Dr. CONQUEST will publish, in a few weeks, a second and enlarged edition of his Outlines of Midwifery, &c., with copper-plate instead of lithographic engravings.

Dr. CAREY has in the press, the Greek Terminations, including the Dialects and Poetic Licences, in alphabetical order, with explanatory References to the Grammar, on the same plan as his "Clue for Young Latinists," lately published.

The History of Little Johnny, the Foundling of the late Doctor Syntax. a poem, in eight monthly numbers, will be commenced on the 1st of Aug. and continued monthly. Each part will contain three coloured engravings by T. ROWLANDSON, Esq., and thirtytwo pages of letter-press by the Author of the Three Tours of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque-of Consolation-and of a Wife.

A History of Madeira, with a series of 27 coloured engravings illustrative of the Manners, Customs, and Occupa tions of the Inhabitants of that Island, is preparing for early publication.

In the course of the ensuing month, a second series of Sermons in Manuscript Character, for the use of Young Divines and Candidates for Holy Orders, will be published by the Rev. R. WARNER, Rector of Great Chalfield, Wilts, and author of "Sermons on the Epistles, Gospels," &c.; and of "Old Church of England Principles," &c. The second series treats of Christian Virtues; and will consist (like the former series on Christian Doctrines) of Ten Sermons.

The misguided Society, of whose pernicious and anti-social designs we have duly apprized our readers, has, at length, become the proper object of a criminal prosecution, by the indictment of a Grand Jury. In the mean time, we observe, with deep concern, that it is pursuing its inquisitorial practices against the press in various parts of the country where less caution and less public spirit prevail than in London. We trust, however, that true-born Englishmen will every where be found to do their duty in defeating its base practices.

The Rev. EDW. CHICHESTER will soon publish a professional work, in three octavo volumes, entitled, Deism compared with Christianity.

The Society of Arts, &c. has bestowed on C. F. Palmer, Esq. M. P. two large gold medals, and a large silver medal,

for planting 280 acres with 893,420 forest trees, and 30,700 oaks for timber; and for sowing 216 bushels of acorns on 240 acres. -A large gold medal to T. Wilkinson, Esq. of Fitzroy-square, for sowing 240 bushels of acorns on 260 acres. The Ceres gold medal, to Sir W. T. Pole, Bart. Shute-house, near Axminster, for raising 896,000 oaks from acorns.-To H. Potts, Esq. the large silver medal,for planting 194 acres with 528,240 forest trees;-and to E. Dawson, Esq. the large gold medal, for embanking 166 acres of marsh land from the sea.- The gold medal was also given to Mr. J. Perkins, for an invention of instruments to ascertain the trim of a ship, whether loaded or unloaded, at sea or in harbour; and the same gentleman received the large silver medal, for the discovery of a method of ventilating the holds of ships, and warming and ventilating apartments.

Mr. JOHN COCHRANE announces à Treatise on the Game of Chess, in au octavo volume, illustrated by numerous diagrams.

The Royal Society of Literature offer premiums of one hundred, fifty, and twenty-five guineas respectively, for the best View of the Age of Homer, the best Poem on Dartmoor, and the best Essay on the Greek Language. To us these appear to be very common-place and exhausted subjects, for the further discussion of which a Royal Society was not wanted.

Mr. LowE is preparing a volume, on the Situation and Prospects of this Country, in regard to Agriculture, Trade, and Finance.

Mr. T. LYNN will publish in September, and continue annually, a work called Star Tables and Ephemeris for 1822, for the more easily determining the Latitude and Longitude at Sea, during the Night. It will exhibit at sight the apparent times of the passage over the meridian of 61 of the principal Fixed Stars for every day of the year, with their particular meridional altitudes in the parallel of certain harbours and dangers.

Mr. NICHOLSON's popular Elements of Pure and Mixed Mathematics have been delayed by unavoidable circumstances, but will appear in the course of the autumn. The want of such a supplement to the study of Arithmetic is proved by the anxious demands which have followed its first announcements.

