guineas) is Mr. John Gunby, of Birmingham; | success in so noble an aim, are deserving of animal character by which Mr. Davis's pencil and we extract the following passages from a patronage, then will M. Scrymgeour meet with is distinguished. The plate is charmingly ensketch of its origin, history, and character, no stinted share of public encouragement. The graved. which recently appeared in a Birmingham journal: tecture, covered with hieroglyphics, has a su- Richmond, and its Surrounding Scenery. En. William the Fourth. Dobbs. falgar Wharf, Southwark. By R. H. Essex. On stone, by Scharf. Dickinson. ANOTHER view, in which we see more of the structure of the bridge and the boats, &c. on the river below. Mr. Essex is, we believe, a young artist; but he belongs to a family eminently gifted with taste and talents, especially in music, and he shews himself to be worthy of his kin. Ceremony of opening London Bridge. Pro Christ crowned with Thorns. Painted by subject is the evidence of the divine mission of Moses and Aaron, given to Pharaoh by the "It is now nearly four years since Mr. serpent-rod of the Hebrews swallowing up the A FINE profile resemblance of his Majesty, Gunby invented and executed two small vases, rods of the Egyptian magicians. The artist embossed on tinted paper. The name of the about eighteen inches high, the first specimens has presented us with Pharaoh in splendour artist by whom the die was sunk ought to have of the art, which he shewed to some of his upon his throne, the magicians discomfited been introduced, that he might not, like one of friends; and by their recommendation he was and enraged, Moses looking upwards for Ossian's heroes, be “defrauded of his fame." induced to procure an introduction, through heavenly assistance, and a multitude of people View of the New London Bridge, from TraSir Frederick Watson, to his late majesty variously affected by the miracle. The archiGeorge IV., who was pleased to express his unqualified approbation of the invention and execution, and commanded Mr. Gunby to execute a vase on a much larger scale, suitable for one of his palaces. Thus encouraged by the countenance of so distinguished a judge, Mr. Gunby returned to Birmingham, and in a few hours finished a rough sketch of a vase of the purest Grecian form, and of the prodigious dimensions of the one now exhibiting at the Queen's Bazaar, Oxford Street, London. This original sketch, though produced in the incredibly short time of a few hours, has undergone few or no alterations either in the outline or in the detail; and the boldness of the conception is no less creditable to Mr. Gunby, than the great taste he has shewn in the rich No work that we can conceive, of a similar variety and harmony of the colours, and the character, could come before the public assoextraordinary mechanical ingenuity displayed ciated with more pleasing sentiments, or exin the general adaptation of the parts, forming citing a more classic interest, than this. Few a mass of glass-work hitherto unequalled in dwellers in the metropolis, and few occasional magnitude, and presenting a combination of visiters to it, but are well acquainted with the beauty and magnificence altogether unexampled picturesque beauties of Richmond and its neighin the arts. The prevailing colour of the ex-bourhood; and there is scarcely any foreigner terior of the vase is gold, which for the most by whom they have been seen, who does not part has the appearance of being richly em- allow that their claims to admiration equal bossed, and which is very agreeably relieved by those of the richest pastoral landscape of his a vivid emerald green and scarlet. The dif- own country. The representation of such deferent compartments of the exterior are judi- lightful scenery, treated by such artists as those ciously diversified,—not irregularly and with- who are engaged in the present undertaking, out system, but exhibited in tiers continued cannot fail to be favourably received by the round the bowl, and forming distinct patterns public in general, as well as by the lovers and of the most dazzling beauty. This effect per- encouragers of the fine arts. The publication fectly astonished us, and is certainly a new era will be comprised in two Parts, each containing in the art of glass-cutting; but on a nearer twelve plates. In this, the first Part, the inspection, we perceived it was produced by the drawings, with the exception of four by his most elaborate cutting either on the upper or able pupil Mr. Barnard, are from the pencil of under side of the glass; and by the skilful ma- Mr. Harding, whose high rank among our THIS distinguished