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Lectures on the Temper and Spirit of the Christian Religion, first written and delivered to the Inmates of a large Public Asylum, and now published and addressed to the numerous parties which agitate and divide the Empire. By MATTHEW ALLEN, E. M. R. M. and E. &c. author of "Outline of a Course of Lectures on Chemical Philosophy," &c.

The History of Religious Liberty, from the earliest Period to the Death of George III. By the Rev. R. BROOK.

A new Edition of the Rev. T. H. HORNE'S Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.

Letters from Spain, giving an Account of the principal Historical and Political Events that have occurred in that Country, from the period of Ferdinand VII.'s return in 1814, until the Revolution; also Anecdotes and Observations on Public Characters, Religion, Literature, and Man

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The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate Church of St. Patrick, Dublin, with Engravings. By W. M. MASON, Esq. (See p. 31.)

Geometrical Analysis, and the Geometry of Curve Lines; also, a Treatise on Heat, theoretical and practical. By Professor LESLIE.

Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind. By the late Dr. THOMAS BROWN.

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Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820. By Sir ROBERT KER PORTER, &c. &c. These Travels embrace a vast extent of Country; namely, almost all that comprised the antient Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Empires, from the banks of the Black Sea to the Euphrates, and from the Euphrates to the mouth of the Persian Gulph. Specimens of all the Antiquities, to be found in this extensive Tour, are represented by Engravings, from Drawings made on the spot by Sir R. K. Porter himself.

The Seventeenth Volume of the Encyclopædia Londinensis, - containing a large Treatise on OPTICS.

Select Fables, with Cuts designed and engraved by THOMAS and JOHN BEWICK, and others, previous to the year 1784.

The History of the Zodians, an antient People, from the Foundation to the final Extinction of that Nation. By the Author of "The Travels and Observations of Hareach, the Wandering Jew."-The object of this little Work is to illustrate, in a pleasing story, the principles of political

economy, as they necessarily develope themselves in the institutions and expedients of domestic and foreign policy.

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Two great Works on the Antiquities of Egypt, one in England, the other in France the former by Signor BELZONI, the latter by M. CAILLAUD. Both will record the recent discoveries, and be highly attractive to the literary world. Caillaud's work will be translated and incorporated with its best engravings, in the Journal of New Voyages and Travels.

The Fourth Volume of LINGARD'S History of England. It will comprise the reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI.; a most important and interesting portion of our history.

An Account of the most memorable Battles and Sieges since the Fall of Troy; classed and arranged to afford a view of their respective consequences on the moral condition of Mankind. By G. HALITON, M.A. This Work is intended to present to the young Student, in a series of Lectures, a comprehensive view of the relative importance of the different great military events which have promoted or retarded the progressive improvement of the morals and institutions of the world.

The visits of Hareach, the Wandering Jew, to the most celebrated Characters that have appeared in the World since the Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. By the Rev. T. CLARK.-This will complete the entire design which the Author proposed to himself when he undertook to describe the Travels and Observations of Hareach. Like the incidents in that work, those of the present are taken from the most authentic Biographical Anecdotes and Histories, with only so much fictitious colouring as was requisite to render the narratives more interesting.

A Statistical Account of Upper Canada, written by the Inhabitants, and compiled by ROBERT GOURLAY.

Travels through England, Wales, and Scotland, in the year 1816. By Dr. S. H. SPIKER, Librarian to his Majesty the King of Prussia. Dedicated to the Friends of England. Translated from the German.

Population; an Inquiry concerning the Power of Increase in the Number of Mankind, being an Answer to Mr. Malthus's Essay on that subject. By Mr. GODWIN.

The Book of Nature laid open in a popular Survey of the Phenomena and Constitution of the Universe, and the Appearance of Nature during each month of the year.

An Appendix to the Midland Flora, tending

tending to elucidate the Study of the British Fungi. By T. PURTON, Surgeon.

