90 



Foreign Varietiet. 



[Jan. 



past Roman antiqiiities have l)ccn found 

 iiboiit Vulogne, in the parish of Meaume, 

 wliieh seems to streiiKthcn tlie opinion that 

 that site succeeded Ciieoatonum, the ca- 

 pital of tlie Unelli, where Ciesar had a 

 camp, of wliich he speaks in his Commen- 

 taries. 



NETHERLANDS. 



According to a report presented to the 

 Government in 181 4-, there were then 

 700,000 paupers living scattered about, which 

 in a po|iulation of 5,0(X),000 is more than 

 ]2-U)0ths, or one in eight. At the end of 

 1823 there were, besides 31,(00 paupers, 

 l)etwee7i seven and SOO poor-houses at tlie 

 charge of the government, and 12 work- 

 houses, in which more than 7,000 were em- 

 ployed ; but the Kysteni of colonization 

 has succeeded so well, that very soon there 

 will be no more occasion for tlios'e work- 

 houses. There arc already ten colonies, of 

 which eight are in the northern provinces, 

 and two in the southern ; they contain 

 6,000 houses, and Ixnucen 4 and 5,000 

 persons, who have already brought a great 

 deal of land muler cultivation. In gene- 

 ral the colonies have succeeded beyond ex- 

 pectation ; they have both schools aiul 

 churches, and present an n)>peanincc of 

 contentment. 



DEN'MAKK. 



The royal library at Copenhagen con- 

 tains a considerable colled ion of manu- 

 scripts in the oriental languages, brought 

 from the East by the celebrated Niebuhr, 

 and by other travellers and Danish con- 

 suls, who have resided for a longer or 

 shorter liu'e in Afiica and Asia. These 

 treasures were inuch augn;t'i:ted by the de- 

 cease of the illustrious clian.berlain, De 

 Suhm, who liad ]>i;r<hastd at a great ex- 

 pesne all the Aral>ie nianuscrijits in the pos- 



session of the learned orientalist Reiske, 

 of Gottingen, and whose superb and vast 

 library has latdy been added to that of the 

 King. From ten of the ])rinciial of these 

 precious manuscripts, and from others of 

 minor value. Dr. Rasmusser, the profes- 

 sor of oriental languages, has derived the 

 materials for a work \\ bich he has just 

 published. 



RU.«srA. 



The number of children who die annually 

 in Russia, amounts to about one-fourth of 

 the whole number of deaths in the empire, 

 and the ceremonies which take place at 

 their baptism are considered as the cause. 

 Tlie niiked infant is dipped three times suc- 

 cessively into a basin of cold water, from 

 which it emerges shivering, and with the 

 body entirely blue, from the effect cf the 

 cold ; cholics, frequently fatrd, ensue from 

 this deplorable baptism. Among the niible 

 and more enlightened classes, warm wiiter 

 is now introduced; but neither physiei;ins 

 nor philosophers will easily peisuade the 

 lower classes thus to depart from the usage 

 of their ancestors. A })crson who was pre- 

 sent at the immersion of a newly born in- 

 fant venturing to remonstrate, it was re- 

 jilied, " would God jiermit his creatures to 

 receive any ill from such an act? you sec 

 that tlie baby does not even cry ;" and 

 the poor innocent, who doid-tlcss was un- 

 able to do so, died a few days afterwards 

 from a violent eholic. 



The object of tlie Armenian school, 

 which was founded at Moscow by Messrs. 

 La/arelt, is the improvement of young 

 per>oiis, and cfiu'cially of young Ainic- 

 niiins, in the higher sciences, and in the 

 cricntid hmgupges. Since the year ISU!, 

 the schi cl has sent forth sixty-two \n\\ iis. 

 Thcie are now seventv-tiuee. 



POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS. 



J. J. de H. Larpent, Esq., to l)e H's Majesty's 

 Consul .It Antwerp .nuil dtpcnclcncics ; datetl luth 

 Novti"nl>er. . ' . 



A. H. Aikin. Esfj., to be His M.ijesty's Consul at 

 Arcliangtl and its dependencies ; dated 111 Nov. 



J. Anncsley, Esq,, to he Ills Majesty's Consul for 

 the Province of Catalonia, to resiile at Barcelona; 

 dated 2(i Nov, 



Right Hon, John Lord Ponsonby, to be His Ma- 



jesty's Envoy Fxtr.nonlinnry r.nd Miir'ster rienipn- 

 tintiary to I'lie Uniti-d I'ltninces cf the liio de It 

 Piala; dated 24 Dec. 



.Mcx. Cockburn. Esq.. to be His Majesty's L'nvi.y 

 Extraordinary and Pknipolentiary to the HqiuM c 

 of Colombia ; date^l 24 Dec. 



Charles Mackenzie, Esq. to be His Majesty's Con- 

 sul-General in Hayti, to reside at Port-au-Prince, 

 dated 27 Dec. 



ARMY PROMOTIONS. 



4 De. Gif.— Lt. G. W. Story, from Dfi F., Lt. by 

 purch., V. Shore prom., i?(i (At. Corn. C. W. Web- 

 ster, from 12 L. Dr., I,t. by piirch., v. Wemvss prom., 

 17 Nov. Com. W. M. Owen, fri; n 1 Drs., Lt. by 

 purch., V. Stamer prom. 1 Dec. 



5 Dr. Gil Com. J. L. Hampton, Lt. by purch., 



V. Ramsay prom., 10 Dec. C. Stewart, Corn, by 

 purch., V. Hampton, 10 Dec. 



6 Di: Cii. — Corn. J. R. Hay, Lt. by purch., v. 

 Harvey prom., ,3 Dec. G. A. K. Heathcote, Com. by 

 purch., V. Hay. 3 Dec. 



7 Dr. Gil Cora. H. C. D.iniell (and adj.), Lt. v. 



Doyiie prom., 19 Nov. Corn. E. R. Butler, Lt., v. 

 Penefather prom., 20 Nov. Surg. A. Blake, from 

 ."i K., surg., v. J. Rose, who ret., 13 Oct. 



6 Dr Corn. W. C. Shepnard, from Cape Corps 



Cav., Lt. by purch., v. Dovvn prom., 10 Nov. Tr. 

 Serj. Maj. G. Dickson, Qu. Mast., v. Kerr dec., 

 »4 Nov. 



3 L. Dr C. W. M. Haiders, Corn.,by purch., v. 



Phillips prom., 10 Nov. 



11 L. Dr Corn. F. R. H. Lawrie, Lt. by purch., v. 



Bishoji prom., 1.! Oct. T. H. Pearson, Corn, by 

 purch., v. Astley who ret., 11 Mar. C, A. Lew.s, 

 Corn, by purch., v. Lawrie, 13 Oct. 



12 L. Dr F. A. Hyde, Corn, by purch., v. Web- 

 ster prom, in 4 Dr. Gu., 17 Nov. 



13 L. Dr Com. D. T. Cunyngeham, Lt. v. Mac- 

 kenzie dec. 5 June 24. Serj. Maj. B. Macmahon, 

 Rid. Mast, to <-'av. Depot, Maidstone, Corn., v. 

 Cunyngeham. 10 Nov. 25. 



14 L. Di-.— Corn. A. G. Duff, Lt. by purch., v. 

 Musgrave prom., Ut Dec. 



Ki'L. Dr.— Corn. W. V. Jillard, Lt. by purdi., v. 

 Macmahon prom., 1(1 Nov — Corn. J. P. Seward, Lt. 

 by purch., v. Cureton prom.. 17 Nov. D. Bmges, 

 Goru. by puich., v. Seward, 17 Nov« 



