trials noticed above forming its chief contents. The investigation requires deeper thought, more intense study, and more attentive labour, than our solicitor has bestowed upon it. Fourth. 2 vols. 12mo. London, 1831. Punch and Judy. Illustrated by George Cruik- We have not been accustomed to these en- is much wanting to make this sketch perfect. The Cabal: a Tale of the Reign of William the livening details in the usual course of reading The relative age of the sandstone has not yet legal reports; and however much they may been pointed out; we are ignorant of the date please the generality of trial-readers, as such of elevation of the plutonic rocks; and there trials are found reported in the newspapers, we are unnoticed diluvial formations, which, in To publish a novel in two volumes bespeaks must take the liberty to doubt their necessity some cases, lie over the peat, and which are of moderation; and this is the great merit of the work before us. It is a political jumble, in or usefulness in a work professedly of legal considerable importance. This Flora does not which living characters are shewn up, but so instruction. The fact is, the whole book is of include the cryptogamous plants; and the whole mixed and confused in their traits, and in the flimsy construction, giving little information to amount of species is 604, of which 146 are the legal student beyond the common-places of monocotyledons, and 783 dicotyledons. The events in which they are represented to figure, its subject: and the third division is even of most striking feature in the vegetation of that it is impossible to individualise them, and slighter materials than the first two parts-the Lanarkshire is in the moors and peat-bogs. It the reader leaves off at the end, like the specwas in this county that we first studied the tator of a phantasmagoria, where there is nonature of these extensive formations in northern thing real, and only shadowy resemblances. climates, and the results of our researches will not be found irrelevant to the subject. The plants which prevailed most on the dry steep The Legal Examiner. 1831. Maxwell. land, and where the moss is merely a thin inA NEW periodical, under the above title, has crustation, were the Erica tetralix and cinerea, made its appearance, to enlighten the rising Calluna vulgaris, white fogs, yellow dry fogs lawyers of the present day. We have looked (Hypnum squarosum, filicimum, and rutabulum), over the first three numbers, which contain no fox-foot, white bent, gouk bear (Polytrichum very deep learning or black-letter knowledge; commune), with some few grasses of a stunted but their contents are of that description which growth. The plants that abound on bent moss students will do well to acquire and retain. are stool bent, white bent, club rush, sage The reports of cases seem to go very little grasses (Carices), blue mountain grass, torbeyond the newspapers-nor (as such publica- mental, with some of the coarse grasses in a tions are now conducted) is this perhaps necesThe principal plants that grow sary in a work like the present; but the title upon and contribute to the formation of flow promises something beyond this. The great moss are, marsh fog, gouk bear, drab-coloured objection in our minds to these brochures is, fog, cotton heads (Eriophorum polystachion, These plants the desultory style of reading with which they vaginatum, and angustifolium). imbue the students, who find no one subject are apparently introduced, and their growth on which to fix their attention, but pass too supported, by a redundancy of moisture in a cold climate. The juices, consisting chiefly of quickly tannin, acid extract, and bitter principle, (provegetable structure the power of resisting debably gallic and suberic acids), give to the composition after life has terminated; and "From grave to gay, from lively to severe." The law requires in its votaries a deeper attention, and closer study, than these kinds of works afford; yet we must ever bestow some dwarfish state. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. THE following is literally and absolutely ori- SIR-You will forgive a fond father who sends you the effusion of his child, only eight years old! To Poland! animating subject! There are faults, but consider the tender age of the youth. I send them as the not untalented boy wrote them, though I must in fairness say, I have the child's age must be considered. altered a line or two, perhaps a little for the better; but Line 12 stood originally "The name of Poland o'er the world shall fly." Line 14 "Thy glorious name shall never, never fall." And, last, line 21 praise on any book which endeavours to make hence the formation of great bogs. The prin- fail to escape from. Who can be perfect at so young an an abstruse science more pleasing and more "For a dread plague, the cholra morbus called." These are faults which an inexperienced youth can hardly age? Should you insert the enclosed in your earliest, you will goad on in the bright career of glory an infant Campbell, who may ultimately reach the envied gaol of poetic distinction, and, at the same time, gratify a fond father who has entirely educated him, AND MADE HIM WHAT HE IS. I am, sir, Your admirer and old I subscriber, bleed, ciple by which they become partly soluble, tinging the waters of the moorlands, is something similar to the partial solubility given to coffee by roasting. There are some curious observations