his drawing of a scene is not equal to his conception of it—a fault too common in our island school; but his sense of character, and feeling for whatever is noble and poetic, are strong; he is rising gradually in reputation; step by step he is ascending the hill of fame; -nor will his manners, which are elegant and conciliating, at all retard him on his way.

STEAM COACHES.

[Concluded from last week.]

THE second projector, whose scheme claims our attention, is Mr. Hancock, of Stratford, in Essex.

Mr. Hancock's boiler is formed of a number of parallel flat plates, at the distance of about an inch asunder, bound together by bars passing through them at right angles. Between every alternate pair of plates the water is contained, while the spaces between the intermediate plates receive the flame from the fire, and in fact form the flues of the furnace. Thus, a number of these plates of water are exposed on both sides to the action of the fire, and by being, as it were, toasted, are raised to the required temperature. The plates of metal being very thin, the heat passes through them with great facility, and the necessary strength is given to them by stays placed at intervals in the flues. The fire is blown by a bellows or fanner, which must be worked by the engine.

The advantage of this boiler consists in the great rapidity with which the water can be raised to the requisite temperature, owing to the great extent of surface, in proportion to the quantity of water which is exposed to the action of the fire, and to the thinness of the metal plates interposed between the fire and water. Its defects are many and obvious. No form can be less conducive than that of flat plates subject to a pressure at right angles to their surface. Besides this, a considerable portion of the surface of each plate, exposed to the action of the fire, contains steam and not water. This occa

sions rapid wear by the burning of the metal; and though the inventor may endeavour to equalize this wear, still the evil is only modified, not removed or diminished.

The method of blowing the fire by a fanner or bellows worked by the engine is a capital defect, since it must rob the engine of more than half its power. We venture to predict, that, sooner or later, this defect, if not removed, must utterly destroy the efficiency of this machine.

A joint stock company has, we believe, been formed with a small capital in 251. shares, for working steam-carriages under Mr. Hancock's patent, on the New Road between Paddington and the Bank, and on other roads in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis. Carriages ordered by this company, are in process of construction.

The last projector, whose undertaking we shall at present notice, is Dr. Church, of Birmingham. This gentleman has been for several years engaged in experiments, with a view to bring to perfection a form of steam-engine, which he has invented for propelling carriages on turnpike roads. He considers that he has at length attained sufficient success to warrant the enterprise on a large scale, and a company has been formed with a capital of about 150,0001. to work carriages under his patent, on the roads between London, Birmingham, and Liverpool. An application is about to be made to Parliament by this company, for an act of incorporation.

Although we are in possession of all the details of Dr. Church's steam-engine, we regret that the state of his patent is such, that we cannot with propriety do more than explain the machine in a very general way.

Let the reader imagine a circular grate to support the fuel, surrounded by a number of metal tubes in a perpendicular position, with small spaces between them, and carried upwards to the height of three or four feet above the grate. At the top they are curved, and turn tubes is included in another tube a little larger, so downwards in a siphon form. Each of these as to include between them a small space. This small space contains the water, which is exposed to the action of the fire. The inner siphon tube forms the flue, through which the heated air is carried by the draught; while the exterior surface of the outer tube is exposed to the radiant heat of the fire. It will thus be perceived, that the fire is surrounded on every side by a number of these cylindrical shells of water, the interior of which forms the flues.

The draft is produced by a bellows or fanner worked by the engine. This method of producing the draft, is subject to the same objections as were urged in reference to the engine of Mr. Hancock. Dr. Church states, that the power necessary to work this fanner, amounts to but a very small fraction of the whole power of the engine. We apprehend, however, that experience will amply demonstrate the superior advantage of using the waste steam to produce the draft.

