1831.] excessively cheap for the price, and we heartily wish the spirited Publisher all the success he deserves. Fine Arts.-Literary Intelligence. This Edition is to be confined to the best works of Hogarth, and will consist of about 53 plates; exclusive of wood engravings. The Tenth Part of the Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels, contains Views of the Tower of London, 1670, drawn it is said by D. Roberts, but the authority is not given; Linlithgow Castle and Inch Cailleach, by Robson; and Loch Leven, by Gastineau. The water and light in these three subjects, particularly the last, are very beautifully managed. Part V. of Mr. T. Landseer's Sketches of Animals, contains Portraits of the Barbary Lion, in the Tower of London; the Jaguar, a species of panther; the Polar Bear; and the Alpacos, a species of the same family as the Llama; all three from the Collection in the Zoological Gardens. These Plates are most faithfully and spiritedly drawn; and the Members of the Zoological Society so highly approve of the subjects submitted to them, that they have permitted Mr. Landseer to dedicate his work to the Society. The vignettes to the articles of the Lion and Alpacos we think rather outré, particularly the last, which we cannot comprehend; but the engraver of Monkeyana has been quite at home in the laughable vignette to the article on the Jaguar. The descriptions are written in a popular and very pleasing style. The Second Part of Mr. John Fleming's Select Views of the Lakes of Scotland confirms our favourable opinion of the work (see vol. c. ii. p. 254) on the publication of the first Number. It contains three most charming views of Loch Katrine; and the engraver, Mr. Swan, has done justice to Mr. Fleming's drawings. Mr. Henry Richter has here produced, from a simple incident, a very humourous and superior print, The Tight Shoe. A 161 countryman is suffering a martyrdom of pain in trying on a tight new shoe; whilst the sutor is wickedly enjoying the sport, at the same time that he is assuring the sufferer that it is a most capital fit. An old Waterloo pensioner and the cobbler's apprentice are laughing heartily; and a barber has run to enjoy the joke, but his wife has got scent of him, and has dispatched her girl to bring back her father to his own shop. The print is well engraved in aquatint by the Painter and Mr. J.P. Quilley, and measures 18 in. by 13. Remarks on the Alterations proposed in The Fifth and Concluding Volume of Mr. The Traveller disturbed.-We have just seen the Proof of a Print after Mr. engraved in the line manner, by Mr. William Kidd, which is extremely well Thomas Lord Busby. The print measures 11 in. by 9. A traveller by a stage he is disturbed by the guard blowing_his coach has just commenced his dinner, when horn, and the waiter bringing his bill. The traveller runs the double risk of being choaked by vexation, and by an enormous mouthful he is attempting to masticate. One hand is clenched in anger; the other holds a fork laden with food. Preparing for Publication. Five Lithographic Views, forming Part Gardens, laid out from the Designs of DeI. of a Series of Views in the Zoological cimus Burton, drawn by James Hakewill, author of the Picturesque Tour of Italy, &c. To be completed in Two Parts. Mr. Martin is engraving two prints "SaPandemonium, on the same scale as the tan presiding at the Infernal Council," and Belshazzar's Feast. BRITISH INSTITUTION. modern artists, for the present season, The annual exhibition of the paintings of opened on Jan. 31, at the gallery of the Society in Pall-mall. The whole collection is an extremely good one, and will be found to be as well deserving of the public attention as any that has been of late years exhibited at that place. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. New Works announced for Publication. A History of Leicestershire, in the form of a Dictionary. An Account of the Dynasty of the Khajars, translated from a Manuscript, presented by Jones Brydges, Bart. in the year 1811, con his Majesty Feth Ally Shah to Sir Harford taining an Account of the Family to that period. With Historical Notes, and an Introduction, by Sir HARFORD JONES BRYDGES, Bart. 2 vols. 8vo. tical, Catholic, and Protestant, with reflecThe History of Tithes, Patriarchal, Levitions on the extent and Blish 162 Literary Intelligence.—Antiquarian Researches. [Feb. Tithe System, and suggestions how to abolish the Tithes and support the Clergy without them. Minstrel Melodies; a Collection of Songs. By H. B. in Numbers. No. I. Songs of Social Hours. No. II. Songs of the Sea-Side. Bottomleiana; consisting of Biographical Memoranda of the late Rev. Samuel Bottomley, of Scarborough. By JoHN COLE. A Popular History of Scotland. By R. CHAMBERS. History of Poland. By W. J. THOMS. The Anti-Materialist. By the Rev. R. WARNER, F.S.A. Life of Sir Tho. Lawrence; and also a Life of Fuseli. The Annual Peerage for 1831. ROYAL SOCIETY. Jan. 27. George Rennie, Esq. V. P. Read, "On the probable Electric origin of all the phenomena of Terrestrial Magnetism," by Peter Barlow, Esq. F.R.S Feb. 3. Mr. Rennie in the chair. Read, a paper "On_the_Lunar theory," by Dionysius Lardner, LL.D. F.R.S. Feb. 10. Davies Gilbert, Esq. V.P.