ARTS AND SCIENCES. shops are permitted, to be kept open on Sun- ticised some of the sauces severely. To sur- ham, have all fallen, in succession, within the days during fifteen days before and fifteen vive such dishonour was impossible; therefore past year; and we are not aware that the pubdays after the first of January. Monsieur le Cuisinier stabbed himself in lic are in possession of any likenesses of these There was a grande soirée and spectacle at despair,-whether with his spit or a skewer, gallant and unfortunate individuals. We prethe Duke of Orleans' on Monday last; the I have not as yet learned. I think his sent them with the three, engraved in the best actors and actresses from Le Théâtre de sense of honour and heroism raises him quite style possible for a newspaper sheet. For the Madame performed l'Héritière; and also ano- to an equality with the far-famed M. Vattel, originals we are indebted to a miniature of ther piece, which caused some merriment at the celebrated by Mme. de Sévigné. Major Laing in the possession of his friend expense of John Bull. The Duchesse d'AnMr. Smith, of the Colonial Office; to a picture goulême and de Berri were present; but his of Captain Clapperton, painted by Manton for Majesty and the Dauphin were on a hunting Lady Seaforth, similar to that in the possession excursion, which possibly proved the more proof Mr. Murray, who has kindly lent us the fine fitable entertainment. WE have this week put together several ac- frontispiece to his forthcoming volume of Clapcounts, original or procured from foreign perton's Travels, by which to correct our imsources, relating to various interesting expedi- pression; and, lastly, to a miniature of Major tions and travels in Africa and other parts of Denham, by Newton, in the possession of his the world; and to render these more acceptable brother, J. C. Denham, Esq., and also referto our friends, we have embellished them with ring to Phillip's portrait of the same, which portraits of three of the most distinguished and belongs to Mr. Murray. We may, therefore, lamented victims who have fallen sacrifices to speak of these as good resemblances of our reBritish enterprise and zeal in prosecuting simi- gretted countrymen. They are engraved by lar researches. Laing, Clapperton, and Den- Mr. Branston. The French begin to be angry with Mlle. Mars for being old, or rather for appearing so; she was severely criticised in the salons for performing the character of a jeune demoiselle. A rare instance of sensibility occurred in the person of a cook a few days ago. He had, as he supposed, served up a dinner in the highest gastronomical perfection; his master, however, ither faute de bon goût, or from caprice, cri SOUTH AMERICA. NEW ZEALAND. Denham. I am Sir |larly those which relate to his own domestic you have had it Long Enough. AMONG the most remarkable exploits of Eng- arrangements. The ceremony of tabooing, your Humble Servent, JN RUTHERFORD. lish travellers, is that of Lieut. Maw, R.N., and the process of tatooing, which Rutherford You will Be Pleasd to Direct for me at who is now in London, having crossed the underwent, are minutely described, as well Mr. Jn Gilbert, No. 42 Lime Stret, New Cordillera from Peru, embarked near Moyo- as the war-customs of these rude islanders. Hay Market, Lirerpool. bamba on one of the smaller streams which Many persons in Liverpool, and amongst If No ancwer Comes in time I shall Come fall into the Guallaga, and so come down the others the celebrated historian of Leo X., have to London Myself. Amazons, being the first Englishman who has conversed with this person, and have satisfied It is a singular fact, that many of the cusever descended that river. themselves of the general truth of his narra- toms of the New Zealanders bear a close retive. He had the misfortune to be appre- semblance to those of the ancient Jews. Among hended on a charge of larceny, but was fully other peculiarities, it is esteemed unclean to eat We have been favoured with a glance at an acquitted at the last Lancaster assizes; and, twice out of the same basket; and the prinextremely curious manuscript journal of an we understand, has since returned to one of cipal occupation of the women, therefore, is English sailor, who returned from New Zea- the Society Islands, but not to New Zealand. the constant manufacturing of baskets, from land at the latter end of 1827, after having The following letter, which is characteristic, the bark of the palm-tree, for their lordly masbeen detained there ten years. The name of was addressed to the gentleman who pur-ters, after whose meals out of them these artithis person is John Rutherford. He was one chased his manuscript, which we hope will be cles are carefully consumed. In other respects of the crew of an American vessel which given to the world in some popular shape touched at the island for water in 1817, and Liverpool, August 24th, 1828. whose captain, and the greater part of her Honourd Sir, You will be Pleasd to Exmen, were all murdered by the natives, in cuese the Liberty I am at Present takeing the same way as the crew of the Boyd were. But the Case of Nessesety I am Now Placed Rutherford, and two others, by some fortunate in forceses me to write to your honour Con- Report of the Special Committee appointed to caprice of these cannibals (for the ample and cerning My Manuscript which has Been Put give an Account