mer. In winter it is exchanged for a sheet | able and calm. There is no improbability in | 6 In his looks divine This fair large front and eyes sublime, declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forehead manly hung, Clustering, yet not beneath his shoulders broad." Now this, so far from being the language of When at that hour the man entered the bed-history, is the language of enthusiasm. No room, his master inquired, What sort of wonder that a beholder should be unable to weather is it? The sleepy servant drew open assign any reason for being afraid at the feawhat, in the dark, appeared to him a window-tures in a miniature! the thing is absurd, exshutter, and replied, Monsieur, il ne fait point de tems; et il sent le fromage-Sir, there is no weather at all; and it smells of cheese.' He had opened a waiter's store cupboard." History of the Commonwealth of England, from its Commencement to the Restoration of Charles the Second. By William Godwin. 4 vols. 8vo. London, 1828. Colburn. THIS work has just been completed: Vol. I., published in 1824, contained the Civil War; Vol. II., in 1826, brought events to the death of Charles I.;-Vol. III., in 1827, came to the Protectorate; and the last vol., which appeared a few days since, concludes the design. cept when fancy usurps the place of judgment; It will hardly be expected in a Review like, ours, however, that we should enter upon the numerous points which the author offers for examination or controversy: all that we can do is simply to express our opinion of the general nature of the performance, and leave its details to those who have space for more elaborate criticism. We give Mr. Godwin credit for the integrity of his purpose and for the industry of his research; to the latter of which we owe some new lights on this interesting period of our national annals. But we That "the opponents of Charles I. fought feel at every turn the bias of the writer's for liberty, and had no alternative," is the mind, in spite of himself; and we cannot dogma which the author sets out to prove accord him the meed of being an unprejudiced and while we have no doubt that he directed historian. At the same time we ought to do his inquiries conscientiously, and arrived at justice to his enlarged and liberal ideas upon his convictions in what appeared to him to be many topics of the highest public and political the most honest and unprejudiced manner, importance; and to say that his work is a solid we have as little hesitation in thinking that proof of great endowments and abilities. The there is much more of the partisan than of the last chapter, in particular, a coup-d'œil over impartial historian in this work. Indeed, the government of Cromwel, does honour to there are few of the important questions em- the author's talents. braced by the discussion, which do not seem to be strongly tinged with the political feelings of Mr. Godwin. Charles I. is all treachery and perfidy; the regicides have every thing to excuse, if not to justify them. An attempt of the king to escape from imprisonment is a crime; the most flagitious act of Cromwel is an error of judgment. In short, there is an obvious leaning to the republican and revolutionary party throughout; and all the writers on that side are relied upon as decisive authorities, while the statements of their opponents are sifted and rejected. The Bijou; an Annual of Literature and the "Tivoli. Rushing, like uncurbed passion, through the rocks When last I gazed, fair Tivoli, And, mirrored in those gentle eyes, I've smiled to see her sweet lips move, Yet not one accent hear, Lo st in thy mighty waterfall, Alt hough we were so near, My breath was fragrant with the air How often have we past the noon When arching bough, and dark green leaf, Haunt of some young divinity, And more than such she seemed to me. So very fair, oh! how I blest I dream 't not they could be; I stand now in my altered mood, The shadow is from my own heart, Back to the stirring world again, And of thy beauty I but ask Earth does not hold a spot for me The next, from the same hand, is of a tone unusual to her lu te. It is entitled the Feast of Life. "I bid thee to my mystic feast, Each one thou le vest is gathered there; Arts. pp. 288. London, 1829. Pickering. WE cannot say that the Annual now before us takes a superior literary rank: there is too much in it of mediocrity, and not enough that rises above it. The Family of Sir Thomas More is, however, a very interesting sketch; and the Stranger Patron, by W. J. Thoms, an uncommon and affecting story. Mr. John Bird also deserves mention, both for prose and verse of an appropriate order; and Messrs. Shee, Proctor, The protector is the hero of the scene; and Bowles, J. Montgomery, Hogg, W. Frazer, &c. to what a pitch of admiration Mr. Godwin for contributions in extent of a minor character, carries his view of that extraordinary cha- but well suited to make up the agreeable misracter, may be gathered from the following cellany of one of these publications. Mrs. remarks on his personal appearance:-" Per- Hemans has done little here; but, by way of haps the only portrait of Cromwel that pre-amends, there are several charming little poems sents to us an image of his mind, is the minia- by L. E. L. As this delightful child of song ture by Cooper, of which there is a good print has written but few things this year in the in the early copies of Kimber's Life of the Annuals, of which she has hitherto been so Here, take this cup, though dark it seem, Protector, published in 1724. The eye is liberal a supporter, and as what was said of And drink to humn in hopes and fears; 'Tis from their nat ive element steady, vigilant, resolute, pregnant with