Uprising from its dream of rest-
O how delightful then, how sweet,
Again to feel life's pulses beat,
Again life's kindly warmth to prove,
To drink anew of pleasure's spring,
Again our matin song to sing,

To the great cause of light and love.".

The following lines appear to us prosaic to a degree, that no counting on the fingers can induce us to call them poetical; such as

have given us a more impressive volume.

The Hermit of Mona, a Poem, and other Poems. By Thomas Joones, Esq. of the Inner Temple. 12mo. pp. 110. London, 1822.

We trust that Mr. Pope's wellknown line, "Who pens a stanza when he should engross," does not apply to this gentleman of the Inner

cern."

"A hand-breadth from the onward road."

"Walkest sublime in the winds, and greetest," &c.

In some instances whole measures are to us dissonant; such as

"Come forth in thy purple robes again,

Thou bright star of Heaven; Another day the guardian of men Has to his children given.”

The following is simple and pretty, although the ideas are not

new:

"Yes Nature is a splendid shew,
Where an attentive mind may hear,
Music in all winds that blow;
And see a silent worshipper
In every flower, in every tree,
In every vale, on every hill;
Perceive a choir of melody
In waving grass or whispering rill,
And catch a soft but solemn sound;
Or worship from the smallest fly,
The cricket chirping on the ground,
The trembling leaf that hangs on high."

If we are rather severe in our critique upon Mr. Bowring, it has been on the principle that able minds can bear to have their faults laid open. We have a high respect for this gentleman's powers of intellect, and, considering the preoccupied nature of his subjects, we are bound to acknowledge that very few of our living authors could

proof that he has been toiling up the steep and difficult ascent of Parnassus. Of the numberless works that now issue from the press it is not to be imagined that many can attain to lasting celebrity, or that even their authors design them for any thing more than a recreation to themselves and an amusement to the public for a season. We are far from wishing to condemn works of minor interest, and we view their increase without any of the asperity so commonly attributed to critics, but, on the contrary, we accept them as proofs of the growing propensity to literature, and hail them as evidence of the improved state of society.

The volume now before us is one of the minor productions of the season, and if it cannot boast any lofty pretensions to merit, it is at least on a level with the better productions of its class. The two principal poems, the one consisting of fifty pages, and the other of fortythree, are the best, the miscellaneous poems being of little merit. We are always unwilling to censure, but we cannot flatter the author that he is embued with the poetic fire sufficiently to attract much attention in an age which boasts so many writers of genius and learning. If the work be intended for its "hour upon the stage," we do not condemn it; if it be intended for a longer life, the author's hopes will be disappointed.

AMERICA.

New York. A merchant of this city has just established a steam packetboat, to ply regularly between New York and Charleston, South Carolina, from whence it is to proceed to the Havannah, and to touch again at Charleston on its return. The vessel is named the Robert Fulton, she is of 700 tons, and can use her sails in case of necessity. She is well armed, and is easily supplied with fuel, from the abundance of wood in all parts of America.

Virginia, Charlotteville.-Mr. Jefferson, the former President of the United States, has finished a useful and glorious life by establishing" the University of Virginia," at Charlotteville, near Monticello, his place of residence. The building, raised at the expense of the province, is of the ancient order of architecture. There will be ten professors, each having a separate apartment, and there will be five refectories, and 104 chambers for 208 pupils. Mr. Jefferson declares his intention to select the most able professors from Europe, in order to make this University the first in the United States.

SOUTH AMERICA.

Buenos Ayres.-The public instruction established in this city is divided into four branches. 1st. languages, metaphysics, and belles lettres; 2nd. the abstract and mixed sciences; 3rd. medicine; and 4th. jurisprudence. The societies established to correspond with these four divisions are, the Literary Society, the Societies for Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, both in theory and application to public works; the Society of Medicine, and lastly, the Society of Jurisprudence.

ASIA.

Sumatra, Bencoulen.-The expedition fitted out at Madrass, to ascertain the length of the pendulum under the line, arrived at Bencoulen, on the 20th of April, 1822, on board the Morning Star. The governor immediately provided a vessel to convey the gentlemen of the expedition, with their attendants and instruments, to a place adapted to their object.

Calcutta-The Agricultural Society of this city held its sitting on the 22nd May, 1822. Dr. Russell was admitted a member. The government have of fered the society the annual sum of one thousand roupees. Several prizes

were offered for the promotion of objects of a local interest. The government has further ordered that those members of the Academy of Oriental Languages at Fort William who can produce certificates from the professors, stating their progress in any one of the languages taught, shall receive a reward of 800 roupees (about £84). If their progress be at all remarkable the reward may be extended to 1,600 roupees.

