By Wiliam Kennedy, Author of " Fitful Fancies," &c. "In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow."-Ecclesiastes. A BITTER text, stern Eastern sage, More bitter as 'tis true- Believed and felt by few. Souls conscious but of meaner things, Of thought, that meet the view Of none, save Him, who, placed on high, A man may urge a fleet by flame, When he hath play'd his sleights of hand, Even they for whom he finds new ways Or aught that might a wide world bless. The downward, microscopic eye Which but one impulse draws→→→ Of God's eternal laws? Little or nought, although perchance May light upon "a cause," True Knowledge hath a wider sweep→ Counts nothing great or small. Were but a worthless ball- Before its gaze time most remote Where gleams the rising ray; The world has changed its outward guise In science, arts, and crimes;-- In these our Christian climes; And though spear, shield, and bow are gone, What have the boasted arts of peace For our improvement done? I had forgot they pamper'd thee, As 'tis in every other, For gold, or glare, or brief command, We are compell'd to smother, Lest those, for whom we grieve, should mock Some there have been so mild of mood, As to anticipate that good Would triumph over wrong. In the polluted throng; Proclaims a different story; Till the last head is hoary; Dr Knox read "Remarks on the Osteology and Dentition of the Dugong."" * The Dugong belongs apparently to the class of Cetacea. Its head is small and obtuse; the upper lip forms a short, thick, and nearly vertical snout; the lower resembles a round or oblong chin; two tusks project forward from the upper jaw, and are nearly covered by the upper lip; the eyes are small, and situated on the side of the cranium; the aperture of the ears is so small as to be with difficulty discernible, and is situated at some distance behind the eyes. The body is rounded, and diminishing towards the tail, which is broad, horizontal, and of a crescent form; there are two pectoral fins, without nails; but no vestige of dorsal or ventral fins. The skin is smooth, thick, bluish above, and whitish beneath, with a few scattered hairs. is found on the shores of the Eastern ocean, in shallows and inlets from two to three fathoms deep; never on land or in fresh water. It browzes on the marine algae, like a cow in a meadow. The affection of the mother is strongly marked-when her young one is taken, she follows, and becomes an easy prey. The young einit a short, sharp Dr Knox commenced by expressing a doubt whether took place in the direction of the wind, its first indicathere were a complete skeleton of an adult Dugong in tions were uniformly observed on that side from which Europe. He had indeed heard, that M. Cuvier had de- it was about to blow. Sir G. further noticed, as inconclared he was now in possession of five complete skeletons. sistent with the theory of rarefaction, the fact that curIf so, M. Cuvier must have acquired them subsequent to rents of air seldom extended far in the same direction. the publication of his work, entitled "Ossemens Fossiles." He mentioned, as a circumstance tending to establish this By complete skeleton, the Doctor meant one prepared by a fact, that he himself, sailing on one occasion from scientific anatomist; extensive experience having clearly Stromness with an easterly wind, was shortly after be satisfied him, that skeletons, prepared in the colonies, or calmed; the wind, when it returned, veered about to difby those who are not anatomists, cannot be depended on. ferent quarters, and was occasionally violent; yet he It was not sufficient, then, to say that a skeleton is com- learned, on returning to Stromness, that the same wind plete; the person must be known who dissected and pre- which carried him out of the harbour, had continued to pared it, before the zoologist or anatomist can place im- blow steadily in the same direction for a week. Of the plicit reliance on its various details. He showed, that same import, he conceived, was an observation he had the engraving of the skeleton of the Dugong in M. Cu- made on an easterly wind of long continuance, which, vier's great work had been made from an imperfect skele- had it (as its direction indicated) swept up the Baltic, ton; inasmuch as the bones of the sternum were awant- and over the German ocean, must necessarily have abing. The remarks which he had now to submit to the sorbed a great quantity of moisture, but which remained Society, rested upon the examination of a skeleton of the excessively dry during the whole time of its continuance. animal which had come accidentally into the possession It seemed that the motion of the currents of air revolving of the University Museum, and a head of the Dugong, round a vertical axis, was most consistent with such phepresented a year and a half ago to the Society, by