being always on the best terms with them, ment, I find no words to express; so I have pieces. In the marriage state, even this is not often suffer considerable annoyance. How it nothing more to say, but that I very soon, in the case: for although it is but a duet, and fared with me on my pilgrimage, I might tell my miniature size, found myself beside my fair you might think two voices, or even two inthee at great length. Suffice it to say, I tried one in a wood of grass-stalks. The joy of struments, might in some degree be attuned to many, but no one save thou seemed worthy of meeting after this short yet most strange sepa- each other, yet this happens very seldom ; for being honoured to renovate and perpetuate the ration, or, if you will, of this re-union without while the man gives out one tone, the wife line of the glorious Eckwald.' In the course separation, exceeds all conception. I fell on directly takes a higher one, and the man again of these narrations, my head had now and then her neck; she replied to my caresses, and the a higher; and so it rises from the chamber kept wagging, without myself having abso- little pair was as happy as the large one. With to the choral pitch, and farther and farther, hitely shaken it. I put several questions; to some difficulty, we now mounted a hill: I say till at last wind instruments themselves cannot which I received no very satisfactory answers: difficulty, because the sward had become for us reach it. And now, as harmonical music itself on the contrary, I learned to my great affliction, an almost impenetrable forest. Yet at length is an offence to me, it will not be surprising that after what had happened, she must needs we reached a bare space; and how surprised that disharmonical should be a thing which I return to her parents. She had hopes still, she was I at perceiving there a large bolted mass; cannot endure. Of the festivities in which said, of getting back to me; but for the pre- which, ere long, I could not but recognise for the day was spent, I shall and can say nothing; sent, it was indispensably necessary to present the box, in the same state as when I had set it for I paid small heed to any of them. The herself at court; as otherwise, both for her down. Go up to it, my friend,' said she, sumptuous victuals, the generous wine, the and me, there was nothing but utter ruin. and do but knock with the ring: thou shalt royal amusements, I could not relish. I kept The purses would soon cease to pay; and who see wonders.' I went up accordingly, and no thinking and considering what I was to do. knew what would be the consequences? On sooner had I rapped, than I did, in fact, wit- Here, however, there was but little to be conhearing that our money would run short, I ness the greatest wonder. Two wings came sidered. I determined, once for all, to take inque no farther into consequences: I jutting out; and at the same time there fell, myself away, and hide somewhere. Accordshrugged my shoulders; I was silent, and she like scales and chips, various pieces this way ingly, I succeeded in reaching the chink of a seemed to understand me. We now packed and that; while doors, windows, colonnades, stone, where I entrenched and concealed myself tp, and got into our carriage, the box stand- and all that belongs to a complete palace at as well as might be. My first care after this was inz opposite us; in which, however, I could once came into view. If ever you have seen to get the unhappy ring off my finger; an enstill see no symptoms of a palace. In this way one of Röntchen's desks; how, at one pull, a terprise, however, which would by no means we proceeded several stages. Post-money and multitude of springs and latches get in motion, prosper, for on the contrary, I felt that every drink-money were readily and richly paid from and writing board and writing materials, letter pull I gave, the metal grew straiter, and the pouches to the right and left; till at last and money compartments, all at once, or in cramped me with violent pains, which again we reached a mountainous district; and no quick succession, start forward, you will partly abated so soon as I desisted from my purpose. sooner had we alighted here, than my fair one conceive how this palace unfolded itself, into Early in the morning I awoke (for my little walked forward, directing me to follow her which my sweet attendant now introduced me. person had slept, and very soundly); and was with the box. She led me by rather steep In the large saloon, I directly recognised the just stepping out to look farther about me, paths to a narrow plot of green ground, through fire-place which I had formerly seen from above, when I felt a kind of rain coming on. Through which a clear brook now gushed in little falls, and the chair in which she had then been sitting. the grass, flowers, and leaves, there fell, as it now ran in quiet windings. She pointed to a And on looking up, I actually fancied I could were, something like sand and grit in large little knoll; bade me set the box down there, still see something of the chink in the dome, quantities: but what was my horror when the then said: Farewell! Thou wilt easily find through which I had peeped in. I spare you whole of it became alive, and an innumerable the way back; remember me: I hope to see the description of the rest in a word, all was host of ants rushed down on me! No sooner thee again. At this moment, I felt as if I spacious, splendid, and