ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Of his spirit contending with sickness, the pleasure derived from this, as from Mr. Leigh's next passage is a proof. former productions, is a proof that genuine "The bishop preached at the cathedral, and poetry of any school will always delight. afterwards assisted in the service at the communion, though he was unable to administer the elements. Such, indeed, was his state of bodily weakness at this time, from the heat of the climate, that he was obliged to have cush- THE following letter was addressed by Mr. ions placed to support him in the pulpit, and Pope to the Rev. Dr. Holmes, as an introducactually preached on his knees; and in that tion to him of the late Rev. Thos. Hooke, posture delivered an eloquent and energetic rector of Berkby near Northallerton, and son of the celebrated Nathaniel Hooke, Esq., the discourse." He did much for the schools in India, of Roman historian. We have seen the original whose benefit he had a high opinion. manuscript, in the possession of his grandson, and goodness of heart. Invaluable as are the manners of a gentleman, there is one thing of a far more exalted nature, the mind of a gentleman; and this, with its attendant spirit, its generosity, its frankness, and benevolence, seemed innate in our great painter. The defamatory reports respecting him have been traced to very unworthy sources, and are totally unfounded. It has been said that he had once assumed the profession of an actor; but he never appeared on any stage, except two or three times in the private theatrical amusements at the Marquis of Abercorn's, at the Priory, Stanmore. It has also been alleged against him, that he was addicted to games of "The most advantageous mode of proceeding Mr. Lucius Hooke Robinson, &c. &c. &c. chance. His rectitude and delicacy upon this among these people would be, for the wife of The letter is so very characteristic of the point were beyond all praise. He was pas- a resident missionary to open a school for writer, both in style and in sentiment, that we sionately fond of billiards, at which he was a girls; the parents would easily be induced to are glad to preserve it for the public. most graceful and successful player, but he send them, as there is already an opinion Sir, I think, and I hope, you will not be played merely for the tables, as it is called. gaining ground of the superiority of girls edu- surprised, but rather pleased, that I write to Even this amusement he had given up long cated in English schools over the rest of their entreat a thing of you which will give me a before his death. A lady once asked him the countrywomen; and when a father parts with true pleasure. It is always such (I am perreason why he had so long ceased to play at his daughter in marriage, he makes a sale of suaded) to yourself to do a worthy man a billiards, the only game he was fond of, and at her, receiving ten or twenty rupees, according kindness; and I can assure you, the person I which he so greatly excelled. His reply was to her estimated worth, and as the bargain send with this is very deserving of full of character My dear Mrs.,' he may be. These women, carrying with them as an ingenious and an honest gentleman. replied, although I never played for money the principles in which they are brought up, He is ye son of a most particular friend of myself, my play attracted much attention, and might be expected to have much influence in mine, Mr. Hooke, to whom every learned sooccasioned many and often very high bets. after-life. The character of the hill people is ciety is obliged for his Roman history. He is Next to gambling yourself, is the vice of en- vigorous and animated, and greatly, superior to to pass some time at Oxford as a gentlemancouraging it in others; and as I could not check those of the plains. They are particularly commoner, (though his studies have been long the betting, I have given up my amusement. fond of imitating European improvements; and since finished, and there are few better scholars,) I have not played a game for many years. there can be no doubt, that they are more The last time I was in a billiard-room was a few prepared to listen to missionaries than those of nance, acquaintance, and (if you will permit years ago, when who should casually come in the hills near Bhagulpoor, or the Garrow me to add) friendship, will lay me (as well as but the Duke of Wellington? We had often country." played together, and with nearly equal success. We agreed to have a batch; but we were both so perfectly out of practice, that, after a few pp. 168. London, 1830. J. Cadell. strokes, we could not help smiling at each OUR young author gives the popular form of other, and we laid down the cues.' Sir Thonarrative to much of classical information: mas was fond of playing at drafts with chil- these Adventures may afford both amusement dren; and