ob- Goldsmith may truly be said of her," she The cup is filled-, it is of tears. servation. The lips are compressed and firm, touches nothing which she does not adorn," What! turnest the u with averted brow? yet visibly adapted to convey emotion and by the freshness, purity, and beauty of her Thou scornest this poor feast of mine, feeling. The brow is large, and indicative of thoughts, we shall gratify the lovers of poesy And askest for a pu rple robe, a capacious spirit. Authority is in every fea- by exemplifying the Bijou from her comLight words, glad s miles, and sunny wine. ture, without assumption, without affectation; positions. The fine imagination which could In vain, the veil has left thine eyes, Or such these would I have seemed to thee: and there is a grave and composed air over the immediately suggest such a theme as we now Before thee is the Feast of Life, whole, that speaks the early religious habits copy to illustrate a print of Tivoli, needs But life in its reality!" of his mind. There is somewhat in the aspect no praise from us, but that we desire to take Mont Blanc, by the same, is even more pothat impresses awe on the beholder, at the the opportunity of paying that tribute which etical; and were we only to consult the adornsame time that we are unable to assign to our- we have so much pleasure in continuing to ment of our Gazet te, we would add it to selves a reason why we should be afraid. We one whose first productions were made known these sweet examples of female genius. To be observe power, but nothing that bespeaks a through our page, and whose growing fame admirers of such powers is an offence in no tendency to the improper use of it. We ob- gratifies us so much by confirming our early critic; and we have, perhaps, some pride in serve superiority, not imperious, but unalter- opinions and high expectations. our partiality, because it flatters our discern And though by many a jolt apprised, Or smooth as wealth could make them; My Native Village, by Mr. Carrington, is "Touch'd by the sun-light of the evening hour, ment: but as we are only observers, not dicta- | Lucullus, as if you were the heirs of exercise and needy, licking the dust, for years, beneath tors, we merely desire the public to read, feel, and the competitors of the court of aldermen. the miserly caitiff's feet. The presents are compare, and use its sound discretion. Mr. But this is an interl-Ude, as the players call ever flowing in-the game, the venison, the Shee's verses, though on a trite topic, a Wed- it, and it is time to "Ex. Ude." bon-bons, the rarities, which, were they to ding Day Anniversary, breathe a playful philocost him a guinea from his immense hoards, sophy not unworthy of the Author of Rhymes he would never have the heart to enjoy; while on Art: we will cite a few stanzascompliments and adulation come from others who have nothing more substantial to offer; and each flatters himself that he will be remembered in the testament. At length the longed-for period arrives when the sad mourn, ers return from their esteemed crony's funeral, and lo! he has quitted this life, and, by an act I worthy of himself and of them, cheated them all. Tis a consummation devoutly to be applauded; and we could now point at Nollekenses still fretting their hour, and multitudes of hungry slaves toad-eating the slippered pantaloons, in hopes of futurity, upon whom, we trust, this lesson may not be utterly thrown away. In order to obtain their pandering good offices, this curmudgeon had literally circulated a list of a hundred persons, to whom he declared his intention of bequeathing a thousand pounds a-piece: in the result, he gave his fortune to two or three individuals, and most dishonestly deceived some who had just claims upon him. To shorten or forsake them. Nor can we say we're much the worse 'Tis true we rarely dance or sing, In times which memory still enhances, We tripp'd it gaily through the night, Some wrinkles, too, we must allow, And though they are but slight there, Old Time begins to write there. Already he has clear'd the page, And stamp'd some characters of age So plain that you may trace them, A wig must soon replace them. At dinner we grow nice, and think Much more of what we eat and drink Than we were wont, when able To feast on every kind of food Which that great artist, Eustache Ude, Of Eustache Ude we cannot hear mention Dear, pensive Harewood; and in that rich ray Nollekens and his Times. [Second notice.] These reflections, however, are rather by way of episode; and we resume the extremely entertaining and pungent anecdotes in the volumes before us. Of the congenial meannesses of Nolly and his wife, the following are curious examples : 66 My old school-fellow, Smith, the grocer, of Margaret-street, has been frequently heard to declare, that whenever Mrs. Nollekens purchased tea and sugar at his father's shop, she always requested, just at the moment she was quitting the counter, to have either a clove or a bit of cinnamon, to take some unpleasant taste out of her mouth; but she never was seen to apply it to the part so affected: so that, with Nollekens's nutmegs, which he pocketed from the table at the Academy dinners, they contrived to accumulate a little stock of spices, without any expense whatever." Ir Nollekens was a capital bust-maker, his biographer is no less expert at a whole-length figure in the literary way; and his groups often possess strong characteristic features. The disappointment of being a Residuary Legatee has, no doubt, added piquancy to these exhibitions,—for Mr. Nollekens played to the last "He for many years made one at the table that cunning game which selfishness often dic- of what was at this time