tasteful. Scarcely had did they observe me, than they made an attack ould not leave her. She was just now in one I recovered from my astonishment, when I on all sides; and though I defended myself of her fine days, or if you will, her fine hours. heard afar off a sound of military music. My stoutly and gallantly enough, they at last so Alone with so fair a being, on the green sward, better half sprang up; and with rapture an- hemmed me in, so nipped and pinched me, that among grass and flowers, girt in by rocks, nounced to me the approach of his majesty her I was glad to hear them calling to surrender. waters murmuring round you, what heart could father. We stepped out to the threshold, and I surrendered instantly and wholly; wherehave remained insensible! I came forward to here beheld a magnificent procession moving upon an ant of respectable stature approached seize her hand, to clasp her in my arms: but towards us, from a considerable cleft in the me with courtesy, nay, with reverence, and she motioned me back; threatening me, though rock. Soldiers, servants, officers of state, and even recommended itself to my good graces. I still kindly enough, with great danger, if I did glittering courtiers, followed in order. At last learned that the ants had now become allies of instantly withdraw. Is there no possi- you observed a golden throng, and in the midst my father-in-law, and by him been called out ality, then, exclaimed I, of my staying with of it the king himself. So soon as the whole in the present emergency, and commissioned thee; of thy keeping me beside thee?' These procession had drawn up before the palace, the to fetch me back. Here then was little I in words I uttered with such rueful tones and king, with his nearest retinue, stepped for- the hands of creatures still less. I had nothing gestures, that she seemed touched by them, ward. His loving daughter hastened out to for it but looking forward to the marriage; d after some thought, confessed to me that a him, pulling me along with her. We threw nay, I must now thank Heaven, if my fathermetinuance of our union was not entirely ourselves at his feet; he raised me very gra-in-law were not wroth, if my fair one had not possible. Who happier than I! My impor- ciously; and on coming to stand before him, I taken the sullens. Let me skip over the whole ty, which increased every moment, com- perceived, that in this little world I was still train of ceremonies: in a word, we were ped her at last to come out with her scheme, the most considerable figure. We proceeded wedded. Gaily and joyously as matters went, and inform me that if I too could resolve on together to the palace; where his majesty, in there were, nevertheless, solitary hours, in ecoming as little as I had once seen her, I presence of his whole court, was pleased to which you were led astray into reflection; and might still remain with her, be admitted to her welcome me with a well-studied oration, in now there happened to me something which house, her kingdom, her family. The proposal which he expressed his surprise at finding us had never happened before: what, and how, was not altogether to my mind: yet at this here; acknowledged me as his son-in-law, and you shall learn. Everything about me was moment, I positively could not tear myself appointed the nuptial ceremony to take place completely adapted to my present form and away: so, having already for a good while on the morrow. A cold sweat went over me as wants; the bottles and glasses were in a fit heen accustomed to the marvellous, and being I heard him speak of marriage; for I dreaded ratio to a little toper, nay, if you will, better at all times prone to bold enterprises, I closed this even more than music, which otherwise measure, in proportion, than with us. In my with her offer, and said she might do with me appeared to me the most hateful thing on earth. tiny palate, the dainty tid-bits tasted excelas she pleased. I was thereupon directed to Your music-makers, I used to say, enjoy at lently; a kiss from the little mouth of my bold out the little finger of my right hand; least the conceit of being in unison with each spouse was still the most charming thing in placed her own against it; then with her other, and working in concord; for when they nature; and I will not deny that novelty made band she quite softly pulled the ring from have tweaked and tuned long enough, grating all these circumstances highly agreeable. Unher finger, and let it run along mine. That our ears with all manner of screeches, they happily, however, I had not forgotten my forinstant, I felt a violent twinge on my finger: believe in their hearts that the matter is now mer situation. I felt within me a scale of by hering shrunk together, and tortured me adjusted, and one instrument accurately suited gone greatness; and it rendered me restless harry. I gave a loud cry, and caught round to the other. The band-master himself is in and cheerless. Now, for the first time did I unme for my fair one, but she had disappeared. this happy delusion; and so they set forth derstand what the philosophers might mean by What state of mind I was in during this mo. joyfully, though still tearing our nerves to their ideal, which they say so plagues the mind of man. Paris, 19th January. I had an ideal of myself; and often | Suddenly attacked, and finding defence impos- the Shar, so spelt in the letters received in in dreams I appeared