this was the extent of his gaming." and instruction to our juvenile readers. We find that, even now, we must reserve a few traits, anecdotes, &c. of this distinguished The British Celestial Atlas. By G. Rubie. man for our next publication. The Adventures of Ariston. By an Eton Boy. Part III. Baldwin and Cradock. THE details of the "Solar System" form the Brief Memoirs of the late Right Reverend John "One may almost hold converse with the deep and dark blue ocean;'-and yet, after all, it is a melancholy suggester of thoughts. How hard is it to be so far away from one's children; how hard, that others, and not myself, should hear all they say, and see all they do!of all troubles, this is the only one that I have not found harder to bear in reality, than it was to regard it in prospect: and well it may be so, for no powers of the imagination can add to the severity of such a feeling: and yet, no doubt, mine is not the hardest part: no man can know half a woman's feeling towards her child. May the day come that we may both have pleasure to think of this, if such be the will of God!" prefer for quotation the following little poem. "Believe me she is true indeed; O do not then of Nature's book The language disapprove! Hypocrisy could never give As seems, a sign from heaven, to live Believe me she is true indeed; Impartial be, and you may read Her faith in her bright eyes." any; both with intention to take orders. Your counte Mr. Hooke and him) under a most particular Twitnam, March 28, 17-2. The date is blotted at the third figure. Mr. Hooke, the historian, was a catholic, and had two sons-the above-named, a Protestant clergyman, and the other Dr. Lucius Joseph Hooke, a doctor of the Sorbonne in Paris, and author of a very learned theological work, the standard of the Catholic faith, entitled Religionis Naturalis et Revelate Principia, in 3 vols. Latin. We understand there are other letters from the celebrated Earl of Orrery, the great Duchess of Marlborough, &c. in possession of Mr. Robinson, with a copy of which we may perhaps be favoured. ARTS AND SCIENCES. ASTRONOMY. To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. SIR,-Permit me to avail myself of your Journal to address astronomers throughout the world, as well as those of our own country. Some years since, when writing my work on the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature, it struck me as being very extraordinary, that the various satellites of Jupiter," Saturn, and Uranus, should have received no When the illustrious Galileo discovered these beautiful stars, he named them the Medicean stars; and subsequently individualised them. Simon Marius and Jo. Baptista Hodierna also gave them appellations; but as these names were (except in the instance of Marius) merely complimentary to comparatively obscure persons, they have seldom or never been designated after them. of In eighty too short pages there is much similar beauty; and, in our judgment, the 3. Maria Medicæa 4. Katherina Me dicæa...... Simon Marius. Baptista Hodierna. Jovian Jupiter....Cosmipharus. Pulteney Terrace. distinguishing appellations (except numerical seen in 1866, in 1873, and in 1876, and very corroded by time, that they broke with the ones) by which one could be distinguished from probably in the intermediate times; for it ought slightest effort. The statues, which are more another. This I thought the more remark- to be remembered, that Uranus has not made or less injured, all represent the figures of able, and felt to be the more inconvenient, one of his annual revolutions since his disco- women. Six of them are draped, and possess since the names of those belonging to the orb very. I remain, sir, &c. no attribute by which to recognise what divi. of Saturn are numbered, not according to their CHARLES BUCKE. nities they personify. The four others form a relative distances from their primary, but ac- P.S. Should the above observations be favour- kind of group, representing Venus and Love. cording to the dates of their discovery. ably received, I shall take a future opportunity The most remarkable of these pieces, and that This occasions some confusion to those who of making some remarks on the origin of which at the same time is the least injured, are but superficially acquainted with astrono- Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta; the account of shews the goddess of Cythera, seated on a mical science. Shall I, therefore, be excused which, though sanctioned by many illustrious rock, partially covered by fine drapery. By for attempting to give a little more order to names, I cannot but esteem as being (to say the side of the goddess stands on the rock a this complication, by affixing to each satellite an the least) extremely unsatisfactory. Indeed, I Term, surmounted with the head of Serapis, appropriate name? With due respect to the think I shall be able to prove, that