We have confined our attention at present to these three projects for establishing steamcarriages on common roads, because they are the only ones, of which we are aware, which are in a state to present a probability of coming soon before the public in a practical form. We have thought it the more desirable on the present occasion, to call the attention of our readers to this subject, because we know that great ignorance prevails upon it; and that even persons, who are otherwise well informed, feel, or affect to feel, utter incredulity in its practicability. There is a certain inertia in the public mind, in the reception of novel and startling propositions, so that it requires a certain force of impulsion, as it were, to prevent the understanding, even after rational grounds of conviction have been presented to it, from relapsing into a slothful disbelief. Such disbelief most frequently arises from laziness to examine, or inability to appreciate the evidence which should lead the mind to a right judgment. But it sometimes also arises from a general repugnancy to all change. Such a disposition of mind, in fact, as prompted a public functionary, that happened to fall within our acquaintance, to declare, in reference to some general measures of public reform, that he thought it useless to discuss the grounds on which they were proposed; for that he held that all change -even a change for the better-was bad. The most active and mischievous, if not the most numerous opponents to this great improvement in internal traffic and communication, are, however, those who fancy that their individual interests may be injured by it. Happily, the tide of improvement is too strong, and the influence of public opinion too irresistible, for such opposition long to be effectual. That it is not, however, to be altogether disregarded as a cause of vexatious obstructions and delay, is proved by the fact of Parliament itself being entrapped into the passing of a number of bills, which in the very same session a committee of their own body declared were highly injurious to the public interests, and were founded in ignorance and misinformation. The public press is the agent which can effect the most legitimate and most effectual control in such matters; and we pledge ourselves, that we shall keep a steady eye on the proceedings of those who, from sordid and interested motives, may be disposed by unfair means to retard the progress of this incipient improvement in locomotion.

AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF GUTENBERG, AND OF THE EARLIEST STAGE OF THE ART OF PRINTING.

THE year of Gutenberg's birth, which has been alleged by Rotteck to have been in 1397, and by others, without more warrantable grounds, to have occurred in 1398, can only be fixed, with any degree of certainty, at the close of the thirteenth century. It is now ascertained beyond a doubt, that he was born in the house called the 'Hof zum Genssfleisch,' or 'zum Gutenberg' in Mayence; but nothing more is known of his earlier years than that he left that city in company with his parents and brother Friele for Eltvil in the Rheingau, in 1420; how long he remained there is uncertain. We next find him mentioned in an old record as being settled at Strasburgh, where he was accounted one of its inhabitants of 'noble extraction,' and employing himself on all sorts of works connected with the arts. Here he formed a connexion with Andrew Dritzehn, under whose roof, and with the most rigid secrecy, his new process was carried on and brought to the state in which it existed in the year 1439. From the documents connected with the subsequent lawsuit between them, we are led to a knowledge of the instruments, which he used for laying down his type with moveable letters; hence it appears, that Gutenberg was indisputably the inventor, and Strasburgh the cradle of the art of typography, though the latter produced no fruits; whilst Mayence is entitled to the honour both of the discovery, and of its completion. After having sacrificed the whole of his property, Gutenberg left Strasburgh in 1445, and, leaving his wife behind him, returned to Mayence, under relatives. In respect to Gutenberg's proceedthe expectation of being assisted by his wealthy ings between this period and the year 1450, every thing is involved in obscurity; though the Haarlem writers endeavour to clear it up by affirming that he went immediately from Strasburgh to join their fellow countryman Lawrence Koster, or Küster Lorenz; a fiction, which is positively contradicted by the wellknown record of St. Gallus' Day in Mayence, anno 1448. There can be no doubt, that Gutenberg employed this interval on mechanical improvements for giving a greater degree of practical perfection to his invention, as well as in attempts on a small scale, &c., until he suc ceeded in meeting with John Fust, a rich and active partner, by whose aid he was enabled to bring his invention fairly before the public. Although the articles of their copartnership have not descended to the present times, there is much to be derived from the records of the lawsuit, in which he was engaged with Fust in the year 1455, and from which a variety of interesting and important information is to be gleaned.

