house consisting of a picture gallery, a statue gallery, drawing-rooms, dining-rooms, cabinets for vases, &c., which he had collected in his travels. Mr. Britton, in his "Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London," has given an account of this house, accompanied by two plates; and, in his work, entitled "The Union of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture," the same gentleman justly observes-" To Mr. Hope, we are indebted, in an eminent degree, for the classical and appropriate style which now generally characterises our furniture and ornamental utensils. Like most other innovations, his was described as whimsical and puerile by some persons, as if it were unbecoming a man of fortune to indulge in the elegant refinements which wealth placed Miss Macauley's Lectures on Education. Most of our readers are familiar with the name of Miss Macauley, this lady having frequently challenged the public applause in her various Lectures on Education, History, Morality, the Drama, &c. She is at the delivery of a series of four Lectures on this time engaged at Willis's rooms in Education, expressly calculated to benefit the junior branches of her audience. These essays, interspersed with various anecdotes or illustrations, musical recitations, &c., are forcibly penned, and will gain for their author an increase of popularity. We were much pleased with her execution of a beautiful little poem by Mrs. Opie-the Warrior's Return-which, if not actually original, had the charm of novelty to most. The audience was numerous and fashionable, and liberal in applause. Precedency. Sir James Shaw, the newly elected Cham at his command; whilst others caricatured the system, by cramming their apartments with mythological figures and conceits, jumbled together without propriety or meaning."-In the year 1805, Mr. Hope published his drawings in a folio volume,berlain of the city of London, had the entitled "Household Furniture and Internal Decorations ;" a production which effected a complete revolution in the system of furnishing and decorating houses, and called forth some absurd comments in "The Edinburgh Review." Mr. Hope was a munificent patron of artists and of the arts. By his liberality, Thorwaldson, the celebrated Danish sculptor, was brought forward. He was one of the earliest patrons of Chantrey; and in him Flaxman found a friend and employer capable of appreciating his merit. In 1810, however, Mr. Hope experienced a singular instance of ingratitude from a French painter named Dubost, who, in consequence of some dispute respecting the execution and price of a picture, turned round and stung his benefactor. He painted and exhibited an infamous caricature entitled "Beauty and the Beast." This was at length indig. nantly cut to pieces by Mr. Beresford, Mrs. Hope's brother. The painter brought an action for damages, which he estimated at £1,000.; but the jury gave him £5., as the worth of the canvas and colours; and even that verdict he would not have obtained had Mr. Beresford put in a plea that he destroyed the picture as a nuisance, instead of putting in a general plea of not guilty. Mr. Hope was the author of two superb works on costume: one, entitled "The Costumes of the Ancients," in 2 vols. royal 8vo., 1809; the other, " Designs of Modern Costume," folio, 1812.-His romance of "Anastasius, or Memoirs of a Modern Greek," is too well known, to require further notice here. Mr. Hope was an occasional contributor to periodical publications; and, at the time of his decease, he was engaged in passing through the press an original work "On the Origin and Prospects of Man."-He has left a large collection of drawings and engravings, illustrative of buildings and scenery in Greece, Turkey, Italy, and France; several plates of his antique sculpture, vases, &c. honour of obtaining for his fellow citizens, during his mayoralty in 1805, the King's warrant of precedency within the walls of his jurisdiction, over every other subject, howsoever elevated his rank. This privilege Sir James exercised at the funeral of Lord Nelson, when he took precedence of his late Majesty, then Prince of Wales. In token of this event the worthy Baronet took for the supporter of his shield, a man (emblematical of fortitude) holding an escrol inscribed, “The King's Warrant of Precedency," on the dexter side; on the sinister, an emblematical figure of the city of London, with hand extended to receive the escrol—motto, “ I mean well.” Will of the Prince de Condé. Proceedings have been commenced in the Cour de Premier Instance, to set aside the will of the late Prince de Condé, on the two several grounds, first of the will not being (as alleged) in the hand-writing of the Prince; second, of its having been procured by undue influence. It is further alleged, that the Prince did not come fairly by his death. The property left by the Prince amounts to the