FINE ARTS.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

even a mayor and gendarmes ;-here there | plague. A volunteer of our vessel, a young within reach of a greater number of indivi is nothing of all that-the men seem to con- man of nineteen, has deserted, and taken refuge duals." gregate upon this tongue of sand as nature with the governor of Alexandria, where he wished and permitted ;-and what men, what has made profession of the Musselman faith. a mixture of people, and how new to the eye of From this moment he belongs to the Turkish a European! Here the Turk, with his long government, and the consul has no further The Amulet for 1829.-The attractive Fron. robe and demure step; there the Jew, hand-power than to interrogate him three times tispiece was mentioned in the Literary Gazette some as Joseph, all full of grimaces as Caïpha: in the presence of the governor, to know if last week. The other illustrations are most of on one side the mild Armenian, on the other his resolution is final; if he persists, the affair them of a very pleasing character. Among the wild-looking Bedouin, with his long white is ended, and there is a renegade the more. drapery, and mounted upon his dromedary; The extent to which the pasha has carried his the blue shirt of the Arabian contrasting with influence over the minds of the people of this the frock-coat of the European; the red uni- country is extraordinary; he appears to exerform of the troops of Ibrahim by the side of cise a kind of seduction over all who approach the blue jackets of our sailors: here an officer him. [The audience of the pasha is then menof rank covered with gold, preceded by slaves tioned.] The conversation (which ensued) was carrying torches; there a troop of veiled wo- about the voyage, and we were promised promen and naked children, denoting misery in its tection and support. We were then asked if extremest stage. Imagine this strange mix- we intended to go to the summit of Pharaoh; ture moving about among half-built houses and for so the Turks call the pyramids. After this, in tortuous paths, with an agitation and a politics were introduced; and in the midst of language to which even Naples cannot be com- this official conversation, coffee was brought pared, and you have Alexandria in all its con- to us in small cups, on a tray covered with fusion, and in its sublime and burlesque singu- a napkin embroidered with gold. At the end larity of aspect. of a quarter of an hour we were dismissed, with the same cordiality, and returned to our carriage.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

them are the following: "The Fisherman leaving Home," an interesting picture by W. Collins, R. A., sweetly engraved by C. Rolls. The Kitten discovered,' engraved by W. Greatbatch, from a picture by H. Thomson, R.A., broad and simple. "The Rose of Castle Howard" (portrait of Lady Mary Howard), engraved by E. Portbury, from a painting by J. Jackson, R. A.; a charming representation of infantile simplicity. "The Temple of Victory," engraved by R. Wallis, from a painting by J. P. Gandy, R. A.; a noble architectural composition: to what cause is it to be attri buted that a man of so much original talent and acquired knowledge as Mr. Gandy, seems to be overlooked in the choice of architects for On the 19th we took possession of the lodgings the construction of our public buildings?"The which had been prepared for us. M. ChamMountain Daisy;" a metamorphosis of Sir T. pollion remained at M. Drovetti's, and I was Lawrence's exquisite picture of one of the placed with M. Pechemonte, the consul of SarLadies Fane; it is engraved by C. Armstrong. dinia, and son-in-law of M. Drovetti. From THE lectures on foreign literature commenced" Wandering Minstrels of Italy," engraved by my window I can perceive, in the open air, one on Wednesday last, by Mr. A. Panizzi giving W. Humphreys, from a drawing by Penry of the prettiest museums imaginable-a house his introductory discourse to a good attendance Williams, which highly finished drawing must in ruins, with antique fragments of Egyptian, of visiters. The professor was frequently en- be well recollected by all the visiters to the last Roman, and Byzantine sculpture; and opposite, couraged in the course of his task, and the Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Wateran Arabian portico of the most delicate and ori- conclusion was followed by long and continued colours. "The Italian Mother," engraved by ginal description. plaudits. The lecture itself was eloquently E. Finden, from a painting by C. Eastlake, In the evening, our first promenade was to written, and delivered with great propriety of A. R. A. Perhaps much may be owing to our the Obelisks called the Needles of Cleopatra. action and enunciation. We were so much not being constantly accustomed to it, but there These Obelisks presented to M. Champollion pleased with the whole performance, that we certainly appears to be something very pictu many singularities which have not been noticed. feel some reluctance in finding fault; but resque in the costume of the Italian women. This point of view, which forms part of the site we could have wished that he had recited "The Wearied Soldier," engraved by C. Rolls, of the old city, and from which there is the a few passages from some of the Italian poets. from a painting by the late W. Bigg, R. A. most picturesque prospect of the sea, of several We earnestly recommend these lectures to our The story is clearly told, and the perspective Greek and Copt convents, and of the mosque readers, as, both from the specimen which we view of the sheep exceedingly well managed. which is the place of sepulture for the family of have already received, and from the celebrity" Innocence," engraved by F. Bacon, from a the pasha, has become, on account of the little of the gentleman in question, we have no painting by R. Smirke, R.A. We wish Mr. excavations which have been commenced there, hesitation in saying that he will be an Smirke would allow us more frequent opportu the rendezvous of the persons employed to honour and credit to the establishment. Ita- nities of mentioning his name as an artist. sketch (dessinateurs), so that it may be said lian literature is too little known in this coun- Who does not recollect with delight the master. that the expedition has commenced its labours. try. Fashion, however, has had its votaries, pieces of humour-" familiar but not vulgar" As for me, I am preparing myself for the more whilst intellect and mind have been sadly neg- with which he frequently favoured the public important things which Upper Egypt will pre- lected. Let not our countrymen, therefore, some years ago? sent us with, by reading Herodotus, and by the suffer this excellent opportunity to escape, and study of the hieroglyphics. M. Champollion we shall be satisfied. There are to be 105 lescontinues to be in every respect a model of sons for the language, and 70 lectures for the complaisance. exposition of the literature. For want of space, we have only room for the following extract.