Mr Swin- nomena as had occurred to him at Stromness. It was ton, which was now upon the table. A short allusion also in accordance with what we might often witness—a was made to the structure of the heart of the Dugong, different current in the upper regions of the atmosphere preserved in spirits, which stood before him. There from what we experienced in the lower. It accorded was a very deep incision between the ventricles, not so likewise with the phenomena of whirlwinds. Sir G. much, however, as to separate them entirely, indicating was of opinion, that we were not sufficiently acquainted an attempt, as it were, on the part of nature, to divide this with the various indications of the barometer to infer much organ into two--an extraordinary phenomenon, in an ani- from them; and that much light might be thrown on this mal ranking so high in organization as the Dugong. There difficult matter, by a carefully conducted series of observawas a considerable diversity between many of the bones in tions with the electrometer. He also anticipated interesting the cranium belonging to the College Museum and that on results from the employment of a machine for indicating the table; they were, however, scarcely of such a decided the force of the wind, to the construction of which he character as to indicate a specific difference. But, with had devoted much time and attention. Lastly, considerreference to the tusks, (and on this matter hinged, as it ing the limited range of currents of air, simultaneous obwere, the object of the paper,) there were indeed differ-servations, at different places, would be interesting and inences seemingly specific betwixt the two crania. It would seem that this diversity in the form of the tusks had been originally noted by Sir Everard Home, but was considered by him not as indicating specific differences, but merely as having a reference to age. Dr Knox farther supported his views by a reference to the dentition of the elephant, the narwhale, and by the well-known physiological laws The meeting of the Wernerian Society, which, accordwhich regulate the growth of the human teeth. The ing to the usual rotation, should have been held on Saauthor hoped that the length of the paper would be rea-turday the 19th, was postponed. dily excused, when the great ignorance, even of good zoologists and anatomists, was taken into account, as to the natural history of the cetacea and other animals, which, like the Dugong, approach them in habits and in struc ture. ence. structive. The secretary next called the attention of the meeting to a collection of objects of Natural History," presented to the Society by Mr Swinton, of Calcutta, and beautifully prepared by Dr Knox. The Society then adjourntill the first Monday in January. THE DRAMA. THERE has been little novelty at our theatre this week. "The House of Aspen" has been performed every night, Sir George S. Mackenzie read "A notice regarding and the afterpieces have not been of the newest descripsome observed anomalies in the phenomena of the atmostion. Sir Walter's play has not drawn very crowded phere." The great aim of the essay was to establish, that houses; and we must say that it is, upon the whole, a in attempting to explain atmospheric phenomena, too little heavy. It was probably judicious to arrange it in much had been attributed to rarefaction of the atmosthree acts; but each act is, in consequence, too long. phere, and that the generation of heat and cold in the There is a want of relief throughout; and we must again air had been too exclusively attributed to the solar influ- repeat, that we regret the Manager did not take the part With regard to that theory which accounted for of Rudiger. We are convinced he would have performed the production of currents of wind on the hypothesis of a it in a manner that would have added another laurel to rarefaction of the atmosphere in one part, and a rushing his reputation. Sir Walter Scott, having availed himself from the denser parts to supply this demi-vacuum, if it of the present holidays to go to his favourite Abbotsford, were correct, that portion of the denser atmosphere which has not been present at the representation of the piece; was nearest the rarified air, must first be set in motion, which we regret, for more reasons than one. With rethen a portion more remote, and thus, any person so situ-gard to Mr Thomson's music, our opinion is the same ated as to discern the approach of a current of air, would that it was last Saturday. There is a great deal of gefind it advancing towards him by a retrograde motion. nius in it; but it is too much after Weber. There is no But the contrary was the fact; for whenever any change young man in Great Britain at the present day more likely to distinguish himself in the musical world than Mr Thomson, but he must, above