The lunar cycle, or period of 19 years, as | Hegira, 286 and 308 (the years 899 and 920 also that called the Chaldean or ecliptic pe- of the Christian era,) are all German, among riod, confessedly originated with the Eastern which are 90 of the Emperors Otto 1.-III. astronomers and that we may see the and the Empress Adelheid; several of differagreement of the Oriental astronomers with ent princes, as of Duke Bernard I. of the our European calculators, we here insert the Palatinate; Henry of Bavaria (the Lame?) measure of 19 sidereal and lunar years after &c. &c. the rest are of Cologne, of the both accounts, thus:time of the three Ottos. From the age of these coins, it seems that we may infer with Days. Hrs. Min. Sec. tolerable certainty, that this treasure was confided to the earth, the only deposit-bank which at that time existed, rather earlier in the 11th century than this era has been brought to light in the 19th.

Indian time reduced.

0

0

0

0

0

3

48

0

0

2

51

19 X 365 days = 6935
19 X 6 hours= 4 18
19 X 12 min. = 0
19 X
9 sec. =
Indian time

Difference

6939 21 50 51

54 15

Hence the difference between the Indian and
European is 54 min. 15 sec. in 19 sidereal

The six Universities of Russia have the the district of the Moscow University belong following districts assigned to them: 1. To Ferguson's Tables, p. 190, 6939 20 55 354 person, and had most probably been a booty the Governments of Moscow, Smolensko, taken in war. Pirates (Wikingar) and sol- Caluga, Tula, Rjasan, Waldimir, Costrodiers were the richest persons in the country. ma, Wologda, Twer, and Jaroslaw. 2. To been found together in Scandinavian ground, Governments of Wilna, Grodno, Witepsk, Why so many coins of king Ethelred have the district of the University of Wilna, the is probably owing to the heavy tribute called Mohileu, Minsk, Volhynia, Kiew, and PoDanegeld, which this monarch had to pay dolia. 3. To the district of the University of for many years, probably in ready money, Dorpat, Livonia, and Courland, originally likeDays. Hrs. Min. Sec. to Denmark; which was then circulated in wise Old Finland, but the latter now belongs various ways, even among the inhabitants of Sweden, besides what Swedish warriors 4. To the district of the University of St. to the University of Abo, in New Finland. brought from the expeditions to England, in Petersburg, which is not yet organized, the which they took a distinguished part. Some governments of St. Petersburg, Pleskou, also might be brought by the English missi-Novogorod, Olonez, and Archangel, are for onaries, and some in the regular course of the present assigned. 5. The district of the trade. As the kingdom had no coin of its University of Charcow comprehends the own, German and English money, together Ukraine, Orel, Kursk, Woronesch, Tscherwith the Arabian, brought by merchants and others from the east, formed the only Jekatherinoslaw, and the countries of the nigow, Pultawa, Cherson, the Crimea, currency of the kingdoin. district of the University of Kasan belong, Don and other Cossacks. 6. Lastly, to the Kasan, Astracan, Orenburgh, Ufa, Wjätka, Perin, Tambow, Nischneigorod, Saratow, Pensa, Caucasus, Simbirsk, Tobolsk, Tomsk, and Irkutzk, together above 200,000 (German) square miles in extent. Yet some young people from the country of the Budistant about 2000 miles from Kasan, have rätes, Tschukli, and Tungusians, who are come to study at the university of that city; many belonging to the Tartar tribes have also come to study at the University of Ka

1 lunation

235 lunations 6939 16 27 Ditto by English tables = 6939

Difference

16 26 51

The articles now found confirm what traThe difference between 235 lunations com-dition says, that gold and silver armlets and posing the lunar cycle of 19 years by both bracelets were then in use. Bracelets seem reckonings less than one minute! Consider-originally to have been an ornament peculiar ing the supposed ignorance of the Eastern to warriors, who swore oaths by their braceastronomers in the elements of true science, lets, which were not to be broken. They their want of necessary and accurate mathe- were sometimes given by sovereigns or gematical instruments, and the skill for the more nerals as rewards of valour, or signs of faprofound and elaborate calculations of our vour, and sometimes to persons not of the European and justly famous practitioners, military profession. Saint Siegfried, who their determination on the exact measures lived in those times, had received a gold of the sidereal and lunar year is truly admir- bracelet from Olof King of Norway, which able, and deserving our highest commenda- he employed in the redemption of Christian prisoners from heathen slavery.

