augmented; for the dealings of the banker would be transacted in the markets; and you might estimate his liability to meet a run by the size of his stalls, and the droves which entered them. Again, the public would be guarded against the fraudulence of moneyed men. Could Mr. Austin have been suspected even of embezzling 30,000l. worth of four-footed beasts? Could the nation have been sufferers by the defalcation of many myriads of heifers or ewes in the Navy Office? Could Mr. Rowland Stephenson have suddenly decamped with the value of 160,0007. in live stock? Could he have safely embarked such a booty for America, or could he have lain hidden, as some suppose, in the heart of the city, without danger of being betrayed by the lowing and bleating of his animated Exchequer bills? There would be no false coining, and no melting of money to send it into foreign parts. We should rarely hear the plaint that money was going out of the country. Nor should we have to pay foreigners in useful commodities for the wasteful return of an unproductive medium of exchange. Our money would be raised in our own country. Usury would be impossible, because the natural periods of gestation would point out the only possible rate of interest which could be asked or given. We could mention many other advantages of the alteration in our monetary system, which we have recommended in the foregoing remarks. But, for the candid, enough has been said; and any additional arguments would have but little additional effect on those whose prejudices they would not dispel. Above all, we expect little candour from the miserable gang of cold-blooded theorists who are called political economists; obstinately wedded to a system, on no one point of which (as Mr. Brougham has asserted) do any two of them agree, they will meet an original proposition with the disdain of insolent inaptitude for truth. And yet we might trust a little to the strong mind of Mr. Malthus, to whom the boldest conclusions are but as geese and turkies; and we cannot help hoping that he will lend a favourable ear to the suggestion of a medium of exchange, which bears so close an affinity to his own cherished measure of value.' Dark as are the waters on which we fling forth our truth to be hid for a while from the view of man, we know that it will float on their bosom into a brighter channel, whose distant gleam now cheers our eye. The day will be, (ay, and that a right early day,) in which there shall be a great change in the currency of this our native land. Men, that is Englishmen, shall not barter all that is dearest to them for idle and inanimate dross. There shall be a natural expression of a natural and unselfish commerce. The bustling haunts of traffic shall refect some of the cheerful features of rural in nocence and quiet. The pale and cunning visage of the stock-jobber shall give place to the ruddy cheek and manly morality of the shepherd. Rustic sights and rustic sounds shall make glad our hearts with the memory of by-gone days. And the stranger who shall visit the congregations of merchants, and the thronged halls in which the wealth of the world is bartered, shall find the Arcadia of ancient days in the Exchange of London, and recognize the visionary features of pastoral bliss in the monetary system of the 19th century. FOREIGN NOTICES. The Nuraghes of Sardinia.-There are six hundred of these ancient memorials extant in the island of Sardinia. Those which are in a perfect state, are generally about fifty feet high, ninety feet in diameter at their base, and their summit terminates in an inverted cone. They are constructed of various kinds of stone, such as are found on the island, and their usual site is the top branch which shows any symptoms of increase.of some hill, standing in a plain; in a few in- | A. de la Marmora. stances, they are surrounded by a wall ten feet in height. The origin of these remarkable and long unnoticed monuments is indisputably to be traced to that portion of Grecian history which refers to the Heraclides and the Pelasgic colonies, and various authorities may be adduced from the ancient writers, particularly Diodorus of Sicily, Pausanias, and Aristotle, in proof of that origin. M. Petit-Radel, who has treated this subject with great judgment, notices the perfect coincidence of the events recorded by those writers with the whole history of the Pelasgic migrations. He shows, for instance, that some of these memorials were built by Daedalus, who planted colonies during the age of Iphicles, Iolas, Minos the Second, Edipus, and Atreus; and, to prove the existence of the Arcadian colony of Aristeus, which Pausanias places in the earliest ages of Sardinian story, he brings into juxta-position the records of that hero with those of Cadmus, whose daughter he married, and Nanas, the Thessalian, the founder of the Pelasgic colonies in Italy, of whom there are still extant considerable remains on the coast lying opposite to Sardinia. Sardinia.