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persisting, like him, in writing ouly on national topics: but there is in her works much more love of celebrity than attachment to country, and much less national pride than personal vanity. —Lady Morgan seems to paint Irishmen with pleasure; but it is an Irishwoman whom she, above every thing and every where, paints with enthusiasm: and that Irishwoman is herself. Miss O'Hallogan in O'Donnell, and Lady Clancare in Florence Maccarthy, are neither more nor less than Lady Morgan, flattered by herself. Victor Hugo.

The Old Haymarket Green Room. It was literally a green room, into which light was admitted by a thing like a cucumberframe at one end of it. It was matted, and round the walls an a bench covered with faded green stuff, whereupon the dramatis persona deposited themselves until called to go on the stage; a looking-glass under the skylight, and a large bottle of water and a tumbler on the chimney-piece, completed the furniture of this classic apartment.-Gilbert Gurney.

A Coffee Room.-A dear, nice, uncomfortable room, with a bar opening into it, a sanded floor, an argand lamp smoking a tin tray in the middle of its ceiling, boxes along its sides, with hard carpet-covered benches, schoolboy tables, and partitions, with rods, and rings, and curtains, like those of a churchwarden's pew in a country church.—Ibid.

Common Sense is like flour, the other sort of sense is like sugar, and gilding, and all the rest of those things-beautiful to adorn a cake and embellish the patisserie, but, without the flour, mere ornaments-now, without the ornaments, the flour will make bread.-Ibid.

Courtship. Formerly there really existed something like sentiment and affection, de voted and unqualified by worldly grovellings. Now, these exist no longer; nobody ever hears of an unmarried woman's being seriously attached: the highly-accomplished and double-refined beauty of the period at which I write would be shocked to death if she were thought to be what in other times was called being in love. Girls like dandies, and with the dandies whom they like they flirt, and they waltz, and, if it happens to be quite convenient to all parties, eventually marry them. Wit and accomplishments have taken place of that sober serious devotion, which "looked unutterable things;" and a man, in these times, convicted of having been upon his knees, would be as much damaged in the estimation of the sporting world, as a horse would be for the same reason.-Ibid.

Gambling-Houses.-So far from hazard being formerly considered a wrong or disreputable game, the kings of England, till the

reign of George III., used annually, on twelfth-night, to play hazard in an open room in St. James's Palace, which ceremony the public were admitted to witness. Hence the name given to these places of amusement.— The room in which the king publicly exhi bited himself to his people, was called as those houses are now called on account of its darkness by day; and hence the opprobrium which has fallen upon players in modern times, who congregate in places which, to the delicate imaginations of little masters and misses, deserve the same horrible appellation on account of their infamy, instead of having received it from the court itself: hence, too, the title of my worthy friend in the chair with the rake-he is called groomporter-why, nobody on earth could possibly surmise, who did not know that in the royal hazard-playing, which has been just mentioned, it was the duty of the groom-porter of the palace to call the odds.-Ïbid.

Oh! how true it is that when those we have adored are gone-when those lips we have loved are sealed in silence, and can no longer speak a pardon for our indiscretions or omissions-we reproach ourselves with inat. tentions and unkindnesses, which, at the time we then fancied them committed, would perhaps have been matters of indifference or even jest.- Ibid.

Poet's Tree. In the park at Ferney, is shown an elm planted by Voltaire, in 1763, of which the trunk, in 1831, was six feet four inches in circumference, at four feet from the ground. Since that time, the tree has been so mutilated by visiters, who have stripped off portions of its bark as a memorial of the great poet of Ferney, that it has been found necessary to surround it with

stakes.

representatives of the characters in Sheridan's
The School for Scandal. Of the original
chef d'œuvre, the "School for Scandal," and
of his very witty burlesque, "The Critic,"
but two survive. In the former, the widow
of the late John Philip Kemble, then Miss
Hopkins, first played Maria; and in the
latter the part of Don Ferolo Whiskerandos
jun., (familiarly called Jack Bannister,) who,
was originally sustained by Mr. Bannister,
save some occasional visitations of his old
76th year, a green old age; and, to the no
enemy the gout, cheerfully enjoys, in his
small gratification of his friends,
his battles o'er again," with surprising viva-
fights
city and vigour.

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Every one in his turn becomes unpopular; the people themselves may become unpopular at last.-Victor Hugo.

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THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' NEW SCHOOL, KENNINGTON LANE.

THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS

NEW SCHOOL.

THE handsome edifice represented on the previous page is now in course of erection in Kennington Lane, Lambeth. The architect is Mr. Rose, of Southwark. Before proceed ing to the descriptive details, it may, however, be interesting to explain the noble object to which this building is to be appropriated. The Friendly Society of Licensed Victuallers was established in 1794, for raising a fund for the relief of its decayed Members and their Widows, in sickness and old age, want, and infirmity; and of affording some assistance to their fatherless children and orphans. To accomplish these benevolent objects, the Morning Advertiser Newspaper was published in the above year, from which time, one third of its profits, and other aids have formed a permanent fund. In 1803, a School for the education and maintenance of the destitute children was added to this charitable plan; and, about three years afterwards, premises in Kennington Lane were purchased of the late Sir Joseph Mawbey, and the establishment was removed there. In 1807, additional funds were raised by subscription, and the School was enlarged; and such has been the increase of its patrons and funds, that the amount which, in 1807, was 405 l. 11 s.-at the last return, in 1835, had risen to 4,223 l. 3s.

The number of children has, accordingly, increased from twenty to upwards of one hundred and twenty; and the premises above mentioned being found inconvenient and inadequate to the object of the School, they have been taken down, and a structure better adapted to the increased extent of the Establishment has been commenced on the site of the old school-house. The children have been removed to Grove House, Camberwell, where they will remain during the erection of their new abode; so that the routine of instruction will not be impeded.

ment in the disposition of the public towards gratuitous education, as well as in the channels through which its philanthropic object is to be accomplished. In the Establishment before us, over-education is carefully avoided: the common rudiments only, as reading, writing, and arithmetic, are set before the scholars; with such general instruction in the useful arts of life as may fit the Boys and Girls "to get their own living;" the former to become good apprentices, and by industry, good masters; and the latter active servants, and eventually good mistresses.

The foundation-stone of the New School was laid on January 21, 1836, by Viscount Melbourne, in the name of His Majesty, the patron of the School. The ceremony was attractive, and thousands assembled to witness it. There was a procession to the site, an anthem was sung by some of the children, an Address, (written by the Secretary), was recited by the senior Boy; a brass-plate, recording the event, with coins and plans, was deposited, the Noble Founder spread the mortar with a silver trowel, and the stone was lowered, its accuracy ascertained, and the three blows were struck; the ministers of the parish church then offered up a prayer and thanksgiving, and the children sung a hymn, written by one of the former pupils of the Establishment. The event was celebrated by a sumptuous dinner, of which five hundred persons partook.

It is now time to describe the New School. "The building will be of sufficient extent for the complete accommodation of 250 children of both sexes, and will be erected with the best stock brieks.

"The principal front, which has a northern aspect, will be 140 feet in length by 50 feet in height, and will be stuccoed in Roman cement up to the first floor, and rusticated. Over the Arcade to the principal entrance, there will be a handsome Corinthian Portico, surmounted above the pediment by the king's arms and a group of flags. The Arcade and Portico will project eight feet, and the wings four feet, from the principal front. This front, together with the east and west flanks of the principal building, will be faced with white Suffolk bricks. On each side the principal entrance, will be the boys and girls' entrances, and at each extremity of the principal front will be a wall, fifteen feet high, with doorway for the entrance of tradesmen, &c.

As an aggregate of the happy results of the Licensed Victuallers School, it is stated in an interesting pamphlet, (obligingly forwarded to us by the Secretary,) that since the School was instituted, "it has rescued from poverty and ignorance 717 orphans and other destitute children of both sexes; and, it may be considered as no slight additions to its advantages, that, of the children who have left it, 178 of the boys have received 5. each, to place them out as apprentices, and 224 of the girls, 34. each, to furnish them "The basement, which is an excavation with suitable clothing on their being placed about twelve feet below the level of the in respectable situations as servants." It ground, and arched over, will occupy about should be remembered also, that much of 1,500 square feet, and will contain commothis good work was effected in days when the dious beer, coal, and store cellars on the boys facilities for public education were much less and on the girls' side. advanced than at the present time; for the lapse of upwards of a quarter of a century, (1807 to 1836), has worked great improve

"The ground floor, which, including the offices, will occupy 15,000 square feet, will comprise, within the principal building, a

boys' dining hall, forty feet by twenty-five, and eighteen feet high; a girls' dining-hall, thirty feet by twenty-five, and eighteen feet high; a sitting-room on each side for the master and mistress; a kitchen twenty-seven feet by twenty-four; a scullery, spacious provision rooms and larder; with bath-rooms, lavatories, and a store-room.

