DRURY LANE.-Notwithstanding that the town was scarcely ever so depopulated of its fashionables, to say nothing of visiting a winter theatre in the dogdays, the Coronation still attracts good houses; the exhibition of this splendid spectacle, at the present moment, might suggest much reflection for the moralist-an audience, principally dressed in mourning for the death of a queen, laughing and cheering a representation of the crowning of the king. The Coronation is the sole ground of attraction, for no effort is made to produce any thing else worth seeing at the same time; this niggardliness in amusement is the bane of our large theatres. On Monday, a Mr. Power, from Dublin, made his first appearance in the character of Tristram Fickle, in the farce of the Weathercock, and was favourably received, but we must see him in other

Literature and Science.

mentioned, the briny fluid will imme- combined committee, the result of diately strike into the most intricate which was, that the way led to the ruBy some recent American newspa-interstitial joints of every kind of meat, iued Monastery of Ter Apel, situated papers we learn that the New Monthly and by pricking the outsides of the on the provinces of Gromingen and Magazine, the Percy Anecdotes, and larger vegetables with any sharp instru- Drenthe and we learn, that this opithe novels of Calthorpe and the Mys- ment, the acids, in the same way, will nion, against which no reasonable obtery, are reprinting in New York. instantaneously enter into every pore.jections have been made, was lately The two novels have also been pub- The outside of meat intended to be corroborated by proofs from ancient lished in Paris in French, by the gen- preserved fresh by pyroligneous acid, charters by Professor Ypey, of Grotintleman who translated the Scottish no- can be much better impregnated to gen University. Both those dissertavels sometime ago. the depth of the meat's surface that is tions have been published among the required, than by the method propos- Dutch Tracts of the Institute. ed, of dipping, soaking, or painting the It is but natural that the discovery joints with this acid and a brush. In of a way about eleven miles in length, short, every thing that requires to be under ground, should strongly excite partially or wholly impregnated with the public interest in Holland, as, from the fluids to be appropriated to their the nature of the soil, the great popurespective uses, must always be effect-lation of the country, and the want of ed infinitely better by this plan than ground in most provinces of the former any other at present known. A com- republic, scarcely any very ancient arplete apparatus of this kind is now chitectural monuments remain at the erected in the printing-offices of the present day. It is to be regretted, Bank of Ireland, for wetting bank- that it is impossible to lay open the note paper preparatory to its being whole of the way, as any pit in that printed on, that fully answers in prac- track of the turf-moors would, in a few tice the end proposed. Ten thousand hours, fill with water. sheets of the thinnest description of bauk-note paper, perhaps ever made, is wet at once with scarcely any delay, and no loss or injury whatever is now sustained, as formerly.-Mon. Mag.

A discovery has been recently made of a new application of the airpump by Mr. John Oldham, of the Bank of Ireland, that promises to lead to some useful advantages. The sizing of paper in large quantities, as now usually practised by the manufacturer, is a process tedious, uncertain in its effects, and destructive to its original texture. By the improved method the difficulties and mischiefs proceeding from the causes stated, are effectually obviated: thus, let paper of equal dimensions, to any amount, from the coarsest to the finest substance, be piled as evenly as possible, and placed within an air-tight vessel, in such a manner as to be prevented from floating upon any of the fluids to be used, that are then to be poured in, until the pile is covered to the depth the paper Supposed Roman Bridge in Drenthe. occupies, but which should not entirely-The intelligence about the ancient fill this vessel. When the lid is closely fitted and fastened thereon, proceed to exhaust the space over the fluid with a suitable air-pump; the air within, on becoming rarified, will cause what is contained within the paper to rush out on all sides to the top, which will consequently escape with the rest through the valves of the pump by its continued action. On re-admitting the atmosphere, the fluid prevents the ingress of the air again into the paper or substance to be saturated, and can only serve by the pressure natural to it to force the denser element into the possession of every minute receptacle it previously so tenaciously held. By this means every sheet becomes equalły impregnated, without loss or injury to the fabric; paper when made, can be uniformly dyed any colour by the same process. Also silk, flax, cotton, and woollen staples, either raw, spun, or when woven, and in the most superior manner. All kinds of animal and vegetable substances can be much better preserved, than by the usual tedious and uncertain method commonly resorted to of boiling, soaking, and pickling, air being the great enemy to all such preparations. The air being discharged in the first instance, as

The Bee.

Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia limant, Omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta.' LUCRETIUS.

