Egypt. In alluding to Martin, we do not mean to insinuate that Mr. Scrymgeour is a servile copyist of that great painter; on the contrary, there is much originality in his composition, and his mode of treating the subject is entirely his own. In describing the picture, we shall in a great measure avail ourselves of the artist's words. On the left, towards the centre, is Pharaoh on his throne, witnessing the serpents of his priests swallowed and destroyed; while terror and confusion prevail amongst the assembled multitude at the manner of this occurrence. In our view, Pharaoh is less dignified, lofty, and imposing, in his aspect, air, and carriage, than might have been desired. A few spirited touches would here have greatly heightened the effect. The commander of the king's guards stands on the platform, near the throne, and near him an ancient counsellor is seen intercedwith Pharaoh to permit the departure of the Israelites. In the foreground, on the left, are the two chief magicians, confounded and enraged, but consulting their scrolls for some new device. The rich, deep green of their robes, in their breadth and flow, contrast finely with the lighter and more splendid colours that first catch the eye of the spectator. Near these magicians are two youths guiding the sacred crocodile of the palace, which was worshipped, and fed with consecrated food. This object of Egyptian worship is very effectively introduced. In the centre of the foreground are three other magicians; the one on the right being in the act of holding his serpent, which has fled to him for protection; a female figure near him has swooned from terror, and is supported by a slave; towards the extremity of this group are some Israelites and slaves: one, dressed in green, is endeavouring to make his escape, and is holding a dog, crouching, and apparently howling under the influence of fear.-A supernatural light bursts, on the centre of the scene, upon Moses, whose face is turned upwards in the act of adoration. Aaron is seen near Moses: behind them are their attendants, and on their left multitudes of figures, reaching, in perspective, to the Pyramids, which are seen, with the Nile, in the extreme distance through the grand entrance. The light-a side-light-referred to above, illumines the whole scene, and produces a very splendid effect. The gallery, in the centre of the picture, contains a crowd of figures; the management of which, from their situation, and from the powerful light of which we have been speak ing, must have been attended with consider. able difficulty. The sculpture above the gallery represents the Bull of Memphis, and other objects of Egyptian worship. The columns, of the ancient Egyptian porphyry, are covered, according to the manner of the country, with hieroglyphical figures. These, with all the accessories of the picture-the gold chandelier, the magnificent drapery, &c.-are in excellent keeping.-A dark and lurid sky, with lightning, is seen beyond the palace; and this, too, contrasts and harmonizes well with the internal splendour of the scene. Altogether, Mr. Scrymgeour has evidently a fine eye for colour.-Some of his figures, we conceive, are defective in drawing—the accuracy of form, that first of excellences, has not been sufficiently studied; and, in parts, there appears a stiffness, a want of flow in the outline. A greater sobriety of tone would give repose to the eye. The picture, however, has great merit ; and we are glad to learn that it is the painter's intention to have it engraved in mezzotint. WESTMINSTER HALL, THE CORONATION, BRIGHTON, &c. AT the Gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, Pall-Mall East, Mr. Adam Lee, of the Office of Works for Westminster, has opened a cosmoramic exhibition of the ancient palace at Westminster. "It consists of elevations, sections, and perspective views of the exterior and interior of the Old Palace, as it was restored by Henry the Eighth; and plans and eleva tions of the building as it appeared in the times of Edward the Confessor, William Rufus, Henry the Third, &c., before it was partly destroyed by fire; shewing the old Saxon architecture, and the various changes it has undergone down to the present time. There are eighteen cosmoramic views of the several parts of the Old Palace; shewing the interiors of the Hall, Chapel, Oratory, and Chapter House, the Council Chamber, Painted Chamber, Robing Room, Kitchen, Cellars, &c., in their original state; very elaborate illuminated drawings of the splendid decorations of the walls and painted windows of the Chapel; views of the staircase of the Speaker's House, and a perspective view of a plan for restoring the Old Palace as it was finished in the reign of Edward