and extraordinary painter nagement of a variety of gilding and colouring water-colour painters is well known; and the died on Wednesday, at his lodgings in South all underneath the surface, a richness and bril- plates, with the similar exception of four by Lambeth, in the forty-sixth year of his age. liancy is produced equal to the most finished his able pupil Mr. Frederick Smith, are from His death was occasioned by his ruling passion. specimens of enamel, possessing at the same the graver of Mr. W. B. Cooke, to whom we Not recovered from the influenza, under which time the rare merit of being equally durable, have too often paid the just meed of approbation he had been some time suffering, he went to the gold and colouring being securely protected in the Literary Gazette, to render any further Norwood to make a study of one of those scenes from the action of the atmosphere. The in- eulogium on his powers necessary. The sub- on which he especially delighted to exercise his terior surface possesses less brilliancy than the jects have been selected with great taste and pencil, and in the execution of which he stood exterior; but we think it is calculated to please judgment; and the fidelity of the delineation of alone. A severe cold was the effect of this the general spectator by the contrast it exhibits them is unimpeachable. There are also several in its subdued colouring. The colour of the clever little wood vignettes, which ornament a ground is a warm lavender, with the vine-leaf letter-press illustration of the work by Mrs. of vivid green flowing gracefully from the Hofland, whose literary talents, whose love of upper lip to the centre of the vase. The arms, the beauties of nature, and whose former rewhich are in bronze and highly finished, were sidence at this enchanting spot, eminently modelled by Mr. William Hollins, of this town, qualify her for the task. from a design of his own. Each of the arms consists of two griffins' heads, grasping a massive chain between the teeth, and supported by a scroll, from which flows the elegant and classical acanthus leaf, embracing the bowl on either side, and, being of bronze, forms a fine relief to the general character of the work." Mr. C. Davis, His Majesty's Huntsman, on RISING from human to divine, Mr. Wilkins has here exercised his lithographic powers on a head, the size of life, from the fine painting of an ancient master. The execution is very skilful, and the delicacy with which the Man of Sorrows is represented does infinite credit to the art. The original partakes of the pathetic rather than of the sublime, and the engraver has faithfully caught the expression. Indeed, we have seen nothing on stone of this kind more honourable to the English school. BIOGRAPHY. MR. PETER NASMYTH. exposure. He was thrown back upon his bed in a state of weakness that nothing could restore. The most skilful professional aid, in the kind attentions of Mr. Wardrop, and the affectionate care of his relatives, were of no avail. Peter Nasmyth was the eldest son of Alexander Nasmyth of Edinburgh, whose talents as a painter of landscape have been known and estimated through half a century, and who still lives in the vigorous exercise of his powers, surrounded by a numerous and gifted family. The earliest recollections of Peter tell of his devoted attachment to nature. Nature was in THE title of this beautiful print gives but a truth his school; for this the schoolmaster was very inadequate notion of its variety. It is neglected, and the truant boy was found, not not only a portrait of Mr. Davis on his mare, robbing orchards, nor indulging in sensual graboth painted in fine and spirited action, but it tifications, but with a pencil in his hand, drawrepresents a pack of hounds in full chase through ing some old tree, or making out the anatomy THIS picture is now exhibiting at the Egyptian a rich and picturesque country; the whole exe- of a hedge-flower. To lash him into the study Hall; and if an effort to accomplish a produc-cuted with great vigour and taste, and with of books was impossible the attempt was given tion of art of the highest class, and distinguished that striking intelligence and discrimination of up in despair. He was allowed to take his own NEW PUBLICATIONS. The First Sign in Egypt. Painted by skill. ENGLISH OPERA, ADELPHI. course, and to follow out in his own way the public; morning promenade-rooms for ladies, the Orphanotrophium at Egina, under the dictates of his powerful genius. A remarkable with refreshments and accommodations for able direction of A. Mustoxidi, its president, circumstance occurred at a very early age, taking boxes, &c. &c.; the