GERMANY.

The Concordia (an almanack) for 1823, published at Leipsic, has been seized and confiscated, on account of its containing the lives of Themistocles and Camillus, with some allusions which were considered of a seditious nature.

The Literary Gazette, published at Munick, by M. de Mastiaux, for the use of the Catholic priests, has been subjected to the censor of the press.

A Rescript of the King of Bavaria has just founded, in Schleisheim, a school of rural economy, similar to the agricultural institutions of M. de Fellenberg, in which the pupils are divided into three classes. The first class comprehends all those who are destined to inferior species of labour; the second admits those who are to be made acquainted with various practical modes of agriculture; and the third class consists of persons who are to be taught the sciences relating to rural economy. Theories are to be abjured, and the instructions will be founded upon the basis of observation and experiment. This establishment, as well as the Polytechnical Museum, opened in May, 1822, must be considered amongst the most useful institutions for promoting industry. The plan originated with the Minister of Finance.

The last convent of monks in Saxony has at length been broken up. It had been reduced to only eight monks, and the building had long been used as a magazine for military stores. Five of these monks have been appointed teachers in the Catholic Gymnasium at Erfurt.

For a length of time the students of the German Universities have been in the habit of forming either secret or public associations, and which the government has in vain attempted to prevent. The associations known under the names of Landsmannschafften, Bur

schenschafften, &c. have no sooner been suppressed than they have been again secretly organized under other names. The government has, therefore, at length so far yielded to the spirit of the times as to grant a sort of representative constitution to the University of Tubingen. Students, not matriculated, elect a council of fifteen from amongst themselves, and which council is to be renewed by two-thirds every six months. To be qualified for this council a youth must have attended the upper schools for six months, without any censure from the "Commission of Discipline." The council is authorised to represent the general body of the students, and to prefer to the higher authorities of the academy all complaints as well as propositions relative to the improvement of studies; it has also the power of convoking the students in a general assembly, and that without the approbation of the "Commission of Discipline." The principal objects of this council are to superintend the morals and the studies of the pupils, to prevent minor disorders and discord, but more especially to supercede the former secret association. This constitution has now existed for one year, and has been found very useful. It is a sagacious and profound measure, calculated to direct the improved spirit of the age to results most beneficial to society, and is infinitely preferable to the system of coercion and suppression of public opinion, adopted in other states of Germany. The whole plan reflects high honour on the government of Bavaria, and it is to be hoped that other countries will follow so useful an example.

In making excavations in the mountain of Bronislawn, in the province of Cracow, not far from the monument erected in honour of Kosciusko, there has been found in a rock or bed of chalk, and at ten ells below the surface, an enormous back bone of an animal. It is twelve ells long, and anatomists are examining it in order to ascertain whether it is the remnant of any animal existing before the deluge.

PRUSSIA.

In last September was held at Berlin, the first exhibition of objects of national art and industry. The exhibition was on the plan of those of France and Bavaria; it lasted six weeks, and was held at the Institute of Industry. The sums paid for tickets of admission and for catalogues were devoted to afford gratuitous instruction to pupils of merit. After the close of the exhibition honorary me

dals were distributed to the artists and manufacturers who had most distinguished themselves.

In the half-yearly meeting of the University of Berlin, held in the summer of 1822, the University was found to contain 1,182 students, of which 109 were foreigners; 227 were students of protestant divinity; 411 of jurisprudence; 370 of medicine; and 174 of philology, philosophy, and the sciences. It appeared also that the other Universities of Prussia were as follows:Bonn 571 students, of which 80 were foreigners; 151 were studying theology, 206 jurisprudence, 130 medicine, and 84 philology and philosophy-Bresław 539 students, of which 60 were foreigners; 231 were studying theology, 159 jurisprudence, 46 medicine, 100 philosophy and philology.-Halle 866 students, of which 147 were foreigners; 540 were studying theology, 198 jurisprudence, 78 medicine, and 50 philosophy and philology.-Konisberg 259 students, of which 29 were foreigners; 84 were studying theology, 95 jurisprudence, 20 medicine, 60 philosophy and philology. No report had been received from the University of Greisswalde, and which, it was feared, would be suppressed. From the total of the above returns it appears that in the Prussian Universities there are 1,236 students of theology (only 193 are Catholics) 10,69 of jurisprudence, 644 of medicine, and 468 of philosophy and philology. The few students at Greisswalde are in about the same proportion,

RUSSIA.

