GERMANY.

Dr. Gall, in Franckfort and Cologne. We learn from Franckfort, that Dr. Gall arrived in that town some days since, and advertised in the newspapers, that, if he could procure a sufficient number of subscribers, he would begin lectures on craniology. Subscription 48 francs. The doctor hopes to be more successful in this place than he was at Cologne, of which he was forced to take his leave without having been able to collect a sufficient number of subscribers to attend his scientific lectures. He is soon expected in Paris.

Antient Greece.

Mr. Frederic Rabe, in Berlin, announces a work on the ruins of Grecce, which appears to be a compilation from the larger and more expensive volumes on that subject, and of which those of Stuart, the English architect, form the foundation, whose plates will be copied exactly in this work. The whole will consist of near 80 copper-plates, and 40 sheets of text, and the plates will be given in 8 parts, each containing from 8 to 12 plates. The author publishes by subscription." The whole work is 4 Frederic d'ors.

Painting on glass.

This art chiefly flourished at Cologne. It was held in high esteem so early as the year 1260: it was brought to the highest degree of perfection in 1430, but declined from 1600 to 1730, when it appeared to be entirely lost. The many panes of painted glass with which the numerous monasteries and magnificent churches of Cologne were embellished, were so many master-pieces. The painters, in this process, were so particular, and took such pains in instructing their pupils, that their apprenticeship lasted at least six years, sometimes nine. They were taught first to draw; next to paint; and finally to compose their colours. This last process was considered as the most difficult, and the completion of the pupil's instruction, This valuable art seemed to be buried in eternal oblivion, when an eminent artist of this same town, Mr. Birrenbacha, determined to direct his studious researches towards the acquisition of it. His essays justify the most flattering hopes of his future success.

Geognostic excursion.

Mr. Leopold von Buch, member of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin, and a confidential friend of the celebrated Humboldt, is gone on a voyage to Iceland at his own expence, where he proposes passing the winter, for the purpose of making physical and geognostic observations.

Luther exhibited on the stage. Letters from Eerlin inform us, that on the 11th of June, Doctor Luther, for the first ime, was introduced on the stage. The piece was written by Mr. Werner, and has been most uncommonly applauded, notwithstand

ing the performance lasted from half past five till eleven o'clock. The house was so full, that a number of amateurs could not get in. This heroic-drama exceeds in whimsical eccentricities any that has hitherto excited the burlesque imagination of our modern writers. The scene changes fifteen or eighteen times. Luther is seen successively destroying bulls, making love, translating the Bible, fighting, armed with a spear, and always with the Almighty's thunder by his side, He concludes the piece with these three pathetic words: liberty! creed! God !

HOLLAND.

Prize questions.

The members of Teyler's theological society, in their last sitting, announced the following prize question. "What is the "difference between natural religion, as "taught by Reason alone, and the Christian

religion, as contained in the revealed doc"trine of the New Testament?" The best answer will be entitled to a golden medal, value 400 Dutch florins, and must be written in legible Low Dutch, Latin, French, or English, and addressed to the foundation house of the late Mr. Peter Teyler vander Hulst, near the Sleeper's Hof, in Haerlem, on or before the 1st of December 1806, that it may be adjudged before the 8th of April, 1807.

Teyler's second society at Haerlem has published the following question. "What

historical accounts are we in possession of, "of changes which have taken place in "different parts of the surface of the earth,

from various causes?" The best answer sent before the 1st of April, 1807, will be entitled to the gold medal of 400 Dutch florins.

Rhine river, conducted to the sea.

The school of the Ponts et Chaussées of Paris, has been invited by the engineers of Holland, to give advice with regard to the works which have been executed with a design of conveying the water of the old Rhine into the sea. It is known that a branch of this river, which is not inconsiderable at Utrecht, and even at Leyden, totally disappeared, in a manner inexplicable by any one, at a small distance from this latter city, near a village called Katwyck, after having formed a kind of lake. The humidity of the fields and of the surrounding sands were the only sensible signs of the former stream. The object in view was to drain away those waters from the soil they thus moistened, to a certain extent, and to direct their course towards the sea. For this purpose a canal about half a league long was opened, one extremity of which communicated with the lower branch of the old Rhine, and the other with the sea. At the farther end of this canal, which is only twenty feet wide, is a sluice, that is considered as one of the most beautiful works

of the kind. It may easily be imagined that it must be very solid, to withstand the fury of the billows; it presents on that side an angle of about 40 degrees, against which the waves break it is constructed in such a manner, that the sides will keep it close shut in proportion as they press the more upon it. The project of this enterprise had been long in contemplation; but the execution had always been postponed, through a fear of not opposing a sluice strong enough to resist the power and weight of the tides; however it appears, now the works are finished, that the apprehension was unfounded.

