will form a pleasing view, or if the whole are put on a table at once, will admit of the astonishing number of 20,922,789,888,000 variations.

PARIS.-Grand Prize for Paint ings. The subject given by the academy is Egisthus thinking to discover the dead body of Orestes, recognizes in its stead that of Clytemnestra. The first grand prize, has been obtained by M. Auguste Hyacinte Debay, a native of Nantes, department of La Loire Inférieure a pupil of M. Gros, nineteen years of age. The second of the grand prizes has been obtained by M. François Bouchot of Paris, twentythree years of age, a pupil of M. Lethière. The grand prize, second class, has been adjudged to Eloi Feron, of Paris, twenty-one years of age, a pupil of M. Gross. The second grand prize, second class, to M. Sebastien Louis Wilhelm Norblin, a native of Warsaw, twentyseven years of age, pupil of M. Regnault.

Sculpture. The academy has given for a subject, Evander's grief over the body ot his son Pallas. The first grand prize has been gained by M. Agustine Alexander Dumont of Paris, thirty years of age, pupil of his father and of M. Cartellin. The second grand prize, has been gained by M. Francois Joseph Duret, of Paris, aged nineteen, pupil of M. Bosio. The grand prize, second class, has been gained by M. Jean Baptiste Joseph Debay, native of Nantes, Department de la Loire Inférieure, twentyone years of age, and pupil of M. Bosio. The next grand prize, second class, has been gained by M. Antoine Laurent Dantan, a native of St. Cloud, twenty-five years of age, and pupil of M. Bosio.

Architecture. The subject a proposed Custom - house, in the capital, to be erected at the junction of three principal streets, and near the chief wharf of the river, which

crosses the city. The first grand prize has been obtained by M. Felix Jean Duban of Paris, under twentysix years of age, pupil of M. Debret. The second grand prize has been obtained by M. Jean Louis Victor Grisart of Paris, twenty-six years of age, pupil of M. M. Huyot and Guénepin. The next prize, by M. Alphonsi Henri Gisors, of Paris, wenty-seven years old, pupil of M. Percier.

Engravings in Medals and in fine Stone. The academy has given for a subject, Paris withdrawing an arrow from the heel of Achilles. The academy has decided, that no first grand prize should be given, but has awarded two prizes of second class. The first of which has been gained by M. Joseph Arsenne Théodore Lefevre Dubourg, of Paris, twenty-two years of age, pupil of M. M. Bosio and Galle. The second by M. Louis Brenet, of Paris, twentyfive years of age, pupil of his father and of M. Bosio.

The academy, on the 15th of September, 1821, had come to a resolution, that they would annually proclaim in their public sessions, the names of those gentlemen of the Royal and Special School of Fine Arts, who, during the year, had obtained the medals instituted by the Count de Caylus and M. Latour, and the medals formerly called the provincial or departmental medal. The prize for a head of expression in painting, was awarded to F. Bouchot, a pupil of M. Lethierie, and for the same subject in sculpture, the prize was voted to H. I. Ñ. Brion, a pupil of M. Bosio. The Architectural medal was obtained by P. F. La Bouste, a pupil of M. Vandoyer, and of M. Lebus, the government architect. The prize for Historical Landscape, was obtained by Andrew Giroux, a pupil of his father. The second medal was won by L. J. Leborne, a native of Versailles, and pupil of M. Regnault.

RUSSIA:

Prize Question.-The University of Moscow conformably to its fifty-seventh statute, has proposed the following question:-The Florentine copy of the Pandects is regarded as the most correct and ancient of all those known in Europe; almost all others being mere copies of it. The question then is to ascertain how it came to Florence. It is generally believed that this original copy was one of those which Justinian sent to some of the provinces, that it was found at the taking of Almatia, given afterwards by the Emperor Lotharius II. to the inhabitants of Pisa, and after the conquest of this city, transported to Florence, where it is now preserved with great care. But since the middle of the last century, it has gained this bigh repute from the disputations of the learned.

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deny that this original copy was found at Almatia, and given to the natives of Pisa; others bold to the ancient opinion. The question proposed by the University is to ascertain as far as can be ascertained by sound criticism, which of these two opinions is right, giving, at the same time, an exposition of the opinions of both parties. The prize proposed is 250 roubles. The memoirs addressed to the University of Moscow may be written, in either the Russian, Latin, French, or German language. The term is the month of April, 1825.