the Third." As mere works of art, the cosmoramic views would be hardly deserving of notice; but, to the historian, the architect, and the antiquary, they are full of interest. The illuminated drawings are also exceedingly curious. At the present moment, when half the town is coronation mad, Mr. Lee's five cosmoramic views of the splendid coronation of his late Majesty will excite some attention. The views of Brighton Palace-its exterior -the dining-room, the music-room, the library, &c. are also not without temporary interest. ROYAL CLARENCE VASE. We had heard much of this vase, of its magnitude, beauty, and splendour, before we stepped into the Queen's Bazaar to see it; but we must candidly confess that all our high anticipations were thrown into shade by the very first glance of a moment. would undertake to construct a vase, capacious, if required, as the dome of St. Paul's. It is, of course, in many pieces, but not a joint perceptible; the respective pieces are all firmly screwed together; and the whole may, at any time, be separated, packed up, and removed at pleasure. To appreciate all the beauties of the Clarence Vase, it should be seen under three distinct lights: daylight, in which the chasteness of design, the beauty of form, will be less disturbed by brilliancy of colour; the full blaze of gas-light, when the splendour is absolutely dazzling; and a subdued gaslight, when the deep richness of the toutensemble becomes, if possible, yet more imposing. By certain mechanical arrangements, all this is provided for in the exhibi tion-room. George IV. About four years since, Mr. Gunby obtained an introduction to the king with two small vases, each about eighteen inches in height-the first specimens of his art, which he had previously shewn to some private friends; when his Majesty was pleased to express his unqualified approbation of their design and execution, and he commanded Mr. Gunby to execute a vase on a much larger scale, and suitable for one of his palaces. Thus encouraged, he imme Describe this glorious triumph of art, we It appears, that, for the origination of this cannot; but we will mention some of its work, the public is in some measure inattributes. And, first, let the reader pic-debted to the taste of his late Majesty, ture to himself, if he can, a magnificent and most richly-coloured glass vase, of the purest Grecian form, fourteen feet in height, weighing upwards of ten tons, or twentytwo thousand four hundred pounds, and capable of containing nine hundred gallons, or five thousand four hundred bottles, of wine. Verily, it would cut a grand figure at the approaching coronation banquet-if their Majesties are to be indulged with one! Then, imagine this stupendous vase, gorgeous with gold, and blazing with pre-diately sketched the design for the present cious stones, with a lustre and a radiance work, and proceeded with it to its completion. not to be equalled by the most dazzling descriptions of the far-famed Arabian Nights, and some faint idea may be formed of the effect produced on the eye of the spectator; not the effect produced by "barbaric pomp and gold," for here all is chaste and beautiful as it is brilliant. The embossed ground of the exterior appears to be partly of burnished, partly of dead gold, exquisitely relieved, by a variety of rich and beautiful devices, of a vivid emerald green, scarlet, &c. The interior, less -brilliant, and of more subdued colours, is of a warm lavender ground, with a vine leaf of living green rising gracefully from the centre of the vase to the upper lip. The goid and colours are, in each instance, on the under side of the glass; not actually vitrified, yet so fixed by heat as to be incapable of sustaining atmospheric injury by even the lapse of ages. We should have mentioned, that each of the arms, or handles, of the Clarence Vase, consists of two griffins' or dragons' heads, grasping a massive chain between their teeth, and supported by a scroll, from which flows the elegant and classical acanthus leaf, embracing the bowl on each side. These handles, which are of bronze, weighing 786lbs., were modelled by Mr. William Hollins, of Birmingham-brother, we presume, of Mr. Hollins, of whose beautiful sculpture a notice will be found at page 86 of the present volume. Altogether, the value of this vase is estimated at £10,000. It ought to be in the possession of an emperor-of a king at least. FINE ARTS' PUBLICATIONS, &c. Sir Thomas Lawrence.