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gas, aided with tonic medicines, was 
perfectly cured: in a few weeks. Mr. 
Williams has now been tree from asthma 
upwards of two years, which he ascribes 
entirely to the pneumatic medicine. 
Mr. Taunron, surgeon tothe City and 
Finsbury Dispensaries,bas again appealed 
to the public npon the necessity of esta- 
blishing a fund, to be connected with 
charitable institutions, for the relief of 
the ruptured poor He contends, that 
nearly one-tenth part of mankind are 
afiiicted with hernia: of course the pre- 
vention of an evil attendant upon this 
calamity, is of the utmost importance. 
The distressing scenes which he is called 
on frequently to witness, and = which 
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he has desciibed very pathetically, 
right, he says, generally be prevented: 
by a proper bandage or truss, applied in 
the begiuning of the disease, and con- 
tinued with care. This might be ac- 
complished. at a small expence, com- 
pared with the good that would accrue 
to society; it wouid even be a saving to 
the community at large, by the preven- 
tion of accidents which always tend to 
ierease the parochial rates. 
Dr. Orzers has written to Dn. Young, 
foreign secretary to the Royal Society, 
announcing his discovery of another new 
planet, on the 29th and 30th of March 
last, This planet, which he calls Vesta, 
is apparently about the size of a star, of 
the 5th or 6th magmitude, and was first 
seen in Virgo. On the 29th of Mareh, 
at 82 21™, mean time 184° 8’: N. de- 
clination 11° 47’; onthe 30th at 12% 33m 
mean time 189° 52’: N. declination, 
21° 54’. It has since been seen by Mr. 
_Groompripse, at his observatory on 
Blackheath, who says, 1t appears like a 
star of the sixth magnitude, of a dusky 
colour, similar in appearance to the 
Herschel. 
In the Dike of Bucci rven’sCollection, 
there has lately been found a curious 
manuscript of the Statutes of the orders 
of the Garter and Bath, with various old 
drawings; among the latter are portraits 
of Richard fil. and of Aniie, bis queen. 
These drawings prove to be the originals 
from which the late Lord Orford’s out- 
lines were taken, as represented in his 
* Historic Doubts.” 
Mr. Georct Freip. has invented an 
improved Stove fer heating rooms, or 
drying various articles, which unites the 
various advantages of heating, boiling,. 
steaming, evaporating, drying, ventila- 
ting, &c. The height of the stove is 
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about five feet and an half; its diameter 
two and a half, and that of the flues four 
“inches. The external part is constructed 
of brick, and the internal parts of thin 
Ryegate or fire-stone, except the top of 
the fire-place, which is a plate of cast- 
iron. This stove might he adapted to 
the drying of malt and hops, perhaps of. 
herbs, corn,.and seeds, generally. It: 
nuglit also be accommodated to the pur- 
poses of sugar-bakers, connected withthe 
great fires employed for their boilers. 
Dr. Parry has laid before the Bath’ 
Society, sone account of his improved 
sheep by Spanish mixture, in a series of 
propositions which he demonstrated by 
specimens exhibited before the society. 
Dr. Parry in his experiments employed 
tierefordshire ewes, and the rams em=- 
ployed fur the original. crosses were Me- 
rinos. (1.) The first proposition is, that 
the wool of the fourth cross of this breed 
is fully equal in fineness to that of the 
male parent stock in England. (Q) By 
breeding from select. Merino-Ryeland 
rams and ewes of this stock, sheep may 
be obtained, the fleeces of which are 
superior both to those of the cross-bred 
parents, and of course to those of the 
criginal progenitors of the pare Merino 
blood in England. (3,) From mixed 
rams of this breed, sheep may be gb- 
tained, having wool at least equal in fine- 
ness to the best that can be procured 
from Spain. (4.) Wool from sheep of a 
proper modification of Merino and Rye-. 
land, will make cloth equal to that from 
the Spanish wool imported into this 
country. (5.) The proportion of fine 
wool in the fleeces of the cross breed, is © 
equal, if not superior, to that of the best 
Spanish piles, and it is more profitable 
in the manufacture than the best Spanish. 
(6.) The Jamb’s wool of the Merimo-Rye- 
Jand breed, will make finer ‘cloth than 
the best of that of the pure Merino 
breed. (7.) Should long wool of this de- 
gree of fineness be wanted for shawls, 
@&c. this can be effected by allowing the 
fleece to remain on the aninal unshorn 
two years. (8.) This stock is already 
much improved as to the-form of the car- 
case, compared with the Merinos ori- 
ginally imported. =f 
Mr. THELWALL Is about to commence, 
at his Institution for the Cultivation of 
English Qratory, and Cure of lmpedi- 
ments, in Bedford-Place, a Course of Six 
Lectures, particularly addressed to the’ 
junior Members of the New Parliament, 
on the objects and genuine charaeteris- 
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