is dressed in green, with an oil-skin cap and a reb bow (the colours of his party). The gentleman who actually filled this character is, I have heard, a man of considerable fortune in Ireland; || from the speeches he made, he evidently believed himself going to the House of Commons, as much as ever did Mr. Canning or Mr. Hobhouse. Right opposite, attired in the quilt of his bed, and in a yellow turban, is the other member, [candidate] a gentleman who actually sat in the House two years, and who, by his experience in the finesse of elections, was the moving spring in all the proceedings of this. His face expresses sarcastic mischief he is pointing, without looking at his opponent, with a sneer! Between the Lord High Sheriff, and the candidate in a quilt, is the Lord Mayor, with the solemn gravity becoming his office; he holds a white wand with a blue and yellow bow, and a sash of the same colours he was a third candidate. The colours of the first member I have made red, of the one in a quilt blue, and the Lord Mayor's colours blue and yellow. || "Immediately below, in a white jacket, is the head poll clerk, with quizzing humour, swearing in the three burgesses before they are allowed to vote, and holding up his finger, as much as to say, speak the truth. The three voters are holding a bit of deal; the first a dandy of first fashion just imprisoned, with a fifty guinea pipe in his right hand, a diamond ring on his finger, dressed in a yellow silk dressinggown, velvet cap, and red Morocco slippers; on his left stands an exquisite, who has been imprisoned three years, smoking a three-penny cigar, with a hole at his elbow, and his toes on the ground; and the third is one of those characters of middle age and careless dissipation, || visible in all scenes of this description, dressed in a blue jacket and green cap. "Between the dandy in yellow and the short red-nosed man, dressed in the red curtain of his bed, with a mace, and within the hustings, is another poll clerk, entering in a book the names of the electors. Above the clerk is the Assessor, suppressing a laugh, and behind the member, [candidate] in a quilt, is a man sticking in a pipe, as an additional ornament to the member's person. "These characters form the principal group; the second group is on the right, and on the left is the third, while the prison wall and prison form the back ground. "In the right hand group, sipping claret, sits a man of family and a soldier, who distinguished himself in Spain; he was imprisoned in early life for running away with a ward in chancery; embarrassment followed, and nine years of confinement have rendered him reckless and melancholy; he has one of the most tremendous heads No. 38.-Vol. VII. I ever saw in nature, something between Byron and Buonaparte; it was affecting to see his pale determined face and athletic form amongst the laughing afflicted, without a smile! without an emotion! Indifferent to the humour about him, contemptuously above joining in the burlesque, he seemed, like a fallen angel, meditating on the absurdities of humanity! Care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride, Waiting revenge; cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion.'-MILTON. "In the picture I have made him sit at ease, with a companion, while Champagne bottles, a dice box, dice, cards, a racket bat and ball on the ground, announce his present habits. "Leaning on him, and half terrified at the mock threats of the little red-nosed head constable with a mace, is an interesting girl attached to him in his reverses; and over his head, clinging to the top of the pump, is an elector intoxicated and huzzaing! "The third and last group is composed of a good family in affliction. The wife, devoted, melting, clinging to her husband! The eldest boy, with the gaiety of a child, is cheering the voters; behind is the old nurse sobbing over the baby, five weeks [rather three months] old; while the husband, virtuous and in trouble, is contemplating the merry electors with pity and pain. The father and mother are in mourning for the loss of their second boy, for "troubles never come in single files, but whole battalions;" in his hand he holds a paper, on it-" Debt £26. 10s. paid costs £157. 14s. unpaid. Treachery, Squeeze and Co., Thieves' Inn.' "Behind this family, is a group of electors with flags aud trumpets, and all the bustle of an election. On one flag, is The Liberty of the Subject;' on the other, No Bailiffs;' while the spiked wall and state house finish this end. The opposite end is the commencement of the prison, each window marking a separate apartment, and under a red striped blind are a party of electors, listening to a speech before marching up. "An old fat fellow, between the head constable and the young girl, is laughing at his mock severity; while two fellows, arm in arm, behind, and a bill of exchange of the Hon. Henry Lawless lies on the ground, at 999 years' date, to Mr. Cabbage, tailor, of Bond Street, for £1562. 