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leaning on the asses that carried my effects. sometimes on the point of perishing for hunger. [is stated to be "an attempt to make more I could not conceive what they meant. One Under these circumstances, it is not to be won-graphic and real the history of men, whose of these people advanced to me, looked at me dered at if their character is at a very low ebb. names are familiar to most of us, and with attentively for some time, and then made a sign It is affirmed that many of them have never whose works we are becoming more and more to the rest to go on. He himself followed read the Bible, and are not acquainted even acquainted." This is addressed to the inhathem, after he had addressed a few words, with the New Testament. Hence the Alakas, bitants of America; but the work is one which which I did not understand, to my guide, who or learned men, are ashamed to be taken for will be read with great pleasure in Europe. was too much frightened to answer. It was priests, and, therefore, wear a different dress. The author, although he disclaims any pretennot till they were quite out of sight that my Such of the clergy as apply themselves to the sion to a knowledge of the fine arts, is evidently people came to themselves. From their ani- study of works on theology, do it only that a man of cultivated and elegant mind. His mated conversation, and the haste with which they may be the better able to dispute, for this "Sketches" comprehend the principal painters they went forward, I saw plainly that there is the soul of the Christian religion in Abys- from Apelles down to Claude. They consist of had been some danger. I learned afterwards, sinia. Nobody takes the trouble to preach a combination of fact and fancy. In the early at Nabisch Adi, that we had met the most plain morality; and it is, therefore, wholly part of the series, fancy, of course, predomi notorious robbers in the whole province, who unknown there. In such disputations they nates; in the latter, fact. As a specimen of had probably been deterred from attacking me have much practice, and often contrive, in a the manner in which the subjects are treated by the fire-arms which I constantly wore in my truly sophistical manner, to entangle their and decorated, we will quote a touching pasgirdle. I frequently had to do with robbers opponent in his own arguments. Every Eu-sage from the sketch of Antonio Allegri da afterwards, but was always convinced that a ropean traveller, who is not well versed in the Coreggio. well-armed, resolute man, need not fear whole dogmas of the several Christian parties, and "Here comes Antonio, with his new picbands of them. On the road you may gene- especially in the writings of the fathers of the ture,' said Maddelena to her father Nicolo; rally get rid of them, that is, if the servants fifth century, should, therefore, take good caredo, dear father, speak kindly to him.' 'Nay, themselves are not in league with them, nor to avoid engaging in a religious controversy daughter,' replied Nicolo, thou canst not exparalysed by fear. Least of all do they ven- with such a disputatious Abyssinian priest. A pect me to be as dovelike as thyself. I will ture to attack a white man. Perhaps the false quotation, and, still more, want of ac-speak to him as one man may speak to another. chief cause of this is the colour of the whites; quaintance with one of these authorities, im- It would have been well for thee had I not for the sudden appearance of a white, in parts mediately fixes on him a reputation for ig-yielded to thy foolish fancy in the first place. where none have been seen before, where the norance, the very worst character that a Hadst thou married Pietro, thou wouldst have people, perhaps, do not even know that there European can have in Abyssinia. As their taken thy proper station in the world, and been are such in the world, may seem to the blacks object by no means to convince, but only to mistress of one of the finest inns in Coreggio. as ominous, and demoniacal, as that of a negro embarrass and entangle their adversary, that I should not see thee, as I do now, wanting the in some village in the interior of Germany, they may afterwards decry him as a blockhead, necessaries of life.'Father,' said Maddelena, where, in the first fright, all would probably it is the most advisable to avoid these useless thou art mistaken; I want nothing. I am run away, and fancy that the devil was disputations, from which nobody can expect the happiest being in the world.' Then why any good. The author saw priests repeat the dost thou weep?" said Nicolo, for the tears of It is well known that for several centuries same question perhaps twenty times, which the young wife were falling like a morning Christianity has had numerous adherents in the Protestant