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LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL
INTELLIGENCE.

Calcutta. Lieutenant J. N. Jackson 2. That the admission of students, conhas been directed to recommence the sistently with the above primary object, survey of the boundaries of Zillahs Hugh-be left to the discretion of the managers ly, Burdwar, Midnapore, and the Jungle of the Institution. Mehals.

Lieut. Hugh Morrieson, of the 29th regiment Bengal N. Infantry, has been directed by the government at Fort-William to proceed to the Sunderbunds, for the purpose of continuing the survey originally entrusted to him; a considerable progress has been made in this geographic examination, which was undertaken, we understand, with the express intention of gradually-converting an exuberant tract of woods and creeks into a cultivated country. Several spots have already been cleared, particularly at the extremity of Sagor Island, where the festival is annually held.

May 30.-On Saturday night a violent storm commenced from the N. W. about half past seven, and continued till ten. At midnight it recommenced with greater fury, the wind blowing from the S. The thunder was tremendous, and the lightning from the quarter whence the wind blew presented a continual blaze, much damage was done to the huts of the natives; we have not heard of any other casualties.

At a meeting of the Asiatic Society, held on the 7th of June last, a paper was read relating to the use of Pomegranate root in Tenia and Akund, of a species of Asclepias in the Juzam or leprosy of Bengal.

Hindu College at Calcutta.-A second meeting, for the purpose of forming an institution for the education of the children of Hindus, assembled at Sir Edward East's, when the following arrangements were adopted.-President, Sir E. East; Vice-President, J. Harrington, Esq. Committee, D. Heming, Esq. W. C. Blacquiere, Esq. J. W. Croft, Esq. H. H. Wilson, Esq. Captain Taylor, Captain Roebuck, Lieutenant-Price, Dr. Waldic; Lieutenant Irvin, Secretary; Mr. Barretto, Treasurer.

The following is the general plan, under which it is proposed to form this useful establishment.

1. That the primary object of this in-stitution be the tuition of the sons of respectable Hindus, in the English and Indian languages, and in the literature and science of Europe.

Asiatic Journ.-No. 14.

3. That persons who are not students >be allowed to attend any literary or scientific lectures, in the English Department, with the consent of the committee of managers.

4. That the terms on which students shall be admitted to receive instruction in the college, be fixed, from time to time, by the managers of the institution.

5. That a fund be raised by voluntary contributions for the purchase of a sufficient quantity of ground in a convenient situation, within the limits of the city of Calcutta, and for erecting a suitable college, with other requisite buildings, there

upon.

6. That a book of Subscription for this -purpose be kept open for a period of one year; and that all persons who have already contributed, or may contribute during the present year, to the funds of the institution, be considered original benefactors and founders of the college..

7. That the names and contributions of such original benefactors and founders be recorded in the annals of the college; and be also engraven on a tablet of marble, to be affixed in some conspicuous part of the principal edifice.

8. That the names of all future benefactors to the funds of the college, be also registered as such; with the amount and date of their respective contributions.

9. That if at any time it be found necessary to limit the number of students to receive instruction in the college, a preference be given to the sons and relations of those who have been recorded as founders and benefactors, or registered as benefactors of the college.

It was also resolved, that William Coates Blacquiere, Esq. Ram Gopal Mulik, Gopee Mohun Deb, and Huree Mohun Thakoor, be constituted a committee for taking measures towards providing a proper situation for the seminary, and that the native part of the committee reconsider and report on the means of providing funds.

The committee were of opinion that the Indian method of instruction, with the British improvements, should be adopted in the college, and resolved that the secretaries be desired to ascertain and report what teachers will be necessary, and can be procured for the Bengalee and English departments of the college, assuming the bumber of students to be 200. VOL. III, T

The amount subscribed for the establishment of the Hindu college, was only 59,300 rupees on the 6th.

The Horticultural Society has proposed, that each member shall pay an immediate contribution of 250 SR. monthly for the carrying into effect the preliminary arrangements, and a monthly contribution of 82 SR.

