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No. XVII.

THE Cape Bliffi10 (&.c Cr- I IRY) . . .On the Importance of a 13ithlic Declaration of the Reasons of

Decisions hi Courts of Justice . . • •On the Hot Wind of Africa called the Carnsin . • •On the Use of Yorks • . . • • • .The Weaver's Song, from ' English Songs,' by parry CornwallDances: the Tarantula . • • . . .Property — - • • • • . .A Golden Rule. . - . • • • • • .'estminster Abbey . • • - . •Perseverance • • • .. • . • . • •TaL. WEEK :-

A and Notice of John Hunter . • •

The L;d of Europe; —No. L itaIy. . . .Art of Swimming . . ''''. . • • ... •The Slormy Petrel, fruit!" 6 Unglish Songs/ by Barry CornwallGood Old Times . • . . - .Aran Account of Debtor and Creditor • • •

No. XVIII.Description of the Colosseum of Romo • • . .Sale of the Spectator . . . . • D • •

Age of the Horse • • .... . 4 • •

Tobacco • . • . . . •Tilt 'Num :—

Saint Sveithin • , • • 4. .

Anniversary and Notice of Petrarch • . . •The Advantages of a Taste for the Beauties of Nature „District Society of Brighton . . . . .. •

Lycidas • • . . . „ . . . .Duty of a Nation towards its great 141eil . • • .Truth and Fiction. . • . . ,,,, • •

No.'Westminster Hall • • •ON TUTIiiIEADZING Woitnis,--NO. 1. 2 Introduction •

Ancient and liodern Vyrorlts contrasted 4 •

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Astronomy . •Prosperous condition of the Jews under CEffects of I kidlaStry and Economy •Indian method of driving away Cholera IT°Fidelity and Maternal Attachment •Life Assiirance in Germany • •The Caluntek Tartars •• •

No. X.Acco Ant of the Teazle • • • •Conlition of Cori.,.icts in Van Dierriaols LandPitch Springs •Description of Queen

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'ElizabethThe Eddystone 11. ightbouseWonderful Robert WalkerThe Drum . • . •Truth • ••iii:,torical Associations. •

Cotton • • •'Fun \VET: I.E.:—

Eclipm3 of the Sun.slice Lr? Emigrants

Capture of ElephantsA didierite AppetiteRalik amonEst Vultures

Danger of Idleness • •

No. XXL—SUPPLEILENT.

!IN tigerford Market • • • . • L. •file Poor-I-Inuse—Notice of •Health and Longevity,—The efreci. of Arta, Trade ., arid Profes-

sion on, by C. Thack RE(1,— Noti cu pfGeorge the Fourth's Oat; Hyde Park Corner .Account and Plan of the Liverpool Docks . a.

lidemoir of Felix. Neff,—Rowiew of • .Statue of Major Cartwright • • •

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9. PEIrtrait of Petrareh. • a . ' *

10. Principal Entrance to Westrninster Hall • . .11. Common Cotton Plant (Oossypiuni lie•bareini?)32. Tree Cotton (Gossy piton arborEum) . ..13. Shrubby Cotton (Goscppium relibeirarm) . - .

. Western Entrance of Westminster Abbey •3. Ancient View of Westminster Abbey. anti Hall4. Portrait of John lianter • • •f.). The Stormy Petrel • •6. Exterior View of the Colosseum of P.orrie_7. interior Vlemt of LEVI° • • •S. Tobacco Plant

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NVE shall endeavour to give the information on the bestmodes of purifying water, which " A Constant reader' de-sires.

In answer to the inquiry of "A Subscriber," we an-nounce that it is intended, upon the completion of Volume I.(that is, aftt..T sixty-four numbers have appeared), to pub-lish a Title-Page and full Index ;-'-and this portion of thevolume mill be presented to the Subscribers, without chargeor diminution of the matter of the Number which it accoin-panics.

