The Omnipresence of the Deity: a Poem. hey were his family by a brown woman, who of the public generally. There seems to be great tification of reflecting that we did not rudely "People of colour are distinguished by the tames of Samboes, Mulattoes, Quadroons, Mustees, Mustiphinies, and Quintroons or Let us now turn shortly to this new edition, Qaisteranes, the next descent after the last, which is very obviously and greatly improved. being those persons who are called white by We are not going over the ground again; but , and who become to all intents and pur- we wish particularly to direct attention to the white men; and as such, are entitled to pure, religious, and devotional principle which al their privileges." animates the poem, and which will make it a "It is a curious and remarkable circum-favourite with a very numerous class of readers , but not the less true, that the Maroons, of the best kind. We cite one example :means of cow.horns, can call any one of "Though Crime entomb herself within the heart, company by name, and also can carry And veil her anguish with dissembling art; a degree of correspondence at a very conThough 'mid the glare of day, and dazzling strife That flutters on the shadowy stream of life, nable distance, with this rude and simple She move as merry as the morning air, Unmarr'd by grief, unsorrow'd by a care,Darkness shall bare the burden of her sin, And fan the hell of thought that flames within! ment, by diversifying the blasts to such wonderful degree, as if related would be demed incredible by most of mankind." There are a number of dissertations on alnot every colonial topic of interest in this me; they are marked by good sense and treatment, and practical, if not very enand views. We should consider them to be ented to the attention of parties concerned, and me readers may wish for an explanation the following is submitted as a corA Samboe is the nighest remove from ng the child of a Mulattoe father and Negro vice teral. A Mulattoe is the child of a by a negress A Quadroon is the child on mother, by a white father. The child ydrous by a white man, is a Mustee. The child man by a Mustee woman is a Mustiphini. The of amphini by a white father, is a Quintroon,the dial of a Quintroon woman by a white is free by Some authors who have treated on the West do not count so far: but the writer of this has than one family of Quintroons by Mustiphini saate of slavery; which, of course, would the case, had they been those persons white by law.* At deep dead night, when not an earthly sound Not so comes Darkness to the good man's breast, Peace to the hour! whate'er the night befall: Till, like a shutting flower, the senses close, And on him lies the beauty of repose.' With some degree of reference to our introductory remarks, rather than to its merit as superior to the other minor pieces with which the volume closes, we quote the following, on the Pains of Genius. "Envy not the Poet's name, Darken not his dawn of fame; The whirling brain and heated brow; Or scowl of green-eyed Jealousy; Oh! these must win a Poet's name; "The fret and fever of the day are o'er, O'er all a sad sublimity is spread- How noiseless are the streets! a few hours gone, A deadness mantles round the midnight scene: The Past!-Oh! who on London stones can tread, In dismal majesty from out the tomb! And who shall paint the midnight scenes of life And shall this city-queen-this peerless mass Alas! let Mem'ry dart her eagle-glance Down vanish'd time, till summon'd ages rise + St. Paul's. When round thy wreck some lonely man shall roam, quarrels are very bloody. Their marriages and miners, under the charge of my friend are curiously conducted, since it is the custom Mr. Tindal, arrived from Real del Monte, for a man to take his intended wife on trial; and passed through Zacatecas at the time it and if, after an indefinite time, he likes her, was most crowded with people, who on Sun Then let me home, and Heaven protect my thoughts!" they are then married by a priest or friar, who days flock from the neighbourhood to attend Lyon's Mexico. (Continuation: Second Notice.) IT can hardly fail, we think, to gratify our readers, if we continue to make a few additional selections which may help to shew that the very striking examples of Mexican manners, with which we last concluded, are not peculiar. At San Vicente the church" was a long mud barn, not even white-washed; a poverty of appearance which could in no way take from its sanctity as a place of worship; but it was filled with at least a hundred of the most horrid figures I ever saw, painted in gaudy colours, and varying in size from very small dolls to that of a half-grown person. One figure of our Saviour, with a large brown wig, was seated on a child's toy-horse, exactly of the kind which our English children play with, having straight legs, and the head and curved neck cut out of a flat board. This was by no means the worst figure to be seen :—but I will not dwell on the disgusting appearance of the monsters which met my eye; such, in fact, that had a strange people visited this church, they would not have hesitated to consider the worshippers as idolaters. I can only say, that hitherto I have neither seen an original nor a picture of the Mexican deities at the time of the conquest more abhorrent or absurd than the idols in the Romish church of San Vicente." 