358 Foreign 
Work.’’ The preparation of the answers 
will constitute an excellent exercise for the 
medical pupil, and will serve him as a ¢est 
of his progress in the several branches of 
science to which he is directing his atten- 
‘tion. 
At the Bank meeting on the 22d of Sep- 
tember, it appeared, that the notes at pre- 
sent in circulation amount to £18,200,000, 
which is less by £400,060 than the quantity 
out last year. The whole amount of Ex- 
chequer Bills sold, within three months, 
does not exceed £670,000 ; the sums lent 
out on mortgage do not exceed £1,400,000; 
and the advances on stock £430,000; so 
that it appears, that the difference in the 
amount of the paper circulation within the 
last twelve months, so far as Bank Notes 
are concerned, is not more than 
£400,000. 
Weare sorry to understand that the in- 
genious and intelligent Mr. Joseph Farey 
has, for a considerable time, been disabled, 
by aseyere paralytic affliction, from attend- 
ing his duties-at the Patent-Office, in Lin- 
eoln’s-Inn-Fields.. That the business of 
the public, in this important department, 
may suffer no obstruction, however, from 
this private calamity, we find that constant 
daily attendance is given in his place, by 
his father, Mr. John Farey, sen., by whom 
all business pertaining to the office is dili- 
gently discharged. 
A new sect of Christians, called Sabba- 
tans, has lately arisen, and made many con- 
verts in Lancashire. They insist that there 
exists no authority, either in the Old and 
New Testament, for changing the sabbath 
from Saturday, the seventh day, to Sunday 
the first day of the week. This sect is 
already so numerous in one district, that 
much inconvenience was lately felt on a 
market. day, kept on the Saturday, or se- 
venth day, from the number of persons 
who refused to open their shops, or pursue 
their usual occupations. 
It is a curious fact, that the Duchess of 
Tyreonnell, the lady of Richard Talbot, 
Lord Deputy of Ireland, in the reign of 
James II., after that monarch’s abdication, 
was driven by distress to keep one of the 
stands in Exeter Change in the Strand 
(the original English Bazaar), at that time 
a fashionable place of resort, at which she 
sold millinery, -the labour of her hours by 
night, in an obscure apartment in which she 
slept. It was then the custom of women 
in public to wear masks, and the Duchess 
in her little shop uniformly appeared in a 
white mask and dress, and was called by 
the loungers of that day, “ the White Wi- 
dow.” Her rank was accidentally disco- 
vered, and she had afterwards a pension 
granted her from the crown during her 
life. 
The New-River Company furnishes 
13,482,000 pints of water every twenty-four 
hours, at the rate of two shillings for every 
6,300. pints. S 
- black slaves, 
Varieties. [Nov. I, 
FOREIGN. 
. AMERICA. 
Ascending and Descending Hydrostatic 
Carriage. Mr. G. F. Reeve, of Orange 
county, New York, has constructed an en- 
gine, which not only exhibits an eccentricity 
of ingenuity in the inventor, and a pleasing 
novelty to the beholder, but bids fair to be- 
come extensively useful to the community. 
The design of the engine is to transport 
goods by aid of water, wherever there is a 
sufficient quantity and fall for any given dis- 
tance. Its leading principles consist of a 
wheel and axis, with floats or buckets, 
adapted to a race or trough, whose angle of 
incidence is proportionate to the fall, or 
other circumstantial conveniences. Upon 
each end of the axis of this wheel isa cog 
wallow wheel, which works into a rack or 
cog plate, placed on the top on each side of 
the race, and answering for what may be 
not improperly termed a rail-way. The en- 
gine being situated at the foot of the race— 
the water let in, and operating upon the. 
floats, turns the wheel, and (the wallow cog 
wheels of the axis of the water wheel being 
geered with the rack on the race) the wheel 
ascends; while amore or less partial supply 
of water urges the water-wheel with the re- 
quired velocity. To this engine may be at- 
tached any formation or construction of car- 
riage, adapted to the nature of the articles 
to be transported. 
The following details have been furnished 
by Baron Humboldt, and are considered ac- 
curate :— 
Square Inhabitants 
leagues. in 1923. 
United States contain 174, . - 10,220,000 
75,830.. 6,800,000 
16,740.. 1,600,000 
91,952. .- 2,785,000 
41,420.. 1,400,000 
Mexico .. 
Guatimala .......-- 
Colombia ....-+-- 
Perdis swe te otee 
ween wees 
Chili ..........-- 14,240.. 1,100,000 
Buenos Ayres ..-. 126,770.. 2,300,000 
Brazil..........++ 255,996... 4,000,000 
The island of Cuba contains 700,000 in- 
habitants, among whom are 256,000 slaves ; 
Jamaica, 402,000, among whom are 342,000 
slaves; Porto Rico, 225,000, of whom 
25,000 are slaves; Guadaloupe and its de- 
pendencies, 120,000, of whom 100,000 are 
slaves ; Martinique, 99,000, among whom 
are 78,000 slaves. 
The whole population of the two Ame- 
ricas and the Caribbee islands is 34,942,000 
souls, among whom are included 5,047,000 
1,386,000 black freemen, 
13,471,000 whites, 8,600,000 Indians, of 
whom about 820,000 are still independent, 
and 6,428,000 of a mixed race, ' 
PERSIA. 
The celebrated Persian poet, who lately 
died at an advanced age at Ispahan (96: 
his name Olah Shelair), was called the 
Voltaire of Persia; he has left behind him 
a great number of manuscripts on mathe- 
matics, astronomy, politics and literature 
of yarious descriptions. Ye.s 
RUSSEA. 
