her light, and Uric's heart leaped with delight as he saw the boat half filled with gold. With a greedy eye he surveyed the yellow treasure, as it sparkled in the moonbeam; but the longer he looked, the more it increased. A moment before, it was only up to his ankle; then it rose to his knee; now it was as high as his waist, and the water touched the gunwale of the skiff. Filled with horror and dismay, the fisherman started up, and endeavoured to lighten the boat; but, as fast as he flung the gold overboard, an unseen hand poured in fresh quantities of the soul-destroying poison. Large drops of perspiration stood on the fisherman's brow; he now dreaded as much to reach the middle of the lake, as he had before longed for it; he attempted to turn the boat, but in vain; it continued its course; and, as its light prow touched the centre of the lake, a cataract of gold was showered on the skiff. For an instant, it plunged and laboured; then the waters rushed in; and down, down, down went the little boat, and the rolling waves closed over the head of the wicked fisherman.

body who could do it ;" or because "the artist is a modest, amiable, and painstaking man." We would not willingly hurt any person's feelings; but to praise mediocre works is to compromise the principles of art, and to do injustice to true merit. Upon this principle we have proceeded, and will proceed; and, conscious that sooner or later our motives and conduct will be appreciated even by those who may now feel sore, we look forward with unalloyed pleasure to our next meeting with our brethren of St Luke's, when they return from their happy and health-giving rambles through the wilds of our native land, or over the fresh and fertile fields of merry England. They with their pencils-we with our pens our objects, our interests, and our feelings the same.

THE DRAMA.

RATHER a curious event has taken place at our theatre this week. The formal and pathetic manner in which The sequel is quickly told. Oluf conducted Margaret Mrs Siddons finally retired from the stage a month or two ago, must be still fresh in the recollection of most of home; and Paul Marken, who had been somewhat surprised at finding the doors open, his daughter away, and our readers, and also the impressive request she made to his favourite pancake burnt to a cinder, now received the the public, in the words of Sir Walter Scott, that they fair truant and her conductor with an ominous aspect. would "be kind to the dear relative she left behind." It was with no little surprise, therefore, that after seeing When, however, the lovers told their story, and Oluf enMr Murray perform, apparently in excellent spirits, on treated for Margaret's hand, Paul gave the sack a loud thump, and declared that he could not refuse to give his Monday night at Pritchard's benefit, we found the foldaughter to a suitor who was so well backed. The wed-lowing announcement scattered through the house on ding was soon after celebrated with the usual festivities, and proved so happy as to establish, beyond a doubt, the match-making talent of the Wood Demon.

THE SCOTTISH ACADEMY.

WE learn from an authentic source, that the total receipts of this body, during the continuance of the Exhibition which has just closed, amount to about £650; last year they were nearly £1000. We are neither surprised nor alarmed at this. The receipts must necessarily fluctuate from year to year; and when we consider that, in 1829, the Exhibition could boast of Etty's Judith to attract the judicious, and of Martin's Deluge to collect the wonder-mongers, and that it, moreover, opened a second time with the Earl of Hopetoun's Rubens-an exhibition of itself; and when, lastly, we consider that the Academy was then younger, less firmly rooted, and consequently supported by a stronger spirit of partisanship, we repeat, that we are neither alarmed at the defalcation, nor inclined to suspect any mismanagement. Again, is true, that the sales last year amounted to nearly £1500, this year only to £1070. But in the £1500 is included the price of the Judith, purchased by the Academy£500, we believe-which, being deducted, leaves the balance in favour of this year's sales. We still say, therefore, that we see nothing in this to lead us to augur badly of the Academy's futurity. We rejoice to observe that the slight remains of exacerbation with which the two bodies of artists, who now compose the Academy, came together, are fast subsiding, and we trust that no ambitious individual will again raise a storm.-We now commend our artists to their summer studies. It has been said (we are told) by some, we ask not by whom, that we are inimical to the artists. The assertion is false. We love the art, because to the study of it we are indebted for some of the happiest moments of our lives;—we love and honour the artist, for to him we owe this gratification. But we will speak our mind freely; and we are not aware that in doing so we have made any distinction between our personal friends and those with whom we are unacquainted. We abide by our rule of conduct-" For the artist, as long as he conducts himself worthy of his high vocation; and for art, against all hands deadly." Our standard of art is high. We cannot stoop to praise a commonplace painting, merely because "it is not every