Instrument for measuring depths in the sea. M. Van Stipriaan Luiscius, M.D. has inrented a bathometer: an instrument with which, he asserts, the greatest depths of the ocean may be fathomed. He has already had it constructed in the celebrated manufactory of Messrs. Onderdewyngaart, at Delft. Should the matter be confirmed, which there is reason to hope, according to the testimony of competent judges, not only from the construction of the machine, but also from preliminary experiments made on the river Macse, by the inventor, in presence of M. Van Bemmelen, lecturer on natural philosophy at Delft, and of several nautical persons, we may justly expect to obtain new information respecting this subject, and the form of the surface of the earth in those concealed abysses of the sea. M. Van Stipriaan Luiscius has resolved to send a well-constructed small model, made in the above-mentioned manufactory, to the principal naval powers, for farther experiment.

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Canal to Pest: commerce of that town, Stephen Wedresch, land surveyor, Szegeden, in Hungary, has published, in the Hungarian language, a proposal for a canal from Szegedin to Pest, by which the Theisse would be there united with the Danube. The river Maros, which comes out of Transylvania, increases very much the trade of Szegedin. It is calculated that 300 ships navigate that river yearly to Szegedin, laden with salt from Transylvania, and 200 from Arad. The country round Szegedin supplies the abaldo (tobacco warehouse) at Vienna with 3,000 tons of tobacco yearly. The third principal article of exportation from Szegedin is wool; about 17,000 cwt. fourth is the grain of the Banat and Bateher country; about 125,000 bushels. To this may be added, 41,000 cwt. cotton in transitu. A little above Szegedin the three streams of the Koros flow into the Theisse by Czourgrad. He estimates the expense of making the canal at 4,500,000, and the yearly revenue 824,000 florins. Szegedin is advantageously situated for the building of ships, from 200 to 250 tons burthen.

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Urbarial regulations: state of the peasants.

From the press of Prince Esterhazy, at Eisenstadt in Hungary, (the prince's residence) Francis Brecklen, ins upper landsteward, has published a volume in 8vo, containing 64 pages, with six tables, called Urbarial Regulations; or Rules for Bailiffs or Stewards in apportioning the Lands occupied by the Peasants in the Kingdom of Hungary, to the Rent and Service due fom them to their Landlords, as determined in the viceregal Comica.us of the Kingdom.-By this we learn, that a half peasant (halbe ɓaue.) at Gula, in the county of Tolna, occupies 11 yokes of arable land, each yoke containing 1100 square fathoms: : as laten medow land as produces four Lids of bay: in the nonestead and garden 550 square fathom, or haif a yoke of land; should this consist of more or less, he will be allowed less or unre meadow. For this he furnishes to his lord yearly, the labour of 26 days with a pur of oxen, or that of 52 days with one man instead the ninth part of his produce in kind (hemp and flax excepted): 1 florin in money; carries half a fathom of his lord's wood; pays 3lbs. of yarn, a pint of lard, a capon, a hen, and six eggs.

The quantity of land allotted to each tenant varies in proportion to the population and consequent demand for provisions; so that in the counties of Noutra, Presburg, Treachin, Tharotza, and Oldenburg, a whole peasant occupies only 16 yoke of land, whilst on the contrary, in the county of Czan da, 33 are allowed; and in that of Csongrad 34. those counties being thinly propted.

ITALY.

Sculpture for America..

The sculptor Thornwalson, at Rome, is now at work on a colossal statue of liberty, 22 feet in height, for the presidency of Washington, the first that ever went from Italy to America.

Manuscripts and books.

A decree from Milan, dated 10th June, orders, that the director-general of the domains shall take catalogues of the rare manuscripts and books in the suppressed monasteries, &c. and lay the same before the council of state and the general director of public instruction. The archives and libraries shall be put under seal, and the director of public instruction shall inake a selection of the books; the most valuable will be brought to Milan; the remainder, in part, applied to the use of the Lyceum and secondary schools, and in part sold in the most advantageous manner.

The viceroy of Italy has appointed Dr. Hager, of Paris, professor of the oriental languages in the university of Pavia. Typographic art.

