shone alone. a the least favourable to his fame. The He retained it until 1815, when his health deemed the most essential: in both he was Respect and fondness which subsist required a cessation from its laborious an object of all the more powerful passions through many a year of mutual uncer-attendance, and he retired on a pension of man, but rivalry. He stood alone, and tainty and struggle, are sometimes for- of half the salary. He had for some time The connexions of his early life, and still midably tried by prosperity. The me- passed through the watering places with more the native turn of his feelings, threw mory of CURRAN's domestic life may the season, and lately fixed himself at him into the ranks of Opposition; in Enghave been among the most painful retro- Brompton, where he occasionally indulged land a doubtful cause and long separable spections of a mind of his deep sensi in society, and was, to his last sparkle, from patriotism-in Ireland, at that day, bility. That wife survives him: there is the most interesting, singular and delight- the natural direction of every man of vigorthe strongest reason to believe that she ful of all table companions. During the us feeling and heedless genius. Ireland had been, from causes many and deep, an was maligned, and the purity and un-present year he had suffered two slight unhappy country. For centuries, utterly complaining retirement in which she has apoplectic strokes. On the Thursday torpid, or only giving signs of life by the passed the long period since their sepa- preceding his death, he had dined abroad fresh gush of blood from her old wounds, ration, form an almost convincing con- with a party; he was seized with apo- the influence of England's well-intentioned trast to the troubled and disappointed plexy early next morning, and continued policy was more than lost upon her; it was wanderings of her celebrated husband. speechless, though in possession of his too limited to work a thorough reformation, but too strong not to irritate; it was the But if men of great génius often perish senses, till the early part of Tuesday the application of the actual cautery to a limb, disheartened by neglect, and reluctant to 14th, when he sank into lethargy, and while the whole body was a gangrene. But take the baser means of prosperity, for- towards evening died with scarcely a man who loved the influence of this notune comes, like the day, to all. If the struggle; in nearly his 70th year. CUR- blest of countries might hate the Governnaked and noble irritability of the supe- RAN's exterior was not prepossessing on ment of Ireland; it was a rude Oligarchy. rior mind makes it feel the visitations of a first view. His figurewas meagre and un- The whole influence of the State was in the the night more mortal, it administers to der-sized; and his physiognomy, though the true farmers-general of Ireland; and hands of a few great families. Those were its quicker and more living sensation of obviously that of an acute man, conveyed the English Minister, pressed by the busithe rising sunshine. Some accident on no impression either of dignity or beauty. ness of an empire then beginning to excircuit revealed the man who was yet to But he had an eye of deep black, in-pand over half the world, was forced to take start up into the loftiest stature of Irish tense and intellectual; and when he their contract on their own terms. The talent. CURRAN was soon in the House was engaged and interested in speaking, Viceroy was their Viceroy, only the first of Commons, and remarkable among the his countenance changed into living, figure in that deplorable triumph which led finest circle of men that Ireland had ever ardent, almost brilliant animation. all the hopes and virtues of the country in He chains behind the chariot wheels of a thrown round her doubtful cause. His has left two daughters and three sons, haughty faction. It was against this usurpractice at the bar now increased and among them a large portion of here-pation that the Irish minority rose up in rapidly, and he brought into the house ditary genius. His eldest son was his naked but resolute patriotism. The struggle the provocations and rivalries which deputy in the Rolls; his second son is was not long, they hewed their way through stirred him at the bar. The man whom in the naval service; and his third has the hereditary armour of their adversaries, with the vigour of men leagued in such a he stung most indefatigably and deeply been lately called to the bar, with pecuwas a powerful antagonist, FITZGIBBON, liar amiableness of private character, and cause, and advanced their standard till they saw it waving without one to answer it. In afterwards Lord Chancellor. This con- much promise of professional distinction. this homage to an admirable time there is no test was a perpetual display of great legal From the period in