1825.] Foreign 
FOREIGN VARIETIES. 
GERMANY. 
Vienna.—The Emperor has determined 
upon presenting the Protestant university 
of this city, annually, the sum of 2,260 florins. 
The necessaries of life being extremely 
dear; the number of students amount but 
to fifty. They are generally of the Luthe- 
fan. persuasion. 
On the second of last August, a small 
town of 400 Catholics (named Gallnenkir- 
chen) in Austria, embraced the reformed 
religion. ; 
The Elector of Hesse has ordered, that 
a certain number of surgeons and physi- 
cians be deputed to examine the bodies of 
all who die, as an efficient mean of pre- 
venting the horrors of premature inter- 
ment, of discovering murder, and of stop- 
ping contagion: 
ITALY. 
The Marquis Cesar Lucchesini has pub- 
lished a work on the genuine tragedy of 
ZEschylus. He is accused -of exaggeration 
in the eulogies he has bestowed on the 
Greek writer, particularly on his style, of 
which Longints thought so meanly ; but 
the principal object of the author seems to 
be, to shew that the reason why the Greeks 
have so rarely introduced love, in their tra- 
gedies, was, that their theatres were destined 
for the formation of good citizens. 
A copy of the first edition of the Orlando 
Furioso, printed at Ferrara, in 1516, has 
been discovered, by M. Duppa, in the public 
library at that~ place; our most industrious 
bibliographers were ignorant of the exis- 
tence of that very rare book. 
The second volume of the life of the 
late Pope Pius VII., by Signor Erasmo 
Pistolesi, containing the whole of the cor- 
respondence between his Holiness and 
Bonaparte, has just issued from the Ro- 
man press ; the remainder of the work is 
anxiously expected : it is rendered interest- 
ing, to the political reader, by the authen- 
tic documents and explanatory notes with 
which it is enriched. 
SWITZERLAND, 
At Valais, the High Diet closed the 19th 
of last December, after three weeks’ sitting. 
It decreed the uniformity of weights and 
measures ; bestowed 64,000 francs for the 
improvement and construction of roads ; 
enacted more severe laws respecting hawk- 
ing; and made new imposts on the impor- 
tation of cattle and provisions, for the be- 
nefit of national industry. 
RUSSIA. 
Petersburgh.— On the first of January, 
was published, the first number of a paper 
called ‘ The Commercial Journal ;” to be 
-continued twice a week, and to contain 
every species of commercial information 
between Russians and foreigners; with 
suggestions for placing the commerce of 
Russia on a level with that of Europe. 
Monrtuty Mac. No. 409. 
Varieties. 361 
The Emperor Alexander has also issued 
an edict, taking off a considerable part. of 
the imposts ; at the same time giving sane-* 
tion to the additional regulations on the 
organization of guilds, and other protections 
to commercial rights. 
4 SWEDEN. 
Stockholm.—The first expedition to Co- 
lumbia, from Sweden, sailed on the 15th of 
last October. The brig ‘‘ Christopher 
Columbus”? was freighted with Swedish 
productions, iron and steel, and insured to 
the amount of £11,200. The merchant 
himself was on board, with his wife and 
several young Swedes, and among them a 
pupil of the celebrated and learned Berze- 
lius. 
A project is afloat, at Copenhagen,. to 
introduce Macadamization into Holstein. 
GREECE. 
A Philanthropic Society has been formed 
at Napoli de Romania, the object of which 
is to relieve the widows and educate the 
orphans of the indigent and disabled poor. 
At Paris, a subscription is about being 
raised in favour of the Greeks, and for the 
purpose of furthering their instruction. 
EGYPT. 
Mohamed Ali Pacha, the vicerpy, who has 
done so much for the amelioration of the 
interior of his states, and organized a part of 
his army after the European manner, has _ 
established a line of telegraphs from Alex- 
andria to Cairo, and relays of horses, at each 
telegraphic station, for the greater despatch 
of couriers from place to place. He has, also, 
founded a college, supported by himself, at 
a short distance from. Cairo, in the palace 
of his son, Ismael Pacha; it contains one 
hundred students; and the courses of 
learning consist of the Arabic, Persian, 
Turkish, Greek, Latin, Italian and French 
languages ; arithmetic and mathematics ; 
geometry and drawing ;. physics, chemistry, 
history, and geography, &c: Some of the 
students are studying the European lan- 
guages, for the purpose of translating the 
works, Ali Pacha intends to introduce. 
He has also established a printing press, 
and published an Arabian and Italian Dic- 
tionary, with some military works, trans- 
lated from the Italian into the Turkish— 
the military officers, in general, not under- 
standing the Arabic. It is the intention of 
the viceroy to build a “ lazar house,” for 
persons infected with the plague; and, by 
the precautions he prescribes, it is much 
to be hoped that Egypt will be entirely 
freed from this horrible distemper. French 
and Italian physicians are sent all over the 
country to yaccinate the children—a mea- 
sure the more extraordinary, as_ it opposes 
religious prejudices, and is a victory gained 
over superstition by the simple efforts of 
humanity. - 
UNITED STATES. 
Boston.—Dr. Bigsby, in his notes on the 
geology of Lake Huron, informs us that a 
Dr. Wright is in possession of a specimen 
3A of 