The famous printer Bodon! is invited from Parma to Milan, on very advantageous terms,

of Scotland, from original materials, to which he has obtained access by means of the parliamentary commissioners for making roads and building bridges in the Highlands of Scotland. The elaborate military survey of the main-land of Scotland, made in the middle of the last century, and preserved in his Majesty's library, has been copied and reduced for the present maps and the several proprietors of the western islands have communicated all their surveys, most of which have been very recently executed. In addition to the astronomical observations heretofore known, many latitudes and longitudes have been purposely ascertained for this map, as well as a considerable number of magnetic variations. This map is to be accompanied by a memoir explanatory of the several documents from which it has been constructed. The publication may be expected in the course of the

winter.

Mr. H. Siddons, has nearly ready for publication, a copious work on the Theory of Gesture and Action, which is to be illustrated by more than sixty engravings of characteristic figures.

Mr. P. Kelly, master of the commercial academy in Finsbury Square, is preparing a new and accurate work on exchanges, to form one large quarto volume, entitled the Universal Cambist. Mr. K. takes for his foundation Kruse's Hamburgh Contorist, which he has modernized, adapted to the English Standard, and considerably enlarged. It will contain new assays of the principal current coins by which the intrinsic par of exchange is determined. The cest will not exceed three guineas; and the price to subscribers will be half a guinea less than to the public.

Mr. William Ticken, of the Royal Military College, will shortly publish a Treatise on the principles of geography, statistical, political, astronomical, historical, and mathematical, in a quarto volume with plates.

The Rev. W. Bawdwen proposes to publish by subscription, in one quarto volume, a translation of Domesday book, as far as it relates to the county of York, and the district of Amounderness in Lancashire; with an introduction, notes, and a glossary of obsolete

terms.

An account of the present state of the Cape of Good Hope, containing a general description of the country, the mountains, bays, rivers, &c. the trade and commerce, and the natural history of the Southern part of Africa, will soon appear in a duodecimo volume, with a map of the colony engraved by Mr. Lowry.

Mr. Thelwall intends to publish, in a moderately sized quarto volume, his philosophical course of Lectures, with scientific notes, and practical illustrations.

Mr. Rannie has in the press, a volume of

Plays and Poems, which will be published in a few days.

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Mr. Brewster, the author of the Meditations of a Recluse, is printing two volumes tures on the Acts of the Apostles, read to his parishioners at Stockton.

The naval, military, and private practitioner's Amanuensis Medicus et Chirurgicus by Dr. Cuming, superintendant of the naval hospital, at Antigua, is in the press.

M. Mordente has in the Press a Spanish Grammar, for the use of students preparing for the Royal Military College.

The papers of the late illustrious Lord Macartney have been confided to Mr. Barrow, by his lordship's executors; and will be soon published, with full and accurate memoirs of his Lordship's long and active life.

Mr. John Thornhill, of Gateshead in the county of Durham, intends to publish by subscription, a Treatise on British Pasture and Meadow Grasses: about thirty kinds of grasses will be described, and a specimen of each, having all the parts, roots, leaves, stem and spike or panicle, will be given, together with a small packet of the seeds of each plant. The price to subscribers will be fifteen shitlings.

Mr. Johnes proposes to publish a supplementary volume to his quarto edition of Froissart's Chronicles; containing memoirs of the life of the Author; the various readings produced for the projected new Louvre edition; an account of the celebrated manuscript of the chronicles at Breslaw, with various readings and additions, and an account of the death of Richard II. of England, extracted from a manuscript in the national library at Paris. Mr. J. having succeeded so well in his translation of Froissart's chronicles, is translating Joinville," in which he has made considerable progress.

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Mr. Robert Hamilton, teacher of elocu→ tion in the colleges of Aberdeen, intends to publish The Elements of Elocution, intended for the improvement of youth in the pronunciation and delivery of the English language.

Mr. Murray, lecturer in Chemistry, at Edinburgh, has in the press a System of Chemistry, which may be expected in the course of the ensuing winter.

Dr. Gilbert Gerrard D. D. Professor of

Divinity, will publish Institutes of Biblical Criticisin, or, Heads of a course of Lectures on that subject, read in the University of Kings College Aberdeen in 8vo.

The Rev. James Headrick has in the press, A View of the Mineralogy, Fisheries, Agriculture, Manufactures, &c. of the Island of Arran in 8vo.

