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British Legislation. 
[Sept. I, 
MM, Arago and Fresnel have lately 
applied the principle of Count Rumford’s 
concentric or co-lateral meshes to the im¬ 
provement of lamps, intended either for 
light-houses or theatres, or for other uses 
where a strong bright clear light is wanted. 
In order to obviate the difficulty which 
was formerly found to arise from the car¬ 
bonization of the wick by the great heat 
occasioned at the summit of the burner, 
the oil was made to flow over at the mesh, 
and in thus keeping the flame at the top of 
the wick, a full, clear, and steady combus¬ 
tion was obtained. 
M. Duduit de Maizieres has invent¬ 
ed, and practised with great success, a 
method of making bread with common ap¬ 
ples very far superior to potatoe bread. 
After having boiled one-third of peeled 
apples, he bruised them while quite warm 
into two-thirds of flour, including the pro¬ 
per quantity of yeast, and kneaded the 
whole without water, the juice of the fruit 
being quite sufficient. When this mixture 
had acquired the consistency of paste, he 
put it into a vessel, in whirdi he allowed it 
to rise for about twelve hours. By this 
process he obtained a very excellent 
bread. 
The Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris 
have proposed the following prize question 
for 1823 : (< To determine, by precise 
experiments, the causes, either chemical 
or physiological, of animal heat.” It is 
particularly required that the heat emitted 
by a healthy animal in a given time be as¬ 
certained, as well also as the quantity of 
carbonic acid produced in respiration, aud 
that the heat thus produced, be compared 
with that occasioned by the formation of 
as much carbonic acid from the combustion 
of carbon. The prize will be a gold medal 
of 3000 francs value. 
BRITISH LEGISLATION. 
ACTS PASSED itl the FIRST YEAR of the REIGN of GEORGE THE FOURTH, or in 
the SECOND SESSION of the SEVENTH PARLIAMENT of the UNITED KINGDOM. 
AP. XXXVI. For the better Re¬ 
gulation of the Public Notaries in 
Ireland. —May 28th, 1821. 
CAP. XXXVII. To repeal the Du¬ 
ties of Customs on the Importation into 
Great Britain of certain Sorts of Wood 
and Timber , and certain Drawbacks or 
allowances in respect of such Duties , 
and to grant other Duties a)id Draw¬ 
backs in lieu thereof. —May 28th, 1821. 
CAP. XXXVIII. An Act for esta¬ 
blishing Regulations respecting certain 
Parts of the Proceedings in the Court 
of Session , and in the Court of Commis¬ 
sioners for Teinds , and respecting the 
Duties , Qualifications , and Emoluments 
of certain Clerks and other officers of 
the said Courts. —May 2Sth, 1821. 
CAP. XXXIX. An Act for the bet¬ 
ter Regulation of the Courts of Ad¬ 
miralty in Scotland , and of certain Pro¬ 
ceedings in the Court of Session , con¬ 
nected therewith .—May 28lh, 1821. 
CAP. XL. To repeal so much of an 
Act , made in the Parliament of Ireland 
in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of 
the Reign of King George the Third , 
for preventing Frauds committed by 
Bankrupts , as inflicts Capital Punish¬ 
ment on certain Offences therein speci¬ 
fied ; and to provide more suitable and 
effectual Punishment for such offences. 
—May 28th, 1S21. 
I. 11 and 12 G. 3 . c. 8. s. 24 . (I.) reciting 
that on Bankrupts refusing to surrender, or 
be examined, or to deliver up their effects, 
&c. shall be declared guilty of felony with¬ 
out benefit of clergy. Recited act, so far 
as inflicts punishment of death, repealed. 
II. Such offences may be punished with 
transportation for life, &c. 
CAP. XLI. For giving greater Faci¬ 
lity in the Prosecution and Abatement 
of Nuisances arising from Furnaces 
used and in the working of Steam En¬ 
gines .—May 28tli, 1821. 
I. It shall and may be lawful for the 
Court by which Judgment ought to be pro¬ 
nounced in case of Conviction on any such 
Indictment, to award such Costs as shall 
be deemed proper and reasonable to the 
Prosecutor or Prosecutors, to be paid by 
the Party or Parties so convicted as afore¬ 
said, such Award to be made either before 
or at the time of pronouncing Anal judg¬ 
ment, as to the Court may seem fit. 
II. If it shall appear to the Court by 
which Judgment ought to be pronounced in 
case of Conviction on any such Indictment, 
that the Grievance may be remedied by 
altering the Construction of the Furnace 
so employed in the w orking of Engines by 
Steam, it shall be lawful to the Court, with¬ 
out the Consent of the Prosecutor, to make 
such Order touching the Premises, as shall 
be by the said Court thought expedient for 
preventing the Nuisance in future, before 
passing final Sentence upon the Defendant 
or Defendants so convicted. 
III. Not to extend to Owners of Fur¬ 
naces erected solely for working of Mines. 
CAP. XLII. To defray the Charge 
of the Pay , Cloathing , and contingent 
Expences of the Disembodied Militia in 
Great 
