The Man of Two Lives. A Narrative written and expression. Yet he was at the head of mentioned him to me as one of her steadiest cript the fulness and grandeur of their form her day, says the narrator,) has frequently by Himself. 2 vols. 12mo. H. Colburn. the correct and interesting painters of history; friends, and I still can bring him before me at THIS is a very uncommon and a very curious and notwithstanding his facility, and even a very advanced age, with his silver hair in publication. With much of metaphysical acu- tameness of composition, told a story thoroughly bag, well dressed, his richly-figured velvet coat men and a spice of German mysticism, it con- to the eye, and even to the heart." and spangled waistcoat, the gold clocks that tains some ingenious and powerful reasoning Some remarks on Fuseli are too much of the adorned his stockings rather than his legs, on topics of great interest, some admirable cri- imaginative and mystic for our apprehension; and the pink heels that added to the diamond ticisms upon painting, music, and literature, but we deem the annexed speculations on astro- buckles of his shoes their full testimony that and some original sketches of life and character.nomy to be replete with ingenuity and fancy. their owner seldom allowed the dirt or dust of The story, too, though it possesses neither the "We had been going over the comparative a public way to annoy him. The chair, the rapidity nor incident which is calculated to revolutions of the planets; and the extreme coach, the hall, and the saloon, were all that rivet the attention of the mere novel-reader, is likelihood that they were all of them inhabited he trod on. He carried the old court about in not destitute of considerable attractions; so made him deduce a set of very whimsical and all his pursuits; and the small silk hat, and that, without imagining that the work will be not unamusing inferences. For instance, the the pocket muff, which was decorated with the favourite of the circulating library, we are affinity of these planets to one another, and to ribands from the fairest toilets in Europe, were persuaded that it will be highly esteemed by one common centre (said he), would lead one as steady parts of him as the ruder appurteevery intelligent person who bestows upon it to suppose that their inhabitants partook of nances which he derived from nature. One the attention of a quiet and meditative perusal. this generic similarity. Mercury, on such a pocket of his coat held an opera-glass, which, It strikes us as being the production of a plan, must have its man, as well as the earth. by his constant use of it, one might suppose foreign writer, or at least that the materials But the revolution of that near visitant of our bestowed aid to his ear as well as eye-the are foreign; for it adopts the strange doctrines sun round its own axis is made in six hours. other pocket contained a superb snuff-box of of Mesmer and Animal Magnetism, which, how- The day, therefore, of Mercury consists of but Dresden china mounted in gold, on the lid of ever prevalent on the Continent, where they three hours, for meals, and their provision and which a fine enamel by Petitot of the volupare making more progress even in our enlight- preparation, exercise, business, and pleasure. tuous Montespan, which the count inherited, ened day than phrenology, have credit with One of our common trials there would starve left the taste of the great monarch entirely only a very limited sect of philosophers in this the whole court. The Mercurial senate would justified, at least during the empire of the country. have sunk under the combined wit and wisdom passions. The common estimate of De Blatz The hero of the piece, the man of two lives, of our Pitt and Fox, Burke and Sheridan. The was correct; he was a kind, well-bred, polished is Edward Sydenham, the son of English pa- action there is probably quicker, through its nobleman, devoted rather too strongly to one rents, of good birth and fortune; but who is whole animal existence, than ours. Ideas must pursuit. He lived at the feet of the great represented as having the consciousness of an flow quicker. Our winged words would creep female singers in his prime; and by their immediately prior existence as Frederic Werner, to them. The tongue must move faster, and sides to the last; for a long term their lover, of Frankfort. The errors committed in this even language itself be still further abbreviated, but always their admirer and their guest. His former state weigh upon him in his new in- to suit the demands of such rapid communica-place was fixed on system at their tables. He carnation; and the whole narrative hinges upon tion. But if we should be of opinion, that as sat on the lady's left hand, which resigned the his recollections of Werner, and the process by Mercury completes his year in eighty-eight complimentary seat on her right hand to the which, as Sydenham, he wipes out the stains days, and is six times as strongly enlightened stranger, or person of higher rank. At the of that individual (if we may so call him). by the sun as we are, he may not be cool toilet, when the nymph now glanced in the Under the strange impressions, or ideas, or im- enough for animal production: this will not mirror at the increasing charms of her figure, pulses, which are the consequence of a double be supposed of our more intimate acquaintance and now poured out a passage of eloquent life, he returns to Germany, and in the person Jupiter, who, though his revolution round the music, in the manner by which she meditated of a young, amiable, and highly gifted English- common sun takes him nearly twelve of our additional triumphs on the stage, our count, man, renews a connexion with those who were years to accomplish, has a day of scarcely five an equal connoisseur in beauty and in song, the friends, relatives, and mistresses of Werner hours, and six hundred and eighteen of our applauded the decorations bestowed on both; more than twenty years before. An inscruta- weeks to be distributed in business, pleasure, and his judgment was always deemed final, ble sympathy, and a predestined concurrence of and repose. As to Saturn, with a day and being carefully and deliberately grounded upon events, work wonderfully together in every night of only seven hours, and not having so the choice to which the enchantress herself thing that happens; and, in the end, the load much as a hundredth part of the light enjoyed most inclined. 