Christian's Quarterly Register, designed to maintain the pure principles of Christianity against priestcraft, orthodoxy, and infidelity. Capt. FRANKLIN and Dr. RICHARDSON announce a Narrative of their Overland Journey and Observations during the late Expedition to the Coasts of the Northern American sea. Nothing has yet been heard of Capt. Parry, who entered the same sea in the spring of 1821. Dr. THOMAS is printing a popular volume on the Way to Preserve Good Health, and on Domestic Medicine. A work called Pharmacopæia Imperialis is in the press. It is to consist of a comparative view of the Pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, in the Latin text, with English notes. A printing press, worked by hand, has been constructed in London, which is said to equal in velocity and exceed in workmanship the steamengine presses. Two men and three boys can print twenty-five sheets in a minute, with clearness and perfection. Mr. BANKS is said to have purchased in the island of Elephantana a roll of Papyrus, containing the latter part of the Iliad, with scholia in the margin. It is believed to be of high antiquity. A Dutchman, of the name of Meerman, has printed two volumes, quarto, to prove that printing was invented at Haerlem, and the sapient magistrates of that city have complimented the author on his performance. Nothing, however, can be more irrelevant than the pretensions either of Haerlem, Strasburgh, or Mayence. Printing, like every art, was progressive. The first printer was the first man who put an inscription on a coin; the second was the improver who reversed the inscription on the dye; the third was he who printed inscriptions on wax, so remarkable on our bread-seals; the fourth was he who took the impressions on paper or vellum (a puny variation, conferring honour on no one); the fifth and best was composing with moveable types; the sixth, the re-casting them on plates; and the seventh and last, printing with steam. It is therefore to the last degree puerile to talk of an inventor of printing. The Orlando Inamorato, abridged from Berni, with specimens, will soon be published by W. S. Rose, esq. A Monthly Magazine of Music is 1 announced for publication on the 1st of January. A volume of Essays on the Manners, Habits, and Customs, of Bengal, is in preparation. FRANCIS MASERES, esq. Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer, whose liberal exertions for the restoration of mathematical writers are so well known to the mathematical world, has nearly completed a collection of those which relate to optical science. Amongst the interesting treatises which are reprinted in this volume, are the Optica promota of James Gregory, containing the first publication of the reflecting telescope. The Traité de la Lumiére of Huggens, and the Lectiones Optice of Dr. Barrow, a work which has become exceedingly scarce. The work is edited under the superintendance of C. BABBAGE, esq. F.R.S. &c. The fortieth volume of Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, with an analytical index for Volumes XXVI. to XL. will be ready for delivery early in January. Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations, are preparing for publication, in three volumes. Highways and By-ways, or Tales of the Roadside, gathered in the French provinces, by a Walking Gentleman, will soon be published. Prosings, by a Veteran, or the Lucubrations of Humphrey Ravelin, esq. late major in the Regiment of Infantry, are printing. The Theory and Practice of Music, professionally analysed, for the use of the instructor, the amateur, and the student, will soon be published, by J. NATHAN, author of the "Hebrew Melodies." Tales of Old Mr. Jefferson, of Gray's Inn, collected by the Young Mr. Jefferson, of Lyon's Inn, will soon appear. Series I. will consist of-Mandeville, or the Voyage; the Welch Cottage, or the Woodman's Fire-side; the Creole, or the Negro's Suicide. December Tales will be published in a few days. In the course of this month will be published, the Second Part of Mr. BOHN's Bibliographical, Analytical, and Descriptive Catalogue of Books, comprising above sixty thousand volumes in all languages and classes of literature, accompanied by literary notices. Mr. Mr. BOOTH's Letter to Mr. Malthus on the subject of Population, with an examination of the late censuses of Great Britain and Ireland, will be published in the first week of January. It will contain some remarks on the proposed alteration in the poor laws, to which we shall hereafter draw the attention of