A peasant of the name of Bryngel Tonsson,
and some labourers lately digging for stone,
in a woody field on the estate Dalsland and
Tillhagen, in Bolstads Socken, found a
great number of old silver coins, and other
silver of a fine standard. The latter con-
sists of nine bracelets, of four different
forms; a thick silver twine, bent together,
but broken off at both ends, appearing like-day last the following degrees were con-
wise to have been used as a bracelet; and ferred:-
several shapeless silver pieces, weighing al-
together 46 ounces. The bracelets weighed
from 1 to 3 loth (a loth is half an ounce).
Of the legible coins, there are 242 whole
pieces; the illegible and defaced amount to
about 70. The former consist of 87 English
or Anglo-Saxon coins, all except three, of
king Ethelred, and only two of his father,
king Edgar; 83 of them bear the date of
1005. The rest of the coins, with the ex-
ception of two Kufic of the years of the

Master of Arts-Rev. Frederick Charles
Spencer, Christchurch.

Bachelors of Arts.-Rev. Henry Palmer,
Worcester College; Christopher Sidney
Smith, Corpus Christi College; John Leigh,
Brasennose College; Bernard John Ward,
Trinity College; Jaines Espinasse, Balliol
College.

Thursday last the Rev. Robert Mason, of
Queen's College, was admitted Bachelor in
Divinity.

san.

FINE ARTS.

THE BRITISH GALLERY.

In pursuance of our design, we shall, in a few consecutive Numbers of the Literary Gazette, select for notice the principal works in this Exhibition; consulting generally the merit of the productions in our classification; but, in a good many instances, postponing others for the sake of our own conveniency, and in order to mature our criticisins, where matter, not attainable by the mere view of a picture, is desirable. No. 213. A Highland Whiskey Still, in Ar

gyleshire. D. Wilkie, R. A. Our first glance at the exhibition strongly impressed us with the superior excellence of this picture; nor has our subsequent examination of it lowered our opinion. We do not hesitate therefore in saying, that, so far as the execution, and the choice and ar

rangement of the materials, of which the subject is composed, can be estimated, this is the finest specimen of Mr. Wilkie's pencil. Nor would we qualify it even in this slight degree, were it not palpable, that, adinirably as he has treated this truly Scottish scene, some of his preceding works have an advantage, in the greater number of characters, in sentiment, and in the more general nationality of the habit or custom which he has chosen for the display of his unrivalled talents. In the present instance, there is, superadded to the best qualities of the Flemish School, a degree of expression far beyond those foreign masters; who, in most cases, contented themselves, in the conduct of their performances, with what regarded the cofouring, chiaro scuro, and handling. For so much, ordinary nature and common character sufficed to them; and they shone in the application of their means and skill. Yet on these, their peculiar grounds, the picture before us has abundant claims to admiration; and when time shall have done for it as much as for them, it may vie with the very foremost of the Flemish masters. There are few subjects of this class which could have afforded the artist so fair an opportunity of showing his judgment in the choice of the picturesque, and of throwing upon his objects a light and shade equally conducive to the effect of the piece, to which the varied colours of which they partake give a tone and character well suited to harmonize

and set off each other.

STAINED GLASS.

Wilkie has two other pieces in the Gallery;
No. 17. A Vetoran Highlander, who served
at Minden; and 109, 4 Bacchanalian Copy of a Letter addressed to Messrs. Ro-
gathering Grapes.
bins, Auctioneers, Covent Garden.
Gentlemen,

The former, it may readily be imagined, is
in his usual style: the latter is an excursive
flight into the regions of classic art; and
quite sufficient to show the versatility of the
artist's talents. The names of Poussin and
Rubens, on such subjects, have been so
long used by the dealers to conjure with,
that we despair of any other to draw the
amateur into the circle; but if any can, this
may. The general effect is rich, and be-
longs to the highest style of art. What we
do not like so well, is the want of beauty in
the female forms, and of truth in some of
the flesh tints. Yet there are parts, beyond
which we deem it hardly possible to carry the
powers of painting.