14s. 7d., for value received, complete the composition." By his friends, Mr. Haydon's name has been somewhat injudiciously associated with the names of Hogarth and Wilkie. The picture, however, possesses great merit, much originality, much force and spirit. It strikes us, that at M Somerset House it would, without reference to its The drawing, the grouping, and the general composition of the picture are highly creditable to the artist's talent: he has displayed also considerable humour, and much variety and distinctiveness of character. With the colouring we are not so well satisfied: it is too vivid; the lights are too glaring; and it is greatly deficient in harmony. Although the style is new to Mr. Haydon, it bears evident traces of his accustomed manner. Around the room are hung the original sketches from nature of most of the principal figures. There is also a sketch of Eucles, a subject upon which Mr. Haydon has been long employed. As we never love to omit the opportunity to give publicity to any hint that may tend to promote the interest of the Fine Arts, we gladly transcribe the following suggestion from Mr. Haydon's pamphlet: scopes, for the improved principle of which the public are indebted to the scientific skill of Dr. Goring, are calculated for viewing the more minute objects; a purpose for which they are far beyond any other, in enabling the observer to see, with distinctness, objects either ill-defined or altogether invisible with the best compound microscopes hitherto constructed. Great improvements have been made in the eight-feet microscopes; and another reflecting megallascope has been introduced for the largest objects. For the evening exhibition, and a most delightful one it is, light from gas has most effectively been substituted for that from lamps. Amongst the new objects we more particularly notice the following:-The Phalinea Atlas, or Atlas moth, a beautiful and splendid insect, the largest, with one exception, of the lepidoptera order. The cynips rosæ, or gall fly, of which here is a beautiful pair. Equally curious, though less brilliant, are the small bones of the ear, lent by Mr. Curtis, his Majesty's surgeon aurist. These little bones, four in number, and contained within the cavity of the tympanum, or drum of the car, to assist in communicating the vibration of that membrane to the auditory nerve, are as follow :-Malleus, or the Hammer; Incus, or the Anvil; os orbiculare, a little round bone attached to the Anvil; Stapes, the Stirrup. Of the objects formerly shewn, and still very properly retained under all changes, the diamond beetle is worthy of an exhibition by itself. Mr. Carpenter's descriptive catalogue is, as we before observed, drawn up according to the Linnæan system. To every admirer of the wonderful works of nature and who can see without ad to the Microcosm. ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM. "The first great step towards affording them protection, would be the establishment of professorships of painting, sculpture, and architec-miring them ?-we earnestly recommend a visit ture, at Oxford and Cambridge. The second, a system of annual expenditure by public vote, under the direction of a committee of the house, who, in one fortnight, would get all the requisite information, as the committee for the Elgin marbles did; and the next, the employment of the more distinguished artists to adorn the House of Lords, and other public buildings, with subjects || becoming the dignity of the places. Very shortly, native artists would be wanted in the great towns, for the different public buildings, for which local subjects might be chosen, interesting and remarkable in the history of the county or particular spot." THE MICROCOSM. SINCE the autumn, when we last visited Mr. Carpenter's truly-elegant, gratifying, and instructive exhibition in Regent Street, great changes and improvements have been effected. Two microscopes have been added; one of them constructed with an achromatic object lens, the other with a set of reflectors. These micro To our young friends, in particular, we also advise a visit to a collection of preserved beasts, birds, reptiles, insects, shells, plants, &c., now on show at the Egyptian Hall, in Piccadilly. The greatest object of curiosity is a fine specimen of the hippopotamus. Besides the stuffed animals, there are numerous skeletons of beasts, birds, &c. the variety is increased by some models of the Bushmen of the Cape of Good Hope some of their weapons and utensils many articles of furniture from Japan-some fine mandarins, beautiful vases, &c., the greater part of which, if not the whole, are upon sale. FINE ARTS' PUBLICATIONS, &c. Artificial Memory.