FINDEN'S Landscape Illustrations of Byron conclude in a very interesting manner, the 24th part containing views of Harrow and Missolonghi, one of the earliest and the latest scenes of the Poet's career; with portraits of Samuel Rogers, esq. from Sir Thomas Lawrence; M. G. Lewis, esq. the author of the Monk, from Harlowe; and Madame de Stael, from Gerard. A series of descriptions, by Mr. Brockedon, enables the purchaser to bind the work in three very handsome volumes, which may be read as well as admired. FINDEN'S Gallery of the Graces is concluded with the twelfth number. It is a work which we will allow to contain some compositions of much beauty; but we cannot think that the conceptions of our modern artists are uniformly very successful. However, they seem to have been generally approved; and a separate book of "Byron Beauties" is now announced by Messrs. Finden. No. III. of Mr. B. R. GREEN's Heads after the Antique, presents us with the Bacchus of the Louvre, the Ariadne of the Capitol, the Hercules Farnese, and a Fawn in the British Museum, excellently drawn in lithography, and very desirable copies for the pencil. MAJOR'S Cabinet Gallery of Pictures, No. VII. of Vol. II. contains 1. Sir T. Lawrence's whole-length of Kemble as Hamlet, the likeness lost; 2. a silly composition by Garofalo, of the Vision of St. Augustine, one of the class so deservedly satyrised by Hogarth. Mr. Ottley, however, has praised the original; but it is not the excellent execution of parts of a picture, but the general effect of the whole, that makes it desirable for engraving; 3. a Virgin and Child, by Parmegiano, a piece of exquisite grace, worth any ten of Mr. Major's other subjects, and the whole Gallery of the Graces included. We have been much pleased with four etchings, on one plate, of the following subjects:-1. Latimers, the seat of Lord G. Cavendish;-2. The Sepulchral Chapel of the Russells at Chenies;-3. Almshouses at Chenies;-4. The Countess of Bedford's arms, carved on the same. These etchings are from the hand of Mr. R. B. Schnebbelie, whose long experience as a draughtsman is well known; they reflect credit on his perseverance in mastering a new branch of art, and have the freedom and spirit sometimes found in the productions of a tasteful amateur. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. New Works announced for Publication. SAMUEL ASTLEY DUNHAM, esq. LL.D. of Shincliffe Grange, near Durham (author of the History of Spain and Portugal in Dr. Lardner's Encyclopedia), proposes to publish by subscription, a new work to be entitled, The British Biography.' He intends to adopt a chronological order, and a systematic classification; to consult every printed authority, and the MSS. of Public Libraries; to allot five volumes to his ancient division: five to the middle; and to the modern as many as shall be found requisite; to devote 10 or 12 years to the work, and to publish in half-yearly volumes. State Trials; or a Collection of the most interesting Trials from the era of the Revolution in 1688, to the Special Commission in 1831. Reviewed and Illus trated by WILLIAM CHARLES TOWNSEND, esq. A.M. Recorder of Macclesfield. Divine Providence, or the Three Cycles of Revelation, establishing the parallelism of the Patriarchal, Jewish, and Christian periods. By Dr. CROLY. The Fulness of Time. By the Rev. W. M. HETHERINGTON, M.A. Sixteen Discourses on the Liturgical Services of the Church of England. By the Rev. T. BOWDLER. The Life of the Rev. Rowland Hill, by the Rev. EDWIN SIDNEY. The Correspondence of JOHN JEBB, D.D. F.R.S. Bishop of Limerick, with ALEXANDER KNOX, esq. from 1799 to 1831. An Address to the Nobility and Landed Proprietors of Great Britain and Ireland, on the Distressed State of the Agricultural Population, and the baneful Effects of Absenteeism. By a LONDON MER CHANT. Analysis of the defective state of Turnpike Roads and Turnpike Securities; with Suggestions for their Improvement. By F. PHILIPS, esq. Necessity of a Commutation of Tithes, and the Means of rendering the Soil of the British Islands capable of abundantly supporting twice the amount of their present Population. By T. A. KNight, esq. F.R.S. The Physiology, Pathology, and Treatment of Asphyxia; including suspended Animation in New-born Children. By J. P. KAY, M.D. Lays and Legends of France, being the Second number of Mr. W. I. THOMS' National Lays and Legends. The Third number will contain Lays and Legends of Ireland. The BISHOPRIC GARLAND, being