450. 
founder of the first institution of the 
kind at Glasgow. Its importance, in 
a moral as well as useful ‘point of 
view, must be obvious; and it affords 
us sincere pleasure to learn, that its 
Success and organization are certain. 
Already similar plans are afloat at 
Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Bris- 
tol, and. Birmingham; and they follow 
the Laneasterian Schools and the ‘In- 
terrogative System, like a body and 
its shadow. The following Besala lions 
illustrate the plan :— 
That. the establishment of i fiab ghia 
for the instruction of mechanies, at a 
cheap rate, in the principles of the arts 
they practise, as well as in all other 
branches of useful knowledge, is a measure 
caleulated to improve extensively their 
habits and condition, to advance the arts 
aud sciences, and to add largely to the 
power, resources, and prosperity, of the 
country. 
That such institutions are likely to be 
most.stable and useful when entirely or 
ehiefly supported and managed by mecha- 
nics themselves. 
That the meeting acknowledge with 
gratitude the example which the mecha- 
nics of Glasgow have set their brethren at 
large, in being the first to establish, on 
this principle of self-support and exertion, 
an institution for their own support and 
instruction in the arts and sciences. 
That there shall be established in this 
metropolis an institution, called the Lon- 
don Mechanics’ Institute. 
That among the objects which the Lon- 
don Mechanics’ Institute shall have espe- 
cially in view, shall be the establishment, 
for the benefit of the members, of leeture- 
ships on the different arts and sciences, a 
library of reference and circulation, a 
readivg-room, a museum of models, a 
school of design, and an experimental 
workshop and laboratory. 
That the annual subscription, to admit 
a mechanic to all the benefits of the Insti- 
tute, shall not exceed one guinea, which 
shall be payable at once, or by such iustal- 
ments as the laws shall direct. 
That the friends of knowledge and im- 
provement be invited to contribute to- 
wards the accomplishment of all the afore- 
said purposes, by donations of money, 
books, specimens, and apparatus, 
Capt. Batty announces a Narrative 
of the Operations of the Left Wing of 
the Allied Army, in the Pyrenees ‘and 
South of France, i in thé years 1813-14; 
lustrated by numerous plates of 
mountain and river scenery, views of 
Fontarabia, Jrun, St. Jean de Luz, and 
Bayonne, with plans, &e. 
Sir F. Henviker, bart. is printing 
his Notes during a Visit to Egypt, 
Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
[Deew 1, 
Nubia, the Oasis of Egypt, caine 
Sinai, and Jerusalem. 
‘Mr. Pierce Egan is employed upon 
a new work, entitled the “Life of an 
Actor,” to We published m_ eight 
monthly numbers, embellished with. 
Twenty-four coloured plates, and 
also enriched with numerous wood 
cuts. 
Vol. TIN. of Travels by the late J. 
L. Burcksarpt in the Hedjaz, with 
plates, will soou appear. 
The Committee of Scottish authors, 
under the equivocal title of “ Author 
of Waverley,” are pursuing their pros- 
perous commercial career, and an- 
nounce “ more last words,” under the 
name of St. Ronan’s Well. It would be: 
aziusing to see the interior of this non- 
descript manufactory, and to trace the 
economy by which labour is divided 
among the workmen. Perhaps there 
is the plot-man, the rough scribes, the 
polishers of parts, and the ‘general 
finisher. Be it as it may, however, 
the articles turned out are sought for 
with avidity ; they are the best in the: 
market; and division of labour may, 
for aught we see to the contrary, be 
turned | to as good account in this spe- 
cies of manufactory as in any other. 
For our parts, we give the proprietors 
of the concern unequivocal credit for 
their ingenuity and perseverance. 
A new quarterly review, to be called 
the Westminster Review, is an- 
nounced for the first day of the new 
year. 
A Geographical, Statistical, and 
Historical, Description of the Empire 
of China, and its Dependancies, by 
JuLtius KLaprotu, member of the 
Asiatic Societies of London and Paris, 
of the Royal Society of Gottingen, of 
the Imperial Society of Naturalists in 
Moscow, &ce. is preparing for publica- 
tion: it will be handsomely printed in 
two quarto volumes, and illustrated 
with a map. Mr. Klaproth, whose 
acquaintance with the language and 
Jiterature of China is very extensive, 
having made the study of them his 
principal occupation for the last 
twenty-three years, accompanied the: 
Russian embassy destined for Pekin, 
in 1805 and 1806. At that time he 
collected a mass of interesting mate- 
rials relative to China, including a 
considerable collection of Chinese 
books, among which was tle general 
description of the empire, in 280 sec- 
tions, published by order of the pre- 
decessor of the reigning emperor, ie 
the 
