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"Yours must have been a happy life, poor novice, Not to have learnt, the more man wrongs, the more He hates.

"We had a common father;

Dost thou remember him? I well remember
How oft at eventide, when I had sung

That prayer you loved to teach his orphan boy,
How as the light grew less, and all was still
Within our narrow home, ere I retired

To rest, how you would draw me to yourself,
And tell fond tales of days that I remembered not,
While tears of yours fell fast and sweet.

"How changed is this cold dreary world to me!
Once could I smile, and think all nature smiled
Again on me, while I could court the brooks,
The valleys, and the mountains, and find joy
And beauty in them all, and with light heart
And bounding spirits, breathe the giddy air
That danced in joyful eddies round my brow;
Thence could I contemplate the world below
With unprophetic eye, see nought but peace
And happiness in life; then turning home,
Nestle in a friend's, a father's, mother's lap,
And with warm heart and ready tongue lisp out
My joys, my wishes, and my love; could feel
A cheerful eye respond to mine where'er

I turned, and view content and mild serenity
Gathering around; I could unburthen all
My little cares, and live in confidence

And free expression of each opening thought
That rose unchecked within my happy mind."

Of all futures, that of poetry is the most difficult to foresee; but though, as a whole, we think this drama unequal, and that it does not assume a popular form, yet there are traces of thought and feeling which lead us to expect something much superior from its author.

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WE always regret when individuals of good
feeling, taste, and sense, mistake their talents
for the inspiration of poesy, and are tempted
to publish what ought never to have gone be-
yond the private circle of albums, or, at far-
thest, the columns of a periodical. Such are
Mr. Campbell's Lays from the East.

The Book of the Seasons. By William Howitt.
pp. 404. Colburn and Bentley.
THIS pleasing volume has just reached us. It
seems full of nature and good feeling.

Family Library, XIX. The Lives of the most
Eminent British Painters, &c.: Architects.
By Allan Cunningham. Murray.
WITH the lives of William of Wykeham,
Inigo Jones, Wren, Vanburgh, Gibbs, Kent,
Lord Burlington, and Sir William Chambers,
M. Cunningham has here made a very nice

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ARTS AND SCIENCES.
LINNEAN SOCIETY.

elected into the Society. The following papers | observation of the vessels of the flower-stalk
were read :—1st. A method of computing oc- of the wild hyacinth, scilla nutans, convinced
cultations, by Mr. MacLear. 2d. A letter him that the spiral coil is by no means closely
from Professor Nicolai, with his observations, compressed, but is apparently enclosed, or en-
and those of Professor Swerd, of Venus about closes a fine filmy membrane);—if this be the
her inferior conjunction, and of the comet case, then these spiral vessels may be most
discovered by Gambart. 3d. A letter from efficient mechanical agents in propelling the
Professor Santini, with observations of the sap upwards. The pliancy of trees, the readi-
right ascension of Venus about her inferior ness with which they yield to the force of the
conjunction, as recommended by Professor winds, and the facility with which they recover
Airy, and also containing observations of the their upright position, are facts strongly cor-
comet discovered last year by Gambart. 4th. roborating the idea,- that they contain in-
A letter from Professor Bianchi, containing ternal springs, which, like coils of bell-wire,
observations on the same subject. 5th. A let- are capable of receiving and supporting motion
ter from Professor Struve, with observations in every direction, without offering impedi-
of the occultation of Aldebaran and other ments or sustaining injury."
stars by the moon, at Dorpat. 6th. Two notes
by Mr. Lubbock, upon the comet of Halley.
Sir James South informed the meeting that
the King had been graciously pleased to become
the patron of the Society, and that the nego-
tiations respecting the charter were nearly
completed.

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BRITISH MUSEUM.

Several varieties of the apple and pea were exhibited.

THE COMET.