Origin of Doggett's Coat and Badge. -In the year after George I. came to the throne, Thomas Doggett, a comedian, who was zealously attached to the House of Hanover, gave a waterman's coat and silver badge to be rowed for by six watermen, on the anniversary of that king's accession to the throne, and, at his death, bequeathed a certain sum of money, the interest of which was to be appropriated annually, for ever, to the purchase of a like coat and badge to be rowed for in honour of that day. Doggett, as an author, has left behind him a comedy, called the Country Wake,' 1696, 4to. which has since been altered into a ballad farce, under the title of Flora,' or Hob in the Well.' He died in 1712.

wooden way discovered in Holland, in
1818, is very old, and wants much cor-
rection. Indeed, the first impression
the Dutch newspapers made on the
minds of some respectable Antiquaries
was, that this could be only the Roman
pontes longi minutely described by
Tacitus: and, in fact, the similarity
in many points was striking. Very
soon, however, a different conjecture
was laid before the public, which, it
should be said, had been formed be-
fore the discovery was generally di-
vulged; for the way itself had long
been known among the inhabitants of
that spot, who chiefly are turf-diggers.
This conjecture was, that it seemed to
be the path made by Bernard Van
Galen, Bishop of Munster, in one of David's Sow. As drunk as David's
his wars against the Republic. In this sow,' a common saying, which took its
diversity of opinions, one of which re- rise from the following circumstance:
moved the date of its construction as one David Lloyd, a Welshman, who
far as the first century of our æra, an- kept an alehouse at Hereford, had a
other as near as the 17th: a committee living sow with six legs, which was
was formed out of the second and third greatly resorted to by the curious; he
classes of the Royal Institute of Sci- had also a wife much addicted to
ences and the Fine Arts, at Amsterdam drunkenness. One day David's wife
(the second class belonging to the having taken a cup too much, and be-
Dutch, and the third to Classical Li-ing fearful of the consequences, (her
terature). Another opinion arose in husband being in the habit of giving
the meantime, which was also adopted her a little discipline for her cure,)
by Mr. Spandaw, the reporter of the turned out the sow, and laid down to

sleep herself sober, in the stye. A said I. Thank you,' said the be-
company coming to see the sow, Da-mired traveller, I have a good long-
vid ushered them to the stye, exclaim-legged horse under me, who has carried
ing there is a sow for you! Did any me through worse sloughs than this: I
of you ever see such another?' all the am only stopping to breath my nag, as
while supposing the sow had really been this is the firmest footing I have found
there; to which some of the company, in fifty miles.'
seeing the state the woman was in, re- Clerical Modesty.-A correspondent
plied, it was the drunkenest sow they assures us of the truth of the following
had ever beheld; whence arose the anecdote. We certainly cannot doubt
saying, As drunk as David's sow.'
it, but as it may be found in our old
Jack of Legs,-a tall long-legged friend Joe Miller, it induces a suspi-
man; also a giant, said to be buried cion that the parson is a plagiaristic
in Weston church, near Baldock, in wag.
Hertfordshire, where there are two
stones fourteen feet distant, said to be
the head and feet stones of his grave.
This giant, says Salmon, as fame goes,
lived in a wood here, and was a great
robber, but a generous one, for he
plundered the rich to give to the poor;
he frequently took bread for this pur-
pose from the Baldock bakers, who
catching him at an advantage, put out
his eyes, and afterwards hanged him
upon a knoll in Baldock field. At
his death he made one request, which
was, that he might have his bow and
arrows put into his hand, and, on
shooting it off, where the arrow fell
they would bury him, which being
granted, the arrow fell in Weston
church-yard. About seventy years ago,
a very large thigh-bone was taken out
of the church chest, where it had lain
many years for a shew, and was sold
by the clerk to Sir John Tredeskin,
who, it is said, put it up among the
rarities of Oxford.

Shenstone. This poet used to thank God that his name was not liable to a pun; it has proved, however, obnoxious to a Frenchman's rhyme, which is something worse. M. Girardin has

The clergyman who preached at Winterbourne, a village in the west of England, a few Sundays ago, had read the liturgy and was about to ascend the pulpit, but he found that he had left his sermon at home. He whispered the clerk for an expedient, when, on recollecting himself, he addressed his parishioners in this manner :- My brethren, I have not my sermon with me to-day, but I will read you a chapter out of the book of Job, which is worth two of my discourses! He did so and gave general satisfaction. P.

Sonnet, written last March, on its appearing

in evidence that her Majesty visited one of her
servants, supposed to have the plague.
Queen of our best affections! Is it so?