-Sir of chlorine and nitrous gas," by Edmund Feb. 17. Mr. Gilbert in the chair. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. The first meeting of the College of Physicians was held on Feb. 1. It was attended by a vast number of the learned and celebrated of all professions. Sir Henry Halford read to his learned audience a paper, of which the subject was "the effect of diseases upon the mental faculties." The dissertation was forcibly and not uneloquently worded, and the learned president contrived to render it not only quite intelligible, but also entertaining to those who were uninitiated alike in the mysteries and the nomenclature of medical science. KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. The following appointments in this insti- mental Philosophy Rev. H. Moseley, A.M. tice of Commerce Joseph Lowe, Esq. Surgery........J. H. Green, Esq. F.R.S. Anatomy. .H. Mayo, Esq. F.R.S. Theory of Physic .B. Hawkins, Esq. M.D. Practice of Physic F. Hawkins, Esq. M.D. Midwifery.......R. Ferguson, Esq. M.D. The reading of Professor Davy's paper Head Master....Rev. J. R. Major, A.M. was concluded. CAMBRIDGE, Jan.28. The late Dr. Smith's annual prizes of 251. each, to the two best proficients in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, among the Commencing Bachelors of Arts, were adjudged to Mr. S. Earnshaw, and Mr. T. Gaskin, both of St. John's College, the first and second Wranglers. Feb. 11. The Rev. S. Lee, B.D. Professor of Arabic, was elected to the Regius Professorship of Hebrew. ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES. SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. Jan. 27. W. R. Hamilton, Esq. V. P. Henry Brandreth, Esq. F S.A. exhibited a small seal, found in the ruins of the monastery at the Lyde, near Prince's Risborough, Bucks. Its design is a figure of St. Katherine, and its legend, SAVNTA CATRINA. A. J. Kempe, Esq. F.S.A. communicated an account of a remarkable Cromlech, " Arthur's Stone," which is situated on the top of a mountain called Kevyn Bryn in the Peninsula of Gower, about ten miles from Swansea in South Wales. The paper was illus. trated by drawings representing the remain in three points of view. Immediately under it is a spring of water. The Cromlech rests on the points of eight or ten supporting stones, sod is surrounded by a pile of small loose stones arranged in a circular form. Mr. Kempe imagines these are the material of an inclined plane, by which the large transverse stone had been elevated over its supporters. Arthur's Stone is much thicker and more ponderous than the greater number of monuments of a similar description in Wales; it is celebrated in Welch history as a wonderful structure. Mr. Kempe conceives it was raised by the Druids over one of their sacred springs. He incidentally noticed a visit which he made at the same time (in 1811) to the village of Lywchwr or Lloughor, undoubtedly the Leucarum of Antoninus, although an eminent antiquary had transposed it to the other side of the Severn Sea. He found a Roman altar placed on its side before a cottage garden in the village of Lloughor. F. Madden, Esq. F.S.A. communicated a translation of such part of the diary of a noble Spaniard, the Duke of Najera (preserved in the Addit. MSS. in the British Museum) as relates to a visit which he made to England in 1543-4. It gives an account of the appearance of each town through which the Duke passed, and an estimate of its population. With London he was much pleased; and the bridge greatly excited his admiration, particularly from the fine street by which it was covered. His taste in passing a warm eulogium on Salisbury Cathedral will be considered less questionable. His reception by King Harry was not perfectly satisfactory, and the character he gives of the morose old monarch is such as a foreigner only would have ventured to write. He had an audience of the Queen (Katherine Parr), and kissed her hand; and was about to pay the same homage to the Princess Mary, when she, as a mark of her great respect, would not allow him, but said he should kiss her lips; which he accordingly did, and so with the other ladies present. Feb. 3. Mr. Hamilton. in the chair. Sir Thos. Phillipps, Bart. F.S.A. exhibited a ground-plan of King John's palace at Clarendon in Wiltshire. John Gage, Esq. Director, communicated two Letters from Henry the Sixth, in 1441, addressed to the Prior of Bury St. Edmund's, and the Mayor of that town, urging them to activity in the suppression of the Lollards, and their leader Sir Nicholas Conway. The fourth letter of the Rev. John Skinner, F.S.A. on Camelodunum, was then read. It was occupied in pointing out the absurdities of such writers as would remove the site of that station from the vicinity of the Severn. Feb. 10. The Earl of Aberdeen, President, in the chair. Sutton Sharpe, Esq. Barrister, of Lincoln's Inn, was elected Fellow; and to the honorary list was added the name of "Christian Molbeck, Principal