An account of " the impressions pi-cx on 111(1 MitiC1Sof saw ages, vhen they witness for the first time the productsof the arts of civilized life: ill be• found ix. " rrlw New2ealandus," a volume of the Liloary of Entertaining Know-ledge. The story of Finow and. the letter is there given,but we may probably reprint it. •

A Correspondent at York has sent us the following pa-ragraph, which we believe has appeared in a Yoric Paper :-

+c Ixn a.biorgaiihioal sketch. of the late. Jahn Plaxmaa Esq., R.A.,which is con/aii)cci in the last umber of the Pomy iliapzinf, the' riter has been led into an error • respecting the place of his bi:th.He is therein staled to have been born in London, !hvhere his father,

who w as a m oulder of 4,111.rQP I Scf: , ) kept a shop in the Straml. This isi ri ,:urrect t o u r own city (York) claims the honour of the birth of this

eminent mart, as may be ascertained by looking- at the parish registe rof. St Mary Bisltophill Senior, where it is thus entered--' .Taint, son_

Ftax.rneen, was baptized orttili6 a 1755: From 141r. own ac.count he was removed from York in his infancy,. and this may havegiven occasion to the mistake."

A Correspondeut sends us the follovirinz calculation withregard to the Penny Magazine, which may amuse some ofour TO LidaS :—

The paper comprising each number measures 23 in. hy 15 in.= 345grpiare inches. As there are .64 Numbers published in the year2 345 in.multiplied by 64, and this product by 120,090 (the quantity issued ofeach number), gives 2,649,600,000 , s,wr+'c inches, which E. equalto 422 :Er:res i t rriod, and 21 p(Fle. As the paper is printed on bothidcs) the letter-press only, without Cli .c unargtii, extended hi aline so

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The Correspondent who swishes fur a eoniinuation of thearticles " The British Museum," is informed that wehave Epeli waiting fair the opening- of the New Gallery ofthe 1.1gin Marbles. That fine room is now completed, andthe public may inspect its invaluable treasures of ancientart. Of these we shaii immediately give a Lie-atriyion.

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_ADDRESS O1' THE 'COMMITTEE, 30111 JuN3, 1832.

'Sir cis the last Meeting eif the Society in June, 1831, his Majestyhas been _graciously pleased, by his .Royal Charter, to constitute thisa body corporate, by the name .01 the Socanay von rue. Dieeersioz•oF leseesee Ketoweeeene By this incorporation its transactionswill be facilitated, and its .purposes materially aided.

The ohjects.of this Society are now so generally tnown, that it isunneeessary to repeat them. By stating the tesult of their pro-ceedings dialog the last year, the Committee will best show whetherthese objects have been successfully pursued.

Tin; LIDRAEY USEPV.L. KNOWLEDGE has been continued withunvarying regularity, and two extra Treatises have been published.Of twenty-six numbers issued during the year, nine have been His-torical, two .purely Mathematical, two have treated subjects ofPolitical Economy, and the rest have completed, the second volumeof a Series, entitled " Natural Philosophy."

The Committee have determiued to complete the subject of Mathe-matics by the publication of extra numbers, in or that this neces-sary branch of instruction, which has always been included in theirdesign of a Library of Useful 'Knowledge, may not prevent them

directing their attention to others of a less abstract nature.They (lo not intend in future to commence any Work, the numbersOf which cannot be published at intervals of one month at thefart hest.

The Feroanree SE1LIES liar hitherto been continued at somewhat.uncertain Mal-pls. A NVOIrk on " fl itish Husbandry," and elle-Vier on " Cattle," will soon be published in alternate numbers.

The publication of the.alees molted almost necessarily from shatOf the Historical . Walises," nod the Coinmittve believe that theyeneyedlude to flea part .0a their laheurs with tannixcd -satisfaction.Of several parts the sale has exceeded 14,a00.

Tire LIBRARY ON ENT•RTI1N1M1 KNOWLEDGZ WaS undertaken inorder to obviate a complaint, that the we of the Society were notsufficiently attractive to inauce those to inad, whose principal motivewould be amusement. During this year seven, volumes of thisSeries have been published—of these the Committee think it rightto direct particular attention to the one entitled " Criminal Trials,"which reduces into a popular _form very valuable constitutionalknoiviedge.

It is intended to dedicotea portion of the "Libleffe -Entcrtain-iug Knowledge" to subjects immediately conuecten ii on. the Workeof Ast contained in the British Museum, with the view of funiiehineeivisito•s and others with fuller and. more exact infernintion than CLIOhe comprised within the limits of a common Catalogue; butto giveboth additional interest and value to these volumes, it has beenthought advisable not to confine the description to a bare account ofwhat the Museum contains; but to treat generally of the Llisteny ofArt in connexionswith the customs and manners of .ancient nations,illustrating the teat principally, but not entirely, by the specimensin the Musemn.

