458 British Legislation 



editions already published, various 

 readings of geograpliical or historical 

 names, &c. 



ITALY. 



The clergy of Rome consist at pre 



[June 1, 



machine is so constructed, that, placed 

 in any running water or basin, it 

 readily Imbibes a mass of water so con- 

 siderable, as to keep up without inter- 

 ruption a jet rising to the height of 125 



sent of 19 cardinals, 27 bishops, 1,450 feet, and to fred two ordinary pumps 



priests, 1,532 monks, 1,461 religious, 

 and 332 seminarists. The population, 

 without including the Jews, amounted 

 in 1821 to 146,000. 



If credit be due to the Roman jour- 



or engines at the same time. It seems 

 to be merely a copy of the machine of 

 Bolton, described in a former Number 

 of this Miscellany. 



Messrs. Reynier >and De Dom- 



nal, entitled Diario Romano, the Queen piekre, Conservators of Antiquities in 

 of Thibet has requested of the Pope the Canton de Vaux, transmitted a 



eighty missionaries of the College de 

 Propaganda Fide, to introduce Chris- 

 tianity, and for the conversion of her 

 subjects. Five capuchins have already 

 set out for that country. An Italian 

 of Brescia has been instrumental in 

 the queen's conversion ; he now acts 

 as her prime minister. 



SWITZERLAND. 



notice lo the Council of State of I^au- 

 sanne, in December last, of a recent 

 discovery in the district of the ancient 

 Avenches, of two mosaic pavements, 

 with very beautiful and elegant de- 

 signs, and in tolerable preservation. 

 The largest represents a head of Ceres, 

 in its natural dimensions, a fragment 

 of a stag, a jackdaw, a lion, &c. The 



M. Ulrick Schenk, of Berne, has other mosaic, about twenty-two feet 



invented a new species of fire-engine, square, was found in the meadows of 



which he calls a pump aspirant. He Maladeyre, and contains a number of 



has made successful trials of it, in the fanciful designs. Means have been 



presence of a number of spectators, at adopted for ensuring the preservation 



Loywyl, near Lanzenthal, one being of these monuments, 

 intended for that district. This 



BRITISH LEGISLATION. 



ACTS PASSED ill the THIRD YEAR of the REION of GEORGE THE FOURTH, Or in the 

 THIRD SESSION of the SEVENTH PARLIAMENT of the UNITED KINGDOM. 



CAP. LIII. To regulate the Manu- 

 facture and Sale of scorched or 

 roasted Corn, Pease, Beans, or Parsnips, 

 and of Cocoa Paste, Broma, and other 

 Mixtures of Cocoa. 



Cap. LIV. To repeal the Rates, 

 Duties, and Taxes, payable in respect of 

 Fire Hearths and Windows in Ireland ; 

 and to exempt certain Persons from the 

 Tax on Dogs. 



Cap. LV. For the more effectual 

 Administration of the Office of a Justice 

 of the Peace in and near the Metropolis, 

 and for- the more effectual Prevention of 

 Depredations on the River Thames and 

 its Vicinity , for Seven Years. 



Cap. LVI. To provide for the more 

 effectual Regulation of certain Offices 

 relating to the Receipt of his Majesty's 

 Excfiequer in Ireland. 



Cap. LVII. For transferring such 

 of the Duties of the Commissioners or 

 Governors of Kilmainham Hospital, as 

 relate to the Management and Payment of 

 Out-Pensions, to the Commissioners of 

 Chelsea Hospital. 



Cap. LVIII. For enabling the Com- 

 missioners of his Majesty's Woods, 



Forests, and Land Revenues, to effect 

 Improvements in the Neighbourhood of 

 Parliaineiit-street and Privy-garden, 

 within the Liberty of Westminster. 



Cap. LIX. To continue, until the 

 5th Day of July, 1824, the Low Duties 

 on Coals and Culm carried Coastwise to 

 any Port within the Prinvipality of 

 Wales. 



Cap, LX. To amend the Laws re- 

 lating to the Importation of Corn. 



Cap. LXI. To regulate the Pei'- 

 formance of certain Contracts, and to 

 authoi'ise the Courts of Chancery and 

 Exchequer to make Orders in Cases 

 which may arise out of the Conversion of 

 certain Annuities of Five Pounds per 

 Centum per Annum into Annuities of 

 Four Pounds per Centum per Annum; 

 and for paying off such Proprietors of 

 Five Pounds per Centum Annuities as 

 shall dissent from receiving Four Pounds 

 per Centum Annuities in lieu thereof. 



The Bill introduced into the House of 

 Lords, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, 

 founded on the Report of their Committee 

 on the State of the Marriage Laws gene- 

 rally. 



