"Been in this part of the country before, sir? | S. M. Phillipps, in fact-don't do business at the inquired Professor Gobelow, cornering his chair Home Office as they used when Russell was towards Mr. Jorrocks. there-wrote himself-Dear Muleygrubs-Dear Russell-good man of business, Lord John.'

"'In course,' replied Mr. Jorrocks; 'I 'nnts the country, and am in all parts of it at times-ven I goes out of a mornin' I doesn't know where I may be afore night.'

Indeed exclaimed the professor. 'Delightful occupation! continued he: 'what opportunities you have of surveying Nature in all her moods, and admiring her hidden charms! Did you ever observe the extraordinary formation of the hanging rocks about a mile and a half to the east of this? The

"I run a fox into them werry rocks, I do believe,' interrupted Mr. Jorrocks, brightening up. 'We found at Haddington Steep, and ran through Nosterley Firs, Crampton Haws, and Fitchin Park, where we had a short check, owin' to the stain o' deer, but I hit off the scent outside, and we ran straight down to them rocks, when all of a sudden thounds threw up, and I was certain he had got among 'em. Vell, I got a spade and a tarrier, and I digs, and digs, and works on, till, near night, th' 'ounds got starved, th' osses got cold, and I got the rheumatis, but, howsomever, we could make nothin' of him; but I

"Then you would see the formation of the whole thing,' interposed the professor. The carboniferous series is extraordinarily developed. Indeed, I know of nothing to compare with it, except the Bristol coal-field, on the banks of the Avon. There the dolomitic conglomerate, a rock of an age intermediate between the carboniferous series and the lias, rests on the truncated edges of the coal and mountain limestone, and contains rolled and angular fragments of the latter, in which are seen the characteristic mountain limestone fossils. The geological formation—'

Here the Professor is unfortunately interrupted :

"Letter from the Secretary of State for the HOME Department.' exclaimed the stiff-necked boy, re-entering and presenting Mr. Muleygrubs with a long official letter on a large silver tray. "Confound the Secretary of State for the Home Department!' muttered Mr. Muleygrubs, pretending to break a seal as he hurried out of

the room.

"Ah,' said Mr. Jorricks, 'Lords are all werry well to talk about; but they don't do to live with. Apt to make a conwenience of one-first a towel, then a dishclout.'

"I don't know that,' observed Professor Gobelow: 'there's my friend Northington, for instance. Who can be more affable?"

"He'll make a clout on you some day,' rejoined Mr. Jorricks.

"Tea and coffee in the drawing-room,' observed the stiff-necked footmen, opening the door and entering the apartment in great state. 'Cuss your tea and coffee!' muttered Mr. Jorricks, buzzing the bottle. Haven't had half a drink.'' vol. ii. p. 256.

We hope we have now done enough to bring Jorrocks fairly before the non-sporting part of the public-the others will not His historian, need our recommendation. it must be obvious, is a writer of no common promise. On this occasion Mr. Surtees has not thought proper to trouble himself with much complication of plot; but the easy style in which he arranges and draws out his characters satisfies us that he might, if he pleased, take a high place among our modern novelists. He has a world of knowledge of life and manners beyond what most of those now in vogue can pretend to; and a gentleman-like tone and spirit, perhaps even rare among them.

We advise him to

try his hand-and that before he loses the high spirits of youth;-but he must, in so doing, by all means curb his propensity to

caricature.

