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We anticipate the greatest benefit from this sensible and judicioid art, performance.Caledoniae might be improved by a man of genins and taste exerting himself to substitute new for old modes of practice, can, of all arts, house painting suredly stands in need of such purification From Mch a work, as Mr Hay's it is difficult to make a fair extract. We must content ourselves with recommending it to all gentlemen about to dietate the decorations of their houses."-Observer. "There is but This day is published, Embellished with Twenty-two Engravings, price 21s. cloth boards, By MAJOR LEITH HAY, F.R.S.E. Printed for DANTEL LIZARS, Edinburgh; WHITTAKER, TREACHER, and ARNOT, London; and W. CURRY, jun. and Co., Dublin. "This e is written in a very impartial and honest spirit, and, we may add in a very pleasant one. 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CURRY, jun. and Co., Dublin; HURST, CHANCE, and Co., St Paul's Churchyard; and EFFINGHAM WILSON, Royal Exchange, London; and by all Newsmen, Postmasters, and Clerks of the Roads throughout the United Kingdom. Price Ed.; or Stamped and sent free by post, 10d. Printed by BALLANTYNE & Co., Paul's Work, Canongate, Sir John Sinclair desires us to state, that in the narrative of a singular train of circumstances, connected with Mr Windham's excursion to Scotland, which has been quoted in this Journal, there are some mistakes, which it is proper to correct. He is assured, that it was another lady, and not Mrs Dick, who had an interview, first with Messrs Burke and Windham, and afterwards with Lord Melville. Mrs Dick, indeed, was then in the East Indies with her husband, He also finds that Doctor Dick did not owe his appointment to Lord Melville, and that he succeeded to Tullimet as a family inheritance. Even with these alterations, however, the narrative is peculiarly interesting. MEETINGS OF LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES DURING THE WEEK COMMENCING SATURDAY, 5TH FEBRUARY.-Wernerian Society-this day at two P. M. Royal Society-Monday, 7th February, at eight P. M. ART AND ARTISTS.-We learn from the Court Journal, that "until the accession of his present Majesty, the instructors of the Princess Victoria were nearly all German, but at present they are all English. Mr Westall superintends her studies in drawing." It is no doubt very gratifying to British artists to know, that the drawing. master of her Royal Highness is an Englishman. But since this is a matter of so much consequence, why select the most soulless mannerist of the whole native school?-Charles Heath exhibited at the last meeting of the Artists' Conversazione a number of drawings by Turner, together with the engravings from them, designed for the forthcoming numbers of "England and Wales," of which report speaks highly.-Thorwaldsen has completed a monument, which is meant to be erected in the Campo Santo of Pisa, to the memory of the celebrated surgical professor, Vacca Berlinghieri. It is a bassorelievo of four figures, and represents young Tobias effecting the cure of his father's blindness.-The exhibition of the works of French artists commences on the 1st of April (an ominous day) in the Louvre. At home here, Macdonald has completed his bust of Sir minors. The King's Theatre opens to-day. A new ballet is in active preparation, in which Taglioni will appear-the music by Costa.-Fazio, which was promised to the Edinburgh audience this week, has been delayed, in consequence, we believe, of Miss Jarman's indisposition,-Jones's benefit on Monday was, of course, a bumper. The play, "Wild Oats," is no great things; but the whole company were in excellent acting. Jones has since gone to Aberdeen to star it there. Walter Scott, and an admirable likeness of Mr James; Steele, a fine MONS. SURENNE begs to inform the Students bust of Dr Gordon, and a model of a fancy group, full of that delicate sensibility which is the most marked feature of his own character.Duncan has brought from Perth some fine portraits for the exhibition; he has out-strode our expectations.-Watson Gordon has a scene from the Talisman-the Knight of the Leopard's dog detecting the caitiff who had torn down the banner of England; and a fancy head of a lady, a fine sunny effect.-J. F. Williams has the best landscape he has yet painted. We learn that the sketches and drawings of the late ingenious Hugh W. Williams are to be sold by auction next week. The collection contains much that is valuable for the artist; and many, we have no doubt, will be anxious to purchase some relic out of regard to the man. The number of studies which Mr W. has left behind him afford proof of the unwearied diligence with which he laboured in his profession. CHIT-CHAT FROM PARIS.-Literature has not been much in vogue these few weeks, owing to the great interest taken in the Polish question, and the embarrassments under which our leading publishers are labouring. At the last sitting of the Académie des Sciences, Larry made an important communication respecting his method of curing some of the military wounded during the events of July, and the great difference in the consequences of gun wounds in the two parties; the soldiers' wounds assumed an unusual appearance, owing to the varied nature of the contents of guns fired upon them, while those of the citizens were such as all wounded have after a regular battle.