Electricity and Magnetism. The brig Medusa, Captain Aspelt, of Jersey, while on the passage from La Guayra to Liverpool, encountered a thunder-storm in lat. 330 38′ long. 58° 12', during which the electric fluid destroyed the magnetic power of the compasses on board; two of which were on deck, and two in the cabin. An optician has examined the compasses, and finds they have entirely lost their attractive powers. New Month. Mag.

The Tallipot-tree. A leaf of this extraordinary tree has lately been brought over from the island of Ceylon, of which place it is a native, and is now in the possession of the Rev. R. Fletcher, of Hampstead. The leaf is in a good state of preservation; it measures fully eleven feet in height, sixteen feet across its widest spread, and from thirty-eight to forty feet in circumference. If expanded as a canopy, it is sufficient to defend a dinner party of six from the rays of the sun, and in Ceylon is carried about by the natives for that purpose. Ibid.

The Nile. It is at length placed beyond doubt, that the Nile, of which Bruce conceived he had discovered the sources in Abyssinia, and which the Portuguese had seen and described in the sixteenth century, is only a tributary stream flowing into the true Nile, of which the real source is much nearer the equator. For this information we are indebted to M. Calliaud, who accompanied the predatory expedition of the two sons, Ismael and Ibrahim, of the pacha of Egypt into Nubia, and who, in conjunction with M. Latorres, has made known to us a new region in the interior of Africa, more than five hundred miles in length, and extending to the tenth degree of northern latitude. This gentleman has likewise determined the position of the city of Meroe, of which he found the ruins in the Delta, formed by the Bahr-el-Abriel (the White River), and the Bahr-el-Azrag (the Blue River), precisely in the spot where D'Anville had placed them upon the authority of ancient authors. Avenues of sphinxes and of lions, propylæa and temples in the Egyptian style, forests of pyramids, a vast enclosure formed with unbaked bricks, seem to point out in this place the existence of a large capital, and may serve to elucidate the still undecided question, "Whether civilization followed the course of the Nile from Ethiopia to Egypt; or whether it ascended from Egypt to Nubia?” Ibid.

New Exchange of Paris. The new Exchange of Paris is incontestibly the finest monument of this kind in the world; it equals in size the Parthenon at Athens. Like that famous temple, the Exchange of Paris has the form of an oblong quadrangle, surrounded with pillars almost of the same dimensions, but more numerous; the hall is immense; it goes to the roof of the building, and a cover of glass crowns it. A double portico on the ground-floor and the first story goes quite round. The ornaments are in the best taste, and the tout ensemble at once elegant and grand. Ibid.

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EDUCATION.

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SCELTA DI PROSE ITALIANE, tratte da' più celebri Scrittori Italiani, per uso degli Studiosi di questa Lingua; da PIETRO BACHI, J. U. D. İstruttore di Lingua Italiana nell' Università Harvardiana. 1 vol. 12mo.

In making this Selection of Italian Prose, the compiler, while he has confined himself to those writers who are distinguished for the purity and elegance of their style, has still been able to furnish an agreeable variety of pieces, disposed under the following heads;-Favole, Novelle, Descrizioni, Viaggi, Storie, Orazioni, Vite, Elogj, Ritratti, Colloquj, Critica. Care has been taken to adopt an arrangement which shall lead the pupil gradually from what is easy to what is difficult; and to introduce the most remarkable passages in the civil and literary history of Italy, in