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FRANCE.

M. Double has obtained the prize offered for the best dissertation on the croup. In catarrhal croup he recommends repeated emetics, particularly ipecacuanha. Stimulant liniments and blisters to the neck and other parts, dry cupping, irritating enemas, he also found useful. Calomel he thinks too slow, and bleeding injurious. In inflamma tory croup, emetics do no good: bleeding must be used, with refrigerants, as nitre and and simple oxymel, gentle laxatives, and emollient poultices and fomentations to the throat. In nervous croup, the whole class of antispasmodics may be usefully applied, as assafoetida, musk, camphor, opium, æther, &c. Vapour medicated with æther may be inhaled, and the feet bathed in water with mustard added to it.

A Committee of the Philomathic Society of Paris have made a Report on the new operations on the eye, and the new instruments invented by Sir W. Adams, highly honourable to him.

Didot is to print the Charlemagne of Lucien Bonaparte. It is dedicated to the Pope.

ITALY.

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The excavations at Pompeii are coutiRued. Three magnificent tombs have heen discovered, adorned with sculpture, and a hall, supposed to have been the court of justice, with a triple row of columns. Bronze stoves of a beautiful form have also been found, and a small bronze gladiator in the attitude of supplicating life from the spectators.

GREECE,

The Greeks of the isle of Chios have lately established in the capital of their island an extensive public library. In respect to the means of public instruction, the island of Chios has lately exerted itself to render them effective,

RUSSIA,

Professors of the Russian language have been appointed throughout Finlaud, with a view to promulgate the knowledge of that language generally. All persons intended Russian language. for public employments must acquire the

An "Imperial Library" has been formed at St Petersburg, containing more than 300,000 volumes, in every branch of science, and in all languages, ancient and modern, with many valuable manuscripts. The library formerly belonging to the Republic of Poland has been transferred thither.

CAPPADOCIA.

During about fifteen years Cesarea has been the seat of a considerable Greek College,in which are taught Philosophy, History, Geography, ancient Greek, modern Greek, French, &c. It is known that the Christians of Cappadocia, after having lost their native language (which was Greek), sunk into barbarism, and that during many ages they spoke Turkish only. But since the acces sion of the present Archbishop, he has engaged the Christians of his diocese to esta blish Greek schools in almost every district, and every town, particularly in Cesarea Modern Greek is become the prevailing language.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THEOLOGY.

A new and enlarged Edition, being the third, of a Theological Treatise, entitled, “A New Way of deciding Old Controversies;" by Basanistes.

Psalms and Hymns, as adapted to his Sacred Melodies; by W. Gardiner. 18mo, 2s. 6d.

Sermon preached in the Abbey Church, Bath, at the Archdeacon's Visitation; by the Rev. H. Marriott. 1s. 6d.

Practical Sermons for every Sunday in the Year, Vol. II. 12mo. 5s. 6d.

Discourses on the principal Points of the Socinian Controversy; by Ralph Wardlaw. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Short Discourses on the Lord's Prayer, chiefly designed for the use of Country Villages; by Isaac Mann; with a recommendatory Preface by the Rev. John Fawcett,

of Hebden Bridge, and Rev. W. Steadman, of Bradford. 2s. 6d.

Commentaries on the Laws of Moses; by the late Sir John David Michaelis, K. P.S. F.R.S. Translated from the German by the Rev. Alex. Smith, D.D. 4 vols. 8yu. 21. 8s.

Sermons on the Duties of Man, and on other Subjects; by the Rev, Robt. Stevens.

Evo. 12s.

Easy and Practical Explanation of the Church Catechism; by the Rev. H. Marriott. 8d. or 7s. 6d. per dozen.

An Attempt to trace Divine Providence in the late extraordinary Events which have led to the Peace of Europe; in a Discourse delivered in Cherry street Chapel, Birmingham, June 5, 1814; by David M'Nicoll. 13.