Amongst the first attempts of the Gutenberg and Fust press with moveable wood letters may be classed the Abecedaries, Horaria, Confessionals, and Donate, of twenty-seven, thirty-five, and forty-two lines. The use of metallic characters appears to have been introduced some time during the last six months of 1452; and the first production, which resulted from this improvement, is generally admitted to have been the Latin Bible, without date, in columns of forty-two lines, of 1454 and 1455, i.e. begun in the former and completed in the latter year, or 1456, in two folio volumes. Peter Schöffer, who married Fust's daughter in 1453 or 1454, must have been engaged during a series of years in effecting the valuable improvements, which he made in the types and moulds, the metal of which they consisted, the form of the initial letters, and the permanency of the ink. Gutenburg was not discouraged, though he lost his suit with Fust; but, with the help of a new loan from Dr. C. Hamery, set up his presses,

and slowly advanced in his labours, because he had now to work single-handed. Eighteen months after the separation, namely, on the 14th of August 1457, Fust and Schöffer published their Psalterium, the first work printed on parchment—a masterpiece in typography, which has not been surpassed up to the present day. Two years afterwards, a second edition of this Psaltery and Durandi's Rationale, and in 1460, the Clementines, made their appearance. During this interval, therefore, there were two establishments for printing in Mayence. Nor was there any lack of industry on Gutenberg's part; in 1460 he brought out his 'John de Janua Catholicon,' which was printed on parchment and paper, and with a degree of success, which excited the envy of Fust and Schöffer, and instigated them to enrich their complete edition of the Latin Bible, which was likewise printed on parchment and paper, with all the splendours of typography. Shortly after, a violent quarrel, which broke out between two of the archbishops in Mayence, occasioned the emigration of the inventor, and the consequent diffusion of the art of printing in other countries; and we find Schweynheym and Pannartz setting up a printing-house in Rome, and publishing a Lactantius on the 29th October 1465. After Fust's decease, the Bechtermüntzes of Eltvil, who continued to carry on Gutenberg's establishment, afforded its illustrious founder the delight of witnessing in 1466 and 1467 the appearance of the 'Vocabularium Ex quo.' The period or manner of Gutenberg's death is still involved in obscurity, though this much is certain, that he was living on the 4th of November 1467, and must have died on the 24th of February 1468, or a short time previously, without issue. [Abridged from Schaad's History of the Invention of the art of Printing, &c., with above 300 inedited documents, &c. Mayence, 18301831.]

OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP ON LITERATURE
AND ART.

LITERATURE, notwithstanding all our hopes, seems about to resolve itself into daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly periodicals; the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews contain few announcements of new works; the innumerable Magazines are equally barren; and though this may be but for a summer month or so, we cannot but feel that literature is not what it has been. For the present this is not unpleasing to ourselves, nor will it prove, we hope, otherwise to our readers, since it enables us to bring forward some original papers, which we imagine will be found equally or more interesting than dissections and quotations from romances without poetic feeling, and novels without originality of character.-The taste of the public seems to be on the increase for embellished works; our table is covered with monthly issues of all manner of publications -from those which contain picturesque views of all the mole-hills and pig-troughs in the parish, to those which deal in mountains, capes, and cathedrals. The prospectus of one with some promise in it, is now before us; this is, " Major's Cabinet Gallery of Pictures, selected from the collections of art, public and private, which adorn Great Britain: to be engraved on steel by eminent artists, and published at a price so moderate as to place the best works of the greatest masters within the reach of all classes." The proposed price is half-a-crown for three large engravings, accompanied by some fifteen or sixteen pages of critical descriptions and dissertations, &c. by Allan Cunningham; should the work

correspond with its promise, it cannot fail to be acceptable to the public.

The plans and arrangements of the New Academy are now finally settled; the health of the fortunate architect has been toasted in full conclave by his academic brethren, and the government has voted some 15,000l. as the probable expense of the current year, for commencing the undertaking. We hope that proper accommodation has been provided in the National Gallery part for draughtsmen and engravers who may desire to copy the paintings; for to be seen is not the whole-these fine works should be useful. We have seen two names-strange to us— mentioned as those of the keepers of these splendid pictures: we thought we had known

almost all who have either taste or talent in the fine arts; we certainly know all who have any claim to merit from their produc

tions.

