Parliament is the properp lace for discussing the subjects alluded to in Mr. CAYLEY'S Letter to Lord Milton.

We like to see knowledge and love of reading diffused, and therefore wish success to the Magnet, and Periodical Review.

The Cottager's Friendly Guide is a work of uncommon utility, and one capable of converting a barren sandhill into a mountain of precious metal.

If the Unitarians adopt doctrines offensive to the pious class of Christians who expect salvation through Christ as God, Dr. CHANNING cannot prevent that Exclusion and Denunciation of which he complains, for so to act is an express injunction of the Apostle Paul, &c. &c.

We deem the Catechisms of Christian Instruction, Zoology, Geography, and French and Latin Grammar, so satisfactorily as they are compiled, so full as they are of information, and so cheap as they are in cost, such excellent things, that we sincerely hope the currency of them may be very extensive. This we wish, because the public will derive from them infinite instruction, and the booksellers (herein benefactors also) thus receive their merited remuneration.

We are happy to see Vol. VI. of Dr. DIBDIN'S Sunday Library, for we heartily pray, that the high reason of the Divines selected by him, may cure the diseased appetite for trash which is symptomatic of hyper-religious chlorosis.

We are glad to announce the third, fourth, and fifth volumes of the Works of Jeremy Taylor, edited by the Rev. T. S. HUGHES, B.D. The first volume of Dr. Jeremy Taylor's Works was noticed in p. 42. He here appears as a good pious and ingenious ascetic, who deemed every pleasurable sensation a sin, and unnecessary misery a duty.

The Rev. ROBERT HALL'S Sermon on Infulelity is truly excellent.

We recommend to the Trade Mr. HARRISON'S pamphlet On the proportions of the constituent parts of Bells.

Modern Claims to Miraculous Gifts of the Spirit, considered in a Sermon, by the Rev. W. HARNESS. A certain conjuror in Scripture wished to buy the gifts of the Spirit, because he could have made a fortune by them. In his time pretended holy orders were not so good as the real, nor the cash of spiritual gifts negociable by bills of exchange; now several persons will discount them. But, says Mr. Harness :-" Before this modern gift of tongues is received as a

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miracle that ought to affect my understanding, it is incumbent on the persons so assuming to be gifted, to inform me where the natives are to be found among whom such tongues as theirs are spoken." p. 11. We will tell him where-In the land of the quart-bottles, from which men of full size creep out and in; and of whom one used the public scurvily some years ago.

The Harmonicon continues to put forth in each publication several popular compositions, (partly extracted from new works and partly original) and to furnish a correct view of the events of the musical world, with intelligent critiques on most of the novelties in that science. We have seen with pleasure some well compiled memoirs of eminent musical professors; those of Dr. Cooke, Greatorex, and Jonah Bates, are particularly interesting. In the number for November is a pretty Rondino à la Paganini by C. G. Lickl; and a Waltz by Hummel, singular for its simplicity.

We implore Country-gentlemen to patronize the Earnest Appeal on the necessity of forming Associations in every town and village in England, for encouraging industrious Labourers and Mechanics, by providing allotments of land, which they may rent and cultivate for their own advantages; by the Secretary of the Wantage Society.

SAMOUELLE'S Entomological Cabinet will be published monthly, in duodecimo, with six coloured plates. The author of this useful key to the study of British Entomology has been for many years keeper of the insects in the British Museum, and is also known to the world by his very excellent "Compendium on the subject, published some years since, and which essentially contributed to promote a taste for the pursuit of this interesting science. The drawings for the entertaining and instructive work now before us, have been made by the author from nature, and the plates are beautifully and faithfully coloured; and these, with the very accurate, pleasing, and popular descriptions accompanying them, present at once" a HandBook to the Juvenile, a Text-Book to the Tyro, and a Magazine to the scientific."

We entirely approve of the Temperance Codes.

