1320s Etter and Philosophical Intelligence. : (Sept. 1, 
tending to all the flats and sharps, more 
perfectly in tune, upon the calculation of 
six to one, than the common keys, in 
one or two sharps.or flats, were before, 
and that without a single additional key; 
so that the performer has nothing to do 
but to play in the usual manner to pro- 
’ duce the most delightful sounds, even the 
perfection of harmony itself. The organ 
being completed, a numerous meeting of 
professors and amateurs tock place at 
the organ-builder’s manufactory, in. Tot- 
tenham-court, when Mr. Samuen Wes- 
Ley and Mr, Jacons playedupon it fora 
éonsiderable time; the former played 
several fugues, by Bach, and exrtempore 
pieces; the latter, several of Handel’s 
fugues, and extempore pieces. ‘The gen-= 
tlemen present were unanimously of opi- 
nion that amore valuable discovery had 
never been made for the improvement of 
the musical science, as it will substitute 
perfection for imperfection, and pure 
harmony for harsh discord. —* 
A new biographical work, intended to 
contain a series of portraits of the most 
eminent persons now living or lately de- 
ceased in Great Britain and Ireland, is 
in a forward state of preparation. Tt will 
include the most distinguished charac- 
ters in the senate, the church, the navy 
and army, the learved professions and the 
vatious departments of literature and sci- 
ence; also of those who have most zea- 
lously exerted themselves in promoting 
the arts, agriculture and commerce of the 
country. The portraits will be elegantly 
and accurately drawn in an uniform man- 
ner, from nature or from original pictures ; 
and the engravings will be perfect fac- 
similes of the drawings. The work will 
be published periodically; and the first 
wdaber containing six portraits, each a 
companied by a short biographical notice 
will appear very soon. : 
: Mew. T. Comser, of Liverpool, has- 
just completed a work entitled, Aw 
Enquiry into the State of National Subsist- 
énce, as connected with the Progress of 
Wealth and Population. ie 
“ Hebunstro’s Treatise on Greek Me- 
tres, corrected from manu 
ties and illustrated with copious notes, is 
reprinting at the Clarendon press. 
Proposals bave been issued for pub- 
lishing by subscription, in six octavo vo- 
lumes, the Works of the Rev. J. Nrwron, 
late rector of St. Mary Woollnoth, London. 
Mr. J. Wricar has invented a por- 
table artificial horizon for taking altitudes 
either by sea or land. With this instru- 
ment and a quadrant, varying from those 
of the usual construction in having. a 
uscript authoti- 
works, than the usual mode by stoves.’ 
a 
larger horizon glass, the silver surface 
larger, anda different sight vane,the meris . 
dian altitudes of all brignt stars, as they - 
come to the meridian may be taken; by 
which means the latitude might fre+ 
quently be found by observations at night, 
and with aS much ease as by the sun at 
noon day; the altitudes of the moon and 
stars to correct the lunar problem for the 
longitude will also be more accurately 
and easily taken with it. For altitudes of 
the sun or moon, and for all terrestrial 
objects, an octant of the ordinary cous 
struction will answer every purpose. 
A laudable institution has lately been 
formed at Edinburgh, entitled, the An= 
nuity Fund, established for the benefit of 
governesses. It proposes, by certain 
rates of subscription from females em- 
ployed in the education of youth, to raise 
a tund, from which an annuity propor 
tioned'to the subscription of the parties 
is to be paid to the subscribers, after they 
have attained the age of fifty-five, from 
which period their subscriptions are to 
cease. An attempt is now making to 
enlarge the plan by raising a separate: 
fund, by means of an honorary subscrip- 
tion, to be appropriated under the direc- 
topes the committee of the Annuity 
Fund, to the relief of such extra cases of 
distress as may be out of the plan of the 
other institution. 
Mr. R. Bucuaway, of Glasgow, states 
the following instances in which heat 
supplied by steam, has been used toad 
vaitage. Mr. Richard Gillespie, finds 
its effect very excellent in copper-plate 
calico-printing, and for heating ealenders 
at his works. For this last purpose, and 
to warm his ware-housé and counting- 
house, the steam is conveyed to a distance 
ofabove ninety-three yards. Mr. Lounds, 
at Paisley, has fora considerable time 
used th leet of steam with great success — 
nedi tite ne muslins, and Messrs. Ley, | 
‘Mason, and Co, use it now also at their 
leaching works, at Aberdeen. Messrs, 
Muir, Brown, and Co. of Glasgow, have 
found the heat of steam to answer mucly 
better at their dying and bleaching 
They formerly gave out their pullicates, 
a kind of chequered cotton handker- 
chiefs, to professed bleachers to be — 
bleached, but they never had the colours 
of those articles in such perfection, as 
they now have since they used steam 
‘heat forthem. Mr. Buchanan concludes 
with recommending steam for warming 
the bed-rooms of large inns and hotels, 
large warehouses, and shops, churches, 
hospitals, and other large publi¢ omens 
