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@nnouncement of the re-publication of 
Puttenham’s Arte of English Poesie, one 
‘ef the most curious and entertaining pro- 
ductions of that age. Its copious inter- 
mixture of contemporary anecdotes, and 
specimens of coeval poetry, give it an 
interest surpassing most publications of 
the age of Elizabeth. The editor, Mr. 
Hastewoop, has condensed the slight 
notices which we possess of the author 
into a connected biographical memoir, 
and prefixed them to the volume. — 
Cambridge, April 13. The subject of 
‘the Seatonian Prize Poem for the present 
year is, Lhe Sufferings of the Primitive 
Martyrs. : 
Cambridge, April 26. The subjects 
for the Prizes given by the members for 
the university for the present year, are— 
Senior bachelors, Utrum in optimé Dia- 
fogorum ratione, Antiqui Recentioribus 
sint praponendi?—Middle bachelors, 
Studiorum que in Academiaé sunt wsti- 
tuta laus et utilitas. 
Cambridge, May 6. The Norrisian 
Prize is this year adjudged to the Rev. 
Jonn Tappy, M.A. late fellow of Tri- 
nity College, for his essay.on the follows 
ing subject—The divisions of Christians 
are not inconsistent with the truth of 
Christianity. 
The Prizes bequeathed by the late 
Provost of Eton, Dr. Davies, for the best 
compositions in prose and verse, on 
themes selected by the head-master, 
have this year been gained—the one by 
Mr. Damprer, subject Moses servatus: 
the other by Mr. Danretr, subject Au- 
gustus de Populo Romano bene meritus 
est. 
The Royal Tris> Academy have pro- 
posed a premium of 501. to the writer of 
the best Essay on the following subject, 
viz. “ Whether, and how far, the culti- 
vation of Science, and that of Polite Li- 
terauture, assist or obstruct each other.” 
Messrs. Goon and Locuner, of Hat- 
ton Garden, have obtained the first pre- 
mium for a design of the intended Hos- 
pital for Lunatics, in the place of Beth- 
lem; and another premium for the erec- 
tion of a Lunatic Asylum in the vitinity 
of Norwich, ; 
Mr. Bisset, of the Museum, Birming- 
ham, has made a drawing from cne of 
the meteoric hail-stones which fell at 
Worcester, during the great storm in 
Jast month. He intends publishing a 
print of it, and we understand that it 
measpred SQ inches in circumference. 
Vhe Boasd of the National Vaccine 
Rsiablishiwent repurt that the sargeons 
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Literary and Philosophical Intelligence, 
[July 
of the nine stations established’ in Lone 
don have vaccinated, during the last year, 
3108 persons, and that 23362 charges of 
vaccine lymph have been distributed to 
various applicants from -all parts of the 
kingdom, being an excess of nearly one 
third’in the number of persons vacci- 
nated, and in the number of ‘charges of 
lymph distributed, above that of the 
preceding year. No case of failure has 
occurred in any individual vaceinated by 
the surgeons ef the nine stations, Ip 
the Royal Military Asylum for the chil- 
dren of soldiers, and in the Foondling 
Hospital, vaccination was introduced by 
order of goveriment, and continues to 
be practised. The former institution, — 
which contains more than 1100 children, 
has lost but one of them by small-pox ; 
and that individual had not been vacci- 
nated, in consequence of having been — 
declared by the mother to have passed . 
through the small-pox in infancy. In 
the latter institution, no death has oc- _ 
curred by small-pox. Every child has 
been vaccinated on its admission tothe 
charity, and in no instance has the pre- 
ventive power of vaccination been dis- 
credited, although rsany of the children 
have been’ repeatedly inoculated with — 
the matter of small-pox, and been sub- 
mitted to the influence of the contagion. 
Similar success has attended the vacci~ 
nation at the Lying-in Charity-of Man- 
chester, where, in the space of nine 
years, more’ than 9000 persons have 
been effectually vaccinated; and, by a ( 
report received from Glasgow, it appears, 
that of 15,500 persons who have under- 
gone vaécine inoculation in that city, 
during the last ten years, no individual 
has been known to be subsequently af- ~ 
fected with small-pox. The number of 
deaths from small-pox announced in the 
bills of mortality of 1810, ,amuunted to 
1198, which, although great, is ‘cousi- 
derably Jess than it had been previously 
to the adoption of the practice. The 
Board have been induced to address the 
preceding information to the committees 
of Charity Schools, and to submit te 
them the propriety of introducing vac- 
cination into their respective establish. 
ments, and among the poor in general, | 
They also state, that in the principal 
county towns gratuitous ‘vaccination of 
the poor is practised either at public ine” 
stitutions or by private practitioners on 
an extensive scale; that the prejudices . 
of the lower orders excited against the — 
practice by interested persons, still exist, 
but appear to be gradually yielding to a — 
sonvistion 
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