4. That the bishops should have the right of appointing to the places of principals in the colleges and schools. The principal to appoint the professors; but the bishops to be nevertheless empowered to dismiss persons who may be incapable, or whose principles may be recognised as dangerous.

5. That the universities, as they now exist, shall be continued under the superintendence of the minister of the interior. The minister to be advised as to the means of joining thereto religious instruction, and of making literary talents flourish.

6. That the central commission of public instruction, the zeal and talents of which his majesty will honour and reward, should remain suppressed.

Engine Pipes: new manufacture.

The pipes of the engines used in France, for extinguishing fire, are made of flax, and are found to answer the purpose much better than those made of leather. They are woven in the same manner as the wicks of patent, lamps, and can be made of any length without a seam or joining. When the water runs a short time through the pipes, the flax swells and no water escapes, though the pressure be very great. They are more portable, not so liable to be out of repair, and do not cost by one half so much as the leather ones used in this country. This article is now manufactured in Glasgow.

The Bank of France.

The Moniteur of January 26 contains a long report on the state of the bank of France, made by M. Lafitte, provisional governor, at a general meeting of proprietors on the preceding day. He gave the following statement of the operations of the bank during the previous year. The sums discounted on commercial bills, for the first half year, amounted to 106,210,850 fr. and for the second half year to 97,554,493 fr. making a total of 203,565,323 francs. There were besides bills on the departments, to the amount of 10,966,243 fr. negotiated by the treasury.

M. Lafitte also stated, that the profits of the bank during the same year, arising from the interest on its capital and its discounts, amounted to 5,989,174 fr. The shareholders had in consequence received five and one-third per cent. on their shares, calculated at 1,200 fr. each, or six and two-fifths per cent. on their original value of 1,000 fr. The capital of the bank had also been increased by 5180 fr. which were carried to the reserve account, as directed by law.

The following are a few of the general observations with which the reporter concludes.

"In laying before you the state of the bank at such a period, the councilgeneral consoles itself for the smallness of the dividend which it has to offer you by congratulating itself and you that a part of the capital was not swallowed up in the general political wreck of France. An event unparalleled in history, which brought under our walls all Europe in arms against us, seemed impossible to occur again in the same century. Unfortunately, however, it did occur again, almost in the same year; for a different cause indeed, but attended with more alarming symptoms. Trade, the friend of peace, and the bank, which cannot prosper but with trade, are both necessarily compromised by great political convulsions. Nevertheless, in spite of so many dangers, and obstructions, you will see, certainly not without some surprise, that though the bank has not relaxed in its operations, and though its discounts have been very considerable, it has not sustained one single loss in this confusion, and not one known house has ceased to honour its engagements."

GERMANY.

A curious paper on the magnetism of the earth has been published in Schwegger's Journal, by Aansten. He endeavours to show that the earth has four magnetic poles. In 1769 one of the north magnetic poles was situated in north latitude 9 deg. 17 min. and east long. from Ferrol 277 deg. 40 min. 5 sec.

The Siberian north magnetic pole, in 1815, was situated in north lát. 85 deg. 21 min. 5 sec. and long, east. from Ferrol 133 deg. 42 min. In 1775, one of the south magnetic poles was in south lat. 71 deg. 26 min. 5 sec. and 150 deg. 53 and 3-4 min. east long. from Ferrol; the second in south lat. 77 deg. 16 min. 75 sec. and 254 deg. 23 min. east long. from Ferrol.

Antiquities.

Rome, Oct. 28.-There has just been found upon the Appian Way an ancient sun-dial, drawn upon marble, with the names of the winds in Greek. It is exactly calculated for the latitude of Rome. According to local circumstances, it is concluded to be the discus belonging to Herodes Atticus, and described by Vitruvius.

The statues from France are to be placed in the Vatican museum: 73,000 Scudi are to be devoted to its enlargement.

