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habits of two speeies of pecary found m that colony . Air . AVilson exhibited albinos varieties of the common Mole . A paper was read , by Air . H . Adams , ' ' On a New Genus and Species of Mollusc , of the Family Scalariickc . " Sir James Clark , Preslbnt , took the chair at the last meeting of the lithuologlcal Society , on which occasion the following gentlemen were elected Follows : —J . Crawfurd , Esq ., Sir G . Grey ( Governor of the
Cape ) , Sir J . K . Shuttleworth , Bart ., G . G . Glyn , Esq ., AI . P ., Alderman Salomons , MP ., Captain A , H . Russell , and J . Smith , Esq . The president announced that the council bad requested Dr . J . Hunt to assist Air . T . AVright in the duties of the honorary secretaryship , aud he felt sure that the society would greatly benefit by Dr . Hunt ' s services . Air . Autonius Ameiuiey brought to the society six Arabs from the Strangers' Home , including natives of Aleccft , Jedda , Bushire , Syria and
Damascus . Air . Crawfurd doubted the amount of Arab blood which was claimed for them . A paper was then read , " On the Karen Tribes , " by Edward O'Riley , Esq . These tribes , Mr . O'Riley thinks , are offshoots from the widely-extended family of mountain races , whose origin can be traced to the Mongolian type of Central Asia , and who , from the deep valleys and subordinate ranges of the Thibetiau Himalaya to the wilds of the Malay Peninsula , still preserve their nornadie character
with habits ancl religions , or rather " spirit-worship faith , " which place a ; broad line of demarcation between them ancl cognate peoples possessing a comparative form of civilization in their Bhuddistie , Alohammedan , and Brahminical religions . Many of these tribes are described as being in tbe most uncivilized state , ancl iu filth worse than pigs or monkeysyet all possess a spirit of independence and hatred of the tyranny of their fellow men . Those tribes have beeu so ground down by former governments , that it is with the greatest difficulty we have been able to get them to put any confidence in our promises ol aid and protection . Forty thousand have accepted the doctrines of Christianity through
the instrumentality of the American Baptist Alission . Extracts were read from a journal kept on making a tour in Karen-Nee for the purpose of opening a trading road to the Shan traders . The manners , dress ancl agriculture were fully described , and many interesting anecdotes illustrating the peculiarities of these worndown people . They make a fermented liquor ( koung ) from millet ancl rynk . They have maize , and also vegetables of the pumpkin class , with
several descriptions of beans ; the oil " sesame , " the ground-nut , tobacco and cotton plants . The principal superstition of the Karen race , and to which they pin their faith , is the number of small orifices in the bones of a fowl . The tribes of Karens , who inhabit the mountains , are a most turbulent and vicious race , and are in the habit of making forays on other tribes ancl seizing all they can and selling them into slavery . The more peaceable tribes live in the greatest terror , and sleep with their
spears in their hands . To gain admission to these tribes , you must cement their friendship by a process of blood sucking , and it is necessary to take some one to suck the blood from the chief ' s arm , and thus make peace with him and his tribe . Air . Crawfurd thought there was not a shadow of foundation for the assumption that the Karens were of Alongolian origin . He thought that ifc was a most interesting fact , that the number of these races converted to Christianity was ten times greater than the whole of the peoples who hacl accepted Bhuddism . It was
also remarkable that , with only a population of twenty inhabitants to a square mile , they were yet able to pay for tho whole of their civil and military expenses . The acceptance of the gigantic task of introducing palm trees into France by the Society of Acclimation , has given the best proof of the serious nature of the undertaking . Ifc is to AI . Charles Naudin , tho assistant naturalist of the Zoolog ical Gardens of Marseilles , that the
honour of the idea is owing . M . Charles Naudin , who bas spent his whole life in ranking various experiments in vegetable acclimation , has succeeded in cultivating the speeies of palm which grows at Port Natal , which he has brought to great perfection in the open air at Marseilles ! He suggests that the various species of the date tree growing in Algeria should be cultivated iu the south of France , while the palmetto of Louisiana , offering every qualification for the endurance of the mistral ,
might also be essayed . Ifc appears that the proposition , received with great applause , is to bo put in immediate execution . The third conversazione of tho Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts was held on Thursday evening in the Suffolk-street Gallery , which was well filled with a distinguished company of artists and patrons of art . Air . H . Ottley commenced the proceedings of the evening by reading a brief paper on the patronage and status of art in this country , of which he took a gratifying and encouraging view , He
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insisted that the true patronage of art was that which came from the spontaneous feeling of the people , which was more efficacious and fruitful than auy whieh state support or aristocratic caprice coulcl supply . The prices which artists obtained for pictures now were eight or ten fold what they received fifty years ago ; and , to go further back , Sir Joshua Reynolds painted three-quarter length portraits for £ 25 a hundred years ago—not a tenth of what was paid now for similar works
to artists of any eminence . All this was owing to the public taste having been awakened to the charm of designs , ancl the best interests of artists would be promoted by anything which should enable the public in greater numbers to flock to the exhibition of their works . Last Saturday morning a deputation from the Artistic Copyright Committee of the Society of Arts had an interview with Lord Palmerston , at Cambridge House , Piccadilly .
