It is ing of a Birth Day Ode, the production of our Laureat Bard, was presented by the author, Mr. Robinson, who at the request of his Excellency, recited it in his usual energetic and impressive manner. with much pleasure we bear testimony to the merits of a performance which at once displayed the classical acquirements and distinguished taste of the poet, and the loyalty of the subject. "In the evening a grand ball at Government House exhibited an assemblage of elegance and taste to which the splendid decorations of the ball-room added an effect truly captivating and delightful, reminding us of the Arcadian bowers and scenes of enchantment celebrated by the muses of old. The chaste and judicious arrangement of the native shrubs and flowers entwined round the colonnades, and forming rich and variegated festoons between them, with the aid of various trans parencies intermingled, afforded a coup d'oeil, which to those who were present, our description will not enhance the fascinating effect; whilst such of our readers as had not an opportunity of witnessing it, may form some judgment from our imper fect account of it. “In the domain, and a little removed from the front of the Government House, an octagonal temple or bower was erected, richly illuminated and embellished with various appropriate devices. Amongst others, we particularly noticed a transparency emblematical of the temple of Hymen, whose altar was so lately hallowed by the solemnization of the nuptials of our illustrious Princess Charlotte with the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, to whom this bower was specially dedicated. It being Saturday the ball closed at an early hour, when the company retired to partake of a most elegant and splendid repast, at which 115 ladies and gentlemen sat down, and enjoyed an interchange of social and cheerful conversation, until warned to separate by the approach of morning." Bank of New South Wales. The subscription for the "Bank of New South Wales" was full, and the proprietors were about forthwith to present a memorial to the Governor, praying for a charter of incorporation. This establishment it was confidently expected would greatly increase the prosperity of the colony. We are sorry to report that the Banditti of Bush Raugers on Van Diemen's Land continue the depredations and robberies, to the great injury and distress of their more industrious and honest neighbours. There is no saying in what these atrocities may end. to be carried off from their father, a Jew, The Dey has ordered two young women who was in the suite of the English Consul, and two days after the eldest daughter of the Sieur Dominibio, master of the French Auberge (inn), was also torn from her parent. This unfortunate girl was forced to marry the Dey. She is now Sovereign, and will perhaps share the same who was carried off by the Dey Hodgiafate as the daughter of the Dey of Tytara, Aly, and some time after found dead in prison, where she had perished with hun ger. to make a general complaint, and demand The Consuls collected together in order restitution of the females, but they were informed, before they arrived at the palace, of an order given by the monster AlyHodgia to his negroes, commanding them to fire on such of the Consuls as should venture to complain or demand restitution, the palace of the truth of their information, and being convinced, on their arrival at by the menacing gestures of the negroes by whom they were surrounded, they were forced to retire, after having had recourse to common place and insignificant observations, in order to fill up the time allowed for their useless audience. The measures adopted by the present Dey, who is a Turk, of arming the natives of the country against his own countrymen, is a new incident in the history of these countries. The example is authority for any other Mahometan to collect an army of mercenaries, and with them dispute the sovereignty. A Turk of distinction made a slight effort to oppose him. He marched against Aly-Hodgia with troops he had collected at Constantino, but he was unfortunate, and made prisoner. The hospitality Aly- | chambers, of different sizes, adorned with Hodgia had received from him formerly, Mosaic pavements. In the first, the pavewas an inducement to spare his life, but ment is not remarkable, except for its fine he banished him, after bestowing a pre-compartments. In the second is seen, in sent of 100 sequins. AUSTRIA. Bill of Mortality. Vienna, Jan. 15.-The deaths here (including the suburbs) during 1817 were 12,742, being an increase of 486 above those of 1816; among them were 60 individuals from 90 to 100 years of age, and two who had completed their 100th year. -The baptisms in 1817 were 11,228, being 320 less than 1816.-The marriages in 1817 were 2,205, being 676 less than in 1816. Peace Establishment. the middle, a Greek Menander, surrounded by stars, differing from each other by the enamel of their colours. In the third, besides the merit of the Mosaic, there is in the centre Ulysses bound to the mast of a ship; on a shoal is placed a rower, and a syren with a lyre in her hand. On the other side, Scylla, having the upper part formed like a woman, and the lower terminating in three dogs' heads, which deyour three carcases: she has an oar in ber hand, and beats these animals. On the right of Scylla, a little cupid is flying on a tiger; a woman, pointing to a sea monster, holds a veil in her hands, which, The military contingent of the Germanic In the fourth, numerous fish, of different inflated by the wind, floats over her head. Confederation during peace is to be 120,000 species, adorn the Mosaic, which is inmen, viz. 96,000 infautry, 18,000 cavalry, closed in a border, bandsomely ornamented. 