GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. donations were also made to the library. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. The of a paper read before the Royal Society a few | Institution having vied with each other in three to four miles wide, coming from the east ; weeks ago, of which Mr. Faraday was the adding to the enjoyments of the evening. We but which must not be confounded with the author. He stated, that his reasons for bring- cannot omit to notice a beautiful portrait of river of the same name visited by Major Dening it forward on the present occasion arose Sir Humphry Davy, of the full size, copied ham, and which falls into Lake Tchad. (It is from a desire to illustrate the difference be- by Pickersgill, jun. from the portrait by Sir likely that the word Shary, or some similar tween the Royal Society and the Royal Insti- Thomas Lawrence. It was much and justly word, is a generic term for river, water, or tution in their modes of putting forth scientific admired. something of this kind, and that both these truths; and his conviction, that every thing, streams have their origin in high land interwhether small or great, originating with the posed between them.) After receiving the officers of the latter establishment, should be WEDNESDAY, June 8th. Mr. Murchison, Shary, the Niger is still further deflected, placed as soon as possible in the possession of president, in the chair. Several gentlemen running to the south and west, till at length it the members at large. When a plate or pane were elected fellows. A letter was read from expands into a considerable lake, from which of glass is held horizontally by a pair of tongs Joshua Trimmer, Esq. to the Rev. Dr. Buck- the river Nun, which Mr. Lander descended, fixed steadily on the centre, and a violin-bow land, "On the diluvial deposits of Carnarvon- and probably several other rivers that enter drawn over the edge of the glass, it is made to shire, between the Snowdon chain of hills and the great bay of Benin in its neighbourhood, vibrate. Sand having been previously sprinkled the Menaï Strait, and on the discovery of issue at different points. In descending the upon the surface of the plate, the particles marine shells in the diluvial gravel on the Nun, which is not above three hundred yards arrange themselves into regular forms, figuring summit of Moel Tryfane, near Carnarvon, one wide, the travellers were attacked by a furious forth the quiescent parts of the plate. These thousand feet above the level of the sea.' party of natives; and, being taken prisoners, are called by Mr. Chladric, their discoverer, Among the donations to the museum an- lost all their effects, with some portion also of nodal lines. When light particles, such as nounced, were a collection, consisting of five their respective notes; but, providentially, scrapings from the hairs of the bow used, dust hundred specimens, illustrative of the mines what one was deprived of, the other was enabled, or powder of the lycopodium, happen to be on in the parishes of St. Just, Paul, and Gal- to a considerable extent, to preserve; so that, the plate, instead of proceeding to the same val, presented by W. J. Henwood, Esq.; between the two, the joint narrative is nearly quiescent lines as the sand, they accumulate a suite of fossils, from the transition forma- complete. From the point, then, where Mr. at the parts in most violent agitation, forming tions of the county of Kerry, the gift of Park first embarked, in 1805, this noble river a cloud, and at last settling down into little Thomas Weaver, Esq.; a series of the fos- has now been traced above two thousand miles, hemispherical heaps, having a peculiar revolv-sil seed-vessels and shells found in the Isle in the very heart of Africa; and, in Mr. Laning motion. This direction of light powders of Sheppey, presented by the Rev. Henry En- der's opinion, it is navigable for a great portion has always puzzled philosophers: Mr. Savart gleheart; and a collection of geological speci- of the distance by small steam-boats. has founded a theory of some peculiar modes of mens from Van Dieman's Land and Ems, pre-natives, also, in the interior are eager to see vibration upon it. Mr. Faraday's object was sented by Leonard Horner, Esq. Many valuable more of us; and they are even already so far to shew that the effect is a very simple and advanced in civilisation as to make a trade natural one, and consists of nothing more than with them worthy of pursuit. The greatest currents formed in the air surrounding the obstacles are the still existing slave-trade near plate, which proceeding from the quiescent to the mouth of the river, and the hostile feelings the most agitated parts of the plate, then pass which our attempts to put an end to it have upwards into the air, and in their course carexcited in the deluded population there. Palm ried the light particles with them. Mr. Fara- MONDAY, J. Barrow, Esq., in the chair. oil is, as yet, the only other equivalent for day explained, by numerous experiments, how There were read, first, an account of the their supplies which they have been able to such a current would necessarily result from