which we made on the mode of May You like It. By Charles B. Tayler, M.A., succession of these plants, so as to affect the author of "Is this Religion?" and “A gradual elevation of the bog; and there are also Fireside Book." Fifth Edition, corrected. a number of vagabond plants, lending beauty 2 vols. London, 1832. Tilt. to these desolate tracts, which we have not my correction-my son had written is. It is now some years since we first gave that space to describe. It is impossible to overcome O Poland! thou art not yet overthrown cordial praise which these charming little vo- the prejudices of education by critical severity, By Russia vast (we may say overgrown)— lumes so well deserved. Full of the poetry of or we would ask the author, if determined to Russia, whose GRASPING ARMS almost extend feeling, keenly alive to the beautiful in nature persevere in the artificial arrangement in his From Europe's INFANT POINT to Asia's end: and life, imbued with the deep and true spirit little work, whether it would not have been No, Poland! yet thy doom is not arrived, of religion-May You like It amply merited advisable to have printed a list of the species in Thy nation's glory has till now survived; the success its simple and touching pages have their natural order, as an accompaniment? Well hast thou fought; and still fight on and obtained. The present new edition, neatly Plants of the same families grow oftentimes in printed and prettily bound, will be a delightful similar places, and a list of this kind is a picture Christmas present to our young friends. of the vegetation of the district. Their geographical distribution would be more easily unA Popular Description of the Indigenous Plants derstood, and the terms of comparison contained of Lanarkshire, &c. By the Rev. W. Pa- in the numerical proportion of the different trick. Edinburgh, 1831. D. Lizars. families would be at once obtained. THE aspect of the county of Lanark is varied and beautiful. A succession of forest, moorland, and mountain scenery, it comprises part peii, Vol. I. pp. 323. London, C. Knight. of the basin of the majestic Clyde with its WE cannot too highly express our admiration waterfalls and wooded dells, moors and heaths of this little volume, which is a model of perwith coal and iron works, extensive sheets of fection in the class of works to which it belongs. water crowded with fish and wild-fowl, and The subject is most interesting, and twenty The pitying gods are careful of your cause, desolate ranges of mountains long remarkable quartos might fail to treat it better, or give us for their mineral treasures. A Flora of such a a clearer idea of it, with all its classical allu- And seem to laud your efforts with applause; county is among the most interesting, from its sions and connexion with elegant literature. For a dread plague (by mortals morbus called) variety and from its characteristic peculiarities. Whoever the editor is, he has executed his task The Russian army long ago appalled, Our author has premised with some useful de- with great fidelity, displaying ample informa- And thinn'd their ranks, and mow'd them down tails on geological structure; and we are happy tion and a well-cultivated mind. To complete like grassto see that he embraces the conception of the the extraordinary merit of this production, four (It now has got to Sunderland, alas !) age of the older rocks, which has been obtained plates on steel, and no fewer than a hundred As these dots cannot conveniently be expressed in from a careful study of the metalliferous de- and thirty-nine clever and characteristic wood-types, we have put the passages thus distinguished in the posits of Leadhills and Wanlochhead. There cuts, illustrate its delightful text. MS. in capitals. The Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Pom While all the world looks on the glorious deed. So fight! while yet another Pole remains, STAINS. THE LITERARY GAZETTE, AND To Sarah Guppy, of Tarway House, Clifton, near Church; N. J. Merriman, Brasennose College; J. Se Bristol, widow, for her having found out and invented a mer, St. Alban Hall; W. Borlase, Queen's College; C commonly or frequently applied to bedsteads and hang- Grove, R. P. Turner, H. B. W. Churton, Balliol College: method of applying and arranging certain articles, parts Webster, J. F. D. Morris, Exeter College; J. P. Penson, or pieces of cabinet work, upholstery, and other articles Worcester College; J. Floyer, P. S. H. Payne, E. H ings, and also others not hitherto so applied. 27th Octo- F. Jones, E. V. Neale, J. M. Chanter, Oriel College; ber-2 months. Jesus College; J. Robertson, Pembroke College; E Penny, A. P. Dunlap, Fellow, St. John's College. J. B. Morgan, J. Osborne, Trinity College; J. Jones, Brasennose College: Rev. T. Eades, Worcester College Dec. 1st.-The following degrees were conferred:Masters of Arts-C Sargeaunt, Grand Compounder, J. L. Galton, Edmund Hall; F. Baugh, Exeter College; J. Llewellin, Jesus College. Bachelors of Arts.-Lord Ossulston, Christ Church; Rev. CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 10th.-The under-mentioned degrees College: C. F. Childe, Emmanuel College; F. Skinner, College, Compounder, Vicar of Billington, Yorkshire. thew, Sidney Sussex College. year is The intent and use of the gift of tongues in the on David playing the harp before Saul") has been Nov. 16. The following degrees were conferred:- Trinity College; T. Wharton, St. John's College; W. B. Bachelors in Civil Law.