are much more numerous than those represen-racter of each tree, whether it be clothed in
ting sun rising; which may be because in the its leaves, or stripped of them.
former the tones are more divided, because Spring will give to his studies more at-
the magnificence of the scene more forcibly tractions and more extent. In the eyes of
strikes the imagination, and is more deeply the vulgar, the verdure which adorns the
impressed upon it. The author thinks, also, fields, the hills, the orchards, the meadows,
that the model of this moment of the day is presents as it were only one tint. What
more frequently before the eye of the artist; appears so agreecble to the eye in nature,
for in fact, the habits of social life do not per- would however havea very bad effect in the imi-
init us to be so often witnesses of the sun tation: for nothing is more displeasing in a
rising.
landscape than an excess of green tints; and
nothing is therefore more difficult than to
succeed in expressing, by painting, the
charins of spring. The art of the landscape
painter, in studying these tints of tender
green, is to discover their varieties, and to
express their gradations so as to strike the
eye.

or in the application made of them, in the
masterpieces of great artists.
Mr. Deperthes has conceived this project,
and has executed it with equal taste and
skill. He has not aimed at composing
an elementary treatise: a work of this kind,
however methodical, can never supply the
want of the lessons of a master. In all the
arts of design, there is a practical instruction,
of which books cannot transmit the object,
or even communicate the spirit. Whoever
pretends to give lessons, and lay down rules The night is included among what are
to the artist, in writing, must suppose him called the four parts of the day; and it is
already advanced in his art, and arrived at one of the favourite subjects of the landscape
that degree of practical skill, which will en-painter: but how can night be painted, since
able him to receive that superior instruction it extinguishes all colours? Night, too, has
which is to direct his mind and his taste its sun. At the appearance of the moon, a
more than his hand. This is the point which new light illumines all objects: its lustre,
Mr. Deperthes requires the scholar for whom thongh far inferior to that of the sun, suffices Summer shews nature to the landscape
he destines his theory to have attained. to dispel darkness, and by means of strongly painter, with the full formed features, if we
He has divided it into two parts, and each marked shadows, produces the most striking may so express it, of the age of virility.
is subdivided into two subjects of obser- effects. The author advises his pupil, above Every object of imitation has acquired its
all things, to penetrate into the forests; to form, its determinate colour, its develope-
see there the infinite variety of the effects of inent, and a durable aspect. This is the
this silvery light. He observes further, that season to put in practice the lessons of
of all phenomena, that of the moon-light winter in the conformation of trees; but ad-
may be studied with the most precision. vantage must also be taken of it, for the
All around the painter is calm, all appears study of a multitude of plants, which
stationary, all invites to contemplation and have but now acquired their growth, which
favours the operations of the memory; for have attained all their beauty, and which are
it is alinost always from memory that the to act an important part in the foreground
landscape painter must work; and if he can, of the picture. Summer is the season, when
during the day, catch with his pencil some the most brilliant light illumines all the ob
effects, notwithstanding their perpetual mo-jects circumscribed by the horizon; when the
bility, he is forbidden from doing the same heat produces most of those phenomena,
by night; and even if the moon should give which seem to be beyond the power of imi-
him sufficient light, yet it would be a deceit- tation; those burning skies, those masses of
ful light, the falseness of which would clouds which contain the thunder in their
be shewn by that of the day.
bosom, those impetuous winds which make
the forests hend, and raise the dust in clouds.
It is in this season that nature offers to the
landscape painter the most varied scenes, in
the heavens, in the earth, and in the empire
of the waters.

vation.

In the first part the author lets his pupil go through two courses of landscape study. The first relates particularly to the study of the sky, which fills so important a place, and acts, as it were, the first part in this kind of instruction; since in the picture, as in nature, it is from the sky that the light comes; and this light, which is the son of the picture, is subject, and readers objects and their effects subject to numberless varieties and modifications.

But these varieties are reduced to four principal ones, pointed out by the four parts of the day. It is at sunrise that the author gives his first lesson. The difficulties which this moment of the day presents to the imitator, have their foundation in that species of mysterious veil which nature then assumes a veil, says the author, sufficiently transparent to let us see all her charins, but not to permit us easily to distinguish the lincaments of all her features. This moment of the day is that which is peculiarly adapted to the study of aerial perspective.