their cause with the modius; and at the foot of the Term correction of others, I propose naming them of origin, as stated, involves an utter impos- is the child of Venus, standing in a very graceafter the following manner :-sibility, according to the rules of gravity, and ful attitude. Below the rock are two Cupids, the simplest of the laws of projectiles. mounted, the one on a dolphin, the other on a By taking the new method of observance, This composition is in a good style; perhaps many small planets may yet be dis- and wants only the fore-arm of Venus, and the covered, even in regions which have been the head of one of the Cupids. most traversed. The highest of all possible also made another new acquisition. M. Pou"The Museum of Antiquities at Kertch has magnifying powers, however, will be requisite. Satellites of Jupiter. First in the order of distance.... Hebe. Second Third Fourth Pomona. Satellites of Saturn. First in the order of distance.... Second Cybele. Fourth.... Fifth... Sixth.. Urania. swan. But astronomical observers should particularly mentsoff, captain (jessaoul) of the Cossacks of C. B. LITERARY AND LEARNED. Permit me, sir, also to suggest, that if the planets are kept in their relative orbits by the power of attraction,-and that they are, who shall presume to doubt, but upon the most pointed and decisive evidence ?-it must be a necessary consequence, since Jupiter disturbs AT a special meeting of the council on Wedthe motions of Saturn on one side, that there nesday, the President, the Lord Bishop of must be one large primary planet, or several Salisbury, in the chair, an address of condo- King Perisade, the son of Spartocus, who is small ones (like Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta), lence, &c. to his Majesty was agreed on. not mentioned in history, and who is known to between his orbit and that of Uranus. This, this is the only great National Institution us only lately, by a similar inscription found at Kertch a few years ago, and afterwards transI think, is necessary to preserve the equilibrium founded and munificently supported by his late observable in planetary motion. If astrono- royal brother for the promotion of our lite- ported to Theodosia, reigned over the Bosmers, therefore, (especially those who reside rature, (though George IV. was the liberal phorus, after the year 284 before Christ; the between the tropics) direct a constant atten- patron of almost every establishment which epoch at which, according to Diodorus Siculus, tion to the neighbourhood of the ecliptic, had either the cultivation of the arts, the ad- Spartocus IV. died." they will, I am persuaded, discover the truth of what I here venture to predict; unless, indeed, the surfaces of those planets are of a nature insufficient to reflect the light of the sun in such proportion as to be visible in our province of the universe. As vance of learning and science, or the diffusion LITERARY FUND SOCIETY. May I presume to step one degree further? The satellites of Uranus possess the wonderful distinction of moving in a retrograde direction, and therefore contrary to the order of the signs. This circumstance leads me to suspect, that THE committee of this Society, to which his Uranus is not only the apparent, but the real, last primary planet of our system; and that the motions of the satellites alluded to, indicate the approach, and indeed the actual beginning, of another system, of which they are at once the heralds and the connecting links. late Majesty was also a princely benefactor for ANTIQUITIES. FINE ARTS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and THREE finely executed plates, accompanied by memoirs of the late Dr. Thomas Young, the Bishop of Chichester, and Earl Spencer, constitute the fifteenth number of the National Portrait Gallery. Of the memoirs, the first (the materials for which were principally furnished by one of Dr. Young's early friends) briefly exhibits the intellectual progress and attainments of "a man almost unequalled in the variety and extent of his acquirements;" the second is peculiarly interesting at the present moment, as to the excellent prelate to whom it relates, was intrusted the sacred office of attending to the spiritual concerns of "Some workmen digging out clay from a our [late] beloved king, during the long period ditch in the neighbourhood of Kertch, dis- in which it has pleased Almighty Providence covered, in the month of March, 1829, three to afflict him with earthly sufferings, and puantique tombs, upon which were placed ten rify his spirit for an immortal world;" the last little statues in terra-cotta, with six vases of describes the character and career of a noblethe same material, (the form of one of which is man, whose "public life and services are hapmost elegant,) and a quantity of small articles pily blended with a private and literary history, of