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AUCTION-MART.

Mr. Newton.—The absolute Reversion in and to £2Ol. Three per
Cent. Consols, receivable on the demise of a Lady aged 78.—Knocked
down at 90 guineas.
The Absolute Reversion in and to £lOO sterling. secured on freehold
property, receivable on the demise of a Lady aged 78.—£55.
A Post-Obit Bond, dated January, 1827, fur £3,960. to secure the
payment of X 1,980. and interest, payable six months after the death of
a Baronet resident in Kent, the father of the granter—Xl4o.
Messrs. Stevens and Brenchley.—A Copyhold Estate, comprising a
residence, with warehouse and wharf, and a dwelling-house, No'. 4 and
5, Fore-street, Lambeth--£1,400.
The Leasehold 4 511 of Vitriol Works, on the banks of the Thames,
Battersea, with plant and fixtures; held for 15 years, at 501. p.r an-
num-980 guineas.
A Leasehold House, No. 1, Fair-place. Fair-fields, Stepney, and a
Cottage adjoining ; let at 221. held for 53 years, at 81.8 s. ground-rent
—961.

A Leasehold Residence, No. 32, Alfred-place, Bedford.square ; let
at 951. held for 74 years, at 441. 19s. a year-5401.
A Policy in the Guardian Assurance Company foe 5,0001. effected on
the Life of a Gentleman aged 56 ; subject to the annual payment of
2051. 16s. Bd.-6001.

One Sha-e in the Grand Junction Canal, producing a dividend of
131. per annum-2321.

In estimating the cost of the New Police it does not seem
to have struck any one of the objectors, that the police are on duty both
night and day, and that the watch, which they superseded, were on duty
only during the night. This must of necessity call for a greater number.
The watch only were charged on the parish, the day patrol were paid
out of another fund.

A cousiderable extension of the foot pavement is now
being made in most of the principal thoroughfares in the city. From
the recent immense additions to the metropolis, and the consequent in-
crease of passengers in the streets, this improvement will materially con-
duce to the contort and safety of pedestrians, whilst it will tend to the
benefit of trade by inducing the aged. the delicate, and the timid, to
venture abroad more frequently.

Tile propriety of dam: ng has been much controvmed by theole.,•,tat4
Anions the Fatirtni, St. Chrysostont,—“ the most eloquent or the
Saints."--assures us that feet were not given for dancing, hut t., stalk
modestly, not to leap impudently like camels. Basil, Augustine, and
Anihrme, are equally hostile. I/anent:4'as more than once
-xpressly forbidden by Council., as that of Laodicea, •.n. 364, tiaa sl:
Agatha in 430. and that of Ilerda in 515. Jo many others the
hition extended to ecclesiastics only.
See note 11. article ALDEGONDE, SAINT, of BAILeg Dictionorg,
for a very curiae% account of the ettls of dancing ; and also Vol. it.
p. 273, of BURTON'S Anatomy of Ye/eine/to:9.
Apollo is called by Pindar the dancer ; and hunter introduces Lim
donating to the music of hi, harp. Arhetueus says that dancing its the
wilier ages of Greece, was a thing becoming persons of honour and
wisdom. The great Scipio Africanus amused himself" with exercising
Lis warlike and triumphant bodic in dancing, (not foolishly as wen are
wont to doe at this day, with refluences and tricks that are mote than
effeminate); but as the ancients were aunt to dance in their :pow and
festival dates, with a decent and comely behaviour, whilst no disli,,no,
or reproach might emote, though he bad been noted by his very enemies.
—LODGE'S Seneca, p. 654.
Socrates learned to dance at an advanced age; it is no wonder, there.
fore, that such honoursitle mention 13 made of dancing by his discillet,
Plato and Xenophon. The people of Sparta and Crete went tad.: atsaek,
dancing.
On the other hand, Cicero reproaches Galbinus, a consular man, with
haying danced. Tiberius expelled the dancers front Rome ; and Doom ;a .
excluded several members from the Senate, for having danced ; bu. the
acts of these hrpedal despots, may be considered rather as the sugg,.6.
Dons of cEppice and folly, than as the dictates of wisdom and virtue
Hippnclldis lost the hand of the King of .Irgors's daughter, o ...-
count of his love of dilr.cing. -HEnotroTt's, ti. 129.
Aristoxenus preferred the dances of the .11antitteans, on account of
the quickness with which they moved their kandb.—AettemAus, i. 19.
The Phrygian donee seems to be closely imitated on the annual re.
tont of the Ilindoto f,..tivitv of ablution in the waters of the Ganges.
Dances formed part of Nunsa's religions c,tewonies, PM:MAK:II ;
the Jews also made it a religious act, Ban/. :0. 20 ; aitsi. 19;
NC Ili.