'I have often thought,' said is removed from his soul, the offences of Wer- by Jupiter, with thirty of our years to wander the abbé, that such men are even public ner are absolved, and Sydenham becomes the in twilight dejection round the sun, the men benefactors, though it is not in their aim to happiest of human beings. there, perhaps, slumber between thought and be so; and we little suspect how the failing We have noticed, that we attribute this pub- thought, and all conversation is a suit in Chan- nerve or doubting mind of the greatest singers lication to a continental source; in which sup-cery. But though it may be true, that in may be fortified by this reliance upon friendly position we are confirmed, not only by the sen- planets enjoying a middle position, like our praise.' 999 timent and circumstances, but by the strong earth, the safest and best walking may be found This Leonora's account of herself also conmatter-of-fact manner in which every part of for beings like ourselves, it would be too much tains some striking traits in the situation of the tale is related. In all, except the visionary to assume, that upon nearer or more distant prime donne. views of Mesmerism, there is a reality which worlds there is no walking at all. Vast power their confessions (she says), as Rousseau has "If such persons were to write induces a feeling that every thing related really is, no doubt, capable of amazing varieties in done, and they were to be honest, as they happened as is set down; and throughout these creation. The very senses may be fewer, more ought to be, what a struggling and discordant volumes there are a multitude of pictures and numerous, or possess other properties than scene would even the proudest beauty have to remarks which are so obviously true, that we ours. The human creatures of Saturn may, exhibit, though in possession of the most splenacknowledge at once their being founded on for instance, have that sort of phosphoric igni- did, the most unrivalled talent! She is sur actual observation, and attached to the fiction tion in the dark, which lights certain animals rounded by devoted admirers of her powers, merely as a vehicle for their introduction. As here to their prey, and probably fascinates as some because it is the fashion to praise, others it is impossible to give (within reasonable well as shews it. Day and night, moreover, because they really have some knowledge of bounds) any full insight into the mysterious with the Saturnine may not be the unavoidable their value. If they pay this homage to the portions of the book, we shall therefore content alternations of labour and repose, but the actress and the singer, the commerce is suffiourselves with extracting some of these separate strength, as well as the will to labour, may ciently clear and unambiguous; but the woman illustrations. The following is a brief but ex- carry them through a period of activity equal is usually mixed up with the artist, and she is cellent critique upon the late Benjamin West: To be sure, the opposite conclu- beset by a thousand importunities, difficult to "West in his invention was rather cold, and sion is more likely to be true, because where resist, and declarations of a love which dishohis compositions had great sameness; but if he the grossness is greater, there is more torpor, nours its object. The feelings of her nature did not enchant the fervid spirit, he soothed and night may not arrive too soon after an are excited with more than common pains. and satisfied the tender and the timid. His active day of five, four, or even three of our She listens with complacency to the endless figures had a relation to his sect, there was own hours." quaker in the bosoms of them all; and when theme of her beauty and her rigour; and findhe used, as he did copiously, the materials of the old régime, will furnish another favourable nant to admit her to chaste and pure engageA portrait of a Count de Blatz, a noble of ing both prudence and religion equally repugthe great masters, they always lost in his trans-specimen." "Leonora (a Catalani or Pasta of ments of the heart, she either lives as if she to our own. were without one, or bestows it upon some but still his book possesses no ordinary me- [it older and more advanced in their studies pleasing, but unprincipled creature, who be- rits. comes nominally her protector, actually her tyrant. I will not pursue this, by even a hint Some Account of the System of Fagging at numbers in proportion than the lower classes. than formerly, and the upper departments of of something still worse, by which he consumthe school have received a greater accession of mates her dishonour and his own. Frequently, Winchester School; with Remarks, and a The fourth class, therefore, gradually furnishindeed, the moments of disgust in such lives Correspondence with Dr. Williams, Head ing a smaller number of fags, the prefects become poignant beyond expression: they are Master of that Public School, on the late issued a mandate, that the junior part of the banished for the indispensable exercise of the Expulsions thence for Resistance of the Au- fifth class should share with the fourth in the talent, and their voice of complaint is stunned thority of the Prefects. By Sir Alexander duty of going on hall: this was for some time in the applause of the theatre; but they return. A PAMPHLET of some twenty short pages, this class intentionally abstained from seating Malet, Bart. London, 1828. Ridgway. Lassitude succeeds to exertion submitted to; but at length one of the boys of the couch; sickness attends irregular habits it brings the detestable system of fagging as being seen by the senior prefect, and desired they invade but of pressing and lasting importance; since himself on the cross bench at supper-time, and and late hours they occupy the pillow. A practised at our leading schools distinctly be- by him to go on hall, refused to do so, and death occurs in the immediate circle of such fore the public. Among modern improvements, argued the point as a matter of right, alleging, folly-they redouble the salutary_warnings, none takes a higher place than the beneficial as the