which Curran emerged giddy praise of popular violence. The Restrength, perhaps invigorated by great from the first struggles of an unfriended volution of 1780, was to Ireland, what the natural arrogance, committed against en- man, labouring up a jealous profession, his Revolution of a century before had been to venomed genius; and the House often history makes a part of the annals of his the paramount country, a great and revivpaused to look upon a contest in which country; once upon the surface, his lighting effort of nature to throw off that phanwas always before the eye, it never sank, tom which sat upon her breast, and gave no man could decide between the lordly and was never outshone. With great powers her the perception of life only by the strugand stern vigour that could neither at- to lift himself beyond the reach of that tu-gles that must have closed in stagnation and tack nor be overthrown, and the fierce multuous and stormy agitation that mots death. The policy of the English Minister energy, that, always on the wing, pounced involve the movers of the public mind in a was too enlarged to offer resistance to an down upon it with incessant persecution, country such as Ireland then was, he loved impulse awaked on English principles. For surely marking the vital place, and, on least never rose to that tranquil elevation in building which he had wished to shake, was to cling to the heavings of the wave; he at him a great service had been done; the the first motion of pursuit, wheeling which his early contemporaries had, one by cast down in dust, and the soil left open for upwards into a region all its own. In one climbed; and never left the struggle till the visitation of all the influences of good 1780, CURRAN eminently distinguished the storm had gone down, it is to be hoped for government. The country had lain before himself in the parliamentary labours which ever. This was his destiny, but it might have ensued in the Constitution. The bar been his choice, and he was not without the subsequently engrossed him. His chief reward which, to an ambitious mind, conscious of its eminent powers, might be more employment lay in cases requiring pecu- than equivalent to the reluctant patronage liar oratorical exhibition. A consider- of the Throne. To his habits, legal distincable number of his speeches have been tions would have been only a bounty upon published, but in a decidedly inadequate his silence. His limbs would have been state. In 1806, after the total cessation of those public questions to which he was bound as a party man, and the accession of his friends to the ministry, he accepted the place of Master of the Rolls in Ireland, an appointment of 5000l. a year. fettered by the ermine. But he had the his eye a vast commonage, incapable of cultivation, and breeding only the rank and pernicious fertility of a neglected morass; but he had dreaded to disturb its multitude of lordly pauperism, and hereditary plunder. It was now cleared and enclosed for him, a noble expanse for the outpouring of all that civilization could give to its various and magnificent nature. The history of those years is yet to be written ;-whenever the temple is to be erected, the name of Curran must be among the loftiest on its portal. But the time of those displays which raised him to his highest distinction as an orator, was of a darker shade. His country had risen like the giant of Scripture, refresh-pressed into a pregnant pungency which | straight-forward volume; it had the wayed with wine; her vast, original powers gave a sentence in a word. The word lost, ward beauty of a mountain torrent, perpedoubly excited by an elating but dangerous the charm was undone. But his manner tually delighting the eye with some unexdraught of liberty. She had just reached could not be transferred, and it was created pected sweep through the wild and the that state in which there is the strongest for his style. His eye, hand, and form picturesque, always rapid, always glancing demand for the wisdom of the Legislator. were in perpetual speech. Nothing was ab-back sunshine, till it swelled into sudden The old system had been disbanded, but rupt to those who could see him, nothing was strength, and thundered over like a cataract. the whole components of its strength surviv-lost, except when some flash would burst For his noblest images there was no preed. The spirit of clanship was still up and out, of such sudden splendour as to leave paration, they seemed to come spontaneously, girded with its rude attachments;-the hatred them suspended and dazzled too strongly to and they came mingled with the lightest proof English ascendancy had sheathed the follow the lustres that shot after it with rest- ducts of the mind. It was the volcano, sword, but kept it still keen, and only wait-less illumination. Of Curran's speeches, all flinging up in