of the Travels of M. Auminute details of Rutherford upon this point into your hands by Mr. junr. whom I guste Caillé to Timbuctoo and the Interior of leave no doubt of the continued existence of saw the other Day he his at Present at Lan- Africa. (Geographical Society.) this horrid propensity), escaped the fate of cester Assieses But informed me that a Cer- GENTLEMEN,-You have appointed a comtheir comrades. He became a favourite of tain Sum had Been offered for it, and he mittee composed of Messrs. Eyriès, Cadet de Amy, the chief of that part of the island Expected an ancwer from you By the time he Metz, Amedée Jaubert, Larenaudière, Baron where he was captured, and married his two Returned But as I have Shipet on bord a Roger, and myself, to inquire into the result of daughters, after being himself raised to the vessel I intend to go to the Society Islands the travels of M. Augustus Caillé into the indignity of chief. Many of the anecdotes again I Disire you to eather send me the terior of Africa. This committee has met, and which Rutherford gives of the manners of the Mony or otherwise the Manuscript By Re- has appointed me to make the following report. natives, are told with great naiveté, particu- turn of Post as I Cannot wait and I think Its first care was to assure itself of he place 1: there are a multitude of circumstances which render things clean or unclean in the code of the natives. TIMBUCTOO. spoke several words in the Mandingo languageknown and represented in the maps by the whence the voyager set out, of the route which The travels of M. Caillé are connected in a manner the most advantageous for perfecting or confirming our geographical knowledge, with the excursions of Watt and Winterbottom to Timbo in 1791, of Major Laing in the countries of Kourankoo and Soulimana in 1822, of M. Mollien into the Fouta-D'hiallon in 1818, of Mungo Park to the Dhioliba in 1795 and 1805, of Dochard to Yamina and Bammakou in 1819; lastly, with the itineraries of the caravans on the route from Timbuctoo to the country of Tafilet. Bourré; and he proceeded about 200 miles The committee can add to the preceding, east beyond the Soulimana to the village of other grounds for confidence. During the first Timé, where he arrived on the 3d of August. part of his journey, that is to say, proceeding So far he had accompanied a caravan of to the east across the mountains of Fouta- Mandingo merchants, travelling on foot. In D'hiallon, he passed between the towns of this village he was detained five whole months Timbo and Labey, and, consequently, must by illness, being attacked by a scorbutic affechave crossed the route which our colleague, M. tion, attended with much danger; and which Mollien, took in 1818. Now he describes the was produced by the inclemency of the climountains, the villages, the appearance of the mate, and the hardships which he had undercountry, and all the local circumstances, in such gone in crossing the steep mountains of the a manner, that M. Mollien perfectly recog- Fouta-D'hiallon. This great chain seems, in nises them in the description thus given. These two journeys, therefore, confirm each other; and this result is not unimportant to geography. fact, to be formed of several stages, abounding Leaving El Arawan on the 19th of May, he did not arrive till the 29th of June at El Harib, where the caravan divided into several parts; and on the 23d of July he reached Tafilet. At length, on the 12th of August, he stopped at the very place which Ben Batouta visited in the fourteenth century, in the city of Fez; then he continued his journey with a guide, reached the sea, and on the 14th of Sept. arrived at Tangiers, where the consul of France received him, provided for his security, and succeeded in saving him from the dangers which he would have incurred if he had been recognised under his disguise. M. Caillé had provided himself before his departure with two compasses, which served him during his journey, and by means of which he was able to note the directions of his route. However imperfect such a method may be, when compared with geometrical operations or astronomical observations, we must be happy to have the delineation of the routes, and the information of an eye-witness, upon countries respecting which we possessed hitherto only itineraries of the Arabs, reckoned by days' journeys, and for the most part contradictory, vague, or confused. What proves besides that he has correctly noted the length of the jour neys is, that they agree with the most ac curate accounts that we possess of the distances of places in the empire of Marocco. The success of M. Caille's enterprise is the Our countryman has employed so much atmore interesting, as he has completed it by his tention and perseverance in noting his route, At Timé begins another excursion towards own resources, without the participation and his direction, and the time employed in the the north: this is the second part of the jour-assistance of any other person. He has sacri journey, that it has been easy for one of us ney. M. Caillé desired again to reach the ficed all he possessed to defray the expenses of to form, with his journal, a connected and Dhioliba: he set out on the 9th of January his journey; he has done all that was pos complete itinerary from Kakondy to the last; and after having seen and passed through port of Rabat, in the empire of Marocco; in more