Mr.

Mr. JOHN FRANK NEWTON has in the press a classical work on the Banishment of Ovid, by the Emperor Augustus, under the title of "the Three Enig

mas."

Various lives of Napoleon are announced, but as their object is either to profit by public sympathy, or to pander to the prejudices of power, it is to be hoped that the public will reserve themselves for his own Memoirs, against the transmission of which, and the free publication, no objection can now be decently opposed.

A Member of the late Salter's Hall Congregation has in the press, a work addressed to the Old Members of that Society, in which some of the Errors of the Rev. Dr. Collyer are stated and corrected.

SIR GEORGE NAYLOR, by command of the King, is preparing an extensive work, with engravings, descriptive of the late gorgeous ceremony of the coronation.

"The

A society for investigating the natural and civil history, geography, &c. of CEYLON, was established under the patronage of the Hon. the Lieutenant Governor, at a meeting held at the King's House in Columbo, on the 11th of last December. The objects to which the attention of the society seem principally to be directed are: geography, geology, and mineralogy of Ceylon. The society at its first meeting had fifty-one members, all emulous for the success of the institution. The Hon. Major-General Sir E. Barnes, the patron, was elected President. The Honourable Sir Hardinge Gifford; the Hon. Sir Richard Ottley; the Hon. R. Boyd, Esq.; the Hon. J. W. Carrington, Esq.; the Hon. and venerable Dr. Twisleton and Dr. Farrell were elected vice-presidents. The general committee divides itself into three sub-committees of five members each; viz. 1st, of natural history and agriculture; 2dly, of geology, mineralogy, and geography; 3dly, of civil history, languages, and antiquities.

The number of admissions to the British Museum, from 27th March, 1820 to 25th March, 1821, was 62,543.

The celebrated library of Count Melzi has lately been bought at Milan by Payne and Foss, by whom it has been re-sold to Frank Hall Standish, Esq. in an entire state, and is coming to this country. This magnificent collection contains, among many other rarities of the 15th century, the Livii

Historia Spire, 1470, printed upon vellum, with capitals most tastefully illuminated; the only perfect copy known; the Lucretius, Brescia Ferrandi.

A writer on the subject of vaccinating dogs, for the prevention of the distemper, states, that James Dearden, Esq. of the Orchard, Rochdale, was unable for several years to rear a single dog; whether he kept them at home, or sent them out to quarters, they all died of the distemper; but about four or five years ago he began to have them vaccinated, and since that time not one dog has suffered from it. The operation has been performed when the dogs were from six weeks to two months old, and the matter has always been inserted on the inner surface of the ear, in a part as free from hair as possible.

Little more than half a century ago, there were but three shops in London for the sale of music and musical instruments, viz. two in the Strand, and one in St. Paul's Church-yard, and at the present time the number exceeds two hundred.

The quarries of marble whence the blocks are taken for the construction of the Plymouth break-water are situated at Öreston, on the eastern shore of Catwater. They consist of one vast mass of compact close-grained marble; seams of clay, however, are interposed through the rock, in which there are also large cavities, some empty, and others partially filled with clay. In one of these caverns in the solid rock, fifteen feet wide, forty-five feet long, and twelve feet deep, nearly filled with compact clay, were found imbedded fossil bones belonging to the RHINOCEROS, and portions of the skeletons of three different animals, all of them in the most perfect state of preservation. The part of the cavity in which these bones were found was seventy feet below the surface of the solid rock, sixty feet horizontally from the edge of the cliff, and one hundred and sixty feet from the original edge by the side of the Catwater. Every side of the cave was solid rock: the inside had no incrustation of stalactite, nor was there any external communication through the rock in which it was imbedded, nor any appearance of an opening from above, being inclosed by infiltration.

