APRTL 11. L.i.J4k Q• S(1 t,A I ItIC INTELLIGENCE. rim pc being now restored to a state of tranquillity, and the public: mind kr: at more fr•etlom to duvet its attention to the arts of a small prtion of this paper will in future be devoLid to litz:rary and scientific intelligence, statistical it. f. tio,n, end extra.ts front new books. To render this hold mote interesting, the best sources, both 6,eoign •and domestic, will be consulted; and in mal.ing scLetions from them, preference will be given to tuck articles as may appear no.st likely to gratify the public curiosity, or to ditfun.t maid: khow- I tlge. Thos.: fond of lIIIII.TOGRAPIIY, and early spechnensofthetypographie art, have faint' a nett treat in the Bib!brawn S rims;punt: or, lk seriFtivt- Catalogue of the Books printed in the Fifteenth Centuty, and of many valuable first cdttions, in the library of Earl Spencer, drawn up by the Bev. I'. F. flilx!in. This work i+ distingtushesi by every cob,llishnient that art art and materials couhl supply; but the great price, we believe fifteen guineas, will retitle r its circulation linottel, mid confine it to att. hands of a chosen few. The foundation of the valuable collection which it ia.nicant to describe, VI L. laid in the ar. qui. Ilion of that belonging to ('ount Rewitzly, a -Hungarian noble man, who studied at Vienna. and nth:twat& travelled tilt...twit various itam of Asia, Italy, and other countries. Ile lied a wonderful facility languages, and spoke and wrote with equal readiness the Latin, Greek, Gentian, Hungarian, Italian, French, and English. He first made hinurd known to the public by translating stall.: Persian peems into Latin; and he was a king time Envoy . Ex traordinary front the Empress Queen to the Court of Warsaw. He held a sinart sittritoi at Berlin, in the raign of Joseph IT.; and, as he possessed a choice library, ct ntaining many rare and valuable edi tions ache ancient classics, and other worts, he contributed, it is said, to introduce into the Prussian slates a h.:her typographwal taste. The first specimen of elegant printingy, that appeared at Berlin wo• alt e Ji tion of Petronius, undr the taunt's instwetten; the proof studs of which were real ,e.I either by I.inodf or his chaplain, the Abbe Gruber. He after cards pe;rted a catalogue of his Creek and Latin classics, with hotas and illaftratit.4s; which was so much sought after, that it went through a seroial edition. In the year 1786, he was sent as Envoy to the Uinta of London; Lilt, nit ardent of his bath, or some taller mot ive. he Wm.. anointed to a sin ilar sit dation at Naples; on this otals.ionehe said his valuable library, or the greater part of it. to Lora : T ows:. leis destination, however, being afterwards elianged, he resid.itl alga three in a i.rivate captieityat Landon; and, returning to Vicuna, died there in the month of August, I'7o. Be sides the Kewitsky collection, this library contains many articles since added at a very larrx espenc:: and it is to be taped, that the whole will 1w long press nett, a. , montinient of thenotle owner's taste, know ledge. anti liberality. Among the Literary ettriositirs in this treasure, we shall notice only the halm, tng : Two scarce warks. entitled !Mina Pa uperu yor , The Poor Man) Bible," one in the Gentian ko.p,otage, and the other in Lain; the dab of both about I ft.:2. They are usually supposed to have been executtil an wooden bloeks; but Mr. llibdin minks that they were primed wit' mineable rap s. trerata Ingo. of .yrrtni Nieolre; Pc nl. M. mere `/,r. each en a small sheet of parchment. These letters of indulgence. one tif which lass the original Papal seal still altiNtil to it, ore the cull; known. instances ut the impression of metal types with a date sohjoinis I. Bui;,,j,,t;ml l'utzoto, supposed to have been printed by (Witenbel between the years Ivo I and 1153, in two volumes tislio. This is coo eall.ll the %vadae hill., because the copy first discovered vies found in