our readers. Proposals are issued for the publi'cation of an uniform edition of the Works of Dr. John Owen, to be edited by T. CLOUTT, M.A. The unparalleled circumstances of distress in which the cultivators of the soil are placed, have had no effect in damping the zeal and ardour of several of those who, under the auspices of the great Duke of Bedford in 1798, established the Smithfield Club, for the purpose of inducing, by the offer of premiums, the sending to London, at the time of "the great market before Christmas," annually, specimens of fat cattle, sheep, and pigs, of as many as possible of the differont breeds and varieties of our island, for comparison with each other; thereby affording to the breeders and freders of these important domestie animals, in conjunction with the authentio particulars certified, (as to breeders' and feeders' names, breeds, ages, feeding, &c.) the means of judging, which particular description of animals will, by their proneness to early size and maturity, as to fatness, afford good profits to them, and at the same time benefit the public, by causing "plenty of the cheapest and best meat;" and that, in spite of adverse circumstances, the club is still numerous, and its finances in a respectable state. The show this year, as usual, took place in Goswellstreet, on the 13th, 14th, and 16th of December; and, both for the number and excellency of the animals exhibited, is believed to have never been exceeded: on the latter day the crowd of visitors was proportionally great. The premiums were awarded and delivered at the annual dinner at the conclusion of the show, in plate, bearing suitable inscriptions, viz. Value fifteen guineas, to Mr. Edward Lucas, for a 5-years old Hereford ox: whose fattening had been completed by oil-cake. Value ten guineas, to Mr. Joseph Lucas, for a ditto. Value fifteen guineas, to Mr. Ralph Oldacres, for a 34 years old Devon ox: oil-cake fed. Value ten guineas, to Mr. James Senior, for a 6-years old Scotch ox: oil-cake. Value ten guineas, to Mr. Ralph Oldacres, for a 63 years old Hereford cow: after four calves, on oil-cakes, Garden, for three thirty-two months old Value fifteen guineas, to Mr. Richard new Leicester wethers: turnips. Value ten guineas, to her Grace the Duchess of Rutland, for three 32-months old new Leicester wethers: Swede turnips and carrots. Value fifteen guineas, to Mr. Stephen Grantham, for three 32-months old Southdown wethers: Swede turnips. Valne ten guineas, to Mr. John Ellman, jun. for three 32-months old Southdown wethers: turnips. for three 22-weeks old Suffolk pigs: barValue ten guineas, to Mr. George Dodd, ley and pea meals. The judges who awarded these premiums were four graziers, viz. Messrs. John Buckley, John Hitchins, John Price, and Samuel Sandon; and two butchers, viz. Messrs. Robert Curtis and Michael White. At the meetings of the club, the Marquis of Exeter, and sixteen gentlemen, were added to the list of its members; and 210 guineas were assigned for nineteen premiums at the shew in December next. The Highland Society of Scotland have, in the year which is passed, originated a similar society in Edinburgh, who have proposed, a few days before the present Christmas, to distribute at their first exhibition ten premiums, amounting to seventy-five guineas, for fat oxen. Thus it is, that one of the most sensible classes in the country silently rebuke the puerilities of ministers, as to "over-production," which this class know not to exist, save of the class of state annuitants, pensioners, and placemen, who are crushing the industrious of every class to the earth. Dr. YATES announces a work on the Establishment, Patronage, and Preeminence, of the Church Establishment. On the 15th will be published, No. L of a new literary work, to be entitled, Res Literariæ, or Monthly Journal of Foreign and Domestic Literature. The Belfast newspaper informs us, of Mr. CAMPBELL's edition of Ossian, that, in consequence of the publication researches have been made in that town; and in an oaken chest, found in the ruins of an ancient abbey. a copy of Ossian has been discovered of the fifteenth century, and also a theo Jogical logical work, written on six hundred pages of vellum, and two others. The theological work is in possession of T. Millar, esq. of Carrickfergus, and is a fine specimen of early penmanship. The copy of Ossian confirms the doctrines of Mr. Campbell, and will throw new lights on that celebrated controversy. American invention seems to rival that of England and Germany. The