whole pit divided who has superintended it for nearly two years. which proves how strongly his imagination was into seats, which may be secured for individuals Such children of Grecian families as were impressed with the objects of his study. He at the usual price; a spirited opening of the wandering about friendless and alone, and was going on a sketching excursion with his season, instead of waiting till near its close for were adopted by the state, and provided for father. In making some preparations the even-exertion; the engagement of new and excellent first in Poros, and afterwards in Napoli, found ing previous, his right hand was disabled, and singers-are among the arrangements contem- at length a permanent asylum in the new it was thought his part of the undertaking plated. We believe Mr. Mason will make the Orphan House in Ægina. At the end of 1829 would be abortive. His friends did not know Opera in this country what it ought to be, for their number amounted to 495, of whom 145 his powers. Peter set off his right hand its own credit, and for the expense bestowed were from the Peloponnesus, 175 from Greece was disabled, but he had another; and with upon it. Proper, 25 from the islands of the Archipelago, this left hand he made sketches which are and 155 of Greek families who had been sought after now by collectors for their truth obliged to abandon their country. In the year and fidelity. His ingenuity suggested many On Monday, after the Sorceress, in which 1830, when many Greek parents who had been contrivances to facilitate the study of nature in Miss H. Cawse continues to sing and play parted from their children by slavery, or other the stormy atmosphere of his native mountains. delightfully, and the fine organ of H. Phillips accidents of war, returned to their country, One of these was a travelling tent, which may is heard with increase of admiration, we were and found their long-lost offspring in the Or be recollected by his companions as more cre- amused with a lively operetta, part and parcel phanotrophium, many expressed a desire to ditable to his enthusiasm than to his mechanical of a piece performed at the Queen's Theatre, remove them to their native place. The gocalled Arrangement, from the pen of Don Teles-vernment consented, and ninety-eight went At the age of twenty he came to London, foro de Trueba. The rise of this writer in our back with their parents. where his talents were soon appreciated, and literature may be estimated by the quantum of Grecian Antiquities. The Greek govern. he got the name of the English Hobbima. scurrility which he provokes in that division ment some time since issued a decree, comHobbima and Ruysdael seem to have been his of the periodical press of which personality and manding all antiquities found in the interior to favourite masters. Without being a copyist of scurrility are the staple; and we dare-say be brought to the national museum, in order their manner, he may be said to have infused Arrangement will obtain its due share of abuse. to preserve them from future destruction, and their spirit into his works; but Peter was still Much, however, would be thrown away upon also to prevent their exportation. It already original. His pictures have been sought after, it,-like putting an elephant's castle on the consists of 1090 painted vases, of various forms and will continue to be collected, for their back of a kid, for it is a mere lively and and descriptions; 108 lamps, and 24 smaller own intrinsic excellence. The most distin- playful little trifle, made sufficient for half an statues, of terra-cotta; 16 small earthen vesguished amateurs of the day may be ranked hour's entertainment by the bustle and vivacity sels, 19 glass vases, 34 alabaster vases, 137 amongst his patrons; and there is scarcely a of Wrench. This clever actor is quite in his copper utensils, comprising pateræ and other collection in England that does not boast the element as Tom Trim; a fellow who, in arrang- sacrificial vessels; 71 stone tablets, with inpossession of some of his works. Sickness ing every thing, counteracts not only all his scriptions; 24 statues, 14 bas-reliefs, 53 fragfound him in the midst of employment; and friends' projects, but his own-procures the ments of sculpture, and 339 coins and medals. he may indeed be said to have "felt the ruling marriage of his intended to a rival, and at last Schools in Greece. Though the internal adpassion strong in death." In the late thunder finds himself the only unit in the drama for ministration of the new Grecian state has storm, when too weak to support himself whom there is no arrangement