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The Grand Duke of Baden has pub- : 
lished an Edict. for the regulation of the 
press, and preventing the piratical re- 
printing of books in his dominions. To 
every author who publishes a work, 
affixes his name to it, the copy-right is 
secure during his whole life, and during 
one year after his death it is continued 
to the person to whom the sale of the 
work is committed. 
FRANCE, 
There is now living at Marseilles, a 
girl called MRosalia-Zaccharia Ferriol, 
aged ten years, and born at that city, 
ot French parents, who possesses all the 
characters of the Albinos. The colour 
of her skin is of a dull white ; her hair is 
straight and somewhat harsh to the touch, 
and is of a shining white colour, as are 
likewise her eye-lashes and eye-brows. 
Her eyes are large and rolling, the Iris 
being of a clear “blue with red streaks, 
and the cornea of a bright and vivid red, 
The sensibility of the visual organs 1s 
very great, the child not being able to 
bear mach light, that of the sun obliging 
her to closé her eyes. This girl, though 
much deformed in person, enjoys good 
health, and has never heen afflicted with 
any disease except the small-pox. ane 
is very fond of high seasoned food, 
lively and intelligent. The father a 
chesnut-coloured hair, and appears to 
enjoy good health; the mother i is a bru- 
nette, strong ; and neither she nor her 
husband have ever been afflicted with 
any severe disorder; she has had five 
children who are all living, but never 
during pregnancy was indisposed more 
than. women usually are. All her chii- 
dren, except the girl above described, 
have chesnut-coloured hair, and are 
perfectly well formed. 
The following is a list of all the cities 
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in France which contain a hi ae of 
thirty thousand people and upward 
Paris . 547,756 | Strasburgh 49,056 
Marseilles 96,413 | Colopne 42,706 
Bourdeaux 90,992 Orleans 41,937 
Lyons . 88,919 | Amiens 41,279 
Rouen . 87,000! Nismes 39,594 
Turin . 79,000| Bruges 33,632 
Nantz . 77,162] Angers. 33,000 
Brussels 66,297 | Montpellier32,723 
Antwerp. 56,318 |-Metz . 32,099 
Cireat:*:.  Sd61.) Caen. ".)" 30.0938 
Lisle . 54,756 | Rheims 30,225 
Toulouse 50,171 | Alexandria 30,600 
Liegé . 50,000 | Clermont 30,000 
HOLLAND. \ 
The Botanical Garden at Leyden, 
occupies about four acres of land, and 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
» 2s 
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is kept in excellent order. The Botanical 
Gardens of Upsal and of the Dublin 
Society are described as greatly superior 
in value and arrangement to this of Ley- 
den. Amongst the plants are the remains. 
of vegetable antiquity, i the shape of 
a palm, which stands in a tub in the open 
alr, supported by a thin frame of iron 
work; it is about fourteen feet high, and 
was ee from seed by the celebrated 
Carolus Clusivs, who died professor at 
Leyden in 1609. This plant is said to 
be the palm mentioned by Linnzus in his 
Prelectiones in Ordines Naturales Plan- 
tarum, published by Giseke, m 1792, at 
Hambargh, which’ Linneus suspected to 
be a Chamero ops, but which, as Dr. Smith, 
observes his editor, rightly refers to the 
Raphis Siubellifor mis. It comes from 
China and Japan’; and there is a tree of 
this kind, and about as lar ge, in the Bo- 
tanic.Garden at Paris, and another at 
Pisa. In this garden is also the Ginkgo 
of the Chi inese, a standard twenty feet 
high; Strelitzia Regina, which has never 
yet flowered in any garden out of Eng- 
land; the Olea Laurifolia, a a new species; 
according to Van Royen; Royena lucida, 
in flower, as large as a moderate haw- 
thorn tree, and thought to be very hand- 
seme; aud a sing ular plant frem the 
Cape, supposed to be an Echites, with 
a jarge tuberous reot raised high above 
he doe of the ground, two or three 
weak stems a foot high, and large dark-= 
tes flowers. In the U: veney Li- 
brary, is Rauwoll’s Herbarium, which is 
very magnificent, and the plants well 
preserved; also Boccone’s Herbariuin of 
the Plants described in his Fasciculus 
Plantarum, published by Morison at Ox- 
ford, m 1674. These specimens are very 
poor. Herman’s Collection of Ceylon 
Plants is also here, and a volume of 
West India Plants, belonging te Herman, 
which are very sc arce in Holland, 
Holland still possesses several artists, 
who maintain the elol ory of the ancient 
Dutch School. M. Bucu director of the 
academy of design at Amsterdam, is €s- 
timated to be a cood historical painter. 
The pictures of lowers and sea pieces, by 
De Vawos are spoken of with great 
praise, The Jandscapes of. Haac, and - 
the animals of SeouwMaw, are much es- 
teemed. Kurvrr, has exercised his pen-= 
cil with success in allegorical pieces, and 
Portman has given specimens of distin- 
guished talents in engraving isulper’s two 
pictures of Peace and War. VINCKLES 
and Hopexs have long enjoyed the repu- 
tation of skiliyl engravers. Sc a 
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