A short time since, as David Virtue, mason, at Auchtertool, a village four miles from Kirkaldy, in Scotland, was dressing a barley mill-stone from a large block, after cutting away a part,

he

he found a lizard imbedded in the stone. It was about an inch and a quarter long, of a brownish yellow colour, and had a round head, with bright sparkling projecting eyes. It was apparently dead, but after being about five minutes exposed to the air it showed signs of life. It soon ran about with much celerity; and after half an hour was brushed off the stone and killed. When found, it was coiled up in a round cavity of its own form, being an exact impression of the animal. There were about four teen feet of earth above the 10ck, and the block in which the lizard was found was seven or eight feet deep in the rock; so that the whole depth of the animal from the surface was twenty-one or twenty-two feet. The stone had no fissure, was quite hard, and one of the best to be got from the quarry of Cullaloe-reckoned perhaps the best in

Scotland.

COUNT DE BOURNON'S Mineralogy states, that during the years 1786, 7, and 8, they were occupied near Aix in Provence, in France, in quarrying stone for rebuilding, upon a vast scale, the Palace of Justice. The stone was a limestone of a deep grey, and of that kind which is tender when it comes out of the quarry, but hardens by exposure to the air. The strata were separated from one another by a bed of sand mixed with clay, more or less calcareous. The first which were wrought presented no appearance of any foreign bodies; but, after the workmen had removed the first ten beds, they were astonished, on taking away the eleventh, to find its inferior sur face, at the depth of forty or fifty feet, 'covered with shells. The stone of this bed having been removed, as they were taking away a stratum of argillaceous sand, which separated the eleventh bed from the twelfth, they found stumps of columns and fragments of stones half wrought, the stone being exactly similar to that of the quarry. They found moreover coins, handles of hammers, and other tools, or fragments of tools, in wood. But what principally commanded their attention, was a board about one inch thick and seven or eight feet long; it was broken into many pieces, of which none were missing, and it was possible to join them again one to another, and to restore to the board or plate its original form, which was that of the boards of the same kind used by the masons and quarry men: it was worn in the same manner,

rounded and waving upon the edges. The stones which were completely or partly wrought, had not at all changed in their nature, but, the fragments of the board, and the instruments, and the pieces of instruments of wood, had been changed into agates, which were very fine and agreeably coloured. Here then (observes Count B.) we have traces of a work executed by the hand of man, placed at the depth of fifty feet, and covered with eleven beds of compact limestone-every thing tending to prove that this work had been executed upon the spot where the traces existed. The presence of man had then preceded the formation of this stone, and that very considerably, since he had already arrived at such a degree of civilization that the arts were known to him, and that he wrought stone and formed columns out of it.

FRANCE.

At a late meeting of the Academy of Sciences, M. Cuvier presented to the Society the head of Des Cartes, which M. Berzelius had forwarded from Sweden. He read the history of the head, and the details which proved its authenticity. M. Cuvier also produced a picture of Des Cartes, and remarked that the bony parts seemed of the same character as those in the head sent by M. Berzelius, which gave strength to the idea that it was the genuine head of that great philosopher. The academy deferred its decision on the means of preserving it as a precious relic.

Intelligence has arrived relative to M. Dreux, architect of Paris, now in the Levant. In September last he was at Athens, returned from his excursions in the different parts of Greece and on the coast of Asia Minor. He has discovered and measured a great number of monuments hitherto unknown, or but slightly examined among others, several ancient theatres in better preservation than any edifice of the kind in Italy. He has constructed plans and panoramic views that will give a just idea of their situation and the surrounding districts.

The Lancasterian system makes a rapid progress in France; in the department of the Moselle there are, of an age to go to school, 27,507 boys, and 24,593 girls; of these 23,916 boys, and 21,040 girls, attend the schools.

The printing presses of Paris are at this time in great activity: many great and expensive series are in course of publication,

publication, and many original works are announced. The sale of books is favourable to these extensive speculations. Among the number of works thus in progress are:

A pocket edition of the English Poets, in sixty volumes, to be edited by Sir JOHN BYERLEY.

