the whole of the Old and New Testament; and stands, with respect to its antiquity and internal excellence, in the foremost rank amongst the Manuscripts of the Holy Scriptures. Speedily will be published, Sicily and its Inhabitants, by Wm. Henry Thompson, Esq. in one vol. 4to. with engravings from drawings taken on the spot.

Early in the present year, Mr Colburn, an enterprizing publisher, of Conduit-street, will publish an entire new work, to be continued annually, entitled, The Literary and Scientific Calendar of the British Empire. It will contain: 1. The Dictionary of all Living Authors, announced for some time past. 2. A similar Catalogue of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Musical Composers. 3. A Register of all the Universities and Public Schools. 4. An Account of all the Public Societies, Institutions, Libraries, and Exhibitions; with various other useful and interesting tables, &c.

The Rev. Mr Eustace's Classical Tour, in two vols. 4to. will appear next month. The work is the result, we understand, of much research and observation, exhibiting a comprehensive view of modern Italy, with its varied beauties of natural scenery, and numerous works of art.

The Rev. Robert Walpole is preparing for publication, Memoirs on European and Asiatic Turkey, from the manuscript journals of modern travellers in those countries.

Mr Milburn's expected book on Oriental Commerce is in great forwardness, and will appear in January. It will be illustrated with numerous charts by Arrowsmith.

A second edition of the New Art of Memory, founded upon the principles taught by Mr Von Feinaigle, with some important additions and improvements, will be published in a few days. It will be embellished with a portrait of the Professor.

A very interesting catalogue or list appeared at Polotzk, shortly before the French invasion, containing the names and descriptions of all the members of the Society of Jesuits, in that empire, down to the end of 1811. It is entitled, "Catalogus Sociorum et Officiorum Societatis Jesu, in Imperio Russia." The General in Chief, since September 1805, has been Father Thaddeus Brzozwski. The society has several colleges, and has sent out various missions. The number of its members is three hundred and forty-seven, who are of all countries.

At Upsal there has lately been established thirty-four exhibitions, and at Lund sixteen, each of one hundred rixdollars a year, to be given to as many students of theology, provided they are also willing to qualify themselves as physicians.

The number of Journals, political and economical, published in the Austrian dominions in 1810, was twentyfive*.

I. Papers in the German Language.

1. The Vienna Gazette, by authority, the property of the family of Van Gehlen, who have been the patentees for many years, and pay to rins. The number printed is nearly Government the sum of 26,000 ЯoWednesdays and Saturdays. 4,000 copies. It is published on

2. Notices of Vienna, published at the Office of Information.

3. Price current and Course of Exchange.

4. Presburgh Gazette, for the kingdom of Hungary; 5,000 copies are printed of it.

5. The Gazette of Pesth and Of

fen; 3,000 copies are printed.

6. The Gazette of Gratz, of which 2,500 copies are printed. Every Saturday a Supplement is added, containing

• From the Literary Panorama.

taining articles of geography, statis, tics, history, domestic economy, &c. with critiques on works.

7. The German Gazette, published by the Post-office at Prague three times a week, and sells about 1,300 copies.

8. The Gazette of Brunn, accompanied by lists of works announced for publication, &a

9. The Salzburgh Gazette prints 300 copies.

10. The Transylvanian Messenger, 200 copies.

11. The Sheet of Advertisements, published at Lemberg.

12. The Cracovia Gazette. 13. The Lintz Gazette, supported by from 8 to 900 subscribers.

14. The Gazette of Clagenfurt, 450 copies.

15 and 16. Two Gazettes of Laybach, 400 copies.

11. Gazettes in other Languages. 17. Europa latina, cum genuina versione Ephemeridum Neovidensium, Auctore Stephano Roscuman; published at Vienna.

18. Ephemerides Statistico-politie Belnayanea Posonienses, quibus additur Neovidensis, at Presburgh.

19. Magyar Kurir; the Hungarian Courier, edited at Vienna.

20. Hazai Tadositasok, another Hungarian paper, conducted at Pesth. 21 and 22. Two Gazettes in the Bohemian language, published at Prague, and supported by about 500 subscribers.

23. An Italian Gazette, published at Trieste.

Memoirs of the Progress of Manufac tures, Chemistry, Science, and the fine Arts.

HE lovers of Grecian sculpture

will be pleased to learn that this country will soon receive a great and important accession to its present stores, in a frieze in alto relievo, 100 feet long, found by Messrs. Leigh, Cockerell, Foster, Baron Haller, and Monsieur Linkt, at the Temple of Apollo, Epicurius, Phigalis, evidently one of the works of Phidias. It contains the two subjects of the quarrel which arose at the marriage of Pirithous with Hippodamia, and the battle between the Amazons and the Athenians. The whole formed the frieze of the interior of the Cella, which was of the Ionic order, and the relievo is even higher than that of the temple of Theseus. The opinion of its being the work of Phidias, independently of the style of sculpture, is strengthened by the circumstance of the temple being built by Ictinus,. who generally gave the preference to the above sculptor.

Mr John Cormack, of Forry, in. the county of Caithness, has this season reared a few seeds of salmon oats. Five grains were planted at the distance of six inches from each other; the product of which were 150 stalks, bearing 2,550 grains!

A physician, at Moscow, named Rehman, has discovered that the bark of the pomegranate is a good substitute for Peruvian bark, in most cases, and particularly in intermittent fevers. He has printed a treatise to demonstrate its efficacy.

Mr Robertson, whose name has been already before the public as an aerial traveller, in Denmark, has invented a speaking automaton, which he is now exhibiting in Paris. It already articulates distinctly, in French, the words Papa,' Mamma,' and Long live Napoleon, the friend of peace!"

