in perfection, during the whole of the month, wind at Paris is SW. It is not surprising the facts which they exhibit is that, accordfrom private fruit-cellars, treated as we sug- therefore that the rainy and cloudy days are ing to the experience of a century and a half, gested last month. so numerous every year. They amount to the months in which the greatest mortality Of flowers, there is the saxifraga oppositi-164, to 185, and sometimes even to 222: has always reigned in Paris are March and folia, arabis grandiflora, and cynoglossum om-" The following is a view of the state of the April; and the least, August and Joly. The phaloides, beautiful alpines; not to mention water. The Bièvre feeds a hundred and two difference between the two extremes is about violets, polyanthuses, other saxifrages, and factories or other establishments, and in Paris five-twelfths of the whole. The first of Javarious bulbs. In the shrubbery, pines, pop-alone, ninety; of which the most celebrated nuary is the mean term; and the months of lars, willows, hazels, &c. show their catkins; is that to which the brothers, Gobelins, gave December and June are equal in mortality. and daphnes and honeysuckles, slocs, and their name. A great number of the inhabi- It is also curions to notice the epochs of rosemary, are in flower. In the greenhouse, tants of Paris are far from suspecting the the maximum and of the minimum of births. camellias, heaths, alletris, geraniæ, and ixie; existence of this multitude of factories, paper- The greatest number of children are born in and in the stove, various scitamineæ, the can mills, forges, corn-mills, silk-mills, breweries, March and January; the smallest in June, na, strelitza, solandra, eugenia, and justicia. distilleries, &c. maintained in Paris by this November, and December. The greatest numcurrent, which is little known except by those ber of marriages take place in May; the who live on its banks. smallest in March and January. STATISTICS.-PARIS. Statistical Inquiries respecting the City of Paris The greater part of the inhabitants of the But one of the most important results deand the Department of the Seine; from Tables, country communes are obliged to drink well-rived from the great table of the population drawn up and collected by order of Count water, in general not very wholesome; or of Paris, from the year 1670 to the year 1821, Chabrol, the Prefect of the Department.* spring water of very middling quality. This is the relation of the number of boys to that In conformity to his promise last year, the is a matter which calls for all the solicitude of girls, born in that city. The number of Chief Magistrate of the Department of the of the administration. boys has always been greater than that of Seine has published a new statistical volume) Every day the height of the Seine is care-girls. The proportion for the last seventyrespecting the city of Paris and the neigh-fully measured at the Pont de la Tournelle. seven years (before which the distinction of bouring communes. This is at once a pledge Whenever it has arrived at 5 metres above sex was not marked in the registers of birth) for the future publication of similar collec- the point of zero, the Port-au-bled and the has been 795,350 to 763,936; nearly 26 to 25; tions, and a proof of the incontestible utility Champs-Elysées have been inundated. or more accurately, 1041 to 1000. These of publicity in such matters. Paris contains 65 fountains, and 124 en-numbers, it is true, include the foundlings; These new inquiries comprehend a hundred closed fountains. When the canal of L'Ourcq among whom, no doubt, are reckoned fewer and four Tables in 4to., many of them very is finished there will be six times the quantity male children than are born in reality. With elaborate. They relate to the most varied of water necessary for the consumption of the reference to this circumstance, the proporsubjects; and are thus classed, viz. 1. Topo- city. It is a pity that the very useful esta- tion may be considered as 22 to 21. Similar graphy Physical and Geometrical descrip-blishment of the Quai des Célestins, for puri- observations have been made at London and tion; State of the Air, the Water, &c.-fied water, does not yet furnish more than a at Naples. In the former, the proportion has 2. Population: Annual Change; Inhabited hundredth part of the actual consumption. been found to be 19 to 18; in the latter, 22 Houses; Public Establishments; Professions; Chemical experiments show that the water to 21. This phenomenon, observable in Eu&c.