ancient usage of the school, the exempand sometimes gain the victory. I have told plan of mutual instruction, by which children tion of the junior part of the fifth class from you, sir, that I glory in my art. yet know that have a soul beyond it!" I do so, and kindly teaching others acquire themselves the this duty till the commencement of fires; he But we must now conclude, which we do knowledge: but, as if for a contrast to this ad- positary of the rules, and expressed himself most effective description of education and referred to the course keeper as being the dewith a profession of his principles, a Key to mirable method, it seems, by the statement of prepared to abide by his decision. The course the Book, put into the mouth of the famous Sir Alexander Malet, to be resolutely deter-keeper, who does not appear to have been very Dr. Mesmer, who, among other faculties, en- mined at Winchester School to uphold a plan well versed in the usages of the school, decided joys the power of discriminating persons con- so opposite, that we can only characterise it by that the boy ought to go on hall; and the scious of a previous existence. After explaining the epithet of mutual destruction. It is truly prefect therefore resolved, not only to enforce this gift, he says, "Objects of infinite import- said that the whole system is so objectionable, this new rule, but to punish the contumely of ance to mankind claim me wholly. In addition that any attack upon it would have many sup- this unlucky boy by giving him a public chasto simplifying the healing art, I design to work porters. Rational in its origin, it has been so tisement: to this, however, the junior did not a mighty revolution in philosophy. destined to unfold unknown principles to the curse. I am perverted as to have become a nuisance and a feel inclined to submit, and a second prefect world, leading all to profound and benevolent feelings and of principles; and under its opera- the beating destined for him: a simultaneous It is the prolific parent of the worst of laid hold of him, that he might not evade results. But prejudice assailed the grand dis- tion, one class of petty tyrants is surely suc-movement then took place amongst the juniors, coveries of Newton, and purblind physicians ceeded by another, and another, the more odi- who pinioned the two prefects, released the dispute, or deny, the magnetic power which I ous because the tyrants have been originally boy who was being beaten, and gave them to have detected. and draws an admirable moral from his pre- cannot be expected to resist the malevolent should not be inflicted. The prefects instantly He (adds the author, fags and slaves, and when raised to authority understand that the intended chastisement mises) was the real inventor of animal mag-passion for making others suffer in turn as they laid a complaint before the head master, who netism; but I have always considered that his most unfailing specific was the imagination of the patient. It is not, however, for me to judge him, either as physician or philosopher. Theories like his spring and fall in one age, to rise again in another, and flourish, perhaps, for centuries. The philosophy of experiment alone permanently adds to science. have suffered. That numbers of delicate youths and boys of tender dispositions have their lives sacrificed, from the hardships imposed upon them, we are confidentially assured: but even were they to survive the sleepless nights, the exposures to cold and privations, the extreme fatigues, and other injuries to which they are subjected,-what can restore their minds to the tions of self-respect, and to every gentlemanright tone of feeling, to purity, to high nolike sense of dignity? Here I shall close this narrative. reached that point of my existence, when the I have connexion of the two lives was dropt entirely. I describe the scenes only in which it influenced my present being. The world at large will not means of educating the gentry, the future That such a state of things, or that such perhaps regret, that this amazing privilege has clergy, lawyers, legislators, and peers of Engbeen peculiar to myself. I do not think that land, should have one voice uplifted in their they ought. Yet, in fact, most men are per- favour, is to us extraordinary; but that such a mitted two lives even here; one of action, with case as is related by Sir A. Malet should be its usual attendant, error; the other of reflec-defended by the head master, is still more wontion, and, as it ought to prove, of atonement. derful. It would hardly be believed were it To carry on the parallel, neither are they with- not that Dr. Williams not only acknowledges out a mysterious friend and guide, to whom but justifies it by his own letter. The strange the magnetic Mesmer was but as a shade, who tale runs thus:comes upon them unannounced, and knows them through all disguises. He is plain, too, and generally alarming in his addresses, and urges them to take the only course that conducts to their real interest, their peace, their honour, and their final happiness. The reader feels that I can only here mean the power of expelled the boy who had refused to go on hall, and five others, who had appeared most active in preventing the prefect from punishing him." It is not to ensure the better instruction of the juniors; it is not to see that they study and Such are the features of this precious quarrel. do their duty; it is not even to enforce in of school ;-it is that they may be the passive, them moral and proper habits in school or out spots! Wo be to the lad of independent and growling, menials of a set of premature dethough discontented the obedient, though honest spirit, who may dislike to toast his prefect's cheese, or warm his bed, or clean his shoes, or obey his dirtiest command! He must submit, muttering curses not loud but deep, to be trained in the way which he should not go, in servility and meanness, and often in roguery and vice, or he shall be treated with many stripes; and if he rebel, as in the case school, are in the habit of fagging the juniors; is every thing, and common sense nothing. "The prefects, or eight senior boys of the from the seminary of learning where discipline before us, he shall be expelled with disgrace and that they may have a greater command of " Whether," says