dropping in on Tuesday evening, to see how Mrs Nicol
1830. It is with feelings of regret, that Mrs Henry
was getting on:-"Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, 1st June,
Siddons has to announce the continued indisposition of
which her brother, Mr Murray, has long laboured
under." (Not very good composition.) "He has at
last yielded to her intercessions, and the opinion of his
medical advisers, and consented to resign the exercise of
Under these circum-
his professional duties for a time.
stances, and to remove as much as possible Mr Murray's
objections to this step, Mrs Henry Siddons will, during
the benefits, renew her professional exertions, and, to the
best of her abilities, supply his loss." The same evening,
Mr Murray wrote a note to Mr James Ballantyne, which
appeared in the Weekly Journal of Wednesday, and as all
the documents connected with this curious affair are in-
teresting, we think it right to give it a place :

"My Dear Sir,

"My medical friends having most strenuously advised my relinquishing all professional duties for a time, my Sister has, with her usual affectionate solicitude for me, undertaken to supply my place in the Management of the Theatre, and to offer her services to such of the Performers who may deem their Benefits injured by my absence.

"I make this communication to you, that you may be aware of the real motives which bring my sister back to the stage for a few nights, after her farewell. Excuse haste, and believe me "Very faithfully yours,

W. H. MURRAY.

"Tuesday Evening. "James Ballantyne, Esq." Now, the reasons why we say there is something curious in all this are twofold, and we state them frankly. In the first place, it is curious in as far as regards Mr Murray, that, instead of being aware that he has of late had any extraordinary fatigue or distress of mind, we know, on the contrary, he has but recently returned from a pleasant excursion to London; that, since his return, he has been performing almost every night, with all his usual animation; that he did not give the most distant hint of his ill health in the speech he made at his own benefit; that no suspicions were entertained in the green-room of his being indisposed; that he acted the very night before this sudden announcement was made; that he is announced to sing two songs on Monday evening, at Mr Stanley's benefit; and that Miss Fanny Kemble is to be here in about a fortnight, when he would of course have little to

do. In the second place, this is a curious event in as far as regards Mrs Siddons, because a very short time has elapsed since she bade a long and last farewell to the Edinburgh stage before a very numerous assemblage of her friends and admirers, the female portion of whom shed a good number of tears, and waved cambric handkerchiefs to a most unprecedented extent. But hey presto! she who had vanished from our eyes forever is here again; and "the dear relative she left behind" actually appears to

A brief View of the different editions of the Scriptures of the Ftestant and Roman Catholic Churches is in the press.

FINE ARTS.-We have lately had an opportunity of examining a set of enamelled and embossed cards and drawing-boards, together with other beautiful and ingenious inventions of the house of De La Rue, Cornish, and Rock, of London, and think it right to direct the attention of our readers to them. The exquisite variety of borders given to the cards, which are designed, engraved, and printed, both in gold and silver; and the admirable manner in which the drawingboards are embossed, by means of dies sunk for the purpose, and

have gone before! We wish these things could have beautifully worked in numerous different colours, cannot be tad

been avoided. We wish Mr Murray could have contrived to keep well enough for a fortnight or three weeks more; and we wish Mrs Henry Siddons had preserved her consist

highly praised. Nor were we less pleased with the Arabesque leather bindings for Albums, Bibles, and other books, which are exceedingly rich and chaste. The same house is preparing opaque playing cards of a new description, with coloured, metal, silver, and gold ena

ventions seem scarcely to admit of any improvement in this depart ment of the Fine Arts.

CHIT-CHAT The second volume of Moore's Life

ency, and allowed our last impression of her to have re-melled backs; and the ingenuity and taste displayed in all these in mained uneffaced, for she can never leave the stage with the same eclat again. We shall see in a little how the matter is to end. We shall be anxious to know when Mr Murray is to return to us, and when Mrs Siddons, is to take her leave once more. 'Is Sir Walter Scott to write another farewell address, or will she repeat the old one?

of Byron is to be
about the end of this month, and it is to
contain an answer to Campbell's attack.-The London Pitt Club
Dinner is not to take place this year, in consequence of the illness of
the King-Lieutenant John Shipp, the author of the romantic his.
tory of His own Life and Adventures, has been appointed to one of
the inspectorships of the new Police. An anecdote is current, that

While these events have been taking place in Edin-e King, who is still alive to what used to interest him before his

illness, enquired what portrait was placed opposite to his own, at the exhibition of Sir Thomas Lawrence's paintings, now open. The courtiers were compelled to inform their master, that his Satanic was vis-d-vis to his Britannic Majesty. The King happily relieved

them from their embarrassment, by remarking, that "they ought to have made the Duke of Wellington face the Enemy."

