POETRY. In this case the alternate motion of levers, | order; but the fact generally asserted merely ( either vertical or horizontal, gives impulse to is, that a dog on which this operation has been wheels, so that waggons of the largest construc-performed, will not bite, though he should aftertion may be put in motion either by easy man-wards become mad. A certain author affirms, What is it? Proteus like and fruitful, ual labour, or by steam; and thus the number that three dogs on which this experiment had Building incessant on the cloud's dim edge of horses may soon be dispensed with. been tried, having been bitten at three different Aerial palaces, and gilding them DOMESTIC USE OF GAS LIGHTS.-The time times, died of the disorder without ever at With all the glowing hues of fancy's dream. and attention of our mechanists seem now much tempting to bite. Wishing to obtain a more Adorning sable, rough realities, occupied in devising convenient modes of ap- decisive result, he confined one of these ani- The autumnal mist, the wintry sepulchre plying Gas to all domestic purposes of orna-mals whilst in a state of madness, with another In Spring's sweet blossoms and the Summer's breath. ment and use. Amongst these, Mr. Reddell, dog. The mad dog several times attempted to the Engineer, has obtained a patent for the bite the other, but his tongue was swelled to Can she do this? Imagination, hail! construction of chandeliers, lustres, &c. so as such a degree that he could not possibly close Thou art indeed the friend of human life: to render the lighting of public places, and his teeth. The healthy dog was confined with When riches, pomp and power diminish, drawing-rooms more facile, and more agreeable the mad one until the death of the latter, and Thou canst illumine the deserted mind, in its operation than by any mode hitherto though he was carefully watched for two years Give the ascetic's cell the ray of Heaven, adopted. His principle is to attach pipes to afterwards, he never betrayed any symptoms of Cheer the benighted traveller on the heath, To Solitude impart the smile of mirth, every burner, which shall have a communi- hydrophobia. cation with the atmosphere outside of the The three following instances have come Lend lustre to the gloomy taper's beam, apartment or theatre, by means of which all within the knowledge of our Correspondent, and Employ the dreary hour of sleepless night, superabundant gas, and all the gases generated he communicates them with the view of giving And bid the wakeful pillow teem with rapture. by combustion, may be carried off, thus guard-general encouragement to the practice which Oh! yes,--and lovely are the visions ing against all ill consequences from the escape we have just mentioned. Of lonely loiterer in the leafless wood; of gas, or from its unpleasant smell. No sounds, no echoes break upon the ear Save shrivell'd foliage rustling at the tread, Or humble warbler on the naked bough. To pensive wand'rers on the river-side Apollo's lute breathes in the rippling stream; The mossy bank-the beam, though transient, Suggest a rapt'rous, an elysian glance, Till soul, sense, feeling yield to the delight. M. FOOD PRESERVED IN SEA VOYAGES.-A new method is now proposed for that important object, and a patent obtained for it. The principle is PRESSURE; by means of which the double object of space and preservation is gained. The inventor is a captain in the Swedish navy. ous earthenware. The fact itself is valuable not only to confectioners and private families at home, but also the residents in the hottest climes. The absorbent powder recovers all its qualities, after operation, if dried in the sun, or before a fire. SPECIFIC GRAVITIES.-A new table of the specific gravities of the Gases, has been formed by GAY-LUSSAC; by which it appears that the heaviest is the vapour of hydriodic ether, five times heavier than atmospheric air, and the lightest phosphuretted hydrogen. A terrier bitch on which this operation had IN FINE ARTS. REVIEW OF PAINTINGS THE EXHIBITION OF OIL AND WATER CO- (Continued.) ARTIFICIAL CONGELATION.--New theories of Chemistry and Geology may now be expected to start up from the recent discoveries of Professor Leslie, whose frigorific process by absorption surpasses in rapidity and power any thing that evaporation can produce. He has lately ascertained that the congealing power is not confined to the absorbent earths, par- A spaniel was bitten on the lip by a mad ticularly the porphyritic trap, but that oatmeal dog. This spaniel was a favorite of its master; is capable of producing the same effects, by every remedy was therefore tried and every Mr. JOSHUA CRISTALL has four pictures in spreading about two quarts of it on a large necessary precaution observed. On the four-water colours, besides the two in oil, which dish and putting it in an exhausted receiver, teenth day he refused food, and his became eyes when it will freeze nearly a pint of water in a heavy; on the following day he made useless we formerly noticed in this Exhibition. No. few minutes; the latter being in a pot of por-efforts to drink some milk. His tongue then 239. "A Landscape with figures," is an began to swell, he scarcely ever moved, and Arcadian scene, of a small size, and as pure died three days afterwards. During the few a gem as we have seen from the classical last hours of his existence his tongue became so pencil of this admired artist. It is conceived swelled as to