the library . Cardinal Niaiarine, at Pau, In recording the scientific improuementsiof the present day. it woul be improperto omit sa tire v eaNTE it?: constructed by sir 11. Ito y ; he which it appears, that those fatal explosions which are apt tie telt Oar:: in mines, may in future be prevented. The principle on whisiii tuns lantern is contriiad, will be last conceived from what the: Memoir says in the It communicated by him on the subject to the Vonial Society. "Itin a dose lantern," says the ingenious author, •• supplied with a small aperture below, and amain r above, a lighted lamp, having a eery swan wick, be placed, the natural genie gradtudiv diminishes till it arrives at a point at whir the supply of air is sufilcient for the combustion of a certain small quantity of oil: if a lighted taper be in arothiced into the hunt re, thninglist small door in tile side a - Mavis in stantly dosed, both hens will burn for a few seconds, and be extin guished together. •• A similar ',hem mcnon orairs, if. in a chute lantern supplied with a quantity of air. merely sugicient to support n certain flame, a mixture of fire-elamp and air is gradually admitted: the first dent of the fire dunip is, to produce a larger flame rosin' -that of the lamp ; and this flame consuming the oxygen ought to be supplied to the game of the lamp, lead the tandard, or power cif the :or to support game being lowan:a by the nehnixture of tire-damp. and by its rarefaction, both the flame of the tire-damp and that of the taper are extinguished t ogethes• and as die air contained a certain (tummy of ;vote and car bonic acid before the admiasitin of the fire-damp. their effect, by mixing with it. is such as to pro ent an c :pi )) s(( in in any pit of the lantern. •• I tried several cxp. rid ents on the burning of a liana - . in atmos pheres containing tire-damp. I inclosed a taper in a little ekoe lantern, haying a saudl aperture below, and a larger one above. of such size that the taper burnt with a flame a little below its natural size. I p: iced this lantam, t..e taper being lighted on a stand tinder a tlarge glass receiver standing in water, having a curved tube comaining a little water. adapted to its top, to confine the air, and which was of such t•opa,i•y as to enable the candle to turn for some minutes; I then rapidly threw a t i mothy of fireidemp into the receiver from a bladder. sa as to make the atmosphere in it exolosive. As the tire-damp mixed with die air, the flume of the taper gradually enlarged. till it half tilled the lantern; it then rapidly diminished. and aas suddenly extinguished without the shuhtest esidosion. I examined the air of the receiver after the experiment, anti fourd it highly explosive. •• 1 tried similar experiments, throwing in mixtures of air and fire damp, some containing the maximum. ar.dotheirs the minimum of fire damp ntcessary for explasiam and always with the same satisfactory results. The Mune considerably increased and was soon extinguished. •• I introduced a lighted lantern, to which the :Ur was supplied by two glass tubes one-tenth of an inch in diameter, and half an' inch long, into a large jar containing an expinsive miature of one part tire-danip and ten parts of air: the riper burnt at first with a feeble light, the flame roost became enlarged, and was then extinguished. I repeated taste experiments several times, anti with a perfect constancy of malt. "It is evident then. t o rt, to prevent explii,ions in dial mines, it is only necessary to use airoyht lanterns, supplied. with air from tubes or canals of small diameter, ur from apertures covered with wire gauze placed below the flame, ttiough which eaphrsions cannot be comintuit haviag a chimney at the upper p.m on a similar system for carrv ing off the foul air ; and cenimon Imo ns may F.c t a.ily milepost to tile purpose, by being made air-tight at the door and sides, by beine ; fur nished with the chimney lard system of nutty apertures below