missionary as often answered. shadow. Look! said she, Antonio is just Abyssinia, and, at present, it is the most gene- They went away, saying, You are right;' coming up the hill-see how feeble he walksrally prevalent religion. Katte draws a very but they were sure to return on the following he can scarcely carry his picture-ah, he stops unfavourable picture of these black Christians. day with the same objections. Hence it ap- to rest-do you see how pale he is? Yes, "I found every where in Abyssinia a confirma- pears that the mass of the people must remain yes, I see; he had better have taken my advice, tion of what I so frequently found in the East, in a deplorable moral condition. Lying, de- and worked at my trade; I offered to give him namely, that the professors of Christianity are, ceit, laziness, and theft, are their universal a year's instruction for no remuneration but his in all moral respects, far below the Mahomet- characteristics; positive virtues are sought in services; but nothing would do but he must ans. If any one looks there for fidelity and vain. The Abyssinian people have for many paint pictures, that are good for nothing in the probity, let him not knock at the door of a centuries professed Christianity; they know world. Now jars, and pipkins, and milk-pans, Christian, or he will find himself most cruelly the Bible and many canonical writings; but and flower-pots, are good for something, and deceived. This is not owing to the oppression Christianity, as it is taught them, is unhappily will always bring money. Yes, father; but which Islamism exercises over Christianity, distinguished by nothing but the most absurd Antonio's works will bring him fame-glory.' for this oppression is by no means so severe as and subtile disputes, party hatred, and perse-Fame! glory!-nonsense! Canst thou liveupon people in Europe fancy; it rather proceeds cution. It has not impelled the people to any these commodities?' 'We want but very little to from the hatred with which the different useful activity, to any improvement in learn-live upon; indeed, father, if Antonio were well, Christian parties persecute each other, from ing; they are as rude, perhaps more rude, I should not have a wish ungratified. He is so the endless family intrigues, generated by than when they renounced paganism.' kind, so gentle, so fond of our little Giovanni, covetousness, and supported by falsehood,-in and of the infant. Oh, there are few so blest as the practice of the austerities prescribed by I am! To have such a husband, father,—one their religion itself, which harden their heart, whose genius will lead him to immortality !' -and, lastly, from the moral corruption in which It is in a fair way of leading thee to imthe young, particularly the males, are brought up. mortality, my poor child,' said Nicolo with The influence of the priests is, on the whole, feeling. Thou art almost as pale as he. I very great, especially over the lower classes of little thought, when I let thee out of my fold, the people; but the state of indigence in which that thou wouldst find no other shepherd.' almost all of them live, has never allowed them Say what you please to me,' said Madto acquire such political power as in other Christian countries. They are absolutely dedelena, you are my father, my dear father, and I can bear it all; but I beseech you do not pendent on the princes, who sometimes let say such things to my poor Antonio; they them feel the whole weight of their power. make him miserable, they break his heart." Some who had ventured to excommunicate I wish you had married Pietro,' reiterated princes, have atoned for their rashness with Nicolo, he has a stout heart.' their lives. The last Adune himself was in you wish I was in my grave; for I would danger of this fate; but the intervention of sooner be there, than married to him. No, no, some great men saved him. The author you do not wish such misery for your poor learned how great the poverty of the priests child. Look, father! Antonio is up again, is from one of them, who, though he had and coming-ah, when you see his picture, I the highest rank next to the Confessor of am sure you will say to him, 'You did right, Prince Udie, and was constantly about the Historical Sketches of the Old Painters. By the Antonio, to pursue painting, it will lead you to prince's person, had no mule, and anxiously Author of Three Experiments of Living," immortality." Antonio slowly ascended the waited till Udie should give him one. The 12mo. pp. 296. Boston (U.S.), 1838. Hil-hill, and Maddelena met him. Let me look lower clergy live in such deplorable misery, liard, Gray, and Co. at it,' said she, and he turned the picture that many of them are, literally speaking,THE object of the author of this little volume towards her. How beautiful !' she exclaimed,