No. 141. Macbeth.—John Martin.

I feel it a duty incumbent upon me, as the oldest artist in the kingdom, in the art of Painting on Glass (in vitrifying colours) to address you through the medium of the public papers, in vindication of British genius, in that particular branch of the fine arts, commonly called "Stained Glass," to enquire by what authority you have made such bold assertions as are contained in an advertisement, respecting a sale of Painted Glass, coming forward in the month of March next, under your hammer; in which you presume to set up the works of a French artist, as "the finest efforts that ever have appeared in the art of Painting on Glass;" adding, "that the point has been conceded

The scene is, the Vanishing of the Weird by the first artists." Now, gentlemen, I

Sisters

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call upon you to give the names of those artists who (you say) haye so decidedly pro"Stay ye imperfect speakers, tell me more." nounced on the merits of those pieces, and As by the wand of an enchanter, we are so kindly transferred the fame acquired by again brought to a sight of the marvellous. British genius to Monsieur de Marne, an artist The skill with which this artist, on a former residing in Paris. When you favour us with occasion, arrested our attention, in spite of their names, we shall then be able to form the regularity of protracted lines, and formal an opinion, whether the rank they hold in splendour of his architecture, is here dis-the estimation of the judicious part of manplayed with full liberty; and the field of ima- kiud, entitle their verdict in Monsieur de gination is opened with a bold and daring Marne's favour, to any consideration. Anohand. The sublime character of the clouds ther question, I must request un answer to-+ and sky, mingling with the more solid elc- What do you mean by Three Pieces of The interesting interior is occupied by fi- ments which compose the scene, are well Glass," to form oue subject? Can a picgures the most appropriate; and if their oc- suited to the storm of the wild and barren ture have more than one surface? If two cupation and quality have less of emotion heath. The characters of Macbeth and Banquo or three pieces of glass are used to form a than some of Mr. W's other performances, appear in the midst of a blaze of light, while view, or subject, does it not become an op nothing can be more just or suitable to their the weird Sisters are enveloped in a veil of tical delusion? and consequently not entitled situation and employment. The profound obscurity; a mist is drawn before them, that to the rank which a picture holds in the deliberation with which the old man ex-may well make them seem the unearthy works of art; because a picture, (if well exe amines the clearness and proof of the whiscuted) unites in itself all the points of exkey, is equal, we may say superior, in its cellence on one surface, which are so pom kind, to any thing that ever was done; nor pously puffed off by you, in Monsieur de is the figure in shadow much less ably paint-And yet are on't." Marne's three-fold glass contrivances. When ed; at any rate it has all that belongs to its business and place In this part, the accesThe hand of time will do much for this reflect that England has to boast of such saries and still life are surpassingly beautiful, picture, in toning down some crudities in the men, in the art of Painting on Glass, as Pecket, Jarvis, Hill, Egington, Backler, asand when we examine the effect of the co-colouring. The conception is grand, and sisted by the genius of West, Mortimer, and louring arising from the varied broken other artists of high consideration, I cannot tints of similar hues, out of which so much tamely stand by, and see their well-deserved harmony is produced, together with the fame sacrificed by the frothy nonsense of an composition as a whole, we cannot but conauctioneer's advertisement, to gratify the va gratulate the purchaser on possessing a chef. nity of a Frenchman, at the expense of truth, d'œuvre of British art. candour, and justice, without an effort to expose the delusion. Expecting an answer, I remain, &c. &c. Feb. 23, 1820. J. PEARSON.

shapes of a distempered fancy, such as the
immortal bard intended to draw.-

"That look not like the inhabitants of earth,

though rather a manner-like repetition, it
sustains the high reputation of the artist.
No. 30. The Day before the Wedding.-

M. W. Sharp.

This cabinet gem is one of Mr. Sharp's Our regard for the subject, too, is raised happiest efforts: the subject is treated with a playful elegance; and in its little drama, by poetical association; and we recognise it the bride of to-morrow is coyly resisting the as one in which we can sympathize; not as lover of to-day, who is drawing her towards it refers to the use of spirits and their perni-a pedlar, in order that the latter may try on cious consequences, but as reminding us of the joyous or heroic feelings, to which the inspiring beverage has often given rise; and so happily expressed in the glowing language

of Burns.

the ring, which is to bind her for ever. An old lady is carefully inspecting the operation of fitting the conjugal pledge; and these four figures make up the principal group. In the back ground is seen the signing and sealing of the marriage contract, The costume is Spanish, and the architecture, with which the brilliancy of the colouring and the style of execution well accord, "superb. The story is delightfully and humourously told, the composition is charming, and the whole Besides this inimitable performance, Mr. finished in a masterly style.