succession curls of vapour, ing the word to leap from the scabbard;-the have been impaired by the difficulty of the and fiery rocks; all from the same exhaustancient Irish habits of daring gratification period, or the immediate circumstances of less depths, and with the same unmeasured among all ranks, the fallen estate of that their delivery. Some have been totally lost. strength to which the light and the massive multitude who had lived on the pay of poli- His speech on the trial of the two principal were equal. The writer had the fortune to hear tical intrigue, the reckless poverty of that conductors of the conspiracy, the Shears's, some of those speeches, and repeats it, that overwhelming population to which civil barristers and men of family, was made at to feel the full genius of the man, he must rights could not give bread, all formed a midnight, and said to have been his most have been heard. His eloquence was not a mass of discordant but desperate strength, masterly effusion of pathetic eloquence. Of studiously sheltered and feebly fed flame, which only required a sign. The cross was this no remnant seems to have been pre- but a torch blazing only with the more at length lifted before them, and it was the served. The period was fatal to their authen- breadth and brilliancy, as it was the more Ifting of a banner to which the whole dark- ticity. When Erskine pleaded, he stood in broadly and boldly waved; it was not a ened host looked up, as to an omen of as- the midst of a secure nation, and pleaded lamp, to live in his tomb. His printed sured victory. The Rebellion was met with like a priest of the temple of justice, with speeches lie before us, full of the errors that manly promptitude, and the country was set his hand on the altar of the Constitution, might convict him of an extravagant įmagiat peace. Curran was the leading counsel and all England below prepared to treasure nation and a perverted taste. But when in the trials of the conspirators, and he de- every fantastic oracle that came from his those are to be brought in impeachment fended those guilty and misguided men with lips. Curran pleaded, not on the floor of a against the great orator, it must be rememà vigour and courage of talent, less like the shrine, but on a scaffold, with no compani-bered, that they were spoken for a triumph, emulation of an advocate, than the zeal of a ons but the wretched and culpable men who which they gained; that we are now pausing friend. He had known many of them in were to be plunged from it hour by hour, over the rudeness and unwieldiness of the the intercourses of private life, some of them and no hearers but the multitude, who had been his early professional associates. crowded anxious to that spot of hurried exeA good man and a good subject might have cution, and then rushed away glad to shake felt for them all. The English leveller is a off all remembrance of scenes which had agi traitor, the Irish rebel might have been a tated and torn every heart among them. It patriot. Among us, the revolutionist sets is this which puts his speeches beyond the fire to a city, a great work of the wise in- estimate of the closet. He had no thought of dustry, and old, established conveniency of studying the cold and marble graces of schoman, a place of the temple and the palace, larship. He was a being embarked in strong the treasures of living grandeur, and the emergency, a man and not a statue. He was monuments of departed virtue. He burns,that to address men, of whom he must make himhe may plunder among the ruins. The Irish self the master. With the living energy, he rebel threw his fire-brand into a wilderness, had the living and regardless variousness of and if the conflagration rose too high, and attitude. Where he could not impel by ex- His career in Parliament was less memoconsumed some of its statelier and more hortation, or overpower by menace, he did rable. But the cause lay in no deficiency of solid ornaments, it was sure to turn into not disdain to fling himself at their feet, and those powers which give weight in a legisashes the inveterate and tangled un- conquer by grasping the hem of their robe. lative assembly. In the few instances in dergrowth that had defied his rude in- For this triumph he was all things to all which his feelings took a part, he excited dustry. This was the effervescence of men. His wild wit, and far-fetched allu- the same admiration which had followed heated and untaught minds. The world was sions, and play upon words, and extravagant him through his professional efforts. But to be older, before it learned the curse and metaphors, all repulsive to our cooler judg- his lot had been cast in the courts of law, unhappy end of the reform that begins by ments, were wisdom and sublimity before and his life was there. He came into the blood. The French Revolution had not then the Juries over whom he waved his wand. House of Commons wearied by the day, and given its moral. It was still to the eyes of Before a higher audience he might have been reluctant to urge himself to exertions renthe multitude, like the primal vision in the a model of sustained dignity;-mingling dered less imperious by the crowd of able Apocalypse, a glorious shape coming forth with those men he was compelled to men who fought the battle of Opposition.