victim of never-ending envy, and of slander which is immortal, as the price of that day's delirious enjoyment; and all the time, safety and peace is the lot of the humbler companion, who shared his labours without partaking of his renown, and who, if he has enjoyed little, has paid and suffered less."

Chary as we have been of space, we have not left ourselves room to speak of the remainder of the paper, some ten pages portraying Lord St. Vincent, "almost as distinguished among the statesmen as the warriors of his age." There is besides, a parallel sketch of Nelson of riveting interest; which we lingeringly leave for another occasion; trusting ere long to have the good fortune of meeting in another form this masterly contribution to contemporary history. Its surpassing interest is the best security for the fulfilment of our promise of return.

THE SPERM WHALE FISHERY.

THE patron who does us the honour to take up this article, as a gentle preparative for an after-dinner nap, may, perhaps, pardon us for reminding him that the light of his lamp is borrowed from the largest of known living animals; that the oil which turns his night into day once formed part of a being whose heart sent out ten or fifteen gallons of blood at every stroke, through an aorta measuring a foot in diameter; and that the creature whose gigantic frame was nourished by this flood of life gamboled on the broad back of the ocean, rejoicing in his strength, till the pigmy man, whose head and hand give him dominion over every other living thing, made war upon him in his own dominion, and left the enormous mass inanimate, "floating many a rood." Nor is every one acquainted with the dangers and privations borne by those who seek the monster in his remote watery kingdom. A SouthSea whaling voyage often exceeds three years, and hardly ever occupies less than two; and to the sailor employed in this fishery, Sheridan's beautiful lines may, without exaggeration, be applied :"The wand'ring tar, who not for years has press'd The widow'd partner of his day of rest, On the cold deck-far from her arms remov'dStill hums the ditty that his Susan lov'd; And while around the cadence rude is blown, The boatswain whistles in a softer tone."

And here we may notice the high and palmy state to which this branch of our trade has now attained, and how good a nursery for seamen it has become. From the port of London alone an average of seventy sail of fine ships, of a burthen

ranging from three to four hundred tons, are annually on the look-out for spermaceti whales. The crews of these ships, which are fully provisioned for three years, and sail from London at all times of the year, consist of from twenty-eight to thirty-three men and officers-including the surgeon who occasionally condescends to keep an eye also on the culinary department, which, after all, seems to us to be a very commendable species of mixed practice. All the men are, in point of fact, co-adventurers with the owner; for they go on the lay-that is, they have a certain share of the produce, instead of the ordinary money-payment. As, for obvious reasons, there are in such expeditions "no more cats than can catch mice," the mariner who has been afloat in one of these ships is pretty sure to turn out a crack specimen of his genus-a smart fellow, case-hardened to any climate, expert in all his professional duties, but proverbially so in the use of the oarendued with imperturbable nerves and quick decision, eagle-eyed, and lionhearted. The love of distinction, selfinterest, self-preservation-all the motives, in short, that can stimulate to exertion, are brought into play. The ardour with which this dangerous sea-hunting is pursued seems to take the strongest possession of the men's minds; and one of their most usual modes of making a heavy hour light is sketching their favourite ship, whales in various attitudes, and the hairbreadth escapes of their companions and themselves, upon the tooth of one of the monsters whom they have seen die, pierced with almost as many darts as the "monstreux Physetere," killed by Pantagruel, "chose moult plaisante à veoir."-From the Quarterly Review.

[In this paper, (an admirable review of Mr. Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale,) we are happy to see that reference is made "to the pride every honest Englishman must feel in contemplating such a character as that of Mr. Enderby, in whose "bold and enterprising mind" originated" the grand speculation of sending ships round Cape Horn into the Pacific, in order to extend the sperm whale fishery." This occurred in 1788; and the example has been followed with vigorous success; for not three years have elapsed since a vessel belonging to the same vigorous speculator returned from the sperm fishery six months sooner than she was looked for, with a cargo of £25,000 value, being the largest known in the fishery for many years; and, as the men were co-adventurers, each received for his share the large sum of £150.]