as a giant. In short, my sible, it fled in disorder to a Greek convent. May last, (see Lit. Gaz. of the 27th of that wife, my ring, my dwarf figure, and so many The Albanians forced this retreat, and mas-month), which state that Mr. Dickson had other bonds and restrictions, made me utterly sacred the whole. obtained leave from the King of Dahomey to unhappy, so that I began to think seriously about One hundred women, with their children, proceed thither, and had actually left his obtaining my deliverance. Being persuaded had fled in another direction, and gained the court on the 31st of December, 1825, with that the whole magic lay in the ring, I resolved summit of a stupendous rock, from whence fifty armed men and a hundred bearers to on filing this asunder. From the court-jeweller, they witnessed the fate of all that was dear to escort him to his destination. Shar is there accordingly, I borrowed some files. By good them, and which soon awaited themselves. A said to be seventeen days' journey towards the luck, I was left-handed, as, indeed, throughout sudden resolution enabled them to cheat the north, and situated to the south-west of Yawry my whole life, I had never done aught in the inhuman tigers of their prey. They seized or Yaouri. It was to the latter that Major right-handed way. I stood tightly to the work: each other's hands, and began a dance on the Laing, according to one statement, proposed to it was not small; for the golden hoop, so thin rock, of which an unheard-of heroism inspired descend from Timbuctoo when the river was as it appeared, had grown proportionably thicker the steps, and the anguish of death hastened the swollen in August, and it was also for Youri in contracting from its former length. All cadence. Patriotic songs filled the air, and that Captain Clapperton wrote, (Hio, 22d vacant hours I privately applied to this task: struck on the ear of the Mahometans: an uni- February last,) he was then about to set off. and at last, the metal being nearly through, Iversal shout closed the strain, and only ceased was provident enough to step out of doors. when the silence of death told their enemies This was a wise measure; for all at once the that the last link of this holy chain was dashed golden hoop started sharply from my finger, to pieces at the bottom of the precipice! A FRIEND of mine observed that he had never and my frame shot aloft with such violence, read an act of parliament that he could not that I actually fancied I should dash against drive a coach and four through; and it is the the sky; and, at all events, I must have bolted case with every penal statute:-no human forethrough the dome of our palace; nay, perhaps, sight can anticipate all the arts of evasion. Of in my new awkwardness, have destroyed this this we have abundant proof in France. Gosummer-residence altogether. Here then was Or the travellers in Africa no accounts have vernment will not grant the privilege for any I standing again; in truth, so much the larger, been received since they were last mentioned new political journals. Accordingly defunct but also, as it seemed to me, so much the more in the Literary Gazette; though the intelli-journals have been hunted up. The Aristarque, foolish and helpless. On recovering from my gence there given, has since been retailed again a liberal paper, had been dead eight or ten years; stupefaction, I observed the royal strong-box to the public in the circumstantial shape of a Messrs. Labourdonnaye and Co. got hold of the lying near me, which I found to be moderately Port letter. We have now before us news proprietors, and gave them a good round sum heavy, as I lifted it, and carried it down the from Sierra Leone of the 8th ult., at which for their title, and published an ultra-loyalist foot-path to the next stage; where I directly recent date we are informed there were no journal under it. Another journal, entitled ordered horses and set forth. By the road, I fresh arrivals either from Captain Clapperton La France Chrétienne; Journal Religieux, Posoon made trial of the two side-pouches. In- or Major Laing. Our correspondent, however, litique, et Littéraire, soon went to the tomb of stead of money, which appeared to be run out, alludes to the report which had been in circu- all the Capulets. New speculators purchased I found a little key: it belonged to the strong-lation respecting the death of Mr. Dickson, the title, and commenced under it a journal box, in which I got some moderate compensa- and informs us that it has been satisfactorily which is neither Christian nor Religious, and tion. So long as this held out, I made use of contradicted by a remarkable circumstance those two words are printed in very small Gothic the carriage: by and by I sold it, and proceeded which has conferred some celebrity on that characters, which are almost illegible; so that by the diligence. The strong-box, too, I at gentleman. On his arrival in the Shah country, the title seems to run, La France, Journal Polength cast from me, having no hope of its ever litique et Littéraire. filling again. And thus in the end, though after a considerable circuit, I again returned to the kitchen-hearth, to the landlady, and the cook, where you were first introduced to me." SIGHTS OF BOOKS. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. it seems, the influence of M. de Souza, which had been of so much service to him near the coast, began to fail, and the Shah natives (as is usual with these African tribes,) made a number of petty excuses for the purpose of retarding his progress, the chief of which was that the Fetish was not yet favourable to his advance. In proof of this they shewed him The Real Dance of Death.-The Heroines of the Fetish, which was indeed most unproSouli: extracted from the Memoirs on Greece pitious to his wishes. Upon this obstacle and Albania. By Ibrahim-Manzour-Effendi. being so presented, Mr. Dickson asked for and THE riches of Ali Pacha succeeded in effecting obtained permission to try White-man Fetish. what arms alone could not have done: a wretch Among other apparatus with which he was not worthy the name of a Souliote succeeded in seducing several of his countrymen, and persuaded them to introduce into Souli a body of 200 Albanians. As soon as Veli Pacha learned the success of this treason, he ordered the city to be attacked on various points. The Souliotes hastened to defend their defiles; but while they were combating the enemy in front, they were attacked in the rear: taken by surprise, and cut up by two fires, they fled to their for tresses. The Académie Française in the grand crisis when the press is" to be or not to be," has shewn itself worthy of its trust. An extraor dinary sitting was held on Tuesday, to consider the project of law, when only six members were found to support it-they were Messrs. Cuvier, Lally Tolendal, Roger, Auger, Laplace, and Campenon. Of these, M. Cuvier owes all his fame to the press; and the Marquis de Lally Tolendal the justification of his father's memory, who was beheaded on an iniquitous sentence. M. Roger liberally provided, there happened to be a gal-is secretary-general of the Post Office, and it vanic battery, and this he erected in the pre- was therefore natural for him to vote that all sence of the Shah people. He then requested letters should bear a stamp. Laplace, holding a fowl to be killed; and having immedi- such constant commune with the stars, might ately submitted it to the galvanic action, the easily make a mistake as to what was passing dead bird performed the phenomena so well on earth. The other two are mere makeknown in England; fluttered, shook its head weights in the Academy. The Archbishop of and limbs, and almost flew away-to the in- Paris was not present, but sent a letter, in expressible horror and consternation of the which he cautioned his brethren how they amazed natives. In short, there was no resist- acted, as they might draw on them the disso ing such a miracle: they instantly acknow-lution of the Academy. This threat produced Famine, and the dread of being again be- ledged that his Fetish was conclusive, and a very different effect from what the noble pretrayed, compelled them to capitulate. By the begged that he would march out of the country late expected, for the Academy would not even articles of capitulation, they were at liberty to with as much haste as possible. Mr. Dickson suffer his letter to be read to the end. M. Raygo and reside wherever they pleased, except in by this ingenious expedient thus attained his nouard, the secretary, produced from the artheir own mountains. They decided on dividing principal object; but he had great difficulty in chives of the Academy the copy of a petition to into two bodies, one of which should go to Pre-procuring carriers for his baggage, such was the king, in 1788, when the liberties of the vesa, and the other to Parga. Orders were the alarm produced by galvanism in Africa. press were in danger. Messrs. Lacretelle, given to massacre them all on their Journey. Since this time, nothing further has been heard Chateaubriand, and Villemain, were selected to The Albanese came up with the party going to of him, which the writer considers to be au- draw up the petition to the king. Parga, when instinct supplied the place of ex-spicious; for, had he died (he says) the news perience they formed a solid square, with the must have reached the coast. [We presume aged, women, children, and cattle in the centre; that the information contained in the foregoing and, in this menacing position, reached Parga has been obtained from the Africans who without their assassins daring to attack them. come to Sierra Leone from the interior.] The Shah here mentioned is, we imagine, The division of Prevesa was not so fortunate. As may be expected, this has furnished a rich harvest for puns. The Moniteur of yesterday contains the dismissal of All that M. de Quelen (the archbishop) said was not taken for gospel. The word dissolution will be rejected from | sawdust. They may now be planted in the on the side of the Park. The latter opens into the dictionary of the French Academy. open air in the usual way; the middle sets a small vestibule, whence the stair (and a most will yield a crop of tubers about the end of conveniently constructed one it is) runs up to June, and the root and cuts about a fortnight the state-rooms in the superior tier. On the later. This plan has been adopted in the neigh-right and left of this vestibule, as you enter bourhood of Lancaster, and has been described from the Park, are all the king requires for his by Mr. Saul, an eminent horticulturist of that town. A new poem on Silence begins thus :— "When you would speak, begin by holding your tongue." The Count de Lanjuinais, peer of France, a sound patriot and elegant scholar, died on Saturday last, aged 74: deputations from the Chamber of Peers, and the Academy of Inscriptions, attended his funeral, which was escorted by about 200 military, and attended by a vast number of persons who honoured his virtues and great qualities. Three discourses were delivered at the grave. ARTS AND SCIENCES. LITERARY AND LEARNED. OXFORD, Jan. 20th.