than a hundred villages, and made himwhich will be indicated the nature and the di- self closely acquainted with the position of versities of the ground, such as mountains, Sego, he met with the river again on the 10th plains, ravines, forests, the villages and all the of March at Galia, coming from the west, and inhabited spots, the lakes and marshes, the crossed an arm of it to proceed to Jenné. All torrents, the cataracts, the fords, the wells, this part is entirely new, as well as the enand every thing respecting the running and virons of the route from Timbo to Timé. stagnant waters. So many details completely The third part of the journey is on the Great establish our confidence in his narrative. River. M. Caillé embarked upon it on the 23d Lastly, we may add, that being questioned of March, after staying thirteen days at Jenné. on the manner in which he had made himself He went on board a very large bark, which understood by the inhabitants, he said that was part of a mercantile flotilla. It was the it was principally by means of the Moorish season when the water is low. In some places Arabic, which is spoken in Senegal, and which the river is a mile in breadth, and in others he had had the opportunity of learning in the much narrower. Its breadth and rapidity are country ever since 1816. And, in fact, he re- variable. On the way he notes and describes plied in this dialect to the questions which were the rivers that flow into it; the islands, and put to him by the committee; and he, besides, especially Lake Debe (the same which is sible, and more than could be hoped, with such resources ;-and has had the good fortune to succeed completely. If such services are calculated to obtain for M. Caillé the favour of the public and of the government, how much must they excite the interest and gratitude of the Geographical Society? It was the Programme published by the Society in 1824, which fixed his determination to penetrate into the interior of an unknown continent. One of us being at that time in Senegal, and seeing that he had for many years been animated by a love of travelling, communicated to him a copy of the Programme; and from that time M. Caillé employed all his efforts for three years more, till he had discovered the means of accom plishing so bold a design: this is certified by a witness most worthy of credit-our colleague, Baron Roger, who was at that time governor of Senegal. It was then that M. Caillé quitted | It is a great deal for a man to have at length | Emperor Augustus; secondly, another inscripSt. Louis, and visited several neighbouring succeeded in dissolving the species of enchant- tion, of the seventh year, the same month, of countries: he then chose the Rio Nunez as ment which appeared to strike every Euro- the reign of a Ptolemy, who must be Soter the point of departure. At Kakondy he had pean who has reached this mysterious point of the first, there being no surname; thirdly, an the good fortune to find a caravan setting out the Dhioliba. We are now certain, that four inscription of the second year of King Acoris, for the interior, and judiciously embraced the or five months are sufficient to come from one of those who revolted against the Persians; favourable opportunity. Timbuctoo to Europe. Now that the possi- lastly, two of the largest of these quarries were The Programme published by the Society bility of the journey and of the return is opened in the 22d year of King Amosis, the in 1824 is composed of two parts. The first proved by the event, and not by conjectures, father of the 18th dynasty, as is literally stated requires principally positive information re- all those zealous individuals, whom so many on two beautiful stele, sculptured in the rock specting Timbuctoo and the rivers in the catastrophes, succeeding in rapid succession, on the side of the two entrances. These vicinity, and some account of the countries might have diverted from their design, will stele also indicate that the stones of this towards the east: M. Caillé has fulfilled most recover their courage, and attempt the enter- quarry were employed in building the temples of these conditions. The second part, for prise. This is another great service rendered of Phtha, of Apis, and of Ammon, at Memwhich the Society has allotted a special recom-to science by M. Caillé, for which it will phis; and this indication gives the date of pense, requires indeed celestial observations; give him credit, if it is not entirely consoled these temples, which were well known to the but it is still a question whether it is possible by his success for the deplorable loss of Ma- ancients. I have also found in another for a person who penetrates for the first time jor Laing. quarry, of the epoch of the Pharaohs, two into these countries, even when provided with On a subject so fruitful in geographical and monoliths, drawn with red ink upon the walls the necessary instruments, to fulfil a condition scientific developments, it would have been with extreme delicacy and an admirable firm. equally difficult and dangerous. Who does easy to expatiate and excite interest by nu-ness of hand. The cornice of one of these not know both the ferocious jealousy which merous comparisons; but the committee thinks monoliths, which are only sketched, and the the Moors and all those who are in possession itself bound to confine itself to the limits of the execution