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hand.—2. The same for thread equal 
to fine cambric muslin: No, 225,000 
metres; or No. 92,000 ells to the pound, 
The saving to be seven;tenths of the 
labour and cost of spinning by hand.— 
3. No. 170,000 metres; or No, 70,000 
ells to the pound. The saving to be 
4ix-tenths of the cost of spuyning by 
hand. In these savings are included 
whatever may be ebtained in all the 
preparatory operations to the spinning 
ef the thread—d, If all these condi- 
tions are not falfilled, 500,000 franes 
will be granted te whoever fulfils the 
conditions of the second and_ third 
class.—5. The models must be large 
enough to be used for working, as ina 
manufactory.—6. The candidates must 
explain the whole of their manner of 
proceeding from the raw material to the 
finest spinning —7. The machines that 
obtain the prize are to become public 
property. . 
|The introduction of maehinery into 
the woollen manufactories at Veryins. 
Hodimont, Aix Ja Chapelle, and Car- 
cassonne, has given new life to the trade 
of France; and of seven millions of livres 
to which their exportation to ‘Turkey 
amounted, before the revolution, they 
have recovered six millions, ‘These 
machines were introduced by two Ene 
glishmen named Cockerill’ and Douglas, 
and the government has bought the 
property ; and given them large premiums 
dor various inventions, 
- By an order of police, dated Novem- 
ber 20, the following regulations were 
established, concerning the cleansing, 
and keeping clean, the streets and pas- 
saves of the city of Payis.* 
1. Proprietors er tenants of houses, are 
bound to direct the sweeping regularly every 
day, the fronts of their houses, shops, courts, 
gardens, and other offices. ‘The sweeping to 
extend from the kennel in the middle of the 
street, tu the edge of the pavement next the 
houses. The mud to’be gathered in heaps on 
the sides. None to sweep his own mud on 
“to his neighbour's premises. 
9. The sweeping shall be finished at eight 
o'clock in the morning, from October 1, to 
March 1 ; and at seven o'clock, from March 1, 
so October 1. In case of negligence, the 
police will sweep the place, and charge the 
expenses 
3. The laying of any filth or refuse, from 
the interior of the houses, after the scaven- 
* The paper of our correspondent, “Com 
2MON SENSE,” on this subjact, was written 
in London three days pelvic this French 
edict 
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ger carts have passed, will be punished with 
great seyerity. 
4. Glass of all kinds, broken bottles, lumps_ 
of ice, earthen-ware, &c. shall be placed 'elose 
to the houses, apart from the mud. 
5. Nothing shall be thrown into the streety 
from the windows of any house. 
6. The laying of any earth or rubbish, 
before the houses, or suffering it to lie more 
than two hours after the carts have passed, 
is forbidden. Earth or rubbish, laid before 
the houses, meust be removed in the, course 
of the day. . In case of negligence, the police 
will remoye it, and charge it. 
7. In time of snow, or of frost, every 
householder is bound tga sweep away the snow, 
and to break the ice before his house, shop, 
court, garden, &c. to the middle of the 
street. They shall form the snow and ice 
into heaps. In case of slippery ice, they shall 
strew ashes, sand, or gravel r 
8. It is forbidden to lay in the streets, any 
snow or ice, from courts, or from the interios 
of houses, &ce 
9. It is equally forbidden to proprietors, 
or occupiers of baths, dyers, washers, or 
others which make great use of water, tolet 
any part thereof, flow over the public wayg 
during frosty weather. , 
; GERMANY. 
M. Vretz, of Vienna, is publishing 
a work on Botany, containing plants used 
in medicine, in domestic economy, and 
manufactures, with the descripuon of 
the methods of using them. The first 
two volumes comprise the indigenous 
medicinal plants, and the third, which is 
the last that has appeared, contains the 
plants for household uses, from Acanthus 
to Amygdalus, arranged in alphabetical 
order. The author has followed Mur- 
ray’s system, 
M. Tromsporre has in publication at 
Erfurt, a periodical work ented, The 
General Chemical Library of the Nine» 
teenth Century. {t consists of criticisms 
on all new works published on the subk- 
ject, and the Jast number contains a 
review of the chemical literature of 
France, England, Holland, Sweden, &c. 
from 1800 to 1204. _—- 
A shepherd, of the village of Kappel,' 
near Klagenfurt, Carinthia, found’ ac- 
cidentally, during the last autumn, a 
vein of quicksilver; this discovery will 
in part comperisate the Austrian mo- 
narchy for the cession of Taria; there 
has hkewise been discovered in Transyl- 
vania, a mine of quicksilver, which plo- 
duces annually 700 quintals of that mis 
neral ! ; 
The editors of the Annals of the Pia. 
gress of Inventions, a work which 
collects discoveries, inventions, systems, 
opinions, 