"But bring a Scotchman frae his hill,
Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,
Say such is royal George's will,
And there's the foe:

He has nae thought, but how to kill
Twa at a blow.

112, Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury.

P. S.-These sentiments are not new to

you, as you will perceive by referring to my letter on the same subject, dated May 22d, 1815, in answer to a challenge of yours to the artists of this country, five years ago, when these very superior specimens were ofered by you for public safe, without suc

cess.

[We insert this as a fair reclamation in favour of British art; but must say, at the same time, that however Messrs. Robins may find it neces

to the family of the celebrated reformer of that name. Christopher was only 11 years old, and still at school, when his father died, so involved in circumstances, that the family property was obliged to be sold. It is stated, that long previous to this period the boy had shown an inclination for poetry, and had even, (though this seems more than doubtful,) made verses when only four years old. On the death of his father he left Maidstone and went to Durham, in the neighbourhood of which city some of his paternal relations resided, and behaved to him with friendly kindness. He was also well received at Raby Castle, and patronised by the Hon. Mrs. Hope, and by the late Duchess of Cleveland, who allowed him 401. a year till her death, in 1742. In October, 1739, he was entered at Pembroke Hall, Oxford, being then in his 17th year. At College he was more distinguished for his poetical efforts and classical taste, than for the usual academical pursuits; and, notwithstanding his constitutional delicacy, soon became a general favourite with such of his contemporaries as were men of gaiety and vivacity. His fortune did not enable him to keep such company, and he was speedily involved in difficulties, which genius and literary habits are ill calculated to surmount when opposed to worldly wisdom and prudential selfishness. As might be expected, they lasted him through life, and embittered his being; drove him to intemperance, the only blot on his otherwise blameless character. In 1743 he was admitted Bachelor of Arts, and in 1745 elected a Fellow of Pembroke. He had previously acquired considerable fame by his Tripos Verses, and by the translation of Pope's Essay on Criticism, and other poems, into Latin verse. A comedy, now lost, and other productions, were the fruits of this period. A soliloquy of the Princess Periwinkle, the heroine of the play, describing her conflicting passions, príde, love, and reason, has the following ludicrous comparison

"O thou, whatever name delight thine ear,
Pimp! poct! puffer! 'pothecary! play'r!
Whose baseless fame by vanity is buoy'd,
Like the huge earth, self-centered in the void,
Accept one part'ner thy own worth t' explore,
And in thy praise be singular no more.