-There have been some singular variations in the population of this island during the last fifty years: though it is now on the increase, the following statement shows that it has greatly declined during that interval. The numbers of its inhabitants were, in 1775, 1802, 1816, 1824,. 426,375 387,830 351,867 412,357 From this statement, which is drawn from official documents, the amount of its population, as given by recent statistical writers, at 460,000 to 470,000 souls, is an evident exaggeration. Indigent Population of France.-Out of a population of thirty-two millions, as many as five millions are in a state of positive indigence, either professed, or incipient beggars! The country is plundered by 130,000 individual depredators; and of these, from 15 to 20,000 are apprehended and punished. The expense of providing for the public safety, costs the state an annual sum of 160,000/., and the value of property stolen or damaged, cannot fall short of 80,000l. a year. There are more than 150,000 persons under confinement in prison, or vegetating in hospitals, &c.; and above 60,000 children of mendicant or indigent parents cast forth daily upon the world without any asylum beyond tap-rooms, forests, and dens of smugglers. In short, France contains more than 3,000,000 human beings who do not know from one month to another whether they are to live or starve. To complete this harrowing picture, it is lamentable to see the back ground filled up by 11,464 criminals annually discharged from the galleys, and 7,896 prisoners released from confinement.M. Laforest. Tea Trade in Russia.-Tea is one of the most important objects of Russian commerce, and contributes far beyond any other article to the prosperity of the fair held at Nijni-Novgorod, which receives its supplies upon the breaking up of the ice in the Siberian rivers. These supplies are forwarded on sledges from Kiakta, on the Chinese frontier, to Tomsk in Siberia, where they are sometimes detained six weeks or two months, awaiting the season for their shipment. Descending the Oby and ascending the Irtish, they are again put on shore, and conveyed, a distance of twelve versts by land,' to Perme, whence they are sent by water to Nijni-Novgorod. Their first departure from Kiakta takes place in the beginning The natives of Sardinia are mostly of middling of February, and those of 1827 reached Nijnistature, though characterised by the symmetry of Novgorod on the 25th of July. They occupied their shape, and their great muscular powers. eight-decked vessels, (raschives,) each carrying They are peculiarly remarkable for an uncommon from 200,000 to 250,000 pounds' weight; the activity of mind, and possess great natural taste eight cargoes being worth above 600,000%. The for science and poetry. Though a spirit of recost of carriage is nearly ten per centum, and the venge impels them, on some occasions, to destroy article is sold at twelve months, with one half per its object, the harmony which pervades their do- cent. discount. It is packed up carefully in lead, mestic economy would shed lustre on the most covered with skins, so as to preserve it from conlovely periods of the patriarchal state. The feudal tracting any obnoxious savour from substances system still obtains throughout the island, gorging with which the package may come into contact. the few at the expense of the many, and present-The tea imported by land-carriage into Russia is ing a wall of adamant against the advancement of its welfare and civilization. The direct taxes amount to 916,647 Piedmontese livres, (28,1937.,) and the indirect, to 1,725,901, (71,910.) The revenue of the clergy yields an annual sum of 960,000, (40,000l.,) of which 264,000 fall to the share of the bishopricks, though on this last sum, it should be remembered, the government is entitled to charge as many pensions as are equivalent to one-third of the amount. Independently of the Universities and other establishments for education, the present sovereign has established normal schools in all eight years, from which age the learner passes the villages; they receive pupils at the age of through a three years' course of regular studies. When Viceroy of the island in 1804, he also founded a 'Society of Agriculture and Husbandry,' as well as the Monte di Soccorso,' an association exclusively designed for the support and encou ragement of agriculture. The incubus of feudality and superstition, however, must be removed before the industry of the Sardinian can raise his country from its present low estate. Of this, its unhappy condition, no further proof can be needed than that the whole island contains not one paper-mill-and only one solitary manufactory of cotton goods. Every article of leather, hardware, woollens, and linens, save coarse household cloths, is drawn, with some paltry exceptions, from foreign countries. The