The Juvenile Forget-me-not for 1829.-To the illustrations of this handsome little volume, is appropriately prefixed a Portrait of "Her In general, as I have already told you, perRoyal Highness the Princess Victoria," en. sons at a distance have monstrous ideas of the "The comparison of the literature of differ- graved by Thomson, from a bust by Behnes, in character of the people of this country, and yet ent countries tends eminently to form a sound the possession of his Majesty. There are fif in some respects they are better than the peo- taste, and to do away with those prejudices teen other plates, very prettily engraved, and ple of our great cities. All the Franks who which a narrow view, caused either by national exceedingly well adapted to youth. Nor must have lived here a long time speak in the high- pride or antipathy, may have produced. It we forget the vignettes on wood: several of est terms of the mild manners of the Arabs, strengthens and enlightens the intellect, by them, especially those in which the Savoyards, in the whole extent of Egypt, without excep- multiplying the objects of its attention. The with their grotesque companions, are introtion. Murders are here of rare occurrence, political history, the manners, the customs, the duced, are executed with great skill. and when they do take place they are almost character, of a nation, are never well comprealways committed by foreigners. Some singu- hended without a critical knowledge of its litelar traces of the French expedition are dis-rature, which, influenced as it is by all these cernible in the population. As we left the causes, has a great re-action upon them. These city yesterday to proceed to the Obelisks, we palpable truths did not escape the notice of the were accosted by a blind man, who addressed Council of the Uniɣersity; and the facilities is in French, to the following effect:-" Give which this splendid monument of their exerme something, citizen, for I have not break-tions affords for the acquisition of modern lanfested this morning."

BIOGRAPHY.

LUKE HANSARD, ESQ.