A Sermon preached in the Church of Barton under Needwood, July 7, 1814, being the Day appointed for a General

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Animated Nature, or Elements of the Natural History of Animals: illustrated by short Histories and Anecdotes; by the Rev. W. Bingley, A.M. 12mo. 65.

New and correct Tide Tables at all the Sea Ports in Europe; by Alexander Ingram. 12mo.

Experiments and Observations on the Atomic Theory and Electrical Phenomena; by Wm. Higgins, Esq. F.R.S. and M.R.1.A.

8vo. 6s.

The Excursion, being a Portion of the Recluse, a Poem; by W. Wordsworth.

4to. 21. 2s.

An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography; comprising a general View of the different Subjects connected with Bibliography, as well as some Account of the most celebrated Public Libraries, ancient and modern; by Thomas Hartwell Horne. Illus-Crawford. 8vo. 4s. 6d. trated by numerous Engravings on Wood, &c. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 8s.

The Tutor's Key to the ten sets of Questions contained in the series of Elementary Books on the Interrogative System of Edu

cation. 5s. bound.

Manual of Latin Grammar; by John Pye Smith, D.D. 12mo. 2s. 6d.

An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, their Discovery, Population, Language, Government, Manners, Customs, Productions, and Commerce, from the Spanish of Martinez de Zuniga, with a Map of the Islands, translated by John Mavor, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 1s.

The Traveller in Africa; containing some Account of the Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, and Inhabitants; by Priscilla Wake. field. 12mo. 5s. 6d.

Tracts, Historical and Statistical, on In dia: also an Account of Sumatra; by Dr. Heyne, with Maps and Plates., 410. 21. 2s. A Gazetteer of France; by E. Planta, Esq. with a Map. 4s.

A Narrative of the late Revolution in Holland; by G. W. Chad. 8vo. 9s. 6d.

An Essay towards attaining a true Idea of the Character and Reign of King Charles I. and the Causes of the Civil War; extracted from, and delivered in the very Words of some of the most authentic and celebrated Historians, viz. Clarendon, Whitelock, Burnet, Coke, Echard, Rapin, Tindal, Neal, &c.; by the Rev. M. Towgood. Ss. 6d.

Campaign in Germany and France; by John Philippart, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 1s.

A New and Correct Chart of the Coasts of Spain and Portugal; on two sheets of extra double elephant. 8s. 6d. lined.

A New and Correct Chart of the North Coast of Spain, from the Entrance of the River Adour to Cape Finisterre and Corcubion; including, also, particular Plans, on an enlarged Scale, and embellished with numerous Views; by Don Vincente Tofino. 10s. 6d. on two sheets.

The London Dispensatory; by Anthony Todd Thomson. 8vo. 16s.

An Essay on Genius, or the Philosophy of Literature; by John Duncan, 8vo. 75. 6d.

The Olive Branch, a Poem; by M.

The Mount of Olives, or the Resurrection and Ascension; a Poem, in Continuation of Calvary; by Mrs. Dixon. Foolscap 8vo. 4s.

The Cloud Messenger of Calidasa; translated by H. H. Wilson, Esq. of Calcutta, 8vo. 7s.

Poems and Translation; by the Rev. J. Bull, M.A. Cr. 8vo. 7s.

Lara and Jacqueline. Foolsc. 8vo. 7s. 6d. Selections from the Popular Poetry of the Hindoos, arranged and translated by Thomas Duer Broughton, Esq.; with an Introductory Preface on the Literature and Poetry of the Hindoos. Foolscap 8vo. 7s. 6d.

An Essay on improving the Condition of the Poor; including an Attempt to answer the important Question, "How men of landed property may most effectually contribute towards the general improvement of the lower classes of society on their estates, without diminishing the value of their own property? y?". With, Hints on the means of employing those who are now discharged from his Majesty's service; by Thos. Myers, A.M. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Remarks on Madame de Stael's Work on Germany, in four Letters to Sir James Mackintosh. 8vo. 6s.

The Substance of the Speech of the Rev. Thomas Gisborne, M.A. at a General Meeting of the County of Stafford, respecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. 1s.