LITERARY AND LEARNED.
UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE.-The Hulsean prize was adjudged to D.
Moore, of Catharine Hall, in this University, for his Essay
mysteries is no solid argument against its truth."-
on the following subject, "That a Revelation contains
Cambridge Chronicle.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.

logical, 8 P.M.; British Architects, 8 P.M.
Monday-United Service Museum, 9 P.M.; Entomo-

Tuesday- Royal Medical and Chirurgical, 83 P.M.;
Civil Engineers, 8 P.M.; Zoological, 8 P.M.; Society of
Arts, 8 P.M. (On the Use of Bone in the Arts, by the
Secretary).

Wednesday.Society of Arts, 7 P.M.: Geological,
Botanical, & P.M.; Graphic, 8 P.M.
83 P.M.; Literary Fund Committee, 3 r.M.; Medico-

Thursday.-Royal Society, 84 P.M.; Antiquaries, 8 P.M.;
Royal Society of Literature, 4 P.M.

Friday.-Royal Astronomical, 8 P.M.
Saturday.-Guy's Hospital, 8 P.M.

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they are just such faces as we shall see in uriantly in the delicious climate of Naples, is | And hopes of future hours could chase the gloom heaven.' When they entered the house, the borne by hundreds, in honour of the Madonna That shrouds the lonely tomb. painter modestly set down the picture with its della Grotta.". Mr. Uwins's masterly and ele- Methinks the night grows chilly, and the breeze face to the wall. A warm day, Antonio,' said gant composition represents a family of these Seems not to pour its wonted fragrance round; Nicolo; thou shalt have a cup of my good old picturesque and apparently happy peasants. wine to refresh thee. Rather a cup of milk,' They form a charming group; and Mr. Sang-Of night-birds warbling in the moonlit trees, Still fainter grows the sound replied Antonio, I do not love your heating ster has done every possible justice to the beau- While on my soul fond hopes and yearnings draughts; they only add to the heat here,' and tiful original, at which we well recollect gazing he laid his hand upon his breast. My dear with great delight when it was exhibited at husband,' said Maddelena, soothingly, thou Somerset House in 1834. To "The Ruins of hast painted too closely for these few days Carthage" we adverted in a former Number of past; but it is for you, father, Antonio has the Literary Gazette: but it may be contem. been engaged. He said he would paint a plated again, and again, and again, with still picture for your room, and he has brought increasing enjoyment. The Claude-like com- ACCOUNTS have reached England of the sudden it.' It is but a little thing,' said An- position is among Mr. Linton's happiest ef- death, at Cape Coast Castle, on the 15th October, tonio rising, but I will shew it to you.' forts; and Mr. Willmore's execution, especially of this richly gifted Being, whose writings, Wait a moment, exclaimed Maddelena, I in the serene gradation of the sky, and the under the signature of L. E. L., have long been hear our little Giovanni, and baby too is tremulous glitter of the water, is transcendant. a well-spring of pleasure to all whom Genius awake;' and, going out, she returned in a few had a power to charm. Her earliest efforts, moments with the child in her arms, seated Outlines of Celebrated Works, from the best whilst yet little more than a child, were made herself near the window, with Giovanni leaning Masters, of Ancient and Modern Sculpture. in the pages of the Literary Gazette, which Nos. I. to VI. Murton. upon her lap, and said, Come, Antonio, I am many of her future productions have enriched A VERY clever and pleasing little publication, and adorned. To express what we feel on her

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BIOGRAPHY.
MRS. GEORGE MACLEAN.

in our opinion well calculated to assist in loss is impossible and private sorrows of so cheaply diffusing the general principles of taste deep a kind are not for public display :- her in the fine arts. The outlines have been drawn name will descend to the most distant times, as bearing a very striking resemblance to the on the stone with great delicacy, spirit, and one of the brightest in the annals of English living group before them. Nicolo gazed upon correctness, by T. J. Rawlins; and, with literature; and whether after-ages look at the it; his stern features relaxed; he attempted to reference to modern sculptors especially, afford glowing purity and nature of her first poems, speak, and burst into tears. My daughter!' an easy means of estimating their respective or the more sustained thoughtfulness and vihe at length exclaimed, my little Giovanni! and distinguishing qualities.

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just as they look now; and suddenly turning to Antonio, he seized his hand. Yes,' continued he, thou wert right to pursue painting; it will lead thee to immortality.' Did.I not say so?' said the delighted wife; and her arms were in a moment around her father's neck."

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We entirely agree with the author, that “it were well if the thirst for amusement could be partly satisfied with such entertainment as flows from a history of the developement and rewards of genius, or at least suffer the reader to draw a lesson from the lives of those who have used or perverted this noble gift of the Creator."

NEW PUBLICATIONS. Findens' Royal Gallery of British Art. Part II. Moon.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

THE DYING GIRL TO HER LOVER.

FAREWELL beloved, the evening breeze is
stealing

Softly around us, and the low, sweet sigh
Of waters murm'ring by
Falls on my soul, in gentle tones revealing
Visions of future hours, when I shall be

Thine, but in memory.

smile

brow
fond

Fades from thy lip the while;
Still would I see thy soul less troubled now,
Lest mine be won from loftier feelings back
Unto its earthward track.

Fain would I watch thy lonely couch beside,
When sickness hath o'erspread thy pallid cheek
With fever's fearful streak;
Oft have I prayed, let good or ill betide,
That I might live to catch each breath and tone,
In joy or grief, thine own.

