4&8 Literary and Philosophical In telligence. 
that a learned and officiating clereyman, 
in distress, or an officiating clergyman re- 
duced and rendered incapable of duty, 
by ave or infirmicy, shall be considered as 
aclaimant on the Literary Fund; and 
fiat a provision shall be made for such 
claim in the following manner ; 
JY. The influence of the Society shall 
be employed in promoting a subscription 
for this purpose; the produce to be deno- 
minated, ‘¢ The Ecclesiastical | Fund.” 
Life subscriptions, and annual subscriptions to 
be disposed of in the same manner as the 
Annual Income and Funded Property of the 
Literary Fund: some permanent capital be- 
ing necessary to prevent those cruel fluctua- 
tions and uncertainties incident to charities 
depending wholly on Annual Subscriptions. 
Ul. That the Society collectively and indivi- 
dually, shall endeaveur to induce the Eng- 
lish clergy universally to plead the just cause 
of their own order, by preaching occasionally 
(in rich and populous parishes once in every 
year), on this most,useful and-most impor- 
tant subject. Many of them are celebrated 
for their benevolent exertions to establish 
charities of inferior effect on public happi- 
hess. It is thetefore impossible to suppose 
they will hesitate to assist their learned 
and labouring brethren, sinking into misery 
in the midst of public profusion and extrava- 
gance. The produce of their exertions will 
be deposited at the Literary Fund, in a spe- 
cial trust appointed by ~ themselves, and 
where there-can be no patronage, intrigue, 
or flattery, to supersede - merit) it shall be 
distribu'ed by a special committee (appoint- 
ed also by them). For every clergyman af- 
fording this assistance, as often as may suit 
his convenience, shall be entitled to aJl the 
privileges ef a member of this Society, in 
the department of the Ecclesiastical Fund; 
in common with the subscribers and members, 
who in the peculiar difficulties of the institu- 
tion have borne the burthen and heat of the 
day, Il]. That a committee consisting of 
seven ciergymen and seven laymen shail be 
annually appointed, and be entitled the Ec- 
clesiasticai Committee. “lo preserve an uni- 
formity and harmony in the whole institu- 
tion, this committee must allow the inspec- 
tion and assistance of the officers and Visitor's 
of the Literary Fund; in the same manner, 
and for the same purposes, as al] other com- 
mitrees of the Society. IV. That, to pre- 
vent occasions of confusion and perplexity, 
the same trustees, registrers, treasurers, and 
“sérvants, be appointed for a!] the property and 
“business of the Society. 
V. That all the 
transactions, civil and ecclesiastical, of the 
Literars Fund, shall take place at the house 
of the Society, No. 36, Gerrard- street, West- 
yoinsters where the ecunomy in behalf of 
‘distressed literature is so rigid and scrupulous, 
trat the servants only receive compensations 5 
where all the offices ere executed gratuitous- 
ly and where even the resident visitor de- 
frays all his own expences. ; 
A ace > th: - ly t t blist | 
A society bas recently been estabusbec 
wi iviniou, fur promoting christianity 
[June I, 
among the Jews. The means by which 
they hope to accomplish this object, are 
as follow:—Yo establish a school, that 
they may be able to receive children 
wholly from their parents, and bestow 
upon them educatidn, board, and clothing; 
to connect with this a day-school, out of 
which vacancies in the former may be 
filled up; to put out girls and boys as 
apprentices ; to find employment, if pos- 
sible, for those who are able to work ;' to 
visit and relieve the sick; to distribute 
tracts, &c. ; , 
The perusal of the Report by Messrs. 
Fourcroy, Dryeux, and VavQuELin, 
ona Memoir of M. BreatHoLver, jun. 
entitled, “ Inquiries Concerning the Re- 
ciprocal Action of Sulphur and Char- 
coal,” has induced Dr. John New to 
publish an opinion, which he has~ for 
some. years entertained: that charcoal 
and hydrogen are modifications of one 
and the same substance, or that hydrogen 
is the base of charcoal. Should this 
opinion, the result of various experiments 
and observations be confirmed, an im- 
portant and extensive field will be opened 
to the scientific world. The pabulum of 
plants, and the origin of that immense 
quantity of carbonaceous matter, annw- 
ally produced in the vegetable kingdom, 
would thus’ easily and satisfactorily be 
accounted for, as originating from water 
alone. 
HOLLAND. 
In the late inundations near Loenen, 
in the district of the Upper Betewe, was 
discovered the right hip-bone of an 
elephant, measuring from the os pubis, to 
the end of the hip, 34 feet (Rhynland 
measure) of which a Grawing was taken 
on the spot, by: the scientific Mr.. H. 
Hoogens, A double tooth, together with 
some other bones, belonging to that species 
of animal have been found on the same 
spot. aoe 
A curious and genuine specimen of the 
labours: of Lacrens Jaysz, commonly 
called Laurens Coster, the original in- 
ventor of the art of printing, was adver-~ 
tised to be sold by auction en the 20th 
of April last, by Haak, bookseller of 
Leyden. This valuable piece of anti- 
quity consists of a wooden printing form, 
in excellent preservation. It is about 
three inches long, two inches broad, and 
three quarters of an inch thick; upen 
which an entire page of a Latin Horas 
rium has been’ cut im inverted characters. . 
At the same time was to be disposed of, 
a genealogical table, written upon. very 
old parchment, but perfectly legible, of 
the progeny of Laurens, by whom it 
seems this document has been preserved 
since 