*

Christopher Smart was born rather pre- quished the prospect of a regular profession. | tled respectably in the bookselling trade at maturely, at Shipbourne, in Kent, 11th This we doubt was a luckless change, for Reading. April, 1722: his father was possessed of an writing and putting in periodical works is Mr. Sinart's piety was so fervent, that he independancy of about 300/. per ann. and now but a bad substitute, and was then a wrote parts of his religious poems on his acted as steward on the Kentish estate of worse, for professional exertions in any of the knees. He was friendly, affectionate, and Lord Barnard, afterwards Earl of Darling-liberal pursuits. Smart contributed principal-liberal to excess. His conversation agreeaton. His mother, a Miss Gilpin, belongedly to the Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany, ble after he got over a habitual shyness. In the Old Woman's Magazine, and other hu- poetry, his lighter pieces are preferred by Mr morous publications. IIe also wrote seve-Chalmers; but his rich and original fancy in ral prologues and epilogues, upon which, as serious composition needs no praise in this well as his other compositions, he set a much Journal, where such eminent proofs of it higher value than others acknowledged to be are given. The Hilliad is coarse; but for the just. His pleasing manners, however, pro- expression of profound contempt, and poig cured him the friendship of Johnson, Gar- nant ridicule, is perhaps unequalled in the rick, Dr. James, Dr. Burney, and other English language-the first of its class. For eminent men. Garrick, when he was in exampledistress in 1759, gave him the profits of a free benefit at Drury Lane Theatre. Johnson wrote papers for him in the Universal Visitor; and Dr. Burney set several of his songs to music. A dispute with Doctor, afterwards Sir John Hill, gave rise to a bitter satire, entitled the Hilliad; and the remarks made on his first published collection A paltry play'r, that in no part succeeds, of poems, 4to, 1752, set him at daggers The trumpet of a base deserted cause, A hackney writer, whom no mortal reads. drawn with all reviews and reviewers. From Damned to the scandal of his own applause. 1754 to 1756, it is supposed that Smart's │* by Jove assigned, health was bad, and that both his person The universal butt of all mankind. and purse suffered so much in consequence But his amiable and religious poeins deserve of his negligent and irregular habits, that better to be remembered than this severe temporary alienation of mind was frequently castigation; and it is probable, that this rethe result of embarrassments preying upon vival of one of them may lead to a more gehis fervid imagination. He had at this neral perusal of the rest than they have had time two children. The unhappy bard for half a century. would fall upon his knees and say his prayers in the street, and insist on passengers praying with him; but his lunacy was sometimes dangerous, and his confinement was necessary to keep him from the intemperance KING'S THEATRE.-The obscene, witty, which made it so. After his release, he and immortal Rabelais has furnished Mr. acted with greater composure, had pleasant Hullin with the subject of a Comic Ballet, lodgings near the Park, and was supported which is decent, dull, and temporary. Gre partly by his literary labours, and partly by try founded an opera on the adventures of 507. per ann. granted from the Treasury. In the renowned Panurge, on the Isle of Lan1757 he published his prose translation of terns; and the Ballet-Master has turned Horace. In 1763 the Song to David, which that into dancing, which Gretry turned into we have quoted so largely, was given to the fiddling. Much more, we think, might have world; and also a small miscellany of poems been made of the materials: for though the on several occasions. In 1764 appeared circumstances are extravagant, they are not Hannah, an Oratorio, the music by Worgan; ill-adapted for comic action and lively Terp and an Ode to the Earl of Northumberland, sichorean expression. In some of the de with some other pieces, were produced; tails there is considerable merit; but taken but they afforded, amidst fine bursts of ima- as a whole, Panurge does not reach the beau gination, only too strong evidence of disor-ideal of a perfect ballet, which, in the opiThus when a barber and a collier fight, dered intellect. In 1765 he executed a neat nion of amateurs, and connoisseurs of comThe barber beats the luckless collier-white. and faithful poetical translation of the Fables positions of that sort, should be as intelliThe dusky collier heaves his pond'rous sack, of Phædrus, with the Appendix of Gudius:gible as a philosophical essay, and as interestAnd,big with vengeance, beats the barber-black. his translation of the Psalms, in the same ing as a sentimental novel. For ourselves, In comes the brickdust-man, with grime o'er-year, gave melancholy proof of decay of we must say, that we never distinctly unspread, derstood the language of the legs, nor could catch with grammatical accuracy the points

And beats the collier and the barber-red.

Black, red, and white,in various clouds are toss'd,
And in the dust they raise, the combatants are

lost.

THE DRAMA.

powers. Two years after, Horace was republished, with a metrical translation, containing many fine passages; but in the year of the toes. We are therefore generally 1768 his last work, "The Parables of our well satisfied with motions of grace and acLord," &c. done into familiar verse, seems tivity, merely for their intrinsic qualities; In 1747 Smart took the degree of M. A. to indicate more completely than any of his and provided a dancer spins round a dozen and became a candidate for the Seatonian later performances a want of judgment, ap- of times like a top, we are surprised to our prize, which was adjudged to him for five proaching to imbecility. At length he was heart's content, without going into the reconyears, four of them in succession. In 1753, he confined in the King's Bench Prison, or ra- dite translation of the pirouette into some married Miss Ann Maria Caruan, the daugh-ther in the Rules, which his brother-in-law, necessary incident connected with the fable ter by a former husband of Mary, wife of the. Mr. Carnan, obtained for him; and there he of the piece. In short, we consider it very late respected Mr. John Newbery. This died of a liver complaint, after a short ill-absurd to be trying to trace solid sense in an gentleman seems to have engaged him in a ness, on the 18th of May, 1770. He left aplomb, narrative in a pas scul, and a world general scheme of authorship, and he relin-two daughters, who, with their mother, set of meaning in a high jump.