and above." The simplest apparatus. howeyer,of this kind described by the author, is a close lamp or lantern, into which the air is admitted• and from which it passes through %sutures covered with brass wire gauze one two hundredth of an loch in thickness, the apertures of which should not be more than one Moth of an inch in width. Explosion is prevented by these means, as well as by lung tubes or casuals, and isutficient gtwl t.n of air is admitted. The following curious instances of en: TIFFIN); tvn are recorded in one of the Dublin rs : There is now in the hands Daw son, of Woodbank, l sq. near Gifford, a of yarn spun by Catherine Woods, of Dumnore, unit Itallynallinci!, agrti fifteen years. It wvigikb exactly ten grains, which, taking the pound avoirdupois at 7.1)04 Mini/. would require above ;co hanks to die potihd, making a thread V,511 40 yards or 1,414 miles , Sfurlon : .s..+ perches. 31. yards long. A quantity of this yarn equal to 171 b. G oz. or 31 des. would limn a thread 24,911 English miles long, which is Null to the circumfe.-sues of t!Ar earth. " Mary Jane M Twice, residing in the neighbourhood of 13allymahit:l . , spun r2so a hank of y :1111 haeL s no sr.uic that gr.s:ns." THE NATIONAL ILEGISTES. INSOLVENT s- COURT. cut F33:nrciay li , eliarge of Maria 1.1;•: 2; ,, osed by Mr. lialantyne, on the pact of the insolvent's o wn lath( r, on the ground of a concealment of her property. The insol% ent, in her examination by hlr. italantyne, stated, that ptevionslo to the Lith of December Lust, the day of her Arrest, she had a clothes.shed in Rosemary•lane, and a room in the Minnries, where site lot lid ; she cohabited with Mr..lu seph Bell, whom she knew for Aunt two years; and for %%hula she cold clothes on commission, having no other property ; she had 21)111e little furniture a kw ago, but was obliged to cell it to pay a debt ; she had nothing to sUbSibt on now but the i;!tle cotmuksion trade to which she alluded ; the child then in her auras was lint 611. ; had it before she knew hint. Mr. Itt Lax/Nur - said, that the instructions he had received front the family of the insolvent stated, that she had, when arrested, liool, north of property in her The court, ui looking into the schedule, observed, that the only creditor of the insrdient was her ono father, whom. debt (niarked " thinned" in the insolvents schedule) was al 'edged to be 5101., :tea its nature wa• Stittl . ll to be for lodging. and mow y advanced. flow any father could woke such a charge twainst his daughter, and serif,' it by affidavit, was, in the void of the-court, ustotti•lting. 11.1••.. %yr v st: replied, that the father, under certain circumstances, had a legal recovery for board, lodging, and money, furitbdteil to his daughter; inn on thi, occasion the owls object of the family in the pre:•ent opposition was , to separate the daughter f the unhappy connexion which shehad formed. The following questions were then put by the court to the insolvent:— Q. How old are you? A. Twenty-nine years, my lord.— Q. You are not married? A. N 4.-11. Hate you ever lived at your father's for a stipnlated expeiSce? A. Never : I base been, of course, haelvn ants and tiirwatt:s there, but have never bor ed motley Iron. hint, or gone there in I:encl . :a, except when part:t nlarh asked to do so.—Q. Did your father ever furnish yon isith a hill of cherge he meant to bring against you ; or make a demand ofany.sort for ) our maintettatice,NC ? A. He never tin, in any shape, nor had I the slightest reason to expect he win Mt has e made a charge of this deseription.—Q. What is your !her ? A. An old elothesman.—Q. Yia t lave b een un fortunate with a Mr. Rell ? A. les ; but we have parted. She then st 11,11, that she hail no property whatever at present. Nlr.Cierjeaut Rt I NGTON. —I don't knew that I ever met with a inure disgraceful tratibaction than this conduct of a parent. Mr. It sr. tNTS %E.