386 foreign Literature and Science. 
36. Comparative table of condemnations to wfflictive and 
disgraceful punishments, pronounced by the Court of Assize 
in Paris during the years 1817, 1818, and 1819.—The 
friends of humanity will observe with satisfaction that not- 
withstanding the alledged corruption of the age, the num- 
ber of crimes is obviously diminished. 
| 1817. | 1818. | 1819. 
Condemned to hard labour for. | 
life, and disgrace, 511 | 393) 9 "390 
For a limited time, 2,645 | 1,992 | 1,421 
Ditto, with disgrace for the 
crime of falsehood or vagabondage, 173 | 184] 196 
Total, [ 3,329 | 2,569 | 2,015 
We would remark, h owever, that this summary does not 
include condemnations to solitary confinement, exportation 
and banishment. : 
37. Organic remains.—Baron Cuvier is engaged in the 
publication of a new edition of his work on the fossil bones 
of quadrupeds. * It will be greatly enlarged and perfected. 
The price of subscription in Paris is 40 francs per volume. 
The first volume was to have appeared in May last, and the 
last volume is to be published in June, next year. The 
subscription was to close immediately after the publication 
of the first volume, after which the price would be doubled, 
and will extend to five volumes and include 200 plates. 
38. A correspondent in the Calcutta journal for May, 
1820, asserts that he had obtained the happiest effects from 
the Voltaic pile in cases of inveterate cholera morbus. 
39. Astronomy.—The Emperor Alexander has ordered 
a magnificent observatory to be constructed at Abo in Fin- 
land. ) 
40. Generous Legacy._-The princess Anna Narischkin, 
who died lately in St. Petersburgh, at an advanced age, left 
by ber will the sum of 150,0C0 rubles to various public 
schools, among which was the institution for the deaf and 
dumb. 