ON Tuesday, at 14h 14m 10s, sidereal time, the indefatigable Sir James South obtained another glimpse of the comet, and ascertained its right ascension to be 16h 51m 6s, and its southern declination 9° 20' 11". Its right ascension in A LARGE and elegant apartment has been time, he observes, is diminishing nearly 4m, and opened to the public during last week, contain-its southern declination almost 18m daily. It is ing a collection of foreign birds, the greater about 1° north of 20 Ophiuchi, and follows it vation. The tables contain a general collection triangle with and of that constellation. part of which are in a very bad state of preser- about 11m of time; forming nearly an isoceles of shells, the British species being very proper-With these data, its future course may readily them we remark some valuable presentations may have had clearer skies than we have had, ly left to accompany the British birds. Among be traced; and we hope foreign astronomers from Captain Lord Byron; Captains Owen, to mark its elements and progress. Hennah, and Ritchie who died in Africa. about the same period. He accords very closely Beechey, and Ross; Messrs. Barrow, Swainson, Mr. Herapath also observed the comet again There are illustrations of rare species from with Sir James South; and adds, not only that America, by Messrs. Say and Green; from its retrograde motion is confirmed, but that Marseilles, by Risso; and from Newcastle, by "it is much higher in the heavens than it was, Mr. Alder, a promising member of the Natural and exceedingly increased in the length and History Society of that town. We find, from splendour of its tail;" which he considers, if our survey, that it is only by the most modern it be really moving from the sun, an extraornavigators and travellers that additions have dinary phenomenon. A correspondent of the been made to this public collection, for which, Times newspaper, at Liverpool, where it has as a national museum, we hope, if the same also been observed, is of opinion that it has spirit continues to prevail, we shall no longer passed its perihelion. He also conjectures that have to blush; and therefore trust, that the it may be the comet of 1770, which passed the care and arrangement of these valuable ob-nearest to the earth, and engaged the researches jects will be placed in proper hands; for who of Lexel and Burckhardt; in which case, it will collect or make presentations, if these, as would be moving to its perihelion, and about has hitherto been the case, lie for years ne- to complete its eleventh revolution of five and glected in obscure cellars? a half years since that period.

The collection of fossil univalves is excellent. Where are the bivalves? And, before we quit this subject, let us be allowed to express a hope, that the public will not be long debarred access to the mineralogical collection.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Proceedings of the Committee of Science and

Correspondence of the Zoological Society of
London. 8vo. Pp. 16.

THE Zoological Society of London was fully aware, at its first establishment, that, to ensure EDWARD FORSTER, Esq. in the chair. -A J. A. HENDERSON, Esq. in the chair. A very the success of zoology in this country, it was paper, from the pen of Robert Hill, Esq. F.L.S. interesting paper was read, entitled "An In-necessary to render its study popular and at& species of deer (Cervus macrurus) which quiry into the Nature and Constitution of the tractive; and this was only to be accomplished inhabits the eastern side of the Rocky Moun- Sap-vessels of Plants," by the author of the by expensive means, such as the establishment tains, near Hudson's bay, was read. The "Domestic Gardener's Manual." After no- of a menagerie and a museum, and the publica. paper was accompanied by drawings of the ticing, at some length, the opinions of M. Du- tion of illustrated and entertaining works; so Lead and horns. This species derives its name, trochet and others on vegetable physiology, the that a large accession of members was requisite And there are many as ray be readily anticipated, from the salta- writer concludes with the following remarks to defray these expenses. ry habits of the animal, which is never seen on the spiral vessels of plants :-"These ves- who belong to the institution, who are hardly to use the paces of the other deer; and appears sels," he says," may act mechanically as springs, aware that the scientific part of that body have to form an intermediate link between the rein- for their elasticity is prodigious. They exist in resolved themselves into a committee for the deer and roe-buck, to both of which it ap. almost all plants, and the peculiarity of their prosecution of their favourite pursuit. We praches in certain characters. Another com- structure, which closely resembles the coiled have before us the first fasciculus of their laication, on the structure and economy of spring of a bell-wire, argues strongly that they bours, which is full of valuable information, pers, by John Blackwall, Esq. F.L.S. was have other functions allotted to them than that and promises extremely well. Among other also read. To this paper we may hereafter of merely conducting the sap. If, indeed, they interesting notices, we observe a monograph advert. Several fellows were elected. are appendages to the sap-vessels, if they by Mr. Vigors, on the Quails of the New wrap round and enclose, or are themselves World, which have all been arranged under placed internally within the membranous coat the generic title of Ortyx,—the quails of the of those vessels, (and the author is much in- Old World belonging to the genus Coturnix. clined to believe that they are so, for the closest Only two well-ascertained species of these were

ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY.