"The Entrance Hall, which will be approached by a spacious and handsome flight of stone steps, will be twenty-eight feet by twenty, and fifteen feet high, and will lead to the principal staircase, twenty-five feet by twenty, which will be lighted from above by a handsome lantern light. On each side this staircase will be a private staircase, leading to the boys and girls' sides of the building. On either side of the hall will be a waiting-room, twelve feet by eleven.

"Behind the main building will be a wing on each side, at right angles with the front. The wing on the east side, appropriated to the boys, will contain, on the ground floor, a school-room, forty-six feet by thirty-two, and sixteen feet high, with a covered playground forty-four feet long, and of the same height and width. On the west side, appropriated to the girls, will be a school-room, thirty-two feet by thirty, and sixteen feet high; a covered playground thirty-two feet by twentyeight, and of the same height; and a washhouse thirty-two feet by twenty-three, and sixteen feet high, separated from the covered playground by a party wall. A lofty division wall is intended to separate the two open playgrounds.

"The mezzanine floor will contain, ou the boys' side, a wardrobe eighteen feet by sixteen, and a work-room, thirty-three feet by ten, each with inclosed closets. On the girls' side there will be corresponding rooms, with a store-room twenty-four feet by seventeen, and a spare-room seventeen feet by sixteen.

"On the one-pair floor will be the committee room, forty-seven feet by twenty-four, and sixteen feet high, with a lobby on each side of the staircase landing.

"On the same floor, on the boys' side, will be their principal dormitory, occupying the whole length and width of the east wing, being about ninety feet by thirty-two, and sixteen feet high. In the front, or main building, will be another boys' dormitory, twenty-five feet by twenty-four, and of the same height; and adjoining these rooms will be the Master's bed-room and two bed-rooms for assistants, overlooking both dormitories.

"On the girls' side, within the west wing, the principal dormitory will be fifty eight feet by thirty-two, and sixteen feet high; and in the front will be another girls' dormitory, thirty feet by twenty-five, and of the same height; and adjoining these, the bed-rooms of the mistress and assistants, overlooking both dormitories, as on the boys' side.

"At the end of the girls' principal dormitory, over the wash-house, will be a laundry, twenty-four feet by thirty-two, separated from the dormitory by a party-wall, and approached by stairs from the wash-house.

"The two-pair floor which is confined to the front, or main building, will contain on the east side an infirmary, or sick-ward for the boys, forty-one feet by twenty-four, and eleven feet high; and, on the west side, a girl's infirmary, thirty feet by twenty-four, and of the same height. On the same floor will be the nurse's room, eighteen feet by sixteen, three servants' bed-rooms, approached by a separate staircase from the one-pair floor, and a spare-room eighteen feet by twenty. The whole site of the building will be inclosed on the south, east, and west sides, by a brick wall, ten feet high; and the front, towards the road, will have a handsome ornamental iron railing, on granite and Portland curbs. At each end will be a pair of folding entrance gates, and a side door, each hung to Portland stone piers, and surmounted by a neat lamp."

The estimated cost of the New School is 14,000 7.; a portion of which sum has been already subscribed; the remainder will, we hope, be contributed before the completion of the building. The Institution is, indeed, an excellent one: the annual cost of the School and Asylum is 7,000. All this good is effected by zealous co-operation, such as we learn from the fable of antiquity: and the chairman at the Dinner was justified in asking his visiters who were strangers to the above Institutions, "whether there is any trade in this metropolis which exhibits the example of spending 7,000 7. for the benefit of individuals belonging to it." How it gladdens the heart to reflect on such a result, as we turn to the noble monument of British benevolence, engraved on the preceding page.

This School, however, is not the only establishment of the Victuallers Society: for, not only have they provided for the parentless child, but they have also reared a substantial asylum for the aged and decayed members of their fraternity; thus furnishing a shelter from misfortune and vicissitude, in the first and last act of the drama of life.

Retrospective Gleanings.

NOBILITY.