prevent his canine teeth from in the spirit of Virgil himself. A young closing by the space of an inch. Shepherd is seated on a bank near a shady Some time after this, a pack of hounds belong-grove, playing upon his pipe: an old Man ing to the same gentleman were sold. Hydro- reposes beside him, listening: a young Girl, phobia broke out in the kennel of a gentleman at some distance before him, leans forward who had purchased some of these animals; from her seat, with one hand on the shoulder several became mad, but only one attempted to of a beautiful boy, as if about to prevent him bite. This was a dog whose worm had been from disturbing the rural musician. The broken in the operation, and who by his strug-young man and boy are delicately undraped, gles had prevented it from being completely after the primeval fashion. The infinite extirpated. The rest died with symptoms similar to those which have been related of the grace, gentleness and natural turn of this terrier and spaniel; namely, swelling of the exquisite group; and the air of innocence tongue and stupor, which rendered them mo- and peace, which they breathe, are beyond tionless. The intensity of these symptoms con- our feeble powers of description. Our adtinued to augment until the death of the ani- miration of beauty in a work of art has no relation to the time of its production, or the Since it is important that the advantages of name of the artist; and our deep sense of this experiment should be made known, it is merit in the works of the Old Masters, has likewise useful to explain the process by which only taught us more justly to appreciate the A Naturalist has favoured us with some ob- it is performed. The thin skin which covers genius of the Moderns. There is an eleservations on Canine Madness, which, from the worm is removed by means of a lancet from their utility, cannot fail to prove interesting. the tongue of the dog whilst young. A coarse gance in this group, not inferior to that prePliny recommends the extraction of the worm needle is introduced below the centre of the vailing attraction in the figures of Parmifrom a dog's mouth as a precaution against worm; the end of which is forced out and giano, without any of the affectation which the effects of madness; and from his time down seized with a piece of cloth, the remainder is is sometimes found in the works of that to the present day, much reliance has been then easily extracted. Great care must be bewitching master. This fine feeling is placed in the virtue of this operation. Many taken, lest the worm should break in the opera combined with an antique simplicity, with satisfactory proofs of its utility are on record; tion; but this rarely happens, unless it has been out any of those angular lines, or that drybut its efficacy has doubtless been exaggerated. cut by the lancet or pierced by the needle. ness, which not unfrequently intermingles It has been erroneously supposed, that this with the grandeur of Nicolas Poussin. A Shepherd stands at some distance attending A Tyrolian has lately invented at Vienna a machine for Needle-work, by which it is said every kind of sewing may be executed with the utmost precision. The Emperor of Austria has granted a patent to the inventor. Should these mechanical perfections make much farther advancement, every thing in the world will shortly be executed by machines. CANINE MADNESS. precaution would completely remove the dis mals. his sheep and goats. 66 Lofty hills richly | agreeably wooded, ascend on each side. Be-light will, immediately, by comparison with varied, groves, and woods, and falling waters; tween their declivities, the light gently the white paper, appear of a brownish yellow. mountains piercing the clouds, and a cool sparkles on descending streams; and sheep Every part is kept up by the force of virgin tranquil sky, form the romantic scenery to and goats wander upon their verdant heights. tints to the top of the scale. Those appallthis delicious composition.-No. 247. by the In a lofty opening above the hills in the ing shadows, which combine richness and same artist, is another small pastoral com- middle ground, a distant mountain lifts its transparency, with the force of blackness, position; a lovely group of figures in a triple head, in broad light, above the clouds. give this preternatural brilliancy to the lourcharming landscape.-No. 273. Puckester, A clustre of oaks rises on the foreground ing light upon the sky and figures. Every Isle of Wight." The sea-shore, here, is near Latona: and somewhat behind them, a tint is a connected link; upon that great crowded with marine lumber, fishermen, number of stone-pines. The opposite side master's principle, illustrated by a bunch of and rustics; and the water with boats and of the picture is, also, wooded, and a gigantic grapes, upon which the bright hues rise vessels. Although the characters are from oak, whose top has unfortunately been lopped into opposition in the light, and sink into common life, the correct taste of the artist by the axe, is a prominent object here. The mellow union in the shade. The warmest has excluded every thing coarse and vulgar. foreground is broken in a fine taste; and en- colours, at their highest point, are linked to Without being raised above their class, they riched by the irregular windings of the the coldest colours of the same elevation, by acquire a certain relative charm, from their stream, with a profusion of wild flowers