-E. F. Acton, Trinity Hall: At a congregation held December 1st, Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart. D.C.L. of Christ Church, and M.P. for the University of Oxford, was admitted ad eundem of this University. Trinity Colleges G. Ware, St. Peter's College: C. M. G The following degrees were conferred : Rev. T. Fardell, Queens' College. Masters of Arts.-T. C. Parr, Grand Compounder, G. Laire, C. R. Littledale, Student, Christ Church; Rev. E. Grimmett, Magdalen Hall; Rev. W. Harding, UniTHE monthly meeting of this Society was held versity College; Rev. J. Hughes, Rev. J. Phelps, Scholar, His Royal Highness the President in the at Bruton Street on Thursday, Dec. 1; Mr. University College. Jesus College. E. T. Bennet in the chair. There had been Bachelor of Arts.-C. W. Orde, Grand Compounder, chair. The address delivered by the Duke received during the last month at the museum Rev. J. C. Aldrich, Lincoln College; Rev. C. J. C. Bulette, was read. At its conclusion, Sir Astley Nov. 3d.-The following degrees were conferred :137. 98.; at the garden 1951.; total 2087. 9s. teel, Balliol College; Rev. J. Fry, St. Edmund Hall; Cooper introduced Mr. Coleman, Professor in Masters of Arts. Rev. G. F. Cooper, Wadham College; peared in the last Number of the Literary Ga at the anniversary, an outline of which ap Various presents had been received for the mu-A. A. Franklyn, Exeter College; Hon. W. H. Spencer, seum and the menagerie; among the principal Christ Church. H. Norris, W. Pennefather, S. Everard, Balliol College; the Veterinary College. of which were four young ostriches, and a wild sow and pigs, presented by his Majesty; and a pair of ichneumons and a pair of Barbary mice, his study and practice of that particular branch Coleman, his Royal Highness warmly compli In admitting Mr. from Drummond Hay, Esq. H. M. consul at mented him on the success which had attended Tangier. A satisfactory statement was made of physiology. The second section of Mr. Faraday's papers on experiments in electricity was of the funds of the Society; and it was an- Herbert, Oriel College, Grand Compounders; Hon. G. C. with their results and the author's deductions: nounced that no new buildings were under- Church; H. Hogarth, G. Murray, T. C. Vaughan, MagBachelors of Arts.-W. Sneyd, Christ Church, Hon. S. also read. It detailed a variety of experiments, taken. Mr. Cox moved for the appointment dalen Hall; T. W. S. Grazebrook, E. H. Dymocke, Ampère's theory. Three or four gentlemen Talbot, C. H. Barham, Hon. E. H. Grimston, Christ these were, on the whole, confirmatory of M of a committee to suggest to the council on the F. Lees, E. James, Brasennose College; J. Muckalt, were elected fellows. His Royal Highness horticultural embellishment of the gardens; Scott, Exeter College; C. G. Prideaux, W. Mallock, stated, in the course of the evening, that which was agreed to, and a committee was J. E. E. Wilmot, Balliol College; G. Cox, W. Fortescue, though the Council was guided by the Society's afterwards appointed. gave notice of a motion, "that a certain part of H. S. Dyer, Worcester College; E. Rolles, J. Kingdon, who had forfeited their rank as fellows by nonMr. Sergeant Andrews E. Holcombe, J. Jones, Jesus College; H. Aldham, Fellows, New College; J. C. Powell, Trinity College; statutes in the expulsion of certain gentlemen the funds of the Society be reserved to ac- F. Thomas, Pembroke College; A. Buller, Oriel College; payment of their subscriptions, the opinion of cumulate for the formation of a museum." F. J. Ellis, Merton College. subject; and it might appear, in the end, that the Society's law-officer would be had on the persons are amongst the excluded. they could be reinstated. Some very eminent Granted by his Majesty for Inventions.-Sealed, 1831. To Joshua Bates, of Bishopsgate Street, in the city of London, gentleman, in consequence of a communication made to him by a certain foreiguer residing abroad, for an invention of certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for roving, twisting, or spinning cotton, silk, wool, hemp, flax, or other fibrous substances. Sealed 27th October, for enrolment-6 months. Dolby, C. H. Barling, Lincoln College; J. Brooke, ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. FINE ARTS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. We have also lying before us a proof impression of an admirable "Portrait of Sir Walter Scott," engraved by John Horsburgh, from a picture by John Watson Gordon, which will accompany the first volume of "St. Ronan's Well." It is full of fine character. Boothby, Bart., in the township of Ashbourn, | "mind's eye." The names of Inskipp, Fraser, hamlet of Ofcot and Underwood, in Nov. 1830. Stanfield, Cooper, Boxall, Smirke, Wright, Mr. Hawkins exhibited some very curious speBonington, Webster, Leslie, Wilkie, Lander, cimens of chessmen, found at Lewes, one of the Select Views of the Lakes of Scotland. En- and Landseer, as the painters, and of Rolls, Western Islands; they were evidently of an- graved by J. Swan, from original Paintings Sangster, Mitchell, Freebairn, Fox, Davenport, cient date, from several of the figures bearing by J. Fleming. Part V. Moon, Boys, and Ensom, Bacon, Watt, Graves, Goodyear, Goodthe Norman kite-shaped shields and conical Graves. all, and Horsburgh, as the engravers of these helmets. Mr. Hawkins gave no description of LOCH VEOL and Loch