Sir A. Malet, whose brother their services during meal times, they appoint was the offender on this occasion,—“ whether one of the junior boys with the title of course the public will side with Dr. Williams in keeper, whose business it is to take care that thinking that the authority of the prefects is whilst the prefects are at breakfast or supper, to be supported equally in fagging their juniors There is an episode of a Jacobite lady, Miss the top of the hall, that they may be forth-(the ostensible object of their creation), or the juniors sit upon a certain cross bench at as in maintaining the discipline of the school M'Evoy, very characteristic, but having no coming whenever a prefect requires any thing whether it will think with me, that the rule connexion whatever with the story. We have to be done. During that part of the short of non-resistance, as laid down in this case, be but to add, that the idea of this work might half year in which there are no fires kept, a not carrying the system too far, I cannot tell; have been far more forcibly wrought out. The sufficient number of boys for this service was but this I must avow, that with all my presins of Werner are not of a dye sufficiently deep generally furnished from the fourth class, and dilection for the place where I and three of to render the consciousness of them in Syden- it was considered that the junior part of the my brothers, besides the one who has now been ham of adequate interest-the cause is not fifth class, which is next in the ascending scale, expelled, received our education, and with all equal to the effect,-and besides, all that hap- was exempt from so disagreeable a servitude. my respect for Dr. Williams's personal chapens to Sydenham is so fortuitous and common- It appears, however, that within these few place, that the same might have occurred to years, there has been a much greater press of any indifferent person. have forgotten the precept, nec Deus intersit; consequence has been, that they have come to The author seems to boys to enter the school than formerly; the conscience." laws, that a fag or two should lie in their superiors' beds racter as its master, which is very great, I will never suffer any one over whom I can exercise such an influence, to send a boy to that school whilst such a doctrine is maintained as the rule of the establishment." ARTS AND SCIENCES. NEW PUBLICATIONS. since by this rule the junior has no alternative | selves_strongly and unreservedly, presuming but to submit to whatever punishment may be that the circumstances are fairly stated in the inflicted by the caprice or tyranny of a prefect, pamphlet before us, and trusting that this and subsequently to prefer a complaint, in the case, of itself of little importance to the comhope, or even with the certainty, of obtaining munity, may force on a revision of the whole That we may not be thought to press the same redress. The case may not be exactly parallel, of the abominable practice of which it exposes a conclusion unfairly, we must in justice look to because the law stipu ates the equality of per-part and a specimen. For Dr. Williams we the correspondence, and to the master's argu- sons, but what would be thought of an enact-are ready to allow that he is, in all probability, ments in favour of fagging to the utmost stretch ment which forbade resistance to any attack, acting upon principles inherited from a similar of human patience. In his letter of October and directed the aggrieved person to content course of education; and that having been 13th, Dr. Williams says " The authority of himself with the certainty of reparation, on well fagged himself, his prejudices are in favour the prefects is, as you well know, essential to identifying the offender and substantiating his of that system out of which he has come an the maintenance of discipline in the school; complaint? I drew the distinction between eminently learned and estimable man. But and it is impossible that they can exercise that the tolerated power of the prefects (by which still our dislike and disapprobation of the sysauthority with effect, if they are not protected expression I referred to the system of fagging) tem itself must not be concealed; and we from the danger of personal outrage. If they, and their authorised jurisdiction (in matters of heartily rejoice that Sir Alexander Malet has or any of them, exceed the line of their duty, discipline), because I imagined such a distinc-been provoked to bring it before the tribunal or commit any wrong act, they are liable to tion to exist; and I was certainly unprepared of the public. censure and punishment from the master; and for the declaration of equal support to both if any boy think himself aggrieved, he may privileges, which you declare it to be your prefer his complaint in the proper quarter, resolution to give. My dissatisfaction at the with a certainty that it will meet with due expulsion of my brother rests, therefore, upon attention: but he cannot on any account be what I consider the impropriety of the general cient movable planisphere, executed in pasteAstronomical Study.-A very simple and effi permitted to use force against those whom he rule of non-resistance to the prefects by the board, has just been published by Mr. John is bound to obey. I cannot admit that the dis- juniors under any circumstances, and upon my Smith, globe maker to the king, at Mr. C. tinction which I understand you to make be- opinion of the doubtful nature of the exertion Smith's, Strand. By means of two concentric tween authority exercised on behalf of the of the prefects' anthority in the particular in- circles, the one containing "our starry firmamaster, or in enforcing privileges permitted to stance which aroused resistance and led to this ment," regulated by turning to the date of the the prefects, is of sufficient importance to make expulsion." period, and the other being an index, hollowed that conduct venial in the one case, which is Upon this main question there cannot, we so as to divulge or cover the constellations as highly culpable in the other. Obedience to think, be a doubt in any sound mind; but as if it is moved to the hour of the night,-it is quite the prefects is required by the usage and laws even its adjuncts were to be equally unanswer-easy to ascertain, on a space