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Works, with additional notes and illus- 
trations. fee 
Mr. BowyEr’s Conjectures on the New 
Testament, which have for many years 
been extremely searce, are reprinting 
from a copy presented to the editor by 
the bishop of Durham, and enriched 
with additional notes by the late Rev, 
Dr. Henry Owen. The new edition 
will also include the Conjectures of 
Mr. Stephen Weston, and of Professor 
Schulz. 
Major Pricer, of the Bombay esta- 
blishment, will shortly put to press, Chro- 
nological Memoirs of Mohammedan His- 
tory, from the earliest period to the 
establishment of the house ef Teymur, 
in Hindoostan, 
The Rev, Mr. Pouter has nearly ready 
for press a Father’s Reasons for being a 
Christian. 
Two volumes of Sermons, by the late 
Rev. Tueopuitus Liypsey, will be pub- 
lished in the first week of August. 
The Familiar Introduction to the Arts 
aud Sciences, announced some time since 
by the Rev. Tomas Rees, will, at his 
@esire, and on account of his own avo- 
gations, be completed forthwith by the 
Rev. J. Joyce. 
Mr. D. M. Criuain, of the Middle 
Temple, is engaged upon a Translation 
of Aristotle’s Dissertation on Rhetcric. 
it will form an octavo volume. 
Mr. Cuartes Paiiiips, of the Mid- 
ale Temple, will speedily publish the 
Loves of Madelaine and St. Aubert,:a 
ta'e, partly founded on fact. 
The gentlemen who some time since, 
under the signature of Jonn Suirn, pub- 
Jished An Examination of the Gospels 
respecting the person of Jesus, 1s about 
to publish an Examination of the Pro. 
phecies, selected from the most eminent 
Expositors. 
A translation of Humspoxip1’s Account 
of New Spain, has been announced as 
in the press, and nearly ready for pub- 
ication. “This valuable work comprises, 
researches into the geography of Mexico; 
the extent of its surface and its political 
divisicn into intendancies; the physical 
aspect of the soil; the actual population ; 
state of agriculture; manufacturing in- 
dustry, and commerce; the canals which 
might. be carried from the Atlantic to 
the Pacific Ocean; the revenues of the 
crown; the quantity ef metals which has 
fowed from Mexico into Europe and 
Asia, since the discovery of the New 
Coutinent; and the military defence of 
New Spain: and will he accompanied by 
hysical and geographical Maps, found- 
ed on astronomical ebservations, and tri. 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
-sent time. 
[Augeky 
gonometrical and barométrical measures - 
ments. ’ ; 
Mr. Hewetsox, author of the drama 
of the Bliad Boy, Fallen Minister, Wil-. 
liam Tell, &c. has in the press a trans; _ 
lation of Eliezer and Nephthaly, a post- 
humous work of the late Chevalier Flo-. 
rian, from the Hebrew; which will: be~ 
published early next month. 
Mr. D. Mann, many years in official 
situations in New South Wales, is pre- 
paring for publication the Present Pic- 
ture of that Colony, mtended as supple- 
mental to the aceounts of Collins, and — 
others, bringing them down to the pre- 
It will be illustrated with @ 
Pian of the settlement, and other en- 
gravings. 
The superiority of iron for roofs inlieu of 
wood, in strength, durability, and expense, 
is exemplified in a roof lately constructed 
by the Aberdare Iron Company, and put 
up at Newport, Monmouthshire. It 
covers a building 40 feet long, and .21 
feet wide over the wails, and consists of 
seven main couples, two leading couples, 
and wall-plating, all of cast iron, wrought 
iron laths, screw-pins, &c. total weight 
2ton, 4cwt. 2qrs. 201b. being sufficiently 
strong to sustain the heaviest stone tile of 
this country, and is iitself lighter than one 
of wood, of which substance there fs no&_ 
one particle. The main couples are 
made in three pieces, the collar, or. ties 
beam of which forms part of a circle, 
thereby giving much more head-roora 
than is possible with wood, and holes. 
are left im the same for the purpose of 
fixing ceiling-joists, making an handsome 
covered ceiling; it requires neither side- 
pieces nor rafters, the wrought-ion laths 
being a substitute for both. The whole 
roofing, after being fitted together, and 
taken to pieces again, at Aberdare iron. 
works, was put into one waggon, and 
conveyed to Tredagar iron-works, there 
unloaded into a train-waggon, and taken 
down the Sirrowy tram-road, through sirC, 
Morgan’s park, to Newport, intwenty-four 
hours, a distance of thirty-six miles. It 
was then fitted together again, and fixed 
on the walls completely ready for the uler 
in less than five hours, who, having no 
laths to prepare or nail on, can tilea 
roof in half the time it could be done on 
one constructed of wood. They are ap- 
plicable to buildings of all sizes, can be 
put up at a much less expense per square 
_thau any other, and are, of course, far 
more durable. P 
The two following facts conneeted with 
the migration of swallows, have been 
communicated bya correspondent to a 
respectable contempusary publication :— 
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