It is of little use to conceal any longer the state of affairs at the Opera House. The management is still in the hands of Mr. M. Mason, but the assignees have undertaken to be responsible for all payments for the last three weeks and to the close of the season. The last payment of the band was made through their agent, who informed the parties, that what was due previous to the 25th of June must be obtained from Mr. M. Mason. It was also stated, that, the German Opera performances being a private speculation of Mr. Mason's, the assignees had nothing to do with either the receipts or disbursements: and thus the poor Germans, who have brought the most money to the Treasury, are likely to be the greatest sufferers! This is lamentable indeed! Pellegrini and Haitzinger have, it is said, left England without receiving the whole amount of their engagement; and a large sum is due to Devrient.

FINE ARTS

Illustrations of the Bible. By John Martin. Parts III. and IV.

Mr. Martin seems fully sensible of the impor

tant task he has undertaken. "No attentive reader of the Bible," he says, "will fail to observe that it abounds in subjects singularly fitted for graphic illustration. The grandeur and importance of the events described-the awful and mysterious character of so many of the incidents

the romantic scenery of the countries in which they occurred-the picturesque costume of the inhabitants--and the extent and majesty of their public buildings-form altogether a mass of materials particularly calculated for pictorial display." The genius of the artist for subjects of a solemn, a lofty, and a mysterious or terrible

not but continue in the memory of all who look on it. A publication with such illustrations, cannot fail to be prosperous.

The Captive Slave. Painted by Hancock. Engraved by Beckwith.

'The Captive Slave' is a large dog, with a stern mouth, gloomy eyes, and a heavy chain, looking entreatingly up to heaven, or, in imagination perhaps, to Richard Martin, of Galway, to whom the print is inscribed. It is a powerful drawing, very cleverly engraved. We remember to have noticed, with high commendation, 'The Lame leading the Blind,' by these same artists; they are every way worthy of each other. The comparative facility with which a painter covers a few inches or a few feet of canvas has enabled Mr. Hancock to reap an early harvest of honest fame, but an engraver proceeds more laboriously. No young man has, in our time, come before the public, giving higher promise than Mr. Beckwith, and he seems determined to satisfy the best expectations of those who have equal pride and pleasure in having been among the

first to notice him with the warmest and sincerest commendation. We regret that, in the hurry of overwhelming engagements, this clever print escaped our observation even for a few days.

Sir James Mackintosh. From an original Sketch by Slater.

We have seen the original in the house of Sir Harry Inglis, Bart., along with the heads of Southey and others: this is a good copy, and the

likeness is not little.

The Right Honourable Lady Grey, of Groby. The 32nd of the 'Series of Female Nobility.' THIS lady has a sweet and an intellectual look: her dress is rich and plain, and her hair hangs down in graceful and natural ringlets: we have seldom seen one so fair with so little affectation.

A Series of Views in India, comprising Sketches of Scenery, Antiquities, and Native Character. By Captain John Luard, 16th Lancers. Part I. Smith, Elder and Co.

THE fine pictures of Daniell have introduced us to India, with its scenery and people, and have also taught us to be a little fastidious in our taste, and somewhat coy and ill to please, Yet, whatever throws light upon that remote and but little known land, cannot be otherwise than welcome; and it is in this spirit that we look at the work before us: it is cheap; the size is such, that nothing is lost in insignificance; and it has this advantage, the scenes which it gives are real, and sketched from nature, and not from imagination.

One Hundred Examples of the Antique Rose, for the use of Architects, Sculptors, and Modellers. Selected by Carlo Antonini, and drawn on stone by W. Doyle. Part I. London: Doyle. THIS promises to be a useful work. Of the antique rose, as it appears in architecture and sculpture, there are many varieties; all beautiful, and all adapted to the material out of which they were cut. The hundred examples which this little work promises will be very acceptable, if they are as well selected and drawn as those in the present number.

of the Rainbow' is sublime; but there is both sublimity and magnificence in "The Destruction

of the Cities of the Plain': the perpendicular downpouring of the fiery liquid; the terrible glare of the cities flaming up to heaven; the despair of the wife of Lot, who stands on the rock looking back "on these bad cities;" and the flight of the patriarch and his daughters, form altogether a picture of the grandest kind, and which can

edition of the Life and Works of Lord Byron. Part V.

drawn, and engraved; but The Acropolis,' 'Santa Maria della Spina,' by Turner, and "The Hellespont,' by Harding, are of nearly unequalled beauty. The clouds, which in some of the earlier engravings, seemed rough and rocky, are soft and undulating in these, and on the whole, the work is one of great and increasing beauty.

