1808.] 
Miss Berna, has in the press a vo- 
lume of poems, which will be published 
in the course of next mouth. 
Mr. Douce will shortly publish a work 
entitled. Illustrations of Shakspeare and 
Ancient Manners, in two volumes octavo, 
which will be embellished with several 
curious plates. 
Dr. Suaw has just put to press the 
Natural History of Birds, in continuation 
of his General Zoology. 
Mr. Donovan will complete his His- 
tory of British Fishes in the course of the 
present month, 
Mr. Fintay’s Collection of Historical 
and Romantic Ballads, in two volumes 
octavo, are nearly ready tor publication > 
the greater number of which have never 
been before published, Some Remarks on 
the early State of Romantic Composition 
in Scotland will be prefixed. 
The Rev. W. Acutter, A, M, chaplain 
to the Asylum for Female Orphans, basa 
volume of Sermons in the press, several 
of which were preached betore the uni- 
versity of Oxford. 
The Rev, Ropert Rennie of Kilsyth, 
has in the press, Essays onthe Natural 
History of Peatmoss, the particular qua- 
lities of the substance, the means of iin- 
proving it as a soil, the method of con- 
verting 1t into manure, and other econo- 
mical purposes to which it may be ap- 
plied. 
Mr. J. L. Bonn, architect, proposes to 
publish a Translation of the Latin work 
of Vitruvius, as soon as the necessary 
plates can be engraved to accompany it. 
These plates will be diferent in their sub- 
jects and manner of treatinent from any 
that have appeared, either in this coun- 
try or on the continent, as explanatory of 
the text of the author. The work will form 
one handsome volume in quarto, and will 
be illustrated by a great number of histo- 
rical, critical, and descriptive notes. 
Dr. Ricuarp Rexce, will shortly pub- 
lish in one large volume, royal octavo, a 
Practical Dictionary of Domestic Medi- 
cine, exhibiting a comprehensive view of 
the late important discoveries relative to 
the causes, treatment, and prevention of 
diseases, and a popular description of the 
subjects of anatomy, botany, chemistry, 
dietetics, pharmacy, physiology, surgery, 
midwifery, &c. The whole comprising 
aregular view of the present improved 
state of medical science, divested of all 
technical obscurities. 
' Mec. Rogertson Bucuanan of Glas- 
ow, civil engineer, in a recent Essay 
on the Warming of Cotton Mills and other 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
983 
Buildings by Steam, states that one cu- 
bic foot of boiler will heat about 2000 
cubit feet of space in a cotton mill to 
the temperature of from 70 to 80 degrees 
of Fahrenheit; that 25 cubit feet in a 
steam engine boiler are equal to what is 
called a one-horse power, aud that such 
a boiler would be capable of heating 
50,000 cubic feet of space, and in that 
proportion for every additional horse- 
power; that the fuel necessary for heat- 
ing the boiler is equal to about fourteen 
pounds per hour of good Newcastle coal 
for each horse-power; that the quantity 
of steain which a boiler will produce de- 
pends much more on the surface applied 
to the fire than on its cubical contents; 
that it requires 8 feet surface ot boiler to 
be exposed to the fire to boil off 1 cus 
bic foot of water per hour, and that a 
bushel, or eighty-four pounds of New- 
castle coal, so applied will boil off from 
8 to 12 cubit feet; that one superficial 
foot of exterior surface of steam pipe, 
will warm 200 cubic feet of space; that 
pipes constructed of cast iron are prefe- 
rable to those made of tin plate or cop- 
per for conducting steam, and that this 
arises more froin the colour and nature of 
the surface than of the substance, for tin- 
plate painted black increased the heat gi- 
ven ont considerably. The effect of steam 
in producing expansion being such that a 
copper pipe 160 feet Jong, was two in- 
ches longer when filled with steam, than 
when cool, and that in practice the ex- 
“pansion of steam-pipes of cast iron may 
be taken at about one tenth of an inch 
inten feet of length. 
AUSTRIA. 
The Baron de Lichtenstein has lately 
published at Vienna a statistiscical ace 
count of the Austrian Dominions, in 
which he states the population to a- 
mount to 24,900,000 persons; of whom 
6,400,000 are Germans, 13,000,000 
Sclavonians, 3,400,000 Hungarians, and 
the remainder 2,100,000 is composed of 
people of various nations. The greater 
part of this population is composed of ca- 
tholics; about 2,000,000 are of the Greek 
persuasion, and about the same number 
of the reformed Greek church; more than 
1,000,000 are Protestants, and 530,000 
are Jews. The nobles of the Austrian 
monarchy amount to 540,000; the ec- 
clesiastics to 39,700; the military and its 
followers to 600,000, without including 
040,000 inhabitants of the frontiers who 
serve as militia. The subjects of the 
Austrian monarchy occupy 796 cities, 
4012 towns, and 65,572 villages. 
= FRANCE. 
