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not clear; his name, so far as known to the writer, occurs for the last time in connection with the thanedom of Downy, in Angus, from which he had in 1367,* the grant of an annuity. Whether John de Logy died without issue, and Glamis and Tanadice thus reverted to the Crown; or whether about the time that David obtained the divorce against Margaret Logy, he had deprived her father of his estates; or whether King Robert the Second, on his accession, had deposed John de Logy in revenge for the imprisonment of himself and son, said to have been caused by the influence of Margaret Logy, must severally remain as matter of conjecture.

Nevertheless, taking into consideration all the circumstances which have not been before advanced in elucidation of the inquiry relative to the parentage of Margaret Logy, it is highly probable that John de Logy, Thane of Glamis, was the father of Margaret Logy, David's Queen. There is good reason for believing that John de Logy was originally from Perthshire, descended of a family that assumed their name from the wellknown parish and barony, so called in that county; but it may be also observed, that a family bearing the same surname were the proprietors of the barony and parish of Logy, now united to Pert, in Angusshire, long before and subsequently to the year 1407. Brechin, July 1.

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BELLMAN'S "COAL AND CANDLE" CHANT. HADDINGTON, the old Scottish burgh and county town of East Lothian, has been several times destroyed by fire; the last disaster that occurred, more than two centuries since, was occasioned by a nurse placing clothes on a screen, too near the fire-place during the night. It was considered an accident arising from heedlessness, but as an injunctive commemoration, the magistrates ordered the following quaint lines to be chanted by the bellman through the town, on every evening from Martinmas to Candlemas; a practice that is still continued. The custom has the time-honoured name of "Coal and

Can'le."

Haddington, June 27.

A' guid men's servants wha e'er ye be,
Keep coal and can'le for charitie;
Baith in your kitchen an' your ha'
Keep weel your fire whate'er befa'.
In bakehouse, brewhouse, barn, and byre,
I warn you a' keep weel your fire;
For oftentimes a little spark,
Brings mony hands to meikle work.
Ye nourrices that have bairns to keep,
See that ye fa' na o'er sound asleep;
For losing of your gude renown,
An' banishing o' this Burrow' town.
It's for your sakes that I do cry,
Take warning by your niebours bye!

Chamberlain Rolls, vol. i. p. 399.

THE OPERA IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND. THE stage of the Grand Opera, in Paris, in the reign of Louis the Fourteenth, was in 1669, the scene of a singular outrage on two distinguished Englishmen, and the incident is highly characteristic of the manners of the

time.

In the year mentioned, Ralph Montagu, afterwards first Duke of Montagu, was accompanied in his embassy to the French Court by William Cavendish, subsequently the first Duke of Devonshire. One night, at the Opera,

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Lord Cavendish received an affront from some

of the officers of the guard, who it is stated were inebriated; and one of them having particularly insulted him, he in return struck him on the face; upon which the whole four or five of them drew their swords, and all fell on him at once. Nothing daunted, he made a determined defence, but received several wounds, and would have been overpowered by his cowardly adversaries had not a Swiss domestic, in the service of Lord Montagu, taken him up in his arms and flung him from the stage into the pit. In his fall one of the iron spikes of the orchestra inflicted a severe flesh wound, the scar of which remained till his death. The rencontre was reported throughout Europe, much to the honour of Lord Cavendish, and greatly to the discredit of the aggressors; his spirit and conduct on that occasion was the theme of general compliment, as the French then entertained the highest idea of the national courage of Englishmen ; and Louis the Fourteenth, on being duly informed of the circumstances, instantly ordered the imprisonment of the offenders.

