1807.] 
diments of Speech, the Instruction of 
Foreigners in the Idiom and Pronuncia- 
tion of the English Tanguage, and the 
Improvement of English “Elocution, No. 
40, Bedtord-place, Russell-square, open- 
ed again, after the recess, on the 14th 
ult. and Mr. and Mrs. THELWaLuL have 
announced their intention of continuing 
without interruption the customary courses 
of tuition, both to adults and junior pu- 
pils, as w ell those who are resident at the 
Institution, or attend in classes, as those 
who visit it for the purpose of receiving 
private lessons, till the annual recess, on 
the first day of August. Mr. T’s. public 
pees will not commence till the latter 
end of October; and will tien be deli- 
_ Vered on Monday. evenings only. 
Sir Jos—ErH Banks has. recently stated 
the advantages to be obtained by i Inuring 
tender plants, natives of warmer climates, 
to bear the severity of that of England. 
In the case of annuals, he mentions this 
is effected with little trouble, as all that is 
required is to enable them to ripen their 
seed in a comparatively coid summer,after 
which the hardest frost will have no pow- 
er to injure it; but a perennial has to 
encounter frosts with its buds and an- 
nual shoots, that have sometimes been 
so severe with us as to rend asunder the 
trunks of our indigenous forest-trees. In 
1791, some seeds of Zizania aquatica 
were ‘procured trom Canada, and sown in 
a pond at Spring Grove, near Hounslow. 
They grew, ‘and. produced strong plants, 
which ripened their seeds. These vege- 
tated in the succeeding spring, and so on 
every year, the plants springing up from 
the seeds of the preceding year, and be- 
coming visibly stronger and larger, and 
rising from deeper parts of the pond, till 
the year 1804, when several of the plants 
were six fect high, and the whole pond 
was in every part covered with them. 
From this, and other similar experiments, 
Sir Joseph proposes to sow the seeds of 
such shrubs as occasionally ripen them in 
the English climate, after the example of 
the Zizania, which, in fourteen years, 
became completely naturalized to our 
climate. 
The Brsuap of Lonpon has transfer- 
red £.1200 stockto the Master and Fel- 
lows of Christ’s College, Cambridge, and 
directed the interest ef it to be laid out 
annually in the purchase of three gold 
medals, to be contended for by the Stu- 
dents of that College ; one of fifteen gui- 
neas, a prize for the best Latin Disserta- 
tion on some Evidence of Christianity ; 
another of fifteen guineas, 3 prize for the 
Interary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
- Book of Euclid’s Elements. 
277 
best English Composition on some Moral 
Precept of the Gospel ; and one of ten 
guineas, a prize to the mest distinct and: 
graceful Reader in, 
ant, at Chapel; and the surplus, if any, 
to he laid out in books, and distributed 
by the Master. is 
Government having purchased the 
Museum of the late Joan» Huwver, esq. 
whose choice and rare Collection of natu- 
ral and artificial Curiosities are so very 
peculiarly qualified to serve the science 
of Surgery, bave thought it expedient to. 
convert tne whole of it to the public be~ 
nefit, by presenting the same to the Royal 
Corporation of Surgeons; for which pur- 
pose a commodious and extensive build- 
lng is erecting in Lincoln’s-inn-square, 
. Y 
where this Calais and splendid assem- 
blage will be deposited, and where, with-_ 
in one extensive area, will be at once 
concentered, the Corpor ation Fall, the 
Anatomical Theatre, the Repository of 
Curiosities, and the several apartments 
and chambers of the Officers of the Cor- 
poration. The grand front will be tow- 
ards Portugal-street. The whole struc- 
ture will be completed early in the ensn-, 
ing spring, and present a splendid edi- 
fice. 
Mr. BorrEav, Author of an Essay on 
the Study of Statistics, will commence a, 
course of Statistical Lectures on the pre 
sent State eof Denmark, Sweden, Reo 
and Prussia, on Thursday , the 8th of Oc- 
tober, at eight o’clock in the evening, at 
the Globe Tavern, Fleet-street, and con- 
tinue the same every Monday and Thurs- 
day at the same bia till the course be 
concluded. And at seven o’clock on the 
same evening Mr. Boileau proposes read- 
ing Lectures on the comparative idioms 
of the English, French, and German Jan- 
guage, with particular reference to Mer- 
cantile Correspondence. 
RUSSIA. 
The Governor of Irchutsk bas reported 
to the Russian Government the Disco- 
very of a Mass of Ruins, thirty-five 
wersts from the frontiers of China, which 
appears to have belonged to a very con- 
siderable city. They consist of shape- 
less hillocks, heaps of decayed bricks, and 
the remains of ramparts, overgrown in 
great part with large trees. Orders have 
been given by the Government for an 
accurate examination of them. 
SWEDEN. 
M. Avnivitrus is publishing, at Up- 
sal, Corrections and Supplements to the 
Commentaries of Proclus on the first 
The Greek 
- Commentary 
and regular Attend-. 
