nium specimen hactenus cognitarum illustratum, at plurimum ad icones Ferdinandi Bauer, in bibliotheca Gulielmi Cattley, A. M. cura JOHANNIS LINDLEY, S. L. S.

A Second Volume of Sacred Lyrics. By JAMES EDMESTON.

The Farmer and Grazier's Guide. By L. TOWNE.

Machin, or the Discovery of Madeira, a Poem. By JAMES BIRD, Author of "The Vale of Slaugden."

Nausitrata.......... .........F. Underwood. Sophrona.................J. Phillimore. The performers were severally excellent, although we were surprised at some changes which had taken place within our remembrance. Geta, who formerly appeared as a smart young footman, was now acted by Mr. Dodgson as an elderly coachman. Mr. Smythe's Demipho was a judicious picture of the old man, tenacious of his rights, yet irresolute in the mode of enforcing, and half afraid to proceed with them. Mr. Vernon, as Phormio, was no longer the impudent bully, but a free, bold, young man, with a cast of irony which seemed new to us: in the sporting world he would be called a Corinthian. Mr. Hussey, as Chremes, was an admirable personification of the henpecked husband; rejoicing in his good fortune, but alarmed for fear of a discovery, and finally the dupe of an impertinent wit, and consigned over to the care of his enraged wife, with the prospect of curtain- lectures without end. Messrs.

Legge and Strangways were excellent representatives of the two brothers, feeling for their own, as well as each other's, ill fortune. Nor must we forget the Dorio of Sterky, or his felicitous choice of dress on the occasion; nor the Davus of Mr. Ley, a character which seems to be more adapted to Brainworn in Ben Jonson, than the representation would lead us to suppose;

Favourite of Nature, a Novel.

SCHOOL.

though the part was brief (not having Terence fresh in our memories), we looked for his re-appearance on the boards.

The three Advocates were well performed, although by no means a real picture of the Law. Mr. Fawcett stuttered well through his part, which no Counsellor in real life could do. Mr. Eden showed that perfect indifference to the cause, which characterizes a dandy lawyer; but bounced about in a manner quite dissonant to practice. The solemnity of Mr. Browne, and the cool gravity with which he uttered his brief sentence, nothing to the point, were irresistible claims upon our laughter. Their whole piece of acting was an excellent (though over-strained) caricature.

Mr. Underwood, in Nausistrata, was completely identified with the implacable vixen; and Mr. Phillimore as Sophrona, showed that life may be infused even into an old nurse.

The performance on the whole passed off with considerable eclat, and drew down thunders of applause; but the character of Phædria was rather too tamely supported, and certainly breathed nothing of the enamoured swain's impassioned ardour; for instance, the expression of "lætus sum" was delivered more in the tones of despair, than of joy. Davus also was rather too inanimate in particular parts.

We cannot close our brief remarks without noticing the frequent violation of quantity that ensued, by which the sense was sometimes perverted, and the versification destroyed: as mălis (by evils) was always pronounced as the word mūlis (by apples!) But this practice is so common, that it frequently passes unnoticed. conceive it as easy to pronounce the first syllable of malis short, as its derivative word malicious.

We

taining 12 cases of mummies. On one of them was the following inscription in Greek:-"The tomb of Tphon, son of Heraclius Soter and Sanaposis. He was born on the second day of Athur, in the fifth year of Adrian, our Lord. He died on the 20th of the month Mechier, the 11th year of the same (Lord), at the age of six years, two months, and twenty days." As Adrian commenced his reign in the 117th year of the Christian era, the inscription is 1691 years old.

ROMAN EAGLE DISCOVERED.

It is well known to the studious in classical history and antiquities, that, at the defeat of the Roman legions in Franconia, in the days of Augustus, one of their ensign-bearers (Aquilifer) buried the eagle that was confided to his charge, in a ditch, lest it should fall into the enemy's hands; and that afterwards, when the victors were compelled to resign their trophies, one of the captured eagles could not be

procured. Time and chance has at length brought it to light. Count Francis of Erbach, who has a country seat at Eulbach, and who has formed a magnificent collection of Roman antiquities, has found in the vicinity of his residence, a Roman eagle, in a good state of preservation. It was discovered in a ditch, not far from some remains of a Roman entrenchment. It is of bronze, thirteen inches in height, and weighs seven pounds. It is not easy to say positively that this is the very eagle formerly missing, but the presumption is strong in its favour, and therefore it may now be appropriated to the 22d Legion, or the Britannic Legion, which was stationed in the lines of the forest of Odenwald.

ORGANIC REMAINS.

The Calcutta Mirror of the 23d March last contains a letter from Dr. Tytler, announcing that in an expedition to Kallingar, he picked up a fossil oyster-shell on the summit of a high hill, above the vil lage of Bheeamow, in union with granite and basalt rocks. "This proves that these hills were formerly all under water." Dr. Tytler has met with something still more wonderful. "In the bed of a river near Russur, I also found," says he, "the fossil remains of the first joint of a human finger. It is evidently the first phalanx of a finger, and I think the first finger of the right hand." The bed of a river might be considered rather a doubtful place for such a fossil; but we imagine no doubts whatever will remain respecting the real value of this singular discovery, when we add what the writer further says respecting this bone: "It is more than twice the size of the joint of an ordinary man; ergo, the person it belonged to must have been at least twelve feet high." These two sin gular curiosities he was about to dispatch to the Asiatic Society.

ROYAL SOCIETY.

On the 10th of November, Sir Humphrey Davy read a paper "On the Magnetising Influence of Galvanism," in which various new and curious experiments on this subject were detailed, which clearly establish the fact, that the Galvanic fluid, directed in a proper manner, is capable of communicating magnetic properties to bars of steel. If steel bars or rods be exposed to the Galvanic current, placed in the direction of the magnetic axis, no effect follows; but if they be placed parallel with the magnetic equator, they become magnetic -the end placed to the West becoming the North pole of the new magnet, and that towards the East becoming the South pole. And so great is the Galvanic influence in producing this effect, that it exerts its power at a distance of some inches (even ten or twelve); so that if the steel

bar be moved in a circle round the course of the Galvanic current, but always kept

parallel to the inagnetic equator, it be

comes magnetic.

ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

On the 10th of November this Society met, for the first time this season, at their new apartments in Lincoln's Inn Fields. A notice was read respecting the Pleiades; in which it was stated that the Moon was now, and would for the next three or four years continue to be, in such a position with respect to her nodes, as to pass over the Pleiades every lunation, thus affording a favourable opportunity of observing the occultation of those-stars. A map of the Pleiades was exhibited, on which the apparent place of the moon, across that remarkable cluster, was laid down, for those particular days when it will be most interesting to the observer.-Some valuable tables were presented by Mr. Groombridge, on the method of reducing observations of the fixed stars; accompanied with instructions for the use of the same.-A communication was made by M. Gauss, of Göttingen, respecting a new repeating circle which had been fixed up in the Observatory of that place. This circle was made by Reichenbach, of Munich. The telescope is attached to an axis, each end of which rests on a stone pier, similar to a transit instrument; and it is capable of being reversed in the same manner as that instrument. To the axis is annexed a fixed circle, three feet in diameter; and also a moveable circle bearing the level and verniers, by means of which the repeating principle is obtained. The telescope is five feet focal length; and so powerful that M. Gauss states that he has observed the pole-star, by reflection in water, when nearly on the meridian at mid-day. Several observations of stars, with this instrument, accompanied the eonmunication.

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