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demoralize the age more than any 
other single cause. 
Mr. Pursctove, sen. has nearly 
ready for publication, a Guide to 
Practical Farriery, containing. hints 
on the diseases of horses and neat 
cattle, with many valuable and origi- 
nal recipes, from the practice of an 
eminent veterinary surgeon. ‘ 
In the press, a volume of Philoso- 
phical Essays, by E. Watker, selected 
from the originals published in the 
philosophical journals; containing, 
among other discoveries and improve- 
ments, new outlines of chemical phi- 
losophy, founded on original experi- 
ments; to which are added several 
essays not before printed, including 
an essay on the transmutation of light 
into bodies, an essay on the genera- 
tion of solar light, and a new method 
of determining the longitude at sea, 
illustrated with copper-plates. 
A new Easy and Concise System of 
Short-band, founded upon the most 
philosophical principles, and suited to 
any language, compiled from the ma- 
nuscript of the late W. BLair, esq. is 
in the press. 
Late advices frome New South 
Wales report the contents of an 
advertisement in the Sydney Gazette, 
purporting that outward-bound vessels 
might have oranges at the rate of 
sixpence per dozen. A few years ago 
the same price was paid for a single 
orange. A number of bee-hives had 
been lately imported; the bees had 
not suffered by the voyage, and were 
multiplying. Wine has been pro- 
duced, the first samples of which were 
transmitted to London, to be presented 
to the Society of Arts. ‘The new go- 
vernor, Sir Thomas Brisbane, has been 
chosen President of the Society of 
Agriculture; at the first dinner he 
proposed a subscription, which pro- 
duced 1500/. sterling. Every fresh 
incursion of the’ inhabitants into the 
interior tends to confirm the excellence 
of the soil and climate. On the 3d of 
January last, the works for the erec- 
tion of an observatory en Mount Rose, 
near Paramatta, were actively pro- 
ceeding ; as also a building at Sydney, 
for making observations .on the pen- 
dulum. The governor, who isa distin- 
guished astronomer, is at the head of 
these establishments, and has a useful 
adjunct in M, Rumker, a German. 
In December last, Lieut. Johnson 
discovered a new-river, to which he 
has given the name of the Clyde. He 
Literary and Midcellaneous Intelligence. 
[Nov. 1, 
advanced with his brig, the Snapper, 
forty miles inland ; and, as far as his 
view extended, the river appeared to 
be navigable. It falls into Bateman’s 
Bay. Withrespect to the intfoduction 
and rearing of sheep in Van Diemen’s 
Land, appearances are favourable. 
RUSSIA. 
At Odessa, in the Crimea, which had 
not a singie cottage in 1792, there is 
now a population of 40,000, Rus- 
sians, Germans, French, Greeks, Jews, 
Americans, and Poles. Besides a 
French and Italian theatre, there is a 
Lyceum, founded by the Duc de Riche- 
lieu, for various purposes of educa- 
tion; there are also gymnasia, or 
schools of navigation, commerce, ju- 
risprudence, &ce. The harbour is 
about two verstes in length, and the 
town contains 20,000 houses, with 
eight churches, and a number of public 
buildings.- In summer, many families 
arrive at Odessa, from Poland and 
South Russia, for the benefit of sea- 
bathing. The population of the adja- 
cent districts is rapidly iicreasing.— 
Revue Encyclopedique. 
POLAND. 
At Warsaw, M. Kowalski has trans- 
lated the Comedies of Moliere into the 
Polish language. ‘The pieces in verse, 
in the original, are so also in the trans- 
lation, 
The foundations of a new commer- 
cial town, to be called Nogaisk, are 
now laying in the district of Melita- 
pholsky, near the river Obotyezna, 
which empties itself into the sea of 
Asoph. All inhabitants and new- 
comers to be exempted from taxes for 
eighteen years. 
GERMANY. 
From a work lately published at 
Vienna, on the Culture of the Vine 
in the Empire of Austria, we find that 
of 66,000,000 of sceaua, produced from 
the soil, 59,892,850 are used for home- 
consumption, which makes a -daily 
consumption of 164,090; and that the 
surplus, from exportation, yields an - 
income of 79,392,950 florins in specie. 
Throughout Germany, the author as- 
signs nearly the 53d part of the soil to 
the culture of the vine. 
The last convent of monks has just 
terminated its existence, at Saxe 
Erfurt. Their number had decreased 
to eight religious: and their house, 
during the last four years, was used as 
a magazine of military stores. Five 
of these religious have been assigned 
to 