Librarian of the Royal Library at Copenhagen, Professor of the History of Literature in the University, and Keeper of MSS. and Records of the Royal Danish Society, author and editor of many learned works tending to illustrate the history, archæology, and philosophy of Northern nations." The Rev. Guy Bryan, F.S.A. communicated a compilation on the topography of Hurstmonceux in Sussex, accompanied by two pencil sketches of the castle. A history of the Holy Cross, by Viscount Mahon, was also read. From the period of its exhumation on Mount Calvary by the mother of the Emperor Constantine, it is traced for no less than twelve centuries. At first inshrined in silver in the church of St. Sophia at Constantinople, the 14th of September, the anniversary of its Exalta 163 tion, was nominated a feast-day, and a warden was appointed, styled the Staurophylax. It afterwards went to Casinum; to Palestine, where the crusaders bore it before their armies, and on one occasion one half was captured by the enemy; the Emperor Baldwin sold it to St. Louis; and in France it remained until some unknown thieves stole it in 1575, and it was not again discovered. However, it is a consolation to the devotee that there still remain an abundance of its fragments; enough, it has been wickedly remarked, to be the produce of a forest, or to build a navy. Lord Mahon added a note on the number of the holy nails, also pre served in various shrines. Feb. 17. H. Hallam, Esq. V.P. in the chair. John Bruce, Esq. F.S.A. exhibited a small silver box in the shape of a scull, beautifully executed, found at Cumnor, in ploughing on some lands formerly belonging to the Abbey of Abingdon. It is presumed to have been a reliquary, or phylacterium, and has a small ring by which it might be suspended to the girdle or round the neck. R. C. Hussey, Esq. presented some facsimile drawings of painted glass in the church of West Horsley in Surrey, apparently of the age of Henry the Third. Their designs are, 1. The Supper at the house of Lazarus (John, xii.) with Mary wiping the Saviour's feet with her hair; 2. A martyrdom under wheels, attributed to St. Katherine, but apparently of several sufferers. The figure supposed by Mr. Hussey to be that saint, appears to be a second angel. These designs are very curious, and would be well worth engraving or lithographing in outline, so that the plates might be coloured after the originals. A letter of Mr. Gage, the Director, on the Screen of York Minster, was then read; being a masterly vindication of its present situation on the authority of ancient ecclesiastical usages. This letter has since been published (see p. 161). John Britton, Esq. F.S.A. exhibited a view of the Screen, in its present commanding position, when viewed from the north transept; and also some effective drawings of the halls of Hedingham Castle, Penshurst Place, and Crosby House, which we understand have been prepared for the lectures on Architecture, about to be delivered by that gentleman at the Londou Institution. ANCIENT SEPULCHRE. A plough in a field on the Blackadder estate, Berwickshire, came in contact with a large stone, which, on being displaced, proved to be the lid or covering of a well-constructed stone coffin, containing a quantity of earth and human bones. On removing the contents with a spade the fragments of an urn were turned up, and a flint arrow head. This inartificial tomb probably contained the relics of a chief of the Ottadini. [164] SELECT POETRY. MONT ST. MICHEL, * NORMANDY. That hill where once the sacred pile O'er vales of love and peace to smile. A last and sacred relic stands ; Arrest while roaming o'er the sea, For Hope will sooth his agony.' Rome's idols, and her victims slew.t And war's strange thunder idly raved.‡ Nor yet immortal Crecy's chief, This classic spot's thy living tomb; Thine eyrie where the tempest roars; The ocean storms its iron shores. Is what she weeps, yet not with thee. O'er grief's most hallowed mysteries; Thou 'st done with earth--Religion hail, And she shall heal e'en wounds like these. Brompton, Feb. 9. H. B. [Feb. LET us wander, let us wander, When the Summer's past away, In the sweet Spring-tide of life, In its sky, will fade at last, And that sky itself will darkle, When life's sweet Spring-tide be past. H.B. Said to be the spot first chosen for the solitary imprisonment of Prince Polignac. A view of it will be found in Gent. Mag. vol. XLIX. 552. "Les druides furent les premiers qui l'ocupèrent. On prétend qu'ils l'appellaient 'Mons Belleni,' Mont de Bélus. Vous vous rappelez sans doute que Bélus était, chez les Gaulois, le dieu du soleil. Quand les armes Romaines renversèrent les pierres sensanglantées des Druides pour y substituer l'autel du maître des dienx, ce rocher prit le nom de Mont-Jou, Mons Jovis, c'est-à-dire Mont de Jupiter. Ce ne fut qu'en 708 qu'il reçut de Saint Michel sur la demande formelle que cet Archange fit à Saint Aubert, douzième évêque d'Avranches, auquel il se donna le peine d'apparaître plusieurs fois." L'Hermite en Province-Basse-Normandie, par M. Jouy. "En 1423, les Anglais, qui convoitaient depuis long-tems la possession de cette forteresse, l'assiégèrent mais inutilement. Cent vingt chevaliers repoussèrent leur armée, forte de quinze mille hommes, et lui enlevèrent même deux enormnes pièces de canon que l'on montre encore aux étrangers. Elle sont un monument curieux de la manière dont on fabrique d'abord les pièces d'artillerie; elles se composent de plusieurs barres de fer, liées -ensemble par des cercles du même métal." Ibid. One of the uneducated poets lately patronised by Mr. Southey, and mentioned in a note in the last number of the Quarterly Review. 