-A Portrait of the late Sir Thomas Lawrence, painted and lithographed by W. C. Ross, is the most successful likeness that we have seen of the late President; excepting, perhaps, that the chin a little too pointed. Strange as it may be deemed, this vase is built-literally built, upon an iron frame; and, upon the same principle, the ingenious artist-Mr. John Gunby, of Birmingham-is Melanges of the Month. Varieties in High Life, &c. EARL GREY has given great attention to the arrangements for the coronation, the whole of which, instead of being left to the management of the great Officers of State of the King's Household, and the Hereditary Great Officers, as had been the usual custom, have been entirely under the controul of the Privy Council, at all the meetings of which, on this subject, his Lordship has been constant in his attendance. Sir George Smart has been appointed by the Lords of the Privy Council to conduct the musical department at the coronation. Those who by former usage were entitled to take part in the coronation processions from Westminster Hall, but whose attendance is dispensed with at the ensuing ceremony, are to receive personal tickets of admission to the Abbey. The Bishop of Chichester has been selected to attend the Queen on the day of the coronation, and will perform the same duties to Her Majesty as the bishops in attendance on the King. The Duchess of Cambridge will remain in this country till after the ceremony of the coronation, when the royal Duchess will depart to join the Duke, her husband, at Hanover. Her Majesty lately presented to Donna Maria a pair of magnificent bracelets, on one of which were the initials of Her Majesty, and on the other the initials of the King. His Majesty has appointed the Rev. Lord John Thynne, M A., Prebendary of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Thomas Manners Sutton. His Majesty has been pleased to confer the honour of knighthood on Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Edward Cust, M.P., Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Equerry to King Leopold. His Majesty has been pleased to confer upon George Hamilton, Esq., the honour of Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. His Majesty has appointed Rear Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, K.C.B., to the office of Lieutenant Governor of Greenwich Hospital, vacant by the decease of Captain William Browell. It is reported that the King of Belgium is about to receive the hand of a Catholic Princess, the eldest daughter of Louis Philippe, Louise Maria, in her twentieth year. The Waterloo Gallery, adjoining the Grand Corridor in Windsor Castle, is nearly complete. When it is finished, the portraits (painted by the late Sir Thomas Lawrence) of the sovereigns, princes, generals, and statesmen, who figured on the continent during the war with France, will be deposited there. The entire collection of cabinet pictures painted by the Dutch, Flemish, German, and Italian artists, the property of the Duchess de Berri, has arrived from the continent. Lord Prudhoe, brother of the Duke of Northumberland, and a Captain in the navy, has given £500. to the Royal Naval School. This nobleman accompanied Lord Exmouth on the expedition to Algiers. The Marquess of Douglas, son of the Duke of Hamilton, will be of age in February next. In addition to the Dukedom of Hamilton, and its vast domains, he will succeed to the immense estates of his grandfather, Mr. Beckford, late of Fonthill. The King of Bavaria lately composed a cantata militaire against France, which was sung in his presence at the Munich theatre. The ex-monarch, Charles X., has been a third time condemned by the courts here to pay to M. de la Balne, a creditor of "auld lang syne," the sum of 50,000 francs, part of a loan advanced to the emigrant princes in 1792. In the event of the Queen of Spain's accouchement of a daughter, Her Majesty is anxious that some distinguishing title should be conferred upon her, as is customary at the Neapolitan and some other continental The general impression in Madrid is, that this title will be that of Duchess of Barcelona. courts. The Earl of Harrowby has arrived from the continent, where he had been residing for nearly two years for the benefit of his health. Among other persons of note at St. Petersburgh, carried off by the cholera-morbus, are Prince G. de Galitzen, the Count de Langeran, the Princess Kurakin, and Count Stanislaus Potocki. Sir Walter Scott, accompanied by his sonin-law, Mr Lockhart, and a select party, are lands of Scotland. at present engaged on a tour in the High Buckingham Palace. It is now asserted, that the King has at length determined on the completion of Buckingham Palace, and that it will henceforth form the residence of the British court. It has been estimated by the competent officers that what remains to be done to the Palace, to make it in a suitable state for the The Duchess of Saxe Weimar, it is expected, will shortly revisit this