The dances of the nettling consisted of an imitation of the mazes id' I
outlets of the Labyrinth ; and, with various involutions and evolutions,
performed in regular time.—PLuTAactt. This kind of dance, as 11:.
crearchus, a scholar of Aristotle, informs vs, was called Crane; I,e-
-cause, says Callimachus, cranes usually fly in a circle. This dloica,
after a lapse of 3,000 years, still exists in Greece. Sec M. Guys's
Hist. Lit. dela Greco', Let. .riii. Before the time of Theseus, stye
Eustathius (Comm. 11. xviii.) men and women always danced
rate parties ; but that Prince first united the two sexes ni this amuse-
ment. The martial deuce of the (innians is thus descriii•ti by
TACIT US, dc Merit.. Ge-man, c. 24 :--- They have only one kinti of
public spectacle, which is exhibited in every company. Young men, who
make it their diversion,dance naked, amidst drawn swords and presentA
spears."
Those who wish for minute information on the dancing of the an.
cients, may turn to LuctAx's Treatise on Dancing, vol. 1, p. 217 of
TOOKE'S translation ; PLUTARCH'S Sywposioea, baok ix. quest. 15,
p. 655 of llot.LAxo's translation ; PLATO'S Laws, book vii. vol. I. 1).
Of TAYLOR'S translation; and the Dissertation Of BURETTE, in
the lifemoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions.
Our ancestors used to keep the sport up till midnight, and it was au
indispensable accompaniment of weddings. The monks used to dance in
their dorthitories. Swords, called Dancing-Rapiers [mentioned by
SUARSPEARE, Titus Andronicus, act 2, scene t], were worn in the
dancing-schools ; which schools existed in the Universities, in Evelyn's
time. In the grand rebellion, a clergyman was charged with having
taught, in the pulpit, that we ought to learn to dance, and that if we
could not dance we were damned ! In the time of Queen Elizabeth,
" at a solemn dancing, first you had grave measures, [as now minuets],
then the corrantoes and the galliards. But in King Charles's nine,
there has been nothing but french-more, and the cushion-dance, omni ea.
gatherum, tolly, Polly, hoite come toite."—SELDletea Table Talk, art.
King of England.
Dugdale says (Orig. Jurid.)that the students of Lincoln's Inn an.
ciently had dancings for their recreation and delight. And, he adds,
that in the year 1610, the under banisters, for example's sake, were put
out of commons by decimation, because they offended in not dancing
on Candlemas-day, when the judges were present, according to an ah-
t Pent order of the society. William of Alalinesbuty, p. 86, gravely re.
tat's the following account of an extraordinary dance in the words of true
of the performers: " 1, Ethelbert a sinner, will give a true (!) relation
of what happened to me on the day before Christmas, A.D. 1012, in a
certain village where there was a church dedicated to St. Magnus the
Martyr, that all men may know the danger of disobeying the commands
of a priest. Fifteen young women, and eighteen young men, of w:tich
I was one, were dancing and singing in the church-yard, when ere
Robert, a priest, was performing mass in the church ; who sent us a
civil message, intreating us to desist front our diversion, because we
disturbed his devotion by our noise. But we impiously disregarded Iris
request; upon which the holy man, inflamed with anger, prayed to
GOD and St. Magnus, that we might continue dancing and singing a
whole year without intermission. His prayers were heard! By our
continual dancing we wore the earth so much that, by degrees, we sunk
into it up to the knees, and at length up the middle!! When the year
was ended, Bishop Hubert came to the place, dissolved the invisible ties
by which our hands had been so long united, absolved us, and reconciled
us to St. Magnus."
A merry set, called the Dancers, arose in the Netherlands about the
middle of the 14th century. Persons of both sexes danced with such
extraordinary violence that they fell down breathless ; and during there
intervals of vehement agitation, they were favoured with wonderful
visions. See AlosnErm, cent. .rig. chap.& viii.
The celebrated Castrucci° the patriot of Lucca, when reprehended by
a friend for dancing beside his dignity, replied, as Machiavelli reports in
his life, " Qui aspic interdin, vix unquam noctu desipit," which may
be interpreted, "If a man be wise all day, he may, if be so pleases,
dance like a fool at night."
See p. p. 165 of Carne's Letters from the East for a description of
the voluptuous performances of the eastern dancing girls of the preterit
day ; and p. 160 of CRAWFURD'S Embassy to the Court of Atha tin air
account of those of that country.
Some of the Dutch dances are singularly curious. In one of them,
the man turns his female partner round on tip-toe several hundred times
together, without the smallest intermission.
The estimation in which dancing was held in the reign of Henry
VII. appears from the following curious entry in his Exchequer.books
Paid Pechie, the Fool AO 6 8
Richard Men, for writing books - 010 0
The young damsel that danceth - 30 0 0" !!
At the feat of St. Martial, apostle of the Limousin, the congregatilth
retained the custom of dancing in the choirs till the middle of the seven-
teenth century; and instead of the doxology after every psalm, they sang
out, in that country dialect, " San Alarceau pregrats per nous, et nous
erngaren per bons " Le. " St. Martial pray for us, and we will dance
for you."
Country dancing, many persons believe to be a rustic way of dancing
borrowed from the country people ; but this mistake arises from erro-
neous orthography, corniry-dance being a corruption of the French
contredanse