called the Royal Acatates to low minds; and the consequent chagrin demy Club; and so strongly was he bent upon of his dear friends was proportionate to the saving all he could privately conceal, that he great amount of his wealth, the largeness of did not mind paying two guineas a-year for his his promises, and the exuberance of their ex-admission ticket, in order to indulge himself made in this manner, without animadverting pectations. We confess that it always affords with a few nutmegs, which he contrived to on the sole-cism (no pun) committed by the us pleasure to see the meanness of legacy-pocket privately; for as red-wine negus was writer. It is a complete blunder throughout. hunters (and we make the remark generally, the principal beverage, nutmegs were used. We will tell Mr. Shee, "great artist" as he without allusion to the present instance) thus really is, that he has not done justice to his punished. The dirty creature who leaves the greater contemporary artist on this occasion. We world, and the dirty creatures whom he leaves, suspect he made the verse after some plain as far as his last will is concerned, pennyless English dinner, when consequently (as in the behind, are entitled to equal respect and sympaensuing verse is confessed) "rather dozy." thy. To the independent looker-on, the closing Why! the more nice the happy connubial pair scene of such a drama is a rich comi-tragic grew with regard to meals, we will venture to treat. Here you have the old fox carrying on say the more would they be able to feast on the system of delusion to the very gates of every kind of food, if put on the table by this death, chuckling, we dare say, within his inmost Prince of Cooks. In short, we are quite angry and sinking breast at the blank visages of his with Mr. Shee: he has made a bull, and put crowd of sycophants, when they shall find how the cart before the horse. It is not when folks matters are settled after he is no more; and can eat any thing except a jackass stuffed with here you see those paltry expectant wretches, horse-nails, that they care so much for Ude's ay, the noble and the rich, as well as the low superbly commingled flavours-it is when they * Vide Ude's Cookery. Ninth Edition, passim. think, "Now, what could I take?"-when About this time he was courted by several legacyappetite is languid, or rather when there is no hunters who were beating about the bush, and amusing trifles from various quarters were continually planted appetite; when it seems as if the merrythought before him in his room. One brought him a tall and of a lark would oppress the stomach with extended chimney-campanula; and, to make it look waggon-loads of insupportable cannibalism; taller, had it placed upon a table within a foot of his nose, so that he was obliged to throw his head back to it is then that Ude approaches in the efful-survey it: and another brought the French giant in a gence of his glory, and you dwell on dindons coach, when he was delighted to ecstasy to see him touch aux truffes, and fricassée au suprême, and salmi the ceiling Dining and visit, Bonomi made a mould of his immense right hand."- See Smith's Memoir, p. 406, des perdreaux, and the unrivalled Sauté au Vol. I. Now it generally happened, if another bowl was wanted, that the nutmegs were missing. Nollekens, who had frequently been seen to pocket them, was one day requested by Rossi, the sculptor, to see if they had not fallen under the table; upon which Nollekens actually went crawling beneath upon his hands and knees, pretending to look for them, though at that very time they were in his waistcoat pocket. He was so old a stager at this monopoly of nutmegs, that he would sometimes engage the maker of the negus in conversation, looking at him full in the face, whilst he slyly, and unobserved as he thought, conveyed away the spice: like the fellow who is stealing the bank note from the blind man in that admirable print of the Royal Cock-pit, by Hogarth.-I believe it is generally considered, that those who are miserly in their own houses, almost to a state of starvation, when they visit their friends or dine in public, but particularly when they are travelling, and know that they will be called upon with a pretty long bill,-lay in what they call a good stock of every thing, or of all the good things the landlord thinks proper to 6 6 6 6 spread before them. This was certainly the affairs of men. And, as if he had been for too smiled, and whispered to the doctor, My case with Nollekens when he visited Harrow-long a time what is usually denominated 'hen- dear sir, you'll get nothing by blunting your gate, in order to take the water for his dis- pecked,' Mr. Nollekens soon sported two mould arrows upon a block.' The late Earl of Beseased mouth. He informed his wife that he candles instead of one; took wine oftener; sat borough was so well known to Nollekens's dog, took three half-pints of water at a time, and as up later; lay in bed longer; and would, that whenever the animal saw his lordship's he knew the bills would be pretty large at the though he made no change whatever in his leg within the gate, he ceased barking, and inn, he was determined to indulge in the good coarse manner of feeding, frequently ask his immediately welcomed the visiter, who always things of this world; so that one day he ma- morning visiter to dine with him. He brought a French roll in his blue great-coatnaged to get through a nice roast chicken, continued now and then to amuse himself with pocket purposely for him, with which his lordship with two nice tarts and some nice jellies.' An- his modelling-clay, and frequently gave tea and took great pleasure in feeding him. But whenother day he took nearly