Wilt thou not sometimes wander forth alone Beside this tranquil lake, and fondly dwell On all we've loved so well? [tone, And, as the breeze bears forth each plaintive Will not my spirit seem to hover near, Thy cherished voice to hear? WE have been impatiently looking for the Yet must I leave thee, tho' thy saddened second number of a publication, the first num-Grows paler than it's wont, and each ber of which so powerfully excited our admiration, and our expectations are completely gra tified. The plates of which the present part consist are the Smuggler's Intrusion," engraved by F. Bacon, from a picture by Sir D. Wilkie, R.A.; “ Neapolitan Peasants going to the Festa of the Pié di Grotta," engraved by S. Sangster, from a picture by T. Uwins, R.A.; and "The Ruins of Carthage," engraved by J. T. Willmore, from a picture by W. Linton. They are all first-rate productions. In the one at the head of the list, the combined ferocity and cunning in the countenance Yet hast thou deemed my warmest love grew of the bold and burly ruffian, contrasts finely Igiven, with the innocent but alarmed expression of When all my soul's fond hopes to thee were the family of the peasant into whose cottage Too much estranged from heaven; he has unbiddingly rushed, for the evident pur-But there are thoughts and feelings still untold, pose of hiding himself and his illicit spoil. That flow like buried streams, for ever on, "The Festa of the Pié di Grotta, which takes Unchanging and unknown. place on the 8th of September, is one of the principal and most interesting of the numerons holydays commanded by the priests and enjoyed by the populace of Naples. This is the only festival at which the peasantry are privileged to enter the Villa Reale the public gardens of Naples and they take full advantage of the license: crowds from the surrounding country come in at an early hour, and bear along with them the fine fruits of the season; and the long reed of the marshes, which grows so lux

cold,

I had not said so much in by-gone hours,
But now my pulse beats feebly, and each breath
And if to call thee mine, when sorrow lours
Seems to me fraught with death ;
Can brighten once again thy sunken eye,
Then can I calmly die.

Calmly could leave this fair and glowing scene,
Of eve's soft shadows and of morning's beams-
The bliss of early dreams,—
If less of sorrow on thy brow were seen,

gour of her later works in prose or in verse, they will cherish her memory as that of one of the most beloved of female authors, the pride and glory of our country while she lived, and the undying delight of succeeding generations. Then, as in our day, young hearts will beat responsive to the thrilling touch of her music; her song of love will find a sacred home in many a fair and ingenuous bosom ; her numbers which breathed of the finest humanities, her playfulness of spirit, and her wonderful delineations of character and society-all-all will be admired, but not lamented as now. She is gone, and, oh, what a light of mind is extinguished; what an amount of friendship and of love has gone down into her grave!*

The death of her uncle, the Rev. Dr. Whittington Landon, Dean of Exeter and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, is announced in the same day's journals. He was one who took a constant interest in the welfare and rising fame of his matchless relative.

DRAMA.
PANTOMIME.

PANTOMIME-NIGHT at the theatres, like boxing-day with another large class of the community, is a sort of jubilee, which attracts the attention of all ranks,—the old world and the young.

In criticising these performances, and especially in comparing them with former productions of the same kind, we ought not only to endeavour, as it seems to us, to divest ourselves of early predilections and prejudices, and of the mist which intervening time has cast over our senses; but we should consider that the altera

tions in the theatres themselves must have led to considerable changes in the invention and getting up of such spectacles. The immense tricks and transformations much more diffisize of the great stages renders the execution of cult; and the exertions of the principal performers also not only more fatiguing, but necessarily of a different kind. It is easy to manage fifty square feet of machinery; not so, five hundred or five thousand. It is easy to

Since writing this, accounts have been received which intimate that Mrs. Maclean fell a sacrifice to the incautious use of a medicine which she took for the relief of spasms.

descend a trap five feet deep, or leap through a window three feet high; not so pleasant, a fall of twenty feet, or a jump of a dozen, with a very disagreeable uncertainty as to what is to be your reception below, or on the other side. There are numerous other inconveniences with which the large houses have to contend; but, perhaps, the greatest of all at the present time, is the strange and anomalous state of the public press, as it affects dramatic speculation and property. Adventuring sums of importance and magnitude on experiments is, at the best, but too precarious; it is, indeed, a pity to see the spirit of party and partisanship vitiating almost every newspaper report of the performances, and often most unjustly prejudicing the interests it ought to be their pride to cherish and protect. Belonging to the body, we are sorry to offer these observations; but it

is a public duty; and by a very little pains we will shew how apt that public is to be misled by following the guidance to which we have alluded.