DRURY LANE.-Madame Vestris, an Eng-in the dialogue, which, without straining
ish lady, (we believe,) though of foreign for effect, is generally easy and spirited, and
parentage, and affecting a foreign prefix to ever and anon enlivened with some witty
her name, made a first and very successful turn or play on words. Indeed, it has no
appearance on these boards, last Saturday, faults that may not be overlooked in a farce,
as Lilla, in the Siege of Belgrade; and has and many good qualities which we see very
since confirmed the favourable impression of seldom in modern dramatic compositions.
the public, in another musical part. Her
voice is remarkably clear, and her style of
singing is excellent.

priate to the occasion, as the bills would say, prevented her from executing the most dithcult passages correctly, and seemed a little to confuse her runs and impair her shakes. But we have no doubt that she will not only acquire more power, but that what she already possesses will be displayed to greater advantage, as she gains confidence; which the favour of her reception is well calculated to inspire. It may be remembered, that this lady played some years ago at the King's Theatre, since which she has visited the Continent.

FOREIGN DRAMA.

THEATRE ROYAL DE L'OPERA COMIQUE. First representation of La Bergère Chátelaine, an Opera in three Acts.

The story of this new opera, which carries us back to the chivalrous days of the crusades, appears to be borrowed from a Ger

inan romance.

The Lord of Rochefort, on his departure for Palestine, leaves his wife under the pro tection of his brother, who, losing sight of his most sacred duty, and eager to inherit the great wealth of his brother, overwhelms the poor Chatelaine with all kinds of indignity. To preserve her infant daughter from ill-treatment, the wretched mother, on her death-bed, charges Bertha, her faithful attendant, to convey the heiress of Rochefort far from the residence of her cruel uncle. Bertha retires to the territories of the young Count de Montfort, with the child, who passes for her daughter, under the simple naine of Lucette.