oil trade is the only greatly superior to that imported by sea into England; as, in the latter instance, it cannot be so effectually secured as not to imbibe saline exhalations during the voyage. The first essays made by the Siberians and Bashkirs to lead their caravans across Chinese Tartary to Pekin, occurred about the year 1653. They bartered their skins and furs for gold, silver, precious stones, stuffs, and tea; but their coarse deportment subsequently induced the Chinese government to prohibit their entrance into its territories, and they were obliged, in consequence, to restrict themselves to a petty traffic on the frontiers. The commercial treaty entered into between Russia and China in 1689 received a more extended form in 1712, when Peter the Great sent Laurent Lange as his envoy into China. Ever since that period, this branch of Russian trade has assumed gradually a more settled and substantial form. The better descriptions of tea are known by the names of the original growers or manufacturers; and there are above two hundred different kinds, each familiar to the dealers by its parental designation, and prized accordingly. The wealthiest of these dealers are the merchants of Moscow, who conduct their barter with the Chinese through the medium of their own agents at Kiakta, and have recently attempted to defraud their customers by increasing the weight of the lead in which the tea is packed.-Bulletin du Nord. KING'S COLLEGE. We have been favoured with a copy of the plan for conducting King's College, which have been prepared by the Provisional Committee, and will be submitted to the body of subscribers; but as they have already appeared in the pages of a contemporary, we will only extract two or three of the most interesting articles, upon which we intend to make some remarks in an early number of 'The Atheneum.' GOVERNOR.-All fundamental regulations concerning the course of studies, and the internal discipline of the College, which the Council may frame from time to time, as well as the appointment and removal of all the officers of the College, will be subject to the approval of the Governors. "TUTORS.-Tutors will be appointed by the Principal, with the approbation of the Council. One or more of the Tutors, under the direction of the Principal, will reside in each house, or in each portion of the College allotted for the reception of Students; they will be responsible to the Principal for preserving good order and discipline, and will be removable by him, with the approbation of the Council. STUDENTS OF the Higher DEPARTMENT.-The resident Students will be subject to such regulations as the Principal may from time to time announce. They will all be required to attend the service of the Church of England in the College Chapel on Sundays. 'PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS.-At these Examinations, the Students' knowledge of the evidences of natural and revealed religion, and of the doctrines and duties of Christianity, as taught by the United Church of England and Ireland, will be carefully inquired into. Every Student will be expected to exhibit a certain degree of proficiency in these subjects. LOWER DEPARTMENT. -The system here carried on will embrace a Course of Religious Instruction suited to the age of the Pupils, Classics, Arithmetic, Elementary Mathematics, the Modern Languages, &c.' THE DRAMA. Covent-Garden. Is not The Beaux Stratagem' a good comedy? and was it not well acted at Covent Garden last Saturday? On the first of these questions we trust there is no one who requires to be illuminated,-as to the second, we need scarce do more than mention the name of Kemble, Keeley, Power, Bartley, and Miss Chester; but we can say in addition, and in good faith and sincerity, we have not partaken of a richer treat the whole season. The manners of this comedy, and almost all the characters, are certainly of a past date, but the humour of the incidents and dialogue were as fresh, easy, and forcible, as they could have been in the days when it was a picture of living existence. It is true (and perhaps to be lamented also) that the landlords of public inns are quite another guess sort of rogues now to what they were in the days of old Boniface. As to the road, what gentleman could undertake to live decently by it now when the stage-coaches come so thick and so quick, that one has no time to cut a traveller's throat with the proper degree of cunning and attention to his feelings, before bang goes the blunderbuss of the Royal Mail at your head. Alack-a-day! as the saying is, Captain is no longer a travelling name,' except to tourists on the Continent. Pistol and sword have been exchanged for false-key and center-piece, and the whole profession (Oh! shade of Gibbet!) incorporated with the organised police of the metropolis. Tempora mutantur! We have ourselves visited at a late period, and with no ordinary interest, the