1810.] 
cable to the purpose of a new building, 
amount, however, at this time, to little 
more than 27,0001. while the cost of a 
new hospital, upon the scale proposed, 
can hardly be estimated at a smaller sum 
than 100,000!. To effect therefore so 
desirable a purpose as that in view, it 
will be obvious that nothing short of a 
liberal subscriptiun on the part of the 
public at large can suffice. 
An eye-glass micrometer has been re- 
cently contrived to measure the diameter 
of the filaments of wool from different 
fleeces, to the 10,000th part of an inch, 
This instrument promises to be of con- 
siderable use in determining the compa- 
rative fineness of wools. 
In pursuance of a petition to the House 
of Commons, from the. trustees of the 
British Museum, Mr. Grevitie’s Col- 
lection of Minerals has been valued by 
Drs. Babington and Wollaston, C. Hatch- 
ett, esq. and four other gentlemen, who 
repert, that the whole collection consists 
of about 20,000 specimens; that the se- 
ries of crystallized rubies, sapphires, eme- 
ralds, topazes, rubellites, diamonds, and 
precious stones in general, as well as 
the series of the various ores, far surpass 
any that are known to them in the diffe- 
rent European collections ; and that the 
value of the whule is 13,727]. including 
the cabinets, which cost 16001. 
Harriet Wilson, a poor girl in Marsh- 
Jane, Leeds, some time ago had both 
her arms torn off by some machinery, 
By the aid of some kind friends she was 
Jately conveyed to town, introduced to 
Mr. Morrison, who obtained the silver 
medal and forty guineas at the last meet. 
ing of the Society of Arts, for inventing 
implements by which persons having lost 
their hands, inay usefully assist them- 
selves. By the use of these implements 
this unfortunate can now feed herself; 
and incredible as it may appear, there is 
a prospect of her writing legibly, at no 
distant period, and of her being other- 
wise employed, so as to be able to con- 
tribute to her own support, 
SWEDEN, ; 
M. Visore, protessor in the Royal 
Veterinary School, has published a dis- 
sertation on the use of horse-flesh. This 
publication is said to have had the effect 
of introducing the use of this article as 
food throughout Sweden, in consequence 
of which the butchers’ shops are now 
supplied with the carcases of horses, in 
addition to those of oxen, M. Viborg 
assures his readers that the flesh of the 
horse, when roasted, is preferable to that 
of the ox. | 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
69. 
GERMANY. 
A German chemist has, by the aid of 
various substances, extracted from the 
green shells of horse chesnuts very beau- 
tiful yellow and brown colours, and the 
latter in the greatest diversity of hues. 
They are to stand both on woollens and 
silks, though the stuffs nave been wetted 
and wrung out, and some of theme yea 
washed in caustic liquids, 
The present state of politics did not 
lessen the number of typographical pro- 
ductions exposed for sale at the last Leip- 
sic fair; but it is remarked, that the 
intrinsic value of the works is yearly de- 
creasing. Political troubles having oc- 
casioned a great decrease ia the sale of 
books, writers and booksellers no longer 
dare publish solid works, but eagerly 
contend for several kinds of frivolous 
productions which have some vogues 
Some works, however, have been noticed 
of superior merit, and worthy the atten. 
tion of Europe. The Mithridates of the 
late Mr. Adelung has been just finished ; 
Mr. Becker has published two new num- 
bers of his Augusteum, or Description 
of the Dresden Gallery; Mr. Boettiger 
has given the public a Commentary onthe 
Aldobrandine Nuptials. The Universal 
History of Literature, by Eichhorn, is 
drawing towards its conclusion; that of 
the Christian Church, by Hencke, is 
finished. The German Encyclopedia, 
begun by Krumitz, has reached the 144ta, 
volume ; Matiison the poet, has publish- 
ed,under the title of Recollections, some 
sentimental and picturesque Journies. 
The Universal History, a posthuimous 
work of Johannes von Miiller, forms the 
first number of the compiete works of 
that author: most of the sovereigns of 
the confsderacy of the Rhine have fore 
bidden spurious editions, under severe 
penalties. Tiere has appeared a fifth 
voluine of Nestor’s Russian Annals, by 
Schlotzer. M. Wiebeking has given 
important Memoirs on Hydraulic Archi 
lecture, especiaily concerning bridges, 
quays, and piers. Six numbers of an. 
cient Basso Relievos, by the late M. 
Zoega, are published ; and lastly, M Cotta 
has been gewerous enough to publish aif 
the proceedings of the Art of Engraving 
on Stone, the secret of which he has 
purchased, 
In belles lettres very few works have 
been published; and the run after Mr, 
Goethe’s new novel entitled Elective 
Affinities, is a good deal slackened by 
the severe criticisins to which it has been 
exposed. Forty new editions or trans- 
Jatuions of Latin and Greek authors were 
oiered 
