predecessors. Among other able productions de Brienne, and called The Little Corporal. It in themselves, and good for their future promise. of a similar description will be found, No. 589, was produced on Monday, for Mr. Wallack's Mrs. Norton has genius, varied and original, Hollyhocks the Adelaide, the Victoria, and benefit; and had not the occasion itself been and too good to be Germanised. The piece other Varieties, Mrs. Pope; No. 539, Study of sufficient to propitiate the audience, the excel- was exceedingly well supported. Warde both Geraniums from Nature, Mrs. Withers; No. lent acting of little Miss Poole, who bids fair played and looked his character admirably. 553, Flowers from Nature, Magdalena van to rival our long-loved Clara Fisher, must have Miss Ellen Tree made a very sweet Rose Fowinkel; No. 566, 'A Garland of Flowers, obtained their most favourable suffrages. Young Franklin; and Keeley was most laughable in Madame de Comolera; No. 575, Flowers from Fenton, whose acting in The Jenkinses had pre- the village apothecary, who preferred Epsom Nature, C. L. Tyler, &c. &c. &c. viously deserved our commendation, managed salts to Epsom races. We wish we could afford to distinguish himself amongst his brother ju- higher praise; but we cannot; and have only veniles, and the piece was announced for repe- abstained from harsher censure because we tition by the tiny Napoléon amidst general would not add one to the Sorrows of Rosalie. applause. Among the miniatures, clustered as they are, without any margin to confine the vision, works will, nevertheless, be found, exhibiting as many of the essential qualities of art as performances of larger size and loftier pretensions. A few of the most prominent of these areNo. 658, F. Cruickshank; No. 667, A. Robertson; No. 672, S. J. Rochard; No. 674, W. J. Newton; No. 673, Mrs. J. Robertson; No. 679, W. C. Ross; No. 681, G. Patten; No. 639, C. R. Bone; No. 715, Mrs. Green; No. 722, W. J. Newton; No. 731, W. J. Newton; No. 740, Mrs. Robertson; No. 753, A. Parsey; No. 809, Miss Jones; No. 824, W. C. Ross; No. 825, A. E. Chalon, R.A.; No. 833, Mrs. J. Robertson; No. 841, F. Cruickshank; No. 842, A. E. Chalon, R.A.; No. 853, Mrs. Green; No. 872, A. Robertson; No. 878, W. C. Ross; No. 887, M. Haughton; No. 831, A. Robertson; No. 895, S. J. Rochard; Nos. 912 and 931, Miss Fanny Corbaux, &c. &c. &c. NEW PUBLICATIONS. National Portrait Gallery. With Memoirs by Printers' Pension Society. The anniversary dinner on Wednesday was more numerously attended, and the subscription larger, than on any preceding occasion: a proof that this truly excellent charity, though yet in its infancy, is growing into the importance it so well deserves to attain. The Lord Mayor presided, and announced the gratifying fact, that the Duke of Sussex had consented to become the patron of the institution. That it already relieves, by small pensions, the distress of more than fifty aged and almost worn-out individuals, whose lives have been passed in active industry upon the press, is, indeed, a sufficient recommendation of it, not only to the many, but to nobles and princes. THE theatre was brilliantly attended on Tuesday night; but certainly the name of the gifted author was one "to conjure with." Young as Mrs. Norton is, she has already a high and varied reputation. Her touching and melancholy poetry contrasts well with her lively and keen wit; while her one or two prose stories give promise of very superior excellence indeed. A drama of her's might well attract both the discerning few and the curious many. The Gipsy Father was received, and given out for repetition with friendly applause. Still, we must say we do not think this piece likely to keep possession of the stage: the horrors are gratuitous and accumulated, while the whys and wherefores are very deficient. Is the hint taken from any German story? for the whole is of that Ger- The Literary Fund.We are afraid we may man school of exaggeration, to which young have misled some of our friends, and the writers are so much addicted. A brief analysis friends of this institution, by stating, that the of the plot will shew these defects. Reduced Greenwich, i. e. White-Bait Meeting, was to to the extreme of poverty, with his wife and take place on the 21st. Wednesday, the 22d, family starving at his side, Walter Barwell is, we observe from our notice to attend, the joins a band of gipsies, from one of whom he day appointed, and we are glad to add, that a obtains half a loaf, which he immediately re- numerous assemblage is anticipated. turns to divide among his children. While they Royal Society of Literature. - The newsare devouring the welcome food, an old man, papers have begun discussing the presumed the father of his wife, eats a piece of it. withdrawal of the royal bounty from this So"The Andromeda reached the harbour of Walter starts up in a rage, reproaches the grand-ciety as they are but indifferently informed Port Royal after dusk, and H. R. H., with her father with robbing the poor infants of their on the subject, they had better, perhaps, have first lieutenant (the late admiral of the fleet meal, and prepares forthwith to thrust him out left it to its own issue. and master of the robes, Sir Charles Pole, of the house. This the wife opposes; and Paganini.