31 JAMES SOUTH in the chair. A considerable number of fellows and associates were

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a few years back known to ornithologists; but Tables for astronomical reductions from 1750 truth, and where they ought least to find a now we have eleven species, not including the to 1850. place.

SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.

quail from the Straits of Magellan, brought At a preceding meeting a paper was read, of home by Captain King, and which, in the which the following is an abstract, entitled, ON Thursday, Henry Hallam, Esq., V.P., in structure of the wing, associates more closely "On the nature of negative and imaginary the chair. The Secretary read a communication with the group of the Old World; uniting the quantities," by Davies Gilbert, Esq., Presi- from John Gage, Esq., director, descriptive of zoology of the southern extreme of the New dent. World with that of the nearest portions of the southern hemisphere, in like manner as the zoology of the northern extreme is united with that of the neighbouring continents of Europe

and Asia.

The object of this paper, the author ob- the Bell Tower at the Abbey of St. Edmund's serves, is one that has given rise to much conBury, with a document containing some curitroversy, and has been wrapped in much unous particulars relative to the repairs of the necessary mystery. Paradoxes and apparent was also read of a serious insurrection which tower in the time of Henry VI. An account solecisms, when involved with facts and indu- took place shortly after the dissolution of the The collection of birds, of Mr. J. Gould, bitable truths, will always be found, upon accu- monasteries by Henry VIII., principally instifrom the Himma-leh mountains, many of them rate examination, to be near the surface, and to undescribed, exhibit an identity in a large pro- owe their existence either to ambiguities of gated by the monks. Also, an account of the portion of their forms with those of northern expression, or to the unperceived adoption of entry of Henry VIII. into Lincoln, drawn up Europe, the elevation of their native moun- some extraneous additions or limitations into by a herald of the time.

ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.

tains placing them on an equality, in point of the compound terms employed for definition, climate, with the birds of more northern lati- and which are subsequently taken as constituent SIR W. OUSELEY in the chair :-The Society tudes. Many of the forms peculiar to south-parts of their essence. The first misapprehen- of Arts, Mr. Huttmann, and others, made doern Asia and the Indian archipelago are also sion pointed out, is that of considering any nations to the Society. Two papers were read; found intermingled with those of the northern quantity whatever as negative per se, and the first was an account of a celebrated Arabic regions. Among the forms similar to the without reference to another opposed to it, work, called the Ichwan oos Suffa, principally European, Mr. Vigors particularised three which has previously been established as posi- from the famous Syrian historian, Mar Grespecies of jays, two of which exhibited a strik-tive. In order to avoid preconceived assoing affinity in their markings to our well- ciations of ideas, the author prefers employ- its existence to a society of seven learned Arabs, gorius Abul Faraj. This work is said to owe known British bird. The rest in form and ing in his reasonings on this subject, the and to have formed one of at least fifty trea other characters, approached the nutcrackers. symbols (a) and (b) to express this quality of tises on various branches of science, of which, Two species of woodpeckers verged most closely, opposition, rather than the usual ones of plus in size and colouring, on the European green and minus. By the aid of this notation, he is including the present, only three now remain. woodpecker. India was observed a second species of the law of the signs in multiplication, a process landson communicated this essay. The second Among the forms peculiar to enabled to present, in its full generalisation, the It is a moral treatise, in the shape of an allegorical picture of human life. singular group which contains the horned which it is well known is founded solely upon pheasant, or the Meleagris satyra of Linnæus, the principle of ratios; and to shew that like and which has been lately separated by Cuvier, signs invariably give the sign belonging to the under the name of Tragopan. A third species assumed unity and universal antecedent of the was likewise added, from the collection, to the ratios; and unlike signs the contrary. group of Enicurus (E. maculata) of Temminck, which has hitherto been considered as limited in range to the Indian Archipelago.