The Emperor of Austria , who strictly prohibits contributions for tlie Arndt monument , has joined the subscription for Racine's great granddaughter , Mdlle . Noemie Troclm , with a contribution of 200 ducats . Madame Ristori acted Pheclra , in Italian , in the Thcdtre Francetis , for the same purpose , and spoke a few French verses , by Legonve , before Racine ' s bust , which created a great sensation . The monument of Robert Blake—to bo raised in the beautiful church at Taunton—is now on view at Air . Papworth ' s studio , Milton-street ,
Dorset-square . It is a splendid work . The design , by Air . Baity , is one of the finest ever wrought hy liis hand . " The character of the great fighting admiral ( says the Alhcncewm ) is caught to the life . This presentation is , in fact , the ideal warrior of the Commonwealth ; more like to Blake , morally and physically , than any of the poor prints which call themselves likenesses of Blake ; for it is marble informed with the spirit of his glorious deeds . In the massive head , in the wide , flashing eye ,
in the distended nostril , ancl in the curled , adamantine lip , we feel a victorious sense of power and genius . So he must have looked when Tromp , against the usages of war , opened his guns upon him in the Downs—so he may have looked when the Dey of Tunis bade him count the camion on his walls—so , too , he may have looked when told that the governor of Santa Cruz said , he might come if he dared ; superbly calm , and confident , and strong . " Mr . Papwortb deserves all praise for
his execution of Air . Baily ' s design . The marble is very beautiful ; and , take it all in all , the monument is one of whieh the town of Taunton , so gloriously associated with the fame of Blake , may well be proud . Tbe Old Society of Painters in Water Colours threw open their doors last Saturday to their patrons and friends for a private view of their annual exhibition of paintings ivhich is opened to day for the first time this season to the public . The rooms were crowded with a very fashionable company , aucl it seemed to be very generally admitted that the exhibition was fully up to the mark of any previous year .
SAM SUCK . « -SD THE ATHEN / EUM CLUB . — " My scientific club has no smoking room ; the bishops ( and they do greatly congregate there ) think smoking infra dig . They were once curates , and were good for a clay pipe , a screw of tobacco , and a pot of half-and-half ; but now they are good for nothing but shovel hats , aprons , and gaiters . Artists would , enjoy a whiff , but stand in awe of these dons . It is true they don't give ' orders' themselves , but they know those who do , which is quite as good , and they have a very patronizing ah , so they look at these
sable dignitaries , draw a long sigh , shake their heads , and mutter , ' It ' s a pity it ' s no go . " A few old lords , who love black-lettered folios , because they are printed with antiquated types and are early editions , coeval with , or antecedent to , their own titles , are horrified at the sight of a ' clay , ' which they associate with thieves and pickpockets , ancl tbe smell of tobacco , wliich painfully reminds them of those hotbeds of schism and rebellion—the pot-houses . The geological members ot the club have a ' primitive formation' in them ; but it is either overlaid with to
rubbish or crops out ruggedly sometimes ; still they are ' up trap , ' aud would like ' a draw' if they were not overawed by these lords spiritual and temporal . Defend me from the dulness of those who point only to the future or the past , and are not ' up to the time of day . ' I don't want to live with my grandfathers or my grandchildren . I have no desire to hear of Gladstone's Homer , aud the Siege of Troy , or Little Red Riding Hood , ancl the Babes in the AVood . Defend me from a learned club like mine ! The members are not genialand they
, must be incurable , when such men as Thackeray , Sam Slick , ancl Dickens , who ( to their credit be ifc spoken ) are all smokers , can't persuade them that what the white and the black man , the Jew and the Gentile , the Christian aucl the Turk , the savage ancl the Spanish lady do , has at least the sanction of fche majority , and is clearly adapted to all tastes and all climates . The war waged against this habit by old dons , antiquated dames , and pretty girls , ought to be added to the three great social evils that afflict this country , "—The Season , Ticket ,
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habits of two speeies of pecary found m that colony . Air . AVilson exhibited albinos varieties of the common Mole . A paper was read , by Air . H . Adams , ' ' On a New Genus and Species of Mollusc , of the Family Scalariickc . " Sir James Clark , Preslbnt , took the chair at the last meeting of the lithuologlcal Society , on which occasion the following gentlemen were elected Follows : —J . Crawfurd , Esq ., Sir G . Grey ( Governor of the
Cape ) , Sir J . K . Shuttleworth , Bart ., G . G . Glyn , Esq ., AI . P ., Alderman Salomons , MP ., Captain A , H . Russell , and J . Smith , Esq . The president announced that the council bad requested Dr . J . Hunt to assist Air . T . AVright in the duties of the honorary secretaryship , aud he felt sure that the society would greatly benefit by Dr . Hunt ' s services . Air . Autonius Ameiuiey brought to the society six Arabs from the Strangers' Home , including natives of Aleccft , Jedda , Bushire , Syria and