Ivanhoe has been dramatized for Drury Lane, under the title of The Hebrew; and Kean is to play Isaac of York. The character seems almost drawn for him, and we anticipate a striking display of his peculiar energy and talent in the part; especially in the dungeon-scene, where he is threatened ORATORIOS, &c.-On Friday was pro- with torture, and braves the worst when he duced at Covent Garden a musical perform-hears of his daughter's dishonour. Some flurry, appro-ance, learnedly called, from Seneca, a grand epicedium: we wonder that epicitharismates were not lugged into the interludes, epimones into the choruses, epinicioni into the songs, and all the other epis, whether combined with raw, or Júλxμs, or TV, into the other parts of music; for since we are to have a Greek compound for a funeral song, why should our affectation stop short in the remaining appellatives, and the medley of Greek, Latin, Italian, and English be left incomplete? We did not attend the theatre, but on the report of a friend, venture to say, that the whole selection was very excellent COVENT GARDEN.-Too Late for Dinner. and very heavy, the entire execution very A farce under this appalling name, and re-able and very tiresome. ported to be written by Mr. Theodore DRURY LANE.-We have seldom witnessHooke, was produced on Tuesday. It is a ed a fuller house, or an abler performance, lively, bustling, humourous thing, was only than Wednesday's oratorio presented at interrupted by laughter during its perform- Drury Lane. The most admired pieces of ance, and at its close received the unanimous Mozart's Requiem had been judiciously plaudits of a very full house. Two brothers selected for the first act, and derived addiof very dissimilar characters, but of initially tional excellence from the manner in which similar names, viz. Mr. F. (Frederick) and they were executed by Mrs. Salmon, Miss Mr.F. (Francis) Poppleton, are mistaken for M. Tree, Miss Goodall, Braham, Pyne, and At the age of eighteen, Lucette appears a each other, and in various affairs of taverns, a Mr. Swift, who successfully made his first model of beauty and virtue :-she captivates rows, love, driving, and dining, the wild appearance that evening. A grand scena and the heart of the young Count de Montfort, habits of Frank create great confusion when aria, compo ed for the occasion, and allud-whose life she has saved after a combat, in substituted for the nodest bearing of Fred. ing to our late loss, were given by Madame which he was dangerously wounded. The These gemini are sustained by Messrs. Con- Bellochi, with exquisite taste, and the most faithful nurse acquaints the Duke of Brittany nor and Jones; the latter, in the thoughtless powerful effect, and produced a rapturous with the Count's passion; and at the same rake, being the very soul of the piece, which encore. The sa ne justice was done to most time discloses to him the illustrious origin of he absolutely carries through like wild-fire, of the airs in the first part of Haydn's Crea-the supposed shepherdess. The Duke deterby the sheer force of his gaiety and spirit. tion, which formed the second act. Between mines to put the Count's fidelity to the test; The other parts are Pincloth, a retired ha- the second and the third Madame Bellochi and for this purpose he introduces him to berdasher (Mr. Blanchard), and Twill his was also encored in a beautiful cavatina, by the beautiful Baroness de Courcy, as the nephew, and successor in trade (Mr. Liston); Rossini; and, in the third act, which was lady he intends him to marry. Bobby, a Yorkshire servant to Mr. Frederick miscellaneous, Miss Povey obtained the Poppleton, (Mr. Emery); the widow Thon-same honour in an air of Mozart's" Come Son (Mrs. Davenport); her niece (Miss May, bring pleasant weather." The whole Foote); their maid (Mrs. Gibbs); and Pin-concluded with Beethoven's Battle Sinfocloth's daughter (Miss Beaumont). Mrs. nia, executed in all its fullness and tempesThomson is contriving a match between tuous grandeur. the sober brother and the latter; while Twill, who is a complete Cockney dandy, is intended for her own niece, Emina. The irruption of Frank, however, disconcerts these projects. He falls in love with Emma at a ball; and in the hope of seeing her at Calico Lodge personates Frederick, and accepting the invitation meant for him, drives out to Blackheath with poor Twill in his shay. Their misadventures on the road, and the lover's insolence to the honest citizen's family when disappointed in meeting his adored, lead to an angry separation; after which the graver Poppleton arrives too late for dinner," and is peremptorily refused admittance, under the supposition that it is Rakehell wishing to break in again. An eclaircissement however takes place. Repentance is promised, forgiveness granted, and Mr. MATTHEWS has announced a new tach young lady takes a husband for better" At Home," at the old place: to begin on or for worse. There are many good points Monday.

The fair Baroness, however, is no other than Lucette, disguised in a dress of the most costly description. Montfort, like a true lover of the eleventh century, though not insensible to the charms of the Baroness, firmly resolves to remain faithful to Lucette. He hastens to Bertha's cottage, where he finds his mistress attired in her humble habi

There are Oratorios at the Coburg, for
the especial ears of the inhabitants of "Cam-
berwell, Walworth, Peckham, and the envi-liments.
rons," every Friday.

The Duke, however, is not satisfied with
MISS MACAULEY.-This lady has again this trial. He contrives another stratagem,
appealed to the public, and presented a sort and declares his intention of marrying the
of mono-dramatic entertainment at the Crown fair shepherdess to Robert, a protegé of
and Anchor. She has unquestionably consi-the Bailly of the district, who takes the
derable merit; but we cannot anticipate any
beneficial result to her from these exhibi-
tions; nor do we think that she has so much
reason to complain of public or managerial
injustice, as to excite a feeling favourable to
her claim for a reversal of the judgement.

Mr. LLOYD has commenced astronomical
lectures, illustrated by an orrery, for the
Wednesdays and Fridays during Lent, at the
Haymarket Theatre.

thing seriously, and abandons his village sweetheart for Lucette; finally, after once more introducing the Baroness, who vainly tenders her rank ard fortune, the Duke rewards the fidelity of the lovers, and restores the young shepherdess to her rightful

honours.

The piece was favourably received. The music, which is the production of M. Aubert, is deserving of praise, particularly the opening chorus, a quartett, and the finale to the second act, which was loudly ap plauded,