The Auctioneer's Pocket Companion, and Complete Ready Reckoner; comprismg tar bles for readily ascertaining the amount of duty on any suin of money at 7d. and Is. in the pound. By Thomas Lovell, Hunting don, author of the Builder's Assistant. 2s. 6d. half-bound. of parliament. Royal 8vo. 11. 11s. 6d. boards, 11. 15s. half-bound Russia. THEOLOGY. Unitarianism incapable of Vindication; tion of Unitarianism. By Ralph Wardlaw, a reply to the Rev. James Yates' Vindica author of the Discourses on the Socinian Controversy, which occasioned the Vindica- 30, 1816, at the visitation of the Rey. Arch- salem, as connected with Scripture Prophe- An Essay on the Principles of Construction of Military Bridges, and the Passage of Rivers in military.operations. Containing an introductory section on the motion, of water in rivers, with practical deductions relative to the application, construction, and security of the different natures of bridges; and some observ tions on fords. 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R. now published at the request of the Bishop Morehead, A.M. of Baliol College, Oxford; Junior Minister of the Episcopal Chapel, Cowgate, Edinburgh; and Domestic Chap lain to her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte. 1s. taining; alphabetically arranged, and interAnecdotes, Religious, Moral, and EnterBy the late Rev. Charles Buck. Vol. III, spersed with a variety of useful observations. and last. 12mo. 5s. in fifty-two sections, designed as a Sunday A Catechism of the Christian Religioa, evening exercise for Families, Seminaries, and the Bible class of Sunday schools. By the Rev. J. Sutcliff, 18mo. Is. 9d. Foreign Literary Gazette. AUSTRIA. Substitute for Jesuit's Bark. FRANCE. Manuel de Tourneur. Art of Turning. [962 This second edition of a useful and amusing book, forms two volumes in quarto, with an Atlas of ninety-six plates. It contains instructions for using machines of various descriptions, eccentric, oval, epicycloid, &c. which are among the most difficult operations of the art: they also afford the most ornamental productions of which the art is susceptible. This work is preceded by elementary principles referring to the knowledge and choice of woods, on cabinet works, casting of metals, and other arts, which combine with that of Turnery. In 1819, the Emperor of Austria proposed a prize of one hundred ducats for the best substitute for the Quinquina, or Jesuit's Bark, in medicine; that drug being then extremely scarce on the Continent, and the difficulty of obtaining it genuine being very great. On that occasion Dr. G. II. Sander presented to the Faculty of Medicine at Vienna, a Memoir on the virines of the Lichen of the Walls (Licher Parietinus) which he affirms is equal in medical virtues to the famous bark, and therefore may well be used in its stead. This agreeable exercise to the sedentary of all This art has, in various ages, afforded Memoir obtained the prize, and has since classes, profitable amusement to the solibeen published, under the title of Dietary, and pleasure even Wandflechte, &c. Memoir on the Lichen, therefore may claim distinction among the to princes; it &c. It is well to know the virtues and valetudinary, and from those who are but properties of the humblest productions of recovering from illness, mental or bodily. Nature they may, on occasion, perform We say mental, not without cause. most, valuable services. : Our own oak Bark was also recommended as a substitute for the Jesuit's Bark. BELGIUM. Sciences Patronized. On Improvements in Paris. A considerable sensation has been made in Paris, by a work of Count Alexander de la Borde, who is Director of the Highways and Bridges of the Department of the Seine. It is intitled Projets d' Embellissemens de Paris, et de Travaux d'Utilité Publique, &c. It forms one volume in large folio, with fourteen plates. The three Protestant Universities of the Low Countries of Leyden, Groningen, and Utrecht, have been confirmed by the King of the Netherlands: and held their solemn inauguration, Nov. 6, 1815. this occasion various felicitatory speeches Paris, are principally, as the reader will These plans for the embellishment of were delivered; and it was publicly affirm- perceive, imitations of what has already been ed at Leyden, that the King had given to executed in London, and other principal that University the cabinet of Natural His-cities of the British Empire. The first artory formerly belonging to the Prince Stadtholder of Holland, which has been returned, among the late recoveries from Paris. DENMARK. Travels in the North. The northern parts of Europe seem to be rising in favour among travellers; a work is publishing in numbers at Copenhagen, intitled Nordisches Taschenbuch, A Manual for Travellers in the North; this contains a description of Iceland, principally draw from English sources, with a