England's Triumph; being an Account of the Rejoicings, &c. which have lately taken place in London and elsewhere. 8vo. 7s.

A Treatise on the Wealth, Power, and Resources of the British Empire, in every Quarter of the World, exhibiting the Population and Value of the landed and other Property in the United Kingdom, and the Colonies and Dependencies of the Crown: illustrated by copious statistical Tables, constructed on a new Plan, and exhibiting a collected view of the different subjects. discussed in this work; by P. Colquhoun, LL.D. Royal 4to. 21. 2s.

History of the Town and Port of Dover, and of Dover Castle; by the Rev. Joha Lyon. Vol. II. 4to. 11. 11s. 6d.

The History and Antiquities of the

-County of Surrey; begun by the late Rev. Owen Manning, S. T. B. &c. enlarged and continued to the year 1814, by William Bray, of Shire, Esq.; illustrated by a Map of the County, and 37 Engravings. Vol. III. folio, 51. 5s.-royal paper, 81. 85.

A New Picture of Paris; or the Stranger's Guide to the French Metropolis; by Edward Planta, Esq. With Maps, Plans, and Views. 18mo. 6s. 6d. bound. Travels in various Parts of Europe, Asia,

and Africa; by Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D. Professor of Mineralogy in the Unjversity of Cambridge; illustrated by nume rous Engravings. Vol. III. 4to. 41. 149. 6d. boards.

A Tour through the Island of Elba; by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. Illustrated by Views of the most interesting Scenery, drawn from Nature,, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. and John Smith. Royal 4to. 21. 2s.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. THE Annual Report of the Committee of this Society, made to the General Meeting on the 3d May 1814, has been but very recently published. This accounts for our not having sooner noticed it.

The Report is preceded by a Sermon, which was preached before the Society on that day, by the Hon. and Very Rev.the Dean of Wells, from Psalm xviii. 48, 49. In this devout and eloquent discourse, the preacher applies his subject to the illustration of the peculiar and extraordinary circumstances of our late national deliverance, and of the obligations of duty and gratitude thence arising to exert ourselves with redoubled zeal in propagating the Gospel in Heathen lands. It contains many fervent prayers, and many powerful appeals on behalf of the great objects of the Society, and we recommend its perusal to all who desire the edification of their own minds, or the strengthening of their own zeal in the cause of Missions. The following passage, in which the late Ruler of France is introduced, produced a striking effect on the audience: it was delivered with much appropriate feeling:

"We all recollect him, only eighteen months since, marching at the head of the largest, the best appointed, best disciplined army that ever desolated the world, and holding three parts of Europe in his chain.

"We all recollect our own burdens, griefs, and apprehensions. We have as it were present before us those winters of scarcity, which he was permitted to aggravate by impairing our commerce, the sinew of our strength--the flail and the loom failing to. gether; poverty and idleness threatening to overcome the faith and patience of our people at home, and a yearly increase of difficulty in maintaining our struggle abroad.

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of his violence-but mark the end, We are delivered. His mighty host mouldered away; and melted, like dew before the rising sun: another started up, and another too, and shared the same fate. Enemies often conquered before, seasons often before favourable, friends for a long time faithful, all contended against him, and all succeeded. Even

the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.' His sceptre of power crumbled into dust; and, as the pressure of fear was taken away, the natural hatred of his people arose. He is dethroned and banished. He flies, not as a general, but a captive, with no troops, but a guard to prevent his escape, and with no remnant of a kingdom, but a rocky island, an extended prison.--May the God of mercy reach him there, ere it be too late, and make him, even him, who has been so long a ready and well, fitted instrument of his vengeance, even yet a willing monument of his grace!