Lieut. Row

paper comprised a description of the marriage ceremonies of the Hindoos. It stated, that every man among them should have his daughter married by the time she is nine years of age; and that her marriage should, on no account, be deferred beyond her tenth year. The bridegroom should be at least three or four years older, and of the same caste. These ceremonies are conducted with more or less of magnificence, as suits the rank and means of the parties; but they frequently expend such imthat the parents themselves are reduced to pomense sums on the marriage of their children, verty and distress.

KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.

Since either the one or the other of the arithmetical scales derived from the two unities is in itself equally affirmative, but negative Dr. Smith, a most laborious naturalist at with relation to the other, it follows, that by Cape Town, has also made additions to the using the scale of (6), all even roots in the scale zoology of that district, of a new species of the of (a) will become imaginary; and thus the Macroscelides, as well as a new one of Erina- apparent discrimination of the two scales is ceus, and three species of the genus Otis, toge- removed; so that the properties belonging to ther with one of Brachypteryx. The first, Ma- the two scales are interchangeable, and all croscelides rupestris, was found by Dr. Smith in formula become universally applicable to both, the mountains near the mouth of the Orange by changing the signs according to the side in River. In the genus Otis, the O. Vigorsii in- which the universal antecedent is taken. Ima- WE have at various times reported progress in habits the most dry and barren situations in ginary quantities, then, are merely creations of what concerns this interesting Institution, and the south of Africa; the O. ferox is found in arbitrary definitions, endowed with properties have now to add to the several appointments the country towards Latakoo; and the O. Afra- at the pleasure of him who defines them; and mentioned on preceding occasions, those of oides is met with on the flats near the Orange the whole dispute respecting their essence turns N. W. Senior, Esq. to the chair of political River. The Brachypteryx Horsfieldii is met upon the very point that has been contested, with on high rocky situations. Besides these from the earliest times, between the hostile economy; J. J. Park, Esq. English law and additions, there are also sixteen specimens of sects of realists and nominalists. jurisprudence; the Rev. Henry Moseley, nafishes. It is now, however, universally agreed, that Lowe, Esq. lectureship of commerce; the Rev. tural and experimental philosophy; Joseph As might have been anticipated, the voyage all abstractions and generalisations are mere J. R. Major, A.M. head master of the High of Captain King has been most productive in creatures of the reasoning faculty, existing no objects of natural history, more especially in where but in the mind contemplating them. School, attached to the upper department.

ciety.

LITERARY AND LEARNED.

ROYAL SOCIETY.

ECLECTIC SOCIETY.

ON Tuesday, Dr. Uwins, V.P., in the chair. Dr. John Epps was elected Professor of Medicine to the Society. Dr. Uwins read his paper

ornithology; and this fasciculus contains de- Such in algebra are the supposed even roots of scriptions of numerous new and interesting a real quantity taken in the scale opposite to species from the Straits of Magellan: and al- that which has given the universal antecedent; together it forms an excellent epitome of the the sign indicating the extraction impossible to labours of the scientific committee of the So-be performed, veils the real quantity, and on "the poetical character, as connected with, renders it of no actual value until the sign is taken away by an involution the reverse of the and moral habits." and extending its influence over, intellectual supposed operation which the sign represents; justice to this essay by any partial account of It is impossible to do although the quantity itself is in the meantime, it. The Society's Professor of Botany, Mr. by its arbitrary essence, made applicable to all John Frost, gave his introductory lecture on His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in the the purposes for which real quantities are used that science. The meeting was numerously chair. The reading of Mr. Ivory's paper on in every kind of formula. Several illustrathe equilibrium of fluids, and the figure of a tions of these views of the nature of imagihomogeneous planet in a fluid state, was re-nary quantities, occurring in logarithmic forsumed. Sir Martin Archer Shee, Knt. Pre- mulæ and series expressing circular arcs, are sident of the Royal Academy, was proposed. given by the author. By considering all quanHenry Percy Gordon, Esq. was admitted. tity as affirmative per se, and admitting plus Wm. John Blake, Esq. Christ Church, Ox- and minus merely as corrective terms, we thus ford, was elected. Amongst the donations to succeed in banishing mystery and paradox the Society, was Professor Bessel's valuable from the science most powerful in eliciting

attended.

FINE ARTS.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The King's Harriers in their Kennel. Painted by R. B. Davis; drawn on stone by J. W. Giles. Dickinson.