-3. Civil Institutions: the Adminstra- of L'Ourcq holds the middle station, in re- rope, does not exist in the East, at least not tion; Judicial Order; Public Force; Distri- spect to purity, between the water of the generally. It even appears that in Egypt, in bution of Charity; Instruction; the Sciences Seine and that of Arcueil. The springs of Nubia, and in the island of Ceylon, the numand Arts; &c.-4. Agriculture: Crops, Farm- Belleville, of Saint Gervois, and of Ménil-ber of girls born exceeds that of boys. houses, Cattle, Consumption, &c.-5. Indus- Montant are much more impregnated with try: Manufactures, Commerce, the useful earths and salts. Arts, and Trades.-6. Finances: Domains, Contributions, Revenues. It is intended to publish every year a series of Analogical Tables, in each of these six principal branches of statistics. As this volume is entirely composed of facts and positive results, it is impossible to make a minute analysis of it. All that can be done is to quote a number of select specimens, and to state the most striking general conse. quences. From the various tables of population, it appears that since the great political comThe benefit which navigation has conferred motion of 1789 the population of Paris has within a few years on the commerce of this increased in the proportion of about 212 to great city is very important. It would be 200; that there have been constantly arsuperfluous to enumerate the boats of all riving (especially since the Revolution) a kinds employed in the navigation of the higher number of foreigners in that capital, who and the lower Seine, the quantity of goods have died there; that within thirty years the they contain, &c. The number which arrived number of marriages has increased about a in Paris in 1821, by the currents of the Aube sixteenth; and that the number of foundlings and the Yonne, were 1433, without reckon- has diminished more than a fourth. On the ing the rafts. After the higher Seine, the other hand, it appears that the number of nacanals furnish the greatest number of trading tural children has been increasing since 1806; boats; and after them the Yonne and the before which time there are no certain acMarne. When the grand project of forming counts, as natural children and legitimate canals throughout France shall be completed, children were confounded in the registers. the navigation of the Seine will have the The number of natural children acknowledged advantage of 528 additional leagues of that by their parents, was in 1819 and 1820, about mode of water-conveyance; and that river 21 in 54; in 1821, 21 in 71, being almost twowill be united to the Oise, the Ourcq, the fifths less. Aine, and the Lower Loire. As climate, and in general physical condition, every where exercise a marked influence on human life, and especially on all that relates to the existence of a great mass of men assembled together, it was expedient to unite in a common centre the daily observations made at the Observatory at Paris. Hence, the early part of the first chapter is filled with meteorological details, carefully. The highest point in the department of the arranged. Among them are the observations made for nineteen years; namely, from 1803 to 1821, with the thermometer, several times every day, and which furnish an exact ele ment of the temperature of Paris. It appears that the maximum of that temperature agrees invariably with the hours of two or three o'clock in the afternoon; the minimum with sunrise. Considered with reference to the year, the maximum takes place between the 10th and the 29th of July, and rises to 190 31 centigrades; the minimum takes place between the 3d and the 22d of January, and falls to 10 77 centigrades below 0. The prevailing Seine is Most-Valérien. The most elevated Thirty-three Tables are devoted to the state of the population, which is detailed with a minuteness conformable to its importance. These details comprehend, in the births, the number of natural children, and the number of still-born; in the deaths, the age, the sex, the single, the married, the suicides, those from accident, small pox, supposed cow-pox, For this minute and curious picture of Paris we are &c. are all distinguished. It is probably the indebted to the Revue Encyclopédique: we wish we first time in which such exact statements on could present our readers with such another of Lon-these subjects have been published. Among don.