's Climax of Happiness.-It is better to walk than to run; it is better to stand than to walk; it is better to sit than to stand; it is better to lie down than to sit; it is better to sleep than to lie down; it is better to die than to sleep. We cannot insert the whole of this song, but transplant a verse from our poetical to our variorum page, where it may stand for an epigram: Ye sprigs of ton, cast off your fears, They're vastly economic now- Of husbanding their daughters. A new novel entitled the Collegians is nearly ready. for early publication, containing all the Popular Dis- Preparing for Publication.-We observe in Mr. Murray's Life of the late Lord Londonderry; Flaxman's Lectures lists the following novelties:-A Memoir of the Public on Sculpture: Lectures on Physical Geography, by Baron A. de Humboldt, translated from his MSS.; the Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth, from the Period of the Anglo-Saxons, by F. Palgrave, Esq.; the Journal of a Naturalist; the Life and Services of Captain Philip Beaver, R.N., by Captain W. H. Smyth, R.N.; Captain Back's Arctic Scenery (of which we have seen portions, and may say it possesses great interest); Bertha's Visit to her Uncle in England; Ulysses, the Author of Homer; a second Vol. of Reliquiæ Diluvianæ, by ProLITERARY NOVELTIES. fessor Buckland; Lives of British Painters, Sculptors, The principal Mosque and the Library at Akhalzik, in and Architects; History of the Jews; and a Historical Asiatic Turkey. (From the Gazette of Tiflis.)-The Mosque Memoir of the Foreign Policy of Great Britain since of Achmed, the largest in Akhalzik, has a very striking 1814, by H. Ellis, Esq. Byron's Life, by Moore, Southey's appearance. In the midst of a strange labyrinth of All for Love, Colonel Leake's History of the Morea, Asiatic buildings of all kinds, and the ancient walls of Gleig's Sermons, Clapperton's Travels, and other works the citadel, rise the gilded domes of the mosque, which is in the same list, we have noticed in preceding Literary a work of regular European architecture. The surface Gazettes. of these domes every where bears the marks of the destruc- Mr. John Hinds (author of the Veterinary Surgeon) tion caused by the bombs of our well-directed artillery. has a new work in the press, entitled the Groom's Oracle The Mussulman crescents are partly shot away-an em-and Pocket Stable Directory, discussing the management blem of the Ottoman power which was here overthrown of horses generally. by the Russian arms. The Mosque of Achmed, and all the buildings attached to it, are of hewn stone. On the right hand of the lofty arched gateway is a small chamber, in which, during the late siege, the Turkish pashas reposed from fatigue and danger. In the court there are two monuments, surrounded by a low balustrade, in memory of the Vizier Hadschi Achmed Pasha and his wife. This pasha, who died in the year 1176 of the Hegira, was the founder of the mosque, which was completed in seven years. It is affirmed, that it was built on the model of Santa Sophia, at Constantinople. The United Service' Journal, and Military and Naval Gazette, to be continued monthly, is announced by Mr. Colburn, to begin with the year. We like the plan, which is to establish a communication on professional topics between the respective services, to be a history of military and naval events, and to be embellished with narratives by officers now living, and biographical memoirs of those who are deceased. All other naval and military news will, of course, form a fair portion of this publication, with which, we have heard, the quarterly work of a similar kind has been united. A Guide to the Zoological Gardens and Museum, with The Adventures of a King's Page at our Court and The forthcoming "London Review," edited by the Rev. J. Blanco White, will, we are informed, appear early in February. The editor, in a brief prospectus, states, that the London Review is not established, as has been surmised from his former writings, with the design either of opposing or assisting the claims of the Roman Catholics. He also asserts political independence of all parties; attaches great weight to questions of political economy; professes religious moderation;-and declares his determination that the London Review shall not advocate the interests, real or supposed, of any class, however powerful, in opposition to those of the community. Lastly, (says the prospectus,) the public are requested to understand that the London Review is not set up with This country is rich enough in talent to afford contrian intention to rival any work of a similar description. butors to many new journals, without depriving the old of transferring its patronage, instead of extending it, to of their usual resources; and too liberal in feeling to think any and all that may deserve it. H. Thoseley, B.A. of St. John's College, CambridgeIn the Press.