On Wednesday, the 29th ult., at the house of one of his sons, in Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square, died LUKE HANSARD, Esq., in his 79th year. Beyond the circle of the literary characters directly or mediately connected with his guages, give the members of that body a just press (comprising almost all the leading statesIt is probable that M. Parisset will find him- title to the gratitude of the public. It is ob- men, civilians, and divines, his contemporaries self disappointed on his arrival in Egypt, for vious, that the more extensive this study be- in the late and present reign), of members of there has been no plague there these three comes, nations are brought into closer contact, the House of Commons, and the gentlemen years; the pasha has established lazarettos; their jealousies grow fainter and fainter, and officially employed there, Mr. Hansard was not, and the prevailing opinion is, that this year, the value of useful works, from any country, we believe, very publicly known; though for like the three preceding, will pass over without increases in the ratio in which they are put a really praiseworthy, active, and useful life,

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few men have higher pretensions to a distin- | Mr. H. was a striking exception: no one ever | Sir Anthony Absolute, in the Rivals. He is guishing record. took greater delight in any pursuit than he did certainly not a man of genius; and, so far Mr. Hansard succeeded Mr. Hughs as printer in his particular avocation; to that he devoted from being able to fill the vacancy caused by to the House of Commons about thirty years all his powers, bodily and mental, the force of Mr. Farren's defection, can be of no earthly ago but for nearly fifty years the printing of which he multiplied at will, by the rare tact of use in a company possessing Mr. Fawcett, that department has had the benefit of Mr. Han-infusing into others a portion of his own extra- Mr. Blanchard, and Mr. Bartley. Reeve's sard's direction, aided by a professional skill ordinary zeal. Thus to accomplish the circle Acres was a very funny character; but it, we and judgment that will rank his name among of so many evolving years may, indeed, be ac- swear, was not Acres, “ by the rood.” the chief in the annals of typography. Without counted a long career, and claiming not the derogating from the praise of others, it may, merely negative merit of protracted animal with truth, be said, that to Mr. Hansard be- existence, but the real bona fide praise due to longs the merit of the luminous and admirably- a life, which, while it was deservedly profitable digested plan under which the voluminous papers to the individual, proved extensively beneficial relating to the various branches of the public to others. service have, for some years past, been laid be

In religion, Mr. Hansard was perfectly orfore parliament and the nation; an arrange- thodox, and a regular attendant at his parish ment and classification tending to diffuse in-church. With politics he never intermeddled, formation of vital import, at the same time that farther than by strenuously acting from prinit gives facility to every description of research ciple with those and for those whose purposes connected with the polity of the country. and views were loyal, and of a kind to uphold and cherish the Establishment in Church and State. To the Society for Educating the Lower Classes, to that for Building Churches, to the recently projected institution of a Metropolitan College, and to other public foundations, he was a liberal contributor; while his munificent gifts vested in the Stationers' Company for poor Printers, will convey a grateful memory of him to the latest posterity.

As a man of business, Mr. Hansard possessed the main qualifications pertaining to excellence -a fixed habit of industry, a scrupulous regard to punctuality and despatch, and an inflexible integrity. As a citizen, his duties were performed with a vigour and alacrity the most commendable. As a master, such excellent rules guided his conduct, as to render servitude under him both beneficial and pleasant. As a parent, his example was of the kind to be influential beyond the range of his own immediate household.

Previous to his death, Mr. Hansard had become a great grandfather; and he leaves to possess his large property, and the reflected credit of his justly acquired fame, a widow, a sister, three sons, two daughters, and nearly forty grandchildren. An excellent likeness of him, by Lane, made a part of the late Exhibition at Somerset House.*

DRAMA.

DRURY LANE.

VARIETIES.

Legal Education.-Letters from Alexandria state that the Pasha of Egypt is about to send to this country two of the sons of one of his principal officers to receive instruction in the mode of English legislation. If the Pasha wishes them to learn all that is to be collected in this way, he will be dead long before they have finished their education !

Animal Charcoal. Some years ago the newspapers gave an account of an establishment at Copenhagen, in which the charcoal made from bones was used with great success in the purification of common oils, whilst the gas that was generated served to light a great part of the neighbourhood. An establishment of this kind is being formed at Stockholm. It is said that the most rancid fish oils are made equal to the finest sperm oil by the use of this charcoal; and that in consequence of the profit resulting from its employment in that way, the gas which the bones give out in great abundance can be supplied at a much cheaper rate than the gas obtained from coals. It is rather singular that the experiment has not been tried in this country.