whatever. The hitherto been prevented, by the want of proper right, he wished the curtains to be drawn idea is pleasant, and it is wrought out in a teachers, and the requisite funds, from esaside, and begged his sisters to lift him up, light and laughable fashion, with a few pretty tablishing an adequate number of public schools that he might register in his memory the songs by Mrs. Keeley and Mr. Bland, to diver- for the instruction of youth, it has nevertheless splendour of the passing effects. In these sify the scene. It was very favourably re- succeeded in founding elementary schools in breathings after his favourite art his life passed ceived. the principal district towns. Unremitting exaway: death seemed mere exhaustion, without On Thursday a new romantic musical drama, ertions are making in the different provinces called the Evil Eye, was produced here with to obtain collections of pecuniary and other pain or visible disease. In his habits Peter Nasmyth was peculiar. complete success. The music, by Mr. Rod- resources for the establishment of public schools; Deafness, which had come upon him from well, is effective and pleasing the acting, by and, besides those already in operation, the sleeping in a damp bed, at the age of seventeen, Miss Kelly, O. Smith, Reeve, Miss Poole, Miss building of twenty new ones has been comrobbed him of many of those advantages which H. Cawse, and other less prominent characters, menced, and will soon be completed. others enjoy. Shut out, in some measure, from is all that an author could wish. On Thursday New Island. The Semaphore, of Marsociety by this affliction, he was too apt to in-performances we have, however, no time to seilles, states, on the authority of the captain dulge, in his solitude, in excesses, from which dilate; and we can only congratulate the fre- of a brig, sailing between Trafani and Girmany of his most distinguished countrymen quenters of the English Opera upon a new genti, that an island was formed by a volcanic have not been entirely free. It must not be source of great gratification and amusement. eruption in the middle of July, in that part of disguised that his constitution was undermined the Mediterranean. The phenomena are repreby these habits. Illness, when it came, found sented as being very striking. An immense a frame unprepared to resist it. Happily mass of water was thrown up to the height of up VARIETIES. for mankind, these habits are no longer con- Benevolence. A work, entitled "Original sixty feet, accompanied by a sulphureous sidered necessary to talent; and let us hope Compositions in Poetry and Prose," illustrated smoke and great noise. The result of the subthat Peter Nasmyth may be the last man of by a few original drawings, and some pieces of marine explosion is an island, in 37° 6′ north genius who shall be named as having followed music, is announced by a union of accom- lat. and 10° 26' east long. from the meridian Burns in other things besides his enthusiasm plished young ladies for the benefit of a most of Paris. It is an active volcano, with a crater for poetry and his love of nature. respectable family in reduced circumstances. in its centre, whence lava flows. The sea all The Queen has graciously patronised this under-around is a hundred fathoms deep. taking, the nature of which induces us to wish Divinity in Greece. To supply the want of it all possible success. We love to see literature well-educated clergymen, the convent of Saint engaged in the cause of charity. Moni, in the island of Poros, was erected into a theological seminary at the end of October 1830. Two professors are to instruct the scholars in ancient Greek, the catechism, and DRAMA. KING'S THEATRE. Medal Engraving. A Society for the encouragement of Medal Engraving in Great Britain is about to be formed. It is to consist - MR. MASOY, who has become the lessee of the King's Theatre, at a rent of 16,000%., for next season, is the gentleman whom we mentioned in a former Literary Gazette as the author of an unlimited number of members, at a small in the duties of the ministerial office. and composer of an Italian opera, on a stirring annual subscription; its object being to pro- Lakes of Killarney. It was only last week subject in Irish history. He is, therefore, mote and encourage the art of medal engrav- we noticed Mr. Croker's admirable little Guide though new as a manager, possessed at least of ing, by publishing continually medals com- to the pleasure-tour of Killarney; and we qualifications which eminently fit him for an memorative of eminent men or remarkable consequently perused the following newspaper undertaking of this kind. His