-Ed. Lit. Gaz. Passing to the chapter of Public Aids, it appears that the number of aids afforded by the charitable institutions were, in 1819, 85,150; in 1820, 86,870; that of admission into hospitals and asylums (reckoning the foundlings) in 1819, 77,513; in 1820, 80,031. The average deaths in the hospitals and asylums were about 1 in 7; the average expense for every individual received into them, from 110 to 123 francs a year. The number of indigent females is more than half as large again as that of indigent males. An entirely new table is occupied with the loans granted on security by the Mont-depieté. It is remarkable, that in the six years from 1816 to 1821, pledges were invariably deposited for nearly the same sum, of 18 millions of francs; the greatest difference between any of those years not exceeding 600,000 francs; while the sum paid for the re demption of pledges averaged only 13,611,277 francs. The average of the renewals of these loans is about 4 millions annually. The average value of each deposit is, in plate and jewels, from 32 to 43 francs; in linen and clothes, from 6 francs 20 centimes, to 9 francs 37 centimes. The fourth chapter contains four tables respecting the administration of the Police. One of these relates to the number of persons drowned in Paris. In 1819, there were 271; in 1820, 270; in 1821, 310. About a fourth of these various numbers were taken out of the water alive. Nearly half the drowned persons drowned themselves. Another table, also published for the first time, is that of the Fires. In the twenty-seven years which preceded 1821, there were 15,321 fires in Paris, or, on the average, 585 in every year. It is difficult to conceive how so many of these fatal accidents can occur. As there are 26,801 houses in Paris, and 224,922 families, it follows that in every 10,000 houses there have been 217 fires annually, and 26 in every 10,000 families. In this number the fires of chimneys are included. (To be concluded in our next.) MAGNETISM. A VERY curious fact connected with this science was elicited by Mr. Partington whilst preparing the apparatus for a lecture on magnetism in the Russel Institution on Monday last. The following verbatim report from Mr. P.'s lecture will best explain the circumstances under which it occurred: ample of his Royal Master; and we humbly | must be at once grateful to him, and encouragtake leave to express our hope, that many ing to British talent, to find that it is so obothers of his popular Ministry will soon be served and so rewarded. We have, therefore, seen prominently emulous in the same en- great satisfaction in announcing, that Sir nobling career, so well becoming a govern-Thomas Lawrence has received the King's ment at all periods, and especially at a period commands immediately to complete a copy of of peace and prosperity. Let them but re- His Majesty's whole-length portrait, for anmember that the name of Mecanas will live other ornament to the splendid collection of as long as that of Augustus. Tabley House. To the Council of the Society, the respectable names John Caley and Alexander Chalmers, Esqrs. and Dr. Anderson (its late Registrar) were added: while James Christie, Esq. one of the stanchest supporters of the Charity, was elected Registrar. Upon the improved list of the General Committee, W. Mudford and C. Orme, Esqrs. were placed; and the proceedings of the day concluded to the great satisfaction of the friends of the fund. Several communications were afterwards made to the Committee (which met to consider cases and relieve the distressed;) and among these, some of stewards, benefactors, &c. &c. which bid fair to render the anniversary dinner in May one of the most interesting, from the character of its leading visitors, and one of the most productive, from the gifts of its liberal contributors, that ever the Society experienced. Indeed the good done by it need only be known to make it what it ought, from its objects, to be, one of the best supported charities in Britain. OXFORD, March 6.-On Saturday, Feb. 28, the following Degrees were conferred:"Whist making the necessary arrangeMasters of Arts.-Rev. G. Stamp Robinson, Fellow ments for this evening's lecture, I witness- Rev. J. Glanville, and Rev. C. R. Smith, Balliol College; of New College; Rev. F. Aston, University College; ed a very singular fact. A lady, who is G. Grey, Oriel College; Rev. C. A. Hunt, Merton Coll now in the lecture-room, having brought Bachelors of Arts.