Mr. Combe, of the British Museum, will soon publish an appendix to the valuable

work of his father, Dr. Combe, intituled, Nummi veterum Populorum et Urbrium qui in Museo G. Hunter M. D. asservantur.

Beausobre's Introduction to the New Testament is repainting at Cambridge, being used in that University as a Lecture Book.

The Earl of Buchan is collecting all the MSS and drawings of the late Mr. Barry, with a view to publish them for the benefit of some indigent relations of that celebrated artist.

Walter Scott, Esq., is about to publish the Memoirs of Sir Henry Slingsby, Bart., from 1638 to 1648, written by himself. Also Memoirs of Capt. John Hodgson, touching his conduct in the civil wars, written by himself. To each work will be added various important papers relative to the operations of Oliver Cromwell and his army while they were in Scotland.

Mr. Jamieson is collecting for publication Popular Ballads and Songs, from tradition, MSS., and scarce editions, with translations of similar pieces from the ancient Danish language, with a few original poems by the editor: they will form 2 vols. 8vo.

A Treatise on the Varieties, Consequences, and Treatment of Opthalmia, with a preliminary Inquiry into its contagious nature, by Dr. Edmonstone, is in the press, and nearly completed.

The Rev. R. Yates, author of the Monastic History of St. Edmund's Bury, is engaged on a circumstantial comprehensive and connected Historical memoir, of the various public Charities of the Metropolis.

Dr. Crotch, Lecturer on the Science of Music at the Royal Institution, proposes to publish the first volume of Specimens of various styles of Music.

Mr. Kogers, author of the Pleasures of Memory, has nearly finished a poem on the Horrors of Jacobinism.

The Rev. J. Robinson is engaged in a new work on the Antiquities of Greece.

The leading features of the Gospel delineated, by the Rev. N. Sloan, Minister of Dornock, Dumfrieshire, will appear in a few days.

The Rev. Mr. Rogers has finished the third and fourth volume of his Lectures on the Liturgy.

The Rev. J. Lawson, author of Lectures on Ruth, intends to publish some Lectures on the History of Joseph.

Several persons of literary distinction in the University of Oxford, intend to commence the publication of a periodical literary Censor. Mr. Pratt proposes to publish a selection of British Poetry, in six or seven small volumes; accompanied by a critical and historical Essay on British Poetry.

Henry Mackenzie, Esq., one of the Directors of the Highland Society of Scotland,

superintends the printing of the third volume of Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland, with an account of the principal proceedings of the Society since 1803.

Proposals have been issued for publishing by subscription, a French historic poem, having for its title Les Fastes Britanniques, being a concise and yet comprehensive abridgement of the History of England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar, down to the present time, by M. Lenoir, professor of the French language and Belles Lettres, author of the French and English Emblematic Logographic Spel ling Book, and several other approved pub

lications.

The author of the Romance of the Pyrenees has a novel in the press, entitled Santo Sebastiano, or, the Young Protector.

In the press, and speedily will be published, the British Indian Monitor, or the Antijargonist; the Stranger's Guide, Oriental Linguist, and various other works, compressed into two portable volumes, on the Hindoostanee Language, improperly called Moors; with considerable information respecting Eastern tongues, manners, customs, &c. that previous time, and the voyage to the EastIndies, may both be rendered agreeably subservient to the speedy acquisition of much useful knowledge on Indian affairs, intimately connected with future health, fame, happiness, and fortune, in that remote, but promising port on of the British empire. By the author of Hindoostanee Philology, &c.

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The Literary Society of Bombay, of which Sir James Mackintosh is President, shortly publish a Volume of Transactions.

Country gentlemen will be interested in An Architectural work on farm-houses, farmyards, dog-kennels, stables, cottages, &c shewing at large the construction of different farms, buildings, cottages, &c. by Mr. Lugar, author of Plans for Villas, &c. which will be published in a few days.

A collection of the best Plans with Elevations and Sections of green-houses, hot-houses, peach-houses, &c. built for various noblemen and gentlemen, by M. Tod, hot-house builder, will be ready for publication in the course of this month.

An edition of Hollingshead's Chronicle is now in the press, and is intended as the first of a series of the English Chronicles.

A genuine and correct report of the speeches of the late Right Hon. William Pitt in the House of Commons, from his entrance into Parliament in 1780.to the close of the Session in 1785, is in the press, and will be published about November. They are dedicated by permission to Lord Grenville, and the Editor has been aided by communications from several distinguished members of both Houses of Parliament,