66 The worst Mexican vice, however, is a disregard of human life. once a-year goes round to perform this cere- the market. On these occasions they generally mony, and to christen, perhaps, the offspring get drunk, when they become quarrelsome, and of half the newly-married couples. Should the too frequently use their knives against each lady not give satisfaction, she may be returned other. It was an unlucky moment for strangers to her parents, even if pregnant: and women to appear amongst them, and they availed themwho have been thus discarded, are as fre- selves of it to quarrel with the English and to quently taken again on trial, and ultimately throw stones at them :-had not a party of the married, as any others." city milicia' been sent to protect the new comers on their way to the Veta Grande, some serious consequences might have ensued. The At San Luis, "pulque is sold at almost custom-house officers having taken it into their every corner; and its effects on the natives are half-tipsy heads that the baggage of the traveloften very visible. To the abundance of this lers contained some arms, stopped it all in the and other liquors may be attributed the fre- middle of the town, and Mr. Tindal and I were quent and sanguinary quarrels at this place, obliged to ride there to settle matters. By and the numerous assassinations committed, humouring the crowd, who were already ripe chiefly among the lower orders, who all carry for mischief, we kept them in tolerably good knives concealed under their blanket, although temper; but no sooner were our backs turned, the laws formally prohibit weapons. Very than we were saluted with a half-merry halfslight provocation is sometimes sufficient to saucy hiss, and they honoured our retreat with make one man stab another; and two murders a few stones. Considerable ill-will was also of this kind took place in open day during my manifested towards the strangers by the miners stay at San Luis. The assassin in such cases at the Veta; and when they appeared singly, is merely confined for a few days, and then set they were pelted. An attack was actually at liberty to commit fresh enormities. Some-made at night on the door of the house in times, but rarely, he is sent as a convict for which they were quartered, and it was battered two years to Vera Cruz. One of the murders with stones. Four ringleaders of the assailants before alluded to, took place in consequence of were taken up and imprisoned; and on the fola dispute between two men of different vil- lowing morning a threatening paper which had lages, each of whom claimed for his Pueblo the been pasted on our stable-gates and on the door merit of having sent the largest nosegay as a of the alcalde was brought to us. present to the Virgin at the feast of Corpus "The people of the mining districts have At Tula (says Captain L.), our lodg- Christi ;-to end the matter, one very delibe- the character of being more lawless and unruly ing was opposite the church, at which, hear-rately stabbed the other, wiped his knife, and than those whose occupations are different; ing music in the evening, I found a crowd was taken into custody, well knowing that in and whatever may be the truth of this imputaof people with a young woman, who was a few days he should regain his liberty. To tion as regards other mining states, the Zacabearing on her head a little dead child, instance still further the state of the laws in tecanos are somewhat worse than their neighdressed in coloured papers, so arranged as the northern parts of the republic of Mexico bours. I do not, however, conceive that the to represent a robe, and tied to a board at this period, I may relate, that a German mining interests of foreigners can now be maby a white handkerchief. Round the body gentleman, some time since, was attacked on terially or even slightly affected by the waywere stuck a profusion of artificial flowers; the road to Durango by a robber, who, having wardness of the operatives. Mexico is a counthe face was uncovered, and the little hands fired at and missed him, was instantly shot try newly awakened from a long dream of tied together as if in prayer. A fiddler and dead. The gentleman was afterwards fined ignorance and oppression; and as much ima man playing on a guitar accompanied the 500 dollars for killing instead of taking him provement is already observable to the residents crowd to the church-door; and the mother, prisoner and bringing him to Durango, whence, in the country, more may naturally be anticihaving entered for a few minutes, again ap- after a few days confinement, he would again pated, although its progress must, I conceive peared with her child, and walked off, accom- have been turned out upon the world." be slower in the state of Zacatecas than in the panied by her friends, to the burying-place. Of