fair and famous city of Litchfield; yea, we have drank deeply of the copas-cup of its ancient, loyal, and free corporation; other objects of interest, such as the vestigia of Johnson, Garrick, Darwin, Seward, and last, not least, the fine monument of Chantrey, were all cared for easily, and in comparatively small space, after the conclusion of morning service; the remainder of our time we devoted sedulously to the recognition of the scene of 'The Beaux Stratagem.' Alas! the place was no more like its old picture than the new Palace to Greenwich Hospital. To be sure, the landlord of our hotel had a good red ale-drinking sort of face,-but his Anno Domini was any thing but confoundedly strong;' and when we rang the bell, with love's catechism hanging at our tongue's end, instead of Cherry, came in an old lean withered figure of a waiter; we dismissed the spectre, which had driven out our fair vision, with an internal ejaculation of Hence! avaunt! thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold,' and bade him bring We observed, too, with regret, that all traces even of The Dorindas and Mrs. Sullens had flaunting bonnets and proud eyes, but we could see no symptoms of corn, wine, and oil' upon their countenances. The Archers and Aimwells were sufficiently exquisite; but, strange to say, they wore black coats, and seemed to have nothing to practise on but targets. We made great and persevering inquiries respecting the scite of Lady Bountiful's mansion, but could only ascertain that it was no where in the vicinity of the close. We felt a great longing, on entering the church, to bow to the Dean, (especially as the verger had got his half-crown,') but could not catch the eye of the commanding officer,' who scarcely seemed to expect the honour we intended him; out of church, however, we are informed the custom is still much in vogue, so much, that when whist is played in the Close, that dignitary always has the privilege of choosing trumps at his own table. To return to Covent-Garden. This picture of the past is more interesting to us than any picture of the present; it might not be so were our artists equal to the old ones. We have already expressed our unqualified approbation of the acting; still we must in justice say, that Charles Kemble, though eminently successful, can never be the Archer that Elliston was; he is perfectly and naturally the gentleman, but still there is a restraint, a want of real ease, about his acting, which is supplied by his clever and entertaining manner of assuming it; Power is a better substitute for the Jack Johnstone of the old cast in 1814; we think him one of the richest humorists on the stage. Still more irresistible was Keeley, the successor of Bannister, in Scrub. Whenever this actor adds to his author, and he often does so, it is sure to be an improvement: an effect which could not take place, if he did not feel perfectly the humour he depicts. Take, for instance, the following: Arch. How many are there of them? (thieves).-Scrub. Sir, eleven-and-forty. Oh! kill him, kill him, Sir. I never saw a man killed in my life. Such of our readers as have seen Keeley, may imagine the effect of these last words better than we can describe it; the house did not recover from them for many seconds. Miss Forde is in person the very representation of Cherry, and she played the part perfectly, and with some humour. She is indeed a promising actress, which, added to her more than respectable qualifications as a singer, gives her a chance, we think, of some day becoming a favourite. But Miss Chester-what a gorgeous woman! just arrived at the limits which separate, embonpoint, and what gross people call fatness, she is at this time grander than we have ever seen her. What shall we call her? a seventy-four in full sail? or, as Burns better expresses it, A glorious galley, stem and stern, Illustration of a passage in Thucydides.—Athenian POPULAR LITERATURE. 'Ut in vita, sic in studiis, pulcherrimum et humanissimum existimo, severitatem comitatemque miscere, ne illa in tristitiam, hæc in petulantiam, procedat.'-Plinii Epistola. I. As children gathering pebbles on the shore.' Milton's Paradise Regained. 1.-POETICAL. Sir Walter Scott and Dr. Gall, the Phrenologist.