The middle of the day is the time when the study of nature has the fewest real difficulties; the artist must profit by it, to catch objects as they are: if in effect, each object is then visible, without any alteration, it is then also, that it is the most easy to remark, first the innumerable varieties of forms and tints spread over all her productions, and then that harmony which blends together all her parts, even those which are the most dissimilar. This magical union is effected by means of the reflections which take place from one object to another. The middle of the day is the hour for those studies of harmony, which are among the most momentous to the landscape painter; at this hour too, he must study the clouds, their combinations, their effects, and all the accidents of light and shade rapidly succeeding each other, and forming compositions which seem the most arbitrary, and yet are nevertheless subject to general laws.

The effects of evening, and those of the setting sun, seem to present fewer difficulties than those of the dawn of day. It is remarked that landscapes representing sunsets,

If the first course of study in the first part of the work, seems to be confined to the space of a day, this is merely in consequence of the theoretical analysis of the subject: the second course, for the same reason, comprises the space of a year.

The author proceeds to shew his pupil the model which he is to imitate, under the four aspects, which the four seasons present.

But autumn will often have the preference over summer, for the richness of the tints of the foliage, and the diversity of tone spread over all nature. During this season the landscape painter must hasten his studies for each day making a remarkable change in the features of his model, he must be apprehensive that it will soon offer him only a cold and discoloured image.

Thus our author comes back to the point whence he set out, to winter; which he again considers, with respect to the pictures which this season of mourning affords, but which is not so dull to the landscape painter as to the inhabitant of cities. Winter also has its charms, its green trees, its varied effects, its snows, the lustre of which is enhanced by the contrast of lighter fires. The ice also has its sports, its promenades, its diversions; and the painter does not now want either objects of observation, or subjects proper for the display of his talents.

He begins, and that on good grounds, with the winter. Trees are the chief ornament of landscapes; but the study of trees has its anatomy, like that of the human body; and as the knowledge of the muscles cannot be acquired from living bodies, it is necessary, in the same manner, to study the tree in that kind of state of death to which winter seems to have reduced it, after having stripped it of the foliage, which, to the eye, gives it life; for how shall we get acquainted with the form of the great branches, and the true arrangement of the smallest boughs, when all these co-ordinate parts are concealed under the covering with which vegetation adorns them? The structure of the tree must therefore be studied in the only season when the eye can follow it, from the origin of the trunk to the summit of the highest The second part of the theory of landbranches. This winter study includes also scape is also in two sections, and this divithat of the forms and colours of the bark of sion results from the distinction which has every species of tree; and it is by a repeated been introduced into this kind of painting, series of observations, made in this season, between those compositions which seem that the landscape painter will learn to dis- to be only faithful portraits of scites existing tinguish, and to express the peculiar chain each country, of their productions, their

buildings, their inhabitants, and those compositions, in which the artist transports the scene he has imagined into a country of his own creation, and which he embellishes with the most pleasing or the most noble subjects which fable or history presents. The author treats also of landscapes considered in what he calls the rural style, and what he calls the historical style.

This division naturally classes in two distinct series his observations on the merits and the beauties of the two schools, which have distinguished themselves in the two styles.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.