Nautical Surveys.-Captain Charles Court, the Hon. East India Company's Marine Surveyor in India, has transmitted to the Court of Directors (through the Supreme Government of Bengal) two large charts, one of which comprehends a survey of the river Hooghly from Saugor Island to Chinsurah, on a large plane scale projection of 40 parts to an inch, and 1010 of those parts, or fathoms, to a nautic mile. The other chart contains a survey of the Reef, extending from Point Palmiras and the adjacent coast, on the same projection, but only half the scale of the former, or 505 of its parts to a mile.

Lieutenants Ross and Maughan, of the Bombay Marine, employed on a survey of the China sea, have lately sent home a Survey of Canton River from Lan-geet Island to the Second Bar, which has been engraved for the use of the Company's ships.

The 3d class of the Royal Institute of Science, Literature, and the Fine Arts at Amsterdam, has chosen as a correspondent A. Hamilton, Esq. Professor of Hindu Literature at Haileybury.

Large enharmonic Organ. Messrs. Flight and Robson, of St. Martin's Lane, have completed a large and fine organ for the East Indies, with compound stops, the first of such which has yet been made on the Rev. H. Liston's patent plan; in which instrument separate pipes are provided for every sound (nearly sixty in each octave), in all the upper parts of the soale and shaders for producing two or three sounds, (differing by comma major) from the same pipe are only used in the larger ranges of pipes, both for saving of room, and because it has been found by experience that in Such lower parts of the scale the shaders act the best. In a short time Mr. Liston proposes to commence a course of lectures on the musical scale, as now in use by singers, violinists, &c. illustrated by experiments on all the chords in use, and by performances on this large organ.

Captain Freycinet, of the French navy, is on the point of embarking at Toulon in the corvette Uranie, on a scientific voyage; the principal object of which is the determination of the form of the southern hemisphere of the earth. He will also

make what observations may occur on meteorology and other departments of natural philosophy.

The power of the recently invented grand blowpipe, acting by a condensed mixture of oxygene and hydrogene gases, has been exhibited by the lecturer at the Surry Institution. Chemistry would indeed appear to have obtained analytic assistance of indefinite capacity. Platinum, and palladium which exists in it, were instantly fused. Magnesia, alumina, &c. burnt with indescribable brilliancy, and a splendour rivalled only by the sun. A steel watch spring was fused, and even boiled. Part of a tobacco pipe was converted into glass. The diamond readily burnt.

Among the effects specified in the will of the late Sir Roger Curtis, is mentioned a beautiful table, supposed to be made of the root of the nutmeg tree,

A working smith and farrier, of the name of Thomas, at Newport, in Monmouthshire, has invented and completed a clock, upon an entirely new principle; it goes for the space of 384 days by once ing seconds; the plates and wheels are winding up; it has a pendant and vibratof brass, and the pinions are of cast steel; conds. This ingenious piece of mechanism the dial plate shews the minutes and sehas hitherto performed its operations with the utmost correctness.

The Pamphleteer, No. 17, January 1817, contains the following papers.-1. Defence of Economy, against the late Mr. Burke, by Jeremy Bentham, Esq. (original.)-2. A Treatise on Greyhounds, with

observations on the Treatment and Disorders of them. By Sir R. Clayton, Bart. 3. Hints for the Cultivation of the Peat Bogs in Ireland, with a View to the Increase of Population, Security, and Public Happiness, especially in that part of the United Kingdom, in a letter to the Rev. T. Malthus, (original.)-4. TPITOTENEA; or a brief outline of the Universal System, by G. Field, Esq. (original.)-5. Further Observations on the State of the Nation -The means of Employment of Labour -The Sinking Fund and its Application Pauperism-Protection requisite to the Landed and Agricultural Interests. By R. Preston, Esq. M. P.-6. Observations on the Game Laws, with proposed alterations for the Protection and Increase of Game and the Decrease of Crimes. By J. Chitty, Esq. Temple, Barrister at Law. -7. A Second Letter to a Friend in De vonshire, on the present Situation of the Country. By A. H. Holdsworth, Esq. M. P.-8. A Plan suggested for mature