all things, avoid imita.. tion. We can allow him mannerism, if he chooses, but not imitation. We are certainly not at all sorry to perceive that he is an intense admirer of Weber, who has already been spoken of in the Literary Journal as the Lord Byron of modern music; but do not let him confine his admiration too exclusively to Weber,-let his soul ery, and are said by the natives to weep when taken. The Malays frequently allude to this animal as an instance of maternal affection; and the common people preserve what they believe to be the tears of the young, under the impression that they conciliate for the wearer the affections of those to whom he is attached. The Dugong is taken by spearing: it is considered by the Malays a royal fish; and its flesh, which tastes like young juicy beef. is prefer ed to that of the cow or buffalo.-Cuvier, "Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles des Quadrupedes." Vol. IV.-Philosophical Transactions, Vol. CX. pp. 111, 174, 315. 1 become imbued with the beauties of other great composers also, and then his own fine thoughts will run a less risk of assuming any one particular tone, or of flowing continually in the same channel. Were Mr Thomson to fix his residence on the Continent for some months, and place himself under the tuition of Hummel, Cherubini, or some other old and practised master, he could not fail to reap much benefit from their remarks on his compositions; and whilst he probably would acquire a freer and less limited style, he would, at the same time, retain and improve all his own natural taste and talent. evenings in the week; and were it not for him, the house would, I very much fear, realize old John Kemble's prophecy, and become "a splendid desert." He has, however, merely rung the changes as yet in Richard, Sir Giles Overreach, and Othello, though he is promised in a new character, which, for the sake of the Theatre, and his own fame, he will, I hope, take time and pains enough to study well and perfectly. The subjects of the grand Christmas Pantomimes, which we, who are in the secret, may whisper to be very excellent, are, at Drury-Lane, "Jack in a Box, or Harlequin and the Princess of the Hidden Island;" and at Covent-Garden, the old nursery tale of "Who killed Cock Robin?" which must come home to "the business and bosoms" of all its juvenile visitors.-The ponderous Mademoiselle D'jeck still continues so attractive at the Adelphi, that it is absolutely requisite to secure places ten days before-hand;-and the Cobourg has announced another still more surprising Elephant in a new drama by Tom Dibdin, with the classical cognomen of " Siamaraindianaboo!" My next will, I expect, contain more news; and my letter therefore will be, I hope, better worth my writing and your reading. We have this week seen Miss Jarman again in the METROPOLITAN THEATRICALS. I am extremely glad to find that Miss Smithson seem at last to have found her proper level. How the Parisians ever came to praise her as they did, was always a mystery to me, who so well remember her insipidity at DruryLane; but that she should have been praised in England, as she has occasionally been since her return, is still more enigmatical. London, December 21st, 1829. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT AND VARIETIES. We have been favoured with a perusal, in sheets, of the forthcoming third volume of the History of the University of Edinburgh. It contains much curious and interesting matter, and shall be review. ed in the Journal next Saturday. Drury-Lane's bad taste, and ill success in novelties, still seem to attend her; since, only on Saturday last, a new drama by Douglas Jerrold, somewhat quaintly styled in the bills," entirely new and original," was most decidedly and deservedly condemned, under the title of the "Witch Finder," although the talents of W. Farren, Harley, Cooper, Sinclair, &c. were all exerted to the utmost to make it palatable. Kean continues to draw for three A copy of The Excitement, or a Book to induce Boys to read, which we announced in our last, has been handed to us. It is a very attractive and pleasing volume, and will form the subject of an interesting notice in our next. Mr Klauer Klattowski, author of the German Synoptical Grammar, has in the press a Manual of German Literature, intended for self-tuition. The whole selection will be illustrated by copious explanatory notes, and the first portion of the work will be accompanied by an interlinear analytical translation. Mr Klauer has also nearly Abridgement of Dr Rask's Swedish Icelandic Grammar. ready for publication a Manual of Icelandic Literature, with an In the edition of Boswell's Life of Dr Samuel Johnson, which is now in preparation by the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, we understand that much new light will be thrown on