THE positions of the Opera in England and in France are wholly dissimilar; in England, it is the object of private enterprise, and generally ruinous in its results to the managers. In France, it is maintained by the Government, and even there, where the Opera is the idolisation of the people, the losses are equally or more disastrous. The financial affairs of the French Opera have been recently the subject of a strict enquiry, and the report of the Commission so directed was printed in the Constitutionel of Monday, July 3rd. The Commission reports, that the financial state of the Opera, demands the adoption of prompt and efficacious means to prevent the dissolution of the concern, now reduced to helpless bankruptcy. The Commission in its report, blames no one person or circumstance as the cause of this impoverished state of its affairs, but proves that the Opera is and has been a very costly institution, at all periods as evinced by history. Even so late as the reign of Louis the Sixteenth, various experiments were introduced into the management of the Opera, but all without any beneficial effect; the civic régime, i. e. the municipality of Paris, being at one time compelled to bear the burden of a debt of 200,000 livres (7,900.) and 112,000 livres (4,4307.) of life-pensions. It is estimated that the management of that day lost in the

course of ten years, the sum of 3,992,762 fr. (159,7107.) or, on the average 362,977 fr. (14,5187.) per annum : yet, during this period, it was on the stage of the Grand Opera, that Gluck and Piccini achieved their greatest triumphs. Napoleon the First, convinced that the immense expense of the Opera could only be met by a state subvention, he at first, fixed one at 50,000 fr. (20007.) per month; but ultimately increased it to 720,000 fr. (28,8007) per annum. The government of the restoration, under Louis the Eighteenth, being unable to improve upon them, conformed to the bases of this system, and to this positively required arrangement, the lyrical art after the times of Gluck and Mozart, was indebted for its progress. The Grand Opera in France was thus enabled to produce and give effect to the operas of Spontini, and to introduce Rossini's Guillaume Tell, and Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable. The events of July, 1830, were singularly subversive of the fortunes of the Opera; the subvention was reduced by 40,000 fr. (16001.) and deprived of many of its exclusive privileges, it was abandoned to private speculators. The success of Robert le Diable retarded for a few years the decline of the Opera, but in 1840, a deficit was declared, and the embarrassments have increased year by year. The Commission in its report, states the subvention amounts now to but 620,000 fr. (24,8004.) and accordingly advise that the Opera should be placed under the management of the Civil List, and that its debts be paid by the State. The report further forcibly suggests the propriety of reviving the productions of the great Masters of the early French opera, not only as an interesting subject of comparison, but as an efficient means for the preservation of the eternal rules of good taste.

In accordance with this report and its recommendations, an Imperial decree provides that from July 1st, the Opera shall be placed under the direction of the Administration of the Imperial Civil List, and a superior permanent Committee, which is to give its opinion on all questions of Art, and on the measures calculated to insure the prosperity of the Opera, has been appointed, under the Presidency of the Minister of the Imperial Household. That committee is composed as follows:M. Troplong, President of the Senate; M. Baroche, President of the Council of State; Count Baciocchi, First Chamberlain of the Emperor; M. Rouher, VicePresident of the Council of State; Count de Morny, Deputy; M. Chaix d'Est-Ange, the distinguished lawyer; and M. Gautier, Secretary-General of the Ministry of the Emperor's Household, who is to act as Secretary of the Committee.

M. Roqueplan has been appointed director of the Opera.

THE Sorbonne in Paris, first built by Louis de Sorbonne; was rebuilt by Richelieu. The Cardinal's library, a fine collection of books, was deposited there.

AMERICAN ANTI-INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT MEMORIAL.

THE following American State Paper, has been transmitted for insertion in Willis's Current Notes. It displays a one-sided view altogether of the subject; and treats the rights of authors,' as so much raw material, derivable any where and every where, respected in no way but as a means to "the manufacture of books, a business involving millions of dollars," that is not be affected in the slightest amount of cost, should any consideration for the interests of the writers be taken into account. The reader will possibly on perusal determine for himself on the injustice, to say nothing of the impolicy, of this protest.

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The form under which this measure is presented for your ratification necessarily renders impossible any definite information as to its character and provisions. This your memorialists respectfully submit to be an objection of the gravest character, as being utterly repugnant to the spirit of our institutions. In the negociation of arrangements with Foreign Powers, secrecy on the part of the Executive is a necessity which admits of an occasional departure in this particular from the popular form of our government. But where such arrangements are to have an internal influence, modifying the legal rights and affecting the labour observe that they become the subjects of ordinary and open and capital of our own citizens, your memorialists must legislative action, especially in a case like the present, as matters relating to Copyright are particularly confided by the Constitution to both Houses of Congress.