plans and pro- events, and employing none but native artists paragraph a few days after, with feelings of jected improvements are, we learn, of great to execute them. greater compassion."The most awful thunvariety and novelty. A constant succession of Orphan House. Among the most distin-der-storm ever recollected within the memory new operas hitherto unknown to the English guished institutions of Greece must be placed of the oldest people in the neighbourhood of noon. The Casket. The following is the account relating to London bridge, which we noticed last week in the Casket; against which periodical, by the by, we have a reclamation accusing it of having pirated its woodcuts and much of its letter-press (without the slightest acknowledgment) from The Chronicles of London Bridge; a very interesting work, of which we spoke highly in our review at the time of its publication. A Dramatic Sketch. I, is the first person. Thou, is the second person. He, She, or It, is the third person. Thou. To mimic sorrow they convene, LITERARY NOVELTIES. [Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. XXXIV. Aug. 20.] We observe, from a prospectus sent to us, that the Works of the late Rev. R. Hall are to consist of six volumes; the Memoir of his Life, by Dr. Gregory, to be in the last. Killarney, took place on Thursday last at Glan- | preservation), fragments of oak, beech, and Duke of Saxe Weimar. The commander of flesk, near that town, about two o'clock after other trees, and leaves and stems of various a division of the Dutch army is a literary chaThe peasantry in that romantic glen plants confusedly intermixed, the wood and racter, and has written a volume of travels in were astounded with its frightful peals, which hazel-nuts and the oak differing in no respect America. He is a very large man, and, though were succeeded by several water-spouts pouring in their character from what might be grown full of activity, is more like a Falstaff on from the heavens until the whole glen was at the present time in the same neighbourhood. horseback than a Percy. deluged; and occurring, as it did, on a sudden, This peat and wood had undergone no appa- French Journals.-Le Globe, which is the assailed a number of humble habitations, which, rent chymical change; it was highly saturated organ of the Saint-Simoniens in Paris, recomtogether with the unfortunate inmates, thirty- with moisture, had rather an agreeable odour, mends the publication of the names of the eight in number, were, without a second notice, of a light brown colour; and fragments of the writers in the various French journals; and, hurried literally off the face of the earth, and hazel and oak wood, on being kept in a dry by way of example, has published the names of at once consigned to an endless eternity. The situation for two or three months, shrunk into its own editors and contributors. unfortunate sufferers were the tenants of O'Do- about one-tenth of their original size by the noghue of the Glens; and in every instance evaporation of the combined water, but left whole families have been swept away altoge- the outside bark in its original shape, while ther."-Western Herald. the remaining inside ligneous fibre of the hazel or oak became (on cutting it with a knife) nearly as black and as hard as ebony. Below this stratum of peat came the usual angular fragments, called by geologists diluvial gravel; consisting of fragments of flint, reposing on the great argillaceons deposit of the blue London clay. The writer of this paper has also distinctly traced a continuous formation of the above peat stratum, and the alluvial mud and clay reposing on it, along the banks of the It is stated that "Canute, king of Den-Thames at Limehouse, and at the new enmark, when he besieged London, was impeded trance now digging for the London Docks, as in his operations by a bridge, which, even at well as at the excavation of the East India that time, must have been strongly fortified, Docks, Blackwall, and in that neighbourhood. as it obliged him to have recourse to the fol. From the above statement of facts, one or two lowing expedient. He caused a prodigious interesting inferences or deductions may be ditch to be cut on the south side of the Thames, drawn. First-that, at the time when the commencing at Rotherhithe, and which he above hazel-trees and wood were growing (at continued, at a distance from the south end of the depth now of ten or twelve feet), the rethe bridge, in the form of a semicircle, opening lative level of the height of the water in the again into the western part of the river. Thames must have been at least twelve feet Through this he