the manners of the time, the state of society, and the characters of persons. Many curious and entertaining circumstances which occurred in the inter vals of Boswell's visits to London will also be introduced. Early in January will be published, Part I. to be completed in about 12 Parts, of a new and highly embellished edition of Walton's and Cotton's complete Angler, with Illustrations by T. Stothard, R.A., and original Memoirs and Notes by Nicholas Harris Nicholas, Esq. In the Appendix, the celebrated Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, by Juliana Berners, will be printed entire from the Book of St Albans. Mr Robert Montgomery's new poem, entitled Satan, will make its appearance next week. Mr A. G. Stapleton, formerly private secretary to the late Mr Canning, announces the Political Life of that distinguished individual, from his acceptance of the Seals of the Foreign Department in September 1822, to the period of his death in 1827. The next volume of Dr Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, to be pub lished on the 1st of January, will be the first volume of the History of Maritime and Inland Discovery. Mr Sotheby, the ingenious translator of Oberon, is about to send. to press a new translation of the Iliad, which, we understand, possesses merits of no mean order. The first volume of the Family Classical Library, commencing with the Orations of Demosthenes, translated by Thomas Leland, D.D., will be published on the 1st of January. Number I. of Gray's Illustrations of Indian Zoology, consisting of coloured figures of Indian Animals, unknown or not yet published, will appear on New-Year's-Day. The Rev. Hobart Caunter is preparing for publication a poem, entitled "The Island Bride," with an illustration by Martin. Among other interesting new works announced by Mr Murray of Albemarle Street, we observe,-Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher, by Sir Humphry Davy. A Memoir of the Life and Public Services of the late Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. The Book of Psalms, newly translated from the Hebrew, and with Explanatory Notes, by W. French, D.D., Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and G. Skinner, M.A. Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati. The Life of Julius Cæsar, by the Author of the Life of Alexander the Great. Financial Reform, by Sir Henry Parnell. The Kirby Letters, a Family Tour from Yorkshire to Penzance. Principles of Geology, by C. Leyell, F.R.S. The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, comprising a great part of his early Correspondence, by Dr Paris. The Mirror of the Graces, or the English Lady's Costume, is announced for early publication, by a Lady of Distinction. Musical Illustrations of the Waverley Novels, by Eliza Flower, are announced. Anecdotal Reminiscences of distinguished Literary and Political Characters, with Autographs, is announced by Mr Leigh Cliffe. The Poetry of the Magyars, with an account of the Language and Literature of Hungary, by Dr Bowring, is in the press. A poem entitled the Reproof of Brutus is announced, which will contain appeals, on the state of the country, to Mr Peel, Sir F. Burdett, Messrs Hume, Horton, and Sadler, the Archbishop of Canterbury, &c. Among other novelties, a complete edition of the poetical works of the Rev. George Croly is preparing for publication. Mr Croly deservedly holds a very high rank among our living poets. TIME'S TELESCOPE -We are requested by the editor of the first sixteen volumes of this work to state, that he is in no way connected with the forthcoming volume for 1830. JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES.-Mr Knowles is delivering his Lectures on Dramatic Literature with great success at Manchester. It is stated in one of the Manchester papers, that his observations on various points are calculated to produce as strong an effect on the judgment of his audience, as the beautiful readings and recitations with which his Lectures are interspersed produce on their feelings. LADIES' TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.-The New York Observer informs us, that the ladies of a town'in Ohio have formed themselves into a Temperance Society, and adopted the following constitution: "We, the subscribers, having witnessed and heard of many cases of misery and ruin, in consequence of the free use of ardent spirits, and desirous to prevent, if possible, so great evils, have resolved--1. We will wholly abstain from the use of ardent spirits on all occasions, except when prescribed by a temperate physician. 2. We will discountenance all addresses in any of the male sex, with a view to matrimony, if they shall be known to drink ardent spirits, either periodically, or on any public occasion. 