first in the Regent's Park, yet they all sink into utter insignificance, when compared with the meritoriousness of the one we are about to notice. The new Views, exchanged within the the last ten days, for those which had been exhibited for about fourteen months, (the greatest proof that can be adduced of the excellence of the subjects of this exhibition one in every point of view worthy of the most exalted age) to admiring thousands are the Interior of St. Peter's at Rome, and the Village of Thiers in France, the former is painted by M. Bouton, the latter by M. Daguerre, surpasses all the very effective exhibitions we remember to have witnessed here. The interior of St. Peter's is an astonishing piece of perspective managed with consummate skill. The vastness of the edifice, the display of gorgeous ornament and the chaste beauty of colouring, which attends every objeet, aided by the astonishing | effects so dexterously produced by light and shade, renders the illusion of this magnificent object complete. Those persons, and there are hundreds of thousands in the metropolis, who are not likely to know any thing of this superb structure, but through the medium of imperfect detail, who wish to gain a correct idea of what the immense Roman St. Peter's really is, we recommend them to steer their course the first convenient opportunity to the Diorama, where they will receive a most satisfactory treat, in witnessing this chef d'ouvre of art. From St. Peter's we turn to the view of the romantic French village of Thiers, situate in the department of the Puy de Dome, which is as eminently beautiful and as perfectly natural as the one (the village of Unterseen) which so lately occupied the same station. The scene is materially heightened by the occasional appearance and disappearance of the sun, which warms it into life, and dissipates a somewhat chilly appearance that pervades it. There are other objects magically portrayed which excites the wonder of the beholder, so complete is the deception wrought; such as a translucent stream of water trickling over some rugged stones, the counterpart of nature's very self, and the representation of smoke issuing from the chimney of a cottage, which forcibly reminds us that the dwelling is not deserted, though not a single living being animates the picture, the want of which we regret, as we feel convinced that human figures might have been introduced with effect. On the whole, even considering the trifling defects, and the merest trifles they are, though they have been swollen into magnitude by the penetration of several critics, we should lack judgment if we did not pronounce the present exhibition equal to the very best that has gone before it, and far superior in many points. Indeed, it is impossible to excel the architectural display in St. Peter's which is the finest and most skilful we ever witnessed, and worthy the attentiou of every person of taste and judgment. The Note Book. INTERCOURSE. In 1728, the London Post arrived at Edinburgh with only one sixpenny Loudon letter, and that was addressed to the Post Master General on office business. The arrival of the post then was only once a fortnight, now it is six times a week. The post then employed ten days in travelling from London to Edinburgh, now it employs only three. H. B. A. PROPERTIES OF THE ELDER TREE. This tree, says Miss Kent, in an article in the Magazine of Nat. History,' does as much good by its noxious as by its agreeable qualities. If corn or other vegetables be smartly whipped with the branches, they will communicate a sufficient portion of this scent to keep off the insects-by which so many plants are frequently blighted. An infusion of the leaves, poured over plants, will preserve them from caterpillars also. The wine made from the berries is well known, but, perhaps, it may not be so generally known that the buds make an excellent pickle. A water distilled from the flowers rivals buttermilk itself as a rural cosmetic. In some remote country-places, it supplies the place both of the surgeon and the druggist; it furnishes ointments, infusions and decoctions for all ailments, cuts, or bruises. Every part of it serves some useful purpose; the wood, pith, bark, leaves, buds, flowers and fruit. Its narcotic scent makes it unwholesome to sleep under its shade. THE COSSACKS. The name of Cossack is derived from the Sclavonic word Koss (scythe.) In early times, when the rude and hardy peasantry of Russia went to war with any neighbouring country, for want of other offensive weapons, they were compelled to use their scythes, which circumstance gained for them the cognomen of Cossacks, (Scythemen.) H. B. A. NOVEL MODE OF DESTROYING WASPE. An intelligent contributor (Thos. N. Parker, Esq. of Sweeney Hall, Salop,) to the Gardener's Magazine, among other contrivances to get rid of this insect, says: " I suspect that wasps, when gorged with fruit, do not get to their nest at night, so I made a successful attack upon them in their chosen ground in the day-time, by means of some hyacinth glasses,* with about two inches of water in each. These glasses being held partly under, and partly in front of a