The king of Naples has ordered the continuation of the works at the exca vation of Pompeiia; two hundred workmen have been added to the former number; workmen are digging about the villa Mattei, by order of the prince of peace. Besides a Mosaic pavement, Scarcophagi, fragments of columns, &c. they have found a bust of Seneca, inscribed with his name.

Ancient Map of the world.

The late Dr. Vincent obtained for this country a fac simile of an ancient planisphere, or map of the world, delineated in the convent of Murano, at Venice. It is now in the British museum.

The first number is just published, of Popular Pastimes, being picturesque representations, beautifully coloured, of the customs and amusements of Great Britain, in ancient and modern times, accompanied with historical descriptions. To be continued monthly till completed in one volume.

Part IV. of the selection of one hundred and ten engravings, from baron Denon's celebrated travels in Egypt, is ready for publication. It contains a view of ruins at Medinet Abou: immense blocks of granite: view of the garden of the institute at Cairo: Egyptian barber: mode of passing the Nile: assembly of sheikhs: mode of making macaroni: hieroglyphics, size of nature: historical basrelief. This splendid work will be completed in twenty parts, folio, price five shillings each.

W. T. Brande, esq. has nearly ready to appear, A Descriptive Catalogue of the British Specimens deposited in the geological collection of the royal institution.

Limborch's Account of the Inquisition, abridged, and continued by extracts from subsequent writers, is printing in an octavo volume, with engravings.

Dr. Styles is preparing for the press, Considerations on the Revival of Popery in Europe, and the character and influence of secular establishments of reli. gion, one volume, octavo. This work will embrace a particular view of the pre sent state of ecclesiastical affairs in France.

A translation of Kotzebue's interesting work, entitled, The Russian Priso ner of War in France, will very shortly appear.

A Narrative of a Ten Years Residence at the Court of Tripoll, from the original correspondence in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tulby, esq. British consul, is preparing for the press, in a quarto volume, illustrated by several coloured plates.

Mr. Allen has in the press, Modern Judaism, or a brief account of the opinions, traditions, rites, and ceremonies, maintained and practised by the Jews in modern times.

Mr. Robert Buchanan, of Glasgow, will soon publish a work on the History and Construction of Steam Boats, illustrated by numerous engravings.

Shortly will be published, handsomely printed in three large quarto volumes, price 62. 158. The Origin of Pagan Idolatry, ascertained from historical testimony and circumstantial evidence. By the Rev. G. S. Faber, rector of Long Newton, Yarm.

Mr. T. Williams is preparing for the press, An Essay on Religious Liberty, in which will be considered-the primitive terms of Christian communion, the right of private judgment, the nature of Christ's kingdom, and the horrid effects of intolerance.

To commence on the 1st of March, with a correct likeness highly finished of a well known fashionable fop, No. 1. splendidly printed in post octavo, price 1s. 6d. of a new monthly work, entitled, The Busy Body, or men and manners, edited by Humphrey Hedgehog, esq. author of The General Post Bag, Rejected Odes, A month in Town, &c. &c.

Mr. Thibert of the university of Paris, proposes to publish A Genealogical Table, displaying the science of the French language, after a modern and excellent French author, who wrote and died in England. The price of the work to subscribers is not to exceed one guinea.

Mr. C. Earnshaw has in the press, in royal 16mo. An Abridgment of Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary; with additions, alterations, corrections, and eritical remarks. The explanatory part, a principle feature, will be copious, and the pronunciation intended to be subservient, will be simple and obvious.

Speedily will be published, The City of the Plague, a dramatic poem. By John Wilson, author of The Isle of Palms, &c.

Mr. John Weyland has in the press, in an octavo volume, The Principle of Population, as affected by the progress of society, with a view to moral and political consequences.

In the press, a new work entitled, The Elements and Genius of the French Language, being a natural and rational method of teaching a language with sciences, deduced from the analysis of the human mind.

