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A work on the subject of our exten- 
sive possessions in India, in one vo- 
lume octavo, will be published in 
October, entitled, an Inquiry into the 
Expediency of applying the Princi- 
ples of Colonial Policy to the Govern- 
ment of India, and of effecting an 
essential change in its landed tenures, 
and in the character of its inhabitants. 
The following curious particulars are 
elicited by the late population reports :— 
Men 100 yeurs, and upwards. 
In England --. amen T: 
Wales cwsareescscsssseee § 
Scotland eeessecece se eeee 40 
Total «ocecees 100 
Women 100 years, and upwards, 
In England eeeseeceeeeere 111 
Wales cecvevesscceceess 18 
Scotland --.+-- eeceseee § 62 
Total's «++e+++ 191 
RUSSIA. 
Lithography is making rapid pro- 
gress in this country, where it bids fair 
to become popular. A series of por- 
traits of celebrated living characters 
has been commenced by a young ar- 
tist at St. Petersburg. 
It appears from a statistical map of 
Russia, lately published, that the popu- 
Jation of this vast empire, of which the 
superfices is 298,950 square miles, is 
increased to 40,067,000, and that the 
amount of the poll-tax and the taxes 
on beverage is 169,350,000 roubles. 
GERMANY. 
The imperial government have late- 
Ty offered one thousand ducats in gold 
to the author of the best work on the 
construction of windmills, whether he 
be a native or foreigner. 
The lovers of philolog y and classical 
literature will rejoice to hear that the 
publication of TiscusBein’s Jlustra- 
tions of Homer has lately been re- 
sumed, after a lapse of twenty years. 
The seventh number of this magnifi- 
cent work, forming the first of a new 
series, has just been published, and 
the archeological erudition and supe- 
ior taste it displays renders it an ho- 
nourable testimony of that zeal for 
classical literature by which Germany 
has long been pre-eminently distin- 
guished. 
ITALY. 
The Res Literarie is now completed 
with the third volume. This work is 
a bibliographical and critical miscel- 
lany; its main object is Italian litera- 
ture, and the Latin writers of Ltaly 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[Oct. 3, 
in the middle ages. The three volumes 
contain 250 articles. The edition is 
limited to seventy-five copies, a few 
of which have been sent to England. 
The first volume was printed at Na- 
ples in 1820; and the second at Rome, 
in the following year. 
The Academy of Lucca:has lately 
published the first volume of its Trans- 
actions, prefixed to which is an histo- 
rica] account of the rise of this Society. 
It originated in 1584, when it was held 
in the house of Gian Lorenzo Malpig- 
lio, the person named by Tasso in two 
of his admirable dialogues. During 
two centuries the institution maintain- 
ed itself without any attention on the 
part of the government, until 1805, 
when it was put on an improved foot- 
ing, and received its present appel- 
lation. 
FRANCE. 
A work is said to be forthcoming at 
Paris, entitled ‘* Memorial of St. He- 
lena, or Journal of every Act of Bona- 
parte’s Life during his first Eighteen 
Months’ Sojourn in the Island.”,—-We 
may conclude, however, from its ap- 
pearance at Paris, that it will be suffi- 
ciently tame and obsequious, or no 
printer would dare to engage in it. 
O’Meara’s honest “ Voice from St. 
Helena” is proscribed at the French 
Custom-houses, and, though in the 
English language, is seized wherever 
it is found. Every book containing a 
scintillation of public spirit, or enli- 
vened by the spirit of free enquiry, is 
treated in like manner; and the ge- 
nius of that country, which at one 
time could boast of its Voltaire, Rous- 
seau, and D’Alembert, will soon be on 
a level with that of Austria and Prus- 
sia, where no work worthy of being 
read in a free country has appeared 
for the last thirty years. Reprints of 
English poets, and standard English 
authors, seem at present to be the chief 
objects of speculation among the Pari- 
sian booksellers. 
Mr. J. B. Say, justly celebrated for 
his writings on political economy, has 
announced his intention to establish, 
about the beginning of November, at 
his house, No. 92, Rue du Faubourg 
St. Martin, at Paris, a Series of Con- 
versations on Political Economy, for 
the benefit of those gentlemen who may 
wish to acquire a more extended 
knowledge of that science, and who 
procure a recommendation from some 
person of known respectability, which 
must 