-An exceedingly handsome publication, in royal quarto, has just appeared, the object of which, and, to a certain extent, its nature, will be best understood by a peru sal of its very copious title-page :-"Historical afterwards be found almost impossible, when Tablets and Medallions, illustrative of an Im-reviewing the several parts and subdivisions of proved System of Artificial Memory, for the more Easy Remembrance of Remarkable Events and Dates, exhibiting, in a Series of Tinted Engravings (including more than one hundred Medallic Portraits), a Connected Outline of Historical and Biographical Chronology, the Complete Succession of all the Roman Emperors, and of the Sovereigns of England and France, down to the Present Time; together with an Appropriate Introduction, Appendix, and Vocabulary; designed and arranged by John Henry Todd." this Cabinet, or Key, not to associate the medal, together with its inscription previously annexed to each particular Square."-Unless we could transfer some of the tinted plates to our own pages, we should fail in the attempt to convey to the reader any clearer idea of the character of this production, a production which we recommend to the notice of students in history, and of those who may be engaged in the education of youth. Antiquities of Normandy." Pugin and Le Keux's specimens of the Architectural Antiquities of Normandy; the subjects selected, measured, and drawn, by Augustus Pugin, Ar Keux; the Literary part by John Britton, F.S.A.," is now complete, as far as the graphical portion of the work is concerned, in four parts, royal quarto; but we regret to find that, in consequence of a lamentable accident which occurred to Mr. Britton last autumn, it has been necessary to postpone the letter-press descriptions and illustrations. It is well known that the remains of Gothic architecture in Normandy are amongst the finest in the world; consequently, in proportion to the beauty and fidelity with which our artists have transferred their representations to copper, is the weight of our obligation to them enhanced. The work before us, embracing no fewer than eighty engravings in outline, is one of the first of its class. Amongst them we have been particularly struck by the following subjects, and by the successful mode in which they have been treated: the Interior of Bayeux Cathedral The two most important systems of artificial memory that have ever appeared are those of Dr. Grey and Von Feinagle. The latter was found-chitect, &c.; engraved by John and Henry Le ed on the local memory of the ancients, aided by a somewhat complex machinery of symbols or pictorial emblems; with the addition of a table of numerical consonants, for the formation of mnemonical words. In conformity with Feinagle's System, a college or establishment for education, upon an extensive scale, was formed in Dublin; but, of its progress, or of its existence, we have not heard for some years. On the other hand, Dr. Grey's well-known Memoria Technica still keeps its ground. In Mr. Todd's volume, as far as the recollection of dates is concerned, Dr. Grey's key and general principles have been adopted; and, to the selections from the Memorica Technica, has been united an improved system of local memory, rendered as simple as possible, and elucidated by suitable explanations. The theory, as described by Mr. Todd, is simply this :-Instead of a large room or building, which "was formerly made use of for this purpose, there is a CABINET, OR AssoCIATING KEY, consisting of nine distinct Parts, arranged and disposed in order. Each of these Parts, or Tablets (as they are afterwards called), is distinguished by its peculiar colour, and subdivided into twelve equal Squares, || or compartments, the whole of which are numbered in consecutive order. Frequently repeat these, and revolve them in your thoughts, till you have obtained such an accurate knowledge of their relative situations, as to be enabled to run them over one after another without hesitation, and in any order that may be necessary. Impress them, by these means, so strongly upon the memory, that every part, and every single | square in each part, may be perfectly familiar to 'the mind's eye,' even long after the engraving is removed. These compartments are intended, as the subsequent plates will exemplify, for the reception of one or more series of medals, properly arranged, commemorating a regular succession of events, the names of sovereigns, or other historical subjects you may wish to remember, with the date of each attached. And it will the Church of St. Ouen, at Rouen-the Circular Window of the same church-the Tower and Spire of St. Peter's Church, at Caen-View of Caen, through an arch of the church of the Grande Maladierie-Perspective Views, Exterior and Interior, of L'Abbaye aux Dames and L'Abbaye aux Hommes the Little Church at Than, near Caen-the Château Fontaine de Henri, near Caen-the Palais de Justice, at Rouen, &c.—This is indeed one of the publications that reflect honour not only upon the artists, but upon the age in which the artists live. Portrait of Mr. Burnet.-One of the most brilliant little specimens of the graphic art that we have long seen, is a portrait of Mr. John Burnet, the author of Practical Hints on Painting, and of other valuable works connected with the study and practice of the Fine Arts. The engraving is by Mr. Charles Fox, from a very tasteful and effective drawing by Mr. S. P. Denning. The likeness is very faithful and spirited; and, in every respect, the execution is satisfactory. Lodge's Portraits.