at two o'clock P.M. there was a fall of meteoric stones in Caswell county, New Connecticut. Their descent was seen for a considerable distance round, and two reports distinctly heard at Hillsborough, a distance of thirty miles. A fragment weighing a the new ground of a Mr.Taylor,near where some woodcutters were at work, who, apprehending the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, ran home without once looking behind them. Encouraged, however, by a woman, whose curiosity was superior to her fears, they returned with her to the place, and brought away the stone, which was still hot. It is of a dark brown colour, porous, and contains iron. an hour in collecting, floating over the place where it was first seen, and that when all its parts had united, it appeared all at once as a very considerable globe of fire, taking a northerly direction; it spread terror amongst the inhabitants of the village, who believed the houses'pound and three quarters struck a tree in would be burnt, and they themselves perish. This globe was accompanied by a frightful noise, which was heard at the distance of more than a league and a half, and sometimes resembled the rolling of a rapid chariot; at others, the noise of rain very violently driven by the wind. It was followed by a very thick fog, and carried up from the ground every thing it met in its passage. In crossing a river it absorbed water, which soon afterwards. The rivers and lakes of the lower profell in rain. It wandered for some time near the village. It was accompanied and followed by abundant rain, much Hightning, and loud claps of thunder. Continuing in the same direction, it suddenly turned into a column of fire, which, with the fog, rose towards the heavens. This made many persons believe the fog was smoke. It remained about a quarter of an hour in this state, a quarter of a league to the north of the village, and at a short distance from the forest of Beaulieu. This column now sunk a little, and at last it suddenly disappeared, leaving a thick fog which had no smell. It lasted three quarters of an hour. SPAIN. The Cortes in their sitting of the 19th November, decreed the erection of a superb national monument in honour et this Britannic Majesty George III. GERMANY. vinces of Venezuela and Caraccas are full of the electrical eels, called Tremblados by the Spaniards, and Anguilles Tremblantes by the French colonists of Gu ana. They are also found in the smaller lakes which are scattered at intervals in the vast plains that lie between the rivers Oronoco and Apura. The ancient road which led near Urittica has been abandoned, on account of the dangers run by those who crossed the waters, in which the mules were suddenly struck with an invisible commotion, rendered paralytic, and often drowned. Very often the fisherman received an electric shock, the conductor of which was his line. The electrical eel is six feet long. The Indians have so great a dread of this creature, and such repugnance to approach it while living, that M. de Humboldt had the utmost difficulty to obtain subjects for his experiments. He waited several days for this purpose in the little town of Calabozo, having learned that here they abounded. The owner of the house where he lodged exerted himself to procure some, but in vain. At length he resolved to repair to the spot where these eels were met with. Here occurred a spectacle of the newest description and most extraordinary kind. About thirty mules and horses had been quickly driven together from the neighbouring savannahs, where they live almost in a wild state, and are so numerous that the price of any one is but seven shillings, when the proprietor can be ascertained. The Indians, by driving them on all sides, forced them to seek refuge in the water, where they kept them by presenting harpoons fixed at the end of long canes, and by violent shoutings. The electrical eels, roused by this tumult, rose to the On Tuesday, the Son of January last, surface of the water, and swimming about The number of German works which appeared at the fair of Leipsic, amounted to between 1,000 and 1,1000, which, for the most part, were either compilations or insignificant books. NORWAY. In Norway horse-flesh now forms a common article of food. Since the year 1808, there have been killed at Christiana 400 horses for the consumption of that town. RUSSIA. Since Buonaparte has lost the opportunity of sending those who were disagreeable to him to Cayenne, he has obtained permission of Alexander to forward them to Siberia; and it is atfirmed that in the course of fitteen months, more than sixty French reformers have been sent towards Kamtschatka. AMERICA. like so many livid serpetits, pursued the luckless quadrupeds, and gliding under their bellies, communicated the most violent and rapid shocks. The terrified horses, suffering agonies, raising their manes, and flashing fire from their strain ing eye-balls, rolling in pain, in vain endeavoured to escape. In less than five minutes two of them sunk under the water, and were drowned. Victory seemed now to declare for the gymnoti. But their activity