Flower of a warlike race, of high renown,
Nursed in the purple, destined for a crown,
How deep thy sympathy with human woe.
Thou to the tortured sufferer did'st go,.

With Christian courage brave contagion's
frown,

And smooth the couch of pain, with softest
down,

Where the hot breath of plague was felt to glow.
Hail, Caroline of Brunswick! Royal dame,

Thron'd in thy bosom, love and pity dwell,
Those cheeks should wear the deepest dye of

shame,

Who, hearing this, can still with rancour
swell,

placed this inscription to his memory, Perversely seeking to impute a crime

at Ermenonville.

This plain stone

To William Shenstone.

In his writings display'd
A mind natural,
At Leasowes, he laid-

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reflected how much the realities around
me differed from what my fancy had
painted them. How some things surpass
ed, and some fell short of my foolish ex-
pectations; and yet how natural, how
easy all appeared! All so fitted and
adapted by the hand of the bountiful and
wise Creator, that other than they were
face of nature. It was late and dark when
threy had deformed instead of decking the
we reached Poonamallee; and during the
latter part of our march we had heavy
rain. We found no fellow-countryman
to welcome us, but the mess-room was
open and lighted, a table laid, and a
crowd of smart roguish-looking natives
seemed waiting our arrival to seek ser-

vice.

Drenched to the skin, without changes of linen or any bedding, we sat down to the repast provided; and it would have been difficult to have found in India, perhaps, at the moment, a more cheerful party than our's.

Sketches of India. Written by an
Officer for Fire-side Travellers at
Home. 8vo. pp. 329. London, 1821.
THE author of the Sketches of India'
has essayed to give what was inuch
wanted, a familiar picture of Indian
scenery and manners;' and if he has
been less successful than he might have
been, considering the excellence of his
plan, yet he has done more than tour-
ists generally accomplish. The work
was written at Fort George, where the
author continues to reside, and his work
has been transmitted to England for
publication; this is sufficient evidence
of its genuineness, did it not internally
prove its authenticity beyond all doubt;
if we except that the author is rather
intolerant in religion, and that he at-
tempts to moralize too much, his work
Four or five clean-looking natives, in
will be found of a very pleasing cha- white dresses, with red or white turbans,
racter, written apparently with the and large silver signet rings on their fin-
ear-rings of gold, or with emerald drops,
force of first impressions, and hence gers, crowded round each chair, and
with more vigour than could be ex-watched our every glance to anticipate
pected from the pen of a long resident. our wishes. Curries, vegetables, and
His sensations on first arriving in In- fruits, all new to us, were tasted and pro-
dia, and his account of the neighbour-nounced upon; and, after a meal, of
hood of Madras, are well described :-
which every one seemed to partake with
grateful good-humour, we lay down for
the night. One attendant brought a small
carpet, another a mat, others again a sheet
or counterpane, till all were provided
with something; and thus closed our first
evening in India.

No, I shall never forget the sweet and strange sensations which, as I went peacefully forward, the new objects in nature excited in my bosom. The rich broad-leaved plantain; the gracefully drooping bamboo; the cocoa-nut, with that mat-like looking binding for every branch; the branches themselves waving with a feathery motion in the wind; the bare lofty trunk and fan-leaf of the tall palm; the slender and elegant stem of the areca; the large aloes; the prickly pear; the stately banan, with its earth-seeking and reproductive drop branches; and among them, birds all strange in plumage and in note-save the parroquet (at home, the lady's pet-bird in a gilded cage), here spreading his bright green wings in happy fearless flight, and giving his natural and untaught scream. These, and more than I can name, were the novelties we looked upon. My dream of anticipation realized gave me a delight which found no expression in words. I felt grateful that I had been led and permitted to see India; I wondered at my own ignorance, and at the poverty of my imagination, when

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clothed in soft raiments, wore jewelled
turbans, and dwelt in palaces.—As now,
his haughty half-naked priests received
his offerings in temples of hewn and
sculptured granite, and summoned him to
rites as absurd, but yet more splendid and
debauching than the present. His cot-
tage, garments, household utensils, and
same as now. Then, too, he watered the
implements of husbandry or labour, the
ground with his foot by means of a plank
balanced transversely on a lofty pole, or
drew from the deep bowerie (well) by:
the labour of his oxen, in large bags of
leather, supplies of water to flow throught
the little channels by which their fields
and gardens are intersected. His chil-
dren were then taught to shape letters in
the sand, and to write, and keep accounts
on the dried leaves of the palm or cocoa,
by the village-schoolmaster.
ground corn at the same mill, or pounded
it in a rude mortar with her neighbour.
He could make purchases in a regular ba-
zaar, change money at a shroff's *, or
borrow it at usury, for the expenses of a
traveller sees around him of social or civi-
wedding or festival. In short, all that the
lized life, of useful invention or luxurious
refinement, is of yet higher antiquity than
the days of Alexander the Great. So
that, in fact, the eye of the British officer
looks upon the same forms and dresses,
the same buildings, manners, and cus-
toms, on which the Macedonian troops
gazed with the same astonishment."