As admirable an animal conversazione as can

Alexander Morison, Esq. M.D., President of
the Royal College of Physicians of Edin-
burgh, 1829. From a painting by J. Irvine;
on stone by M. Gauci. Dickinson.
THERE is a homogeneity in the features of
this calm, reflecting, benevolent countenance,
which satisfies us that it is a faithful resem-
blance.

DRAMA.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

be imagined; and exhibiting perfect famili- still remain; and those who are unable to proarity with canine character. To judge by the cure the originals, will find even the smallest various and vivacious expression, the talk (with miniatures of them full of amusement and in- HAVING previously appeared in public at the exception of two or three abstracted philo- struction. We are glad, therefore, to see the Vauxhall, and made the tour of the provinces, sophers, who are probably meditating on their present revival of Dr. Trusler's publication, this week has been produced as an Olympic past courses), is of the most sprightly and in- which we believe originally came forth in novelty, The Chaste Salute, of Mr. Planché; teresting description. As a composition, it is the year 1766. The doctor's descriptions, al- with this, Madame Vestris has nothing to do. highly creditable to Mr. Davis; and, with re- though occasionally rather verbose, are, upon Indeed, however great may be the exertions of gard to its execution as a print, we may, avail- the whole, satisfactory, and contain a great which that lady is capable, or however it ing ourselves of a vulgar phrase, say, that mass of elucidatory matter; to which the might conduce to the gratification of her adthere are few lithographers who can "chalk notes by the present editor promise to make mirers, it is too much to expect her to undergo beyond it." a number of valuable additions. Several of the fatigue of four pieces every night. With the plates in this first part of the new publication (which is to be completed in four regard to the burletta, we have only to remark quarterly parts) are executed with great skill; M. Spagnoletti to the public; but so deplorably that it furnished the means of introducing and, with reference to them all, the wonder was his part obliterated from his memory, as is, that so much of the spirit of Hogarth has been retained. To this the somewhat increased grievously to destroy the effect of the piece, scale on which a few of the principal subjects little girl, a Miss Sidney, also made her first and totally that of his début. A very clever have been engraved has contributed. We observe, from one of the notes, that it is in-appearance and a far more favourable imtended, very judiciously, to prune Dr. Trusler's pression. She promises fair, and may, some of collection of a few subjects; among others, of cellence; and is undoubtedly a great acquithese days, attain a far higher degree of exthe disgusting plates which represent "The sition to the corps dramatique. Another new Four Stages of Cruelty ;" and to substitute piece, The Lost Son, made its first essay; the some of Hogarth's posthumous productions. success of which was insured by "putting the The Pointer. Painted by M. T. Ward; the best Foot foremost." engraving commenced by J. Scott, finished WE beg to return our personal thanks to by J. Webb. Moon, Boys, and Graves. Geological Memoirs.-Privy Counsellor Dr. Messrs. Moon, Boys, and Graves, for having Karsten, of Berlin, has begun a new series of delayed bringing out this print until the month his very valuable Archiv für Bergbau und would have been too tantalising to us, unfor- ralogie, Geognosie, Bergbau und Huttenb-kunde, of January. Had it appeared in September, it Hüttenwesen, under the title Archiv für Minetunate critics, "in populous city pent." We or Archives of Mineralogy, Geology, Mining, ONE of Mr. Cooper's most animated produc- should have been sadly tempted to throw down and Metallurgy. The first Number contains, tions. Nothing can be finer than the contrast our pen, and take up our Manton; to exchange besides many other valuable papers, a geological between the characters and the modes of fight-our inkstand for our shooting-belt; and to description of the islands of Skye and Eigg. ing of the English and the Saracenic monarchs; transfer ourselves, as rapidly as possible, from Henry Mackenzie.-We have only room to the former, perfectly erect in his saddle, his Wellington Street to the rich stubbles of some say in this Gazette, that Henry Mackenzie, A nobler creature Esq., the venerable author of the Man of Feelcountenance breathing haughty defiance, his of the inland counties. broad chest exposed, with no protection but than this "pointer," or one more eager, and ing, died last week in Edinburgh, in his 86th the cross; his ponderous battle-axe raised aloft at the same time more steady in the perform- year. ance of his duty, we never saw, in brake or Greek Antiquities in India. The Chevalier

The Smugglers Alarmed. Painted by John Knight; drawn on stone by Thomas Fairland. Engelmann, Graf, Coindet, and Co. WE have already spoken with the praise which was its due, of Mr. Knight's exceedingly clever representation of one of those moments of agi

tation to which a life of lawless violence must
be frequently subject. Mr. Fairland has trans-
ferred the scene to stone in a sketchy style,
but with great spirit and success.

