Star.
London, England, 1829-12-18 00:00:00

Payment. to make good dad
in Land Tax and Parochial

Interest on Purchase Modes

Salaries . ... ••••••
Office Incidents . 000000000 •• ••
Auditors, Treasury & Parliamentary
Fees
Exhumation of Bodies from St. Mar-

tin's Church-yard
Repayments toe-Exchequer Bill Loan
Commissioners .

Payments

Balance In hand, sth Jan. 1829..

LOWTHER. W. DACRES A:

'9,367

587 5

498 16
2,084 10 3

196 11

74 10

1,907 14

18,250 0
398 9

542,209 19 4
7.713 4 6

5.55.106 16
,DAMS. H. DAWKINS

HERCULANEUM AND POMPEII.

Since the commencement of 1828, the Government of
Naples have caused dons to be made in the ruins of Hercu-
laneum, and the following are the principal results of the research
up to the middle of the present year :—They have discovered the
most splendid private house of the ancients that has ever been seen
by modern eyes. The house has a suit of chambers, with a court
in the centre. There la a separate part of the mansion allotted to
the females, a garden surrounded by arcades and columns, and also
a grand saloon, which probably served foe the meeting of the
whole family. Another house also discovered, was very remark-
able, fthtti die quantity and nature of the provisions found in it,
none of which had been disturbed for eighteen centuries, for the
doors remained fastened in the same state as when they were
at the period of the catastrophe which burled Herculaneum.
The family which occupied this mansion was in all likelihood,
when the disaster took place, laying in provisions for the
winter. The provisions found in the store rooms consist of
dates, chesnuts, large walnuts, dried figs, almonds, prunes, corn,
oil, peas, lentils, pies, and hams. The internal arrangement of the
house, the manner in which it was ornamented—all, in fact, an-
nounced that it had belonged to a very rich family, and to admirers
of the arts ; feetberee were many pictures, representing Polyphemus
and Galatea, Hercules and the three Hesperides, Cupid and a
Bacchante, Mercury and Jo, Perseus killing Medusa; there were
also in the same bake vases, and articles in glass, bronze, and terra
cotta, as well as medallions in silver, representing, in relief, Apollo
and Diana. The persons who direct the excavations have caused
them to be continued in the same street, and they will, in regular
order, search the shops and the houses which border on each side,
and also the lanes which branch off from it.

At Pompeii, where the excavations are very far advanced, an
ancient mansion has been discovered near the Temple of Castor and
Pollux. In this house, which consists, as usual. of a court sur-
rounded by small rooms, there have been found fourteen silver
spoons, several broom busts, vases of various shapes, a handsome
tripod, a balance and weight in the form of a Mercury, some ele-
gant candelabras, two boxes containing pills with different che-
mical and medical preparations, and lastly, • gold ring, stamped
with the word Ave. One of the rooms contains a eurious figure,
something like a Hercules, bearing a dog in its arms. The
gynecnum or apartment for females, situated in a retired
part of the
building, is surrounded by a peristyle. Opposite the
door of entrance to the mansion is the Assembly poem; it is
adorned with busts placed In niches, and on the walls bacchanal
dances are painted in a very beautiful style. Two other fine pic-
tures ornament the adjoining room • one of them represents De-
. jaulta. seated in a car, and presenting • child of great beauty to
Hercules ; thiother non He well.lusown.subject of Meleager van-
I,lting the wild Isost,, with Anthems by pis aide. From the
Assembly Room we pass into a Utile garden, the middle of
which is a nimble table sacks statue of Apollo, which appears to'
have thrown out wafer from the plentiom. At the further end of
I tbialarslen is another Assembly ROO% of. urger dimensions than
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dancing. It. names Jpar!tisent ,is the finest that has been dlico-
' veild tut rosepeit: L number of Cipidi. bound together with
Wriifis4ll6WOra how Ibi brie oasis stele, la tin centre of which
is a boa sukvabded bp.Wtebaolso.