-On Monday, the first day of Lent term, the following degrees were conferred: Masters of Arts.-The Hon. and Rev. T. H. Coventry, Note. It is absolutely necessary that the Bachelor of KALENDAR FOR JANUARY. Determiners for the year 1827. FINE ARTS. dwelling-place, consisting of one chamber on the left hand, and four on the right, with a single bed-room and a room for his page above. Parallel to the lower suite are four apartments looking into Engine Court, for the officers and attendants. It may be worth while to mention, in the way of historical chit-chat, that these rooms were, in the time of George II. occupied by the celebrated Countess of Yarmouth; in the last reign, by the equally well-known Mr. Dalton, the antiquary; and, up to the time of the late alterations, by the maids of honour of Queen Charlotte. But we return to the rooms themTHE lingering remains of one of the finest of selves. The decorations throughout are of a seasons were in existence till a month ago: a very humble description, sans glitter, sans writer in an Edinburgh paper says he gathered gold, sans finery. The walls are covered with from the open garden ten different sorts of an ordinary paper; the chimney-pieces of plain flowers on New Year's Day. In the neighbour- ONE of the most important plans for the im- marble; and the whole furniture composed of hood of London, above a dozen varieties of provement of our capital has just been finally rose-wood and simple chintz calico, such as may Chrysanthemum were in full flower in the first sanctioned. A Minute has passed the Treasury be seen in any private gentleman's habitation. week of January; they were protected from Board, authorising the erection of a Terrace We would say, that the rooms are rather of perpendicular cold, but not enclosed by glass. from Storey's Gate, up the Bird Cage Walk, small dimensions; for example, his Majesty, in The autumn Mezerion, Japan quince, and along the whole of the south side of the Park, his dining-room, could not well dine more than Ooriferus Calycanthus (now Chimonanthus), to Pimlico. This will be in unison with the half-a-dozen in comfort. Such is the accomhave long been in flower in warm situations. Terrace on the opposite side, from Spring Gar-modation of the King of Great Britain, at this The late dry summer has even had considerable dens westward; and thus, with the king's new good day, in the capital of his kingdom. We effect on some descriptions of green-house palace at one end and the Horse Guards and should notice, that the principal ornaments of plants; and Camellias (or Camillas, as the auc-other architectural public buildings at the other, these rooms are derived from the Arts, of which tioneers call them) have in consequence come form St. James's Park into one Grand Square. his Majesty is so judicious, as well as so liberal, sooner and more vigorously into flower than In the centre, the canal is to be reduced and a patron. Three of the four are hung round usual. Every sort of culinary vegetable and diverted into picturesque windings, instead of its with pictures from various of the royal palaces; baking fruit was cheap, and the labours of the present formal and uninteresting shape. The and what, if we could venture to give our humgardens about London were in a forward state. marshy ground is to be drained and disposed ble opinion on such a point, reflects great credit Peas had been above ground for some weeks into parterres, shrubberies, and other orna- on the selection, is, that they are all of a beauin various places; among others at Oatlands, mental designs. Thus we shall at last have tiful and pleasing character. the kitchen-garden of which is one of the ear- a delightful promenade in London, vying in liest in the neighbourhood of London. It is a size and attractions with the Gardens of the fortnight earlier than that of Lord Tanker- Tuilleries or Luxembourg. ville, not two miles distant; but the latter is on day, and the former on dry sand. ST. JAMES'S PALACE: THE KING'S ROOMS. In passing through the royal closet to the funereal chamber of the late lamented Commander-in-Chief, our attention was attracted by a model, which, on inquiry, we found to be that of the Fountain proposed to be erected Peas and beans may be sown and planted in Ar a moment when one part of the royal pa- in the centre of the opening which will be February, when, besides the legumes men-lace of St. James's has acquired so memorable made by the removal of Carlton House. We tioned, onions, carrots, parsnips, beet, spinage, and so melancholy a share of publicity, we have examined it slightly, and perceived that it was and various minor crops, may be committed to felt disposed to gratify our readers with the de- an octagon, of four principal and four smaller the soil. We would also strongly recommend scription of another part, respecting which a sides: each of the smaller sides formed of two to our readers to commence about that time great and general degree of interest is felt, and columns, supporting an attic on which are the Lancashire preparation for an early crop about which little or nothing is known, beyond placed the Prince of Wales's plume