as yet, planted the tree of liberty in Hyde Park. Nor has the wonderful and most interesting picture which London presented during the coronation of the Queen been thrown away on the diplomatic visitors assembled at that moment from all parts of Europe. For the wealth and splendour displayed in the first commercial city in the world, they might have been prepared; but the peace and order of the assembled multitude, the proofs of general contentedness and well-being, so universally displayed; the joyous welcome freely offered to foreigners, even by the most humble classes of our citizens; the beautiful combination of independence of demeanour, with devoted and loyal affection to their youthful sovereign,-these national characteristics could not fail to excite astonishment in many, and admiration in all. The deep and earnest enthusiasm with which the allegiance of a free people was tendered to their Queen, proved to the assembled princes and statesmen, that no falsehood was greater than that which represented the English as a nation of Jacobins, excited rather than controlled by a revolutionary government. A farther and a more salutary lesson may also have been derived from the evidence, then exhibited, of the effect of free institutions in insuring the fullest development of national strength; the compatibility of liberty with order; the obedience willingly yielded to laws framed and consented to by the true representatives of the people: these were results which even those who cannot imitate, can hardly fail to appreciate. The increased population poured into the metropolis, to share in this great national festival, amounted, it is said, to half a million, a number equal to the inhabitants of some of the greatest capitals in Europe: this multitude, united to the permanent population of three times that amount, seemed animated by one noble spirit, and seemed to require no control beyond that of reason and of sound principles. The military appeared but a part of the decoration, and not the instrument of restraint or coercion; they resembled rather the diamond-hilted sword used for state ceremonial, than the weapon to be used in battle. Varieties. A Death-bed is a wonderful reasoner; many a proud infidel hath it humbled and refuted, without a word, who but a short time before would have defied all the ability of man to shake the foundation of his system. All is well, as long as the curtain is up, and the puppet-show of life goes on; but when the rapid representation draws to a close, and every hope of longer respite is precluded, things will ap pear in a very different light. Would to God I could say that that great and awful moment were as often distinguished by the dew of repentance as by the groan of despair.-Dean Kirwan. A Talkative Woman is one of the most agreeable companions in the world-the very soul of society. We like to hear a sprightly woman talk so fast and so incessantly that you cannot get in a word edgeways. It frees you from embarrassment, promotes sociability, and gives you a heart to slip in a soft saying or two, whenever such a thing is possible; whereas, silence is a bore not to be endured, breeding awkward embarrassments and restraints. Give us a woman who knows how to talk. The Burdett Oak.-In the park of Foremark, in Leicestershire, the seat of Sir Francis Burdett, is an oak-tree, upwards of sixty feet high, with a trunk eighteen inches in diameter, and branches covering a space of fifty feet in diameter; which sprang from a single acorn planted by Sir F. Burdett when an infant. Tea.-The exports of Tea from China to Great Britain, during the year, are variously estimated at from 25,000,000 lb. to 30,000,000 lb. The Artesian Well, at Paris, has now reached the depth of 500 yards, or about five times the height of the Hôtel des Invalides. The thermometer shews 26o Reaumur (90° Fahr.) at the bottom of the well, which indicates an increase of temperature of one degree per yard, according as the borers descend into the earth. Wheat.