6,000 artillery, &c. In case of war, the Ulysses is again seen; the magician Circe cavalry will be doubled, and the artillery appears to him: it seems that the hero tripled; the Generalissimo to have the ti- has forgotten Penelope. At the four antle of Field Marshal of the Germanic Con- gles are little subjects alluding to the federation. The proposed basis for the mi-adventures of Ulysses; and on the four litary contingent of the States of Germany, sides are represented birds of different requires a levy of 2 per cent, on the popu- species. lation. The gross population is about 30,000,000, of which 6,000,000 will be nearly the number of males capable of bearing arms. Two in every hundred of these would constitute an army of 120,000 men, the exact amount of force which it was lately stated the Army of the Confederation was designed to muster. BELGIUM. Public Works-Roads. Introduction to the Pope. A recent traveller thus notices his introduction to the Pope." His Holiness, the Pope, to whom I have had the honour of being introduced, is now in his 76th year, and when I saw him he appeared very pale and feeble, and stooped much. After our introduction to Cardinal Gonsalvi was over we passed through a long range of vast, and very magnificent apartments, In the Southern Provinces, works of pub- crowded with Swiss guards, Roman sollic utility are carrying on with great acti-diers, Abates, Monsignores, and a number vity. Several great roads are preparing, of other personages, in every variety of and other new ones making, to facilitate ecclesiastical dress; and at length, leaving the communications. The works upon the our swords, hats, and gloves, in an antifortresses along the French frontiers are chamber, we entered a small room, not proceeding with such diligence, that it is thirty feet square, hung with crimson silk, hoped several of them will be completed in which I saw no paintings; but there before the end of the year. The foundawas an ivory crucifix, a table with an inktions of the chateau of Terveuren are laid, stand, a few books and papers, and a bell, and the building is proceeding. It is thought in front of a chair, beneath a crimson cathat the new theatre will be finished in the "opy. In the middle of the room stood middle of August, and that the building of and with a white calotte on his head.— his Holiness, dressed in a white cassock, the new palace for the King will soon be He wore scarlet cloth sleeves, on each of which was embroidered a flowered gold cross. After the usual ceremonies of presentation had been gone through, we stood on the Pope's right hand. As our names were mentioned, the Pope, who rested on the arm of the Abate Taylor, listened, nodded his head, and looked at us with a gracious smile." commenced. ITALY. Mosaic Pavements. Rome, January 2.-The Duchess of Chablais, having employed workmen to dig in search of antiquities at the countryseat which she inhabits, they have discovered, on the summit of a hill, four square Fine Arts encouraged. being brought to England, to be placed in Rome, Jan. 10.-The study of the fine arts the British Museum. The Bust is described revives more and more every day in this ca- in the letter as consisting of a single piece pital of the world. Le Chevalier Thorwaldson of granite, of a flesh colour from the top of is occupied in restoring the last of the statues the head to the neck, the rest being grey; of Egina. These master pieces of art have the weight is computed at fourteen tons. inspired him with the desire of making an the writer of the letter made several excaattempt in the hyperantique style. The Count vations, and discovered a row of Sphinxes, Sommariva, one of the most wealthy patrons of black marble, with the bodies of women of the arts in Europe, has given Thorwaldson an order for the entry of Alexander into Ba- and lions' heads, beautifully sculptured, bylon, which excites admiration in fresco on and several of them quite perfect; and also the palace of the Pope on Monte Cavallo. a statue of Jupiter, of cream-coloured marWe observe in the workshop of the Marquis ble. After reaching Alexandria with the Canova the group of a nymph and Cupid, bust, he took a second journey to Thebes, which he has just executed for the Prince and re-commencing his excavations, he Regent of England. The Minister of Naples, discovered a beautiful colossal head of Marquis de Foscaldi, has caused to be trans- Osiris; one of the arms was also found, ferred to canvas three frescos of Dominiwhich measured eleven feet: after working chino, which were found in two gloomy chambers and an open portico of the Farnesian for twenty days, a temple was opened, conPalace The operation has succeeded very taining fourteen large chambers, including well. The plan of the Vatican Museum, exa spacious hall, in which were found eight ecuted by two Parisian artists, will soon be colossal statues thirty feet high, all standpublished, and