enormous sum of nearly 80,000,000 of francs-more than £3,000,000 sterling. The will of the Prince leaves the bulk of this property to the Duke d'Aumale, third son of the present King of France. | This young Prince is left residuary legatee, and in the event of his death, the youngest son of the King, the Duke de Montpensier. The sum of 2,000,000 of francs is left to the Princess de Feuchières, together with the castle and estate of St. Leu, the use of furniture, horses, equipages, &c., at the Palais Bourbon, and the timber, &c. belonging to the castle and estate of Ecouen-the whole of which legacy is reckoned to be worth 12,000,000 of francs. The Prince leaves 100,000 francs to be employed in establishing a charitable institution in the Castle of Ecouen, for the use of the descendants of the ancient army of Condé and La Vendée. The France has no cause to congratulate herself on the majority of her kings who have borne the name of Charles. Charles the Bald was a capuchin king, and a visionary. Charles the Fat was possessed of a devil, and died a fool. Charles the Simple was worthy of his name. Charles the Handsome was the enemy of commerce, and travelled nowhere without a carriage full of relics. Charles the Wise, in one day, during the times of the Jacquerie, killed twenty thousand of his subjects. Charles IX., the King of St. Bartholomew, as Mezeray tells us himself, shot his subjects with his fowling-piece. Charles X., at Holyrood, crowns the series. Literary and Scientific Intelligence. head master of the High School, attached to the upper department. A charter which now only awaits the Royal signature, is to be granted to the University of London, bestowing on this establishment all the privileges and powers at present enjoyed by the most favoured of our universities, the granting degrees in theology alone for the present being excepted. To compensate for this privation the University of London is to be enabled to grant newly-invented degrees of Master of Medicine and Surgery, in addition to those better known, of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Medicine. The exhibition of the works of the French artists will commence on the 1st of April next, at the Louvre. The annual average quantity of dew deposited in this country is estimated at a depth of about five inches, being about oneseventh of the mean quantity of moisture supposed to be received from the atmosphere over all Great Britain, in the year; or about 22,161,337,355 tons, taking the ton at 252 imperial gallons. The Geological Society of Cornwall, originally established by Dr. Paris, have resolved to erect a monument, composed of native granite, upon the highest hill in the county, to commemorate the splendid scientific attainments of their countryman, Sir H. Davy. The total number of emigrants from the United Kingdom to Canada, in 1830, was 28,100. Of which number, 17.596 came from Ireland, 6,895 from England, 2,600 from Scotland, and 204 from Wales. A Letter from New South Wales says, "We have at present the cheapest market in the world. Black cattle from 7s. to 12s. per head; sheep from 2s. to 4s. each; wheat 5s. per pushel; maize 1s. per quarter; beef d. per pound." In 1829, the population of Rome was 144,541; it is now 147,285, being an increase of 2,744. In 1821, the population was only 135,171; the number of deaths in 1830 amounted to 4,995. A music-seller in Dublin has published fully dedicated to Mr. O'Connell; Mrs. some Orange and Green Quadrilles, respectO'Connell's Orange and Green Waltz, with the Anti-Union Quadrilles and Anti-Union Waltz, most respectfully dedicated to the King! Works in the Press, &c. Leigh's Guide for Travellers through Wales and Monmouthshire, with Map, &c. The Siege of Constantinople, a Poem, in three Cantos, by Nicholas Michell. The Anti-Materialist, or a Manual for Youth, by the Rev. R. Warner, F.S.A., &c., author of "Literary Recollections," &c. A Work on the Principles of English Composition, by Mr. Booth, author of the “Analytical Dictionary.” An Outline of Sematology; or, an Essay towards Establishing a new Theory of Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric. BIRTHS.-MARRIAGES.-DEATHS. BIRTHS. Or SONS.-Lady Phillimore.-The lady of R. Bernal, Esq., M. P.-Lady Suffield.Lady Sussex Lennox.-The Hon. Mrs. Fraser.-Lady Frances Sandon. The lady of D. Campbell, Esq.-The lady of the Rev. G. Scobell, D.D. OF DAUGHTERS.-Lady Sidney, daughter of His Majesty, and wife of Sir Philip Sidney, K. C. B., M. P.-The lady of Lieut. Col. Baillie. The lady of the Rev. H. C. Cherry. The lady of the Chevalier de Montezuma. The lady of E. J. Cooper, Esq., M. P.-The Right Hon. lady Isabella Kingscote. The lady of Sir H. L. Baker, Bart., R. N., C. B.-The lady of the Right Hon. Sir J. Graham, Bart.