-Baron Cuvier opened on the 4th his course of lectures, "Sur l'Histoire des Sciences Naturelles pendant le 18e siecle;" the lectures have been well attended.-The new doctrine, called Religion de St Simoinne, still continues to excite considerable interest. The number of converts is said to be very great.-Le Globe, last Tuesday, took the title of Journal de la Religion St Simoinne-the first page contained the Confession of Faith. -A work published within these few days, with the title of "La Fin du Monde, histoire du temps présent et des choses à venir, par Rey Dussueil," has excited discussion among our little literary men.— Lessing's Letters upon the Religion of 1829, have just been translated from the German, and published here.-The 5d volume of Berzelius's Chemistry, translated from the Swedish, has just appeared. His This was Theatrical Gossip.-The case of the large winter theatres against Mr Arnold is still in dependence before the Lord Chancellor. lordship does not seem to have merged the critic in the judge, for he interrupted the course of the argument, by asking what stock pieces had lately been produced at the large theatres? "I mean a play that is acted frequently-a rational comedy, such as the School for Scandal, fit for the amusement of men and women." rather a poser,-only we cannot see its connexion with the question upon which he is called to decide. It is gratifying, however, to see the importance of the drama so decidedly acknowledged. At the moment that the whole nation is gaping for reform, and the ministers consulting about the most eligible plan, a dispute occurs between two rival theatres, and the most able of our statesmen must leave the council-table to decide between them.-Macready has revived William Tell at Drury-Lane with great applause. Kean was to have appeared at that Theatre on Monday, as Richard III. So much for affecting farewells.-Some new trifles have been produced at the attending the University, that this day, at one o'clock, in the Lecture Room of Mr Liston and Dr Gregory, he will deliver Gratis the First LECTURE of his COURSE on FRENCH and ENGLISH COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY and LITERATURE. Prizes for the two best French Essays will be awarded at the end of the Course, Tickets for the Twenty Lectures forming the Course, One Guinea; and Gentlemen attending, or having attended, Mons. SURENNE, are entitled to a Gratis Ticket, This day is published, beautifully printed in post 8vo, THE ORIENTALIST; or, LETTERS of a RABBI. With NOTES. By JAMES NOBLE, Oriental Master in the Scottish Naval and Military Academy. -"Orient pearls at random strung." Printed for OLIVER & BOYD, Edinburgh; and SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, London. This day is published, price One Shilling, THE ABERDEEN MAGAZINE, No. II. CONTENTS. State of Education in Scotland, No. I.-Imitations of Horace, No. II.-Sketches of Davis's Strait, and an Account of the Disasters there, season 1850, by James Cumming-To Anne-The Dreamer, No. 1. To my Lyre-On the Ballot-The Land of Love Dreams, by Theta-Hay's Peninsular War-Defence of Earl Grey, Lord Brougham, and the Ministry, with Remarks-Scrap Books and Literary Albums-Grant's Beauties of Modern British Poetry-The Gazetteer versus Aberdeen-To Mary-Notes of the Month. Printed for LEWIS SMITH; and Sold by HENRY Constable, 19, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh. This day is published, OF THE MISREPRESENTATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE AND ANNALS FOR DECEMBER, 1830, IN ITS ATTACK UPON THE AUTHOR'S ELEMENTS OF PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY. By DAVID BOswell Reid, M.D., Experimental Assistant to Professor Hope, Conductor of the Classes of Practical Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, Lecturer on Chemistry to the Edinburgh School of Arts, and to the Leith Mechanics' Institution, Member of the Society of Arts, and of the Royal Physical Society, and formerly Senior President of the Royal Medical Society. Copies may be obtained, gratis, at the Publishers, opposite the College, and at the other Booksellers'. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CIV. Is published this day. CONTENTS. 1. East India Company-The China Question. 2. Dr Bowring's Poetical Translations-The Russian, Batavian, Polish, and Servian Anthologies, Ancient Poetry of Spain, and Poetry of the Magyars. 5. McCulloch's Principles of the Science of Political Economy. 4. On the Civil Disabilities of the Jews. 5. Comparative View of the Social Life of England and France. 6. Essays on the Pursuit of Truth, the Progress of Knowledge, and the Fundamental Principle of all Evidence and Expectation. 7. On the Capital Punishment of Forgery. 8. Novels Descriptive of Irish Life-The Croppy, The Denounced, The Collegians, Yesterday in Ireland, The Rivals. TYTLER'S HISTORY of SCOTLAND, Vols. I., 9. Sir Daniel Sandford's Translation of Thiersch's Greek Gram-II., and III., 8vo, each 12s. Vol. IV. will speedily appear. mar. 10. Life and Religious Opinions of Bishop Heber, and the Evangelical School-Life of Heber, by his Widow, Robinson's Last Days of Heber, Essays on the Lives of Cowper, Newton, and Heber. 11. Irish Courts of Quarter Sessions, and Assistant Barristers. 12. Sadler's Refutation of the Edinburgh Review, and New Proofs of his Theory of Population. 