-A grain of Fullard's prize-wheat, brought from the great agricultural meeting at Oxford, in 1839, having been dibbled three inches deep in the ground, has this year produced a plant four feet nine inches high, with 116 fine ears, one of which was found to contain seventy-five corns; the whole being, therefore, an increase of 4,000 fold! whereas the introductory page of the English Agricultural Society's Journal says: "The average produce of wheat is stated at twenty-six bushels per acre; and if this could be raised to twenty-seven bushels, by a better selection of seed, (or management,) by this appa rently small improvement, we should have added to the nation's annual income 475,000 quarters of wheat, worth, at fifty shillings a quarter, about £1,200,000 yearly, which would be equal to a capital of £24,000,000 sterling, gained for ever to the country by this increase in the growth of one article alone, and that in England and Wales only." "-Lewes Advertiser. Chimneys. If salt be mixed with the mortar used for plastering a chimney, there will be no necessity for sweeping it; as in every damp spell of weather the salt deliquesces, and the soot will fall down. Ballooning.-Mr. Gypson, the aeronaut, ascended, on the 26th ult., from Daventry, in a balloon provided with a valve placed externally on the top of the bag; by means of which he exhausted the balloon of gas, and rendered it motionless, in forty seconds, an important improvement in making a descent. The valve hitherto used, opened internally, and its action being impeded by the upward pressure of the gas, the exhausting of the balloon occupied a considerable time, and thus caused it to rebound and drag along the ground, to the danger of the aeronauts. COMPLETION OF VOL. III. The LITERARY WORLD, Vol. III, with Sixtyeight fine Engravings, and 408 closely-printed pages, 5s. 6d., cloth, is now ready. Also, PART XVIII., with Title-page and Index, to complete the Volume, price 8d. LONDON: Published by GEORGE BERGER, Holywell Street, Strand. Printed by WHITEHEAD & Co. 76, Fleet Street, where all Communications for the Editor may be addressed. GENERAL INDEX. ABNEY Park Cemetery, the, 130, Actors, salaries of, 235 Ainsworth, W. H., imitated, 69 Analysis of Pensions, 355 Anecdotes of the late James Smith, 39 Architecture, improved London Street, 88 Art, critiques on, 144 Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, sketch of, 194 Ariosto and Tasso, notes on, 48 Art-Union of London, the, 317 Assam Tea, 192, 367 Aurora Borealis explained, 127 Bethlehem Hospital, 158 "Bloody Tower," Tower of London, 391 Account of the recent Persecution of Architectural Remains of the Reigns of Asmodeus; or, the Devil on Two Sticks, 124, 345 Boy and the Birds, 28 Buds of Poesy, 203 Principles of English Composition. By D. Booth, 141 Queen Victoria, from her Birth to her Servant Girl in London, 331 Songs and Ballads, by the Princes Al- Stage, the. By A. Bunn, 216, 234, 332. Summer amongst the Bocages. By 347 Table-wit and After-dinner Anecdote, Thames and its Tributaries. By C. Tower of London. By W. H. Ains- China and its Resources. By R. Mudie, British benevolence characterized, 29 Brougham, Lord, anecdotes of, 48, 158 Cafés of Constantinople, 88 Castle at Stafford, 209 Catch, by Dr. Calcott, 143 Catlin's Indian Exhibition, 29 Cavendish Chapel, Ramsgate, described, 322 Celtic Tumulus discovered, 68 Chandos, the Great Duke of, 198 Chantrey, the sculptor, characteristics of, 150 Charles I., remains of, 143 Charles O'Malley, adventures of, 285 Chatham, Lord, death and character of, 220, 221 Children's Ball, by M. M. Waldor, 341 China and its resources, 107, 126 China Trade, the, 227 Chinese, physiognomy of, 168 Chinese Tactics, 242 Church of St. Bartholomew by the Exchange, 98 Church, Corwen, N. Wales, 82 Church of St. Paul at Malta, 335 Church, Trinity, Gray's Inn Road, 50 Cities, mortality of, 256 Clergy, revenue of the, 239 Cockburn Vase, the, described, 290 Cocoa-nut Crab, the, 152 Coins, Roman, discovery of, 288 Common Sense defined, 19 Council of Ten, at Venice, by Victor Hugo, 339 Cross, ancient, at Corwen, 82 Custom, curious, at Malmesbury, 203 Customs, old, vanishing of, 224 Dante, portrait of, 352 Death of the Miser Grandet, by De Balzac, 338 Death of Napoleon, the, Death-bed, the, 408 Definition, a practical one, 254 Demaundes Joyous, the, 266 Exchequer Records, the, 52, 144, 330 Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 94, 120, 137 Fair, ancient, 214 Familiar Letters, lines on, 116 Fielding the novelist, character of, 374, 388 Florence, environs of, 366 Fontainebleau Grapes, &c., 383 Galvanoplastics, 320 Garland-weavers in Germany, 330 Gem of the Wild. By Miss Vandenhoff, 82 Gibbons and Orangs, distinction of, 377 Göthe and Schiller, relics of, 326 Guy Fawkes, by Ainsworth, 207 Haarlem Lake, draining the, 383 Harp of Brian Boroihme, 276 Harrington, Dr., of Bath, 141 Hats, origin of, 276 Heart once lost and twice won, 293, 308 Hobbes at Chatsworth, 176 Dialogue between Louis XII. and Francis I., Ice-boat, improved, 24 by Fenelon, 359 Diet, hints on, by Dr. Holland, 28 Dutch Toys, manufacture of, 355 Earthquakes in Scotland, 151 Easter Custom, 68 Edinburgh Fire Balloon, the, 258 Emery, John, anecdote of, 91 Emigration, Report on, 181 Enough! 