-It has been aptly remarked, that the advocates of the phrenological system carefully publish every fact which supports their theories, but none which oppose them. Whether the following anecdotes merely prove an error in judgment of the celebrated founder of the system, or the heads examined to be examples of perverse configuration, we shall leave others to decide. When Dr. Gall was in this country, he went, in company with Dr. H., to visit the studio of our eminent sculptor Chantrey. Mr. Chantrey being engaged, they amused themselves in viewing the various efforts of his skill. Dr. Gall was requested to say, from the organs exhibited in a certain bust, what was the predominant propensity or faculty of the individual. He pronounced that the original must be a great poet. His attention was directed to a second bust. He declared the latter to be that of a great mathematician. The first was the bust of Troughton, the eminent mathematician; and the second, that of Sir Walter Scott. Talent, the phrenologist asserts, is proportional to the development of the cerebral mass. Mr. Chantrey exhibited to Dr. Gall drawings of numerous heads. The cranioscopist selected one, whose ample cerebral development gave (as he decided) a sure index of vast talent,-it was a fac-simile of the head of the Earl of Pomfret. Plagiarism. Vain-till your heart is warmed-the task to steal Goëthe. The Primrose. A Poet's Feelings.-The feelings of a genuine poet are all strong-Quicquid amet, valde amat.—Coleridge. 2. SENTIMENtal. : Vice and Virtue.-We have much labour and hold in the obtaining vertue; when we have fought well all day, we loose it at night; vice dogs vs, and neuer assailes but vpon advantage; shee comes creeping, and by degrees gets into our bosomes; we cannot shut her out, for our gates will not bee bar'd: our senses keep open houses; they are busie faculties, that love not idlenesse, though they lead to idlenesse; bee blinde, and the power of the eyes will runne into the touch, and then make that itch for both take away foure and leaue the fifth, and that fifth will trouble vs as ill as all; take away all-we are senselesse: so, having senses, we are subject to vice; having none, without feeling. The reason of vertue's difficulty, is her inuisiblenesse: it must bee touched, or tasted, or heard, that they make much of; and so much vertue is common: we call her by her name, and tell her of her excellency : but to translate her out of wordes into deedes and actions is few mens' case, and no maruaile, for the persuasion of vertue being in a language that man understands not, without the senses' interpretation, by their interpretation is corrupted.-Sir William Cornwallis's Essays, 29, edit. 1631. following speech, arising out of the refusal of Noah's wife to enter into the Ark: 'Shem.-Father, I shall fetch her in, I trow, Withouten anie faile. Mother, my father after thee sendes, And biddes thee into yonder ship wendes. For we bene ready to sayle.' The Deluge, an old Play, 41. 4. ORATORICAL. Father Gregory.-If we may give full credit to our old monkish writers, the effects of pulpit oratory in their days far surpassed any thing witnessed in our degenerate times. We cannot boast, as they could, of a preacher tipsifying a congregation with the honied rain of his eloquence :'-' Doctor Sanctissimus ille Gregorius, qui melleo prædicationis imbre totam rigavit et inebriavit ecclesiam,'-John of Salisbury, ap. X. Script. 5. RHETORICAL. The Simple and the Florid Style.-The first writer of eminence who departed from the model of the Greek simplicity was Sallust. His style wants all that flowing ease and smoothness of diction so conspicuous in Xenophon; instead of which he has assumed a manner of his own, borrowed, it would appear, from the decla mation of the schools of rhetoric. Sallust was followed by Tacitus and Seneca; the first of whom always aims at that pointed brilliancy which the ancient Greeks never attempted, but which has frequently among the moderns been considered the acmé of perfection. Tacitus also indulged in the florid, pictured style of writing which belongs to poetry; and in this false taste he has been followed by the French and their imitators in Germany and England.-Lord Monboddo, Origin and Progress of Language, vol. iii. Oriental Metaphor.-He feared not the number of tents where death, the mother of vultures, had fixed her mansion.-Zohair, Transl. by Sir Wm. Jones. Alpine Scenery-It is difficult to paint to the imagination objects which have nothing in common with what is seen in other parts of the world; it is difficult to make pass into the mind of the reader that impression of admiration, mingled with terror, which is inspired by those immense masses of ice, surrounded and surmounted with pyramidal rocks still more immense; the contrast of the dazzling white of the snow with the obscure colours of the rocks moistened by the waters drained from the melting snows; the transparency of the air; the splendour of the light of the sun, which imparts to every object an indescribable vivacity and distinctness; and the profound and overawing [majestueux] silence which reigns in those vast solitudes-a silence which is only interrupted from time to time by the noise of some large mass of granite or of emerald ice dashing down the mountainous precipices. When a fine day occurs among the Alps, the air is so calm, pure, and light, that it is scarcely possible to imagine storms could be there so terrific. But the wind being confined between converging rocks, acquires an amazing velocity which the strongest man cannot resist; and being generally accompanied with snow, if you stop you die of cold; if you proceed-you fall over a precipice in the obscurity of the storm, or your breath is stopt by reflected currents of wind.