346 Foreign Literature and Science. 
Lithographic printing has made a rapid progress in Rus- 
sia. ‘The plates illustrative of the journey of Col. Drou- 
ville in Persia, are of the finest execution. The designs 
are from the hand of M. Orlowsky, a distinguished artist of 
Petersburg. _ 
The Iron Masters of Sweden have granted to Professor 
Berzelius an annuity of five hundred crowns, for the servi- 
ces which he has rendered to the chemical arts. 
The ex-king of Norway, Prince Christian Frederick, of 
Denmark, is leading a literary life in Italy. He lately read 
a dissertation on Mount Vesuvius at a meeting of the Acad- 
emy of Sciences at Naples. 
Count Lasterjoie is publishing at his Lithographic press 
in Paris, a series of plates to illustrate the machines, instru- 
ments, utensils, constructions, apparatus, &c. employed in 
rural and domestic economy, according to designs from va- 
rious parts of Europe. 
A vessel has been constructed for the navigation of the 
Forth and Clyde canal in Scotland entirely of forged iron, 
the sheets being pieced and riveted nearly as in a common 
boiler. Itis larger, and at the same time lighter, and sails 
better than any of those employed. It will of course be 
more durable. It will contain two hundred passengers.— 
Rev. Enc. Mai 1820.* 
The number of letters daily distributed by the Post-Office 
at Paris is nearly thirty-two thousand, and of Journals eigh- 
teen hundred. Whilst in London the amount of letters is 
one hundred and thirty-three thousand, and of Journals 
twenty-six thousand. ‘This, according to the respective 
population of the two places, is, in Paris one letter for sixty- 
ty-two persons, and one Journal for three hundred and 
eighty readers ; but in London, one letter for nine persons, 
and a Journal for forty-three readers.—Idem. 
The literature of Italy is rapidly increasing. The “ Bib- 
hiotheca Italiana,” edited by cerbi, the author of travels to 
the north Cape, announces that seven hundred cases of 
* And a private letter from Glasgow fo the Editor. 