not begun, bears the prénom and of the commerce of that part of Africa, have commission which it had received. It must, the proper name of Psammeticus I. Thus at all times entertained of the Europeans; and therefore, equally pass over in silence the the quarries of the Arab mountain between the resistance experienced by Belzoni, who narratives of J. Léon, of Ben Batouta and of Thorrah and Massarah, have been worked endeavoured to proceed in that direction; and El Edrissi, and the relations of the Portuguese under the Pharaohs, the Persians, the Lagida, the tragical end of Antoine Piloti; and the de- with Timbuctoo, in the fifteenth century; the the Romans, and in modern times. I add, plorable issue of the enterprise of Major Laing? journey of Paul Imbert, in the seventeenth; that this comes from their vicinity to the suc M. Caillé has penetrated to Timbuctoo; he and that of Robert Adams, in 1810, which is cessive capitals of Egypt, Memphis, Posthath, went thither setting out from Senegambia, as still disputed; and so many others within these and Cairo. the Society required. If he has not executed forty years. To act otherwise, would be for- Returning in the evening on board our every thing which it wished might be done, getting that we speak to auditors who have vessels, like the Greeks after making an he has, on the other hand, made many new and fathomed all the elements of the problems of attack on the city of Troy, but more fortunate valuable observations, which were not required, the geography of Africa, as is proved, gentle- than they, since we brought off some booty, on the Fouta-D'hiallon, on the countries to the men, by the subject of the three prizes which I sailed for Bedrechein, a village situated at east, and on parts of the course of the Dhio- you have offered to men determined to brave a short distance on the west bank of the Nile. liba: he sailed upon that river for a whole every danger, to explore that great continent On the next day, early, we set out for the immonth. He has collect information respect- for the joint interest of science and humanity. mense wood of date trees which covers the ing the mines of Bourré, and has made other It is easy, gentlemen, from all that precedes, site of Memphis. After passing Bedrechein, researches which were not required. The dis- to infer the proposals which your committee which is a quarter of a league inland, we covery of these countries, and the descriptions has the honour to make to you, namely: perceived that we were on the site of a great of the regions of Baleya, of Kankan, and of First, that you would grant to M. Auguste ancient city, by the blocks of granite scattered Wassoulou, are such a valuable acquisition to Caillé the prize which you have offered to the over the plain, and those still visible above geography, that even if he had not reached first traveller who should arrive at Timbuctoo, the sands, which will soon cover them for the city of Timbuctoo, he would merit a dis- coming from Senegambia. Secondly, that the ever. Between this village and that of Mittinguished recompense. He has likewise the present report be communicated to their ex- Rahineh are two long parallel hills, which merit of having collected a vocabulary of the cellencies the Ministers of the Interior, of the appeared to me to be the ruins of an im. Mandingo language, and another of the Kissour Marine, and of Foreign Affairs. We cannot mense enclosure, built of unburnt bricks, like language, which is spoken at Timbuctoo, toge- finish this report without paying a just tribute that of Sais, and formerly enclosing the sather with the Moorish; and also of having taken of gratitude to M. Delaporte, acting as consul- cred edifices of Memphis. It was in the in. notes respecting the customs, ceremonies, pro- general at Tangiers, for the generous and terior of this enclosure that we saw the great ductions, and commerce of these countries. assiduous care which he bestowed on our colossus dug up by M. Caviglia. I longed to On the other hand, there are in our Pro- countryman. The Society owes him a parti- examine this monument, of which I had heard gramme, conditions which have been partly fulfilled since its publication, by the celebrated English travellers, Oudney, Clapperton, and Denham; namely, those conditions which regard the country and the mountains to the east and east-south-east of Timbuctoo: there were, therefore, no longer the same reasons for requiring the fulfilment of them. cular testimony of gratitude for having saved Signed and adopted, &c. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO EGYPT. Fourth Letter of M. Champollion. a great deal, and I confess that I was agreeably surprised to find it a magnificent piece of Egyptian sculpture; this colossus, part of the legs of which has disappeared, is not less than 344 feet long. It has fallen with its face to the ground, so that the countenance has remained entire. Its physiognomy is sufficient to enable me to recognise in it a statue of Sesostris, for Thus, in awarding to M. Caillé the recom- WE remained at Cairo till the 30th Sept., and it is a most faithful portrait of the fine Sesospense which it has promised to him who on the evening of the same day we slept in our tris at Turin: the inscriptions on the arms, should have reached the town of Timbuctoo, maarch, in order to sail early the next morn- the breast, and the girdle, confirm