His wife

The docility of the elephant is well known, yet we cannot avoid quoting one or two anecdotes on the subject:

While breakfast was getting ready, I The morning-scene was very ludi- amused myself with looking at a baggage crous. Here a barber, uncalled for, was elephant and a few camels, which some shaving a man as he still lay dozing; there servants, returning with a general's tents another was cracking the joints of a man from the Deccan, were in the act of loadhalf-dressed; here were two servants, one ing. The intelligent obedience of the pouring water on, the other washing, a elephant is well known; but to look upon Saheb's hands. In spite of my efforts this huge and powerful monster kneeling to prevent them, two well-dressed men down at the mere bidding of the human were washing my feet; and near me was voice; and, when he has risen again, to a lad dexterously putting on the clothes see him protrude his trunk for the foot of of a sleepy brother officer, as if he had his mahout or attendant, to help him into been an infant under his care.' his seat; or, bending the joint of his hind Of the antiquity of the Hindoo man-leg, make a step for him to climb up beners, he says, hind, and then, if any loose cloths or cords fall off, with a dog-like docility pick them. up with his proboscis and put them up again, will delight and surprise long after it ceases to be novel. When loaded, this creature broke off a large branch from the Shroff, an Indian banker, or money..

While our forefathers were clad in wolf-skin, dwelt in caverns, and lived upon the produce of the chace, the Hindoo lived as now:-as now, his princes were *Saheb, a gentleman, "Sir," or "Master," used by the natives of India when addressing or speaking of their superiors.”

changer.'

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lofty tree near which he stood, and quietly fanned and fly-flapped himself, with all the nonchalance of an indolent woman of fashion, till the camels were ready. These animals also kneel to be laden.'

It is generally known, that this noble animal beats jungle for large game; and, although we met with none, still I had the opportunity of seeing into how thick and apparently impervious jungle it will force its way. But it was the perfect dog like manner in which she put up small game that surprised me; carefully putting up from the low tufted grass in which they nestle, those smallest of game-birds, the quail. My companion killed from his howdah in this manner, without dogs, both hares and black partridge, a few yards only from the road-side.'

Our traveller proceeded up the Ganges to Benares; and he gives the following sketch of this ancient seat of Brahminical learning, and the present school of Hindoo theology :

The city is only to be visited on horseback or in a palanquin. I decided, at the recommendation of my friend, on a tonjon, or open sedan-chair; as thus only can you leisurely survey every thing, from the extreme narrowness of the streets, and the crowds in them, through whom your way must be cleared by a police-trooper in your front.

and drawn by two showy horses, with
long flowing manes.

high cast fetch all their own water) are
The women in Benares (for many of
beautifully formed, wear garments of the
richest dyes, and walk most gracefully.
But these are minor features ;-innumer-
able Hindoo youth, of high cast, are sent
hither for education. They have not col-
leges or schools, but reside six or seven
in each brahmin's or pundit's house, and
pursue the studies which he enjoins.
There are eight thousand houses in Be-
nares belonging to brahmins: what num-
perhaps not more than one thousand.'
ber may receive students I know not;

'As we passed back round the fort, we were fortunate enough to meet Scindiah all his chiefs; and preceded or followed returning from the chace, surrounded by by about seven hundred horse. Discharges of cannon announced his approach, and a few light scattered parties of spearWe stopped our elephants just on one side men were marching before the main body. of a narrow part of the road, where the, rajah and chiefs, with his immediate escort, must pass.

