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Grass Oil. This is a fine volatile oil 

 from Calcutta ; its colour is amber its 

 smell strongly resembling that of Kayoo- 

 pooti Oil. It begins to boil at 120, and 

 the thermometer continues to rise above 

 370, the oil boiling all the time. Sul- 

 phuric acid forms a tine crimson acid soap 

 with it, which soon, however, becomes 

 dark-coloured, and the oil remains. It 

 bums readily, giving out much smoke. 

 It is applied to various economical pur- 

 poses in India. 



Great Western Railway. This railway 

 (117 m. long) commences near Tybuni 

 turnpike, and, passing by Acton and Han- 

 well, crosses the Brent and passes 2$m. 

 to the south of Uxbridge. It thence 

 passes through Slough Salt-hill and 

 Maidenhead to Reading; from which 

 place it inclines somewhat northward to 

 a point 3m. from Walliugford. The line 

 then runs westward within 2m. of Wan- 

 tage to Levindon, where it is joined by. 

 the West-junction railway. Thence S. W 

 the line proceeds through Chippanham 

 and Trowbridge to Bath and thence to 

 Bristol, when it ends in Temple meads. 

 The summit level at Leviudon, which ig 

 about 76m.from London, is 275 feet above 

 the Bristol end and 253 above that of 

 London. The curves are slight and the 

 gradients are moderate ; but we strongly 

 object to the inclined plains in Mr. Bru- 

 nei's plans and to the Box tunnel, which, 

 in our own opinion, from a view of the 

 plans and sections, is so disadvantageous 

 as seriously to affect the interests of the 

 concern. There will most probably be 

 about six tunnels on the line. Box tunnel 

 is 1-f m. long ; and there is another be- 

 tween Bath and Bristol 1012 yards long. 

 The other tunnels are of inconsiderable 

 length. The persons engaged say that 

 the line to Maidenhead will be com- 

 pleted by the close of this year, and that 

 the whole will be finished before the end 

 of 1839. We doubt it ED. 



Education in Paris. Rapid progress 

 has been made during the last few y ears 

 in the education of the lower classes. The 

 principal object proposed to be attained 

 in the infant asylums is to accustom the 

 inmates to industry and obedience. There 

 were not more than seven of these estab- 

 lishments in the year 1833, but at present 

 there are nineteen of them, which are at- 

 tended by 3500 children. The documents 

 laid before the municipal council of Paris, 

 give the subsequent view of the statistics 

 of education in its public institutions for 

 the year 1834, beginning with the lowest 

 class, and closing with the colleges at- 

 tached to the Unirersity of Paris : 



Asylums founded and sup- 

 ported by the administra- 

 tors of the hospitals ...... 19 



Number of children received 3,500 



Schools for children maintain- 

 ed by the <city of Paris 49, 

 and by the hospitals 71 ; total 120 



Number of pupils 25,035 



Adult schools maintained by 

 the city of Paris, 19 ; by 

 the hos'pitals 7 total. . . . ^ 26 



Number of pupils 1, ? 898 



Independently of these establishments, 

 the authorities have founded twenty- 

 nine schools of industry, in which 1595 

 girls, between the ages of twelve and 

 fifteen, are taught to work at the needle. 

 There are 7 colleges attended by 4932 

 pupils, of whom 1873 are boarded and 

 lodged in the colleges, and 3059 are day- 

 scholars. The whole number of these 

 several establishments is 172, and that of 

 the individuals attending them 37,960. 

 Altogether, including the special schools 

 (instruction des degres superieurs et des 

 ecoles speciale) academic universitaire, 

 the lowest number of persons educated in 

 Paris in the public establishments is 

 75,000. 



LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 



The " Old Sailor" has a new Naval Novel in progress, which will shortly 

 be published under the title of " The Anchorite, or Ten Thousand Topsail- 

 sheet Blocks." 



In the Press. 



Some Account of the Lives of the Compilers of the Liturgy, collected and 

 arranged from the best Authorities : with Notes and References. By the 

 Rev. John A. Bolster, A.M., M.R.I.A. Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Cork 

 and Cloyn e 



Memoirs of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By James Gillman, Esq^ Pickering. 



A New and Splendid Edition of Mr. Burke's work on the Beauties, Har- 

 monies, and Sublimities of Nature, which has been many years out of print, 

 will be published about the middle of May 



