60 Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
rior, has entered the country of Limba, 
by Laiah, a city distant about seven 
leagues from the river which forms the 
boundary of the country of Timmani. 
His reception was very favourable with 
all the chiefs, one of whom, of Port 
Logo, accompanied him to Woulla, 
and seut his brother with him to Kou- 
kouna, From this last place he ad- 
vanced to the frontiers of Foulah, the 
chiefs of which agreed, in a palaver, to 
open a commercial correspondence with 
Sierra Leone. 
The Royal Society have awarded the 
two Copley Medals, this year, to JoHN 
FRED. HERSCHELL, esq. for his ma- 
thematical and optical papers, publish- 
ed in the: Transactions; and to Capt. 
E. SABINK, H.A. for his experiments 
on the pendulum, and on magnetism, 
made during two expeditions in 1818 
and 1819 to the Arctic Regions. 
FRANCE. 
We have received with much plea- 
sure the prospectus of a “ Société de la 
Morale Chrétienne ayant pour objet C ap- 
plication des préceptes du Christianisme 
aux relations sociales.”’ Its objects cor- 
respond in part with that of the society 
instituted in London, by the Conductor 
of the Monthly Magazine, for abolish- 
ing war, and promoting universal peace 
among nations. We are delighted to 
see it signed by the following illustrious 
names : 
De LA RocHEFOUCAULT-LIANCOURT 
(leDuc), president—DEGERAND (le Ba- 
ron), cul-de-sac Férou, No. 7.—DELA- 
CROIX, rue du Mail, No. 13.—Gorpp, (JJ.) 
rue Sainte-Croix de-la-Bretonnerfe, No. 32. 
—Lagorpe (le Comte de), rue d’Artois, 
No. 28.--LasTEYRIE (le Compte de), rue du 
Bac, No. 58.—SpuRZHEIM, rue Neuve- 
Saint-Augustin, No.3.—STarL-HoLsTEIN 
(le Baron de), rue de Bourbon,. No. 76.— 
STAPFER, rue des Jeuneurs, No. 4.— 
TURCKHEIM (le Baron de), rue d’Anjou, 
faubourg Saint-Honoré, No. 13—WurTz 
(J. G.), rue de Bourbon, No. 17.—W1LLM, 
Secrétaire, boulevard Poissonniére, No. 15. 
—CoQuEREL, Secrétaire- Adjoint, rue 
Hauteville, No.10. Letters and packets 
are to be addressed to the care of Treuttell 
et Wiirt z. 
It appears, from a report lately read 
by M. Thouin, Professor of Culture to 
the Museum of Natural History, at 
Paris, that twenty-four species of live 
plants, collected by M. L. de Latour, 
Naturalist to the King, at Pondicherry, 
and who has been peregrinating, for 
some years over the Continent, and in 
the Indian Archipelago, were transmit- 
ted to the isle of Bourbon in the year 
[Feh. } 
1820. The plants were gathered on the 
mountains of Cottalam, about forty 
miles from Cape Comorin. This natu- 
ralization of foreign plants, projected 
and acted upon by the Marine depart- 
ment, since 1815, is “ for the purpose of 
keeping up an interchange of valuable 
productions between France and her 
colonial possessions in the two Indies.” 
M. Jomard, of the Institute, hasjust 
received a letter from M. Caillaud, da- 
ted the 5th of May, from Assour, a vil- 
Jage about a day’s journey from Chendy, 
in Nubia, in the kingdom of Senaar, 
in which that traveller communicates 
his latest discoveries. At a short dis- 
tance to the south of the confluence of 
the Atbara. the ancient Astaboras, and 
four day’s journey from Barbas, he 
found the ruins of a great town, with a 
temple and forty pyramids still stand- 
ing. and forty others in ruins. The 
basis of the largest of these pyramids 
areabout sixty-two feet, and their height 
seventy-seven, and on one of the sides 
of each is a small temple ornamented 
inside and outside with hieroglyphic 
characters ; two of those temples are 
arched, and the arches are decorated 
with hieroglyphic emblems, and with 
key-stones and ribs like ours. This 
traveller has ascertained that those tem- 
ples are of the same age as the Pyra- 
mids. Anavenue of Sphinxes, in the 
shape of rams, 262 feet long, leads to 
the temple, and the wall which ineloses 
it is 426 feet round. 
SPAIN. 
By the following advertisement in 
the Madrid Universal, of Dec. 30th, it 
appears that the attention of the Spa- 
niards is at length directed tothe Eng- 
lish Jury system. It has long been 
matter of regret, that trial by jury 
formed no part of the Spanish constitu- 
tion; but it may be hoped that the 
translation of this work will serve to 
introduce it. Let us hope, however, 
that it will: not be contaminated and 
nullified, as in England, by packing, 
but that qualified men will be taken in 
rotation, and not selected by an officer 
dependant on the court, as in our spe- 
cial juries. The English book here an- 
nounced has now made the tour of Eu- 
rope, having been translated intoFrench, 
German, Italian, and Spanish: “ De 
los facultades y obligaciones de los ju- 
rados:—obra escrita en Ingles per Sir 
Richard Phillips; traducida en frances 
por M. Compte; puesta en castellano, 
y aumentada con la parte legislativa 
que sobre jurados esta in prdctica en 
Francia 
