ing medicine chests fitted up by eminent houses in London, it has occurred thrice that poison was substituted instead of some popular medicament. Apprenticeship is all very well in some trades, but it ought to be differently managed in the business of making-up (as it is called) prescriptions. The shoemaker or tailor's apprentice may blunder and pinch a toe or a shoulder, but the apothecary's boy blunders in a manner that admits of no remedy. While he is dreaming of Vauxhall, or of his master's daughter, he puts the label of a saline draught on a liniment of tar, and sends that intended for an old woman's hand into the stomach of a Captain in the Navy. In the case we are alluding to, which has just occurred at Brighton, a verdict of manslaughter has been brought in against the youth who sent in oil of tar instead of decoction of senna, and caused the gentleman to die, while the old lady was rubbing her hand with senna tea, in all faith: but where was the master all this time who reaped the profits? His business was done by a helper and a boy with a basket (we never see these boys and their covered basket, full of papered humbugs, without a shudder), while he, probably, was regaling himself in the interior of his mansion, or gossiping on the Steyne. The verdict should in all cases be against the master of the shop wherever the poison issues, and for which he is paid. FOREIGN DRAMA IN LONDON. A Spanish play and afterpiece have been performed at the Coburg Theatre by Spaniards. We have now in London a French, an Italian, and a German theatre: the two last, however, being confined to operas. It would be a very creditable circumstance to the metropolis if now a Spanish one could be established, not only because it would be of essential service to numerous deserving men, who are suffering all the pains of poverty in exile, but because it would tend to make London what it ought to be and might be a true University. The Italian and Spanish political emigrants have been chiefly compelled to resort to instruction for a livelihood, but how much might they not have done for the student of the language and the lover of their literature, by getting up dramatic representations, and by bringing successively before us the chefs-d'œuvre of their ample repertories! No more delightful mode of taking (or even of giving) a lesson in language or poetry could well be imagined; and we feel certain, that had it been properly made known and respectably conducted, it would have been well supported. What a useful and indeed noble institution would be a theatre, in this building age, adapted solely for the performance of the dramas of the different nations of Europe! how worthy of a great capital! how appropriate to London, the resort of crowds from every corner of the world! and what an aid to the students of foreign literature, the lovers of poetry, and even the élèves of commerce or diplomacy! The two London Universities ought to patronize such a scheme. The expense of the building would not be great, for such a theatre should necessarily be small; and as the three languages, of German, Italian, and Spanish, could each have two nights in the week, three different sets of subscribers would contribute to its maintenance. There would be no fear of not finding performers, for as the business would altogether assume an amateur character, the difficulty would probably lie in the selection. During the residence of the Italian and Spanish emigrants in this country, there have been among them some of their best modern authors, and of these, one who was the tragic writer of the highest reputation in Madrid at the destruction of the Cortesthe grand crime of the Bourbons, for which they are doing penance at Holyrood. A theatre such as we design, might be, in the morning, employed as a lecture or concert-room, and occasionally devoted to Improvi satori, such as those inspired men, Sgricci and Pistrucci, or to the reading of original compositions, whether in verse or prose. The characteristic of such an institution should be excessive cheapness. Our theatrical prices are enormous: partly rendered necessary by high salaries to actors, expensive decorations, and the accumulation of arrears arising from losses, extravagant lawsuits, and other old claims. There would be here, in this new scheme, which should be more like an academy than a play-house, no demands of the kind: the costumes would be of the simplest kind, and as few scenes would be necessary as in the time of Shakspeare and the Globe and Bull Theatres. Let one of the benevolent capitalists take this plan in hand without view to profit, and he will prove himself a benefactor on a large scale, and his name may be recorded among those who have really contributed to the diffusion of knowledge and the spread of intel lectual cultivation. The Lion's Mouth. "ALIENA NEGOTIA CENTUM."