Supplementary Varieties. 
sailed with the same destination a few days 
before... Vessels, palpably fitted. up for the 
conveyance. of slayes, -were;to be seen in 
the::ship-builders’ yards, :and lying “in the 
riven publiely, for sale.);'This; was. not all; 
the handeufis, the) iron+fetters, the thumb- 
serews{déstined for the-refractory limbs of 
the tortured negroes:on board, were to be 
seen by hundreds in the forges. 
=sliqoio> sidawiALYs 
-./Phe,annual, census: (ending. at Easter, 
1825),of: the oRoman ‘population has been 
oan the following are’ ex- 
tracts,+++ Entire; population of the capital, 
138,750 ;<familiess (33,271 ;. priests, 1,488 ; 
monks and friars; 1,662; nuns, 1,502; 
marriages; 15158; + births, 44243 5 deaths, 
4446) pain the ‘hospitals, 2,002; in the pri- 
‘sons; 1,020 ;.\‘ hereties,’ Turks, and infi- 
‘dels: ¢exclusive of the Jews), 217; increase 
ee ipopnlatiqn since! the preceding year, 
eid 
> Emportant disedverits of antiquities have 
been| made,at)'Tuscnlum. | Not only has 
‘am ancient) theatre been. found, but the 
streets’ leading to it have been cleared: an 
aqueduct; a» public fountain, baths, vases, 
‘@ehead, of Jupiter, other marble orna- 
_ ments, elegant paintings in fresco, and 
other: eae objects, -haye been brought 
>to: light... 
1}. forte PRUSSIA, 
4 Suicides, it appears by a calculation of 
| Dr. Caspar, are increasing wonderfully in 
' Berlins’ From 1780 to,1797, the propor- 
. tion was one in 1,000; from 1799 to 1808, 
‘one in 600; and from 1813 to 1822, one 
in 100. » He attributes the increase prin- 
cipally to the increase of drinking-houses, 
» which, it appears, compose the fourth part 
» of the houses of Berlin. 
ghonr by TUSCANY. 
~ «Lhe; population of Tuscany does not ex- 
ceed ia million—certainly not a million and 
an eighth;.and, to provide for the spiritual 
 wants)of this little state, we find 7,957 se- 
» cular priests, and 2,581 persons in orders 
‘ofa lower rank; 2,433 regular priests, and 
1,627 lay brothers, distributed over 2,013 
convents, together with 7,670 nuns, occu- 
pying 136 establishments of seclusion. The 
»wholenumber) of persons thus taken from 
the business; of life, to conduct the exercise 
of public worship, or to spend their days in 
the ignorance and»seclusion of the cloister, 
-slamounts;| by this statement to. 22,268. 
»oBbus;the xeligious population is to the 
~p@eeular: as, one, in fifty ;, or; allowing for 
-childrensand persons unable 'to work in the 
_ (letter, the inhabitants..of convents and the 
-» Secular clergy: are,,to the active and in- 
odustrious portion.of the community, as one 
_ fdetwenty-five: or thirty. London exceeds 
sin the muntber; 8 -_ anbehitonts the whole’ 
»o fof Puseanys 5- dart dixie 
wo aid mouil.en vi eat % 
»», Stockholi—-The: Society sin this city, 
pla ee iy ana ‘Morihus,’ has 
ieee il ot -ies aldha hes aara 
alike 
\ 
557. 
Collin, sub-rector of the academy at Mal- 
Mace, on the question proposed by the so- 
ciety :—‘* What are ‘the best means to pre- 
vent concubinage and’ the eonstantly in- 
creasing number of illegitimate ‘children’ in 
Sweden?” Among other proposals’ made 
by the author of ‘the essay,’ is oné to’ap- 
point in each province ‘a moral-censor,' to 
transmit to the chief-censor (to Be! aps 
pointed in the capital) reports ‘on conduet ; 
in which those persons shouldbe named 
who merited civil infamy, and who, on the 
report of the chief-censor, shouldbe! pu- 
nished as follows:—the nobleman, to ‘the 
loss of his nobility; the citizen and pea- 
sant, by the loss of his right ' of voting ‘at 
elections, and of holding places‘ of public , 
trust ; and the clergy and civil officers, by 
the loss of their offices, &e. Several of 
our journals have expressed ‘themselves 
with some severity, not only on the author 
of the essay, but on the society which 
crowned it; and one of them calls’it'an 
attempt to introduce into Sweden an/in- 
quisition worse than the Spanish: it de- 
clares the principles Jaid down in’ thisessay 
as contrary tothe constitution’; becatse, 
if the plan were carried into execution, ‘such 
a chief.censor would have a greater ‘power 
than the constitution allows: to” ee athe 
himself. ; 
SICILY. ioe 8, 
At Macaluba, a hill near Girgenti; ‘com- 
posed chiefly of blue clay, there'is' a'¢on- 
tinual disengagement of gas (earboni¢ acid 
and carburetted hydrogen) ‘from Small*¢a- 
vities, shaped like craters; which dre ‘filléd 
with muddy water, mixed with’ petrolewm. 
There are times, when the quantity of gas 
emitted is so great as to throw ‘tp*the 
mud to the height of 200 feet, so'as almost 
to justify the name common in the country, 
where these jets are called Air-Voleanoes. 
Near the town of Sciacca (the ancient 
baths of Selinus, on the slope of Mount 
Calogero, the ancient Mons Cronius, at the, 
back of the above town), are baths, of 
which the temperature is no less than 120°. 
Fahr., and which seem to contain; sul- 
phate of magnesia and sulphuretted hy- 
drogen gas. Like the Harrowgate waters, 
they are much used for cutaneous ; dis- 
orders. At a higher level, the rocks be-~ 
longing to the blue clay. formation are, lost, 
and a white compact. sactharoid of lime- 
_ Stone is met with, containing kidney-shaped 
‘masses of flint, similar to those im chalk-, 
strata, which continues to ithe, top, of ,the 
mountain. vation 
Not long since, the SROpNEtGE of, some 
land in the interior congratulated; himself 
on his good fortune, in being able. to nec 
a large quantity of sulphur, already purified; 
by merely placing vessels to receive a’ stream 
of that substance, which was.cons Pis~ 
suing from the side of ;a-hill; ogeasi by 
a bed of sulphur in its (gale corner 
firey—the heat, generated, by the combus- 
-tuon of one part serving to liquefy.the other: 
TURKEY, 