drew his ships, and effectually lower than it is at present. Secondly-it is completed the blockade of the city. Evidences highly probable that, even long anterior to the of this great work were found, and are still to time of the Romans, this forest or wood must be seen, in the place called Dock Head, at the have become submerged by the vast accumuend of Tooley Street, where it was first com-lation of the Thames' sedimentary mud and menced. Fascines of hazels and other brush-clay, thereby accounting for the progressive-The Topography and Antiquities of Rome, by the Rev. wood, fastened down with stakes, were dis-rise in the relative level of the river to that covered in digging that dock in 1694; large which we at present witness at high water." oaken planks, and numbers of piles, have also Memorial to George 111.-About eight or been discovered in other parts of its course. So ten years ago, a subscription was entered into far the above account, as related by Pennant for the erection of a monument to the memory and other historians; but, with due deference to of the father of his people, our venerated sothem, without resorting to speculative argu-vereign George III. The design was supplied ments on the great improbability of such a by Matthew Wyatt, Esq. (whose monument gigantic canal having been made, so as to alter, to the Princess Charlotte, at Windsor, is one of artificially, the course of the river, and com- the finest works of art of which England can pleted in so short a space of time, and under boast), and consisted of a full-length figure of such circumstances as those antiquarians relate, his Majesty in a car, drawn by four horses: the author of this paper personally observed these horses were much admired as noble speone fact, in 1827, that was more convincing cimens of animal sculpture. The subscription, than a thousand such speculative arguments as however, owing to some misunderstanding in Pennant's can be, to account for all the oak, a high quarter, did not amount to a suffitimber, piles, and hazel. wood, &c. found at dif- cient sum to enable the artist to execute ferent times, in digging about that neighbour- the proposed work; and the expense nehood, which goes to prove that they were de- cessarily incurred in models, advertisements, posited there by natural, not artificial, causes. &c. still farther diminished it. At length a geIn 1826-7, an excavation was made the whole neral meeting was called, and it was resolved length of Bermondsey Street, into Tooley Street, that whenever 30007. was realised, it should be for the purpose of building a new sewer; and employed in the erection of such a suitable the following is a correct description of the monument as that sum could command, in a ground cut through; viz. the first few feet of fitting site in the metropolis. The period course, were made ground, merely rubbish; having arrived, another general meeting was then came a thick close sedementary deposit, of held yesterday, pursuant to public advertisealluvial clay and Thames-river mud, averaging ments; and the above resolution was confirmed. about seven to ten feet thick, which evidently Lord Kenyon, Colonel Trench, M.P., J. Ramshad its origin in the tidal and sedimentary matter bottom, Esq. M.P., Sir John Campbell, Colonel from the adjacent river; below this mud and Gaitskell, Mr. C. Bleaden, and Mr. Jerdan, clayey deposit was a close stratum of peat, were chosen a committee, with full powers to tightly compressed, varying materially in thick-complete the design. ness in different places along the street, but Quære!-The following advertisement apaveraging from two to four and five feet in pears in a shoemaker's window in the Strand; thickness. This peat was chiefly composed of what it means we cannot tell: it is simply vestiges of hazel-trees, hazel-nuts (in beautiful this," Women's men wanted.” An improved edition of Ellis's Polynesian Researches, with the fourth and concluding volume.-The Greek Testament, with English Notes by the Rev. S. T. Bloomfield, D.D.-Rough Sketches of the Life of an old Soldier, during a service in the West Indies, the Peninsula, France, &c., by Lieut.-Col. J. Leach, C.B., is announced. Richard Burgess. LIST OF NEW BOOKS. Alice Seymour, 12mo. 48. 6d. bds.Hansard's Parlia METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1831. 78.500 Lowest ........ 42.50 Mean............. 58-77822 30-03 Barometer-Highest Lowest • 29-36 Number of days of rain, 10. Quantity of rain, in inches and decimals, 3:4625. Winds.-3 East-5 West-8 North-0 South-2 Northeast-0 South-east-9 South-west-4 North-west. 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