and shadows of the utmost breadth and power. simple truth, tasteful disposition, and the aquatic plants. There is a grandeur in the All is relative; all in majestic harmony! pleasing combinations, with which they are whole scene, which entitles it to a class in The jarring elements, the fierce extremes of associated. Considered singly, without any Italian composition, without exhibiting any colour, are blended into one tremendous reference to light and shadow, these groups imitation of Titian, the Carracci, Domeni-tone of glory, worthy of a celestial vision and afford many instances of this grace of asso- chino, or the other painters of heroic land- the fall of a martyr. We speak not here of ciation or composition, although the colour-scape in that school. the lineal grandeur; of the expression of ing is somewhat dusky, and the visionary This fine performance is exhibited before the dying saint; of the assassin about to reobscurity of the whole monotonous.-273. the artist had time to give it the last mel-peat his blow; of that giant figure, that "A Gleaner." This sun-burnt beauty is lowings and final consideration. What is image of terror and sorrow and indignation; seated on a bank in the harvest-field; adorn-done, is done in a classical style; and the whose outline co-mates with the mighty ed with that attractive simplicity, which masses are in progress, bright and bold, in style of Michael Angelo; whose swift feet are never deserts the pencil of Cristall. A group a fine state for glazing into sobriety and escaping from the hand of violence; whose of her companions, in the middle ground, union. To those who have inconsiderately drapery and hair are blown abroad; whose are going home with their gleanings. The remarked on this point, we may be allowed countenance and voice are lifted up cleaving landscape is rich, and the whole invention to reply that GIORGIONE and all the great the heavens with a cry for vengeance on the tasteful; but the effect would be clearer if Venetian Colourists, obtained their deep-guilty criminals. We pass too those rapid the shadows were more forcible. This, and toned splendour by beginning with bright-horsemen, the murderers, already in the the three preceding subjects, are painted by ness, and afterwards toning down. Their mind of the spectator, pursued by the reMr. Cristall in transparent water-colours, darkest shadows acquire their glowing trans- morse of their crime, and half seen in their with a broad mellow touch, and the negli-parency from their being all laid upon a burn-flight through the distant openings of the gent freedom of a master. There is,ining basis. By this principle, TITIAN not only forest. Our present business is not with the some parts of them, a disdainful spirit, as if made his flesh think and palpitate with tragic story, but with the colouring. We the artist's mind was too much occupied passion; but infused a living spirit into would fain, with reverence, approach Titian, with the fine feeling and general effect of the elements, and made the earth, air, fire the Prince of Painting, in his omnipotent his subject, to attend to the mere niceties of and water, work miracles, in his immortal circle. We have, all this time, had our eye handling. In all the important essentials, creations. We shall advert to an example upon the noble picture of Latona and the generally speaking, his works in water- of his style, as an illustration of the subject Lycian Peasants, by Cristall, a picture which colours are of the very first class. They before us. The bright scarlet drapery on the breathes the pure inspiration of Poetry. It "Play round the head and gently warm the stooping Murderer in the Martyrdom of St. is in mental communion with this Artist's heart"Peter the Dominican in the forest, acquires candour, that we have attempted, with more They are drawn in a fine style; but we can- the gleaming force of live fuel from the mid-zeal than ability, to unravel that spell by not help thinking that somewhat of a more night shadows to which it is opposed. Its re- which the immortal Venetian has spread his distinct marking, a sharper touch in the lative power invigorates and chastens the enchantment over the world. In brief reheads and extremities, would add to their deep sanguine tints of the flesh; which, petition, then, it is the relative principle; the beauty. These parts are distinct and sharp without its superior force, would be too principle of diffusion; the dauntless oppoin nature, without being edgy or hard; and violent. Like the key-stone of an arch, it is sition of the two most powerful tones; the no person knows better than this eminent the support of the whole system. To this magic union of the day and night of colour artist, that a due mixture of sharpness and all the carnations, and warm colours are and effect, by the most forcible chiaro-scuro; softness, a golden mean between a woolly painted up; and as the heart communicates it is this irresistible combination which and wirey penciling, is a chief excellence in vital heat to the extremities, it diffuses a forms the soul and body of those astonishing the execution of a fine picture. burning glow through all their gradations. masses. The colouring and effect have all In our communication of the 3rd of May, Its intense brightness enabled the Painter the impassioned sentiment and sublimity of we gave a critical description of a main part to give the utmost force to the subordinate which