Zacatecas we are told: "I am sorry that more central provinces, since the natives possess The father followed with another man, who it is not in my power to say much in favour of more bigotry and intolerance than their neighassisted him with a lighted piece of wood in the city of Zacatecas, which I believe was once bours; and any improvements introduced by throwing up hand-rockets, of which he bore a the capital of a powerful nation (the Zapo- men of a different faith from themselves will, large bundle under his arm. The whole cere-tecas), who were subjugated with great diffi- for a period, be received with distrust, and mony was one of cheerfulness and gaiety, since culty by the troops despatched by Cortez for were at first exposed to insult. It will scarcely all children who die young are supposed to that purpose, after the conquest of Mexico. be believed that there should exist a people in escape purgatory, and to become angelitos I acknowledge a dislike to both the natives a nominally civilised country, who yet believe at once. I was informed that the burial would and the town, which I only entered five or six in Lord Monboddo's ingenious theory of tails;* be followed by a fandango, in token of rejoicing times on business; and I had no idle time on yet so it is that the English, or, indeed, all that the babe had been taken from this world. my hands, had I been disposed to make my foreigners, being considered as Jews, are sup-It is, doubtless, the duty of Christians to be visits more frequently. Thrice I so far suc-posed to be ornamented by these appendages; resigned to their afflictions; but I am sure ceeded in attracting public attention as to be and many people can be found, who firmly that few English women could carry their first hooted at as a Jew; and once had the honour believe that our stirrups being placed more and only infant to its grave with smiling of being pelted with stones. The frequent use forward on our saddles than is the custom of countenances; and I equally can answer for of the knife is also a sufficient discouragement the country, is to allow of our stooping a little, the inability of the men to throw up rejoicing to a stranger's visiting the city. Murder is so as to prevent the friction of the saddle from rockets when their first - born is taken from too slight a crime to merit punishment, and inconveniencing the rider's tail. It is to this during the month of May, twenty-one assassi- bigotry that the circumstances of insults, with The marriages of Guichola Indians (who nations took place, without a single person which some of our people were received on live round Bolaños) are thus mentioned :- being brought to justice." their first arrival, are to be attributed. The "In complexion, feature, hair, and eyes, I If the natives are thus unsparing of each prejudice of the people, influenced by the ignocould trace a very great resemblance between other, it is not to be supposed that they enter- rant priesthood, induced them to look with these Indians and the Esquimaux, who are, tain any very great regard for their heretical jealousy upon all foreigners as heretics. This however, somewhat shorter, and more corpu-visitors. On the contrary, they hold such per-prejudice is greater in these northern states lent. They are said to be a very peaceable, sons as English Protestant travellers in supreme inoffensive race when sober; but quite out-dislike. Capt. L. states: them." · A nun inquired, at another place, whether the tails of heretics fell off on their conversion to the Catholic rageous in their drunken fits, when their "July 9.A party of English artificers faith!! SIGHTS OF BOOKS. The Veterinarian. Nos. I. II. and III. than in the other parts of the republic, and mans than at any other part. For such fami- | Manners of the Age. Ex. gr.: the first article, may be attributed in a great measure to the lies as choose to devote a little trouble and a very pleasing one, upon old Christmas, by little intercourse they have had with Eu- expense to decency, small spaces are staked-off the Author of London in the Olden Times ;— ropeans, and will wear off gradually with the near the banks, and lightly covered with palm brief essays on Profaneness, on Disappointgeneral improvement which this country must branches: but such niceties are not much at- ment, on Parental Example, on Dreams, and experience. In other parts of the republic our tended to; both sexes bathe without scruple at on the Superstition of Intellectual Men; an countrymen have been well received." the same time; and many of the young women Account of a Unique Fossil, (which we canswim extremely well." not comprehend); the Ebenezer, a religious exhortation; an Apologue from the Talmud; and several pieces of serious poetry;-whatever they may be of their kind, have no pretensions to compose almost entirely a magazine called the Spirit and Manners of the Age. These matters either do not belong to the age in which we live, or are common to all periods. Of the only other papers, that on Phrenology alone belongs to our enlightened epoch; an Officer's Funeral and Tea