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An Arcoiiut of the Discovery of a 

 new Continent called New South Sliet- 

 land, is preparing for publication hy 

 Capt. J. Rogers, with a Description 

 of the Manners and Customs of its 

 Inhabitants with engravings. There is 

 some empiricism in calling this a new 

 continent. 



An antique Bas-Relief, or the Apo- 

 theosis of Homer, brought from Rome, 

 has lately been set up in the gallery of 

 Antiquites in the British Museum. It 

 has long been famous among antiqua- 

 ries, and has been engraved and pub- 

 lished in a contemporary journal. 



Mr. HADEN,of Sloane-street, isabout 

 to publish a Monthly Journal of Medi- 

 cine, addressed principally to unpro- 

 fessional persons. The work, there- 

 fore, will teach the prevention rather 

 tiian the cure of disorders ; at the same 

 time that it will point out hoAv the 

 friends of the sick may, in the best 

 way assist medical men in tiieir treat- 

 ment. 



Mr. R. N. Kelly will speedily pub- 

 lish De Renzey, a Novel, in li volumes. 



The author of Night, Peter Faultless 

 to his brother Simon, and other poems, 

 is preparing for tiie press ; Metacom, 

 or Phillip of Pokanoket, an heroic 

 poem, iu-16 books. 



A new periodical work is announced, 

 entitled, " A Magazine of the Fine 

 Arts, or Monthly Review of Painting, 

 Sculpture, Architecture, and embel- 

 lished Literature." The first number 

 is to appear in Apiil, previous to the 

 annual exhibition : and Mill contain 

 much original information on subjects 

 alluded to in the title. 



A descriptive Catalogue of an exten- 

 sive Collection of Books, containing 

 many rare edi tiones pr incipes, and other 

 choice and valuable works, as well in 

 manuscript, as print, collected during 

 several successive tours on diflferent 

 parts of the continent, will be pub- 

 lished in March, by J. Sams, Darling- 

 ton. 



A second edition is printing of the 

 Apocryphal New Testai^jent, corrected 

 by the Editor, who has written an ad- 

 ditional preface and subjoined new ta- 

 bles, which may be had separately. 



An Itinerary of the Rhone, including 

 part of the Southern Coast of France, 

 by John Hughes, esq. A.M. of Oriel 

 College, Oxford, is in the press. 



FRANCE. 



The Annuaire for 1821, states the 

 population of France, which according 

 to the last census, is 29,217)465 souls. 



[Feb. I, 



The bills of mortality, &c. of the city 

 of Paris, for 1819, gives births 24,344, 

 of which 8,641 were illcgitiiiiate. Deaths 

 22,072, including 3.51 of the small- 

 pox. Still-born children 1,352. Mar- 

 riages 6,236. The population 713,765. 

 The Narrateur de la Meme states that 

 M. Deleau, a doctor of medicine, esta- 

 blished at Mibiel,"perforated with dexte- 

 rity and success the meatus auftiotrinson 

 Mademoiselle Bivier, aged 16, and the 

 Sieur Toussainf, aged 2S, both till then 

 deaf and dumb. — Thegiil takes not ice of 

 the least sounds, and l)egiiis to articulate 

 words. — She is incessantly humming 

 various airs — The young man hears 

 as well as his comrades, and makes 

 constant etTorts to pronounce all sorts 

 of words. — M. Deleau is constructing 

 an instrument, which will afford the 

 facility of finishing the operation in 

 tliree minutes, by which its success will 

 be rendered more certain. By means 

 of this instrument he will raise on the 

 tympanic membrane substance, enough 

 to prevent the necessity of introducing 

 probes into the perforation during from 

 thirty to forty days. He is of opinion, 

 that he can restore the hearing of all 

 those who have been deprived of it by 

 the obstruction of the Eustachian organ, 

 and by the obesity of the membrane of 

 the tympanum. 



GERMANY. 



The University of Giittingen, which 

 at the beginning of the last half year 

 had 1118 students, has received a con- 

 siderable addition; the whole number 

 amounting to 1254, which is more than 

 it ever had since its foundation. 



ITALY. 



In prosecuting the excavations of 

 Pompeii, a late traveller, Mr. Williams, 

 informs us, that the streets of the city 

 are getting daily disencumbere<l. He 

 entered by the Appian Way through a 

 narrow street of small tombs beauti- 

 fully executed, with the names of the 

 deceased, plain and legible. At the 

 gate was a centry-box, in which the 

 skeleton of a soldier was found with 

 a lamp in his hand; after passing into 

 several streets be entered a coffee-house, 

 marks of the cups being visible on the 

 stone. The streets are lined with 

 public buildings and private houses, 

 most of which have their original paint- 

 ed decorations fresh and entire. The 

 pavement of the streets is much worn 

 by carriage wheels. A surgeon's house 

 with chirurgical instruments ; an iron- 

 monger's shop, where was an anvil and 

 hammer; a sculptor's, and a baker's 



shop ; 