Picturesque Tour of the Seine from Paris to the Sea, embracing the greater parts of Normandy. The Work will be comprised in six Monthly Parts, containing twentyfour highly coloured engravings.

The third and last Tour of Dr. Syntax, in Search of a Wife. It will form a distinct Volume, consisting of eight Monthly Numbers.

Traits and Trials, a novel.

Eccentricity, a novel. By Mrs. MACNALLY, daughter of the late Rev. Robert Edgworth, of Lissard, Ireland.

CLASSICAL MANUSCRIPTS, &c.

Mr. Giardin, the French Ambassador at Constantinople, has sent to Paris fifteen valuable works in Arabic from the Imperial Library at Constantinople, among which are the complete works of Plutarch and Herodotus! The works of Aristotle, Hippocrates, Livy, Tacitus, Sallust, &c. are known to have been translated into Arabic, and might be discovered and purchased by well-directed search after them, at Fas, Morocco, or some other ports of West or South Barbary.-Mr. Jackson, in his recent travels in those countries, annexed to Shabeeny's Account of Timbuctoo and Housa, page 325, says, "" It is more than probable, that the works of many Greek and Roman authors, transJated during the æra of Arabian learning, are to be found in the hands of literary individuals, in several parts of West and South Barbary!" Mr. Jacks, Librarian to the Royal Library at Bamberg, has discovered there a manuscript of the Roman History of Eutropius, which was probably brought from Rome by the Emperor Henry, the founder of the Bishopric

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of Bamberg. The MS. is more complete than any of the best editions hitherto published of this author, and very likely to correct a number of false readings. fessor Goeller, of Cologne, had previously discovered in the Royal Library a MS. of Livy. Professor Cramer, at Kiel, discovered two years ago, in the library of the Convent of St. Gallen, a MS. of the eleventh century, containing illustrations of Juvenal, which are said to be of greater importance than any hitherto known. He has now published a specimen on occasion of the King's Birth-day, under the title of "Specimen novæ editionis scholasticæ Juvenalis."

Dr. Gesenius, who, with Lord Guildford, has been recently transcribing some Arabian MSS. at the Bodleian Library, has nearly completed the singular task of translating the Book of Enoch from the Abyssinian language. The language resembles the Arabic, one fourth of the words, perhaps, being radically of that tongue, in which the learned Doctor is well skilled, while he is also one of the most celebrated Hebrew Scholars of the Continent.

CHESS.

The admirers of Chess will very shortly be gratified by the appearance of a Selection of Fifty Games from above 300, played by the celebrated Automaton Chess Player during its late public exhibition, against various opponents, some of whom rank amongst the first players in England. Many of these games are admirably well contested. In all of them the Automaton gave a pawn and the first move to his adversary, with nearly ininterrupted success; and the various and skilful combinations it displays, form a fine study for the amateur.

HINDU CAVES *.

The Hindu Caves, at Ellore, are eighteen miles from Arungabad †, and consist of more than 20 excavations in a rocky mountain, which forms a semi-circle of about 2000 yards. The largest of the

This account is extracted from a Letter dated March 1, 1820, written by an Officer who accompanied Gen. Sir Charles Colville in his tour and inspection of the Deckan, which is a province of the Hither Peninsula of India, bounded by Cambaya on the North, Golconda and Berar on the East, Visapour on the South, and by the Indian Ocean on the West.-EDIT.

+ The chief inland town of the province of the Deckan.-EDIT.

