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her light, and Uric's heart leaped with delight as he saw
the boat half filled with gold. With a greedy eye he sur-
veyed the yellow treasure, as it sparkled in the moonbeam;
A mo-
but the longer he looked, the more it increased.
ment before, it was only up to his ankle; then it rose to
his knee; now it was as high as his waist, and the water
Filled with horror and
touched the gunwale of the skiff.
dismay, the fisherman started up, and endeavoured to
lighten the boat; but, as fast as he flung the gold over-
board, an unseen hand poured in fresh quantities of the
soul-destroying poison. Large drops of perspiration stood
on the fisherman's brow; he now dreaded as much to
reach the middle of the lake, as he had before longed for
it; he attempted to turn the boat, but in vain; it con-
tinued its course; and, as its light prow touched the
centre of the lake, a cataract of gold was showered on the
skiff. For an instant, it plunged and laboured; then the
waters rushed in; and down, down, down went the little
boat, and the rolling waves closed over the head of the
wicked fisherman.

The sequel is quickly told. Oluf conducted Margaret
home; and Paul Marken, who had been somewhat sur-
prised at finding the doors open, his daughter away, and
his favourite pancake burnt to a cinder, now received the
fair truant and her conductor with an ominous aspect.
When, however, the lovers told their story, and Oluf en-
treated for Margaret's hand, Paul gave the sack a loud
thump, and declared that he could not refuse to give his
daughter to a suitor who was so well backed.
ding was soon after celebrated with the usual festivities,
and proved so happy as to establish, beyond a doubt, the
match-making talent of the Wood Demon.

THE SCOTTISH ACADEMY,

body who could do it ;" or because "the artist is a modest, amiable, and painstaking man." We would not willingly hurt any person's feelings; but to praise mediocre works is to compromise the principles of art, and to do injustice to true merit. Upon this principle we have proceeded, and will proceed; and, conscious that sooner or later our motives and conduct will be appreciated even by those who may now feel sore, we look forward with unalloyed pleasure to our next meeting with our brethren of St Luke's, when they return from their happy and health-giving rambles through the wilds of our native land, or over the fresh and fertile fields of merry England. They with their pencils-we with our pens our objects, our interests, and our feelings the same.

THE DRAMA.

RATHER a curious event has taken place at our theatre this week. The formal and pathetic manner in which Mrs Siddons finally retired from the stage a month or two ago, must be still fresh in the recollection of most of our readers, and also the impressive request she made to the public, in the words of Sir Walter Scott, that they would "be kind to the dear relative she left behind." It was with no little surprise, therefore, that after seeing Mr Murray perform, apparently in excellent spirits, on Monday night at Pritchard's benefit, we found the folThe wed-lowing announcement scattered through the house on dropping in on Tuesday evening, to see how Mrs Nicol was getting on:-"Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, 1st June, 1830. It is with feelings of regret, that Mrs Henry Siddons has to announce the continued indisposition of which her brother, Mr Murray, has long laboured "He has at under." (Not very good composition.) last yielded to her intercessions, and the opinion of his medical advisers, and consented to resign the exercise of Under these circumhis professional duties for a time.

"My Dear Sir,

"My medical friends having most strenuously advised my relinquishing all professional duties for a time, my Sister has, with her usual affectionate solicitude for me, undertaken to supply my place in the Management of the Theatre, and to offer her services to such of the Performers who may deem their Benefits injured by my absence.

"I make this communication to you, that you may be aware of the real motives which bring my sister back to the stage for a few nights, after her farewell. Excuse haste, and believe me "Very faithfully yours,