AMERICAN MONUMENTS.-From Copenhagen, we have accounts of the annual meeting of the Northern Archæological Society-the most interesting of whose proceedings were the presentation and explanation of several monuments recently discovered in America, corroborative of the view of its early intercourse with Europe, long before the days of Columbus. These monuments were,-1, a "That's a rmise!' (ruse,) exclaimed Mr. Jor-stone slab, bearing an inscription composed of rocks, putting his forefinger to his nose, and twenty-four Runic characters, discovered in the winking at Mr. De Green-'gone to the cellar.' valley of the Ohio; 2, a pair of pincers, of massive "Queer fellow, Muleygrubs,' observed Mr. silver, found in the Brazilian province of Bahia, De Green. 'What a dinner it was!' exclaimed exactly resembling those of the same kind, in Mr. Slowman. "Ungry as when I sat down,' bronze, so often met with in the tumulary mounds remarked Mr. Jorrocks. 'All flash!' rejoined of Scandinavian countries; 3, arrows, with heartProfessor Gobelow. shaped heads in rock crystal, saws made with the teeth of sharks and fragments of flints, discovered in California, and resembling iall respects those used by the ancient Greenlanders, and 4, three very ancient Peruvian vases.—Athenæum.

"The footboy now appeared, bringing the replenished decanter."

Jorricks of course proposes the squire's health, with three times three, and one cheer more. He returns-a speech again -more cheers:

OPACITY OF MILK-Milk consists of a multitude of transparent globules of fat (butter), floating in a transparent liquid; or rather of two liquids both "And 'ow's the Secretary o' State for the is, they break the rays of light in opposing directions, transparent, but of different refractive powers: that 'Ome Department?' inquired Mr. Jorricks, with producing irregular refraction, and to this the opaa malicious grin, after Mr. Muleygrubs had sub-city is due. Mr. Fownes mentioned frosted glass as an explanatory instance of an irregularly refractive "Oh, it was merely a business letter-official! surface, the glass itself clear.-L. Gaz.

sided into his seat.

"We have already said that the velocity of the machine is imparted at its starting. This is effected by its being made to descend an inclined plane : du A STRANGE MEETING.-A letter from Alexandria ring the descent the covering of the wings is reefed, says:-A curious meeting took place last month in but before the machine reaches the bottom that cov- the desert between Suez and Cairo. A Mr. Fawering is rapidly spread: by this time the velocity ac- cett, who arrived here by the Oriental on his way to quired by the descent is so great, that the resistance India, when at Cairo heard that his brother was exproduced by the oblique impact of the sloping under-pected by that month's steamer from Bombay. The surface of the wings on the air is sufficient to sus- two brothers had never seen each other, the one betain the entire weight of the machine, just as a brisking born in England whilst the elder brother was in wind upholds a kite: but while tne pneumatic resistance thus procured by the velocity prevents the falling of the carriage, it opposes also its forward flight: to overcome this latter and smaller resistance is the office of the steam engine.

SCIENCE AND ARTS.

PERTURBATIONS OF THE PLANETS.-Translation of a letter from Prof. Hansen to G. B. Airy, Esq., the astronomer royal, " On a new method of computing the perturbations of planets, whose eccentricities and inclinations are not small;" was communicated by G. B. Airy, Esq. "Sir, I hasten to communicate to you a piece of astronomical intelligence of some importance. You are aware that all the methods that we possess for calculating the perturbations of the planets suppose that the eccentricities and inclinations are small; and that for those of the celestial bodies which move in orbits very eccentric and very much inclined, we have been hitherto obliged to calculate the differentials of the perturbations for a great number of points of the orbits, and to integrate them by mechanical quadratures. I have just now discovered a method by which we can calculate the absolute perturbations, that is to say, the perturbations for any time whatever, whatever be the eccentricity of the ellipse and the inclination of the orbit. For a first example of this method, I have calculated the perturbations of the comet of Encke produced by Saturn. The series to which my method leads are of such rapid convergence, that the perturbations of the longitude contain only forty-six terms, and the perturbations of the radius vector and of the latitude somewhat fewer than this. I have reason to believe that it is impossible to reduce them to a less number of terms.' The value for the time of perihelion passage was the example given-exhibiting a result of the following differences:

+1.52 .1.0.27 -0.69

the hollow axle was better able to resist the effects of vibration and all strains than a solid one, because the comparative strength of axles is as the cubes of their diameters, and their comparative weights only as their squares: consequently with less weight in the hollow axle there must be an increase of strength; and also that the vibration had a free circulation through the whole length of the hollow axle, no part being subject to an unequal shock from the vibration, and that the axle would therefore receive less injury from this cause than a solid one. A long series of experiments, which had been made in the presence of Major-Gen. Pasley and numerous engineers, were then read, and showed results confirmatory of the position assumed by the author of the paper.