Damascus . Air . Crawfurd doubted the amount of Arab blood which was claimed for them . A paper was then read , " On the Karen Tribes , " by Edward O'Riley , Esq . These tribes , Mr . O'Riley thinks , are offshoots from the widely-extended family of mountain races , whose origin can be traced to the Mongolian type of Central Asia , and who , from the deep valleys and subordinate ranges of the Thibetiau Himalaya to the wilds of the Malay Peninsula , still preserve their nornadie character
with habits ancl religions , or rather " spirit-worship faith , " which place a ; broad line of demarcation between them ancl cognate peoples possessing a comparative form of civilization in their Bhuddistie , Alohammedan , and Brahminical religions . Many of these tribes are described as being in tbe most uncivilized state , ancl iu filth worse than pigs or monkeysyet all possess a spirit of independence and hatred of the tyranny of their fellow men . Those tribes have beeu so ground down by former governments , that it is with the greatest difficulty we have been able to get them to put any confidence in our promises ol aid and protection . Forty thousand have accepted the doctrines of Christianity through
the instrumentality of the American Baptist Alission . Extracts were read from a journal kept on making a tour in Karen-Nee for the purpose of opening a trading road to the Shan traders . The manners , dress ancl agriculture were fully described , and many interesting anecdotes illustrating the peculiarities of these worndown people . They make a fermented liquor ( koung ) from millet ancl rynk . They have maize , and also vegetables of the pumpkin class , with
several descriptions of beans ; the oil " sesame , " the ground-nut , tobacco and cotton plants . The principal superstition of the Karen race , and to which they pin their faith , is the number of small orifices in the bones of a fowl . The tribes of Karens , who inhabit the mountains , are a most turbulent and vicious race , and are in the habit of making forays on other tribes ancl seizing all they can and selling them into slavery . The more peaceable tribes live in the greatest terror , and sleep with their
spears in their hands . To gain admission to these tribes , you must cement their friendship by a process of blood sucking , and it is necessary to take some one to suck the blood from the chief ' s arm , and thus make peace with him and his tribe . Air . Crawfurd thought there was not a shadow of foundation for the assumption that the Karens were of Alongolian origin . He thought that ifc was a most interesting fact , that the number of these races converted to Christianity was ten times greater than the whole of the peoples who hacl accepted Bhuddism . It was
also remarkable that , with only a population of twenty inhabitants to a square mile , they were yet able to pay for tho whole of their civil and military expenses . The acceptance of the gigantic task of introducing palm trees into France by the Society of Acclimation , has given the best proof of the serious nature of the undertaking . Ifc is to AI . Charles Naudin , tho assistant naturalist of the Zoolog ical Gardens of Marseilles , that the
honour of the idea is owing . M . Charles Naudin , who bas spent his whole life in ranking various experiments in vegetable acclimation , has succeeded in cultivating the speeies of palm which grows at Port Natal , which he has brought to great perfection in the open air at Marseilles ! He suggests that the various species of the date tree growing in Algeria should be cultivated iu the south of France , while the palmetto of Louisiana , offering every qualification for the endurance of the mistral ,
might also be essayed . Ifc appears that the proposition , received with great applause , is to bo put in immediate execution . The third conversazione of tho Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts was held on Thursday evening in the Suffolk-street Gallery , which was well filled with a distinguished company of artists and patrons of art . Air . H . Ottley commenced the proceedings of the evening by reading a brief paper on the patronage and status of art in this country , of which he took a gratifying and encouraging view , He
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insisted that the true patronage of art was that which came from the spontaneous feeling of the people , which was more efficacious and fruitful than auy whieh state support or aristocratic caprice coulcl supply . The prices which artists obtained for pictures now were eight or ten fold what they received fifty years ago ; and , to go further back , Sir Joshua Reynolds painted three-quarter length portraits for £ 25 a hundred years ago—not a tenth of what was paid now for similar works
to artists of any eminence . All this was owing to the public taste having been awakened to the charm of designs , ancl the best interests of artists would be promoted by anything which should enable the public in greater numbers to flock to the exhibition of their works . Last Saturday morning a deputation from the Artistic Copyright Committee of the Society of Arts had an interview with Lord Palmerston , at Cambridge House , Piccadilly .
