or buildings will be illustrated and classed, bestow her hand on the Rev. Mr. Grote, of Burnham Beeches, near Slough. — Kent Herald. There is no truth that Jenny Lind is to be married to a clergyman at Slough. It is well known that she is to be united to a gentleman in our neighbourhood. Dover paper. Some of the journals have selected a husband for Jenny Lind; but we can assure our readers that the fair songstress has accepted an offer from a wealthy gentleman, the owner of late iron-works in our neighbourhood. — Birmingham paper.life, the sports and pageantry of ancient times, All our contemporaries are speculating in mat- manufactures and commerce, decorative arts and ters with which they can have no earthly con- the symbolism of the early artists, numismatics, cern. Jenny Lind is neither to be married to a scals, musical instruments, and other subjects clergyman or to a wealthy Birmingham ironmas- of curious inquiry, in which a growing interest ter. She has accepted an offer from a cutler in has been excited by the taste for archæological our town. Sheffield paper. We dare say the investigation. Ecclesiastical architecture has Sheffield paper thinks to astonish its readers in already been largely illustrated by recent writannouncing the probable marriage of Jenny ers; but military architecture is almost an unLind; but we are not surprised at any thing that touched subject, with which much that is interthe editor of such a journal may utter. The esting not less to the historian than to the antitruth is, that the son of a military officer here quary is connected. Some of these projected happened to be in the lady's company at a pri- manuals are already in preparation. The Invate party in London. Looks were exchanged; structions' of the French Comité des Monuheavy breathings and suppressed sighs followed. ments' is a work somewhat of this kind, — but Our young hero popped the question; and he scarcely extended enough in its plan or suffiwas, to use a court term, graciously accepted. ciently attractive to the uninitiated reader. The marriage will take place when Jenny Lind has a little spare time on her hands. - Tipperary Chronicle. We have an announcement to make which will startle our readers. Jenny Lind has accepted an offer of marriage from the editor of a well-known journal in this town. — Manchester paper. Jenny Lind is about to be led to the hymeneal altar by Captain Gammon, of the Royal Horse Marines (Blue); and we understand Her Majesty has announced her gracious intention of giving away the bride. - Court Circular. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. The Central Committee of the Archæological Institute are taking measures for the immediate preparation of a series of manuals in illustration of British antiquities, including all branches of archæological research and every period. A full announcement of their plans may shortly be anticipated: - and, in the mean time, we are enabled to state that these manuals will include many objects of antiquarian science hitherto neglected or imperfectly illustrated, drawn from original sources, scattered notices and costly publications. The early British, Roman-British, and Anglo-Saxon periods will form distinct portions of the plan; and under each the stationary monuments—as tumuli, camps, roads, The King of the Belgians has, it is said, created a mark of distinction for such artisans and workmen as have given procfs of superior skill and judgment in their respective arts and trades, and been at the same time of irreproachable conduct. It consists of a silver medal, to be suspended on the left breast by a small chain of the same metal, bearing the name of the person on whom it is conferred, with the date of the year. This silver medal is to be only the first decoration another of gold may be obtained on a second competition. There are to be 800 of these silver medals and 200 of gold- and the jury on the Exhibition of the Progress of the Useful Arts for 1847 is to designate the candidates. Among the papers of Madame von Wollzogen, a sister-in-law of Schiller, who died in the early part of the present year, have been found the outline and the commencement of a tragedy by the great poet, which were hitherto unknown. A general subscription has been suggested in Germany for the purpose of presenting a suitable reward to Dr. Jackson, the discoverer of the wonderful effects of ether. The Journal of Literature and Science' published at Vienna, says; "We are not acquainted with the circumstances of the discoverer; but we very much doubt whether he and his countrymen would accept such a subscription. A country which would not raise such a man to the highest and most honorable position, would be an ungrateful country, and only such a country would suffer her son to receive a reward from foreign lands. As to such trumpery as medals, cups, swords, &c., Dr. Jackson is above such things, and his name will live to future ages without them." SHORT REVIEWS AND NOTICES. THE PLANET NEPTUNE; an Exposition and History. By J. P. NICHOL, LL. D., Professor of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow. The basis of this essay was a lecture delivered before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, in which Dr. Nichol aimed at combining the scientific and the popular; a difficulty he has successfully overcome. The strict subject was an account of the discovery of the new planet Neptune -- the profoundly sagacious speculation and unwearied calculation by which the existence of an unseen body moving in the depths of space was inferred, and its place determined. To render this story clear, Dr. Nichol first presents a view of our solar system, with an exposition of the law of gravitation, as it not only acts directly