requisite for removing the materials. These are for the most part the habitations of only the poorer class of people; yet some times even palaces are erected by this | Roy, next Wednesday. Poor Tokely, who simple and novel method. In the Vol of the Literary Gazette for last year, page 808, an account was given of the extent and population of several European states, into which, from an error in the calculations, a series of mistaken results unluckily found their way. We did not observe this till too late for remedy, and beg now, as the best amends we can make, to present our readers with the statement of M. Crome.-ED. + Fifteen to a degree, in nearly the common German miles, which exceed four English: thus the square mile here expressed will be about eighteen English. Multiplying by 18 will consequently give pretty accurately the superficial extent in our measure. ++ Nine one-third Rhenish florins make a pound sterling, and thus the revenue of England is stated at above 44 millions. THE DRAMA. DRURY LANE.—Mr. Rae has resumed his station on these boards, after a long and severe indisposition," as the bills have it, though they do not express the nature of the complaint, which has been civil enough to restore him to the stage with unimpaired good looks and vigour. The most common disorder of poor actors and poor critics is water in the system, but they generally contrive to get over that, and return to their several avocations. Mr. R. performed Beverley, in The Gamester, with a herd about him, not one of whom would be tolerated in a barn; and he therefore seemed really to have improved into a capital instead of an indifferent tragedian. Such is the force of contrast. Mr. Kean has come back from his Sheffield and other engagements, and Brutus is again the order of the night, but can no longer people the theatre without the aid of many orders. The Pantomime is also endured, and things go on as badly as before, notwithstanding that heavy affair of Flodden Field has been consigned to oblivion, after nine nights of painful existence. Bad dramas seem to have just as many lives as fable gives to cats; they cannot get over the ninth mortality. At the end of that time the public, and not the authors, have to determine the question, and the miserable productions are seen no more. COVENT GARDEN relies on its Pantomime and the same change of plays which have heretofore been so attractive. Tragedy and Comedy take their turn, and we are glad to see it announced that Opera too will shortly be added, as Miss Stephens resumes her engagements as Diana Vernon in Rob so admirably performed "the Dugal Creature," died last Saturday. He was a coarse, but, in several characters, an original and effective actor: we fear that irregularity of life, and proneness to the enjoyment of the liquid enemy of mankind," have hurried him to a premature grave. His Dirk Hatterick, Peter Pastoral, Crockery, and other parts of quaint humour, will scarcely hnd a more laughable representative. VARIETIES. NEW COMETS.-The Paris Journals announce, that M. Pons, of Marseilles, has discovered a Comet in the constellation Pegasus, and another in the constellation Hydra. According to the observations of M. Blaupain, this new star was on the 30th of November, at 17h. 37m. of mean time, reckoned from mid-day, at Marseilles, by 179. 38. of right ascension, and 29. 17. south declination. On the 1st of December at 17h. 57m. of mean time, the right ascension was 180. 39. and the declination 28. 47. This Comet is easily visible through a night telescope. It is of a pale nebulosity, round, and from five to six minutes in diameter. The nucleus is very confused. As the motion of declination carries the Comet towards the north, it is natural to suppose that in a few days it will have acquired more intensity, and perhaps become visible to the naked eye. NEW DYE. A chymist of Copenhagen has discovered a means of producing a lively yellow colour for dyeing cloth. He gathers the tops of the potatoes when ready to flower, presses the juice, mixes it with more or less water, and suffers the cloth to remain in it during twenty-four hours. He then dips it in spring water. The cloth may be either of wool, silk, cotton, or flax. By plunging the cloth thus tinged with yellow into a vessel of blue, a brilliant and lasting green is obtained. Cattle consumed in London.-The consumption of sheep and lambs in London in twelve months, has been lately estimated at sand seven hundred. The number of horned the number of one million sixty-two thoucattle slaughtered, at one hundred and sixty-four thousand; and by the inspectors return, it appears, that the number of horse hides produced at Leadenhall market amounted to twelve thousand nine hundred. the Olympic Circus at Paris a drama enThey have got up for representation at titled the Death of Kleber, or the French in Egypt. Surely the French are a people resembling the lady in Prior's tale of the ladle, "For what is grave they turn to farce." Fenelon (says the Marquis de Louville, in his Memoires Secrets on the establishment of the House of Bourbon in Spain, recently published at Paris) when directing he education