two pounds of veni- other entertainments to some one of his old ever he had been thus fed, Nollekens would son, the fat of which was at least two inches models, who generally left his house a bank- say, when cutting his meat, There, that's thick;' at breakfast he always managed two note or two richer than they arrived. Indeed, enough for you, you have had a roll to-day; muffins, and got through a plate of toast; and so stupidly childish was he at times, that one the other half will do for to-morrow.' Whilst he took good care to put a French roll in his of his Venuses, who had grown old in her I am speaking of this truly benevolent noblepocket, for fear he should find himself hungry practices, coaxed him out of ten pounds to en- man, I will take the opportunity of observing, when he was walking on the common by him-able her to make him a plum-pudding; and he that I have heard my father relate the followself. Our sculptor would sometimes amuse grew so luxuriantly brilliant in his ideas of ing anecdotes of him :-His lordship was once himself on a summer's evening, by standing morning pleasures, that he would frequently, standing to see the workmen pull down the with his arms behind him at the yard-gate, on a Sunday particularly, order a hackney- wooden railing and brick-work which surwhich opened into Titchfield Street. During coach to be sent for, and take Taylor, Bonomi, rounded the centre of Cavendish-square, when one of these indulgences, as a lady was passing, Goblet, and sometimes his neighbour the pub. a sailor walked up to him and asked him for most elegantly dressed, attended by a strapping lican's wife from the Sun and Horse-shoe, a a quid of tobacco: his lordship answered, My footman in silver-laced livery, with a tall gilt-ride out of town of about ten or twelve miles friend, I don't take tobacco.' 'Don't you?' headed cane, she nodded to him, and smilingly before dinner. Now and then, however, in rejoined the sailor; I wish you did, master, asked him if he did not know her. On his consequence of his neglecting his former cau- for I have not had a bit to-day.' As he was reply that he did not recollect her, What, tious custom of bargaining for the fare before turning away, his lordship called to him and sir!' exclaimed she, do you forget Miss Cole- he started, he had a dispute with the coachman said, Here, my friend, here is something that man, who brought a letter to you from Charles on his return, as to the exact distance, to the will enable you to buy tobacco,' and gave him Towley to shew legs with your Venus? why I no small amusement of Bronze and his brawny half-a-crown. At another time, a poor wohave been with you twenty times in that little old Scotch nurse, a woman whose blotchy skin man, with two children, who appeared much room, to stand for your Venus!'Oh, lauk- and dirty habits even Nollekens declared to be distressed, but was remarkably clean, curta-daisy! so you have,' answered Nollekens; most obnoxious to his feelings, and wretchedly seyed to his lordship as he was passing; he why what a fine woman you're grown! come, nasty in her mode of dressing his victuals." drew out his purse, but in attempting to give walk in, and I'll shew you your figure; I have Mr. Smith insinuates that still, beyond these her two shillings, they dropped, and rolled into done it in marble.' After desiring the man to ebullitions, the maid Mary became " pretty the kennel, upon which, his lordship, after stop at the gate, she went in with him; and Mary," and had a very good understanding picking them up, wiped them with his pocketupon seeing Mrs. Nollekens at the parlour- with her dotard of a master; but as this is handkerchief before he gave them to the diswindow, who was pretending to talk to and a domestic affair, we shall turn to topics of tressed widow." feed her sister's bullfinch, but who had been a more public character and general interest. informed by the vigilant and suspicious Bronze We are told, "Frank Hayman was a droll dog. of what had been going on at the gate-she I recollect when he buried his wife, a friend went up to her, and said, Madam, I have to asked him why he expended so much money thank Mrs. Nollekens then elevated herself on her funeral? Ah, sir!' replied he, she on her toes, and with a lisping palpitation be- would have done as much, or more, for me gan to address the lady. Oh, dear!' observed with pleasure.' Miss Coleman, and you don't know me:you have given me many a basin of broth in the depth of winter, when I used to stand for Venus.' Mrs. Nollekens, not knowing what to think of Joseph, shook her head at him as she slammed the window, at the same time exclaiming, Oh, fie! Mr. Nollekens, fie! fie!' Bronze assured me that when her master went into the front parlour he had a pretty warm reception. "What!' said her mistress, to know such wretches after you have done with them in your studio!' The truth is, that Mrs. Nollekens certainly did contrive to get a little broth ready for the models, such as it was, and she likewise condescended to take it into the room herself; and this I am sorry to say, whatever her motives or other charitable intentions might have been, is the only thing I can relate of her that bears the semblance of kindness. 垢 999 6 We cannot say much for the delicacy of the next; and, indeed, in one or two instances we find the author so free, that we would not reprint his anecdotes. We hope our readers will like an encore. SIGHTS OF BOOKS. Chemical Re-agents or Tests, and their Appli. cation in Analysing Waters, Earths, Soils, Metalliferous Ores, Metallic Alloys, &c. Originally by F. Accum. Improved and brought down to the present State of Chemical Science by William Maugham, Lecturer on Chemistry. 