Caves is called Khylass, or Paradise. It is cut through the solid rock, and no other material is used. The chisel seems to have been the only tool employed. A most beautiful stone temple is formed, adorned, both inside and outside, with figures in basso relievo, and separate figures of the most exact symmetry, representing all the Hindu gods, their conquest of Ceylon, &c. There is a space between the scraped rock and temple with galleries, and a virandah under the former, in which there are 50 gigantic figures, with symbols of their history, &c. forming the whole Hindu mythology. The dimensions of this Cave are 240 feet in length, 140 in breadth, and the scarp 90 feet in height.The temple has a moveable appearance,

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from elephants, tigers, &c. being cut underneath the floor, which appear to support the whole building; the heads and part of their bodies only being exposed on the outside. Many of the other Caves are equally extraordinary. There are flying figures, women, and all the fanciful tales of the Hindus, admirably depicted in stone. There is a miser, about ten feet in, height, with his mother, wife and children, clinging to his legs, whilst a thief is taking off his treasure. It is a groupe that might be placed near the Laocoon, and our sculptors might take lessons by a visit to these wonderful Caves.-There are no natives now in existence equal to any thing of the kind. Some thousands must have been employed. Their origin is involved in obscurity; the general report is, that they were made about 1000 years ago, when the Boodh, or the Brahmin Religion was in the greatest splendour, and that they were used for schools, religious rites, &c. and the residence of the priests. There is a profusion and minuteness, elegance and lightness in the figures beyond description. The whole of the orders are displayed on the pillars, which are cut out as if to support the rooms inside. No chuman (lime) is used. There is some account of these Caves in Colonel Fitzclarence's Travels, and some beautiful and correct views of them by Daniels. They are thought by some superior in magnificence, though in another way, to the pyramids of Egypt.

POMPEII.

The excavators have just discovered, near the forum of Pompeii, a public edifice, which is supposed to be the Chalcidicum; and an inscription, importing that the edifice was built at the expence of the priestess Eumachia. A few days after the above discovery, a statue of the same priestess was found in perfect preservation; which far surpasses in grace, elegance, and grandeur, all the works of art that had previously been dug from the ruins of Pompeii.

ANTIQUITIES IN NORTHAMPTON.

At a house in Bridge-street, Northamp ton, known by the name of the Three Cups, which has in part been taken down, for the purpose of being re-built, while the workmen were excavating a portion of the old site to make a cellar, they dug up in the course of Tuesday and Wednesday, September 5th and 6th, upwards of 400 skulls, and other human bones. From the situation in which they were discovered, and the appearance of the skulls strongly indicating they were those of young or middle-aged persons; it fairly may be conjectured, they had been deposited there after some great battle. The

premises form part of St. John's Hospital. The above conjecture is fully supported by the following quotation from Camden's "Britannia :" The former author states, on the authority of Leland, volume II. p. 278, "There was a great battle fought in Henry the Sixth's time at Northampton, on the hill without the South-gate, where there is a right goodly cross, called as I remember, the Queen's Cross, and many Welchmen were drowned in this conflict in Avon river. Many of the slain were buried at Delapre, and some at St. John's Hospital, which was originally founded by one William Sainette Clere, Archdeacon of Northampton, within the walls, a little above the South-gate." See also Bridges's Northamptonshire, vol. II. p. 430.

ANTIENT PAINTING AT GLOUCESTER. As some workmen were lately employed repairing the Church of St. Mary-deCrypt, in Gloucester, they discovered under one of the Tables of Benefactions a very curious painting in fresco, representing a Nobleman and his Lady, richly attired, with coronets on their heads. is thought that the noble persons here represented were James, Lord Berkeley, and his Lady. The Lady was cruelly murdered in Gloucester Castle, and was buried in the adjoining Monastery of Grey Friars, in the year 1452.

ANCIENT CHESNUT TREE.

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At Fortworth, in Gloucestershire, is a chesnut tree fifty-two feet round: it is proved to have stood there since the year 1150, and was then so remarkable, that it was called "The great Chesnut of Fortworth." It fixes the boundary of a manor. Mr. Marsham states that this tree is 1100 years old.

ELECTRICITY AND GALVANISM.