—Thi , man makes bntwhat he thinks a fair claim; he has it in course of lcgui investigation. The Court could not bring ilselt to any conclusion against the iniohent, under the eireunwanees %Welt had been dis closed.—She It as aceordingh dkehareed. At Galway assizes, Co!. Martin was finedifor non-at tendance us Grand Juror far the county. He applied tiir a remission of the tine, on the ground that he was at the time, acting as a Grand Juror, for thetown. Justice Fletcher observed, that the remission oldie tine would de pend in a great degree upon Mr. Martin's subsequent re gularity and goad conduct. Soon niter, while Mr. Jus tice Fletcher was going through the county presentments, one of Mr. Martin's (as a contractor for heeping in repair a line of ma& ill Connemara) was read. Justice Fletcher immediately said, that he " did not suppose there were any roads in Connemara." Mr. Martin replied, "My lord, when the sum presented by us (the Grand Jury) shall be expended, I solicit 'mar lordsltip . to send your car riage and horses, and servants, to travel the whole line. All of them shall be well accommodated, and hospitably entertained, provided that your lordship .thall nut accom pany them." OUTRAGES IN IRE( AND.— X respcetab!e Correspondent in. forms us, that nine of the soldiers enncerned in the late affray in Carriekmaeross, hose been committed to llonaalian gaol, to abide their trials at the nest Assizcs.--( wry Trfireaph.) The house of George ilvyan, Esq. ofJenkitistua it, comity of Kilkenn, was lately attacked by armed men, kis sersauts beaten, and sonic fire arms taken assay. At the Clormiel Assizes, Maher was put upon his trial, for the murder of Nr. Baker, the Magistrate. The Solieitur- G:•mertl stated the case at great length, and &Nilo' the par ticulars of the horrid conspiraey which hail been formed to as sassinate Mr. Baker, and which appeared to have been orga nised upon a most alarming and extensiie system. After the examination of a great number of witnesses, totally uuconneet ed with each othev, the prisoner was found guilty. Mr. Serjeaut Juy, who prusillcd at the trial, in a most feel ing and impressive mannor, then proceeded to pass the awful 'senten . 2e of the law upon the prisoner, who seemed the only person present unaffected by it. Nt hen the Judge had coneholcd, the miserable culprit exclaimed,—•• May the gates of 'leaven never open to reel iu• my soul, if I had au part in the usurdyr:'—Atter. this exclamation, the Solicitor-Generat ad. dressy(' the Juc , and said, to prevent Ilium from auy unplea sant feeling in t iinsyquence of their verdict, he begged is as sure them, that Be prisoner had fully confessed his gnat, and lied pointed out himself the fatal spot a here the cr . • had keen (amounted. and had gnu acknowledged the part he had taken in the hot rid affair. • At Lancaster Assizes, Ralph Kindar, of Nottingham, for skipping Jill board the slop La tow na, a hold to sail fi um Liver pool to Interiea. liters articles used in the miniutactores of this kingdom, was sentenced to pay a fine ul 2dol. and to be imprisoned twelve mouths. .1 thrashing-machine. on the farm of Mr. Pusford, at Mile- End Heath, near I.:,leliester, was 111411CillUsly Jet on lire un sundae morning. The following is an extrtionlitiary performance of mannal labour :--On one of the iiiilars (Wan ancient barn latcly taken down at Choke!, iti llerk•liie, there wa• fixed a marble tablet with the following inscription :—•• In this barn, JitlliCK lanitlsley thrashed Mr Mr loseph Hopkins fit.. (patters 74 bu s hels o f wheat in 13 I tin March 14, li-17." Ldittlltlvy was a na tive of Chievely in Berks. He died at work in the saine barn, the seene of his constant labour fur more than ful year's, in the spring of Isol4. aged 94. Monday a poor little Sweep, in eleansin; the chimney or Mr. FosFett, earner, in 11riek-face, star, i •o fast in the filmic I, that it became necessary to break it, in order extricate him : when lie was to all aNwitratiee dead. Medical yid was apredily pro eilled, phlebottinly and other rest's; nu•lhods tiled, but ill %Mil; at len,:th a bye-slander rei onuurudt.l Flectrwits ; std the 4111141 . M IoS beim: procured, two or floe.. smart strokes wire applied to his breast, when I evil:Mile life fainity appear ed ; and restoratise rt meshes being l'ellt'k% bchet•anu• in 4 short bore so far lt; t ; t., .i,1111; erlh itu3 • c_ 0: p:•l.ect Frwn the LONDON G. 12:. ', drril lli 1 2.,:•;4.