colouring and effect are capable. of MR. CRISTALL'S grand historical painting assimilations; and their participation of its All the terrible imaginings and thronging in oil colours, of Latona and the Lycian Pea- vigor, prevented it from appearing isolated. shapes of alarm, with which Nature and We now, according to our promise, The cool colours are all invigorated by the Shakspeare invest the hour of loneliness and resume our observations on that important same principle of relative diffusion. They obscurity, are awakened by the dark recesses picture. The group of the clowns occupies are painted up to the high key of a deep of that prospect. There is a conjunction of the principal centre of the foreground on a dark purple in the drapery, scarcely discerni- opposites in the scenery; of loveliness and line with Latona and her twins, the young ble from black. This stormy hue is dif- horror, of wild grandeur and beauty, someApollo and Diana. These two groups we fused in a solemn purplish tinge through all what like the conjunct effect in Milton's have already described. A third, composed the blueish hues of the sky, and distant" darkness visible," and "dark with excessive of an old Shepherd, leaning on his staff, mountains. The depth is inconceivable. bright," or "excess of light."It produces with two younger sitting beside him, is seen An easy experiment will prove to a student an indescribable movement of melancholy on an elevation in the middle ground, look-that the force of this astonishing picture is eagerness; a joyful sadness, or mournful ing down on the actors below. The design of wholly relative. If a piece of white paper be pleasure which absorbs the soul! Before the landscape is worthy of the noble com- placed near the brightest light on the dra- other pictures men have leisure to express position. Jutting steeps and hills upon hills, pery of the escaping figure, that brilliant their opinions; but before this chef d'œuvre sants. of Titian, the spirits admit of but one impulse. We feel the impression of a superior power; and our eyes are fixed in silence. the balance of cool and warm colours, are under a burning sun; and with Ovid's de- 66 cum Sol gravis ureret arva, Finibus in Lyciæ longo Dea fessa labore Siderea siccata sitim collegit ab æstu.” in Phædra and Hippolytus, formed an epoch in the French school of painting, and justly merited the sensation it produced. The art of We are not among those who would aspainting, perhaps, never arrived at a more procend into vision with the spirits of the illusfound study of the human heart; the play of the trious dead, to descend upon earth as ma- If the foliage of one of the young oaks, delineated. In the picture of Eneas and Dido, passions was, perhaps, never before so correctly ligners of living Genius; nor have we emwhich rises with so much grace of form, near pannelled the golden Age of Leo to defame Latona, was of a deep sun-burnt, ruddy hue, M: Guerin's object seems not to have been to the age in which we live. We now return, with rich gradations of embrowned purple, turesque situations arising out of opposite senpaint the movements of the soul and the picaltogether, to the colouring of CRISTALL'S golden yellow, and orange shades, such as timents. It is evident, from the choice of his noble picture. In our former communica- we see in autumn even in this country, it subject, the finish which he has bestowed upon tion, we attempted to detail the beauties of would be more in conformity with the cli-it, the multiplicity of the details, and the minute the composition. The artist has made the mate of Curia and Ovid's description. Upon care with which he has executed them, that the crimson of Latona's close drapery the key to such a broad mass of assimilating hues, the mechanical part of his art, the imitation of his carnations and other warm hues: and bright carnations and red draperies, would nature, has on this occasion formed the chief the bright blue in her mantle, the key to his harmoniously subside into union with the sha-object of his labours, and that the moral part, cold colours. This fine principle was observed dowy olive tints of the landscape. On the that which describes the soul, has been regarded by Titian, with all the gay and tender semi- other side of the picture, a similar mass of only in a secondary point of view. Many persons will compliment him on the preference tints and tones of harmony, in the joyous auxiliaries might equally contribute to the which he has given to this kind of perfection, splendor of his Bacchus and Ariadne. He general tranquillity. If the lopped oak pos- the production of which, in their eyes, constithere introduced a bright, mellow blue in the sessed its lofty head and foliage of the same tutes real talent in painting. It is, however, to sky, and sea, and scarf of Ariadne; and the deep sun-burnt, ruddy hue, with rich grada- be regretted, that in the picture exhibited this red in the other draperies. But in this, and tions of embrowned purple, and orange year at the Salon, M. Guerin has not endeathe Martyrdom in the Forest, Titian not only shades, mellowed into union with the warm voured to excite some recollection of the great sustained his powerful carnations by the verdure of the landscape, there would be a events which compose the recital of the Trojan scarlet, orange, and purple draperies; but by sufficient quantity of intermediate assimila-here; nor painted in the features, in the eyes