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Dutch, English, French, or German, and are to be sent in before 

 the close of this year (1820.) 



The following subject was proposed in 1817, but without 

 effect. It is again published by the class : " What were the 

 rights, the authority, and the dignity of the Roman Jurisconsu- 

 lates, from the time of Augustus, to the death of Justinian ? 

 and what their influence on public administration, private rights, 

 and the administration of justice ?" 



2. Printing in Otaheite.~M. TurgeniefF, counsellor of state, 

 has made a report to the Bible Society of Petersburgh, in which 

 it is stated that the English missionaries have established a press 

 atOtaheite, at which 3,000 bibles have been printed. They were 

 all sold in the space of three days, for three gallons of cocoa-nut 

 oil each. The books of Moses, translated into the Otaheitean 

 language, have been printed at the same press ; also a cate- 

 chism for the use of the inhabitants. These have been distri- 

 buted gratuitously. 



3. Literature in New South Wales.— At Sydney, in New South 

 Wales, there are at present three public journals, and five other 

 periodical publications. A second printing office has also been 

 established lately at Port Jackson. They now export cattle to 

 the Isle of France, and the market at Sydney is considered as 

 plentiful in the diflFerent commodities of Europe, as well as of 

 India and China. 



4. New Arabic Grammar. — A grammar, of the Arabic lan- 

 guage is preparing for the press by James Grey Jackson, Pro- 

 fessor of Arabic, and late British Consul at Santa Cruz, in 

 South Barbary. No accurate grammar of the Arabic language 

 having yet issued from the British press, an attempt will now 

 be made to supply this deficiency in oriental literature. 



5. Oxford and Cambridge Universities.— It appears by a 

 summary of the Members of the Universities of Oxford and 

 Cambridge, in their Calendar for 1819 and 1820, that the fol- 

 lowing is the number ; — 