began to diminish; fatigued by the repeated exertions of their nervous energy, they less frequently discharged their electric fluid. The horses which had survived the early attacks, gradually recovered their strength, and at the end of an hour the gymnoti retired from the combat in such a state of languor and exhaustion, that they were without difficulty drawn to the shore by cords having hooks at their ends. EAST INDIES. The Pagoda of Chillembrun is among the most considerable establishments of its kind. The tank is about 600 fathoms square. The hall of the thousand columns really contains a thousand columns, dispersed in rows twelve feet distant from each other. The tallest are 24 feet high; the shortest 15 feet. A late French traveller took the pains to measure this hall correctly: he says it is 704 fathoms in length; and 35 fathoms in breadth. The number of persons in the service of this pagoda, is enumerated, by that traveller, to be, Brahmins for the religious ceremonies 5,000; Pandarens, to dress the altars, 300; dancing girls 100; musicians and writers 10: 5,440. The population of Chillembrun, to the amount of 30,000, is wholly in the employment of the Brahmins or the pilgrims which resort to the temple. WIST INDIES. A dreadful hurricane visited the island of St. Domingo, or Haiti, and the island of Cuba, which lasted from the 23d to the 26th of September. In the Havannah alone 70 vessels were wrecked. The city of St. Jago de Cuba, was entirely destroyed by an earthquake, in the month of October last. MR. WILLIAM CLERK'S, (EDINBURGH,) for a newly-constructed Grate for preventing Smoke, and regulating Heat. HIS invention consists chiefly in give a free circulation to the air. The advantages of this invention are, according to the patentee, that no smoke or dust can be introduced into the room; and that the heat and pleasure arising Tsurrounding the open part of the from an open fire, will nevertheless be fire-place with a glass screen. When the grate stands against a wall, it is recommended, that before the part that looks to the room, and at the distance of about nine inches from the fire, there should be a frame of iron-work made to hold smail squares of glass, which is completely to enclose the opening of the fire-place. The bars of iron are not to be set farther than about three inches, to prevent the heat of the fire from cracking the glass. This frame-work is to be moveable on hinges, not for the supply of air, for that is to be conveyed by means of a pipe from the apartment in which the fire is, or from any other, as may be must convenient and agreeable. The back and sides of the upper part of the grate, are to be lined with plates of Tron, so completely as to leave only a small opening for a pipe, or funnel, to carry off the smoke from the fire, and to experienced. And it is said, the temperature of the room will be rendered more equable by this mode of heating, than by any other yet in use. Observations. In this, as in many other inventions, we fear that the practice will not correspond with the theory; a great part of the heat will unquestion ably be lost in its progress through the screen, the glass itself will stop much; the iron-bar work, which admits of openings only three inches square, will stop much more. Another material inconvenience will be found in the small funnel leading from the fire to the chimney, it must be perpetually filling with soot, and of course must every two or three days, be taken down to be cleansed. shall, however, be glad to see the scheme reduced to practice, and we have been informed that the trial is to be made in one or both houses of parliament. We MR. ༦་ཚོས་ MR. DAVID MEADE PANDOLPH'S, (GOLDEN SQUARE,) for a Method of Manufacturing all kinds of Boots, Shoes, &c. by means of a Substitute for Thread made of Hemp, Flax, or other Yarns. This substitute is applicable only to the soles and heels of boots and shoes, as all the other part of the work is performed in the usual way. The last used for this purpose is thus described; the common shaped wooden one, when adjusted, is to be sheathed or covered at the lower part or bottom with a plate of jron, or other metal of about the thick ness of a stout leathern sole: in this state it is secured and fastened. The substitute here alluded to, is little nails, brads, sprigs, &c. formed or made of copper, iron, steel, or other proper metals, of such lengths as will allow them to reach and perforate the inner sole, with which the metal is in close contact; and when having been driven, they must, from the resistance, be clenched or ri vetted through the leather, and serve instead of sewing, now in use. This invention in its application, is not confined to the edge or margin of the sole; but may be performed at any intermediate space where strength and durability are required, as appears from the nature of the last; the only difference of which from the common one, and the additional sole described, being in form and shape precisely alike, is, that in this sole there are three round holes of nearly an inch in diameter, which perforate it, and are placed