A pocket edition of the Latin Classics, in sixty-two volumes.

An edition of Oriental Works, in Sanscrit, Persian, Arabic, &c. engraved in the lithographic manner.

The Natural History of Mammiferous Animals, by MM. St. HILAIRE and CUVIER.

The Anatomy of Man, by MM. BEELARD and CLOQUET, with 240 engravings in lithography, by COUNT LASTEYRIE, whose lithographic performances are the wonder of all Europe.

Reports of the Speeches and Opinions delivered in the Public Assemblies of France between 1789 and 1815, in 21 volumes; forming a body of political opinions and senatorial eloquence without parallel.

The CHEVALIER DUPIN's great work on the Public Establishments of Great Britain, is in progress, the naval part being now in the press. This work is a compliment to our nation which has never been exceeded, and merits the attention and respect of every British patriot.

Most of the books of education, on the English interrogative system, have been printed or are translating with all expedition in France for the use of the public and other schools.

GENERAL JOUBERT is printing an account of his travels and sufferings in Persia, which have a general interest, for the variety of their information; and a special interest in England, owing to the disgraceful policy of which he

was the victim.

ITALY.

Canova has just finished a masterpiece on the subject of Theseus slaying a Centaur.

GERMANY.

M. Gau, the architect, a native of Cologne, has just entered into an engagement with Cotta, the bookseller, at Stutgard, for the publication of his Travels in Egypt, Nubia, and Pales

tine.

now.

the country, and of those concerned in this publication.

From the great influx of manufactured stuffs, and the considerable stock on hand, the prices of Manchester, Glasgow, and other goods, at the LAST EASTER LEIFSIC FAIR, taken in the aggregate, have fallen from 10 to 20 per cent. and the introduction of the recent improvements in machinery throughout Germany, &c. affords proof that the British manufactories will soon meet with powerful rivals, particularly with regard to calicoes; as the Mulhausen goods, both in body and colour, have a decided preference.

In literature much business has been done, and notwithstanding the restrictions laid by the Congress on the liberty of the press, the general complaint of there being little demand for books, owing to the general depression on the minds of the people, from the circumstances which always succeed a long war, we learn by the Leipsic halfyearly Universal Catalogue, that 393 German booksellers have delivered no less than 3,322 new articles. This far exceeds the publication of former years, a sign that human learning, in spite of various hindrances, stands higher and higher in the scale of perfection, and reflects great honour on the author, publisher, printer, and engraver, whose industry must produce the happiest effects on the public mind in the civilized parts of the world.— Among these publications are:

704 Pedagogical Books of Instruction; 172 Childs', Juvenile, and School Books: 11 Introductions to Writing, and Specimen of Penmanship; 204 Philological and Universal Grammar; 21 Antiquities; 35 on

Perfection in the German Language; 350

on Learning Modern Languages; 42 on Arithmetic; 32 on Mathematics; 7 On Astro

my; 136 on Geography and Statistics; 73

Charts; 10 Atlases; 8 on Universal History of Nature; 235 on Medicine and Surgery for Men and Animals. From the Muses, 74 Poems; single and collections; with 58 Plays to cheer the mind and heart; 252 Miscellaneous Works, to employ and misemploy the times, among which are 157 Romances and Novels; 18 of Play and Gaming Treatises, for small and great children; 255 on Theology, Religious Instruction, Dogmatic, Catholic, and Israelitish, for the cultivation of the mind and heart, and to give us a more perfect idea of the invisible power and wisdom of God; with 45 on the Art and Science of destructive War. The number of Works of Pulpit Eloquence appear to be on the de

Translations of Gifford's Abridge

ment

ment of Blackstone, Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, the Cavalier, and Fotheringay Castle, are publishing at Leipzic, &c. The Brothers Wilmans, of Frankfort on the Main, are publishing prospects of Hamburg, Lubeck, and Bremen, in addition to their views of Frankfort, with topographical descriptions, by learned residents of the respective places, which do them great honour; and in regard to the painter and engravers, they need not blush to have their works placed in comparison with the landscapes of Hearne, Byrne, Middiman, and Heath. Messrs. Perthes and Besser, of Hamburg, have published an excellent translation of Thomson's Liberty, by a Clergyman, with elaborate illustrative

notes.