The Anti-Slavery Reporter, No. 91, insults, (as usual) in p. 486, the sister societies for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and the Propagation of the Gospel. How the abolition of slavery can be recommended by creating unnecessary enemies, and the cloven foot not be betrayed by making the work before us a vehicle of injuring the regular clergy, and deifying sectaries, we know not; but many will think, that the abolition is

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We congratulate the author of Nature displayed in her mode of teaching French, hecause his work has reached a twelfth edition, an incident which implies a favourable opinion on the part of the public. The author must, however, excuse our smile at the Gallicism of making Ismael address his mother Hagar (pt. i. p. 49) by the title of "Mama; and a lady's styling herself "desolée," because she had a previous engagement when invited to a card-party.

The Usurer's Daughter, a novel. Misers can only be represented in caricature, and their meannesses are frequently interesting. People often enjoy them, especially young ones, as much as children do the tricks in pantomines. The story before us exhibits one in which there is nihil humani but the ruling passion. The novel contains also some very excellent reflections, not worthy Rochefoucault, and not so artificial and useless.

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We find in Mr. Wood's Addresses for Sunday Schools, a list of books recommended, none of which books appear (we believe) in the catalogue of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. We by no means say, that there are not well-intentioned books not included in that list; only that the author, who is the Rev. Samuel Wood, B.A. has not apparently written this book for the Sunday scholars of the Establishment. After church he puts [chapel] in brackets, and mentions "Catechisms," not "the Catechism."

We think that Mr. ALFRED BARTHOLOMEW has been successful in his Sacred Lyrics, an unusual circumstauce.

ROYAL ACADEMY.

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Manuscript Memorials is a miscellanean collection of serious and comic, in verse and prose. In the Chapter of Errors and Anachronisms are mentioned the following bulls (inter alia) of our great authors.

Nor yet perceived the vital spirit fled,
But still fought on, nor knew that he was dead.
Johnson.
When first young Maro in his noble mind
A work t'outlast immortal Rome designed.
Pope.

Light readers are flies; and we think that they may insert their probosces with much satisfaction, in several of the sweets of this collection. University undergraduates will highly relish various sportive articles of local relation, for the work is quite charac teristic of their literature, out of serious study.

We have read with pleasure various lines in Mr. BRYDSON's Pictures of the Past.

Mrs. CURLING makes a very respectable figure in her Poetical Pieces.

We have to announce VALPY's publication of Plutarch's Lives, which is appearing in monthly volumes. He was the first and best of garrulists—the facile princeps of tellers of long stories.

The Last of the Sophis, a Poem, by C. F. HENNINGSEN, a Minor, shows facility of versification, and he who has a fondness for practising a thing is almost certain to improve in it.

The Poems by WILLIAM DANBY, Esq. are animated by a fine poetical spirit.

We are glad to see that Mr. BROster has been so successful in his Plan for remoring impediments of Speech. We only wish that he could transfer a few of the latter to interminable talkers, and tiresome prosists.

The Sailor's Bride, a tale of home, by the author of the Months of the Year, &c. is a pathetic and interesting story, illustrative of the bad consequences of anticipating uncertain evils; for it is to be recollected, that such evils may never ensue at all, or, if they do, not be so severe as apprehended.

At a general assembly of the academicians, held at Somerset House, the following distributions of premiums took place :-To Mr. Daniel M'Clise, for the best Historical Painting, (subject, the Choice of Hercules,) the gold medal and the "Discourses of the Presidents Reynolds and West," handsomely bound and inscribed. To Mr. Sebastian Wyndham Arnald, for the

best Group in Sculpture, the gold medal and the "Discourses of the Presidents Reynolds and West."-To Mr. Eden Upton Eddis, for the best Copy made in the Painting School, the silver medal and the "Lectures of the Professors Barry, Opie, and Fuseli.”To Mr. Robert Martin, for a copy made in the Painting School, the silver medal.-To Mr. William Edward Frost, for the best Drawing from the Life, the silver medal and the "Lectures of the Professors Barry,

Opie, and Fuseli."-To Mr. Charles West Cope, for a Drawing from the Life, the silver medal.-To Mr. Edgar George Papworth, for the best Model from the Life, the silver medal.-To Mr. Henry Fenning, for the best Drawings of the London University, the silver medal and the "Lectures of the Professors Barry, Opie, and Fuseli." -To Mr. John Crake, for Drawings of the London University, the silver medal.-To Mr. Edward Ridley, for the best Drawings from the Antique, the silver medal and the "Lectures of the Professors Opie and Fuseli."-To Mr. John Sluce, for a Drawing from the Antique, a silver medal.-To Mr. Frederick Orson Rossi, for the best Model from the Antique, the silver medal and the "Lectures of the Professors Opie and Fuseli."-To Mr. Henry James Hakewill, for a model from the Antique, the silver medal.