— in unstained robes, conquering and to con- speak the language that reached their His general speeches in Parliament were the quer for the world's happiness; it had not hearts. Curran in the presence of an sports of the moment, the irresistible overyet, like that mighty emblem, darkened Irish Jury was first of the first. He skirmish-flow of a humourous disdain of his adverdown through all its shapes of terror, till it ed round the field, tried every point of at-sary. He left the heavy arms to the habitual moved against the world, Death on the pale tack with unsuspected dexterity, still press-combatants, and amused himself with light horse, followed by the unchained spirits of ing on, till the decisive moment was come, and hovering hostility. But his shaft was human evil, and smiting with plague and fa- when he developed his force, and poured dreaded, and its subtlety was sure to insinumine, and the sword. down his whole array in a mass of matchless ate its way, where there was a mortal pang Some criticism has been wasted on the strength, grandeur, and originality. It was to be wrung. With such gifts what might presumed deficiencies of Curran's speeches in this originality that a large share of his not such a man have been,early removed from on those memorable trials. Throwing off fascination consisted. The course of other the low prejudices, and petty factions, and the public fact that those speeches were all great public speakers may in general be pre- desperate objects that thickened the atmouncorrected copies, Curran was of all ora- dicted from their outset, but in this man, the sphere of public life in Ireland, into the tors the most difficult to follow by transcrip-mind always full, was always varying the large prospects, and noble and healthful tion. His elocution, rapid, exuberant and direction of its exuberance; it was no re- aspirations that elated the spirit in this igurative, in a signal degree, was often com gular stream, rolling down in a smooth and country, then rising to that summit emi weapons of the dead, without reference to the giant's hand that with them drove the field. Curran's carelessness of fame has done this dishonour to his memory. We have but the fragments of his mind and are investigating those glorious reliques, separate and mutilated like the sculptures of the Parthenon; while they ought to have been gazed on where the great master had placed them, where all their shades and foreshortenings were relief and vigour, image above image, rising in proportioned and consecrated beauty; as statues on the face of a temple. on the confirmation of the most favourable nence from which the world at last lies be- [ing beauty and interest, as well as of prodigi-look or action more powerful than words, neath her. If it were permitted to enter ous force and elevation. The highest his but stil: we desire that these pauses be placed into the recesses of such a mind, some pain-trionic talents are required to reach the where there is no glaring impropriety. Yet ful consciousness of this fate would proba- pitch of this sublime composition, and the in this very fine scene, where Macbeth says, bly have been found, to account for that oc- London public have often seen such ́exerted "This is a sorry sight," casional irritation and spleen of heart, to the utmost in pourtraying the powerful Mr. Kean paused after the word sorry. It is with which he shaded his public life, and images of our immortal bard. We have had true his countenance assumed a wonderful disguised the homage which he must have but one Shakespeare, and the present genera-expression of contrition-but would not that felt for a country like England. It must tion may add, "but one Lady Macbeth." same expression be infinitely more effective, have been nothing inferior to this bit- That important character was on Monday if given generally to the passage? we think ter sense of utter expulsion, which could attempted by Miss Campbell, the lady whose it would; and avoid a very unnatural trick have made such a being, gazing upon debut we announced in our last No. but one, of art. her unclouded glory, lift his voice only and whose abilities have been greatly over- The music was excellent; but we wanted to tell her how he hated her beams. He rated by any one who imagined she could a more potent Hecate. must have mentally measured his strength do even distant justice to so difficult a chawith her mighty men; BURKE and PITT and racter. THE BEGGARS' OPERA. MISS BYRNE'S It is not pleasant to say so, but her POLLY.