Extraordinary instance of longevity. In the city of Feodosia there is living a porter who was born at Erzerum, in Armenia, in 1702. His name is Soast Oglow, and last year he performed the feat of carrying a sack of flour to the top of a little hill. He has a strong appetite, and his memory is excellent. His grey beard has begun to grow black at the roots, a phenomenon not without precedent amongst old people. He has cut three teeth since he was 100 years old, but his hearing has totally failed him, owing, perhaps, to his poverty obliging him to sleep in the streets during the rigour of the scason, and owing also to his want of clothing. M. Busche, counsellor of state, has taken the portrait of this old man, and the military governor, Count Langeron, has afforded him assistance.

The government of Caucasus has been erected into a province of four districts, by an Ukase, dated the 24th July, 1822, Staropol to be the capital.

SWEDEN.

The Swedes have improved so much in the art of making saltpetre, that they entertain hopes of entirely dispensing with any importation of that article. According to the official return, East Gothland has alone manufactured last year 3,400 Swedish liespfunds.

The journal printed at Stockholm, under the title of Argus the Second, has been suppressed, and superceded by one entitled Argus the Third.

TURKEY.

A Greek bishop has put into the hands of M. Berggren, Swedish Almoner at Constantinople, the sacred book of the Druses, which consists of 146 quarto pages, This volume, containing principles dishonourable to humanity, bas hitherto been concealed from the laity.

ITALY.

There have been discovered at Vercelle a manuscript copy of the Proemium of the Institutes, and of the Epitome of Julien; and there has also been discovered at Pistoja a copy of the Code of Justinian, made in the tenth century.

Mr. Bluhme, who has been a long time at Verona, preparing a second edition of Gaius, has just discovered at Vercelli a manuscript of the Collatio legum mosaicarum et romanarum of the tenth century.

SWITZERLAND.

Berne.-Mr. Ulric Schenk, a skilful mechanist of Berne, and pupil of the celebrated Reichenbach, has just invented a new sort of pump or fire engine. In September last he exhibited the powers of this useful engine in the presence of a vast number of spectators at Lozwyl, near Langenthal. The pump placed in any stream or basin, was able to throw up a volume of water to the height of 125 feet, simultaneously supplying two other pumps of an ordinary description.

Lausanne.-Messrs. Reynier and de Dompierre, conservators of the antiquities of the Canton, reported to the Council of State, last November, a discovery at the site of the ancient Avenches of two mosaic pavements of a beautiful description, and in high preservation. The largest of these pavements represented a head of Ceres, of the natural size, a part of a stag, a jay, a lion, &c. elegantly framed. other pavement was about twenty-two feet square, and was situated in the meadows of Maladeyre; its designs are various but fantastical. Measures

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have been taken for the preservation of these antiquities.

The Society for the Improvement of Arts at Geneva have offered a premium of 500 florins (about £100), for the best plan of a Museum, to be constructed above the Orangery of the Botanical Garden, on the scale of the Orangery being enlarged on each side by five arches equal to those already existing. The building is to contain, besides the elongation of the orangery on the ground floor, a hall of antiquities, a picture gallery, a hall, lighted from the top, for the exhibition of paintings, another hall for drawings after nature, with one or two contiguous cabinets, and, finally, a hall for the school of modeling. The candidates, in their plans, are not to neglect the details of the interior ornaments. Two other prizes have also been offered by anonymous individuals for plans of the same. description of building to be erected on some public spot, such, for instance, as the Place de la Comedie. The first prize is a golden medal, valued at 500 florius, and the second a similar medal, but valued at only 200 florins. These plans are to contain, on the ground floor, two halls for the school of painting, one for that of modeling, a depôt for the plaster and casts, apartments for the keeper, and other accom modations for the directors of the studies and for the keeper; two halls to be used as depôts for the machines relative to agriculture and industry. On the first floor, the building to contain a hall for antiquities, two contiguous picture galleries, a hall for drawings after nature, a hall for the assembly of about 100 persons, and a cabinet for engravings. On the second floor, two suits of apartments for the directors of the academy, each consisting of five rooms and two working apartments, offices for the above officers and the keeper. The building is to occupy not more than 7,000 superficial square feet. The plans are to be on a scale of two lines to a foot. A statement of details with an estimate is to accompany each plan.

The government of Berne has entrusted to Professor Snell, the charge of compiling a code of municipal laws.

FRANCE.

