41824.) 
The first part of the third folio 
volume of Mr, LopGe’s Illustrations 
_of ‘English Portraits, accompanied 
with biogr aphical narratives, i is printing. 
A work, ealled Scilly and its {slands, 
from, a, complete survey undertaken 
by order of the, Lords Commissioners 
of the, Admiralty, by Capt..W. H. 
SMYTH, RN.» with fourteen plates 
beautifully engraved by Daniell, in 
quarto, will speedily appear. 
- The Asiatic Society of London will 
in future bear the title of ‘“ Asiatic 
Society of Great Britain and lreland.” 
Sir George Stauntou, vice-president, 
has presented to. the Society about 
2600 Chinese volumes, which “he 
collected during his residence in 
China; it includes all the branches of 
literature cultivated in that country. 
This Society has been new modelled ; 
the plan enlarged, so as to encourage 
all studies tending to illustrate the 
sciences, literature, and arts, as culti- 
vated, in India,;) and other countries 
east of the Cape of Good Hope, ‘The 
British possessions, however, to be 
more especially attended to. 
A Tour through the Upper Pro- 
vinees of Hindoostan, comprising a 
period between the years 1804 and 
1814, with remarks and authentic 
anecdutes ; to which is added, a Guide 
up: the River Ganges, from Calcutta 
to Cawnpore, Futteh Ghur, Meeratt, 
&e, will soon appear. 
Letters from the Caucasus and 
Georgia are announced, with maps 
and plates, octavo. 
A’ Complete History of London, 
Westminster, and Southwark, by J. 
’ BAYLEY, esq. F:A.s. is in preparation. 
Mr, W. Irvine has collected mate- 
rials for a new work during his recent 
‘tour in Germany. 
The History of the Hundred of 
Heytesbary, Wilts, adjoining that of 
Mere, already published, by Sir R. C. 
Hoare, bart. is preparing for publica- 
tion. Also;, Lives of the Bishops of 
Sherburne and ‘Salisbury, from’ the 
‘year 705 to the present time, by the 
"RevwiS. H. Cassanymeas 
The Miscellaneous Works of Burnet 
bishop of Salisbury, are printing, in 
two series of seven volumes each. 
A. copious Abstract in English of the 
‘860 Deeds contained in the two an- 
cient Cartularies of St. Neot’s Priory, 
with outlined engravings of nine Seals 
of that Mouastery, or of its Priory, are 
‘preparing by the Rey. G. C. Goruam, 
author of the “ History of St. Neot’s.” 
Literary,and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
‘S51 
A new translation of the Elegies of 
Tiballus, by Lord Tuurtow, will soon 
appear. 
A volume. .of Eccentric, and, Hu- 
mourous, Letters of Eminent Men and 
Women, including several of Dean 
Swift, Foote, Garrick, &e. is printing. 
Highteen,, additional. Sermons, in- 
tended to. establish the inseparable 
connexion between the doctrines and 
practice of Christianity, by the author 
of the former volume, will soon 
appear. 
The Spirit of the British Essayists, 
comprising the best papers on life, 
Manners, and literature, contained in 
the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, &c. 
with the whole alphabetically arranged 
according to the subjects, is printing 
in a small volume. 
Portraits of the Worthies of West- 
minster-hall, with their autographs, 
being fac-similes of original sketches 
found in the Note-book of a Briefless 
Barrister, is announced. 
The twelfth number of Mr. Fos- 
BROKE’S Encyclopedia. of . Antiqui- 
ties, which completes the first volume, 
is printing. 
Mr. Bore, the artist, has recently 
returned from a journey in the north, 
and has succeeded jin tracing and 
restoring some very valuable speci- 
mens- of. ancient monuments, particu- 
larly those of the early Douglases. 
GERMANY. 
A number of human bones, mingled 
with those of other animals, great and 
small, some carnivorous, others of 
species long since extinguished, were 
lately found in some low lands, adja- 
cent to the river Elster, near Kostritz, 
in Germany, 
According to the Almanack of 1823, 
the duchy of Nassau Wisbaden con- 
tains 82 square miles, 32 large towns, 
27 market-towns, and 807 villages. 
The population,, comprises _ 316,787 
individuals; of »whom, 168,333 are 
Protestants, 142,826 Roman Catholics, 
207 Mennonites, and 542 Jews. 
The workmen employed in digging 
the foundation for a building on an 
estate in Transylvania, in the valley 
of Hazeg, where stand the ruins of the 
Roman colony Ulpia Trajana,- disco- 
vered, at an  inconsiderable. depth 
below the surface, some chambers, 
thirty-six feet long, and about as 
many broad. Two of these rooms 
have been entirely cleared of the 
rubbish, and each of them has a 
Mosaic ‘pavement in perfect preserva’ 
tion, 