13. The Late and the Present Ministry. LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, and GREEN, London; and ADAM BLACK, Edinburgh. 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A SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED. PICTURES, PRINTS, AND DRAWINGS, OF THE LATE HUGH WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Esq. This day is published, CATALOGUE of SKETCHES, DRAWINGS, PRINTS, and PICTURES, (including PICTURES by portion of the Works of the late HUGH WILLIAM WILLIAMS, SALVATOR ROSA, BOTH, SQUARCIONE, GIORGIONE, &c.) being a Esq. Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr C. B. TAIT, in his GREAT ROOM, No. 11, HANOVER STREET, on MONDAY FIRST, February 7, and Six following Days, (Sunday excepted,) at One o'clock. Catalogues, price One Shilling, to be had at the place of Sale, 11, HANOVER STREET. Edinburgh: Published for the Proprietors, every Saturday Morning, by JOHN AITKEN, (of CONSTABLE & Co.) 19, WATERLOO PLACE; Sold also by THOMAS ATKINSON & Co., 84, Trongate, Glasgow; W. CURRY, jun. and Co., Dublin; HURST, CHANCE, and Co., St Paul's Churchyard; and EFFINGHAM WILSON, Royal Exchange, London; and by all Newsmen, Postmasters, and Clerks of the Roads throughout the United Kingdom. Price 6d. ; or Stamped and sent free by post, 10d. Printed by BALLANTYNE & Co., Paul's Work, Canongate. respondent's letter.-Having spoken at length elsewhere of Cinderella, as performed at our own theatre, we have this week no further theatrical novelties. MON. TUES. NEW EDITION OF SIR JOHN SINCLAIR'S STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND.-Sir John has, with that generosity which has ever distinguished him, presented the copyright of his valuable work to the Society for the Benefit of the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy; and these gentlemen are about to publish a new edition of it. Their prospectus, and a circular letter addressed to the clergy of Scotland, are now before us. From them we learn that arrangements have SAT. been made with the publisher, in consequence of which the Society's funds are secured against loss. The circular letter is an energetic and unaffected appeal to our parochial clergy, calling upon them to lend their effective aid to a work which has already produced so much benefit to the country at large, and to their own order in particular; and which is now published for the behoof of a fund in which all of them have so near an interest. Could we conceive it necessary, we should join in this exhortation, and also in emphatically recommending such a work to public patronage. Forty years have now elapsed since the first edition was commenced, and in that brief but busy period, much of its matter has already become obsolete. The parochial divisions have again been adopted, and are, upon the whole, considering the nature of the work, the best. But a very material improvement is the distribution of the different parishes under their respective counties, and their arrangement, as nearly as possible, according to their proximity in situation. The gentlemen who subscribe the circular letter by authority of the Society are names of good augury. We find among them Lord Moncrieff, Principal Baird, the Lord Advocate, Drs Chalmers, Inglis, Andrew Thomson, and Gordon, and the Dean of Faculty, Mr Hope. But a yet surer ground of reliance is our confidence in the gentlemen in whose hands the labouring oar has been placed, and in the talents of our church. The new edition will be much less voluminous than the former; not exceeding nine, or at the most ten volumes. It is to be published in quarterly parts-three forming a volume. WEEKLY LIST OF PERFORMANCES. A Bold Stroke for a Husband, He Lies like Truth, & Per Cinderella, & The Robber's Wife. Do. & The White Phantom. Do. & A Roland for an Oliver. Do. & Perfection. Do. & The Bee Hive. TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS. A PAUL PRY sort of correspondent wishes to penetrate the secret of our theatrical arrangements. The office has for a time, like the great seal upon the change of a Ministry, been put into commission. -" C. M. S.," "J. S.," "J. B.,” “ A. M‘K.,” “ M.,” “ W. S.," "M.," of Arbroath, and "G. B.," will not answer.-Mary Scott evinces natural taste, but is too diffuse and unequal.-The authors of Maggie Rouat,' "A Sketch of the Deep," and of the poem, entitled a "Dirge," shall hear further from us.-Some papers have gone amissing in the transference of a certain box. [No. 118, February 12, 1831.] #ADVERTISEMENTS, Connected with Literature, Science, and the Arts. SCOTTISH ACADEMY OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE, THE FIFTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the ACADEMY, for the WORKS of LIVING ARTISTS, will 24, WATERLOO PLACE. By order of the Council, D. O. HILL, Secretary DR ANDREW THOMSON.