new Map of the Island, views of volcanic eruptions, and five coloured plates of costumes. The contents of these numbers are descriptions of the Geysers, and boiling fountains, hils of sulphur, plants, animals, imports, exports, &c. with various articles extracted from the Moirs of the Academy of Sciences of Copenhagen. Vol. IV. No. 24. Lit. Pan. N. S. Sept. 1. ticle is, Improvements in the Distribution of tion of large aqueducts, serving at the Water at Paris, by means of the construcsame time the purpose of galleries to contain the pipes of Steam-Engines, and drains to carry off the whole of the dirt of water which supply these Engines. and soil of Paris to places beyond the heads that these pipes are to be of cast iron; and We believe, that we have already stated offered in England; it being found, on that the contract for ca-ting them has been calculation, that the same pipes which in France, could not be obtained for less than twenty five pounds per ton, may be had in this country for eight pounds per ton ;-but, eleven pounds per ton. The difference is generally speaking, they would not exceed striking, and strongly to the honour as well as advantage of our national improvements. The second establishment proposed for the service of Paris, is the forma2 M ITALY. Sig. Joseph Bonadei sustained in 1815 at the University of Pisa a thesis on the rights of peoples, and the reciprocal duties of sovereigns. This dissertation he dedicated to the grand Duke of Tuscany, who sent the author a gold medal, bearing his edgy, with the legend Premium Veritatis, 1815. at the same time naming the writer Assessor to the Civil Tribunal at Pistoia. At Milan is published, under the title of Lo Spettatore, &c. the Spectator, a work in numbers, containing varieties, historical, literary, critical, political, and moral. It is divided into two parts, an Italian part, and a foreign part. This latter part can hardly tion of a Public lavatory, or place for washing linen, &c. near the steam engine of Gros Caillou, in order to derive advan tage from the hot and cold waters of this engine, which are daily lost, without use, and to clear the river from the boats and barges of the washer-women, which impede the navigation. The third improvement would be an Hydraulic machine, with power to raise the water of the basins at Chaillot, to the top of the building, proposed to be erected opposite the Ecole Militaire, and in all the gardens, by the single power of the fall of the water of the engine in the gardens. Fourthly, the formation of three Monumental Fountains, to be supplied with an equal volume of water from the canal of l'Ourcq, divided into three differ-fail of introducing into Italy much foreign ent heights: first dicharge of water, a foun- knowledge, as it cousists of analysis of works tain on the Boulevard of Boune Nouvelle, of value in other countries, with extracts, opposite the Rue Haute-ville, fifty-four and suitable references. feet above the level of the reservoir. Second discharge of water, a fountain on the Boulevard Mont-Martre, fronting the continuation of the Rue Vivienne, thirty-six feet above the level of the reservoir. Third discharge of water, a fountain of Carrara marble, in the middle of the Palais Royal, twenty-seven feet above the level of the reservoir. Beside these, fifthly, an Arabic fountain in the middle of the Place Royal. Sixthly, Side Fountains for the Rue St. Denis. Seventhly, A general Improvement in the Pavement of the Streets throughout Paris, by means of pavements for walking on, made of hard flat stones, level with the street pavement, in all the principal communications of the metropolis. And, Eighthly, a Plan of a new Promenade, or place for exercise, suited to persons on horseback, and to light carriages; to be formed in the left division of the Champs Elysées. These plans are the subjects of the plates annexed that they may be executed, and that their execution would essentially assist in the improvement of Paris, cannot be doubted. The distribution of water to the houses of Paris, generally, would contribute much to the removal of that filth, which, in every hole and corner accumulates, till it is past bearing; and would even promote the personal cleanliness of the inhabitants, especially of the lower classes, and among the most crowded dwellings. The introduction of a flat pavement would produce a complete revolution in the construction and decoration of shops in the principal streets, and the whole city would assume n air, and features, so different, that scarcely would it be the same metropolis, as it had been known and described to be, within the memory of man. POLAND. National Instruction Patronized. The new government of the kingdom of Poland has fixed the sum of 200,000 polish florins as the expense of public instruction, and of the administration of the churches and schools, as