We learn from an authentic source, that the total receipts of this body, during the continuance of the Exhibition which has just closed, amount to about £650; last year they were nearly £1000. We are neither sur-stances, and to remove as much as possible Mr Murray's objections to this step, Mrs Henry Siddons will, during prised nor alarmed at this. The receipts must necessarily fluctuate from year to year; and when we consider the benefits, renew her professional exertions, and, to the that, in 1829, the Exhibition could boast of Etty's Judith best of her abilities, supply his loss." The same evening, to attract the judicious, and of Martin's Deluge to collect Mr Murray wrote a note to Mr James Ballantyne, which the wonder-mongers, and that it, moreover, opened a appeared in the Weekly Journal of Wednesday, and as all second time with the Earl of Hopetoun's Rubens-an the documents connected with this curious affair are inexhibition of itself; and when, lastly, we consider that the teresting, we think it right to give it a place : Academy was then younger, less firmly rooted, and consequently supported by a stronger spirit of partisanship, we repeat, that we are neither alarmed at the defalcation, nor inclined to suspect any mismanagement. Again, it is true, that the sales last year amounted to nearly £1500, But in the £1500 is included this year only to £1070. the price of the Judith, purchased by the Academy— £500, we believe-which, being deducted, leaves the balance in favour of this year's sales. We still say, therefore, that we see nothing in this to lead us to augur badly of the Academy's futurity. We rejoice to observe that the slight remains of exacerbation with which the two bodies of artists, who now compose the Academy, came together, are fast subsiding, and we trust that no ambitious individual will again raise a storm.-We now commend It has been said our artists to their summer studies. (we are told) by some, we ask not by whom, that we are inimical to the artists. The assertion is false. We love the art, because to the study of it we are indebted for some of the happiest moments of our lives ;-we love and honour the artist, for to him we owe this gratification. But we will speak our mind freely; and we are not aware that in doing so we have made any distinction between our personal friends and those with whom we are unacquainted. We abide by our rule of conduct-" For the artist, as long as he conducts himself worthy of his high vocation; and for art, against all hands deadly." Our standard of art is high. We cannot stoop to praise a commonplace painting, merely because "it is not every

"Tuesday Evening.
"James Ballantyne, Esq."

W. H. MURRAY.

Now, the reasons why we say there is something curious in all this are twofold, and we state them frankly. In the first place, it is curious in as far as regards Mr Murray, that, instead of being aware that he has of late had any extraordinary fatigue or distress of mind, we know, on the contrary, he has but recently returned from a pleasant excursion to London; that, since his return, he has been performing almost every night, with all his usual animation; that he did not give the most distant hint of his ill health in the speech he made at his own benefit; that no suspicions were entertained in the green-room of his being indisposed; that he acted the very night before this sudden announcement was made; that he is announced to sing two songs on Monday evening, at Mr Stanley's benefit; and that Miss Fanny Kemble is to be here in about a fortnight, when he would of course have little to

do. In the second place, this is a curious event in as far as regards Mrs Siddons, because a very short time has elapsed since she bade a long and last farewell to the Edinburgh stage before a very numerous assemblage of her friends and admirers, the female portion of whom shed a good number of tears, and waved cambric handkerchiefs to a most unprecedented extent. But hey presto! she who had vanished from our eyes forever is here again; and “the dear relative she left behind” actually appears to have gone before! We wish these things could have been avoided. We wish Mr Murray could have contrived to keep well enough for a fortnight or three weeks more; and we wish Mrs Henry Siddons had preserved her consistency, and allowed our last impression of her to have remained uneffaced, for she can never leave the stage with the same eclat again. We shall see in a little how the matter is to end. We shall be anxious to know when Mr Murray is to return to us, and when Mrs Siddons is to take her leave once more. Is Sir Walter Scott to write another farewell address, or will she repeat the old one? While these events have been taking place in Edinburgh, an event no less curious has been occupying the attention of the theatrical world in London. An exposé has taken place of the domestic affairs of Lord and Lady William Lennox, by which it appears that her Ladyship declares his Lordship has been using her like a brute, and his Lordship affirms that her Ladyship has conceived much too great an attachment for a certain Mr Wood, a singer. Lady William (we call her Miss Paton only when we speak of her on the stage) has run away from Lord William, and, as the Scotch folks say, is "neither to haud nor to bind." That she has been criminal with Mr Wood is not asserted; that she has been extremely imprudent is, we are sorry to say, as clear as noonday. If she had reason to be dissatisfied with the conduct of her husband, what woman in her senses, with any due regard to her reputation, would have thrown herself upon the protection of a young unmarried man? Had she no female friend to whom she could appeal, or no male guardian whose years and respectability would have defied the voice of scandal? We feel exceedingly for Lady William Lennox. We know her to be an amiable, and we believe her to be a virtuous woman; yet has she placed herself in such a situation that even her best friends cannot look upon her now with the same confidence they did before. Is the metropolitan stage never to redeem itself from the opprobrium of being almost certain perdition to a woman? Are high female talents, when exerted for the entertainment of the public, to be invariably pursued with such temptations, that genius becomes a reproach, and beauty a mockery? Who is there at this moment among the more celebrated actresses on the London stage, who has stood the test of years?-not a single name occurs to us except Miss Stephens; and let the name therefore be written in letters of gold! We might add Miss Kelly, but she never was possessed of those attractions which win the eye of the libertine, and consequently cannot have the same merit, never having had the same temptations. When a person who stood so high as Lady William Lennox falls from that honourable eminence, vice holds a jubilee, and Madame Vestris smiles.