In the discussion which ensued, it was allowed that theoretically the hollow axles must be stronger than the solid ones, inasmuch as the same weight of metal was better distributed, and the practical exeriments fully bore out the theory.-16.

THE IRIS.-On the Structure and mode of action of the Iris, by C. R. Hall, Esq. After reciting the various discordant opinions entertained at different periods by anatomists and physiologists relative to the structure and actions of the Iris, the author proceeds to give an account of his microscopical examination of the texture of this part of the eye, in different animals. He considers the radiated plicæ, which are seen on the uvea, in Mammalia, as not being muscular; but he agrees with Dr. Jacob in regarding them as being analogous in structure to the ciliary processes. The white lines and elevations apparent on the anterior surface of the human iris, he supposes to be formed by the ciliary nerves which interlace with one another in the form of a plexus. The iris, he states, is composed of two portions; the first consisting of a highly vascular tissue, connected by vessels with the choroid, ciliary processes, of the perturbations of longitude. "These differ- sclerotica and coneat and abundantly supplied with ences," Prof. Hansen proceeds to say, "as well as nerves, which, in the human iris, appear, in a front those of the perturbations of the radius vector, are view, as thread-like striæ, and which are invested, smaller than might have been expected, when we on both surfaces, by the membrane of the aqueous reflect on the total diversity of the methods em- humor. They are more or less thickly covered ployed, and the long calculations which the method with pigment, which, by its varying colour, imparts of mechanical quadratures requires. Besides, my to the iris on the anterior surface its characteristic method is so simple that I am astonished at not hav- hue, and, by its darkness on the posterior surface ing discovered it long ago; I have employed only renders an otherwise semi-transparent structure pereight days for the calculation of the preceding perfectly opaque. The second component portion of turbations, the general expression of which belongs the iris consists of a layer of concentric muscular to every point of the orbit of the comet. I have fibres; which fibres, in man and mammalia generthus succeeded in solving this problem, of which we ally, are situated on the posterior surface of the till the present time possessed no solution."-Lite-pupillary portion of the iris; but which, in birds, rary Gazelle.

extend much nearer to the ciliary margin, and consequently form a much broader layer. In fishes HOLLOW AXLES.-An account was then given, by and some reptiles they do not exist at all. The auMr. J. O. York, of the experiments upon the strength thor then proceeds to inquire into the bearings which of the ordinary solid axles as compared with the these concluions may have on the physiology of the hollow axles invented by him. The paper descri- iris. He thinks that the phenomena of its motions bed the common causes of fracture, concussion and can receive no satisfactory explanation on the hypovibration, produced by various circumstances-such thesis of erectility alone, or on that of the antagonism as a bad state of the line, the sudden opposition of of two se s of muscular fibres, the one for dilating, any obstacle on the rails, or the shocks arising from the other for contracting the pupil. He is convinthe wheels striking upon the blocks or the chairs ced that the contraction of the pupil is the effect of when thrown off the line. The force of vibration muscular action; but does not consider the knowand its tendency to produce fracture in rigid bodies, ledge we at present possess as sufficient to enable us and to destroy the most fibrous texture of iron where to determine the nature of the agent by which its elasticity was prevented, as is the case with railway-dilation is effected. He, however, throws it out as axles, were then discussed, and compared with the a conjecture. that this latter action may be the result like action on the axles of ordinary road-carriages, of an unusual degree of vital contractility residing where the concussion was reduced by an elasile me- either in the cellular tissues, or in the minute blooddium, such as the wood-spokes of the wheels. By vessels of the iris. It is from elasticity, he believes, calculation, it was shown that the twisting strain that the iris derives its power of accommodation to arising from the curves of the railway was of too chauges of size, and its tendency to return to its nasmall an amount to be considered as a cause of de-tural state from extremes either of dilatation or of struction to the wheels or axles even on lines with contraction; but beyond this, elasticity is not concarves of short radii. And it was contended that cerned in its movements.-16.