" CONTR•• DANCE, n. [Fr. contredanee ; It. contraddaiszo ;
COUNTER-DANCE, Sp. contradonsa.)
A dance in which the partners are arranged in opposition, or in
opposite lines."— Ens That's English Dictionary.
Marshal Bassouipierre, speaking of his dancing country dances here
in England, in the time of Charles I. writes it expressly eoniredansei.
Memoirs, iii. p. 307.
The dances of the people of Tongataboo, one of the Friendly lalaLds
11 in the South Sea, are perfumed by the light of torchi a, formed of the
old bark of the cocoa tree. I'hev dance it. companies of eighty or •
hundred, performing thiir complicated evolutions with a promptness
not to be exceeded. They commence early in the morning, and keep
up the dance till midnight ; sometimes till the next morning, one set
relieving another.
Lewis and Clarke, in their Travels to Me Source of the .Wissouri
River, informs us that the American Indians dance to the music of
three instruments ; a buffalo-skin across a hoop ; a long stick, to which
the hoofs of deer and goats are hung; and a small akin bag with pebble%
In it !

The Margravine of Anspach relates several instances of the sur-
prising good fortune of female opera-dant:en. She informs us, that
Mademoiselle Outman was looked upon as surprisingly moderate, since
she cost the Prince of S. only 100,000 Byres a year for her table, and
50.000 for her menus p/oisire!
Baron de Grimm tells us, that one day young Voids performed
wonders at the ballet, when his father (the dime de la dense, as h,.
styled himself in his Provencal accent) exclaimed in rapture, " If he
goes on thus, I have agreat gift in store for him ; I will allow him to
bear my name !"
Alfieri had a sovereign contempt and abbonstnee for dancing. His
own account of the origin of this antipathy, is exceedingly singular alai
characteristic. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 83.
The Quakers striedy prohibit dancing,*and for which they give four
reasons, which may be found fully detailed in CLaassores Portraiture
of Quakerism
See part iii. book ii. cb. 9 of LErrireau's gratulation of Punts
Ilisttry of tke Waldemar or vol. 2. p. lg 4 of Sou THEY'S Ossitsiast a.
fur a most unwessured tirade against dandng.,,
The later Puritans, of course, were open-mouthed against :this abo-
tnination and iniquity ; and the snm of their arguments may be found
arrayed in a little volume entitled XOPOOEOAOrON-1667.
The great authority of Locke, however, is highly is favour of danr-
lag. See § 67, § 196, of hie Education. J. J. W.
—Gazelle of Variety.