cribed to the irregular curvature of the terrestrial meridian, or to a local attraction oc curring in some places, which diverted the plummet from its vertical direction, or to Mr. Dupin and the Quarterly Review. small faults, remaining constant for a time, A valued correspondent has drawn our in the astronomical instruments employed. work on Marine Establishments, &c. in the struments, however ingenious the contrivattention towards a notice of Mr. Dupin's Experience has proved that in all such inlast Number of the Quarterly Review (page ance and however excellent the workman57), which he considers as not remarkable ship, such slight permanent faults may occur, for urbanity; and we are convinced that if the and that they are as difficult to discover as to Reviewers had been aware of the circum- avoid. The only means to be fully secure stances of the case, they would not have in- from them appears to be to repeat the obserted Mr. Dupin's allegations without a reservations with different instruments. The proof rather than a tacit acknowledgment of judicious liberality of the King has enabled The landscapes of the Flemish and Dutch their justice. Mr. D. states in substance, Professor Schumacher to do this. The asschool belong to the first. We should here that when he, accompanied by a learned tronomical part of the English measurement accompany the author, and collect his re- doctor, visited the Library of Dublin Uniwas executed with the admirable zenith marks on the different degrees, or the va- versity, he was obliged to go on hastily sector of Ramsden, and that of the French rieties of the talents of a multitude of mas- without stopping any where, and watched with the repeating circles of Borda. The ters, who have each taken nature under as if he were suspected of a design to steal a King has borrowed the first from the English diverse aspects, and who have made their book; and this, the Reviewers observe, is Government, for the Danish measurement; pictures a kind of mirrors, in which theory sufficient to justify, in some measure, his que- the place of the latter has been more than inay sometimes cause its lessons and the rulous remarks respecting Ireland. It is with supplied by a most excellent eighteen-inch application of its precepts to be better under-pleasure we can redeem that country and the repeating circle, by Reichenbach, with an University of Dublin from the aspersions improvement in the mechanism. Here, cast upon them by the foreign traveller; for therefore, the two kinds of instruments were which purpose we trust the following expla-first used together, which in preceding meanation, in the words of our correspondent, surements had been employed singly; and will be deemed quite satisfactory. between which a comparison was first made last year, on the journey of the French astronomers to England, and by the convey

stood.

In the second division are the great masters of the French and Italian schools, who have found means to make their landscapes historical pictures, either by ennobling the forms of nature, or by introducing subjects of history or mythology, by adorning them with ornaments borrowed from the arts of antiquity, or by reproducing in them allegories by turns ingenious or affecting.

As easy as it has been to follow the author in the didactic march of the first part of his treatise, so difficult would it be, above all in an article of a journal, to give an account of a series of observations suggested by the view of the masterpieces of great artists; observations, of which he himself more than once acknowledges, that it would be difficult to render their value palpable in a discourse; so hard is it for beauties, which address themselves to the eyes, to find equivalents which may render them sensible to the mind.

In fact, this second part is only the application (demonstrated by the works) of the studies, the importance of which has been enforced, and their order prescribed, in the first part.

"Mr. Dupin, though acquainted with some of the Fellows and Professors, from whom he received every attention due to a stranger and a man of letters, chose, when visiting the Libraries to be introduced by a gentleman who was totally unconnected with the University, had only taken many years since the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and who, from his professional and other avocations, had probably no knowledge of the rules which govern the Library. Had Mr. Dupin applied to the proper means for procuring access to the literary collections in Dublin, no doubt he would have felt himself bound to praise the public as liberally as he has praised the private hospitality of Ireland."

ARTS AND SCIENCES.

DR. OLBERS ON THE MEASUREMENT OF AN
ARC OF THE MERIDIAN, IN DENMARK.
Bremen, December, 1819.

Our readers will perceive how much scope The operations for measuring an arc of the subject of this theory might afford for the meridian, which the King of Denmark descriptions, and for the abuse of that des- has ordered to be carried on in his dominions, criptive style, which so soon becomes fati-between Lunenburg and Skagen, were guing, particularly in prose. We must be obliged to the author for having avoided affectation and excess in this respect. The work recommends itself by a due measure of reason and imagination, of taste and judgment, of precepts put in action, and examples submitted to criticism. It will be agreeable to those who seek in the arts only pleasure, useful to those who desire to investigate the grounds of their enjoyments, advantageous to amateurs to enlighten their taste, necessary to artists to perfect their studies, to direct their judgment, and to enrich their imagination.