THAMES ANGLING.

"OLD Father Thames" has been too much

slighted by the brethren of the angle. Those who can revel among northern lakes, or beside the pleasant rivers which run through the valleys of North Wales, would lead others to forget that health, amusement, and enjoyment, are to be found within a morning's drive of their homes in the metropolis. Philosophy teaches us to seize the lesser advantage when the greater is beyond our reach. There are many who dearly love the gentle craft, to whom a long absence from the leading occupations of life is difficult or impossible. We, city men, have, upon our own most glorious river, all which the most eager and devoted angler can desire-sport in plenty, if he be not over fastidious. Let his basket weigh a hundred-weight, we can shew him where he may fill it from sunrise to sunset, and may tell him that, be the weather fair or foul, and though "the wind bloweth where it listeth," he is certain not to be altogether disappointed. Or, if his notions be more ambitious, and his aim be to exhibit skill, we may tell him where trout, as fine as ever strained the sinews, or gladdened the heart, of the angler, are in the keeping of the king of rivers: that gigantic chub inhabit the silent nooks which skirt his banks; and that pike, such as "Holy Dee" never held, are fattening upon his wealth; to say nothing of enormous barbel that will give him half an hour's play between the strike and the landing-net.

But, if the Thames affords rare and true sport to the angler, how vastly does it surpass all other rivers in those sources of enjoyment which equally influence, exhilarate, and delight, the votary of the craft. His "idle time is never idly spent." Upon the breast or by the side of the "most loved of all the ocean's sons," we revel among luxuries of which nature is nowhere more lavish. Walk where we will, scenery, gentle, joyous, and beautiful, greets the eye and gladdens the heart; at every turn, we hear the ripple of some one of the thousand streams that pay tribute to the river king-streams

"To whose falls-
Melodious birds sing madrigals."

Upon the banks of the Thames the noblest of British worthies have lived, flourished, and died. Philosophers, statesmen, poets, historians, painters, dramatists, novelists, travellers, politicians, brave soldiers, and gallant sailors, have given a deep interest to almost every house, lane, and tree, along its sides. Fancy may hear "a chorus of old poets," from many a sequestered nook; women, celebrated for beauty, or made immortal by virtue, may

Nelson was nothing on shore-nay, had weaknesses, which made the sea air as necessary, if not to his mental condition, at least, to his renown, as it is to the bodily health of some invalids.-Lord Brougham.

Grocers' Currants are a kind of small clustering grape, extensively cultivated in the Greek Islands. The bushes are planted in drills, and watered by streamlets led in from the mountains. No crop is so productive to the proprietor; a hundred acres of currants yielding a clear profit of £3,000 a year, £40 the acre being the usual rent. In their native country, they are often called corinths, of which name currants seems a corruption. They are dried in the sun, and shipped for John Bull's Sunday pudding.-Notes of a Wanderer.

Excursion to Egypt.-The sum of £100, from landing in Egypt to quitting it, including a voyage to the second cataract, and a five months' residence, is a large and liberal allowance.-Ibid.

Parrot.-Sir J. Trevyllian had a parrot which sung the Pretty Girl of Derby in correct tune, and pronounced all the words articulately.-Literary Conglomerate.

Red Herrings.-The word heer, whence our Saxon word herring, signifies an army in German and Anglo-Saxon.

Smoking-In Hamburgh, 50,000 boxes of cigars have been consumed in one year; each box costing about £3 sterling; so that the sum of £150,000 has been puffed into the air, in a year, in one city of Germany only!-Literary Conglomerate.