names of Fulton and Perkins are followed by that of Church. This last gentleman is now in London, and, in concert with our machinists, is constructing an apparatus, which, if successful, will improve the art of printing as much as printing itself was an improvement of copying with the pen. His improvement extends to casting, as well as composing; and, by simplifying the casting process, and saving the expense of distributing, he proposes to compose always from new types, re-melting after the edition is worked off. The re-casting for every new composition is connected with the regular laying of the types; and, when thus laid, it is intended to compose, by means of keys like those of a piano-forte, each key standing for a letter or letters. By these means errors would be avoided in the composition, and the progress would be far more rapid than at present. Pulpit Orations, Lectures, and Sermons, delivered in the Caledonian Church, Hatton Garden, by the Rev. E. IRVING, A.M. in one volume, octavo, are in the press. The Actress, or Countess and No Countess, a novel, in four volumes, by the author of Malcolm," "Douglas," &c. will be published in January. 66 The Noble Pilgrim, a novel, in three volumes, by W. GARDINER, author of "the Story of Pigou," &c.; also, Edward Williamson, a narrative, by the same author, will shortly be published. Mr. GRANT, of Crouch End, has in the press, and nearly ready for publication, a new edition of his Institutes of Latin Grammar, revised and considerably augmented. In a sermon lately preached for the benefit of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear, it was stated that, since the establishment of the charity in 1816, upwards of 3,750 patients afflicted with deafness, or other diseases of the ear, have been received, the greater number of whom have been cured or relieved; to which may be added several cases of deaf and dumb, in which much effective aid has been administered. The first part of the Cabinet of Portraits will appear on the 1st of January, containing-Burns, engraved by Scriven; Corneille, by Thomson; Shaw, the Linnean professor, by Cooper; Bishop Sherlock, by Freeman; and the late President West, by Meyer; accompanied by Biographical Sketches, by ROBERT SCOTT, author of "the History of the Reign of George the Third." A Part, containing five prints, will appear every month. A Sequel to the Unpublished Manuscript of Henry Kirke White's, is preparing, by the author of " the Wonders of the Vegetable Kingdom Displayed." The Antiquities of Free-masonry, comprising illustrations of the five grand periods of masonry, from the creation of the world to the dedication of King Solomon's Temple, will soon be published, by G. OLIVER, Vicar of Clec. The History and Topography of London and its Environs, to correspond with Pinnock's County Histories, with a map of twenty-five miles round the metropolis, is preparing for publication. Rassela Principe d'Abissinia, opera del Signor Dottor Johnson, will soon appear. An Introduction to the Hebrew Language, by W. HEINEMANN, professor of the Hebrew and German Languages, and author of " the Catechism of Hebrew Grammar,” “ an Introduction to German Reading," will be published in January. Early in January will be published, Relics of Literature, by S. COLLET, A.M. in octavo, with a frontispiece of autographs of eminent characters. The Lives of Scottish Poets are entirely completed, and will be ready in a few days, in three volumes, with thirty portraits. The Orlando Furioso of Ariosto, translated by W. S. ROSE, cantos 1 and 2, foolscap octavo, will soon be published. Memoirs of the Life of Rossini are in the press, with an historical and critical account of his compositions, and an historical sketch of the state of music in Italy, from the beginning of the present century to the year 1822, or the era of Rossini, by the author of the Lives of Haydn and Mozart. In In a few days will be published, with twenty-six engravings, a Narrative of a Voyage round the World in the Uranie, Capt. Freycinet, dispatched on a scientific expedition by the French government during the years 1817, 18, 19, and 20, in a series of letters to a friend, by J. ARAGO, draftsman to the expedition. FRANCE. A General and Universal Bulletin of Scientific Intelligence and Notices, dedicated to the learned of all countries, and to national and foreign libraries, published under the direction of the Baron DE FERUSSAC, is announced in Paris. Its object is to make known: ·1st. All kinds of writings published upon the sciences properly so called, general and particular treatises, dissertations, essays, particular memoirs, maps, plans, engravings, and lithographs. 