MOON! But then the Moon? Oh, the Moon, the same as your Stars, signor. And the Stars? Oh, the Stars are seldom seen. But then how did Herschell discover his planet? By means of immense telescopes, only known in England! This was the precise conversation, and was implicitly believed! The fact is, they read the fag end of accounts of London fogs, and think that all England light candles at mid-day. As to the ladies, they seemed to be tolerably innocent of every thing except flirtation and love-making. Still the Florentines are courteous and gentle in their manners, and from the better classes I have experienced every civility; among the lower classes so much of the aforesaid "primitive innocence" remains, that some worthy members of various trades think proper to adorn themselves this warm weather much after the fashion of the negroes, namely, with a very small garment round the hips only. It is, however, picturesque, and nobody seems to mind it. The weather is now intensely hot, so much so, that I can hardly bear it. To stand in the sun is impossible, and the large stones that Florence is paved with, reflect a heat so intense that it prevents one from breathing. Yet my health has improved and the climate has served me much. The finest fruits are to be had for a mere trifle. Melons are wheeled about in barrows, and form a great part of the food of the common people. Peaches are also in abundance. The vines are bending under immense clusters of grapes, which hang over the road within reach. The Arno, however, which in winter is a large rapid river, is almost dried up, and can be waded across by a child in many parts. The comparatively rich and happy peasant o Tuscany often makes me draw a sad comparison with Ireland. All here seems prosperity.—ADIEU. SCRAPIANA. Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto. VIRG. Change of Colour in the Plumage of Birds from Fear. The following are related as facts by Mr. Young, in the Edinburgh Geographical Journal. A blackbird had been surprised in a cage by a cat. When it was relieved, it was found lying on its back, and quite wet with perspiration. Its feathers fell off, and were renewed, but the new ones were perfectly white. -A grey linnet happened to raise its feathers at a man who was drunk: the wretch instantly bore the creature from its cage, and plucked off all its feathers. The poor bird survived the outrage, and had its feathers replaced, but they were also white. The Arms of France. The fleurs-de-lys, properly speaking, are not the Bourbon arms. The original shield of the family was-or, a lion rampant, suble, within an orle of eight scollop shells, azure. Archambaud IX., Sire de Bourbon, bore no other. His grand-daughter, named Beatrix, sole daughter and heir of Jean de Bourgoigne, Seigneur de Charolois, by Agnes de Bourbon, daughter and co-heir of the said Archambaud, (which Lady Beatrix died in 1310), having espoused Robert of France, Comte de Clermont Beauvoisis, sixth son of St. Louis (IX.), she con veyed to her husband the lordship of Bourbonnais, Louis I., Comte de Clermont, son and heir of Robert and Beatrix, in 1327 was created Duke of Bourborn by his kinsman, Charles le Bel, and is the immediate progenitor of Henry IV. and of Charles X., as well as of his present Majesty Louis Philippe, King of the French. In truth, the fleur-de-lys-that is to say, azure, semée de fleur-de-lys d'or—is the earliest national standard since the introduction of Christianity, and boasts a duration of upwards of 1300 years. It may, therefore, be considered the most venerable national symbol of any European people. Royal Robes, &c. At the second sale of a portion of the wardrobe of his Majesty George IV., on the 9th of June, 1831, the following curious articles brought the prices marked they will become historical curiosities. An elegant yellow and silver sash of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, 37. 8s.; a pair of fine white kid trowsers, lined with white satin, twelve shillings; the coronation ruff, of Mechlin lace, 27. ; the Highland costume, worn at Dalkeith Palace in the summer of 1822, 40.; the crimson velvet coronation mantle, embroidered with gold, forty-seven guineas; a crimson coat, to match with the robe, 14/.; a magnificent gold body dress and trowsers, twenty-six guineas; a large white aigrette plume, presented by Lord Fife, 15l.; a richly embroidered silver tissue coronation waistcoat and trunk hose, 137.; the splendid purple velvet coronation mantle, embroidered with 200 ounces of gold, 55l.; an elegant and costly green velvet mantle, lined with ermine of the finest quality, presented by the Emperor Alexander, and cost upwards of 1000 guineas, 1257. There was very slight competition for any of the articles. The Original Macheath Tom Walker, as he was constantly called, (the so much celebrated original Macheath in the Beggars' Opera) was well known to Macklin, both on and off the stage. He was a young man, rather rising in the mediocre parts of comedy, when the following accident brought him out in Macheath. Quin was first designed for this part, who barely sang well enough to give a carnival song in company, which at that time was almost an indispensable claim on