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tions of some: Their pride has fallen. Their living literature 
is gone, with the power, the wars, and the glory which inspired 
it. 'The day has departed when Singapore could be invaded by 
Javanese,—when Johore could extend its dominion to Borneo on 
the one side and Sumatra on the other,—when the fleets of Acheen 
and Malacca could encounter each other in the Straits to dispute 
the dominion of the Eastern Seas,—when the warrants of the 
Sultan of Menangkabai were as potent over the Malayan nations 
as the bulls of Rome ever were over those of Christendom,— 
daughters of the emperors of Majapahit in marriage. The Mal- 
ayan pice a the present day, retaining all the feudal attach- 
me 
ble vent for the assertion of their freedom from restraint and the 
gratification of their self-will, have almost everywhere sunk into 
indolent debauchees and greedy monopolists, and, incited by their 
own rapacity and that of the courtiers who surround them, drain 
and paralyze the industry of their people. 
Art. XIII.—On the Anomalies presented in the Atomic Volume 
of Sulphur and Nitrogen; with remarks on Chemical Clas- 
sification, and a notice of M. Laurent’s Theory of Binary 
Molecules ; by 'T. 8. Hunr, of the Geol. Commission of Can- 
ada. (In a letter to one of the Editors.) 
Tur similarity of funetions enjoyed by oxygen and sulphur, is 
now generally recognized by chemists. It is known that sulphur 
may replace oxygen, equivalent for equivalent, and produce com- 
generally the same atomic volume, and their vapors consequently 
the same combining measure. 
