NORTH AMERICA.

In Tenessee, the white men have been prohibited from marrying the women of colour.

CHINA.

The Gazette of Pekin officially announces, that the Emperor has determined to reduce his army, which is stated to amount to 600,000 men, for China alone of these the single province of Set-chuen has furnished 33970.

HOLLAND.

A native Improvisatore has attracted great attention at Amsterdam. Mons. de Clercq, a distinguished merchant of Amsterdam, had been exclusively engaged from his youth in the business of his counting-house. At the age of twenty seven he was enabled to devote his attention to literature, and to become eminent for his knowledge of history, and of Greek, Latin, Spanish, Italian, French, English, and German literature as well as of the literature of his own country. He gave a brilliant proof of his acquirements by his answer to the question proposed by the Second Class of the Institute. "What

influence the literature of Spain, Italy, France, and Germany had had on that of Holland." The golden medal was voted to him for this auswer in the sitting of 1822. He recited with enthusiasm passages from Calderon, Tasso, Voltaire, Byron, and Schiller. On any subject proposed by his friends, M. de Clercq will pour forth a torrent of imagery and fine ideas, clothed in good extempory verse. Professor Kinker of Liege, one of the most eminent poets in Holland, was very incredulous of Mons. de Clerq's merits, but having heard him give an Improvatore discourse upon the dramatic art, he paid ample homage to his surprising talents. Other eminent men have given an equal testimony to Mons. de Clercq's genius, and who, it must be observed, joins to these eminent abilities, the most engaging manners and noble principles. We insert this article as it has been transmitted to us by a very eminent literary character in Holland, and who assures us of the truth of it.

Haerlem, 14th April. - Singular commemoration of the invention of Printing. The Regency of this city having taking into consideration the report of the Commissioners, appointed to ascertain the date of the discovery

of the art of Printing, attributed to Lâurence Coster, of Haerlem, and to propose the most eligible manner of celebrating the fourth centenary of the discovery, have determined to keep the festival on the 10th of July. M. Vander Palm has voluntarily undertaken to pronounce the oration upon that day, and a monument of stone will be erected in the park of the city. Haerlem, Ma. yence, and Strasbourg, dispute the honour of this invention, which was made in 1442 or 1443. There are preserved at Haerlem the first typogra phical blocks of wood, and the books which were taken from them, called Der spiegel van onze zalighey (the Mirror of Health). This book is enclosed in a silver case, confided to the care of several magistrates, each of whom has a key different from the others.

RUSSIA.

The St. Petersburgh Bible Society held its annual public meeting, on the 8th July, 1822, in the Great Hall of the Palace of Tauride. The Prince Alexander Galitzin, minister of public instruction and of worship, presided at the meeting, and opened the business by stating the great success of the society throughout the empire. The Council of this Society consists of sixty-three members, viz.;-of a president, twenty-two vice-presidents, three vice-presidents of Auxiliary Societies, resident at St. Petersburgh, thirty-one directors and six presidents. The Russian translation of the New Testament and of the Psalms was prosecuted with zeal in 1821; and the great success of the society is attributed to the journies undertaken in the same year by three members of the society, for the purpose of inspecting the Auxiliary Societies in the provinces.

Moscow. In a sitting, on the 28th September last, of the Russian Bible Society, the report of the proceedings was given for the last four months of May, June, July,'and August. It appears that 2762 bibles, testaments, and psalteries in the Russian language had been sold for 7744 roubles, 50 kopecks. That there had been transmitted to the Auxiliary Societies 2104 copies for 10,570 roubles, 10 kopecks. In all 4,866 copies for 18,314 roubles, 60 kopecks; 28 copies had been distributed gratis to the poor. Among these

copics, 1268 were newly printed in the Polish language. The translation of the psalms into Russian was done at the expense of the Society of Moscow, which had just prepared a second edition of the Russian New Testament, with a Sclavonian Text. Three members of the committee have undertaken the office of visiting the prisons, the hospitals, and the houses of the poor, and of supplying them with the Scriptures. The Bible Society of Petersburgh has communicated to that of Moscow several facts relative to the success of the Bible Societies of other countries.