a Collection of Legends, Ballads, Songs, &c. belonging to the county of Durham. A Popular Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects. By J. O. WESTWOOD, F.L. S. &c. A new System of Commercial Arithmetic, by W. TATE, jun. A new work upon Education, by SILVIO PELLICO, entitled, The Duties of Mankind,' now in the course of Translation by Mr. T. ROSCOE, who has added a life of Pellico, by his friend and fellow-prisoner Maroncelli. CRUIKSHANK'S Trip to Greenwich Fair, with Engravings on Wood, intended as a companion to HOOD's Epping Hunt.' The Researches on Fossil Bones, a complete Translation, illustrated, of CUVIER'S celebrated work. A Dictionary of the Terms employed by the French in Anatomy, Physiology, &c. by S. PALMER, M.D. The Revolutionary Epick, by D'IsRAELI, the younger. Brother Tragedians, by Miss HILL. Wesleyan Takings; or, Sketches of Ministerial Characters-designed to furnish useful Hints to Young Ministers. Napoleon's Dying Soliloquy, by Mr. J. STEWART. A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany, on a Plan similar to that of Rousseau's Letters on Botany. By Dr. LINDLEY, Professor of Botany at the London University. On the British North American Colonies, by Mr. G. R. YOUNG. ROYAL SOCIETY. Feb. 27. F. Baily, esq. V.P. Capt. de Roos's paper on the operations on the Thetis at Cape Frio, was concluded; and a paper read, giving an account of the application of an achromatic concave lens to the micrometer, proposed to be called the macro-micro lens, by George Dollond, esq. F.R.S. The author states that by introducing one of the fluid concave lenses recently invented by Professor Barlow, between the object glass and the eye-glass of a five feet telescope, it became as powerful as one of ten feet. The Rev. Mr. Dawes, an eminent practical astronomer, states that, in his opinion, this invention is one of the greatest improvements made in optical instruments for many years. March 6. M. I. Brunel, esq. V.P. The reading was commenced of a paper, On the structure, functions, and vitality of polypi zoophytes, and other compound animals resembling them; by Mr. Lister. March 13. J. W. Lubbock, esq. V.P. Read, the remainder of Mr. Lister's memoir on tubular and cellular polypi; a mathematical paper by Mr. Lubbock on the theory of the Moon; and "Suggestions respecting the most advantageous mode of using the new Zenith Telescope, erected at the Observatory of Greenwich;" by Mr. Pond, Astronomer Royal. March 20. M. I. Brunel, esq. V.P. A communication was read from Capt. Dickenson, of his Majesty's ship Lightning, in correction of Capt. de Roos's account of the operations at Cape Frio; the works having been in great measure devised, and three-fourths of the recovered treasure obtained, before the Lightning was succeeded by Capt. de Roos in the Algerine. Adjourned to the 10th of April. BRITISH ASSOCIATION. The next meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, is fixed to meet at Edinburgh, on the week commencing with Monday the 8th of September. ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. Feb. 19. In reply to a paper by Mr. Beke, read on the 15th Jan., denying the authenticity of the writings attributed to Manetho, a dissertation, by Mr. Cullimore, was read, which embodied his objections against the opinions of Mr. Beke. The writer, in adverting to a passage supposed to be from Manetho's History, relating to the expedition of Susakim king of Egypt against Jerusalem, in the reign of Rehoboam, stated that the Syncelline succession of the Pharaohs, in which the passage under discussion appears, is greatly corrupted, abounding in omissions, interpolations, and transpositions of names, as is proved by collating it with the outline of Manetho's History, preserved by Africanus and Eusebius. He observed, that in the pages of the Greek Eusebian Chronicle, this record possesses no greater antiquity than in those of Syncellus, having been transcribed from that chronographer by Scaliger, into his compilation, which goes under the name of the Greek Eusebius; and he adduced parallel passages of chronographers, in which the expedition of Susakim or Shishak is connected with Manetho's dynasty, without referring the notice to that writer. Having further adverted to Mr. Beke's objections to Manetho, on the apparent inconsistency of his writings with those of Eratosthenes; and having remarked, that the history of Pharaoh Necho, as set forth in the Bible and the writings of Herodotus, appears conclusive against any views opposed to the identity of the Mizraim of the former, and the Egypt of the latter, Mr. Cullimore proceeded to show, that the place in Egyptian history of Shishak, the most ancient Pharaoh who is mentioned by name in the Bible, is established on evidence which furnishes a powerful example both of the integrity of the writings of Manetho, and of the validity and paramount utility of the phonetic system of hieroglyphics. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Feb. 21. The anniversary meeting was held at the Society's apartments in Somerset House; when Mr. Greenough was continued President, and R. I. Murchison, esq., and H. Warburton, esq., were elected to succeed Dr. Fitton and Professor Sedgwick, the retiring VicePresidents. It was announced that the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund had been awarded by the Council to Mons. Agassiz, in testimony of the high opinion entertained of his work on Fossil Fishes, and to encourage him in the prosecution of his important undertaking. The Society dined at the Crown and Anchor tavern, and afterwards adjourned to their own apartments to hear the remainder of the President's anniversary address. Feb. 26. Three communications were read: 1. On the quantity of earthy matter obtained from the water of the Rhine, at Bonn, in the months of August and November, by Leonard Horner, esq. F.G.S.; 2. On the plastic clay found near Reading by Mr. J. Rofe, jun.; 3. On two parallel sections through the eastern portion of the Pyrenees, from Parmier near Toulouse to Puycerda, and from Ceret to La Estala, by Charles Lyell, esq. Foreign Secretary. March 12. Read, a letter addressed to Dr. Fitton by Mr. Babbage, on the Temple of Jupiter Serapis, near Puzzuoli. STATISTICAL SOCIETY. A new Society, under this title, has arisen from last year's meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The eminent individuals who formed the Committee of the Statistical Section at Cambridge, invited a public meeting at the rooms of the Horticultural Society, on the 15th of March. There were about 250 persons present, and the Marquis of Lansdowne took the chair. His Lordship informed the meeting that the Government would be glad to avail itself of the labours of such an institution; which, in return, should have the assistance of Government when it was necessary. The Right Hon. H. Goulburn remarked that one of the greatest difficulties he had experienced when in office, was the want of completeness or arrangement, in the statistical returns to which he required to refer. The Lord Advocate, Mr. Babbage, Mr. Jones of the London University, Mr. Spring Rice, Mr. Hallam, and Mr. Brunel, also spoke warmly in favour of the projected institution. The following Resolutions were passed unanimously:-That accurate knowledge of the actual condition and prospects of society is an object of great national importance, not to be attained without a careful collection and classification of statistical facts;—that a society be established by the name of the Statistical Society of London, the object of which shall be the collection and classification of all facts illustrative of the condition and prospects of society, especially as it exists in the British dominions; and that the Society consist, in the first instance, of such of the present company as shall subscribe an obligation to that effect;-that the Committee be empowered, until the day of the next meeting, to receive the signatures of additional members, and to admit them fellows of the Society. Messrs. Babbage, Jones, Hallam, and Drinkwater, were nominated a Committee. The yearly subscription was fixed at two guineas. M. Quetelet, of Brussels, to whom the formation of the statistical section of the British Association at Cambridge was mainly due, was elected the first honorary member. ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. Feb. 24. At this meeting three splendid polyzonal lenses were exhibited by permission of the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses. One of these was made at Paris, another at London, and the third just received from Newcastle. The diameter of the outer zone of two of these lenses, is two feet six inches, and that of the London instrument is three feet. Their focal distance is about three feet. By exposure to the rays of the sun, the lens suddenly melts pieces of copper and other metals placed in its focus. The Newcastle lens is made of one piece of highly polished glass. These lenses are about to be removed to Gullane-hill, where their effect will be fully tried along with the light invented by Lieut. Drummond, from the experiment rooms of the Northern Lighthouse Board. ASHMOLEAN SOCIETY, OXFORD. Feb. 21. Two papers were read, communicated by J. Duncan, esq. D. C. L.; the first on a supposed letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle, descriptive of India; the second, a description of a singular instance of a moth case formed in a carpet bag.