After the distribution, the President addressed a discourse to the candidates and students; and the General Assembly appointed officers for the ensuing year, when Sir Martin Archer Shee was unanimously re-elected President.

The Literary Gazette," in stating the distribution of these premiums, thus alludes to the gentleman to whom was awarded the gold medal for the best Historical Painting :-"It has been our fortune to know Mr. M'Clise from the commencement of his London career, and we were the first to be attracted by, and publicly to notice, the promise of his talent. Four years since, with doubt and diffidence, he presented to that Academy, from which he has now taken the highest degree in the arts, a probationary drawing to enable him to become a student; and he has since annually carried away the first medals in his respective classes. Last year Mr. M'Clise obtained, at the same time, the first medal in the painting school and the first medal in the life-a circumstance, we believe, without parallel in the annals of the Institution. He has now gathered the last laurel."

Mr. Parris has been appointed Historical Painter to the Queen; her Majesty having previously purchased a work which he had just completed. Mr. Parris is known as the painter of one of the most astonishing productions of modern times-the Panorama of London at the Coloseum.

The remarkable name of Eugene Aram, belonging to a man of unusual talents and acquirements, but unhappily associated with a deed of murder, was one which deeply interested our grandfathers, as well from the circumstances of the discovery of the murder after the lapse of fourteen years, as from the great ability of the defence delivered by the culprit at his trial. Now, when seventy years have since elapsed, two works of fiction, founded on this interesting story, are

published at the same time. One is a novel by Mr. Bulwer; and the other a poem, The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer, by Thos. Hood, esq.; who has shown in this fascinating production that he is as much a master of the truly pathetic as of the truly comic. It is illustrated by the very tasteful and powerful pencil of W. Harvey; which has supplied subjects for eight perfect gems of the art of engraving on wood, executed by Messrs. Branston and Wright. We have intimated that Mr. Hood, in this tale, has as it were put off his former merry self; nor has he once committed the sin of punning. On the wrapper, however, we find a humourous announcement of a little book on the Epsom Races; as a companion to the very successful poem he has before published, "The Epping Hunt," which was illustrated with six engravings in wood, after the humourous designs of George Cruikshank.

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The Portrait of Thomas Telford, esq. F.R.S. L. & E. which was painted by Mr. S. Lane, and now ornaments the apartments of the Institution of Civil Engineers, (of which Mr. Telford is President) has been beautifully engraved by Mr. W. Raddon, in the size of 13 inches by 17. It is one of the most splendidly engraved portraits that have ever been produced in this country; and will enable the friends of Mr. Telford to indulge themselves with a delightful record of his highly intellectual countenance.

Tric-trac is another excellent work of the burin of Mr. Raddon. The original picture by Teniers is in the collection of Henry Thomas Hope, esq. M.P. It represents the interior of a village hostelry, where a gallant cavalier and a shrewd old bourgeois are playing a species of backgammon. Two other figures, of both the ranks described, form the spectators; and in the back-ground are two clever military groups, one standing in conversation, and the other boozing by the fire. We are justified in giving this engraving the high praise that it is worthy of the great master it copies. The seamed countenance of the old man is truly admirable. It is executed in a cabinet size.

The Monastic Annals of Teviotdale, by the Rev. James Morton, F.S.A.E. The first Part of this work (which is intended to be completed in six portions) is wholly occupied by a well compiled account of the Abbey of Jedburgh. From its situation on the Scottish Border, this abbey could not avoid partaking largely in the national contests and private feuds between England and Scotland. These are minutely detailed by Mr. Morton, and add an unusual interest to his narrative. The Number is illustrated by two good views and a plan of Jedburgh Abbey, drawn and engraved by W. H. Lizars.

