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HE REV. MR. HAYTER, whose interesting researches at Herculaneum, under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, have excited the liveliest attention of the literary world, is about to publish a Letter to His Royal Highness, containing a Narrative of all that passed on this subject from his leaving England till his return. It will be illustrated with engravings; and in every sense it cannot fail to gratify and interest the public.

The Pantheon has been very judiciously converted into a national institution for exhibiting the improvements in the manufactures of the United Kingdom, and in the arts connected therewith; for promoting the general interests of commerce, both foreign -and domestic; and for aiding the pros perity of every class of manufacturers. It will present at once, (arranged in a regular and connected series,) all that Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Nottingham, Coventry, Norwich, Glasgow, as well as the sister kingdom, and all other manufacturing places, supply; and will preserve a register of every manufacturer in the United Kingdom, whereby such of them as become sub. scribers to the institution, will open new -means of promoting their interests in a variety of ways, and to a great extent. A spacious chamber is exclusively appropriated to the resort and accommodation of subscribers; and the daily and country papers are to be taken in and filed for their accommodation. And for the peculiar use of patrons of the institution, a spacious chamber of association, is prepared and fitted up for their exclusive reception and resort at ́all times, provided with a copious supply of books of reference, an extensive assortment of publications, foreign and domestic; together with all foreign gazettes and newspapers that can be procured from every quarter of the world. The intelligent part of the metropolis, and country visitors, have long languished for such an establishment, and we cordially wish it success.

Mr. BISSET, of the Museum, Birmingham, will publish early in February next, a superb medallion of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales as Regent of the Imperial Kingdoms.

The Rev. DAVID BLAIR, whose various school books enjoy such unrivalled celebrity, is about to publish a Universal Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and General Knowledge, which is likely to supersede all other general systems now used in our schools.

Dr. DICKSON has at length achieved the grand desideratum of agricultural im provement, and finished for publication a compressed and cheap compendium of agricultural knowledge and improvement, called the Farmer's Companion. It is a suitable present from a patriotic landlord.

A new edition of Martyn's Georgics is in the press.

In our last Varieties it was stated, by mistake, that Mr. ROBERT BAKEWELL had discovered a new mode of analysing soils, minerals, &c. We have since seen the proposals of that gentleman, in which he lays claim to no new discovery in the mode of analysing. It appears he is engaged in a new undertaking, to unite with the survey of estates a Mineralogical Examination and Analysis of the Substances they contain, and to accompany the Plan with a Manuscript Description and Natural History of the Estate.

A new work is preparing by Mr. PETER NICHOLSON, on the Mechanical Exercises of Carpentry, Joinery, Bricklaying, Masonry, Turnery, &c.; with plates of the various tools used in each branch of business, and other figures explanatory of the principles and practice of the several arts. This work is drawn up on the plan of the familiar but obsolete work by Moxon, the plates are numerous, and the work will be ready for publication early this spring.

An elegant work with plates in aquatinta, from drawings by Mr. LUGAR, architect, of plans and views of buildings executed by him in England and Scotland, several of which are in the castellated style, with accurate views of the situations, will soon be ready for publication.

Lord DE DUNSTANVILLE will speedily publish from the original manuscripts in his possession, Carew's Survey of Cornwall, with Notes, by the late Thomas Tonkin, esq. member of Parliament in the reign of Queen Anne.

The Memoirs of Prince Eugene of Savoy, written by himself; translated

from

from the last French edition, by Mr. MUDFORD, will appear early in February, in one volume, octavo.

The Flora of the Counties of Northum berland and Durham, by Mr, WINCH, of which the Botanist's Guide through those counties may be considered as a prodromus, will shortly be put to press, and published with all convenient speed. It will comprise the generic and specific descriptions and localities of about 2000 indigenous plants; and will be embellished with coloured engravings of some of the more rare and beautiful subjects, drawn from Nature by the masterly hand of Mr. Sowerby.

On the 1st of April Mr. ACKERMANN will publish the first part of an historical and descriptive work, entitled Westminster Abbey and its Monuments, which is designed to form two volumes elephant quarto, illustrated with sixtysix coloured plates, from drawings by Messrs. PUGIN, HUETT, and MACKENZIE. The letter-press will give a history of that interesting fabric, with all its accessory circumstances from the earliest notices of it to the present time.

Mr. LowRY is engaged in a work entitled Select Specimens of the Ancient Architecture of Great Britain, accompanied with Historical and Descriptive Illustrations. The selection of subjects for this work will be made from the choicest architectural remains in this country, and consist of such as may be deemed best adapted to illustrate the rise, progress, and revolutions, of the various styles which distinguish its ecclesiastical and military edifices. It is proposed to give perspective views either of whole buildings or of parts, and; where farther explanation appears necessary, to add plans and elevations. The work will appear in Numbers, commencing with the principal remains of Roman architecture. The historical part will be drawn up with the strictest regard to accuracy, and the descriptive will be the result of a careful and minute examination of the objects introduced. The engravings will be executed in the best style, by Messrs. Lowry, Landseer, J. Roffe, G. Cooke, J. Le Keux, Lee, Porter, &c. after original drawings by Messrs. Nash, Turher, Varley, and other eminent artists. Illustrations of Gertrude of Wyoming, from paintings by Mr. Cook, with a portrait of the author, from a painting by LAWRENCE, are also in preparation.

Illustrations of the Lady of the Lake, from paintings by Mr. Richard Cook, are

now engraving by WARREN, HEATH, ARMSTRONG, and ENGLEHEART, and will be published as speedily as the requisite attention to their execution, which is intended to be in the first style, will adnit.

Mr. W. CRANE, of Edinburgh, has published Hints respecting a New Theory on the Orbits of Comets, in which he suggests the probability that they revolve about two fixed stars, placed in the two foci of their orbits.

