LONDON,

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

HAMPSHIRE.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

WORCESTERSHIRE.

PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, AND IN WALES, SCOTLAND,

AND IRELAND.

larized in the opposite plane to that at Grand Musical Festival. - A grand

a greater distance. festival, on the scale of the famous Celebration of Handel, is announced The Lord Bishop of Gloucester, at his to take place in Westminster Abbey primary visitation, held in the month of under the patronage of his gracious July, 1832, intimated to his clergy that Majesty, and the direction of Sir George he would thenceforch devote a tenth Smart. Such an event must make a part of the revenues of his see to the strong sensation in the musical world, augmentation of small benefices in his and will, we trust, produce much benefit diocese. The Bishop has, in pursuance to it, while it affords an extraordinary of this intimation, placed in the hands gratification to the public. We shall of trustees the tenth part of the gross rejoice to see what our national school receipts of his bishopric from that time can do in this noble art, and to enjoy a up to the end of last year, and will contriumph over all those prejudiced per

tinue to do the same at the end of each sons who have held the ridiculous opi- subsequent year, to be applied for the nion that England, with her climate, above purpose, as proper objects present was incapable of reaching the highest at

themselves. tributes in music, in painting, in sculpture, or in other great intellectual pur- Government are said to have it in suits. Let us have opportunities and contemplation, in consequence of the dne encouragement, and we will chal- great increase of crime, to attach the lenge the world.

county of Hants to the Home Circuit, whereby it would possess the advantage

of having three assizes in the year. Several skeletons have lately been dug up in the parish of Stowe, Bucks,

The Glove Trade.- The greater portion

of the workmen in this trade still reone of them of colossal size, and one having an antique gold ring round the

main out. This state of things is to be bone of one finger. It is remarkable

deplored, not only for the sake of the that they have all been found in or near

workmen themselves, but on account of gravel-pits.

that large body of females who are de.

prived of their usual occupation in conCAMBRIDGESHIRE.

sequence of this effort of the Trades' A memoir has been read at the Cam- Union to force the masters to take none bridge Philosophical Society, by the Rev. but members of the union into their J. Challis, containing new researches in employ. Many who have joined the the theory of the motion of fluids. The union would gladly return to work were Rev. T. Chevallier described experiments they assured of protection from the which he had made on the polarization violence of those who have induced of light by the sky. The general re- them to join the union. sults were, that light is polarized by the

SCOTLAND. clear sky; that the effect begins to be Spade Husbandry.—The striking and sensible at points thirty degrees distant beneficial circumstances attendant upon from the sun, and that the greatest the use of spade husbandry in the cultiquantity of polarized light proceeds vation of certain soils for wheat crops, from points at ninety degrees distant which are communicated in a circular from the sun,-a fact which seems to letter, signed Arch. Scott, of Southfield, indicate that the reflection, which occa- in East Lothian, deserve the best atsions the polarization, takes place at the tention of all who feel the importance of surface of two media, as nearly as possi- the discussions on the corn-laws, poor. ble, of the same density. It was also laws, free-trade, and other portions of stated, that though the light of the our complicated system connected or moon or of clouds shows no trace of involved with these. The proofs of polarization, a fog, when on the point of success in this great experiment seem clearing off, lets polarized light through, to be very conclusive ; and though we when its breaking up has not yet begun. have not room for a subject rather Mr. Chevallier remarked, that he had foreign to our especial objects, and which not detected any appearances of polari- would require much space, we zation by transmission, though M. Arago earnest in recommending it to the con. had observed within a certain small dis- sideration of the legislature and the tance of the sun, that the light was po- general public.

are

Duelling, German, 470

Hemans, Mrs., German Studies by, 1 ; Songs
Dumas, M., coroner's inquest on, 371

of Spain by, 26; Scenes from the Alcestis
Duncannon, Viscountess, death of, 519

of Alfieri" by, 170 ; Songs for Evening
Duns, a chapter on, 185

Music by, 290 ; Rock of Cader-Idris by,
Duval, Mrs., and her Lodgers, 223

365; her Hymns for Children, 386 ; Pa-
Dyer, Robert, his Nine Years of an Actor's triotic Lays of Italy translated by, 444
Life, 528

Herschel, Sir John, voyage of, 117

Hoppner, Captain,R.N., some account of, 420
Ebro, the bird of, 28

Hops, duty on, in 1833, 136; from 1817 to
Eclipses in 1834, 117

1832 inclusive, 424
Emigration to the Continent, 89

Horne, Sir William, made a Baron of the
England, machinery of crime in, 487

Exchequer, 371
English Abroad, 511

Horse-chestnut, different species of, 263
Esterhazy, Prince Nicholas, his death, 129 House of Commons, debates in, 412, 551
Eugene Aram, noticed, 101

House of Lords, proceedings in, 410, 550
Evidence, rules of, 349

Hydrophobia, treatise on, 116
Excise Duties, return of, 538

Hymn, Spanish, 28
Falkland Islands, importance of the, 272 Ideal in Prose, 329
Falls of the Cavery and Neilgherry Hills, Incendiarism, increase of, 84
Journey to the, noticed. 388

India, quick travelling to, 90
Fashions from France, 93

Indicator and the Companion, noticed, 100
Fiddle-player, the new one, 87

Inhabitants of a Country Town, 223
Finden's Landscape Illustrations of the Ireland, population of, 400
Bible, 392

Irish Affairs in the Coming Session-the
Fine Arts, 111, 253, 390, 531

last Irish Parliament, 213
Fisheries, British, inquiry into the state of, Irish Fools, Sketches of, 9
118