my idea; and should have given a description of it, the ing for the site of Memphis. On the 1st and there is now no doubt that there are Society will comply with the general expecta- October we passed the night before the village at Turin and Memphis two portraits of the tion, and it will be certain of possessing accu- of Massarah, on the east bank of the Nile; greatest of the Pharaohs. I have caused a rate information respecting countries with and the next morning, at six o'clock, we tra- drawing to be made of this head with extreme which we were imperfectly or not at all ac-versed the plains to reach some great quarries care, and copies to be taken of all the inscripquainted. It will give its honourable suffrage to which I wished to examine, because Memphis, tions. This colossus was not alone; and if I a man who speaks of them, not by hearsay, but situated on the opposite bank, must have been obtain special funds for excavations at Memfrom what he has seen with his own eyes; who, built of stone brought from them. The day phis on a great scale, I can engage, in less than in his plain and ingenuous narratives, relates was extremely fatiguing, but I visited almost three months, to people the museum in the without any exaggeration what he has seen, all the caverns with which the declivity of the Louvre with statues of the most valuable mateand does not endeavour to excite attention by mountain of Thorrah is excavated. I found rials, and very interesting for history. This extraordinary adventures. This is precisely that these quarries of fine white stone have colossus, before which are considerable subthe kind of interest which the Geographical been worked in all ages; and I discovered structions of calcareous stone, was, according Society attaches to discoveries—namely, that first, an inscription, dated in the month of to all appearance, placed before a great gatePaophi, in the fourth year of the reign of the way, and must have had others corresponding of truth. CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR JANUARY. with it. I have caused some excavations to be 20th day, 14 hrs. 45 min.-Saturn in opposition; its most favourable position for observation being removed as far as possible from the illumination of the atmosphere of the earth at its nearest to our planet, and its apparent situation in the heavens coinciding with its true place. 22d day, 1 hr. 15 min.-Uranus in conjunction. The comet, concerning which so much in. terest was excited some time since, having reappeared, as predicted by Professor Encke, and pursued its course in the track, and at the times calculated, has now escaped from the penetrating power of the telescope, and is mingling its mysterious cloud-like form with the solar beams. The following is a summary of the observations made during its appearance: This, and other minute motions connected It was on the 4th of October that I encamped with the earth and other bodies of the system, at Saccara, for we were under tents: seven which formerly excited the apprehension of or eight Bedouins, chosen beforehand, keep the philosopher, as supposed to indicate the guard every night, and execute our commis- gradual decay or derangement of the frame of sions during the day: they are brave, and ex-nature, are now satisfactorily explained on, and cellent people when they are well treated. are fully proved to be conformable to, the laws I visited at Saccara the plain of the mum- of gravitation, and probably even conducive to mies, the ancient cemetery of Memphis, co- the stability of the whole. Thus, the mutual When first observed, its light was considervered with pyramids and tombs which have perturbations of Jupiter and Saturn when in ably inferior to that in the nebula of Androbeen broken open. This place, thanks to the conjunction, by which one is retarded, and the meda; when again compared with it after an barbarous rapacity of the dealers in antiquities, other accelerated, become corrected after a interval of a few days, the inequality had conpresents hardly any thing worth studying; the lapse of ages; the eccentricity of the orbit of siderably diminished; and as it approached the tombs ornamented with sculpture being, for the the earth is diminishing, but will in the course sun, before the moon interrupted the observamost part, laid waste, or filled up again after of time again resume its former ellipsis ;--the tions on its increasing light, the brilliancy of having been plundered. This desert is fright- moon's secular motion is now 7 min. greater the nebula (abstracting the central part) was ful; it is formed of a series of little sand-hills, than it was 2549 years since, yet this ac- but very slightly inferior to that in the comet. produced by the excavations, and the whole celeration will never amount to a quantity suf. On a former return of this body, it had been strewed with human bones, the remains of ficient to excite apprehension of the approach described as appearing like the nebula in the former generations. Only two tombs attracted of the moon too near the earth;-the ob-head of Aquarius: on comparing these, the our attention, and indemnified me for the liquity of the ecliptic is less now by 23 min. concentration of light was observed to be melancholy aspect of this field of desolation. 