-Part XXIX. of this invaluable assemblage of national portraits, which we are so frequently called upon to notice, pre sents, in its accustomed style of excellence, the following subjects: Archbishop Parker; Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester;Monk, Duke of Albemarle ; . Edward Montague, Earl of Sandwich-and William Feilding, Earl of Denbigh. Ascent of Elijah.-The style, perhaps it may be termed manner, of this composition, enables us instantly to recognise the vigorous and sublime pencil of Martin. The engraving is also by Martin, who seems most capable of rendering full justice to his own commanding powers. Christ Tempted. This is another production of Martin's, equally beautiful, equally grand in conception and execution. Monkeyana. — Excessive drollery and very striking humour characterise the designs and etchings of the first Part of T. Landseer's Monkeyana, or Men in Miniature. Here we have monkeys as Paul Pry, a politician reading a newspaper, a pedagogue preparing to whip one of his pupils, and two jockies gallopping an ass. It is hardly possible to inspect these delineations without falling into a fit-of laughter! The Larder. Stevens's painting of the Larder is here most faithfully and spiritedly mezzo tinted by Giller, the very clever young artist who so beautifully executed the engraving of Lady Elizabeth Stuart's portrait in the preceding volume (page 185) of LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE. Captain Cook. Sir Joshua Reynolds's portrait of Cook, the great circumnavigator, belonging to a gentleman of the name of Hawkins, has just been very ably lithographed by Mr. Albert Hoffay. It is, with much propriety, dedicated to His Royal Highness, the Duke of Clarence, as Lord High Admiral of England. Turner's England and Wales.-The third portion of Mr. Turner's England and Wales, inferior, in no respect to its predecessors, contains the following subjects:-1. Barnard Castle, Durham, R. Wallis ;-2. Saltash, W. R. Smith; -3. Aldborough, E. Goodall;-4. Orford, R. Brandard. John Gilpin.-A cheap and amusing present for young folk offers itself in a new edition of this ever popular poem, illustrated by six spirited wood-cuts, from the inventive and humorous pencil of George Cruikshank. Vide LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE, vol. vi. page 90. Literary and Scientific Entelligence. PATRONISED by His Majesty, a plan is in active progress for translating and publishing such interesting and valuable works on Eastern history, science, and the Belles Lettres, as are still in MS. in the libraries of the Universities, the British Museum, and the East India House, and in other collections in Asia and Africa, as well as in Europe. Subscriptions, to the amount of £.800 per annum, have already been received. The Translating Committee of the Royal Asiatic Society is expected soon to superintend the translation of an Arabic History of the Barbary States. On the 15th of December, was opened at Paris, the New Museum, called by the name of Charles the Tenth. Devoted to Egyptian and Grecian antiquities, it occupies all the halls, nine in number, of the interior façade of the Louvre, which looks to the north. On the 31st of December, Mr. Conybeare, of London, was elected by a very large majority, as a corresponding member, in the Section of Geology, in the French Académie de Science. Mr. Loudon, and Colonel Wright, the traveller, have been admitted foreign members of the Horticultural Society of France. A drama, entitled Cromwell, by Victor Hugo, was recently published at Paris. Amongst the candidates for the Physiological prize of the French Academy, on the subject of Craniology, is Dr. Vimon, a physician of Caen, who has sent in casts, in wax, of more than 2,000 skulls of human beings, quadrupeds, and birds, with numerous drawings, accompanied by remarks. The remains of a fine Roman villa have been recently discovered near Kelpstone, between Stamford and Peterborough. M. Riffaud has returned to France with a large and very valuable collection of statues, drawings of subjects of natural history, botany, and architecture, relating to Egypt. The remains of an ancient castle have lately been discovered near the town of Sympheropol in the Crimea; from the ruins of which have been dug various bas relievos, with Greek inscriptions. The excavations at Herculaneum have been some time discontinued, in consequence of the expense attending their progress. Dr. Chierenti, in America, professes to have invented a mode for the effectual cure of asthma, unless it proceed from organic alteration, by inflating the lungs copiously with atmospheric air. He uses bellows; and thus, as he says, not only prevents the fit, but eradicates the disease. It is an acknowledged fact, that no country in the universe is so nobly distinguished by the number and