After witnessing the new pantomimes, we took the trouble to refer to the journals for contemporary opinions, to ascertain whether or not they agreed with our own; and we think our readers will be as much surprised as we were to discover how flatly they contradicted each other witness the following specimens of

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COMPARATIVE CRITICISM!!

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over his wild beasts," &c.-Times. "Van Amburgh holding sovereign sway and mastery

"The performances of Van Amburgh are almost of

too painful a nature to be a fit introduction to a Christmas pantomime, and a child beside us turned pale with terror," &c. &c.-Chronicle.

Of the music, encore a little.

"Scenes well painted, did much for carrying through a pantomime ill-contrived, and still worse executed." And at the close

"Hissing and applause seemed nearly equal, and, if we were to decide the casting vote, we feel obliged to say it would be given to the former. Curtailment, and greater facility given to the shifting, or a few more nights' will put this grand Christmas pantomime' entirely hors de combat."-Times.

"The repetition was announced, and no mistake; and if compressed by an hour, a continuous enjoyment may be expected for the young holyday makers, and not less for their maturer friends."-Chronicle.

"The practical jokes not unworthy of the comic muse." But

"The children seemed delighted."—Herald.

"The music is happily composed and selected-nothing We had marked the critiques upon the minor the noisy and monotonous character we have usually theatres to shew that, though in a lesser de observed in pantomime music."-Times. "The music of the pantomime is noisy, and, therefore, gree, and with evidently less of private feeling, good."-Chronicle. similar discrepancies prevail; but, for the preson."-Post. "The music all through reflected credit on Mr. Elia-sent, we shall be content with what we think

The Times, as we have seen, represents the piece as most deserving in every feature, and most successful to its close. Not so others :"It can never be a very favourite pantomime; but, with omissions and abbreviations, &c., it may yet serve "On the whole, the thing went off with moderate success."-Herald.

its turn."-Chronicle.

And so much for the pantomime at Drury Lane.

With regard to Covent Garden, the Times, never averse to giving Macready a slap, has him on the hip about his Christmas per

formances.

"Jane Shore, and Fair Rosamond- a most injudicious On Jack Frost, at Drury-lane, says the and improper choice. No two particular portions of Times, it ishistory it was more desirable should remain undisturbed

"A new and splendid Christmas pantomime.

In all the genuine attributes of a comic pantomime, in

and forgotten."-Times.

mired the dull tragedy of Jane Shore, but its Now, this is too severe: we never much adfun and frolic, well-devised tricks, adroit transformations, excellent scenery, and pleasing music, the produc- poetical justice ought at least to absolve Rowe tion deserves great commendation." from the charge of immorality. In every traFrom this the Morning Chronicle diametri-gedy there is guilt and crime; and the poet is cally dissents; for it declares, after describing only answerable for the just retribution with the openingwhich he visits them. "Such is the proem, as far as its unintelligibility would As for the Rosamond allow us to comprehend it. Of the tricks, ca- story, as treated in the theatre, it was not very favourably. The former were none of them the audience pleased the critic as little as the perings, and tumbles, we cannot, we regret to say, speak liable to the slightest objection. But, allons: new; and excited but little wonder amongst the holyday children." performances, and he kindly extends his repre

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And what says the Herald, vice versâ ?— "The pantomime abounded as much in broad nonsense as we had ever had the fortune to be acquainted withal." But from this the Post utterly and expressly dissents; for it assures us that "There is not enough of broad fun in it, and it is too long."

Now come we to the particulars touching the clowning of Wieland; and they are prettily

contradictory!

"Mr. Wieland appeared as the Clown, and, certainly, since the days of the elder Grimaldi, we have never seen

his Clownship so humorously supported. success was complete."-Times.

His

"Mr. Wieland, strange to say, is but an indifferent Clown-the party-coloured garb, and the motley face, evidently suit him not."-Chronicle.

"Wieland was the all-in-all of the whole thing. Not only did he throw far more general significance into the humour of the Clown than any individual since old Grimaldi's time," &c.-Herald.

hension to them.

to say!) not with the aristocracy of the land; for, ex"The house was crowded in every part, but (strange cepting a few rows on the dress-circle and upper boxes we never remember to have seen a greater assemblage of the unwashed' enclosed within the walls of any theatre." -Times.

As Macready gives no orders, we do not see how he could prevent this squalid appearance (though it did not strike us), without refusing the poor-looking creatures' money at his doors. The check-takers, for instance, addressing them thus

"Do you think to get into the boxes with a pair of his money." like these? Be off with you! Return this fellow "Now, pray ma'am, stand back-if you don't put off that shabby bonnet, there is no pit admission here for such as you." "You dirty unwashed blackguard!-You go to the gallery! Police, police! take this sweep into custody."

