plaister and leaves, and 16,000 of them were destroyed in little more than a day and a half. The Company's and European factories, which it will take 13,700,000 dollars to rebuild, were situated a mile and a half from the place of the fire, and supposed to be perfectly secure. Late Eruption of Vesuvius.-The eruption which took place at the latter end of October, was the most tremendous known since 1794. A new crater opened; the air was darkened for days with showers of ashes; and torrents of lava, a mile broad, laid waste the adjacent country. At night the blazing of the fire was awfully grand, and the roaring of the mountain tremendous. The lava set fire to and consumed a forest at Trebase. The people universally fled their habitations. At Naples itself, after the fire seemed spent, such was the state of the atmosphere, in consequence of the wind blowing the ashes from Vesuvius, that it was dark at mid-day, and umbrellas were absolutely necessary. Mice. Mr. Macdonald, of Scalpa, in the Hebrides, has discovered the following method of preventing mice from eating the grain in stacks or mows, and also cheese and other produce. Having some years ago suffered considerably by mice, he put at the bottom, near the centre, and at the top of each stack or mow, as it was raised, three or four stalks of wild mint, with the leaves on, gathered near a brook in a neighbouring field, and never after had any of his grain consumed. He then tried the same experiment with his cheese, and other articles kept in store, and often injured by mice, and with equal effect, by laying a few leaves, green or dry, on the article to be preserved. Yeast.-Dr. Hunter recommends a recipe for making yeast, which is easy and expeditious, and keeps exceedingly well. Boil one pound of good flour, a quarter of a pound of brown sugar, and a little salt, in two gallons of water for one hour: when milk-warm, bottle it, and cork it close it will be fit for use in twenty-four hours. One pint of this will make 18lbs. of bread. The Doctor also recommends another method: to a ponnd of mashed potatoes, (mealy ones are the best,) add two ounces of brown sugar, and two spoonsful of common yeast; the potatoes first to be pulped through a cullender, and mixed with warm water to a proper consistence. Thus a pound of potatoes will make a quart of good yeast: keep it moderately warm while fermenting. No sugar is used by bakers, when adding the pulp of potatoes to their rising. keen colour on cotton wool, skein-yarn, &c.; and to Mr. William Gossage, of Leamington Priors, for a portable alarum to be attached to or detached from clocks and watches, and regulated so as to take effect at any given period of time; patents have also been granted. British Indigo.---A discovery has been recently made, which promises the most important consequences in a commercial and agricultural point of view. About two years ago, 280 acres of land, near Flint, in Wales, were planted with the common holyhock, or rose mallow, with the view of converting it into hemp or flax. In the process of manufacture it was discovered, that this plant yields a blue die, equal in beauty and permanence to the best Indigo. National Honesty.---Two millions of crown pieces have been coined in this country since the old silver has been thrown out of circulation; and hitherto, no attempt to counterfeit this beautiful piece has been detected. Mint for India.---We learn that a mint apparatus, upon a large scale, complete in all its parts, is about to be sent to Calcutta, and one about half the dimensions and power to Bombay. A revolution in the whole coinage of India may therefore be expected in a few years. Excessive Mortality. --- The extraordinary changes of climate to which we have been exposed during the winter and spring, have produced an appalling increase of mortality. It is stated that the deaths in London, within the last four months, exceed the average of twothirds of the year at any former common period! Religious. The clergy at Rome consist of 19 cardinals, 27 bishops, 1450 priests, 1532 monks, 1462 nuns, and 332 seminarists! "In the multitude of counsellors there is wisdom." gens A charge has recently been brought in the House of Commons against an institution of Jesuits, which, in the subject of complaint, comprehends the whole society in one sweeping anathema. It has often been a subject of doubt, and will always be one of dispute, whether the existence of a jesuistical college in any country, is primarily baneful or innoxious. Most of the continental sovereigns have either at once prohibited their formation, or ultimately by force expelled the members of them; whilst some learned men, with feelings little subject to prejudice, have applied to them the tribute which was paid to the Medici, " ad bonas literas promovendas, feliciter nata," (a race happily raised up for the promotion of human literature.) The government of this country, on receiving information of their rise some years since in Ireland, did not resort to any measures of hostility to repress their progress. The wisdom or impolicy of that line of conduct is yet to be developed. Their numbers in Ireland are yet small, and present no New Patents.