390 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



School of Arts at Brtissels The King of the Netherlands, with a view to 



improve the manufactures of the country, and create a desire to establish manu- 

 factories in Holland, has just founded a Royal School of Arts and Trade at 

 Brussels. This monarch is a great promoter of manufactures, and is proprietor 

 of several manufactories, which must have fallen but for his aid. It is customary 

 with him to advance money to distressed manufacturers, taking an assignment of 

 their property until they are able to repay the sums borrowed, and then to restore 

 the property with a handsome present from his own purse. 



College in New South Wales. — A college has been founded at Sidney, in New 

 South "Wales. The first stone was laid on the 26th of January last. The fol- 

 lowing inscription (in Latin,) engraved on a brass plate, was inserted in it : " This 

 foundation-stone of Sydney College — an institution founded for the vigorous and 

 pious promotion of polite literature and the liberal arts among the youth of Aus- 

 tralia — was laid by Francis Forbes, chief justice of New South Wales, on an aus- 

 picious day. viz. the 26th January, in the year of our Lord 1830, in the happy 

 reign of George IV. ; Lieutenant-General Ralph Darling being Governor of New 

 south Wales." — Lit. Gazette. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



The Managers of the Royal Institution having determined to publish a Quar- 

 terly Scientific Journal, more immediately under their own direction and super- 

 intendence, Mr. Brande's labours and responsibility terminated with the June No. 

 of the Quarterly Journal of Science, &c. 



On the 1st of November 1830, will be published, the First Number of a Series 

 of Lithographed Illustrations of the Family of Psittacida or Parrots. By E. 

 Lear. A number will be issued on the first day of every second month, contain- 

 ing four plates, and on every alternate month, containing three : the price of each 

 number will be ten shillings. 



List of New Books. 



American Works "W^ilson's American Ornithology, 3d and concluding 



vol. with folio plates. New York-.-Encyclopasdia Americana, vol. 2... Ray's 

 Conversations on the Animal Economy, 12mo. Portland, America... The Na- 

 tural, Statistical, and Civil History of New York ; by James Macauley. New 

 York... Practical Instructions for the Culture of Silk and the Mulberry Tree; 

 by Felix Pascalis, 2 vols. 8vo. New York... Familiar Lectures on Botany; by 

 Mrs. Lincoln. 



Lyell's Principles of Geology, in 2 vols. Vol. 1st. Pp. 511. ..Sir T. D. 

 Lauder's Account of the Floods in Morayshire.... The last Vol. (the 60th) of the 

 Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles is just published, and principally consists 

 of Blainville's article on Zoophytes. 



Third Edition of Captain Basil Hall's Travels in North America, in 3 vols. 

 L.l, lis. 6d...Francoeur's Hydrostatics Translated, 8vo, 5s. 6d...Maycock's 

 Flora Barbadensis, 8vo. 18s... Astronomic Pratique par L. B. Francoeur, 1830. 

 8vo. 7 fr... Journal de Voyage Pittoresque autour du Monde ; par Lesson, Tom. 

 I. Liv. I. 3 fr. 50 c. 



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