OBITUARY.

ers was unremitting, as his anxious solicitude for the poor was unbounded. With a liberality worthy of being emulated by many incumbents of much more richly endowed benefices, he, at his sole exlished, the interior of his parish church, and renpence, refitted, and with scrupulous taste embeldered it one of the most simply beautiful edifices

THE DEATH OF SOUTHEY.-Robert Southey has been released from sufferings which for more than two years had been matter of the deepest sympathy, anxiety, and sorrow. He died at Greta House on Tuesday last, in his 69th year. This is not the time for discussion of his cha-dedicated to the service of God, in the country. In racter or his literary claims, but who can doubt that the respect and admiration of all who honor virtue and genius, will follow Southey to the grave! Few men have written so much and written so well. No man has passed through a long life, al most continually in the public eye, with so much high and blameless purpose, and with such unstain ed honesty. We may grieve that he changed the opinions with which he started in an ardent youth, but those were times when opinions of the most resolute men were shaken. And Southey never forfeited his station or his character. He did not become a hack, or a party tool. The dignity of literature never suffered in his person.

Southey's prose is of the best in the language. It is clear, vigorous, and manly; with no small prettinesses in it, but full and muscular as that of our older and stronger race of writers; and often sparkling with a current of quaint grave humor which is singularly fascinating. His greater poems, however judgments may differ concerning them, are at least written on solid principles, and with a sustained power of lofty art. As to his shorter poems, no difference, we apprehend, is likely to exist, now or in any time to come. They are as fine as any thing in the language. His range of pursuit was extraordinary, and his unwearied diligence recalled the severer and nobler days of English study.

As we write we have received what follows from one of the most devoted of his personal friends, to whom is left (not among his least rich possessions) the sad but honorable memory of the long affection which Southey bore him, and by which both will

continue to be associated in far distant times:

ON THE DEATH OF SOUTHEY.
Not the last struggles of the Sun
Precipitated from his golden throne
Hold darkling mortals in sublime suspense,

But the calm exod of a man
Nearer, tho' high above, who ran
The race we run, when Heaven recalls him hence.
Thus, O thou pure of earthly taint!
Thus, O my SOUTHEY! poet, sage, and saint,
Thou, after saddest silence, art removed.

What voice in anguish can we raise?
Thee would we, need we, dare we, praise?
GOD now does that.. the GoD thy whole heart
loved.

March 23rd.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

REV. G. A. MONTGOMERY.-Dec. 1. Aged 49, the Rev. George Augustus Montgomery, M. A. Rector of Bishopstone, in South Wilts, and Prebendary of Ruscombe, in the Cathedral Church of Sarum.

Mr. Montgomery was the son of a gentleman supposed to be a sion of the noble house of Herbert. He was of Oriel college, Oxford, and was presented to the rectory of Bishopstone by George Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, in 1821.

Amogst the parochial clergy of the diocese, there was not one who more conscientiously, faithfully, or zealously "served at the altar," and fulfilled all the functions of his sacred office, than did the late Rector of Bishopstone. His days were passed in the unceasing exercise of every Christian duty; his attention to the spiritual condition of his parishion

every relation of social life he endeared himself to
warmth of his feeling, the courteous benignity of
those who knew him, however casually, by the
his sympathy for all who were
his manner, the gentleness of his disposition, and
"afflicted or dis-
tressed." The loss of so good, so truly pious, so ex-
emplary a man, even under the circumstances
incidental to our common nature, must have been
deeply and severely felt by all around him; but
there is something inscrutable to mortal compre-
hension in that awful-nay, appalling-dispensa-
tion of Providence, by which a life so thoroughly
devoted to the service of God, and to the good of his
fellow-creature, was in an instant terminated. Mr.
Bruce, for the purpose of looking over the new
Montgomery left Wilton House, with the Earl
church building at East Grafton, in the parish of
Great Bedwyn. During the preceding fortnight
the eastern portion of the nave had been covered
in with a stone vault, and the construction had
been carefully examined by the architect, and by
persons connected with the works, and they unani.
mously considered it to be perfectly secure-and
this, too, but a very short time before the fatal oc-
currence which we have the painful duty of record-
ing. At half-past one o'clock, Mr. Montgomery,
accompanied by the Earl Bruce, the Rev. John
Ward, Vicar of Great Bedwyn, his nephew Mr.
Gabriel, Mr. Ferrey, and the clerk of the works,
entered to inspect the new church, from which the
ing. The whole party had gone through the
church in the first instance, and were assembled in