2. We, as mothers, daughters, and sisters, will use our influence to prevent the connexion of our friends with a man who shall habitually drink any kind of ardent spirits." We leave our readers to draw their own inference in regard to these reformadoes (as the Baron of Bradwardine sayeth); but we should merely like to know what w、re the characters of the ladies before the above resolutions were entered into. To say the least, it looks a leetle suspicious. A KNOWING EDITOR.-In La Belle Assemblée for December, the editor of that fashionable work thus displays his acquaintance with the state of affairs in the literary world :-" We certainly anticipated the extinction this year of some of the mob of the annual pretenders. Whether the Keepsake is amongst the dead and forgotten, we have not been informed; we only know we have not seen it; if gonepeace to its manes! The Landscape Annual, about which so much fuss was made, has not yet appeared; and, for aught we know, will not be published at all (!)" All the world of course knows, with the exception of this editor, that both the works he mentions have been printed, published, and reviewed nearly six weeks ago. Does the editor of La Belle Assemblée live at Timbuctoo? Theatrical Gossip.-To show that there is no slight diversity of opinion regarding the merits of Miss F. Kemble, a friend to whom we expressly applied for a verdict concerning her, thus writes on the subject:-"Fanny Kemble I saw (in company with a judicious friend) play Juliet. We agreed in thinking it a most audacious humbug. The name of Kemble and the newspaper trumpery led the miserable Cockneys. The newspapers, one and all, I know, and a precious knot they are. Take it as an infallible rule, that their ecstasies are the agonies of truth and taste." We hope this is a little trop fort. Of the performances of the Adelphi elephant, which we shrewdly suspect is little better than a large humbug, also, the Court Journal furnishes the following account:-" The drama which introduces this enlightened foreigner to an English audience, is modestly composed, so that there may be no jealousy between the Elephant and the author, the whole merit being left to the quadruped-who presents posies to the ladies of the harem-car ries a letter from a distressed damsel to her lover - incarcerates a whole body of traitors-and, when two hostile armics are a the point of joining issue, majestically walks between them, and does as much as to say, 'Put up your swords,' which they readily do. The sagacious arbitrator of war must have his banquet after such a toilsome exhaustion of the animal system and of the mental faculties, and he accordingly rings his bell, for dish after dish, and bottle after bottle, which, with his napkin under his chin, he consumes with evident satisfaction. Next he dances what may be well called a pas seul, for one leg most reluctantly follows the other, leaving it seul for no short period. Finally, when the legitimate and the usurper are crossing blades, the Elephant majestically enters, takes the crown from the head of the latter, like a good and loyal gentleman,' places it on the head of the rightful sovereign, whom he lifts in the air, bearing him out of danger; and afterwards he carries the rightful King and his mistress upon his back in grand procession, a living sign of the Elephant and Castle.' In fact, the Elephant is well introduced, and between the narrow scenes he looks of an enormous bulk. In certain lights, his skin seems of a dark mouse-colour, and instead of the unpleasant appearance of the hard encrusted testaceous hide, it looks from above as if it had a fine coat of down. The house, this week, has been filled to overflowing, and with really good company."-On the recent occasion of Mr Vandenhoff's benefit at Liverpool, he received a substantial proof of the high estimation in which he is held by the patrons of the drama there. The house was crowded in every part; so great was the pressure in the pit, that numbers received back their money, and retired. The receipts amounted to L.275.-There has been a terrible row at Manchester between De Begnis and the Manager of the Theatre-Royal. The latter, however, has made good his point, and prevented the Italians from performing operas in the minor theatre, which he looked upon as an infringement of his patent. They now give only concerts.-Master Burke, who has called himself ten years of age, for the last fifteen, is playing at Carlisle.-Alexander has opened the Theatre-Royal, Glasgow, with applause, but with a very indifferent company. We regret to learn that Mr Macready is still in bad health, having been threatened with the return of an alarining constitutional complaint.