The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-08 00:00:00

ANNUALS FOR IS3I.

THE LANDSCAPE ANNUAL FOR 18.31.

This superb annual is more indebted to the talents
if the artists than the editor. The former have
contributed a series of splendid engravings, illustrit-
ions chiefly of Rome and Venice, from designs sup-
olied by S. Prout, the latter has furnished some
Ines of letter-press in explanation, which are not
core than two degrees removed from the most ab-
solute and insipid common-place. But Prout's ar-
chitectural embellishments ! It is impossible we can
speak too highly of them. The. Venetian landscapes
of this eminent painter have a life—a freshness—an
originality about them, that we may look for in, vain
in the works of any other artist of the present day.
He places Venice before the mind's eye with a
Vigour—accuracy—and impressiveness that are truly
Astonishing. We almost fancy that we could find
our way through the streets of this amphibious city
by merely attending to the local minutia of Mr.
Prom's unerring illustrations. In the present num-
ber of the Landscape Annual he exhibits himself in
all his glory, for the etigreVers have proved theat:;
selves worthy of him. His sketches of the Rialto
-or the Barberigo Palace—of St. Mark's-square
—of the Grand Canal, at Venice; and those of the
Bridge of St. Angelo—of St. Peter's Cathedral—
of the Coliseum and the Temple of Vesta, at Rom,'
are each in its way a master-piece. We know not
that we can speak in higher terms of this Annual
than to state that it comprises upwards of twenty-
four engravings from Mr. Prom's best and moat pie-
turesque designs.

IThe writers of the last century were more dis«
tinguished by elegance of style than by diligent* of r&
.1' search, or judicious arrangemi u
lbts In no ttrott.thent e
knowledge is their deficiency more flagrant than in th 4
science of sooloey, which absolutely retrograded under
their hands. The preparation of a standard work On the
subject Was confided to 1)r. Got.nssfrrit, who scarcely
could distinguish a horse from a cow, and while poutical
habits completely unfitted him for the toils of patient en•
quiry, and laborious investigation. The want of A nation a
work on zoology was justly the reprosei of our country,
and we therefore feel that our gratitude is due to the pro-
prietors of the English edition of Cuvutit's great work,
which combines the Baron's scientific theory, with all
the interesting information which modern naturalists have
collected. The plates by which it is illustrated are among
the first specimens of art, and have been executed either
from the living animal, or from the best geservatione in
the different Museums of Europe. the divisions oh repo.
tiles, now in the course of puhlication, is executed with the
same fidelity and diligenee which were en conspicuous in
the description of beasts, birds, and fossil animals, and
we are convinced that it will be honoured with tin equal
share of public patronage.