mother-of-pearl, ivory, and glass, belonging equally fair and worthy of admiration." We to the ornaments of a female. Some metallic extract from that part of the memoir of Lord articles, discovered in the same ditch, were so Spencer which has reference to his lordship's When a comet shall, at any future time, THE following account of some new and inteapproach the sphere of Uranus, holding the resting discoveries made in the neighbourhood above suggestion in remembrance, it will per- of Kertch, in the beginning of last year, is haps be most particularly worthy of attentive extracted from the "Journal of St. Petersobservation, with a view of determining, if pos-burgh." sible, what effect the neighbourhood of such a stranger may have upon the motions of his satellites. Dr. Herschel thought, for some time, that Uranus was accompanied by a double ring, like Saturn; but he afterwards gave up the idea, from the circumstance of the disappearance of what he took to be one. My opinion, however, is, that Uranus has a ring-it is required by all the laws of analogy-and that it will be again JOURNAL OF THE BELLES LETTRES. conduct when at the head of the Admiralty who had right to be first of the second, we would immediately present it where it would Most of "We believe it was under his favour that Mr. Brunel's ingenious and valuable inventions in block-machinery were introduced into our dock-yards; together with many other im- MISS HARRIET GOULDSMITH'S PAINTINGS. provements made in these important depôts, THIS lady's paintings are now exhibiting in which have since contributed in no small de- Pall Mall, for the purpose, as is stated, of gree to our naval superiority. We have heard being disposed of by lottery; and we take it told as an anecdote (without being able to upon ourselves to say, that if to deserve success answer for its authenticity), that Mr. Brunel's were to ensure it, the fair artist might claim her fine device for cutting ship-blocks was ulti-full share of public countenance. mately adopted from one of those chances these pictures have at different periods come which sometimes help clever men more than under our notice, and have ever met our unextraordinary talent and persevering industry. qualified praise and admiration. Miss Gould. Like the generality of projectors who offer their smith's style is bold and masterly: she has schemes to government, he had, it is said, formed her practice upon the manner of some wasted many a day in fruitless endeavours to of the best Flemish artists; but has, in all her get his plans accepted and tried: at length, productions, kept her eye on nature; and in weary with deferred hopes, he presented a form and effect her compositions may fairly vie mechanical toy to Lady Spencer, into which a with some of our best masters in landscape pack of cards being put, it could be so regulated scenery. as to deal them out to any number for a round game. The ingenuity of this trifle attracted so much notice, that the artist was immediately brought forward; and much of the rapidity with which future ships of war could be rigged and fitted for sea, was the result of a little box which saved fair dames the trouble of dealing cards for the amusement of a home circle !" Master Williams Wynn. Drawn on stone by AT that delightful age when the intellect is His late most gracious Majesty George the Fourth. Engraved by Thomson, from a Miniature by Haines. Whittaker and Co. THE graphic decoration of the sixty-eighth Number of the new series of La Belle Assemblée, and a most pleasing and satisfactory resemblance of our lamented sovereign. The Costumes of the French Pyrenees. Drawn on stone by J. D. Harding, from original Sketches by J. Johnson, Esq. No. I. Carpenter and Son. AMONG the qualities which constitute the picturesque is the absence of familiarity: we do not mean to assert that the costume of a Yorkshireman is equally picturesque with that of a Basque; but there can be no doubt that the effect of the latter is heightened by its novelty, and that the present promises to be a very clever and entertaining work. We have fallen desperately in love with the demure little. "Bourgeoise of Pau." Albums.-The question whether the practice of keeping Albums is, or is not, a sort of polite nuisance, shall not be discussed by us at present. We have seen disreputable public uses made of the contents of these friendly receptacles of idle nothings; but their pretty keepers are generally so amiable, et cetera, that we hold the exceptions to be no bar to the rule of gratifying them whenever it is possible. And if you do, the delight of doing it in such an Album as has been submitted to our inspection by Messrs. De la Rue, Cornish, and Rock!! The binding is a model of embossing in leather; and the pages, of every beautiful variety of pasteboard and paper, tempt you to draw, paint, and write, something worthy of so elegant a shrine. We have offered our copy to one fair divinity, and been refused the honour of a presentation: if we could only determine ORIGINAL POETRY. HE went down the sloping lawn He entered the waving wood, O well that voyage the first- And he little deem'd that the storm should And this should be his last! To wreck by the frenzied main ; JUVENALIA.