Professor ZIMMERMAN, of the Gymnasium of Hamburg, has finished the first three months' delivery of the Dramatic Criticisms, which he commenced in January in quarto numbers.

The pocket editions of SIR WALTER SCOTT and LORD BYRON published at Zwickan, in Upper Saxony, meet with many admirers on the continent.

AMERICA.

Vessels from the lands situated to the south of Cape Horn have arrived in different ports, with cargoes of seal skins. The regions visited by the New York navigators lie in about 62 degs. lat. where vegetable life is so rare, that a little grass, in a few favoured places, and some moss on the rocks, are all the forms of it that exist. The dreary climate exhibits, during the entire summer, perpetual snow and ice; not a tree, nor even a shrub appears. The minerals brought home by Mr. B. Astor, are partly primitive and partly volcanic. The samples produced to Dr. Mitchell are--1. Quartz, in compact and crystallized forms. 2. Amethyst, in crystals. 3. Porphyry, in small masses. 4. Rough onyx, in pebbles. 5. Lumps of coarse flint. 6. Elegant zeolite, like that of the Ferro Groupe in the North Atlantic Ocean. 7. Pumice stone. 8. Pyrites surcharged with sulphur. The manuscript chart made by Mr. Hampton Stewart, is an instructive addition to geography, and ought to be incorporated in the charts of the globe. Geologists will learn with surprise that the high grounds and summits of the rocks, in several of the spots that have been visited, are strewed with skeletons of whales, and relics of other marine animals, leading

to a belief that the whole of the materials have been hove up by the operation of volcanic fire from the depths of the ocean.

INDIA.

A satisfactory report has been received at Rome, from the Dominican missionaries in Tonquin. The letters are dated Feb. 22, 1819. This vicariat is considered as the best supplied in all Asia with ministers of the Christian religion. The missionaries live in perfect security, and their forms of worship are treated with respect. They have two colleges, in which a number of young persons are prosecuting useful studies in theology, the Latin tongue, ethics, &c. These are a nursery for future catechists and priests connected with the missions. There were six Spanish and thirty Chinese Dominicans, also twenty-four secular priests. At the above date, baptisms of children, 5,585, of adults, 338, communicants, 146,430, and marriages, 955.

EGYPT.

In the journey to Dongolah, in company with the expedition under the direction of Ismael Bey, M. Frederick Caillaud halted some time at Thebes, where he made an interesting discovery. On the 17th of August last, he found in one of the subterraneans of Thebes, a mummy coeval with the time of the Greeks. On the head of the embalmed personage, is a gilt crown, in the form of a lotus. The body is wrapped up in bandelets, after the Egyptian manner. On the case or sarcophagus, which envelopes the mummy, inscriptions are visible, some in Greek and others in hieroglyphics. On the right side, there appears tied with fillets, a manuscript on papyrus, in the Greek language. The linen that covers the mummy is overspread with Egyptian subjects and hieroglyphic signs. In the interior of the case, the signs of the zodiack are represented.

This valuable monument is in excellent preservation, though the design, the ornaments, and the colours are not so perfect as in some more ancient works. It appears from hence that the Egyptians attained, under the Greeks, an acquaintance with hieroglyphics. The famous stone of Rosetta had already proved this, as it regards the epoch of Ptolemy Epiphanes; and certain inscriptions recently found at the feet of the Sphinx, in the excavations of Capt. Caviglia warrant the opinion that the art of their writing had

been