and two of potatoes. The sort used is called Fox's the precincts of the Sovereign's household. We lions couchant. The larger sides are each seedling. Cut every potato into three parts, allude to the Private Apartments occupied by formed of an open colonnade of four columns, and keep these parts in three separate parcels; our gracious Monarch, when he has resided in consequently sixteen in all, in which we recogthen pick out from each part all the buds London, since the demolition of Carlton House. nised the eight noble columns of the portico of excepting one, which of course must be the Every good subject wishes to learn how his Carlton House, to which, of course, eight simistrongest. Spread out the sets on shelves in a king is lodged; and we are glad that the Lite-larly magnificent columns are to be added. We kitchen or any warm room; in a fortnight rary Gazette can supply the information. could have liked to see these, our old favourites those of the soft or bud end of the potato That his Majesty prefers small and comfort- in London architecture, better applied. Over will have pushed an inch, those of the middle able rooms for his common abode, to spacious each of the chief intercolumniations or sides, a quarter of an inch, and those of the root or and magnificent state chambers, has frequently there appeared to run a row of balusters; the runner end will have begun to swell. Pot the been mentioned; but that the greatest potentate whole crowned by a ponderous dome. early sets in light rich mould, one set in a small in the world should be contented and happy entire structure stands upon a flight of steps. pot, and still keep them in a warm place, no with a suite of apartments (as his metropolitan At each of the four corners is a jet d'eau of matter whether very light or not. About the palace) which would hardly satisfy a country dolphins, &c. and basin (we presume for the 1st of March each set will have made a shoot esquire in a shooting-box, is, perhaps, news to public, and long a desideratum in the metroaine inches long, abundantly supplied with his people. It is, however, even so: we had polis). In the centre, under the dome, is the ; plant them out in a dry warm situation; an opportunity of walking through them, dur-principal jet, beautifully composed of naiads protect them every night with litter, and in ing a late mournful occasion, and what we de- and other classical forms. Apropos, the employvery severe nights with the addition of mats scribe is from personal observation. ment of the portico columns noticed above, is Supported from the litter by hoops; give the usual routine culture, and potatoes may be gathered in the first week of May. The sets of the middle and root end may be kept in a cool room till the 1st of April, when they will have pushed a few inches, and the more so, if the middle cuts have been placed in a layer of roots; The The private apartments are on the ground- not the only application of the fine materials floor, at the west end of St. James's; princi- of his Majesty's late residence to other uses. pally beneath the throne-room and audience- Some of the newspapers seemed to have "found chamber in the range above. There is one en-tongues in stones;" for they have absolutely trance by the Engine Court from the northern appropriated the well-known and much-adside, chiefly for officers and attendants, &c., mired Screen in Pall Mall to a hundred difand another, for his Majesty, from the garden ferent destinations:-the Duke of Devonshire had got it for Piccadilly, and the Duke of Wel- our attention at a hasty glance. No. 114. A in shadowy grandeur which no light could lington for Hyde Park Corner-but after all, Holy Family, from a design of Michael Angelo, dissipate; all gave an impressiveness to the as we have long known, it is to form the con- in bass-relief,-Mrs. Carpenter. No. 141. A scene, very honourable to the talents of the inservatories which terminate the terrace to the Negro's Head,-John Jackson, R.A. west front of Buckingham Palace, which we Children, Dancers in a Dutch Bullet,-G. S. spectator. And of this scene the present admidescribed in our Gazette many months ago. Two ventor, and not readily to be forgotten by the With regard to the temporary abode which Act II., Scene 1,-H. P. Briggs, A.R. A. with surprising rapidity, affords a faithful picNewton. No. 24. Two Gentlemen of Verona, rable specimen of lithography, though produced suffices for our illustrious Monarch when it is No. 31. The Queen Berengeria imploring ture. necessary for him to be in London, we have Richard Cœur de Lion to grant the life of Sir and the coup d'œil could not be preserved in a not described it with any regretful feeling of Kenneth,-H. Fradelle. The figures are put in most gracefully, its extreme inadequacy for such a tenant, or of the Novel of the Antiquary,-Wm. Daniel, of the subject and the style of its execution, No. 65. Scene from superior manner; so that, viewing the nature covered censure that he should not be better R.A. lodged. That we have written on the subject others. No. 66. Maria,-E. D. Leahy, and we anticipate that it will be one of the most at all, has arisen rather from our surprise at off the Mouth of the Seine, Havre de Grace in Coast Scenes, No. 167. Dutch Boats popular prints ever published. becoming acquainted with the circumstances; and fancying that thousands of his loyal sub- Coast, of Normandy, C. Stanfield. Another the distance,-C. Stanfield. Scene