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on Sir Walter to permit him to do so, and 
he accordingly sold them to Mr. Colburn 
for £250. 
The subject of the first is a comparison 
of the Jewish and Christian dispensations, 
containing nothing but the commonest ar- 
guments of the very commonest pulpit dis- 
courses—unillumined by one single ray of 
his undoubted genius—to stamp it as his 
own. ‘* I came not to destroy, but to 
fulfil.’ The words are plainly—if we refer 
to facts—used in a specific and limited 
sense. Literally, and in the general appli- 
cation of them, the law was destroyed, for 
the Christian renounced the use and autho- 
rity of it as an institute; and the Jew, 
expelled from his native seat, could no 
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longer execute its provisions. The specific 
sense, to which we allude, Sir Walter la- 
bours hard, and has more difficulty than 
half the curates—the lowest caste, of course, 
of theologians—in the country would have 
had to establish ; and concludes with sin- 
gular infelicity thus: —“ In no sense, there- 
fore, was the ancient Mosaic law destroyed ;”” 
—followed up with a very brilliant, but 
scarcely intelligible, and perfectly inappli- 
cable and unillustrating figure. The other 
sermon is on the blessedness of the righ- 
teous, and is as miserable a piece of twaddle 
as ever was compiled by a fagged or a lazy 
Saturday night performer, to be inflicted on 
some unfortunate audience the following 
morning. 
, PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
—s 
INSTITUTE—ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
Paris.— March 3.—M. Ampere made a 
verbal report on a work of M. Opoix, re- 
garding the soul when waking and sleeping. 
M. Arago presented, in the name of M. 
Fiedler, many vitreous tubes which the 
donor had collected in sundry parts of Ger- 
many. A conversation arising with regard 
to them, M. Mongez said, that in the cabi- 
net of natural history belonging to the li- 
brary of St. Genevieve, of which he was 
the conservator, there was a packet of nails 
which had been half melted by lightning 
on board a vessel: the nails were four or 
five inches long, melted together by the 
demifusion, and pierced like the vitreous 
tabes. MM. Dumeril and Latreille re- 
ported on a memoir of M. Milne Edwards, 
relative to certain crustacea inhabiting the 
western shore of France: the three new 
species described were the rhea, cuma, and 
pontia—the fourth was already known but 
imperfectly, and belonged to the genus ne- 
balia—the paper was thought worthy of 
being inserted in the “ Mémoires desSavans 
Etrangers.’’ MM. Prony, Poisson, and Sa- 
vart, made a report, at the requisition of the 
minister of the interior, on an improved 
steelyard, made by M. Paret, a mechanist 
of Montpellier; they considered the instru- 
Ment might be employed with advantage. 
_M. Coquebert-Montbret made a verbal re- 
port on an English work presented by M. 
Cesar Moreau, entitled a chronological ex- 
amination of the finances of Great Britain. 
—10. MM. Dumeril and Magendie re- 
ported on a memoir of M. Malebouche, 
relative to the method pursued by a Mrs. 
Leigh for the cure of stammering. The 
process consists in a series of exercises for 
the organs of speech, but is as yet a secret. 
The reporters stated that they had submit- 
ted some persons to the care of M. Male- 
bouche, who had been entirely or partially 
cured—the latter depending upon the pa- 
tient’s) own want of attention to the rules 
M.M. New Serics.—Vo1,.V1. No. 32. 
prescribed. It was referred to a committee 
to see whether the persons possessed of the 
secret could be allowed to receive the prize 
founded by M. Monthyon, in order to ob- 
tain its publication. M.Ampere made a 
verbal report on M. Opoix’s pamphlet rela- 
tive to the sensations of sound and of light. 
A letter was read from M. Gendrin, con- 
taining numerous observations which he had 
made on the employment of iodine in cases 
of gout.—17. A letter was communicated 
by M. Brongniard from M. J. Acorta, en- 
gineer, in Colombia, stating that it was not 
the city of Bogota, but that of Popayan, 
which had been destroyed by an earthquake. 
Bogota, which is 80 leagues distant from 
the latter place, had, however, been seriously 
injured. M. Warden informed the Aca- 
demy that Captain Joshua Coffin, of the 
Ganges, of New York, had discovered in the 
South Sea four new islands, not laid down 
in the charts. The first, which he called 
Gardner’s Island, from the name of his 
owner, is in lat. 4° 3’ S., lon. 174° 22’ W. 
of Greenwich; the land here is low and 
woody. The second, called Coffin Island, 
is in lat. 31° 13’ S., lon. 178° 54’ 15” W.., 
about twelve miles to the north of which 
are some very dangerous reefs. The other 
two were named the Islands of the Ganges, 
lat. 10° 25’ S., lon. 160° 45° W., and 10° 
S. and 161° W.: they were inhabited, and 
the natives were unacquainted with fire- 
arms. M. Arago gave verbally some new 
details relative to M. Fiedler’s fulminary 
tubes, in answer to various objections made 
at a preceding sitting; he also communi- 
cated an account of certain aurore boreales 
obseryed in the United States on the 27th 
and 28th of August, 1827. MM. Patal 
and Dumeril reported on a memoir pre- 
sented by MM. Martin and Isidore, of St. 
Hilaire, relative to the peritonean canals in 
the tortoise and crocodile. This paper pre- 
senting a new and important fact in physio- 
logy, will be published in the ‘ Recucil des 
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