SOCIETY, of the same active character as the others, and the range will then be complete. These various societies seem, in truth, to have superseded the old Royal Society.

Mr. WILLIAM BELSHAM will shortly publish the ninth and tenth volumes of the Memoirs of George the Third, continued from the Peace of Amiens to the conclusion of the Regency.

In a few weeks will be published, an Introduction to the Study of the Anatomy of the Human Body, particularly designed for the use of painters, sculptors, and artists in general; translated from the German of J. H. LAVATER, and illustrated by twentyseven lithographic plates.

The adulteration of paper intended for printing books, by a large admixture of gypsum, introduced during the process of manufacture, is said to have become prevalent, even to the extent of one-fourth of the weight of the paper: a sample, which had the appearance of good paper, was lately found, on examination by an eminent chemist, to contain twelve per cent. of calcareous earth, instead of about one per cent. of accidental earthy impurities, which the best papers are found to contain. A contemporary journal describes this fraud to be effected by mixing gypsum with the rags; but more probably, we think, the gypsum, reduced by grinding to the state of a fine powder, is mixed with the pulp immediately before it is made into paper. We call on the commissioners, surveyors, and supervisors, of excise, under the immediate superintendance of whose subaltern officers all paper is made, to do their duty to the public, in detecting and bringing to justice the practisers of this shameful fraud; and that like measures may be extended to the manufacture of thick brown papers and paste-boards, to prevent the large admixture of clay therein, which is common.

In a few days will appear, a Series of Dialogues between an Oxford Tutor and a Disciple of the new Common-Sense Philosophy; in which the mechanical principles of matter and motion will be accurately contrasted with the theories of occult powers which are at present cherished by the universities and royal associations throughout Europe.

Sir ANDREW HALLIDAY has nearly ready for the press, the Lives of the Dukes of Bavaria, Saxony, and Bruns

wick, ancestors of the kings of Great Britain of the Guelphic dynasty, with portraits of the most illustrious of these princes, from drawings made from ancient statues and paintings by the old masters, expressly for this work.

Mr. WIRGMAN is preparing for the press, a faithful translation, from the original German, of Kant's celebrated work, entitled "the Critic of Pure Reason."

Batavian Anthology, or Specimens of the Dutch Poets, with remarks on the poetical literature and language of the Netherlands, by JOHN BOWRING and HARRY S. VAN DYK, esqrs. will speedily be published.

A poem, entitled Clara Chester, by the author of "Rome," and "the Vale of Chamouni," will be published in a few weeks.

Capt. PARRY has returned from his exploring voyage in the Arctic Seas. He has failed in the chief object of the expedition; and, owing to some unhappy election of his course, did not proceed so far west by twenty degrees, nor north by ten degrees, as in his former voyage. The wiseacres who had promulgated their brain discovery of a Polar basin free from ice, in that exclusive vehicle of official absurdities, the Quarterly Review, probably sent the gallant captain in search of their wonderful basin, in the narrow seas north of Hudson's Bay. But, with whomsoever the project originated, it seems that in these hopeless and unpromising straits and gulphs the ships have been blocked up for two winters, and part of three summers. Well might Franklin, who was sent in another direction, see nothing of them in a route twenty degrees more westward. The geographers of Europe and America will be disappointed at such a comedy of errors and cross-purposes, and will unite with us in astonishment, that such an expedition should have been sent from Europe to explore any supposed outlets from Hudson's Bay, while we have forts and commercial establishments in the same Bay, whence any desirable reconnoisances might at any time have been directed. Lancaster Sound appears to be the high road to nautical glory in these seas, and it surprizes us that any other route should have been sought. Nevertheless, we arc persuaded that every thing which skill, perseverance, and courage, could

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effect, has been performed by the commander and his crews; and no blame attaches, except to the planners of the voyage, who probably thought of little besides the realization of their own theory of a Polar basin, or of a sea of wonderful water, which would not freeze at the usual temperature. Various details, designed to amuse the gaping vulgar, and divert attention from the serious business of the expedition, are appearing in the newspapers; but, as these are of the most common-place character, and are to be found in all books treating of the northern nations, we forbear to intrude them on our readers. In our opinion, the less is said the better; though we have no doubt that, besides paying all the expences of the voyage, the public will ere long, as usual, be called upon to pay three or four guineas for a 4to. containing about as much valuable in formation as is usually given in one of the two-penny weekly miscellanies.