-J. C. J. H. Abrahall, and T. B: her hand nearly in contact with the mag-lege; T. Furneaux, Magdalen Hall; W. R. Newbolt, and Abrahall,Wadham College; M. C. Bolton, Queen's Colnetized needle, it was observed that the bar N. Malcolm, Christ Church; H. Fuller, St. Alban Hall; was attracted. Although somewhat surprised O. H. Williams, Balliol College; T. Fogg, and E. Baldat the singularity of the circumstance, I yet win, St. John's College; R. I. Wilberforce, J. Bramston, and G. Trevelyan, Oriel College. ascribed it either to the attraction of gravitaYesterday the following Degrees were contion, or else to a disturbance of the electrical equilibrium, and accordingly repeated the experiment. The result was, that an attractive or repulsive force was observed alter-Rev. F. H. Hutton, Wadham College. nately, upon presenting the thumb or finger of the same hand. "I shall not attempt to theorize upon so singular a circumstance, which appears to place beyond a possibility of contradiction the assertion of Mesmer, that the human body possesses polarity; and should this be conceded, the professors of animal magnetism may be entitled to more respect than they have hitherto received from the scientific world." LEARNED SOCIETIES, ETC. LITERARY FUND SOCIETY. ferred: · Bachelor in Divinity.—Rev. A. Grayson, Principal of St. Edmund Hall. Masters of Arts-Rev. J.V.Hamilton, Magdalen Hall; Bachelors of Arts.-T. Cox, Esq. Worcester College, grand compounder; T. M. Foskett, Exeter College. CAMBRIGE, March 5.-Mr. John Gore, of Caius College, was on Wednesday last admited Bachelor of Arts. TRAVELS OF M. BERGGREEN IN THE EAST. M. BERGGREEN, chaplain to the Swedish legation at Constantinople, who commenced in 1820 a tour in Asia and Africa, has been obliged to return to Sweden, after a severe illness; but he has brought with him, from the Maronite Convent of Antara, situated on On Wednesday the annual elections for this Mount Lebanon, where he passed some time, humane and benevolent Institution took many curious observations, and a copy of the place at a General Meeting, where its inde- pretended Holy Scriptures of the Druses, a fatigable friend and intelligent Vice-Presi-book filled, he says, with abominable docdent, Sir B. Hobhouse, was in the chair. The trines. The geography of Mount Lebanon is only new names introduced, in consequence very different from the account given of it by of two vacancies in the vice-presidency, were those of Viscount Dudley and Ward, (whose late father was a distinguished patron of the Society) and the Right Hon. George Canning, who, as we have remarked elsewhere IT is pleasing to record a fact which shows in this sheet, appears to be, by his coun- that the highest Personage in the kingdom tenance of literature, restoring it to those participates in the general feeling of admirabrilliant days when the highest ranks and the tion which the conduct of Sir John Leicester, most eminent politicians were associated with respect to the Fine Arts, has inspired. with the learning and genius of the time. In That gentleman's patronage of native genius this he is however only following the ex-hardly needed to be thus crowned; but it Volney. FINE ARTS. SIR JOHN LEICESTER. This royal picture, with several commissions now in progress, (which have been mentioned in the Literary Gazette,) but which cannot be finished till next year, will form a noble addition to the Leicester Gallery, which, with the usual liberality of the owner, will, we doubt not, be then re-opened for the gratification of an admiring public. While upon this topic, we may notice a beautiful Engraving of Lady Leicester, just published, from Sir T. Lawrence's delicious picture of that lady, in the character of Hope. This work is executed by Henry Meyer, and does all but express the brilliant touches and colouring of the great artist, one of whose loveliest subjects it is. Indeed it is in every way a charming production-charming in the original, charming in the painting, and charming in the second remove of imitative art-, the engraving. Retch's Series of Outlines, engraved by Henry Moses, to Fridolin, or the Road to the Iron' Foundery; a Ballad, by F. Schiller: with a Translation by J. P. Collier, Esq. 4to. Part I. London 1824. S. Prowett. THE great popularity of Retch's Outlines of Faust have induced this publication of the us to judge, of equal merit. There is a spirit same class, and as far as the first part enables and energy in the figures which supply all the food the imagination wants in such designs. The originality of the costume also greatly contributes to the picturesque effect; and the character of the architecture helps to bring us back to those times which we love to associate with the fresh and romantic. There is one difference between these Ontlines and those of the Faust, which we think disadVantageous to the story of Fridolin: the figures are larger for the space, and thus fill the scene without leaving room for that just in such pictures. There are four pieces, and proportion which should always be observed both beauty and expression will be found among them, as feminine or youthful forms, or those of a martial and rugged nature, prevail. The poetry was a difficult task, and we cannot compliment the translator. ORIGINAL POETRY. She followed him. The sweet night breeze With