centres of the arches had been removed that morn.

the chancel.

separated from the rest after a few minutes, and Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Ward were returning into the nave to get a better view of the vaulting. Mr. Gabriel followed them. Mr. Ward was in advance, and hearing a crack, sprang forward. Mr. Gabriel also saved himself by jump. ing into the north aisle ; but Mr. Montgomery, unhappily being more in the centre, was completely covered by the falling mass, and instantaneously killed. Independent of fractures of the skull, both in the forehead and at the base, there was a compound fracture of the left thigh, and the right arm was broken close to the elbow. An inquest was holden on the body before a most respectable jury, and a verdict of "Accidental Death" returned.

Mr. Montgomery married Cecilia, daughter of the Very Rev. George Markham. D.D. late Dean of York, but has left no issue. -Gentlemen's Magazine.

THE LATE MICHAEL J. QUIN, Esq.-We regret to announce the death of this gentleman, which took place on Sunday last at Boulogna-sur-mer. Mr. Quin, who was, we believe, in his 50th year, had been for some time in a declining state of health, and has left a wife and three daughters, we fear, quite unprovided for. Mr. Quin was well known to general readers as the author of " Travels in Spain," and of "A Steamboat Voyage down the Danube;" and to a more limited circle he was known as an extensive contributor to periodical publications. Mr. Quin's politics were uniformly liberal and consistent, and some years ago he wrote many able articles upon our foreign policy in this journal. He was also, for some time, editor of The Dublin Review."-Britannia.

SUTTON SHARPE, Esq.-Died on the 22nd inst, at his chambers in Lincoln's inn, Sutton Sharpe, Esq., Queen's counsel, aged forty-five. Mr. Sharpe some time ago had a paralytic attack, but it was believed by his friends that he was in a fair way of recovery, so much so that to several friends, who passed some hours with him on the night of Sunday last, he appeared in excellent spirits, taking a lively interest in the various subjects of conversation which were started.

Mr. Sharpe, to great professional knowledge, added extensive information, on most subjects, and his conversation was peculiarly agreeable.

His death will create a great sensation in Paris, as well as in London; for there were few men in the French Capital who during the last twenty years have been distinguished in science, literature, or politics, with whom he was not on relations of intimacy. At the bar he was held in the very highest estimation for his many excellent qualities, both of the head and heart, and no man was a more general favorite in society, into the best circles of which he had access from a very early age. He was a nephew of Mr. Rogers, the banker and poet. In politics Mr. Sutton Sharpe was a decided Liberal; but such was the amenity of his manners, that even in the times when politics ran highest in this country, as during the Reform Bill, we do not believe his stout assertion of his principles ever lost

him a friend.

We trust that some of the accomplished friends of Mr. Sharpe will do that justice to his memory which his many virtues so eminently merit.-Morning Chronicle.

[Mr. Sutton Sharpe was one of the most valuable men of our time. There was no judgment so much to be relied upon. His mind, too, was not less remarkable for its solidity than its activity, and it was most prolific in useful suggestions. It was hardly possible to converse with him without carrying off some new knowledge or subject to be worked upon. His mind was full of stores, which he made available for the good labors of others. We never knew any one so quick in seeing what should be done, and in chalking out the plan for doing it, and pointing out whence the materials are to be de

rived.