12mo. London, Tilt. MR. MAUGHAM has carefully revised the last "Hogarth, who was a great frequenter of edition of this work, and has added much new houses supported by libertines, went to Moll matter; he has likewise endeavoured throughKing's, in Covent Garden, accompanied by his out to impress upon the mind of the chemical friend Hayman, who was at all times highly student, the beauty, as well as utility, of letting delighted to see that moral teacher of man- the art of chemistry always rest upon the kind' sketch from nature. They had not been science. Mr. Accum was a chemist of the old in the brothel ten minutes, before Hogarth school, and might now derive much instruction took out his book to draw two ladies, whose from the perusal of a book originally comdispute bespake a warm contest; and, at last, piled by himself; and he would perceive, that one of them, who had taken a mouthful of although his name is still remaining in the wine or gin, squirted it in the other's face, title, the volume is almost entirely re-written, which so delighted the artist, that he ex- and, in truth, very greatly improved. We claimed, Frank, mind the b's mouth!' recommend it as a work of eminent and daily This incident Hogarth has introduced in the usefulness, not so much in scientific concerns third plate of his Rake's Progress." as in the most important domestic circum. stances. The Earl of Besborough is represented as a "Upon the death of Mrs. Nollekens, her very kind-hearted and benevolent nobleman; husband, who had received the condolence of but the whole of the following memoranda, as ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Mrs. Zoffany, Mrs. Lloyd, and other steady old they relate to distinguished persons, are worthy Paris, Oct. 26. friends, conducted himself with all possible of being quoted. THE season for seeing fashionable loungers dolefulness and customary propriety, pacing his "Mrs. Thrale one morning entered Nolle- and swaggerandos has commenced: this de room up and down with his hands in his pock- kens's studio, accompanied by Doctor Johnson, scription of irresistibles generally honour the ets, and for a time, I really believe, felt the to see the bust of Lord Mansfield; when the garden of the Tuileries at four o'clock, and want of her company, deplorable as it had been sculptor vociferated, I like your picture by parade up and down the beau walk with swingfor the last three years. However, many ladies Sir Joshua very much. He tells me it's for swang gait, to attract the regards of rich stoutly maintain an opinion, that very few gen- Thrale, a brewer over the water: his wife's mammas with jolies demoiselles, who, they tlemen die of grief for their departed wives; a sharp woman, one of the blue-stocking peo-flatter themselves, must fall victims to their and that short and not very distant removals to ple.' Nolly, Nolly,' observed the doctor, I slender waists, hat on three hairs, cravat à a lively prospect where new faces may be seen, wish your maid would stop your foolish mouth 'Anglaise, bright buttons, and new gloves. generally bring about a change in the worldly with a blue-bag.' At which Mrs. Thrale The salons also begin to fill with light-witted Deptford. J. T. B. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER: LEVELS. coxcombs, who, nevertheless, possess the talent | proximation this planet will make to a transit white, the other red, and separated from each of bowing, smiling, and grimacing old dowagers till the year 1832, when, on May 4th, about other 17 sec. This star is an excellent test of and young widows out of their liberty and noon, Mercury will appear as a beautifully the illuminating and defining power of a tefortune; whilst men of merit are forced to tell defined circular spot, 11 sec. in diameter, tra- lescope: the smaller the magnifying power their love-tales to the moon and stars, or blow versing the sun's disc: this phenomenon is which will shew the small star as a distinct out their brains. The conversation of drawing. considered to be one of the most interesting point of light, the more excellent is the telerooms is at present tout-à-fait sentimental; spectacles in the heavens, and occurs more fre- scope. fair ladies expatiate on the charms of the coun- quently with Mercury than Venus. try, the purity of the air, the delight of rural Venus, the herald of the early traveller, and walks, the bliss of retirement; so that, did harbinger of day, still continues to illumine we not live in an age where words are used the eastern hemisphere, and precedes the rising to conceal, not to disclose, the sentiments of sun nearly four hours. 14th day, 17 hrs.the heart, one might imagine dissipation a in conjunction with Virginis, a beautiful penance; and the cooing of doves, bleating of double star, and one of the binary systems. sheep, cackling of geese, and braying of don- 5th day, 10 hrs. 15 min.--Mars in quadrature, keys, more pleasing to the ear of gentle fe- and appearing of an oval or gibbous form, males than highly seasoned compliments, well-being defective from a full orb about th of his turned flattery, deep sighs, and soft speeches. diameter. 14th day, 17 hrs.-in conjunction Great reforms are daily taking place in this with y Capricorni. 17th day, 8 hrs.-with city of cities: waggons and carts are obliged Capricorni. to be driven at snail's pace, so as not to endanger the necks of the piétons. Happily, the overturning of a commissaire de police has occasioned this change; and it is to be hoped that other accidents may shortly happen to some of these precious parts of the creation, to induce them to establish similar laws with regard to gentlemen's carriages, tilburies, &c. Great preparations are making for Saint Charles's day; and instead of the scramble which usually takes place for sausages, wine, &c. the bureaux de charité are to distribute a German sausage, two pounds of bread, and a bottle of wine, to each poor family in their district. 