Theatrical Gossip.-A new piece, of a serious character, from the pen of Mr. Howard Payne, called “The Spanish Husband; or, First and Last Love," has been all but damned at Drury-Lane.-Fanny Kemble is now in Bath, and, on the termination of her engagement there, comes direct to Edinburgh) She is expected to appear here on the 14th of this month-Kean, Macready, Sinclair, and Miss E Tree, are engaged to perform in Liverpool during the London vaca tion. Mr Lennard's bill for the removal of that ridiculous and odious office, a dramatic censorship, has been thrown out in the House of Commons without a division, simply, we suppose, because Sir Robert Peel opposed it, not wishing that the Duke of Montrose and Mr Colman should lose their pensionsMrs Yates, formerly Miss Brunton, has been performing in Dublin with much celat. The elephant

burgh, an event no less curious has been occupying the attention of the theatrical world in London. An exposé has taken place of the domestic affairs of Lord and Lady William Lennox, by which it appears that her Ladyship declares his Lordship has been using her like a brute and his Lordship affirms that her Ladyship has conceived much too great an attachment for a certain Mr Wood, a singer. Lady William (we call her Miss Paton only when we speak of her on the the stage) has run away from Lord William, and, as the Scotch folks s lks say, is neither to haud nor to bind." "That at she has been criminal with Mr Wood is not asserted; that she e has been extremely imprudent is, we are sorry to say, as clear as noonday. If she had reason to be dissatisfied with the conduct of her husband, what woman in her senses, with any due'r regard to her reputation, would have thrown herself upon the protection of a young un unmarried man? an? Had she no female friend to whom she could appeal, or male guardian would have defied the voice whose years and respectability of scandal? We feel exceedingly for Lady William Lennox. We know her to be an amiable, and we believe her to be a virtuous woman; yet has she placed herself in such a situation that even her best friends cannot look upon her now with the same confidence they did before, Is the metropolitan stage never to redeem itself from the opprobrium of being almost certain perdition to a woman Are high female talents, when exerted for the entertainment of the public, to be invariably pursued with such temptations, that genius becomes a reproach, and beauty a mockery? Who is there at this moment among the more celebrated actresses on the London stage, who has stood the test of years?—not a single name occurs to us except Miss Stephens; and let the name therefore be be written in letters of gold! We might add Miss Kelly, b but she never was possessed of those attractions which win SAT. the eye of the libertine, and consequently cannot HUSAL MON. have the same merit, never having had the same temptations. UNTUR ADANYA HATUES When a person who stood as Lady William Lennox falls from that hon so bigh as I eminence, vice holds a TFF 4941 10 911 Seura zato nigh Old Cerberus.

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jubilee, and Madame Vestris smiles.

THE Lay of the Desert, a poem, in two Cantos, by Henry Sewell Stokes, will be published speedily.

Mr Robert Montgomery has announced a pamphlet, to be entitled Robert Montgomery and his Reviewers, with remarks on the present› state of English poetry, and on the laws of criticism; to which is subjoined an Appendix, suggested by a late criticism in the Edinburgh Review.

The March of Intellect, a comic poem, by W. T. Moncrieff, with wood engravings by R. Cruikshank, is in the press.