Sir Richard Phillips has published a new Theory of Electricity and Galvanism. He maintains that there exists no such thing as an Electric Fluid, nor any such peculiar fluid whatever; but that all the phenomena are consequences of the decomposition or separation of the gazeous constituents of Electrics which lie between conducting surfaces, and of their re-union, or disposition to re-unite. In a thunder storm, for example, the clouds are not charged, nor is there any peculiar fluid concerned; but the air is decomposed, and then the clouds serve merely as a coating to a plate of air of which the earth is the other coating. The splendid phenomena arise from the restoration of the air to its natural state. Galvanism, says Sir Richard Phillips, is merely accelerated electricity; and the palpable decompositions which take place in the galvanic trough are evidence that air is similarly acted upon in Electricity.

ECLIPSE

A remarkable Eclipse of the Sun took place on the 7th inst. being the largest visible on this part of the globe, between the famous one on April 1, 1764, and that which will happen in the year 1847. The central Eclipse commenced at 12 ho. 54 min. 40 sec. apparent time at Greenwich, in lat. 81 deg. 39 min. 30 sec. North and long. 149 dég. 33 min. West of Greenwich. The Sun was centrally eclipsed on the meridian at 1 ho. 8 min. 15 sec. in lat. 76 deg. 6 min. 20 sec. N. and long. 17 deg. 3 min. 20 sec. W. The centre of the Moon's shadow, after quitting the coast of Greenland, passed a little to the West of Mayness's Island; it thence proceeded up the North Sea, about midway between the Shetland Isles and the coast of Norway, leaving every part of Britain to the West. It thence entered the Continent of Europe, between Embden and the Weser, and in crossing the Confederation of the Rhine it passed by Cassel, Wurtzburg, and Munich. It thence crossed a part of Italy, and entered the Gulf of Venice between Venice and Trieste, and proceeding in its track, it left the Island of Tremiti a little to the West. It thence crossed the heel of Italy

and entered the Mediterranean, passing over the Gulf of Tarento, leaving the coast of Morea and Candia about a degree to the East, whence it entered Egypt, passing by the city of Alexandria, leaving the Egyptian Pyramids a little to the South, whence it passed over Grand Cairo and the North end of the Red Sea: it then entered Arabia, and finally left the earth near the Persian Gulf, in 3 ho. 8 min. 10 sec. in lat. 27 deg. 10 min. 30 sec. North, and long. 46 deg. 2 min. East of Greenwich. Total duration of the central Eclipse, 2 ho. 13 min. 30 sec. The gene

'ral Eclipse commenced at 11 ho. 23 min. in lat. 59 deg. 43 min. North, and long. 90 deg. 50 min. West; and finally left the earth at 4 ho. 39 min. 45 sec. in lat. 3 deg. 21 min. North, and long. 20 deg. 25 min. East. Total duration of the general Eclipse to the inhabitants of the earth, was 5 ho. 16 min. 45 sec.

At 1 min. 50 sec. before 2 o'clock, the Sun was at its greatest obscuration, when the apparent diameter of the Moon was less than that of the Sun, and presented the following appearance in and near London; the Eclipse beginning at about 49° to the right-hand of the point V:

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Venus was seen during the Eclipse, at 20 min. before 2 o'clock (with the naked eye), and lost sight of it at 20 min. after

o'clock, owing to the great light in that part of the hemisphere: about this time it became clear in the South, when Mars was seen for a few minutes.

The course of the series of Eclipses of the Sun connected with that of the 7th inst. has been laid down by Mr. Smith. According to that gentleman, this Eclipse was first visible to Britain on the 30th of April, 1622, and has kept gradually increasing in magnitude. Thus in 1764,

only four digits of the Sun were obscured; a digit is the 12th part of the Sun's diameter. In 1820, five digits. Again, in 1820, when more than ten digits were obscured. In 1892, he states, the Sun will go down eclipsed at London; and again, in 1892, the passage of the centre will be in the expansum, though there will be two digits eclipsed, at London, October 31st of that year; and about the year 2090 the whole penumbra will be worn off;-wbence no more returns of this Eclipse can happer till after a revolution of 10,000 years!

