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whole of this period wrapped up in 
a paper, and placed ina dark place that 
was very dry. 
SICILY. 
€ome amateurs of natural science 
have just founded at Catana, in Sicily, 
an academy (Academia giornia di Sci- 
enze Naturale).. Their object is to dif- 
fuse a taste for the study of physics, to 
remark and describe the products of 
Sicily, and to form a cabinet of indi- 
genous and exotic natural history. It 
publishes, every six months, a volume of 
its memoirs. There has also appeared 
at Palermo, for some time past, a Jour- 
nal‘of Sciences, Letters, and Arts. 
SWEDEN. 
Bernadotte appears to understand the 
science of government, at least, as well 
as any of his legitimate cousins of Eu- 
rope. In a late edict, respecting Public 
Education, he has shewn his sagacity in 
an eminent degree. 
- By a circular, addressed to the con- 
sistery courts of the Swedish church, 
the principals are required to select 
only such persons for the office of 
churehwarden (and parish instructor), 
as shall be capable of teaching by the 
Lancasterian system: to replace the 
Curates, who are stated to be far more 
numerous than necessary for religious 
purposes or economy, by well-instruc- 
ted schoolmasters, to economise the 
fees of church livings, and the funds 
now engrossed by the clergy, and. ren- 
der such funds available for the pur- 
pose of Public Education. Prince Oscar, 
eldest son of the king, had been elected 
to serve the cffice of chancellor to the 
universities both of Upsal. and Lund. 
The latter, at the solicitation of the 
whole senate, on account of the zeal 
displayed by him in discharging the 
duties of the office at Upsal. 
The grand canal of Gothiand, which 
is to unite the North Sea with the Bal- 
tic without having to pass the Sound, 
is also proceedingly rapidly, in its exe- 
cution, under the auspices of the govern- 
ment, which has adopted the policy of 
Louis XIV. in thus employing the mili- 
_tary, in time of peace. The section of 
the country is favourable to the design 
in the great canal of Sweden, there 
being two intervening lakes between 
the Baltic and Gottenburgh, and. the 
North Sea, where it terminates.. The 
distance is about 200 English miles, of 
which nearly a fifth part is: already ex- 
eavated. The actual distance saved by 
this canal, in the Baltic navigation, will 
be 500 to 600 miles. 
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GERMANY. r 
_ The German periodicals speak of 
their late favourite writer Vander Velde, 
a native of Breslau in Silesia, as the 
Walter Scott of German Literature. He 
adopted the plan of incorporating the 
history of his country with the texture 
of romance. At the period of his de- 
cease, he was engaged in a work of 
great interest, connected with the early 
history of the North of Germany. The 
death of this eminent writer is. con- 
sidered a national loss, from the heighth 
of his reputation in historical and dra- 
matic literature. 
Three Fragments of’ Aulus Gellius 
and Cicero, are.said to have been dis- 
covered, in an ancient German abbey. 
RUSSIA. 
The Russian Government maintains, 
at Pekin, a permanent mission of Greek 
Ecclesiastics, who are relieved every ten 
years, and on their return employed as 
interpreters, or as professors of the 
Chinese and Mantchou languages in the 
Universities. 
The Russian Commodore, M. de 
Krusenstern, has published, at Peters- 
burgh, the first part of his Atlas of the 
South Seas, executed at the expense of 
government. ‘The extreme delicacy of 
the engravings, as well as the neaincss 
and elegance of the type, confer the 
greatest honour on the three Russian 
artists who have executed this portion 
of the work. The Atlas is accompanied 
by a volume in 4to. containing explana- 
tory memoirs, besides a great number 
of nautical remarks on the wiuds and 
currents in the South Seas. Admiral 
Krusenstern has written to Professor 
Barlow, of Woolwich, a very satisfac- 
tory and complimentary letter on the 
result of some experiments made on a 
ship of the Russian navy, at Cronstadt, 
with the guard, plate for correcting the 
errors of the mariner’s compass needle 
from the local attraction of the ship’s 
guns and other iron stores; and the 
Russian government, in’ consequence, 
have given orders for all their ships to 
be furnished with correcting compass 
plates, similar to those now fitting up 
for the ships of our navy, aad many. of 
our merchant ships. 
SWISS. CANTONS, ; 
At.a late meeting of the students in 
theology, the Bishop of Basle delivered 
an exhortation to the pupils of the 
Catholic persuasion, admonished them 
to “ preserve amity and good feeling 
with their Protestant class fellows, un- 
der pain of being refused ordination.” 
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