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A new selection of the most favourite 
oetical pieces, under the title of the 
Muse’s Bower, will soon make its appear- 
ance in four small volumes. The first 
will contain a selection of lyrical and pa- 
thetic pieces; the second narrative, hu- 
mourous and epistolary; the third de- 
scriptive and sacred; anc the fourth se- 
Iections from the ancient classics. 
Mr. Waker has published some ob- 
servations which seem to prove that jew- 
elled holes in clock-work are highly dis- 
advantageous, being much more liable to 
become foul and clogged than brass ones, 
A transit clock of his, made by Berraud, 
was cleaned in July 1805, and on the 6th 
of December 1806, it had become so 
foul as not to be made to go even when 
two pounds were added to its weight. 
On its being taken to pieces, in all its 
jewelled holes the oil was very black and 
glutinous, bus in the others it was quite 
fluid; and it even required great force, 
and some dexterity, to draw out the spin- 
die that carried the seconds’ hand. The 
clock was set a going again next day, and 
continued to go well till the end of Oc- 
tober 1807, when it again went badly, 
and gained very much. It was taken 
as under as econd time about three weeks 
after this, when all the jewelled holes 
were extremely foul, black, and clogged ; 
and in separating the jewels, they were 
found to be strongly adhesive, yet the 
oil on the pallets was very fluid, and in a 
good state in all the brass holes. 
Proposals have been published for the 
establishment of an [ustitation, designed 
tor the relief of distressed and indigent 
women in the metropolis, by supplying 
them with suitable employment. It is 
intended that a house shall be taken in a 
reputable and populous neighbourhood, 
for the sale of various articles of wearing 
apparel and ornamented works, A ware- 
house will also be taken in a more retired 
situation, where goods will be cut out 
and delivered to women applying for 
work, The public and ladies in parti- 
cular are invited to subscribe annually 
a sum not less than half-a-guinea each. 
Women wanting employment are to ap- 
ply to one of these ladies for a recom- 
mendation to the society; the lady re- 
commending to be answerable to the 
amount of twenty shillings, that the goods 
entrusted to the workwoman shall be re- 
- turned. The ladies will choose out of 
their own number a committee, to at- 
tend daily at the warehouse, to inspect 
the work cut out, and that returned when 
made up and fit for sale, 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
It will be the. 
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object of this excellent society to avoid, 
as much as possible, taking in or selling 
those articles on which the industry of 
women is now engaged. They will also 
strive to avoid any interference with those 
shops in which women usually work or 
serve. The society will neither give exe 
travagant prices to the workwomen, nor 
underseH the regular trader; the grand 
design being to provide suitable employ- 
ment for poor, but industrious and res 
spectable females, and to prevent the 
ternptations to vice. 
Mr. B, Cook, of Birmingham, in some 
very seasonable observations, has shewn 
the great advantages that may be derived _ 
even by manufacturers and tradesmen on 
the smallest scale, from the use of gas for 
light, instead of candles. His apparatus 
consists simply of a small cast iron pot, 
of about eight gallons, to receive the 
coal, and a cast iron cover, which is luted 
to it with sand. The gas passes through 
water into the gasometer or reservoir, 
which holds about four hundred gallons, 
and by means of old gun barrels, he con= 
veys it all round his work-shops. His 
saving by this apparatus he computes at 
three-fifths. But, he continues, “ if 
erected on a smaller scale, the saving ta 
the manufacturer is equally great ; for the 
poor man who lights only six candles, 
or uses one lamp, will find it cost him 
only 101. or 121.; which he will nearly, 
if not quite, save the first year. And if 
the pipes are made of old gun-barrels, 
and once a year, of once in two years, 
coated over with tar, to keep them from 
rusting, they will last balf a century.” 
Besides the profit thus derived, Mr. 
Cook conceives that from the tar of the 
coal a spirit might be made as a substi- 
tute for the tar-spirit brought from Rus- 
sia; which would be of vast importance 
to a great number of manufacturers, 
especially japanners; that article having 
advanced from $s. or 3s. 6d, to 20s. per 
gallon since the interruption of our trade 
with the north. We think Mr. Cook has 
great merit in making and publishing this 
valuable experiment ; and, for our own 
parts, we consider the late discoveries of 
so much consequence to mankind, that 
we shall continue to publish all new facts 
relative to them, till their adoption in 
general. ; 
Mr. J. Picx, of Ipswich, has lately 
analyzed a stone of the calcareous spe- 
cies, frequently met with in that part of 
the country, and called by the common 
people thunder-pick, from the supposi- 
tion of its falling fiom the clouds in 
storms. 