We have from time to time noticed the value and importance of the Mechanics' Institute at Glasgow,founded by Professor GEORGE BIRKBECK, now of London, consisting of a course of lectures for instructing artizans in the scientific principles of the arts and manufactures. It was well attended in Glasgow; and has been of such palpable use in that city, that a similar institution is very properly proposed in London, and will, we have no doubt, be as much more useful as the same classes in London are more numerous than in Glasgow. Dr. CONQUEST is preparing a work for the press, which will contain a reference to every publication on Midwifery, and a register of the innumerable essays and cases which are scattered through periodical pamphlets and the transactions of various societies, or casually referred to in works not exclusively obstetric. It will form a second volume to the third edition of his "Outlines," and will be speedily followed by a similar publication on the Diseases of Women and Children.

The first number of a Zoological Journal, to be continued quarterly, and edited by T. BELL, esq F.L.S. J. G. CHILDREN, esq. F.R. and L.S. J. de CARLE SOWERBY, esq. F.L.S. and G. B. SOWERBY, F.L.S. will appear on the 1st of January next.

Mr. BLAQUIERE has in the press, a volume on the Origin and Progress of the Greek Revolution, together with

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some account of the manners and customs of Greece, anecdotes of the military chiefs, &c; being the result of materials collected during his recent visit to the Morea and Ionian Islands.

The Company for supplying Portable Gas, from their works in St. Johnstreet, Clerkenwell, have commenced the supply of shop-keepers and others with portable lamps; within or attached to the stands of which lamps (of Gordon's patent construction,) is a magazine charged with compressed oil-gas, of the very best quality, for economically affording light, in quantities sufficient for one or more nights' consumption. They assert, that the cost of their light will not be more than half that of tallow-candles: their servants are to call daily on their regular customers, with a store of charged magazines, from which to exchange all the exhausted ones, and to put the lamps into a state ready for instant lighting, without more trouble to the customers than merely turning a cock, and applying a light to the burner.

Letters between Amelia and her Mother, from the pen of the late WILLIAM COMBE, esq. the author of "the Tours of Dr. Syntax," will speedily appear, in a pocket volume.

Mr. GAMBLE is about to publish, Charlton, or Scenes in the North of Ireland.

A new division of the "World in Miniature," containing the Netherlands, will be published on the 1st of December, in one volume,with eighteen coloured engravings.

Miss JANE HARVEY will shortly publish Montalyth, a Cumberland tale.

The Albigenses, a romance, by the Rev. C. R. MATURIN, will be published in November.

A new poem, entitled a Midsummer Day's Dream, will speedily appear, from the pen of Mr. Atherstone.

A new monthly Asiatic journal will be commenced on the 1st of January, entitled the Oriental Herald and Colonial Advocate: it will be conducted by Mr. J. S. BUCKINGHAM, late editor of the "Calcutta Journal," with the view of affording an opportunity for promoting, by enquiry and discussion, the important interests, literary, political, and commercial, of the British empire in both the Indies. Mr. Buckingham's qualifications for this undertaking will be generally acknowledged;

acknowledged; and a considerable interest has been excited in his favour by the illiberal treatment he met with from the Provisional Government of Bengal, after the Marquis of Hastings had departed, and India continued to enjoy his liberal policy on all subjects. Admiral EKINS has in the press a work on naval tactics, entitled Naval Battles from 1744 to the Peace in 1814, critically revised and illustrated. Dr. HENDERSON's History of Ancient and Modern Wines, is nearly ready for publication.

We are glad to see that Mr. DICK is preparing an Essay on the general Diffusion of Knowledge by Education and Associations.

Mr. SAMUEL PLUMBE has in the press, a Systematic Treatise on the Diseases of the Skin, with coloured plates.

In a few days will be published, a new edition of the late Dr. VICESSIMUS KNOX's "Christian Philosophy."

A new work, entitled Fatal Errors and Fundamental Truths, illustrated in a series of narratives and essays, is in the press.

Speedily will be published, a Summary of the present Political and Commercial Institutions and Proceedings of the Republics of Mexico, Columbia, Peru, Chili, and Buenos Ayres, including a brief Biography of some of their most distinguished Characters, by J. HENDERSON.

An historical novel, from a New Unknown, is about to issue from the Edinburgh press, entitled St. Johnstoun, or John Earl of Gowrie, founded on the Gowrie conspiracy in the reign of James the Sixth.

Mr RIDDLE, master of the Mathematical School, Royal Naval Asylum, is preparing a Treatise on Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, adapted to practice, and to the purposes of elementary instruction.

Dr. PROUT is preparing a volume of Observations on the Functions of the Digestive Organs, especially those of the stomach and liver.

Early in November will be published, the "Forget me not" for 1824, containing twelve highly-finished en gravings, and a great variety of miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse.