Last September, the Russian exports to China amounted to 57,822 roubles; their exports of foreign articles to Persia in the same month amounted to 656,587 roubles, whilst the imports into Jewpatorge from Trapezonti and Constantinople, during the month of October, did not exceed 3,105 roubles.

On the 10th October last, the government emancipated one-fourth of the peasants of Livonia, and the remainder will be emancipated by thirds in the succeeding years, so that by 1825 vassalage and slavery will cease to exist in that country.

Of the commercial cities on the borders of the Black Sea, Taganrog, by its flourishing trade, has been rendered the next in rank to Odessa. This city was founded, by Catherine the Second in 1770, and it already possesses 170 stone warehouses and a public bank. The imports into Taganrog during the last ten years have amounted to 47,649,785 roubles, and its exports to 67,433,818 roubles. There are twenty mercantile firms in the city, of which M. Warwazzi's is one of the most considerable.

GERMANY.

A person in Austria has recently invented a species of rocket, which ascends to such a prodigious height, that it is said they have been seen at a distance of more than forty leagues. If this be the fact, these rockets may be of great use as signals, and especially in geographical admeasurements of the earth.

SWEDEN.

Mons.J. Guill Zetterstedt, professor of botany at the University of Lund, and author of several esteemed works upon natural history, undertook in 1821, a voyage of science in ascending the river Tornea and traversing the Norwegian and Finland borders of the Frozen Ocean. He repaired to Tramsoe and the environs of the North Cape,

and travelled on foot by unfrequented routs to Karessuando in Swedish Lapland, and thence to Kengis and Hastaranda. The professor intends to publish his observations on these countries as well as a Prodromus fanaæ insectorum Lapponica. He has discovered many species of insects, and the University has already received from him a considerable collection of objects of natural history.

The pupils and friends of M. Ling, professor at Stockholm, who has rendered himself so celebrated by his depth of knowledge and by his poetical talents, have had a medallion. struck to his honour. One side contains an effigy of the professor, with his name in Anglo-Saxon letters. On the other side is a harp and a gothic sword, with an inscription in Runic Icelandic characters. The medal has been struck by M. Malm, an artist of great merit.

The works for joining the Baltic to lake Malaern, by the canal of Soedertelje, were completed at the latter end of 1819. The trade of the provinces of Upland, Westmaunia, Sudermania, and of Nericia, must increase in consequence of this new communication. The junction of the lakes Wenern and Wettern, so ardently desired by the interior provinces, was effected in 1822. The navigation of the coasts of Smaland and of Ostrogothia is open as far as the North Sea, and the public works have been continued from lake Wettern to the Baltic. This great monument, dating from the period when Sweden was even threatened with the loss of her name, will evince to posterity the bold designs of men who could even direct their thoughts to the junction of the two seas. The consequences, which ought to result from the completion of these works, will accord with the dignity of the nation, and with the perseverance which characterises it.

According to the proclamation or programme, the University of Upsal on the 1st. October last, was regulated as follows: Theology, five professors, three assistants, and two fellows; Laws, two professors, two assistants, and three fellows; Medicine, five professors, three assistants; Belles Lettres, thirteen professors, five assistants, twelve fellows.

The king has patronised the work entitled "Swedish Botany,"and the continuation of it is confided by the University to Dr. Wahlenberg. This learned gentleman, last summer, visited Scania, in order to compose an Herbarium

or Flora of that province. M. Hifinger, at the same time, made a geological visit to Norway, the N. W. coasts of which kingdom have also been explored by M. Marklin, a learned entomologist. The astronomer Cronstaedt had repaired to the centre provinces to carry on the trigonometrical survey, which by the order of the government is to be made of all Sweden.