extent of its charitable and bene volent institutions as Britain. The London Orphan School, patronized by his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, having been found inadequate to meet the numerous claims upon its protection, a District Orphan School has been formed for the Board, Clothing, and Education of Fatherless Children, or Destitute Orphans, from the age of seven to fourteen years. The establishment is at Kingsland Green; and, although it was commenced only in November last, six children have been already placed upon the foundation, and six more are to be elected in the month of May next. The plan of the institution has many peculiar advantages: a subscription of one guinea per annum constitutes a Governor, and gives an immediate right of voting; and, to avoid the great labour and expense of canvassing the whole of the subscribers, the voters are classed in districts, and a given number of children is elected by each district, in proportion to the number of its subscribers. Another point of great importance is, that the benefits of the institution are extended throughout the kingdom: as soon as twenty-four subscriptions are forwarded from any town or village, such town or village is constituted a district, and has the privilege of returning its own candidates. The Thames Tunnel has again been overflowed by the bursting in of the river; notwithstanding which, as the work is more than half completed, it is expected to be carried on. A perfect specimen of that very curious animal, the chlamyphorus truncatus, has lately been added to the collection of the Zoological Society. This creature bears an evident affinity to the immense extinct animal of South America, described by Cuvier, under the name of Megatherium. Works in the Press, &c. The Betrothed Lover, a Milanese Tale of the Seventeenth Century, from the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni, 3 vols., post 8vo. Elements of Geography, on a new plan, illustrated with Cuts and Maps, by Ingram Cobbin, A.M. A new work on The Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, by the late Rev. Dr. Gerard. Designs for Villas, on a moderate scale of polis, or large towns, by T. G. Jackson. expense, adapted to the Vicinity of the Metro Letters of an Architect, from France, Italy, and Greece; containing Observations on Ancient and Modern Architecture, by Mr. Joseph Woods. The Omnipotence of the Deity; a Poem, by Mr. R. Montgomery. The Beggar of the Seas; or, Belgium, in the time of Duke Alba. A Chronology of the Reigns of George III. and IV., complete to Jan. 1, 1828; by W. J. Belsham, Esq. Tales of the Talmud, by Dr. Maginn. Sayings and Doings (third series) by Mr. Theodore Hook. Tales of the West, by the Author of Letters from the East, &c. By Mr. R. G. Ward, late Chargé d'Affaires of his Britannic Majesty, in Mexico, a work entitled, Mexico in 1827; including a narrative of the author's residence in that country, the state of society there, proceedings and prospects of the mining companies, &c. Longinus, a Tragedy, in five Acts. Moments of Loneliness; or, Tales, Sketches, Essays, Reflections, &c., in prose and verse, by Miss Sibella Elizabeth Hatfield. Pelham; or, the Life of a Gentleman. The Life and Travels of Jolin Ledyard. Torpidiana, or an Inquiry into the Literary Pretensions of the Officers and Members of the Council of the Society of Antiquaries, from the Year 1815, to the present time, including critical remarks upon their works. Three Sermons, by Sir Walter Scott, are announced. BIRTHS.-MARRIAGES.-DEATHS. BIRTHS. OF SONS.-Lady G. S. Wortley.-The lady of C. Calvert, Esq., M. P.-The lady of the Right Rev. the Bishop of Chester.-The lady of J. S. Stanhope, Esq.-Lady Susan Lygon.-The Hon. Mrs. Charles Boulton.-The lady of Captain E. M. Daniel. The lady of the Rev. John Merewether. The lady of Sir J. W. Wedderburne.The Right Hon Lady Petre. OF DAUGHTERS.-The lady of Viscount Anson. The Right Hon. Viscountess Chetwynd. -The lady of T. T. Drake, Esq. M.P.-Lady Georgiana Nevil.-Lady Georgiana Wolff.-The lady of Capt. J. Russell, M. P.-The lady of the Rev. G. M. Musgrave. MARRIAGES. At Naples, Count Alfred d'Orsay, to Lady Ann Frances Gardiner, daughter of the Right Hon. the Earl of Blessinton. At St. George's, Hanover Square, the Rev. T. Cooke, M. A., Vicar of Brigstock-with-Stanion, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Hon. Charles Finch, and grand-daughter of the late Earl of Aylesford. At Wexford, Wm. Kirke, Esq., to Ann, second daughter of the late, and sister of the present Sir J. W. White, Bart. Thomas Stafford, Esq., of Longford, Cornwall, to Eliza, daughter of the Rev. John Still, Rector of Fonthill Gifford. At Boulogne-sur-Mer, Captain Webb, R. N., to Emily, daughter of Rear Admiral Willoughby Lake, Č. B. F. T. B. Davies, Esq., of Chester Street, Grosvenor Square, to Mary Elizabeth, youngest daughter of H. P. Blencowe, Esq., of Thoby Priory, Essex. John Abel, eldest son of John Smith, Esq., M. P., of Dale Park, Sussex, to Anne, widow of |