plum, or other fruit full of wasps, every one tumbled into the glass, and shaking them up with the water, you make a few more casts, and, lastly, roll them out, water and all, on the ground, entangled together like a ball, and put your foot on them. In eight successive casts, I caught 128; the greatest number at one cast, from a bunch of plums, being 27. BELLS Certain Italian writers pretend that the Venetians introduced bells at Constantinople in the ninth century; but the earliest instance that we can find in the Byzantine historians of their first use, is in the year 1040. One thing appears certain that when Jerusalem was surrendered to the first Arab conquerors, it was one article of the conditions imposed on the Christians, that they should not only ring, but toll their bells. H. B. A.,, Customs of Various SINGULAR WELSH CUSTOM. In many parts of Wales, they have the following singular custom; the night before the burial of a person, which is called gwil nos or watch night, the friends and neighbours of the deceased bring each a candle with them, and assemble in the room where the corpse is; here they burn the candles, placing two or three of them upon pewter plates on the body. They then sit up in the room all night, and usually pass the time in singing and pray ing. If the relations of deceased are poor, the persons assembled generally bring with them a present; but this, like many other customs is now becoming obsolete. Ν. Ν. Anecdotiana. LUXURY PREVENTED. To restrain luxury, and prevent the ruin of families, Peter the First, King of Portugal, absolutely forbade all his subjects to buy or sell any of their commodities, without immediate payment, and made the second commission of the offence death. A BAD painter, notorious for his want of skill in his vocation, left the town where he resided, and went to dwell at another, some distance off, at which place he commenced physician. Being asked by a person who had known him formerly, the reason of his changing professions, he answered, "If I now commit faults, the earth covers them." H. B. A. LOVE IN A VILLAGE. The following is a verbatim et literatim copy of a paper sent a short time since to the clergyman of Wilton, near Spils, by a loving pair: " I puglich the bands of Maregs btwixed Gorg Dickinson and Ann Briggs, booth of this Parish. If heney bodey nows heney gust Impeneyet wy thoos toow presons should not be goined togather in holey Materemoney thair To now declare it. R. A. W. One saying to ano another, " You speak foolishly." -He answered, "It is that you may understand me." H. B. A. ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON. Sir John Trevor, who for some misdemeanours had been expelled from parliament, one day meeting Archbishop Tillotson, cried, I hate to see an atheist in the shape of a churchman.' ' And I,' replied the good bishop, hate to see a knave in any shape.' LARGE MARGIN. The most curious instance extant of a small page of text surrounded by an ample margin, like a cockboat in the open ocean, is to be found in an edition of Bacon's Essays, printed by Bensley, in the Chacherode Collection, of which only four copies were taken off. * The most advantageous glasses for the purpose are those made somewhat in the shape of an hourglass or two cones, joined at about an inch from their apexes, which may be had at Goode's glass warehouse, 15, Millstreet, Hanover-square. EPIGRAM. To an Epigrammatic Pilferer. DATE DAYS. Diary and Chronology. DIARY. June 3 Wed. St. Cecilius. Sun ris. 5im aft 8 -sets 9 8 4 Thurs St. Walter of Fontinelle, d. 1150. High Water. 36 aft 4 mor. 55 4 aft. 5 Fri. St. Dorotheus 4th century. Sun ris 49m aft 3 -sets 11 -8 6 Sat. St. Norbert, d. A. D. 1134 High Water, 52m aft. 5 mor 11m 6 after -7 SUN. WHIT SUNDAY. DATE. LESS, forthe DAY 2d Les.-Acts 10, 8 Mond. St, William, High Water, 9 Tues. St. Vincent mar. CORRESPONDING CHRONOLOGY. June 3 Our saint was a man of the world, a person of wit and abilities, but his own idol, and a great lover of pleasure and applause; hence his chief religion seems to have been to serve himself; notwithstanding this, we find Cecilius at length, by the power of divine grace, made a glorious convert, an eminent saint, and in all probability, he was the converter of the great St. Cyprian. St. Cecilius is supposed to have been martyred in the early part of the 3rd century. 1826.-Expired the eminent writer, William Hamilton Reid, author of a work, entitled "The Rise and Dissolution of the Infidel Societies," which was of vast service to the community. The unremitting perseverance and great genius possessed by this distinguished individual, extended a narrow education to a knowledge of most foreign languages, which enabled him to fill with success for many years an occupation requiring learning and experience. Through the period of his life, a long one, till the time of his death he supported himself by the labour of his pen, and died esteemed by most men for his virtues & unbounded intellectual attainments. 4 1802.-The abdication of the King of Sardinia, Charles Emanuel, took place on this day in favour of his brother, the Duke D' Aost, who succeeded to the crown and government, under the name of Victor Emanuel. 