The mention of "old Grimaldi,” smacks of an understanding with the Times' critic. But let us go to what is our more immediate More general again. object, the critiques on the pantomime. The "Many of the transformations were clever, but the opening scenes before the characters are trans

instantaneous changes of entire scenes was the most remarkable feature in the mechanical arrangements of the whole piece."-Herald.

"The staleness and the paucity of the tricks wearied the audience early in the evening; and the dulness of a harlequinade within a harlequinade, enacted by some Dutch artistes, of the names of Lehmann and Winther, and the bad working of the scenery. from first to last, completed the distaste so effectually, that much loud disapprobation followed the fall of the curtain."-Chronicle.

In every change (of the scenery) we see something to "The scenery is all good-and there are some clever jokes."-Post.

praise and to admire."-Times.

Come we to the Dutch actors, and there is no better agreement; no less direct contra

dietion.

"The Lehmann and Winther family are clever, but less favourably received than the intrinsic merit deserved,

formed.

"The various characters are introduced, disfigured in the

most absurd but most amusing manner."-Times. "We pass somewhat reluctantly from this beautiful introduction-this exquisite framework of the piece, into the burletta portion."-Chronicle.

"We are sorry to find the contest (in the introduction) between Nature and Art carried on in so low a style." "Ugly masks, which offend the sight too long."-Post. "Nature and art are most happily brought in contrast, and the painter has most admirably illustrated both with a pencil full of imagination, taste, and vigour."-Herald.

The pantomimic part gives rise to equally bered that many of these matters are statements discordant statements; and it should be rememof facts which admit of no variety of opinion if truly reported, and not matters of judgment, in which no two people need agree.

will be deemed a curious exhibition of the modes in newspaper criticism. We should be sorry to impute improper motives to any respectable journal; but it is impossible not to see, that in some instances the persons whom these journals employ are induced to misrepresent the theatres, either by eulogy or censure. And, even in their case, we would not impute corruption; but men's minds may be biassed in other ways, and likings or resentments so angmented, as to lead to a dereliction from what is due to truth and the faithful discharge of a public trust.

Covent Garden pantomime has fulfilled the Our own notice of the week is, that the and applauding houses. promise it gave, and is nightly acted to crowded At Drury Lane, matters remain as per last.

There is one thing just now connected with the Drama, and more largely with social morals than has been animadverted upon, upon which we would bestow a moment's notice. We allude to the proceedings in progress for the shutevening. This will throw a vast number of ting up of many shops at eight o'clock in the unemployed and idle persons upon the town an hour or two earlier than heretofore; and it come frequenters of the theatres, to the manicannot be doubted that many of them will befest advantage of the theatrical interests. It will be well if no more objectionable pursuits be found for the rest.

Adelphi. Mr. Bihin, a very great French actor, made his appearance in London, on Monday, at the Adelphi. With the remembrance of the dwarf Hervio Nano, who was so recently on the same boards, still fresh in our minds, imagine our astonishment to see his place supplied by one, who we of a verity believe to be eight feet high, and finely proportioned withal. A burletta entitled The Giant of Palestine, concocted by Mr. Stirling, partly from Tasso's "Jerusalem," and partly from his own head, served to introduce the new-comer, who was warmly welcomed. Mr. Bibin is light and active for his size, and ex

hibits none of that dull heaviness so common in

the overgrown. The piece is well arranged as a vehicle for shewing the powers of the giant, and was greatly enlivened by some capital comic acting on the part of Mrs. Keeley and Mr. H. Beverley; the lady's expression of fright after her swagger of "Who cares for a giant ?" when she finds him standing behind her, was as admirable as any thing we ever saw. Two other attractions made their appearances in the same lady, by name Miss Fortescue; the second, a evening. The first, a very handsome young farce, called Jim Crow in his new Place: but the greatness of the first performer (Mr. Bihin), so absorbed our ideas, that we can only add that