Leaves and Flowers for an Album, by a ci-devant author, is announced,

now left that city for Plymouth, it is said, though we thought she had been coming here first.--A cock-and-a-bull story has been got up in Paris about Miss Smithson having been run away with in a hackney coach. It is a trick, we suppose, to excite a sensationOur old favourite Jones performed here for the first time this season on, the occasion of Mrs Renaud's benefit last night.-We observe that Mr and Mrs Stanley take their benefit on Monday, and certainly deerve a good house. They are to bring out, among other things, a new comic piece, called "Teddy the Tyler," much run after at present in London. On Wednesday next, Mr Hooper takes his first benefit here, and is to have the assistarice, not only of Mrs Siddons, but also of Miss Jarman, who concludes an engagement at Glasgow on Monday, and comes into Edinburgh tó play Lydia Languish and the Youthful Queen for Hooper. This is likely to secure him an excellent house. Horn and Miss Byfeld, who have been singing in Glasgow, are to appear next week at the Caledonian Theatre. WEEKLY LIST OF PERFORMANCES. May 29 June 4pite atte Love in a Village, 'Twas I, § Free and Easy. Ivanhoe, of Age To-Morrow, & The Brigand. The Dilenna, & Three Weeks after Marriage.

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The Beggar's Opera, The Wedding Day, & Brother and
"Sister 901 3o dos de

The Slave, Speetie Bridegroom, & Warlock of the Glen.
Oals, & Raising the Wind.

то OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

on ibil SEVERAL excellent Poetical Pieces are in types, but we are obliged to postpone them all till, next, Saturday.

"

The communication of our Fochabers correspondent is under con sideration.-The verses by "J.P. B." of Aberdeen shall have a place -The communication from the Blacksmith of Beath" will hardly suit us.The poetical communications from Morayshire are not without merit, but are unequal.-The lines by Thomas Brownle will probably find a place in our next SLIPPERS.-We shall not be able to make room for the following pieces:-"On the birth of a Nephew," "Farewell," by "R. P.," "A Dream," by M. D.," -"Sensibility," by M. W. G.," and "Young Love," by "A. R." of Glasgow.

LITERARY CRITICISM.

PRICE 6d.

Field Sports of the North of Europe; comprised in a Per--and yet, with all this wide and varied experience, we sonal Narrative of a Residence in Sweden and Norway, in the Years 1827-28. By L. Lloyd, Esq. With numerous Engravings. In two volumes, 8vo. don. Colburn and Bentley. 1830. Pp. 383 and

377.

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mingled with the deep notes of the slow-hound ;-we have felt our spirits soar and expand in the thin pure air of the glacier, across which we followed the shy chamois; learn from Mr Lloyd, that there is still in Europe a wild and romantic sporting country, of whose attractions we had hitherto remained ignorant. He has afforded uswhat the unnerved Roman tyrant sighed for in vainthe prospect of a new pleasure, although we know not when our regard for a public, which weekly besieges our doors, (as the dense population of London or Liverpool might be conceived to do the corn magazines, in the event of a famine,) will leave us at leisure to enjoy it.

We have the most implicit confidence in Mr Lloyd's qualifications for the task he has undertaken-that of giving us a picture of the sportsmen of the Northern Peninsula and their pursuits. He is evidently a good We pass over the chase of the partridge, hazel hen, shot an indefatigable sportsman; and, as to his style, blackcock, capercailzi, wild-duck, mallard, and snipe. If it is undeniably formed upon the model of that "welle we have not all these kinds of shooting in this country, of Englysche undefiled," the Sporting Magazine. Mr we have, at least, something analogous to them-someLloyd has been sojourning in the north of Europe since thing as good. We must, however, express our asto1824; and besides penetrating into every nook and corner nishment, that a master sportsman like Mr Lloydof the united kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, he has one who has taken all his degrees in that noble artwandered through the adjoining territories of Lapland, should be so much to seek in his own trade, as to dream Finland, Russia, and Denmark. Having thus prepared of finding what he calls "the common grouse," in the himself, not only by studying thoroughly the field sports Scandinavian Peninsula. Is he really not aware that of Sweden and Norway, in their own abstract essence, the bird which he thus designates is a native only of the but also, after the fashion of a comparative anatomist, in British isles? In like manner, we pass over his account immediate contrast with those of the bordering nations, of the Swedish style of destroying the fox; for, however he has, after a six years' apprenticeship, ventured before uncouth it may appear to a member of the Melton, to one the public with the fruits of his researches. As the reader who acknowledges no annals of the art but the Sporting will perceive by the title-page of the work, Mr Lloyd has Magazine, yet any one who will consult the pages of Guy adopted the plan of weaving the narrative of his expe- Mannering, will find that a pretty similar style of going riences into the story of a Two Years' Residence in Nor- to work has not yet been quite forgotten in this part of way and Sweden. By this means, he has avoided the the island. Mr Lloyd's accounts of Swedish angling we heaviness and stiffness which generally result from pedan- also leave for another occasion; but when we write a tic attention to a strictly scientific arrangement. In some paper on Angling, which we shall do one of these days, chapters, he gives us rapid sketches of the scenery, of the we may refer to it again. state of cultivation of the country, the weather, and other physical phenomena; or favours us with peeps into the political and social relations of the people, and the state of trade and education among them. He thus enables us to feel ourselves quite at home, and to pursue our hunting studies, unplagued by any remnants of curiosity respecting the kind of people among whom we have got. To this general foundation, he has farther superadded a brief but comprehensive sketch of the game laws; and the road being thus completely smoothed, away he launches into the mare magnum of the active pursuits of the field. We are ourselves neither sluggish nor inexperienced huntsmen. We have stolen after our pointer with swift and noiseless footsteps, and crouching gait, gliding from uft to tuft through the flow moss, beneath a burning Twelfth of August sun, listening breathlessly for the vhistling of the muircock's wing ;-we have lain behind stone dike the whole of a dark November day, with its ain pouring incessantly down upon us, lurking for the ransit of the blackcock ;—we have felt our very soul burst at with our ecstatic halloo, as we darted onward with the whole field, when, as reynard broke cover, the gallant ack gave forth its full orchestral volume of sound ;-we lave dashed down the glades of Germany's dark forests f tall pines, after the embossed boar, while the bugles