every performer; and on this account did not much relish the business: the high reputation of Gay however, and the critical junta who supported him, made him drudge through two rehearsals. On the close of the last, Walker was observed humming some of the songs behind the scenes, in a tone and liveliness of manner which attracted all their notice. Quin laid hold of this circumstance to get rid of his part, and exclaimed, "Ay, ther's a man who is much more qualified to do you justice than I am." Walker was instantly saw the difference, accepted him as the hero called on to make the experiment; and Gay, who of his piece. Esprit de la Politesse. Parisian dentist to a lady. He had made several The following compliment was lately paid by a ineffectual attempts to draw out her decayed tooth, and finding at last he must give it up, he apologised by saying, "The fact is, madam, it is impossible for anything bad to come from your mouth." Vide page 29. Lambe's Epitaph. In 1567, William Lambe, cloth-worker, gave to the Stationers' Company an annuity of 6l. 13s. 4d. for the perpetual relief of the poor in the parish of St. Faith. Out of the annuity the Company undertook to pay 6s. 8d. for a sermon at St. Faith's (under St. Paul's Cathedral) on the 6th of May; and also to give weekly to twelve poor men and women of that parish, one penny in money, and one penny in bread; leaving to the Company 11. 2s. 8d. towards a dinner. Mr. Lambe died in 1580: was buried in the church of St. Faith; and near his grave a brass plate on a pil lar was thus inscribed : As I was, so are ye; William Lambe, so sometime was my name, Henry the Eight, who, of his princely grace, Which (all alive) true lovers were to me, I pray you all that receive bread and pence, To say the Lord's Prayer before ye go hence. Price of a Portrait. cessfully old hock by the following mixture: Cider, three quarts; French brandy, one quart; alcoholized nitric ether, one drachm. Sir George Rodney. Captain Rodney, having compelled the French ship, with which he had been chiefly engaged, to surrender, instantly boarded her, and made his way to the French Captain, who, having given up his sword, remarked, with the characteristic badinage of a Frenchman, even under the severest misfortunes,"that he would rather have met the eagle in the shape of a dove, with the olive-branch of peace." To which Rodney instantly replied, in the words of his motto, Eagles do not beget doves ;" and in 1780, when he was advanced to the dignity of a Knight of the Bath, the above circumstances were made the insignia of his arms; viz. Or, three eagles displayed proper answering to the three victories, he had gained over the French and Spaniards. Mundy's life of the Admiral. Early Punctuation. The following amusing extract containing the ancient method of punctuation, is from a work entitled Ascensius declynsons with the Plain Expositor. Without date, place, or printer's name, 4to. This work is ascribed to Wynkyn de Worde from a peculiar type which is found in the Ortus Vocubulorum, by the same printer. "Of the craft of Poynting." Therbe fiue maner pontys, and diuisions most vside with cunnying men : the which, if they be wel vsid, make the sentens very light, and esy to vnderstond both to the reder, & the herer, & they be these: virgil, come parenthesis, playnt poynt, and interrogatif. A virgil is a sclender stryke: lenynge fyrwarde thiswyse, be tokynynge a lytyl, short rest without any perfetnes yet of sentens: as betwene the fiue poyntis a fore rehersid. A come is with tway titils thiswyse: betokynyng a longer rest and the sentens yet ether is vnperfet: or els, if it be perfet: ther cunmith more after, longyng to it: the which more comynly can not be perfect by itself without at the lest summat of it: that gothe a fore. A parenthesis is with tway crokyd virgils: as an olde mone, & a neu bely to bely: the whiche be set on theton afore the begynyng, and thetother after the latyr ende of a clause: comyng within an other clause: that may be perfect: thof the clause, so comyng betwene: wer awey and thereof it is sowndyde comynly a note lower, than the vtter clause. yf the sentens cannot be perfet without the ynner clause, then stede of the first crokyde virgil a stregth virgil wol do very wel: and sede of the later must nedis be a come. A playne point is with won tittll thiswyse. & it cumeth after the ende of al the whole sentens betokinyng a longe rest. An interrogatif is with tway tittils; rhe vpper rysyng this wyse? & it cumeth after the ende of a whole reason: wheryn ther is sum question axside. the whiche ende of the reson, triyng as it were for an answare; risyth vpwarde, we haue made these rulis in englisshe: by cause they be as profitable, and necessary to be kepte in eury mother tunge, as in latin. Sethyn we (as we wolde be god: eury The Russians imitate Port wine thus: Cider, three precher, wolde do) haue kept owre rulis bothe in owre quarts; French brandy, one quart; gum Kino, one englisshe, and latyn: what nede we, sethyn owre own drachm. And the French restaurateurs imitate suc-be sufficient vnough to put any other exemplis." Sir Thomas Lawrence's price, up to the year 1802, had been, for a three quarters, thirty guineas; for a half length, sixty guineas; and for a whole length, 120 guineas. In 1802, he raised the charge for the smallest size, to thirty-five guineas, quadrupling it for the whole length. At these rates he continued to paint till 1806 when he raised his charge for the smallest size to fifty guineas, and so on in proportion. In 1808 he raised his prices to eighty guineas for the smallest size, and 320 for the whole length; and in 1810, advanced them to 100 guineas for small heads, and 400 for full lengths. At these latter prices he continued to paint ten years; and in 1820, made one more advance, which he never exceeded. Artificial Wine. Parley's Magazine for Boys and Girls. No. I. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. YES, as Peter Parley himself says, we all have heard of him; he is a great traveller, and has been all over the world in search of knowledge; and, in this very pretty magazine, he has determined to tell a great many extraordinary stories to his young friends-that is, to all the boys and girls in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Peter is amusing as well as instructive to a considerable extent, both in prose and verse, and he illustrates his lessons and stories by a variety of neat wood cuts. His "Teachings from Nature" are very pleasing his "Calendar of Science" &c., is full of information; and "Disobedient Charles, a True Story," related by Aunt Parley, is excellent in its way, and impresses an important moral. By way of specimen we extract, as most in accordance with the spirit of our own work, the following account of Paper made by Wasps. "You see this book is printed upon paper, and very good paper it is; this was made by men and machinery, of which I shall tell you by and by. But long before men found out a method of manufacturing paper, the art had been practised by wasps ever since wasps themselves were made, for the purpose of forming a covering for their nest or hive. "They do not use for their paper any of the substances employed in paper manufactories, but the fibres of wood, which they gnaw from posts, rails, window-frames, &c., and when they have collected a great number of these fibres, they moisten it with their mouths, and knead it into a sort of paste or papier machée (I will tell you about this some day), and fly off with it to their nests. When they get to their nests, they spread this into leaves of proper thinness, and attach it to the building at which they are as work, and put one piece of this substance upon the other, in a good and workman-like manner,' as the bricklayers say, till a proper number of layers to compose the roof is finished. "The wasps' paper is about the thinness of thin post, and their nests consist of about fifteen or sixteen sheets of this paper; which, placed only a little distance apart, make nearly two inches thickness. Hornets also make paper in the same way, but it is coarser and thicker than that made by wasps." Truth and Falsehood; or, the Two Cousins. Tale for Youth. By M. A. K. Kendrick. THIS prettily conceived little story inculcates the important moral, "of never deviating, either in thought or deed, as well as in word, from the dictates of truth, as that is the foundation of all good, as is falsehood of all evil." LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. At the ordinary meeting on Saturday last, Professor Wilson, the director, in the chair, two very interesting communications were read from the director and Lieutenant Willsteed on the two principal dialects of the Arabian language. In the illustrations of the subject, copious references were made to the inscriptions found on the rocks of Yemen, and analogical with those also met with in different parts of the world, particularly South America. Lieutenant Willsteed, at the conclusion of the meeting, expressed his surprise that in the taste for to explore the southern parts of Arabia, which were African discovery no traveller should direct his attention very easy of access from Bombay. He apprehended that little difficulty would be felt by any individual travelling in a pacific capacity, and he had no doubt but that many officers in the Indian navy would be found with spirit enough to undertake it. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS. The ordinary meeting was held on Monday evening, Mr. Barry, V. P., the architect for the New Houses of Parliament, in the chair. The secretary announced the balance in the hands of the banker as 671. 