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

Dec. 23. The subject for the Chancellor's gold medal for the next year is "The taking of Jerusalem in the First Crusade."

The subjects for the Members' prizes are -for the Bachelors, "Qua præcipue parte debilis sit et manca Veterum Philosophorum de Officiis doctrina?"

For the Undergraduates,

"Inter silvas Academi quærere verum." The subjects for Sir Wm. Browne's gold medals are-For the Greek ode,

"Quid dedicatum poscit Apollinem,
Vates."

For the Latin Ode,

tional Airs of the United Kingdom. I conclusion, Mr. C. maintained that, but for ! the prejudices of influential individuals, the acquisition of this fascinating science might be greatly facilitated. A discussion followed, in which the President, Mr. T. W. Gleadow, Mr. T. J. Buckton, Mr. W. H. Dikes, Dr. Warwick, and Messrs. Higginson and Ibbotson took a part; after whire Mr. Cummins made an animated reply, and the proceedings closed.

HINTS TO COLLECTORS OF BOOKS.

Glass cases do not preserve books. Let the shelves, backs, and sides of the case be of well seasoned wainscot, but not deal f

Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.'

The premium for the Hulsean dissertation is this year adjudged to George Langshaw, B.A. Fellow of St. John's college. Subject

"The Evidences of the Truth of the

Let the shelves be wide enough to admit air behind the books, and let no book touch the back. Leave space above the books to let air pass over them. Let the books stand close together that the leaves may not sepa rate; and to prevent the books from tripping aside, have one or two wooden books of oak lettered on the back, in every range, to close up vacancies. Avoid nailing baize or leather or any thing else upon the edges of the shelves, to keep off the dust; for if the room be dry the fine particles settled upon the closed edges of the leaves is a preservation against worm, moth, mould, and mildew; but the poison of damp is irresistible, and dry rot will ruin books at a distance. Books

that have been used in boards, and so well dried before they are bound, have the best

Time."

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF

HULL.

Dec. 16. The fourth meeting of this Society, for the present session, was held in the Lecture Room, Kingston Square, C. Frost, Esq. President, in the chair. A very interesting Lecture (delivered orally) was given by Mr. Cummins, On Musical Education. After penegyrising the science, sketching its early history in Europe, and noticing the obstacles it had to encounter from the absurd attempts to make it a subject of legislation, by introducing a system of intervals now universally prohibited, Mr. C. referred to the subject of notation,-exhibited some curious specimens of ancient music-pointed out the senseless jargon of the English musical nomenclature showed the superiority which the French and German teachers possess in this respect -the names of the notes, in these languages, being indicative of their aspect and character, or relative value. The Society of Ancient Music, and its pernicious influence in retarding the advancement of the Art, were pointedly adverted to; and some interesting remarks were made on the Na

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maker is often in fault before the binder. Open your windows frequently in fair dry weather, be it summer or winter. Russia leather is beneficial.

INVENTION FOR ENLARGING OR DIMINISH

ING ENGRAVINGS FOR PORCELAIN.

In the report made by the committee appointed to examine into the progress of the arts and manufactures in France, as exemplified by specimeus exhibited at the Louvre in 1819, attention is drawn to a curious process, whereby a porcelain manufacturer was enabled, on being furnished with an engraved copper-plate, to produce impressions on any scale that might be required, whether larger or smaller than the original. For this purpose no second plate of copper was needed; and the enlarged or diminished copies might be furnished in the course of a very few hours. It is to be regretted that no description was given of the means employed for effecting this curious process; but the committee, who personally witnessed its execution, expressed themselves perfectly satisfied as to its efficiency, and awarded an honorary gold medal to the inventor.—Aun. de Chym, et de Phys. tom. xiii. p. 94, quoted in Lardner's Cyclopædia.

