1824. 
land expedition, which was prevented 
by the ice from a further prosecution of 
its course. 
An Island is said to have been dis- 
covered in the South Pacific, by Mr. B. 
Wight, commander of the merchant 
vessel Medway. It is in lat. 21° 36’, 
long. 159° 40’ W. of Greenwich. Its 
length from east to west is about 20 
miles, the land high. Mr. Wight named 
it Roxburgh Istand. ; 
Captain Cochrane, the Siberian tra- 
veller, was at Barbadoes early in Au- 
gust, on his. way for a pedestrian tour in 
South America, and. particularly over 
the Andes. 
A company has been formed with a 
subscribed capital of 200,0002., to apply 
Mr. Browne’s gas engine to the propul- 
sion of wheel carriages. Their first 
effort is to be that of propelling a coach 
from London to York and back again at 
the rate of ten miles an hour. 
The plan of the Metropolitan Water 
Works Company, for supplying pure and 
wholesome water, is, to raise it from 
the springs of the earth below the blue 
clay, about thirty-five fathoms from the 
surface, They assert, that no doubt is 
entertained of thus obtaining an abun- 
dant supply of pure soft water; and the 
terms, it is added, will be more moderate 
than those of the Thames and New 
River Water Companies, 
_ The National Bath Company proposes 
to erect one of of its grand baths as a 
termination to Portland Street, in the 
Regent’s Park; one in the centre of 
Leicester Square; a third in the centre 
of Moorfields; and a fourth on a site 
near the banks of the Thames. 
The new Stomach Pump.—It is gra- 
tifying to witness the success of any 
new inyention for the preservation of 
human life. A surgeon of Shrewsbury 
has employed, the new stomach pump 
in extracting some oxalic acid from the 
stomach of a young woman, who, in a 
fit of insanity, had taken a dose of this 
violent poison, Why is oxalic acid al- 
lowed to be commonly sold by drug- 
gists? Itis of no utility in medicine, 
and is’ so yery easily mistaken for Ep- 
som salts. -Anorder from the Apothe- 
caries’ Company would probably be 
sufficient to prevent these fatal results. 
Female Protection Society.—The be- 
neyolent» Mrs. Fry, and a few otber 
ladies; have formed a society to afford 
temporary ‘relief to females of good 
character; who may be destitute of em- 
ployment. It more especially oflers 
protection to young women in the fol- 
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lowing situations of life, who are capable 
of maintaining themselves, if employed: 
+ Shop-women, teachers in schools, 
house-keepers, ladies’? maids, and ser- 
vants generally of unimpeachable cha- 
racter, if out of place. When it is con- 
sidered that the first step towards de- 
pravity, in the majority of the unfortu- 
nate females who frequent: our streets, 
is usually the want of employment, aad 
its concomitant, pecuniary distress, the 
value of such an institution as this 
inust be obvious. It is indeed greatly 
to be regretted, that, in the metropolis 
especially, so many thousands of fe- 
males should be displaced from their 
proper stations by a class of effeminate 
young men, serving in shops of various 
descriptions. 
Mining Company in TIreland.—Ano- 
ther project is on foot for the advantage 
of Ireland—that of establishing a gene- 
ral mining company for the werking of 
coals. and other minerals. Whether it 
will end, as most other projects end, in 
a job, time will shew. We know that 
the district round the source of. the 
Shannon; Roscommon, and. Leitrim, 
abounds with iren ore and with coal, 
though not of the best quality: but 
unless manufactures were carried on 
with more spirit in that part of the 
kingdom, and the peasantry more indus- 
trious, we despair of seeing any compe- 
tition with the mining interests of Staf- 
ford and the neighbouring counties. 
London Chemical Society.—This new 
society met on the 7th of October, when 
an experimental lecture on heat was 
delivered by a Mr. Davis to a select 
audience, among whom were several 
ladies. Dr. Birckbeck is elected presi- 
dent of the society, and an inaugural 
address will be given by that gentleman 
to the members on the 9th of Noyem- 
ber, at the City of London Tavern, 
Temperature of the Globe.—A con- 
temporary journal tells us :— 
Le Baron Fourrier, Perpetual Secretary 
to the French Academy, has just made 
known his. important disquisitions on the 
témperature of the celestial spaces and the 
planets! a full account of which will appear 
in a forthcoming number of the European 
Review. Among other facts of the high- 
est importance, the author has demonstrated 
that it would take more than 30,000 years 
before any perceptible diminution of heat 
could take place on the surface of. the 
earth ; and that, from the time of the Alex- 
andrian school to the present time, that 
diminution had not exceeded s}, of a 
degree., 
This is not only the ne plus ultra of 
2Y2 mathematical 