Richard Cœur de Lion and Saladin, at the
Battle of Ascalon. Painted by A. Cooper,
R.A.; engraved by W. Giller. Moon, Boys,
and Graves.

VARIETIES.

to the full extent of the swing of his brawny field. The attitude is perfect; the head, body, Ventura, formerly in the French army, and arm, and ready to descend with overwhelming and limbs, are finely drawn; and the general now a general in the service of Runjeet Singh, force on his infidel antagonist: the latter not less brave, but more wily, conscious of his in- effect of the engraving (with the exception of was encamped, in April last, near Manekiala, ferior strength, covering himself with his shield, a little want of keeping in the back ground) or Manicyala, where there are the ruins of a endeavouring to sway his supple frame out of is masterly and striking.

the reach of the stern foe, and anxiously watching for the moment when, with his keen rapier, he may successfully avail himself of his "trick of fence." The subordinate combatants, and the various incidents of the well-contested field, are also admirably represented. We do not think that mezzotinto is the most suitable style of engraving for such a subject; but we cannot withhold our applause of the great force and delicacy of execution exhibited by Mr.

Giller.

POETRY.

LINES ON CANNING'S FUNERAL.
By Lord Morpeth.

[Extracted from Stapleton's Memoirs.]

I STOOD beside his tomb-no choral strain
Peal'd through the aisle, above the mourning

train ;

large city. The place is seventy-two miles east of the Indus, and thirty or forty west of the Jhylum or Hydaspes, in lat. 33° 23′ north, and long. 73° 15' east. In Elphinstone's Cabul, the very remarkable stone cupola, on the top of a solid mound, which is believed by the natives to have been built by the gods, is described as than to Hindoo architecture. General Ventura bearing a much greater resemblance to Greek But purer, holier, seemed to rise above made an opening into the cupola, and, on digThe silent sorrow of a people's love. ging three feet, he found six medals; and afterwards the workmen came to a chamber of hewn No banner'd scroll, no trophied car was there, stone, twelve feet square. The excavation was Hogarth Moralised; a complete Edition of all No gleaming arms, no torches' murky glare continued to the depth of thirty-six feet, and anthe most admired and capital Works of The plain and decent homage best defined other opening was afterwards made in the north William Hogarth; accompanied with con- The simple tenour of his mighty mind. side of the cupola, and more than eighty medals cise and comprehensive Explanations of their His hard-earn'd, self-acquired, enduring fame were found. Most of them were copper, but Moral Tendency, by Dr. Trusler; an In-Needs not what wealth may buy, or birth may some were gold and silver. There were also troduction, and many additional Notes. other curiosities, rings, and boxes containing Part I. Major. His worth, his deeds, no storied urns confine-liquids. We understand that the chevalier inFOR us to enter into any disquisition on the The page of England's glory is their shrine. merits of the great comic painter of England, especially after the admirable character of him Are others wanting? Mark the dawn of peace and of the creations of his genius, which has That gilds the struggle of regen'rate Greece lately appeared from the able pen of Mr. Allan On Lisbon's heights see Britain's flag unfurl'd, Cunningham, would indeed be a work of superSee freedom bursting o'er an infant world! gation. Although the expression, and many Ask ye how some have loved, how all revere ? of the circumstances of humorous and moral Survey the group that bend around his bier; istration, in the prints of Hogarth, must ne- Read well the heaving breast, the stifled moan, cessarily be deteriorated by any considerable Kings, with their kingdoms, could not win reduction of size; yet much of interest must

claim;

that groan!

tends to transmit an account of his praiseworthy labours and discoveries to the Asiatic Society. Perhaps this may be the site of some of the cities that were founded by Alexander or Seleucus in the dominions of Taxiles.-Bengal Hurkaru.