Landscape Illustrations of the Prose and Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., with Portraits of the Principal Female Characters. Part II. THE beauty of these landscape illustrations, is well known to the world; but they come with an additional claim to our admiration; they present to us portraits of the chief female characters; LESLIE imagined Rose Bradwardine' for us in No. I.; in this number, PRENTIS has favoured us with 'Mysie Happer;' the personification is clever, and, we dare say, as like as any one else will fancy; yet, to our notion, it wants something of "the tempting lip and roguish ee" of the Maid of the Mill.

Pictorial History of the Bible. Nos. I., II., & III. London: M'Gowan.

Two respectable quarto engravings, with accompanying letter-press, for one shilling.

Views on the Rhine, from Cologne to Mayence. By William Gray Fearnside. Nos. I. & II. London: Virtue.

SIX good engravings, from good drawings, for one shilling-art can descend no lower in price, and preserve anything like beauty or originality. Picturesque Memorials of Salisbury. No. III. Salisbury: Brodie & Co.

A work very plain and very accurate; and not unacceptable to those who love to be reminded of Salisbury.

'Hodnet Church' and 'Poynings Church,' Sussex, are engraved illustrations for the British Magazine: the first is endeared to us all, through the name of Heber; and the other has considerable pretensions to natural beauty.

Illustrations of the Surrey Zoological Gardens. Part I. London: Schloss.

A laudable work, and tolerably got up.

'Racing,' and' Wild Deer' are embellishments for the Sporting Magazine; the first is by Cooper, who is unequalled in his horses in motion, and the second is drawn and etched by Lieut.-Col. Batty.

MUSIC

KING'S THEATRE.

On Saturday was given Paer's Agnese,' which, says a musical historian, is the last opera of the pure Italian school, as combining expressive melody with musical science, and from the time of its appearance may be dated the "decline and fall" of the Italian opera. The drama is founded on Mrs. Opie's story of 'The Father and Daughter.' Tamburini most powerfully, nay, painfully, delineates the "Padre pazzo"; indeed, so well, as to make us forget Ambrogetti, whom we once saw in the same character. The pathos of his cantabile drew tears from the audience; and, in our estimation, raised him tenfold as a dramatic singer and a musician of pure taste.

Grisi, in the part of Agnese, also merits praise beyond her former claim; yet we can never admire her thick guttural voice, which, above E on the fourth space, is intolerably harsh and offensive. Donzelli has never appeared in an opera with music better adapted to his splendid voice: in the figurative and sometimes flippant passages of Rossini, his want of flexibility not unfrequently marred the effect, which in the more tober and sentimental phrases of Paer's melodies,

he is always certain to produce. Galli has also a part in which his buffo singing is deservedly successful. Mad. Tamburini, by her acting, gave much interest to the character of the waitingmaid. The pleasure we derived, from the excellence of the singing, and of the original music, ought, perhaps, to induce us to pass unnoticed the patchwork which we once or twice detected, were it not that the system is too prevalent to be countenanced. The very naked and noisy instrumentation of the substituted Finale of the last act, renders its detection certain. It is a great reflection on the management, that, possessing the means of producing this admirable opera, its appearance should have been deferred until the last week, when most of the subscribers have quitted town.

THEATRICALS

ENGLISH OPERA-OLYMPIC THEATRE.

A melo-drama, called 'The Dilosk Gatherer; or, the Eagle's Nest,' is the last novelty at this theatre. It was produced on Monday evening. The story is taken from a book of tales, published some time since under the title of 'Three Courses and a Dessert.' We should have great pleasure in stating, that this piece is effectively transferred to the stage, and that it is likely to prove attractive, if we could do so with truth-but it is not permitted us on those terms. We do not think the one, and much doubt the other. To assert either, therefore, would be to betray our trust without benefiting either author or ma