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"And with his fall all our other calamities are apparently about to cease. Plenty, the product of the last extraordinary harvest,-prosperity, the fruit of reviving coinmerce,-and peace, the necessary effect of a just war brought to a decisive close,have already dawned; and seem pared, in happy union, again to possess and cheer our land. But if, then, after this extraordinary deliverance, we have not to cry- Where is the fury of the oppressor? surely we have reason to exclaim, Where is the power and person of the Deliverer? If the hand of God was ever manifest to mortal eye in the events of this world; if the veil, which conceals his direct interposition from our sight, was ever in a degree with drawn; it has been during the course of this astonishing change."

The following sentiments are highly wor thy of the rank and office of the preacher. May they prevail more and more!~ ́

Among the different communions of Christians, onion of spirit should surely prerail, as to this grand and common object; but union of operation, in general, cannot. Perhaps, indeed, the very contention and fivalry of love, under Christian principles, may produce, on the whole, results the most tapid and complete.

But should not the lead be taken by our Church? Should not she outstrip all her competitors in this race of Christian lovingkindness? A Church, Apostolical in her Constitution, Scriptural in her Services, Evangelical in her Doctrines will she not be foremost in this work of an Evangelist, this Scriptural Duty, this closest imitation of the Apostolical Pattern? And, while other communions assist around, as Priests in their respective functions, will she not, in her office of High Priest, present this oblation of gratitude to her God and Saviour, her Lord and King? Having thus proved herself, like the ark of God, a token for good and a seal of deliverance to our country, might she not hope ever to be preserved amidst the waves of this troublesome world, and to remain a secure asylum, and an inexhaustible treasury of genuine religion; an abundant depository, from whence should proceed to distant climes the doves of peace, the spiritual husbandmen, to break up the fallow ground, and rear the hitherto worthless or barren plants, and to fit them through grace to bear fruit a hundred fold in the paradise of God?

"Should we be answered, Already we have two societies connected with the Church, which have long sent forth religious instructors into foreigu and heathen countries'—we reply: God be thanked for their past exertions! God be with them in future! We would not interfere with their interests. We would hail them as elder brethren; as fore runners; as examples. We would accept Schwartz as our father, in spirit; and 'be followers of him as he followed Christ.' But we are not contending in a race where all may run but only one receive the prize. There are many crowns, and only too few Candidates."

The Report commences with a view of the augmentation of the resources and influence of the Society, which had happily taken place in the preceding year. The interest excited in the public mind hy the discus sions which had arisen respecting Christi anity in India, and the part taken in those discussions by the Society, had led numbers of Churchmen to enroll themselves in the list of its supporters. Large collections

had also been made and Associations formed in various parts of the kingdom, particularly two for the county of Norfolk, under the presidency of the Bishop of Norwich; and a third for that of Leicester, under the presidency of the Earl of Ferrers. The contributions of the Bristol Society for the first year amounted to 2,300%; and at the first anniversary in March, about 800%. had been collected. By means of a Branch Associa tion in that city, the younger members of the Institution had collected upwards of 5001:

The success," says the Bristol Report, "which has hitherto attended the exertions of this Association, evinces, that an interest in the forlorn state of the heathen world, and a desire to send the knowledge of Christ crucified among them, are felt by the bulk of the people. The reception which your Committee have met with among the poor in general, many of whom, while they freely gave their valuable mite, regretted their inability to subscribe more largely, has frequently alleviated their labours and renewed their vigour in the glorious cause in which they have engaged."

The borough of Southwark had in a few months raised and paid to the Society the sum of 400/; and one hundred and thirty other places are enumerated, where collees tions had been made or Associations formed, besides about seventeer churches in Lon don. The ladies had been particularly ac tive in forming Associations for the purpose of aiding the Society's funds, and children and servants pressed forward to take their share in this work of charity. What follows on this subject deserves to be extracted entire.

"Indeed the zeal with which young pers sons of both sexes, and the labouring orders of society, have enlisted themselves in the cause of Missions, has greatly encouraged and animated your Committee. The Work ing Class attending Divine Worship at Sr. Mary's Chapel in Birmingham, have transmitted to your Committee 351. as their first year's contributions. A poor woman, with modesty and diffidence, put a twenty-shilling note into the hands of your Secretary} but declined, though urged, to give her resis dence or her name. I bave very little, sir; but that I can give?