COMMODORE DAVID PORTER.-We have to record the death of Commodore Porter, Chargé d'Affaires at Constantinople, on the 3d of March. The commodore has discharged the duties of his station with distinguished ability for many years and his niemory will be gratefully cherished by numerous strangers who have felt the kindness of his attention to them in a foreign land.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.

The History of Junius and his Works; and a Review
of the Controversy respecting the Identity of Junius.
With an Appendix, containing Portraits and
Sketches by Junius. By John Jaques.

This is a very able book; well arranged in its plan, and complete in its matter, whether positive with regard to such absolute facts as dates, or inferential as-whether Junius was or was not a lawyer. Besides a full history of the letters and the concurring circumstances of their publication, Mr. Jaques has collected from a variety of sources a vast number of scattered facts and illustrations, tending to throw a light upon the authorship of these celebrated letters, and discussed seriatim the claims that have been put forward for various parties. After briefly dismissing the improbables, he enters at considerable length into the respective cases of Lord George Sackville and Sir Philip Francis. he conclusion Mr. Jaques comes to is founded on Butler's with some addition. It is that Lord George Sackville was the writer, Francis the amanuensis, and Mr. D'Oyly, a fellowclerk with Francis in the War-Office, and afterwards private secretary to Lord George, a medium of connexion. The circumstantial evidence points more strongly to Lord George than to anybody else: he had sufficient motives to instigate him to write the letters, and cogent reasons afterwards to desire the suppression of the authorship: the question in our minds has always been-was he capable of writing them? The hypothesis respecting the single or double amanuensis may be true, but is unsupported by reason or evidence. However convenient an amanuensis might have been, he was not necessary. The letters, especially the Lellers of Junius, are not long, looking at the period over which they extend; the labor was in their composition, not in their munications to Woodfall respecting the copying, transcription. The expressions in the private com

Mr. Sutton Sharpe was a learned lawyer in leading practice, but he had also much more than the learning of a lawyer. His knowledge of men and things and books was extensive. Hardly a subject could be started on which he could not bring an acute thought or some new information to bear.&c., may refer to copies to be made by Junius himself as well as by an amanuensis; whilst the only In conduct he was justly looked upon as a pattern direct evidence we have upon the subject is positive man, and the esteem and attachment of all the best in its terms, "I am the sole depository of my own men of his time were his. There were few hap secret, and it shall perish with me."-Spectator. pier men-fewer still who better deserved happiness. His career was one of uninterrupted success, Criticisms on Art; and Sketches of the Picture Galand the most brilliant professional prospects were leries of England. By William Hazlitt, with before him, but prosperity never in the slightest Catalogues of the principal Galleries now first coldegree spoiled him, and he never forgot an old lected. Edited by his Son. Templeman. friend, nor failed to return a hundred-fold an old We observe with great pleasure the steady and kindness. The attachments of his youth have worthy spirit of pride in his father's memory, which strengthened up to the hour of his death. A wiser animates Mr. Hazlitt in his collection of these admiand a better man the writer of this sad tribute ne- rable writings. Hazlitt was in no department of ver knew, nor a more true and constant friend.]-criticism so fascinating, in none so free from the Examiner.

FREDERIC D'ADELUNG.-Letters from St. Petersburgh announce the death in that city, at the age of seventy-four, of Frederic d'Adelung. Adelung was born at Stettin, in Prussia, and was son of the still more illustrious linguist of the same name. The son is the author of numerous works on the languages and literature of the East, and on Asiatic, Russian, Scandinavian, and German antiquities.-Athenæum.

dogmatising and wilful spirit which would sometimes cloud his exquisite judgment, as in that of the Fine Arts. The opening sketches of this volume, on the picture galleries of Angerstein, Dulwich, Stafford, Windsor, Hampton, Grosvenor, Wilton, Burleigh, Oxford, and Blenheim, are compositions as charming as those of the best paintings they can celebrate, and throw a light upon them warm and rich as their own. The elaborate and eloquent treatise from the Encyclopædia Britannica is included in this re-publication, with an article on flaxman from