-"The Youthful Days of Shakspeare," a new drama, which has been successful at Covent-Garden, is to be pro duced here next week; also the Christmas pantomime. TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS. WE regret that, notwithstanding our double Number, we have been obliged to omit this week several articles by esteemed Corre spondents, which are in types, and will appear speedily. Our table is covered with new books, all of which we shall over take in our next, and succeeding numbers, We shall be glad to hear again from "Astolpho" at his convenience. The Memoir of the late Mr Hacket of Inveramsay may be forwarded to us at any time that is most agreeable. The Stanzas by "G. B." of Stonehaven, and "W. S. M." of Thurso, shall have a place.-Of many other poetical favours we can at present only acknowledge the receipt. Our list includes--" Medical Advice," and an "Epitaph," by "J. D." of Leith,-" Epitaph on a Lady of Quality at Bath,"-" Song," by "C. W."—" A Poetical Epistle to the Editor,"-" A Poem, consisting of forty-one stanzas of ottava rima, written in pencil,"-" The Vision," by "E. P.," and "Woman," by "W." Of the Poems transmitted to us from West-Houses, we shall in a week or two insert, with a few alterations, that entitled "The Witch Dance." The others will be returned. Our opinion upon the longer poem alluded to is at the author's service. ERRATA IN OUR LAST NUMBER-In Mr Tennant's Remarks on the Psalms, for "paraphrases," read periphrasis; for "plethargy," read plethory; for "disturbed the image," read distorted the image ; and for "concerned to accompany," read conceived to accompany. [No. 59. December 26, 1829.] ADVERTISEMENTS, Connected with Literature, Science, and the Arts. This day was published, By JOHN WARDLAW, St Andrew's Street, Price 3s, half-bound, In 3 vols. post 8vo, GERALDINE of DESMOND; or, IRELAND in the DAYS of ELIZABETH. An Historical Romance. "The work will take its station among the best historical ro mances that have been written."-Cheltenham Chronicle. "One of the finest and purest impersonations which the Genius of Fiction, working upon the pages of history, has yet produced." "Geraldine of Desmond is, in our opinion, a work of the highest merit."-Caledonian Mercury. "We have not perused a production of modern days in which we have been more deeply interested or more greatly surprised."— SACRED HISTORY, in the form of Letters, ad- Morning Journal. dressed to the Pupils of the Edinburgh Sessional School. By the Author of the Account of that Institution, &c. Part 1. comprising the Period from the Creation to the death of Moses. 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A On Monday, the 4th of January next, will be published, NEW WEEKLY JOURNAL, The COUNTRY TIMES, and Agricultural and Commercial Advertiser, price only Sevenpence, which will contain fuller and more accurate tables of all the Markets in the Kingdom for Corn, Cattle, and Merchandise of every description, than is contained in any other Newspaper, and give the fullest intelligence on all Foreign and Domestic subjects. The "Country Times" will contain 32 closely-printed columus in eight pages, the subjects so arranged and classified as to enable the reader to turn at once to any particular article. It will also be so formed, that it may be separated into two complete sheets, each having its own department of information, and, therefore, capable of accommodating two readers at once, and, in fact, answering the purpose of two Newspapers. An Index and Title-page will be annually published: thus enabling the subscribers to bind up their papers, which will form, at the close of the year, a volume of peculiar interest, from the great variety of topics embraced in its pages. Orders received by all Booksellers, News-Agents, Postmasters, and at the Office, 139, Fleet Street, London. FOR THE PREVENTION OR REMOVAL OF HOARSENESS, SORE THROAT, &c. BUTLER'S ACIDULATED LOZENGES OF CAYENNE are particularly recommended for Sore Throat, Enlargement of the Tonsils, Relaxation of the Uvula and Membranes of the Throat, and consequent Hoarseness, so prevalent at this season of the year. They have been found of great utility by persons who are in the habit of speaking in public; and the highest testimony in the musi cal world has been advanced in their favour, especially when, from continued exertion of the voice, or the influence of a humid atmo sphere, the membranes have become relaxed, and diminished in their tone. These Lozenges are also recommended as a refreshing stimulus during field sports, or any unusual exertion. Prepared by Messrs BUTLER, Chemists to his Majesty, 54, Lower Sackville Street, Dublin, and 75, Prince's Street, Edinburgh, and (authenticated by their name and address in the labels which are affixed on the tops of the Boxes) may be obtained of the principal Druggists in the country; of whom also may be had, their ANT ACID LOZENGES of QUININE, for relieving Heartburn, Flatu lence, Indigestion, and giving tone to the Stomach. 2s. and 4s. 6d. per Box. |