-A Treatise on Hydrostatics, by the Rev. With plates and woodcuts, a Treatise on Printing and Dyeing Silk Shawls, Garments, Bandanas, &c. in Perwith a slight Sketch of the Science of Phrenology, by mental Colour-Maker, &c.-Three Phrenological Essays, manent and Fancy Colours, by H. McKernan, ExperiDr. Epps, author of the Internal Evidences of Christfanity deduced from Phrenology.-The Book binder's Manual: containing a full description of Leather and Vellum Binding; also, numerous valuable Recipes for Sprinkling, Colouring, Prices, &c.-A second edition of Stories of Chivalry and Romance. LIST OF NEW BOOKS. History of Bullanabee and Clinkataboo, 18mo. 38. 6d. bds. Pinnock's Young Gentleman's Library, Jama 3s. 6d. bds.-Magendie's Physiology, by Milligan, third edition, 8vo. 11. 18. bds.-Josephine's Memoirs, French, Vol. II. 8vo. 8s. sewed.-Letters from an Eastern Colony, 8vo. 78. bds.-Croker's Legends of the Lakes, 2 vols. fep 188. bds.-Forsyth's Jurisprudence, 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds. Delkeskamp's Panorama of the Rhine, 4to. 10. 6. in case. The Pomological Magazine, Vol. I. royal 8vo. 31. 3s. bds.-Gleig's Sermons, 12no. 48. 6d. bds.-Montmorency, a Tragic Drama, by W. H. Montagu, crown 8vo. 58. bds.-Widowson's Present State of Van Diemen's Land, 8vo. &. 6d. bds.-Mrs. Hurry's Sunday Lectures, 12mo. 38. 6d.-Dr. Channing's Works, 1 vol. 8vo. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1828. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have two particular requests to make to our friends; first, that such of our old subscribers as are de ficient in past Nos. to complete their volumes, will lose no time in ordering them, as every week augments the difficulty of perfecting sets; and, secondly, that new subscribers who desire to begin our thirteenth year with us, will give their orders as early as possible to their booksellers of newsmen. We do not think the specimen of W. A. S. (Leeds) sufficiently polished for publication. We cannot inform H. C.-G. is a pretty thought,—but we are obliged to Cou-postpone many beauties. Towards the west the mosque joins the lyceum, which Mr. Parkin has in the press the Abomination of Desopossessed one of the best libraries in the East, collected lation, to shew that the destruction of Jerusalem is not and enriched by the care of Achmed. It would have predicted in Matt. 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21, and exbeen unpardonable to lose this opportunity of augment-plains the principal parts of these chapters. ing the literary resources of our own country. Three hundred books were selected from the library; but in making the division, the mosque and the lyceum retained those works which the former requires for the service of religion, and the latter for the instruction of the pupils. The most remarkable of the books found at Akhalzik is the first part of the Kitab Sibewe (Elements of Arabic A new History of Yorkshire, by T. Allen, illustrated Eloquence), which is a copy made 697 years ago from a by engravings on steel, and dedicated to the archbishop, MS. 158 years older. We also took three copies of the is being published in Nos. The editor of the York Koran (one of which is a splendid MS.), Commentaries rant speaks highly of the execution of the first two. We have seen Mr. St. John Long's letter in the John on the Koran, theological works, an Arabic translation Allen's History of London is promised shortly. Bull, Morning Post, &c. and do not feel called upon of the Psalms, philosophical writings, many books on the The periodical press in France, political, literary, and again to entertain the question of his cure of consump law, and rules for the interpretation of the laws, pub-scientific, is in full activity. At Bordeaux two new petions. All that we know of the matter since we discted lished by Abuhanife, the first of the four lawgivers of the riodicals have been started within the last two months. attention to it, is, that some medical writers continue to sect of Omar, who lived in the seventh century of our era, Toulouse, Montpellier, Dijon, and Lyons, have also wit-attack him bitterly, and that when he does reply, be during the kaliphate in Bagdad; likewise Turkish and nessed new speculations in this way; and there is now does so very coolly; and, by appealing to his increasing Arabic grammatical and lexicographical works; and in scarcely any considerable town in the kingdom which and successful practice, seems to throw himself open to the department of history, Tarichi-Raschid, Siari Kebir has not one or more daily or weekly papers. It is com- the only true criterion,-public opinion. This is all we (Narrative of the Principal Events in the History of puted that the number of newspapers or literary po need say to the numerous inquiries addressed to us on Turkey, which comes down to our times, and was pre-riodicals now circulated in France, is twenty times greater this important subject |