of Philip V. of Spain, laid it down as a rule, that "the sons of Kings ought to fear the doing of evil, and not punishment;" he of course abolished personal correction. The same author has the following anecdote. The Prime Minister, Duc de Montaussier, who it is said was the model for Moliere's Misanthrope, solicited from Louis XIV. a place for a person of no merit, who had recently become allied to him. The King, in some surprise, said, "But, M. de Montaussier, do you advise me to grant that which you request?' No, by my faith, Sire,' replied the Duke, but your Majesty makes so many elections without my advice, that you might add this to the number.' His Majesty laughed, but the appointment was not given. A little girl, 5 years of age, was equally fond of her mother and grandmother. It being the birth-day of the latter, her mother said to her, "My dear, you must pray to God to bless your grandmamma, and that she may live to be very old." The child looked with some surprise at her mother, who, perceiving it, said, will not you pray to God to bless your grandmamma, and that she may very old ?" Ah! mamma,' said the child, 'she is very old already, I will rather that she may become young.' Well, become pray A lady who had just parted with her housemaid, asked her cook if she would take the housemaid's place; but she answered, "Madam, the cook and the cat have always something to eat, but the housemaid, footman, and dog, must wait till it is their turn." ORIGINAL ANECDOTES, BY PHILARCHON. It will be remembered that after the battle of Leipsic, a subscription was set on foot, throughout England, for the benefit of the suffering widows and orphans. It was no sooner known to the Princes of Brunswick (who were then resident at Vauxhall) than they agreed between themselves, unknown to their preceptor, to give all their pocketmoney, and a hoard of foreign gold coin which had been some time in collecting, in aid of the fund. This resolved, they rerequested their tutor to take a ride to Ackermann's, where the subscriptions were deposited; and upon their arrival there, to his no small astonishment and admiration, they pulled out the bag in which the treasure had been kept, and requested it might be conveyed to Mr. Ackermann, with the observation that it was all they had to give." So singular a mark of generosity in children both under twelve years of age, has been perhaps seldom equalled. That it is a fact the writer of this will vouch. From the clamour raised by the mob at a late election, whenever a vote arrived for any other than their chosen four, many quietly disposed persons were deterred, through fear of being scouted or worse, from going with their good wi. hes for Sir William's success. A worthy and no less witty Divine was asked, why he did A curious work for a foreign country has lately been published in Paris: it is an octavo volume in defence of the character of our Richard the Third, by a M. Rey, a Frenchman, who goes not only over the writers, but adduces new arguments to ground of Horace Walpole and other has been much and unjustly vilified by shew that this confessedly brave monarch history. A Parisian Critic, in reviewing his writings, denominates M. de Pradt "The Prince of Lost Opportunities!" Saturday, 9-Thermometer from 43 to 48. Barometer from 29, 71 to 29, 75. Wind SW. 3.-Cloudy, (with much rain in the afternoon) till the evening, when it became clear. Rain fallen, 125 of an inch. Sunday, 10-Thermometer from 35 to 52. Barometer from 30, 07 to 29, 80. Wind SW. 3.-Morning clear; the rest of the evening.-Rain fallen, 325 of an inch. day generally cloudy, with heavy rain in the Monday, 11-Thermometer from 35 to 46. Barometer from 29, 90 to 30, 00. Wind SW. 3.-Weather very changeable, with a little rain in the morning.-Rain fallen, 25 of Tuesday, 12-Thermometer from 35 to 49. an inch. Barometer from 30, 30 to 30, 33. 025 of an inch. Wind SW. 1.-Generally clear.-Rain fallen Wednesday, 13-1 hermometer from 35 to 45. Barometer from 30, 33 to 30,09 Wind SW. 1-Cloudy, with a little rain in the afternoon, till the evening, when it became clear Latitude 51.37.32. N. Longitude 3.51. W. JOHN ADAMS Edmonton, Middlesex. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Hindu arithmetic and geometry, has been The Lilawati, a celebrated treatise on translated by Dr. John Taylor from the original Sanscrit, and read to the Literary Society of Bombay. As this work has been Europe, it is now printing under the frequently called for by men of science in The Editor has received a letter wit the learned translator at the expense of the only three words, which are quite inexpl the post-mark of Manchester, containin Society.-Trans. of the Lit. Soc. of Bom-cable to him. If they have any meaning, bay, just published. eye of refer to any inclosure, accidentally omitter he shall be glad of an explanation, as supposes no one would be at the trouble! pay the postage of a letter merely to rai the curiosity of an enigma. We beg to assure E. B. that we do n intentionally neglect the notice of any o sent to us. There may sometimes be delay we cannot recall to memory the instance. alludes to, and if assisted in this respec shall endeavour to remedy inattention any which, amid the multitude of matters pres ing on us, we may have been guilty. 