all of the novelties were quite successful, and [ing memoranda illustrative of the life of the Bowers on the Diseases of Horses, Horned Cattle, and
bans, 3d edit. 18mo. 18. 6d.-The Scotish Banker, by W.
that poor Yates was so dreadfully fatigued by immortal bard, which had been made by Mr. Sheep, 8vo. 10s. 6d.-A Moral Contrast, by F. B. Rib-
his exertions that he was forced to resign, by Severn, the librarian of the London Medical H. Logan, 18mo. 2s. 6d.-Boid's History of Architecture,
of a Notary, 8vo. 218.-Tilt's Hand-Books: Zoological
permission of the audience, his part in Nicholas Society, among the volumes under his care. 2d edit. 12mo. 58. 6d.-R. Brooke's Treatise on the Office
Nickleby to Mr. Wright, who went through it The facts of the case are, we understand, as Gardens, Regent's Park, 1. 6d.; Ditto, Surrey Zoologi-
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W. Reid, M.D., 8vo. 158.-Correspondence of W. Pitt,
who was inducted into the living about 1640, square, 4s.-Elements of the Practice of Medicine, by
ridiculous as he could.
and directed his attention to the cure of bodies Earl of Chatham, Vol. II. 8vo. 18s.- Gleanings from
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Ephemerides, in which he has inserted, among Principles of the Laws of England, by a Solicitor, 8vo.
38. 6d.-Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia, visited in
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anecdotes and traditions respecting Shakspere, 1837, by the Rev. G. R. Gleig, 3 vols. post 8vo. 318. 6d.
some of which he had learned from the gossip The Church Calendar for 1839, post 8vo. 4.-Philip
of the town-among others, from one of his Henry's Exposition of the first Chapter of Genesis, 18mo.
Physiology of Man, 8vo. 148.-Rev. H. Stebbing's Con-
female patients, a descendant, either grand- 4.-The Discovery of the Vital Principles, or the
daughter or great niece of the poet. The books tinuation of Milner's Church History (3 vols.), Vol. I.
Willis, M.D., Fasc. I. folio, 5s.-Peter Pilgrim, by Dr.
in which these notes are inserted are understood 8vo. 12s.-Illustrations of Cutaneous Diseases, by R.
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from the time of its foundation, but it being of a Man of the World, 2 vols. post 8vo. 12s.- Pelago, a
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value. We understand the curiosity of the
lovers of Shakspere and his times will shortly METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1838,
be gratified by their publication.

Olympic. On Wednesday, Madame Vestris
made her first appearance after her unpropi-
tious trip to America, and was received with
the most enthusiastic welcome by a house
A bouquet of flowers
crowded in every corner.
was thrown upon the stage, which she took up,
and clasped, and kissed, with evident emotion.
A new Christmas piece, founded on a novel ver-
sion of Bluebeard, by Mr. Planché and Mr.
Charles Dance, was produced on the occasion,
and met with much applause. As the crowd
prevented our witnessing it, we (having the
fear of newspaper guidance before our eyes)
dare not offer any criticism upon it. Madame
Vestris is, of course, the heroine; and we are
assured looked well, though thinner than when

she left us.

VARIETIES.

December.

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Winds, S.W.

Upsal, 28th October.—The two great chests
which King Gustavus III. after having sealed
them at every joint, delivered on the 1st of
Weather Prophets.-The new year recalls Thursday
January, 1789, to this university as a present,
with directions not to open them till after the our memory to the weather prophets, who Saturday
expiration of fifty years, have been brought out begin very unluckily. Murphy predicts frost Sunday
of the cellars of the university, and deposited with snow for the 1st; fair, with a return of January, 1839.
in one of the galleries of the library. As the frost, for the 2d; frost, accompanied with Tuesday
time expires on the 1st of January, 1839, the snow, for the 3d; fair, frost, for the 4th; and Wednesday 2
senate has sent an address to the crown prince, changeable, snow, for this day. All wrong!
as protector of the universities, requesting him Mr. Simmonite is hardly more lucky, unless
to be present at the opening of the chests on we have to-day the "downfall and wind"
New Year's Day. The prince has accepted this which he predicts.
invitation. The two mysterious chests are of
different sizes, and secured by numerous iron
bands; the largest is so heavy, that four horses
would scarcely be able to draw it. Since they
have been placed in the library, which is open
to the public, numbers of persons go every day
to look at them.

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Except the 27th, 28th, and 31st ult., generally cloudy,
with frequent rain.

CHARLES HENRY ADAMS.

Rain fallen, 4775 of an inch.
Edmonton.
Latitude....51° 37' 32" N.
Longitude..

3 51 W. of Greenwich.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A Hurricane. In a conversation the other
day, after mentioning the movement of immense
stones by the tempest in the West Indies,
Mr. I mentioned that, just before his We have received the following letter so late, that we
arrival there, a twenty-four pounder had been insert it without being aware if it need a comment or
To the Editor of the Literary Gazette.
blown, by the violence of the storm, from the note from Ed. L. G.
Sir,-At the close of your second notice (Dec. 22d) of the
battery into the sea. "That (rejoined Mr.
JM—) explains to me what I never" Memoirs of Charles Mathews," you have, from some
could understand before- the meaning of its extraordinary misrepresentation, been led into a state-
blowing great guns!