-NO. IV. IF, while you slept, a thief, by lamp-light chose, Stood by with batons, as field-marshals use; 'Tis not so strange then, if, in public, few, Where nought but the step of the bounding Well watched, seem other than "good men fawn Broke on his solitude. He sat by the mossy stone Whence the clear rivulet gush'd, No witness but the skies And the stream's light waves were near; eyes Flowed freely many a tear. And he thought beneath these trees He had many an hour beguiled; Past, past away full soon Was the sorrow from his face, Near which his vessel lay; And away through the boiling foam It bore him from his home. He reached the sea where never He looked on islets fair, And on the Indian lands, And still he longed to turn Again to his own dear shore, Again the noble ship Is on the bounding sea, and true." The pulpit were an awkward place for sin mace; (As if the unwary owner would proclaim, Puts out his own,-but puts it in his cheek; Loud as when unto Deeps the great Deep Wide-gaping-hear how Boanerges bawls! Falls down the slip-board splash into the dock! Famine, Disease, Rebellion, Bankruptcy, rogue, He barks, and looks, much like a simple dog; Cajole the public in the public view, This truth is universal as it's sad, SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. "short no same peninsula. The neighbourhood of the thereby,) Mdlle. Blasis, at very Portuguese did not leave them much repose. tices," has had the good fortune to be brought At length, at the commencement of the forward in the favourite parts of this fashioneighteenth century, fatigued with the wars able siren. We allude to the Cenerentola of which they had to maintain against the Euro- Rossini, and the Zerlina of Mozart's Don Giopeans, the sultan of the Malays abandoned the vanni. In the representation of both parts she peninsula of Malacca, in which his nation had is unsurpassed, and her Zerlina in particular is reigned for several centuries, and went to characterised by a vocal and histrionic truth establish himself at Riouw, the chief place in worthy of the best days of Fodor. We listen the Isle of Bintan. But neither was this resi- with delight to the pure, unadulterated strains dence of long duration. In 1783, the Malays of Mozart. Nor is the eye ever offended by of Bintan fell out with the Dutch, who an- "wicked" looks, nor the ear annoyed by sensenoyed them in their possession. The seat of less innovations and "running commentaries," the Malay empire was then transferred defini- not more at variance with the author's text, tively to Lingga, where that empire will pro- than inconsistent with musical judgment and bably expire; for it is not to be presumed that dramatic taste. it will ever recover from its decline. Not that With some alterations in the cast, Don Giothe Malay nation is not still very considerable; vanni was performed on Tuesday to the most but it no longer forms a mass, a real nation. musical audience we have seen this season. The Malays are dispersed throughout all the Suffice it to say, that there were four encores islands, without recognising the authority of in the first act. In the Donna Anna, Lalande the sultan. The latter reigns only in the was extremely effective-her trembling tones little Isle of Lingga, and in a chain of small are well suited to this character; and we know islands situated at the southern entrance of the not when we have been better pleased with Straits of Malacca; such as Singkeb, Labonda- Curioni. Donzelli bawled his best, though dong, Batsang, and Karimon. Ten years ago in Don Giovanni he is somewhat out of his he reigned over Djohor and Pahang; but in element; and Lablache, though an exquisite 1824, the English, finding it advantageous to actor, is not exactly the lightest Leporello we be the sole masters of the peninsula of Ma- have seen on the boards. The opera, howlacca, deprived him of those portions of his ever, on the whole, was very spiritedly perempire. His residence in Lingga, called Kwala- formed; and, had not the devils played the Dai, consists of groups of houses, surrounded devil in the conclusion of the last act, by allowby thickets; and, together with the envi- ing Giovanni to escape their clutches, and rons, contains six thousand persons. The rest thus marred the moral of the piece, we have In the maps, the little Isle of Lingga, situated of the isle contains only about three or four no doubt that the representation of the opera under the equator, between Sumatra and Bor- thousand. A colony of four hundred Chinese would have met with the