assimilating masses of rich, reddish, embrowned tions in the back ground, to harmonize all and on the lips of the Queen of Carthage, the purple, and deep orange shadows in the broad the bright flesh tints and crimson draperies, flame which the perfidious darts of the Cupidsun-burnt foliage and herbage of the landscape. with the cold colours. Even if the whole Ascanius had kindled within her bosom; or, These burning autumnal hues, distributed as were toned upon its present basis, we appre-which is attached to the person and tragical a word, realized that idea of violent passion, auxiliaries, in his back-ground, served to hend, owing to the small quantity of golden fate of Dido. diffuse, support, and harmonize the sanguine and ruddy hues in the scenery, that the op- The amateur, whose imagination is elevated brilliancy of his flesh tints, which, without positions would still be somewhat too abrupt, by reading the first book of the Æneid, will be them, would have appeared harsh and exag- and the repose imperfect. But we submit M. Guerin's picture the fine images of the the quantity of cold colours preponderant, somewhat disappointed, if he expect to find in gerated. The principle of relative diffusion; these opinions with due diffidence. These Latin poet. On beholding a vaporous sky, an practised by Mr. Cristall; but, in the pre-do not lessen the merits of the composition rays of the sun, he will not be tempted to exmatters, which relate merely to the surface, atmosphere which seems to volatilize the last sent state of the picture, not carried as far as the classical elevation of the design requires. of this commanding picture; and may be claim: The grace and majesty with which the easily effected by an artist of Mr. Cristall's artist has cloathed Latona and her celestial powers. The colouring is in progress; the Præcipitat suadentque cadentia sidera somnos.” Children, demand a noble tranquillity in the penciling broad and firm; the whole con- When he observes on the forehead of the Queen effect, a grand classical splendor in the tone. ception original; and the classical choice of of Carthage a calmness and serenity, which There is a grandeur in the principle of the the subject, with the grandeur and sensi- perfectly harmonize with the coldness of the oppositions, but there is not a sufficient bility of its treatment, have obtained it a Trojan hero, he will not repeat with Virgil: depth of chiaro-scuro to bind them into union, foremost distinction in the public mind. In " Infelix Dido, longumque bibebat amorem,” in their highest force. The gradations of the Royal Academy, and in the Spring Garconnexion in the cool, are better kept up Stothard, only, have any work of fancy or den show of paintings, this year, West and and more harmonious, than in the warm colours. The bright blue in Latona's mantle history to class with it. The ever-welling is duly harmonized with the landscape, by stream of the painter's poetical feeling flows In all that rethe same colours being spread in the blue here in a majestic tide. draperies of the Peasants; in the blue-ish lates to the sentiment, invention, character, tints of the streams, distant mountains, sky, grouping, drawing, and design, he has been and cold green in the stone-pines. But the eminently successful; and this noble specibright crimson in the draperies, and the san- men of historical art is not only an object of guine carnations, are not sufficiently diffused first notice in the exhibition room; but an and sustained by the small quantity of red honor to the society of exhibitors and the in the poppy, the tall reddish and purple flowers; and earthy hues of the landscape. An accessary in color, which from want of quantity or depth, fails to act as an auxiliary, must become a spot, and an unfriendly diversion of attention from the principal mass, which it was meant to support. There is, also, as we have already noticed, a want of shadowy masses, of a sufficient depth of chiaroscuro, to reconcile and bind together the warm and cold colors in their points of extreme force. The sanguine vigor of the carnations is perfectly in character with the scorched complexion of peasants laboring in the open fields, in a hot country; with the long wandering of Latona and her children, artist. ENEAS AND BIDO. W.C. We have already noticed the opening of the Salon, and shall occasionally offer remarks on some of the principal pictures exhibited there. We begin by noticing the large picture of Eneas and Dido, which has excited much interest in Paris. &c. &c. Et jam nox humida cœlo which Dido abandons one of her hands to the caresses of the false Ascanius, he will not recognize the Dido of the Æueid. On beholding the absent negligence with ..Hæc oculis, hæc pectore toto Hæret, et interdum gremio fovet inscia Dido," &c. &c. Finally, he will look vainly around her for the splendor of that court which is so pompously described by Virgil. It would, however, be unjust to reproach M. Guerin for not having conformed exactly to the text of the Æneid. The painter is not the slave of the poet, and is privileged to treat a subject very differently from him who created it. M. Guerin composed this picture under the empire of another kind of inspiration from that which dictated the Eneid, and if his Dido be not that of Virgil, she nevertheless merits a very distingnished rank among the productions of the arts. M. Guerin's picture of Æneas and Dido seems the genius of this learned