-P. Duncan, esq. of New College, then exhibited part of the contents of a mummy of a crocodile, recently presented to the Museum by Mr. Munro'; and gave some account of crocodiles, from Cuvier and other writers.-Dr. Daubeny exhibited Daniell's pyrometer, and made some observations on the influence of light on animal life; and concluded by proposing the following query:-Is it reasonable to suppose (with Dr. Edwards) that the singular animal, called the Proteus Anguinus, which occurs in the dark caverns of Carniola, is a reptile whose form has never been developed, bearing the same relation to some unknown species which the tadpole does to the frog? CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. March 3. The Rev. Temple Chevalier described experiments which he had made on the polarization of light by the sky. The general results were, that light is polarized by the clear sky: that the effect begins to be sensible at points thirty degrees distant from the sun, and that the greatest quantity of polarized light proceeds from points at ninety degrees distance from the sun; a fact which seems to indicate that the reflection, which occasions the polarization, takes place at the surface of two media as nearly as possible of the same density. March 10. Professor Airy gave an account of experiments on the polarization of light by the sky. It appeared that the light was polarized in a plane passing through the sun, and that the plane of polarization was not reversed in approaching the sun, as had been formerly suggested by M. Arago. Professor Airy found that he could observe the polariza tion within 9 degrees of the sun, in a horizontal direction, but that above and below the sun the traces disappeared at a distance considerably greater. It was found, in the course of these experiments, that very rough surfaces, as a stone wall, a gravel walk, a carpet, produced some polarization by reflection; and that the plane of polarization in all cases passed through the point of reflection and the source from which the light came. This communication gave rise to other observations from other members. ROYAL INSTITUTION. John Fuller, esq. of Rose Hill, the founder of the professorship of Electricity attached to this establishment, has conferred upon it another princely benefaction of 3,333l. 6s. 8d. three per cent. consols, to found a Professorship of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, which is intended to be conferred on Dr. Roget; and a third sum of 3000l. to accumulate in the funds, we presume with a view to rebuilding the house. In the whole, Mr. Fuller has bestowed 10,000l. upon the Royal Institution; the members were specially assembled to thank him on the 24th of March. KING'S COLLEGE. Major-General Sir H. Worsley has just made the munificent donation of 2000l. to King's College, London, for the endowment of an exhibition, to be applied to the purpose of educating young men in that institution, for the office of Missionaries of the Established Church in the East. This gift is in addition to former donations, amounting to 7007. from the same liberal supporter. BRITISH MUSEUM. Expense of Works and Buildings from Jan. 5, 1821, to March 31, 1833. Paid for ordinary works and repairs, and necessary fittings in the old buildings (including the several official houses), 14,5661. 13s. 7d.-Paid on account of the new buildings of the east and west wings, 213,0981. 17s. 2d.-Estimates of the probable expense of the north wing now proposed to be carried into execution, according to the plan of Sir Robert Smirke, 70,000l. Account of old Coins purchased for the British Museum, between Christmas 1832 and Christmas 1833-1. Gold coin of Rhodes; price 167.-2. A collection of 3,012 coins, chiefly Greek and Roman, comprising 52 in gold, 1,034 in silver, and 1,926 in brass; price 10007., bought of H. P. Borell, esq. of Smyrna.