unanimous approbaneo, and peopled by only nine or ten thousand attaches itself here, as in the other isles, in tion of the audience. souls, is generally indicated by the name of the spite of the contempt of the Mussulmans, to Saturday night. One act of Il Pirata (one Isle of Lingen. It has never been described agriculture and trade, lives peaceably, tries to act too many, by the by,) preceded the inimitwith so many details as by M. van Angelbeek, cheat a little, and purchases by presents the able performance of the first act of Il Turco in in the last volume of the Transactions of the indulgence of the chiefs. The Malays, in their Italia. So well cast as this opera is at present, Society of Batavia. The author, having re- turn, love commerce, and possess every kind of we are surprised that the manager curtails it sided there in 1819, possessed the means of personal advantage for devoting themselves to of its fair proportions. Lablache and Blasis knowing the actual state of the island, as well it with success. They are a well-made, active, are incomparable in their respective parts. as of the Malay empire, of which it is now the engaging, and polished race. A Malay is Nor are the efforts of Santini and Curioni seat. The history of this remarkable people, always of the same opinion as the man who undeserving of praise. who are at present spread through all the talks with him; he is prodigal of flattery; but neighbouring islands of India, occupies the he is perfidious: friendship is so little familiar greatest part of the memoir in question. With to him, that there is not a word in his lan- THE English Operatic company at this theatre respect to the ancient history of the Malays, guage by which it can be expressed; and he is have distinguished the week by the performance the author states that he has derived his in- obliged to borrow the word from an Arabic of Don Juan. The overture (arranged by formation from a history written in the Malay idiom. Fishing, and, above all, piracy, are his Hawes) is one of the finest treats which the language, entitled Sidjara-Malayoe. favourite occupations. He is mild and gentle lovers of music can enjoy; and they will here According to M. van Angelbeek, the true in his domestic relations. Many Malays have enjoy it to greater perfection than they have country of the Malays is Menangkabo, in the only two wives, instead of the four which the ever yet had an opportunity of doing at any interior of the Island of Sumatra, in which Koran allows them; and it is said that the theatre in London. It is truly Mozart. Mr. there is a river named Malayoe, and a district two wives of a Malay generally agree together. Phillips, in Juan, is not quite the light liberbearing the same appellation. It is after these They weave silk stuffs, which are preferred to tine, but his splendid organ makes amends for localities that, according to him, the Malays those of Celebes. Among the Malays there every thing. Benson is one of the best Lepoare designated. A part of the nation abandoned are no dances and theatrical amusements, as rellos on the stage. The lady portion not so their homes about the middle of the twelfth among the Javonese; the sultan alone has effective; but the whole very superior. century of our era, under the conduct of two dancing-girls. Gaming and cock-fighting fill chiefs, but from what motive is unknown, and the place of ballets and comedies. Their suembarked in order to establish themselves eise- perstition is excessive; and with respect to Lithotrity. During the last month there where. Storms pursued these emigrants to the faith, or credulity, they are very good Mussul-were several successful operations for stone peninsula of Malacca. They there founded mans. Their audacity is feared by those who by the new method of crushing it in the the town of Singapore, and enjoyed peace in navigate the Indian latitudes. It is fortunate bladder. The additional security against laceratheir colony for a century. About the middle that their nation is divided; for, united, and tion, from any accidental rent in the instruof the thirteenth century, a prince of Java obedient to a chief endowed with energy, they attacked and conquered Singapore. The Malays then went and founded another town at Malacca, which soon became one of the greatest places of commerce in India; and which the Portuguese, at the period of their expeditions, found in the most flourishing condition. The Malays incorporated in their kingdom the two isles of Bintan and Lingga. When the Farin- IN consequence of the inconvenient suscepti- civilisation, and of the arts and sciences, Gergies, or Europeans, took from them their rich bility of Madam Malibran to attacks of sudden many may boast of having made a great pro place at Malacca, their sultan proceeded to and severe indisposition, (such as on Thursday, gress in that respect; for the number of bookfound another residence at Djohor, in the when Lalande's benefit was again postponed sellers has been almost quadrupled in the last would be masters of the Indian seas. On the DRAMA. KING'S THEATRE. ADELPHI. VARIETIES. ment contrived by M. Costello, by means of several rounds of wire thread, to prevent the extension of the rent, has been introduced into the French hospitals, where it has given great satisfaction.