In justice to Mr. Hansard it should be stated,
that he came to the metropolis a journeyman;
and, like the late Mr. Strahan, the late Mr.
Cadell, and others whom we could name, had
Scientific Squabble.-A difference has arisen
slender prospect of success beyond that to which
between the Paris Academy of Medicine and
his own personal application, perseverance, and
the French Government, owing to the appoint-
merit, might entitle him. Also, like the per-
ment by the latter of a distinguished chemist,
sons with whom we rank him, Mr. Hansard
to make an analysis, on the spot, of the different
accumulated a liberal competency, which, as it A TRANSLATION of that very elegant comedy mineral springs in France. The Academy ap-
was honourably and sedulously earned, was the La Reine de Seise Ans was produced here prove of the choice, but contend that the ap-
more richly deserved.
The natal place of the subject of this imper-ment to Miss bien free, who sustained
yesterday week; and it is no trifling compli- pointment should rest with them, and not with
the government. Particular researches are
fect sketch has escaped the recollection of the part of the Youthful Queen, to say, that we ordered to be made in the south of France,
writer, but is believed to have been Norwich, highly relished her performance of it, (mea- where the mineral waters are said to possess
or some village in the neighbourhood of that grely as it is rendered in the English) after extraordinary powers. According to the last
city. He received the rudiments of education having witnessed its representation by the report, not only the waters of Dax, but even
at a school in Lincolnshire; and was afterwards inimitable Jenny Vertpré, for whom it was the mud near the town, is of such efficacy, that
apprenticed to the then only printer in Nor- originally written by M. Bayard, and who, the soldiers who are quartered there, when
wich, Mr. White, in Cockey Lane. The hard independently of her extraordinary talent, is afflicted with rheumatism, find a speedy cure
fare of his early probation, at school and during so admirably assisted by her petite and fairy- by covering the part affected with mud, which
his apprenticeship, recurred frequently to his like figure, in the personation. The daily they removed when thoroughly dry.
recollection in after-life, and served as a theme papers have spared us the trouble of detailing Malaria. At a late sitting of the Academy
for useful monition to the young people about the plot; and indeed La Reine de Seize Ans of Medicine in Paris, M. Villernie read a paper
him. In his person, Mr. Hansard was of having been frequently represented at the Ly- on the Influence of Marshes upon Human Life,
middling stature, and spare; but to a remark-ceum, during the French performances last sea- from which he drew the following conclusions:-
ably strong constitution there was united a son, it is familiar to most of our town readers. In the salubrious portions of our climates, the
spirit adapted for enterprise, for exertion, for Mr. Farren played the old minister of Gus- winter and spring months are those which give
subduing every thing arduous, and, by its ex- tavus with his usual discrimination of charac- the greatest number of deaths, and the winter
traordinary and never-failing energy, over-ter.
is more fatal in the north than in the south. In
Mr. Cooper was the favoured young
coming obstacles, hindrances, and difficulties, officer, and Mr. Jones his courtier-cousin. marshy countries the greatest number of deaths
that, to ordinary powers, appear wholly insur- We need scarcely say they left us nothing to is in the months of July, August, September,
mountable. No one about him could ever keep desire in the acting.
and October; and the evaporation of the marshes
is most fatal to persons from one to six years of
age. The complaint which generally attacks
children, owing to the malaria of marshes, is
stated to be an acute gastro-intestinal affection.

pace with his undeviating course of labour, the Love makes a Man, or the Fop's Fortune,
time allotted by him for rest never exceeding, was revived, with great strength, on Thurs-
at any season of the year, more than a sixth day; Farren, Jones, and Cooper, taking the
part of the twenty-four hours of each working leading parts, and executing them to per.
day. This practice he pursued to within a fection.
very short period preceding his decease. The
divine denunciation consequent on the Fall,

COVENT GARDEN.