province of Arracan, lately ceded to the East produce; and they naturally look forward with the manner in which the mechanical forces of India Company by the Burmese, transmitted extreme dislike to the prospect of the market the plate are transmitted to the air. He shewed by Captain Dawes, of H. M. S. Satellite, and for their other and more valuable object of how this current could be interrupted by walls communicated by Capt. Beaufort, R. N.;-2. barter being still further curtailed. They are, of card, when the light particles took new Some particulars of a tour among the Hima- in a word, the anti-machinists of the African courses. He stated that the heavy particles laya mountains, communicated by the Rev. world, and do not like to see the demand conwent to the lines of rest, because the air had Professor Milman, being extracts from private tract for manual labour. Mutato nomine, de not force enough to carry them in its course, letters from friends in India. But the great nobis ipsis fabula narratur.* but that light particles being governable by it attraction of the evening was a short notice, were taken in the opposite direction. He con- from the chair, of the Messrs. Landers' recent firmed this view by substituting water for air, journey in the interior of Africa. Mr. Barrow making the plate vibrate in the former fluid, began by saying, that, at one time, he had and shewing that the sand was carried from hoped to be able to lay a short paper on this ON Thursday the Society held their last meetthe quiescent to the agitated parts, exactly as subject before the Society at its present meet- ing for the season; Mr. Hamilton in the chair. the lighter particles were in air; and further, ing, with a sketch of the route followed; but Mr. Hazon exhibited a lithographic sketch of on vibrating plates in vacuo, he found that having only obtained the original documents a Roman pavement discovered in Somersetshire. even then the lightest particles went to the that very day at four o'clock, this was necessa- Mr. Grover's communication on ancient history lines of rest, because there was no current of rily deferred. In the mean time, referring to was concluded. Mr. Kempe exhibited drawings air of sufficient force to carry them. Want of the map in Captain Clapperton's last journey, by himself, Miss Kempe, and Mrs. Bray, of time prevented Mr. Faraday from entering he could state, generally, that Mr. Lander and amphora, pateræ, and other Roman antiquities, upon the explanation of the involving heaps: his brother had landed at Badagry, and pro- found in excavating below the Roman level, in this point, however, is given in his paper read ceeded, nearly in the track formerly followed, forming a sewer between East Cheap and the before the Royal Society, and to which we to Boussa on the Niger, and afterwards to New London Bridge, accompanied by a very have already alluded. He announced that Youri, which they found to lie considerably interesting communication of discoveries made further consideration of the subject induced farther north than is laid down in the map, during a close attendance on the spot from the him to believe he should be able to account, by and nearly west, as they were told, of Soccatoo. 21st of April to the 21st of May. The meetings the same principles, combined with the cohesive They had thence proceeded up as far as the of the Society were then adjourned to the 17th power of fluids, for the peculiar and hitherto river Cubbie, a considerable tributary which of November. unexplained crispations which occur on water passes Soccatoo, and another town to the eastlying upon a vibrating plate. In the course of ward called Cubbie, and falls into the Quorra, Mr. Faraday's illustrative experiments a va- or Niger, a little way above Youri; and on this Or Wednesday, the last assembly for the riety of exceedingly beautiful and uniform lines they had embarked on their downward voy- season of the council and general meeting, were produced on the glass. This being the age. Shortly after reaching Funda, the last took place in Parliament Street. We are per last evening meeting of the season, Mr. Fara- point laid down in Captain Clapperton's map, mitted to notice, that, at the former, Mr. day, on the part of the committee, took leave they found the river make a bold sweep to the Sotheby, who, with the President, the Lord of the members, after earnestly exhorting them east, being here from five to six miles wide, to use both individual and conjoined exertions and in other places it was even broader; it to aid the prosperity of future seasons. A thence turned south-east, and circled round to great number of objects of high interest were south, receiving in its course another accession in the library, the members and friends of the in the Shary, as it was called, a river from a LITERARY AND LEarned. ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. mentioned as having been found by the Landers, was not The book belonging to Mr. Anderson, which we prayer-book, but a thick volume of Watts' and other hymns. It is curious that it was made fetishe, or sacred, and was carefully hung up in the abode of one of the chiefs.