260 Epitaph, Latin, on a Friend interred at Kensal Green, 135 Error Halfpence, 143 Etna, Von Raumer's ascent of, 405 Evening at Prince de Montfort's, 371 Inchkeith described, 119 James, G. P. R., imitated, 71 Jean Paul, Scraps from, 260, 371 Jehan de Beaumanoir, romance of, 395 Jedburgh Abbey, sketch of, 71 Jews, recent persecution of the, 344 Jews, the, and Sir Moses Montefiore, 176 Kangaroos, new, 408 Kean, recollections of, 91, 143, 217 Kingston, New Town-hall at, 18 Ladies Flower-gardens, laying out, 224 Lamps, improved, 9 Lay of the Tournament, 147 Letter to a Young Man, 5 Mackintosh, Sir James, 221 Madeira Wine, errors respecting, 205 Maid of Athens, the, 130 Maiden Reproved, 326 Malibran, anecdotes of, 236 Mammoth Times Newspaper, the, 229 Margate lodging-house keeper, the, 189 Maunday Money explained, 128 Master Peter Doddle to his Parents, 4 Menagerie in the Tower of London, 311 Miles Coverdale, tomb of, 352 Nabobs, Dr. Knox on, 221 Napoleon, Canova's bust of, 367 Nelson Monument, the, 184, 288, 336 New Road, the, 159 New Zealand, state of, 143, 313 Niebuhr, industry of, 159 Night, a, in the Royal George, 171 Normal Schools, 96 North-west Passage discovered, 62, 78 Oak, immense, 224 Obituary of Eminent Persons: Birch, Samuel, 255 Blumenbach, Professor, 46 Obituary, (continued.) Drummond, Thomas, 64 Gleig, Bishop, 14 Loughlin, Andrew, 368 Müller, Professor, 368, 383 Phillips, Sir Richard, 32, 57 Poisson, M., 111 Prinsep, James, 95 Rickman, John, 335 Ward, William, 14 Seppings, Sir Robert, 95 Warde, J. P., 255 Weston, John Webbe, 46 Whitwell, T. S., 303 Wyatville, Sir Jeffry, 15 n Observanda, by Correspondent, 50, 131, 169, Ocean, phenomena of the, 253 Old Bureau Drawer, the, 3, 36, 69, 99, 147, Olives and Oranges of Genoa, 365 Painter's Cruelty, 276 Parsimony of Nollekens the sculptor, 247 Pendulum, length of the, 394 Penny Postage, the, 96, 112 Pensions granted to Literary and Scientific Persia, Shah of, 251 Persian Peasantry, 252 Phantom Portrait, the, 38 Phantom Portrait: a Sibyl's Sketch, 262 Phillips, the late Sir Richard, recollections of, 57, 86, 102, 117, 136 Photogenic Miniatures, 352 Pisa, monuments of, 365 Plague, precautions against, 250 Poetry for a Young Lady's Album, 5 Pogson, the Bagman, a portrait, 282 Polytechnic Institution, the, 73 Popular Errors, 402 Popular Scandal, 36 Prisons, by Servan, 340 Profligate, lines to a, 355 Prospectus of a Marriage and Love Assurance Prussian"Lancashire," the, 322 Public Walks, 384 Queen, anecdotes of the, 298 Arabia, and Syria, 270 Roman Essence of Anchovies, 8 Roman Roads, on, 269 Romantic, the, 228 Rome, ancient, 149 Romilly, Sir Samuel, boyhood of, 152 Ross, Captain, Expedition of, 61 Royal Academy, Exhibition of the, 94, 120, 137 Royal Exchange, the new, 135 Rubens, his life and works, 139 St. John's Day at Rome, 366 Schools, commercial, of Lombardy, 364 Scott and Byron compared, 64 Scott Monument at Edinburgh, 336, 367 Sketches from the French, 338, 359 Skin of Mammalia, 55 Smith, the late James, anecdotes of, 39 Southey, Dr., illness of, 367 Southwark Literary Society, new house of, 354 Snowdon, ascent of, 161 Société d'Encouragement, of Paris, 96 Sonnets, by a youth of nineteen, 165 Spring, lines on, 85 Staffa, phenomenon of, 192 Stanzas, by Richard Ryan, 213 Steam-boat Passengers, 282 Steam-boilers, safety-valve for, 394 Steam-engines, improvement in, 352 Steam Power, novel application of, 338 Steam Ship," Oriental," 368 Steam Ship, "President," interior of the, 370 Sugar, improved manufacture of, 151 Tapir, habits of the, 93 Tea-plant in Brazil, 159 July, 271 Tempest, the, by Shakspeare, 30 Temple Revel, the last, 180 Thames, scenery of the, 380 Thoughts in Rhyme, by Archæus, 350 Tooth-ache, cure for, 320 Torture-room in the Tower of London, 392 Trafalgar Square and the Nelson Column, 363 Ungka-puti, the, 274, 318 Vatican, the, by torchlight, 366 Wallace, Sir William, descendant of, 384 Weights carried against streams, 394 Westminster Abbey and Whitehall, repair of, 47 What is Death? 149 Wheat, culture of, 408 Who's Who? 247 Widower, the, 203 Willis, N. P., imitated, 71 Wines, French, duties on, 342 Woman, a fragment, 214 Woodstock, visit to, 326 Worshippers of Lucifer and Hesperus, 277 Writers, great, of the age of Louis XIV., by Writing, careless, 75 Writing, early English, 75 · Yew-tree, celebrated, at Harlington, 146 Zummerzetshire Dialect, 92. END OF VOL. III. |