47 sec. than it was in the time of Eratosthenes, greater in the nebula than in the comet, but I found in one of them a series of Egyptian decreasing a small quantity every year, but the diffused nebulosity, in the former much birds admirably sculptured on the walls, and which will never extend beyond a degree or inferior in brightness to that in the latter; a accompanied with their names in hieroglyphics; two; so that there is no ground for the appre-condensation of the nebulous matter was confive species of gazelles, also with their names; hension that the ecliptic will ever coincide stantly observed towards the north of the and lastly, some domestic scenes, such as milk-with the equator, the effect of which would be centre, which might be considered a nucleus ing, two cooks exercising their art, &c. or otherwise, according to the various definitions of the term as applied to these bodies. December 9th day, 5 hrs. 5 min. it was distinctly seen in the twilight, notwithstanding the moon was at that time immediately below Fifth Letter. At the Foot of the Pyramids of Gizeh, Oct, 18, 1828. I HAVE removed my camp and my penates, under the shade of the great pyramids, since yesterday, when quitting Saccara to visit one of the wonders of the world. Seven camels and twenty asses conveyed us and our baggage across the desert which separates the southern pyramids from those of Gizeh, the most celebrated of all, and which it was necessary for me to see before I set out for Upper Egypt. These wonders must be studied closely, in order to be properly appreciated: they seem to diminish in height, in proportion as you approach them; and it is not till you touch the blocks of stone of which they are formed, that you have a just idea of their mass and immensity. There is little to be done here; and when we have copied the scenes of domestic life sculptured in a tomb near the second pyramid, I shall return to our boats, which will come to Gizeh for us, and we shall sail with all expedition for Upper Egypt, which is my real head-quarters. Thebes is there, where one always arrives too late. to destroy the animal and vegetable kingdoms Lunar Phases and Conjunctions. New Moon in Sagittarius D. H. M. 5 3 52 11 19 18 19 12 17 27 17 21 The moon will be in conjunction with 13th day, 17 hrs. 15 min. Mercury in superior conjunction. Venus in the early part of the month will be seen near the planet Jupiter shortly before sunrise, and afford an opportunity of comparing their brilliancy and colour.-6th day, the phases of Venus will be 10 digits east illuminated, apparent diameter. 12 sec. Mars is moving amidst the small stars in the constellation Pisces. * We have also seen three letters from his companion, the comet. Scarcely an evening passed without evidences of its pellucid nature, very small stars being seen through it, conveying the idea of a starlike nucleus. It was remarked, that these stars appeared larger when behind the comet than when escaped from its nebulosity. Dec. 1st day, 5 hrs. 15 min.-Its course was traced by means of a double star, which at this time was enveloped by the southern part of the coma. The comet passed over it obliquely; and at 7 hrs. 35 min. the star appeared to the east, and quite clear of it. The northern limb was better defined than the southern: in the latter direction the nebu losity seemed more diluted, with occasionally an apparent radiation, but no appearance of a tail its figure was circular, approaching to an oval.-Dec. 11th day, 6 hrs. the diameter a little less than 6 min. scribers; and we have much satisfaction in embracing the first opportunity of making them publicly known. Visitor. 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Notices of the prinCommittee, there has, nevertheless, been some cipal places are also an additional advantage in The prescribed course of lectures, to which all students talk of finishing Somerset House, by adding this publication. regularly admitted will be required to conform, will com- the eastern wing, and appropriating a portion prise religion and morals, classical literature, the lower branches of mathematics, the elements of natural philo- of this noble pile to the great national object sophy, English literature and composition, and modern which has hitherto proceeded so auspiciously. history. Professors.The professors will be appointed by the council, and must all be members of the Church of England, except in the case of the teachers of Oriental literature and modern languages. The professors in all these branches will have salaries secured to them out of the College funds, besides such addition as the council may think proper to make, in proportion to the number of the students who attend their lectures. They will be expected not merely to lecture their classes, but to ascertain individual proficiency by frequent examination. Lectures also will be given in law, the higher branches of mathematics, natural and experimental philosophy, chemistry, medicine and surgery, anatomy, natural history, the principles of commerce, Oriental literature, and science as may be hereafter directed. The attendance approbation of the council. PINE ARTS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. The Tower Menagerie: comprising the Natural History of the Animals contained in that Establishment; with Anecdotes of their Characters and History. 