—Ed. L. G. Bishop of Salisbury, and Lord Bexley, had | vast number of ladies, whose elegant persons present Number contains a rich and curious had an interview with Earl Grey on the part were adorned by the most tasteful dresses, from assemblage of bosses, arms, crockets, figures, of the Council, respecting the royal bounty which every colour of the rainbow might be pateras, string-courses, finials, weepers, stalls, and other affairs connected with the Institu- selected. The splendid circle, illumined by the cusps, traceries, panels, capitals, spandrils, &c. tion, made a verbal report of what had passed bright rays of a summer sun, presented a coup-It is certainly impossible to examine them and on that occasion. We are, of course, restrained d'ail scarcely to be equalled, and certainly not not feel shame at the comparative poverty and from particulars, but may say that the noble to be surpassed, in London, or any metropolis meanness of invention in our own times. Some premier had given every attention to the docu- of Europe. The business of the day com- of the most beautiful specimens are from Beauments laid before him, that he listened to the menced by the admission of some distinguished champ chapel, in Warwickshire. We are statements of the learned President and his characters to the degree of doctor of civil laws; especially charmed with three brass figures coadjutors with marked interest, and that he among whom were Mr. Stourges Bourne, Sir from the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of pledged himself to afford the subject his most Thomas Acland, Sir Harford Jones Brydes, Warwick. mature consideration. We are aware that Captain Basil Hall, and Washington Irving, these are not times to press for grants of pub- whose claims to the honour were stated in The Watering Places of Great Britain, and lic money from any quarter, and that the royal Latin addresses. The announcement of their Fashionable Directory. Illustrated with Views income is not only far below what it has been, names was received with great applause from of all the Places of Resort in the United but heavily burdened with other claims; yet the galleries, the gownsmen being the resistless Kingdom. Parts I. and II. 4to. Hinton. we cannot but think this sole and single Insti- arbiters on such occasions. The reception must THIS is a work which has long been wanted, tution in England, founded for the encourage- have been extremely gratifying to the two and which at the present season will be exment of literature and literary men, is pre- latter gentlemen, particularly to Washington ceedingly acceptable to a number of persons. eminently worthy of patronage and favour. Irving, as a foreigner. After the recital of a "The primary object contemplated in the preIts formation is one of the brightest gems in Latin poem, the subject "Numantia," and the sent undertaking," say the proprietors in their the crown of George the Fourth; and we shall reading of a clever essay on the "Use and address, "is the collection into one work of all be sorry indeed if the celebrated scholars and abuse of theory,”—followed the great object of the information desirable for gentlemen to pospoets who were taught to expect the duration attraction, the English poem for Sir Roger sess, respecting each of the watering and seaof the royal endowment during their lives, Newdigate's prize" The Suttees." The au- bathing places in the kingdom; and, by the should now be deprived of that comfort and thor, Percy Ashworth, of Wadham College, combined aid of the artist, to convey a more distinction. We will not enter into a compa-delivered it extremely well. The effect of correct idea of the peculiar beauties of each rison as to who among them could best bear the description of an interesting widow sacri- spot than either the pen or the pencil could this loss; but we cannot help thinking it a ficing herself on a funeral pyre, from a sense separately effect. Each town or village will be little thing that our great and wealthy empire of conjugal duty, was powerfully assisted by visited by one of the artists engaged for this should fall so far below even petty continental the presence of so many beautiful specimens of work, and also by the editor, who, in order to states in matters of this kind. We regret, the sex. The following lines at the close of prevent those discrepancies which occur from while such vast sums are annually expended the poem, were received with enthusiastic ap-trusting to correspondents only, has undertaken on incomparably less deserving objects, so small plause :the laborious task of visiting each spot persona bounty towards promoting the general cause ally." of literature should ever become a doubtful question. We trust it will not be so long. "And such is woman's love! whose magic power Can smooth the deep lines care has learn'd to plow, And chase the cloud of anguish from the brow. The Royal Society of Literature, however, It drops not, parts not with the parting breath, it should be observed, does not depend upon But smiles a proud defiance unto death!" the munificence with which it was at its origin The miscellaneous concert in the evening so royally endowed. The number