The Pictorial History of England; being a History of the People, as well as a History of the Kingdom. Illustrated with many Hundred Wood-cuts of Monumental Records; Coins; Civil and Military Costumes; Domestic Buildings, Furniture, and Ornaments; Cathedrals, and other great Works of Architecture; Sports, and other Illustrations of Manners; Mechanical Inventions; Portraits of Eminent Persons; and Remarkable Historical Scenes. We have paid considerable attention to this truly meritorious work, from the appearance of the first part down to the seventeenth, which brings the historian to about the middle of his labours, or a little beyond the extraordinary reign of Henry VIII. We are thus enabled to state, that an exceedingly good plan has been worked out with much industry and spirit, and a very rare impartiality. The plan indeed is excellent, embracing many of the most interesting facts connected with our history as a people, and which have been generally neglected, or passed over very briefly, by our historians. Each book embraces a determinate period, and contains, in addition to a very full narrative of civil and military transactions, a chapter on the history of religion-a chapter on the progress of the constitution, government, and laws-a chapter on the progress of the national industry-another on the history of literature, science, and the fine arts-another on manners and customs, and a seventh, and an exceedingly interesting one, on the history of the condition of the people. The illustrations are numerous and beautiful, serving to convey a deal of useful information. An idea may be formed of the liberal hand with which they are given when we state, that in the first twelve parts, which form one thick volume, there are no fewer than five hundred and twenty-four wood-cuts of various kinds. It has been the object of the conductors of the work to take these illustrations as nearly as possible from pictures, sculptures, coins, or other works of the period which they are employed to explain. The PICTORIAL HISTORY thus lays before the public many curious and quaint things which were not to be met with except in a very expensive shape, and not a few from illuminated MSS. and other precious relics in the British Museum, and other repositories, which, as far as our knowledge goes, have never been published in any shape. Some of these old things are wonderfully full of meaning and character. Taken collectively, they are in themselves a little history of the progress of art in Great Britain. On the whole, we scarcely know a work more likely to excite the attention of the young. The book is so remarkably cheap, that a hope may be entertained of its finding its way into every respectable house in the kingdom. The literary part of the work has a claim to much more ample notice than we can now afford it; but we may take an early opportunity of returning to the subject, or at least to some portion of it more particularly distinguished by its novelty and excellence. Railroadiana. A New History of England; or Picturesque, Biographical, Historical, Legendary, and Antiquarian Sketches, descriptive of the Vicinity of the Railroads. First Series. With a Map and Illustrations. London and Birmingham Railway. A useful little book as far as it goes, exhibiting at one view the chief objects of attraction right and left of the line, as far as Stoney Stratford. The title is a great deal too ambitious, and the execution is not quite so good as the idea. A railroad history of England will hardly do, unless it be done by very different steam from that got up on the present occasion. What the book really is, is a guide-book, enlivened with a few anecdotes. As such, it may suggest a very pleasant trip, and direct and amuse the traveller while he is about it. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Dewar's (the Rev. Dr.) Evidences of Divine Revelation. 12mo. 7s. 6d. 8vo. 15s. By George Stephens. 2 vols. post Post 8vo. 9s. 18mo. 2s. 6d. Notes on Naples and its Environs, &c. 8vo. 10s. 6d. Hoary Head and the Valleys Below. By Jacob Abbott. Fcap. 3s. 6d. How to Observe: Morals and Manners. By Miss Martineau. The Singing Master. Second Edition. 8vo. 10s. 6d. The Book of Family Crests. 2 vols. fcap. 21s. Post 8vo. 8s. 6d. A Brother's Gift to a Sister. Edited by R. D. Walker. Fcap. 5s. Little Crumbs. 18mo. 1s. The Peep of Day. Fifth Edition. 18mo. 3s. Family Prayers for the Use of Young Persons. New Edition. 12mo. 2s. Macartney on Inflammation. 4to. 15s. 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This popular volume, apart from its other merits, is one of the most interesting Guides we possess for the Continental Tourist. A Fourth Edition of Sir George Stephens' "ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN IN SEARCH OF A HORSE," will be published in a few days. A New Edition of "MAYER'S SPORTSMAN'S DIRECTORY" is in the press. Mr. Howard, author of "Rattlin_the_Reefer," "The Old Commodore,” &c., is engaged on the " MEMOIRS OF SIR SIDNEY SMITH," to be comprised in 2 vols. 8vo. with plates. THE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF THE COUNTRY. A steady revival appears to be taking place in our manufactures, though this cannot be fully felt until the return of our accustomed export trade. Last month we had to notice the complete establishment of steam navigation between this country and America, promising the most important results. A kindred event has now to be mentioned within our own shores. On Monday (August 20) a party of proprietors performed the first journey by the railroad from London to Birmingham, thus passing over the line which will connect the most important of our manufacturing districts with the metropolis. It is impossible not to feel that the completion of these grand undertakings must produce effects on our commercial interests, of which it would be difficult at present to form any adequate conception. The Great Western Railway appears also to be progressing prosperously. The harvest, which is now in active operation in many districts, is, on the whole, said to promise well, though some contrary anticipations have been entertained, which have had their effects on the market. PRICES OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS, ENGLISH STOCKS. Bank Stock, 208 and a-quarter.