nager. Norah Cavanagh, (Miss Kelly,) has been a protégée of Sir Brian O'Beg, and his antiquated maiden sister (Mrs. C. Jones), but has been dismissed the castle, on account of an unexplained child, and resides, at the opening of the piece, in a cottage with her father, an old fisherman, (Mr. F. Matthews). Norah's child, being upon one occasion left alone, is carried off by an eagle-a hue and cry is raised-and Fergus Purcell (Mr. Perkins), nephew to the aforesaid Sir Brian and his sister, having avowed himself the husband of Norah, and father of the child, starts for the eagle's nest, in order to recover the latter, which can only be effected by his becoming a climbing boy. During this operation, we have to witness a clever, but most painful portraiture by Miss Kelly, of the anxious mother's agonies-and we are expected to jump suddenly into a high state of excitement, without having been previously worked up to it. Miss Kelly's talents enabled her to beat us at thisfor she succeeded and we did not. However, the child is recovered unhurt, and the young people are forgiven. Mr. Benson Hill did his best as an Irish schoolmaster, and so did Mr. Collier as his ragged pupil; but the fun is heavy, and they could not carry it far. Mr. Perkins played his part carefully and well, but his dress stands over for explanation. It was quite beyond us. The story is admirably told in the book, but it is not applicable to stage purposes. We cannot stand eagles in leading strings. The piece was well received by the many, and but slightly opposed at its conclusion, by the few.

The new piece of Thursday, was completely and deservedly successful. Its weight, or rather lightness, rests upon Mr. Wrench, and this will go a long way towards accounting for it. Whatever rests upon Mr. Wrench, he neither rests himself nor lets his audience, until the drop (we speak scenically) give them "curtained sleep;" his first coming on the stage always reminds us of the first lines of the song:

Come bustle, neighbour Prig, Buckle on your Sunday wig. The author of 'Call again to-morrow,' we understand to be Don Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio-(what is an author without a name?). This gentleman is literally a Spaniard, literarily an Englishman. The title is the plot, and so

we need not detail it. If the plot is not quite clear to our readers from this, the name given to Mr. Wrench, Dick Neverpay, will explain it. We remember that Mr. Charles Kemble once took it as an equivocal compliment, when a critic remarked, that, to see the perfection of his drunken personations on the stage, one must think that he had constant practice off it. If we did not fear producing a similar effect on Mr. Wrench, we should certainly say, that, to judge merely by his manner of playing such characters, he is the best possible putter off of a creditor. So highly, indeed, did he amuse us on Thursday night, that we felt as much indebted to him, as he seemed to be to everybody else. The audience were of our way of thinking, and a general burst of approbation was the answer to his invitation to them to "call again to-morrow.' We hope that, either in person or by deputy, the audience will keep the sort of promise implied by their applause, and that it will be (as Macbeth says) "to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow"-so that the proprietor may have cause to congratulate himself, that he has "touched the Spanish."

SADLER'S WELLS.

It is some years since we visited this place of amusement: to pass an evening at which, was once the height of our youthful ambition-at least, of our juvenile notions of enjoyment. Remembering the intensity of feeling with which we used to approach the building, and how sure we were to have our fondest anticipations realized when we got within it, we would have laid an egg, or some other trifling wager, that, owing to the change which time has wrought in us, we could not again be so delighted. We should have lost. The new lessee, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, has met the changes of time and taste with a corresponding change in the quality of her enter tainments. The comic operatic drama called "The Pet of the Petticoats,' which is now being nightly played, is one of the most pleasing entertainments of its class, the representation of which it has ever fallen to our lot to witness. We watched it from first to last with close attention and unmixed satisfaction, and, whether it be in reference to the writing, the acting, the music, the singing, or the general getting up of the piece, we can most conscientiously assert that there is scarcely a fault for the most fastidious critic to put his inky finger on. Unqua lified praise is so seldom deserved, that we almost feel called upon to confirm our opinion by stating, that it was fully coincided in by some excellent judges who were of our party. The piece is taken from a French one, called 'Vertvert,' but it has the rare merit of presenting none of the rough features of a translation. It should rather be described as a clever adaptation. The story is simple, but affords capital opportunities for fun, and none of them have been lost upon Mr. Buckstone; it also affords opportunities for grossness, from which he has had the good taste to abstain. Paul (Mrs. Fitzwilliam) is a youngster who has been brought up at a convent, under the superintendence of the Superior, who is his Aunt. There are several young ladies there as boarders, and Paul has become the "Pet of the Petticoats." In the innocence of his heart he displays much amusing impatience at the caresses which they lavish on him. To the great regret of all but himself, he is sent for, to see his mother; and the adventures he meets with makes him, in one day, a little man of the world. He falls into the society of a party of officers-overhears their conversationlearns how to make love à la militaire, and resolves to take the first opportunity of trying his hand at it. This soon occurs with an actress, who has been his companion in the diligence. Two of the officers are secretly married to two of the boarders at Paul's convent, but they are