The Principles of Forensic Medicine, by J. G. SMITH, M.D. is nearly ready for publication. This edition will contain much new matter, and various improvements.

A translation from the German of Morning Communings with God for every Day in the Year, by STURM, author of the "Reflections," is in the press.

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Mr. HADEN has in the press, a translation of Magendie's Formulary for the Preparation and Mode of Employing several new Remedies.

Speedily will be published, a Practical German Grammar, being a new and easy method for acquiring a thorough knowledge of the German language, for the use of schools and private students, by J. ROWBOTHAM, master of the Classical, Mathematical, and Commercial Academy, at Walworth.

The vinegar manufactured in London is in general made from malt; most of that which is consumed in Paris, and throughout France, is extracted either from wood or potatoes.

In November will be published, a General Catalogue of School Books in every Branch and Department of Education, embracing English, French, Italian, Latin, Greek, and other classical and scientific works.

Mr. JEFFERYS TAYLOR is printing the Young Historians, being a new chronicle of the affairs of England, by Lewis and Paul.

We are glad to see that the MORNING CHRONICLE now adds decided priority of intelligence to its forty-years' character for unshaken integrity. This paper has, in a most eventful period, been the bulwark of liberal principles, and its superiority in other respects is therefore important to the friends of Liberty, who know that its support is not derived, like that of a certain renegade paper, from resentment against government, because ministers do not consider it worth buying. Against the hollow and vacillating support of a certain weather-cock newspaper, which is seeking to bully government into its price, we solemnly warn the friends of Reform. If they trust it, they and their cause will sooner or later be betrayed; and, though our knowledge and expressed contempt of its unprincipled tactics may expose us to insolent abuse, yet we feel, in regard to suck railers, as a lion does when brayed at by an ass, or as a judge when assailed by a convicted felon. We think even less of the worthless opinion of persons who suffer themselves to be guided on any point by a notorious political prostitute, whose activity has enabled it to demoraliz

demoralize the age more than any other single cause.

Mr. PURSGLOVE, sen. has nearly ready for publication, a Guide to Practical Farriery, containing hints on the diseases of horses and neat cattle, with many valuable and original recipes, from the practice of an eminent veterinary surgeon.

In the press, a volume of Philosophical Essays, by E. WALKER, selected from the originals published in the philosophical journals; containing, among other discoveries and improvements, new outlines of chemical philosophy, founded on original experiments; to which are added several essays not before printed, including an essay on the transmutation of light into bodies, an essay on the generation of solar light, and a new method of determining the longitude at sea, illustrated with copper-plates.

A new Easy and Concise System of Short-hand, founded upon the most philosophical principles, and suited to any language, compiled from the manuscript of the late W. BLAIR, esq. is in the press.

Late advices from New South Wales report the contents of an advertisement in the Sydney Gazette, purporting that outward-bound vessels might have oranges at the rate of sixpence per dozen. A few years ago the same price was paid for a single orange. A number of bee-hives had been lately imported; the bees had not suffered by the voyage, and were multiplying. Wine has been produced, the first samples of which were transmitted to London, to be presented to the Society of Arts. The new governor, Sir Thomas Brisbane, has been chosen President of the Society of Agriculture; at the first dinner he proposed a subscription, which produced 15007. sterling. Every fresh incursion of the inhabitants into the interior tends to confirm the excellence of the soil and climate. On the 3d of January last, the works for the erec tion of an observatory on Mount Rose, near Paramatta, were actively proceeding; as also a building at Sydney, for making observations on the pendulum. The governor, who is a distinguished astronomer, is at the head of these establishments, and has a useful adjunct in M. Rumker, a German. In December last, Lieut. Johnson discovered a new river, to which he has given the name of the Clyde. He

advanced with his brig, the Snapper, forty miles inland; and, as far as his view extended, the river appeared to be navigable. It falls into Bateman's Bay. With respect to the introduction and rearing of sheep in Van Diemen's Land, appearances are favourable.

RUSSIA.

At Odessa, in the Crimea, which had not a single cottage in 1792, there is now a population of 40,000, Russians, Germans, French, Greeks, Jews, Americans, and Poles. Besides a French and Italian theatre, there is a Lyceum, founded by the Duc de Richelieu, for various purposes of educa tion; there are also gymnasia, or schools of navigation, commerce, jurisprudence, &c. The harbour is about two verstes in length, and the town contains 20,000 houses, with eight churches, and a number of publie buildings. In summer, many families arrive at Odessa, from Poland and South Russia, for the benefit of seabathing. The population of the adjacent districts is rapidly increasing.— Revue Encyclopedique.

