1815.J Z,iterary and Philosophical Intelligence. 445 



ears for deaf persons, wliicli increase the A resumption of Cave's original plan 

 €ollection of sountl. To this defect he of a Magazine is announced, to be con- 

 has added a small lube, wliich, by con- tinned every other Saturday, under the 

 tracting the passage, occasions tiie sound title of the Portlblio, Political and Lite- 

 to enter witii greater force. rary ; being a general miscellany and 

 The 73d annual conference of the collection of original and fngitive pro- 

 preachers in the connection offhelate ductions, including criticisms on new 

 Rev. John Wesley, was lately held in works, and select essays from the 

 London. The fullowing is a recapitula- newspapers. 



tion of the number of members in the A physician announces Letters to a 



society, and of regular travelling iVIotiier on the Mauagenienl of Infants 



preachers: — and Children; cinbraciiig tlie important 



In Great Britain 191,680 subjects ot nursing, food, dro>s, ex- 



In [leland vSjd-la ercisc, Sec; with general remarks on tha 



In France 35 diseases of infancy. 



At Brussels 10 RUSSIA. 



At Gibraltar 63 Among the deaths in Russia in 1814 



At S>iei ra Leone- • • • - 129 ^^^^^ ^^.^ p^^.^^,^ „„,. [jetweeu 14.5 and 



At t le Cape ot Good Hope • • • • 4'J ,rn i i j ^i .i ■ / 



In Ceylon 50 ^9 J<^f 7. o'^*' =*'"! t''*^ ^ll'^*- l>etwcen 



In the West Indies 18,033 ^-,^„*"".^'^^-,. - . 



Nova Scotia, <l'c. 1,824 1 he city oi Moscow is about half re- 



I built ; hut, as the builders have been left 



Total 241,319 at liberty to consult tlieir OAvn lasto and 



Number of members in America — convenience, it exhibits little iniprove- 



Whiics 167,978 luent. The streets areas narrow as 



Coloured 43,187 before, and line houses are joined by 



211,165 hovels. 



_ , , According to an enumeration of the 



„.u «n. . number. • • • 4o2,.J84 population of Russia, made in 1806, the 



There are 725 regular tmclling preach- j,^^^,,^ ^f t,,^. ^^j^^j^ ^,^^ 41,253,483. 



crs in Great Britam, lo2in Ireland, 96 i„ ji^;, ^^tal were compre!icnded-l 



on toreign missions, and 704 in the y\nic- PoIps . .. ^nf-nui 



Ti r j< f J ■ rtM ■ ruKt, 0,O/.J,0'M' 



ricau Methodist connexion. J he in- Finns 2-192 779 



crease of the members in Great Britain Tartars ooo'ooo 



in the last year was 10,000, and in the Caiicassiaiis 64,Oi!9 



West Indies 100. Samoirdcs 12,000 



Notwithstanding the state of the Mon^'oN .300,000 



countrv, and the scarcity of money, the Tribes 1,500,000 



well-selected library oi" Mr. Roscoe There are at retcrsburgii Iburfeen 



fetched 5,150/.; his prints 1,880/.; his piiiHing houses, of which three belong tw 



drawings 738/. ; and his portrait of Leo ^''c Senate, the Synod, and the War- 



thc Tenth .500 guineas. ""'"'. Tije otiiers Ijelong to the acade- 



The Rev. W. Ettrick is printing a ""cs, or to individuals; one prints in the 



new, perhaps the 1260tli, attempt to Tartar language; another jirints music, 



explain the alledged period of 1260 There are liiirtecn foreign booksellers; 



years, connected with some interpreta- and about thirty Russian, There arc 



tion of a passage of the historical book also reading rooms, 



of Daniel. Denmark. 



The locks of the canals cast and west Tlie valuable iiarcliuient MSS. which 

 of Rirniingham arc said to prove that once formed p:irt of the library of Raron 

 St. George's Cliannel is lilty feet higher Leiui— namely, Sal!nst,Livy, and Cicero's 

 than the German Ocean. Orations — have been described by Pro- 

 Mr. SoTHF.r.Y announces for sale tlic fessor Eirger Tliorlacius, in his tract en- 

 liljraries of tile late Rev. Charles Uun- titled Ties Codices pergamini auctornm 

 siter, M.A. — of the late Robert Riand, Latiiwnim,exSibliotJiecaKeuisLe/miana 

 M.D. I'.A.S. — of the late AV'm. Alex- in Lallnmlia. According to this author, 

 ander, esq. I'.S.A. and L.S. ; t!ic entire the Sallust contains Cauiline's conspi- 

 collection of pictnres, prints, and draw- racy, and the Jiigurtiian war; and the 

 ings of the late Wni. Alexander, esq. , copy dales about tiie end of the twelfth 

 the library of the; late Rev. T. Good- or beginning of the thirteenth century, 

 inge, LL.D. ; Ihe duplicates of a noble- It is in fine preservation, and is com- 

 nian's liijrary ; and a matchless collec- prised in sixty-one <)iiarlo leaves. The 

 lion of jjriiits, the propeily gf TUoUia.s second MS., is in one Inindred and .sc- 

 Ll(>yd_, esij. vculy two leaves, suiall quurto, contains 



