church by a fiddle, and to form a dance in the church-yard at the
end of the service. But the ideas which the Chinese have of dancing
exceeds all others. When Commodore Anson was at Canton, the officers
of the _Centurion_ had a ball upon some court holiday: while they were
dancing, a Chinese, who very quietly surveyed the operation, said,
softly, to one of the party, "Why don't you let your servants do this
for you?"

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FINE ARTS.

SCHOOL OF PAINTING AT THE BRITISH INSTITUTION.

_(To the Editor of the Mirror.)_


I beg to present you with a brief notice of the School of Painting at
the British Institution, Pall Mall; you may rely upon its correctness,
as I have been extremely cautious in making my notes, and in
ascertaining every particular relative to the subject.

The students at this excellent institution have, for several weeks,
been arduously engaged in copying the fine pictures which were
entrusted to the directors by his majesty, and the nobility, for that
purpose. In general, the students have been very successful, and
deserve much praise; I must, however, in my prescribed limits, only
mention a few.