ance of the zenith sector of Ramsden to
Dunkirk. But Professor Schumacher has
also obtained another zenith sector, by
Troughton, an artist no ways inferior to
Ramsden; and possesses also what is called
the universal measuring instrument, by Rei-
chenbach. Thus richly furnished, and se-
conded by most able assistants, this cele-
brated astronomer and distinguished observer
will probably solve all doubts. Next year
(1820) the Professor will go with all his instru-
ments to Skagen, the most northerly station,
then repeat his observations at Lunenburg,
with the instruments not yet employed
there; and lastly, in autumn, measure the
first basis in the neighbourhood of Hamburg.
It is much to be wished that the governments
of Germany may be induced to follow the lau-
dable example of Denmark, and by joining the
measurement there, continue the arc of the
meridian to be measured (which from Ska-
gen to Lunenburg, will be about 44 degrees)
to the frontiers of Italy, where it would be
easy to prolong it still farther. A great deal
has already been done in Germany and Italy,
which perhaps only wants to be connected
together, and with the Danish measurement.
It were also to be wished that some triangles
might be measured from Bremen to those in
Holstein; thus fully to rectify the geographi-
cal position of our city, as hitherto deter-
mined by astronomical observations, by
means of a comparison with the perfect dats
which will be furnished by the measurement
in Denmark. W. OLBERS.

on account of the gloomy weather, closed for
this year about the end of October at Lyssab-
bel, in the island of Alsen. The lovers of
science in all Europe are justly attentive to
the progress of this operation; which being
carried on according to the enlightened or-
ders, and with the liberal support of his
Danish Majesty, under the direction of a
most able astronomer, Professor Schumacher,
promises to throw light on many important
subjects, both in the French and English
GLASS FROM STRAW.-Wheat straw,
measurements of the meridian: there always without any addition, may be melted into
appeared certain anamolies between the seve- colourless glass with the blow-pipe. Barley
ral parts of the arcs measured, and it re- straw melts into a glass of a topaz yellow
mained doubtful whether they were to be as-colour. (Constable's Magazine.)

CAMBRIDGE, Feb. 4.

A new grass, unnoticed by Dr. Roxburgh, which produces a perfect silicious deposit in The late Dr. Smith's annual prizes of 251. the joints, has been discovered in the moun- each, to the two best proficients in mathetains of India, between the Circars and Nag-matics and natural philosophy among the pore. commencing Bachelors of Arts, are this year adjudged to Mr. Henry Coddington and Mr. Charles Smith Bird, of Trinity College, the first and third Wranglers.

REMARKABLE DISCOVERY IN CHEMISTY.—

CONVERSION OF RAGS INTO SUGAR.

Croxton Johnson, Esq. Fellow Commoner of Emmanuel College, was on Friday last admitted Bachelor of Arts.

A grace passed the Senate yesterday, for granting to the University of Cephalonia, (of which the Earl of Guildford is Chancellor,) a copy of all the books now in the University Press, or which have been printed at the expence of this University.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

[By Correspondents.]
LINES.

Bells toll for peasants, and we heed them not;
But, when proclaiming that the nobler die;
Roused by the grandeur of their lofty lot,
Musing we listen, moralizing sigh.
Such knells have now a sad, familiar sound;
Oh, that, which spoke worst woe to Albion's isle,
More unaccustom'd flung its murmurs round,
Chill'd the warm heart, and stole the gayest

Munich, Jan. 1820. Dr. Vogel, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, has submitted to a careful examination in the laboratory of the Academy of Munich, the surprising discovery of Mr. Braconnot, of Nancy, of the effects of concentrated sulphuric acid on wood and linen. He has not only fully confirmed this discovery, so as to lay before the Academy an essay on the subject, and show the products resulting from the original experiments, but also extended his own experiments, with equal success, to other similar vegetable substances, such as old paper, both printed and written upon, and cut straw. By diluting the sulphuric acid with a due addition of water, sawdust, cut linen, paper, &c. were converted into gum and saccharine matter. It must excite great interest in all reflecting minds, to see an indissoluble, tasteless substance, like the filaments of wood, converted, by chemical re-action, into two new bodies, and chemistry thus exercise a power, which, but lately, appeared to belong to nature alone, and in particular to vegetation. For this artificial formation of sugar and gum, now discovered, must not be confounded with the extraction of these two substances from bodies in which they We wept-and, oh! not only wept for thee! already existed, a process which has been Survivors claim'd the bitterest of our tears; known from time immemorial. What has And we had sorrows, that were all our own; now been discovered, is a transformation, a We, who had cherish'd hopes for future years, metamorphosis, of which the most ingenious Too long indulged, too soon, alas! o'erthrown. chemist had previously no idea; and it af- But thee, the age-worn monarch of these realms, fords a new proof of the boundless extent of Thyself survivor of each dearest tie, the domain of practical chemistry. A paper we mourn not with the sorrow that o'erwhelms, upon Dr. Vogel's repetition and investiga- But with the silent tear of memory. tion of Mr. Braconnot's experiments, and It is not now the blossom in its prime, those added by himself, is promised in one Torn in fresh vigor from its parent root, of the next numbers of the Journal of Arts Scattering on vernal gales before its time, and Manufactures, published by the Bava-The golden promise of expected fruit; rian Polytechnic Society.