Without discussing the question of the rights of authors, your memorialists would therefore protest against this proposed extension of the treaty-making power, as a dangerous innovation. The manufacture of books is a business invol ving millions of dollars, employing the labour and affording sustenance to thousands of our fellow-citizens, whose increase in the cost of books. These interests should no interests cannot fail to be injuriously affected by any indirect legislation than should those of the manufacture of more be endangered, without a hearing, by this species of iron, the raising of cotton, sugar, or any of the other great industrial resources of our country. If injustice exist under the present state of our laws on the subject of copyright, that injustice can be remedied effectually by the open and unreserved discussion of those laws in Congress, resulting in such modification as the intelligence and equity of our people, embodied in their representatives of both Houses, may determine, with the full understanding and consent of the country, in the usual mode provided for the alteration of our statutes.

As citizens of the Republic, your memorialists must therefore protest against the ratification of this Treaty, and against the introduction of this mode of oblique and indirect

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legislation, by which their rights and privileges are to be curtailed without their knowledge or consent. They therefore earnestly request that if the matter is to be considered, it be presented in the ordinary mode to both Houses of Congress, that the voice of the people may be heard; that our internal laws may be modified intelligently by ourselves as a nation of freemen, and not be overridden by Treaties at the request and importunity of foreigners; and finally that we may retain the power of modifying our internal affairs at our pleasure, and not hamper them under treaties which can only be abrogated or altered with the approbation of a foreign nation.

PRICKING IN THE OLD HAT.-Current Notes, vol. iv. p. 52.-A very common game at horse-racing and such little gatherings in this part of Ireland, is what is termed "Pricking at the Loop." This is performed by a gambler rolling or rather coiling, a long narrow strip of an old felt hat into a fantastic form, and laying it edgewise on a board, when it presents several loops. After being so coiled, the person with whom the gambler plays takes a pointed piece of wood and places it into one of those loops, holding the pin on the board. The gambler then draws the piece of felt by the end, and if the pin be retained in a loop the gambler loses; but if otherwise, and the pin remain without being in a loop, he wins. This may be either the actual game of " Pricking in the Old Hat" referred to by your correspondent, or a modi

fication of it.

Downpatrick.

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A CLEAN SHAVE v. A LONG BEARD. PARMENIO, before one of Alexander's battles, presented himself to the Macedonian hero, to render an account of his arrangements, and to enquire whether any other "Nothing" said precaution remained to be taken. Shave?" Alexander, "but that the men should shave." exclaimed Parmenio. "Yes," replied the Prince, “do you not consider what a handle a long beard affords to the enemy?" Even the Czar, Peter the First of Russia, gave strong evidence of the fact that he considered the practice of shaving essential to the progress of civilization. Horace, too, as a classical authority, seems to have thought his philosopher would have reasoned better without his beard

Di te, Damasippe, Deæque Verum ob consilium donent tonsore. Sterne, also, has amused himself with a panegyric on the literary benefits of shaving. "I maintain it, the conceits of a rough bearded man are seven years more terse and juvenile for one single operation; and if they did not run a risk of being shaved quite away, might be carried up, by continual shavings, to the very highest pitch of sublimity."†

Barbat de Barbigenio, in Dornavius's Amphitheatrum
Sapienti.
Tristram Shandy, vol. ix. chap. 13.

DESCENDANTS OF GREAT MEN.

Mrs. CATHERINE WADE, born Wycliffe, the last lineal 66 the descendant of the family of JouN WYCLIFFE, morning star of the Reformation," died a few years since at Halton near Leeds, in her 75th year.

The descendants of MARTIN LUTHER are probably in being at Erfurth. Dr. John Melchior Luther, the last that University. He left a son, a learned philologne, who known lineal descendant, was a professor of medicine in removed to Bohemia, abjured the Protestant faith, became a Romanist, and died in abject poverty. His five orphan children, Maria, born in 1819; Anna, in 1820; Anthony in 1821; John in 1826; and Theresa in 1831, were on his decease wholly destitute, when the magistrates of Erfurth, for the honour of their religion, at the close of 1837 performed an act of benevolence that is entitled to everlasting praise. They purchased the ruins of the old convent at Erfurth, where more than three centuries since, MARTIN LUTHER Simply a monk propagated the doctrine of the Reformation; and having constructed a proper dwelling, lodged there the orphan descendants of the great German reformer, and with the concurrence of the royal government, the Council also decided these orphans should be fed and clothed at the expense of the city, till they were severally This generosity of the Municipality twenty years old. immediately caused several of the wealthy inhabitants of Erfurth to come forward, and promise to contribute a certain sum for their education. Nor was this all, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Reformation, celebrated at Berlin, in 1838, the Municipality and assembly of deputies of that city, voted a donation of four hundred crowns, to each of the five descendants of Luther then residing at Erfurth. At the same celebration of the anniversary at Berlin, a descendant of the brother of MARTIN LUTHER, a preacher at Wittemberg, was also present.

