FORTUNES OF FRANCESCO NOVELLO DA CARRARA, LORD | been given up by the present Magistracy to Mr Short's daughter, OF PADUA, an historical tale of the fourteenth century, from the Gataro Chronicles, with notes, by David Syme, Esq. advocate. Mr Sweet has in a forward state for publication a second edition of his "Hortus Eritannicus," which will contain all the new plants up to the time of publication. The names will be accentuated, and the colours of the flowering plants will be added.

who, unable to find a purchaser, is obliged to dispose of it by raffle. We recommend her and her little scheme to the patronage of the amateurs of science, and of the humane in general, as the destitute descendant of two of our most ingenious scientific artists. The telescope itself, even independent of this consideration, is an object of interest, as the last which proceeded from the hands of its able con

A second edition of Retirement, a Poem, by Thomas Stewart, structor. Esq. is in the press.

A new edition is in a state of forwardness for publication of Rosarum Monographia, or a Botanical History of Roses, with coloured plates. By John Lindley, Esq., F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the University of London. Royal octavo.

There is preparing for publication, the Fossil Flora of Great Britain; or, Figures and Descriptions of the Vegetable Remains found in a Fossil State in this Country. By John Lindley, Esq., F. R. S., and William Hutton, Esq., F. G. S., &c. To appear in quarterly parts. Each part will contain ten copperplates, and about forty pages of letter-press.

Theatrical Gossip.-By all we can learn, the Pantomimes, both at Covent Garden and Drury Lane, are comparatively failures; the one has no tricks, and the tricks of the other go all wrong. The Pantomimes at the Adelphi and the Surrey are better. The plot of the Surrey extravaganza, which is called "Harlequin Apple Pie," is as follows:-" The Princess Peppermintdrop is betrothed to Prince Sugarplum, ( Sweets to the sweet!") whose rival, the Baron of Barleysugar, Prime Minister to King Lollypop, the ninety-ninth sovereign of the dynasty, is banished for his presumption in aspiring to the hand of the Princess. An Apple Pie, of the most formidable dimensions, is to constitute the wedding-feast, but it becomes the object of THE NORTH BRITON.-A new paper, bearing this title, is about a furious attack and defence between the rivals and their respective to be set on foot under what appear to be very favourable auspices. armies. The Pie, however, is suddenly transformed into a Diamond It is to be conducted by Dr James Browne, late Editor of the Cale-Temple, out of which issues the Fairy, who transforms the Baron donian Mercury, à gentleman of varied information, of an acute and the King into Pantaloon and Clown, while the Prince and Prinand original mind, and of a ready and popular command of almost cess become Harlequin and Columbine."-Miss Kemble's third chaevery subject necessary to be discussed in a public Journal. The racter is to be Lady Constance, in King John.-Fawcett, it is said, is paper is to be published twice a-week; and from the known energy about to leave the stage.-The Italian Opera, which is to open soon, of Dr Browne's character, we have no doubt that he will speedily does not seem to promise a very brilliant season. secure for it an extensive circulation, and a more than ordinary re- Sontag, nor Zucheli, nor De Begnis, are to be of the company. Malibran is engaged; but Mlle. Blasiz, a very second-rate singer, is putation for spirit and independence. Edinburgh EvenING POST AND GAZETTE.-We have been re-medal by her enthusiastic admirers at Bologna, bearing the following to be prima donna for a while.—Pasta has been presented with a gold quested by Mr Crichton, late of the Evening Post and Gazette, to inscription:-"To Giuditta Pasta, in the mystery of Song, by the destate, that he has resigned the Editorship of these papers, and has cision of Italy,-in the Histrionic Art, by the acknowledgment of France, most admirable, the members of the Cassino gratefully ap plauding." Upon this inscription the Court Journal remarks- All we have to object in relation to the above is, that of all places in the world, France should have been made the touchstone of merit in the

now no further connexion with either of them.

Neither Pasta, nor

The United Service Journal, and Naval and Military Magazine, will, in addition to its numerous other attractions, in future contain a new feature of peculiar interest, under the head of Foreign Miscellany. The 1st Number for the present year, just publish-histrionic art,'-France-where Miss Smithson is at least as much ed, is more than usually interesting.