consideration, for superseding the necessity of the Poor Rates, by means of Cottage Acres and Farms, termed Leaven Farms; thus denominated from the intended benefits likely to result from its pervading the whole mass, (original.) — 9. Constitutional Aids-Progress of Taxation, with a New Plan of Finance. By Stephen Pellet, M. D. (original.)-10. Inquiry into the Causes and Remedies of the late and present scarcity and high price of Provisions, in a letter to Lord Spencer, dated the 8th of November, 1800, with Observations on the distresses of Agriculture and Commerce which have prevailed for the last three years. By Sir, Gilbert Blane, Bart. F. R. S. Physician to the Prince Regent, (2d edition, printed exclusively in the Pamphleteer.)

The second Class of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands has elected associates of this Class, Mr. Grim, at Cassel; Mr. Stoch, President of the Imperial Academy, St. Petersburgh; Mr. C. Pougens, at Paris; Mr. R. Southey, London; Mr. Wernick, a clergyman in London, one of its correspondents. The third Class (all in the Netherlands) has chosen among other correspondents, Mr. W. Hamilton, professor of Oriental Literature at Hertford College; Professors Langles and Boissonade, at Paris; and Creutzer, at Heidelberg. The fourth Class has chosen for its foreign correspondents, Messrs. F. G. Weitsch, at Berlin J. F. Thiebault, at Paris; and Iwan Muller, at London.

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Letters from the Earl of Chesterfield to Arthur Charles Stanhope, Esq. relative to the Education of his Godson, the late Earl of Chesterfield. 12mo. 7s. boards.

Volume II, Part I, illustrated by Engravings, of the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica. Edited by Macvey Napier, Esq. F. R. S. E. This Part is enriched with a Preliminary Dissertation on the History of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences, by Professor Playfair, and with Contributions, by John Barrow, Esq. Francis Jeffrey, Esq. Prof. Leslie, James Mill, Esq. Dr. Roget, Dr. Thomas Thomson, and other well-known writers. 4to. 11. 5s. boards.

Statements respecting the East-India College; with an Appeal to Facts in Refutation of the Charges lately brought against it in the Court of Proprietors. By

the Rev. T. R. Malthus, Professor of History and Political Economy in the EastIndia College, Hertfordshire, and late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. In 8vo. Price 3s. 6d.

A complete Course of Instruction in the Elements of Fortification; originally intended for the Use of the Royal Engineer Department. By Lieut. Col. C. W. Pasley, R. E. F. R. S. Author of an Essay on the Military Policy of Great Britain. Illustrated by Five Copper-plates, and Five Hundred Engravings in Wood. In 2 vol. 8vo.

Narrative of a Residence in Belgium, during the Campaign of 1815, and of a Visit to the Field of Waterloo. By an Englishwoman. In 8vo. 10s. 6d. boards.

The Journal of Science and the Arts, edited at the Royal Institution. Number IV, Price 7s. 6d.

Scriptural Essays, adapted to the Holidays of the Church of England: with Meditations on the prescribed Services. 2 vol. 12mo. 12s. boards. Likewise may be had, written also by Mrs. West,-1. Letters addressed to a Young Man, on his First Entrance into Life. In 3 vol. 12mo. Fifth Edition, 11. 15. boards.-2. Letters to a Young Lady. In 3 vol. 12mo. Fourth Edition, 11. 1s. boards. By the Author of Letters to a Young Man, &c.

A Tour through Belgium, Holland, along the Rhine, and through the North of France, in the Summer of 1816. In which is given an account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Polity, and of the System of Education of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; with Remarks on the Fine Arts, Commerce, and Manufactures. By James Mitchell, M. A. 8vo. 12s. boards.

Practical Observations in Surgery and Morbid Anatomy. With Cases, Dissections, and Engravings. By John Howship, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, Member of the Medicochirugical Society, and Author of Practical Observations on the Diseases of the Urinary Organs. The extensive series of Illustrations for this work, selected from the contents of Mr. Heaviside's invaluable Museum, are comprised in eight large octavo plates, 8vo. 18s. boards.