-The début of this famed violinist Bart.), proceeded in his barge to the shore. finding she is overcome in the struggle to pro- was to take place, and we dare say did take They immediately, in their uniforms, entered tect her father, snatches up a knife, and stabs place, long after our Gazette went to press : the public rooms; and the new comer, the her husband, who falls apparently dead on the of course we can make no report of it this week. captain of one of his majesty's ships, was good-stage. We must pause one moment on this All we can say is, that the theatre yesterday humouredly greeted by the military, and played out-Heroding Kotzebue himself. First, the bid fair to be crammed; and that at the private several games of billiards with the officers. extreme improbability of Walter's turning the rehearsal on Thursday evening, every person After some inquiries, he requested his anta- old man out of his house; secondly, the equal connected with the establishment was carefully gonist, the colonel-commandant, to have the improbability of the violent conduct. To con- excluded, and the key carried to Signor Pagagoodness to parade his regiment at daylight, tinue the story:- -the son, in a most melo- nini. From one of our greatest musicians in as he wished to inspect it! The astonishment dramatic spirit of self-sacrifice, takes the crime the orchestra on this occasion, we learn that of the request coming from a captain of the upon himself, and is hurried before judge the performances were indeed surprising!! navy, was only equalled by the surprise when, Franklin, between whose daughter and him- The Malthusian System suspended.-Among on explanation, it was discovered from whom self an attachment subsists. This leads to two the many curious returns to the population it originated!" very-well-worked-up scenes; the one where papers on Monday, there was one in Sloane Rose Franklin offers to fly with her lover, Street probably unique. The return gave and where she endeavours to prevail on her twenty-four females, ladies, servants, &c. in father to permit his escape; she using argu- one house. A rather whimsical dialogue enments drawn from the feelings, while he an- sued between the maid and the astonished colswers them with reasons. The dénouement lector. "What!" cried the latter, looking over the paper, twenty-four women all in one house, and no man among ye?" sir," replied Sally, "it is too true; but mistress has set it down as if upon oath, and I am ready (a sigh!) to take my oath too, if you doubt it." DRAMA. DRURY LANE. "Yes, THE revival of Blue Beard has followed that of Timour the Tartar. There is a spice of George Colman the younger in Blue Beard, may be easily guessed. The father has not which reconciles us to its occasional appear- been really killed, and the curtain drops on ance at our theatres royal. But it is really embraces, joy, and reconciliation. We do not time that the insufferable bombast and common- very clearly see why the play should be called place melo-dramatic incidents of Timour should the Gipsy Father, as the gipsies have nothing be banished to the Surrey side of the water, to to do with it, beyond giving the unfortunate keep company with those of the Blood-red half loaf of bread. The sympathy of the Lon- Decidedly the worst Pun ever made.—A bitKnight, and the rest of the species. We are doners for poaching is very amusing; and all ter hater of puns, who had been persecuted not of those who object to spectacle at the great the fine feelings of the cocknies were enlisted during a whole afternoon by a pestiferous feltheatres, but we object to see it lavished on against the game laws, by Walter Barwell's low who never ceased making them, at last such unworthy vehicles, while the best plays of declaration, that all his misery originated in declared, in wrath, that puns were worse than our best writers are frequently performed with having killed a hare. Poaching, smuggling, the plagues of Egypt. "For example," said dresses and scenery that would disgrace a barn. and forging, are crimes which immediately his tormentor, speaking of the plagues of The only novelty at this house has been a one-appeal to the feelings. 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REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. hunger, until the knacker, from a demand for | provided; and likewise for cleansing and pre- These establishments, the editor tells us, of his, since dead, but who (he adds, in the were warmly advocated by a "talented" friend style which we consider to be mischievous from its exaggeration and bathos)" if the spirits of the blessed are permitted to behold from their exalted station what is passing below, must bend with satisfaction over every effort that is now making to bring the subject before the public." Several improvements are suggested for the metropolis, one a very obvious one, viz. "The meat to be conveyed, for the purpose of convenience and coolness, early in the morning, or late in the evening." The Voice of Humanity, published Quarterly. Nos. I., II, III, and IV. 8vo. pp. 186. London, J. Nisbet. Missionary Voyages and Travels; compiled by J. Montgomery. (Third Notice.) "A private meeting of the friends and sup- Here, in our judgment, the voice of huporters" of the publication above first named manity is so near the tone of the burlesque is, we observe from its No. IV., convened for and ridiculous, that it is calculated to do next Wednesday, at Exeter Hall; why de- more harm than good. The cruelties of the signated private, and held at a public place, knackers' yards ought to be prevented, and we do not know. But the subject itself is of any effective police would prevent them; but so much genuine interest, that we have felt the picture drawn of horses eating each others' strongly disposed to afford it all the elucida- tails, &c. is too apt to raise a laugh, at least tion in our power, without starting at trifling among the multitude, and the ludicrous idea is difficulties, or too minutely questioning minor a fatal association to twice blessed mercy. But details. In the earlier volumes of the Literary as if this were not enough, there is an etching Gazette we were among the foremost to enforce of the knackers' yard, by George Cruikshank, Describing the mal-practices of London, it is the rights (if we may use the word) of those which makes misery so irresistible a jest, that observed-"When arrived at their final destiobjects which the Voice of Humanity calls upon we are surprised the force of the thing did not nations, it is only the humane butcher who ns to protect, and whose sufferings every good occur to the worthy editor. On the contrary, thinks it of any importance to give food or feeling commands us to alleviate. At a time, he