well Catholic as Protestant. At the same time a general commission has been named for the direction of ecclesiastical affairs, for the inspection of the schools. Public instruction is imparted gratis; and the government takes on itself the appointments of the professors, and other principals in this course of instruc tion. Perpetual Motion by Galvanism. The Polish mechanician, M. Magier, has constructed a Galvanic pile on the principles of that of Zamboni. It acts without being moistened; and presents a kind of Perpetuum Mobile, by means of a balance suspended between two piles, which is constantly in movement. This Electric Pile of Zamboni has been the subject of repeated experiments and examinations on the Continent. Heinrich has inserted an article relating to it in the Journal des Chemie for October, 1815, in which work also appeared a paper, comparing the changes of the Pile of Zamboni with those of ordinary electricity, by Schubler; also additional observations, by the Editor, Schweigger. M. Jules Kolberg, Geometrician-Engineer at Warsaw, has published a new Map of the Roads in the present kingdom of Poland, and Duchy of Posen. The names of the towns and villages are written according to the Polish pronunciation. 3 PRUSSIA. The Prussian army during the campaigns of 1813, and 1814, was afflicted by an epidemical disorder of the eyes, so closely resembling the opthalmy of Egypt, as to excite the attention of the faculty very strongly to the case. A pamphlet has causes SICILY. Norellies in Natural History. tion. The principal Universities of the Kingdom, as Salamanca, Valladolid, and Alcale de Hénares, have been directed to present, each its own plan, on which, before it is adopted, the Junta will take the opinions of the principal Universities and Literary Establishments throughout Europe. As to elementary books on the subject of Theology, Canon law, Ecclesiastical discipline, the laws of Nations, and civil law, the Junta will be guided by the opinion of certain Bishops nominated by the King for this purpose. All the Schools of Arts and Sciences have been re-established, throughout the Kingdom, and those of Mineralogy and Natural History of Madrid, have resumed A merchant of Palermo, Raffinesque tion. The King has further bestowed dotheir public lectures and course of instrucSchmalz, has perambulated Sicily with nations and endowments on several Univerthe view of making researches and disco-sities, and is intent on measures calculated veries in Botany and Icthyology. He has published the results of his labours in several works. In that intitled Caratteri, he describes more than fifty new genera of Sicilian fish, divided into one hundred and fifty species; besides a great number of new species of birds and reptiles, with twenty one new genera of plants. The Statistica generale della Sicilia, of the same author, presents a picture of the island, natural and moral, superior to any which has before appeared. The Sicilians honour this writer with the title of their Linnæus. He is also editor of a Scientific SPAIN. to encourage Agriculture and Commerce, in general. SWITZERLAND. The Society of Natural History of Geeva, has invited all the naturalists throughout Switzerland, to form one general Assembly, to be held at Geneva: the purpose ciety, under the name of the Helvetic Soof this General Meeting is, to form a Society for Natural Sciences. SWEDEN. The Academy of Fine Arts, of History, and Antiquities, of Stockholm, has proposed several prizes for Essays relating to the History of that Country-such as,a Memoir of the State of the Swedish FiProgress of Science and Education. The King of Spain, who, not long ago, III. Sigismund, and Charles IX.nances, in the reigns of Eric XIV. John instituted six chairs of professors of the Poem on the Union of Sweden and Nor-a Latin science of Agriculture, has subsequently directed his attention to the promotion of the way, and Projets of Epitaphs on celebrated natural and philosophical sciences, personages, with devices for Medals on the forming the bases of arts and natural inden, from the beginning of the reign of as important events which occurred in Swedustry. The Cabinet of natural history, Gustavus 1. to the death of Charles XII. the botanic garden, the Museum, the laboratory of chemistry, with the mineralogical school, have been formed into one single and general institution, under the title of the Museum of Natural Sciences. Several appropriate chairs have been established on this occasion: in particular, one for zoology and icthyology; one for reptiles, insects, shells, &c. one for chemistry, mineralogy and botany. In addition to the established professors, an assistant or deputy has been named for each branch of science, for which a chair has been created. This article, Epitaphs, so far as we recollect, is a novelty, as the Subject of a prize: it is probable that there may be some design to form a series of Epitaphs for illustrious men; which, placed in a public situation, could not but be extremely honourable to that (or to any other) country. A work publishing in numbers at Stock. holm, called Iduna en Skrift, is destined to northern literature. The first and second divisions of this work are allotted to ancient northern poetry: the third is comIn February last the King of Spain posed of researches, memoirs, and notices, named a Junta, charged with the duty of -as of ancient ruins, customs, traditions, forming a plan for arranging and establish-mythology, manuscripts, vases, and other instances of Antiquity, wherever discovered. 