12th day-Jupiter in conjunction with Mer- D. H. M. D. H. M. D. H. M. 7 9 43 .1 13 9 19 A VERY curious and a very important production has just been placed before us; but, unluckily, one which we find considerable difficulty in describing so as to convey a clear idea of it to our readers. It consists of a sheet, 40 inches by 27, on which is presented, at a single view, the relative altitude of the principal public and other edifices, parks, squares, reservoirs, &c. in the metropolis and the environs. On the right hand is a lithographed geometrical landscape (something on the plan of those instructive sheets which shew the relative heights of all the mountains, or the relative lengths of all the rivers, in the world), on which is figured the objects referred to in the accompanying tables. For this purpose, the Trinity high-water mark of the river is taken as the foundation or base-line; and above this, within the space of about half an inch Uranus is advancing towards the head of equal to a rise of ten feet, are represented Capricornus. Situation of the principal Constellations this evening (1st day) at 8 hrs. Ursa Major N. Gemini and Cassiopeia N.E. Auriga N.E. E. Perseus E.N.E. Pleiades According to the on dits of the day, the E. by N. E. Musca, Triangula, and Anfamous Vidocq is about to establish a manu-dromeda, E. Eridanus, Cetus, Aries, and Pisces, factory at Paris, in which no man is to be E.S.E. Pegasus S.S.E. Aquarius S. allowed the honour of serving who has not been either at the galleys, or confined in the phinus S.W. Antinous S.W. W. Scutum line upon the pyramidal landscape, to the height Capricornus S.S.W. Sagittarius and Delprison of the force. Such an establishment, S. W. by W. Aquila S.W. W. Cygnus I should think, might be of great use to mo- W. by S. Lyra W. Hercules W. by N. rality, as it would cause a concurrence in Corona N.W. by W. Draca and Boötes N.W. fair dealing, and put honest men on the Ursa Minor N.N.W. alert to prove themselves superior to those entitled rogues; for, take society at large, the same principle, I believe, governs all classesthat of cheating one's neighbour. Telescopic objects in the above that are and numbered all the buildings, &c. situated within ten feet of the level of the river, such as, for instance, Westminster Hall, Whitehall, the Council Office, Greenwich Hospital, &c. The next line occupies from ten to twenty feet above the level assumed, and is similarly filled with a range of objects," in little," such as the Admiralty, Buckingham Palace, Northumberland House, the Custom House, Chelsea Hospital, &c. &c. Thus every ten feet forms a of four hundred and forty feet, (consequently there are forty-four lines and spaces of rather more than half an inch each), where, at the top, we find Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead; and in the divisions immediately below, at four hundred and ten feet, Highgate Church and A nebula near the ear of Ursa Major, of an Shooter's Hill (on the same line), and below We have got a new omnibus, denominated oval form, bright in the centre, and exhibiting these the cross of St. Paul's. It is remarkable, Trycicles, which allows space for stretching the a mottled nebulosity. Ursa Majoris, a double that from two hundred and eighty feet to this legs, gives elbow-room, and has so easy a motion star, the smaller one of which moves about the height there are no objects of public interest. that one may read and write without diffi- larger one six degrees in a year. Castor in To complete this laborious and most useful culty, and thus economise time: a looking-forms the southern vertex of a triangle with thing contained in the picture; an index, Gemini, a double star. The asteroid Ceres work, there is a reference to every place and glass also is not forgotten, which has many advantages, but one in particular-that you may consisting of a square mass of small stars. with a numerical table, which at once enables Castor and Pollux. A nebula near Auriga, with not only an alphabetical table, but also stare at your neighbour without appearing to look at him. Algol, a variable star in Perseus, varies between the spectator to go to the spot he is in quest of, the second and fourth magnitudes in 2d day, or from that elevation to the table, which in20 hrs. 48 min. 58.7 sec. In Andromeda there forms him of other particulars. are several nebulæ, the largest of which is in the girdle, and is 40 min. in length by 15 min. in breadth. ARTS AND SCIENCES. CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR NOVEMBER. 1st day-the sun is at the verge of the southern scale, about 4 deg. west of Zuben el Genubi. 20th day enters the head of the Scorpion 24 deg. west of Antares. Lunar Phases and Conjunctions. New Moon in Libra O First Quarter in Capricornus 14 D. H. M. 7 3 4 1 48 21 2 40 • 29 1 44 O Full Moon in Taurus. favourable for observation. Uranus and Mars in Capricornus. A variable star in Antinous, south of Altair, nearly in the equinoctial; it varies between the third and fifth magnitudes in 7th day, 4 hrs. 15 min. Lyræ, a remarkable double double star, in which a slight motion is perceptible; in the first set the largest star is white, and the smallest inclining to red; in the second set they are both white. In the girdle of Hercules, between two stars of the eighth magnitude, there is a round and bright nebula 6 min. in diameter. The star in the head of Hercules is double, and is a beautiful object: one of the stars is of a bluish colour, inclining to green; the other is red. 13th day, 9 hrs.