Italian Bandit, the, 298
Fools, Irish, sketches of, 9

Italy, Patriotic Lays of, 444
Foreign States, affairs of, 129, 237,418,556
Forest-trees, adapted for Plantations, 121, Jamaica, the new governor of, 93
263, 404, 543

Johnson, Captain, his Tour in the Himalaya
Fossil shells, discovery of a bed of, 259

Mountains, 532
France, speech of the King 273; execu- Jourdain, Marshal, his death, 129

tions in, 401; schism amongst ministers
of, 418; instruction in, 540 ; antiquities Kean, Edmund, the early days of, 434

in, 541 ; literary works published in, ib. Keepsake, the, noticed, 108
Frolics of Puck, noticed, 529

Keightley, Thomas, his Tales and Popular
Funds, state of the, 127, 270, 410, 550 Fictions, 249
Future, the, by L. E. L., 393

Kenous, remarkable discoveries of, 260

Knight, Mr., publications of, 65; reply of,
Gale Middleton, noticed, 104

175
Galt, John, his Stories of the Study, 102;
poems by him, 103

Lamb, Hon. George, biographical particu-
Gauchos, the, a Tale of the Pampas, 137 lars of, 277
Geographical Society, meetings of, 256, 397, Laurie, Sir Peter, vote of thanks to, 85
532

Lawyer, chapters froin the note-book of a
German Duelling, 470

deceased one, 201, 349
German Studies, hy Mrs. Hemans, 1

Leave me not yet! 293
Gilpin, Rev. W., his remarks on Forest Letters from a Father to his Son on his en-
Scenery, reviewed, 241

tering the Army, noticed, 388
Glass, Mr., his tubular fire-escape, 406 Liberty, what is it? 281
Goddess of Reason, the, 294

Lion's Mouth, the, 95
Government Annuities, amount of, 118 Literature in 1834, 497
Grattan, T. C., Esq., Sketches of Irish Fools Literary and Scientific Institutions of the
by, 9

Metropolis, 116
Great Britain, on the financial state of, 61, Literary Report, 110, 232, 389, 530
270, 33+; population of, 399

Lloyd's, the affair at, 90
Greece, Memoirs of a Tour in, noticed, 387 London, Christenings and Burials in, 279
Green, Mr., on fumigating baths, 266

Idyls, No. I., 465
Grenville, Lord, his death, 238; some ac-

of

Lynn, new Dispensary at, 423

the English, No. I. 192, No. II. 305;

No. III. 456
Machinery of Crime in England, 487 Orange Bough, the, 292
Mackay, Charles, Songs and Poems by, 387 Orchideous Epiphytes, 544
Magnet, experiments with, 123

Oxford Installation, the, 516
Magpie Castle, communicated by the Author Oxy-hydrogen Microscopes, 406

Sayings and Doings," 29
Makanna, or the Land of the Savage, 522 Pampas, a Tale of the, 137
Mansfield, Lord, his charge to the grand Pantheon, in Oxford-street, 88
jury in a case of murder, 205

Paper, from rotten wood, 123
Maple-tree, its utility, 405

Paris, new dramas at, 261
Market, a new one,
133

Academy of Science, 116
Marriages, 133, 278, 422, 559

Parliament, the last Irish one, 215
Martial' in London, 222, 369, 469

commencement of the session of, 360
Martin, R. M., on the Financial State of Parliamentary Pocket Companion, 247

Great Britain, 61, 270, 334; his History Parvenu Countess, the, 342
of the British Colonies, 110, 521

Patents, new, 124, 407, 548
Martineau, Harriet, her Illustrations of Patriotic Lays of Italy, 444
Political Economy, 251

Pedlar, engraving of, 531
Masoni, the new fiddle-player, 88

Penny Press, the, 175
Masquerades, return of, 234

Peter Simple, noticed, 103
Meeting, a late unreported one, 76

Phansigars, account of the, 398
Meidinger, Henrich, Etymological Dictionary Philosophical Rambler, noticed, 385
by, 529

Picken, Andrew, some account of, 130
Memorables, movements of, 373

Pilgrim of Mont Blanc, 314
Metal, a new one, 261

Pindar, in English verse, 98
Metastasio, on the poetry of, 197

Pipe Rolls, the, 259
Mexico, affairs of, 556

Plants that will thrive in London, 544
Microscopes, oxy-hydrogen, 406

Poetry-Songs of Spain, by Mrs. Hemans,
Milton's Prose Writings, remarks on, 39 26; Scenes from the Alcestis of Alfieri,
Miscellany of Natural History, noticed, 105 170; Martial in London, 222, 369, 469;
Mitforil, Miss, Inhabitants of a Country Songs for Evening Music, by Mrs. Hemans,
Town, by, 223

290; The Future, by L. E. L., 393; The
Mont Blanc, the Pilgrim of, 314

Rock of Cader-Idris, by Mrs. Hemans, 365;
Monthly Commentary, 84, 234, 370, 511 Patriotic Lays of Italy, translated by Mrs.

Digest of Occurrences, 127, 270, Hemans,444; Song in Exile, by the Author
410, 550

of “ Coru-Law Rhymes,” 445 ; Transla-
Morimont, or the Mount of Death, 56

tions from the Greek Anthology, 496 ;
Mukel, Professor, his death, 421

Brunel's Apology for the Tunnel, 505
Mulgrave, Lord, his speech to the Legisla. Police-station, chair, 5+7
tive Assembly of Jamaica, 127