-Critics, like prophets, rejoice to Fox were then moving in their courses above Lady Macbeth was a complete failure: tame, find their predictions fulfilled. We therefore the eyes of the world, great luminaries, pas-even playful, unsustained, and unimpressive. sing over in different orbits, but all illustrat-She had none of the dignity, none of the congratulate ourselves, as well as the public, ing the same superb and general system. He masculine energy, none of the unrelenting auguries respecting Miss Byrne. Her Polly, had one moment not unlike theirs. But the cruelty, none of the devouring ambition on Tuesday night, afforded us a charming Irish Revolution of 1780 was too brief for which belong to the cool murderess, whose the labours or the celebrity of patriotism, only touch of humanity in the whole play is, to her in the Opera surpassed our expectatreat. Her execution of all the airs allotted and this powerful and eccentric mind, after "had he not resembled my father as he slept, tions, high-raised as they were; and more rushing from its darkness just near enough I would have don't." She seemed to coax than established her as a favourite with the to be mingled with, and glow in the system, and wheedle her husband to the commission musical world. The ornaments she introwas again hurried away to chillness and sha- of the crime, instead of pouring her bold duced were simple and delightful, and in dow beyond the gaze of mankind. spirit into his milky nature, or chastizing several of the songs she displayed the only The details of Curran's private life are for what is undecided in him with the valour of quality wanting to render her notes more sethe biographer. But of that portion which, her tongue. We looked in vain for that ductive, expression. We will not particulying between public labours and domestic lofty range of guilty feeling which in great larize music so well known, but content ourprivacy, forms the chief ground for the indi-ness assumes the impression of better quali-selves with the flattering but well-deserved vidual character, we may speak with no ties, and affects the mind in behalf of crime declaration, that she was admirable in all. slight panegyric. Few men of his means of only because it is excessive and dauntless. The enthusiastic plaudits and encores which inflicting pain could have been more reluc- This Lady Macbeth was always a mere her exertions drew forth, must stimulate her tant to use them; few men, whose lives woman, not unsexed, nor filled from the to the cultivation of every acquirement which passed in continual public conflict, could crown to the toe with direst cruelty, with can add to her already facinating powers. have had fewer personal enemies; and per-thickened blood, the access and passage to Mr. T. Cooke perforined Macheath well, and haps no man of his time has left sincerer remorse shut up, and no compunctious visitregrets among his personal friends. He was ings of nature to shake her fell purpose. She him the better we like him. His uncomsang with great skill. The more we hear of fond of encouraging the rising talent of his was on the contrary drawling and insipid monly fine taste and science leave us withprofession, and gave his advice and his and in no one scene mounted to the standard out regret for the flourishes of bravura and praise ungrudgingly, wherever they might of the character, which is, in one word, the perplexities of execution. kindle or direct a generous emulation. As above her sphere. Munden, a festive companion he seems to have been We formerly animadverted on the acces- inimitable in Peachum, Lockit, Filch, and Dowton, Knight, and Mrs. Sparks, were utterly unequalled,-without a second or a sion of the letter a to many words in Miss Mrs. Peachum; and the excellence of Miss similar; and has left on record more of the Campbell's enunciation, which have hereto-Kelly, in Lucy, was the more felt from her happiest strokes of a fancy, at once classic, fore been pronounced without that appen- afterwards playing the pathetic part of Mary, keen, and brilliant, than the most habitual dage. In the present instance this absurdity in the Innkeeper's Daughter, with equal Wit of the age. It may yet be a lesson worth was carried to a greater length, and it is the memory of those who feel themselves literally a fact, that it occurred four times neglected by nature, that, with all his gifts, within a line and a half. Now, though Miss Curran's life was not that one which would C. cannot cope with Lady Macbeth, she has satisfy a man desirous of being happy. But talents enow to appear to advantage in let no man imagine that the possession of less prominent situations; but she must the most fortunate powers is an excuse for discard the a, if she wishes to be