either in the road, or scrambling and First came loose light-armed horse, leaping on the rude banks and ravines near; then some better clad, with the We shall now only quote one or two quilted poshauk*; and one in a compassages more; the first relates to the Plete suite of chain armour; then a few Mahratta camp, near Gualior :elephants, among them the hunting elephant of Scindiah, from which he had disIt is not quite, perhaps, what you ex-mounted. On one small elephant, guidimmense village, or rather collection of protégé of Scindiah, called the Jungle pect: : for it presents the appearance of an ing it himself, rode a fine boy, a foundling villages, with about a dozen chunamed Rajah; then came, slowly prancing, a buildings, shapeless, coarse, without any host of fierce haughty chieftains, on fine air of ornament; and here and there many horses, showily caparisoned. They dartsmall trees and hedges of the milk-plant, ed forward, and all took their proud stand all of quick growth and late planting, but behind and round us, planting their long yet giving the whole a fixed and settled lances in the earth, and reining up their aspect. At the second gaze, however, eager steeds to see, I suppose, our salaam. you see interspersed many tents and palls, Next, in a common native palkee, its calines and piles of arms; in one range, a himself. He was plainly dressed, with a flags and pennons; in some parts, hutted nopy crimsom, unadorned, came Scindiah large regular park of artillery; in all the reddish turban, and a shawl over his vest, strings of camels, and a few stately ele- golden calean. We stood up in our howopen spaces, horses irregularly picketted, and lay reclining, smoking a small gilt or phants. On the skirts of this large mass, dah and bowed; he half rose in his palments belonging to particular chiefs, with a few smaller and more regular encamp-kee, and salaamed rather in a courteous their followers better armed and mounted. The sounds, too, of neighings, of drums, of horns, and fire arms; and, occasionally, the piercing trump of the elephant, mingled in confusion with the hum of a popuation, loud, busy, and tumultuous, tell you, convincingly, the trade here is war: the manufactures are of arms.

all his followers near, who sung out his timanner. At this there was a loud cry of tles and the honour he had done us, &c. And all salaamed themselves profoundly.

us, and saw that they eyed us most haugh'I looked down on the chiefs under tily, which very much increased the effect they would otherwise have produced. They were armed with lances, scymitar,' shawls, some tissues, some plain muslin and shield, creese and pistol; wore, some clothing; and wore, almost all, a large or cotton; were all much wrapped in fold of muslin, tied over the turban-top, which they fasten under the chin; and which, strange as it may sound to those who have never seen it, looks warlike, and is a very important defence to the sides of the neck.'

In the heart of this strange city, you are borne through a labyrinth of lanes, with houses of six or seven stories high on either side, communicating with each other above, in some places, by small bridges thrown across the street. These houses are of stone or brick; and many of them are painted either in plain colours or stripes, or with representations of the Hindoo deities. Every bazaar or street containing shops, you find a little, and but a little, wider than the others. Shops here stand in distinct and separate streets, according to their goods and trades. In one, all are embroiderers in muslin, which they work here in gold and silver most beautifully; in another, silk-merchants; in another are displayed shawls; in some, shops filled only with slippers; in one, jewel-merchants; in the next, mere lapidaries. Several contiguous streets are filled entirely with the workmen in brass, who make the small brazen idols; also the various urns, dishes, vessels, lamps, which the Hindoos require either for domestic or sacred purposes. These shops make a very bright and showy display; and, from the ancient forms, various sizes and patterns of their vessels, attract your horses picketted in circles with the rider's seerghur, a few days before our troops He escaped from the fortress of Asattention strongly. You meet numbers of the naked officiating brahmins indeed, spear planted in the ground at each head-invested it. Without followers, without but you also see here a distinct class of pe; men lying on their horse-furniture, friends, he crossed the Nerbuddah, and wealthy brahmins, most richly dressed pillowed on their shields, or busy cook-directed his flight northwards. fine muslin turbans, vests of the most Their women making fires, fetching wa-dering without a rider; and, on the boring, or cleaning their horses and arms. days afterwards, his horse was found wanbeautiful silks, and valuable shawls. Their ter, and bringing in grass; their children der of the jungle, near some bye-read, conveyances out of the city are the open of all sizes at play in the dust naked. native palanquins, with crimson canopies, All these were features, to the eye of the stuffed with cotton, so as to render it sabreor hackrees, sometimes very handsome, European officer, strange and interesting. proof." * ‹ A garment of cloth, or silk, quilted and

in

ratta camp happily been stationary. Nor Many years, however, has the Mahis there treasure in the coffers, or energy in the councils of Scindiah, who now stands a power, isolated, helpless, and without hope ever again effectually to set it in motion. From a prodigious host, it has dwindled in numbers greatly; in efficiency and readiness of equipment, still more: perhaps not more than seven thousand mounted men are in his camp; about three brigades of infanty; his artillery alone fine, and disproportionately so; his stores miserably low.'

'In traversing this rude irregular encampment, the groupes we met were

darrie Chieftain, who, with a large Of the death of Seetoo, the Pinarmy, plundered the Deccan, we are told,

A few