little larger than of the school; and if boys either deliberately able on the one hand, and fallacious on the other, this page, all the principal stars visible at the refuse obedience, or support the disobedience we have to remark on a slight point connected time within the horizon. It is a neat, ingeof others by tumultuous and forcible resistance with it. Sir A. M. has proposed, instead of nious, and useful device. to their officers, such conduct is, in my judg- the dreadfully severe measure of expulsion, ment, subversive of subordination and dis-" that a temporary removal from the school, in cipline, and requires to be repressed by such the nature of rustication, as practised at the an example as I have lately been compelled to universities, would satisfy the punetilios of make. Severe notice I conceive to be equally delegated authority, be more proportioned to necessary, whether the immediate occasion of the nature of the offence, and produce all the the disorder arise from the exercise of autho- effect required by example." And he adds rity in a matter of discipline, or of personal "It would, I presume, be a task of no great privilege; since if it were once admitted that difficulty to induce the prefects to apply to you violent hands could with comparative impunity collectively for a modification of the sentence be laid upon the prefects, boys who were discontented with their superior for a strict and honest discharge of official duty, would never be at a loss to find opportunities of venting their dissatisfaction on some question of a different nature." fellows who have been expelled for attempting of expulsion, which was pronounced for an offence against their tolerated power, though (strictly speaking) not against their authorised jurisdiction; and since so decided a measure has been resorted to, with a view to strengthen their hands, I think I am not attributing too We know not what weight this reasoning much influence to them as a body, in hoping (if it can be so called) may have on others, that their application to you, sir (supposing it but we confess that upon us it produces nothing to be made), in behalf of those of their schoollike conviction. On the contrary, we consider it to be most lame and impotent; an evasion of facts, and an obstinate defence of error-and not a generous retracing of an unwise course. To this the master answers, that he does What has the " discipline in the school" to do not consider the expedient to be well suited to with the forced servitude in the hall? and the proposed end; for, says he, "the conwhat has resistance to a beating to do with sequence of reversing the sentence upon perefusal of obedience, even allowing (which we tition from the prefects, would be, that, if do not) obedience to be due to the personal similar circumstances should hereafter occur, privilege," i. e. the waiting on the meals and no prefect could, without being placed in a performing the drudgery of a prefect being most invidious light, decline to intercede for compelled to do cringing and low offices for the offender; and the expectation that the a boy-master, which the head-master of the esta- master would favourably receive such interblishment could not think of requiring? Well cession, must operate to diminish that salutary and moderately does Sir A. M. observe, in his fear of serious consequences, which the punishreply of the 15th (which met with no notice), ment now inflicted is intended to impress." "I acknowledge the necessity of the pre- After this, never let a prayer for mercy be fects' authority for the maintenance of dis-heard, for it may be a very bad precedent, cipline in the school, and consequently the in- according to the canons of Winchester tuition; dispensability of countenance and protection never ask forgiveness, for it may lead others to being given them by the master in enforcing expect forgiveness; never excite the idea that that authority; but I venture to question the power may look favourably on intercession, fitness of the rule laid down, which has been lest ye should diminish "the salutary fear" acted upon in the present case, that no act of which ought for ever to clothe men dressed in a prefect, whatever be its nature, shall justify a little brief authority! a junior boy in making personal resistance: Historical Chart.—Under this title Mr. Vincent, of Oxford,† has just published, in two large sheets, an Analysis of the Second Decade of Livy, chronologically arranged; which is in truth a history at one glance, or rather, at two glances. There is a running head along the top, divided into columns, for Rome, Africa, Spain, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Greece, &c.; and under each the events of every year are recorded in opposite lines across the sheet. We have hardly seen any thing so complete as this plan: it is, in fact, Livy in half an hour's reading; and we have nothing to regret, but that his lost books are not to be found, to be exhibited in the same lucid and ample way. A Tabular and Proportional View of the Superior, Supermedial, and Medial Rocks, &c. T. Cadell; Treuttel, Würtz, and Co. A SECOND edition, with much additional information of M. de la Beche's excellent view of our earth's geological formation. Resembling the graduated tables of mountains, rivers, &c., * As an anecdote of fagging, we may relate, that Lord Byron, when he became senior boy at Harrow (for Harrow, Westminster, Eton, &c. &c. are all alike, and all boxer, beating his equals at fisty-cuffs, and very fond of like Winchester in this respect), was not only a sturdy thrashing them, whether belonging to the school or the town, but also a terrible dragon upon the smaller fry of fags. It was a common custom with him and a worthy compeer of the same high standing, to take possession of a stair which the younger boys had to descend, and, with them down in succession, so that they frequently tumbled some nonsensical accusation and admonition, to knock from the top to the bottom.