1824.] 
with gas, is capable of performing all 
kinds of manufacturing labour, without 
the operose, and expensive construction 
of engines worked by steam. We have 
seen it in operation, and of its success 
there can be little doubt. 
A new society of Christians has been 
formed at Manchester, one of whose 
tenets is to abstain entirely from every 
kind of animal food, which they consider 
themselves bound to do, from their par- 
ticular interpretation of the command, 
“ Thou shalt not kill.” One curious 
thing has resulted from this carcinopho- 
bia of the new Christians, which ought 
to be recorded. They have all found 
their health, strength, and intellect im- 
proved by the new regimen, which many 
religious persons have ascribed to the 
Divine favour as a reward for their con- 
scientious abstemiousness, but which 
physiologists more rationally attribute 
to the curative effects of a natural diet, 
and the temperance it necessarily en- 
tails in other respects.* ‘The society-is 
said to be rapidly increasing, and when 
we refiect on the blood-thirsty charac- 
ter of most sect of fanatics, we may 
rejoice that there is at least one sect 
whose tenets are unconnected with cru- 
elty. They form a good antethisis to 
the savage acts of the late Swiss Mora- 
vians; and the infernal mode of expel- 
ling the devil, resorted to in Ireland. 
We have lately heard an authentic ac- 
count of a young woman who sacrificed 
her own aged grandmother, killing her 
herself, as a sort of expiation: this hap- 
pened near Geneva, and not long ago. 
The destruction of Insects on Plants 
in the garden and orchard, is found to be 
most cheaply and effectually performed, 
by the extremely fetid water discharged 
from the gas purifyers of our gas works ; 
of this water, which may be conveyed in 
barrels to any distance, three gallons are 
heated over the fire, in order to mix and 
incorporate therein one pound of flower 
of brimstone, and a small quantity of 
soft soap: with this mixture, by means 
of a painter’s or white-washer’s brush, 
the plants or shoots are brushed over, 
in early spring: and not the slightest 
injury will thereby be occasioned to the 
most delicate tree, shrub, or plant. 
The Olive Trees taken out to New 
South Wales by Mr. H. McAnruur some 
time ago, are five of them in a very 
* This circumstance ought to be known 
to the new society for preventing cruelty to 
animals, lately formed in London under the 
patronage of Mr. Buxton, and who meet 
regularly at Slaughter’s Coffee-House in 
St. Martin’s-lane. 
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thriving condition, in a sandy light loam, 
having added full one-third to. their 
growth, and from them eighty-three 
young plants have been raised, as layers. 
Mr. McArthur is clearing and preparing 
several acres to be planted as an olive 
grove; and the best hopes seemed now 
entertained, that the olive would be 
naturalized, notwithstanding the ill suc- 
cess of former attempts. 
The total of copies distributed by the 
‘British Bible Society, from its institu- 
tion, amounts to 3,875,474; to this 
may be added about 2,000,000 by the 
auxiliary societies, distributed over all 
points of the globe. An entire Bible, 
in the Chinese language, being the first 
attempt of the kind, is now completed. 
As a tribute of the reverence and ad- 
-miration with which foreigners are im- 
pressed by the disinterested, consistent, 
and patriotic exertions of our benevo- 
lent institutions, a work appeared at 
Paris, exhibiting a periodical survey of 
the labours of the philanthropic and re- 
ligious societies in general, and especially 
the English. An elegant writer, in the 
French Review, which describes the 
contents, makes the following reflections 
on the subject. 
** No country can rival England in the 
number of establishments, the object of 
which is to extend the empire of sound 
morals and religion, to implant and confirm 
the benevolent spirit and dispositions of 
humanity. Britain may, in some measure, 
be considered as the classic land of philan- 
thropy. Here are the sources to which 
we must direct our attention, as immediately 
communicating with all these useful im- 
‘pressions, those virtucus and pious prm- 
ciples, which such associations are calcu- 
lated to produce, and are daily introducing 
to our notice.” 
That intolerable pest of society the 
Lottery, has been shewn, by parliamen- 
tary papers lately printed, to have netted 
to the public treasury no more than 
24,8097. in the past year! : whilst the 
payments to the Bank for managing this 
demoralizing concern, has been 2,591/. 
for paying 553,600/., the amount of 
prizes: being 104 per cent. on the pro- 
fits: and the Commissioners salaries and 
office expences being deducted, how very 
small a compensation will remain, for 
the evils inflicted on society by this 
nefarious gambling. 
Mr. Forster, of Walthamstow, is 
preparing for the press, two volumes of 
manuscript Letters of the célebrated 
John Locke and other contemporary 
Writers, which have been for a long 
while in the possession of his family. 
The 