artist was not until to the Epic or Dramatic class, but to that of to be the result of a species of study to which The conception of this work belongs neither now directed. M. Guerin has hitherto been descriptive poetry. The object of the painter distinguished as the creator of a style to which was to make the spectator sensible of that pure we may apply the term dramatic painting. The fidelity of expression which he infused into one of the finest productions of tragic genius, has called forth universal admiration. The picture, delight produced by the influence of a fine sky, calmness and serenity of mind, and a combination of all that enchants the imagination in ideas of taste and elegance. A Queen adorned PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED with the double charms of beauty and a diadem, scene; but recovered and performed with | Charles stood in Fop's Alley, Charlotte reposing on a sumptuous couch, and negli- great feeling and beauty of discrimination. sat in a lower box. Charles stared at her gently yielding to the caresses of a lovely child; Miss Stephens sung the airs in the part of with astonishment-he wondered how a young hero seated before her, clad in the most Ophelia with exquisite pathos. She was costly garments; the mild majesty which much applauded through the night. Mr. any lady could expose a seamed forehead breathes from every feature of their counte- Sinclair was encored in the song of "Love for the sake of displaying an arched eyenances; the clear African sky, reddened by the last rays of twilight; a back-ground which, in among the roses;" the play was followed by brow. She too stared at Charles with the words of Fenelon, forms" un horizon à No Song No Supper, and a new pastoral di- amazement-She could not conceive any souhait pour le plaisir des yeux,”—such are the vertisement. On Thursday night, the Apos- young gentleman so weak as to throw off images of which M. Guerin has composed his tate was performed, with the after-piece of the semblance of a human being, merely Poem; he probably thought that the stormy the Libertine. because his cheeks were prolific of superpassions of the human heart ought not to find a ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.-The Manager fluous hair. They caught each other place in such a subject, and was fearful of commenced the season, at this theatre, on troubling by any powerful emotion the trans- last Saturday night, with the comedy of gazing, but each mistook the cause; porting calmness into which he wished to plunge The Election," judiciously altered and both thought it arose from admiration at the spectator. curtailed from the published play, written by their respective embellishments; and Miss Joanna Baillie; and the after-piece of every moment, therefore, their mutual "Is he jealous.”—The plays of Miss Baillie glances became more soft and expressive. are so well known as to preclude the neces-Charlotte began to think that the whiskers OXFORD.-The examinations for Easter Term sity of particular comments. The extreme having now completely closed, it appears that length of the Election rendered it unfit for were not so very very frightful; and the number of candidates to whom testimonials the stage, as it was originally written; and Charles fairly confessed, that no sacrifice were given for their degrees by the public ex- although much good sense and skill have of forehead could be too great for such aminers, but who were not admitted into any been manifested in the alterations, some of praiseworthy eyebrows. of the classes, amounted to 64; whilst the ma- the defects in the dialogue and characters This gazing affair had now been retriculations were 78. remain. It met with a few slight marks of newed, on every feasible occasion, upThe degree of D. D. has been conferred on disapprobation; but was altogether well re-wards of a month. It was a delightful the Rev. J. K. Fletcher, B. D. St. Alban's ceived, and has been since several times reHall; of M. A. upon the Hon. W. L. Bathurst, peated. The manager has made a laudable and refreshing recreation to both parties; Fellow of All Souls; Revds. W. Hildyard and exertion to strengthen his company; and we for neither had ever before experienced J. Abbiss, Scholar, both of Trinity; and Mr. shall take an early opportunity to notice the the transport that results from being W. S. Philips, Scholar, of ditto; Mr. Anstey merits of the performers. We were happy, stared tenderly out of countenance. At is elected Scholar of Trinity; and Mr. Dyer of Christchurch, an Exhibitioner of Trinity. Mr. among some others, to see our favourite Miss length an opportunity of introduction P. Price of Jesus, is also elected a Scholar of KELLY, although her character is much occurred-They addressed each other over-done in the text. Her gentle simplicity with indescribable tumults of soul, and in the Maid and Magpie, and her play that Society. CAMBRIDGE.