Williams, of Kidderminster, by Mr. Hanbury;-History of Warwickshire,by Sir Wm. Dugdale;-Travels in Europe and Africa, by Col. Keatinge ;-Observations during a recent Visit to Paris, by Samuel Smith, Esq.

Messrs. Chapman, of Newcastle, have invented a loco-motive engine, which is now constantly at work. It draws after it eighteen loaded coal waggons, weighing 54 tons, up an ascent which rises nine yards in a mile, with a speed of four miles in an hour.

Signor Zamboni has presented to the Royal Society an instrument of his own construction, designed to exhibit per petual motion. It consists of two of M. de Luc's electrical columns, or galvanic piles, placed perpendicularly at the distance of about six inches, each glass tabe being surmounted with a brass ball. Between these pillars a needle is placed, so as to move on an axis; and by the repelling force of the piles is drawn from ball to ball. We remember to have seen an instrument upon a somewhat similar construction, at a museum in this country, some years since,

Mr. John Henderson, of Brechin, has given to the public a method of preserving roots of all kinds for summer use till the return of the crop-by putting them in baskets, &c. in the empty space left by the subsiding of the ice, in the ice-house, which takes place by the month of April. Of course the preservation of the root is secured by the sus pension of vegetation.

The expenses of the war, however complained of, do not appear to have materially lessened the expenditure upon public dissipation. The two London theatres are said to receive 8001, a night, or upon an average 20,0001. a month. In December there were received at the nine Paris theatres, about 18,0001. We think these funds might be better employed.

In the quarter ending Dec. 25, no less than 338,766 quarters of foreign wheat were imported into the port of London, being one half more than the consumption of London. The imports of the year were 768,021 quarters. In the last 21 years, the Corn Committee state, nearly 59 millions have been paid for foreign corn, It appears from an accurate calculation of Mr. Jacob's, in his late work, that only one fortieth of all our grain is imported. The following account of the numbers of vessels, and of men employed in

From the Report of the City of London Truss Society, it appears, that there have been relieved in the last year 2,064 patients afflicted with ruptures, at an expense of 10491. 3s. 6d,

Senor Orpila has found, that great quantities of dry sugar, taken after swallowing verdegris, or eating food prepared in untinned copper vessels, have proved sufficient antidotes for the cupreous poison,

Early in April, the celebrated library and vases of Mr. Edwards, of Harrow, are, we understand, to be offered to the public. Amongst a multitude of other literary curiosities in this collection, is the first edition of Luther's translation of the Bible, after his final revision. The copy belonged to Luther himself, was bequeathed by him to Bugenhagen, and from his hands passed into those of Melancthon, and George Major. It contains some MS. notes by each of these Reformers, in their own handwriting.

There has just been established at Athens, a new Literary Society, composed both of Greeks and Europeans. They have begun by forming two Lyceums: one of them is called the Attic, the other the Thessalian, The contributions of the members are to be employed in searching for antiquities, &c. &c. The Presidents of the two Lyceums, are to maintain a correspondence on the state of their respective departments. They propose also to

patronize botanical exertions on the mountains of Greece.-We hail with sincere satisfaction any attempt to resuscitate this almost extinct people. At present they form a striking illustration of the impotence of mere letters to sustain national greatness. We trust that the English members of the society will remember, that their attachment to Greece will best be shewn by endea. vouring, not merely to revive a spirit of literature in that country, but to give them that faith which is the only secure basis, as well of individual happiness, as national welfare.

Dr. Guillie has been enabled, by a method of his own invention, to establish

a mode of communication between the blind and the deaf and dumb. The first trial of his discovery was made in Paris, in August last. A sentence was dictated to one of the deaf and dumb, named Massaca, a pupil of the Abbe Sicard, and by him communicated to one of the blind, who immediately replied in a loud voice. He, in return, communicated to Massaca the sentence dictated by the meeting, who instantly wrote it on a tablet. Dr. Guillie may, we understand, be expected in London.

The Russian Government has fixed on three great depots for the importation of foreign books; which are all examined with much strictness by the police.

The Eighteenth Number of Contemporary British Portraits; by Messrs. Cadell and Davies.

The English Works of Roger Ascham, Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth.

A practical Abridgment of the Custom and Excise Laws; by Charles Pope. The French Interpreter; by Francis Wm. Blagdon, Esq.

Infantine Stories; by Mrs. Fenwick. The School Orator; by James Wright. The Principles of Elocution; by Thomas Ewing.

A Grammar of the English Language; by the Rev. J. Sutcliffe.

British Gallery of Pictures, No. XI. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of Russia, Austria, China, &c.

A Picturesque Delineation of Scenery on the Banks of the Thames.