cottages, and their gay show One which stood by a beech alone,- There was a shadow on their mirth; With whom her youth's sweet course had run, All that the heart holds precious here! As are the snowy chesnut flowers When blooming in the first spring hours, Her mandolin upon her knee. But BLANCHE was gone, and guilt and shame Gently and cheerfully away It was a lovely morn in June, And in the rosy light of noon As the glad sun were all its own; And, suiting with such golden hours, In the midst, with blue downcast eye One followed them with bursting heart, False or unhappy, twin to sorrow, but if all cannot be done, part may; give (whether, as the Chairman observed, he went tinued to enter, and the yells of the cat on me your cards, summonses, letters, invita- with a Linneus in one pocket, and a great the spit, joined by the rest, were tremendous. tions, &c. &c. &c. &c. and I will run over determination in the other) which was a A cat of enormous size at last appeared, and the town like another Puck, who could put a specific for this terrible disease, or whether told Lachain Oer that if he did not desist begirdle round the Earth in forty minutes. he was a mere pretender. The faculty, it fore his great-eared brother arrived, he never Glad of this proposal from our active aide-de- was stated, maintain the latter opinion; would behold the face of God. Lachlan ancamp, we forthwith stuffed one of his pockets Mr. Whitlaw's friends, backed by many cases swered, that if all the devils in hell came, he with a whole pack of cards, and the other of cure, the former. It is not ours to decide, would not flinch until his task was concluded. with a huge bundle of letters, and though where doctors disagree. About sixty per- By the end of the fourth day there was a the bulges produced thereby spoiled the cut sons dined-Mr. Whitlaw spoke straight-for- black cat at the root of every rafter on the of his surtout, and made him look like a lite- wardly in diction not very choice, and in ac-roof of the barn, and their yells were disrary Hottentot Venus, he seemed to sally cents of the broadest Scotch. We certainly tinctly heard beyond the Sound of Mull, in forth on his mission with no small degree of doubt all such matters as he propounded, Morven. elation and consequence. but the Jesuit's bark came from South Ame- The Taigheirm at length was finished, and rica; remedies are known to savages, of the votaries were then to demand their due which science has no notion; and if his treat-reward on the spot where the rites were perment for scrofula is vouched for as success-formed. Allan was agitated by the fearful ful on good authorities, it should perhaps be sights he had witnessed, and made use of two fairly tried by competent physicians and words meaning wealth. Lachlan, who, though analysers. the youngest man, had the greatest firmness, and had all his wits about him, asked progeny and wealth, and each obtained literally what he asked. We are sorry that our pressure this week forces us to curtail and limit his Journal, but we must confine ourselves to the absolutely temporary. Tuesday Night, fashionably engaged at the Opera. New ballet of Ossian's Dream-superbly got up, very showy, and very long, as if all people could dream all their lives as some people do. It will be better when shortened; and Ossian's heroes may execute all their fights, huntings, loves, according to the Highland fling, Italianized. When Allan was on his death-bed, and his pious friends advised him to beware of the wiles of Satan, he replied, that if Lachain Oer (who was then dead) and himself were to have the use of their arms, they would dethrone Satan, and take up the best births in his dominions. When Allan's funeral-procession approached the church-yard, the Haymarket Theatre. Mr. Thelwall's course second-sighted persons present saw Lachain of lectures on Shakespeare and the Drama Oer at some distance in full armour, at the began: the first, of course, rather intro-head of a party in sable attire, and the smell ductory; but the subjects are popular, and of sulphur was perceived by all the people. the lecturer a clever man. We hope success will attend him.-More anon. Wednesday 9th. A busy day. Literary Fund all going on most prosperously. Covent Garden Theatrical Fund Dinner, brilliant and entertaining. Above 14001. raised. The Chairman, H. R. H. the Duke of York, in high spirits; and the Treasurer, Mr. FawFriday, 5th.