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NEW BOILING APPARATUS. Mr. Perkins, the celebrated engineer, has recently discovered and obtained a patent for a new mode of boiling, by a process so simple that it is a subject of surprise to all who see it that it has not been earlier among our useful improvements. It consists in placing within a boiler, of the form common to the purpose to which it is applied, and of all capacities, from coffee-pots to steamboilers, a vessel so placed that it may, by slight stays, be kept at equal distances from the sides and the bottom of the boiler, and having its rim below the level of the liquid: the inner vessel has a hole in the bottom, about one-third of its diameter. On the application of the fire to the boiler, the heated liquor rises in the space between the two vessels, and its place is supplied by the descent of the column in the inner vessel, or, as Mr. Perkins calls this part of the apparatus, the circulator; for the ascending portion having the space it occupied supplied by the descending liquid in the centre, and the level of the centre being kept up by the running in of the heated portion which has risen on the sides, a circulation rapidly begins and continues; thus bringing into contact with the heated bottom and sides of the boiler the coldest portion of the liquid. By this process the rapidity of evaporation is excessive, far exceeding that of any method previously known; whilst the bottom of the boiler, having its acquired heat constantly carried off by the circulating liquid, never burns out, nor rises in temperature many degrees above the heat of the liquid. In many manufactures this is a most important discovery, especially in salt-works, brewers' boilers, and for steam-boilers; and, applied to our culinary vessels, no careless cook can burn what she has to dress in a boiler by neglecting to stir it, as the circulation prevents the bottom of the boiler from ever acquiring heat enough to do mischief. We need hardly add that this discovery is esteemed by men of science to be one of the most useful and important of the present day.

BRITISH AND AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.

In America, where newspapers are not taxed, 555,416 advertisements are inserted in eight newspapers in New York, while 400 English and Irish papers contained, in the same space of time, only 1,105,000. The twelve New York daily papers contain more advertisements than all the newspapers of England and Ireland; and the numbers issued annually in America is 10,000,000, while in Great Britain it is less than one-tenth of that number. Advertisements, which in England cost seventeen dollars, are inserted in America for about a dollar (fifty cents.); and an article which costs annually for advertising in the United States twenty-eight dollars, is liable in England to a charge of 900 dollars.

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VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE PACIFIC.

His Majesty's ship Beagle, commanded by Capt. R. Fitzroy, has lately sailed for the above object. The expedition will commence scientific operations on the coast of Patagonia, at the Rio Negro, and examine the coast so far as the southern part of the Gulf of St. George, at which place the late surveys of Captain King, in the Adventure, began. There are many points on this coast, particularly to the southward of the Rio Negro, which are laid down at random, having never been closely examined. The Falkland Islands form also an important point for survey; these, with the exception of the eastern islands, never having been thoroughly examined. The exterior coasts of the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego, and the shores of the principal channels, will employ the officers of the Beagle a considerable time, as well as the dangerous coast of the continent in the Pacific Ocean to the southward of Chiloe, which is rendered more so from its boisterous climate, and exposure to the south-west gales. The most interesting part of the Beagle's survey will be among the coral islands of the Pacific Ocean, which afford many points for investigation of a scientific nature beyond the mere occupation of the surveyor. The attention of Captain Fitzroy and his officers will be directed to many useful inquiries respecting these islands, and the hypothesis of their being formed on submarine volcanoes will be put to the test. The lagoons, which are invariably formed by the coral ridge, will be minutely examined; and the surveys of them will form, with those of Captain Beechey in his late voyage, the basis of comparison with others at a future period, by which the progress of the islands will be readily detected. In her course through the Polynesian Archipelago, the Beagle will visit and ascertain the positions of many islands which are doubtful; and others, whose existence is also uncertain, will either be correctly laid down or expunged from the charts. The coast of New South Wales will probably be visited; and in the progress towards Torres Straits, inside the Barrier Reefs on that coast, the position of several doubtful points, essential to navigators, will be ascertained; after which the Beagle is expected to return by the Cape of Good Hope to England.

Commander Fitzroy, while employed in the same vessel in a late survey with Captain King in the Adventure, took on board three natives of Tierra del Fuego, a race of people totally different in their habits and manners from the Patagonians, their near neighbours. They accompanied him to England, and are now on their return with him to their native land, with advantages over their countrymen, which will, no doubt, occasion much astonishment.