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2. Lithography. — A work is now in the course of publication 

 at Stutgard, consisting of lithographic engravings by Strisuer, 

 from pictures of the early German masters, in the collection of 

 Sulpice, Boisseree, and other amateurs. The whole when com- 

 pleted will contain 144 subjects; these are published in quar- 

 terly numbers in imperial folio, with descriptive, letter-press, 

 written by Boisseree. The ab'iity of the engraver which has 

 been displayed in another lithographic work, that of the Munich 

 Gallery, warrants the expectation of such a series of plates as 

 will enable those hitherto unacquainted with the peculiar 

 merits of the early painters of this school, fully to appreciate 

 their excellence. 



3. Public Education. — Apian has been lately suggested, and 

 will be acted upon at Edinburgh, for instructing by lectures and 

 demonstrations, the operative mechanics of that city, in the prin- 

 ciples of those branches of science which are useful in the various 

 trades that are carried on there. Lectures on practical me- 

 chanics and practical chemistry will be delivered twice a-week 

 during the winter. A library has been formed, and the insti- 

 tution is conducted by a committee of fourteen, having a clerk 

 and librarian. It is much to be desired that this plan were 

 carried into execution in all the great towns of the United King^- 

 doni, where it is possible : for efficacious as private interest has 

 been found to be in improving the arts, yet there is no doubt 

 that they must advance with the knowledge of the principles on 

 which they are founded. 



4. Statistics of Spain. — The Spanish monarchy is composed 

 of Spain and her colonies. The kingdom of Spain contains 

 10,372,000 inhabitants spread over a surface of 24,661 square 

 leagues. The colonies on a surface of 669,094 square leagues 

 reckon 17,700,000 inhabitants distributed as follows; 



Square , , . . 



LflagtiCT. Inbabitanu. 



New Spain .... 118,477 7,550,000 



Guatimala .... 43,089 1,200,000 



Cuba and Florida . . 1 15,039 592,000 



Puerto Rico & St. Domingo 2,805 493,000 



New Grenada . . . 80,433 1,600,000 



Caraccas 64,.561 900,000 



Peru 60,172 1,500,000 



Chili 92,000 900,000 



LaPlaU 144,955 1,100,000 



The Philippines . . . 13,888 1,740,000 



The Mariannes . . . 1,425 80,000 

 The revenues of Spain in 1817 amounted to 620,000,000 

 reals, (about 6,000,000/.) 