—Sausure's Voyages dans les Alpes, p. 631. PICTURE OF MORNING. With Sol depaint, as Paradise delectable, And blissful boughs with bloomed variance. The grasshoppers among the vergers gnapped ++ And bees wrought material for their hive. Gawain Douglas, Palice of Heu. V. 9.-MUSICAL. Extraordinary Feat of Mrs. Salmon.-Great vocal ability usually indicates great constitutional strength, and this is further proved from the resistance of catarrhal disorders by professional singers. Amateurs are always taking colds,' professors very rarely, indeed, though so much exposed to night air in their clothing. Mrs. Salmon, for example, in December, sang at Manchester on Wednesday; at Leeds on Thursday; at Sheffield on Friday; and at Hull (seventy miles distant) on Saturday.' This, however, is not equal to her famous week, in which she appeared on Monday in London; on Tuesday at Oxford; on Wednesday in London; on Thursday at Oxford; on Friday in London; and on Saturday at Bath. Minstrel Music. He sang sae sweet, it might dispel All rage but fell despair.-Ballad of Gil Morice. Early Opera in London. The absurd manner of conducting the Opera in London, during the reigns of Charles and James, will appear from the mixture of Italian and English. Mrs. Tofts, a mere Englishwoman, in the part of Camilla, courted by Nicolini, an Italian, without understanding a syllable each other said; Mrs. Tofts chaunting her recitative in English, in answer to his Italian: and, on the other hand, Valentini courting amorously, in the same language, a Dutch woman, who could neither speak English nor Italian. 10.-CRITICAL. Bray a Fool in a Mortar. The passage in Proverbs, rendered, Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar,' &c., is quite misunderstood, and should be translated, Though thou chastise [or punish] a fool in the grinding-house, [or mill,] among the workers at the grist; for the Hebrew word Chethesh signifies to beat, to bruise by corporal punishment; while a pestle,' is rather the plural of Baali, rendered with Baal, addicted to, (Prov. i. 17, and xxii. 24,)* viz. addicted to grinding corn, or employed in grinding. Riputh, again, means ground corn, (2 Sam. xvii. 19.) Grist corn, ground, or ready for grinding. Be, rendered in,' should be translated at' the mortar, or in the prison, or bridewell, where offenders were comdriu, iii. 4, and i. 2; and Judges, xvi. 21. pelled to grind corn, with stripes.-Vide Terence, An ་ Carthaginian and Irish.-Colonel Vallencey maintains, that the fragments of the Punic language preserved in Plautus, are pure Irish. The line, Origin of the Demi-Gods of Antiquity.It is too hasty a conclusion to affirm, with Warburton, that all the deities of the ancient mythology were once men and women; for, though Jupiter, Bacchus, Ceres, &c., were once inhabitants of the world, it does not follow, that the grand 'Aroppηra originated in the errors of Polytheism, as the god-ship of the Sun, Moon, and 'Oupavos would, notwithstanding, remain inviolable and untouched.-Bott's Answer to Warburton, 23. Fairy Rings. Illic Lemurum populus sub nocte choreas, 12. SEPULCHRAL. Hottentot Buryings in 1686.-The Hottentot custom of burying the dead is the following :-They come with knives, and shave the body, arms, and legs of the deceased, through the thick skin; then they dig a great hole, and set him in it upon his breech, clapping stones round about him to keep him upright; after, comes a company of their women about him, making a horrid noise; then they cover the mouth of the hole, and leave him in a sitting posture.-Cowley's Voyage, apud Harris, i. 82. 13.-SUPERSTITIOUS. Demons vanish at Cock-crowing. This is by no means a recent superstition, as appears from the following verses, by a poet of the fourth century: 'Ferunt vagantes Dæmones, Lætas tenebris natium, Gallo canente exterritas, Sparsim timere et cedere.'-Prudentius. Sacredness of Islands.-The Irish of old seem to have held islands in superstitious veneration. In the river Shannon, the romantic island of Inniscailtre contains the remains of seven churches, and a round tower; and, in another of its islands, an anchorite tower, 120 feet high, where, also, the ruins of eleven churches are still visible.-Owenson's Patriot Sketches, i. 48. The Orientals, in the same manner, hold the islands of Elephanta, Salsette, Ceylon, &c., holy. The Cup of Immortality. The Chinese, it would appear, have not been behind the Europeans in the pursuit of the phantoms of alchemy, and Voo-tee, one of the most celebrated princes of the Han dynasty, was persuaded that the cup of immortality had been discovered. The Emperor finally procured this precious draught, and appointed a time on which he was to quaff it in presence of his courtiers. It was accordingly presented to him, when one of his grandees started forward, seized it, and drank it off. The Emperor ordered the audacious grandee to instant execution; but the latter coolly told him that if the cup was good for any thing, death would have no power over him. Voo-tee pardoned him, but continued to believe in the efficacy of the cup.