-Paris Journal. German Literature.-If from an increase in the number of printing-offices and booksellers' shops may be drawn any proof of the growth of JOURNAL OF THE BELLES LETTRES. The Measles. The measles has lately been would be his portion of expenditure of laying down pipes, &c., for one share about 1500 francs making great ravages in Paris. Most of the more are to be calculated upon for the expense, children who have fallen victims to it have also making the share 3000 francs, for which the been attacked by brain fever. shareholder would for eighty years have a free As 3000 francs, at 4 per cent, amount and very abundant supply of water without charge. LITERARY NOVELTIES. [Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. XXVIII. July 10.] edition of the Bible is announced, with Illustra fifty years. In 1780, there were, in all Germany, only 223 booksellers; and there are at present 827! Royal Consideration. It is as much, or perhaps more, from lesser matters than from those of great importance, that we may form our opinion of the disposition of the prince, and the probable character of the reign which has to only 120 francs per annum, and as the pre-A new Martin, and under the immediate patronage sent charge for a scanty supply of water by of his most gracious Majesty the King. The design of means of water-carriers is nearly 150 francs so imaginative and sublime an artist to publish a Series alike glorious to himself and honourable to the fine arts per annum on the average, there would be an of Prints to illustrate the Old and New Testament, gives lume of the Transactions of the King and Queen's College actual saving of 30 francs per annum, besides rise to the most sanguine anticipation of a production of Physicians in Ireland.-Le Keepsake Français, with having a more abundant and equally pure of his country.-The Alexandrians, a Novel.-A new vosupply. engravings. New French Coinage. There is great activity in the French mint in coining new fivefranc silver pieces, and gold demi-louis of ten francs. They will be in circulation next month. LIST OF NEW BOOKS. Marshall's Naval Biography, Supplement, Part IV. braire's Medical Nosology, 12mo. 58. bds.-Murray on Hydrophobia, 12mo. 4s. bds.-Southennan, 3 vols. post 8vo. 15. bds.-Ingram's Matilda, 8vo. 128. bds.-Macbds.-De la Beche's Geological Phenomena, 4to. 21. 28. 8vo. 1. 118. 6d. bds.-Annual Register, 1829, 8vo. 16s. bds.-M'Neill on the Jews, 78. bds.-Vincent's Sermons, bds.-The Templars, a Novel, 3 vols. post 8vo. 11. 78. 12mo. 6s. bds.-Grant's Lectures on the Prodigal Son.Spillan's Supplement to the Pharmacopoeias, 12mo. 6s. bds.-Laurent's Ancient Geography, 8vo. 14. bds.ventions, 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds.-Dublin University ExaminaRankin on Life Assurances, 8vo. 6s. bds.-Garde's Law of Evidence, 12mo. 6s. bds.-Holroyd on Patents and Intions, 8vo. 8s. bds. June. Barometer. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1830. 25 26 Thermometer. 29.83 29.85 52. 70. 29.74 29.63 55. 76. 29.63 29.72 51. 76. 29.79 29.82 .. 28 52. 72. 29.84 29.79 53. 72. 29.79 29.91 68. 29.96 29.99 Tuesday just commenced. Thus, to us, the intimation that his Majesty has commanded an opening to be made into the Park at Carlton Terrace, affords an auspicious augury of the royal desire to cultivate popularity by the best means yielding graciously to a general wish, and consulting even the slightest gratification of his people beyond a prerogative of the crown. We are sure the boon so granted will be gratefully felt, and the privilege so accorded will not be abused, either in itself, or as a precedent for Roquefort Cheese. At the last sitting of the encroachment. While on the subject of the relations between the new King and his sub- Paris Academy of Sciences a curious paper was jects, we cannot help expressing the disgust read by M. Giron de Buzaraingue, on the with which the unparalleled adulation from manufacture of the celebrated cheese called almost every quarter poured upon our gracious fromage de Roquefort, which is made from the sovereign contrasts, not merely with the base milk of ewes. The excellence of this cheese is oblivious neglect, but with the contumely stated to proceed from the peculiar construction shewn towards his great and yet unburied pre- of the caves, by which a perpetual freshness of decessor. Must he not in his soul despise the temperature is maintained. It is also stated, fawning sycophants who a few hours before that when