Earn have furnished illustrations, are a sufficient warrant of their them, as he stated that Mr. Madden had pro- the subjects for the fifth part of this very pleas-merit. "Goffe's reception of Cleveland," by mised to communicate a paper on the subject. ing publication. In connexion with the latter Stanfield; "Jin Vin in Dame Ursley's chair," The secretary concluded the reading of Mr. lake, the following incident, which occurred by Boxall; " the conversation between HermiBruce's historical account of Fisher, Bishop of during a deadly feud between the M'Nabs and one and Margaret," by Smirke; "the meeting Rochester. It gave further details of the tyran- the Neishes, and which is related in the text, of Julian and Bridgenorth," by Bonington; nical proceedings against him; that he was shews the frightful state of the Highlands of "Peveril saluting the landlady," by Fraser; subjected to two or three examinations on writ-Scotland at the period in question : and, above all," Geoffry Hudson the dwarf ten interrogatories previous to his trial; and "On one occasion, it is said to have been in reading to Peveril," by Wilkie; are among that on the trial only such parts of the exa- the reign of James V., the chief of the M'Nabs, our special favourites. minations were read as were likely to tell who resided at Kennil-house, near the head of against him, as was usual in proceedings at the Loch Tay, had sent his servant to Crieff for suit of the crown during the arbitrary reign of provisions for a Christmas merry-making. The Henry VIII. servant was way-laid on his return, at LochEarn foot, and robbed of all his purchases; he went home therefore empty-handed, and told THE first meeting of the session was held on his tale to the laird. M'Nab had twelve sons, Saturday last; Sir Alexander Johnston, V.P. all men of great strength, but one in particular Miss Taylor, in the Character of Lady Honoria in the chair. A great variety of donations, exceedingly athletic, who was ironically termed Howard, in the School for Coquettes. From a principally for the library, received during the Join mion Mac' an Appa,' or smooth John drawing by A. E. Chalon, R.A.; drawn on recess, were laid upon the table: among them | M'Nab.' In the evening these young men stone by R. J. Lane, A.R.A. Dickinson. were two works, presented by Maharajah Kali were gloomily meditating some signal revenge WHEN we say that Miss Taylor ought to feel Krishna Bahadur, a learned native of India, on their old enemies, when their father entered obliged to Messrs. Chalon and Lane for having viz. his translation of the Pooroos Purikhya, and said, ' Bhe'n oidch an oidch, n'am bu ghil-done her such perfect justice, nothing can be or Touchstone of Mena collection of tales, leam na gillean,' the night is the night, if the further from our intention than to be so ungalillustrating the different characters of men, lads were but lads.' The hint was taken as it lant as to insinuate that they have done her from the original Sanscrit into English; and was meant, for each man instantly started to more than justice. Subject, designer, and enan alphabetical collection, in English, of moral his feet, and belted on his dirk, his claymore, graver, have, in fact, combined to produce one aphorisms, from various authors. The Maha- and his pistols. Led by their brother John, of the most charming little female wholerajah was subsequently proposed as a corre- they set out, taking a fishing-boat on their lengths we have ever met with. The espićsponding member of the Society. Syeed Khan, shoulders from Loch Tay, carrying it over the glerie of the countenance is especially beagent to Abbas Mirza, Prince Royal of Persia, mountains and glens till they reached Loch witching. and Sir Robert Scot, K.C.B., presented some Earn, where they launched it, and passed over A New Illustrated Road-Book of the Route oriental curiosities to the museum. A letter to the island. All was silent in the habitation from Dr. Turnbull Christie, dated Alexandria, of Neish; secure in their insular situation, and August 9th, addressed to Sir A. Johnston, was having the boats at the island, all had gone to THE second Part of Mr. Brockedon's highly read. Dr. Christie was intrusted with the sleep without fear of surprise. Smooth John useful work conducts the traveller from Paris diploma of honorary member from the Society dashed open with his foot the door of Neish's to Turin, and communicates to him all the to his highness the Pasha of Egypt, and an- house, and the party rushing in, they attacked information necessary, both to facilitate his nounces in the letter that it had been delivered their old enemies, putting every one of them to journey, and to prevent him from passing to the pasha, who received the deputation the sword, and cutting off their heads, with the without observation the various objects on his standing, which was considered a great mark exception of one man and a boy, who concealed road which deserve to be remarked. It is acof honour. The paper read was written by themselves under a bed. Carrying off the companied by a map of the route, and by five Mr. F. Mansbach, and communicated by Colonel heads of their enemies, and any plunder they beautiful plates engraved by Finden; one from Gilbert. It comprised a short account of the could secure, the youths presented themselves a drawing by Stanfield, and four from drawings famous temple of Juggernath, in Cuttac, and to their father; and