"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat THE only novelty at this house since our last, bread," &c. was conspicuously illustrated in is the introduction to the London boards of a the experience of Mr. Hansard. But with Mr. Gray, who made his first appearance as him every returning day brought a cheerful

disposition for labour, and, from the sheer love the subject, we consider this brief notice as the best Though a memoir in detail could only do justice to of it, a perseverance that never relaxed, be- of all eulogies, coming as it does from a gentleman cause it knew not to tire. To the remark of who for nearly twenty years has participated in Mr. H.'s our great moralist, that it seldom happens labours, and whom we believe to be capable of apto a man that his business is his pleasure," Justising the of such a memorial the family may be justly proud.-Editor.

Greek Isles. A commission which had been appointed by the president of the government, M. Capo d'Istrias, to inquire into the state of education in the Greek isles, having examined seventeen of them, has reported that, on the 1st of May last, those seventeen isles possessed 92 schools, comprehending 2,333 scholars, from 5 to 30 years of age. 23 of these schools, containing 969 scholars, followed the Lancastrian method. Of the 92 schools, 13 had heen established under the dominion of the Turks; 57 between the month of March 1821,

The Life and Times of Francis the First of France.The Manual for Invalids, or Practical Rules for the Attainment and Preservation of Health, &c. by a Physician. Conversations on Intellectual Philosophy.-A Poetical Epistle to Harriet, Duchess of St. Alban's, or a Reply to the Underlings of the Press.-Tales and Confessions, by the Calumnies cast upon the Character of her Grace by Leitch Ritchie.-A Treatise on the Diseases of the Bones,

by Benjamin Bell, F.R.C.S. Edinburgh and London.

LIST OF NEW BOOKS.

Hooper's Anatomy of the Brain, second edition, imperial 4to. 21. 12s. 6d. bds.-Crutwell's Housekeeper, 1829, 4to. 28. sewed.-Milne's Essay on Comets, 4to. 10s. 6d. bds.-Nollekens and his Times, by J. T. Smith, 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 8. bds.-Maugham's Laws of Literary Property, 4 vols. post 8vo. 21. 2s. bds.-Life of James Wodrow, by 8vo. 10s. Gd. bds.-Zillah, a Tale of the Holy City, his Son, 12mo. 58. bds.

and the arrival of the president (January Envy.In a Polish fable entitled "the 1828); and the 22 others between that period Miser and the Envious Man," the latter is and the 1st of May. The 13 schools founded represented as obtaining from the gods the under the Turks, and receiving 296 scholars, favour of being allowed to lose one eye, in all followed the old method. Of the 57 schools order that he may, at the same time, deprive of the second period, only 14, containing 557 the former of the only eye he had left! scholars, followed the new method; the re- Diderot. This celebrated philosopher was maining 43 schools of that period contained frequently the dupe of his ardent benevolence. 829, being altogether 1,386 scholars. In the On one occasion he, by painful exertions, obthird period, schools of mutual instruction, tained some favour for a young man of the containing 412 scholars, had been founded; name of Rivière, whose countenance and elothe 13 other schools founded within that pe- quence had interested him. Rivière called to riod, and which follow the old method, had thank him. When he was going away, and only 239 scholars, making altogether 651 scho- they were on the staircase together, he stopped lars. The principal matters taught in all the Diderot, and said to him, Monsieur Dideschools are reading, writing, ancient and mo- rot, are you acquainted with natural history?" METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1828. dern Greek, arithmetic, geography, and the" But little; I know a cabbage from a lettuce, ancient history of Greece. In some of the and a pigeon from a sparrow." "Are you Thursday 23 From 56. to 49. 29.67 to 29.80 schools, French, Italian, and English, are acquainted with the history of the formica-leo?" Saturday 25 taught; in others, Latin and geometry. In a "He is a small and very industrious Sunday' 26 very great number, theology, metaphysics, insect. He digs a hole in the ground, of the Monday... natural philosophy, and chemistry, are likewise shape of a funnel, and covers the surface with taught. fine light sand. When a foolish insect allows itself to fall into this hole, he seizes it, sucks it, and then says to it, Monsieur Diderot, I have the honour to wish you good morning.'

"No."