Parties having nothing to distinguish them :-there are, however, Reviews of New Books, and Notices of the Fine Arts. In conclusion, though we have stated that this work is not consistent with its name, we beg not be misunderstood as blaming it. It is very respectable in its real character of a Religious and Literary Miscellany. To these two extracts we may add a curious and memorable English recollection. Of Tampico "it is recorded, that Admiral Drake once visited this place, and carried off all the wealth of the inhabitants, which induced them to found the village now distinguished by the name of Tam- A monthly production, dedicated to the vepico, and situated on a rising ground, amidst terinary art, and likely to do much service to the thickets, about seven miles to the south-it, by making its principles better known, and ward. The memory of this visit has been pre-leading to an improved general practice of farserved in a singular way, although I have but riery. Great ignorance prevails in this useful little confidence in the authenticity of the branch; and utility and humanity have alike story. The English sailors are said to have long called for its amelioration. We are, introduced to the natives, whom they plun- therefore, glad to see the subject taken up in a dered, the method of making grog; which popular periodical form, and trust it will proname having, I suppose, been too difficult to duce all the beneficial effects which may be remember, has been supplanted by that of expected from a skilful exposition of the disDrak, in memory of our English admiral." eases of valuable animals, and their best modes of alleviation and cure. We will here give another more modern and characteristic anecdote. At San Luis Potosi car author administered a couple of pills to an ald lady, who disturbed him by moaning all night, in consequence of headach; and she **very deliberately poked one up each nostril, explanation procured their extraction, and enbeing nearer the seat of pain; but a little sured the transfer to her mouth." Something farther may be gathered of the status quo in Mexico, by comparing the price of a horse with that of a bird. At Tula (Captain La tells us), "wishing to purchase a horse, I was enabled to see the laso exercised in its atmost perfection; and the dexterity with whch particular animals were selected and arrested for my inspection from the herd at full speed, was far beyond what I had expected. The whole scene was of the most animating kind; the wild, galloping horses, the mirth and activity of the men on foot, who seemed delighted in shewing their skill, was above all things pleasing. I purchased here a very good pacing horse for twelve dollars, equal to 21. 88." The Hebrew; a Sketch in the Nineteenth incidents are neither so peculiar, nor the style Arran: a Poem. ARTS AND SCIENCES. WE have elsewhere recorded a liberal act of rabilia of the times, another instance of tribute Mr. Fuller, of Rose from wealth to talent. hill, (by his "familiars called Jack,") whose patronage of the Royal Institution was before very substantially shewn, has, of late, evinced the continuance of his regards in an extremely By the Reverend David handsome and agreeable manner. He has preLandsborough, Minister of Stevenston. sented a golden medal, of some ten guineas in18mo. pp. 167. Edinburgh, Blackwood; trinsic value, to the principal persons who have London, Cadell. distinguished themselves by chemical discoveTHE writer appears to be an amiable person, ries in connexion with this Society. Sir H. and alive to the beauties of nature. His pro- Davy, Dr. Wollaston, Mr. Hatchett, Mr. duction, however, partakes too much of local- Brande, Mr. Faraday, Mr. Daniell, Mr. Chil ity to be of very high interest in our southern dren, and others, have severally received these parts. The title-page is adorned with a beau- grateful testimonies which are from the die tiful vignette, to which we see the name, of Wyon, and worthy of his skill. The obAnd, again, at San Luis: "in passing "A. Blackwood sculp. ;" and if this should verse is a fine head of the English father of through the streets, many cages of birds are happen to be any scion of the publisher's, we true philosophy, Bacon: the reverse, a wreath seen suspended within the wooden-barred win- take the liberty of congratulating him on a of laurel, surrounding an inscription, "For dows, of which the sinsontli, or mocking-bird, very elegant and tasteful display of talent. It Chemical Discoveries: given by John Fuller, seems to be the favourite. These are very is one of the best things of its kind we have Member of the Royal Institution."