-Ocrict:, Avert 16. 77d regiment of foot-Brevet '.%1440r G . torge flomph r y , ham tic ! gill foot, to be major. without purchase, sax lity. who roj iw , i . kith dims-ColmulGetli:;‘.l)4l:44hellat.)o4 ffQlllkalTaa.v.r!t; Wii lian regiment, to b e (dont!, vice Morrison. who eat 11/131gelh BREVET.-Nlajor Cully 1.. L. Foskv, use the half-pay of the 6th West India regiment, to be lieut.-color.' in the am.y. STat r.-Deputy Assistant Counnissary-General John .1. A. Boo co, K, to be an assistant commissary-general to the forces. BANKIII,7PTCY SUPERSEDED. J. Cull, Newpoit, Isle of Wight, brewer. BAN K B. JENNINGS, Bristol , carpenter, April 20, 22. May 28, at the Corn- • mercial rooms, Bristol. Atts. Lantbers and Co. Gray's-inn-square. J. OLIT tin, Sutton St. Mary. miller, April 23, 26, May 2)., at tlie Rose & Crown, Wisbech St. Peter's. Atts. Locket & Co. Holborn-eo. R. WoaTuv, Exeter, woollen-manufacturer, April 20. May 2, 284 at the Star, Exeter. Acts. Collett and Co. Chancery-lane. T. LEADEN, Port Duntlas, merchant, May 3,4, 28. at the Tontine Inn, Sheffield. Atts. Illagrave and Co. Symonds-inn. IL Hutt:, Bow, Devonshire. serge-maker, April 20. May 2, 28, at the ' Star. Exeter. Atts. Collett and Co. Chancery-lane. W. HI•SHEONTII, t;reCtlalld. woollen-manufacturer, April 29,• 30, May ga, at the Talbot, Halifax. Att. Mr. Wigltsworth, Gray's-inn. J. DIRELL, Plymouth, grocer, May 1,2, gif, at the Exchange, mouth. Atts. Sykesunu Co. New-inn. J. Jossis, Kislev, Shropshire, !pacer, May 7,8, 28, at the Pheasaaii Inn, W•cllington. Au. Mr. Him. Southanipton-building. J. If. Ev4'• vs. Ilindon. Wiltshire, grocer, May 9, 10, 28, at the Red Lion, Shaftesbury. Au. Mr. Popkin, Dean -street, Soho. J. SALTI:u. Da.-tutouth, bookseller, April 30, May I, 28, at the Ciatle Inn. Dartmouth. Att. Mr. Price, New-square, Lincoln's-Lin. S 3 l• E SSON. Northumberland, niaster-nsarincr. May S. 2. 2 8 , at the Grove, North Shields. 'Attic. Morton and Co. flag's-inn-sq. N. AVILLIA NS. Itaherbithe, sailmaker, April 20, 27, May ta, at Att. Mr. Paterson, Copthall-court. W. Got: in, Sheffield, ender, May 2,3, 28, at tie Hotel, Sheffield. Acts. mid Co. Coleman-street. W. Kt:ICS/lAN', Halifax, merchant. April 30, W 4 7,28, at the White Lion, Halifax Atts. Ext.:3)4nd ('o. Ftirniyarasim. A. D.twaort. Itath, wheel-cliainitniter, April 26, 27. May 28, at the • Greyhoundinn, Bath. Mt. Mr. Netitersole, Essex -strut, Staantk DI VIDENIJS. May to, W. I!. Tollervey, Portals-a, brewer. May 4, G. Heasley, Fleet -street, hookstller. May 4, W. Luke and Co. West Smithfield, lintn-drapers. May 7, J. Annetta, Salisbury. linen-diaper. Maya, J. Tappenden, Faversham, sctisener, and J.Tappentlen, North court, Kent, true-master. May 0. R. M'Clure, Manchester, merchant. May 23, .1. Roberts and T. Batt, Macclesfield, cotton-spinners. May 30, T. Lightener, Halhwcll , dealer ht calicoes. May 10, A Black, LiverpooL . brewer. May 7. Law, 0)1 , 6AI-chambers. Throgniorton-strict, merchant. May 7, .1. Wontniv, Kingiton-ui on•lltanies, disiii:, T. May 7, 51'. Malone an d R. Wright, Watting-street, warehouse-mug. May 7, H. Willtnott, Shoreham, ilea& paper-maker. July 27, A. Cuthbert and Co. GuttiirAble. merchants. May 70, W. Barnes, Farnham. coach-maker. May 11, J. Roberts, Shaftesbury. grocer. May I h C. and C. Sharp, Homscy. cabinct-makers. May 7. It. W. Barber, fyy-lane, painter. May 11, T. Harrowelough, Leeds. clothier. May 13, W. Pullen. Shaftesbury, innholder. CERTIFICATES, MAY 7.-E. Hathaway. Birmingham, liquert, merchant-J. Page, Redbourn-Bury, Ilertftirdshire, funmcr.