The last lineal descendant of the celebrated Chancellor Sir THOMAS MORE, was a female, Mary Austin More, many years resident at Hengrave, near Bury, in Suffolk, she died Superioress of the Convent of English Nuns, at Bruges, in Flanders, on Feb, 23, 1807.

Among the subscribers to the fund for the National Memorial of the Protestant Martyrs, Cranmer, RIDLEY, and Latimer, was the widow of Sir James Mansell, a descendant of Bishop Ridley.

Miss Charlotte Knox, the only surviving daughter of James Knox, minister of Scone; descended in a direct line, through five generations, from William Knox, first Protestant minister of Cockpen, and brother of JOHN KNOX, the Scottish Reformer, died a few years since at Barossa Place, Edinburgh, in her eighty-first year.

Mrs. Ann Raleigh, the great granddaughter of the memorable Sir WALTER RALEIGH, died in February, 1743, in or about her 80th year.

The diurnals of 1764 mention, "on Saturday last, July 14, died Mrs. Martha Milton, a descendant from the great English poet JOHN MILTON, aged 70 years."

In the same year, on Wednesday, Sept. 26, "died at her house, at Greenwich, Mrs. Wolfe, relict of Col. Edward Wolfe, and mother of General WOLFE."

On Friday, May 24th, 1765, the Executors of Mrs. Henrietta Wolfe, mother of the late brave General Wolfe, paid the legacy of one thousand pounds, bequeathed by her to the incorporated Society in Dublin, for promoting English working-schools in Ireland. Yet distinguished and honoured as is the name of Wolfe, among the poor persons, applicants in November, 1820, to his Majesty's Almoner, for the ensuing Christmas Royal bounty, was the niece of the captor of Quebec, Mrs. Ann Wetton, then in her eighty-second year, and very infirm. She was described as then residing in the Stable-yard of No. 52, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square. These memoranda selected from considerable collections, will be continued, but the readers of Current Notes may possibly also be disposed to become contributors.

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE'S DECISION ON GREEK. ON the 22nd ult. in a cause, before Lord Campbell, and a Special Jury; the Queen v. the Registrars of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain; there were some extraordinary proceedings.

Sir F. Kelly, Mr. Macaulay, and Mr. Lloyd were counsel for the prosecution, and the Attorney-General, Mr. Bramwell, and Mr. Brewer, for the defendants.

This was a proceeding to try the validity of a return to a mandamus, the question being whether this society had kept a correct register of its members in pursuance of the provisions of an Act of Parliament. It was stated that the facts would be undisputed, and the case turned into a special verdict, that the matter might be decided by the Court of Error. The different books and registers of the society were put in, and then

Lord CAMPBELL told the jury he should not waste their time by saying more than he presumed they would find their verdict according to the facts, and that was, what was called a special verdict.

The jury looked at the judge, then looked at each other, until the attorney put a guinea into each man's hand, and they walked out of the box, apparently in perfect amazement that their time had been thus wasted, as the whole might have been as well settled without their

attendance.

There was, however, one matter of some importance in the case, namely, the proper pronunciation of the word "pharmaceutical."

Lord CAMPBELI. said there appeared to be one vexed question which he should like to have decided, as some gentlemen pronounced the c in the word soft, but others treated it as hard. He would ask the Attorney-General, what he said it was?

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The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, in his opinion, it was soft. It came from the Greek; but when it became

English, it must be subject to the English rules: he had, however, been cautioned by some of his learned friends as to the mode of pronouncing it.