both captivated by the charms of the actress, lay a wager as to which shall get the first appointment with her, and severally employ Paul to convey their letters to her. Paul keeps back the letters-answers them himself-sends the two bold dragoons to wait at different places in a heavy shower of rain, and is found dining with the actress, and doing the honours of love and wine, when they return drenched and disappointed. To make them amends for the joke, he promises to assist them in entering the convent, and recovering their wives; this is accomplished by means of disguises, and forms the subject of a very lively third act. There is an amusing little episode, consisting of the secret loves of Mons. Zephyr, dancing master to the convent (Mr. Buckstone), and Sister Vinaigre, the governess (Mrs. Weston). This piece is acted throughout, and on all hands, with a degree of ease, nature, and truth, which it is quite unusual to see, and no apology is needed for the theatre on the score of its minority. We never remember so military-looking a set of officers on the stage, though it may be that it has been our lot to see a worse-looking set off it. Mr. Hunt's voice is not a favourite with us, but his acting here is really excellent. Mr. Ransford, as the senior captain of the regiment, with his grey head, grey moustaches, and ramrod back, forms a prominent figure in this military picture; and he sings a clever bass song of Mr. Barnett's with great spirit and correctness. Mr. Buckstone, in the dancing-master, and Mr. W. H. Williams, in Job, the convent gardener, were highly comical, and "fooled" their characters" to the top of their bent." Mrs. Fitzwilliam, in the boy, is extremely arch and agreeable, and sings with much taste. Miss Daly has but little to do, but does that little well. The concerted pieces are very nicely executed by a very nicely dressed party of young ladies, and are well led by Miss Pitt and Miss Alleyne. The sweet tones of this last-mentioned young lady's voice are not rendered any the less agreeable by coming from so pretty a person, The music is all good-and not only good, but highly pleasing. It does Mr. Barnett great credit. Mrs. Fitzwilliam has followed the example which Madame Vestris has the merit of having setthat of seeing that her subordinate characters are well dressed-and for this, as well as for the remarkable improvement observable in the stage arrangements, generally, the new lessee of Sadler's Wells deserves that extensive support which we hope she will meet with. We stake our credit, that The Pet of the Petticoats' will alone amply repay any one within ten miles for the trouble of going to see it. The other entertainments were good of their sort, but we have not space to notice them at length.

MISCELLANEA

Rare Picture of the Bolognese School. We have just seen, by the kindness of Signor Jeoffroy, of Arundel Street, Coventry Street, a very fine picture lately received from the celebrated gallery of the Prince Ercolani, at Bologna, painted by Alessandro Turchi, surnamed l'Orbato, a master little known in England, though his works are highly prized in Italy. He was a friend of Annibale Caracci, whose style he imitated, and whom he even excelled in colouring. It is well worthy the attention of the lovers of art.

Balloons. It appears by the French papers, that a M. de Lennox ascended on Friday last, in a balloon in the shape of a whale, furnished with some mechanical oars, with which he hoped to be able to direct the balloon's course through the air. We have not heard the result. Instinct.-A Norwegian Journal relates the following, in proof of the extraordinary instinct of the rein-deer. In some parts of Lapland these animals are subject to a pestilential

disease, and, when attacked, they come down to the coast, and, so soon as they have reached the beach, they plunge headlong into the sea, and greedily swallow a quantity of water, which induces a violent cough and vomiting, after which the disease rapidly leaves them. Some, however, are of opinion, that the object of the animals in going into the sea, is to rid themselves of the larvae of the horse-fly, which in summer lays its eggs in their nostrils.