- It. li. Scarratt, Cannock, Staffon!shire. innkeeper-A. Anderson, Plffipot lane, merchant-A. Barnett, Broad-street, Blomitsbury.glass-merebant -T. Hiles, Shrewsbury, miller-J. Hill. Bristol, grocer-IL Dow ding, Melksharn. clothier-. 1. 'Tyndall, Birmingham, plater-J. Bar low and .1. Gregory, SI teffichl. imns founders-11. Daniell, Greek. suet t, coach-maker-E. Haidcn, Hazle-end. Essex, honie-dialer--J. Nlut grove. Swallow -street, St. James e, jeweller-H. /luntrisa, Liverpool, miTelutnt. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Pratt and Blount, Richmond, Yorkshire. wine-merchants. G. and R. Davits, Ilaverfonlwest.lincn.drapers. )pews and Squares. Limehouse-hole, plumbers. Miln and Galloway. Dundee, nurserymen. Acker; and Eairclough. Liverpool. l.ucaa and 'Printler. Manchester. Turner and Pindor. 011ertom Nottinghamshire, butchers. Thompson and Willey. Leicester: drapers. & l o. 111161_1-st:chi, O. Watersotth, Saddleworth, rced-makers, liorradaile and Gorde:u, Deptford, ship-repairer.. Mair and Ilally. London. Isuleira-n,, reliant.. J. and W. Harvey dasgow. wholesale-warehousem e n. Whinge-nand firselburn. Manchester, fustian-dyers eheetliam and Gregory, I.ittle Bolton, I emeashire, bleachers. Befwentiiin and Munro, Great IVinchrstersstreet. Longridge and Richardson, Sweeting's-alley, insurance-broker, A letter from Puri to Orotus ylaterl Orr end)! r 12, We had a dreadful tire berc,i levy days ago, which cousum, d u large couveut :Ur women awl, lam soil V • to re l a t e , 6 , ‘ ell u n happy victims felt the fury of the unrelent. • iug flames. The scene fur some hours was dreadful. It was first discovered sauna In o'clock at night ; all the HMIs were in bed, aini it was !Mlle time before they email be made ed with their danger. The few that escaped were oblieed leave the Convent liaised, as they never Ilit'Vp in their cloth e s. Those that were limit wereseetiut the skindusss till tlie flames consumed them. Tkerc were nu means of sat ing them, as the, windows war strongly grated with iron, and only outs dOor that they could get out at, which waio entirely enveloped in flames. ; Ilse lire vs a 4 occasioned by a Jinn's making sw ectinea la ; she had placid her fit coat a Libre, in a small earthen stove, and li fl it unestingnished ; the heat of the stove made the re.siti the wood try ; it is simpuseil a cinder had !linen, and the Convent being built of the souse kind of wood as the laid's., was soon iii a Islazi ." A gentleman's wife at Wag, at the are of 21, .veirea' by a violent head-ach, which continued fur sevens) years, ar i d drove her ;almost to despair. Ste was at last advised to take boa' as a remedy, in order to promo, a discharge ,e mutes. Happening to has c some assafulitla in the lonise, she mixed it. with the sand . , on the !supposition that it 11l iEllt roes ass . the. effect. 'llse consequence was, that a worm wartii!eliascitif trout her ?head, similar in the common grub. 7: This circumstance ilidlleell Slltoft. In short, by •tlie list of 1 c barged, tlie head-ads ~ who relates the ease, suppiiscs in her frontal sinus. I.i Oil.'.- Two actions great deal of public att Oiled ut the As-lies of •by the Iles. C. (INullam Derry. against Mr. C. 1' Damages laid at the Natural, damages s 'nought Ity Ale. O'Gorman, against Mr. Nlacce, proprietor Damages laid al t 0,00)1 damages one „. ir in omit Aratire to the common gru b. - .., lowed hi-r to continue to use the inixtii#o. N•. Eight inure worms were disunarceil. r the remedy, tri worms in ull'l4 ere 016.- itch r•a*Coinilletel terno‘ed. itivisUses that the uolllllb had ken 1 d 'et MrA for libels, which hay '. 47411;c dtcnt . in Ireland, have • it Galway. tine was au ac • Ilan, a Ronan Catholic ll ' 11 40 Corkell, proprietor of th . 4 „' 3,0001. The Jury gav e ' 7 ,• nil., costs 60.—The n ex t f tl 'man, one of the Oahu L :f • .r . t i ' l ; roprictur of the Dublin 4 H. . The Jnry returned t 4 ll .- !mulled and idly 'maul • -11;'-'1'