for the whole-length. At these rates he continued to paint till 1806, when he raised his charge for the smallest size to fifty guineas, and so on in proportion. In 1808, he raised his prices to eighty guineas for the smallest size, and 320 for the whole-length; and in 1810, advanced them to 100 guineas for small heads, and 400 guineas for fulllengths. At these latter prices he continued to paint ten years; and in 1820, made one more advance, which he never exceeded.

Lord Byron.

"His vivid (and though dark) grand energy of thought awakens the imagination, and makes us bend to the genius, before. we scrutinize the man; but when he forces us to do the latter, the former becomes an object of apprehension and disgust; and, accordingly, Lavater's system never asserted its truth more forcibly than in Lord Byron's countenance, in which you see all the character: its keen and rapid genius, its pale intelligence, its profligacy and its bitternessits original symmetry distorted by the passions, his laugh of mingled merriment and scorn-the forehead clear and open, the brow boldly prominent, the eyes bright and dissimilar, the nose finely cut, and the nostril acutely formed the mouth well formed, but wide and contemptuous, even in its smile, falling singularly at the corners, and its vindictive and disdainful expression heightened by the massive firmness of the chin, which springs at once from the centre of the full under-lip the hair dark and curling, but irregular in its growth: all this presents to you the poet and the man, and the general effect is aided by a thin spare form, and, as you may have heard, by a deformity of limb."-Sir Tho. Lawrence's Correspondence.

Female Knights of the Garter.

Three females, and only three, have in this country worn the insignia of the garter; viz. Lady Harcourt, Lady Gray, and Lady Suffolk. Lady Harcourt was daughter of Sir John Byron, and wife of Sir Robert Harcourt, K.G. (temp. Henry III.) Her tomb is at Stanton-Harcourt, in Oxfordshire. The garter is above the elbow of the left arm. It has the motto. There is at Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire (the seat of the Earl Harcourt) over one of the doors of the dressing-room, a painting of that Lady Harcourt, wearing the garter on her arm. Lady Gray was daughter of John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter. She married, first, Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk; and, secondly, Sir John Gray, K.G. (temp. Henry V.) Sir John was afterwards Earl of Tankerville. Her tomb (now defaced) was in St. Catherine's church, near the Tower of London. Lady Suffolk was daughter of Sir Thomas Chaucer. She married William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk (temp. Hen. VI.) Her tomb, with her effigies, wearing the garter on her left arm, is in good preservation in Ewelme church, in Oxfordshire.

Artificial Wine.

Cider, three quarts; French brandy, one The Russians imitate port wine thusquart; gum kino, one drachm. And the French restaurateurs imitate successfully three quarts; French brandy, one quart; old hock by the following mixture:- Cider, alcoholized nitric ether, one drachm.

An Accompaniment.

The most singular spit in the world is that of the Count de Castel Maria, one of the most opulent Lords of Treviso. This spit turns 130 different roasts at once, and plays 24 tunes; and whatever it plays corresponds to a certain degree of cooking, which is perfectly understood by the cook. Thus a leg of mutton à l'Anglaise, will be excellent at the twelfth air; a fowl à la Flamande, will be juicy at the eighteenth, and so on.

Literary and Scientific Intelligence.

Mr. Bell, the founder of an admirable system of tuition, has presented to the Provost, Principal, and two Professors of the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland, a donation of £120,000, with a piece of land worth £1,100, for the promotion of education, and the advancement and profit of St. Andrew's.

The College of Physicians having met, by order of Government, to take into consideration the best means of preventing the introduction of cholera morbus into this country, report, that the disease seems in certain instances to have been communicated from one person to another, but that no evidence has been given of its being communicated by goods. They approve of quarantine, as a precautionary measure.

From the bones of the meat consumed in the Hospital of St. Louis, in Paris, there is obtained, every day, 900 rations of gelatinous solution, as rich in animal matter as the best soup in the kitchen.

The celebrated Abbé Gregoire, Bishop of Blois, having died, without retracting his alleged errors, the Archbishop of Paris forbade any of his clergy to read the service at his funeral. He was buried with military honours, as a Commander of the Legion of Honour.

Arnold's new theatre, to be built on the site of the late English Opera House, is expected to be finished by the end of June, 1832; although the Bill authorizing the new street has not yet passed the Committee in the Commons House of Parliament.

Works in the Press, &c.

By Major Ricketts, a Narrative of the Ashantee War, including the particulars of the Capture and Massacre of Sir Charles M'Carthy, &c.

The fifth volume of Allan Cunningham's Lives of the most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.

A Life of Sir Thomas Lawrence, with numerous Facts and Private Papers hitherto unpublished.

BIRTHS.

OF SONS. The lady of Col. Milman.Mrs. Wyndham Portman-The lady of Alex. Taylor, Esq.-Mrs. Blomfield. The lady of Lieut.-Col. Barnard,-The lady of R. Jenkins, Esq., M.P.-The lady of Major Longley, R.A. The Hon. Mrs. Smith.The lady of Tycho Wing, Esq.-The lady of Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P.-The lady of the Hon. Algernon Herbert. The lady of P. J. Miles, Esq., M.P. (still-born).