-Horat. Conservative Reform; being the Outlines of a Counterplan enclosed in a Letter to Lord Lyndhurst. By Horace Twiss, Esq. one of His Majesty's Counsel. London, 1832. This pamphlet had the singular fortune to be praised simultaneously by The Times and John Bull; and coming from an ex-member of the Duke of Wellington's govern ment, really merited attention on its first appearance, on acconnt of the admissions con tained in it, as well as of the ability displayed. We had consequently prepared a notice, which a press of other matter compelled us to postpone; and events have since occurred which entirely supersede the necessity of recurring to it. The time is certainly gone by for counterplans, and the nation's mind is now thoroughly made up as to the true meaning of Conservative Reform. We are therefore obliged to lay Mr. Twiss's scheme, with all the other schemes of his party, upon the shelf. We have received a plan for the establishment of "A Literary Benevolent Institution," to which our earliest attention shall be given. The Poetical Sketch of a Fire in London will be inserted early. TO THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME. ABERDEEN, Lord, 15 Absenteeism, a disease, 493 Actors, want of accomplishment in, 398 Addison, anecdote of, 542 Advertisements, interest of, 205 Affair of Honour, 485 Affection, delicacy of, 294 Agriculture, Irish, 204 labourers employed in, 210 Althorp, Lord, his correspondence with Hulton of Hulton, 97 Animals, on cruelty to, 393 Burdett, Capt., poisoned, 590 Cambridgeshire, ugliness of, 298 Canning, Stapleton's political Life of, 33- Capo D'Istrias, Count, particulars of his assas- Anne of Cleves, by Lord Leveson Gower, 206 Caroline, Queen, conduct of, 377 Ant, the vagrant, 61 Antilles, condition of the slave of, 411 Arab tribes, affray with, 561 Arcadian child, lines to, while sleeping, 293 Aristocracy, thoughts on the, 466 Aristotle, phantasms of, 447 Asmodeus at Large, No. I. 38-No. II. 112- No. III. 312-No. IV. 423 Atheist's Tragedy, the, 175 Athenian Lover to his Mistress, 292 Bayly, T. H. Esq., Spirit of Song by, 413 Belisarius, or Injured Innocence,Tragedy of,176 Berni, Francesco, poetry of, 251 Bertini, Romolo, lines by, 62 Castlereagh, Lord, death of, 34-his foreign Catholic question, settlement of, 19 Cellini, Benvenuto, Life of, 60 Child in Prayer, lines to, 575 Cholera, observations on, 207-a few plain or no Cholera, 296 Clandestine Marriage, the, 572 Clarendon, statements of, 387 Coburg Theatre, Spanish plays at, 591 Coimbatoor, classical scene in the mountains Colonial relief, measure of, 101 Colonies, on the establishment of, 576 Comfort, Mrs.and the Duke of Wellington, 589 Contrast, 226 Contrast, the, by the author of " Yes and No," Conversations with an Ambitious Student in Ill Health, No. VII. 71; No. VIII. 232 of Plagiarism, 495 of Review, labours of, 297 Credit, how to live with, 184 Crime, connexion of ignorance with, 302 true spirit of, 353 Croaker, a, 201 Demon's Offer, 41 Dirge of Death, 225 Disposition, estimate of the, 189 D'Israeli, Mr., his Commentaries on the Life Drama, English, remarks on, 42-state of, Foreign, in London, 591 Hall, Robert, Green's Reminiscences of, 298 Hodges, Mr., on Emigration, 223 Horace, Translation from, 432 its usurpation in regard to secresy of Debates, 583 Dramas, recent-the Hunchback-the Mer Hunchback, the, 513 chant of London, 513 Dumont's Recollections of Mirabeau, 486 Earthquake in Chili, 469 Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, 355 Egypt, Court of, 555 Eliot, Sir John, persecution of, 145 "Entlehner, Der," or The Borrower, 195 Evidence, circumstantial, 436 Farce, anecdote of a damned one, 43 Fiesco, a Tragedy, from Schiller, 521 Firing at a Mark, amusement Fletcher, Mr., suicide of, 294 Fly, luxuries of one, 460 of, 141 Foscolo, Life of, by Giuseppe Pecchio, 153 Free-and-Easy Monarchs, 101 Garrick Correspondence, reviewed, 196 and his Writings, facts regarding, 568 Garth, Dr., anecdote of, 543 Governess, qualifications of, 298 Hunt, Leigh, his Sir Ralph Esher reviewed, Hunting by Steam, 394 Ignorance, its connexion with crime, 302 Indicator, the, 457-the cuckoo, 458-life in Iphigenia of Goethe, passages from, 407 tithes, question of, 285 Italian humorous poetry, 58, 249 language, early formation of, 540 Jacopo Ortis, novel of, 156 Jealousy, the, 439 Jockies, the last of them, 295 John de la Casa, lines by, 63 Johnson, Dr., literary designs of, 541 Judge-Law, 396 Kemble, John Philip, bis poetical and literary - Miss, her tragedy of Francis I. 353, 441 Kosem Kesamim, 315, 318, 423 Legacy, the, or a Thousand Pounds Reward, Legislation, one of the beauties of, 399 Letter from the Saint Simonian Envoys in Letter to the Editors of the New Monthly Libel, extraordinary prosecution for, 544 Gower, Lord F. L., his drama of Anne of Life, human, miseries of, 254 Cleves, 206 Greece, Boy King for, 399 Greek Girl with a Lyre, lines to, 554 Grey, Lord, speech of, 11-and the Reform in May, 458 Life of Ugo Foscolo, by Giuseppe Pecchio, 153 Lion's Mouth, the, 102, 207, 299, 400, 491, Literary Gazette, information against, 488 London, appearance of the cholera in, 284 Novelty, apostrophe to, 117 Nugent, Lord, his Memorials of Hampden, 121 Orestes, his longing for repose, 407 Louis XVI., affairs of France during his reign, Our Present State, 497 545 Love and Mystery, tale of, 433 Love, warning against, 112 Lyceum and Mechanics' Institutions, 70 576 Machiavel, saying of, 121 Mackinnon, Mr., bill brought in by, 494 Man, a truly great one, 99-lines on the cre- and Woman, fate of, 407 Manchester, state of, 491 Mary, Queen of Scots, epitaph on, 544 Maw, Lieutenant, on the loss of life in mer- May, lines to, by Leigh Hunt, 456 Medina Sidonia, Duke of, commander of the Meeting, the, 433 Merchant of London, a drama, 517 Mitford, Mr., singular Life of, 205 Monthly Commentary, 97, 200, 294, 392, 480, 585 Morality, English notions of, 22 Mulgrave, Lord, his novel, "The Contrast," Murray, Mr., on pulmonary consumption, 98 Music,copyright in,295-the noblest of arts,419 Owen, Mr., opinions of, 2 Peasantry, altered habits of the, 214 People, education of, essential to public hap- Perceval, Mr., fast proposed by, 283 Phrenology. By David Uwins, M.D., 445 Poetical compositions in the open air, 205 To a Flower brought from the Field of Poison, dealers in, 590 Political Conveniences, or the Results of the Prayer, price of, in England, 393 New Monthly Magazine, letter to the Editors Property, on maintaining it inviolate, 147 |