country. Her Serene Highness has left all her chil-reception of their Majesties and the Royal dren here, except her eldest son, Prince William, who will remain in Holland, to complete his education. suite, can be accomplished by an expenditure of £70,000.; but in this sum many of the ornamental embellishments contemplated in the original design are not included, but are to be dispensed with, and nothing but what is substantially necessary to the completion of the building is to be executed. Archery. pold, King of Belgium, is the son of Mr. Adair, a celebrated surgeon, by Lady Caroline Keppel, daughter of William, second Earl of Albemarle. He may be said to have been the elève and friend of Mr. Fox; and while he sat in parliament, which he did first The fete intended to be given by Lord for Appleby, and then for Camelford, he Grosvenor to the Royal British Bowmen, is steadily adhered to him. Mr. Adair is suplikely to be postponed, in consequence of the posed to have had a considerable share in coronation being fixed for the time when it those celebrated publications, the "Rolliad," was to take place. The Lady Paramount and "Probationary Odes;" while many for the year, is Lady Elizabeth Belgrave, poetical jeux d'esprit, which appeared in the and the vice-president, Sir Stephen Glynn. Morning Chronicle, are known to have proThe first fete was given in the early part of ceeded from his pen. Mr. Adair married, in August, by Mr. Sparling, at Petton, when 1805, Gabrielle Angelica, Countess d'Haginthe Lady Patroness's hat was shot for, and court. When his friends came into power, won by Miss Kenrick. A prize of a pair of they appointed him, in 1806, ambassador to most superb and massive gold candelabra, the court of Vienna, where he acted with so given by Lieut.-General Glegg, was also ably much propriety, that in 1809, the succeeding contested for on the same day, and won by administration sent him as minister to ConMiss Congreve, of Iscoed, which the Gene- stantinople. Since his return, he has enjoyral presented to her. Lord Avonmore willed the usual pension of a retired ambassador, shortly give a bow-meeting at Lanvorn, and also Mrs. Corbet, of Sundon Castle. The prize given by his Majesty will be shot for at the next meeting. from which, by his appointment, the country is now relieved. In 1789, Sir Robert visited Russia, for the supposed purpose of counteracting Mr. Pitt's measures, which at that time were thought likely to bring on a war Performers at the King's Theatre during the with the late Empress Catherine. He is the 1831. Opera. Opera. late Management. WOMEN. WOMEN. Pasta Sontag Schutze WOMEN. WOMEN. Caradori Pisaroni Petralia Brambilla Specchi Specchi Castelli Castelli Castelli MEN. man Ayton Filiani MEN. Curioni MEN. MEN. Curioni Donzelli author of "A Whig's Apology for his Consistency;"" Part of a Letter to the Right Hon. Č. J. Fox;" and a republication of Mr. Fox's "Letter to the Electors of Westminster, with an Application of its Principles to subsequent Events." Grandees' Property. Among the European nobility, probably the Marquess of Stafford is the wealthiest individual. His income has been mentioned as beyond £300,000. sterling. The Duke of Medina Coeli, whose wealth is generally taken as a standard and term of comparison, possesses only 114,000,000 of reals, about £115,000., and he is obliged to have a regal establishment, as he still keeps up his pretensions to the crown of Spain. His household amounts to more than 200 persons. Next to the Duke of Medina Coeli, the richest grandees are Ossima, and the Duke of Alba and Berwick, but the possessions of the latter are very much encumbered with debt. But, all allowances made for the comparative cheapness of Spain, it will yet be seen that there is no proportion between the grandees of that country, and those of England. It would require the revenues of fifty of them to make up the incomes of the Dukes of Buccleugh and Bedford, and the Earls of Grosvenor and Fitzwilliam, and one or two others. Oatlands. Oatlands, which has been purchased from Mr. Hughes Ball, by Lord Francis Leveson Gower, is much improved by the additional furniture and embellishments in the mansion, and the renoyation of the celebrated The Ambassador to Belgium. grotto-in the front of which, and on the borders of the lake, still remain the tombThe Right Hon. Sir Robert Adair, K.B., stones, and the weeping willows waving over who has been appointed ambassador to Leo-them, of the favourite dogs buried there by her late Royal Highness the Duchess of York. Cholera Morbus. The following is said to be Sir Matthew Tierney's recipe for this disease:-"Cajeput oil, twenty-five drops in a wine-glass of hot water. If not relieved in five minutes, take fifty more." The dose is enormous. Sale of the MSS. of the Waverley Novels. The announcement of the sale of these interesting MSS., at Evans's, in Pall Mall, did not excite so much attention as might have been anticipated. The manuscripts were all in Sir Walter Scott's handwriting, neat, clean, and in green morocco bindings. The total produce of the sale was £317., and the prices of each lot, and the purchasers, as follows:-The Monastery, bought by Mr. Thorpe, £18.