ported a large and heavy stack of chimneys. These shots having been so successful, they probably thought to batter the houses to the ground, and pointed a howitzer against the chimneys supported by the tottering wall. The shell struck one of the angles of the wall, made a considerable breach, and fell upon the already shattered roof, where it exploded, carrying away a great part of it. The second shell passing through three chimneys, fell in the last of them, and descended to the first floor, where it burst. A pier-glass was shivered to atoms, a partition thrown down, some wardrobes broken to pieces, and the two windows forced into the street, carrying with them the curtains and draperies. The attacks of the populace afterwards forced the troops to abandon the further bombardment of these houses.

In the midst of the fusillade at the Place de Grève, a working mason perceiving that a cornice of one of the pilasters of the Hotel de Ville, threatened to fall, and crush beneath it the citizens who were fighting, procured a ladder and some plaster, fixed it firmly, and then came down with as much coolness as if he had been pursuing his occupation in a time of the most profound peace.

The keeper of a wine shop, in the Rue des Canettes, received a ball, which passing through his breast, lodged near his shoulder. When it was extracted, he took up the ball, and kissing it, said, "Carry it to my wife, and tell her that I die for my dear country." In an hour after his prognostic was verified.

When the archbishop's palace was attacked by the people they did not at first commit any excesses, but their pacific disposition was altered when they found two barrels of powder and about one hundred daggers; the fury of the multitude at this discovery knew no bounds; they destroyed the splendid furniture and pictures, excepting a magnificent whole-length of Jesus Christ, which they respected with religious reverence. None of the movables were applied by the people to their own profit. Many valuables were thrown into the Seine; men were afterwards employed to dive, and several magnificent candelabra, rich crosses, &c. were picked up. The cellar was found most bountifully stored, to the great joy of the thirsty populace. A poor workman, of the Faubourg St. Antoine, principally attached himself to

the Bourdeaux Laffitte, of which he admired the form and delicacy of the bottle. "Ah!" he cried, "my wife always says that I am a heathen, and have no religion. I have now entered into the very heart of it, and most delicious it is." He again had recourse to the episcopal corkscrew, and after a long draught, drawing his breath, he exclaimed, "I hope my wife will never call me a heathen after this!"

On the Quai de Tournelles seven can non balls struck the houses. They were fired from the Place de Grève to disperse the people assembled on the Pont de la Cité and the adjoining quays. One eight pound shot entered the first floor of a house, and carried off the two legs of a lady lying in bed. Another passed through the shop of a Marchand de Vin, where eight people were sitting at a table, swept all the glasses off in the midst of them, and without injuring any one, took about a yard's length of stone from the corner of the room. The people have suspended the bullet in the front of the shop, with the following inscription-" Orange de Charles X., ou dernier témoignage de l'amour paternel."

On seeing the almost miraculous dispatch with which the paving stones left their peaceable destination to strengthen those formidable, and as it turned out, impregnable barriers, thrown up by the people, a foreigner, who watched their work, exclaimed, "This reminds one of the text, but here I see the comment, 'The very stones in the streets shall rise up in judgment against them.''

During the attack on the Hotel de Ville, when the banks of the Seine echoed with discharges of cannon and musketry, an elderly humourist was seen with great tranquillity fishing near the baths of Vigier. On being advised to relinquish his sport on that day at least, he coolly remarked, "They are making such a cursed noise yonder, that the very fish are frightened; I have not had a bite these two hours!"

A young man, erroneously said to be one of the Polytechnic School, was killed in one of the apartments of the Tuileries. His body was respectfully taken. up by those whom he had led to victory, deposited on the Throne, and covered with pieces of crape gathered up by chance. Here it remained until the brother and other members of the family of the deceased came to recognise and remove his remains.

The Gatherer.

A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. SHAKSPEARE.

ANCIENT MILL.

A FINE specimen of a "querne," or hand-mill, as used in ancient times, was dug up some time since, in a field south of the Eden, Fifeshire; and about three feet from the surface. The diameter of the stones may be fifteen inches, the upper one being granite, and the lower sunk trap or whinstone. There is one hole pretty deep on the upper convex surface, at about four inches distance, by a gash or cleft, as if an axe had been used in the formation. From the size of these stones being very small and portable, it is not at all improbable that they are

Roman.

TOLERATION.