1831.] [165] HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 3. Earl Grey, on presenting several petitions on the subject of Parliamentary Reform, said, that though his opinions did not go the length that some of them did on that subject, stil! in the great principle of that measure he entirely and decidedly concurred. Though his Majesty's Ministers bad, since their accession to office, been occupied with matters of great and varied interest, yet they had succeeded in framing a measure which they were persuaded would prove efficient, without exceeding the bounds of that great and wise moderation with which such a should be accompanied. The measure in question had met with the unanimous consent of the whole of his Majesty's Government.-Viscount Melbourne said, that he was sure the measure which was to be introduced would quite fulfil the just expectations of the people, without exciting the fears of those who were opposed to it. It was also the intention of Government to endeavour to improve the condition of Ireland. measure In the HOUSE OF COMMONS, the same day, Lord Althorp intimated that his noble friend Lord John Russel, Paymaster of the Forces, was authorized by the unanimous approbation of his Majesty's Ministers, to bring forward the measure of Reform on the 1st of March. The Government had selected the Noble Lord for that task, in consequence of the ability and perseverance which he had displayed in the cause of Reform in the days when it was unpopular. The Government thought that, on account of his perseverance and ability, the noble Lord should be the person selected to bring forward a measure of full and efficient Reform, instead of the partial measures which he had hitherto proposed. Feb. 4. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in laying on the table certain papers relating to the CIVIL LIST, took the opportunity of stating the arrangements which the Government proposed to submit to a Committee on that head. The present Administration had divided the Civil List into five classes. The 1st consisted of the allowance to his Majesty and the Privy Purse; the 2d consisted of the salaries of the officers of the household; the 3d, of the expenses of the household; the harities and private donations; and the fifth, of pensions all the other items of expenditure were to be under the control of Parliament. The noble Lord, in explaining the alterations made in respect of the allowances of the royal family, was not disposed to infringe upon any of those comforts or privileges which the royal family enjoyed; nor was he disposed to interfere with, or abridge, any of those privileges which of right were the prerogatives of royalty. But in the case of pensions, it was intended to amalgamate those generally charged on England, Scotland, and Ireland together, and gradually but greatly to reduce the amount. He proposed to place 75 of the seniors at the head of the List, and thus, when any vacancy occurred, his Majesty would have the opportunity of exercising his privilege. He did not intend to interfere with any pensions already granted, because, in general, they were given to objects of charity. The annual sum of 420,000l. formerly under the control of the Civil List, would now be placed under the control of Parliament. After noticing the allowance granted to the late Queen Charlotte, which was 54,000. annually, the noble Lord said that it was proposed to grant the same sum to Queen Adelaide, but that his Majesty had declined the grant. Upon all occasions, said his Lordship, his Majesty has not only attended to suggestions respecting economy, but he has been the first to suggest them.-Mr. Hume contended that the Pension List must he reduced, in order to convince the country that Ministers were sincere in their professions of economy.-After some discussion, the papers were referred to a Committee. HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 7. Lord King, on presenting some petitions on the subject of TITHES, stated that he had one from the county of Somerset, in which the petitioners declared that the present tythe system was pernicious, and that it prevented them from cultivating the land to the full extent it was capable of, and from giving employment to the poor. They said that the tithe was originally bestowed for other purposes than it was applied to at present-namely, one-third for the minister, one-third for the church, and one-third for the poor; and they concluded by saying that the as it now worked, was an "T |