-In the Charter-house, where fagging was formerly carried to an unwarrantable length, (the smaller boys were nightly slung out of the windows and over the walls, at the risk of their necks, to execute the paltry or mischievous errands of the chief boys,) the system is now nearly or altogether abolished. At Westthe most barbarous savages that ever destroyed one ano minster, we have heard of cruelties that would disgrace ther by tortures. At Eton, the general profligacy is almost incredible: and all these things are because a scholar shamefully he may be abused. Secrecy and dread are the dare as soon die as open his lips with a complaint, however parents of crime; and society is thus inundated with evil characters, made so by this foul system of education. The other publishers are Rivingtons, London; DeighUpon this subject we have expressed our-ton, Cambridge; and Fletcher, Southampton. this sheet displays the order and consistency of the substances of which the shell of our globe (as far as our inquiries have descended) is composed, from the latest alluvium to the earliest found in them. PURE GLASS. a M. GUINANT, a Swiss, a man of little scien- EXTRAORDINARY FOSSIL: JAW-BONE. EGYPT. Departure of the French Expedition from the obelisks. I have collected almost all that execution are proceeding with all practicable despatch. We have reason to repeat our ori. ginal statement, that the College will be erected in the Regent's Park; and, indeed, that the not ventured-for fear, we dare say, of getting, flotilla will be composed of a large mutch, or that a very material alteration in the plan has Grauwacke. Below this M. de la Beche has WE leave Alexandria to-morrow. Our little building will be commenced in the course of next season. We are also given to understand at least, into purgatory. The farther columns are very useful, as they lay down the general match, capable of easily containing a dozen per- been resolved upon. According to this arrangecharacter of the various strata, and afford sons, and of a smaller vessel, in which five or ment, the King's College is to consist of two good account of the organic remains and fossils five days to go from this to Cairo, by the canal, by being under one roof, and under the direcsix persons may be stowed. It will require distinct establishments, but connected together and the Nile; and we shall not be actually in tion and superintendence of the same authoriEgypt until we reach that river; for this is in ties-on the one side a great National School, fact Lybia. What is strange, is, that I am de- and on the other side the College. The School lighted in the midst of these sands, which all is to be appropriated to the education of boys travellers describe as the most dismal place in from the age of eight years to sixteen; and from the world. The purity of the air, the bright- this source it is calculated that a great number ness of the light, the mildness of the tempera- of pupils will move forward into the College, ture, the aspect of the sand-hills, across which in order to complete their studies. In a word, are seen white buildings, and tall minarets, in- the School will be a sort of nursery, to supply termingled with gardens of palm-trees; here the College. The removal from the former to an obelisk, there some ancient columns: all the latter, we are informed, is to be entirely this, joined to the vast ocean speckled with the optional; nor will it, of course, be necessary, foam of the waves, makes Alexandria surprise for entrance to the College, that the student me, not only by its novelty, but by its grandeur should have pursued his earlier instructions at and beauty; even after seeing the finest land- the School thus allied to it. What, if any, scapes of Italy and Sicily. We have dispersed privileges are likely to be attached to the enlittle since we came hither; and do not form tire system, we have not heard; but it can a compact body, as heretofore. The Italians hardly be doubted that this new and important live with their consul; M. Champollion with feature in the design must immediately and M. Drovetti; I with the Sardinian consul. essentially contribute to the foundation of "Our labours are over here. M. Cham- King's College upon a great scale. Every one pollion has made some beautiful drawings from has felt that great public schools, rather than great universities, were, at least in the first THE jaw-bone of an enormous unknown ani- it was possible to obtain in the ancient city, the instance, what was needed in London; and it is mal has been discovered at Epperheim, in the soil of which seems to me to have been more a happy thought, in our opinion, to have thus canton of Arrey, on the left bank of the Rhine, deranged than that of any other that I have struck upon the true and judicious measure. by M. Schleier-Macher, governor of the Comté visited. The air is also charged with saline Next week we shall, probably, give farther de Darnestadt. Several teeth had previously particles, which exercise so powerful an action particulars respecting this change of system, been found, resembling those which this jaw-on the most solid bodies, that in a few years and the botanical garden which is, we hear, bone contains; but as they were similar to masses of granite disappear, which, under such to be appended to the College: in the meanthose of the tapir, credit was given to the a sky as that of France, would be unalterable. time, we have only to express thus early our antediluvian existence of a gigantic species of It is not surprising, therefore, that the second that animal. M. Schleier-Macher's discovery city of the Roman empire is nothing more than will undeceive naturalists on that point. The a pile of rubbish, without form or name. animal, of which he has found so valuable a We have this evening taken leave of the relic, belongs to a new genus; and its dimen- Pasha. Champollion told him that he had read sions are really extraordinary. Even suppos- the hieroglyphical inscriptions on two obelisks ing that its body was as small in proportion to which he found at Alexandria; which appeared THE session of this flourishing Institution for the head as in the hippopotamus (the quad- to interest the Pasha greatly; and he impa-1828-9, commences on Saturday the 6th of Deruped of which the body bears the least pro-tiently asked for the translation of them." cember; on which day the general meeting is portion to the head), its entire length must The Pasha, whose first conversation with also made special, for the purpose of taking have been nineteen (French) feet! The largest the members of the expedition did not evince into consideration the terms of a proposed union quadruped hitherto known was a gigantic much strength of judgment, on this occasion between the Society and the Literary Society sloth, the megalonix, which, however, was only made many shrewd observations. On the sub- of Bombay, from which, as we have noticed in twelve feet long. ject of science generally, he said that he had the Gazette, some very interesting publications nothing at heart so much as the improve-of Transactions have proceeded. The remainment of the condition of his people, by giving ing meetings are January 3 and 17; February OXFORD, November 15th.