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of gold to produce the rich purple of those factitious
gems, oxydes of cobalt or of calcined copper and ziae
for blue, oxyde of silver for yellow, and oxyde „
copper or green. Of the pure ruby colour which
they produced we have lost the art.
Mr. Clakson then proceeded to the main subject of
the present lecture. The trades and manufactures of
ancient Egypt belong to the magnificent 18th dynasty
of Theban sovereigns, of whom Rosellini furnishes us
with details of the most ample and accurate descriP'
tion—details which may be justly said to constitute a
new volume in the history of the world. He bad exhi'
bited, at the last lecture, the model cf &private dwel-
ling. He now exhibited the model of the temple
palace of one of those splendid and ambitious monarens
with whom all human civilisation begun. Numerous
large diagram drawings of Karnac, of the gigantic
hypostyle Hall, a fac-simile model of the Obelisk ,w
Osirtesen (the oldest extant), and a perfect PortrPt
Gallery, on a large scale, of all the kings and queens
of the magnificent 18th dynasty, accompanied this part
of the lecture.
Mr. Clarkson brought before the audience prone'.
sions and pageants ; the nature of the military force;
horse, foot, or chariots ; the countries warred upon;
the costume and arms of the hostile nations; the
triumphant processions consequent upon victory
the prisoners, the enslaved captives or the sacrifice('
victims, and the booty in the produce of the various
countries subjugated by the Pharoah's arms. All
these things are detailed and with that minute Pre'
cision, and in that indisputable form, which leave n°,l
matter for question. They are in fact sculpture'
bulletins. We have next the costume of the coil
and army, not brought before us as that of our 01
chroniclers, including Froissart, accurate as they are'
but in a more certain form—for much is left
imagination by description, nothing by the sense °
sight. With the power of an enchanter, as if be
wielded the serpent wands of the very Egyptian
theocracy, which he describes. Egyptegrapher
Rosellini brings before us from the grave the kings'
the heroes, the sages, the legislators, entombed for
4,000 years. No dreamy and mysterious vagueness,
as that which hangs round the line of Banniins,
exorcised dynasty, or that which, half concealed
the lineaments of the magnates of the ancient world,
which Faust is described as summoning before,
him! The vision here produced from the sleep
forty centuries is as clear as the light of day; and
the " kings of ancient name" of which Heraeis
Syrens sung to the man of wisdom—the optimates of
the earth's youth—stand before us in garb, in fer
ture, in lineament, in physiognomical expression, as
precisely pourtrayed as those of any of our contemPr
rary kings. Not they only, but with them come in
equally perspicuous form their generals, their pontiffs'
their priests, their counsellors, and all the varion
splendid appendages of the courts of the ancient
Pharaohs and all the female aristocracy of their court°.
—queens, mothers, wives, sisters, princesses, all
the various costume of their graduated ranks—Wl/
magnificent in dress, some resplendent in beauty ---1"
marked as portraits, not by difference of feature only'
but by difference of physiognomical expressioni
Use wears off the edge of wonder, but if the even
of this discovery had suddenly taken place—the cire
cumstance by which the youth and old age oaf 'ir
world may be considered as joining hands ed
a long interval of oblivion—it would have startlethe world as by a sudden and substantial miracle
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realised before its eyes. Mr. Clarkson referr7f
to the triumphant processions as evidences °f
the extent of the conquests of the Pharaohs. a
Scythian bear and the Indian buffalo, the ape an,
the parrot of India are there. The cameleopar?',
native of middle, and the ostrich of southern, Afrit;
are among the spoils. The people of Lydia, 34e5
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potamik Armenia, Aracan, Arabia, Judea, --Lri;
India, Scythia, Russia (Mosck), are ascertained.
the Chinese type among the combatants and the OP;
Lives depicted in the representations of the great bat
ties of Sesostris and the more warlike of the Pharoalef.
bearing the common name of Ramesses ? Smoo_
the combatants in cars have decidedly the Tartar enl
racter, with long. locks of hair at the top of the hes':
as the Tartars wear at the present day. Their
resemble the war waggons of the Scythians desclior:o
by Herodotus. In some of the magnificent V. 1%,
vases which adorned the banquet tables of the
rious Pharoahs, there appear Caryatides figures resent"
bling the modern Chinese. But that the victories of
ev
the conquering Pharoahs extended to China has heA
latterly proved by an extraordinary discovery. ,
Chinese scent-bottle with characters capable of being
deciphered, has been found in one of the torahs' tof
date of which is contemporary with the monarch'
the immediate line of Ramesses.
Sesostris extended his conquests to the borders f
Scythian, Tartary, and China, and Tartars, Sing
shaved heads and long single locks of hair depenuari
from the crown of the head, as well as figures Vreo,
resembling the Chinese in physiognomy and " b 5
appear among the captives in his sculptured trump
or thrones, and CaryatideA, supporting the gold!a
and jewelled banquet cups on his table. Other 01s
torical desiderata suggest tnemSelves. Are the reri
and beardless people who appear among the eonquere_
nation of the Nubian monuments the red and beardle.s
race of the American Indians ? Recent discoveries
have proved that a contemporary nation in Amerl.o'o.
now extinct, were in an equally high state of civilisati
They had copper tools and weapons pyramids as isorng,
as those in Egypt, sculptured temples, palaces of col,
siderable taste, and magnificent subterraneous seP, of
chres, granaries, and treasuries. From the exte.nz_i,
the conquests of Sesostris, including the three COS
sations during the 18th dynasty—(lst, Jews ef
Argives ; 3d, Athenians)—and the consequenee,rr.
those great events on all modern civilisationw,
bole
Clarkson proceeded to the great result of thedoing
inquiry. The question of the lost art of 11$,r, ape-
copper led to the question of the " lost arts .ovtific
rally, and to the extent of the cheMical and snl!,;ned
knowledge of the Egyptians. Mr. Clarkson rnain'_eco,
that independent of many arts that we have not rwith
vered, the Egyptian men of science were familiarars
the Artesian well, with the railroad, and with Ste elf
power. In the latter assertion, he supported hirn2,o,
by a recently published memoir of M. Aff.i;je
With reference to the " lost arts," one unavoidable
inference occurs. A perfect chemical science imP_es,
an equal knowledge of the whole circuit of scienc of
The contest of the Sophoi, or magician 0rd.e.r...,
scribes with Moses, lsafore Pharaoh pays stria 7,
tribute to their " union of knowledge with po,w`the
No supernatural aid is intimated. Three 01 sir
miracles of their natural magii (as affirmed by
David Brewster on Natural Magic and Dcemonolfstio
the jugglers of India and modern*Egypt can n:duse
perform now. In the fourth, an attempt to Pr_ the
the lowest form of animal life, they fail. Free sin-
whole statement, one inference is safe, that ltito led
bition of the priestly chemists and anatomiatsbaboing,
them from the fictitious immortality of eruvraolten-
and the triumphs of chicken hatching to orin-
stein experiment on the vital fluid, and on 1"4.j0i0 of
e
ciple of life. A similar ambitious assurnP:vri--
creating—not re-producing—the galvanic to
the lowest form of life—has been recently ascribe
a modern savant.
Neledge,
This being the elevated range of their low,.sovve,
how and why were these powers and these disc had
ries lost ? Because the men of science of that time
no press to record them—because they a
Jesuitical principles of secrecy—because they on b
bound their god of letters in insidious chainsafa_t:ivl
altars of superstition. The extinction of EgYy_nti,
t, knowledge" was the just retribution of their,,,easio
popular monopoly of its "power" and its per
_tr
to despotic purposes. The fact furnished a gre,s_air
tional lesson, and far from giving ground for
unre j"vti
of the human progress, furnished the most g:t of
safe, and cheering auguries of an illimitable eaten
improvement, social, moral, and intellectual. ion
Mr. Clarkson concluded, by expressing his 0.17
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that lectures of this description ought to be gi`e and
a public stage, assisted by the effects of scenery'
machinery, in order to do them justice. The lec_tureand
which was given extempore, and lasted one 11o:brows
three quarters, was received with warm aPP,r,, which
throughout. The large room in the Town-ht; With
will hold 1,000 persons, was the whole time fill n
gentlone-'
a highly respectable audience of ladies and