Old Cerberus.

LITERARY CHIT-CHAT AND VARIETIES.

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CHIT-CHAT FROM LONDON.-The second volume of Moore's Life of Byron is to be published about the end of this month, and it is to contain an answer to Campbell's attack.-The London Pitt Club Dinner is not to take place this year, in consequence of the illness of the King.-Lieutenant John Shipp, the author of the romantic history of His own Life and Adventures, has been appointed to one of the inspectorships of the new Police.-An anecdote is current, that the King, who is still alive to what used to interest him before his illness, enquired what portrait was placed opposite to his own, at the exhibition of Sir Thomas Lawrence's paintings, now open. courtiers were compelled to inform their master, that his Satanic was vis-a-vis to his Britannic Majesty. The King happily relieved them from their embarrassment, by remarking, that " they ought to have made the Duke of Wellington face the Enemy."

The

Theatrical Gossip.—A new piece, of a serious character, from the pen of Mr Howard Payne, called "The Spanish Husband; or, First and Last Love," has been all but damned at Drury-Lane.-Fanny Kemble is now in Bath, and, on the termination of her engagement there, comes direct to Edinburgh. She is expected to appear here on the 14th of this month.-Kean, Macready, Sinclair, and Miss E. Tree, are engaged to perform in Liverpool during the London vacation. Mr Lennard's bill for the removal of that ridiculous and odious office, a dramatic censorship, has been thrown out in the House of Commons without a division, simply, we suppose, because Sir Robert Peel opposed it, not wishing that the Duke of Montrose and Mr Colman should lose their pensions.-Mrs Yates, formerly Miss Brunton, has been performing in Dublin with much eclat. The elephant has now left that city for Plymouth, it is said, though we thought she had been coming here first.-A cock-and-a-bull story has been got up in Paris about Miss Smithson having been run away with in a hackney coach. It is a trick, we suppose, to excite a sensation.Our old favourite Jones performed here for the first time this season on the occasion of Mrs Renaud's benefit last night.-We observe that Mr and Mrs Stanley take their benefit on Monday, and certainly deserve a good house. They are to bring out, among other things, a new comic piece, called " Teddy the Tyler," much run after at present in London.-On Wednesday next, Mr Hooper takes his first benefit here, and is to have the assistance, not only of Mrs Siddons, but also of Miss Jarman, who concludes an engagement at Glasgow on Monday, and comes into Edinburgh to play Lydia Languish and the Youthful Queen for Hooper. This is likely to secure him an excellent house.-Horn and Miss Byfeld, who have been singing in Glasgow, are to appear next week at the Caledonian Theatre. WEEKLY LIST OF PERFORMANCES.

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TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS. SEVERAL excellent Poetical Pieces are in types, but we are obliged to postpone them all till next Saturday.

The communication of our Fochabers correspondent is under consideration. The verses by "J. P. B." of Aberdeen shall have a place -The communication from the "Blacksmith of Beath" will hardly suit us. The poetical communications from Morayshire are not without merit, but are unequal.-The lines by Thomas Brownlee will probably find a place in our next SLIPPERS.-We shall not be able to make room for the following pieces:-"On the birth of a Nephew,"" Farewell," by "R. P.,"—"A Dream," by M. D.," -"Sensibility," by M. W. G.," and "Young Love," by "A. R." of Glasgow.

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mingled with the deep notes of the slow-hound ;-we have felt our spirits soar and expand in the thin pure air of the glacier, across which we followed the shy chamois;

Field Sports of the North of Europe; comprised in a Per--and yet, with all this wide and varied experience, we sonal Narrative of a Residence in Sweden and Norway, in the Years 1827-28. By L. Lloyd, Esq. With numerous Engravings. In two volumes, 8vo. London. Colburn and Bentley. 1830. Pp. 383 and

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learn from Mr Lloyd, that there is still in Europe a wild and romantic sporting country, of whose attractions we had hitherto remained ignorant. He has afforded us— what the unnerved Roman tyrant sighed for in vainthe prospect of a new pleasure, although we know not when our regard for a public, which weekly besieges our doors, (as the dense population of London or Liverpool might be conceived to do the corn magazines, in the event of a famine,) will leave us at leisure to enjoy it.

