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cultivation of flax is carried on in New Zealand with the most indefatigable activity on the part of the natives; the motive which stimulates them is the desire to obtain muskets and ammunition, the possession of which gives them a decided ascendency over such of their enemies as are not similarly armed.

THE VAN DIEMEN'S LAND ANNIVERSARY AND HOBART TOWN ALMANAC is a neat duodecimo volume. It contains the usual calendar, civil and military lists of the establishment, a complete statistical view of the island, a familiar dialogue on the agriculture of the colony, and a number of original articles. It is ornamented with numerous engravings. In a colony set apart as a school of morals, CHIT-CHAT FROM GLASGOW.-The discovery of the termination for individuals whose organ of acquisitiveness is in an undue state of the Niger in the Bight of Biafra, by the brothers Lander, of activity, superior advantages are enjoyed for studying the cha.having sailed down from Quorra to the ocean, seems to have racters of that industrious and ingenious class of men. The fol- created a greater sensation here than in Edinburgh. This was lowing remarks evince an intimate acquaintance with the subject, not only occasioned by our being a commercial people--although and are rendered extremely interesting by a tone of deference and the discovery will but little avail the purposes of trade-but also respect, with which we are not generally accustomed to hear con- because one of our fellow-citizens had the rare merit to be the victs treated in this country. "We have frequently heard it re- very first to suggest this as the probable solution of the geographi marked, that part of the advanced character of Hobart Town is to cal problem many years ago. Mr M'Queen was then editor of the be attributed to the convict population, of which many individuals Courier; and, in a succession of able papers, afterwards collected, are unquestionably possessed of superior skill in their several oc- he took Mr Barrow and other hypothetical gentlemen and their cupations, and of very considerable talents, and that the very fact theories to pieces, and from a series of scattered facts and testimoof their having brought themselves into their present condition,nies-the bearing of which he had seen even in their crude stateis a proof that they are possessed of peculiar qualifications, or at least of certain eccentric properties of disposition, bursting as they have done from the every-day circle of ordinary life, to arrive at pleasure or profit by a shorter course and more summary method than the rest of mankind. But we never will allow, that either the wealth or property, much less the respectability of a community, can be increased by such men." We admire the martyr-like spirit with which the worthy editor adheres to this confession of his faith, and the dogged resolution with which he propounds it.-A rival publication, THE HOBART TOWN CALENDAR, promises, as one of its chief attractions, a "View of the Hobart Town Chain Gang."

collected with great patience and collected with much skill, he inferred that the embouchure of the Joliba, Niger, or whatever else it was called, was at the place it has since been proved to be. In fact this MS. map, which we have seen, may be engraved for any atlas, before the arrival of the Landers. Now this was all matter of reasonable satisfaction to us, as it must be of pride to Mr M'Queen; yet the London journalists seem to be unconscious of every thing that does not take place in "the Wen." -You may thank your stars that the Lord Advocate declined the dinner offered to him. I wish Mr Maxwell had done so to the one tendered him here, for really they are becoming tiresome from their frequency; and even cold punch in its native region cannot reconcile us to an atmosphere which would ripen limes themselves, and makes our theatres be desert. When an exceedingly clever little fellow, rich in the vis comica, called Lloyd, takes his benefit, however, this will surely not be the case.--Mr Brydson, your able contributor, has ready for the press a volume, to be called "Pictures of the Past, and other Poems ;" and Atkinson's Cha meleon is actually at press, after a hundred reluctances, real or

-like a young lady's "No."-We have a singular exhibition open at present-the competing plans for turning our Merchants' Park into a great ornamental cemetery, as long since suggested by that gentleman Mr Hopkirk and others, and now about to be

guild. The asking the great jury of the public to aid in the im partial decision the committee of the Merchants' House seek to come to on the merits of these, is a striking example of liberality. Many of the plans are beautiful; others hideous beyond the phantasma of a nightmare, occasioned by fifteen red herrings, two rashers of rancid bacon, and four bottles of sour swipes.