will be approved by the con-ing, and quite perfect. Four others were noisseurs. The early plan of Bramante has been added to it, but unfortunately it has been disfigured by those who were required to execute it. EGYPT. Antiquities discovered. Some recent letters give an account of the discoveries respecting the Sphinx and the principal Pyramid of Egypt, which have been made by Capt. C. and Mr. Salt. By very laborious excavations, which were made in vain by the French scavans, these gentlemen have discovered that the sphinx is cut out of the solid rock on which it was supposed merely to rest. They found that the short desending passage at the entrance to the pyramid, which afterwards ascends to the two chambers, was continued in a straight line through the base of the pyramid into the rock upon which the pyramid stands. This new passage, after joining what was formerly called the well, is continued forward in a horizontal line, and terminates in a well ten feet deep, exactly beneath the apex of the pyramid, and at the depth of 100 feet below its base. Captain C. has likewise discovered an apartment immediately above the King's chamber, and exactly of the same size and the same fine workmanship, but only four feet in height. Colossal Bust. By a letter from a gentleman, now in Egypt, we learn that the attempt to remove the Colossal Bust of Memnon, from amidst the ruins of Thebes, made in the course of last year, has perfectly succeeded. It had been conveyed to Alexandria, where it was embarked for Malta, for the purpose of found in the sanctuary. The walls were covered with hieroglyphics. A small statue of Jupiter, found in the great hall, and two lions with ox heads, were brought from thence, for the purpose of being also conveyed to England. Death of M. Burkhard. Accounts recently received from Cairo, state that the celebrated M. Burkhard, died there of a dysentery, under his assumed name of Sheik-Ibrahim. Burkhard some years ago visited England, when his ardent and enterprising disposition, joined to a strong desire for attaining knowledge, induced him to offer his services to the English Society for Promoting Discoveries in the interior of Africa. Having learned the languages, and collected all the infornation necessary for such a journey, he proceeded to Cairo in order to join the caravan which travels every year from Tombuctoo, and to penetrate into that country which has hitherto been inaccesible to Europeans. But the agitations which arose in that part of the world retarded the arrival of the caravan for the space of a year. With the help of his Mussulman dress and his perfect knowledge of the Arabic and Turkish languages, M. Burkhard made various new and important discoveries, an account of which will be published by the English society. At length the caravan, which had been so long and so impatiently looked for, arrived; but before M. Burkhard could make the necessary arrangements for his departure, he was attacked by the disorder which proved the cause of his deatli. Though residing in so distant a part of the Emigration to British America. Government, it is understood, have made some alterations, and further regu. world, his attachment for his native country remained unabated; in the course of last winter he sent a considerable sum of money to Basle to be applied to the relations, on the subject of persons going lief of the poor, of that place. RUSSIA. out as settlers to the British Settlements; and these, in a printed form, have been The grand Church at Moscow. issued from the Secretary of State's Office The plan of the Church of CHRIST nounced that no encouragement will, in for the Colonial Department. It is anthe REDEEMER, which is building on the future, be given to individuals who wish eminence called the Sperlingsberg, is by to go as settlers, beyond the grant of 25 M. Wilberg, an academician, and formerly pupil of the Russian Academy. This temacres of land, in the colony to which they ple will be one of the largest and finest their own passage, and will receive no may proceed. Emigrants must pay for works of modern architecture. The whole assistance from Government after their height of the building, from the bottom arrival at the place of destination. The of the eminence to the cross, is about 110 Secretary of State announces, however, his fathoms. A flight of steps, 50 fathoms readiness to receive proposals from persons broad, beginning at the distance of 70 who may be desirous to enter into an unfathoms from the river Moscow, and form-derstanding, either personally or by agents ing five divisions, which serve for the foundation of this great building, leads to the middle of the eminence, where the foundation is laid for the lowest temple; that of the Birth of Christ,' which rises 15 fathoms towards the summit of the eminence, to which the flight of steps, divided into two steps, takes another turn. Then begins the temple, called The Appearance of Christ, with a fine entrance, five fathoms broad, and on each end 89 fathoms long. Upon this temple, round a dome 25 fathoms in diameter, the third and highest temple will be erected, called, the Resurrection of Christ.' The lowest temple has the form of a parallelogram, the second that of a square, and equal armed cross, and the highest that of a circle. In this temple there will be 48 bells, which form the four barmonic accords of music, and the solemn peal of which will particularly announce the festival of the Resurrection. The upper part of this temple, from the summit of the eminence to the cross, is 80 fathoms; on both sides of the lowest temple will be a colonnade of 300 fathoms, at the two ends of which there will be two monuments 60 fathoms in height, one of them to be made out of the cannon taken from the enemy in the year 1812, between Moscow and the Russian frontiers, and the other cannon taken between the Russian frontiers and Paris. National Register : BRITISH. THE KING. Windsor Castle, Feb. 7.