equidistant from one another, viz. in the centre of the last, one near the toe, another about half way between the toe and the heel. These holes are to be filled up with wooden plugs, and are made for the purpose of fastening to them the shoe or boot, while making; because, without this contrivance, it would be impossible to secure or nail the leather to the last, in order to make the boot or shoe; but when thus adjust ed, there is no farther difficulty. Mr. Randolph applies, as a substitute for thread made of hemp, flax, &c. in the fabrication of traces, or other articles, to which the same may be usefully applied; and in lieu of stitching or sewing, wires made of iron, brass, or copper, or wires made of any other fit metal. These wires he uses lengthways, by stretching them the whole length of the brace, &c.; and they are fastened at each end round small metal cylinders, inclosed between the plates of leather, connected by means of the first-mentioned substitute. MR. JOHN KENT'S, (SOUTHAMPTON,) for a new Method of Moving all Kinds of Goods, or Materials, to High Buildings, or from Deep Places. The invention described in the specification now before us, is said to be an improvement on the principle of a lever, on a moving fulcrum, whereby power is gained without loss of time. The draw ings attached to the specification shew its principle and mode of operation in the simple, and also in the compound state: the first two figures represent a weight to be raised, which is supposed to weigh four hundred weight; to be suspended by a rope, or chain, passing over a pulley, and fastened at one end to the weight, and at the other to the centre of the wheel, which wheel is supposed in itself, or by a weight attached, to be heavier than the weight to be raised. The patentee, we apprehend, supposes the diameter of the wheel to which the power is applied, to be twice the length of the axle round which the rope attached to the weight is to be coiled, though it is not well expressed; and in that case, the power of one-half the weight, or of 2cwt. will undoubtedly balance the weight of 4cwt.; but the wheel is also moved along an horizontal plane at the same time, so that the weight must be raised as much as the wheel moves on the surface of the horizontal line, or plane, which supports it. We refer the reader to the specification itself for an illustration of the invention, as applied to the compound engine. It may be used in direct rotative, pendu lum, crank, or any other kind of motions; and may be worked either by ani❤ mal strength, by water, by wind, by steam, or any other kind of agent that may be best adapted to the place or purpose required: it is also applicable to mills and pumps, to the moving carriages on iron-railways, and to various other kinds of machinery. MR.WINDSOR'S, (PALL-MALL, LONDON), for Improvement upon his former Patent Oven Stove, for carbonizing all Kinds of raw Fuel, and for extracting the Oil, Acid, Tur, Gus, &c. The reader will at once understand, that this patent invention is to be applied to the lighting of streets, &c. with the gas, gas collected from coal, or other materials, of which we have heard so much of late years. The gas-light apparatus consists of two principal parts: the one serves to carbonize coals, and extract the smoke by heat, and the other to cool, decompose, and refine, smoke. Both vessels must be made air-tight, to obtain a perfect analysis of coal, or other fuel and combustibles. In comparing his own invention with other apparatus now in use, Mr. Windsor says, his is entirely new in its construction and application, for it operates diametrically contrary to all known chemical apparatus hitherto in use. Speaking of these, he observes, that they are on a principle of an enlarged charcoal furnace, connected with gasometers; the ovens contain iron retorts, full of wood or coal in the centre. A fire of raw coal is made to play around them, by which contrivance half the heat is necessarily lost in the brick-work, from the natural expansion and rarefaction of caloric always flying from the centre; whereas his own fires and flues are always contrived in the midst of the raw fuel to be carbonized. Their gasometers contain large reservoirs, where the gas is suffered to accumulate to one thousand feet in bulk, which, besides the danger arising from the accumulation, prevents it from being thoroughly decomposed and refined in such masses, whereas, in Mr. Windsor's, condensors, the gas is infi nitely subdivided into small particles, that all its tar, oil, bitumen, and animoLiacal liquor, must be extracted and precipitated, before the gas is used in combustion. According to Mr. Windsor's plan, house or chamber-stoves may be constructed of iron or other metal, of earthen or stone-ware, made fire-proof, of pipe-clay, or any other fire-proof composition. Their form in general, is that of German draft-stoves, though they may be made of any other shape: and the cylinder, which separates the fire from the coal inside, may be likewise made of any shape, provided its bulk does not Occupy more than from one-third to a kalf of the area