No. 5, _Innocent the Tenth_, by Velasquez, is an uncommon fine portrait; it is very boldly executed, combining at the same time a sufficient degree of finish and great beauty of colour. His holiness is represented in quite a plain habit. The beauties of Guido's pencil will be traced in No. 6, _Hippomenes and Atalanta_. Claude, in his _Embarkation of St. Paul; Sea Port, Evening, &c._, charms us with his exquisite effects, which are so truly natural, that, while we view his representations, we may almost fancy ourselves transported to the magnificent scenery of Italy. In No. 42, _Titian's Daughter_, are seen the genuine tints adopted by the Venetian school of painting. No. 56, _St. Appolonia_, by Sebastian del Piombo, is a most admirable specimen of the master. No. 74, _Landscape and Cattle_, by Paul Potter, contains all that beauty of touch and delicacy of colour which render this famous artist so difficult to imitate. There are several very capital pictures by the younger Teniers; No. 77, _his own portrait_, and No. 95, _portrait of the painter and his son_, are truly excellent; as is No. 94, _Figures playing at Bowls_. A remarkable and very forcible effect is found in No. 93, _The outside of a House with Figures_--painted by De Hooge. Nos. 121 and 123, _Flowers and Fruit_, by the celebrated Van Huysum, are extremely elaborate in their execution. No. 161, _The Battle between Constantine and Maxentius_, is a sketch by Rubens, possessing wonderful fire and spirit, as well as great mellowness of colour. Besides the above pictures, there are many beautiful productions by Jan Steen, Cuyp, Poussin, Salvator Rosa, Guercino, Domenichino, Murillo, Albano, Vandyke, Ruysdael, Houdekoeter, Wouvermans, &c. G.W.N. * * * * * ANCIENT ROMAN FESTIVALS. * * * * * JULY. The _Caprotinia_, or feasts of Juno Caprotina, were celebrated on the 9th of July, in favour of the female slaves. During this solemnity they ran about, beating themselves with their fists and with rods. None but women assisted in the sacrifices offered at this feast. Kennet says, the origin of this feast, or the famous _Nonae Caprotinae_, or _Poplifugium_, is doubly related by Plutarch, according to the two common opinions. First, because Romulus disappeared on that day, when an assembly being held in the _Palus Capreae_, or _Goats'-Marsh_, on a sudden happened a most wonderful tempest, accompanied with terrible thunder, and other unusual disorders in the air. The common people fled all away to secure themselves; but, after the tempest was over, could never find their king. Or, else, from _Caprificus_, a wild fig-tree, because, in the Gallic war, a Roman virgin, who was prisoner in the enemy's camp, got up into a wild fig-tree, and holding out a lighted torch toward the city, gave the Romans a signal to fall on; which they did with such good success, as to obtain a considerable victory.