THE KING'S SIGHT-A great deal has lately been said about the eyesight of our gracious Sovereign, George the Fourth. The antiministerial papers contend that his Majesty is all but blind, while the ministerial papers, on the other hand, allege that his sight is excellent, and look on the various reports as mere bugbears. The real fact is, that neither party know any thing of the matter. We had an opportunity of seeing very lately the King's signature to a government paper, and are able to state, that the formation, freedom, and beauty of the letters, were as good as in his Majesty's best days. Of course, he may sign well enough with one eye, but it is a pleasure to

know that he has at least one.

A TITLE-PAGE OR FRONTISPIECE FOR SCRAP-BOOKS.-This is an ingenious trifle, and a very pretty specimen of ornamental engraving. The title consists of words in large and in small characters. If the large words alone are read, you have an account in prose of the contents of the supposed scrap-book; but if you read the small words likewise, which are interspersed among the large ones, then you have a pretty long poem concerning such works. We do not know that any young lady who keeps a Scrap-book could find a more appropriate embellishment for it.

admired as Pasta-and where Georges and Duchesnois are more admired than either!"-Sontag, it is said, has been nearly suffocated by a German plasterer.-Vestris has been playing in Southampton; the curtain drew up one evening to ten persons in the boxes, and three in the pit.-Ducrow is at Liverpool in great strength, and drawing very crowded houses.-Munden and Quick, the retired and admirable comedians, have expressed a wish to act together, in the same play, once more before their final exit. Old Dornton and Silky, in "The Road to Ruin," are the characters these sexagenarians have fixed upon. Covent Garden Theatre, where the comedy was originally produced, has been selected for this interesting representation. -Mr Murray's arrangements for the next month are as follows :On the termination of Miss Jarman's present engagement, we are to have a short visit from Braham; he is to be succeeded by Matthews, and, early in February, we are to have Vandenhoff.

WEEKLY LIST OF PERFORMANCES.

Jan. 2-8.

The Belle's Stratagem, & The Twelfth Cake.
As You Like It, & Do.

The Soldier's Daughter, & Do.

The Point of Honour, The Youthful Queen, & Do.
The Robber's Wife, The Noyades, & Do.
The House of Aspen, & Do..

SAT. MON. JAMES SHORT, F.R.S., OPTICIAN.-This ingenious artist was TUES. born in Edinburgh, 10th June (O.S.) 1710, and died somewhere near W ED. London, 15th June, 1768. Being left an orphan at an early age, he THURS. was entered on George Heriot's foundation, whence he was trans- FRI. ferred to the High School. He was afterwards sent, by the exertions of some relations, to the University, with a view to his entering the Church of Scotland, and he complied in so far with their wishes as to pass his trials for a preacher. The natural bent of his mind was, however, more turned towards the pursuits of mechanical science, and this tendency was fostered by the judicious patronage of Maclaurin. Under the protection of that eminent philosopher, and with the use of his apparatus, Mr Short made great improvements in the construction of the Gregorian telescope. To this branch of art he devoted his future life, with the exception of a short interval in the year 1736, when he was called to London, at the desire of Queen Caroline to give instructions to William, Duke of Cumberland, in mathematics. The excellence of his large telescopes is evidenced by the great demand for them throughout Europe, and by the express testimony of Maclaurin. His brother Thomas, who followed the same profession, was one of the first who projected the establishment of an Observatory on the Calton Hill. With a view to the furtherance of this institution, in which he was to have had some share, James pre-Fit," by " Rory M'Donald," will not suit us. sented to the city a large equatorial mounted reflecting telescope, the specula of which were made by his brother, and for which he had been offered L.1200 by the King of Denmark. The plan did not succeed, and Mr J. Short's finances suffered considerably by the failure. The instrument, which is said to be in good preservation, has

TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

SEVERAL interesting Reviews and Articles are still unavoidably postponed.

We have received a copy of " May Flowers," which we shall peruse with pleasure.-We entirely coincide with our Haddington Correspondent, in his remarks upon Mr John Stewart's theory of sound, which appears too unscientific to require any refutation. We shall be glad to receive another communication from Old Meldrum, by the Author of the" Sketches of Rural Life."— An answer to "Proteus" next Saturday." Evangelicus" is inadmissible.

"The Contents of my own Pocket" are still sub judicio.-The its present detached state.-The "Song" by "N." and " My First "Singular lucubration about Giants" appears to us unintelligible in

ERRATUM IN OUR LAST.-In the Review of the Life of Hernan Cortes, for " Hascala," read Tlascala, passim.