—The Hon. Mrs. Charles Heneage. The lady of Major-Gen. the Hon. Patrick Stuart. At Blithfield, Staffordshire, the Rev. A. Bouverie, third son of the Hon. B. Bouverie,|| to Fanny, second daughter of the late W. Sneyd, Esq. of Keel, and one of her Majesty's Maids of Honour. At Durham, J. H. Burnet, Esq. son of Sir R. Burnett, Bart., to Caroline Margaret, daughter of the late C. Spearman, Esq. of Thornley, Durham. At Florence, T. Page, Esq. of Ely, to Susanna, eldest daughter of the Hon. Col. de Courcy, and niece to the Right Hon. Lord Kinsale. At Marylebone Church, G. H. Wood, Esq. late of the 67th Regiment, son of the late Gen. Wood, to Margaret, eldest daughter of the late J. Christian, Esq., of Wigmore street. At Bury St. Edmund's, the Rev. H. T. Wilkinson, M. A., third son of the Rev. M. Wilkinson, Rector of Redgrave, Suffolk, to Caroline, third daughter of John Le Grice, Esq. of Bury. At St. George the Martyr, Queen Square, the Rev. H. J. Shackleton, M. A., Vicar of Plumstead and Wickham, Kent, to Anna, only daughter of S. Hallett, Esq., of West Chelborough, Dorset. At Aylesford Church, B. H. Blake, Esq., of the 4th Light Dragoons, to Caroline Elizabeth, youngest daughter of C. Milner, Esq., Preston Hall, Kent. The Right Hon. Lord J. Campbell, to Anne Colquhoun, eldest daughter of the late J. Cunningham, Esq., of Craigends. DEATHS. At Hastings, the Hon. F. W. Robinson, only son of Lord Grantham, aged 19. Suddenly, Lieut.-Gen. Graham, Deputy Governor of Stirling Castle. At Woolwich, aged 59, Lady Robe, relict of Col. Sir W. Robe, K. C. B. At Bath, the Rev. Dr. W. Trail, aged 84. In Trinidad, widow Gollivette, aged 116 years, having retained her faculties to the last. At Brunswick Square, Mrs. Conran, widow of Lieut.-Gen. Conran. At Brighton, Eliza, wife of Lieut.-Col. Trickey. In Grosvenor Square, Henrietta Maria, Marchioness of Aylesbury. At Paris, Madame de Genlis, aged 84. In Devonshire Place, London, the Rev. W. H. Carr, B. D. F. R. S., &c. of Menhenniott, Cornwall. Aged 91, the Hon. Philip Roper, of Linstead, Kent, son of the Right Hon. Henry Roper, tenth Lord Teynham. At Edinburgh, Lady Dunbar, widow of Sir G. Dunbar, of Mochram, Bart. At Neufchatel, Switzerland, H. V. Salusbury, LL.D., brother of Sir T. Salusbury, Bart. Ellen, wife of T. Legh, Esq., M. P., of Lyme Hall, Cheshire. At Upton Hall, Northampton, T. S. W. Samwell, Esq. At Cowley House, Chertsey, aged 91, R. Clarke, Esq., Chamberlain of the City of London. At Caledon, R. Crothers, aged 103. At Spanish Town, Jamaica, Jane Morgan, aged 120 At Frognal, aged 66, John Thomas Lord Viscount Sydney. At Thirkleby, Yorkshire, aged 80, Sir T. Frankland, Bart. At Richmond Terrace, Clifton, Lieut.-Gen. Bright, late of the Royal Marines, aged 90. Near Dublin, Viscountess Massereene, lady of the Right Hon. Lord Ferrard. In Stratford Place, aged 59, Charlotte, Baroness de Roos, widow of the late Lord Henry Fitzgerald. At Cowdray Park, Sussex, Elizabeth Mary, wife of W. S. Poyntz, Esq. At Newcastle, Longford, the Hon. Miss Louisa King, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Lorton, aged 18. At Brussels, Augustus Thomas, third son of Sir J. Morris, Bart. In Hyde Park Place aged 85, Mrs. Ford, mother of the Duchess of Cannizzarro, late Countess St. Antonio. At the Episcopal Palace, the Lord Bishop of Cork. OR COURT AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES, No. LXXVI., FOR APRIL, 1831. EMBELLISHMENTS. A Portrait of LADY CUMMING GORDON, engraved by THOMSON, from a Miniature An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in a Ball Dress. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in an Evening Dress. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in the Home Dress of a Vienna Lady. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in the Home Dress of a Madrid Lady. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in an Italian Peasant's Dress. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in a Spanish Dancing Dress. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in a Turkish Home Dress. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in the German Costume of the Sixteenth Century. TO SUBSCRIBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. "Scenes in the Upper Regions, No. II.-The Plague of Tongues," next month, if possible. "ZETA's" communication about "Going to a Ball unasked, unknown, and unaccompanied," is a very, very tame story. "MR. DEAKIN❞ will perceive that his prose favour is inserted. Braves" shall also experience due attention. "Honneur aux A niche shall shortly be found for "The Castle-Builders of Padua," by "IOTA." The length of "An Address to the Departed," would, were there no other objection, render it unsuitable to LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE. "Bright shines the Sun" is in exactly the same predicament. "MR. BRADFIELD's" Stanzas "To a Lady," are in reserve. Also, "The Traitor to his Mistress ;" and, " To Inez-written for an Album." PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS, |