Memoirs of the Ionian Isles, and of their relations with European Turkey, translated from the original manuscript of M. de Vandencourt, late general in the Italian service, with a very accurate and comprehensive map.

M. Puigblanch, the Spanish patriot, is about to publish The Inquisition Unmasked; or the triumph of humanity and liberality in Spain; being a history of the conduct and objects of that tribunal, and a dissertation on the necessity of its suppression.

Mr. C. J. Metcalfe is preparing A Translation of a Selection of the Letters of Ganganelli (Clement XIV.) in a duodecimo volume, with a sketch of his life prefixed.

Mr. Belsham is preparing A Letter to the Unitarians of South Wales, containing a reply to the bishop of St. David.

An Abridgment of Robinson's Scripture Characters is in a forward state, at press, in one volume, 12mo. for the use of schools.

The Rev. Dr. Hawker has nearly completed his Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, with the text at large. Part 37 is just published, and the work will be finished in the ensuing spring, making in the whole 40 parts. An edition of a smaller size, without the text, is also printed at a very moderate price.

A Treatise on Greyhounds, with observations on their treatment and disorders, is in the press.

Recently Published.

Egypt; a series of engravings, exhibiting the scenery, antiquities, architecture, costume, inhabitants, animals, &c. of that country; selected from the celebrated work by Vivant Denon. Part III. containing the temple of Thebes, at Kournou; the statues of Memnon: view of Karnak, at day-break: view of Luxor: remarkable ancient planisphere: Egyptian antiquities: twenty-two portraits of na. tives: will be completed in twenty parts, price 58. each.

Histoire de l'Origine des Progrès et de la Décadence des Diverses Factions, qui ont agité la France depuis 1789, jusqu'à l'abdication de Napoleon. Par Joseph Lavallée, ancien capitaine d'infanterie et ancien chef de division à la grande chancellerie de la legion d'honneur. 3 vol. 8vo. 11. 7s.

The Monthly Magazine for March last, having inserted some articles from the Analectic Magazine, makes the following remarks, in answer to a reproach contained in one of those articles against the affected contempt with which the writers of old England, and especially the critics, treat every thing written in this new world." Writers and editors in America, and in other countries, com. plain justly of that wicked spirit of writers in England, which seeks to create and perpetuate national animosities; justice, however, to the intelligent part of our country, compels us to explain that the writers in question are no legitimate part of the English public, but sordid agents of unprincipled ministers, who flourish best in times of public calamity, and are happy only in the degree in which they see others miserable. The practice is also part of a series of political frauds, designed to reconcile to political impositions the great and small vulgar, who, in every country, constitute the majority of the population; for he will not grumble who allows himself to be persuaded, that, whatever be the extent and variety of his sufferings, he is better off than all other people. This principle is illustrated at length in Machiavel; who is still the standard of truth and virtue among European statesmen; though its influence, happily, has not reached America. There is, besides, another and a better apology for our national literati, namely: -that many of the writers in question are not Englishmen, but anglicised Germans, who are preferred for such dirty work; and, having obtained the control of several of our public journals, propagate, through their medium, doctrines of servility and passive obedience, and other sentiments which are alien to the ancient and honoured feelings of Englishmen."

John Scott, the author of A Visit to Paris in 1814, has published a volume entitled, Paris Revisited in 1815, by way of Brussels. We select a passage which does credit to the author:-" The political institutions of society are at least as far from having reached perfection, as the arts and sciences; and if change and experiment are not so practicable in the former as in the latter, yet, in proportion as it is mischievous to tamper with them but when the occasion is clear, the opportunity striking, and the call urgent, it is dangerous and guilty to withstand those great invitations which at intervals summon mankind to improve their condition.-It would be stupidly base to set down all these disturbances that have of late years agitated Europe, to a wilful and unfounded temper of popular insubordination:-the convulsion can only fairly be considered as a natural working, accompanied with painful and diseased symptoms, but occasioned by the growth of men's minds beyond the institutions that had their origin in a very inferior state of information. Nor should England consider herself out of the need of advancing herself further, because she is already advanced beyond her neighbours; on the contrary, her strength and wisdom lies in maintaining her wonted prerogative of being the first to move forward in a safe road,-of first catching the bright prospect of further attainments,—and securing for herself, in the independence and fortitude of her judgment, what others tardily copy from her practice. The vigorous habits of action and thought, which her rulers VOL. VII.