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MEASUREMENT OF THE MERIDIAN. The operations now carrying on, by order of the King of Denmark, for measuring an arc of the meridian in Denmark and Holstein, are to be continued through the kingdom of Hanover, for the purpose of ascertaining with accuracy the vegetable productions of Hanover. His Majesty has been pleased to approve of the appointment of a physiographer for that purpose, and of the nomination of Dr. G. F. W. Meyer to the office.

CURE FOR THE HYDROPHOBIA.

Dr. Lyman Spalding, one of the most eminent physicians of New York, announces, in a small pamphlet, that for above these fifty years the Scutellaria lateriflora L. has proved to be an infallible means for the prevention and cure of the hydrophobia, after the bite of mad animals. It is better applied as a dry powder than fresh. According to the testimonies of several American physicians, this plant, not yet received as a remedy in any European Materia Medica, afforded a perfect relief in above a thousand cases, as well in the human species as the brute creation (dogs, swine, and oxen). The first discoverer of the remedy is not known: Drs. Derveer (father and son) first brought it into general use.

ANTIDOTE FOR VEGETABLE POISONS. It results from a number of experiments made by M. Drapiez, that the fruit of the plant Feuillea cordifolia is a powerful antidote against vegetable poisons. He poisoned dogs with the rhus toxicodendron, hemlock, and nur vomica. Such of them as were left to the effects of the poison, all died; but those to which the above fruit was given, recovered completely after a short illness. With two arrows dipped in the juice manchenille, he slightly wounded two cats: to the one he applied a poultice of the same fruit, and it soon recovered: to the other nothing was done, and it fell in a short time into convulsions, and died. In the countries which produce this plant, its virtues have long been highly esteemed, and from these experiments, it would appear, not without good reason.

MINERAL EARTH.

A new mineral earth has been lately found in Corsica, thought to be impregnated with particles of gold. By chemical operation, vases have been made of it, for table services, and it is found to vie in colour and lustre with the finest vermil. lion. The name of Causicaurum has been given to it; it has the property of not discolouring white stuffs, which is not always the case with gold, the most purified and refined.

NEW WORK OF CANOVA.

The celebrated Canova, who by his admirable work of the two Lions, which adorns the Mausoleum of Pope Clement XIII. in the metropolitan church of St. Peter, proved that he was not less skilful in representing animals, that in rendering the finest forms of human nature, has given a new specimen of his rare talent in this department of the art. It is now many years since he executed a model of a colossal horse, the greatest which exists in Europe. This work excited the admiration of all the masters in the art, and of all those who have made a practical study of this fine and spirited quadruped. It was at Naples that this model was cast in brouze, and the operation was completed with the greatest success. Nevertheless, Canova employed himself on another model of the same animal, but in a different position from the former one, and although it appeared impossible that the Artist could surpass himself, yet he knew how to infuse into his new work so many new beauties, that the greatest admiration is bestowed upon this chef-d'œuvre. All is finished, all is worthy of a Sculptor whose ideas are, at the same time, agreeable and

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fect execution.

The limbs of the courser are full of the motion of life, but the head, beyond all the rest, seems to move, and would appear to breathe and even to neigh. This model, which is about to be placed by another colossal model, is to appear as a companion to that of which we have spoken above, and both will ap. pear in the grand square of the magnificent temple of St. Francisco de Paulo, which is now building at Naples, with a magnificence truly royal, after the design of the Architect, Pietro Bianchi.

MULBERRY TREES.

An ingenious writer (Mr. Phillips) thus strongly recommends the planting of mulberry trees :-"Should a few spirited land proprietors make the experiment of grubbing up their hedge-rows, and planting fences of mulberry trees, I have no doubt that in a few years they would reap as good a profit from their hedges as from their corn. It would find immediate employ for many labourers, and would in time require the assistance of thousands of the lower classes to gather the leaves and attend to the breeding and feeding of silk. worms, the winding of silk, &c. The whole process is calculated as an employ for the aged and the infirm, who being unable to do laborious work, now, of necessity, add to the weight of the parochial taxes."

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