of its mem-was fully attended. The performers, Messrs. bers, their high rank, intelligence, and love of Braham, E. Taylor, Knyvett, and De Begnis, letters, are sufficient to ensure it a high and and Mesdames Pasta, Caradori Allen, and Mrs. standard place among the patriotic establish- Knyvett, exerted themselves, and gave great ments of our enlightened era; and the spirit satisfaction to a very numerous and select audiwith which they have seconded the intention ence. The commemoration finished with a of their august founder cannot be better exem-ball on Thursday evening. plified than by their having erected by voluntary subscription among themselves (of about £3600*) the handsome edifice which is now completed for their reception in the wide street FINE ARTS. Laborious task! We cannot conceive any thing more delightful and amusing. Will the editor exchange duties with us for the next three months? The Devil's Walk. Illustrated by Thomas Landseer. Ten Etchings, folio. London, 1831. G. F. Harding.. MR. LANDSEER claims to have originated the idea of illustrating this biting satire; though others, it seems, caught at the whisper, and occupied the field before him. Though last, however, he is not least: on the contrary, for spirit in design and character he has no competition to fear. The etchings are admirable; the earlier ones wild and satanic,-the made by the improvements on the King's Mews Portraits of the Royal Family, in Penmanship. later more earthly, and home to what is passand St. Martin's Lane. Here their first meetBy J. P. Hemm. Harding. ing around us. The Devil and the Puritan, ing after the recess will be held, and with a ALTHOUGH, as good and loyal subjects, we Brothers, recognising each other, is capital, both local habitation so suited to their station and certainly rejoice to see the royal family in a for art and expression; the Lawyer killing his wants, and a name which must call up all the flourishing condition, yet we own, that we do brother-a Viper, is also excellent; and so is best sympathies of the great, the intellectual, not think this is a judicious or tasteful ap- the Apothecary on his White Horse, like Death and the learned world, we have no doubt but plication of the art of penmanship. We say in the Revelation. The Bookseller's Shop, with that their career will be both useful and bril- so with the less reluctance, because we have the corpulent publisher and the starveling auliant, under whatever circumstances they may more than once expressed our admiration of thor, is another superb hit; while the poor priresume their labours. Mr. Hemm's skill as a caligrapher, when that soner in a cell in Cold Bath Fields' prison, debt skill has been employed in an appropriate 10s., expenses 50%., is a melancholy lesson of wrong, prevailing to an extent most injurious THE Oxford grand commemoration was celeto the community, hardly exaggerated by caribrated during Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs-4 Progressive Drawing-Book of the Human cature. We do not approve of the introduction day last. On the first day & concert, comFigure. Drawn on stone from the works of of Gen. Gascoigne in the last plate, though he is prising a grand selection of sacred music, was Raphael, Titian, Rubens, &c., by Signor famously drawn as an incarnation of boroughL. Joffroy. Engelmann and Co. performed in the theatre; and in the evening As a drawing-book we are unable to speak in mongering. It is too much ad captandum, and OXFORD COMMEMORATION. manner. there was a ball at the Town Hall. Lord terms of high commendation of this publica- obtained so much celebrity. Satan is shewn Norreys, Lord de Tabley, and others, acted as has nothing to do with the verses which have stewards. On Wednesday, being the princi-various subjects is singularly powerful and hastening to retreat to his own close borough, tion; but the lithographic execution of the to be terrified by the gallant general, and pal day, when the prize essays and poems were read and recited, the theatre was opened at ten o'clock in the morning, and was rapidly filled, the galleries being occupied by the bachelors and under-graduates, the pit by the masters in their academic costumes, and the boxes by a This is the expense of the building: the amount of subscriptions paid in is about £3000. mellow. Pugin's Gothic Ornaments, selected from various where there is not even the shadow of freedom of election. The merits of this performance altogether entitle it to very extensive favour. MUSIC. PAGANINI. BAZAR IN REGENT'S PARK. fining the proof of mismanagement to this | and Mr. F. Vining bustled in his usual pleafinancial error only, let us observe the good sant way through a very trifling part. Report fortune by which the worst alternative has attributes the piece to the pen of Mr. Percy We have heard this wonderful musician again, been avoided. The School for Scandal, with Farren, the stage manager, and author of the and our delight has not been diminished; but by no means a perfect cast, attracted several drama of the Field of Forty Footsteps, played rather, in consequence of a more favourable crowded audiences. Stanfield's diorama ren-with success at the