daughter of the late Adam Walker, a man who rendered so many services to his country, whose life indeed is truly said to have been one continued and devoted effort to increase the intelligence, and advance the interests, and improve the condition of the human species, is now a widow, with a son and daughter wholly unprovided for, and is left exposed to the want of the common necessaries of existence. Assuredly some provision ought to be made for the descendants of an individual, who has deserved at least fully as well of his counrry as most of the great sinecurists by whose pensions it is burthened. Mr. Roscoe. The literary world has recently lost one of the most distinguished, as well as the most venerable of its members, in Mr. Roscoe, who was long known to the public as an elegant historian, and an honest patriot. He had reached his 80th year, and died on Thursday, the 30th of June, at his house in Lodge-lane, Liverpool. We are given to understand that the life and correspondence of Mr. Roscoe are already in preparation for the press by some of the members of his family. These, together with his miscellaneous works on a variety of important subjects, will be printed uniformly with an octavo. edition of the Lives of Lorenzo and Leo X. The correspondence, we understand, embraces a period of nearly sixty years, during which this celebrated writer was in the habit of communicating with the most distinguished characters of the age, both literary and political. Steam Carriages.-There is little doubt that these vehicles will soon be brought to a degree of perfection, which will enable them to be applied to the purposes of conveyance both of goods and passengers on the high road. Messrs. Heaton, of Birmingham, have recently obtained a patent for such a combination of contrivances, which are already separately known, as makes their steam carriages better calculated to overcome the inequalities of roads than any other now in use. They may be turned round the sharpest corner with as much ease as a stage coach. In order to prevent the loss of speed caused upon rail-roads by ascents, Messrs. Vignoles and Ericson have added a third rail in the centre of the road, proportioned to the requisite distance, in which rail there are teeth that catch a central wheel contrived for the purpose of assisting the vehicle up the inclined plane. Church Patronage.-The Duke of Buccleugh inherits no fewer than thirty patronages in Scotland. The following is a list of the parishes whose ecclesiastical livings are at his disposal-Dalkeith, Kirknewtown, Inveresk, Hawick, Wiltown, St. Boswell's, Melrose, Middlebie, Dornock, Hoddam, Kirkmichael, Langholm, Canobie, Castletown, Ewes, Westerkirk, Eskdale Muir, Terregles, Kirkmachoe, Kirkbean, Colvend, Lochrutton, Penport, Keir, Glencairn, Tynron, Kirkconnel, Durrisdeer, Morton, Sanquhar. Joan of Arc.-A most remarkable monument has lately been discovered at Orleans. It is no other than the greater part of the turrets of the old bridge that formed so distinguished a scene in that interesting episode of the history of France, of which Joan of Arc was the heroine. Bees. By the successful mode in which Mr. Nutt manages his bees, he contrives to obtain from one hive, in the course of five years, nearly eight hundred pounds of honey, clear of all charges. His plan is not only thus productive beyond all others, but he never loses a bee, unless by natural demise or mere accident. There is no swarm ing, no tinkling of the pan. The insects have abundance of room, and are constantly employed during the gathering season. We hope that he may be induced to favour the public with the particulars of his mode of management; indeed he owes it to the winged nations, for whose welfare he has so long and so fortunately laboured. New Motive Power.-A letter was recently read at the Academy of Sciences in Paris, in which the writer asserted that he had discovered a new moving power, resulting from a combination of two chemical agents with a certain mechanical principle, which is applicable to every species of labour, and particularly to locomotion on public roads. He does not give any further explanations, waiting, we suppose, for the perfection of his patent. Etruscan Antiquities.-It is said that Sir William Gell has recently made some valuable discoveries of Etruscan antiquities, anterior to the Roman era, which he is engaged in preparing for publication. Prize Essay.-The Medico-Botanical Society of London have resolved that their gold medal should be offered for the best essay in the English, French, German or Latin language, on the question, "What is the vegetable substance which could be employed with success in the cure of Hydrophobia?"-and that their silver medal should be offered for the best essay "On the medicinal qualities and uses of any indigenous plant which is not yet sufficiently known, or on new uses and applications of any other indigenous plants," provided that such essays possess sufficient merit, that they should be received till the close of the present year, and that the medals should be bestowed at the next anniversary. Sour Beer.