LEARNED SOCIETIES.

OXFORD, Feb. 5. On Thursday last the following Degrees were conferred:—

Doctor in Medicine.-James Adey Ogle, Trinity College. Masters of Arts.-Rev. John Stedman, Pembroke College; James Hall, Wadham College; Samuel Pepys Cockerell, and William Arundell Bouverie, Fellows of Merton College; and Rev. Robert Crawford Dillon, St. Edmund Hall. Bachelors of Arts.-William Baron, Esquire, Wadham College, grand compounder; Charles Anthony Hunt, Merton College; George Parker Cleather, Exeter College; David Dundas and Thomas Lambard, Students of Christ Church; Henry Parsons, Scholar of Balliol College.

smile.

We cannot grieve alike o'er youth and age:
We mourn'd in anguish Time could scarce as-
Thee, loveliest scion of the royal tree,

suage;

It is the oak, once monarch of the glade,
Which lives again in many a circling tree;
Itself, all branchless, sapless, and decayed,
Yields to its full completed destiny.
Thy sun was not eclipsed in sudden night,
But ran its course, and slowly verging set;
Preparing shadows had involved its light,
And stol'n the poignant anguish of regret.
To spare worse pangs than ever madness proved,
That friendly darkness of the mind was given,
Nor know them lost on earth, till met in heaven.
That thou might'st never mourn the fondly loved,
Yet lingering sadness in our hearts is found;
"Tis still a pensive thought, that all is past;

Part when we may, 'tis parting still, at last,
We thought not on thy life, nor mourned thy

Farewell," is ever of a mournful sound

death;

But death hath now recall'd thy life once more, And the last pang, that drew thy parting breath, Seem'd to our hearts thine image to restore. Yesterday the Rev. Edward John Burrow, When shall we see, so good, so great again? We muse on all thou wert, and tears will start; M. A. of Trinity College, was admitted Ba-But wherefore ponder not on what thou art, chelor in Divinity, grand compounder. High o'er this brief abode of woe, and pain?

From double darkness of the soul and eye,
Oh! what a glorious change from dark to light,
When thy freed spirit spread its wings for flight!
To thee 'twas death to live, 'tis life to die.
For thee? it is to all, whose anchor'd faith
Enters beyond death's transient veil of gloom;
But, oh! how perfect was thy living death,
Who wert thyself thine own unjoyous tomb!
Those darken'd eyes no more obstruct the day;

That mind no more spurns reason's blest con-
Far from its ruined tenement of clay,
trol;
All eye, all reason, soars the happy soul.
Dull are those ears no more, but, raptur'd, share
Notes, far from earth's best harmony remov'd;
But, oh! of all the heav'nly music there,
Is not the sweetest, every voice beloved?
Say, as the hour of blissful death drew nigh,
Did not around thy couch bright angels stand,
Reveal'd in vision to thy mental eye,
And sweetly whisper, "Join our kindred band?
"Leave thy poor crown of earth, whose every

gem

Was but the splendid covering of a thorn;
For thee, ev'n now a brighter diadem,
Cluster'd with beams, by seraph hands is borne.
"That crown not less domestic virtues twine,
Than patriot faith, unsullied, unsubdued,
Which never purchas'd at ambition's shrine
A nation's glory, with a nation's good.
"Come! where, beyond the portals of the grave,
The loved, the lost, to thy embraces press :
Lives, loves, and reigns, eternally to bless.”
Come, where a Saviour, who has died to save,
January, 1820.