-De Guignes, Voy.à Peking. 17.-MAGICAL. Marine Incantations.—Incantamentis sic pollent ut naves in medio cursu retineant, sic ut nulla vi ventorum amoveri possint. Quod malum solo virginum excremento, foris navium ac transtris illitis, curatur ; a quo, ut incalis accepi, spiritus illi natura abhorrent.Hispan. Illustrat, ii. 1320 edit. Frank. 1603. 18.-LUDICROUS. Royal Dinner for the Devil. - His Majesty professed, that were he to invite the Devil to dinner, he should have these three dishes; 1. a pig [whether young or old-roast, boiled, or braised, is not in the bill;] 2. A poll of ling and mustard; 3. A pipe of tobacco for digestion. — Apothegms of St. James, p. 4, edit. Lond. 1608. - Of the truth of this, the songs of Beranger furnish a remarkable instance. 2.-HISTORICAL. Picts in Ireland-It is evident, from many authori ties, that there were Picts settled in Ireland at a very early period. We may refer, for instance, to Adomnanus, vita St. Columb.; Probus, vita St. Patricii ; Annals of Ulster; Tighernac, &c. The title, indeed, of one of the chapters of O'Flaherty's Ogygia is 'Pictorum in Hiberniam migratio.'-Vide also Wood, in Trans. R. J. A. xii. Impaling among the Ancients.-The barbarous punishment of impaling, so common at present in the East, seems to have had place among the ancient Romans : Cogita hoc loco carcerem, et cruces, et eculeos, et uncum, et adactum per medium hominem qui per os emergat, stipitem.'-Seneca Epist. 14. 'Alii capite conversos in terram suspendere: alii per obscæna stipitem egerunt: alii brachia patibulo explicuerunt.'— Seneca, de Consol. xx. Irish Cannibalism.—In order to render a young girl named Eithne Vathaek sooner marriageable, for the purpose of fulfilling a prediction, she was fed with the flesh of young children to quicken her growth. In consequence of this mode of dieting, she was capable of marriage some years before the usual age.-Keating, p. 261. 4.-BIOGRAPHICAL. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE article on Michael Sturtz, though excellent in some The articles on Pantomimes and the New Year's day in LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED DURING THE WEEK. M'Gregor's Sketches of British America, 8vo., 7s. Mangnall's Geography, 3d Edition, 12mo., 7s. 6d. Rev. J. Mann's Lectures on Ecclesiastical History and Non- Bloomfield's Prometheus, 8vo., 5th Edition, 8s. Economy of Human Life, French, by Mrs. Davidson, royal What is Luxury? post 8vo., 8s. 6d. Madan's Translation of Juvenal and Persius, 2 vols. 8vo., new Gomersall's Tables of Discount, 11. 55. Belgic Pastorals, and other Poems, by J. Glasse, Esq., 78. Cruden. The learned Cruden, author of the Concordance to the Bible, professed his determination not to marry, because, by obeying the precept, increase and multiply,' he believed that he would make himself M'Gregor's Stories from the History of Ireland, 18mo., 3s. 6d. a party to the propagation of sin. Acting upon this principle, he eventually paid his addresses to an old maid, who rejected him. Newton and Stilling fleet.-Whiston, the author of the Theory of the Earth, informs us that he lost the favour of Sir Isaac Newton by presuming to contradict him; and adds, that he would not have ventured to publish any thing against his chronology during his life, as, from the irritability of his temper, it might possibly have killed him. Stillingfleet was no less affected by having his opinions controverted, if we are to believe his chaplain, Dr. Bentley, who tells us that he believed Locke's confutation of his metaphysics concerning the the Trinity hastened his end. 5.-TOPOGRAPHICAL. Locality of Troy.-Many regions formerly abounding in wood, by being now stript of it, are become much less abundant in springs. From this cause it is that Choiseul and others have in vain searched for the river Scamander, in the locality of Troy. The forests of Mount Ida have for ages been in ruins, and the sources of the Scamander have thereby been dried up.-Abbé Rozier. 6. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL. Cole's Manuscripts.-The Rev. William Cole, the friend of Walpole, left behind him in MS. more than fifty vols. folio in his own writing, from 1745 to 1777. The title of this voluminous work is Athenæ Cantabrigenses,' and is intended as a sort of companion to Anthony-a-Wood's Athenæ. 7-.GRAMMATICAL. Prepositional Cases-When by conquest or intercourse one nation intermingles with another, very important alterations are made upon their common language. 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