8vo. pp. 241. London, Jennings; Dublin, Wakeman. modern languages, and such other branches of literature AN elegant and interesting work, and an exon these lectures will be optional on the part of the stu-cellent present for young persons at this season dents. The remuneration of the professors who lecture of affectionate bounty. It contains delineaon these subjects will be regulated by the council, and will depend wholly on the number of students in their tions, descriptions, and anecdotes, of all the respective classes: some part of the payments made by animals which were in the menagerie of the the students being reservable for the general purposes of Tower in the last summer. The drawings are the College. Tutors.-Tutors will be appointed by the principal, by Mr. William Harvey, who, as the introwith the approbation of the council. One or more of duction justly observes, "in seizing faithful the tutors, under the direction of the principal, will reside in each house, or in each portion of the Col- and characteristic portraits of animals in restlege allotted to the reception of students: they will be less and almost incessant motion, has succeeded responsible to the principal for preserving, good order in overcoming difficulties which can be appreand discipline, and will be removable by him, with the ciated only by those who have attempted simiThe remuneration of the tutors will be provided for, lar delineations." The engravings, which are according to the number of their pupils, out of the Col- on wood, have been executed by Messrs. Branlege fund. Every student, whether resident or not, must be en-ston and Wright, and do them the highest tered under one of the tutors, who will direct and super-credit; conveying the distinctive characters of Intend the course of his studies, and assist him with the various animals, &c. with admirable fideprivate instruction. Students of the Higher Department.-Students will not lity and spirit. We were especially struck be admitted under the age of sixteen, except in cases with the representations of the Lioness and her of remarkable proficiency, recommended to the princi. Cubs, the Jaguar, the Chetah, the Striped pal, and approved by him. An inquiry will be made by the principal, previously to the admission of every Hyæna, the Grizzly Bear, the Zebra, the Great student, both into his proficiency and his former good Sea-Eagle, the Secretary Bird, &c. By the The principal alone will be authorised to admit or by, an accident happened to the last-mentioned reject students, and to determine the number of pupils bird, at which, fatal as it proved, it is imposThe resident students will be subject to such regula-sible to refrain from laughing. Such is the tions as the principal may from time to time announce. excellent management, especially as regards They will all be required to attend the service of the cleanliness (that essential security of animal Church of England in the College chapel on Sundays. The non-resident students, will be allowed to attend church on Sundays with their families: the principal to be, in all cases, satisfied that they have so attended; but, whenever required by him, they must attend the service in the College chapel. conduct. to be entered under each tutor. health), of Mr. Copps, the present keeper of the menagerie, that during the time the work was passing through the press, not a single death occurred from disease; and one only Prayers will be read on all other mornings, at which from an accidental cause: "the secretary the attendance of all students, resident and non-resident, bird having incautiously introduced its long will be required. Public Examinations.-Public examinations of the neck into the den of the hyæna, was deprived students will take place at stated periods, when prizes of it and of its head at one bite." It is said, and other honorary distinctions will be awarded. At these examinations, the students' knowledge of the in the particular description of the bird, that evidences of natural and revealed religion, and of the" it was for a long time one of the torments of doctrines and duties of Christianity, as taught by the ornithologists, who puzzled themselves in vain united Church of England and Ireland, will be carefully inquired into. Every student will be expected to ex- to assign it a definitive place in the system. hibit a certain degree of proficiency in these subjects. We really think that, after the above-menOccasional Attendants at Lectures.-Persons, properly tioned occurrence, there ought to be no farther recommended, will be allowed, under the sanction of the principal, to attend lectures in any particular course difficulty on the subject, but that it should be Her Grace, Charlotte Florentia, Duchess of Northumberland. Engraved by Dean, from a Miniature by Mrs. James Robertson. Colnaghi. THIS print is the forty-ninth portrait of the picture gallery of the female nobility published in La Belle Assemblée. The expression of the features is very marked and striking; and the plate is a fine specimen of the delicacy and force of which stippled engraving is susceptible. Really, this gallery is becoming highly interesting and valuable; comprehending, as it does, the "pictures in little" of so many of the most brilliant ornaments of the British court. ORIGINAL POETRY. THE CHURCHYARD. THE willow shade is on the ground, A green and solitary shade; Half sleep, half song half false, half true, Had touched them with its music too. Away a twilight's idle rest; Where Wealth, the fairy gift, 's our own, |