calls the artist the Hogarth of the age, and water to animals, though often frothing at the therefore, when more general discussion may pronounces his engraving to be "an inimitable mouth from fatigue and thirst, who are in a be expected, it becomes us to devote such in-production of natal genius." He goes on to few hours to have the coup de grace given fluence as we may possess to the furtherance apologise for introducing pigs and poultry fat-them. So little accommodation can be obof a cause of which to diffuse the knowledge tening on dead horses, in this yard, for the tained for slaughter-houses, in this densely is surely the best, the only recommendation London market. We acknowledge that the crowded metropolis, that situations the most which it needs to a civilised, not to say a evil is disgraceful and disgusting, but this sort objectionable, both as regards the health of the Christian people. of exposure of it is in bad taste. neighbourhood and the preparation of the Neither can we say that we entirely like the meat, are unavoidably chosen [this is a bull, plate of the Abattoir at Montmartre, prefixed by the by]; and even such places as underto the first Number of the publication; it is ground cellars, where there cannot possibly neatly executed; but why, in recommending be any ventilation, are used in hundreds of these excellent erections, display outside men instances for sheep, &c. in the heart of the striking and hauling cattle, dogs and animals city. This, then, is the state, for the moşt fighting, and sheep driven with uplifted staves? part, of the sheep and cattle which are fatThere must of necessity be compulsion and a tened for the London market. Their fevered measure of severity in all such business; but blood, from fatigue and ill-usage, must be in the aim of the philanthropist should be to mi-a state little short of putrefaction, and their tigate both as much as possible, and keep the rest from offending public feeling. But, professing ourselves to be sincere and earnest advocates in this cause, we must, à priori, state that we do not altogether approve of the line taken by the publication before us. We respect its motives, we would to the utmost advance its purposes; but we cannot approve of all the means and arguments which it employs. In our opinion, true humanity has no greater adversary in the world than affected sentiment, the practice of the golden rule no more counteracting agency than that which is produced by a suspicion or dislike of cant. Injudicious friends are always more dangerous than avowed or secret enemies; and we could wish that many things in the periodical alluded to had been omitted. Still the design is worthy of the highest praise, and it shall be ours to promote it, according to our own sense, and in our own way, to the utmost in our power. flesh must be as far removed as possible from that healthy state in which alone it ought to The Parisian Abattoirs are, indeed, most become the food of the meanest of the peoworthy of imitation. "They are placed towards ple; yet from such meat are the tables of the the suburbs of the town, for the sake of easy rich and the luxurious supplied. Contrasted access to the two cattle-markets of Sceaux and with those of the abattoir, a word may be Poissy, from which Paris is supplied at a dis-added with regard to the ulterior operations of tance of two and five miles; whence the our butchers. There being no interference butchers, or, more properly designated now, with any slovenly habits they may have, the To begin with the beginning, the Prospectus meat-venders, attend one day in the week at blood, the offal, and all the impure refuse of and the sequent work, in order to extend ra- each of these markets, to purchase the cattle their trade, may remain unremoved as long as tional humanity towards the animal creation, for which they have occasion. These are then it may suit their lazy convenience; and no sedulously enforce the establishment of Ab- immediately carefully conducted, under the in- inquiry is ever made whether the immediate batoirs and Cattle-Markets in, or rather near, spection of persons appointed by the police, to neighbourhood of their domiciles are as healthy the metropolis, instead of the dangerous and the Abattoirs, crossing only a very small por-as others, though they congregate in masses, demoralising places now in use, and especially tion of the town. The cattle, calves, and as in Whitechapel and other places; or are that common offence, Smithfield. On this point sheep, are here distributed into the places ap-suffered to exist singly, pell-mell, among the we think there can be but one opinion; and pointed for them, stables, enclosures of various habitations of people of all classes, in some of the wonder is, that the self-interest of a few kinds, &c. All these are arranged in a large the finest parts of the town. To give an idea individuals, or of a corporation, should have court or square, which, shut in by handsome of the handsome appearance which such buildprevailed so long in obstructing a manifest na-iron gates, make a very ornamental appearings as the abattoirs would give to the town, tional improvement. ance. Every attention is paid to the different And so it is (p. 42) to speak of animals penned up "Next in importance (says the Prospectus) animals, till they come in turn to be slaugh- for slaughter, with the big tears trickling from their is the unrecorded and unexampled misery of tered; and that this operation may be per-eyes, while anriously awaiting their own death." Such the horse, in the knacker's yard, when his formed in the most prompt, dexterous, and hu-writing does not affect, it revolts us. The understanding former usefulness has expired; devouring the mane manner, every instrument and conveni- must go along with the sympathy: how much more true manes and tails of his fellow-sufferers, from ence that can be imagined for this purpose is "licks the hand just raised to shed its blood!" and tine is it to read of the unconscious lamb which |