-On Thursday last the follow-them a taste for the arts and sciences, par- 7, 21; March 7; April 4; May 2, 16; June ticularly for those in which the results were so 20; and July 4 and 18. The Oriental TransBachelor and Doctor in Divinity, by accumulation.-apparent as to carry conviction to their minds. lation Association is going on with great vigour Masters of Arts.-Rev. W. J. C. Staunton, Magdalen He stated that he had frequently had persons and success. College; W. Smythe, Student, Christ Church; Rev. from France and England for the purpose of F. A. Faber, Scholar, University College. mechanical improvements in the different proBachelors of Arts. Rev. A. Davis, St. Edmund Hall; T. Clutton, Fellow, New College; C. B. Bowles, cesses of the manufactures which were under THE Literary Fund commenced its benevolent Exeter College: T. Parry, Wadham College; J. B. Har his own control, but that they had not an- and useful labours, after the customary recess, ris, Trinity College; W. R. Browell, Scholar, Pembroke swered his expectations. To one of M. Cham-on Wednesday the 12th-its constant and zealMr. Belzoni intimately, he said that he had a the wants of unfortunate authors and their pollion's companions, who had known the late ous friend, Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, in the chair; when nearly 2007. were administered to LITERARY AND LEARNED. ing degrees were conferred : A. B. Evans, St. John's College. College. hope, that the practice of Fagging, so deteriorating to the formation of character, will never be suffered to creep into the School of the King's College. ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. LITERARY FUND. CAMBRIDGE, November 15th. At a congregation on Wednesday last the following degrees were conferred: College. Masters of Arts.-Rev. S. Palmer, St. Peter's College; Rev. G. Hodgson, Rev. B. Lambert, St. John's College. Bachelors in Civil Law.-T. P. L. Hallett, Fellow, H. and that, only a month before he had heard of KING'S COLLEGE. tion and experience of this Society, when we state, that it is hardly possible to imagine the and discriminating application of the Fund vast extent of relief which its careful, prompt, • The Fund consists of about 14,000. 3 per cent Consols; about 8,000. of 3 per cent Annuities and Reduced, bequeathed by the last representative of Sir Isaac New Jenner, Rev. C. Burne, Trinity Hall; Rev. T. Dealtry, THE subscription for this undertaking now ton; a small estate from the same, yielding 501. yearly; Catharine Hall. Bachelor of Arts.-W. M. Brookes, St. Peter's College. T. C. Pearson, B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, was incorporated of this university. amounts to the large sum of 120,000l.; and two hundred guineas given annually by our beneficent and illustrious King; casual donations and subscriptions; and the proceeds of the Anniversary Dinner-the whole enables it to effect; the excessive wretchedness | previously calculated by the individual who nant an expression? How sympathise we which it alleviates, and the consolation which undertakes it; although, when successfully ac- with the tenderness and pathos of Kemble's it brings to many most deserving literary per-complished, it carries with it a gratification Romeo, when we see a manikin about three sons, struggling with difficulties or pining in which is in itself an ample compensation. We feet in altitude, pour out his loves with equal misery, sinking with sickness or old age, and may congratulate Mr. Holmes, not only on the fervour, and deplore his disappointments with even stretched on the bed of death. We feel ability displayed in the executive part of his equal bitterness? How can we laugh at Liston, that we cannot too strongly or too often recom- print, but on having produced one of the most or Farren, or Jones, or Keely, or Power, or mend it to the attention of the humane, and agreeable and assured likenesses of our most Wrench, or Harley, when we see and hear this especially to the patronage of every friend of gracious sovereign that ever met the eye of the" juvenile" convulse his audiences by playing letters. public. In the expression we think that he the droll, the pantaloon, the dandy, the simplehas been remarkably fortunate: it is at once ton, the paddy, the scapin, and the jester, as affable and dignified. But we may also ob- the occasion requires? It is a sore libel upon serve, that, with the exception of Sir Thomas dramatic art; and therefore, perhaps, we ought Lawrence, no artist in the country has had not to wonder so much at the newspaper stomore frequent or favourable opportunities than ries of the boy's being smothered with kisses Mr. Holmes, of studying the royal counte- by the ladies at the Surrey (having the whole nance. allowance which his contemporaries in so many lines might expect), or at his having a shower of genuine Irish blessings rained down upon him, as if he were the principal in a wake or a keening. FINE ARTS. WILKIE'S PICTURES, &c. THERE are some instances of patronage of the arts which, when we have to mention them, we are at a loss to decide whether our pleasure is most derived from the character of the patron or the merits of the patronised. This delightful dilemma will be appreciated when Great Britain Illustrated. From drawings by Tilt. BEAUTIFUL little views of "Winchester;" The Passes of the Alps. By W. Brockedon. No. VIII. VARIETIES. Potato Flour.-(From a Correspondent.)