—We al ways applaud such matters as these: as human abundant in the surrounding country; yet fifty met with from the Modern Athens. dollars are considered as by no means a high nature is constituted, they are powerful stimuprice for a good singer." lants to exertion, and the arts and the sciences should welcome them cordially. For the present we shall close this paper with a few selections referable to matters of natural history. A Treatise on Diet, &c. By J. A. Paris, M.D. F.R.S., &c. 8vo. Underwoods. WE have merely to notice this as a third edition of a work highly and deservedly popular. There still exist at Panuco two Indian Great experience, good sense, abilities of the comunidades, amongst whom the Guastec foremost order, and a most pleasing manner of language, to the almost total exclusion of the conveying information, are Dr. Paris's striking Spash, is spoken. These poor people live characteristics; and that success which we, in mixed with the whites, who amount to 1500 the first instance, anticipated for his useful persons, and who may be called the fixed popu- labours, is now largely rewarding them, and moon. During the unhealthy months, many confirming the validity of our opinions. ties come here from Tampico; and in the THE City of London Literary and Scientific Institution held its half-yearly meeting at Albion Hall about three weeks ago; George Grote, jun., Esq. one of the vice-presidents, in the chair. The report read by the secretary for lectures has been erected in the rear of the was highly favourable. A commodious theatre house in Aldersgate Street, and the reading rooms, &c. have been improved, at a cost of 20007. dry season Panuco is a kind of watering-place, The Spirit and Manners of the Age; a which people resort for the purpose of bath- Christian and Literary Miscellany. New MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. ing, the river here being more free from cay-THE preceding Numbers of this Monthly Sir James M'Gregor, president, in the chair, Series. No. I. Westley and Davies. MARCH 14th.-At a meeting of this date, Families. Souls. Miscellany having accomplished a race of four the Duke of Somerset was admitted an honorary • These are Tansalichok, containing. 138 525 (we believe, half year) volumes, the present Fellow. Earl Stanhope, Sir A. Johnston, Le Tanquinam No., under a new Editor, commences a new Comte de la Garde, Dr. John Fleming, Dr. It appears to be a moral and religious Roupell, Dr. Dunlap, &c. were admitted Felpublication, interspersed with articles of a lows. Amongst the presents were: Geogramore generally amusing character; and, per- phical Essays, presented by Mr. Jomard; a haps, its greatest blemish is its name, for it specimen of the Cashew apple, by Dr. Barclay, is any thing but a picture of the Spirit and &c. The Emperors of Austria and Brazils, At Tanjuco, nine leagues from Pamar, and appertaining to its cure, 78 283 30 101 246 909 Waka total pure Indian population of 909: a fearful ps from a nation which, according to report, Lounted to 100,000. era. FINE ARTS. having signified their desire to become hono- MAJOR LAING. It is surprising to see the various and contradictory reports which from time to time appear in the French journals respecting Major Laing and the other English travellers in Africa. According to a recent letter received by the French Academy from M. Jomard, it seems that the two hundred pounds sterling which poor Belzoni deposited at Morocco, in order that when he arrived at Timbuctoo he might receive that sum, was paid at Timbuctoo to a white man, no doubt Major Laing, in the beginning of the year 1826; but that nothing is known with certainty of what afterwards became of the traveller. It was, however, reported, that in the course of the year 1827 a white man left Timbuctoo with a caravan returning to Morocco; but that he was assassinated on the journey; and that the crime was afterwards revealed by some of the party who had not participated in it. LITERARY AND LEARNED. OXFORD, March 15.-On Thursday the following degrees were conferred : Bachelor in Divinity.-Rev. W. Jackson, Fellow of Master of Arts-Rev. H. C. Wilson, Lincoln College. CAMBRIDGE, March 15.-The Chancellor's gold medals for the two best proficients in classical learning among the commencing Bachelors of Arts, were on Wednesday last adjudged to Mr. William Selwyn, of St. John's College, and Mr. Thomas Williamson Peile, of Trinity College. ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. Subjects. Artists' Names. {R. B. Davis. Robt. Farrier. C. Stanfield .. Water Mill at Vent-Miss Gould nor smith A Fisherman...... H. P. Parker Dress ... Purchasers. His Majesty. Rev. Wm. Long. Ditto. Balfour of Burley . A. Morton........Ditto. C. R. Stanley Earl Brownlow. {D. Roberts Lord Northwick. The Hoarder...... G. G. Bullock....W. A. White, Esq. The foregoing sales amount altogether to {G. S. Newton Alex. Baring, Esd about £2500; and we have now to add a grati. John Boaden.