-Mercury in his inferior The pole star (a Ursa Minoris) is double; conjunction, and distant only 10 min. 7 sec. the two stars that compose it are of very from the sun, which will be the closest ap-unequal magnitudes; the largest of the two This altogether extraordinary performance is from actual and patient surveys by Mr. Fre derick Wood, of Brompton, and Mr. William Moffat, of Knightsbridge, land-surveyors; and it is a monument of their skill and industry. To architects, engineers, water companies, commissioners of sewers, and other civil autho rities, it must be a perfect and indispensable vade mecum; but there is hardly an individual possessed of property in the capital who is not materially concerned in the mass of information it conveys. Medical men and invalids, too, will probably be well disposed to consult a document which is so true a guide towards the choice of situations eligible for their constitutions. Upon the whole, we recommend this work to general attention. It is not likely that any patronage can compensate the authors for the time and toil they have employed upon it; but we are sure, that such meritorious individuals need only to be known by a public labour CHANGES IN ANIMALS. LITERARY AND LEARNED. OXFORD, Oct. 18. Thursday last the following de grees were conferred: Masters of Arts,-Rev. H. Wintle, Worcester College; Rev. W. Thorpe, Merton College. Student of Christ Church, and Vinerian Fellow; Rev. Masters of Arts.-Rev. T. A. Bewes, Rev. M. R. Scott, lege; C. A. Houblon, J. R. Kenyon, Christ Church. Bachelors of Arts.-J. G. Cole, Fellow of Exeter ColThe Rev. W. Palmer, B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, was incorporated of Magdalen Hall. CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 17.-On Friday, the 10th inst. (the first day of term), the under-mentioned degrees were conferred: Masters of Arts.-R. Maitland, Trinity College; T. S. Carlyon, Pembroke College. Bachelors of Arts.-J. Silver, F. E. Leach, Trinity College: W. Leeke, Queen's College: R. W. Packer, E. L. Williams, Catharine Hall; R. Bird, Magdalene College; C. Goring, Sidney Sussex College. Rev. H. S. Neucatre, of St. John's College, and R. Day, of Caius College, were admitted Masters of Arts. Oct. 24.-At the congregation on Wednesday last, the MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY. so eminently valuable, to be rewarded for their service many years, as they become liable to diligence, and encouraged for their abilities. swellings, which are generally incurable. When in this state, they are turned out and used for breeding. The result is very extraordinary: Ar one of the recent sittings of the Academy the colts born from parents which have been Bachelors of Arts.-J. F. Turner, Exhibitioner, T. L. of Sciences at Paris, an interesting paper was taught the ambling pace, have themselves Allen, Worcester College; J. J. Farquharson, Christ read by M. Roulin, on the Changes which the the amble, as naturally as the colts in Eu-Church: O. D. Toosey, Lincoln College; R. Hutton, Exeter College. domestic Animals of Europe undergo when rope have the trot. To these colts is given Oct. 25. Thursday the following degrees were contransported to the Equatorial Regions of the the name of aguilillas. The first importation ferred:New World. The author's observations are of dogs into South America was at the second stated to have been made in New Granada and voyage of Columbus. In his first battle with a part of Venezuela, from the 3d to the 10th the Indians in South America, he had twenty degree of N. lat., and from the 70th to the blood-hounds, which were afterwards employed 80th degree of W. long. He states, at the in Mexico and New Grenada, where their race commencement of his paper, that the mam- remains almost without change. They are miferous animals brought from the old to the now used chiefly for stag-hunting, and are as new continent, are pigs, sheep, goats, asses, formidable in their attack upon that animal, horses, cows, and dogs, all of which are become as they were formerly to the natives. Many more numerous than the indigenous animals of of the South American dogs of pure race inthe new countries. It appears that the hog herit the necessary instinct for the chase of the in the warm valleys of South America, wander- wild hog, in which they are employed. The ing in the woods, and subsisting upon wild address of this dog consists in moderating fruits, becomes very ferocious, and assumes its ardour, so as not to attack any particular almost the character of the wild boar. The first animal, but to keep in check the number by introduction of pigs into these climates was in which it may be surrounded; whereas, a dog St. Domingo, in 1493, one year after the dis- of bastard race, whatever may be its strength, covery of America. They were successively is, for want of this precaution, instantly deintroduced into all the places inhabited by Spa-voured. The sheep introduced into America niards; and in the space of half a century they were not the merinos, but the two species HAVING the honour of an invitation to the were to be found multiplying rapidly, from the called tana basta and burda. In temperate annual oration last Tuesday evening, at “half25th degree of N. lat. to the 45th degree of climates they have multiplied abundantly, past eight o'clock precisely," we attended, S. lat. The larger animals were also first without shewing any tendency to submit to both as a private pleasure and a public duty. introduced into St. Domingo, where for some the domination of man. In the burning cli-But diligence is not always rewarded; and