POLAND.

One of the Journals of Warsaw announces, that Count Dzialinski has brought to that city a small folio of from thirty to forty pages, entirely in the hand-writing of Napoleon. The identity of the writing is certified by Montholon, Mounier, and by the Duke of Bassano. The contents of the vo Jume are, several curious documents relating to the history of France and of Europe, a paper upon the improvement of Turkish artillery, several fragments on the campaign of Italy, and, what is still more important, a plan of the first campaign in Spain, dictated by Napoleon to the Duke of Abrantes, and in the margins of which are several notes. The volume further contains several hitherto unknown documents relative to the settling of lines of demarcation between France and Austria.

Nathan Rosenfield, a Jew merchant of Warsaw, has written a history of Poland, in Hebrew.

ITALY.

The Gazette of Naples announces that several of the unedited MSS. of the celebrated Cotugno have been stolen since his decease. Among others are mentioned, his notes upon Celsus; his travels in Italy and Germany; his treatises upon anatomy, pathology, and nosology, and upon the diseases of women. His history of an acephalous animal, which lived twelve days, and his observations on the egg of a pigeon that was found to contain another egg, with many valuable observations arranged in a manner similar to those of Morgani in his De causis et sedibus morborum per anatomen indagatis, and an interesting disertation, De plexu plectiformi auris humanæ, in which he demonstrates how many phenomena can be explained by the accessory nerve now discovered by Willis, and the causes of our experiencing different sensations from the sounds of certain instruments. If these MSS. be not recovered, they will be a great loss to the learned world, and medical science in particular.

Eur, Mag. June, 1823.

A verse translation of Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake has just been published at Palermo.

SWITZERLAND.

The Society of Evangelical Missionaries at Basle have just published the annual report which was laid before them on the 1st. of August last, by M. Blumhardt. It contains intelligence of the ten pupils who left Basle in 1818, to act as missionaries in distant countries prescribed to them by the Society. Two of these, Messrs. Mullar and Bormeister, have established themselves at the Island of Seram, in the Moluccas; a third, Mr. J. Kinderlingen, is at Paliocotte, a Dutch establishment on the coast of Coromondel; his school consists of thirty-seven children, of which six are Pagans. Two others of the pupils, named Jetter and Durr, are near Burdwan, in Bengal, employed by the English Missionary Society, they are entrusted with the care of fourteen schools, consisting of about 1000 young people of the country.

FRANCE.

Metz (Moselle) Society of Literature, Sciences, and Arts.-This society purposes to open, in May next an exhibition of the produce of the industry of the department. The society has, therefore, addressed a circular to all the artists and manufacturers of the department of the Moselle, requiring their aid to effect the proposed exhibition. The cheapest and most ordinary articles will be exhibited as well as the most costly, and the work of single artisans, as well as the produce of manufactories. The same principle will be observed in the distribution of the medals. A report of the different objects exhibited will be made to the general meeting of the society, and on which occasion the medals will be distributed.

Mons. J. Feret, a bookseller at Bordeaux, has been condemned to one years' imprisonment, and to a fine of 500 francs, with a prohibition of carrying on his business for one year, for selling two copies of a work in four volumes, entitled "Eight years of Napoleon."

A royal ordinance of the 26th February, 1823, authorizes the laying down of an iron road or rail-way, from the Loire to the Pont de l'Ane, upon the river of Furens, through the coal tracks (territoire houiller) of St. Stephens. The work is to be completed in five years.

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Just published, Whittingham's French Classics, vol. 1, containing Paul et Virginie, par St. Pierre. Price 2s. 6d. sewed.

The Napoleon Anecdotes, complete in 3 vols. 15s. boards.

The Book of Fate, fourth edition, 5s. boards.

Whittingham's Cabinet Edition of Elegant Extracts in Poetry, selected by R. A. Davenport, Esq. Part 1 and 2, price 2s. 6d. each, to be continued monthly.