2 M 2 ing general education and public instruc TURKEY. Printing Presses employed. The Imperial presses of Scutari (near Constantinople) are engaged on a transla INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE tion into the Turkish Language of the BRITISH SETTLEMENTS IN INDIA. Great Arabian Vocabulary of Kumos, in three volumes, folio. The first volume is finished, but the impression of the two following volumes, will demand at least two years of further labour. The Author of this translation is Aassim Effendi. The work is executed with the same types as the other works which have issued from the presses of Sentari. It has forty-two lines on each page, without punctuation, the words being separated only by short lines placed above them. Adventurous English Ladies. Two English Ladies who have resided in the East, during several years, have directed their attention to the study of Antiquities and Oriental Literature. One of them, Lady Hester Stanhope, has visited the ruins of Palmyra and Baalbec, with the various valleys of Mount Lebanon. The other, Mrs. Rich, wife of the English Resident at Bagdad, beside visiting Bombay, has crossed the great desert for Constanti nople, in her way to England; and returned from Constantinople by way of Asia Minor, for Bagdad. To these ladies must be added a third, in the person of H. R. H. the Princess of Wales; who has visited not only the principal Mahomedan cities on the African shore of the Mediterranean, but the Metropolis of the Turkish Empire, also, and is now, as report affirms, directing her course towards Jerusalem, the Holy Places, and other interesting objects in Syria and Palestine. It is thought by M. Wormskiold, in consequence of observations made by himself in Greenland, compared with the reports of voyagers into the higher northern latitudes of North America, that the waters of Baffin's Bay, have a communication with the Northern Pacific Ocean, by means of Bering's Straits. To ascertain this, and, if possible, to terminate all further doubts on the question, is is said, is a principal object of the voyage now in progress under C. M. Kotz-bec, son of the well-known navigator, of that name; and M. Wormskiold, (who is by birth a Dane) is so thoroughly persuaded of his theory, that he accompanies the expedition in character of naturalist. It will be truly honourable to Russia, should this point be determined under the auspices of her flag. THE following Intelligence refers to those Ecclesiastical proceedings which derive their consequence from the progressive establishment of Christianity in these provinces. We see in the first place, a Bishop of the National Church performing the functions of his office; a sight new to most of the Europeans, and wholly so to the natives, whose reflections on this occasion we should be glad to learn; as they have hitherto considered Europeans, especially Englishmen, as having no national visible religion. The second object of reference is not less pleasing ;-the accommodation given to the members of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland; with an ordination of Elders for the purposes of permanent superintendance, decorum, aud discipline. Thus, it is to be hoped, that however the means adopted may differ the end will be the same, the general diffusion of a spirit of piety, benevolence, and genuine Christianity, well worthy the acceptance and imitation of the extensive Provinces of the British Empire in India. CALCUTTA. CHURCH OF ENGLAND. December 14, 1815. The New Building on the plain was consecrated on Monday last, by the name of St George's Church, after a most excellent discourse on the subject, by the Venerable Archdeacon of Calcutta. On Tuesday morning, the Right Rev. the Bishop confirmed those who had never gone through this ceremony of the church, at the end of which his Lordship pointed out with much feeling and effect, and at considerable length, the duties which Christians take upon themselves by thus entering into a fresh compact with their Creator. On Thursday, his Lordship held his first visitation at this settlement; which was attended by the whole of the resident Clergy, and a few from the out stations. |