we years they did not appear to thrive; but by mate of the plains they do not propagate found, on arriving before the hour specified, the persevering management of the colonists, freely; and a curious phenomenon is there that so numerous a company had been invited, they began to multiply prodigiously, and great witnessed. The wool of the lambs grows that not only were the Society's apartments numbers were sent to Mexico. Such, at length, at first as in more temperate climates, but was the fertility of production in St. Domingo, rather slowly. When in a fit state for shearthat, notwithstanding numerous exportations, ing there is nothing remarkable about its herds of 4000 head of cattle were very common quality; and when removed it grows again as in that island twenty-seven years after its dis-in temperate climates: but if the proper time covery. Some herds are even stated to have for shearing is allowed to go by, the wool numbered 8000; and in 1587 the exportation becomes thick, falls off in patches, and leaves of hides from St. Domingo was 35,444: and underneath not a new growth of wool or a in the same year 64,350 hides were exported barren place, as if from disease, but a short, from New Granada. The principal treatment shining, and close hair, exactly like the hair to ensure fecundity in these animals, was to of the goat in the same climate; and where pasture them in situations where the food pos- this hair once appears, there is never any sessed saline properties; in places where the return of wool. The goat, notwithstanding quantity of salt either in the water or plants its form, which appears adapted to mountainwas small, they were found to deteriorate in ous situations, thrives much better in the low quality, and to diminish in number. In these valleys of South America than on the high Two or three days after our arrival, a fleet of climates the cow undergoes a material change. points of the Cordilleras. It undergoes a mam-nearly 40 sail had quitted the port of AlexanIt no longer furnishes the constant supply miferous change similar to that of the cow. dria, to bring back from the Morea Ibrahim of milk which we obtain from it by artificial Among birds the changes have not been great. and his army. Admiral Codrington, with a means in Europe; and in order to obtain that The fowls brought by the Spaniards multiplied small squadron, had come to press the confluid at all, it is necessary that the calf should abundantly in most situations; but on some clusion of the treaty with the viceroy, who be continually with its mother. The milk elevated points, such as Cusco, and all the had acceded to his wishes with the best possible obtained for domestic use is only that which valley, it was for a long time impossible to get grace, and the Greek slaves who had been accumulates during the night, when the calf them to propagate. By dint of perseverance liberated had already set out upon their return is in a quiescent state. When the calf ceases a few chickens were obtained. In these there to their homes. It was thus rendered imto suck, the milk immediately dries up. The was little fecundity; but their descendants possible that the war between Greece and bulls and cows introduced from Europe into were more fruitful, and they now produce Turkey should affect us. Another course of South America soon became wild; and at the with the same facility as in our climates. events, however, might have proved very prepresent time it is only by repeated battues The same remark may be made of the goose, judicial; and, to tell the truth, M. Drovett! that they are kept in subjection. The ass un- which has only been recently introduced into dergoes in the provinces which M. Roulin has Bobota. The peacock, the Pintado fowl, and visited, less change than any other animal. the pigeon, have undergone no change. The He never becomes wild but in situations where conclusions drawn from this Report are,. 1st, the labour is excessive. The propagation of That every animal, like man, requires time the species is attended with several instances of to accustom itself to climate; and, 2dly, That deformity. It is very different with the horse. By the independent life which it leads, it almost resumes the character of the wild horse, and is remarkable for the great similarity of colour. A bright chestnut is the prevailing, and nearly the only colour of the horses in South America. The favourite pace of these horses is the amble, which they are taught at a very early age. They do not remain fit for domestic animals, when left to themselves, full, but the stairs were crowded to the bottom, like a patroness of Almacks' principal rout of the season. As there were, however, neither ladies to faint out of our way, nor refreshments to support us in the squeeze, we were fain to turn our heads in another direction, and utter a wish that the Medico-Botanical Society would not issue more than twice as many cards as they have room to accommodate. As far as we are concerned, the world has lost an oration by this means. EGYPT. had written a letter to M. Champollion, which had luckily crossed us, in which he advised him, even in the name of the viceroy, to put off the expedition to another year. Our debarkation, therefore, caused a momentary embarrassment to M. Drovetti; but as to the pasha, he said at once-" they are welcome." To describe to you the impression, the droll appearance, the singular agitation, of this city, would be impossible. For a place like Alexandria, it would be necessary to create new terms, for those of which we make use can only present a vague idea, out of all keeping with the reality. A city, in our acceptation of the word, implies streets, pavements, houses; |