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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE, &c. 



Mr. Pryse L. Gordon will shortly publish of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centu- 



Historical and Descriptive Sketches of ries ; translated from the German of Frede- 



Belgium and Holland, from their Union in rick von Raumer. Part I. Germany, Den- 



1814, to their Separation in 1830; vrith mark, Spain, the Netherlands, and France. 



Details of the Revolution, and a View of Mr. Woronzow Greig-, Barrister, M. A. 



Society and Manners. F. R. S., is preparing a work on the Moral 



Mr. Britton, F. S. A., &c., is preparing Statistics of Great Britain, 



for publication, Illustrations, with a topo- Mr. Lemon, of the State Paper Office, has 



graphical and descriptive Account of Cassio- found in his researches, a portrait of Luther, 



bury Park, Herts, the seat of the Earl of in wood, and coloured. It appears to have 



Essex ; and the impression is to be limited been sent to England soon after that great 



to 150 Copies. ^ Reformer's death, in 1546 ; and represents 



In the Royal Press at Paris, there is now him seated in his study, with a skull resting 



in course of publication, by order of the on a Bible before him, and a small clasped 



King, " Notice et extraits des Manuscrits book in one hand, an hour glass, and pen 



Italiens de Biblioth&que de Roi," edited by and ink are on either side, and a German 



Dr. Marsand, emeritus professor of the Uni- poem beneath, which amplified the famous 



versity of Padua. prophecy against the Pope. 



Count Wackerbarth has issued a prospec- M. Siebold, the Dutch traveller in Japan, 



tus of his new Work now in the press, has commenced the publication of a Fauna 



entitled the History of the British Isles, of that countiy, in which he is assisted by 



from the remotest times to the arrival of the the celebrated naturalists, MM. Temminck, 



Saxons. , Schlegel, and Hahn ; two livraisons of which 



The Oriental Annual forl835 is announced have appeared, one on the Chelonians, and 



for publication on the 14th of October. another on the Crustac^es. 



The Geographical Annual for 1835 will M. Fischer, a Dutch traveller, is prepar- 



comprise, in addition to its Engravings, a ing an Account of Japan, from the observa- 



compendious Universal Gazetteer. tions made by him during a residence of 



In the press, Illustrations of the History many years in that remarkable country. 



On the PROBABLE FUTURE EXTENSION OF THE COAL-FlELDS AT 

 PRESENT WORKED IN ENGLAND. By THE ReV. W. D. CoNYBEARE, 



M.A., F.R.S. — ^The boundaries of the Dudley field can hardly yet be 

 considered as accurately ascertained. The anticlinal ridge of transition 

 limestone of Dudley throws up the beds which crop out all round it ; 

 and as on the eastern edge of the field near Walsall, the same transition 

 limestone again emerges, we may consider the coal-measures around 

 Bilston as lying in a trough between these points. I do not find any 

 account of the exact limits of this trough on the N.W. border from the 

 Dudley limestone range to Cannock, at the northern apex, or on the 

 N.E. from Cannock to Walsall ; but I rather believe that the beds crop 

 out in these directions ; so that we cannot in these quarters look for any 

 probable extension. Not so, however, with regard to that portion of the 

 coal-field which, ranging beneath the overlying basalt of the Rowley 

 Hills, extends to the west and south-west of Dudley : here from Wolver- 

 hampton to Stourbridge the beds dip beneath the new red sandstone in a 

 westerly direction, and pursuing that course about 10 miles we see the 

 coal-measures again emerging from beneath this investiture around 

 Over Arley in Shropshire, The western border of this Dudley field, and 

 the eastern border of corresponding Shropshire fields ought to be carefully 

 examined, as it seems very probable that the strata may here extend con- 

 tinuously within workable depth. — The indications of coal at the foot of 

 the Bromsgrove Lickey are so exceedingly shattered and disturbed as to 

 afford very little prospect of leading into any valuable districts. 



A French Finance Minister was wont to relate that he possessed in his 

 office hundreds of projects to increase the wealth of the nation, which 

 had been sent to him by some of the cleverest men. These he had 

 arranged and subscribed with the following title : — ** Recueil de projets 

 tres-beaux et tres-inutiles h. la France." 