-Mr. Augustus Applegath, of features that can subject them to the notice of London, printer, has obtained a patent for the executive. It appears that they have further improvements in letter-press printing formed a settlement at the Cape of Good machines; and Mr. William Church, of the Hope. A similar establishment has been said same place, gentleman, for an improved appa- to exist at Stonyhurst, in Lancashire; but ratus, to be used either by block, plate, or though some persons of that persuasion are to type-printers. To Mr. Thomas Bury, of Man- be found in the place alluded to, they have not chester, who has produced a permanent nan-yet assumed the character of an organized Maps of the Moon. Dr. Guithuissen has lately given, in Bade's Astron. Jahrbuch, for 1825, a very accurate map of the moon in a lithographic drawing; which it is recommended to copy and print in this country, as an accurate figure of the lunar body is often inquired for by astronomical students, and is only to be found in large and expensive works. body established on the principles of Jesuistical confederacy. The society first took its rise from Ignatius Loyola, a militant theologian, who met with the countenance of the Emperor Charles V. and Pope Paul III. The motto adopted by him, as significant of his tenets, was " Amor meus crucifixus est." The Bible Society of St. Petersburgh has caused to be printed and published in the Mogul and Calmuc languages, the Four Evangelists, with the History of the Holy Apostles, which will be followed by the whole of the New Testament. By the giving way of a rafter in the Methodist Chapel at Birmingham, on the 13th ult. the whole of the workmen were precipitated to the ground by the falling of the roof, two killed, many seriously hurt, and two almost miraculously preserved. QUERIES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 1. Ancient Syrian Manuscripts.-Dr. Buchanan, in his researches among the Syrian Christians, states the discovery of a Manuscript of the Holy Scriptures of great antiquity. The disputed passage in 1 John v. 7. he says, is not to be found in it, neither was it to be found in any copy of the Syriac Scriptures he had seen. Notwithstanding this omission, Dr. B. believes the passage to be genuine. And his reason for thus believing he states to be this:"Which is most likely to be true, that the Arians of the 4th century, in their fury against the Church, should silently omit a testimony, (in transcribing their copies,) which, if true, destroyed their whole system; or, that the general Church should directly forge, and insert it?" A Young Man wishes to know, how it was possible that the said Syrian Manuscripts could have passed through the hands of the Arians of the 4th century? 3. knowledge, by a person possessed of moderate abilities, would probably require, supposing he devoted to it an hour every day? 5. A Subscriber asks, Is the custom of teaching Recitation in Seminaries for Female Education calculated to promote early piety, or is it likely to produce a love for plays, novels, and theatrical representations? Literary Notices. Just Published, The Miscellaneous works of servations on various Passages of Scripture, the late Rev. Thomas Harmer, author of Obcontaining his Letters, Sermons, &c. with a Memoir of his Life, 8vo. Vol. III. of the New and Uniform Edition of Dr John Owen's whole Works, (except his Comment on the Hebrews,) now first collected, to be comprised, as nearly as can be calculated, in 16 vols. 8vo. A vol. published every two months, containing on the average nearly 600 pages. Mason's Spiritual Treasury, a new edition, in 2 vols. 12mo. Gilbert Oliphant, or the Gardener of Glanmuir, a Tale, with 2 engravings. Legh Richmond's Annals of the Poor, new edition, with engravings, in 1 vol. 18mo. Horæ Romanæ, a New Translation of St. Pa's Epistle to the Romans, by Clericus, small 8vo. An Elegy to the Memory of the late Rev. Henry Martyn, with smaller pieces. By John Lawson, Missionary at Calcutta, author of Orient Harpings, and Women in India, beau-, tifully printed, foolscap 8vo. An Alpine Tale, suggested by some circumstances which occurred at the close of the last century. By the author of Tales from Switzerland, 2 vols. 12mo. Lectures on the Pleasures of Religion. By the Rev. H. F. Burder, M.A. 1 vol. 8vo. Resolution a Distinguishing Mark of Divine Grace, or the Advantages of Observing the Fourth Commandment. Mr. Britton's History and Antiquities of Canterbury Cathedral, in 1 vol. 4to. is just published. It contains 26 engravings, with the History and Description of the Building, Account of the Monuments, Anecdotes of the Archbishops, &c. The same author's Illustrations, Graphic and Literary, of Fonthill Abbey, is announced for publication early in April, and will contain 12 engravings instead of 9, as originally promised. T. C- y also observes, that the great Comet which appeared in 1758, it has been calculated, will pay another visit to the solar regions in 1833. Hence he asks, at what proPergin's Specimens of Gothic Architecture, bable distance is it from the Sun at present, vol. 2, is just published. It contains 54 enand in what part of the heavens may it be ex-gravings, and 10 sheets of fetter-press. The pected to make its appearance? 