Mr. R. B. HARRADAN will in a few days publish the seventh and last Number of Cantabrigia Depicta et Descripta, being a series of thirty-four engravings of all the public buildings, colleges, churches, and remains of antiquity, in the University and town of Cambridge; with accurate historical accounts of each, from the earliest period to the present time.

Mr. WRIGHT, professor aud public lecturer of the Science of Elocution, purposes early in the next month, to deliver his Spring Lectures, and to read the whole of the Church Service, at his public lecture room, Bedford-street, Covent Garden.

The following subjects are proposed for the Chancellor's prizes at Oxford, for the ensuing year, viz. for Latin verses, Herculaneum-for an English essay, Funeral and Sepulchral Honours;-for a Latin essay, De Styli Ciceroniani, in diversa materie, varietate;-and for Sir Roger Newdigate's prize for the best composition in English verse, not containing more than fifty lines, The Parthenon.

A correspondent of a respectable periodical work has communicated an experiment made by him at a time when bread was very dear, with a view to find some cheaper substitute for wheat flour. He directed several turnips to be washed, pared, and boiled; when soft enough to be mashed, the greatest part of the water was pressed out of them, and they were mixed with an equal weight of coarse wheat-meal. The dough was then made in the usual manner with yeast, salt, and water. It rose well, was made up into loaves, and baked in the usual manner. When drawn from the oven, a loaf was cut and found to be sweeter than common bread, full as light and white, with a slight, but not disagreeable, taste of the turnip. Twelve hours afterwards this taste was scarcely perceptible, and in twenty-four hours was entirely gone.

Dr. BELL has transferred 15,000l. stock, 3 per cent. consols, to the Univer sity of Cambridge, in trust, to found

eight new scholarships. The scholars to be the sons or the orphans of those clerof the church of England whose gymen circunstances and situations are altogether such as not to enable them to bear the whole expence of sending their sons to the University. The first election shall take place between the 12th of November and 21st of December, 1810, when there shall be elected two scholars of the third year of standing, that is, who were admitted between commencement of 1807 and 1808; profits to commence from July the 6th, 1810, and to be continued for two years. At the same time shall be elected two other scholars of the second year, who were admitted between Commencement 1808 and commencement 1809; profits to continue for three years. The second election will be on the Friday after Midlent Sunday, 1811, of two scholars of the first year; profits to continue for four years. The fourth election will be on Friday after Midlent Sunday, 1813, of two other scholars of the first year, to succeed those two of the third year who were two of the four first chosen, and so on for ever; the profits to continue for four years and no more. Every scholar is to take the degree of A.B. in the most regular manner. No scholar to be elected from King's College, or from Trinity Hall. The electors are, the Vice Chancellor, the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Regius Professor of Civil Law, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, and the Public Orator.

Mr. RICHARD WALKER, in some late observations on the barometer, observes, that, in order to prognosticate the weather by means of the barometer, one general rule should be premised, viz. that, previously to observing the barometer, the state of the weather at the time should be accurately noticed in every particular. Hence, to speak figuratively, we might affix this motto to the barometer, Tell me what the weather is, and I will tell you what it will be." The circumstances to be collected previously to inspecting the barometer are, 1st, The state of the atmosphere, respecting its degree of clear ness or cloudiness: 2dly, The direction of the wind, together with its steadiness or variableness and 3dly, The altitude and density of the clouds.

1. The barometer rising may be considered as a general indication that the weather, com paratively with the state of it at the time of observation, is becoming clearer.

2. The atmosphere apparently becoming clearer, and the barometer above RAIN, and MONTHLY MAG. No.-209.

rising, show a disposition in the air for fair weather.

3. The atmosphere becoming clear, and the barometer above CHANGEABLE, and rising, indicate fair weather.

4. The atmosphere clear, and the barometer near FAIR, and rising, denote continued fair weather.

guided, relatively, thus: If, notwithstanding 5. Our prognostic of the weather is to be the sinking of the barometer, little or no rain follow, and it afterwards rise, we may expect continued dry weather.

6. If, during a series of cloudy rainy weather, the barometer rise gradually, though yet below RAIN, especially if the wind change from the south or west towards the north or east points, clear and dry weather may be expected.

from morning until evening, may commonly 7. The weather for a short period, viz. be foretold with a considerable degree of etainty. If the barometer has risen during the night and is still rising, the clouds are high and apparently dispersing, and the wind calm, especially it be in or about the north or east points, a dry day may be confidentl expected: the same rule applies for predict ing the weather from evening till morning,

8. During the increase of the moon there seems to be a greater disposition or effort in the air for clear dry weather than in the wane: but this disposition does not usually commence till about three or four days after the new moon, and ceases about three or four

days after the full moon.

9. The barometer should be observed oc

casionally thrice in the day, or oftener when the weather is changeable, in order to notice whether the mercury be stationary, rising, or sinking; for from this circumstance, together with the direction of the wind and the appa rent state of the air at the time, is infor mation to be collected, and a continuance of the same, or a sudden change of the weather, to be foreseen.

the mercury shall stand in the scale in each 10. Lastly, observe always: The higher instance, and the more regularly progressive its motion shall be, the stronger will be the indication: likewise, The more the wind inclines towards the north or east points, the greater will be the disposition in the air for fair weather.

The indications of rainy weather will ob viously be the direct reverse of those rules which predict fair weather.

Frost is indicated in winter by the same rules that indicate fair weather, the wind being in or about the north or east points, and the thermometer sinking towards 52.

A fall or snow seldom comes without a previous frost of some duration, and is indicated by the sinking of the barometer, especially if the mercury be below CHANGEABLE, and the thermometer at or near the freezing point.

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