In pursuance of this intention, two volumes on the "Antiquitiesof 1?,geept." are in a state of cousiderable ferwarduess, and will be.tb]lowed at short intervals by others, including

The Elgin and Phigalian Marbles,The Townley Marbles and Bronzes, andTheT.erra Cates. and 'Vases.

The whole will be illustrated with Engnwings stn wood, fromSpecimens in the British Museum, awl from other senrces.

The Committee have attempted to render familiar some of theimportant fads of Political Economy, of Mediciae, and of DomesticEconomy, on the knowledge of. whirls the happiuess thaLabour-

Classes greatly depends.They have published a volume'eotitleil The Rights of Industry,"

by the Author of a forrmer Volume of this Series, eiltified "TheResults of Machinery ;" and another, entitled L" The. Physician."

Tire ALMANACK of the Society has not succeeded in entirelyextirpating the absurdity of some whicle'have been long established—in many it has occasioned very material improvements, .and has.led to the publication of others similar in their contents, andarrangements. The Companion to the Alma -neck has placed withinthe reach of tsll Classes a variety ofthe most 'mead statisticaliuformation.

To THE JOURNAL or Fein:CATION the Committee at all timesadvert with the groatcst satisfaction. It has • maned them tocollect nccomas of the systems of E4htcltion pursued in differentrens of the World, and to direct public attention to a very importaut

Class of writinp .connected with Elementary 'Instruction. Anumber of this Work .has been regularly issues! every 'Quarter sinceits commencement, and it has, in every respect, answered theexpectations of its Projectors.

The Committee advert with much satisfaction to the auccess ofthe Pieerte aieoezian—its sale amounts at present to 130,000Copies per Number, and its Circulation is still extending. In theremoter parts of the country, it is anxiously sought for.

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The success of the Pennyenny Megazineehas induced the Cormnitteeto undertake the publication of a

PENNY CYCLOP2EDIA,in Numbers and Monthly Parts. A work of such magnitude andnovelty requires all the assistance which can be afforded it by theMembers of the Society, both. in London and. in the Country, isorder to give it publicity and circulation.

Since the last Report of the Committee, two nombers of theCaeieenne oil PorcritArts have appeared. Measures have beentaken which will ensure the punctual appearance of this Series.The following Ferns are in such forwardness as to be published in.the course of the present year

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lIalleyLerenzo- de 'MediciW ollastonMichael AngeloFathion.

FoxBoss LtetCorneilleBuchanan'La Place

It new musing only to advert to the Forsaeces of the Society.The Treasurers stateiiient of Receipts and Expenditure is attachedto this Report, anal it may be well to repeat .what was stated in aprevious Address, as to the means of support which the Society !sas sasset the nature of its Engagements with its Publishers.

The whole sum derived by the Committee from Life and Annual.Subscriptions from the 1st of November, •1826, to the 1st of Januarylase (five years), has been 1528/.; the average amount of yearlySubscriptione has been 1251., after deducting the expensteCollection, and the price of the Treatises. delivered to Subscribers.These Annual Subscriptions have gradually diminished. TheAnnual Recnipts of the Society are chiefly composed of the Profitsderived fiom the Sale of its various Weeke.

Thu arrangements which have been made with the Publisherssince the commencement of the Society, have gone upon theprinciple of leaving the Committee!, as far as possible, free flum riskand unincumbered with Commercial Responsibility; Ind at thesame time deriving a lair proportion of pecuniary advantage from,the ultimate success of any undertaking.

The Publisher usually pap the Society a sum for Copyright in thearea instance, sufficient to cover the Disbursements to Authors bythe Committee; and after a eertain limit of Sale has beat attained,the Society further receives from tee! Publisher a•rent calculated at nfixed rate per 1000 copies. In other eases, the Publisher himselfincurs all the expense attendant upon the Authorship and Embellish-ments of the Work, and pays the Society a clear rent, determinedby the sale beyond a given. point. A large amount of the Profitsaccruing to the Society 'from works already published, is investedin future undertakings. These sums are not shown in theTreasurer's Annual Report, because they are not brought intoaccount, in ninny. cans, till the publication of each particular workthe which such advances to Authors and Artists are made;—butthey nevertheless constitute a large amount of capital. employed hi.the most efficient manner—namely, in making such exteasivepreparations as will ensure to the Society the best power of realizingtheir objects. By these arrangements, the Committee do notbecome involved in any of the uncertainties or liabilities of Trade.At the same time, they never renounce that superintendence,. and

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THOMAS COATES, Secretary.

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