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Literary and Critical Proemium. 



[May 1, 



40. Navigation of the Aire and Calder. 



41. Two New Churelies in Newin^ton. 

 43. Buryiui^ Ground for Rotherhilhe. 



43. Lig'hting:, watching', and cleansing 

 Huddersfield. 



44. Roads from Milford, througfh Pet- 

 worth. 



45. Road from Pool throug-ii Oswestry. 



46. Road from Tenterden through Wood- 

 cbnrch. 



47. Military Roads in Perth. 



48. Forth and Clyde Navigation. 



49. Bridge over Tnames. 



■50. New Bridge over the River Earn. 



51. Bridge over the River Wensum. 



52. Ballast office in the Port of Corlc. 



53. Fund for Relief of Skippers and 

 Keelmen upon tlie Tyne. 



54. Branch Railway from Crabtree, to 

 Catdown. 



55. Lighting Dublin with Gas. 



56. Lighting with Gas Shrewsbury. 



57. Lighting Bolton with Gas. 



58. Chapel of Ease, Pendleton. 



59. Uniting the Rectory and Vicarage 

 of Saint Dunstan in the West. 



60. For the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. 



61. For paving, lighting, &c. Bury Saint 

 Edmund s. 



02. For lighting, &c. Stoclcton. 



63. For improving Whifgift and Snaith. 



64. For the Road from North Shields. 



65. For the Road from Selby to Leeds. 



66. Road from Rochester to Maidstone. 



67. Roads in Stirling, Dumbarton, La- 

 nark, and Perth. 



08. Road from Wakefield to AusterlanO 9 



(>9. Roads from Devizes. 



70 Roads from Hertford to Broadwater. 



71. Road from Longhorsley Bar to 

 Piercy's Cross. 



72. Road from Swindon (o Knighton. 



73. Road from To'wcester to Western 

 Gate. 



74. Roads in Dumfries and Roxburgh. 



75. Rates on Goods on the Itchin. 



76. Bridewell for Lanark and G!a.sgow. 



77. Sessions House and House of Cor- 

 rection at Ely. 



78. Removing the markets within Exeler. 



79. Road from Chatteris Ferry to Saint 

 Ives. 



80. Road from Market I-Iarborough to 

 Brampton. 



81. Road from Asfliall to Buckland. 



82. Road from Witney to SwerfordHeath. 



83. Roads in Renfrew, Lanark, and Ayr. 



84. Roads and Bridges in Lanark and 

 Dumbarton. 



85. Road through Nairn and Auldearn. 



86. Rectories of Tilehurst. 



87. Forsupplyiug Peterhead with water. 



88. Statute Labour within Glasgow. 



89. To enable Peltro William Tomkins 

 to dispose of his Paintings, Drawings and 

 Engravings, by Lottery. 



90. Road from Dundalk to Baiinbridge. 



NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN APRIL, 



if'ith an Historical and Critical Proemium. 

 — •* — 

 Authors or Publishers desirous of seeing an early notice, of their Worksy are 

 requested to transwlt copies before the I8//1 of the Month. 



ONE of the most interesting works 

 that have appeared during the past 

 month, is a history of the attempts to revo- 

 lutionize Mexico to a state of indepen- 

 dence. It is entitled Memoirs of the 

 Mexican Revolution, and includes a nar- 

 rative of the expedition of General Xavier 

 Mina, (with a portrait of that patriot,) 

 together with some rational observations 

 on the practicability of opening a trade 

 between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, 

 through the Mexican Isthmus in the pro- 

 vince of Oaxaca, and at the Lake of Nicar- 

 agua. ^Ve have long desired authentic in- 

 formation respecting the events that have 

 been passing in the Istbn.us provinces of 

 America, and regarding the actual state 

 of public opiuion, and of the .Spanish go- 

 vernments in that quarter. The indivi- 

 dual who has drawn aside the veil, is 

 Mr. Robinson, an American merchant, 

 wiio appears to have endured many hard- 

 ships in the acquisition of his information, 

 having visited the country, and 1>een sub- 



jected by the Spanish government to a 

 rigorous imprisonment in a fortress. The 

 journal of a Mr. Brush, a gentleman who 

 accompanied General Mina from England, 

 and acted for a time as his Commissary- 

 General, an-d the correspondence of the 

 General with various individuals in Europe 

 and the United States, are the authorities 

 of which Mr. Robinson has chiefly availed 

 himself in his account of Mina's unfortu- 

 nate expedition. The romantic nature of 

 the achievements of this gallant warrior 

 and his little baud, must cause this part of 

 the work to be perused with deep interest 

 by every description of readers. Tliough 

 the heroic attempt failed of success, the 

 narrative strongly shows to the -world the 

 feebleness of the tenure by whicli Spain 

 retains possession of Mexico. A small 

 band, at no time exceeding 308 in number, 

 advanced from Soto la Marina ; fought its 

 way into the interior of Mexico, beating, 

 on different occasions, large bodies of men 

 sent to oppose them, and succeeded in 

 foxing 



