1823.J 



notes and illustrations, is preparing 

 by Andrew Ure, m.d. f.r.s. in two 

 volumes, octavo. 



Illustrations of Shakspeare's Dra 



Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 561 



Mr. T. D. WoROAN is preparing for 

 publication, a Treatise on a Motet in 

 forty-five parts, — ten vocal, and thirty- 

 five instrumental ; composed for every 

 mas, consisting of 1 1 1 fine engravings, class of voice, and every sort of instru- 

 all from pictures by T. Stothard, esq. ment generally used in concert; and 

 u. A. in the possession of Mr. Tego, are illustrated by two lectures, of which 

 in forwardness. he has published a prospectus. • 



Mr. Herbert Mayo has in the A Treatise on the Law of Boroughs 

 press, a second number of itis Anato- and Corporations, deduced from the 

 raical and Physiological Commeuta- earliest to the present times, sind in- 

 ries. eluding their general history, the his- 



Mr. Moore has resumed his long tory, origin, and law, of the right of 

 suspended task, the Life of Sheridan, election, and of the king's prerogative 

 and this work may be expected to in granting charters, as well as the 

 appear early in the ensuing winter. binding ellect of charters and bye- 

 Influence and Example, or the Re- laws, and the power of corporations to 

 cluse, a tale, by the author of "Dan- admit freemen; with an appendix of 

 gerous Errors," is in the press. records and charters illustrative of 



We are requested to state, that it these points; by H. A. Merewether, 

 was not Mr. Kevan, the civil engineer esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister, 

 of Leighton Buzzard, who lately left Mr. SamuelWare haslntely asscm- 

 this country for Buenos Ay res ; but Mr. bled the following curious facts relative 

 Bevan, of Lambeth, a respectable to the Bridges of London: — 

 member of the Society of Triends. 



Superficial feet in waterways of tin 

 bridges, at the level of the 'I'liiiitN 

 bigli-water mark , of 



Superficial feet at the level of spring 

 and neap tides, 14 feet t> iiiclxs 

 below ditto 



Linear feet of the collective spans of 

 the arches, and widths of the bear- 

 ing piers 



Linear feet of die collective spans of 

 the arches 



Descent of the road-w;iy \ North end 

 per yard in inches. • • • S South end 

 - Foot-passengers 



i'l Wae!;ons 



1 7 Carts and drays 



5 \ Coaches 



£ / Gigs and taxed carts 



^ Horses not drawina 



FiLiAs Hall, of Qistleton, who in 

 181.3 distinguished himself (see our 

 35th vol. page 151,) by preparing nu- 

 merous slratigvaphical models, or 

 maps in relief, of the peak hundreds of 

 Derbyshire, and who since has model- 

 led the contour and strata of the grand 

 ridge nf hills, extending from Derby- 

 shire to the lake hills of Cumberland, 

 has now in the hands of Mr. Lowry, 

 the engraver, two vertical Sections of 

 the Strata. The thicknesses of the 

 scviiral coal-scams, and thicknesses of 

 measurex (of rock, shale, &c.) between 

 them, will be set down. 



(Jn the 6th of February last, a letter 

 was read in the Royal Society from 

 Sir 'I'homas Brisbane, governor of 

 2 



Paramatta, and President of (he Phi- 

 losophical Society of New South 

 Wales, communicating the results of 

 certain observations made at the ob- 

 servatory of Paramatta, by Mr. 

 Charles Rumkek. Besides the de- 

 termination of the obliquity of the 

 ecliptic, tin; fixing Ihc longitude of 

 Paramatta and of Sydney, together 

 witli the lengtii of the pendulum to 

 seconds, Mr. R. has fortunately disco- 

 vered again the trieimial comet of M. 

 Euckcr, which has eluded all recent 

 observation in Europe. 



RUSSIA. 



The Bible Society has, throughout 



the Russian empire, 54 divisions, in 



the dillerent governments, and 168 



auxiliarj 



