1824.] 
exclusive of stamps and 
PAPEL de waciala ics ria! £200,000 00 
Provincial press, ditto.... 93,600 00 
>aper 91,000 006 
Five bundred thousand 
stamps, at 4d. each, with 
20/. percent. discount off, 336,666 13 4 
Forming a total of .. £721,266 13 4* 
We have here more than seven hundred 
thousand pounds sterling, exclusive of ad- 
vertisements+, expended by the newspaper 
press annually, of which about 360,000. 
go to the Government for stamps and the 
excise duty on paper. 
The first volume of a work under the 
title of “ Lord Byron,” written by a 
Madame Belloc, has just appeared at 
Paris. The object of it appears to be 
to make the French public better ac- 
quainted with the history, character, 
and works of the Noble Author. 
An English translation of M. Mol- 
lien’s Voyage dans la République de 
Colombia, in 1822-3, is, we understand, 
in some forwardness. M. Mollien is 
distinguished by his researches in Africa 
in 1818. His present work not only 
embraces a lively description of this 
interesting province, together with an 
historic sketch of the Revolution; but, 
gives an account of the industry, trade, 
and agriculture of its inhabitants; and 
of their manners, habits, moral and so- 
cial condition, &c. 
A Collection of the MS. Remains, in 
Prose and Verse, of the late Rev. Chas. 
Wolfe, of Trinity College, Dublin, is 
preparing for publication, by his College 
Companion, Mr. G. Downes. 
In the lists of works announced as at 
this time in the press, we are glad to 
recognize Progressive Lessons; or, Har- 
ry and Lucy concluded, by Maria 
Epcewortu. Among the writers of 
the present generation, we hold this 
lady as one of the greatest (we think 
we might say the greatest) benefactresses 
of society. Her various works are ap- 
plicable to the educational development 
and cultivation of the human mind, from 
the first dawnings of infant intellect to 
* Since the above was written, the offh- 
cial returns of 1821 have been put into our 
hands, by which we find that the total 
number, of newspaper stamps, issued in that 
year was 24,779,786, and the stamp duty 
412,9961. 8s. 8d.; but by taking off the 
discount of twenty per cent., as is done in 
our calculation, the difference between that 
and the official return is very trifling. 
+ The amount paid by newspapers for 
advertisements is very great. 
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the period of its full maturity; and 
while those of her works which, from 
the kind of interest they are calculated 
to excite, seem only to be addressed to 
the imagination, and designed for the 
amusement of the novel-reading youth 
of both sexes, have a powerful tendency 
to enlarge the understanding and im- 
prove the heart; those apparently more 
humble productions, so admirably adapt- 
ed to the circle of the nursery, may be 
read with interest and profit by the 
scholar and the parent of the most culti- 
vated mind and maturest judgment. 
Alaric A. Watts, Esq., Editor of the 
Literary Souvenir, has also in the press, 
about to be publishéd in one thick vol. 
8vo., closely but elegantly printed, a 
compilation, to be called the Poetical 
Album ; or, Register of Modern Fugi- 
tive Poetry, original and select. It is 
to be adorned with an elegant vignette 
title-page, representing the Fountain of 
Caskely, from a design of W. H. Wil- 
liams, Esq., of Edinburgh. An Appen- 
dix is to be added, comprizing notices 
of the periodical publications from which 
the compilation is principally to be made; 
and care is to be taken not to include. 
any of those poems that have been col- 
lected together into volumes. 
L. E. L. the fair authoress of the Im- 
provisatrice, has in the press the Trou- 
badour, the Spanish Maiden, and other 
Poems. i [ 
A Miniature Edition of the Novels 
and Romances of the Author of Wa- 
verly is about to be published, in 7 vols. 
18mo. with engraved titles and frontis- 
pieces by eminent Artists. : 
Maps and Plans, illustrative of He- 
rodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, 
chiefly selected from Rennell, D’Anville, 
Anacharsis, and Gaib, is in preparation, 
which will be carefully compared, we 
‘are informed, with the authors they are 
intended to illustrate ; and such altera- 
tions and corrections are to be made, 
as a diligent perusal of those works may 
prove to be requisite. The names of 
various ‘places are also to be inserted, 
which have been entirely unnoticed by 
other geographers. 
A new Edition of ‘Grey’s Memoria 
Technica, is printing at Oxford. 
In the course of the present month 
will be published, an Estimate of the 
true Value of Vaccination, as a Security 
against the Small Pox. By T.M. 
GREENHOW. 
The following are also expected to 
issue from the press in a few days: 
The Mechanic’s Encyclopedia; or, 
General 