The Emperor of Austria , who strictly prohibits contributions for tlie Arndt monument , has joined the subscription for Racine's great granddaughter , Mdlle . Noemie Troclm , with a contribution of 200 ducats . Madame Ristori acted Pheclra , in Italian , in the Thcdtre Francetis , for the same purpose , and spoke a few French verses , by Legonve , before Racine ' s bust , which created a great sensation . The monument of Robert Blake—to bo raised in the beautiful church at Taunton—is now on view at Air . Papworth ' s studio , Milton-street ,
Dorset-square . It is a splendid work . The design , by Air . Baity , is one of the finest ever wrought hy liis hand . " The character of the great fighting admiral ( says the Alhcncewm ) is caught to the life . This presentation is , in fact , the ideal warrior of the Commonwealth ; more like to Blake , morally and physically , than any of the poor prints which call themselves likenesses of Blake ; for it is marble informed with the spirit of his glorious deeds . In the massive head , in the wide , flashing eye ,
in the distended nostril , ancl in the curled , adamantine lip , we feel a victorious sense of power and genius . So he must have looked when Tromp , against the usages of war , opened his guns upon him in the Downs—so he may have looked when the Dey of Tunis bade him count the camion on his walls—so , too , he may have looked when told that the governor of Santa Cruz said , he might come if he dared ; superbly calm , and confident , and strong . " Mr . Papwortb deserves all praise for
his execution of Air . Baily ' s design . The marble is very beautiful ; and , take it all in all , the monument is one of whieh the town of Taunton , so gloriously associated with the fame of Blake , may well be proud . Tbe Old Society of Painters in Water Colours threw open their doors last Saturday to their patrons and friends for a private view of their annual exhibition of paintings ivhich is opened to day for the first time this season to the public . The rooms were crowded with a very fashionable company , aucl it seemed to be very generally admitted that the exhibition was fully up to the mark of any previous year .
SAM SUCK . « -SD THE ATHEN / EUM CLUB . — " My scientific club has no smoking room ; the bishops ( and they do greatly congregate there ) think smoking infra dig . They were once curates , and were good for a clay pipe , a screw of tobacco , and a pot of half-and-half ; but now they are good for nothing but shovel hats , aprons , and gaiters . Artists would , enjoy a whiff , but stand in awe of these dons . It is true they don't give ' orders' themselves , but they know those who do , which is quite as good , and they have a very patronizing ah , so they look at these
sable dignitaries , draw a long sigh , shake their heads , and mutter , ' It ' s a pity it ' s no go . " A few old lords , who love black-lettered folios , because they are printed with antiquated types and are early editions , coeval with , or antecedent to , their own titles , are horrified at the sight of a ' clay , ' which they associate with thieves and pickpockets , ancl tbe smell of tobacco , wliich painfully reminds them of those hotbeds of schism and rebellion—the pot-houses . The geological members ot the club have a ' primitive formation' in them ; but it is either overlaid with to
rubbish or crops out ruggedly sometimes ; still they are ' up trap , ' aud would like ' a draw' if they were not overawed by these lords spiritual and temporal . Defend me from the dulness of those who point only to the future or the past , and are not ' up to the time of day . ' I don't want to live with my grandfathers or my grandchildren . I have no desire to hear of Gladstone's Homer , aud the Siege of Troy , or Little Red Riding Hood , ancl the Babes in the AVood . Defend me from a learned club like mine ! The members are not genialand they
, must be incurable , when such men as Thackeray , Sam Slick , ancl Dickens , who ( to their credit be ifc spoken ) are all smokers , can't persuade them that what the white and the black man , the Jew and the Gentile , the Christian aucl the Turk , the savage ancl the Spanish lady do , has at least the sanction of fche majority , and is clearly adapted to all tastes and all climates . The war waged against this habit by old dons , antiquated dames , and pretty girls , ought to be added to the three great social evils that afflict this country , "—The Season , Ticket ,