5 1771-Anniversary of the birth-day of his Royal Highness Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. 1828.-Expired on this day, H. Stoe Van Dyk, an author of considerable ability, who in conjunction with Mr. Bowring translated the specimens of the Dutch poets, entitled Batavian Anthology,' for which each obtained a handsome medal from his Majesty the King of Holland. His other labours consist of the Gondola, and songs set to music, portraits in rhyme of the principal performers of the London Stage, and miscellaneous contributions to several periodical works. 6 This saint, who was bishop of Magdaburg, in the duchy of Cleves, died two years after his nomination to the bishopric, the duties of which he discharged with great zeal and piety. 1762.-Died on this day the great navigator and 7 Our saint who became by election Bishop of 9 1795.-On this day a dreadful fire consumed nearly Ellustrated Article. THE MILLER OF WINKLEIGH ; A DEVONSHIRE LEGEND. (For the Olio.) Why did you win my virgin heart, William and Margaret. K. HENRY-0 thou eternal mover of the heavens, Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch! O, beat away the busy meddling fiend, That lays strong siege unto this wretch's soul. 2nd part of K. Henry VI. In the reign of the profligate Charles the Second, nd, there lived in the village of Winkleigh, in Devonshire, a young man named Roger Buckland. At the age of twenty-two, he found himself sole heir to his father's estate, which consisted of a substantial mill, and about ten acres of land, in a tolerable state of cultivation. Many were the deliberations of the calculating fathers and sharp-eyed mothers of Winkleigh upon young Buckland's succeeding to his father's possessions, and they took especial care that none of their daugh VOL. III. 2 A ters should be absent on Sundays at the village church. Roger was a comely and well-proportioned youth, though the fastidious might say he was somewhat too sturdy; but this is a fault which is easily overlooked in Devonshire, where skill in wrestling is so much in repute, and strength of body is often found to make amends for any deficiency in the mental faculty. He had made no slight impression on the faireyed girls of his native village, though there were some damsels whose charms were on the wane, who hinted that the flourishing business of Roger Buckland was the most powerful magnet. Be this as it may, there were many families who would have been proud of an alliance with the young miller; but the charms of no maiden had as yet enslaved him, though there were many in his neighbourhood who could boast of a fair proportion of that beauty for which the damsels of Devonshire are so justly famous. Many were the invitations he received, and no rustic fete was given to which he was not invited. Three years had passed away since the death of his father, when Roger at length 78 in seriously determined to take unto himself a wife, and he was not long in fixing upon one whom he thought in every respect likely to render him happy. ha He acc accordingly waited one morning upon the father of the object of his choice, and after some preliminary formula, Roger was permitted to visit the house of the wealthy farmer, the quality of a lover, or, in more modern parlance, to "pay his addresses" to the old man's darling, the beautiful Alice Clevelly. Her's was that beauty, at which your city dames may scoff, but her fair cheek, glowing with the rosy hue of health, her white and even teeth, and dark brown ringlets, though all partaking of a certain degree of rusticity, were not less winning, and her triumph over the lusty young miller was complete. Between two such be beings there is little fear of a lack of affection, and ere the year was out, each village lass pointed to the happy couple as they strolled along, and with laughing eye and significant gestures, betrayed her allowable envy. But the dark veil of superstition was still spread over the peasantry of England. Evil spirits were believed to roam through the world, blighting the fair hopes of the young and sanguine heart. A dark and fearful tale had oft been whispered by the elders of the village that Roger Buckland was the last of his race, and that an evil destiny hung over him. But he heard not these things, or, if he did hear them, they were unheeded, and their forebodings troubled him not. At length, the day was fixed for their marriage, and the busy fingers of the bride and her friend were employed in preparing her bridal dress. In three weeks they were to be made man and wife, and each looked forward to the happy day which should see them united by the holy and indissoluble bond of wedlock. Young Buckland was in the habit of riding over to Hatherleigh market every week, and he had left home one day for that purpose, intending to make a purchase of some corn of a farmer with whom he had had many dealings. His stay at Hatherleigh was much protracted, in consequence of his not finding this person in the town as he expected, and night was advancing, when he determined to return home. Before he had quitted the town half an hour, it be |