-The Chancellor's Gold Medal, for the best English Poem--Jerusalem-is ad ful genuine truth of nature in the Inn- said things which only wanted handsome judged to H. Townshend, Esq. Fellow Com-keeper's Daughter, are the standard of her mouths to render them infinitely sweet. moner of Trinity. style; and wholly free from affectation or But love laughs when ugliness grows The Fitzwilliam Museum is increasing by vulgarity. The embellishments of the House romantic. gifts from various quarters, and has recently have received considerable improvement, received several Grecian and Egyptian curios- with an exception in the pannels, at the ities from the Rev. Dr. F. Lee, of St. John's, back of the pit, which are somewhat comconsisting of a torso of Isis in green basalt, a mon-place and heavy. stole of verde antique, and some small figures of Osiris. THE DRAMA. W.C. SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. THE WHISKERS. Another month saw their courtship at its height; and the whiskers, which had done so much, larger than ever. People endowed with regular features may be at a loss to conceive, how persons who are perfect frights can bandy physiognomical compliments; but nothing is easier; Charles and Charlotte were young and, in fact, Charles had managed the DRURY LANE. On last Tuesday night, at this theatre, Mrs. Alsop, for her own benefit, persons of high fashion; and inexpress-matter so well, that Charlotte began to played Miss Hoyden, in the Trip to Scar-ibly ugly without knowing it. At times, consider herself capable of captivating borough, Nell, in the Devil to Pay, and Lady perhaps, some suspicions of the sort much handsomer men than he. A forContest in the Wedding-Day. The house intruded themselves; but as both were tune left to her about this time, confirmwas full, and she received much merited ap- of happy tempers and moral conduct, ed her in the supposition; as a charming plause. On Wednesday night were per- they made a principle to banish all fellow, without a sixpence, or even a formed for the benefit of several Actors, ideas which might make them dissatisfied beard, laid immediate siege to her heart. Bickerstaff's Comedy of the Hypocrite; Sprigs with their lot. Besides, the most ordiof Laurel, and a new afterpiece called Incog., In short, he carried it; and she deteror Three Days at a well-known Hotel. On nary mortals still possess some favorite mined to break with Charles. Being, Thursday night, She Would and She Would feature, or peculiar trait, upon which however, of a humane disposition, she Not, Lovers' Quarrels, and Rugantino, were they found a hope of admiration. So it thought a quarrel would be by far the performed for the benefit of Mr. Rorauer. was with Charlotte and Charles-the one most decent and amicable manner of COVENT GARDEN.-On Monday night Ju- had most delicate eyebrows, and the softening down the injury she was about lius Cesar was performed at this house, the other most luxuriant whiskers. The lady, to do him. One day, therefore, while he part of Brutus, in a grand style, by Kemble; therefore, always bared her misshapen sat by her side, saying the finest things Cassius, with much bold spirit, by Young. On Tuesday night, for the benefit of Mr. and forehead, in order to show her eyebrows; in nature, and looking hideously enamourMrs. Liston, the Slave and Libertine; and thus looked ten times uglier; while ed, she told him, that men were deceitful Macreadey's Gambia, one of the most the gentleman suffered his whiskers to creatures, and that she must call upon finished performances in the modern drama. flourish so outrageously, that his appear-him for some incontrovertible proof of On Wednesday night, for the benefit of Miss ance became quite alarming. Stephens, to a crowded house, Hamlet; the his regard, before she could consent to surrender her liberties. Prince of Denmark by Kemble. He was a little out of voice, from a cold, in the first The first time this amiable couple saw each other, was one night at the opera. "Name a sacrifice, or an enterprize pont? Shall I bring you a fossil elephant from the Icy Sea? Shall I "— upon earth," cried he, starting up, " and became dangerous instruments, through | found her portrait on a snuff-box which she 1 fly this instant to perform it. Shall I whose medium plans of robberies were better had formerly given me, and which I still possess: informed by this token, she hastenseale Mount Etna, and dive for Empe- laid, and more surely executed. docles's slipper? Shall I swim the Helles-time Prefect of the Lower Pyrenees, received and the effects which had been taken from In the year 1804, M. de Castelane, at thated after me, and came to restore my horse orders from Government to clear the country me. The lapse of a few years had made a of the Gypsies, who were dispersed in twenty sad change in Maytémina; my gratitude different places in one single night they borrowed nothing from a more tender sentiwere all caught as in a net, and conveyed on ment. She accompanied me to the door of board vessels which landed them on the the house to which I was going, laughing at coast of Africa. This vigorous measure, the counsels which I gave her, and at the which was executed with all the mildness fears which I expressed for the future fate that justice and humanity demand, was a that was reserved for her. We parted. real benefit for the department, and it is not the only one whieh perpetuates the memory of the administration of M. Castelane!!! M. Destère mixed some anecdotes in this digression on the Gypsies. I will relate the following, which is guaranteed by his own testimony. "I do not ask you to attempt any such preposterous undertakings," replied she, with the utmost coolness. "I only require of you to cut off whiskers." your "My whiskers, Madam!" "That is all, Sir." "All! oh, heavens! divest myself of what first won your heart." Sir, I consider your honor involved in your obedience." "Then, Madam, farewell for ever; and learn, that, now-a-days, men of