those who will put up with it.  Towards such his resentments are not lasting.  He is a passionate admirer of the fair sex, but jealous to excess.  He is fond of waltzing, and is a very quick, but not a very graceful dancer.  His mind is of the most active description.  When not more stirringly employed, he is always reading, dictating letters, &c., or conversing.  His voice is loud and harsh, but he speaks eloquently on most subjects.  His reading has been principally confined to French authors; hence the Gallic idioms so common in his productions.  He is an impressive writer, but his style is vitiated by an affectation of grandeur.  Speaking so well as he does, it is not wonderful that he should be more fond of hearing himself talk than of listening to others, and apt to engross conversation in the society he receives.  He entertains numerously, and no one has more skilful cooks, or gives better dinners; but he is himself so very abstemious, in both eating and drinking, that he seldom takes his place at his own table until the repast is nearly over, having probably dined in private upon a plain dish or two.  He is fond of giving toasts, which he always prefaces in the most eloquent and appropriate manner; and his enthusiasm is so great, that he frequently mounts his chair, or the table, to propose them.  Although the cigar is almost universally used in South America, Bolivar never smokes, nor does he permit smoking in his presence.  He is never without proper officers in waiting, and keeps up a considerable degree of etiquette.  Disinterested in the extreme with regard to pecuniary affairs, he is insatiably covetous of fame.  Bolivar invariably speaks of England, of her institutions, and of her great men, in terms of admiration.  He often dwells with great warmth upon the constancy, fidelity, and sterling merit of the English officers who have served in the cause of independence, under every varying event of the war.  A further proof of his predilection towards England is that he has always had upon his personal staff a number of British subjects.

—­Memoirs of General Miller.

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Fine Arts.

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EXHIBITIONS AT THE BAZAAR,

Oxford Street.

THE BRITISH DIORAMA.

On Saturday, the 11th, there was a private view of four new pictures, by Stanfield and Roberts, at this very interesting lounge.  They consist of

1. The City of York, with the Minster on fire—­a picturesque view of the cathedral, with a mimic display of the conflagration, the accuracy of which will make the property-man of the Opera tremble.