W. G. C.

JAROSLOF, Prince of Novogorod, demanded assistance from the inhabitants of Pleskof, against the city of Riga, lately built, which he wished to attack and destroy. Having some alliance with the menaced people, they answered the prince, who endeavoured to persuade them to join him :-"Thou art prudent, thou knowest that all men are brothers, christians and infidels, we are all of the same family. It is not necessary to make war upon those who do not participate in our creed, nor to assume to ourselves the punishment of their errors, it is much wiser to live in peace with them. Then they will cherish our mildness and our virtues; they will be affected by them; and from the friendship they will conceive, will pass to a love of our religion."

ODDITIES,

(From Swift's Letters.) Ir is with religion as with paternal affection; some profligate wretches may forget it, and some, through perverse thinking, not see any reason for it; but

the bulk of mankind will love their children.

It is with men as with beauties: if they pass the flower, they lie neglected for ever.

Courtiers resemble gamesters: the latter finding new arts unknown to the older.

A Levee.-I peeped in at the chamber, where a hundred fools were waiting and two streets were full of coaches.

After dinner.-We were to do more business after dinner; but after dinner is after dinner; an old saying and a true, much drinking, little thinking.

Monday is parson's holiday.

Lenten Dinner.-I dined with Dr. Arbuthnot, and had a true lenten dinner, not in point of victuals, but spleen; for his wife and a child or two were sick in the house, and that was full as mortifying as fish.

Boiling Oysters.-Lord Masham made me go home with him to eat boiled oysters. Take oysters, wash them clean; that is, wash their shells clean; then put your oysters into an earthen pot with their hollow sides down, then put this pot covered into a great kettle with water, and so let them boil. Your oysters are boiled thus in their own liquor, and not mixed with water.

The Mohocks in 1711-12.-A race of rakes that play the devil about London every night, slit people's noses, and beat them.

A WORSE prince than King John scarcely, ever disgraced the English throne; and the historian may save himself the odious task (it has been observed) of drawing up his character, by referring to the annals of his life, as son, uncle, and king, by a contemporary writer, who says, "Hell felt herself defiled by his admission."

ERRATA.

Two vexatious typographical errors appeared in our last Number:-In Dean Swift's Epitaph, page 298, for unitare, read imitare; and for sævi, read sava -At page 299, the quotation

from Sir Walter Scott respecting Marley Abbey,

should end at the word "distance." What follows," during the past year," &c., is our correspondent's N. R.

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THE portico of this Chapel, which ranges with the houses on the eastern side of the street, is the only portion of the building open to public observation. It is composed of two handsome columns and two piers, the latter ornamented with antæ in pairs, the columns fluted; the order is Ionic, from the Erectheum. The whole is surmounted by an entablature composed of an architrave of three faces, a frieze and a dentil cornice of bold projection, the cymatium enriched with honeysuckles and charged with lions' heads at intervals; and crowned with a lofty blocking-course, having a pedestal at each end.

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midal stone roof. On the apex is a pedestal sustaining a gilt ball and cross. The portion before described is all that has any pretension to architectural character. The front of the body of the Chapel is shown in the engraving; above the portico, it is devoid of ornament, and the flanks are in a corresponding style ; each flank is pierced with ten windows in two series, the upper arched and lofty; a string course of brick-work being introduced by way of impost cornice. These portions abut on small yards, from which are entrances to the Chapel,

and the southern one communicates with a street in the rear.

The interior is not remarkable for originality; it belongs to a class unfortunately too numerous; the unbroken area borrowed from the meeting-house is so ill-suited to the dignity of a church, that it is to be regretted the commissioners had not enforced the ancient division into nave and aisles, in every new church of magnitude.

The west front and tower possess undoubted claims to originality, and are not devoid of elegance. The turret is a pleasing specimen of Grecian design. It approaches, however, to the common parent of modern Grecian towers, the Temple of the winds at Athens.

This building is a chapel of ease to St. George, Hanover-square. It is calculated to hold 1610 persons, of whom 784 are accommodated with free sittings. The royal commissioners made the same grant to this as to the others in the parish, viz. 5,555l. 11s. 1d. The first stone was laid on Sept. 7, 1825, and the building was consecrated on April 25, 1828.

The architect is Mr. J. P. GandyDeering.