POLAND.

At Warsaw, M. Kowalski has translated the Comedies of Moliere into the Polish language. The pieces in verse, in the original, are so also in the translation.

The foundations of a new commer cial town, to be called Nogaisk, are now laying in the district of Melitapholsky, near the river Obotyezna, which empties itself into the sea of Asoph. All inhabitants and newcomers to be exempted from taxes for eighteen years.

GERMANY.

From a work lately published at Vienna, on the Culture of the Vine in the Empire of Austria, we find that of 66,000,000 of sceaux, produced from the soil, 59,892,850 are used for homeconsumption, which makes a daily consumption of 164,090; and that the surplus, from exportation, yields an income of 79,392,950 florins in specie. Throughout Germany, the author assigns nearly the 53d part of the soil to the culture of the vine.

The last convent of monks has just terminated its existence, at Saxe Erfurt. Their number had decreased to eight religious; and their house, during the last four years, was used as a magazine of military stores. Five of these religious have been assigned

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to offices of public instruction in the Catholic gymnasium of Erfurt.

FRANCE.

The establishments for different kinds of culture, raised lately on the banks of the Senegal, afford satisfactory results. The plantations of cotton trees, commenced by persons who, for the most part, had no experience in the management of colonial productions, have succeeded. All the leguminous plants of Europe are inured to the climate, and in a forward state of reproduction; several species have reached the second and third generation. These nourishing vegetables, most of which were unknown in the country, are now growing, in abundance, in the cultivated parts. As to the plants properly colonial, the success has surpassed whatever could be hoped. Eight months suffice for the growth of a manioc, seven feet high; for superb beds of sugar-canes; ananas, in fruit; banana-trees, showing their products; more than 2000 young citron. trees; coffee-trees, in particular, sown, raised, growing wonderfully without shelter.

The Royal and Central Society of Agriculture, in its public sitting of April 6, (wherein the Minister of Interior presided,) adjudged to M. Arnollet, engineer of bridges and causeways, the first prize of the competition that has been open for several years, for the perfecting of hydraulic machines. It appears from his Report, that the machinery invented by M. A. will

produce, with the same force, effects double to those of any hitherto known. They act and move by men, horses, steam-engines, and by agents of variable powers, such as wind, water, in different degrees of force, varying according to the condition of the moving power. This system of machinery will apply to irrigations and drainings, where the water is of moderate depth, to merchant-ships, or those of higher decks, to draw water from the deepest wells, or raise it to the highest.

Two years ago M. J. Dortie, one of the managers of the experimental farm of La Gironde, published an interesting Notice on the Culture of Cotton, and on the possibility of introducing it into La Gironde, and other southern departments of France. This treatise excited much curiosity among the agriculteurs of Lot and Garonne ; trials were made, and proved so far successful, that the prefect determined upon applying to the Minister of Interior for certain sums to purchase the grains of herbaceous cotton. These were accordingly distributed, in the beginning of 1822, among different proprietors in the district of Nerac. The success has been complete, wherever the same care and attention have been paid, as in the culture of tobacco or maize. The Count of Beaumont at Buzet, Messrs. Pujos and Lespeault of Nerac, and De Montant at Durance, had each a crop of perfect growth, as to the grain, and the product is remarkably fine.

To THOMAS MARTIN and CHARLES GRAFTON, of Birmingham, Printing Ink Manufacturers, for making fine light Black of very superior Colour, called Spirit Black, and a new Apparatus for producing the same. Oct. 24, 1821.

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NHEY take common coal-tar, and divest it as much as possible of the ammoniacal liquor and acid held in solution, as follows: they take four casks or other vessels capable of holding one hundred and thirty gallons, and put into each of them sixty gallons of the rough or impure tar; adding to cach of them sixty gallons of strong line-water, and agitating them together by machinery or any other convenient mode, till the said lime-water is completely mixed with the tar. The vessels are then left at rest for about six hours, when the tar MONTHLY MAG. No. 388.

will be settled to the bottom, and the water may be drawn off. They then fill up the casks again with hot water pumped from the hot well of their steamengine, and agitate as before. This operation of washing with hot water they repeat three times, suffering the tar to subside each time, and drawing off as before, allowing twelve hours instead of six before they draw off the last water, that the whole of the water may have got to the surface, and that they may have little but pure tar at the bottom; but, as there will, then be a small portion of water remain combined, which would cause the tar to crackle and fly about instead of burning freely, they have recourse to a further process to divest it of this. For this purpose they have erected a still (similar to the stills used for distilling spirits of turpen