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have found so valuable in the late struggle for national fame and pre-eminence, are only to be preserved, as they were engendered,-namely, by admitting popular opinion to busy itself with the internal affairs of the country, to exercise itself freely on the character of its political establishments, to grapple on even ground with professional and official prejudices and prepossessions, and finally, to knock every thing down that does not stand firm in its own moral strength.This is England's duty to herself,-and to the world at large she owes an equally sacred one: viz. so to regulate the application of her influence and power, that it shall oppose no tendency to good,-that it shall never be available to evil and bigoted designs, masking themselves under canting professions,—but justify those loud and confident calls which she has every where addressed to generous hearts and fine spirits."

The hon. and rev. FRANCIS HENRY EGERTON is printing at Paris a new edition of the Life of his ancestor the lord high chancellor EGERTON, which was written by him, and published in the fifth volume of the Biographia Britannica; the author will subjoin a Life of JOHN EGERTON, bishop of Durham, and FRANCIS, late duke of BRIDGEWATER. A family whose name is so intimately interwoven with our domestic history, distinguished as it has been in the annals of the law, the church, and of our internal commercial prosperity, certainly deserved such a monument, in which at some future period a niche will doubtless be allotted to the worthy successor by whom it is raised. This work, which will extend to at least two 4to. volumes of 500 pages each, will comprise about 2,000 manuscript pieces, important state-papers, and other authentic documents. It treats of a great number of points of law, equity, and divinity-civil, military, and ecclesiastical history-finance and parliamentary affairs-literature, and the discoveries recently made in the arts and sciences during the period which it embraces—as also of the state of society, manners, and character of the English nation, at the time when the bases of our civil and religious liberty began to be fixed. It is not intended for sale, but merely for the gratification of the author's friends; on the other hand, we congratulate the public on the free access allowed by this gentleman to his vast collection of manuscripts. Under the head of Turenne, he communicates the following intelligence, which every lover of literature will know how to appreciate:

"I have had no objection to state as one of the curious and rare articles with which my collection abounds that, amongst my manuscripts, henceforth de nominated 'ASHBRIDGE COLLECTION: MSS. FRANCIS HENRY EGERTON, there exist, at letter T, v. xxxiv. 1, thirty original autograph letters of the Mareschal de Turenne, and also two other pieces which particularly relate to the history of his life.

Mr. THOS. TAYLOR, has issued proposals for publishing by subscription, in 2 vols. royal quarto, a translation of the Six Books of Proclus on the theology of Plate; to which a Seventh Book will be added, in order to supply the deficien cy of another book on this subject, which was written by Proclus, but since lost; also a translation of Proclus' Elements of Theology. In these volumes will also be included, by the same, a translation of the Treatise of Proclus on Providence and Fate; a translation of extracts from his treatise, entitled Ten Doubts con. cerning Providence: and a translation of extracts from his treatise on the Subsistence of Evil: as preserved in the Bibliotheca Gr. of Fabricius.-250 copies only will be printed.

The Life of the late Thomas Holcroft, written by himself, and announced for publication soon after his death, has been for some reason not assigned hither. to, withheld. It is however now about to be laid before the public, with a continuation to the time of his death, by some literary members of his family.

Dr. Granville has in the press a translation of that part of Orfila's General Toxicology which more particularly relates to poisons derived from the animal and vegetable kingdoms. This subject having formed a very important part of Dr. Granville's scientific studies, he has been enabled to accompany his translation with copious notes and additions.