smooth John, holding up by Brockedon. of the Rat'h Jatra, or Car Festival, annually the head of the chief of the Neishes, said to his observed there. Colonel Gilbert, some time father, Na biodh fromgh, oirbh,'' Be in fear since, presented a model of the car, and on the for nothing;' and the piper instantly struck up present occasion he gave a large painting, by a the pibroch of victory. The old laird, after AN addition to the already numerous list of native artist, of the interior of the temple. It contemplating the bloody heads, declared, topographical publications brought out at a is executed on canvass in varnished waterprice which puts them within the reach of all. colours, and is consequently liable to be easily The present series will comprehend the county injured. At the same time Colonel Gilbert of Kent, in twenty-four Nos., each containing presented several specimens of cake and stick four views; which, if we may judge from those lac, used in India; a very fine piece of talc before us, will be very pleasingly and satisfacfrom a quarry in Ramghur; and a pair of wooltorily executed. len stockings manufactured in Cashmir. That the night was the night, and the lads were the lads."" A new Series of Original Illustrations to all Editions of the Waverley Novels. Part IV. Moon, Boys, and Graves. "THE Pirate," "The Fortunes of Nigel," "Peveril of the Peak," and "Quentin Durward," are the sources of the eighteen embelROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. lishments of which this fourth part consists; DEC. 7. The Rev. Dr. Richards, V.P., in the and if the number had been eighty instead of chair. Mr. Hamilton read a memoir on an eighteen, those sources would not have been ancient Panathenaic vase, in the possession of sensibly diminished. Such is the graphic richMr. Burgon, of Brunswick Square; commu-ness and variety of the great novelist's scenes, nicated in a letter to Mr. Burgon from the that there is scarcely a page of his immortal Chevalier Bröndsted. Of this paper, which was productions which does not afford at least a replete with curious historical and archæolo- single subject for the pencil; and that a subgical research, we shall give a précis in our ject so distinctly and characteristically defined next number. Several additions to the Society's in all its parts, that an experienced artist has library were, as usual, announced: among little more to do than instantly to transfer to them, the valuable one of a complete set of the the canvass, in all their vividness and vigour, Quarterly Review, presented by Mr. Murray. the images which have been presented to his from London to Naples. By W. Brockedon. Part II. Murray. Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain. Views in the East. From original Sketches by PULO PENANG," "Mah Chung Keow. Canton," and "Ruins about the Taj Mahal, Agra," are the finely executed embellishments of this part of Captain Elliot's publication. In speaking of the Taj Mahal, Captain Elliot says: "No one that ever lived lies enshrined in such splendour as Shah Jehan and his wife Muntaza Zemani, whose remains are deposited in this gorgeous sepulchre. The Taj Mahal is very justly celebrated as the finest, and by far the most beautiful, of all the monuments of Hindostan; its design is at once elegant and grand ; "The cholera morbus, from its specific cha racter, may be defined to be the asphyry of the heart (I afterwards called it choleric asphyry). The brain and spinal marrow have little to do with the disease; the heart alone is the seat of it." its dimensions are great, and its proportions | Great virtues manifest themselves in times of habitations in narrow damp streets; and when admirable; the materials of which it is con- great affliction. The rector of Sunderland the cholera attacked any of the higher classes, structed are costly in their kind, and superior parish, the Rev. Mr. Gray, is to be seen for it was to be ascribed to their total neglect of in their quality; its exterior and interior orna- hours together in the hospital, as reckless as a regimen. During his stay of not quite four ments and embellishments are elaborate and professional man; and there, as at their homes, months at Warsaw (from May 17 to Sept. 6), rich; and whether it is viewed as a complete he is a source of comfort and constant relief to he had of course ample opportunity for observ. and exquisitely finished work of a graceful and the afflicted poor. We had a case of a minister ing the disease; and the opinions of so eminent noble style of architecture, or taken and exa- of a dissenting chapel, who performed evening a physician, founded on experience, are entitled mined separately in all its various and minutely- service, and fell a victim to cholera the next to great attention. The following are extracts wrought parts, it exhibits a structure that sur- day. Professor Magendie and his companion from letters to the Polish committee at Paris, passes, we might safely assert, any thing of the Dr. Guillot have arrived here from Paris. The to the physicians of France and other countries, kind that continues on the face of the earth, professor is quite satisfied that it is a new dis- &c., and from the memoir. at this day, to arrest the attention, and de- ease; but I am sorry to say he meets with the mand the admiration, of those who travel into same difficulties in prosecuting his inquiries distant lands." that we have all met with; and I