Queen's (then the Tottensituation in the theatre, it was much aug-dered a mediocre pantomime more than usually ham Street) Theatre. mented. The sensation altogether is as if a attractive; and the melodrama of the Brigand, new element of music were discovered, and which had run upwards of forty nights in the poured upon the ear, or rather upon the soul, previous season, ran forty more, bringing fre- Ox Thursday we had the pleasure of perambufrom a combination which unites the sweetest quently, in conjunction with the Illustrious of sounds with an abstract perception of melody Stranger, and the Pantomime, or Masaniello, lating Mr. Jenkins's beautiful garden in the unperceived before. Paganini's playing par-from three to four hundred pound houses. Regent's Park, which was opened (and so to be takes of that rare quality of oratory which These were chances on which the manage- for the disposal of articles in aid of the benevocontinued during three days) by way of Bazar, communicates itself from the speaker to the ment had no right to calculate; and to them, lent Establishment for the Relief and Cure of hearer with greater intensity in proportion as and the absence of any extraordinary success Deafness, in Soho Square. The humane ladies, the former is deeply impressed with his own at Covent Garden, have the lessees of Drury and some of them very pretty, who acted as matter. His whole being seems to be in the been indebted for keeping open their doors to tones he is producing-the man and the instru- the end of the season. A dissolution of the shopkeepers on the occasion, seemed to be very ment cannot be separated-like a magician, he partnership between Captain Polhill and Mr. produce will be commensurate with their hu successful in their operations, and we trust the appears to persuade or compel it to do what to A. Lee has taken place; and the former gen-mane exertions. Bands of music, and refreshothers would be impossible. The gratification tleman is making arrangements for the con-ments (at once bad and dear for Mrs. Jarrin must be felt,it cannot be described. ducting of the concern for the next two sea- took from us two shillings for a nasty ice), were sons; but we have so often been disappointed to be heard and taken in various parts. in the hope of seeing some one at the head handsome tent was fitted up for the reception of a national theatre who would discover that of the Queen-who, however, did not visit the his own interests could only be forwarded by garden on Thursday, even "clane and dacent upholding those of the drama, that we are like another lady,' cured of indulging sanguine expectations. Nothing but an entirely new system of management can retrieve the fallen fortunes of BUCHER. " M. BUCHER, whose performances on the flute have obtained for him on the continent the name of the Paganini of the flute, has, we see, just arrived in this city, where he intends giving public concerts. At the theatre of San Carlo, in Naples, of which he was the first flauto, the purity and vigour of his style, and the lightness and expression which shewed themselves in his performances, excited the highest admiration and astonishment; and in a tour lately made on the continent, he was every where received with the same rapture and enthusiastic applause. A Rouen paper says, it is impossible to surpass his sweetness of sound or method of execution, or to give more spirit to an instrument always cold and dull. He is said infinitely to surpass Toulou and Drouet. Like Paganini, he plays tricks with his instrument, more especially in his variations, on Malbrouq. It is a duo on one flute-a base and a medium. In other variations his instrument sings the soprano of the Marriage of Figaro. Our statement is not at all exaggerated, and we are sure that the visit of this extraordinary performer to the capital will be a treat to the patrons of musical merit. DRAMA. DRURY LANE. the patent theatres. Nous verrons. November 11th, 1830. Turning the Tables, a Farce, Nov. 17th. Conscript, or the Veteran and his Dog, a A - and there were tents, marquees, &c. &c. for the company, in case of There were several thousand rain, or too much sun. persons present; and the general ascultural fetes at Chiswick. pect of the grounds was very like the Hortistarvation one year, and drowning the next. those galas of Apropos, next week is to witness another of of a scientific and useful institution; and the these exhibitions, so inappropriate to the spirit means taken to puff it, the trade in raising the prices of tickets, (a thing abhorrent in a Paganini!!!) and all the little manœuvres of petty chandlering which have been resorted to, are, in our opinion, quite disgraceful. There has been an ordinary sign-board put up over the door of the Society's house, in Regent Street. the King and Queen are gratuitously announced to be present- and we believe an assurance of fine weather has been certified from the March 15th. Highways and Byways, a Farce, 2 acts: moon!!! Such tricks are unworthy in private Webster. speculations they would even reflect on the stone. 14 nights. April 4th. Ice Witch, Easter Spectacle, 2 acts: Buck-dramatic charlatanry of Vauxhall Gardens or April 7th. Nettlewig Hall, a Farce, 2 acts: C. M. Westmacott. 