THE COURTING.
Dear Annie, dinna tremble so,

'Tis but the burnie's gentle flow,
Nae warlock slily wanders here,

And sound of stirring leaves you hear.
The birdies on the greenwood spray
Have ceased their melting notes o' luve,
Nae troutis in the streamlet play,

But hush'd is a' the sleeping grove.
Nay lassie, raise thy tearfu' ee,
Part from thy face the gowden hair;
Nor let the rosy colour flee

From that dear cheek so palely fair,
Deem not thae birken siller stems

Which glisten in the saft moonlight,
Where evening hangs her dewy gems,
The burnish'd arms of hostile knight.
Then dinna, dinna, tremble so,

Let luve, dear lassie, banish fear;
"Tis but thy lover's plighted vow,

His whispered faith you trembling hear.

EPITAPH

On a tomb-stone in the Churchyard of Torryburn,
Fifeshire.

At anchor now, in death's dark road,
Rides honest Captain Hill,
Who serv'd his King, and fear'd his God,
With upright heart and will.
In social life sincere and Just
To vice of no kind given;
So that his better part, we trust,
Hath made the port of heaven.

of 1820:

The medical topography of the district of Cambrai: The cloge of Lamoignon de Malesherbes (proposed in July 1818): A national ode, the subject of which is left to the choice of the candidates. The agricultural question, which was proposed in 1817, and deferred to the competition of 1818, is definitively withdrawn.

The prize for each of these subjects is to be a gold medal, worth 200 francs.

Dr. Bell's system of education has been established at Irkutsk in Siberia, by the Privy Counsellor Speransky,

the instrument on the very day of the month
you promised it; you have only made a small
inistake in the date of the year." It was, in
fact, exactly a year after the stipulated time.
CERF ACTEON.-A stag, to which the
name of Acteon has been given, has made
his debut at Franconi's Circus in Paris. He
performs the same feats as a well-manéged
horse; beats time in the midst of fire-works,
&c. This spectacle attraets crowds to the
Cirque; curious to see so timid an animal
tanght the bearing of the most courageous.
LONGEVITY.—Etienne Dela:netairie, born
aged 103 years and 18 days. For more than
blind, died lately in the hospital at Bourges,
a century he was an inhabitant of a world
he never saw. Like many of his darkling
companions in the brute creation, he was
employed for sixty years in turning a grind-

stone.

Singular Phenomenon.-During the night of Tuesday last, there fell, in the township of Broughton, on the south shore, so great quantity of a black powder, as completely

a

to cover the snow which was then on the

LITERARY NOTICES.

Contents of the Jurnal des Savans for Jan. 1820. C. B. Hase Leonis Diaconi Caloënsis Historia.-Reviewed by Mr. Raoul Rochette. John Gothofr. Ludov. Kosegarten De Mohanede Ebn-Batuta Tingitano, ejusque itineribns.-Mr. Silvestre de Sacy.

Gaetano Cattaneo, Equejade, inonumento antico di bronzo del Museo nazionale Ungkaresc.-Mr. Raoul Rochette.

Ed. Dodwell's Tour in Greece.-Mr. Letronne.

Comte d'Aberdeen.-M. Letronne.
Raoul Rochette, Deux Lettres à Mylord

R. T. H. Laennec. De l'Auscultation mediate.-M. Tessier.

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL.
FERBUARY, 1820.

Thursday, 3-Thermometer from 31 to 35.

Barometer from 30, 15 to 30, 17. Wind S. b. E. and E. -Clondy.

Friday, 4- Thermometer from 31 to 35.

ground. A small quantity of the powder
has been brought to town, and will be ana-ing, when it became clear.
lysed. (Quebec Gazette, Nov. 18.)

For the information of our chemical

readers, we are authorized to state, that the
new metal, Cadmium, originally discovered
by Professor Stromeyer, in foreign ores of
Clarke, of this university, in the Derbyshire
zine, has been also found by Professor E. D.