-Dibdin dinner; Freemasons' cett, in higher. These funds deserve symTavern between four and five hundred pathy and support; were it only for the conpeople, Sir Joseph Yorke in the Chair. Capi-trast they suggest, that those whom we have tal President, and merry company; with only known in our moments of pleasure, will very excellently short speeches, and very languish in pain but for our generosity. captivating singing. The subscription about 490. Would have been more if the Model of the monument proposed to be erected to the memory of our great naval Lyrist had added taste to simplicity. But the costume is very bad, and the attitude not very good. A long coat over one limb, like that generally given in pictures to strolling actors, has a poor effect, and great alterations must be made to render the design worthy of the arts and the public. Surely, however, Dibdin should have tribute of remembrance from the country he served so much; and from the talent displayed by the artist in the head, we are disposed to think he could produce one worthy of the occasion. Saturday. The Swiss Giantess, ycleped in the bills, "the beautiful Swiss." May be so to the lovers of loveliness on a large scale: more than enough for us. Her manners are wonderfully modest, considering her profession. Her beauty is of the heavy German caste; her limbs thickish or so; but she is altogether well proportioned, about 23 years old, six feet five inches high, 24 stone weight, and can lift 3 cwt. with one hand! The great King of Prussia being dead some time, she has been allowed to leave the Continent; and may be seen, by the admirers of great curiosities, in Piccadilly. Traditions OF THE Western Highlands. No. II. THE TAIGHEIRM. The stone on which Cluase More, the fiercest of the cats, sat, is still exhibited, with the mark visible in small pits on its surface. The word Taigheirm may mean a house of arms, or the yells of cats, by a variation in the accent. Allan's figure, in full armour, is cut on the stone which covers his grave; and the story of the Taigheirm is always attached to his name, to this day.* THE last time the Taigheirm was performed Mr. Bartley's lectures at the English Opera House, Friday and Wednesday. As good as last year: could not be better. An excellent place of resort, amusement, and instruction for the young, and for-the old, who want to know any thing about the Heavens. This operation was continued for four days Tuesday. Another dinner at the Freemasons' and nights, without tasting food. The Taigh Tavern, on behalf of Mr. Whitlaw's Asylum eirm commenced at midnight between Frifor the cure of scrofula: Sir J. Yorke again day and Saturday, and had not long proin the Chair, and in still higher eloquence ceeded, when infernal spirits began to enter than before! Shrewd remark and laughable the house or barn in which it was perform illustrations divided the evening. We are ing, in the form of black cats. The first cat happily unacquainted with the subject; and that entered, after darting a furious look at have only read that Kings once touched their the operator, said, "Lachain Oer, thou son subjects for it, a custom disused since they of Neil, that is bad usage of a cat." Allan, began to touch them for the yellow jaundice who superintended as master of the rites, in the shape of taxation of purses. The cautioned Lachlan, that whatever he should question seemed to be, whether Mr. Whitlaw hear or see, he must continue to turn the spit; had really discovered some herb in the Andes and this was done accordingly, The cats con MORILLA CALDER. in the 15th century. Sir Hugh had one daughter, his only child, and having no prospect of other children, she was destined to inherit the whole of his ample domains. While yet very young, she was an object of desire to the needy and the ambitious. John of Lorne, second son of the of the situation and circumstances of the Earl of Argyle, procured minute information family, and he resolved on carrying her away. Having selected a trusty party of his clan and followers, he found no difficulty in getting possession of the heiress of Calder, who was found in one of Sir Walter Scott's notes to his beautiful A very imperfect account of the Taigheirm will be poem, "The Lady of the Lake." nursing at some distance from her father's fired at and fumigated with the most philoso- causes some embroilment, but the compliancient castle. The nurse guessing the pur-phical indifference. The House was not very cation is finally unravelled by the discovery pose for which the child was taken, bit a joint well attended: a circumstance we were not that Lorenzo is really the Prince whom Toroff her little finger to mark her identity, and much surprised at, for the announcements in rento pretends to be, and that Torrento is instantly gave the alarm to her father. Sir the Bills are truly appalling. An old gentle- the true heir to Ventoso's title and estates. Hugh made an early and vigorous