Asbestos. In a communication recently made to the French Academy by M. Aldini, with reference to his fire-proof dresses, he states that some experiments, which have been made at Milan, seem to shew that gar

ments, composed of asbestos, will supersede the | dukes, who resided at Turin from the seventh mouthshire, with Map, &c.-The Siege of Constantinecessity of metallic dresses. A manufactory to the eighth centuries, is the finest ruin which for asbestos cloth has already been established remains in Italy, or in Europe, of the profane at Valleline; and a paper-maker has it in con- architecture of that period, when the art, then templation to employ it instead of cotton or in its decay, knew no other law than a caprilinen in the fabrication of paper intended for cious license.-Gazette Piémontaise. theatrical scenery. Asbestos may be easily imported from Corsica, where it is found in great plenty, and of excellent quality. It exists also in several other countries of Europe, in which no use is at present made of it. The Figurative. Mr. O'Connell, in a letter to the people of Ireland, of the 14th, tells them "that Lord Anglesey carries on the political warfare more in the fashion of the savages of New Zealand than in the modes adopted by civilised nations." Who would have thought this, considering that the lord lieutenant had carried it on by proclamations; and in one case, by the interference of two police magistrates, proceeding under an act of parliament !!! Mean Temperature of Twenty-eight different

Places in the State of New York.

Mean....

Singular Phenomenon.- Before the Arte-
sian wells were in use, the inhabitants of
Thairi, in Savoy, wishing to procure water,
dug, in 1825, a well in that commune. They
could not find a sufficiently abundant source
for their wants; but in default of water, this
well, by a curious singularity, exhibits all the
variations of the atmosphere, and almost ob-
viates the necessity of a barometer to indicate
the weather. If the vicinity of Thairi is
menaced with hail or snow, an impetuous wind
rushes from it like a torrent, which carries
with it stones and pieces of rock, and the
wind lasts as long as the snow or hail is likely
to fall, and indicates the quantity. When this
wind ceases after a slight breeze, a south-east
wind is about to manifest itself. When the
wind rushes from it suddenly, in a single
gust and with violence, it indicates an ap-
When the weather is fine,
proaching storm.
and the north wind dominates, the well is
tranquil, and the air is in a state of stagnation.

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In 1826, the mean temperature of ten places was.... 49-4 1828, the mean temp. of twenty-three places was 49.99 1829, the mean temp. of twenty-eight places was 46-45 Inches In 1826, the mean rain of nine places was.. ...... 36-34 1828, the mean rain of twenty-five places was .. 36.74 1829, the mean rain of twenty-five places was .. 54-38 Several naturalists, attracted by these mar-tude, 12mo. 58. bds.-Barr's Help to Professing Christians, 12mo. 48. 6d. bds. 35.96 vellous effects, have sought to explain the cause of them; and the academical bodies and the men of science of Turin, Chamberri, and Grenoble, have visited the spot, and, by various experiments, established the fact that the well possesses the properties here attributed to it. La Voleur.

We ought to remark, that though not obtruded under our scientific head (in which we principally look to insert original matter), such varieties as this are of much importance to the physiologist.

Connexion of hard Water and Beer.-Hard water is found in many instances favourable to the manufacture of beer; the Barnstaple and Liverpool ales, which are considered excellent in quality, and some others, are brewed with hard water. The Derby malt, which is much used in Lancashire, is found to make better beer in that county than in Derbyshire; and it may be supposed that the Lancashire water, which generally contains much carbonate and sulphate of lime, occasions the difference. The river Trent has long been celebrated for the excellence of the ale made from its water; Burton, Nottingham, and the other towns which lie upon it, being famous for their malt liquor all over England. The river Trent is well known to run over calcareous strata in its course. The same brewer cannot, with the same malt, produce an equal beer in any other part of the kingdom.