on the jects would be gratified by having the same Sea View, by J. Wilson. information communicated to them. we ought to say, that the Palace of St. James's examples by Stanley, Jones, and Roberts. Perhaps architecture there are several very beautiful Of picturesque Two Views of Falmouth: the one from, and the other with, Pendennis Castle. Engraved THESE views are tinted, and though of the from a Picture by W. Daniell, R.A. is appropriated to state purposes for levees, landscape scenery there are many clever spe- ceived than their different appearances. In drawing-rooms, banquets, balls, &c., of which cimens, by Constable, Glover, Hofland, Stark, the one there is a bold fore-ground, behind Of same place, nothing more different can be conwe most sincerely wish there were ten times as Richardson, Linton, and others. many as there are, because we are persuaded department of familiar and domestic subjects, are seen in the other, the water is beautifully there is not in Europe a royal building so well Fraser, Graham, Clayter, B. Farrier, and spread out in many a bay and winding inlet, a In the which an estuary, the town, and distant heights, arranged for such entertainments and cere- Platt, have given examples of great merit. remarkable tree gives it a peculiar aspect, and monies. But for our gracious King, he takes In that of animal, E. Landseer is, as usual, the shipping and Pendennis on its rocky pe the corner of the house, and seems to be per- eminently conspicuous. In cattle portraiture, ninsula finish a lovely scene. fectly satisfied with a set of rooms which could No. 11, is a fine example, by James Ward, R.A. is finely touched; and altogether we have not not be boasted of by the youngest ensign of No. 12, Sheep reposing, John Linnel; and No. been better pleased with any productions in his guards! The sky in both 23, Cattle, by John Burnett, possess very strik- the same style for a long, long while. They ing excellence. No. 48, The Chymist, by John show what sweet and picturesque subjects our BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL MALL. Lonsdale; and the Schoolboy, No. 90, by John artists may find at home for the exercise of IT is difficult at a first view of this or any in the north room. Boaden, are also among the attractive novelties their pencils. other periodical exhibition to decide at once on sculpture, the beautiful group of Painting Ecce Homo: from Guido, on Stone. By J. C. Nor must we omit, in its character, or whether it is superior or other- deriving inspiration from Poetry, by E. H. wise in comparison with preceding years. The Bailey, R.A. present, however, appears to us to exhibit the room a variety in the coup d'œil which bilities of lithography, and, as far as they go, an talents of the highest excellence; and of some is highly advantageous. This tasteful model gives to THIS is a fair proof of the well-applied capaZeitter. Engelmann and Co. of the performances, we confidently believe that of this year's exhibition is of a superior cha- of Guido's pathetic head of the " man of many when Time, the improver, has toned down racter, we think, to the last; and we are much sorrows" is well kept and if there are parts Indeed the sculpture excellent performance. The general expression their freshness and harmonised their colours, gratified in seeing the several models raised which make us feel that this art is far inferior they may rank with the best productions of from the degrading stations on the ground, or to the mastery of line engraving, there are those great masters whose late stations they below the eye, which they used to occup now occupy. It is stated, that the directors have been unwillingly compelled, in conseothers which teach us to value it as a cheap and quence of the increased number of pictures adequate mode of propagating a love for the sent to the gallery this season, to decline the Fine Arts. acceptance of several pictures of considerable merit; and that in this selection they have generally thought it right to give the preference to those pictures which have not previously been exhibited. Of this kind, however, there is little or no show either in the highly classic or historic art, with the exception, in the latter department, of Mr. Drummond's and Mr. Arnald's pictures for the gallery at Greenwich. NEW PUBLICATIONS. The Great Chamber at St. James's Palace, with remains of our late Prince were laid in solemn A Picturesque Tour in Spain, Portugal, and along the Coast of Africa, from Tangier to Tetuan. By J. Taylor, Knight, &c. of the Legion of Honour, and one of the Authors of the Voyage Pittoresque dans l'Ancieme France. Paris, J. Smith. London, Jennings. Part I. printed in various sizes, and is to appear, we WE hail the commencement of this publication in England with great satisfaction. Our artists seem, by common consent, or what the print now before us conveys a striking engravings. Judging from the first of these, It is believe, monthly; each Part containing five rather from the want of encouragement in the and accurate representation of, to gratify the we entertain a high opinion of the talent em higher walks of art, to confine their labours to local scenery, works of imagination, and domestic subjects; and in their style and manner to adopt the colouring of the best artists of the Flemish and Florentine schools. curiosity and feeling of the general public. It under the immediate direction of Mr. Hunt, is, we