from the sun on any particular planet, but as one planet is influenced by all the rest; the nice investigation of which principle, and some subordinate laws of our system, enabled the existence and position of Neptune to be fixed before it was seen. A closing section is devoted to a discussion of the respective claims of Leverrier and Adams; in which, but for Dr. Nichol's genial nature, we might suspect something like temper. The merits of both discoverers may be equal, but the Frenchman's right is clear: publication to the world is the only test; not even Arago's French vaunting can change the fact that Leverrier published his hypothesis before Adams. This essay, though more limited in its extent than the previous publications of Dr. Nichol, exhibits his characteristic merit-scientific knowledge combined with popular exposition. When the nature of the subject is considered, The Planet Neptune probably displays the author's power of making abstruse principles plain, to any mind that is at all competent to apprehend them, more distinctly than any other of his works. The expositions of the disturbing effects of the planets on the gravitation power of the sun is a very beautiful example of a rare power; the drift of the whole being, we think, comprehensible, even when particular diagrams may not be apprehended. 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"What do I care about Bavaria?" says the politician. "It is a country sunk in moral apathy; in diplomacy, it is a nonentity; the people are mere slaves of the caprices of a king, who, in his turn, is ruled by the whims or the passions of a woman, whose oddities have made her the subject of European scandal. What are Bavarian affairs to me?" Yet if this declaimer were asked what interest he took in the politics of Prussia, he would be instantly on the qui vive, — would talk about the marvellous precocity with which that juvenile kingdom has developed into a first-rate power,— would expatiate on the political value of the Rhine provinces, on the richness and growing activity of the manufactures of Old Prussia, and probably, he would wind up with a glowing account of the chivalrous effort made by Frederic William to educate his people in freedom, and a highly colored anticipation of the effects to be produced on the awakening mind of Germany by the example set in Prussia of an absolute monarch voluntarily abandoning his absolutism, and transmuting it into that bugbear of the autocrat—a constitution. He would, perhaps, be startled if he were reminded, that this much despised Bavaria possesses, in a more developed form, and in a more compact and governable shape, those elements of prosperity on which the future hopes of Prussia are built; that not merely in the Palatinate, and in those parts of the kingdom bordering on the Rhine, but also in other provinces of the kingdom, the Bavarian peasantry are, physically and morally, superior to any in Europe; that they are more independent, and, in that sense, richer than the peasantry of most other countries; and that, as well by the ancient laws of the kingdom as by more recent concessions from the crown, the Bavarian people, in general, are in the enjoyment of more substantial political rights than are possessed by the people of any European country, not excepting, improbable as it may seem, France, and even England itself. Still, our supercilious politician has some reason on his side. Circumstances of which more, perhaps, hereafter—have hitherto constrained Bavaria to play an insignificant part in the great drama of Europe; and as the causes which bid fair to place her in a position of counterpoise to Prussia are at present slow and hidden in their working, it is natural that the country should be supposed to be still in that political night which has enwrapt it almost since, some forty years ago, it was erected into a kingdom. It is not our intention, however, to enlarge on these topics here. Suffice it to say, that the majority of thinkers too hastily condemn the Bavarian people. But advocates may be found for them in artists and lovers of the arts. The painter, the sculptor, will point to the treasures of art which are stored up in the capital, to the new developments of genius which have been stimulated by royal patronage; and will protest, with earnestness, against the general and sweeping condemnation. The English traveller, too, who, with a small library of hand-books, starts off to scour the world in search of "sights," and who, perhaps, in his chart of movements, has calculated to "do Munich in a week," pauses amidst the many monuments of princely taste and munificence by which he is surrounded, and wonders that while the dilettanti have raved so about other capitals, they should have thought and said so little about this newly created capital of the arts. But even such chance witnesses as these, assuming them to be bold enough to speak their minds, have not been able to produce any palpable effect upon the world's opinion, that a Bavarian is the incarnation of dulness, slowness, stupidity, and political and social abjectness. The present King of Bavaria, strange to say, has shared with his country and his people this general misapprehension or oblivion. One is not, on reflection, so much surprised that an outof-the-way kingdom like Bavaria, which is generally supposed to produce only broom-girls and beer, should be undervalued or forgotten. It had been so long under the shadow of the Austrian eagle, that diplomatists and politicians had accustomed themselves to look upon it as a sort of political appanage of the quasi German empire. But that the king should have been confounded with his people should have been set down as only a vain poetaster-half-tyrant, half-dilettante — who divided, between writing bad verses and cobbling his subjects' manacles, the time he could spare from setting an example of persevering and ostentatious immorality to those who, in theory at least, were bound to look up to him as a father, is indeed surprising to any man who may have taken the trouble to investi- | kingdom and the welfare of his people, they gate his public conduct since he came to the think nothing of him at all, or they think poorly throne. The best excuse, perhaps, that can be of him because he has some odd ways which made for those who thus undervalue a man who make them laugh." is really a unique and remarkable character, is, These "odd ways that make them laugh," are that in Munich itself, the scene of many of his at the bottom of the misapprehension to which most praiseworthy acts, are to be found the we refer. The King of Bavaria has, from the greatest number of his detractors. If any man first, committed an unpardonable offence against can hope to be a "prophet in his own country," ," society. Had he been the most arrant tyrant en surely a king, unless he be the most arrant of règle, that would have been accepted as a matter tyrants, sots, or fools, ought to be that man. He of course; but he has dared to be a rebel against is the fountain of grace, and the incarnate terror that greatest tyrant of all, Custom; and much as of the law. Whatever be his character, one kings may dare, they must be cautious how they would suppose that he must inspire either love or revolt from that leaden despotism. The King fear that, at all events, towards a person so' of Bavaria has always acted on his own impulses, situated, the feelings of his subjects could never rejecting the aid of etiquette — that mute, mabe those of apathy, still less a more decided sen- chine-like body-guard of monarchs. He has timent in the same direction. Yet, a pretty been a Haroun Alraschid and a Charles II.extensive observation of the state of opinion in or say, rather, a Henry IV.-combined. Obthe Bavarian capital has convinced us - that is livious, from time to time, that his royalty fixed to say, of course, the writer of this article- that all eyes upon even his most trifling and sacred King Louis I., who has done more to secure the proceedings, he has acted as if he had been a political and social well-being of his people than simple private gentleman. Ostrich-like, if he any ruler they ever had from the twelfth centu- could hide his crown, he thought, perhaps, to be ry downwards; who may almost be said to have concealed from the observation of the inquisitive. called into existence Munich as a metropolis, Not that he cared for their thoughts or their and imparted to it characteristics which will remarks; he is too single-minded a person for secure it imperishable renown; is not only not that; but that he positively never troubled himunderstood (that, perhaps, would be too much to self with their constructions, and believed that expect), but not even misunderstood, in his own he could at all times relapse into his kingly state capital, and by those of his subjects who are and dignity without any taint of scandal on necessarily acquiring, daily, the most substantial account of his escapades. Such a habit of mind advantages, to say nothing of their prospective as this may survive intact, while supported by expectations, from his enormous personal exer- the vigor and the elasticity of youth; but, as age tions, the unusual bent of his taste, and his un- creeps on, it transmutes bold and varying violaparalleled pecuniary sacrifices. This, we say, is tions of established forms into confirmed eccensome excuse for the foreigner, who, overloading tricities, which appear ridiculous to weak-minded with praise, perhaps, other European sovereigns, persons, who have not the power of seeing the altogether passes by one whom, taking him as a true character under this motley garment of whole, and admitting the extent and number of oddities. The King of Bavaria, therefore, is not his faults, we may fairly declare to be the most a hero, with a whole city for his valet-de-chambre. remarkable and meritorious of them all. At the The besotted people, who owe to him every same time, let us in justice say, that all the in- thing that has tended to elevate them in the habitants of Munich are not obnoxious to this European scale, think not either upon the great condemnation. There are enlightened men in all impulses he has given, from time to time, to ranks of life, who will do justice to the character rational freedom among them, and well-timed of their king, and regret that in Munich itself reform, or upon the enormous sacrifices he has there should be so much indifference. From made to anticipate for Bavaria the gradual men in exalted rank we have often heard his development of ages; but dwell, with a sinister praises; but we were much more struck one day tenacity on the one hand, upon acts of power with the remarks of one in a humble sphere, who which he has resorted to in troubled times to said,- "Ah, sir, I am ashamed of my townsmen. sustain his authority; on the other, upon the The king is too good for them, and has done too stories, sometimes silly, sometimes indescribably much. They are ungrateful. If he had been a piquant, which have floated about in their cotesoldier, and had caused the destruction of a mil-ries till they have become, as against a benevolent lion of his people, they would admire him very and large-minded ruler, a species of concrete much; but because he has made Munich a place scandal. that all the world will come to see, and has spent his revenues in promoting the greatness of his We could fill pages with stories of the kind we refer to, some which ought not to be told, |