1. Memoirs of John Evelyn, Esq. second edition. -2. Horace Walpole's Letters to the Rev. Wm. Cole and others.-3. Florence Macarthy, an Irish Tale, by Lady Morgan, fourth edition.-4. Sketches of the Philosophy of Life, by Sir Charles Morgan.-5. The concluding Volume of Franklin's Memoirs, comprising his posthumous writings.-6. Dr. Watkins's Memoirs of her late Majesty, Queen Charlotte.-7. Woman, a Poem; by E. S. 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London 1819. 4to. pp. 316. land, Esq. of the Bombay Medical Esta blishment. dra, where alone the stones are burnt The mines are in the wildest part ward about four feet wide; the deepest we the jungle, and are very numerous; they are shafts working perpendicularly down rizontal direction at the bottom, but in consaw was fifty feet: some extend in an hosequence of the earliness of the season few this turn necessary, and in those that had, had reached a depth sufficient to render it was not carried many feet. In using the term "earliness of season" it is proper to mention, that the nature of the pits is such as to prevent their being worked a second year on account of the heavy rains, which by the same curiosity. I left Baroach (the Accompanied by one or two others actuated Bargasa of the ancients, Bhreegoo Khsheto of the Hindoos) on the third of December When Sir James Mackintosh was at 1814, about five o'clock P.M. and comBombay, it is well known that his emi-mitted myself to the celebrated and sacred nent talents and love of literature and stream Rewa, commonly called Nurbuda, science contributed, in a great degree, at the turn of the tide. About midnight to the establishment of a Society, the twelve miles N.E. of Baroach.* At daywe arrived at the island of Kubeer Bur, first volume of the Transactions of which break we landed opposite the village of is now offered to the British reader. We Neemoodra, which is three miles distant may add that this work, transferring so from the river, and south of Kubeer Bur, cause the banks to fall in, so that new ones large and interesting a portion of Asiatic where we found our horses waiting the research to the knowledge of Europe, is, mines lie about twelve miles to the east-fair season. We arrived at the mines about are opened at the commencement of every as we are assured, indebted to the same ward of this village. About five miles beseven o'clock A.M. when none of the workenlightened mind for that superintend-yond Neemoodra we came to a rivulet named Kaweeree, and although of no im- nied us as a guide from Neemoodra. We men had come except one, who accompa ance which has fitted it for the public portance during the dry season, it becomes eye. were informed that the fire-damp was not a most formidable river in the rains. Its miners did not descend till the sun had uncommon in the mines, and that the risen sufficiently to dispel the vapours. We went to the bottom of one pit, about 30 feet ladders, by means of small niches for the deep, without any assistance from ropes or feet and hands on opposite sides of the pit, but understood that the miners always made avail ourselves, as the workmen at the close use of a rope to hold by, of which we could not of their labour carry to their homes the simple instruments of their vocation, together with the stones which the day's labour has A production so miscellaneous and important is not to be described and dismissed in a single Number of our publication (which is only by its rapidity and frequency of appearance enabled to convey a just idea of such subjects,) and we must therefore rather select one of its heads of valuable contents for our present purpose, than attempt a general analysis. We may premise, however, that the mythology and manners, the poetry, religions, antiquities, climate, annals, and natural history of Asia, are all happily illustrated by the various essays, applied to these topics, which its scope embraces. An admirable address, delivered by the President (Sir J. Mackintosh) prefaces the scientific part, and in the latter we especially remark an account of the Caves in Salsette, some translations from the Persian and Chinese, description of the celebrated Cave Temple of Elephanta, and other matters, which indeed are of so much merit as to render this mention of any particular contribution invidious. We have chosen for our first extract a subject which will, we trust, not only gratify our scientific, but also our fair readers:-it is rarely that we can hope to unite their suffrages; for the latter too often think what pleases the former dry, and in return the former, condemn what delights the latter as trifling! For once let us hope they will agree, since the theme is the Cornelian, in which the mineralogist and the beauty are alike interested. Account of the CORNELIAN MINES in the neighbourhood of Baroach; by John Cop-| VOL. III. bed consists chiefly of quartz and agate show both colours, sometimes distinct and sometimes mixed, and of a pinky hue; while the colour was uniform, or very |