SUNDERLAND, SEPT. 19.—The strike of shirtrci:
penters at this port may be said already to be at an eTr,..
As we anticipated, the masters have in nearly ev,..`'r,nd
stance given the advanced wages of 21s. per wee%,'
the men have consequently resumed their ernPl(9
Trade is still improving, and as freights keep on the,g
o to
vance (10s. 6d. per ton having been paid for coia_,
London to-day and 121. per keel for Ilaraburgh). spul;,
building will speedily be brisk at this and the neigh
ing ports.

BIRTHS. gent, WS'
On the 17th inst., at Plaistow, near Bromley,
ElOnias, of a son. Wade'
the 18th inst., in Dean-street, Soho, Mrs. Robert
of a daughter.
On the 18th inst., the lady of Robert Hun ter Sso3Ple,
surgeon, of Sans-buildings, Islington, of a

On the 23d of May, at St. Helena,
MARRIED.
John genr.y tto
~ George
Powel Blachford, Esq., of the Commissariat Departrneeleii,
Emma Jane, eldest daughter of J. Moss, Esq.! of St' 11 f the
On the 17th ult., at Florence, Alberic, eldest son e gist
Marquis Balbian, of Colcavagno, Piedmont, to douse,
youngest daughter of S. Price, Esq., of Hendon
Hendon.
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lED
On the 15th inst., at BalD
lymac.oll, Meath; Gertrude
beth, youngest daughter of the Baron de Robeck. „11
On the 15th inst., Benjamin Barlow, Es,l, °f the *
near
On Rthe 17th ochdale in aged O. gar rtt
st., at Shanwick-place, Edinburgh,leased
daughter of the late Sir William HOIVIIIILII, of Armada
G Bart.
On they 19th inst., in King William-street, Ilarvel, the
fant son of Hugh P. Fuller.
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