We pass over the chase of the partridge, hazel hen, blackcock, capercailzi, wild-duck, mallard, and snipe. If we have not all these kinds of shooting in this country, Mr we have, at least, something analogous to them-something as good. We must, however, express our astonishment, that a master sportsman like Mr Lloydone who has taken all his degrees in that noble artshould be so much to seek in his own trade, as to dream of finding what he calls "the common grouse," in the Scandinavian Peninsula. Is he really not aware that the bird which he thus designates is a native only of the British isles? In like manner, we pass over his account of the Swedish style of destroying the fox; for, however uncouth it may appear to a member of the Melton, to one who acknowledges no annals of the art but the Sporting Magazine, yet any one who will consult the pages of Guy Mannering, will find that a pretty similar style of going to work has not yet been quite forgotten in this part of the island. Mr Lloyd's accounts of Swedish angling we also leave for another occasion; but when we write a paper on Angling, which we shall do one of these days, we may refer to it again.

We have the most implicit confidence in Mr Lloyd's qualifications for the task he has undertaken-that of giving us a picture of the sportsmen of the Northern Peninsula and their pursuits. He is evidently a good shot-an indefatigable sportsman; and, as to his style, it is undeniably formed upon the model of that "welle of Englysche undefiled," the Sporting Magazine. Lloyd has been sojourning in the north of Europe since 1824; and besides penetrating into every nook and corner of the united kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, he has wandered through the adjoining territories of Lapland, Finland, Russia, and Denmark. Having thus prepared himself, not only by studying thoroughly the field sports of Sweden and Norway, in their own abstract essence, but also, after the fashion of a comparative anatomist, in immediate contrast with those of the bordering nations, he has, after a six years' apprenticeship, ventured before the public with the fruits of his researches. As the reader will perceive by the title-page of the work, Mr Lloyd has adopted the plan of weaving the narrative of his experiences into the story of a Two Years' Residence in Norway and Sweden. By this means, he has avoided the heaviness and stiffness which generally result from pedantic attention to a strictly scientific arrangement. In some chapters, he gives us rapid sketches of the scenery, of the state of cultivation of the country, the weather, and other physical phenomena; or favours us with peeps into the political and social relations of the people, and the state of trade and education among them. He thus enables us to feel ourselves quite at home, and to pursue our hunting studies, unplagued by any remnants of curiosity respecting the kind of people among whom we have got. To this general foundation, he has farther superadded a brief but comprehensive sketch of the game laws; and the road being thus completely smoothed, away he launches into the mare magnum of the active pursuits of the field. We are ourselves neither sluggish nor inexperienced huntsmen. We have stolen after our pointer with swift and noiseless footsteps, and crouching gait, gliding from tuft to tuft through the flow moss, beneath a burning Twelfth of August sun, listening breathlessly for the whistling of the muircock's wing ;—we have lain behind a stone dike the whole of a dark November day, with its rain pouring incessantly down upon us, lurking for the transit of the blackcock ;—we have felt our very soul burst out with our ecstatic halloo, as we darted onward with the whole field, when, as reynard broke cover, the gallant pack gave forth its full orchestral volume of sound ;-we have dashed down the glades of Germany's dark forests of tall pines, after the embossed boar, while the bugles

The bear is the most important object of the chase in Sweden and Norway; and his history occupies a space in Mr Lloyd's book proportionable to his importance. We regret, that out of the many interesting anecdotes illustrative of his character, we can only afford to extract two; the one of which exhibits Bruin in good humour, the other when enraged. Even in the best of his moods, he is but a clumsy playfellow. Our author, speaking of the possibility of domesticating bears, narrates the following adventure of a peasant:

"Bears are not unfrequently domesticated in Wermeland I heard of one that was so tame, that his master, a peasant, used occasionally to cause him stand at the back of his sledge when on a journey; but the fellow kept so good a balance, that it was next to impossible to upset him. When the vehicle went on one side, Bruin threw his weight the other One day, however, the peasant way, and vice versa. amused himself by driving over the very worst ground he could find, with the intention, if possible, of throwing the bear off his equilibrium; by which, at last, the animal got so irritated, that he fetched his master, who was in advance of him, a tremendous thump on the shoulder with his paw. This frightened the man so much, that he caused the beast to be killed immediately."-Vol. ii. p. 160.

This was Bruin joking; but to form an idea of him when enraged, we must take Mr Lloyd's account of a

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