2dly. Every interesting fact, of whatever nature it may be, which shall have been inserted in any periodical or daily journal. 3dly. Whatever scientific news private correspondence may furnish, divided into three sections: 1st. Advertisements of works; 2d. Extracts from the journals; 3d. Scientific news, or extracts from private correspondence. It will be commenced in January 1823, and a number will be published at the end of every month, consisting of from eight to ten sheets. The late Emperor of France was the author of the following works : J. Letter of M. Bonaparte to M. Matteo Buttafuoco, deputy from Corsica to the National Assembly, 1790. Signed "Bonaparte," and dated "Cabinet of Milleli, the 28th January, second year of liberty," 1790. It consists of twenty-eight pages, octavo, and issued from the press of M. Fr. X. Joly, printer at Dôle, when Bonaparte was lieutenant in the regiment of La Fère. He corrected the last proof sheets himself, and used to walk to Dôle for that purpose, setting out from Auxonne at four o'clock in the morning, and, after his literary labour, partaking of a breakfast with M. Joly, from whose house he walked back to his garrison by noon; the distance is eight post leagues. M. Amanthon, of Dijon, has a copy, given by the author to a female of Auxonne. II. The Supper of Beaucaire. Avignon, Sabin Journal, 1793. Octavo, and anonymous. III. General and Complete Collection of the Letters, Proclamations, Speeches, Messages, &c. of Napoleon le Grand. 2 vols. 8vo. IV. Inedited Correspondence, official and confidential, of Napoleon Bonaparte, 7 vols. 8vo. V. The Notes in the volume entitled "La Battaile d'Austerlitz," by the Aus trian general, Baron Stutterheim. 8vo. Of the Bourbons in 1815. Memoirs of VI. Manuscript of the Isle of Elba. Napoleon, Book IX. VII. On the Education of Princes of the Blood of France. VIII. Notes to the Moniteur, on the Translations from the English Journals which were submitted to him. IX. An Essay, for a prize given by the Academy at Besançon. X. A History of Corsica, in 2 vols. 12mo. When in garrison at Auxonne, in 1790, he invited M. Joly to come and negotiate for printing the work. Bonaparte occupied in the Pavillon a chamber, almost empty, its furniture being a bad bed, a table set in the window, covered with books and papers, and two chairs. One of his brothers slept on a mattress in an adjoining apartment. They agreed upon the price; but Bonaparte was sent to Toulon, and the work was never printed. XI. Report on a Polygraphical Instru ment, for printing Circulars with rapidity. XII. Count Dzialinski has a manuscript of from thirty to forty folio pages, verified to be Bonaparte's, containing many documents on the history of the times, from about the year 1790 to the commencement of the war in Italy. XIII. The Manuscripts of his History and public Life, written at St. Helena, in possession of his Testamentary Executors. PROCEEDINGS OF PUBLIC SOCIETIES. REPORT of the COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of COMMONS on the CRIMINAL LAWS. NOR the conduct of this Commit FOR tee, and for its able and laborious Report, the world is indebted to the unwearied industry and enlightened spirit of Sir James Mackintosh. We have already submitted some extracts to our readers, and we now introduce some of the varied information contained in the invaluable Appendix. On the subject of criminal law, we differ radically from many of our modern statesmen. We do not think that crimes against property are generally committed from a propensity to crime, but from the pressure of society, and the difficulty of obtaining subsistence. Hence the increase of crimes in bad times, and hence the increase of juvenile offenders for want of employment. We think, too, that punishments are too indiscriminate, and that the accidental offender ought to be treated very differently from old and often-convicted ones. that the forms of trial should be conFurther, ducted with more regard to defence than is now practised. Till these points are better regulated, our sympathy will overbalance our indignation against the objects of legal coer cion. Convicted and Sentenced: 3 years 1 2 years, and above 1 year 138 1 year, & above 6 months, 424 6 months, and under, 1,397 Whipping, and fine .... ...... 148 Convicted Total..... * Of whom were executed 1,026 4,125 235 3,158 8,958 1,130 2,622 858 1,987 |