-His Majesty has continued through the last month in a very tranquil and comfortable state. His Majesty's bodily health is good, but his disorder is undiminished. for settling and bringing into cultivation, Old Standing Orders of the House of The following curious specimens of the ancient Orders of the House of Commons, are taken from a small volume printed in the last century, under the title of "Essential and Fundamental Orders of the House of Commons, collected out of the Journals." 1614, May 17.-Ordered, That this House shall sit every day at seven o'clock in the morning, and enter into the great business at eight o'clock; and no new motion to be made after twelve. Ordered, That whosoever standeth in the entry of the House, pay one shilling presently to the Serjeant. 1640-In this year there is a strange Resolution of the House, on the King's taking notice of a Bill in its passage through the house, which they voted to be a high breach of the Privilege of Parliament, and on which they also demanded a conference with the Lords. This resolution has not always been acted on, even in the present reign, though it still remains on the Journals. 1641.-Ordered, That all the Members who shall come to the House after eight o'clock, shall pay one shilling; and that if any Member shall forbear to come for the whole day, he shall pay five shillings, to be disposed of as the House shall think fit, and the Serjeant is to gather in the money. | Ordered, That no Papists do presume to come into Westminster Hall, the Court of Requests, or Lobby of the House, during the sitting of Parliament, and that the Ser. jeant at Arms do take into custody all such persons as shall offend against this order. Ordered, That if any Member has a servant that is a Papish Recusant, or refuses to go to Church and bear Divine Service, he shall presently discharge him, under the penalty of sequestration from the House. Ordered, That if any menial servant of a Member be arrested and detained contrary to privilege, he shall, upon complaint thereof, be discharged by order from Mr. Speaker. Strathfield-Say. 1642.-Ordered, That whosoever shall The bargain for this estate has been at not be at prayers every morning, shall pay length completed, and it is now the proone shilling to the poor; a box to be pre-perty of the Duke of Wellington. There was pared and set up at the door for this pur- an obstacle to the negociation, about a pose, and the Burgesses of Westminster are month since, but this difficulty, relating to to take care that the money be duly paid. some cottages, has been removed. Upon 1647.--Ordered, That so soon as the a survey of the timber, it was found to be clock strikes twelve, Mr. Speaker do go out worth 170,000l. a sum much exceeding of the Chair, and the House shall rise; and the Duke's expectation, and also beyond that going forth no Member shall stir, until the capital which it was agreeable to him Mr. Speaker go before, and then all the rest to employ in the purchase of wood. Goshall follow. Whosoever shall go out of vernment removed this obstacle by agreethe House before Mr. Speaker, shall forfeiting to take 120,000l. worth of the timber ten shillings, but that the Reporters may go which the estate consists, are nearly adfor the dock yards. The 4000 acres, of first. estate of the late Tylney Long, Esq. now joining, or in the vicinity, of the great the property of the Duke's nephew, W. P. L. Wellesley, Esq. There are also in the neighbourhood of the large property of Lord Longford, a relative of the Duchess. An estate of about 1200 acres, which lies within three or four miles of it, was offered for sale not long since, and may ultimately be added to the Duke's possessions in that quarter.-Another circumstance, which gives an appropriate value to this territory, is, its vicinity to the Military College at Sandhurst; the Pupils of which will thus have always in their view the splendid rewards of one who has rendered eminent services. Sir A. Hope and the other Officers of that establishment will, no doubt, Ordered, That while any Stranger is in the House no Member to stir out of his place, or speak unto another; and if any Member shall whisper or cross the House, or read any printed book in the House, he shall pay one shilling into the poor's box. 1692. That no member do accept of any entertainment at any public house, for the carrying on any matter under the consideration of the House, and that the offer of any money or gratuity to any member for matters transacted in the House, shall be deemed a high crime and misdemeanour. Ordered, That no Member ought to receive or give any visit to any Foreign Agent or Ambassador, without the leave and consent of the House. |