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many ; they are more often observed in these 
countries than in Sweden and Russia. At 
London the easterly winds (N.E., E., S.E.) 
are to the western (N.W., W., S.W.), 
-a81:1°7; at Amsterdam, as1:1:6; at 
Soendmoer, as 1 : 1:6; at Copenhagen, 
as 1: 1°53; at Stockholm, asl: 1:45; at 
St. Petersburg, as 1 : 1-3. The western 
winds approach nearer the direction of those 
of the south as we get nearer to the Atlantic 
ocean ; toward the interior of the continent 
they approach more to the W. or N.W. di- 
rection. The north winds appear to in- 
crease toward the east. Among the winds 
which come from the W., the S.W. pre- 
dominates in England, Holland, and 
France; that of the W. in Denmark, and 
the greatest part of Germany; at Moscow, 
the N.W.; at St. Petersburg and at Stock- 
holm, the north wind is much more frequent 
than in the most western parts of Europe. 
In the western and middle parts of the 
north of Europe, as England, France, Den- 
mark, Germany, and Norway, the westerly 
winds are much more frequent during sum- 
mer than during winter and spring. This 
appears not to be the case in Sweden and 
Russia. During the winter the western 
winds incline more to the south; they are 
more direct, or more northern, during the 
summer. Yet this rule does not appear to 
extend to Eastern Europe. 
Scientific Expedition to the Morea.— 
The French, who have at all times availed 
themselves of the protection of their armies 
to extend their scientific researches, have 
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resolved that the opportunity afforded by 
the occupation of the Morea by their troops, 
shall not be neglected, and, on the 21st of 
last November, the minister of the interior 
requested the three academies to consult on 
the immediate appointment of an antiqua- 
rian, a naturalist, and an architect, and to 
draw up instructions for their proceedings, 
by which every thing that fell within their 
respective departments in Greece, might re- 
ceive the illustration to which the celebrity 
of that country entitled it. 
Fashionablz Novels.—The example set 
by Lord Byron, in Childe Harolde, was 
much too flattering to individual vanity, er 
afforded too much facility of execution to be 
neglected in these novel-manufacturing 
days; and the whole troop of successful 
authors have contrived to represent their 
personal histories in the form of works of 
fiction. Of this sort are the Adventures of a 
King’s Page, a book we are tempted to no- 
tice, for the sake of inquiring whether or 
not this system of making even the infor- 
mation obtained in official situations afford 
materials for a novel is such a breach of 
confidence as ought to be allowed. That 
such a knowledge of remarkable persons, 
and the events connected with them, as can 
only be obtained by their more favoured at- 
tendants, will always be, as in the present 
case, most interesting to the public, is as- 
suredly true; but we much doubt if it can 
be communicated to them without loosening 
the strongest bonds of society. 
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FINE ARTS’ EXHIBITIONS. 
Tue novelties of Art, during the past 
month, have been confined to that very 
limited but delightful portion of it, the 
Panoramas: for who shall deny that, now- 
a-days, these objects are not to be classed 
among the products of fine art ?—or who 
will attempt to promulgate a. set of princi- 
ples which shall exclude them ? 
There are few things more pleasant to be 
met with in London, on a raw, dark, 
drizzling day in December, than to pass 
from the miry, misty streets, and after wind- 
ing your way through long, narrow passages 
of almost utter darkness, and encountering 
two or three miserable specimens of humanity 
(called money-takersand check-takers) doing 
penance for their sins in the solitary confine- 
ment of little dim dens, ascending a flight 
of steps, and suddenly emerging upon a 
scene, glowing with sunshine, beaming with 
every kind of natural beauty that the vege- 
table kingdom can produce, bright with 
blue winding waters, picturesque with human 
dwellings scattered gracefully among all 
these, and alive with human forms and faces 
under every aspect and attitude to which 
the scenes about them can give rise. And 
such is one of the new Panoramas which we 
have now to notice—that of Sydney, New 
South Wales, as exhibited at the upper circle 
at Leicester Square. There are portions of 
this delicious scene, which are, in their way, 
the perfection of remantic beauty. Such is 
nearly the whole of the right-hand depart- 
ment as you enter, including the Governor’s 
house and grounds, the botanic garden, 
the innumerable coves and creeks, rich with 
stately vessels, and studded with little jewel- 
like islands, and the whole of the rising 
woodlands beyond, and the blue hills that 
bound the view. There is also an air of 
novelty given to the scene, especially in the 
foreground, by the character of the build- 
ings, the nature of the animal tribe that 
are common to the island, and the mixture 
of the ‘natives’? with the Enropean portion 
of the inhabitants. On the lawn of the 
Governor’s grounds, for instance, you see 
ostriches pacing along with stately steps 
instead of swans, and kangaroos sporting 
in the place of sheep or deer. At another 
point, you behold a splendid rainbow-tinted 
bird, pierced in mid-air, and falling to the 
earth, by a long spear, flung from the un-— 
erring hand of a native black. In one spot 
you see a group of European females and 
children, attired in all the fantastic elegance 
of a London or Paris costume, pacing 