successful error, still less an obstruction to the sense of in any way. Its repetition, at first only holy obedience; our true emblem is in the ludicrous, will soon become disgusting, and archangel, bending with the deepest homage, no audience of taste or common sense will as he rises the highest in intellectual glory. endure such a mode of speech. Let Miss C. study an example in this style for a moment, and she will see how absolutely foolish it is. THE DRAMA. -The raven-a himself is hoarse-a can-a Under-a my-a battlements-a. ability. COVENT GARDEN. The Apostate, Romeo and Juliet, and the Stranger, have afforded opportunities for the exhibition of the tragic powers of Miss O'Neill, and Messrs. Young, C. Kemble, and Macready, in characters too well known to the public to require criticism. The Siege of Belgrade was advertised for Tuesday; but She Stoops to Conquer, was substituted, for unknown reasons. Liston's Tony, kept the House in good humour, and this lively Comedy failed in none of its attractions. RE-APPEARANCE OF MR. BRAHAM. DRURY LANE. We thought when we entered the Theatre MACBETH. On Monday, Macbeth was that it was the Siege of Jerusalem, and not the performed at this Theatre. Except love and We allow that this is the argumentum ad Siege of Belgrade that was performing, for jealousy there is hardly one of the great absurdum; but it is a just mode of reason- the multitude of the Children of Israel who human passions that form the bases of ing against a blemish which must, if not appeared deeply interested in the event was tragedy, which are not called for and painted overcome, be fatal to this lady's theatrical astonishing. We have no dislike to national with a master hand in this noble play. career. predilections, and therefore do not mention Ambition, Pride, Remorse, Conjugal and We liked Kean's Macbeth better than as censuring the assemblage of the Jewish filial love, Wretchedness, Despair, Super usual. His physical wants he cannot sup- people upon this occasion; but it had a curinatural visitings, triumphant Guilt, Madness, ply, but he imparted wonderful force to the ous theatrical effect, and, till the Twelve and Horror, are all wrought, in admirable scene on issuing from the murder of Duncan. Tribes meet on more important business we gradations, into one compound of astonish-A pause, we know, may be filled up with al may be amused by such a sample of the gre 2 garious qualities which bid fair to re-orga- | Mahratta confederacy, who has conse-victed. Their names are Brandreth and nize their scattered members at some future quently been compelled to sign a treaty, Turner. The trials are proceeding—one Mr. Braham was received on his entry and surrender several important forts to prisoner at a time. era. with long and loud applause, and Mr. Isaacs, the British. Scindia and Meer Khan are The Russian Fleet, so much talked of, a fine bass singer from the English Opera, who made his debut in Anselm, was also nevertheless expected to take up arms, has invaded Portsmouth! We anticipated warmly welcomed by his brethren. It is and join Trimbukshee, a celebrated ge- as much. They have levied provisions, very natural that any class should feel a neral of the Peishwa's. The Cuttack and done no further mischief. Perhaps, pride in producing so accomplished an artist disturbances will, we imagine, be spee- having filled their bellies, they will no as Braham. His masterly movements in all dily suppressed; and as for the Mahratta longer be so terrible. The Cossacks, in the delightful music of this Opera, his Corinthian richness of ornament, his wonderful war, though we are not in love with France, were always found to be best powers of voice are astonishing. He revelled wars, it ought perhaps to be considered humoured after meal-time. in all the luxuries of scientific execution, and as a desirable event to take place at this It is with feelings of great regret we proved himself a British Singer, equal, if period. These unsettled and predatory have to mention the sudden death, on not superior, to any which Italy, the land states have never yet been reduced to Monday last, of Mr. Grant, publicly of melody itself, can produce. It has been that order which is requisite for the secu-known by his assumed theatrical name objected to his style that it is too orna-rity of our mighty Indian empire. Their of Raymond, the respectable manager of mental, and astonishes more than it delights; but we can scarcely agree to this plunderings and oppressions have been Drury Lane Theatre. He was struck after hearing him, though it seems perfectly intolerable, and it is well that they pro- with apoplexy in the morning, and died after hearing him, though it seems perfectly voke the curb of British power at a pe- at half past five in the afternoon: a biotrue of his many imitators. His finest song in the Seraskier was one introduced