9.99

Irritation. Excitability is essential to the continuance of life. The effect of excitation on the nerves, as every where else, is to produce a movement of contraction. If this Characteristic Anecdote. When Dr. Ehrenmovement, which in a healthy state is repeated berg (the Prussian traveller) was in Egypt, he a certain number of times in a certain period, said to a peasant, "I suppose you are quite becomes quicker, excitation changes its name, happy now; the country looks like a garden, and becomes irritation, and a malady. Simple and every village has its minaret.” "God is irritation differs from inflammation in that the great!" replied the peasant ; 66 our master latter particularly affects the cellular systems gives with one hand, and takes with two." and the blood-vessels, and leads to a train of disorders which irritation alone never produces. Liberal Donation.—Messrs. Edward B. Delavan and John T. Norton have presented the Albany Institute with the collection of the late Governor Clinton in natural history and science generally, amounting to upwards of 1100 specimens.-Baltimore Journal.

land.

LITERARY NOVELTIES.

others. The conclusion of the authors of this work, as

A work has recently been published in Paris on the of Lunel-Vieil. In one of them there were the tones of Animal Organic Remains discovered in some of the Caves thirty-three species of carnivorous, ruminating, and other animals. In another a great quantity of bones of the hyena were discovered. These appear to have belonged to three distinct species; of the first, which is classed as the hyænea spelaa, abundant specimens had already been French Wines.-It appears by some recent found in different caves in France, Germany, and EngAnother is the hyana fusca, or striped hyena; investigations, that the vine is cultivated in and the third belongs to the class called hyana interFrance in seventy-eight departments, occupy-media, from its partaking of the character of the two ing an extent of 1,736,056 hectares, of which the average annual produce is 35,075,689 hectolitres, being of the value of 540,389,298 francs. The average price of the hectolitre is therefore fifteen francs forty centimes, or thirteen centimes the common bottle. This is the original price; but it is nearly doubled, by the expense of carriage, the indirect imports, the droits d'octroi, and the profits of trade. Still, the exceeding smallness of this average price shews that the quantity of good wine is very small, as compared with the quantity of bad. However, its selling price has less to do with its quality than with the facility of its conveyance in the vicinity of a great consumption.

to the cause of the bones of the hyena being found with
those of other animals, differs essentially from the re-
ceived opinions on the subject. They attribute the col-
lection to a deposit of diluvium; but they at the same
time admit, that many of the bones of other animals
found with those of the hyena, bear marks of the teeth
of that ferocious animal. A Report on this subject was
made to the Academy of Sciences on the 13th inst. by
M. Cuvier; and as it possesses much interest, we may
probably give a fuller account of it in another No.
A new journal, a sort of Old Bailey record, is now pub-
lished daily in Germany. It is a report of all the criminal
trials in Germany, and of criminal proceedings of interest
is filled, and the apologies made by the editors for omit-
ting some articles, we fear that Germany has not to boast
of inuch more morality than other countries.
interesting, account of the dissensions which have taken
The Gazette des Tribunaux contains a long, but rather
place in the University of Heidelberg, in Germany. It
appears, that after several fruitless conferences with the
800, formed themselves into a kind of camp at Fran-
authorities, the discontented students, to the number of
kenthal, where they pronounced an anathema against all
In consequence of this proceeding, nearly all the law stu-
who should remain in or enter themselves at Heidelberg.
dents who were at that place have quitted it, and spread
themselves in different universities.

in other countries. From the ease with which this sheet

The new edition of Sir Henry Stewart's Planter's Guide

is announced to be ready for publication early in Novem-
ber.

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SIR,-Having seen in the Literary Gazette of last week a biographical sketch of the late Rev. Dr. O'Conor, I beg leave to set you right on some important facts in which you appear to have been led astray in your opinions and information respecting Doctor O'Conor.

You have stated that some of his writings, viz. "the Letthe Pope," and that, in consequence, Dr. O'Conor had ters of Columbanus ad Hibernos, incurred the censure of been suspended from his clerical functions, which circumstance preyed on his mind. Now the fact is, that from the year 1810, when the Letters of Columbanus were published, up to the period of Dr. O'Conor's death, in July last, no censure was ever passed by the court of Rome on Dr. O'Conor, who had at all times appealed to the decision of the holy see against the caluinnies and the persecution instituted against him by some of the Catholic bishops in England and Ireland.