observe," taken by authority," and, as we understand by the able artists employed, Among the most attractive specimens of whose fine taste and skill in such arrangements, British talents now in the view of the public, architecture, will not be doubted by those who as well as in the higher walks of building and and "not before exhibited," are, the two subjects already alluded to, by Mr. Drummond &c. On former similar occasions, the rooms have seen his beautiful work on Gothic Lodges, and Mr. Arnald; the first presenting a Deck have been hung with black, stretched along Scene, in which Admiral De Winter is de- like webs of cloth in a clothier's or dyer's field, picted delivering his sword to Lord Duncan, without drapery, and without effect. In this after the battle of Camperdown: that of Mr. Arnald represents the Battle of the Nile at the instance, on the contrary, the sad splendour of moment of the blowing up of L'Orient. Both the mantle folds falling downwards in deepenthe sable tent, the plumed pendant, in the centre, are finely contrasted in character and effect. Around, in other places, (though we forbear for ing draperies, and the festoons gathered up the present from offering any particular remark on the performances), we have to notice some of the most striking productions which caught tecture, in a series of Designs; for Gate Lodges, Game ployed on the selection of the Views, and an Palace at Madrid, the Tomb of the Scipios, the equally favourable one of the ability with which they are executed. They consist of the King's the Alhambra at Grenada. The two latter, in particular, are severally characteristic and inAlcasar of Seville, Travelling in Portugal, and teresting; but the whole series promises to taste in choice of objects, but for their being exhibited under the best circumstances, and maintain a deserved reputation, not only for combining truth with artist-like management and clever engraving. The names of W. R. Smith, R. Brandred, J. Lewis, and T. Barber, are on these plates. Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery. Part II. CAPTAIN BATTY, who is now, we notice, Translation of Les Feuilles de Saule. Par Respectfully inscribed to the Memory of His late Royal Mde. Aimable Tastu. ** Un jour je m'étais amusé à effeuiller une branche de My hand, unconscious, stripp'd a bough, To the wave where my fortunes leave me Of dearer vow ?-my spirits fail. Down from my hand the green bough falling, Highness the Duke of York. Avdṇāv yàg izıpavāv rãra yñ rápos.—Thucydides. And the Sage has gone down to the depths of And the tongue of the Poet is silent and cold, Weep not for the fallen, lament not the dead, Yet their deeds the proud record of memory BIOGRAPHY. MARQUESS OF HASTINGS. Those prophet leaves haunt midnight's dream. THE Marquess of Hastings, whose death at THE FEAR. L. E. L. I WILL not wreathe thy sunny hair Their breath and bloom will not outlast I am too anxious in my love Those sweet but fragile flower leaves They are so fresh, in loveliness So much like thine, That evil omen does it seem To watch them pine. Thus I should think, like these will fade Like those blue violets, thine eyes Grow dim and close. command of a separate corps, he was opposed He accordingly took charge of the forces which 66 But it was in India that he was enabled to display the full extent of his capacity. His administration of that empire, for a period of more than nine years, during which he exer. cised the united powers of governor-general and commander-in-chief, and brought two wars of Naples, on the 28th November, we have to com- the greatest magnitude to a triumphant issue, memorate, was certainly one of the most distin- under circumstances the most critical, and deguished personages of the age in which he manding the utmost exertion of the greatest lived. The high endowments of his mind, talents, will be a durable monument to his fame; and the lofty magnanimity of his character, and when smaller differences on comparatively constituted him, in the fullest sense of the unimportant points shall be buried in the grave, term, a great man. He combined, indeed, all will be contemplated by all who interest themthe qualifications of a first-rate military officer selves in the concerns of that great country, with the knowledge and capacity of a great with the highest admiration, as a period of our statesman; and practically evinced, wherever history there, which was splendid in all its the opportunity was afforded to him, the most aspects, highly honourable to our name, at the signal proofs of the pre-eminence of his talents same time that it was pre-eminently beneficial in both these departments of the public service. to our most substantial interests. In the proHis career as a military man commenced in gress of these great services, Lord Moira was America, whither he went immediately after created Marquess of Hastings; a grant was the completion of his education at Oxford. In voted to him by the East India Company; and the course of that unfortunate war, he was he twice received the thanks of the Directors raised to the highest distinction, by the personal and Court of Proprietors, and of the two gallantry for which he was always conspicuous, Houses of Parliament. Lord Hastings returned and by the various talents which he displayed, to England from India in the year 1823, havmore especially at the latter period, when, in ing requested to be recalled; and in the follow. |