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peace and its powers of language are described as daily increasing.

The chemists of Paris have recently made two curious specimens of prepared writing paper, of which the following are the processes:

1. Take gall-nuts and sulphate of iron (copperas) well pulverized; rub them dry on paper which is not smooth or hot-pressed. The paper will as sume a grayish tinge, owing to the powder which is attached to it, and which will adhere sufficiently to bear folding, &c. In order to trace characters on this paper, it is only necessary to use a pen dipped in water, or in the mouth, or even a pointed stick, and the characters will become black and legible. The second process is described as differing from the first, in so much as the paper is washed in the materials of which ink is made, and then dried. It is of a yellowish colour, and the characters are written on it in the same way. Paper books, or albums, of this description, are now manufactured in great abundance at Paris, and they are in considerable request.

Mr Robert Bill, Rathbone place, London, has invented an Apparatus to facilitate the operation of washing clothes, and other processes necessary in family and other establishments. This invention includes a boiler of a quadrangular form, made of sheet-iron, or other metal, of any required size; say from twenty-four to fifty inches in length; from twenty to twentyfour inches wide, and about eight inches deep. Round the exterior edge is soldered a water groove, about two inches deep. A cock is inserted to draw off the water when wanted, and a feeder-vessel is attached, which communicates with this vessel within an inch of the bottom. This vessel is cased on the outside within a tin covering, leaving an interstice of an inch between the case and the boiler. A steaming vessel must then be adapted to the boiler, which may be of

copper, and about ten inches deep.The bottom of the steamer rests on the top of the boiler, and a projecting piece fits into the water-groove of the boiler, so that, when the groove is filled with water, no steam can escape but through certain openings in the bottom of the steamer-vessel. The steamer is divided into compartments, in order that the covers may not be too heavy or cumbersome, but each of the divisions communicates with the others. The plates which form the divisions not being closed at bottom, the top edges of this vessel, and each division, are furnished with water-grooves, so that the rims of the covers may rest in the grooves filled with water, and prevent the escape of the steam. Double covers are fitted to these divisions, the interior of which is metal, soldered to rims, which project sufficiently to rest on the bottoms of the water-grooves. These rims receive the exterior upper covering, leaving, as in the boiler, a space from the sides of the interior vessel of about one inch. This space, both in the boiler and steamer, is filled with cotton, or some non-conducting substance, to prevent the escape of heat. To the end of the steamer is attached a metallic box, three or four inches deep, twelve or fourteen inches long, and six inches wide. On the top, holes are made to receive saucepans fitted tight in them. An opening, of about an inch, is made from the steamer to this box, for the steam to pass into it, and another opening at the other end of the box, for the steam to pass away; to which is fixed a metal tube to conduct the steam wherever desired. Proper vessels, fit for holding the object, intended to be operated upon by the steam, must be placed in the steaming vessels; whether that object be to cook meat, or aid in the operation of washing clothes, the end will be answered. For washing, let the clothes, not made of animal mat

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ter, be well soaked in a strong lixivium of alkali; or well soaped if animal, and laid in the vessels supported above the entrance to the steam-tubes, on wooden racks; let the steam operate upon them, the longer the better; and it will be found on taking them out and rincing them in water, that on their being operated upon by the hand in the usual way of washing, at least half the labour will answer the purpose of cleaning clothes. -For a roasting apparatus, the patentee provides a cast-iron box, open on one side. A box, twelve inches by nine, and thirteen inches deep, with sides projecting three or four inches from the open part, is large enough for the largest boiler. This box has a grate fixed in it, at six or seven inches from the top: a cast-iron plate, is fitted upon it, with an opening, so that the top edge of the box just passes through the plate. A flange, cast round three sides of the box, receives the plate to rest upon it. A cast metal front is provided with one opening, about an inch wider than the box; and another, wide enough to introduce whatever may require to be placed in the roaster: the ends and back may be made of bricks. The plate, through which the fire-boxes pass, covers the whole of this chamber, which is about thirteen inches deep, and stands on a platform of masonry, six or eight inches deep. The cheeks of the firebox project through the front plate, leaving a space of half or three-quarters of an inch on each side. Thro' these openings the air passes into the air-chamber, and not only heats but ventilates it, so that any thing placed in it is effectually roasted. A tube is inserted in this chamber, under the covering-plate, at the end opposite the fire, and thus a current of hot air is established through the roasting

apparatus, and during the whole time of roasting, a door, of any fit kind, is adapted to the mouth of the box.

When this part of the apparatus is used as a house-warmer, the boiler is removed, and a plate of cast iron substituted, resting on the frame in the same way the boiler did. Upon this plate is fixed a box, six inches deep, which covers the whole plate. Openings are made for the passage of the air, which, sweeping over the hot surface of the plate that covers the fire, passes through the opening into a tube placed in the upper hole; and the air, thus heated, may, by means of tubes, be conducted where it is wanted. By this construction, nearly the whole quantity of heat generated by the combustion of any quantity of fuel, is prevented from passing up the chimney, a more effectual circulation of air is effected, and all the inconveniences of cold currents of air guarded against.

In consequence of an increase in the establishment of the Royal Hospital for seamen, at Greenwich, the directors have come to a determination to erect houses and offices for the civil officers, on the outside of the building; and a considerable extent of ground, at present covered by houses, &c. eastward of the Hospital, has been purchased for this purpose. The intended building will extend nearly the whole length of the east wall of the Hospital, to which it will run parallel, at about thirty yards. distant, and will be completely detached and inclosed. The principal entrance will face the great east gate of the Hospital, and is to have a colonnade to correspond with that in the market, opposite the west gate; the front, next the river, will consist of a range of buildings, in form of a

crescent.

POETRY.