The court of Rome and the cardinals never decided

against Dr. O'Conor; and their authority could alone have induced him to change those liberal principles which he maintained with so much talent, and which were so obnoxious to the spirit of bigotry.

In 1812, if the advice of Dr. O'Conor had been at

tended to, such terms might have been made with the pope as would have secured the nomination of bishops by dean and chapter in Ircland, subjected to the approval of the king. In other words, the veto would have been conceded; and the writings of Dr. O'Conor prove, that such a security against the foreign influence of continental powers is not incompatible with the tenets of Catholics.

A devoted love of his country, and a desire to see her miseries alleviated, were the motives which induced Dr. O'Conor to write the Letters of Columbanus. These Letters contain sound principles of Christian charity and fame, and will always vindicate him against the charge of conciliation. They are honourable to Dr. O'Conor's having acquiesced in submission to ignorant and clownish servility or superstition, rather than to that pure religion adorned. which St. Augustine prcached, and which Fenelon In the tribute you pay to the genius and talents of Dr. O'Conor as a writer, and author of the If that work shall ever be translated into English, it will Rerum Hibernicarum, you do but justice to his merits. become deservedly popular. The labour attending its completion was the origin of that illness which ultimately caused Dr. O'Conor's death, and deprived society of one of the most amiable men whom piety and charity combined to render worthy of the esteem of all sects and persuasions.

Adulation. Perhaps one of the finest specimens of base and impious servility on record, is the speech which, it is stated in Bertrand's History of Boulogne-sur-Mer, was made by the prefect of the Pas-de-Calais to Napoleon, at the period when the latter was projecting the invasion of England, and had collected all kinds of materials for the attempt: viz. "God In the Press. A New Year's Eve, and other Poems, by Bernard Barton.-A new edition, with engravings by created Buonaparte, and then rested himself!" Edward Finden, of the Annals of the Poor, by the late Modesty. At a late sitting of the Académie Rev. Legh Richmond. - The Interpositions of Divine des Beaux Arts, M. Quatremère de Quincy, tures, by Joseph Fincher, Esq.-Typical Instruction conProvidence, selected exclusively from the Holy Scripthe perpetual secretary, read an historical no-sidered and illustrated, by John Peers, A.M.-Essays on tice of the life and works of Baron Lemot, the the Universal Analogy between the Natural and the Spisculptor. According to M. Quatremère, this ritual Worlds, by the Author of "Memoirs of a Deist." -A new edition of Sermons, chiefly Practical, preached 34, St. James's Street, October 16, 1828. artist manifested a rare modesty in seeking in the Parish Church of Clapham, Surrey, by the Rev. We cannot answer J. W. without seeing the paper. and obtaining the rank of baron; for it was William Dealtry.-A new edition of a Tribute of Sym- To the critique from Aberdeen, our reply is, that we pathy, addressed to Mourners, by W. Newnham, Esq.- never insert anonymous Reviews, nor any upon works an avowal, that his statues were not, in his The Trials of Life, a Novel, by the Author of "De not in our possession, to satisfy ourselves of the justice of opinion, worthy of ennobling his name; and Lisle, or the Sensitive Man."-The Second Series of the what goes to the public under our authority. Cain we that his glory would otherwise have perished! Romance of History, to comprise tales founded on facts, like, but we must wait, if he pleases. and illustrative of the romantic annals of France, from ERRATUM.-Page 681, column 2, lines 53 and 54, for Was this panegyric or censure? the reigu of Charlemagne to that of Louis XIV. inclusive."abrogation" read "abnegation."

A knowledge of his pursuits, and veneration of his genius, arising from an intimacy with him for twenty years (my father being his brother-in-law), have made ticularly in his claims to having always been the advocate me feel an interest in all that concerns his name, and parof every measure which, without sacrifice of principle, could tend to benefit Ireland. I have the honour to be your humble servant,

J. B. SHEIL, M.D.

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