THE

NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

NOVEMBER 1844-FEBRUARY 1845.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH:

W. P. KENNEDY, SOUTH ST. ANDREW STREET;

LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.

DUBLIN: W. CURRY, JUN., AND CO.

MDCCCXLV.

CONTENTS OF No. III.

ART.

I. Remedies suggested for some of the Evils which consti-

tute "The Perils of the Nation." London, 1844.

II. The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., LL.D.,

P.R.S., Foreign Associate of the Institute of France,

etc. Edited by his Brother, John Davy, M.D., F.R.S.,

3 Vols. London, 1839.

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III. Lectures delivered at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol. By

John Foster. London, 1844. 8vo. pp. 419.

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IV. A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa.

By James Backhouse. Illustrated by Two Maps,

Sixteen Engravings, and Twenty-Eight Woodcuts.

8vo. London, 1844.

V. The United States of America; their History from the

Earliest Period; their Industry, Commerce, Banking

Transactions, and National Works; their Institutions

and Character, Political, Social, and Literary; with a

Survey of the Territory, and Remarks upon the Pros-

pects and Plans of Emigrants. By Hugh Murray,

F.R.S.E. With Illustrations of the Natural History.

By James Nicol. Portraits, and other Engravings,

by Jackson. 3 vols. Edinburgh Cabinet Library.

Edinburgh, 1844.

VI. 1. Account of a New Reflecting Telescope. By the

Right Honourable Lord Oxmantown, M.P., (now the

Earl of Rosse.) (Edinburgh Journal of Science, Vol.

IX., No. XVII., p. 25. July 1828.)

2. Account of Apparatus for Grinding and Polishing the

Specula of Reflecting Telescopes. By the Right Hon-

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ourable Lord Oxmantown. (Edinburgh Journal of

Science, Vol. IX., No. XVIII., p. 213. October 1828.)

3. Account of a Series of Experiments on the Construc-

tion of Large Reflecting Telescopes. By the Right

Honourable Lord Oxmantown, M.P. (Do. do., New

Series, Vol. II., p. 136. January 1830.)

4. An Account of Experiments on the Reflecting Tele-

scope. By the Right Honourable Lord Oxmantown,

F.R.S. (Philosophical Transactions, 1840. Part II.,

p. 503-528.)

5. Account of a Large Reflecting Telescope, lately con-

structed by Lord Oxmantown, and of the processes

employed in forming its Specula. By the Rev. T. R.

Robinson, D.D., M.R.I.A. (Proceedings of the Royal

Irish Academy, No. 25, November 9, 1840.)

6. Dr. Robinson's Address to the British Association at

Cork, on the 24th August 1843, on the Earl of Rosse's

Reflecting Telescope. (Athenæum, September 23,

1843. No. 830, p. 866.)

VII. The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon,

with Selections from his Correspondence. By Horace

Twiss, Esq. Three vols., 8vo. London, 1844.

VIII. 1. Report from the Secret Committee relative to the Post-

Office. (Ordered to be printed, by the House of

Lords, 2d August 1844.)

2. Report from the Secret Committee on the Post-Office,

together with the Appendix. (Ordered, by the House

of Commons, to be printed, 5th August 1844.)

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CONTENTS OF No. IV.

ART.

I. A System of Mineralogy, comprising the most Recent Dis-

coveries. With numerous Woodcuts and Copper-

Plates. By James Dana, A.M. Second Edition. New

York and London. 1844. Pp. 633.

II. The History of the British Empire in India. By Edward

Thornton, Esq., Author of " India, its State and Pro-

spects," &c. &c. 5 Vols. London, 1843. .

III. 1. Registrum Monasterij de Passelet; Cartas Privile-

gia Conventiones aliaque Munimenta complectens. A

domo fundata A. D. 1163 usque ad A. D. 1529. Ad

fidem codicis M.S. in Bibliotheca Facultatis, Juridica

Edinensis servati, nunc primum typis mandatum.

Edinburgi, 1832. (Maitland Club. Edited by Cosmo

Innes, Esq., Advocate.)

2. Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis e pluribus codici-

bus consarcinatum circa A. D. 1400. Edinburgi, 1837.

(Bannatyne Club. Edited by Cosmo Innes, Esq.)

3. Liber Sancte Marie de Melros munimenta vetustiora

Monasterij Cisterciensis de Melros. 2 tom. Edin-

burgi, 1837. (Bannatyne Club. Edited by Cosmo

Innes, Esq.)

4. Liber Cartarum Sancte Crucis, munimenta Ecclesie

Sancte Crucis de Edwinesburg, (Holyrood.) Impres-

sum Edinburgi, 1840. (Bannatyne Club. Edited by

Cosmo Innes, Esq.)

5. Registrum de Dunfermlyn. Liber Cartarum Abbatie

Benedictine, S. S. Trinitatis et B. Margarete Regine

de Dunfermlyn. Impressum Edinburgi, 1842. (Ban-

natyne Club. Edited by Cosmo Innes, Esq.)

6. Liber Episcopatus Glasguensis. Munimenta Ecclesie

Metropolitane Glasguensis, a sedi restaurata seculo

ineunte XII. ad reformatam religionem. 2 tom. Im-

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