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The Elements of Conchology, or Natural History of Shells, according to the Linnean System, with Observations on Modern Arrangements. By Thomas Brown, Esq. Capt. Forfar Regt. Fellow of

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Histories of the Colleges and Public Schools. Illustrated by 48 coloured Engravings, Fac-similes of Drawings by the first Artists, and printed uniform with Ackerman's Histories of Oxford and Cambridge, imperial 4to. 71. 7s. boards.

The Second Edition of Philosophical Essays. By Dugald Stewart, Esq. F. R. SS. L. & E. formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, 8vo. 14s. boards.

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The second edition of Tales of My Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoolmaster and. Parish Clerk of Gandercleugh, 4 vols. 12mo. 11. 8s. boards.

A View of the Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial Interests of Ceylon; with an Appendix, containing some of the principal Laws and Usages of the Candians, Port and Custom House Regulations, Tables of Exports and Imports, Public Revenue and Expenditure, &c. By Anthony Bertolacci, Esq. late Comptroller General of Customs, and Acting Auditor General of Civil Accounts in that Colony; with a Map of the Island, compiled at Columbo, from the latest Surveys, in the year 1813, by Capt. Schneider, Ceylon Engineer. In one large. Volume, 8vo. price 18s. boards.

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IN THE PRESS.

Early in the Spring will be published, Observations on the Ruins of Babylon, as recently visited and described by Claudius James Rich, Esq. Resident for the EastIndia Company at Bagdad; proving that the famed Tower of Babel was a Temple to the Sun, and the whole of that vast City was constructed upon an Astronomical Plan-Shewing, also, the high advance of the ancient race of Fire-Wor

shippers, its Founders, in Metallurgic Science, in Architectural Design, in Geometry, in Mechanics, in Hydraulics, in the art of Engraving, Colouring, &c. together with Strictures on the Babylonian Bricks, and their Inscriptions, preserved in the British Museum-On the Ruins of Persepolis, or Chelminar; including a Dissertation on a lately discovered Persepolitan monument, of high importance to Astronomers, and supposed to contain a Portion of the ancient Babylonian Sphere.On the presumed Antiquity of the Arch, no where to be found amid these RuinsOn the Origin of Alphabetic Writing, and various other subjects connected with Ancient History, Sacred and Profane; but in a more particular manner marking the gradual and complete accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies that predicted the downfall and utter destruction of that vast City and widely-extended Empire. With Illustrative Engravings. By the Rev. Thomas Maurice, A. M. Assistant Librarian at the British Museum, and Author of Indian Antiquities.

Mr. James White, Author of Veterinary Medicine, is preparing for publication, a Compendious Dictionary of the Veterinary

Art.

Mr. Adam Stark is engaged on a History of Gainsborough, with an Account of the Roman and Danish Antiquities in the Neighbourhood; to be illustrated by a map and several other engravings.

Mr. Nichols has nearly completed at press two volumes of Illustrations of Literature, consisting of Memoirs and Letters of eminent Persons who flourished in the Eighteenth Century; intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes; also, a third quarto volume of the Biographical Memoirs of Hogarth, with illustrative Essays and fitty Plates.

Mr. W. Plees, many years resident in Jersey, will soon publish an Account of the Island of Jersey, with a map and four other engravings.

George Price, Esq. barrister, is preparing a Treatise on the Law of Extents.

The Miscellaneous Works of Charles Butler, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, are printing in five octavo volumes.

Dr. Burrows, of Gower-street, is preparing for publication, Commentaries on Mental Derangement.

Vincent, with an account of his Life, by A volume of Sermons, by the late Dr.

Archdeacon Nares, will soon appear.

T. Forster, jun. Esq. will soon publish, Catullus, with English notes, in a duodecimo volume.

The Rev. James Raine, of Durham, has undertaken the History and Antiquities of North Durham, as subdivided into the districts of Norhamshire, Islandshire, and

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Bedlingtonshire; it will be published uniformly with Mr. Surtee's History of the County, of which it may be considered as constituting a portion.