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The Himyarite Language.-M. Freynel,
writing from M. Jidda to M. Mohl, in a letter
published in the Journal Asiatique for July,
A Jew Bargain. We had a good laugh, the
announces the discovery of "the language
spoken at the court of the Queen of Sheba, other day, on Westminster Bridge, where a
and which the savages of Mahrah still speak." Jew chapman was selling oranges, and a cus-
This is the Himyarite language, or, as M. tomer had bated him down from eighteen-
Freynel terms it, the Ehhkili, which is the pence to fourpence for a dozen. Having picked
name of a noble race, who still use it in Hakik, these, the unconscionable fellow insisted on
Mirbat, and Zhafar, on the southern coast of having one in, or declared he would not take
the Arabian Peninsula. The language is Se- them; and, after much chaffering, the Jew
mitic, but, sui generis, forming an additional tossed in the orange, with the following speech:
"Vell, den, take 'em; but you have dem
class to the three enumerated by Gesenius.
The grammar of the language is very peculiar, sheeper as meshelf, if I sthole dem, sho help me
and in many respects refined; it has some Got!"
A Poor Party-Another instance of the
affinities with those of the Hebrew, Arabic,
Phoenician, and Ethiopic. There are three ar-whim in conversation among the lower orders
ticulations of the letter s, to pronounce which was overheard at Hammersmith. Two or
requires contortions of the mouth that destroy three men and women, out holyday-making,
the symmetry of the face.

I

You

ment in reference to my husband's bond with Mr.
Arnold, which I consider myself bound to correct.
say, when reverting to the terms of his engagement, that
10001. a-year for life, and 5001. for the life of Mrs M., were
not so very bad for an experiment yet to be tried." To this
have simply to reply, that no clause whatever in my
contrary, this very fact formed the basis of Mr. Mathews's
favour, or in relation to myself, existed; and, on the
subsequent dissatisfaction and distress of mind, when he
felt his health likely to be seriously affected by the exces
sive labour of his undertaking. The absence of any
mature death, was the principal cause of his mental suffer-
vision for his family, in the probable event of his pre-
ings, and which led to the necessity of cancelling the
an equal participation in the profits arising from his own
original bond; but not, as you infer, to the advantage of
exertions.

I am sure, sir, you will promptly, as kindly, rectify a
mistatement calculated to raise a false estimate of Mr.
Mathews's feeling and conduct on the occasion in question.
In placing myself before the public, I was prepared to bend
(however unintentionally) are misrepresented or perverted,
in silent submission to every opinion; but where facts
and my husband's memory affected in the most remote
sensitive and tenacious.
"It is horrible," had pretty evidently spent all their money, degree, I may be pardoned for feeling, perhaps morbidly,

observes M. Freynel," to hear and see the and one said to the other-" What, have you
"No," was
nothing left for another glass ?"
language spoken!"-Asiatic Journal.
the reply; "no, not even so much as to pay
the 'pike for a walking-stick !”

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In answer to your final observation, in allusion to the
various public critiques quoted from in the course of
second volume: wherein I have given my reasons for such
the "Memoirs," I beg to refer you to pages 283 and 4 of the
quotations, and at the same time explained that the
original notices were part of a large collection formed
since my husband's death for my own gratification, and
long before I had an idea of publishing: so that the
weakness you imputed to him in attaching consequence
to such authorities (not half of those in question, I am
ANNE MATHEWS.
sure, ever met his eye), must in justice belong solely to
25 Michael's Place, Brompton.

History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, by S. A.
pædia,") f.cap, 8vo. 6-Holyday House: a Series of
Dunham, Vol. I. (forming Vol. CX. of the "Cabinet Cyclo-myself.-I am, Sir, &c.,
Tales, by Miss C. Sinclair, 12mo. 5s. 6d. Tables for cal-
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by T. Fowler, 8vo. 10.-A Priced Catalogue of London
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-

As we do not think that Sir F. Chantrey ever denied
his obligation to Mr. Stothard for the drawing (design) of
the childrens' tomb in Litchfield Cathedral, we see no
occasion to insert Mr. Robert Stothard's proof of the fact.

We cannot insert Rose's lines.

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The Courses of Instruction in Hebrew, the Oriental, and other
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