We answer-for want of encouragement. This want of encouragement is owing partly to the absence of proper protection for dramatic copyright, and partly to the conduct of managers and proprietors of theatres-to their want of liberality-to their want of discrimination-and to the airs which they are too much in the habit of giving themselves to those who may be their inferiors in pocket, but must be their superiors in intellect. That there have been honourable exceptions is quite true. We speak generally, and disclaim personality. To the first of these impediments we trust ere long to see a remedy applied a cure for the second we see but slender prospect of; it is almost a hopeless job to wait until offenders reform themselves. If we were aware of the exact period at which the skies will fall, in order that every man may catch his own larks, we should be able to state with more precision the time when theatrical managers may be expected to become the patrons of genius, which they ought to be, instead of the chandler's-shop dealers in it, which they too often are. They are penny wise and pound foolish-they look at everything through a microscope they judge of everything by the receipt of the night, and lay all faults, including their own, nay, even all external casualties, on the shoulders of the author. If it rains heavily, and people don't come to the theatre, it is the author's fault. If a pestilence rages, the author must suffer. If a violent political question agitates the public, and keeps them from thinking of the theatres, the effect is still made to fall upon the author. A piece fails to attract through anything but its own demerit-through improper haste in the bringing out-through the incapability of those who have to act it-through mismanagement of whatever kind-no matter -the punishment falls on the author, and he is a most unreasonable man if he expects to be paid anything like the price agreed on. On the other hand, we will suppose a piece to have survived the hundred and one chances, which frequently stand against the best-it succeedsit draws money-it puts hundreds, perhaps thousands, into the pocket of the manager what happens to the author, does he participate in the profits? No! Are the times when he has been wronged remembered, and is the opportunity seized to compensate him out of the funds which his labours have produced? No! The manager shakes him by the hand, congratulates him, and says-what? "He shall be happy to have such another piece from him!" "The devil doubt him," as the Irishman says. There are unquestionably instances of a different line of conduct on the part of managers, and they are most honourable to the individuals in question, but they are scarcely more than sufficient to prove the rule and the necessity for a change. Did Mr. Knowles receive any extra remuneration proportioned to the success of his admirable play of the 'Hunchback'? No! But then he has the proud satisfaction of knowing that it is being nightly pirated at the Surrey Theatre, for the benefit of the manager, and that Mr. and Miss Kemble are playing it all over the country, and dividing the spoil with those brigands of literature, the country managers.Let us look at another instance. The Grenadier,' a one-act piece, which many of our readers will remember as having been highly successful at the Olympic, and which, by the bye, has never even been published, was somehow obtained by the management of the Surrey Theatre, and acted for two or three nights before its owner, Madame Vestris, became aware of the spoliation. Some notice was then served by Madame Vestris's attorney, which caused a disconti nuance. We can give the management of the Surrey Theatre no credit for its forbearance. It is fear of the consequences, and not principle, which has prevented it from continuing the

offence. Principle would have prevented its commission. Is it any answer to this, to say that the law has provided no penalty for an irregular appropriation of this nature? Certainly not. The law does not recognize a palpable wrong as a right, merely because it has not been foreseen and provided against. The author of the piece in question is Mr. Haynes Bayly; and he has no doubt received one sum for the right of representation, and another for the copyright-as the custom is, when managers wish to confine the representation of any particular drama to their own theatre. So far, in the present instance, Madame Vestris is the sufferer, and not Mr. Bayly. But what is the consequence? Next season Mr. Bayly will most probably produce some other piece at the Olympic, and when he talks about a separate sum for the copyright, he will, of course, be told that it has been found that such a purchase is a nominal, and not a real protection, and that it is consequently declined: thus will he be, in effect, as completely deprived of the value of his copyright by the conduct of the Surrey management, as if that management had put its fingers into his pocket, and helped itself to the amount. Nor will this loss be confined either to Mr. Bayly or to the Olympic Theatre: and this is part of the encouragement which dramatic writers receive from "liberal," "spirited," and "enlightened" managers. member an instance, but a very few years ago, where the manager of a principal theatre in the north, wrote up to Drury Lane Theatre for a copy of a piece, which was then and there (as the lawyers say) having a great run. The copyright not having been purchased by the theatre, the application was very properly referred to the author, who wrote to the country manager, saying that he should have a correct copy upon payment of some extremely moderate sumcertainly not more than five guineas. An answer came which not only contained a flat refusal to pay anything, but was couched in terms of excessive insolence, accompanied by what were intended for sarcasms on the work itself. In less than a fortnight, a short-hand copy (of course an incorrect one,) having been procured, the piece, which had been abused in the letter, was placarded for performance amidst a shower of puffs. And this is another specimen of the treatment to which dramatic writers are exposed under the present system. Who that has the spirit of a mouse, and is not as poor as a church one, would put himself in the way of it?