fear his duties will call him away before proper opportunities of studying the disease can possibly be afforded to him. Dr. Guillot will, however, remain; and then there will be less danger of "Being appointed by the national govern WE do not remember to have ever seen two a hasty examination leading to incorrect re- ment inspector-general of the military hospitals more beautiful little prints, in their way, than sults. We have had medical gentlemen here in Poland, I owe it to truth and to myself to the views of "Windermere Lake" and "Bold from various towns of Great Britain: Dr. rectify the accounts propagated by ignorance or Hall," engraved from drawings by G. Picker- Lane, from Liverpool; Dr. Law, from Dub. malevolence of the ravages of the cholera mar. ing; the former by W. Le Petit, the latter by lin; Dr. Macfarlane, from Perth; Mr. Par- bus, and of the sanitary state of Poland." sons, from Birmingham; Mr. Hulton, from An extract from the general registers of the Edinburgh; Mr. Baker, from Leeds; and a hospitals, from the 1st of March to the 31std Once a-week May, 1831, is annexed, shewing that the mor gentleman from Manchester. we meet the medical men of the town, and Drs. tality was very small, and that, including the Daun and Gibson, to converse upon the sub-deaths by cholera morbus, only 95 patients died ject that at present engrosses our whole mental out of 10,000. faculties, and almost baffles the acutest perception. The History of the County Palatine of Lancaster. C. Mottram. BRITISH INSTITUTION. WE have had an opportunity of taking a hasty survey of the studies and copies by English| artists from the great masters, so liberally left by his majesty, and by their other noble and liberal owners, at this national institution. The multitude is so great, that we cannot venture upon the subject this week; but we reserve our stricture for the next. CHOLERA MORBUS. Sunderland, Dec. 7. "The reigning malady, which is advancing towards the west of Europe, is not only the cholera morbus, as well known in Europe as in Asia and America-it has united itself with a much more terrible malady, the gradual as phyry, which I have called choleric asphyry, two articles published in the Polish journals It varies according to the different individuals who are attacked by it. Its character being sporadic, every body may be affected by it; but as it occurs solely under certain conditions and in certain individual circumstances, people may preserve themselves from it by sobriety, great cleanliness, abstinence from all food difficult of digestion, and especially by taking care to keep themselves warm; the perspiration being of great importance in the development of this malady. The disease has shewn itself since my last in three villages, Houghton le Spring, Penshaw, and Southwick. The first is six miles from Sunderland, and half way on the great road to Durham. A pedlar woman, Margaret Liddle by name, arrived there from Sunderland on the MY DEAR SIR,-There has been some mis- afternoon of the 1st, and died at 5 o'clock next understanding with regard to the official report day. Several have since been afflicted. sent from this town. The amount of new Penshaw and Southwick are on the river cases, deaths, and recoveries, by that report, is side. In the former village, George Dodd, a 376, 121, 193; while the balance, given up to labourer, was the first taken ill, and died on this day, Dec. 7, is 37, when, by the above the 2d. Two cases which were fatal-the one table, it should be 62. In the daily report, the in eight, the other in nine, hours-followed. 25 cases of simple diarrhoea, mentioned in my One of them was the village carpenter, and last, are subtracted from the column of remain- Dodds, undertaker. None of the cases at ing cases, and not from that of the total Southwick have been fatal. No new cases amount, which should be-from the com- have been reported from Newcastle. There Symptoms. The precursory symptoms are mencement 351 cases, 121 deaths, and 193 re- was great violence shewn in Sunderland at the very vague, and very difficult to define precisely. coveries, leaving a balance of 37. The cholera, first reports of the existence of this disease, but Cramps in the extremities, and abdominal pains, though a melancholy addition to our catalogue it is still greater in Newcastle. The Tyne sometimes precede this disorder. During its of diseases, is more remarkable for its rapid Mercury, alluding to the visits of men who intensity the pulse and animal heat disappear, fatality than quick dissemination; and should daily expose their lives in the cause of huma- and are succeeded by a general lividity and an any thing like a successful treatment result nity-Í allude to the medical commission-icy coldness of the body; at the same time the from experience or chance, it would be shorn says, "They hover over us like birds of prey." of its terrors, and be met with the same calm- It must certainly reflect as much upon the pubness as any other malignant disease. In our lic to tolerate, as upon the author to indite, ignorance of the nature of contagion, there such imbecile expressions. Truth can alone appear to be all the predisposing causes in this inspire a nation or an individual with contown which can be met with in any other fidence; and it will be found rather in science, congregation of human habitations in the same or the application of one fact to the knowledge country; and if in a different