sketches, and a Memoir of Amos Green, esq. of Bath and York, by his late widow, will soon appear.

The second Part of French Classics, edited by L. T. VENTOUILLAC, comprising Numa Pompilius, by Florian, with notes, and the life of the author, in two volumes, will be published in a few days.

The second edition of Mr. GooD WIN'S New System of Shoeing Horses, is in preparation, in octavo; contain ing many new and important additions, with new plates, illustrative of the recent invention which is the subject of a patent, for shocing horses with cast malleable iron, enabling the publio to obtain shoes correctly made of any

form.

Some accounts from India state, that an alphabet has been discovered or devised (it does not clearly appear which), by which the inscriptions found in the caves and on the ancient monuments of that country, may be clearly understood; and which, combined with a similar discovery of the Egyptian hieroglyphics now going on, will probably throw much light on the ancient history of both countries.

Mr. JOSEPH JOPLING, architect, has invented a Septenary System for Generating Curves. It is capable of producing, with the utmost facility, an indefinite variety of curves, comprehending those which have been the subject of mathematical research, and numerous others, which cannot fail to be of great utility.

A circumstance has transpired be fore the Commissioners of government respecting Ireland, which in this age of mental illumination can scarcely be believed, but which fully explains all the follies of Orangeism and Catholicism, and the backwardness of knowledge, in that unhappy country,-it is, that in eleven counties there is not a single bookseller's shop!

In a few days will appear, in two volumes, octavo, a new edition, much improved, of Miss BENGER'S Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots, with anecdotes of the court of Henry the Second, during her residence in France.

Shortly will be published, the Young Naturalist, a tale for young people, by A. C. MANT, author of "Ellen, or the Young Godmother," &c. Lady MORGAN is preparing a Life of Salvator Rosa, the poet of designers.

A Society for literary and philosophical purposes has been established at Bristol, under the name of the Inquirer. We are glad to see philosophy united with its designs; as a fondness for petit-maitre or slip-slop literature seems at present to prevail too much over manly and solid pursuits. Discussions on the last new poem, or novel, seem to supersede real knowledge; though such works are but the garnish of a feast, or the trimmings of a lady's dress. The most emptyheaded coxcomb in England can speak as eloquently about Walter Scott or Lord Byron as a man of the soundest erudition; these topics, therefore, confer no intelectual distinction, and ought to be tolerated only among the other chit-chat of the tea-table.

A new edition of BLAINE's Canine Pathology is nearly ready, with an addition of new matter, particularly a philosophical enquiry into the origin of the dog, his individual varieties, and examination of the popular subject of breeding animals; also a very copious account of rabies or madness.

In September will be published, Letters to Marianne, by WILLIAM COMBE, Esq. author of "Dr. Syntax's Tour in Search of the Picturesque," &c. with a profile portrait.

A volume called Sweepings of my Study is announced at Edinburgh.

Some splendid remains of antiquity bave been recently discovered in a field at Bramdean, in Hampshire. Six tesselated pavements have been already cleared; two of which are of the most intricate and beautiful workmanship. Previous to the discovery. of the pavements, a large excavation in the solid chalk was cleared away, about thirteen feet in depth, entirely filled with mortar, rubbish, tiles, bones of great variety of animals, carthenware, &c. Tradition has long marked out Bramdean as the site of a palace of Alfred.

Doubts having been expressed in regard to Hunter's Memoirs of his Captivity among the Indians, we feel it just to state, that we have derived from independant sources proofs of his title to credence; and he has also circulated a notice, referring to the most accredited parties.

Mr. L. J. A. M'HENRY has nearly ready for publication, a new edition of his improved Spanish Grammar, designed especially for self-instruction.

The original death warrant of Charles

Charles I. with all the signatures of the regicides, in a perfect state, is in possession of the Rev. D. TURNER, of Norton-le-Moors, Staffordshire.

Not less than thirty small weekly miscellanies have been started within these few months, and some of them have attained an extraordinary extent of circulation, while they are the means of spreading much useful knowledge among the middling classes of society. They are sold at the low price of two-pence, and some even so low as a penny. Thirty years ago it was the fortune of the editor of this Magazine to commence this species of low-priced miscellany, under the title of the Museum; and, about the same period, a very amusing work appeared at Sherborne, under the name of Weekly Entertainer. Every house in the kingdom can afford its two-penny worth of literature per week. We hope to hear of such works in every county; and, if executed with taste, they cannot fail to succeed everywhere. Their success is a regular consequence of Sunday and Lancasterian schools.

Mr. C. M. WILLICH has succeeded in obtaining a great reduction in the duty on German lithographic stones imported into this country, viz. from twenty shillings to three shillings per

cwt.