48. Amongst the correspondence read was a letter of Signor Nicolini, of Naples, accompanying an Italian translation of the seveNeapolitan Academy of Fine Arts. These consisted of ral publications of the Institute, published by the Royal the constitution and bye-laws of the Institute, the proceedings of the opening meeting in 1836, and the series of questions drawn up for the information of members, and which, being thus circulated, it was anticipated would lead to eliciting valuable information on architectural subjects from the Two Sicilies and the whole of Italy. Mr. Richardson exhibited drawings of the Old and New Bethlehem; and there were also some interesting drawings of the architectural remains of the period of Elizabeth and James from a collection in the museum of the from M. Valdermini, who has been employed in the relate Sir John Soane. Donations were also announced construction of the imperial Palace at St. Petersburgh, which was recently burnt down; and from Mr. J. Wells, of drawings of the doorway of the famous Baptistry at Florence. Mr, Donaldson, the secretary, announced that thirteen new members were elected; and Mr. Fowler read a paper by Mr. Pocock on the bond of brickwork, which occupied the remainder of the meeting. SOCIETY OF ARTS. On Tuesday evening the ordinary monthly lecture was delivered by the Secretary, A. Aitken, Esq., F.L.S., on the uses and application of Bone to the Arts. The A attendance was numerous, comprising a number of ladies and visitors. The bones of fish and insects were elaborately considered; and the solubility of bone by depriving it of its earthy matter, forming one of the most interesting facts in animal physiology, was illustrated by macerating specimens in muriatic acid, which, extracting the earthy portions, left the gelatine in an uncombined state. A collection of the warlike instruments of different nations, into the manufacture of which bone largely entered, was presented to the Society, and attracted much attention. THE THEATRES, CONCERTS, &c. For the past week, the office of Theatrical Critic has been a perfect sinecure. Not the slightest feature of novelty has presented itself at either of the houses, major or minor. The Pantomimes and the Lions; Madame Vestris and the French giant continue in their most “high and palmy state." ROYAL SOCIETY OF HORTICULTURE AND AGRICULTURE. evening. Mr. Glenny, F.H.S., in the chair. Professor The meetings for the season were resumed on Tuesday Johnson described several interesting varieties of caci and euphorbias, which were on the table, and gave a lecture on these very remarkable plants which are now so much admired as objects of cultivation. METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. The ordinary meeting was held on Tuesday evening, Dr. M'Intyre, V.P. in the Chair. A communication was read from Mr. J. H. Maverley, of the Royal Academy of Gosport, on the weather of December last, which he describes as alternately wet and fine, with a pretty high atmospheric pressure, the mean temperature of the month being but little short of the mean temperature of December for several years. The thunder storm on the 2nd was one of rain, hail, wind, thunder, and lightning, and came on suddenly from the south-west, at fifteen minutes past 10, P.M. The hailstones were not coated with snow, but were solid pieces of ice, in a great variety of forms, from five to seven being joined firmly together in solid masses of transparent ice. In twenty minutes no less than three quarters of an inch of rain and dissolved ice fell. The meteors seen previously to the commencement of the storm, between seven and ten, P.M., were ninety-seven,, of which fifty-six were east, and forty-one west, of the meridian. Seven of these had long sparkling trains, and passed through spaces of 20° to 30o. The author of this paper conjectures that these meteors were generated by means of a gaseous fluid mixing with the lower medium of the atmosphere, which he considered to be highly electric, as it had rained all day, with a rising barometer. The Secretary next read a letter from Mr. J. G. Tatern, on the excess of rain at Wendover over that which falls at High Wycombe, although these places are but nine miles apart, and which in 1838 was not less than 4 inches. He attributed this to a local cause in the deviation of height in the hills that were in proximity, and an accompanying register showed that the mean temperature of Wendover was 47,35; the quantity of rain fallen, 29,245 inches; and the number of days of rain, 161. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. The ordinary Meetings were resumed on Wednesday evening, the Rev. Professor Whewell, F.R.S., in the Chair. The Members elected were the Rev. S. Wilberforce, the Rev. J. Binton, and Dr. Griffiths; and among the presents announced were a series of maps representing the coal fields of Wales, from Sir R. J. Murchison, and Mr. Darwin's illustrations of the geology of South America. Dr. Harland, Professor of Zoology in Pennsylvania, whence he has just arrived, addressed the Meeting on Fossil Bones of North America, taking a rapid and cursory review of the various geological discoveries that have been made in that country, and illustrating the same by an extensive collection of specimens. The most recent and interesting consisted of the teeth and ribs of an auimal which would appear to have been of gigantic size, but respecting which only conjectures could be formed; one of the ribs alone measured from two hundred to three hundred feet in length, whilst the jaws and teeth were of proportionate dimensions. It was considered by the Lecturer to be allied to the manatou, or sea-cow, and named by him Basilosauros. Another extraordinary specimen was the lower jaw of a species of saurian, about ten feet long, which was discovered within the past year in Alabama, imbedded in hard blue limestone rock. Mr. Owen, of the Royal College of Surgeons, next read a paper on the Basilosauros of Dr. Harland, with the view to prove, from his recent examination of its remains, that it was the link which connected the mammiferous animals with the cetacea. WORKS IN THE PRESS. We understood that, amongst the forthcoming new works is a Life of the Duke of Wellington, with Portraits, Battle Scenes, &c. in twelve parts, by W. H. Maxwell, Esq., Author of the "Stories of Waterloo," and other well-known productions. BOOKS JUST PUBLISHED. Francis' Little English Flora, 12mo. 6s. 6d. cl...Bentham's Works, edited by Dr. Bowring, royal 8vo. Pt. 7, 9s. cl.. Crombie's Gymnasium Symbolica Abridged, second edition, 12mo. 6s. cl... A Voice from the Alps, edited by Rev. E. Bickersteth, 12mo. 35. 