season it does of another, than in the abuse of the privilege not shew itself with a more deadly aspect, it of freedom of opinion or the liberty of the may be a painful and afflicting visitation, but press. never a plague or pestilence such as in former times has ravaged this our "father-land." The seven new cases reported to-day are all in the poor-house of the parish of Sunderland. It is not at all one of those poor-houses which re- In this pamphlet of thirty-six pages, which we flect credit on this country, and is in a bad si- have just received from the continent, the tuation. The disease broke out there on the Doctor states that he was induced, by his ad26th of November, since which twelve or thirteen miration of the Poles, to go to Warsaw, and offer persons have been its victims; among these was his services to the national government, by the sister-in-law of the resident guardian. which he was well received, and appointed inThe nurse at the cholera hospital took ill spector-general of the military hospitals; a after breakfast on the 2d instant, and died a place created for him. He was requested to little after 8 o'clock the same evening. She proceed as soon as possible to the army. was an excellent nurse, cheerful in disposition, Most of the persons attacked were of the and fearless and assiduous in her duties. most wretched classes of society, lodged in filthy W. AINSWORTH. Mémoire et Observations sur le Cholera Morbus skin is dry, the countenance livid, choleric," bearing an impression of terror, the tongue and the mouth cold, the lips black and dry, the eve lids black, the eyes turned up and sunk in their orbits, the abdominal coats more or less con tracted and depressed, the breathing short and hurried, groaning, hiccough, vomitings and dejections more or less frequent, watery, brown, yellowish, or whitish, when they exist (for most frequently these vomitings and dejections de not take place), extreme anxiety, the voice very weak, hoarse, and choleric; a general sta por, and death. The commencement of the choleric asphyxy is generally sudden, apoplectic, and more or less violent. "I must observe, that this affection imme diately precedes or follows the cholera mortus, bringing with it the suspension of the animal functions, and death. In almost all cases, cal lera morbus is only accessory to choleric asphyxy. "I use the word choleric to designate the appearan of the face, because it is impossible to describe it exact It is not Hippocratic, but entirely sui generis. The same may be said of the voice." "Treatment.--The general indication is to employ all possible means to vivify the system, by giving an impulse to the circulation of the blood and the animal heat. The patients labouring under choleric asphyxy must be warmed with dry and hot cloths; they must use warm baths (28° to 30° by Reaumur's thermometer) and vapour baths; numerous dry cuppings must be applied to the breast, along the back, &c., sinapisms to the limbs, the moxa on the whole epigastric region, instantaneous blisters to the lateral parts of the neck, warm drinks, and lavements: in a word, the treatment usually employed in cases of asphyxy in general, is very efficacious in choleric asphyxy. "It is impossible to attend properly to patients under choleric asphyxy in the hospitals. "Non-contagion.-As inspector-general of the hospitals, I have been able to see the disease, to make myself acquainted with it, to study it in all its forms, and to convince myself that it is in nowise contagious: the numerous daily reports, transmitted to me by a great number of physicians, assistants, &c. &c., sufficiently confirm this assertion. "The experiments made on men and animals demonstrate this fact. Indeed, several physicians, among others, who inoculated themselves with the blood, the intestinal mucus, &c. &c., in short, with whatever was the most likely to communicate the disease, felt not the slightest effects from it. lusian Barber, sang the music of the character Taylor looked vastly well in her hussar uniwith great beauty and science. Of his acting, form, and sang a song or two in a very agree. we should observe, bustling and spirited as it able manner; but the chief business of the piece was, that Figaro's familiarity should be imbued devolved upon Miss Poole, "a precious little with a due portion of obsequiousness. The fine article," as one of the characters denominates voice of Mr. Seguin was heard to great advan- her, and ably did she sustain the burden. "The tage as Dr. Bartolo; he will, doubtless, be a Drummer Boy," with the exception of the noisy "valuable auxiliary" (as the phrase runs) to drumming-song, was good; but the captain's the theatre. His dress was appropriate; but groom was excellent. No actor of forty years' he so fashioned his head that it was strikingly experience could look more knowing, or be like the portrait of the present pope, as shewn more saucy in demeanour, than this very little by the engraving in the Catholic Directory. lady; and her changes of dress were made with The opera was received throughout with well- a rapidity worthy of Mathews or of Yates. merited approbation. Mr. Bedford as Basil, The piece was well received, and fills up an Miss Russell as Marcellina, and the rest of the hour that intervenes between the performance performers, exerted their best efforts for its of Artaxerxes and the regular after-piece. success. After the opera, "God save the King" was loudly