of a pigeon, the bird instantly fell; but, as soon as a few drops of the balsam were introduced into the mouth and into the wound, the pigeon recovered, and was cured. Similar experiments were made with the same success on fowls, rabbits, &c. A dog, which had been treated in the same manner, was afterwards trepanned; and, after its brain was pierced with a sharp-pointed instrument, and eleven ounces of blood were taken from it, it was cured next day by the balsam. In several comparative experiments, the animal always died when the balsam was not applied. These experiments, which are hardly credible, and require to be confirmed by frequent repetition, are to be repeated by the Section of Medicine and Surgery, who have been appointed commissioners to examine the memoir of M. Constancio.

Oil Spring in America.-On the northeast branch of Duck Creek, several miles to the south-west of Woodsville, in the Nile of Ohio, in north latitude 38° 39′, a natural spring of oil has been recently discovered. The well is about seven feet from the edge of the creek. It is 42 feet below the sur

face, and is three feet in diameter at the top. The oil boils up continually like the boiling of a large soup kettle, and runs into the creek in a small stream. It is as fine as any sperm oil from the head of a sperm whale. The quantity which rises is about five barrels a-week. I followed the creek up and down nearly three miles, and found it completely covered with oil. I found an old ladle lying near, which I dipped into the oil, and forced it down into the water, and found the oil to be three feet deep. I drew out with the ladle as fine salt water as ever I tasted in the ocean I then tried the goodness of the oil, and found it to burn clear and bright. A boy, a few weeks since, in order to ascertain whether oil would burn on the water, touched a firebrand to that on the creek,instantly it was in a tremendous flame, which ascended 200 feet in the air nearly a mile up and down the stream. I saw limbs of trees, which were nearly 100 feet high, burnt off as smooth as if the blaze of a furnace had struck them. The sarell of the oil very much resembles that of British oil.

LONDON.

THE expected translation of Count Volney's Researches on ancient History, Sacred and Profane, will speedily appear in two volumes octavo.

A splendid work is preparing for the press, in one volume, quarto, entitled, Kenilworth Illustrated, or the History of the Castle, Priory, and Church of Kenilworth; comprehending Sir William Dugdale's account of those edifices, with additions, and a description of their present state, from minute investigation.

A volume of Walks in Ireland, by the late John Bernard Trotter, secretary to Mr Fox.

Dr Trotter, late physician to the grand fleet, has in the press, a Practicable Plan for Manning the Royal Navy, and preserving our Maritime Ascendancy, without Impressment, addressed to Admiral Lord Exmouth.

Mr J. G. Mansford will shortly publish Researches into the Nature and Cause of Epilepsy, as connected with the physiology of animal life, and muscular motion, with cases, illustrative of a new and successful method of treatment.

Mr O'Reilly, author of a recent publication on Greenland and the Arctic seas, is engaged in preparing for publication a work designed to illustrate colonization from the earliest periods of history, the various tribes

of mankind, the influence of climate and intermixture; also the operation of the causes that diversify national character.

A Journey to Persia, in the suite of the Imperial Russian Embassy in the year 1817, by Moritz de Kotzebue, is in the press,

Dr Bateman is preparing Reports on the Weather and Diseases of London, from 1804 to 1816 inclusive; comprising practical remarks on their causes and treatment, and preceded by an historical view of the state of health and disease in the metropolis in former times; in which the extraordinary improvement in point of salubrity which it has undergone, the changes in the characters of the seasons in this respect, and the causes of these, are traced to the present time.

The translation of Paradise Lost into Welsh, in the same metre as the original, by W. Owen Pughe, will be published in the course of the ensuing month.

Mr Perry, of the Museum, Leamington Spa, is preparing for publication, Plantæ Varvicenses Selecta, or a Guide to the Habitats of remarkable Plants, natives of the county of Warwick.

A Dictionary of Astrology is announced, wherein every term belonging to the science will be minutely explained, and the various systems of the most approved authors collected and accurately defined.

A volume of Poems, founded on the Events of the War of the Peninsula, written during its progress and after its conclusion; by the wife of an officer, (now on half-pay,) who served in its campaigns, will soon appear.

A new work is preparing, entitled, County Biography; or, the Lives of Eminent and Remarkable Characters, born or long resident in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk; embellished with about one hundred and fifty portraits; and intended to accompany the "Excursions" through those counties.

Number I. of the second volume of Brayley and Neale's Westminster Abbey will appear in a few days.

An interesting Romance, on the subject of Robin Hood, is forthcoming; including a parallel of character between Robin Hood and Rob Roy.

A Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, and its dependent Settlements on Van Diemen's Land, will be speedily published; by W. C. Wentworth, Esq. a native of the colony.