6d. cl... 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JANUARY 19, 1839. PRICE 3d. For the Accommodation of Subscribers in the Country, and Abroad, the Weekly Numbers of The Aldine Magazine are re-issued in Monthly Parts, and forwarded with the other Magazines.-Orders received by all Booksellers, Newsvenders, &c. AGRICULTURE AND STEAM. SINCE the appearance of our brief articles on Railroads and Steam Carriages,* we have received numerous communications on the subject, but, with one or two exceptions, on certain points, nothing to induce a change in our general opinions. One of our most intelligent correspondents, a man of judgment and experience, who has travelled much, not only by coaches but by railways, thus expresses himself respecting the latter:-" Early in the history of their practical development I confess I was enamoured with the rapidity of the travelling and the consequent facility it gave for visiting distant places, but latterly, in consequence I suppose of the novelty having worn off, and in connexion with the disagreables peculiar to the mode of transit, I have imbibed a distaste for them. In the way of comparison, it may be mentioned that the diversity of a journey by coach-the inhalation of the fresh air—the seeing men and manners—the raking up of old associations-the opportunity of conversation and enlightenment, are all matters not to be thought of in railway travelling. You are taken into custody," continues our Cores pondent, “at the station, and so kept until you arrive at your point of destination; having seen on the journey the tops of trees and the roofs of houses-having heard only the rattle of the train-and having smelt nothing but the ashes of the locomotive. The Railway is certainly not the medium for pleasure; but for the man of business-the merchant-and as tending to civilize the world, its benefits are incalculable." So far, granted; but it has been already shewn-taking the London and Birmingham Railway as a point in proof-that the aggregate distance of 100 or 112 miles is not performed at a rate of speed averaging more than from fifteen to seventeen or eighteen miles an hour Moreover, that a capital of 20007. sunk for two steam carriages, on Sir James Anderson's principle, "will enable sixty passengers to be taken on any road in the kingdom, at fifteen * Vide pages 49 and 65. VOL. I. NO. VIII. miles an hour; while it requires two engines to convey the same number on the Manchester line, at from twenty to twenty-five miles an hour, which line of road is said to have cost three millions of money in its formation." concerned, is the vast advantage of the railWhere, then, so far as speed alone may be road train over the steam-carriage? And, by the 2nd or 3rd of the present month, it will be a reference to the Times newspaper of about exist in all its plenitude, both as concerns delay seen that the Birmingham nuisance continues to and the improper treatment of the passengers. It is notorious, too, that, throughout the kingdom, wherever the mails are conveyed by railway, very serious delays and inconveniences have been experienced. Again, at a general meeting of the proprietors, directors, &c. of the Great Western Railthe profound ignorance of certain influential held since the commencement of the year, way, principles of railways, was exhibited in a most parties, on what may be termed the elementary extraordinary style. cal experience," as the correspondent from "It requires long practiwhom we have already quoted, observes, "and ples. In many cases the directors are a set of good management, to fully develope new princinoodles, thrown into their situation by chance and influence, without regard to talents or the scandalous, or ignorance more glaring, than business to be performed." Jobbery more the management of some of the railway companies exhibits, perhaps never existed. ever, at the Great Western Meeting, through the presence of Mr. Babbage and a few other common sense as well as scientific men, some important resolutions were passed; resolutions which, if fairly and fully carried into effect, cannot fail of proving beneficial to the concern, and also to the public. How It was calculated some six or eight months "the steam ago, that, in fixed machines only, engine had displaced the employment of 300,000 horses, which is equivalent to the manual force of two millions of labourers. And when it is considered that steam engines re London: Printed by J MASTERS, 33, Aldersgate Street. I |