Sir F. KELLY said, of course, he should bow to the opinion of his learned friends, who were so much superior to him in learning, as in every thing else.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that was rather too bad, as Sir F. Kelly had himself cautioned him. Sir F. KELLY intimated whatever his Lordship should say it was, that would be the mode to be adopted. Lord CAMPBELL. Then, let it be soft. Be it so. The measures of the law are rarely characterised by softness; and the decision, from the following protest, appears to have been erroneous :—

SIR,-Allow an unfortunate c before u to protest against the soft decision of the Queen's Bench. Though perfectly willing to be soft before e, i, and y, I am as hard as a rock to a, o and u, nor shall the latter mitigate me by interposing an e, that is dumb. If the Attorney-General upon his next cirsuit should prosesute or take into sustody this pesuliar c, I will throw myself on the country for proper currency. If Lord Campbell must amble without me, he at least might keep pace with his Walker. A little duresse is the proper cue for one who would be a

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HANDEL.-May I ask, where is now Roubiliac's Statue of Handel, noticed in Current Notes, p. 51. H. S. Roubiliac's statue of Handel, originally placed in Vauxhall Gardens in 1738, is now the property of the Sacred Harmonic Society, at Exeter Hall It was obtained, last month, on terms that make it more a gift to the Socie, Roubiliac's idea of divesting Handel's foot of the slipper, appears to have been suggested by the fine engraving of St. Cecilia, after Rubens, by Witdoeck.

than otherwise.

The former glories of Vauxhall are fast fleeting. The present is the last season, and in a few more months, the long walks where thousands have congregated in buoyant pleasure and delight; the picturesque orchestra long famous for the performance of music by Arne and other distinguished English composers; and the thrilling notes of many eminent vocalists, will be no more; and the lines of the surveyor will have marked out the sites of villas and streets of houses, the habitations of retired peace and quietude.

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STATUE OF POMPEY, AT ROME.

THE villas of modern Rome often occupy the same ground, share some portion of the splendour, and the picturesque advantages of the gardens of the ancient city. The villa Spada, or Brunati, for these villas change their names with their proprietors, while it occupies on a much smaller scale a part of the Palatine Hill, and of the Imperial Palace, has still some of the advantages of the Orti Farnesiani. The ruins of the palace cover the greater part, and on one side look down on the valley that separates the Palatine from the Aventine Mount: from a gallery in a recess still remaining, the Emperor might behold the games of the Circus Maximus, that occupied the greater part of that valley. In an anti-chamber of the Palazzo` Spada, stands the celebrated statue of Pompey, at the foot of which Cæsar is supposed to have fallen. The history of this statue deserves notice. It was during Pompey's life first placed in the Senate House he had erected; and when that edifice was closed, the statue was, by order of Augustus, raised on a double arch or gateway of marble opposite to the grand entrance of Pompey's Theatre. During the convulsion of the Gothic wars it was thrown down, or fell, and lay buried for many ages in the ruins. About the beginning of the seventeenth century it was discovered in a partition wall between two houses, and the discovery caused some altercation, the proprictors of the two houses at length agreeing to cut the statue asunder, and to divide the marble, when fortunately the Cardinal di Spada heard of the circumstance, and by a timely purchase prevented the destruction of one of the most interesting remains of Roman antiquity.

At a much later period, and from an unexpected quarter, another danger awaited Pompey's statue. While the French occupied Rome in the years 1798-9, they erected, in the centre of the Coliseum, a temporary the improvement of such Romans as might be disposed theatre where they acted various republican pieces for to fraternise with them and adopt their principles. Voltaire's Brutus was, as may be easily imagined, a favourite tragedy; and in order to give it effect, it was resolved to transport to the Coliseum, and erect on the stage, the statue of Pompey, at the feet of which the Dictator had fallen. The colossal size of the figure, and its extended arms, rendered it very difficult to displace, and the arm was therefore sawed off, to facilitate the conveyance, and put on again at the Coliseum; on the second removal to the Palazzo Spada, the arm was again taken off, and again replaced. So friendly to Pompey was the republican enthusiasm of the French! favourable to the arts and antiquities of Rome, their Love of Liberty

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ERRATA-For nunciation, p. 49, read nunnation. For De Moustier, p. 50, read Du Moustier.

Eustace's Classical Tour through Italy, 1802.

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