-3. Two hundred and ninety-six coins, chiefly of Redulf, Eanred, and Athelred, Kings of Northumberland, and of Vigmund and Eanbald, Archbishops of York, and the ancient vessel in which the coins were found, 201., as a remuneration to the sexton and others who discovered the coins. -4. Six hundred and fifty-nine pennies of William the Conqueror, found at Bosworth, near Alresford; cost 507. The total expenditure of the British Museum in 1833, was 19,4847. The number of visitors was 210,495. THE LITERARY FUND. Seventy-six cases have been relieved by this institution during the past year, by grants amounting to 1,2651. At the annual general meeting held March 12, Sir R. Peel and Sir R. H. Inglis were elected Vice-Presidents in the room of Sir W. Clayton and Sir John Malcolm, deceased. George Woodfall, esq. was chosen Auditor, in the room of Mr. Saville Onley, resigned; and Mr. Amyot succeeded Mr. Sotheby on the Council. To the Committee, in the room of mem bers who had not attended, were chosen Messrs. Lemon, W. C. Taylor, Whittaker, Dilke, and Williams. MUSICAL FESTIVAL. A grand Musical Festival is to be given in Westminster Abbey next summer, under the special patronage of their Majesties. The King has been pleased to give a donation of 500 guineas towards the funds, and to appoint the following Noblemen and Gentlemen as directors: Lord Howe, Lord Saltoun, Lord Belfast, Lord Denbigh, Lord Burghersh, Lord Cawdor, Sir Andrew Barnard, and Sir B. Stephenson, who have appointed Mr. Parry their Assistant Secretary. Sir George Smart, with whom the idea originated, has been appointed conductor. There will be four grand performances, and four public rehearsals, and the orchestra will be composed of more than 600 performers. The proceeds will be divided amongst the principal Musical Charities. ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES. SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIANS. Feb. 27. Thomas Amyot, Treasurer, in the chair. Mr. William Oldham, of Cressingham, near Diss, exhibited a small antique groupe, in bronze, found near that place, in which Cupid was represented as mounted on the shoulders of Hercules, in token of having subdued him to his sway. This, we may remark, is one of the modes of representing the triumph of Omphale over Hercules, adopted on gems and sculptures of the classic age. The groupe described, appeared to us to be of Roman workmanship. George Corner, esq. F. S. A. communicated some potters' marks on Samian ware lately found in Tooley-street, and some observations on that portion of the Borough of Southwark, called the Gildable manor, within which we understood Mr. Corner to say that he imagined the ancient limits of the Burgus, or Borough, were confined. The reading of the paper by W. Y. Ottley, esq. F. S. A. was continued, in which some curious remarks were made on fragments of glass vessels found in the catacombs of Rome, marked with the well-known monogram of XISTOS which Mr. Ottley thinks was employed by the Christians to express the name of our Saviour as early as the reign of Diocletian, and that the adoption of it by the Emperor Constantine on his la barum and his coins, was rather an assumption than an invention of the sacred symbol. March 6. H. Hallam, esq. V. P. A. J. Kempe, esq. F. S. A. exhibited drawings by Mr. John Swaine, jun. after some ancient stained glass of the time of Henry the Third, remaining in the north window of the old Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster. It is more remarkable for its high antiquity than its designs, consisting of the following subjects, treated in the ordinary way, each in a distinct oval piece:-the Slaughter of the Innocents; Decapitation of St. John; Christ walking on the Sea; the Resurrection; the Ascension; the Descent of the Holy Ghost; and the Stoning of Stephen. To these is added a piece of the age of James the First, now much disarranged, but which originally exhibited the arms of Archbishop Williams, when Bishop of Lincoln, and Dean of Westminster; the coat of the Deanery being placed in the centre, impaling the see of Lincoln on the dexter, and his family arms on the sinister side. Mr. Kempe took the opportunity to make some remarks on the history of the Jerusalem Chamber, which was erected by Abbot Lillington, in the 14th century. He noticed the accounts given by the continuator of the annals of Croyland, Fabian, and others, of the death of Henry the Fourth in this apartment; and on the expressions of the authority first mentioned," ad Cantuariam sepultus est," he noticed the doubt which had been |