The building at the right hand side of the chapel, in common with most of the houses in the street, shows the heavy style of Sir John Vanbrugh.*

GARDENS AND MENAGERIE OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY DELINEATED. WE noticed the commencement of this publication about fifteen months since. It was then announced to appear periodically, in parts or numbers; but here we have the Quadrupeds of the Society in a goodly octavo of about 300 pages, printed in Mr. Whittingham's superlative style; with a wood-cut of each animal, and a tail-piece to each description. The Birds are, we conclude, to form another volume.

The descriptions are by E. T. Bennett, Esq., vice-secretary of the Zoological Society, which circumstance is highly in the Preface, Mr. Bennett happily alrecommendatory of the work:

ludes to the artists employed in its embellishments: "nor can he suffer this opportunity to pass, of offering his thanks to Mr. Harvey, for the patient attention with which he has watched the manners of the animals, for the purpose of investing their portraits with that natural expression in which zoological drawings are too often deficient ; and to Messrs. Branston and Wright for the pains which they also have taken in making themselves masters of the subjects previous to the execution of the cuts."

Passing by the portion of the volume already noticed, next is the Napu Musk Deer, "an animal which, although completely unknown to the ancients, has become in modern times notorious over all the world for the peculiar odour of the secretion whence it derives its name. All the other species comprised in the genus are, however, destitute of the faculty of producing that costly perfume; and their union with the musk is founded upon the general agreement existing between them in more essential particulars. Still this remarkable difference, added to the great dissimilarity in the form and structure of their hoofs, and other minor points of discrepancy, furnishes an obvious means of subdividing the genus." In general form the Musk resembles a Stag in miniature; "but its face is proportionally much more elongated in front, its legs much more tapering and slender, and the height of their hinder parts much greater in comparison with that of their fore quarters." The Palm Squirrel, (exquisitely engraved,) seems, according to Cuvier, to be intermediate between the tree-nesting and nut-cracking squirrels and the burrowing and frugivorous Tamias. They are common in India, and particularly plentiful in the towns and villages, taking up their abodes in the roofs of houses and in old walls, in the cavities of which the female deposits her young. They commit great devastations in the orchards, destroying and devouring all kinds of fruit; and are so familiar as even to enter the houses and pick up the crumbs that fall from the tables. Their name is derived from their being often seen on palm-trees, which in the east are always found in the neighbourhood of the habitations of

men.

The Dingo, or Australian Dog is an excellent portrait. "In strength and agility it is superior to most other dogs of the same size, and it will attack, without hesitation those which are considerably larger than itself." An indi

vidual in the Paris menagerie even evinced a disposition to fly upon the jaguars, leopards, and bears, whenever he caught a glimpse of them through the bars of his den. One described in Phillips' Voyage to Botany Bay, is said to have been so fierce that no other animal could approach him with safety. A poor ass had once nearly fallen a victim to his ferocity; and he has been known to run down both deer and sheep. His impatience in confinement is thus characteristically noted :-" he rarely becomes perfectly familiar even with those who are constantly about him; and of strangers he seems to live in continual dread. His constrained and skulking gait; the startled air which he suddenly assumes on the slightest unusual occurrence; the suspicious eagerness with which he watches the motions of those who approach him, clearly indicate that he is not at his ease in the society of civilized man. ""

The Indian Ox is another fine portrait. This specimen is one of the largest that has ever been seen in Europe. Epicurean visiters to the Gardens, may be interested in knowing that the hump, which is chiefly composed of fat, is reckoned the most delicate part of the animal. Its beef too is by no means despicable, though far from equalling the pride of Smithfield. The tit-bit hump has been known to weigh 50 lb. ! What a dish for an alderman. The Zebra differs but little from the preceding breed. "The whole of the breeds are treated with great veneration by the Hindoos, who hold it sinful to deprive them of life under any pretext whatever. But they do not in general scruple to make the animals labour for their benefit; although they consider it the height of impiety to eat of their flesh. A select number are, however, even exempted from all services, and have the privilege of straying about the towns and villages, and of taking their food wheresoever they please, if not sufficiently supplied by the contributions of the devotees who impose on themselves this charitable office."

In the description of the Squirrel Petaurus, (resembling the Flying Squirrel) we find the following anecdote related by Mr. Broderip :

"On board a vessel sailing off the coast of New Holland was a Squirrel Petaurus, which was permitted to roam about the ship. On one occasion it reached the mast-head, and as the sailor, who was despatched to bring it down, approached, made a spring from aloft to avoid him. At this moment the