BYRON AT DR. GLENNIE'S..--,BYRON tint
hiving received any benefit from the Nottingham quack,
was removed to London, put under the care of Dr.
Batt.ev, and placed in the school of Dr. GLEN4III4 at
Dulwich ; Mrs. Resins herself took a house on Sloane
Terrace. Moderation in all athletic exercises wari pre-
scribed to the boy, but Dr. GLINNIX bad some difficulty
in restraining hie activity. He was quiet enough while
in the house with the Doctor, but no sooner was he re-
leased to play, thin he showed as much ambition to excel
in violent exercises as the most robust youth of the shool ;
an Ambition common to young persons who have the mis-
fortune to labour under bodily defects. While under the
charge of Dr. Grainer's, he was playful, good-hitmotrael,
and beloved by his companions; and addicted to reading
history and poetry far beyond the usual scope of his age.
In these studies he showed a predilection fur the Scrip.
tures ; and certainly there are many tracer in his works
which show that, whatever the laxity of Ilia religious
principles may have been in after life, he was not tinao•
quainted with the record* and history of our religion,—
During this period, Mrs. BYRON often indiscreetly inter-
fered with the course of his tolncation ; and if Ilia classiest
studies were in consequent* not so effectually conclectel as
they might have been, his mind derived some of its best
nutriment from the loose desultory course of his reading.
Among the books to which the boys at Dr. 01.10fNiezi
school had access, was a pamphlet containing the narrative
of a shipwreck on the coast of Amman, filled with
Invasive descriptions. It had net attracted much public
attention, but it Was a favourite with the pupils, pardon-
holy with livitox, *ad furnishes him afterwarde with the
leading circumstances in the striking description of the
shipwreck in Don Jun.—Go/es L(fs of Byron.
HOSTILITY TO PAPAL DOMINION IN THIS;
SIXTRINTIti Clrroxv.—As civilisation advanced, the
moral power anti authority of the Popes gradually de-
dined. The long schism, and the lives and characters of
the pontiff., with many analogous circumstances, con-
tributed to this. And later Popes, by endeavouring to
supply the loss of moral power by the acquisition of tem-
poral authority, aggravated the growing disrespect for the
Holy See. At the beginning of the sixteenth century
France was, perhaps, the country most in advance with
respect to views of reform. Though the fate of the Albi-
genses warned men front absolute schism, still all dosses
showed a distrust aid enmity towards Home. The Coln.
mom remonstrated against the Pope'. usurpation, ; the
nobles, and even the national clergy, joined in the senti-
ment ; and the Monarch, instead of dreadolgegeommuni.
cation, was never more popular than in warring against
the papal power. Louis XII. the father of hie people,
hid struck a medal to perpetuate his own and the nation's
alihorrenee of papal bad faith. Its circumscription was,
.Pertlam Babylonia stamen, " I will destroy the very
name of Babylon." It served as a motto afterwards for
Ltrtrza, whit thus borrowed his anathema against Howe
from the Most Christian King. The papal tree was Stints
like the vine—it bore fruit only at its extremities. While
the pontiff WAX warring at home with the Cot.oonas, and
his imperiA city itself was sacked by /Inuit/ION; while France
refused her annoys, and was jealous even of the presence of
a legate; the emissaries of Home were collecting tribute
round tie shores of the Baltic. A Monk who cattle to
vend billets of salvation fur crowns world have helix
receisiael in France with a shout of deriiiun ; in Germany,
on the contrary, he founds large market of credulity. In-
dulgences professing to remit all punishments in this
world and the next, and consequently efficient to save the
souls of the living or the dead, were disposed ' of in
thousands. The +retries of the Popes was still greater
than the credulity of the Germane. MARTIN Ltritten
called in question the efflomey of thaw indulgences; And
his word, like a talisman, broke the spell of the
ettpreniaey.—Dr. Lard:tees Cabinet Cyclopedia, Vol.
XII. ; bin Vol. I. of Mt History of France.

Sir JOHN DANVERS was as well known in
Oath as the Mayor of the Pump-room ; his dress, his
manners, and his apophthegms were equally flotations;
and no man, perhaps, in England enjoyed so extensive tin
acquaintance ; the meanest and the noblest were mantel •
hended in his sphere—he touched the zenith and the nadir
of social intereourae. Hi was of a till and gaunt stints-
tore, with a sight stoop, arid en immense Itoutau nose,
which did not slightly resemble the beak of a condor, lde
wore his wig on one side, with a tail flapping ever his ter,
surmounted by a hat hardly large enough to cover three of
the curls. His colt was of a cut and colour which must
have been fashionable about the time of the Revolution
his breeched conformed to his coat—they were of
black velvet, spotted over, like the hack of a pan-
ther, with port wine. Hie waistcoat was the enly elegant
habiliment he wore, and the embroidery of this had long
eine* faded under the momentary showers of snuff it wes
exposed to. But the snots whiinsical feature of his dress
was his stockings ; he wore a white one on one leg, .snd a
black use on the other, intending thereby, as he declared,
to express his polities! opinion*. The white he termed
the Tory, and the black the Whig ; end his right being
the nuoit venerable leg, the appearance of either ou his Ilex.
ter shank signified his confidence in the conduct of Mr.
I,trx, or Mr. Fox. This mode of telegraphing his tenete
was IlaiVellally ado-tired. To theatricals he was pas-
sionately attached ; and two evenings out of the three were
invariably plasm! in the stage-Imi. His atvettr.auce there,
however, would sometimes divide the public attention wick
the stage. At a tragedy, his sensibility was so great, lie
would blubber like a child; and in a comedy be cool(
never contain his satisfaction, but would open his salsa.
;demi jewe (anti when open, his mouth certainly bare the
Same proportion to his head that the sea dent to the land
io a mop of the world), and !smell out and aloud, as if his
heart wits determined to be heard. Then, if any thing
occurred is the gallery to disturb the progress of a sowers,
up he would stretch his tall figure front the hoe. anti shalie
his stick at the elevated critics ; the etfect or which, tray he
Prellutned, an well as of the conversations he would orsir'4, .
!kindly bold with the people in the maestro *hoot their .Y
ivet and children..... 1114nrd's Retratroilicos; ;'. .