the sheep have been milked in the bowed in worship to George the Fourth, and regular way, the teat is struck with force, by who now with tenfold protestations do homage which means a much larger quantity of milk is to him? We are sure he must: it is a great obtained; whilst, contrary to what might be moral lesson to all, and a pitiable example of imagined, no injury is done to the animal. Sweden. The Swedish Academy of Sciences the moral state of this country. But the subWind variable, S.W. prevailing. Since the morning of the 26th, generally fine, and free from rain. Haymaking ject is too painful to dwell upon; and we has just purchased one of the handsomest in this neighbourhood has been generally brought to a could most anxiously have longed to see every hotels in Stockholm, for the purpose of condemonstration of respect, loyalty, and love for verting it into a Museum of Natural History. A letter from Berlin states, that Malle. Son-close. On the evening of the 25th, from about half-past the King upon the throne, mingled with more for more than two hours without intermission: from ten of mournful recollection of the glories of him tag has entered into an engagement with the six till as much after nine, a rumbling noise was heard in continually illumined with vivid flashes of lightning. I who has just passed away. We may be assured, opera in that city for two years; but that she the south resembling distant thunder, which continued that the selfish beings who so quickly forgot or is previously to go to St. Petersburg, on the till near eleven on the same evening, the atmosphere was the thunder and lightning were almost incessant during the reviled the late, cannot be true friends to any invitation of the emperor. Copernicus. A statue of this great astro-have received accounts from Brighton, which state that Rain fallen, 25 of an inch. Thermometer. King. July. nomer is about to be placed in the square which Thursday.. fronts the palace of the Imperial Society of the Encroachments of the Sea.-In Clew Bay, on Friday Friends of the Sciences at Warsaw. Sunday.. the western coast of Ireland, there was formerly Saturday an island, called Minisb, the surface of which, Monday in the reign of Charles I., was twelve acres in Tuesday extent; as is proved by several public docu- Wednesday 7 ments of that period. On being measured in the year 1814, it was found to be only 420 feet long, and 30 broad. In 1816 it entirely disappeared. The Island of Clare, in the immediate neighbourhood, furnishes another example of the destructive action of the sea on those coasts. Bounded every where by cliffs of immense height, it is continually corroded by the ocean, which has worn deep caverns; into which, when agitated, it throws immense blocks of stone, detached from the cliffs, with a noise that is quite appalling. Supply of Water in Paris.-It has been already stated, that the French Government have given permission to a public company to make arrangements for the supply of water in Paris in the same way as in London. This will be one of the greatest improvements of the French capital during the present century; for by the usual mode of supply, which is by water-carriers, the quantity of water furnished per head is only 23 quarts; whereas in Lon. don it is 80, at Edinburgh 61, at Manchester 44, and at Glasgow 100. Liverpool, however, seems to be almost as badly off as Paris; for the supply there is said to be only 28 quarts per head. It is to this deficiency of water, and to the expense of the supply, perhaps, that we are to attribute the comparatively filthy state of Paris a clean staircase is unknown, the yards are rarely washed, and the windows are generally dirty. It is proposed to have the water supplied by steam-engines from the Seine above La Bièvre, and not from a canal, as was intended by Napoleon, as it is found that the Seine above La Bièvre is purer than all others, in the following proportions: To a Correspondent who writes to us that we omitted to notice the death of our late beloved Monarch, we have to answer that a mention of the melancholy event appeared in the stamped edition of the L. G.; and that it escaped our recollection at the moment that only a small portion of our numerous readers would thereby see it: we now therefore insert it again throughout the whole edition of our Journal: His Majesty George IV. died on Saturday last. As a monarch, his reign will be famous in the history of England. He was of a noble nature, liberal, munificent in his patronage of literature and the fine arts, and in most respects all that a great sovereign ought to be. His errors, as a man, have even already been made the theme of unbounded censure: but posterity alone can do justice to his character; and when it is calmly and candidly weighed, truth will render homage to the excellencies which vastly counterbalanced his less laudable qualities." |