Wm. Haslewood, Esq. barrister, is preparing a Treatise on the Office of Receiver; also a Treatise on Iujunctions.

H. N. Tomlins, Esq. has in the press, the Practice of the Quarter Sessions.

Mr. Ackermann is printing in an imperial quarto volume, a Series of Costumes of the Netherlands, with descriptions in French and English.

Mr. Booth, treasurer to the Childwall Provident Institution, will soon publish, a System of Book-keeping, adapted solely for the use of Provident Institutions, or Saving Banks

A Historical and Descriptive View of the Parishes of Monk Wearmouth and Bishop Wearmouth, and of the Port and Borough of Sunderland, is preparing for publication.

Richard Preston, Esq. has in the press, a Treatise of Estates; also an edition of Sheppard's Precedent of Precedents, and Sheppard's Touchstone of Common Assurances, with notes.

J. J. Park, Esq. is preparing a Treatise on the Law of Dower.

Mr. J. Cherpilloud has in the press, a Book of Versions, intended as a guide to French translation and construction.

The fifth volume of Hutchins' History of Dorsetshire, edited by Mr. Drew, is in the press; the last half of it will contain a complete parochial history of the county.

Sermons by the Rev. John Martin, above forty years Pastor of the Baptist church now meeting in Keppel-street, taken in short hand by Mr. T. Palmer, are printing in two octavo volumes.

Miss Mant, Author of Caroline Lismore, &c. has in the press, Montague Newburg, a tale, in two volumes.

An Inquiry into the Effects of Spirituous Liquors upon the physical and moral Faculties of Man, and their influence upon the happiness of Society, will soon appear.

The Rev. F. A. Cox will soon publish a work on Female Scripture Biography; with an Essay, showing what Christianity has done for Women: also a second edition, with considerable alterations, of his Life of Melancthon.

Mr. Gifford's new. edition of Juvenal will form two octavo volumes, and is expected to appear early in March.

Mahomed Ghyas-Ud-Deen; a respectable and learned inhabitant of Bombay, has now in the press, by subscription, a Descrip

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tion of the Town and, Island of Bombay, in the Persian language, giving a succinct account of every remarkable place, both public and private; and every thing connected with its topographical nature.

The work will be written in a pure and easy style, and while it gives geographical knowledge, will assist the Persian student; and it is presumed, will not be deemed in that respect unworthy the attention of the learned. The price of subscription will be only five rupees.

Esop modernised and moralised, in a series of instructive Tales, as reading les sons for youth, followed by skeletons of several Tales, with leading questions and hints, &c.

Mr. Bliss is proceeding with his new and greatly enlarged edition of the Athenæ Oxonienses, of which the third volume will be ready in the ensuing spring.

The tenth number of Portraits of illustrious Personages of Great Britain, with Biographical Memoirs, by Mr. Lodge, will be published in February,

The Eighth Part of Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum, with considerable additions, by Messrs. Coley, Ellis, and Bandinel, will be delivered to the subscribers in the ensuing month.

The Hundred of Broxton, forming the third portion of the History of Cheshire,, by George Ormerod, Esq. will be issued from the press in a few weeks.

The Fifth Part of Sir William Dugdale's History of St. Paul's Cathedral, with important additions, by H. Ellis, Esq. keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum, has been delayed beyond the promised time of publication, for the purpose of admitting a number of additional copper plates, which are now nearly finished.

Lady Morgan has been for some time a resident in France for the purpose of writing a work which is to have for its subject the present state of French Society in its most general point of view.

To be published in a few days, Apicius Redivivus; or, the Cook's Oracle; containing the Art of composing Soups, Sauces, and Flavouring Essences, which is made so clear and easy by the quantity of each article being accurately stated by weight and measure, that every one may soon learn to dress a dinner, as well as the most experienced cook, displayed in 600 receipts, the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician, for the purpose of composing a culinary code for the rational epicure, and augmenting the alimentary enjoyment of private families; combining economy with elegance; saving expense to housekeepers, and trouble to servants.

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