Many years ago, when the mawkish loyalty of a Chancellor led him to refuse protection against piracy to a Poem of the late inimitable Dr. Wolcot, we foresaw that the precedent would be quoted on future occasions. Power, in that instance, availed itself of the unpopularity of Dr. W. among certain classes; and it is by stretching the law, in particular cases, that authority is enabled constantly to encroach on popular rights. We have always considered the power of the Court of Chancery, to protect property, as purely ministerial; and that it was bound merely to consider applications as between two parties, one of whom had a right, and the other no right. If the nature of the property is to be made a question, then a thousand quibbles may arise, which enable one who has no right, to contend with him who has. The intervention of an opinion of any chancellor, on such points, places all property in his discretion, and a man may thus be robbed even under the sanction of law. The onus of proof, founded on a strict legal title, lies with the applicant, as well as

the proof of invasion; and, beyond questions on those points, no discretion ought to be allowed to a chancellor. The moral or intrinsic worth of the thing in question belongs to a jury, before whom the defendant ought to be enabled to enforce a decision. These abstract views apply to all cases; and if, as in the instance of Lord Byron's Don Juan, the work has no moral or intrinsie worth, the ulterior proceedings before a jury would be its own punishment on the plaintiff. Perhaps no book of merit ever appeared from which passages might not be selected that opposed some oldfashioned prejudices of a chancellor ; consequently, the trade of piracy may flourish with impunity. When some knaves, a few years since, sought to avail themselves of our good name, by bringing out a work under our title, to which, as a catch to the unwary, they affixed the word new; we applied to our estimable and able friend, the late Sir Samuel Romilly, for his opinion on a motion for injunction. He agreed with us in the unprincipled character of the attempted robbery; but, said he, "your's is a liberal work, open to free enquiry on all subjects; and the work against which we apply professes superabundant devotion to ministers and their policy. Will they not be able to enlist the prejudices of the chancellor on their side, by quoting some free opinions of your own, or of some of your correspondents, and against these set off their own obsequiousness?" Hence, instead of a question of right, it became one of calculation and expediency. However, Sir Samuel said he would turn it in his mind, and give his opinion in writing. That opinion arrived in a few days, and was in the following terms:-" Under all the circumstances, the Chancellor may, or may not, grant an injunction." Unwilling to be the means of advertising a knavish project, and at the same time to be foiled by the authority of prejudices in ermine, we considered it expedient to forbear, and leave the question of an unfair rivalry to the moral feelings of the public. Of this result we have had no reason to complain; but it is evident we, and all persons in our situation, must suffer wrong, while any feelings but those of pure law are allowed to be mixed up with such decisions.

Dr. GRAHAM, of Carshalton, Surry, is preparing for the press, An Intro

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quest, my prayers for your recovery. Having made your confession, and communicated, offer up your own also, with that fervency of devotion and e..re faith which we owe to our Redeemer Jesus Christ. Stir up from the bottom of your heart the divine virtues of true repen tance, of Christian charity to all men, of firm belief that your prayers will be fa vorably received, and a stedfast resolution to lead an exemplary life, to the end that you may continue in a state of grace.

Accept the assurance of my regard. PRINCE ALEXANDER HOHENLOHE." Bamberg, March 16, 1822.

We are then fold, that on the next day, the 3d of May, she went through the religious process prescribed by the prince, and, mass being nearly ended, almost immediately after she felt an extraordinary sensation through the whole arm, to the ends of her fingers. The pain instantly left her, and the swelling gradually subsided; but it was some weeks before the hand resumed its natural size and shape!!! If our English convents make such appeals to vulgar superstition as this, it seems high time that they were transferred to a more genial soil. The world is now too old for miracles in medicine or philosophy..

RUSSIA.

Translations of Sir WALTER SCOTT's and Lord BYRON's works, or rather the most celebrated of them, have appeared in Russia. In France and Germany they are greedily seized for the same purpose; and it forms a race among the trade which shall bring them out first.

A table has been published, from official documents, of the population, &c. of Russia, for 1822. It gives the number of the inhabitants for each of the fifty governments, also the governments in geographical square miles. Some of these may be noticed here:Inhabitants. Sq.Miles. .200,000 .... 190.000

Archangel Astrachan Courland

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11,900 3,100

.410,000

330 2,300

that on the consumption of liquors, at 169,350,000 roubles.

SWEDEN.

In the Royal Library at Stockholm, there exists a very remarkable manuscript, the Codex Giganteus. It was taken from a Benedictine monastery at Prague, during the thirty-years' war. It is two Swedish ells in height, and of proportionate breadth. It contains, besides the Vulgate, a collection of writings upon the Jewish antiquities, by Josephus, Isidorus, &c.: also the Comas Pragensis Chronicon Bokemia; and a treatise on magic, ornamented with an illuminated figure of the devil.

GERMANY.

A German writer, named FABRICIUS, has written a violent book against the universities of his country; proposing, with a true Goth-like spirit, partly to abolish them, and partly to subject them to strict inspection by the police.

M. J. KERNER, a German physician, of Stuttgard, has made the discovery of a new kind of poison, that arises in smoked meats. It appears, from experiments which he has made, that they become subject to some sort of decomposition that renders them ver.omous. Liver sausages are the most susceptible of it, and the decomposition generally takes place about the middle of April. From his enquiries the doctor found, that of seventy-two persons, in the country of Wurteinburg, that had eaten smoked sausages, thirty-seven died in a little time, and the remainder were ill for some time after.

FRANCE.

A small, though very ancient, vase, from the collection of the Duke of Brunswick, excites much notice in Paris. It is formed of a single onyx, six inches high, finely coloured, and ornamented with bas-reliefs of very high execution. Conjecture attributes it to the age of Mithridates.

Among other associations of recent institution in France, is one entitled the Society of Christian Morals; the object of which is to introduce principles of justice, public order, and benevolence; and to apply them to the social relations. No subjects of controversy will enter into their discussions; but they propose to collect documents of every kind, and of all countries, tending to ameliorate man's moral and physical condition: to pub

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