1825.) 
RUSSIA 
Has lately lost the two most distin- 
guished poets that this country could boast, 
viz. Kapnist and Dolgorouki. Kapnist was 
remarkable for many productions of genius, 
but principally for his tragedy of Jabéda 
(the Cheat). This piece is unquestionably 
the best that this northern clime can boast, 
except the two famous comedies of Fon 
Viesin—Medoroslz (the Minor) and Briga- 
dir (the Brigadier The poems of Prince 
Dolgorouki (Buitie moevo serdsa) breathe 
throughout a great love for his country and 
for truth. 
The Emperor of Russia has prohibited 
all the schools throughout the empire from 
using any foreign linen or cloth, and has 
established annual markets for the sale of 
native woollens. 
Some idea may be formed of the state of 
Russian literature from the fact that, pre- 
vious to 1817, the number of works printed 
in Russia did not exceed 4,000, about the 
number annually contained in the catalogue 
of the Leipzig fair. The number, now, 
however, it is asserted, is augmented to 
about 8,000. There are at Moscow, it is 
stated, nine literary and ten printing esta- 
blishments ; at St. Petersburgh, nine of the 
former and fifteen of the latter; at Wilna, 
one of the former and four of the latter. In 
each of the towns of Riga, Dorpat, Revel 
and Charkow, there is one literary and one 
printing establishment. In the whole em- 
pire there are nine letter foundries. 
-FRANCE. 
Among the numerous calls, preferred on 
eyery side, to our attention, by stone, iron, 
chain, cane, hide, rope, &c. bridges, this 
country also advances its claim, as appears 
by the following (not solitary) notices: 
Wire Bridges.—The iron-wire bridge, from 
the Champ Elysées to the Esplanade of the 
Invalids, makes rapid progress. It will 
rank among the curiosities of Paris; but 
its utility is very questionable. It is only 
about 200 yards from the Pont Louis X VI. ; 
_and who will not prefer going 200 yards on 
plain ground, to climbing up forty or fifty 
steps to go swinging over the Seine, and 
then haying to descend as many? As an 
object of art it is faulty, as the two pillars 
mask the Hotel of the Invalids from the 
Champs Elysées. An iron-wire bridge has 
been constructed at Annonay, between 
Tainand Tournon. Experiments have been 
made to ascertain its solidity: the maximum 
applied was 58,000 kilogrammes (about 
fifty-eight tons English), which only occa- 
sioned a slight inflexion in the curve, which 
instantly resumed its primitive form: two 
waggons loaded with stones, going over at 
the same time, seemed to make no change 
in the curye. The ceremony concluded by 
_ driving a diligence over it, drawn by seven 
horses, and going at a brisk rate. The 
bridge was completed in fifteen months, 
_ and cost £8,000. 
Yew Tree.—In the original charter for 
Foreign Varieties. 
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building the church at Peronne, in Picardy 
(now the department of Somme), dated in 
the year 634, a clause was inserted direct- 
ing the proper preservation of a yew-tree, 
which was in existence in 1790, about 1,100. 
years after this notice of it in the charter. 
M. Dangée, merchant at Perpignan, has 
constructed, at Thuir, the chief place in the 
department of the Eastern Pyrenees, a mill 
for making paper from straw, or, at need, 
from rags of all colours. This operation is 
now going on, and the paper, thus made, 
will not only advantageously take the place 
of that coarser sort, 
** Such as pedlars choose 
«« To wrap up wares, which better men will use ;” 
Paper, a Poem by Dr. Franklin, 
but paper for printing, and even for writing,. 
is to be furnished by this process. 
SWEDEN. 
M. Keuner, a Swedish merchant, has ob- 
tained government authority to establish a 
little (what we call penny) post in the city 
of Stockholm. 
PRUSSIA. 
Potzdam.— An iron bridge of nine arches 
(founded in Silesia) has been thrown over 
the river Havel, near this town: it was 
opened in August last. Its length is 600 
feet; breadth of the horse and carriage- 
road, 20 feet; and each of the foot-paths, 
5 feet. 
Logier’s system of musical education, 
which originated in England and Ireland, 
where it is now almost forgotten, begins to 
gain ground in Prussia and Saxony. The 
Berlin Musikalische Zeitung states, that 
schools have been established, where that 
system is taught under the royal sanction 
and patronage. 
DENMARK. 
Navigation by steam seems continually 
to increase at Copenhagen. One of the 
. principal proprietors has demanded a li- 
cence for steam-yessels between Copen- 
hagen and Jutland. The same kind of com- 
munication with Christiana is in agitation. 
GERMANY. 
It is in contemplation to establish an 
iron rail-road from Hanover to Hamburgh. 
The expense is estimated at 1,000,000 
crowns (3,000,000 fr. ) 
A fire-engine has been constructed at 
Berne, by Ulrich Schenk, by means of 
which four and twenty men can throw a 
continued stream of water to the distance 
of a hundred or a hundred and ten feet, 
with a force sufficient to raise the pave- 
ments of the streets, unroof the highest 
buildings, and destroy the masonry in the 
joists on the first and second floors. The 
water may also be directed through three 
different tubes, each furnishing at one 
stroke 167 square inches of water, though 
not thrown to so great a distance as from 
a single tube. Two of the tubes may also 
be directed against the fire, at the same 
time that the third is employed in filling 
the engine. 
POLITICAL 