Freemasonry.The connexion between the operative masons, and those whom, without disrespect, we must term a convivial society of good fellows-who, in the reign of Queen Anne, met at the "Goose and Gridiron, in St. Paul his Church-yard," appears to have been finally dissolved about the beginning of the eighteenth century. The theoretical and mystic, for we dare not say ancient, freemasons, separated from the Worshipful Company of Masons and Citizens of London about the period above-mentioned. It appears, from an inventory of the contents of the chest of the London Company, that, not very long since, it contained "A book wrote on parchment, and bound or stitcht in parchment, containing an 113 annals of the antiquity, rise, and progress of the art and mystery of masonry." But this document is not now to be found.-Edinburgh Review.

Design of Circular Windows.-The cathedral of Lausanne exhibits a very fine circular or marigold window, in the south transept, filled with painted glass, representing the signs and planets; and its counterpart may be found in the cathedral of Soissons. And it is likely that all such circular windows were originally planned for the purpose of receiving similar sentations. lbid.

the beggarly, little department of Sosère, on the southern declivity of the Cevennes, there is one law-suit per annum for every sixty-nine inhabitants, men, women, and children!-Ibid.

Whiskey.-On a beautiful island in Loch Lomond, is a lunatic asylum for the reception of those whose intellects have been consumed by the fire of whiskey.

Quintuple Rainbow.-On the evening of nessed at Nismes, forming a complete seApril 4, this rare phenomenon was witmicircle, the diameter of which ran from the equinoctial point to the south-west. The colours of the principal or internal continued quite down to the horizon, and bow were red, orange, yellow, and green, very vivid; the external or false rainbow filling a wider space, but with rays of light Three imperfect bows of a purple colour, tending to violet, were seen in the interval, near the summit of the principal bow, but much less distinct.-Times.

less brilliant.

English Architecture. In one style alone, may England seemingly advance a claim to originality and surpassing beauty. The fair vaulting exhibited in the roofs of King's College Chapel, and its two descendants at Westminster and Windsor, appear to possess a finer and more peculiar character than any similar existing example on the Continent. But "Claus," the architect of King's, and, therefore, the parent and inventor of this style, was a German. -Ibid.

South of France.-Life, in this invalidvisited corner of the earth, is very short; scarcely more than thirty years. Indeed, it appears to admit of little doubt, that the climate of the southern coast of France, deceitfully brilliant and mild, is little favourable to the human constitution.-Ibid.

Stature of Man.-Lancashire and Yorkshire, it is well known, furnish the tallest specimens of Englishmen; a sufficient answer, if one were needed, to the notion that manufacturing industry has a general tendency to produce physical deterioration. -Ibid.

French Law.-A district of about a dozen contiguous departments of Southern France, (comprising Auvergne, Lyonnais, and Dauphiné,) would seem to be the pays de cocagne of lawyers, a land where briefs drop, like ripe figs, into the mouth of the eater. In

The warmth with which some disminds one of the indignant retort of Curl putants point out simple misnomers, reupon the charge of being tossed in a Scriblerus, thou leezest, for I was blanket at Eton. -"Here, (quoth he) tossed in a blanket, but in a rug.”

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City Expenditure.-The income of the City of London in 1837 is stated at 542,2291. 12s. 4d., which vast sum supplied the municipal wants of 122,395 persons, forming only one-twelfth of the inhabitants of the metropolis, and the City of London containing only 17,315 houses; the said sum house. averaging 311. 6s. 3d. per annum for every

American Railways.-The total length of the lines finished up to December, 1838, was 2,803 miles.

Obituary.-The Times records the death of Robert Millhouse, the Nottingham poet, author of The Destiny of Man; he died in that town on the 13th instant. He leaves a widow and three children; for whom something ought to be done."

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ELIZABETHAN ARCHITECTURE:

HOLLAND HOUSE.