"Your Committee cannot but dwell a little on this encouraging topic. For, indispensable as the augmentation of the Society's funds is to the extension of its foreign ex ertions, yet the interest which is excited is a benefit of another and a higher order. The

awful condition of the heathen world is made known: the perishing state of our sixty or se venty millions of fellow-subjects begins to be understood: the obligation under which we lie of imparting to them and to all men the inestimable treasures of the Gospel is felt on all sides: the honour of our Divine Saviour is seen to be involved in the winning of conquests for Him from the empire of sin, These topics animate more than they ever did the public ministrations of our church: they are carried home with us to our fami lies: they enter into the daily prayers which we offer with them to the Father of Mercies; and we bear them on our hearts in our secret approaches to his throne. The more competent feel constrained to give of their abundance: the superfluous ornament is sacrificed: the convenience, not indispensa ble, is surrendered: the guinea is given where none was given before; and it is doubled where but one was before hestowed.

"And are not the most salutary effects on our children to be looked for from these their exertions? Their susceptible minds,' as an eloquent advocate of the Society has urged, will be soon awakened; their tendencies to selfishness will be corrected; the value of religion will become palpable: an adequate motive is presented for their laying by a portion of their liule income; the best feelings of their simple minds receive a right impulse; and an opening is made, under the blessing of God, for those principles of piety, which may be their guard and their ornament through their future lives.'

"And while our servants are eager to as sist in this great cause, who will decline their proffered aid? At Bristol a servant was ob served to put into the plate what must have been the tithe of her yearly wages; and a labouring boy at Ipswich begged the person who provided his food not to purchase any ineat for a week, as he was determined to give the value of his meat to help the poor African children!

"Prudence and caution should, indeed, always be observed in soliciting or accepting such alms: yet he mast be dead to the best feelings and interests of these classes of society, who will not gladly embrace every proper occasion of associating them with himself, according to their means, in the exercise of the noblest charities of the heart of man. "It is more blessed to give than to receive. Let him, theretore, who has no support but from his own honest industry, labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give

to him that needeth.'

CHRIST, OBServ. No. 133.

"The poor indeed, properly so called, who are themselves the objects of charitable as sistance, ought never to be solicited to con tribute; but there is a ‹ numerous and im portant body of persons,' as has been well observed, who cannot indeed subscribe their guinea a year, but who are as able as they are willing to take some share, proportioned to their means, in the holy efforts of Christian love. There is no reason why the hum bler orders of society should not partake in our labours, and share our triumph. We have no right to monopolize the commerce of benevolence. There may be as much real charity in the breast of the labourer, as of the scholar or merchant, to which justice has hitherto never been done. By inviting them, therefore, to subscribe their smaller sums, you present to them a noble stimulus for their endeavours; you promote a higher tone of general morals; you raise them to a participation in all the good that is now on foot in the nation; you find a suitable object the same time, you are so far from injuring for the activity of their minds; whilst, at them by allowing them to make those voluntary contributions, that you induce a habit of economy, which, so far as they are concerned, is of itself a handmaid to almost every other virtue.'

"These are the indications of a deep in terest in the success of Missions which revive the spirits of your Committee and strengthen their confidence in God. As the time appointed in His infinite wisdom for gladdening the nations with his Divine Word approaches, openings of his providence; and these will we may expect to see the corresponding be met by the willing hearts and libers, hands of his faithful servants.

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usually rapid: it has been like the sudden The progress of the Society has been un start of youth into manhood. Its average income for the preceding thirteen years since its formation, did not reach 2,000l. little more than S0001.; but the income of per annum; that of its thirteenth year was its fourteenth year is between 11,000l. and 12,000l."

(To be continued.)

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

A half-yearly Report of the transactions for the half year preceding the first of January last, of the Bible and School Com mission, at the Cape of Good Hope--of which his Excellency the Governor and Commander-in-Chief is patron; and his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, prøsident ➡has recently reached us.

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