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effect, has been performed by the com- 
mander and his crews; and no blame 
attaches, except to the planners of the 
voyage, who probably thought of little 
besides the realization of their own 
theory of a Polar basin, or of a sea of 
wonderful water, which would not 
freeze at the usual temperature. Va- 
rious details, designed to amuse the 
gaping vulgar, and divert attention 
from the serious business of the expe- 
dition, are appearing in the newspa- 
pers ; but, as these are of the most com- 
mon-place character, and are to be 
found in all books treating of the 
northern nations, we forbear to intrude 
them on our readers. In our opinion, 
the less is said the better; though we 
have no doubt that, besides paying all 
the expences of the voyage, the public 
will ere long, as usual, be called upon 
to pay three or four guineas for a 4to. 
containing about as much valuable in- 
formation as is usually given in one of 
the two-penny weekly miscellanies. 
We have from time to time noticed 
the value dnd importance of the 
Mechanics’ Institute at Glasgow, found- 
ed by Professor GeorGe BIRKBECK, 
now of London, consisting of a course 
of lectures for instructing artizans in 
the scientific principles of the arts and 
manufactures. It was well attended 
in Glasgow; and has been of such 
palpable use in that city, that a simi- 
Jar institution is very properly pro- 
posed in London, and will, we have 
no doubt, be as much more useful 
as the same classes in London are 
more numerous than in Glasgow. 
Dr. Conquest is preparing a work 
for the press, which will contain a 
reference to every publication on 
Midwifery, and a register of the innu- 
merable essays and cases which are 
seattered through periodical pamphlets 
and the transactions of various socie- 
ties, or casually referred to in works 
not exclusively obstetric. It will form 
a second volume to the third edition 
of his ‘‘ Outlines,” and will be speedily 
followed bya similar publication on 
the Diseases of Women and Children. 
The first number of a Zoological 
Journal, to be continued quarterly, 
and edited by T. BELL, esq. F.L.s. 
J. G. CHILDREN, eSq. F.R. and Lis. 
J. de CARLE SOWERBY, esq. F.L.s. and 
G. B. Sowersy, F.L.s. will appear on 
the Ist of January next. 
Mr. BuaquiEReE has in the press, a 
volume on the Origin and Progress 
of the Greek Revolution, together with 
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some account of the manners and 
customs of Greece, anecdotes of the 
military chiefs, &c.; being the result 
of materials collected during © his 
recent visit to the Morea and Jonian 
Islands. 
The Company for’ supplying Porta- 
ble Gas, from their works in St. John- 
street, Clerkenwell, have commenced 
the supply of shop-keepers and others 
with portable lamps; within or attach- 
ed to the stands of which lamps (of 
Gordon’s patent construction,) is a 
magazine charged with compressed 
oil-gas, of the very best quality, for 
economically affording light, in quan- 
lities sufficient for one or more nights’ 
consumption. They assert, that the 
cost of their light will not be more than 
half that of tallow-candles: their ser- 
vants are to call daily on their regular 
customers, with a store of charged 
magazines, from which to exchanve 
all the exhausted ones, and to put the 
lamps into a state ready for instant 
lighting, without more trouble to the 
customers than merely turning a cock, 
and applying a light to the burner. 
Letters between Amelia and her 
Mother, from the pen of the late 
WitraAm Conse, esq. the author of 
“the Tours of Dr. Syntax,” will 
speedily appear, in a pocket volume. 
Mr. GamB_e is about to publish, 
Charlton, or Scenes in the North of 
Ireland. 
A new division of the “ World in 
Miniature,” containing the Nether- 
lands, will be published on the: 1st of 
December, in one volume, with eighteen 
coloured engravings. 
Miss Jane Harvey will shortly 
publish Montalyth, a Cumberland 
tale. 
The Albigenses, a romance, by the 
Rey. C. R. Marurin, will be published 
in November, 
A new poem, entitled a Midsummer 
Day’s Dream, will speedily appear, 
from the pen of Mr. Atherstone. 
A new monthly Asiatic journal will 
be commenced on the Ist of January, 
entitled the Oriental Herald) and 
Colonial Advocate: it will ‘be con- 
ducted by Mr. J. S. Buckincuam, late 
editor of the ** Calcutta Journal,” with 
the yiew of affording an opportanity 
for promoting, by enquiry and discus- 
sion, the important interests, literary, 
political, and commercial, of the 
British empire in both the Indies. 
Mr. Buckingham’s qualifications | for 
this undertaking will be generally 
acknowledged ; 
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