The following is a list of the works of the Emperor Napoleon, and which will undoubtedly be inserted in the collection of the works of Napoleon Buonaparte, published at Paris, by M. Panckoucke. 1. Letter of M. Buonaparte to M. Mattes Buttafuoco, Deputy of Corsica, at the National Assembly,

1790, signed Buonaparte, and dated from the Cabinet of Millet, 28th Jan. Second Year of Liberty, 1790. This letter consists of 28 pages, Svo., and was printed by M. Fr. X. Joly, at Dole, when Buonaparte was a lieutenant of the regiment de la Fere. Napoleon himself corrected the proofs, and set out for that purpose at four o'clock in the morning from Auxonne to Dole; after he had finished the correction he partook of a breakfast with M. Joly, and returned to his garrison, at noon, the distance being eight leagues, by post. M. Amanthon of Dijon, has a copy of this letter, which was presented by the author to a lady of Auxonne. 2. The Supper of Beaucaire. Avignon, a Sabine Journal, (Journal Sabin) 1793, 8vo. and anonymous. 3. A complete collection of the letters, proclamations, speeches, messages, &c. of Napoleon, 2 vol. 8vo. 4. The unpublished correspondence, official and confidential, of Napoleon Buonaparte, 7 vols. 8vo. 5. The notes to a volume intitled the Battle of Austerlitz, by the Austrian General, Baron Stutterheim, 8vo. 6. Manuscript from the Island of Elba, from the Bourbons in 1815, Memoirs of Napoleon, 7. On the Education of the Princes of the Blood in France. 8. Notes annexed to the Moniteur upon the translations of the English Journals, which were submitted to him. 9. Essay, for the Prize proposed by the Academy of Besancon. 10. History of Corsica, in 2 vols. 12mo. When Napoleon was in the Garrison of Auxonne in 1790, he sent for M. Joly to treat with him on the printing of this work. Napoleon, at that time, occupied in the barracks a room, of which the whole furniture consisted of a bad bed, two chairs, and a table placed before the window, and covered with books and papers. One of his brothers slept on a mattrass in a little side room. The bookseller agreed upon the price, but Napoleon was ordered to Toulon, and the work was never printed. 11. An account of a Polygrahic Machine for printing circulars with rapidity. 12. A Manuscript at present in possession of Count Dzialinski. 13. A history of his Public Life, written at St. Helena, and at present in possession of his testamentary executors.

A very serious defect in the construction of the houses in many cities, and particularly in that of Mentz, is the apertures in the pavements leading into the cellars, and by which a person might be precipitated to the depth of fifteen or twenty feet, a species of ac

cident that often occurs. M. Herpin, of Mentz, and Secretary of the Society of Arts in that city, has effected a security against such accidents by a very simple machine, by which it is contrived that on opening the cellar, two triangular pieces of iron, by a selfaction, rise at the extremities of the opening, and, on shutting the cellar, those triangles rest against one of the walls; neither in opening nor in shutting the cellars, does this contrivance produce any inconvenience to the street. It has been examined and approved by the Academical Society of Metz.

Swimming Machine.-At the Academy of Swimming (d'hiver du Gros-Caillow) on the 23rd March, an experi ment was made before a vast concourse of spectators, of a machine for preserving swimmers from submersion. The machine is called a Rouanette from its inventor, M. Rouan, a teacher of Paris, residing at No. 21, Marché Saint Honoré. The contrivance is two tin cones, very much elongated and strongly joined together. They are applied under the arm-pits, and a person by their means can cross a river, bearing even a load or weight. The experiment was continued for more than half an hour, and by four persons, amongst whom was the inventor, and a young child that did not know how to swim. The exhibition took place on a basin nearly 100 feet long, and 20 broad, and 7 or 8 deep. The success of the experiment was complete.

M. Barrot Roullon, editor of a work entitled, Of the People and of Governments, taken from the Philosophical History of Raynal, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment, and to pay 200 francs, on the ground of his publication containing noxious opinions.

M. Dardonville, a dentist, and the author of some reflections upon treason, has been condemned to pay a fine 500 francs, and to suffer one month's imprisonment.

The romance of Felicia, and the poems "de la Chandelle d'Arras” have been destroyed, by order of the Cour Royal of Paris. M. Logier, a bookseller, accused of selling the works to the injury of good morals, has been released from the charge.

M. B. Constant has been sentenced to pay a fine of 1000 francs, for libels against the Attorney-general of the Court of Poitiers, contained in a Letter addressed to that Officer. He has been sentenced to a further fine of 1000 francs, for his Letter to M. de Carrere, which appeared in several of the public journals.