—In your Number of the 25th of October, you gave a receipt for preparing potato farina, to be mixed with flour in making bread: I have tried it, and found it to answer; but the preparation is a very painful and laborious operation; you could perhaps suggest to your numerous readers some readier method than that of grating the potatoes with the hand. There is probably some kind of mill adapted to the purpose. we state that his Majesty has purchased all Mr. Wilkie's Spanish pictures, seven in number; besides two of the Italian subjects, painted by that admirable artist during his foreign travel in search of health, but, with such an eye and such a mind, of necessity also in search of what was suited to exercise his fine talents and genius. We have not had an opportunity of seeing the productions thus honoured by the selection of royal taste; but we will venture to express our conviction, MR. BROCKEDON's present No. contains the that even the munificence of royalty will be Passes of the Grimsel and the Gries. Of the nobly repaid by the possession of such works. former, he observes, "The Pass of the Grimsel The matter must be altogether gratifying to is much frequented in the height of summer: the lovers of our native school; and we record the fine scenery of the Oberhasli, and the upper Encke Comet. This comet was very satis it with sincere satisfaction, as being at once valley of the Aar, and the direct communica-factorily seen last evening (Friday) from Depta proud distinction of the arts, and a great tion of these by the Grimsel with the Haut- ford, at 6 hrs.: its nucleus appeared as bright lent judgment and good feeling of our gracious inducements to the traveller to make this pas-oval than of a circular form, but no appearance (though almost private) example of the excel-Valais, and the glaciers of the Rhone, offer as a star of the fifth or sixth magnitude; its coma about 3′ in diameter, and rather of an King. Sir Thomas Lawrence, we hear, has just of the excursion." sage of the Alps, and will repay the fatigue finished an admirable full-length of Southey, although it has not been the site of any reOf the Pass of the Gries, of a tail. Mr. Matthews. It is with much regret that (who, from his verses in the Anniversary, does markable battle, or other historical event, Mr. we announce the death of this gentleman, not seem to have been much pleased with any Brockedon says, that "the artist, and the author of the Diary of an Invalid. He died of his preceding portraits): it is for Mr. Peel's lover of the wild and beautiful in nature, can- on the 20th of last May, while performing great gallery; and we rejoice to find a minister not fail to remember with pleasure the scenes his official circuit in Ceylon. For a consibefriending the arts as our Home Secretary so presented to them in their excursion by this derable time Mr. Matthews's health had been zealously befriends them. His ample fortune passage of the Alps." The plates are full of declining; but the immediate cause of his death enables Mr. Peel to cultivate this delightful romantic beauty; and to us unhappy Cockneys, was water in the chest, accompanied by some feeling in a princely style; yet it is not his who are compelled to confine ourselves to "the disease of the heart. expenditure in the purchase and on the en-pass of Temple-bar," are exceedingly tantacouragement of works of merit that we would lising. hold up to applause, since any amateur of large revenues might do as much: it is the example of the minister that we hail; for, strange to DRAMA. say, with very few exceptions, for the last THERE is nothing new in the drama this MASTER BURKE. THIS young Mime took his benefit, and deliThe President's splendid series of Contem-vered a farewell address, at the Surrey Theatre porary Portraits are also now in progress to last week, since which the newspapers have their proper destinations in the Long Gallery been stuffed with the most absurd paragraphs of Windsor Castle, so superbly and judiciously about him. That he is a boy of precocious and prepared for them by the skill of Mr. Wyatt- extraordinary talent, no one who has seen him ville. We heard, the other morning, of a can doubt; and his excellent performances in caravan passing our way, which contained tragedy, comedy, and farce, are, we are sorry to (none of Polito's wonders! but) the portraits of Pitt, Lord Eldon, and Sir Walter Scott, which were on their route from Russell-square to their regal place of imperishable abode. NEW PUBLICATIONS. say, a remarkable deterioration of the profession to which he belongs,-since, if it be possible to teach a child to imitate, so well, feel. ings and passions to which childhood must be a stranger, the conclusion is inevitable, that there is more of trick and mechanism in all but Portrait of the King. Painted and engraved the very highest class of acting, than we would by J. Holmes. Colnaghi, Pall Mall East. wish to acknowledge. The comparison is really THIS is one of those enterprises in art, the injurious to the stage. What care we for the time and labour necessary for which are seldom stamp and scowl of Kean's Richard, when we probably about 15007. per annum; but performing cha-se a tyro of some ten or twelve years old stamp rities above all estimation.-E. Pure Water. The discussion of the quali ties of the water supplied to the population of the metropolis has had so good an effect, that it is stated, four of the Water Companies, viz. the New River, East Middlesex, West Middlesex, and Grand Junction, are about to apply to Parliament for powers, the object of which is, to furnish a purer liquid, by obtaining it from higher and less corrupted sources than here. tofore. Accident. By an unfortunate accident, on Wednesday, at Covent Garden Theatre, an ignition of the foul air and essential oils left in the gasometers took place, and two indi viduals unhappily lost their lives, and several others were dreadfully scorched. We are not of those who join the hue and cry of danger on such occasions; but after the untoward events at the Coburg, the Argyll Rooms, and Covent Garden, we trust that no place of pub. lic resort will continue to manufacture gas upon the premises. Fever at Gibraltar.-In consequence of the continued fever at Gibraltar, it has been pro posed to the faculty of medicine at Toulouse to strengthen the medical commission which had been sent out by the Academy at Paris. The reports which have reached Toulouse from Gibraltar fully confirm the statements already given as to the nature of the fever, which is with as fierce a fury, and scowl with as malig-Isaid to be very much like that which mani |