any pretensions to fashion or consequence, take a great deal less pains to retain their reputations, than to preserve their whiskers." Thus ended the loves of Charles and Charlotte. FRENCH MANNERS. L'HERMITE EN PROVENCE. Another foreign race had settled at a "A few days afterwards I was informed at Bayonne of the measures that were taking to seize the band of gypsy smugglers, and as it is always more or less disagreeable to see a person hanged whom one has loved, and whose portrait is in one's pocket, I sent to Maytémina a secret notice, by which she alone could profit, and by means of which this celebrated gypsy succeeded in escaping the punishment which soon overtook her associates." To be continued. THE BOARDING HOUSE. "When I was very young," said he, "I one day met at Bayonne, on the bridge of Mayou, a young gypsy girl, who afterwards became very celebrated under the name of Maytémina. I ask pardon of love, but I have never seen any thing so pretty; and, since I must say so, to my shame perhaps, I have never loved any thing so much. I do not think it proper to carry this confession any further; I might still perhaps be inclined to excuse such follies in my own eyes: but I am no longer of an age to inspire "A lady of family who has been deprived others with the same indulgence. I was of a considerable fortune by unforeseen soon, but not long, happy with my beautiful events, and who regards good society as an gypsy, who in a few months quitted me to go object of the first necessity, wishes to augand shine on a greater theatre. Soon nothing ment the number of boarders who are in the was talked of at Paris but the charming habit of assembling at her table: a wholegypsy and the brilliant conquests she had some and abundant repast, an elegant and made; it was even asserted that she was convenient lodging, and all the enjoyments not unconcerned in certain political trans-arising from select society, are the advanactions of the greatest importance. tages which she offers in return for the mo"At the end of two or three years, Mayté-derate sum of 80 francs per month. mina, perceiving that her credit declined "P. S. No person can possibly be adwith her charms, profited by this observation, mitted unless introduced by one of the to return to the life of a gypsy, which she boarders, or recommended by some indiregretted amidst the enjoyments with which vidual of distinction." she was surrounded by self-love and by love. She had been long back among our mountains when a strange circumstance, which was very fortunate for both, re-united us for some moments. It is not known at what remote period these Gypsies settled between the Pyrenees and Bayonne, whence they have been at last expelled, never to return. The Gypsies roved about, from time immemorial, in this space; they lived on the produce of their "One evening as I was decending the rapine, without any other abode than the heights of Agnoa, to go to a little country forests, empty barns, and the ruins of aban-house where my father lived, about a league doned houses. from the village, I was attacked by a band "It has often happened to me," (said of gypsy smugglers, who robbed travellers Mr. Destère,)" when I have been travelling when they had nothing better to do. At in the night, to see bands of Gypsies, men first I made a tolerable stand, but perceiving and women, dancing to the sound of Castaga reinforcement of banditti come up, I left nettes round a blazing wood fire, by which my horse and my portmanteau in the hands they dressed the provisions for the feast. of those who had attacked me, and escaped This sight had something fantastic in it, into the mountains. I had been wandering which struck the imagination very forcibly." | for half an hour from hill to hill, without Amidst a kind of promiscuous intercourse being able to recover my road, when I saw of the two sexes, there were doubtless at the same gypsies in pursuit of me, with a tachments of sufficiently long duration to have the name of marriages given them; however, the children knew only their mothers, and the fathers willingly excused themselves from taking a title to which they hardly ever had more than a contingent right. Some members of these vagabond bands fixed themselves near the habitations, and woman at their head, who waved a handker- I was at first less struck with the style of this advertisement than with the reflections to which it gave rise in my mind concerning the resources which the great city of Paris presents, where, for 80 francs per month, a stranger may procure all that an ample fortune would scarcely ensure to him elsewhere. I mentioned this circumstance to my friend M. de G, whose wit would afford me infinitely more entertainment if he would only vary its application. This man has undertaken to play in the world the impertinent part of a hoaxer, and he performs it with so peculiar a kind of talent, that none are so completely his dupes as those who fancy themselves his accomplices. M. de G having read the advertisement, which served as a text to our conversation, said (in that equivocal tone which renders it utterly impossible to discover whether he be jesting or in earnest) "that he knew the lady perfectly well, having formerly been one of her boarders, and absolutely insisted on introducing me into a house where I should assuredly meet with society of a perfectly select description and manners completely original." I accepted his proposal, and at the ap |