Barometer from 30, 19 to 30, 21.
Wind W.-Generally cloudy, till the even
Saturday, 5-Thermometer from 31 to 43.
Parometer, from 30, 17 to 30, 09.
Wind S. b. E. 1. and 4.- Generally cloudy.
A drizzling rain part of the afternoon.
Sunday, 6-Thermometer from 35 to 50.
Barometer from 30, 05 to 30, 20.
Wind S. W. and 2.— Generally cloudy till

THE MOVING MOUNTAIN,—Accounts from Namur say, that the Moving Mountain has made terrible progress during the night from the 30th to the 31st of January. It has advanced more than six feet; the communication between that city and Dinant, Calamine. Dr. Thonison, Regius Professor noon, the rest of the day fine and clear.

which is the great road to Paris, is shut up of Chemistry at Glasgow, has examined the
people must now go by way of La Plante, Cadmium obtained by Professor Clarke from
along the Meuse, and in case the waters
should rise as they did last month, the pas-servations. (Cambridge Chronicle.)
our English ores, anil has confirmed his ob-
sage would be impossible. The house of
Mr. Stapleaux is cracked by the pressure of
the earth, and that of Mr. Dutilleux is
threatened by the neighbourhood of a mass
which is sixty feet higher than the roof.

derful

GEORGE BIDDER, the boy whose wonmuch notice, has been rescued, by a publie powers in calculation have attracted so subscription at Edinburgh, from the degraded situation of a common show, and a fund

Anecdote of his late Majesty.-Among the many anecdotes of his late Majesty, with raised to give him a liberal education. He which the periodical press abounds, we have is now thirteen years of age; and the pronot seen the following:-The late celebrated gress of his mind will be watched with phi

Monday, 7-Thermometer from 45 to 51.

Barometer from 30, 30 to 30, 31.
Wind S. W. 14.- Generally cloudy.
Tuesday, & -Thermometer from 43 to 47.

Barometer from 30, 31 to 30, 32.
Wind S. W. 2-Generally cloudy. Sunshine
Wednesday, 9-Thermometer from 38 to 52.
at times in the afternoon.

Barometer from 30, 25 to 30, 11.
Wind S. b. E. 1. and S.W. 3.-Generally clear,
with clouds passing.
Edmonton, Middlesex. JOHN ADAMS.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

mathematical instrument maker, Mr. Rams-losophical care, by some of the learned The Translation from Fleury's Memoires, &c. which

den, was frequently deficient in punctuality, and would delay for months, nay, for years, the delivery of instruments bespoken from him. His Majesty, who had more than once experienced this dilatory disposition, once ordered an instrument, which he made Ramsden positively promise to deliver on a certain day. The day, however, came, but not the instrument: At length Rainsden sent word to the King that it was finished; on which a message was sent him, desiring that he would bring it himself to the Palace

nenbers of the university where he is placed,
and of the Royal Society.

A new Society of Arts is projected in Edin-
burgh. It will resemble that of London, and
have a hall for the deposit of models, &c.
as at the Adelphi.

A

visited the field of Bannockburn, so cele-
Two English gentlemen, some time ago,
brated for the defeat of Edward's army.
sensible countryman pointed out to then the
positions of the hostile nations the stone
where Bruce's standard was fixed during the
battle, &c. Highly pleased with his atten-

F. S. censures as erroneously rendering “Ma glorie est faite à moi," as if it were

prer moi," my glory is made for myself,” instead of “my own glory is established"—is not ours, but belongs to the English edition of the work. To S. N. R's two questions, we answer, 1st. that we cannot tell till we see the suppressed poem; and, 2dly, that till we see specimens of the letters, we cannot tell.

C.

F. is utterly mistaken; we do not even know of the existence of any “Theatrical Party." Our opinions upon the stage, as on every other subject, are impartial and unbiassed.

He however answered that he would not tion, the gentlemen on leaving him, pressed Endymion, if we may judge from his poetry, is

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said the honest man, returning the money.
his acceptance of a crown-piece.
Na, na,"
keep your crown-piece, the English hae
paid dear aneugh already for seeing the field
of Bannockburn." (Constable's Magazine.)

come, unless his Majesty would promise not
to be angry with him for his want of punctu-
ality. "Well, well," said the King, "let him
come; as he is conscious of his fault it would
be hard to reprove him for it." On this
assurance he went to the Palace, where he
was graciously received; the King, after
expressing his entire satisfaction with the
instrument, only adding, with a good natured
smile, "You have been uncommonly punc-exist in that state,
tual this time, Mr. Ramsden, having brought

One of Plato's Infants!—A Professor of Natural History, at Wetteran, reared and kept for three years a canary bird without feathers. It has been held that no bird could

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