}ley, Bart., M.P. Sir M. White Rid-fying fact of individual generosity. Mr. Soane the architect has most liberally presented the T. Webster •Marq.Conyngham. sum of £500 to the British Institution, as a Ditto... Thos. Drone, Esq. token of his anxious desire to promote the Fine MissAnnBeauArts. This princely donation is worthy of a mont person who has derived his own splendid fortune from the cultivation of the arts; and we learn with pleasure, that the governors of the Institution, to express their sense of the favour, have requested Mr. Soane to sit to Mr. Jackson for his portrait, to be preserved in the Gallery as a memorial of his munificence. A Ravine at Torento Ditto S. C. Hall, Esq. SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS, SUFFOLK STREET. OUR private coup d'œil over this Exhibition (which opens on Monday) enables us to say that it possesses a number of pictures of supe View of the Pia-R. B. Bonning-Robt. Vernon, Esq. rior character in various walks of art. Mr. -Ditto. zetta, Venice.... ton all, to me.. Instruction.. Ditto F. R. Lee Geo. Jones, } R.A. A. Nasmyth... .Ditto. Ditto. Geo. Hilditch. Ditto. S. A. Hart..... Ditto Davis has a work in the highest class of a maniac visited by his family; and it must greatly raise his reputation. Linton has a noble classical subject;-Glover, with other natural landscapes, a splendid one of the Vale of Avoca ;-E. Landseer, a perfect piece of ratcatching: the dogs are the most thorough warLennox, Esq. mint imaginable; and the style and colouring would do honour to any picture of any school. Stanfield and others furnish a fair proportion of clever sea and shore pieces ;-Roberts some admirable old towns;-an amateur of the name of Thomson a grand Salvator-like scene of Loch Katrine;-Theodore Lane, Kidd, Gill, Knight, Inskipp, Simpson jun., &c. &c. mainG. P. Reinagle Capt. Lord Byron.tain the fame of the Dutch and Flemish manner by a multitude of small but well-finished subjects of genuine humour. One portrait by J. Simpson struck us much; and Brougham, from Lonsdale's pencil, also attracted our attention. But the rooms were in too confused a state to admit of our report being a very accurate one: we only notice the general pictures with the encomium they deserve; and have to add, that the Exhibition of this year is particularly rich in sculpture. THIS Society, which is zealously pursuing The North Elevation of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London. Measured, drawn, and engraved in the line style by G. Gladwin. Published by himself. Lithographic Imitations of Sketches by Modern SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. AFRICA. spiration, and a form of great feminine grace | said to have been the founder. Besides his lands, the collection of taxes, the management and delicacy; the whole exhibiting a beautiful Translations from Linnæus and others, his of the police, and the administration of the specimen of the lithographic art. leading original works are, the English Botany, law. The chief of this municipal magistracy in 24 volumes; the Flora Græca (in con- is sometimes a Marabout, who assumes the junction with Dr. Sibthorpe); the Flora title of Serin, or priest, and who obliges the Britannica; and a Tour on the Continent. people to pay tithes, which tithes are divided The news of his decease was communicated to between the priest and a military chief ap the Linnæan Society, at its meeting on Wed-pointed by the Brak. To the possession of the THIS is a work of exceeding difficulty and nesday; and the members immediately retired, soil is attached the right of administering jus labour. The drawing appears to have been as a tribute of respect to their friend and pre- tice; and the maxim, "no land without a lord," is the basis of the common law in the very carefully executed, every accessible part sident. of the noble and venerable building having country of Walo. One fact ought to excite been measured for the purpose; and the plate profound reflections on the comparatively deplorable ignorance of the European population; is most beautifully and perspicuously engraved. namely, that in most of the villages of Walo, It will be a highly valuable addition to the portfolio of the amateur or student of architec- THE country of Walo is situated on the left the greater portion of the negroes can read and bank, and near the mouth of the river Senegal. write Arabic, which is to them a dead and The French have lately been founding esta- learned language. The inhabitants of Walo blishments there for free colonial labour; the are extremely polite. They are gay, argumentresult of which may have a great influence ative, and fond of narratives of travels, comover the whole of that part of Africa. Walo bats, and the traditions of their country. In is governed by a king, who bears the title of their assemblies by moon-light they amuse Brak. This word has no meaning in itself. themselves with games of skill. Hospitality is According to the negroes, it was the name of a virtue by which they are particularly distinthe first of their kings, and his successors have guished. Their superstition is equal to that considered themselves honoured by adopting of Europe in the ninth century. Such is the it; just as the Roman emperors took the name account given of these remarkable people by of Cæsar or Augustus. The order of succession Baron Roger, ex-governor of the French to the throne is established in a very singular colony of Senegal, who intends to publish an manner, with a view of averting the evils that extensive philosophical and political treatise spring from minorities and regencies. On the on Senegambia, to which he will add a very death of a Brak, his