OWEN FELTHAM says:- Thomas Sarsannes, being asked what kind of prelate he thought Eugenius IV. would prove, answered, that it might be easily guessed at if they knew but the stock he came off, for such as was his family, such a prince would they find him. It is true, by his own virtues or vices a man does often differ from his progenitors; but usually

through successive generations the blood does hold its tincture. And in a noble family, for the most part, the stream does still hold noble; which, by wise states, hath been sometimes so presumed upon, that they have set marks of honour upon them; not only out of respect to their ancestors, but in hopes of finding the successor not so degenerate. It was a law among the Romans, that if there happened contentions in their elections for the consulship, those that were descended of the Sylvians, Torquatians, and Fabricians, should in the first place be preferred; and we see it common among princes, that offices of trust, and places of command, are settled on the heirs of some deserving families, as presuming they will merit to keep, what their ancestors, at first, by their merit, did acquire. Certainly, it is to be believed that, he which out of nothing, or a mean beginning, is the founder of a house and fortune, had something in him beyond the standard of an ordinary man; and it is likewise to be believed, that where the spirits are so rarefied and refined by virtue and in dustry, even in the generation of posterity, they do transmit themselves, and are propagated to succeeding ages. Some families are observable for peculiar eminences in the current of successions. The Romans had not a family of more merit than the Scipios; and it is not unworthy our observing, that even the first founders of that family were eminent for their piety, and their love to their parents: the first whereof, when his father was blind, as his staff, he was his guide, and led him about in his way, from whence he took his name. The next, being a child, did, every day in private, set out some time for the temple; and, at seventeen years of age, brought off his wounded father, encompassed by the enemy: and, indeed, he that discharges his duty to these two, cannot but be eminent in all the rest of his conversation. The foundation of honour and greatness is laid in obedience and respect to these: but the neglect thereof, or practices of a contrary nature, put a man out of favour with nature's genius; and leave him to be ravined upon by all the insects of his own small appetites, as well as the greater ragings of his intemperate passions. They that are bred under the government of such as are thus wise, are seasoned with maxims of honour; and if but one in an age steps up to do this, he leaves an example that puts posterity in the way of continuing it: and not to speak of the helps of fortune, which are infinite, they are presidented into virtue and honour; and they are deterred from poor and skulking conveyances by the orientness of that fame which their forefathers have left them! so that earth cannot present us any thing that is more glorious than ancient nobility, when it is illustrated by the rays of virtue and though

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to be a king in virtue and wisdom is the brightest jewel that sparkles in a regal crown, yet, merely, as in a beautiful body, the temper and transcendency of the spirit is more grateful, so is virtue more lustrous and shining in the stem of ancient and ennobled blood, than in the newness of a rising house: each may be a marble in the quarry where it lies, but it must be by art and industry, and the diligence of a laborious hand to give it gloss and smoothness, before the streaks and taking veins can be discerned in it. Alexander would needs derive from Jupiter; the Romans from Hercules, Venus, Æneas, and the like; and how many nations have thought it their honour to draw their descent from the Trojans? As it was an honour to be a Grecian, where virtue and the arts were learned, so it was held a stain, and he was branded with the name of barbarian, that was of another nation. It was objected to Antisthenes as a disgrace that his mother was a Phrygian, had he not well wiped it off by replying, that Phrygia was the mother of the gods. But, however it be, it is virtue and true nobleness that is the crown of honour. They that are of the highest merit in themselves, the least insist upon their ancestry; for they well know that he who boasts his stock, commends but what belongs to another. The best use they can make of glorious actions, by them well achieved, is to endeavour that they may outgo them; or, at least, to beware, that they darken not, by their own declination, the splendour that they lived in. The best way to keep their ancestors' great acts in memory is to refresh them with new ones of their own; and let them be sure to remember, they grew up to that brightness by degrees: even fire itself. the quickest of the elements, must be kindled and blown up by degrees, before it shines itself into a flame: when it breaks out on a sudden, it is usually both ominous and harmful. It is better to be foolish than unthrifty; for another generation may prove wise: but the riotous and indiscreetly prodigal, after he hath wasted all the fruit, digs up the tree by the roots, that it can bear no more; and instead of hoped applause, departs the world with infamy. A degenerate son of a noble family, is like a worm at the root of a tree: a spendthrift, like an earthquake, does shake the house so long, that at last it either falls in pieces, or is swallowed up in ruin. He is not likely to be prevalent in battle, who thinks that, without his own stout fighting, it is enough for him to be covered with the shields of his ancestors. W.G.C.

Habit or custom, like a complex mathematical scheme, flows from a point, insensibly becomes a line, and unhappily, (in that which is evil,) it may become a curve.-Robinson.

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