1824.] 
degree of neatness, to be rather an 
ornament than otherwise to the bou- 
doir of a lady of fashion, was first pro- 
jected by the late Mr. Boyle, in the 
year 1792, and has been progressive- 
ly improved, by him during his life- 
time, and since by his family, in whom 
the property continues to be vested, 
till it has become not only a very con- 
venient, but an almost indispensable 
accommodation to what may be called 
the visiting or fashionable world, It 
is not less useful to tradespeople and 
others, who have any occasional tran- 
sactions with the upper classes of so- 
ciety: while to the foreigner, or the 
sojourner from the country, it is a safe 
and sure guide, to all persons of that 
description whom they may have occa- 
sion to call upon; as by a double ar- 
rangement, first by streets and numbers 
of the houses, and afterwards by an al- 
phabetical list of names, with their pro- 
per titles and descriptions, elaborately 
corrected in every successive edition of 
December and April, the name and di- 
rection of every person of fashion and 
fortune, every private gentleman and 
lady, and.every professional man, re- 
siding, for the time, in the western divi- 
sion of the town, as also in the respec- 
tive inns of court, &c., may instantly be 
found. 
The following works are also: prepar- 
ing for publication : 
The Writer’s Clerk; or, the Humours 
of the Scottish Metropolis. 3 vols. 
A Tale of Paraguay. By RosertT 
Soutury, LL.D., &c. &e. 1 vol. 12mo. 
A Treatise on the Steam Engine; His- 
torical, Practical, and Descriptive. By 
Joun Farey, Junior, Engineer. With il- 
lustrative Plates and Cuts. 1 vol. 4to. 
A Voyage performed in the Years 1822- 
23-24; containing an Examination of the 
Antarctic Sea to the 74th Degree of Lati- 
tude: and a Visit to Terra del Fuego, with 
a particular Account of the Inhabitants. 
By James WEDDELL, Esq. 1 vol. 8vo. 
Mr. Freip (late Chief Justice of New 
South Wales) is about to publish a small 
Collection of Geographical Papers, by va- 
rious hands, respecting that Colony. 
The Natural and Artificial Wonders of 
the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and 
Treland. By the Rey. J, Gotpsmiru, Au- 
thor of the “‘ Grammar of British Geogra- 
phy.” 3 vols. 
Domestic Duties; or, Instructions to 
Young Married Ladies on the Management 
of their Household, and the Regulations 
of their Conduct in the various Relations 
and Duties of Married Life. By Mrs. 
Frances Parkes. 1 vol. post 8vo. 
Fire-side Scenes. By the Author of 
Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence: 
4A7 
Bachelor. and Married Man, &e. &e, 3 
vols. 12mo. 
A Compendium of Medical Theory and 
Practice, founded on Dr. Cullen’s Noso- 
logy, which will be given as a Text Book, 
and a Translation annexed. By D. UN- 
wins, M.D. 1 vol. 12me. 
Medico-Chirurgical Transactions pub- 
lished by the Medical and Chirurgical So- 
ciety of London. Vol. XIII., Part L., 
with Plates. 
Muscologia Britannica ; containing the 
Mosses of Great Britain and Ireland, sys- 
tematically arranged and described; with 
Plates, illustrative of the Character of the 
Genera and Species. By WiLLram Jack- 
son Hooker, F.R.S., A.S.L., &c. ; and 
Tuomas Taytor, M.D., M.R.I.A., and 
F.L.S., &e. 8vo. with Plates. : 
A Catalogue of the Shells contained in 
the Collection of the late Earl of Tanker- 
ville, arranged according to the Lamarckian 
Conchological System, and accompanied by 
the characters of such species as are hither- 
to undescribed. By G. B. Sowersy, 
F.L.S., &e. : 
Queen Hynde, an Epic Poem. By 
James Hoce, Author of the “ Queen’s 
Wake,” “ Poetic Mirror,’ “ Pilgrims o 
the Sun,” &e. 1 vol. 8yo. . 
FRANCE. 
- . It appears that earthquakes were pre- 
valent in several places, very remote 
from each other, during the month of 
August last,.and may probably be all 
referred to one common origin. In 
the Alps, a traveller felt several shocks 
during the night of the 12th of August. 
At San Pietro, in the grand duchy of 
Tuscany, several shocks of earthquake 
were also felt at the time, and for a day 
and night subsequent. The greater por- 
tion of the shocks were faint, though 
sufficient to set the church bells in 
motion. In one instance, a wall was 
thrown down by the concussion. Ac- 
counts from the south of France men- 
tion the occurrence of earthquakes about 
the same period in the Eastern Pyre- 
nees.—A_ vessel arrived at maneiiles, 
from the Canaries, brought details re- 
specting a volcano which has burst forth 
in the Island Lancerotto. 
Some organic remains have been re- 
cently found in France, near the river 
Isoire, in a more advanced stage of 
petrefaction than any previously observ- 
ed by naturalists, embedded in strata, 
principally of pumice-stone, or lava, 
They consist of some large fragments 
of bone completely converted into car- 
bonate of lime; some pieces of stag- 
horn converted into agate, and the jaw- 
bone, teeth, &c. of some unknown spe- 
cies of stag or elk. Below the layer of 
tufa or lava, Count de Laizer, who 
found 