brothers succeed him in curious collection of negro tales and fables. the order of their birth. When this first series is exhausted, recourse is had to the eldest son THIS is a very interesting exhibition, and is of the first, and so on. It is required of the well worth visiting. It consists of four large legitimate heir that he should be neither blind pictures (said, indeed, to be the four largest ever nor infirm; that he should be able to ride, to exhibited together in this country), painted by shoot, &c. If he do not possess these qualifiMessrs. Stanfield and Roberts; namely, the cations, his right devolves to another. Lake of Maggiore, in Italy; the Interior of ceremonies of coronation are allegorical. The THIS is a sweet melody, and the variations St. George's Chapel, Windsor; Wreck of an new king must pass through all the conditions very pretty: it deserves a place in every lady's Indiaman, and Storm on the Coast; and Ruins of society, not excepting even that of the fisher- music book where grace and simplicity are of Tintern Abbey, by Moonlight. Our counman, which is nevertheless a despised cast. prized. trymen have shewn great talent in the execu- The Brak goes into the water, with some of tion of these paintings; especially of the Inte- the principal fishermen, in the middle of the rier of St. George's Chapel, and the Wreck of appointed river; and when he comes out, he an Indiaman; but we cannot in justice say holds in his hand a fish, which it is to be supthat in dioramic effect they are equal to the posed he has caught himself, but which, in French. This is apparently owing to some fact, has been secretly conveyed to him. It is deficiency in the mechanical means of pro- ridiculous enough to find, at the coast of the dating and varying the light, which prevents Brak, and in the places subjected to his authothe illusion from being complete. rity, the customs and the ceremonies which DIORAMA-The Diorama in the Regent's prevailed in Europe during the feudal ages. Park opens on Monday with two new subjects: the private view being on the day of ar publication, we can only say that these are the Interior of a Chapel and the Vale of Untersen. imitations. BRITISH DIORAMA: OXFORD STREET. BIOGRAPHY. SIR JAMES EDWARD SMITH, M.D. F.R.S. MUSIC. NEW PUBLICATIONS, An admired Spanish Melody for the Pianoforte. By Edwin Merriott. Goulding; and The D'Almaine. Merriott's new Military Quadrilles. Blanche. The Dream on the Pillow. Words by L. E. L. 3 composed by T. F. Walmsley. Goulding; and D'Almaine. Oh! would that Love. Canzonet from the Thus, for instance, the people believe that the THE poetry of this lovely ballad deserved a royal family possess the gift of curing diseases better accompaniment in music than Mr. W. by the imposition of hands. In his travels, the has succeeded in producing. We should like Brak and his retinue are maintained and fed to see him try a new set. at the expense of the villages through which they pass; while the Griot, or musicians and buffoons, sing the praises of the monarch to the unhappy peasantry, who are thus despoiled of their sheep, milk, and poultry. The Tuis distinguished naturalist, the first Presi- Boukanek is a confidential servant, the majorThis important dent of the Linnean Society, died on Monday domo and prime-minister. last at Norwich, his native place. From the post is reserved for a family, who call themyear 1786, when he published his first medical selves the Brak's slaves, but who, in fact, gowork, almost to the hour of his death, he de- vern him. Dignities rarely go out of the famivoted himself with indefatigable zeal chiefly to lies possessing them; and every one takes the botanical studies, but not neglecting other name of the province over which he heredibranches of natural history for he wrote on tarily reigns. They farm out the villages and Lepidopterous Insects, and other subjects con- domains to vassals, who pay them annual Rected with his principal pursuit. The pro- ground-rents: these vassals sub-let divisions ductions of Sir J. Smith as an author, during of districts; and the fiscal and feudal chain the long space of forty-two years, fill a multi- thus descends even to the lowest inhabitant. tude of volumes, besides tracts, and contribu- The seigniors, proprietors of the villages, have tions to scientific journals. He enriched the adopted the same order of succession as that to Paksophical Transactions, Nicholson's Jour- the crown; but a few societies of the people nal, &c. by his pen; but the most of his have shaken off this system, and have formed detached labours were given to the Transactions a kind of communities, which have their civil of the Linnean Society, of which he may be officers, charged with the measurement of the The Flower Girl. Sung by Madame Vestris; COVENT GARDEN FUND. ON Friday last week the Anniversary of this excellent charity took place at the Freemasons' Tavern; his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence was in the chair, with his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex on his right, and surrounded by a company of more than |