-Three per Cent. Consols, 94 one-eighth.-Three per Cent. reduced, 94 seven-eighths to 95.-Three and a Half per Cent., reduced, 102 and a-quarter.— Exchequer Bills, 72s. to 748. prem. FOREIGN STOCKS. Portuguese New Five per Cent. 36 threequarters. Dutch, Two and a Half per Cent., 54 and a-quarter to a-half-Dutch, Five per Cent., 102 three-quarters to seven-eighths.-Spanish Active Bonds, 21 and a-quarter to three-eighths MONEY MARKET REPORT.-Friday Evening, Aug. 24.—Consols are still languid, and the Markets generally, at the Stock Exchange, have been influenced by them. There has been but little business in the foreign securities. Shares are also heavy, but the prices do not show much alteration. BANKRUPTS. FROM JULY 24, TO AUG. 17, 1838, INCLUSIVE. July 24.-R. Ball, Olveston, Gloucestershire, shopkeeper.-W. Howard, Leeds, cloth merchant.-J. Sutcliffe, Bowling, Yorkshire, stuff merchant.-D. Davis, Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire, linendraper.-H. Lewis, otherwise H. I. Lewis, Salford, Lancashire, tallow chandier.-B. Robert, jun., Stanningly, Yorkshire, joiner. July 27.-G. Hanson, Fleet Street, cutler.W. G. Jones, Greville Street, Holborn, surgeon. -H. P. Hammond, Bishopsgate Street, ropemaker.-J. Almond, Helton-le-Hole, Durham, grocer.-W. Gunnell, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, currier.-J. Steadman, Preston, Lancashire, hatter. J. July 31.-J. Ewbank, Crawford Street, Aug 3.-R. Pierce, Wellington, Shropshire, grocer.-W. Barrett, Haselbury Plucknett, Somersetshire, girt-web manufacturer.-J. Far ray, T. Calverly, and W. Mayors, Elland, Yorkshire, cordmakers. R. Gough, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, worsted dealer. Aug. 7.-J. Cates, jun., Beaumont Street, Marylebone, surgeon.-B. Ware, Tower Street, cheesemonger.-M. Shepherd, Warwick, draper.-F. T. B. Dumelow, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, dealer in coals.-H. Wheatley, Scarborough, Yorkshire, innkeeper.-C. Beasley, Birmingham, draper.-T. Teulon, jun., Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, musicseller.-B. Botham, Halesworth, Suffolk, woollen draper. Aug. 10.-F. Sherwood, Cornwall Road, Lambeth, builder.-R. Jones, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, poulterer.-J. Pittar, Holywell Street, Milbank, merchant.-W. Bown, Southampton, grocer.-F. M'Shane, Liverpool, cattle dealer.-H. Roberts, Llengifin, Auglesey, draper.-R. and T. Otley, Sheffield, manu facturers of Britannia metal wares.-J. Knight, Southampton, painter. Aug. 14.-J. Miller, Drury Lane, stationer. -G. Threadgold, Brentwood, Essex, corn dealer.-E. P. Edgley, Tonbridge, Kent, victualler.-J. Green, sen., J. Green, jun., and C. W. Green, Hayle Mills, near Maidstone, Kent, paper manufacturers.-G. Collins, Leominster, Herefordshire, carpenter.-J. P. Hamer, Liverpool, stock and share broker.-A. Birch, Birmingham, grocer.-W. Underhill, Wells, Somersetshire, innkeeper. Aug. 17.-T. Mayo, Twickenham, victualler. M. R. Isaacs and B. Samo, Strand, diamond merchants.-J. Atkinson, King William_Street, City, tarpaulin manufacturer.-W. Barrett, jun., Abingdon, grocer.-R. Walker, Bristol, sculptor.-J. W. Cook, Dover, woollen draper. -B. Walker, Sheffield, cabinet maker. MONTHLY METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. Kept at Edmonton. Latitude 51° 37′ 32′′ N. Longitude 3′ 51′′ West of Greenwich. The mode of keeping these registries is as follows:-At Edmonton the warmth of the day is observed by means of a thermometer exposed to the north in the shade, standing about four feet above the surface of the ground. The extreme cold of the night is ascertained by a horizontal self-registering thermometer in a similar situation. The daily range of the barometer and thermometer is known from observations made at intervals of four hours each, from eight in the morning till the same time in the evening. The weather and the direction of the wind are the result of the most frequent observations. The rain is measured every morning at eight o'clock. Prevailing Weather. Generally cloudy, rain at times. ,025 Generally cloudy, a shower of rain in the even. Cloudy, rain in the afternoon. General overcast, rain in the evening. ,125 Generally clear. Generally clear. ,05 Noon clear, otherwise cloudy, rain at times. ,075 Morn. clear, otherwise cloudy, rain & hail in aft. ,0625 Generally clear. Morn. clear, otherwise cloudy, rain in the even. ,3 Cloudy, frequent rain during the aftern, and even. ,0625 Evening cloudy, otherwise clear. General overcast, a shower of rain in the evening. ,5 Morning cloudy, with rain, otherwise clear. ,075 Evening clear, otherwise cloudy, rain in the morn. ,025 Generally clear, except the even. when rain fell. ,0125 Generally clear. Morning clear, otherwise overcast. General overcast. N., Afternoon clear, otherwise cloudy, rain in the ,075 Cloudy, a few drops of rain during the evening. Generally clear. [evening. Morning cloudy, otherwise clear, rain in the ,0875 Generally cloudy. [of rain during the day.] ,0125 Morn. cloudy, otherwise clear, frequent showers ,1 Afternoon clear, otherwise cloudy, rain at times. * Distant thunder in the west on the afternoon of the 30th ultimo. Edmonton. CHARLES HENRY ADAMS. |