The bear is the most important object of the chase in Sweden and Norway; and his history occupies a space in Mr Lloyd's book proportionable to his importance. We regret, that out of the many interesting anecdotes illustrative of his character, we can only afford to extract two; the one of which exhibits Bruin in good humour, the other when enraged. Even in the best of his moods, he is but a clumsy play fellow. Our author, speaking of the possibility of domesticating bears, narrates the following adventure of a peasant:

"Bears are not unfrequently domesticated in Wermeland I heard of one that was so tame, that his master, a peasant, used occasionally to cause him stand at the back of his sledge when on a journey; but the fellow kept so good a balance, When the that it was next to impossible to upset him. vehicle went on one side, Bruin threw his weight the other way, and vice versa. One day, however, the peasant amused himself by driving over the very worst ground he could find, with the intention, if possible, of throwing the bear off his equilibrium; by which, at last, the animal got so irritated, that he fetched his master, who was in advance of him, a tremendous thump on the shoulder with his paw. This frightened the man so much, that he caused the beast to be killed immediately."-Vol. ii. p. 160.

This was Bruin joking; but to form an idea of him when enraged, we must take Mr Lloyd's account of a

rencounter between a bear and one of the best chasseurs The proceedings, after the cordon had been completed, are of Dalecarlia-Jans Svensson: thus narrated:

"On a certain occasion, himself and five or six other peasants had ringed a very large bear, which had previously been much hunted and shot at; when, placing his companions in ambush around the ring, he advanced alone upon the track of the animal, for the purpose of rousing him. Svens-ring which, from the quicksilver being little above zero, and son had a capital dog, which, the moment it was slipped from its couplings, dashed towards the bear, and soon had him on foot. As Svensson had anticipated, the beast made towards his companions, one of whom got a shot at and desperately wounded him in the side; the ball, indeed, only missed his heart by a few inches.

"For a while, all remained pretty quiet; but presently The bear is hunted both in summer and winter; but afterwards, the tremendous shouts of the people opposite to most frequently in the latter season. Indeed he is rarely us, and these, probably, at little more than two hundred pursued in summer, unless he has carried his attacks upon paces distance, together with the very hearty firing that was the cattle of the peasantry too far to make him any longer vouring to make their escape in that direction. The scene kept up, plainly told us the remaining bears were endea tolerable as a neighbour. In an event of this kind, the had now become very animating, for at one period we countpeasantry of the district are summoned to form a skalled no less than ten shots in the space of about a minute. a rising en masse-for the purpose of surrounding and driving the bears into a narrower space, where the huntsmen may have an opportunity of killing them-much after the fashion of the Highland "tinchal." Our author gives detailed accounts both of a winter and summer skall at which he was present. In the former, a cordon of men was drawn round a space, within which the bears were ascertained to have taken up their winter quarters.