OF Holland House, at Kensington, one of the most picturesque architectural antiquities of the environs of our metropolis, there already exist many popular representations; but, we are not aware that either of them is successful in conveying an adequate idea of the richness and elaborate beauty of this interesting structure. With this impression, the preceding Illustration has been selected from the first portion of a splendid work just published by Mr. C. J. Richardson, the architect; whose object is, by assembling the best examples of Elizabethan Architecture in this country, to shew that although the style "is not unfrequently condemned as barbarous, deformed, and ugly," it does not merit this sweeping condemnation ; for, admitting the Elizabethan style to be deficient in unity and simplicity of character, and the grotesqueness and even barbarity of many specimens; "in the more valuable examples which remain, the unbiassed eye will detect many beauties, great originality, much boldness and freedom of design and execution."

It is gratifying to find that Mr. Richardson's work, Architectural Remains of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James the First, originated in his judicious appreciation of the contents of Sir John Soane's Museum; and, as we were among the first to popularize the value of this munificent bequest to the nation, it affords us peculiar satisfaction to record this early instance of its value to artists, lovers of art, and the improvement of national taste. Mr. Richardson having, with a nice professional skill, inspected the volume of very curious and original drawings by John Thorpe, in the Soanean Museum, with the consent of the Trustees, made correct tracings of the whole collection, with a view to their publication, as highly attractive illustrations of the principles and practice of domestic architecture during the brilliant reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Of this period, Thorpe was, par excellence, "the architect:" unfortunately, we have no contemporary in this especial branch of art who can be placed in a parallel with Thorpe. On first inspection, his drawings seemed to justify Dallaway's remark, that there were few celebrated houses erecting in Thorpe's time, in which he was not engaged: "besides plans and views of dwellings for the gentry, and even tradesmen, town and country mansions for all classes, the collection contains plans of no less than five palaces erected by him for Elizabeth's ministers. The author has ascertained, from undoubted authority, that

Thorpe was architect to her celebrated minister Lord Burleigh, and built for him the two palaces at Theobald, in Hertfordshire, and Burleigh, in Northamptonshire. Besides the plans of both the buildings, he has left us the plan of Wimbledon, built for Sir Robert Cecil; the plans of Holdenby and Kirby, built for Lord Chancellor Hatton, in Northamptonshire; and Buckhurst, in Sussex, built for the Earl of Dorset." Such was the origin of Mr. Richardson's work, which at first, he proposed to confine to Thorpe's tasteful labours; he has, however, extended his design to a complete illustration of the style, by delineations of the finest examples in the country. The subject is very attractive, and its interest has, doubtless, been revived by the adoption of the Elizabethan style for our new Houses of Parliament; so that we consider Mr. Richardson's work sure of success. The portion before us is beautifully executed; the examples being exquisitely lithographed; and the interiors being coloured, or rather illuminated, for they have much of the nicety and finish of the antique taste; the size of the work is 22 by 154 inches. Much taste is displayed in the selection of the minor class of illustrations, as fire-places, ceilings, staircases, furniture, &c.; and in the borders of the plates, from friezes and other ornaments peculiarly characteristic of the Elizabethan style.

With the historical interest of Holland House, situated about two miles from the metropolis, on the north side of the Great Western Road, we presume the reader to be somewhat familiar. The mansion appears to have been erected by Thorpe, about the year 1606, for Sir Walter Cope. It afterwards came into the possession of Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, his sonin-law; whence it was first designated Holland House. The Earl, who was a political waverer in the troublous times of Charles I., was twice made a prisoner in this house; first, by Charles, in 1633, upon occasion of his challenging Lord Weston; and a second time, by command of the parliament, after the unsuccessful issue of his attempt to restore the king, in 1648. He lost his life on the scaffold, in the cause of monarchy, in 1649; and within four months from his death, Lambert, then general of the army, fixed his quarters at Holland House; which, however, was soon afterwards restored to the widowed Countess. Its celebrity as the residence of Addison, who became possessed of it by his marriage with Charlotte, Countess Dowager of Warwick and Holland; and the death of the illustrious Essayist here, in 1719; need not be detailed. About the year 1762, the property passed by sale to the Fox family;