in the riod when our force is in the highest con-graphical sketch of his life is deferred third act, "Though Laurel crown the gallant dition, both for discipline and magni- to our next Number, in the hope of being Chief," in which he displayed most extra-tude, and when we have no other bellige-able to procure one more accurate than ordinary talent. We never heard from a rent business to distract our attention. has hitherto appeared. male voice so splendid an ascent in semi-Our rulers in India have long foreseen tones; not Catalani ever afforded a more VARIETIES. exquisite chromatic treat. In the Duets, the coming storm, and, we can assert on we thought he rather overpowered his asso- the best information, are fully prepared On the 11th, a public dinner was given ciates, and Miss Stephens, at best rather an for it. We doubt not but the issue will to Sir Humphrey Davy, at Newcastle, by inanimate Lilla, seemed to sink under the consolidate our empire in the east, and the Coal-owners on the rivers Tyne and trial in "When thy Bosom." song was however enchantingly soft, and from the most wanton and galling ty-man as an acknowledgment of his services Her first relieve several millions of the natives Wear, and a service of plate of the value of about 20001. was presented to that gentlethe sportive air to Leopold was very prettily given. Mr. Isaac's bass is full and melo-ranny. It ought not to be forgotten in inventing the SAFETY LAMP. Mr. Lamb dious, not so deep as Smith's nor Tinney's, that our interests, and the interests of ton, the member for Durham county, prebut with more perfect notes than the latter. humanity, are united in this contest. sided, and the whole entertainment presentHis style may be much improved; it is ra- The Dey of Algiers, Omar Pacha, has ed a gratifying spectacle of COMMERCE doing been deposed and strangled by a muti- honour to its best friend SCIENCE. ther common. The dulness of the opera was somewhat nous body of 600 Turkish soldiers. A HERCULANEUM MSS.-M. Sickler, a Saxon relieved by the humour of Liston in Yusef; new Dey, Ali-Hodja, is placed on the gentleman of considerable learning, has yet when he was swallowing the ham of throne. Leopold's supper, he gave great offence to It is probable that this revolu- recently arrived in London, for the purpose of unrolling the Herculaneum Manuscripts a fair lady near us, who exclaimed, "Oh the tion may afford ground for the interfe- by a method of his own invention. His nasty fellow ! he is swallowing real pork!" rence of combined Europe to put an end experiment has proved perfectly successful This judicious observation smacked more of altogether to these abominable combina- on three of the manuscripts; but they had the synagogue than of the theatre. Mrs. Lis- tions of pirates, and confer on a fine unfortunately imbibed the sea-water ton and Miss Mathews, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. country the blessings of civilization. board the vessel in which they were conveyed Abbott, and Mr. Taylor did their duty ably in Ghita, Catherine, Leopold, Cohenburg, effect of the marine acid. from Italy to England, so that on being unrolled the writing was nearly effaced by the and Peter. The encores were numerous, the applause unanimous, and the opera was DIGEST OF POLITICS AND the Porte are declared to be satisfactorily on M. Sickler is proceedng with his labours on some other manuscripts, which it is hoped have been better preserved. The Prince Regent, with royal munificence, defrays the expences attending this undertaking. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Pinnock's Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's His A rumour of hostilities between Spain and Portugal supplies the vacant place; The news of the past week offer seve-and it is said that a Spanish army has ral features of greater interest than we approached the frontiers. We know have lately been accustomed to. A there were some disputes about giving Mahratta war appears to have actually up some fortress, and some discontent commenced in India. Captain Hall, in respecting the operations at Monte Video; the Lyra, arrived on Monday with this but we do not believe that these causes Mr. Reynard is preparing for publication a new edition of his History Made Easy; or Geintelligence, communicated by the Mar-will go so far as to produce actual war-nealogical Chart of the Kings and Queens of quis of Hastings; as also of an insur- fare. rection in Cuttack on the other side of The Duke of Angoulême has set out Two of the persons under trial at tory of England, for the use of Schools, with a continuation down to the present period, is reprinting. England. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The account of the Mission to the Ashantees will be extremely acceptable. The other paper referred to by our correspondent will appear next week. |