182-^.} Lilerari/ and Miscellaneous iHielligettce. 541 



GERMANY. the ])laces where gas is fjibricaled. And 



At Weimar, in Hesso Darmstadt, the 2. That in the whole of the process, 



Jews, by a recent edict, arc rendered adopting the precautions mentioned in 



admissible to the public gymnasia and the report, no inconvenience or symp- 



the Jun'iversity. They are authorised torn of insalubrity would be excited; 



to intermarry with Christians, on certain but ijreat and immense advantages 



«3onditions. In the United States, must ensue." 



North America, they enjoy ail the rights The Almanaoh of the Clergy of 



of citizens, and no complaints have France for 1824, gives the following 



arisen from this latitude of toleration. valuation of donations and legacies to 



At Bonn, during the year 1823, the ecclesiastical establishments, from 1802 



number of students at the university to 1823: — Francs. 



rose to 528, of whom 106 attended the From 1802 to Jan. 1, 1815.2,9"'>,749 



courses of Catholic theology, and 42 the 1815 220,864 



Protestant. The law students were 120, 1816 723,916 



in medicine 119, and in philosophy 89. l^lj I'^^q'I'^^ 



Steam-boats now ply up the Danube, i° ," 'Zt/aII 



excliangmg the products ot Hungary ^g^^ 1 U9 I3t 



and Austria. From tiie rapidity and jg^^ l'662'938 



shallows of the river, this project had 1822 2;)32'y27 



been deemed impracticable. 1823 1,9]2,t60 



PRUSSIA. . 



A rich convoy of thirty large chests, Total •• 15,300,714, 



inclosing the collections of the Doctors A new mineral resembling gold, and 



Ehrenberg and Hemprich, in Nubia, containing certain particles of it, has 



arrived lately, by the way of Trieste, in been lately discovered in Corsica; vases 



the Prussian dominions. They contain have been made of it, which for colour 



specimens of all the natural productions and beauty may vie with vermilion: it 



of the country, so imperfectly known in has taken the name of Causicorum. 



Europe. A letter from them, dated We extract the following from the 



June 8, Suez, announces another expe- Revue Encyclopedique : — "Tlie Monthly 



dition, with plans of their routes, and Magazine, No. 374. This Magazine, 



their intention, if practicable, of pene- which we have often mentioned, conti- 



Irating still farther into Nubia, as far as nues to deserve the esteem of the public, 



Sennaar, having before explored little by the choice of its articles, its impar- 



beyond the frontiers. They mean also tiality, and the enlightened judgment of 



to embark and make excursions on the its editor; The Number here announced 



coast of Abyssinia, to visit Mocha, contains,among other interesting pieces, 



Babelraandel,andother adjacentislands. a notice concerning the Commercial 



Their expenses are supplied by the Situation of Egypt, which we have 



Prussian government. translated tor the benefit of our readers. 



The population of the Prussian stales. We particularly notice in this miscel- 



which in 1819 amoimted to 10,799,954 lany a Revietv of Italian Literature, 



individuals, in the space of three years, drawn up with talent and with taste, in 



increased to 11,494,173. ^ which the greater j)art of the criticisms 



FRANCE, and observations are extracted from this 



Several fossil articles, the remains of work : the writer having merely united 



large animals, have been lately found at into a single article the numerous pieces 



Martigues, in the department of. the of our "Bibliographic Bulletins," which 



Mouths of the Rhone. Alsoanelephant's are scattered through the several num- 



looth, in peril ct conservation, at Mimet, bers of our Review. So far from 



north of Marseilles, in the same dc- blaming this appropriation, we think 



partmcnt. that the learned, and the conductors of 



The French Academy, in the sitting literary works, should assist one another 



of Feb. 2, 1824, adopted the report by the mutual communication of their 



made by its commissaries, on the knowledge; but it seems to us that aa 



subject of gasometers: — " 1. That the editor ought to quote the source from 



subterranean works, subject to the which lie draws his information, espe- 



conditions laid down, cannot be produc- cially when he contents himself with an 



live of danger to the adjacent buildings, almost literal translation. On this sub- 



nor should they give rise to a|)prehcn- jcct we may cite, among other foreign 



sions of explosion or conflagration iii periodical works, the " Amcricau Jour* 



iial 