within the stove, so that the heat may be more equally distributed among the surrounding coal or fuel. He places his fires in the centre of the vessels charged with raw fuel, and employs the refuse coke and coal, to burn in those cylinders, surrounded by the raw fuel; hence the fire and heat generated in the centre, expand in all directions, but chiefly side-ways and upwards, and a much greater quantity of caloric is thus generated by means of a good draft, and is so distributed as to cause a speedier and more perfect carbonization. By this mode, the fires never come in contact with the fuel to be cooked and decomposed, and one-third of a bushel of refuse coke may generate sufficient caloric to carbonize a whole bushel of coal; so as to produce a bushel and half of good coke again from five to six pounds of oil-tar; from seven to eight pounds of strong ammoniacal liquor; and from two hundred and twenty to two hundred and fifty cubic feet of pure gas. The cylinders or cones, containing the fires, may be so constructed as to give a horizontal, perpendicular, oblique, or reverberating direction to the fire, in its passage through the raw fuel or other combustibles, to be analysed: the heat or flame may be led upwards or downwards, and in all possible directions, through the fuel, for the longer the fire-draft is detained in its passage, and the greater the circuit it makes through the fuel, the sooner and the better will be the process of carbonization, as well as the quality of products precipitated in the condensors. The gas collected is made to pass through lime-water, or cream of lime, and which attracts the offensive particles from it, and renders it pure, and fit for use. Such is a rough outline of Mr. Windsor's new method; and he observes, that the principle of placing a fire in the centre, may be applied to heat, or boil, distil, or evaporate water or other fluids, in wooden casks, much sooner than can be done in the common mode of applying the heat under and around kettles, coppers, pots, &c. And it may be used in airing, drying, baking, stewing, &c. Also in warming rooms and houses, by conducting a fireproof tube through the middle of the fire, which tube is to be supplied with fresh air from the outside through a wall or otherwise. By this means a great quan tity of fresh air may be speedily rarefied and heated, and be conducted by other tubes to any part where it is required. REVIEW REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. The Singer's Preceptor, or Corri's Treatise on HIS treatise, Mr. Corri tells us in taste. The first volume treats of the nature, origin, and progress, of Vocal Music, succeeded by observations on the obstacles to the perfect attainment of the art of singing. The second cousists of a collection of English, Scotch, and Italian songs, duetts, and trios; embellished with graces and cadenzas, exemplifying the antecedent rules. To enter into all the minutiae of this elaborate treatise, would carry us beyond the bounds we usually prescribe to ourselves in this department of our miscellany; but the most prominent features of the work will not escape our Notice. Mr. Corri, after presenting the public with memoirs of his professional life, in which we cannot profess to find incidents so highly interesting as to countenance its introduction in a publication with which it has no necessary connec tion (since a professor's didactic lucubra tions, and the incidental progress of his practice, are two distinct objects,) proceeds to the purpose of his treatise, in a dialogue between a master and his pu. pil. We here find, amidst a considerable number of remarks, many that are highly useful, and some that, we believe, have never before been laid before the public. The observations respecting the susceptibilities of voices of the most common natural powers, are as just as encouraging. What is said concerning a good quality of tone, its superiority over a mere volume of sound, and the means of attaining that quality, as well as what is observed reSpecting the importance of the crescendo and diminuendo, are truly valuable. The stress laid on the necessity of attending not only to the sense but the very formations of the words of a song, especially their terminations, cannot be too much attended to; and the re marks on the various graces, and the readiest mode of acquiring them, every reflecting student will know how to ap preciate. tions; tempo rubato-quickening and The "portamento di voce-intonaretarding the time; and the hints to parents;" are all highly worthy of attention, and evince considerable depth, and an A grand Sonata for the Piano-forte, with an This Sonata is comprised in three An The first of these admirable pieces is l'Air de Trombour, with eight variations; the second l'Air del Dotter, with seven variations; and the third Amusez cons Belles, arranger avec variations et imitutions. These airs in themselves are highly attractive; but the great merit of the work lies in Mr. Dussek's florid and masterly supplements. His variations and imitations are every way worthy his well-known eminence as a piano-forte, |