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lication of a collection of scientific and literary works down to the year 1820. It has again resumed this labour, a labour as honourable to its authors as it is useful to the public, under the title of Nuova collezione, &c., a new Collection of Scientific and Literary Works. Each volume is to be followed by a bibliographic and critical review, giving an account of all the works published in the states of the Church, or belonging to authors resident in those states. The first distributions of this learned collection were made in July last.

The literary world is indebted to Bologne for another undertaking, at once instructive and agreeable, a universal library of music, entitled Polinnia Europea. It is divided into two parts: one historical and didactic, and the other comprising notices and curious anecdotes, relative to theatres, artists, and their works. Its first appearance was in Juue, and will be pub. lished in numbers once a fortnight. The object of this journal is to reconcile music, and those who practice it, with the maxims of morality and the genius of philosophy, as is announced in its learned introduction.

Sardinia-Antiquities.-The Sardinian government has lately made an acquisition of the great and beautiful collection of Egyptian antiquities, which M. Drouetti has formed, and in which may be reckoned from twelve to fifteen stone statues, together with a number of large sarcophaguses, many pieces of money, and a quantity of smalt pieces. It has cost 500,000 francs,

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relation between the force employed and the quantity of water actually raised (the height of the elevation being given), having regard to all the obstacles which must be overcome by foree. This theory is to be founded upon positive exercises, and set the forms which shall be put in practice. The accounts the academy has received upon this subject, having not entirely fulfilled the conditions it had agreed upon, it gives again this question for the subject of the prize, which is to be distributed in 1826, and it doubles the value of the prize, which shall be a golden medal of one thousand francs. It continues to give the following questions for the subject of the prize it is to give in 1824, which prize shall be a medal of value five hundred francs.

First:-To determine by comparative observation the cases in which the use of salts at the bottom of quinine is as advantageous as that of Peruvian bark. Second:-To shew the cases where it merits the preference. It proposes for the subject of the prize to be adjudged in 1825, the following question. Can one flatter himself without the study of the ancient languages to obtain a place in the rank of good writers? And in case the negative should be supported, can the study of the Latin language supply the want of every other? The prize shall be, ac cording to custom, five hundred francs. The learned of all countries are in. vited to labour at the subjects proposed. The authors are requested to write in French or Latin.

An e lition of Dante has just been discovered in the library of the late Octavius Gilchrist, Esq, which, with the exception of a copy in the possession of Lord Spenser, is entirely unique in this country. It is rather extraor dinary that Lord Spenser's copy ap. pears imperfect, wanting two leaves, and that the same hiatus should occur in Mr. Gilchrist's. A very learned bibliographer and critic is said to have ascertained, that both copies are perfect, and that the two leaves which are omitted were suppressed in the whole impression before the publication, in consequence of their containing most severe and satirical strictures on the Pope.

The Twelfth Part of Views on the Southern Coast of England, from draw. ings by J. M. W. Turner, R.A., &c., and engraved by W. B. and George Cooke, and other eminent artists, is on the eve of publication; and the four remaining parts, which will complete the work, will speedily follow.

A new edition of Mr. Alaric A. Watts' "Poetical Sketches," with illus trations, is preparing for publication, which will include " Gertrude de Balm," and other additional poems.

Nearly ready for publication, in 2 vols. post Svo. with fine portraits, by Warren, from an original picture, The Life of Jeremy Taylor, and a critical examination of his writings, by Dr. Heber, Bishop of Calcutta.

Sholto Percy, one of the Benedictine Brothers, to whom the public are indebted for so much amusement in the shape of anecdotes, has in preparation a series of original sketches on men

and manners, under the title of "Life's Progress," which will be illustrated by engravings, by Cruikshank.

Mr. Blores work of Monuments is announced for publication in February. Mr. B. has recently returned from a journey in the North, for the purpose of collecting materials for this work, and has succeeded in tracing and restoring some very valuable specimens of ancient monuments, particularly those of the early Douglases.

Dr. Hooker, the Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, is preparing a complete "System of Plants," arranged according to the natural orders, with a Linnean Index, and illustrated with numerous coloured plates. Offe object of the author is to divest the Study of Botany of the repelling fea ture of a dead language, in which it has hitherto been clothed, by adopting our own instead of the Latin, and thus to promote the cultivation of the science throughout all classes of the community.

The Pirate of the Adriatic, a romance in 3 vols., by James Griffin, is announced for publication early in January.

T. W. C. Edwards, M.A. has in the press an Epitome of Greek Prosody, being a brief exposition of the quantity, accentuation, and versification of the Greek language.

The Rev. Thomas Smith, editor of 'the Accented Eton Grammar with Notes, has in the press a new edition of Phædrus, with scanning from the text of Sterling. Also a new edition of Sterling Persius.