Direction of the Diluvial Waves in the Shetland Islands. From an inspection of the mass of clay and transported boulders, which lie dispersed over the Shetland islands, Dr. Hibbert has given it as his opinion, that the great currents which deluged the British islands, as well as some parts of the continent, had, in these islands, a north-easterly origin, or a southwesterly direction. Our notions of the geological deluge, as connected with the upraising of mountain chains, would lead us to a very different system of research, and a much more extended inquiry, than that which has been pursued by the learned author in this otherwise curious generalisation.

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1831.

January.
Thursday. 13
Friday .... 14
.. 15
Saturday.
Sunday.... 16
Monday 17
Tuesday
.. 18
Wednesday 19

Thermometer.

Barometer.

From 30. to 38. 30.02 to 30.04

30.

40.

30.08 Stationary

28.

33.

29.94

29.82

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Wind variable, S.E. prevailing.
Except the evening of the 17th and morning of the
18th, overcast with rain at times.
Rain fallen, 275 of an inch.
Latitude...... 51° 37' 32" N.
Longitude. 0 3 51 W. of Greenwich.

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New Species of Natural not Oryded Combinations of Antimony and Arsenic.-Professor mals, 1-695. Henry Rose, of Berlin, in the 15th vol. of Pog-east-1 South-east-5 South-west-7 North-west. gendorf's Annalen der Physic und Chemie, has General Observations.-The mean of the barometer was Antiquities. In making excavations at Tu- given the analysis of several minerals as be- lower than any one in December during the journalist's residence in Wycombe, and the range of the thermometer rin, for the purpose of erecting some new longing to this class of substances. Tinkenite, greater than in the same month for the last eight years; houses in the square Emmanuel-Philibert, from the Walfaberg, in the eastern Harz; while the mean was lower, excepting in the last year, than an ancient and pretty extensive edifice has Miargyrite, or the hemiprismatic rubyblende of any in the corresponding month for the same period: of the quantity of rain and melted snow the like report must been discovered,-elegant, and magnificently Mohs, from Braunsdorff, in Saxony; Jameso- be made as of the mean of the thermometer. Snow fell ornamented, and of which there is nothing to nite, from Cornwall; plumose, gray antimony on the 12th, 15th, 224, 24th, and 27th-the whole quantity not more than 24 inches. On the night of the 11th a indicate the original destination. The pave- (federerz), from Wolfsberg, in the eastern Harz, beautiful aurora borealis was seen for several hours: ment is composed of slabs of the finest marble, in capillary crystals; red silver, a light variety about 1 A.M. on the following morning it assumed the skilfully united. Two tumulary stones an- from Ivachimethal in Bohemia; brittle silver form of a brilliant arch, surmounted by a brown tint, nounce, by the two inscriptions which are glance, from Shemnitz, in Hungary, crystal-bling that afforded by the moon before she appears above engraved upon them, that Scudo had prepared lised in six-sided prisms; bournonite, from the the horizon-a deeper brown colour filled up the space beneath the luminous arch. Another, but very faint, one of these tombs for himself, and the other Pfaffenberg mine, in the eastern Harz; poly-aurora was observed on the 15th. Lunar halos seen on for his wife Cristes. These names, and the nesite, a new species, from Guarisameg, in the nights of the 23d, 24th, and 26th-that on the latter shape of the letters of the inscription, charac- Mexico, and Morgenstein, in Saxony; gray night was remarkably bright, and well defined. The terise the second century of the Christian era. copper, or fahlerz, from the mines of Alsace, evaporation 0-0525 of an inch. A great number of medals have also been found: Freiberg, Hungary, Nassau, Clausthal, &c.; the oldest are of the date of the Emperor Con- and lastly, nickeliferous, gray antimony. stantine. But what is much more important for archæology and architecture, is the discovery LITERARY NOVELTIES. of the foundations of the walls which formed [Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. IV. Jan. 22.] the boundary of Turin in the ninth century. A Panorama of Constantinople and its Environs, from The quality of the materials, and the mode of Sketches taken on the spot by J. Pitman, Esq.-A Topoconstruction, are similar to those of the ancient graphical and Statistical Description of the British Domipalatine port, now Tours (le Torri). This nions in North America, including Observations on Landgranting and Emigration, &c., by Colonel Bouchette.monument, due no doubt to the Lombard Leigh's Guide for Travellers through Wales and Mon

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