LIBRARIES LISBURN. 



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Museum 305,000; and in the " Monthly Review," 

 for May, 1836, in a notice of a " Report from a 

 select committee on the condition, management, 

 arid affairs of the British Museum," it is stated to 

 " contain 218,950 printed volumes, 21,604 volumes 

 of manuscripts, and 19,093 charters." M. Balbi 

 gives several statements of the number of volumes 

 in the Bodleian Library, which vary from 130,000 

 volumes to 700,000 volumes and 30,000 manu- 

 scripts. 



With respect to the number of volumes contained 

 in the Vatican Library at Rome, there is a singular 

 disagreement among the different authorities. The 

 following statement from various authorities is 

 furnished by M. Balbi: 



Volumes. Manuscripts. 



Rampoldi . . . 90.000 more than 45,000 



Malchus . . 160,000 



Bisinger . . . 160,000 



La KevueBritannique(1802) 400,000 . . 50,000 



Bailly, (1827) . . 400,000 . . 50,000 



D'Haussez . . . 800,000 . . 38000 



Eustace from 200,000 to 1,000,000 . . 50,000 



M. Balbi in his Essai Statistique sur le Royaume 

 de Portugal, published in 1822, stated the contents 

 of the Vatican Library as follows ; printed vol- 

 umes 60,000; manuscripts 60,000? And in his 

 more recent work on libraries he remarks : 

 " What shall we say of the ridiculous, not to say 

 absurd, exaggerations which are found in works 

 justly celebrated, respecting the number of volumes 

 in the Vatican Library at Rome, and the Bodleian 

 Library at Oxford ? With respect to the Vatican 

 Library, we do not blush to confess, that, led into 

 error by imposing authorities, we exaggerated the 

 number of manuscripts, although the point of inter- 

 rogation which accompanied the number, sufficiently 

 indicated our doubts. As, since then, the library 

 of an illustrious litterateur, whose recent death 

 Italy laments, that of the count Leopold Cicog- 

 nara, has added nearly 10,000 printed volumes to 

 the Vatican, we believe that one may now carry 

 the actual number to nearly 75,000; and we re- 

 duce to about 35,000 the number of manuscripts." 

 Yet Mr Eustace in his " Classical Tour through 

 Italy," says of this library; "The number of 

 volumes has never been accurately stated ; some 

 confine it to 200,000, others raise it to 400,000, 

 and many swell it to 1,000,000." The London 

 " Quarterly Review," in 1826, says ; " The li- 

 brary of the Vatican is the most considerable in 

 the world ;" and the London " Foreign Quarterly 

 Review," for April, 1836, says; The Imperial 

 Library (at Vienna) which contains about 300,000 

 volumes, acknowledges but three equals in Europe, 

 that of the Vatican at Rome, and the Royal Li- 

 braries at Paris and Munich." 



Contents of the Royal Library at Paris in 1 822. 



Volumes of every description . . . 



450,000 pamphlets and fugitive pieces, equal to vols. 

 1 ,200,000 maps, diplomas, c. 



80;000 manuscripts . . . 



1,200,000 engravings, prints, &c. . 



450,000 

 45.000 

 24,000 

 80,000 

 6,000 



605,000 



Since 1822, this library, according to M. Balbi, 

 has been increased at the rate of upwards of 8,000 

 volumes a year. 



Contents of the Imperial library at Vienna. 



Volumes printed since the year 1500 . 270,000 



Volumes of Incunables (i.e. printed in the 15th century) 12,000 

 Manuscripts ...... 16,016 



Volumes, Portfolios, &c. forming a collection of Maps 1,242 



299,258 



M. Balbi enumerates forty-two libraries in 

 Vienna, which altogether contain 1,143,000 vol- 

 umes. 



Public Collections of Maps. 



Number of Pieces. 



Paris, (Cabinet of Maps,) . more than . 1,400,000 



Munich, .... do. . 300,000 



Vienna .... about . . ' 300,000 



Dresden . . . .do. . . 250,000 



London, (British Museum) 



Copenhagen 



Amsterdam 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 



100,000 

 80,000 

 70,008 



M. Balbi states the annual endowment or expenditure of 

 several of the European Libraries, as follows : 



Francs. 



Bodleian, Oxford, 

 Imperial, Vienna, 



75,000 



Royal, Berlin, 



47,500 



Advocates', Edinburgh, 25,000 



Royal, Copenhagen 



University, Gottingeu, 



29,680 Royal Madrid, 



Royal, Dresden, 



Francs. 

 22,640 

 20,000 

 14,000 

 10,000 



Libraries are generally of slow growth, and a 

 long series of ages has been required for the ac- 

 cumulation of the large ones enumerated in the 

 preceding table. The largest libraries in the United 

 States of America are comparatively small. That 

 country is, indeed, too young to enter into a com- 

 petition of this kind with the countries of Europe; 

 yet, since the commencement of the present cen- 

 tury, public libraries there have greatly increased 

 in number and size. 



LISBURN, (originally Lisnegarvey,) a hand- 

 some and thriving town in the county of Antrim, 

 Ireland, situated on the north-western bank of the 

 river Lagan, which separates Antrim from Down, 

 and on the high road from Dublin to Belfast ; dis- 

 tant from Dublin ninety-three miles N. ; from 

 Belfast, nine S. W. by S. A small suburb on the 

 opposite side of the river is now included within 

 the limits of the burgh. Lisburn carries on a 

 considerable trade in the various branches of linen 

 and cambric manufactures. The diapers and 

 damasks of the place are greatly valued for their 

 fineness of texture. The establishment of a num- 

 ber of French refugees in this town after the revo- 

 cation of the edict of Nantz, was attended with 

 the happiest consequences to the character of these 

 fabrics, a reputation preserved in the commercial 

 world to this day. In the neighbourhood are 

 extensive establishments for printing, bleaching, 

 and dyeing. The general retail trade of the town 

 is extensive. On market-days, (Tuesdays) large 

 sales are made of provisions, agricultural produce, 

 linens, &c. The church of Lisburn, which was 

 erected into a cathedral for the united sees of 

 Down and Connor, by patent, dated October 22, 

 1662, is a spacious edifice, adorned with a steeple 

 and spire. The market-house is also ornamented, 

 being enlivened by the erection of a steeple and 

 cupola, and the rooms in the interior have been 

 fitted up at the expense of the marquis of Hert- 

 ford. Here are also meeting-houses of Presby- 

 terians, Quakers, Methodists, &c., besides a hand- 

 some Roman Catholic chapel. In the reign of 

 James I. Sir Fulk Conway obtained a grant of 

 this place, and colonised it with a number of 

 Welsh families. The town then erected was upon 

 a regular plan. In 1641, Sir George Rawden 

 defeated the rebel army here; and in 1662, the 

 inhabitants received a patent, empowering them to 

 return two members to parliament in consideration 

 of their loyalty and attachment to the royal cause. 

 It now returns one member to the imperial parlia- 

 ment. The living is a rectory in the diocese of 

 Connor and archdiocese of Armagh ; patron, the 

 marquis of Hertford, who is owner in fet 1 of the 