4. latter is by Mr. E. J. Willson, of Lincoln, and embraces, besides historical and descriptive information, a Glossary of Old Terms used in Gothic Architecture. The work is now finished in 2 vols. 4to. Juvenis would feel obliged to any person, who would inform him (through the medium of the Imperial Magazine) what is the best, shortest, and easiest method, of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the Latin language; ERRATUM.-In col. 246, line 18, for chemical and also, how long a time the attaining of that read clinical. LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY H FISHER. MEMOIR OF JAMES SIMS, M. D. (With a Portrait.) [1823. called, is nothing more than the swine or chicken-pock of the human subject, transferred in a similar manner to and from the same animal. When application was first made to parliament for a remuneration to Dr. Jenner, on account of his discovery, Dr. Sims came forward, and gave his evidence in favour of the new practice. He stated, that he was originally adverse to vaccine inoculation, but that his confidence in it had been increasing every hour, from repeated trials and authorities of its efficacy. He never heard of it, he said, before Dr. Jenner's publication, to whom alone, therefore, he attributed the dis THIS eminent physician was a native of Essex, and originally a member of the society of Friends, or Quakers, but long before his death he receded from that communion, or at least relinquished many of its peculiarities. After taking his doctor's degree, he settled in the metropolis, where his practice increased largely on the death of his friend Dr. John Fothergill. In 1774 he printed an Essay on the best method of prosecuting Medical Inquiries;" which publication occasion-covery, which he regarded as the most ed the institution of the Medical Society of London, of which he became president, and continued to be so for about twenty years. He was also the first chairman and vice-president of the Philanthropic Society, successfully contributed to its formation, and, with the late Duke of Leeds, continued to support it under all its early difficulties; indeed, it may be said to be owing to his unremitting efforts, that this important charity is at present in existence. The Westminster General Infirmary, and several other institutions of a benevolent and scientific character, were indebted to him for his exertions. When Dr. Jenner first made known his inestimable discovery to the world, Dr. Sims thought lightly of it, and even after his doubts were completely removed in regard to the efficacy of vaccination, he took up an opinion, as to the origin of the disease, perfectly singular, in which he had no followers. On this subject he wrote a paper which was inserted in the sixth volume of the Memoirs of the Medical Society; the intent of which is to prove that the cow-pock is the small-pox of mankind translated to the quadruped by a sort of inoculation, and afterwards returned to the human body in a mitigated form. Dr. Sims was also of opinion that the spurious cow-pock, as it is No. 53. VOL. V. useful ever made in medical knowledge; and he thought that if Dr. Jenner had kept it a secret, as he might have done, he would, during his life, have become the richest man in these kingdoms. The Doctor farther observed, that the vaccine disease does not introduce any other disorder into the human frame; and he added, that the computation made of deaths occasioned by the natural small-pox, was one to six. Dr. Sims then laid before the committee a testimony unanimously resolved upon by the Medical Society of London, consisting of above one hundred and fifty members resident in the metropolis, and of more than double that number living elsewhere, in favour of this very important discovery, signed by himself as president. On the sudden death of Dr. Garnet, who had been previously appointed to deliver the anniversary oration at the meeting of the above society in March 1802, the president was under the necessity of addressing his brethren in what might have been properly termed an unpremeditated speech. This discourse, however, gave great satisfaction, and, as forming an outline of a course of study, our readers perhaps will be pleased with an abstract of it. The president began with the preparatory elements of knowledge, of which 2 C |