-Guy Mannering, Mr. Thorpe, £27. 10s-Old Mortality, £33.-The Antiquary, Capt. Basil Hall, £42.-Rob Roy, Mr. Wilks, M.P., £50.-Peveril of the Peak, Mr. Cochrane, £42.-Waverley, Mr. Wilks, M.P. £18.-The Abbot, 14.-Ivanhoe, Mr. Rumbold, M.P., £12.-The Pirate, Molteno and Graves, £12.-The Fortunes of Nigel, £16. 16s. Kenilworth, Mr. Wilks, M.P., £17.-The Bride of Lammermoor, Capt. Basil Hall, £14. 14s. God Save the King. as If the testimony of the Duchess de given in her MS. Memoirs be correct, the words of our national anthem, "God save the King," are of French origin. In giving an account of the establishment of Saint-Cyr, "When his most Christian Ma she says, jesty entered the chapel, the whole choir of noble ladies sang the following words, to a beautiful air, composed by the Sieur de Sully." Grand Dieu, sauvez le roy Que toujours glorieux, Louis victorieux Grand Dieu, sauvez le roy! Population: United States. The result of the official census, up to the end of December last, shows, that there are at this moment six and forty towns in the United States, whose population exceeds five thousand souls. New York, which has 213,170 inhabitants, takes the precedence; then follow, Philadelphia, 161,412; Baltimore, 80,519; and Boston, 70,464. Of cities, possessing above 20,000 souls, there are four; above 10,000, eleven; above 8,000, six; above 7,000, three; above 6,000, eleven; and above 5,000, six, of which latter class, York, with a population of 5,205, occupies the lowest rank. The total number of inhabitants, in these six and forty towns, is 971,457 of both sexes. Literary and Scientific Intelligence. A subscription is to be formed with a view to the purchase and preservation, in the British Museum, or National Gallery, of the late Sir Thomas Lawrence's unrivalled collection of drawings of the old masters. The Council of the Royal Academy have voted £1,000. towards the subscription. The Surrey Zoological Gardens are rapidly advancing; the entire menagerie of Mr. Cross, and his museum, deposited at the King's Mews, Charing Cross, will shortly be removed thither Mr. Cross himself being a large proprietor of the new speculation, which will be opened upon the same plan as the establishment in Regent's Park. Mr. Salmon, the author of a valuable treatise on the diseases of the Colon, Rectum, &c., has published an additional volume on Prolapsus of the Lower Bowel. His modus operandi is at once simple, safe, and invariably efficacious. The cases are not calculated for public discussion; but they are of such high interest as to merit perusal by every person who may have reason to suspect that all is not right in the important functions of which Mr. Salmon treats. A subscription for a public monument to the memory of the late Mr. Roscoe, has been proposed at Liverpool. An illuminating gas is said to have been discovered at Birmingham, superior to all others, and obtained from water. Works in the Press, &c. The Life and Correspondence (embracing nearly sixty years) of the late Mr. Roscoe. By Mr. Alaric Watts, a volume of his poems, to be entitled Lyrics of the Heart, the Glass of Agrippa, &c., illustrated by from thirty to forty highly-finished line engravings, from paintings and drawings by Lawrence, Stothard, Howard, Leslie, Newton, Chalon, Pickersgill, Turner, Etty, Collins, Edwin Landseer, Stanfield, Bonington, Haydon, Bone, Cattermole, Boxall, &c. Rough Sketches of the Life of an Old Soldier, during a service in the West Indies, the Peninsula, France, &c., by Lieut.-Col. J. Leach, C. B. Poems on Sacred Subjects, by the Rev. S. Sanderson, A.M., Oxford, dedicated to the Countess of Cork. The Annuals, some new and some old, are putting forth their announcements. Amongst others, the Amulet, for 1832, the sixth volume of the series, with engravings from four of Sir Thomas Lawrence's paintings; that of "the Marchioness of Londonderry and her Son" being the frontispiece. Also, prints from Pickersgill's "Greek Girl," Haydon's "Eucles," a painting of "the Death of the First-born," by G. Hayter, a picture of "Corinne," (painted expressly for the Amulet) by the French artist Gerard, with landscapes by Stanfield, Roberts, &c. The Juvenile Forget Me Not, for 1832, edited by Mrs. S. C. Hall, is also announced. |