6 nights. Dec. 27th. Davy Jones, Christmas Pantomime: Barry- March 5th. Decorum, a Farce, 2 acts: T. H. Bayly. April 8th. The Pledge, or Castilian Honour, a Tragedy, 5 acts: Kenney. 8 nights. s. Knowles. 15 nights. May 13th. The Emissary, an Opera, 3 acts: Barham Drama, 1 act: Buckstone. 3 nights. May 30th. The Little Corporal, Petite Historical HAYMARKET. DRURY LANE terminated a strong, and we Bagnigge Wells: in a public body, with noble and distinguished names on its lists, they are, to say the least, very unbecoming. Cannot they trample down and spoil the gardens in a more quiet and less offensive manner? VARIETIES. Geographical distribution of the Anatifa.Mr. Rennell Coates, in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, asserts, that the southern ocean is the native place of the anatifa vitrea, and that if it is found any where else, it is because it is carried away on the vessels, fish, or plants, to which it attaches itself. The same author describes two new species of otium, under the names of O. depressa and O. saccalifera,—both from the southern seas. Captain Woodfall. We regret to announce the death of another African traveller. Captain Woodfall, sent out by the African Society to penetrate into the interior by way of Abyssinia, only reached Kourdefan, where he fell sick and perished. Royal Navy School.-A noble subscription has been begun for the erection and maintenance of a school to educate the children of our gallant tars. It is to be hoped that a fund will be raised equal to the completion of so truly beneficent an undertaking, on a scale of sufficient | we noticed in a late number of the Gazette, magnitude, and with large endowments. asserts that he never supposed that the moun LITERARY NOVELTIES. [Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. XXV. June 18.] Sir Walter Scott. Though we have not tains of the north of Africa formed, like the T. Campbell.-Mr. Campbell is engaged upon a poem joined in spreading the rumours, which have Pyrenees, a single chain of contemporaneous on the subject of Poland-a stimulating theme for his We observe that the Philomathic Sofound their way to the press on very slight elevation. The most modern charts exhibit patriotic muse. grounds, respecting the health of Sir Walter a variety of chains, crossing in various direc-city of Warsaw have done him the honour to elect him a corresponding member, as "Campbell Tomes Poete Scott, yet as every reader must feel the subject tions, as M. de Humboldt has just proved to Anglais." to be one of universal concern, we are well exist with regard to the central plains of Asia; merous facts and private papers hitherto unpublished, is An authentic Life of Sir Thomas Lawrence, with nudisposed to make known any certain and au- and there is no doubt but that in the north of announced.-Full-length Portraits of their Majesties the thentic intelligence which may reach us re. Africa, as in Europe, there has been several King and Queen, engraved after Lawrence and Beechey, specting it. We therefore refer with pleasure upraising of mountain chains in different di- in mezzotinto by Mr. T. Hodgetts, are about to appear. to the letter of a friend, who has enjoyed the rections, and at different epochs. opportunity of associating with the Wizzard of the North during his indisposition and to the present moment. He writes us: "I have seen him frequently during the last five months, so as to enable me to observe his state of health. He has been ill, severely ill; but I can assure you that illness has left no trace, except a degree of corporeal weakness, which prudence in diet and exercise may speedily remove. He rides out on horseback; he drives out in his poney phaeton: he is indeed in high health and spirits, at Abbotsford, and looking far better than at any period during the winter." hortations, 8vo. 128. bds.-Lardner's Cabinet Library, LIST OF NEW BOOKS. Bloom's Pulpit Oratory, 8vo. 108. bds.- Marshall's Mineralogical Survey of Scotland. In a Naval Biography, Supplement, VOL III. Part I. 8vo. 158. former Gazette we mentioned that an inquiry bds.-Dr. A. Thomson's Sermons and Sacramental Exhad been instituted by a committee of the Vol. V., George IV. Vol. II. fcp. 5s. bds.-Patrick's IndiHouse of Commons on the application of cer-genous Plants of Lanarkshire, 18mo. 6s. bds.-Sherwood's tain sums of money voted for a mineralogical Milner, Part III. 68. bds.-R. Fletcher's Medico-Chirur gical Notes and Illustrations, Part I. 4to. 1.-The whole survey of Scotland. Professor Jameson has Proceedings in the Case of J. M. Campbell, 12mo. 68. laid before the Wernerian Society a copy of a bds.-Inglis's Spain in 1830, 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 6s. bds.return to an address of the House of Commons, with 21 illustrations, square 16mo. plain, 3. 6d. hf.-bd. Fletcher's History of Poland, 8vo. 148. bds.-The Garden, from which it appears, that no part of the money coloured, 4s. 6d. hf.-bd. Family Library, Dramatic had been granted to that Society, nor to the Series, Vols. V. and VI., being Ford's Works, 2 vols. Edinburgh Museum; but that the whole sum, 3 vols. post 8vo. 17. 