In the press, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen. By Walter Savage Landor, Esq. in 1 vol. 8vo.

A Classical Assistant to the Study of Homer, Virgil, &c. in the translations of Pope and Dryden. By Mrs. Orm, in 1 vol. 8vo.

Journal of a Tour in France, in the years 1817 and 1818. By Francis Jane Carey, Svo.

Flora Domestica; or, the Portable Flower Garden, with Directions for the Treatment of Plants in Pots, and Illustrations from the works of the Poets, In 1 volume, 8vo.

Early in July will be published, vol. 2, of Whittingham's French Classics, containing Elizabeth, or les Exilés en Siberie. Par Madame Cottin.

Whittingham's Pocket Novelists, vol. 13, containing Joseph Andrews. By Fielding.

Whittingham's Cabinet Edition of Elegant Extracts in Poetry, selected by R. A. Davenport, Esq. Part III. Price 2s. 6d., to be completed in 12 monthly parts.

Preparing for publication, Six Etchings, from Pen Drawings, of Interesting Scenes in Italy, drawn and etched by Mr. W. Cowen, and dedicated, by permission, to Lord Viscount Milton. Size of the prints 16 inches by 10.

Mr. Herbert Mayo has in the press, a Second Number of his Anatomical and Physiological Commentaries. The following works will be pablished during the present month. Oservations made during a Residence in the Tarentaise and various Parts of the Grecian and Pennine Alps, în Sa. voy, and in Switzerland and Auvergne, in the Years 1820, 1821, and 1822, with Remarks on the present State of Society, Manners, Religion, Agriculture, Climate, &c. By Robert Bakewell, Esq. In 2 vols. 8vo. illustrated with Plates, &c. &c.

The English Flora. By Sir J. E. Smith, President of the Linnean Society, &c. &c. In 8vo. So much has

been done in Botany since the publication of this Author's Flora Britannica and English Botany, especially with regard to natural affinities; and he has for thirty years past found so much to correct, in the characters and synonyms of British Plants, that this will be entirely an original work. The language also is attempted to be reduced to a correct standard. The genera are reformed, and the species defined, from practical observation; and it is hoped the expectations of British botanists will not be disappointed.

Journal of a Ten Months' Residence in New Zealand. By Captain A. Cruise, of the 84th Regiment. In 8vo.

The Three Perils of Woman. By James Hogg, Author of the "Three Perils of Man," &c. In 3 vols. 12mo.

A Geognostical Essay on the Superposition of Rocks in both Hemispheres. By M. de Humboldt. And translated into English, under his immediate Inspection. In 1 vol. 8vo.

A Picturesque Voyage round Great Britain, containing a Series of Views, illustrative of the Character and prominent Features of the Coast. By W. Danieli, A.R.A. Volume the Seventh. In imperial 4to.

Sketches of the Lives of Correggio and Parmegiano, with Notices of their principal works; beautifully printed în small 8vo. with a Portrait.

Self-Delusion, or Adelaide d'Hauteroche. By the Author of "Domestic Scenes." In 2 vols. 12mo.

Lectures on the General Structure of the Human Body, and on the Anatomy and Functions of the Skin; delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of London, during the course of 1823. By Thomas Chevalier, F.R.S F.S.A. and F.L.S., Surgeon Extraordinary to the King, and Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the College. In 1 vol. 8vo.

The Royal Naval Biography, vol. 1 parts I and II. In 8vo. containing Memoirs of all the Flag-Officers living at the commencement of the present year. By John Marshall, (B), Lieut. R.N.

Vols. II. and III, containing Memoirs of the Captains and Commanders, will appear shortly.

The History of the Anglo-Saxons, from their first appearance in Europe to the end of their Dynasty in England; comprising the History of England from the Norman Conquest. By Sharon Turner, F.S.A. The Fourth Edition, in 3 thick vols. 8vo. corrected and improved, with a Map.