pursuit, man, indeed, the other day, who had lately A double marriage finishes the whole happily. and was pressing hard on a party of the arrived from the country, informed us, with This sketch, however, will hardly afford an marauders, who had charge of a large boiler great naïveté, that he should have liked to idea of the Comedy; because the esprit de for cooking provisions. Campbell, of Inver- visit the Theatres once more, but that he was corps and dialogue of the officers, constitute liver, who commanded this division, saw that deterred from doing so, by the red letter an- quite as much of its merit as the developthe child would be rescued, unless means nouncements that daily met his eye. "One ment of the regular plot. These are full of were found to retard the pursuit. He ordered house (said he) I perceive overflows nightly; wit and repartee; the dandy Hussars are his own seven sons, who accompanied him, to and the other is not only always filled to the drawn to admiration, and it must be con invert the boiler, and to defend it to the last ceiling, but many more persons are sent fessed are more English than Sicilian, though extremity. His command was obeyed, and away than ever gain admittance. As therefore the scene is laid in Sicily. The first night of the seven brothers fell in defence of the boiler. I have no wish either to be squeezed to death a Comedy is not a fair criterion; but under From the extraordinary bravery with which against a cornice, or be sent away without all the disadvantages of this situation, the it was defended, the Calders were convinced my evening's amusement after waiting an hour new Piece went off with greater eclat that the heiress was beneath it, and conse at the doors, I must content myself with than has attended any effort of its class for quently exerted all their efforts to obtain pos- staying at home." Quære: Is it good policy more than twenty years. And it richly desession of the boiler; but, behold, they found in a tradesman thus to frighten away his cus- serves the applause it received; for a very few nothing there! The main body, however, tomers? minor arrangements and alterations will rengained time to escape in safety, and Morilla The Merry Wives of Windsor preceded it; der it one of the finest performances on the Calder was carried to Loch Awe in triumph. and as we took an opportunity, a week or two British stage-one rich in poetical beauties, In the midst of the joy expressed for back, to remind a young lady at the other and sparkling with brilliant passages, without acquiring possession of so rich an heiress, House, of a particular passage in Hamlet's a taint of coarseness or stain of unworthy Campbell, of Achnanbreck, asked what was advice to the Players, we will this week thought. to be done if the girl died before she was of take the liberty of recommending to Messrs. marriageable age? Inverliver promptly re-Browne and Gattie, the annexed words from plied, that she could never die so long as a red- the same excellent and useful speech" Let haired lassie was to be found on either side those that play your clowns speak no more of Loch Awe. Of the marriage which after-than is set down for them."-Verbum sat. wards took place, is descended the present highly respectable and noble family of Cawdor. DRAMA. DRURY LANE. COVENT GARDEN. With regard to the acting, it deserves almost unqualified praise. Kemble has rather too little to do, but he made much of that little. Jones, on the other hand, has the best original part that has ever fallen to his lot, and he burned throughout. A prisoner's declamation in favour of liberty and property, AFTER C. Kemble's fine and masterly per- riosity, were particularly effective. Farren, and a parody on Queen Mab in land of cu formance of Hamlet, Midas was revived on in the old Count, with strong anti-matriTHE melodrame of Tekeli, by no means one voice, and produced, if possible, a greater other peculiarities, was equally good-his Monday evening. Sinclair was in excellent monial hits, a love of money and quiet, and of the worst of its genus, was revived at this effect than he was ever wont to do in this his character fitted his talent to a hair, or, it Theatre on Monday. The interest we take in the misfortunes of the hero of the piece the music, and the whimsicality of the inci- he made his excellent falent fit the character most favourite character. The sweetness of would be more just towards him to say, that the many hair-breadth 'scapes he is doomed to meet with the courage and constancy of dents, can never fail to ensure this burletta to perfection: Yates, as an Exquisite of the his companion, Wolf-with the heroic cona favourable notice from the public. first