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University of London.-The distribution of prizes took place on Saturday last-the Bishop of Chichester presiding-and were awarded as follows:

Greek, Senior Class.-1st, Mr. A. C. Gooden.-Junior Class.-Mr. J. Thompson and Mr. J. Lainson, (equal).

Latin, Senior Class.-Mr. A. C. Gooden.-Junior
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Mathematics, Senior Class.-Mr. Aldam.
Natural Philosophy.-Mr. J. Williams.
Philosophy of the Mind, and Logic.-Mr.John Batten.
English Literature, Senior Class.-Mr. J. Williams.
-Junior Class.- Lord W. Townshend.
French.-Mr. T. Wheeler.

English Law.-Mr. Harden, Mr. Heath, Mr. Hubbeck, (equal).

We should have given the names of all to whom prizes were awarded, but they have been published in the daily papers. We are happy to hear, that the Professors are now united in a body denominated the Senate, with power to act, in concert with the Council, in the regulation of the University. The school is prosperous, and already there are 139 pupils.

Russian Academy.-A public sitting of the Imperial Academy of the Arts and Sciences, was held at St. Petersburgh on the 23rd of May, for the purpose of awarding the prizes founded by

Demidow. The works sent in were thirteen in number, and the prize was adjudged to a 'Meteorology of Russia and its German provinces,' in six quarto volumes, from the pen of Dr. Paucker, professor of mathematics and astronomy at the Mitau Gymnasium; but the prize (five thousand roubles) is not to be paid unless the professor consent that his work be translated into Russian, and the translation be published; in this case he will be entitled to a further sum of five thousand roubles, assigned by Demidow to defray the expense of publication, and if this is not sufficient, the surplus is to be made good to him.

Annual Meeting of Continental Naturalists.We learn from a notice issued by Jacquin, the imperial Astronomer, and Littrow, the Professor of Natural History in the University of Vienna, that the tenth meeting of the scientific association is to be opened in that capital on the 18th of September, and to close on the 26th of that month.

J. J. Audubon, the celebrated ornithologist, and his two assistants, have arrived at Charleston, in excellent health, after a tedious but very successful tour through the Florida Keys.

Liberia. Our readers will no doubt remember an article that appeared in The Athenæum,† giving an account of this very interesting settlement of free blacks. We now learn from the American papers, that a ship lately sailed from Norfolk, U.S., which had on board 170 emigrants, of whom 94 were slaves transferred to the American Colonization Society, for the express purpose of being sent to Liberia. The agent at Norfolk states that there have been upwards of 500 applicants, free persons of colour, for passage to Liberia, and that the number which can be obtained is only limited by the want of funds to transport them.

Plagues.-Chronologists and historians tell us that the whole world was visited by a plague markable since the christian era, are the fol767 years before Christ. Some of the most relowing:

Place.

Time.

Number destroyed. 50,000

A.D. 1347

1407

30,000

London,
Ditto,
Ditto,
Constantinople,
London,
Bossorah,
Smyrna,
Tunis,
Egypt,
Smyrna,

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Dictamnus Fraxinella.-There is a singular phenomenon attendant on this pungently-fragrant plant. If, after a very hot day, a flame be applied near the blossom, its exhalations will blaze beautifully.-Doveston in Mag. Nat. Hist.

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Literary Piracy.-We are so much indebted to the Provincial Press, that it is not without reluctance we advert to the misdoings even of a few papers; but one day's post has brought us the Derby Mercury, the Staffordshire Gazette, the Liverpool Chronicle, the Manchester Times, and the Birmingham Journal, -in all of which there are articles taken, without acknowledgment, from the Athenæum; and to make the measure of our wrongs complete, the New Monthly Magazine, edited by Mr. Bulwer, has this month set them the example. We protest against these literary robberies; and it may add some weight to our protest, when we inform the parties that we have already sought redress in the Court of Chancery against one offender, and, on Saturday last, obtained an injunction against the Thief. The Thief acknowledged whence the articles were taken. It is not less offensive to steal without acknowledgment, and we must request all parties so to consider it.

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