366. Domestic Inielligence: 
square, a bronze statue of Sir John Moore, by Flexman, of | 
London, has just been erected ; and a proposal has been. 
afloat for some time, to erect a monument, of some kind or 
other, to Sir William Wallace. Some suggestions have 
been made of one also to the memory of Watt, the im- 
prover of the steam engine, whose death you will have seen 
announced by the time this reaches you ; he wasa native of 
Giasgow. 
f found on my arrival a Columbian Press at work. Cly- 
mer, the inventor, is in London, and has supplied a consid- 
erable number ae them to the printers, who think the Ameri- 
canare superior to any others, in ease of workmanship, 
and fineness of the work produced. Presses of every kind, 
however, will, in all probability, have to give way soon be- 
fore a printing machine, which has been almost perfected in 
London, and performs about the work of six presses, with a 
man anil a boy to put on and take off the sheets, He work 
the machine. It operates by a combination of cylinders, 
and can be driven by a steam engine, or any other moving 
power. It promises to effect a complete revolution in the 
art of printing. 
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. 
Abstract om the proceedings of the Lyceum of Natural aes 
tory, New-York. 
1819. Mr. N. Paulding communicated a memoir on a 
mineral discovered at Kingsbridge, by Mr. I. Pierce, which 
had been supposed to be rubellite. Mr. Paulding having 
submitted it to a chemical and geometrical examination has 
proved that it is only a variety of schorl, which he calls red 
tourmaline. ‘This mineral occurs imbedded in primitive 
limestone, or rather dolomite, in crystals, of various shades 
of red and brown, aid is associated with reddish brown mi- 
ca. The fundamental form appears to be an equilateral 
three-sided prism, acuminated by three planes, which af 
one extremity are set on the lateral edges, and at the other 
on the lateral planes. This form is variously modified by 
\truncation and bevelments. Most of the crystals are bevel- 