MAGAZINES OF THE MONTH.-It does not occur to us that there is much to be said respecting these, our bulkier brethren, this time. The Englishman, No. III., is a decided improvement upon either of the preceding numbers. It is lively, powerful, and original. The Metropolitan is good; and contains a pleasing poem by the Editor, We have sought anxiously, but in vain, to see something like an attempt to redeem its pledge of stern independence in its notices of new books. There is a shuffling attempt to praise two poems, ycleped "The Siege of Constantinople," and " A Vision of Hell," in which the struggle of the reviewer's conscience between a conviction of their inanity and a desire to praise, must be appa rent even to a bat. These books are both dedicated to Mr Camp-executed by our present intellectual and spirited lord dean of bell. Valpy's sacrilegious attempt upon the English Classics is spoken of in a landatory strain. Mr Valpy is printer of the Me. tropolitan. Cochrane and Pickersgill's collection of novels is praised. Quite proper,-but could this not have been done with. out a fling at Colburn's? We have been tolerably case-hardened to this style of reviewing lately, but we did not expect to find such a bare-faced specimen of it in a work which brayed out such a loud and long preliminary puff of its independence. We tell Mr Campbell in confidence that he will improve his magazine amazingly, by following the example of Blackwood, and cutting off entirely that cumbrous appendage of lists and critical notices which he drags behind him. It is nothing-it can be nothing but a receptacle for dirt.-Fraser is going on swimmingly. The leading article purports to be an introduction to Shelley's Wandering Jew. The greater part of it is infinitely too sublime and philoso-season, be under the sole management of Captain Polhill. The phical for our comprehension. The only passage we can make any sense of contains a mis-statement and a half, "The important literary curiosity, which the liberality of the gentleman into whose hands it has fallen, enables us now to lay before the public, for the first time, in a complete state, was offered," &c. In the first place, the gentleman in whose hands the poem now is never authorized its publication in Fraser, as he considers it the property of Mrs Shelley. In the second, a full account of the poem, with all the most interesting passages, was given many months ago in the Edinburgh Literary Journal. We may as well take this opportunity of observing, that Fraser has again been pilfering from us without acknowledginent-we allude to an ode on the late Revolution in France, in imitation of Shelley, which appeared in our columns some months back. The conductor of this periodical has hit upon a nice way of getting it up. His good articles are pil. fered the rest consist of rejected addresses to Blackwood.-The remainder of the monthlies are " in their usual"-a phrase which will be found to have a widely varying signification, according as it is applied to one or another individual of their number.

GEOGRAPHICAL.The brig Venus, Captain Samuel Harvey, sailed from Sidney about the commencement of the present year, in a southerly direction. The object of the voyage is the discovery of some unknown land, which the commander is certain, from circumstances noticed by himself on a former voyage, must lie in that direction. At the Swan River settlement, a river has been discovered to the south-east of the second tier of mountains, running through a fine country, but too far inland to begin a young colony. The Sydney Gazette informs us, with considerable naïveté, that the poorest settlers were about removing eighty miles from their present situation to land that would grow something.The

Theatrical Gossip.-Mrs Norton's two-act drama, "The Gipsy Father," cannot be said to have failed, in the common theatrical acceptation of the word, for it was well received; and yet, from the accounts we hear, it must have been a decided failure--a com. pound of harsh unnatural passion, and vulgar horrors.-The only novelty at Drury Lane-for Bluebeard and Timour the Tartar scarcely deserve the name is "The Little Corporal," a translation from "Napoleon à l'école de Brienne."-Drury Lane will, next classical opera is to be the novel feature in the new arrangements. Mr Bishop as composer; Mr and Mrs Wood as vocalists; and a variety of engagements, no less likely to concentrate a strong mu sical force, are already announced as completed, or in course of negotiation. Mr Kemble is in Paris, collecting materials for a new spectacle. Mr Penley finished a season in Newcastle-on-Tyne last week, and opened in Windsor on Monday! The Cheltenham Theatre is about to be opened by a new manager, under auspices that promise better success than that place has afforded of late years.-Alfred has been produced at Liverpool-Vandenhoff enacting the Monarch. Mr and Mrs Wood have been well received, and Miss Louisa Jarman is performing there at present.-Private theatricals are the order of the day, but we observe that the fe male characters are in general performed by professional ladies.Our own flock is scattering in all directions. Murray, Pritchard, Mason, with one or two of the underlings, are performing at our Adelphi, (when this unfortunate building is brought before the Dean of Guild, it will have as many aliases as Ikey Solomon himself,) Miss Jarman is on the wing for Dublin; nothing is as yet prated " of the whereabouts" of the others.

TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

REVIEWS of Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary, the new work of the Authors of the Odd Volume, and Nevay's Poems, are postponed for want of room.-Salicetti positively in our next.-Ascanius will be returned to our publisher in Glasgow. We never give opinions of poetry, either rejected or accepted,

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LEITH PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.-At the open night on Wednesday, there was a large attendance of the associate members of the Society and their friends of the rougher sex, the meeting not being one of those at which ladies are admitted. Several instru mental pieces were well performed, particularly a quartetto for two violins, tenor, and violoncello, and a duet for violin and pianoforte, by Messrs Stewart and Napier. The overtures and symphony, which employed the whole instrumentalists of the Society, were not so free from faults as the quartetto and duet, which were executed by select members, but their performance was such as to do honour to a society of amateurs.

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ment is taking place in the vocal department. The glee and chorus "The winds whistle cold," was encored, and the other glees were executed with taste and precision. In the duet, "The Butterfly," sung by Messrs Kenward and Muggerland, the effect was somewhat spoiled by the very different styles of the two singers, both of whom are excellent vocalists in their own way; of course, the blame lay with the second, whose duty it was to adapt himself to the style of the first, and sing in a subdued tone, moderating his usual spirited manner. We contemplate the success of this spirited association with much interest, and hope to have, next season, the pleasure of attending many as satisfactory meetings of the Society as those we have already witnessed. Their meetings, we understand, are to be discontinued till winter: but we trust that there will be no discontinuance of meetings for practice.

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He has supplied an exceedingly interesting work, collecting his ma terials discreetly, and arranging them with judicious care."-Englishman's Magazine.

"An exceedingly interesting volume, well compiled from every source attainable, ancient and modern, and condensed into a reasonable and portable compass. * * * The most immutable of human works are before us in this little volume. Edifices and sculptures that have preceded all history may be seen by the eyes of living men, testifying the power of a people which seems to have outdone every other in the magnitude of their labours, and from whom it is Dr Russell has probable every art and science have been derived. executed his task to our satisfaction, with diligence and judgment. His book is designed to be a popular one, and we have no doubt that it will become so."-Metropolitan Magazine.

"Dr Russell has extracted the pith and marrow of the voluminous and expensive works on this curious and interesting country with which the press has teemed for many years past; and has clothed his valuable information in a vigorous and flowing, yet perspicuous style."-Courier.

"This work affords an admirable specimen of the objects to which a periodical like the Edinburgh Cabinet Library ought to be dedicated. It presents, in a condensed form, a clear and agreeable account of all that is known and authenticated concerning Egypt, a country, beyond all others, fertile in wonders."-Atlas.

"To combine the labours and confront the testimony of authors, -to collect from the many pages of multiplied travels the scattered arguments and collateral proofs in support of particular hypotheses, -in fact, to condense and bring before our view the sum total, as it were, of knowledge, has been the object of the work now before us. That has been well accomplished; and we have much satisfaction in recommending to our readers a work where they will find, in a small compass, a great mass of interesting information; we are happy in being able to call their attention to a study which has hitherto been neglected by many, on account of the labour of consulting a variety of works on the subject."-Athenæum.

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"Though Dr Russell was well known to the literary world before he submitted this work to the public, we were scarcely prepared to find a production of such unquestionable value come from his pen. *** Extensive research, clear arrangement, sound philosophical deduction, and a free, graceful, and vigorous style of language, combine to render this volume a mine of useful and entertaining knowledge. The mere names of the books that must have been consulted before he could so much as begin to his task, would fill even a tolerably indefatigable student with dismay,-and none but a mind instinct with lofty and original views could have so skilfully extracted the truth from these innumerable tomes, or so beautifully purified and refined it. We express ourselves warmly,-but the fact is, that though good books abound,-very good books make their appearance like angel visits, few and far between'-and to the latter class Dr Russell's present work belongs. * Altogether we regard this volume as one of the most useful and amusing that has yet appeared in any of the Libraries, and we doubt not it will greatly enhance the reputation of the series of which it forms part."-Edinburgh Observer."

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