The Romance of War.-A French soldier, who accompanied the armies of Russia, concealed a small treasure at the entrance of a village near Wilna, with a view of taking it with him on his

return. After the defeat of Moscow he was

made prisoner, and sent to Siberia, and only recovered his liberty about three years since. On reaching Wilna, he remembered his hidden treasure, and, after tracing out the spot where he had hid it, he went to take it away. What was his astonishment to find, in the place of his money, a small tin box, containing a letter addressed to him, in which a commercial house was mentioned at Nancy, where he might receive the sum buried, with interest! The soldier supposed this was all a hoax; he went, however, to the house pointed out, where he received his capital, with twelve years' interest. With this sum he established a small business in Nancy, which enables him to live comfortably; but he has never yet been able, though he has taken pains, to ascertain how his money was taken away and restored to him.New York paper.

The Slave Trade and the Negroes of the Congo. -Some of the most considerable markets for slaves in Africa, are established in the neighbourhood of the Congo, and two of the largest of these, Bihé to the south, and Cassango to the north, of that river, are described in the following terms by Douville, who has lately published at Paris, an account in three volumes of his recent visit to the Congo and the interior of Africa.

The price of a negro is from fifty to sixty-five shillings, or an equivalent in calico or other ware; such as a bad musket for a good negro, &c. About six thousand blacks, of whom twothirds are women, are annually brought to the market of Bihé; and fifty or so of mulatto dealers, come and bargain for them, and, their purchase completed, carry them away in chains to Angola or Benguela, where these unfortunate beings are shipped off. Douville is of opinion, that this execrable traffic did not exist previously to the appearance of its Christian patrons; but he forgets, that proofs of its antiquity exist in Holy Writ, as well as in the pages of Herodotus and on various sculptured remains, which are extant in the tombs of Egypt. No change has taken place in this traffic since those early dates, save in the channel through which it passes. Most of the superstitions peculiar to the savage state, are prevalent among the Congo negroes. The God of Thunder is an object of peculiar reverence, and his supposed wrath is at times appeased by the sacrifice of human victims, whose flesh is divided among the crowd, and devoured by them. When the sorcerers or soothsayers have announced the necessity of allaying the god's vengeance by such a holocaust, attempts are immediately made to ensnare some young man or woman from a neighbouring tribe, under pretence of raising them to a high station, or showing them peculiar marks of honour; the unfortunate victims fall into the snare, and are received with caresses and feastings; then led to some public spot, where the scaffold awaits them, and the rude multitude welcome their appearance with shouts of joy; at the very moment when intoxicated with their adulations, a deathblow from behind is given them; their last sighs are drowned in the ferocious howlings of their kidnappers, and the breath has scarcely departed, before the body is torn to pieces and

shared amongst them. The individual, who has succeeded in entrapping the victim, is raised to the honours of nobility. Douville was himself more than once in imminent danger of falling a sacrifice; on one occasion, the priests had kept him incarcerated for eight days, and the people were impatiently awaiting the hour of his immolation, when he melted the hearts of his gaolers, by an offering of a handsome red cloak, some cotton cloth, and a few bottles of rum. Having secured this ransom, the priests sallied forth and persuaded the multitude, that the god would not only be exasperated if the whiteman should be offered up to him, but that it was his will, that their prisoner should be set at liberty and suffered to depart freely in whatever direction he pleased. On a subsequent occasion, when at Yanvo, where he discovered a goldmine, the Monatu or Chief tempted him to stay amongst his tribe by the most extravagant offers, one of which was his niece, who had reached her hundred and forty-second moon, and was born to the happiness, as the uncle said, of becoming his wife-in-chief. Douville, however, instead of listening to the invitation, evinced his anxiety to get away, and the kind Monatu, as a proof of the vehemence of his attachment to him, took an opportunity of poisoning his attendants, in order that he might be incapacitated from gaining the coast. Here again, the traveller would have been lost, had he not happily bethought himself of the priests' cupidity, and made them some rich presents, in aid of which came a lucky storm, which they announced as a manifestation of the divinity's anger at the detention of the white-man.

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