water, had a hazardous part, but it told duct of the old Miller, and the cowardice of On Thursday a new Comedy, entitled, in every sentence, and bursts of laughter reBras de Fer-form a tolerably agreeable me- Pride shall Have a Fall, was presented for the warded his capital embodying of the writer's lange, and afford us as much satisfaction as first time, to a crowded house, and with per- very original conception. Connor, in the we can reasonably expect from such perform-fect success. The plot is very simple. A mer- Irish Captain, was also eminently happyances. We look at many of these revivals, cantile family, consisting of an aged couple, his nate bulls greatly enlivened the scene: however, with somewhat of a melancholy the Ventosos (Mr. Farren and Mrs. Daven- Abbott's Colonel gave him no opportunities, feeling-they but too sensibly remind us that port) and two marriageable daughters (Misses but, as the Captain would say, he made the best we ourselves are not growing younger; that Paton and Love) are raised to rank and riches of them. Of the ladies, Mrs. Davenport (a remany of the performers, who so much delight- by the death of one Anselmo, a distant rela-finement of Lady Duberly) displayed, to the ed us at their first representations, are falling tive; and they consequently reject the pre-reality of life itself, the pattern of a vulgar perrapidly into the "vale of years," and that viously accepted love of a Captain Lorenzo son, a grey mare, and the manager of the house. others are gone to that "bourne from whence of the Hussars (Mr. C. Kemble,) who with- Miss Love acquitted herself well, and shone by no traveller returns." In the present case we out nobility or fortune, had aspired to the comparison with the utter listlessness and lanremember to have seen Elliston in the princi- hand of the eldest daughter Victoria. In his guor of Miss Paton, who was not encored for pal character, then in the very prime of life- distress he relates to his brother officers, not her singing, and ought to have been hissed for youthful, ardent, and impassioned; Miss Dun- only his own unceremonious treatment, but her acting. The music by Mr. Watson is recan, as the mail-clad heroine, in the zenith of some of the reproaches uttered by the mother plete with merit. Taylor's song, as a Gaoler, her attractions and her powers; the late Mr. against the military as a body. This fills the is a capital composition of its kind; and all Wroughton, as Conrad; and Mathews, upon superb fellows of the 20th (the Colonel, his other arrangements are pleasing. But whom perhaps fortune has since smiled more Abbot; Irish Major O'Shannon, Connor; and the songs (especially two trios, awkwardly benignantly than upon all the rest, as the Ensign Count Carmine, Yates,) with the spirit introduced,) injure the Play as a Comedy; cowardly Soldier. These impressions there- of revenge, and they resolve to punish the and we could have been well satisfied (as the fore still remain; but we must nevertheless upstarts for their aspersions upon the Mess. Captain would say again!) to miss seeing them allow, that the actors who at present fill these To effect their purpose, they procure from in it. A droll servant or two might have filled parts take considerable pains to please us, among the prisoners in the common gaol, their places; and the Play, as an unmixed and do them ample justice. The great- one Torrento (Jones,) a wild and dissipated Comedy, would have been complete. est fault we have at present to find relates character, who undertakes to personate the The Prologue and Epilogue, written by the to the introduction of the horses, as they Prince Pindemonte, and to woo and wed author of the Play, were most humorously are quite unnecessary, and rather disfigure the faithless Victoria. This he is the more delivered by Connor and Yates. The imithan improve the general effect of the repre- readily induced to do, from being a suitor to tations of the latter were irresistible; and sentation. The last scene is nothing more the younger sister, and hoping that the in- the former, in the character of Dr. O'Toole, than a copy of the last scene in Lodoiska, trigue will enable him to win her. He suc-gave a " mighty pretty effect" to these lines: and not half so well done. There is more ceeds beyond hope: but at length the real Here I am, from the Land of potatoes and fun! gunpowder, more smoke, more red fire, and lover of Victoria relents, and endeavours to But I'm ending my story before it's begunmore noise than usual; and the poor horses, rescue her from a union with one whom he both "cut and long tail," stand there to be considers to be a felon. His interference See our Review for both. |