OF DAUGHTERS.-The Hon. Mrs. Erskine. Lady Emily Harding. The Marchioness of Worcester. The lady of T. Chamberlayne, Esq.-The lady of the Hon. G. Talbot.-The Hon. Mrs. Ramsay (stillborn). The Hon. Mrs. Henry Ramsden.

MARRIAGES.

E. R. Borough, Esq., eldest son of Sir R. Borough, Bart., to Lady Elizabeth St. Lawrence, youngest daughter of the late, and sister of the present, Earl of Howth.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, William, eldest son of Sir William Curtis, Bart., to Georgiana Maria, eldest daughter of the late John Stratton, Esq., of Portugal-street, Grosvenor-square.

At Kilkenny, Robert Fowler, Esq., son of the Lord Bishop of Ossory, to Harriet Eleanor Wandesford, daughter of the Marquess of Ormonde.

At Malvern, C. W. H. Evered, son of J. Evered, Esq., of Hill House, Somersetshire, to Emma, daughter of H. Candler, Esq., of Callan Castle, Kilkenny, Archdeacon of Ossory.

At Paris, the Count G. M. Pussenti, of Rome, to Mary, daughter of the late Col. Rogers, of Weston-super-Mare, Somersetshire.

At Carlshrue, Capt. Drummond, late of the 93d Highlanders, heir presumptive to the Earldom of Melfort, in Scotland, to the Baroness Albertine de Rotberg-Rheinweiler, widow of General Count Rapp, Peer of France.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, N. J. Knatchbull, eldest son of Sir E. Knatchbull, Bart., to Mary, eldest daughter of J. W. Russell, Esq., of Ham Hall, Staffordshire.

At St. Mary's, Bryanstone-square, Capt. J. Davidson, 2d Life Guards, to Augusta Catherine, second daughter of Mr. and Lady Sarah Bailey.

At Cheltenham, P. A. Browne, Esq., son of A. Browne, Esq., of Devonshire-place, Marylebone, to Caroline Jesscinthia, third daughter of Sir Charles H. Rich, Bart., of Shirley House, Hants.

At Brinny church, county Cork, the Hon. W. S. Bernard, brother of the Earl of Bandon, to Elizabeth, only daughter of Lieut.Col. Gillman.

At Bath, Capt. Ellis, 4th Light Dragoons,

to Eliza Georgiana, eldest daughter of Col. J. L. Richardson, Bengal service.

At Chalfont St. Giles, the Rev. T. P. Bridges, of Danbury, in Essex, to Sophia Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Sir W. L. Young, Bart., of Stone Dean, Bucks.

At Stanford, Major Geo. Birch, of Clare, Hants, to Lydia Diana, eldest daughter of the late Rev. S. F. Dashwood, of Stanford Hall, Nottinghamshire.

DEATHS.

In her 93d year, Mrs. Anna Maria Arden, sister to the late Lord Alvanley.

At Bath, the Rev. Francis Coke, Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral.

In Craven Street, Strand, Rear-Admiral George Sayer, C.B., in his 58th year.

At Bath, Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Sir W. Johnstone Hope, G.C.B.

In his 64th year, Admiral Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke, K.C.B. His death was occasioned by the upsetting of a boat in a squall of wind near the mouth of the Southampton water. Captains Brady and Young, R.N., perished with the Admiral.

The Rev. Thomas Vialls, of Radnor House, Twickenham.

In Ely Place, Anna Maria, wife of George Macilwain, Esq., and niece of the Earl of Strathmore.

At Haveoholm Priory, Lincolnshire, aged 83, Sir Jenison William Gordon, Bart.

In Park Lane, Harriott, eldest daughter of Sir C. Bethell and the Hon. Lady Codrington.

In Bedford-square, Jonathan Raine, Esq., M.P., aged 67.

At Hendley Hall, Lancashire, Roger Holt Leigh, Esq.

At Marlborough House, Leopold John, eldest son of Sir Robert Gardiner.

John Vaughan, sixth Viscount and third Earl of Lisburne.

At Crawley, Hants, the Rev. H. T. Dampier, Rector of Crawley, and Prebendary of Ely.

At Tobago, the Hon. John Chadband.

At Weyborne House, aged 63, the Rev. G. West, M.A., Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Orford.

At St. John's Wood, John Jackson, Esq., R.A.

John Gamble, Esq., of Strabane.

At Aghnaverna, county of Louth, aged 62, the Hon. Baron M'Cleland.

In Albemarle-street, aged 73, the Right Hon. William, Earl of Northesk, Baron Rosehill and Inglismaldie, G.C.B., and LL.D., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of Great Britain.

At Reading, Stephen Maberley, Esq., aged 86.

In Upper Baker-street, aged 75, Mrs. Siddons.

At Spencer House, the Countess Spencer.