_Pantheon_ at
Rome; but we perceive by a letter from the proprietor, that its proper
designation is the "_Colosseum_."

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MR. HAYDON

Has just finished a companion to his admirable picture of the _Mock
Election in the King's Bench_, viz. the _Chairing of the Members_.
The first-mentioned is now in the king's collection at Windsor.

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NOTES OF A READER

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THE JEWS.

The undeviating and uniform identity of the features and general
character of countenance, which accompany the Jews, wherever they
settle, is one of the most curious phenomena in nature; climate and all
those physical circumstances belonging to localities, which work such
wonderful changes in the physical character of man, appear to have no
influence upon the tribe of Israel. The circumcised of Monmouth-street
is as like that of Judea-Gape, in Frankfort, as two individuals of the
same nation can be; let them be by birth and residence German, English,
Russian, Portuguese, or Polish, still the one and only set of features
belonging to the race will be seen equally in all.--_Granville's,
Tour_.

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FRENCH MUSIC.

About the year 1760, Piccini, who was the Rossini of his day, was called
to Paris to reform the grand opera. The French, roused by the elegant
tirades of Rousseau, and the piquant witticisms of all the foreigners
who visited Paris, began to conceive it possible that their music was
not the finest in the world. The reform which Piccini introduced, was
however, but partial, and the French insisted on having Italian music
adapted to French words. They have still an opera of their own; but
nothing can be more noisy, or less harmonious than the music at the
Academie Royale--all tumult, glitter, and show. There is no ballet,
except that incidental to the opera; but in scenery and machinery they
surprise the English visiter. The French military bands too are equally
discordant; so fond are they of drums, that they seem to have converted
the tympana of their ears into parchment.

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MATHEMATICS.

We consider it quite possible to bring down to ordinary capacities even
the truths of pure mathematics, by the substitution of a less general
and precise species of evidence. We have ourselves made the attempt, and
hence we are satisfied