-Most housekeepers must have found a difficulty in preserving their beer from turning sour in summer weather. Upon the supposition that acidity is produced by the introduction of too much atmospheric air into the cask, through the vent hole, a little invention has been suggested, which seems capable of counteracting that evil. Instead of opening the vent to the air, it is placed in communication with a copper ball filled with carbonic acid gas. The ball is screwed into the cask and it has a small cock, which is opened as soon as the beer ceases to run through the brass cock below, and admits a quantity of the gas; this gas pressing on the liquid, not only causes it to run out with facility, but also impregnates it with a gas such as we may observe in the manufacture of soda water. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We can assure the author of the Welsh Tales that we expected to meet in his work not much more than the ordinary share of nonsense. We have been indeed surprized to find so much of that common quality in his letter. He cannot deliberately suppose that our object was to injure him. He is an old reviewer, he says; if so, we presume that he judges of us from what he would have done himself under similar circumstances. The Rev. Mr. Potter has addressed us in almost a similar tone; as if indeed we never can pass judgment upon any literary work without being influenced by personal motives. We have not the honour of the reverend gentleman's acquaintance; and, until we saw his book, never heard even of his name. How then is it possible that we should be liable to the charge which he, rather angrily, brings against us? To M. M. we answer, that the question of Church Reform is one which we shall take leave to treat in our own way. We shall be glad, however, to profit of his suggestions. Upon the same subject we must inform Londinensis that his threats of denouncement have no effect whatever upon the editor of this journal. A public prosecution indeed! The Age of the Inquisition has passed, and let him take care whether he may not be only hastening to pull down the house about his own ears! Achonry, see of, 483 Agapo; or, the Sacred Love Pledge. By Albers, Dr., (see Cholera) Aikin, Dr., (see Select Works of the Bri- Alibeg the Tempter. A Tale Wild and Anatomy of Society, the, by J. A. St. John, 265-the author one of the disciples of Architecture of Birds, 566 Armstrong, J. B., (see his Journal of Tra- vels in the seat of War, during the last At Home and Abroad; or, Memoirs of 128-character of, 128, 129-extract Authorship; a Tale. By a New-Englander Azani, a visit to, 25 B. BADDELEY, Mrs., 504 Beattie, William, (see Journal of a Resi- Bedouins in London, 472 Beecher Sir W., (see the Exhibition of Beer, sour, 610 Bees, 609 Bellamy, Georgiana, life of, 503 Bernays, A., (see Familiar German Exer- logy) A. (see German Poetical Antho- Best, John Richard, (see Satires, &c.) Beverley, R. M., Esq., (see his Letter to Bird, James, (see Framlingham) Book of the Seasons; or the Calendar of Bonpland, M., 607 Botanical Miscellany, The; containing recommend themselves by their novelty, Bourrienne, M. de (see the Life of Napo- Bridal Night, the; the First Poet; and British Museum, 313 Briggs, (see the Exhibition of the Royal Brockeden, W., (see New Illustrated Road Brooke, Sir Arthur de Capell, (see Sketches Buchan, David, Earl of, (see Nichols's Bulgarin, Thaddeus, (see Ivan Vejeeghen) C. CABOT, Sebastian, memoir of, 514 Camelford, Lord, (see Nicholas's Illus- Campbell, Mr. T., "The Metropolitan," Canterbury, Archbishop of, his tithe com- Carey, Lucius (see Destiny) Carr, Thomas Swinburn, (see A Lecture Carriages, Steam, 609 Census, the, 156 Centlivre, Mrs., life of, 498 Chaffin, Rev. William, (see Nichols's Illus- Chalon, Mr. Edward, (see the Exhibition Cheap engravings, 314 Cholera Morbus-return of-an address to character of, ib.-our climate unfavour- Cholera Morbus, the, 313, 474, 607 Church, reform of, 79 Church establishment, founded in error, Church in Ireland--first fruits-return to 490 Church patronage, 609 Cibber, Colley, life of, 498 Clogher, diocess of, 478 Clonfert, see of, 483 Cloyne, see of, 482 Cold, mortality of infants from, 156 Collier, J. P., (see The History of English Collins, (see the Exhibition of the Royal Congress, scientific, 155 Cox, Rev. Robert, (see the Liturgy Re- Crichton, Sir W., (see Cholera) Cunningham, Rev. Peter, (see Nichols's Il- Cyclopædia, the Cabinet. England. By D. DARBY, Rev. Samuel, (see Nichols's Illus- Darnell, W. Ñ., (see the Correspondence Deakin, H. C., (see the Deliverance of Derry, diocess of, 479 Descriptive and Historical Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. By D'Israeli, (see the Cabinet Cyclopœpedia) Dogget, life of, 498 Doric Race, the History and Antiquities of unity of their opinions, 162-Develope- Dromore, bishopric of, 480 Drummond, James L., (see Letters to a Dyce, (see the Exhibition of the Royal E. EARTH, heat of the, 156 Eastlake, (see the Exhibition of the Royal Eastern Travellers, 158 Education in America, 473 England, church of, 485-remarks upon, -English and Jewish Tythe Systems com- Essay, Prize, 610 F. FACTS relating to the punishment of death |