The East-India Gazetteer; by Walter Hamilton.

An Introduction to Geology; by Robert Bakewell.

The Edinburgh Annual Register for 1812 and 1813.

Memoir respecting a new Theory of Numbers; by Charles Broughton, Esq. Mémoires sur la Guerre des Français en Espague, pendant les Années, 1808, 9,

10. Par M. de Rocca. A translation, is in the press.

The Campaign of Paris in 1814; translated from the French of P. F. F. J. Giraud.

A Letter to Wm. Wilberforce, Esq. containing Remarks on the Reports of the Sierra Leone Company, &c.; by Rob. Thorpe, Esq.

Miscellaneous Tracts; by the Bishop of Landaff.

Original Lines and Translations; by the Author of the Bioscope.

Theory on the Classification of Beauty and Deformity; By Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, Author of a Tour to Alet, &c.

The Cadet, a Poem; containing Remarks on British India; by a late Resident in the East.

The Pilgrims of the Sun, a Poem; by James Hogg, Author of the Queen's Wake.

Jephthah, a Poem; by Edward Smedley, jun.

The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastie Poem; by Dr. Syntax.

The Policy of Restricting the Impor tation of Foreign Corn; by the Rev. T. R. Malthus.

An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent; by the Rev. T. R. Malthus.

The Objections against the Corn Bill refuted; by Wm. Spence, Esq. F.L.S.

The Wealth of Nations; by Adam Smith. A New Edition, with additions; by David Buchanan.

Travels in South America, undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society; by the Rev. J. Campbell.

A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, &c.; by Lieut.-General G. Cockburn." Memoirs of the late Governor Melville, second edition,

perors from Augustus to Constantine; translated from the French by John Mill, Esq.

The World without Souls: a new edition with great alterations, and two New Chapters; printed answerably to the Velvet Cusliion.

DISTRESSES IN GERMANY. THERE are now before us three Reports of the Committee for relieving the Distresses in Germany (see Vol. for 1814, pp. 122 and 205), which we have omitted to notice. It is due to our readers, and to the cause of British benevolence, that the omission should be supplied. The extracts we shall give are calculated to shew both the extent of the wretchedness into which a large portion of Germany had been plunged, and the benefits derived from the timely aid afforded by this country.

Extract of a letter from the Magistrates at Weissenfels, dated March 8, 1814. We have just been apprised by Messrs. Frege and Co. that our town too has been named among the number of those that are to revive under the ray of British beneficence, and we hasten to express to you the sentiments of gratitude which this noble act of the British nation calls forth, Our town indeed has had its full share of the miseries entailed upon Saxony by the eruel mode of warfare adopted of late. The greatest part of its inhabitants have been plunged into beggary by the desolations of the last campaign. The noble gift from a country that, like a protecting angel, spreads its fostering wings over all Europe, and especially over unfortunate Germany, revives our drooping spirits, and gives us the hope of repairing our ruined prosperity, through the blessings of peace and the revival of industry. We receive the boon with emotions of gratitude not to be expressed, and in its distribution shall religiously observe the laudable views and instructions of the donors. May the benefactors of our town, whose memory will remain deeply engraven in our hearts and in those of our descendants, receive the most glorious rewards for their benevolent action.

Extract of a letter from the Rev. Chr. F. Ammon, D. D. First Chaplain to the Court of Saxony, dated Dresden, March 12, 1814.

The kingdom of Saxony contains between 3 and 4000 clergymen, who, generally speaking, distinguish themselves by their literary attainments, their evangelical spirit, and loyalty. The campaign of last year has almost entirely ruined two-thirds of this class. They were at the first greatly exhausted by almost constant and most oppressive quarterings of troops: and when, in September and October last, the theatre of the war was almost entirely confined to Saxony, the clergymen (parish ministers), lost nearly every thing which had been left; their harvest was consumed, their stores destroyed, their habitations plundered, their books burnt, their fruit-trees cut down, and their furniture spoiled. Some worthy old men, who dared to resist the ill-treatment of their wives and daughters, were killed, and others obliged to make their escape to the forests, completely stripped. After the battle near Leipsic, a nervous fever rapidly spread through the villages, which proved so destructive, that in many church-yards no room was left for the great number of corpses; deep holes were dug for them in barns and gardens. In some villages scarcely an inhabitant was left; and in the district of Dresden alone, 500 orphans are counted, in whose behalf the parish-ministers must make an appeal to public charity. The pea sant and the citizen may, perhaps, soon procure, in some degree, the means of their subsistence; but the unfortunate clergymen are entirely impoverished, oppressed by debts, weighed down by grief and sorrow, and without prospect of income for several years to come. No class of the sufferers seems more