-A Sudden death has deprived us of one of the most talented members of the church of Scotland, and undoubtedly of the most active and indefatigable in the discharge of his duties, as well in the parish committed to his charge, as in the church courts. The most prominent features of Dr Thomson's character, were energy and fearless honesty. An uncompromising advocate of what he be-Op en on Saturday, the 19th instant, at the Room of the Academy lieved to be right, we know he occasionally jarred the nerves of sensitive opponents. But his violence was merely excess of energy-it never was malignant. And we know that in the discharge of his more private and noiseless duties, he evinced, by the beds of the sick and dying, the warmest heart, and the most delicate sympathy. Thomson's mind was not peculiarly distinguished, for a man of his eminence, by depth or subtlety,-it partook more of that power which marked his whole character. The field of his fame was in the debateable ground of a public meeting. It was there that his clear and definite views of a question-his powers of illustration, of argument, of humour, and sarcasm-had free scope. He was master of his subjeet, and dallied with his adversaries, as the eagle delights to buffet the opposing wind. His written compositions, although far above mediocrity, were more laboured, and less powerful. Ile was one of the few who know to reconcile an independent and chainless mind Dr to true feelings of devotion. He evinced equal judgment in the happy discrimination betwixt serious religious sentiment and vague morbid enthusiasm. He has left his place empty, and it will not easily be filled up. LE LOUVRE ECOSSAIS, 68, GEORGE STREET. Numerous and valuable additions being united to the late Exhibition of PAINTINGS, THESE ROOMS are again Open, and the Col lection now contains above Four Hundred PAINTINGS, chiefly by the Ancient Masters of the various schools, in addition to the Chef d'Euvres (including the enamel-surpassing Exhumated Heads, by Legozio, unique, indescribable, and inimitable, so unexaggeratedly natural, and incomparably horrible, yet lovely in decay, and beautiful in their beau-ideal of corruption) which have been already exhibited, there may now be noticed many superb works, which have been procured, owing to the late patriotic movements in the Netherlands, &c., and from private Collections in England. Admission from 11 to 5 o'clock, Is. each. Tickets for three months from this date, 5s., and to former sub scribers 4s. Artists are admitted gratis, as formerly, from 9 to 11. WILSON'S AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY, CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY, THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY 4 1511ev OF MR WILLIAM RITCHIE. Since our last Number went to press, this gentleman, one of the original editors of the Scotsman newspaper, has been taken from his friends. We consider it our duty, as chroniclers of all events connected with literature, to take notice of this event, because the paper, of which Mr Ritchie was a joint conductor, has always devoted much attention to science and literature, and still more, because it was the first paper that set the example of a more free and intellectual tone in its discussions. The sensation produced by the Scotsman, during the first years of its career, was prodigious; and if it be now less talked of, this is owing to the greater efforts which its success has obliged its rivals to make... Mr Ritchie possessed a naturally strong mind, which he cultivated assiduously. He was a conscientious man, and a true friend. He and his coadjutors could make the proud boast, that while their paper never shrunk from the honest and decided expression of their opi- Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, nions, it passed through a period of the most virulent party-spirit, jealously watched, without having been accused, except in one instance, (and that a trifling and pardonable ebullition of momentary exasperation,) of having indulged in such a personal reflection as our sufficiently watchful law could lay hold of. Theatrical Gossip.-The cause of Westmacott v. Kemble is set down for the 10th instant, to come on in the court of King's Bench. The appeal in the great Covent Garden cause, Harris . Kemble, is expected to be heard in the House of Lords on the 18th. The stage has long enough cracked its jokes at the expense of the lawyers, -it is now the turn of the latter.-In the course of the year 1830, there were brought out, in the various theatres of Paris, 169 new pieces: viz. 7 tragedies, 13 dramas, 31 comedies, 16 operas, 28 melodramas, 72 vaudevilles, and 2 pantomimes. 114 authors, and 9 composers, furnished this mass of works.-Our readers will find all that is of consequence of London theatrical intelligence in our cor ALEXANDER WILSON, AND CHARLES LUCIEN WITH NOTES AND ADDITIONS, &c. &c. &c. In Four Volumes. Price 35. 6d. each Volume.-Fine paper, 5s.-Royal paper, 6s. ***This Edition of the above highly interesting Works will contain the whole literary contents of twelve volumes quarto, and will still farther be increased in value by numerous Additions and Improvements by Professor JAMESON. The original and only Editions consequently, of much less frequency than their merits deserve. have rarely been sold in this country under forty guineas; and are, The Proprietors of Constable's Miscellany therefore trust, that by putting such important and valuable Works, without curtailment, and in an improved state, within the reach of every person, they are performing an essential service, not merely to the student of natural history, but to the general reader. The New LIFE of WILSON, from the pen of a distinguished Poet, will be added. Edinburgh: Printed for CONSTABLE and Co,; and HURST, CHANCE, and Co., London. |