370 Miscellanies. 



Had he lived to perform his purposed tour of two years in this coun- 

 try, and to give lectures in its principal cities, there can be no doubt 

 that he would have, produced a powerful impulse in favor of moral 

 and physical education, which, whether his views of phrenology had 

 gained ground or not, would hardly have failed to be very servicea- 

 ble. Except detached notices of his lectures published in the for- 

 eign journals, we have not read his writings, and therefore do not 

 pretend to give any opinion of them. The most important are now 

 in a course of republication at Boston, and will, doubtless, be exten- 

 sively read. -# 



MISCELLANIES. 



FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. 



Extracted and translated by Prof. Griscom. 

 NECROLOGY. 



1, Within the first six months of the year 1832, the following 

 distinguished individuals have paid the debt of nature. 



England. 



George Crahbe, one of the best poets of the age, aged 63. 



Andrew Bell, D. _D., well known as the founder of the system of 

 instruction pursued in the national schools of England. Born in 1753, 

 at St. Andrews. His remains were deposited in Westminster Abbey. 



Sir James Mackintosh, a distinguished jurist and writer, aged 62. 



Jeremy Bentham., a noted philanthropist, and civilian, aged 85. 



Sweden. 



T. Ornie, a celebrated writer. Destroyed himself by charcoal — 

 attributed to domestic grief. 



Switzerland. 

 C. Be Bonstetten, a metaphysician and politician, aged 86. 

 iN'aeff, founder of a school for the deaf and dumb at Yverdun. 



Italy. 

 Camille Borghese, brother-in-law to Napoleon. 

 Abbe Angela Cesaris, first Astronomer of the observatory of Mi- 

 lan J editor of the Ephemerides Astronomiques de Milan. 