Mr Dufour, surgeon of the Daranian Dispensary, is about to publish an Account of the effects of his new method of treating Ruptures.

Mr Playfair, who, during his residence in France, wrote an answer to Lady Morgan's work, has prepared his manuscript for the press, and it will shortly appear, under the title of "France as it is, Not Lady Morgan's France."

Earl Osric, a romance, from the pen of Mrs Isaacs, will shortly appear.

Tales of Night, in Rhyme, will speedily be published; comprising Bothwell, Second Nuptials, the Exile, and the Devil on Shealsden Pike; by the Author of "Night," a descriptive Poem.

The third volume of Sermons for the Use of Families, by the Rev. Mr Butcher, of Sidmouth, will be published in the course of the ensuing month.

Shortly will be published, an Epitome of Scripture History, by Joseph Ward.

A novel, called the Mystery of the Abbey, or the Widow's Fire-side, will be published in the ensuing month.

A new edition will speedily be published, corrected throughout, of Grey's Memoria Technica; to which will be added, Lowe's Table of Mnemonics.

Mr R. Taylor, of Norwich, is preparing to publish three maps, accompanied by ta bles illustrative of the scites of religious houses, &c. in that diocese, as they exist ed before the dissolution of monasteries.

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FRANCE. The recent sittings in the French Chambers have been in a great measure engrossed by the project of a law on the subject of the liberty of the press; which, after various discussions, has been earried in the Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 143 to 38. If this law receives the sanction of the Chamber of Peers, it will establish in France the most perfect freedom of the press All previous censorship will be removed-all speeches delivered in either Chamber may be published by any journal, with reports of committees, and all documents emanating from these assemblies.

The Moniteur of the 10th April contains an ordinance of the King, sanctioning, by royal authority, the establishment of a Society for the amelioration of Prisons in France. The object of this humane institution is to examine into the administration and internal management of prisons; and to recommend, from time to time, to the Minister of the Interior, such improvements in the discipline, and general economy of these receptacles of crime, as may suggest themselves in the course of inquiry.

GERMANY. The turbulent and disorderly conduct of the students in the Ger, man universities now occupies the attention of the German Diet. These universities are invested with peculiar privileges, and are governed by their own statutes. They are republics, in which the professors constitute the senate; but the latter now tremble for their existence, for the insubordination appears to set their authority at defiance. The assassination of M. Kotzebue, noticed in our last number, is mentioned as one of the effects of this revolutionary spirit in the youth of Germany; and several other literary men, professing the same political principles of Kotzebue, are said to have received threatening letters. In consequence of the strong manifestation of this spirit, the King of Prussia has issued an edict, recalling such of his subjects as were engaged in the prosecution of their studies at the University of Jena, under pain of forfeiting all right to political einployment by the Prussian government. This measure is said to have originated in consequence of a notice issued by the Grand Duke of Weimar, disallowing the matriculation of foreign students at that university, without a special recommendation from their own government; but it seems rather to be owing to a fear of the Prus

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sian youth imbibing at that institution the waywardness and insubordination which have of late more particularly marked the character of the German students. The Emperor of Russia, actuated by similar jealousy, has enjoined the youth belonging to his dominions, who are studying in Germany, to quit that country without delay, and repair to France, the Netherlands, or Switzerland, for the completion of their studies.

The public feeling in Germany appears at present, from whatever cause, to be in an extraordinary state of excitement, and the insubordinatior of the universities is, as we understand, but the symptom of the general disorder. This ferment originates apparently in political grievances, and in those feudal distinctions in society by which a few are raised into distinction and consequence, while the great mass is depressed. In the universities, where there is drawn together a large concourse of young men, wholly disengaged from active pursuits, this feeling is in a manner collected into a focus, and it burns more fiercely in these retreats than when it is diffused over the great mass of society, and is dissipated amid the various pursuits of active life. Kotzebue, it appears, transmitted informa tion of the state of these universities to the Emperor of Russia, on which information the Russian youth have been recalled from their studies. For this offence it is that he has fallen the victim of assassination; and if his murder has, as it is stated in some accounts, been the result of a conspiracy, and not the insulated act of a maniac, it certainly marks, in the strongest manner, the dreadful excitement to which the young men of these universities have worked up their fiery passions. At the same time, it is clear that no cause was ever yet promoted by those horrid expedients, at which every feeling of justice and humanity revolts. Every one must reprobate such diabolical means, which are only suited to the worst ends, and which, wherever they are employed, will soon bring down merited vengeance on the heads of their authors.

ITALY.-The Continental papers have recently been much occupied with an account of a plot said to have been discovered at Mantua for the assassination of the Emperor of Austria, who has recently been on a tour through his Italian states. The plot, according to these accounts, was to have been carried into effect at Rovigo,

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