11s. 6d. bds.-Bishop Horne's Daily 18mo. 10s. bds.-Jacqueline of Holland, by T. C. Grattan, amounting to upwards of 7000l., had been paid Communings, 28.; silk, 28. 6d. Hawker's Works, with to Dr. John Maculloch, of Woolwich, for the Memoir by Williams, 10 vols. 8vo. 67. 68.; royal, 127. 12s. mineralogical survey of Scotland- never until now, it is said, heard of by men of science in that METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1831. country. It was remarked, that it would be June. desirable for government to cause to be pub-Thursday: 9 lished forthwith the results of this expensive, Saturday .. 11 and it seems only partial, survey of Scotland. Earthquake. Several earthquakes have lately been felt at Smyrna. Le Globe says, that on the 28th of March a violent shock had very nearly destroyed that city. To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. 10 Sunday.... 12 .. 14 Thermometer. Barometer. From 41. to 73. 29-80 to 29-79 50. - 65. 29-66 29-72 50. - 69. 29-56 29-70 51. 52. 75. 29-70 29-83 Wind S.W., except during the afternoon of the 13th, when it was N.W. Mr. Jones. We have been somewhat amused lately by a paragraph in some of the papers, assigning overstrained religious principles as the cause of this accomplished comedian, and no less accomplished gentleman, having retired from the stage. Now, all who know anything of Mr. Jones know him to be both a moral and a religious man, but not under the influence of fanaticism. The fact is, his Weather variable, with frequent rain. From six to method of teaching elocution has met with Flour for Sheep.-M. Maitre, a great agri- eight on the evening of the 14th, the upper part of a such success, in giving power to the voice, in culturist and breeder of sheep near Chatillon-halo, and a very distinct parhelion east of the sun formed, strengthening weak lungs, in removing hesita-sur-Seine, about a year ago conceived the idea both strongly exhibiting the prismatic colours. tion of speech, and every other impediment to that not only the straw of corn, but the dried Edmonton. a happy delivery that his house is continually stalks of clover, lucerne, &c. might be ground frequented by clergymen, in a sufficient degree, into flour. His experiments have been crowned we confess, to create some alarm in the neigh- with complete success; and he has obtained a bourhood. The secret, then, of Mr. Jones kind of flour, the quality of which is similar to transferring his talents from the stage, is, that that of bruised fodder. This aliment is a subhe now dedicates them to the formation of the stitute for bran, and is an agreeable and subclerical and political orator. We will take stantial food for sheep and lambs, who seek it| upon ourselves to deny there being any other with avidity. ground for the charge of his having turned Puritan. We cannot let this opportunity pass SIR,-In your Number for May 28, a corwithout assuring our friends, that the similar respondent G. D. furnishes for your pages a report which has gone forth concerning our- remarkable specimen of the affinity between selves is altogether without foundation. the Latin and Portuguese tongues, by eleven Prince Talleyrand related to the Family of verses in praise of St. Ursula, which are both Stanley, Earls of Derby. The maternal grand-Latin and Portuguese. He acknowledges him-rature lower than in the last eight years, and the mean mother of Prince Talleyrand was the Princess self not aware of any other living language on the sixth the thermometer fell seven degrees below the below any since 1826-the month was consequently cold: Orsini (la Princesse des Ursins, as the French between which and the Latin so strong an freezing point, and for five days never reached above 52° style her), who acted so distinguished a part in affinity could be traced and exemplified." I at any time of the day-the barometer higher than last the court of Philip V. of Spain, and whose first should suppose that Italian might afford in-24th: the storm on the 2d the heaviest experienced here husband, as appears from Archdeacon Coxe's stances of the kind in greater abundance than for some time, and nearly an inch of rain fell. On the History of the Bourbon Kings of Spain, was Portuguese. I send you at least one such lunar halo observed on the 22d: for twenty-four days the lais. She was of the illustrious family of La sufficiently remarkable. Adrian Blaise de Talleyrand, Prince of Cha- which I have met with, and which appears wind blew from the northward-that is, between the N.E. Tremouille, from which sprung the heroic Countess of Derby, who, in her husband's absence, defended Latham House against the parliamentary forces under General Fairfax, in 1644. That the talents of the Princess Orsini have descended to her grandson, few will doubt; and it must also be allowed, that he has inherited her courtly and insinuating manners, if not all her high spirit, her frankness, and her disinterested attachments. "In mare irato, in subita procella, So firmly intertwined, That through all time's eternity No power shall e'er unwind!!! R. O.'s letter is taken in very good part. 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