[No. 61, January 9, 1830.]

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of the early nonconformists, and was regarded as one of
the firmest defenders of their cause. Doddridge, as a
practical divine, is esteemed in more churches than his

own, and did much in his day, as an active and success-
ful teacher, to support the intellectual character of his
sect. The auto-biography of the former is, perhaps, the
least interesting of his writings-it is only valuable as a
supplement to them, and as containing the gleanings of the
full harvest which they had reaped. Doddridge's relics
(to judge by what has been already published) are more
important. They trace for us a faithful picture of the
from his labours; and we confess, for our own part, that
man from his juvenile years till the time when he rested
the divine's lessons of self-control are no way weaken-
ed by learning that he only exhorts us to a labour
He
which he had already achieved in his own person.
was one of those who needed not to fear the exposure of
his innermost secrets to all. Without first-rate talents,
he was shrewd and sagacious. His temper was cheerful,
his desires well regulated. Not exactly witty, his play-
ful manner charms almost as much as if he were. His
devotional spirit is deep, but free from all extravagance.
His warmness of heart heightens all the more pleasing
features of his character. Yet the book which presents
us a character like this, in all the confidence of domestic
intercourse, has afforded the great majority of our con-
temporaries food for nothing but a few fool-born jests!

THE exclusively theological character of the English Universities, and the manner in which their doors are sealed against all who are not members of the Established Church, have caused a violent and unnatural separation between their history, and that of the progress of general science in the country. In other lands, government seeks to compensate to the people their want of political freedom, by extending the benefits of scientific education to all who seek it by conferring privileges upon the learned, and thus creating a class of freemen into which all may be received. In England, on the contrary, in that country where alone, in the old world, personal freedom and the institutions of government are so firmly grounded, and so justly balanced, that each feels strengthened by the power of its rival,—the public foundations for the higher branches of knowledge are jealously circumscribed, both in what regards the subject-matter of what is taught, and the persons to whom it is communicated. Even the pale dastards of Austria, who tremble before the most trivial speculation on politics, can play with the lightning of science unharmed, as the Indian juggler with the fangless snake, while our dignitaries of church and state stand dazzled and abashed in its presence. We are aristocrats and loyalists, but we cannot for the life of us see why this should be any hinderance to our wish for the admission of every Briton into the Universities of the land. We cannot see any danger threatening either church or state, although every denizen of England, let him belong to what sect he will, were allowed to cultivate to the utmost every faculty by which he may one day serve or ornament his native country. But it is not upon this im-versities. Others, as the Scotch Universities became betportant question that we are now about to enter. We advert to the lamentable and absurd fact, that one might compose a history of England's achievements in science, wherein the names of her two Universities would scarcely appear, simply as an apology for recommending to our readers, as an interesting branch of literary history, the state of education among the dissenters during the eigh-mies, chiefly at the risk of the individuals undertaking teenth century.

Under the name of Dissenters from the English church, was comprehended at the time of the Revolution almost every shade and variety of opinion; but the most numerous and respectable sects were the Presbyterians, the Independents, and the Anti-pædobaptists. These three presented a joint address to Queen Anne, on her accession, and have ever since continued to hold together. Under these denominations, also, although perhaps not strictly belonging to any of them, were comprehended the Non-conformists-the survivors and descendants of those who had been extruded from their churches by the Act of Uniformity. As we are not at present entering upon a history of the sects, this brief account must serve to point out the class of men, to the arrangements of education among whom we wish to direct our readers' attention.

Both of the men whose Memoirs have suggested these reflections, occupied an eminent station in the dissenting mmunion. Calamy was the historian of the sufferings

For a considerable time after the passing of the Act of Uniformity, a good many of the young dissenters were accustomed to pass a few years at Oxford, conversing with the members of the University, and making use of the libraries. Some of them studied at the Dutch Uni

ter known, were sent there for their education. Still, as it was but a small proportion of the great body of dissenters who could avail themselves of these opportunities, it was necessary that they should have among themselves some provision for the education of their youth. The method adopted was the establishment of private acade

them, but patronised and supported, according to their respectability and efficiency, by the more influential dissenters. The reader will find notices of these establishments in Wilson's Memoirs of De Foe, and in the two