called for, and sung by the whole of the performers. Mrs. Wood electrified the audience by her splendid style of singing the concluding verse. We are happy to see that the confidence which Miss Shirreff has acquired by practice has given additional strength to her vocal powers; and although there was little room for improvement, that little has been accomplished in her per sonation of Mandane. Mr. Wilson is also more at home in Arbaces; but the performance which eclipses every thing we have seen for years, is the Artabanes of Braham, not only in singing, but in acting. It is perfection itself. The repetition on Thursday was equally triumphant; and followed by a new drama, in two acts, called the Bride of Ludgate. It is reported to be from the pen of Mr. Gerald, and is a very clever and amusing piece, founded on We take this opportunity of farther correctone of the many amours of Charles the Second. ing our opinion about the Irish Ambassador. We see nothing in this production to induce a Since its first night it has been justly curtailed; suspicion of its being borrowed; on the con- and the actors, being now sure of their words, trary, the neatness and spirit of its dialogue, are at leisure to practise some clever by-play, the wit and character of its allusions, and its which, with a few whimsicalities introduced by Our next extract is horridly sickening. tout ensemble, smack of originality as well as Power, have materially improved its effect. "Animals, such as fowls, Chinese pigs, rab- of dramatic talent. We have not time to detail Still, we think that it is hardly worthy of Mr. bits, &c., having been fed exclusively for several the plot; but cannot refrain from mentioning Kenney's acknowledged tact and talent as a days on the blood, mucus, intestines, and other some of the author's hits which pleased us dramatist. viscera, cut small, of cholera patients, far from much. Charles, in playing the lover to the being hurt by this food, grew fat, and were young bride, about to wed the old usurer, says, WE insert with pleasure the following reafterwards eaten by the attendants on the sick," You would not surely keep all the honey for clamation of Dr. Essex, a very estimable man, who declared the flesh to be better tasted, more the winter ?" As king, he says elsewhere, and very able musical teacher. It is as injuicy and delicate, than usual. In a word, as "My place would soon be filled," and when judicious as unjust to cast the merits of such a a last proof of the non-contagiousness of the provoked in his disguise to fight, and taunted master into oblivion as if that could enhance disease, none of the physicians, the assistants, as a coward for refusing, "I always fight by the praise of his successor, or elevate the chathe attendants, or even persons who slept in the proxy; and if you think the ready management racter of the pupil. On the contrary, it seems same bed with cholera patients, and the other of a weapon the sign of a gentleman, I can have to us that Dr. Essex, fully appreciating the patients mingled pell-mell with them, caught ten thousand of them at fifteen pence a-day!" talents of Miss Shirreff, by sedulously cultivat The whole of Charles's conversation is delight-ing them laid the sure foundation of her sucful, and Wallack made it tell. The other parts cess under Mr. T. Welsh; both masters by were ably personated: Miss Phillips, a sweet, their cares doing credit to themselves and their and, where necessary, an affecting bride-Ruth, fair and interesting charge. her maid, a perfect abigail, Mrs. Örger-Shekel, To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. the old usurer, J. Russell-Captain Mouth, a SIR,-You will indulge me much by informing the public, through the medium of your extensively circulated Gazette, Bobadil, Cooper-Doeskin, a serving man, Har-that Miss Shirreff (the young lady who made her appearley-Mapleton, a round-head, and yet a lover, ance as Mandane, in Artaxerres, Thursday, 1st inst.) reH. Wallack-Agate, Mr. Hughes, &c. &c. &c. ceived her musical education from me-was brought out at the oratorios as pupil of Dr. Essex, March 5th, 1828, Altogether, we were much gratified with the and sung the remainder of that season with a considerable drama, which has great sterling merit. share of public applause, very much to my gratification and credit as her master. Miss S. was under my tuition five years, during which period she became (what every good vocalist ought to be) a sound musician, in addition to her skill as a piano-forte performer and singer. When Miss S. was studying under me, a theatrical engagement was not contemplated or approved by her friends-I therefore educated her as a concert singer; and as such she was very favourably received by the public, and well reported of by the Literary Gazette, during the months of March and April, exclusive of the public papers of the day. Miss S. was (unfortunately for me) indisposed the the disorder. "If all these indisputable facts in favour of non-contagion if the honourable testimony of above four hundred eye-witnesses, most of them physicians, are reckoned for nothing-we must believe that the world does not choose to be enlightened and to know the truth." DRAMA. DRURY LANE. COVENT GARDEN. ON Tuesday evening, Rossini's opera of the not developed to the extent they now are. Miss S.'s articles with me expired 29th Sept. 1829, since when, she I I 21, Dorset Place, Dorset Square, Regent's Park. |