INTELLIGENCE IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS AND SCIENCES.

PROCEEDINGS OF UNIVERSITIES.

OXFORD. On the 7th of July it was decreed in convocation to grant three hundred guineas from the university chest, in aid of the fund for the relief of the families of the brave men killed and the wounded sufferers of the British army at Waterloo, and in the battles which have been, or may be fought, in the present campaign.

The whole number of degrees in Act Term was:-D.D. 2; D.C.L. 2; B.D.6; B.C.L. 1; B. Med. 1; M. A. 51; B.A. 38; Matriculations, 6%.

CAMBRIDGE. The prizes given annually by the representatives of this university to two senior and two middle bachelors of arts, who shall compose the best dissertations in Latin prose, have been this year adjudged as follow: For the Minor Bachelors: "Quid causæ est cur apud Romanos, postquam sub Imperatoribus essent, eximia minus florerent ingenia?" Only one prize was this year awarded in this class, to Rev. J. Scholefield, scholar of Trinity College. For the Middle Bachelors: " Utrum clementioris sit animi, leviter delinquentes suppliciis pro ratione culparum adhibitis coercere, an impunitos demittere? to Mr. J. Bailey, scholar of Trinity College, and the Rev. J. Pearson, fellow of St. John's.

Sir Wm. Browne's gold medals have been gained for the Greek ode, by J. H. Fisher; and for the Latin ode, by Geo. Stainforth, both of Trinity College. The subject for the former was: "In Augustissimum Galliæ Regem solio avito redditum." For the latter: "Vivos ducent de marmore vultus."-For the epigrams the subject was: "Quidquid dicam aut erit aut non;" but for this last no prize was awarded.

The Chancellor's gold medal for the best English ode, has been adjudged to Mr. Smirke, scholar of St. John's College: subject, Wallace."

In a convocation held on the 14th July, a grace passed the Senate to grant three hundred guineas from the university chest, in aid of the fund for the widows and orphans of those who fell in the battle of Waterloo, and of the wounded sufferers of the British army in that engagement, or any other which has been or may be fought during the present campaign,

The Rev. Dr. Clarke has published the following interesting notice in the Cambridge Chronicle of the 14th July :— "During the last week two persons belonging to the University Printing-Office called upon the Professor of Mineralogy with specimens of what is vulgarly termed petrified moss, said to have been found in a petrifying well near Coton, The professor has been to the spot; and having no other means of communicating to the university at this season, what he conceives to be the greatest natural curiosity of the county, he has desired the editor of this paper to inform his readers that the said well is in all respects similar to the celebrated petrifying spring of Matlock in Derbyshire, incrusting moss, rushes, &c. with a deposit of carbonated lime, so as to exhibit a beautiful reticular stalactite. Persons going from Cambridge are recommended for a guide to the cottage of Wm. Paulett, the first on the right on entering the village of Coton. The well is situated in a field belonging to Mr. Angier, who has given permission to this man to conduct strangers to the spot."

The Royal Irish Academy propose to give a premium, not exceeding 501., to the author of the best Essay on the following subject:-" On the mixture of Fable and Fact in the early Annals of Ireland, and the best modes of ascer taining what degree of credit these Ancient Documents are justly entitled to."

Essays are to be sent in to the Academy House, Grafton-street, Dublin, post-free, any time previous to the 14th of March, 1816.

Mr. J. E. MARSTON is preparing a translation, in 1 vol. 8vo. of the Life' and Campaigns of Field-Marshal Prince Blucher; from the German of General Gneisenau, Quarter-master-general to his Army. Embellished with a fine Portrait, and engraved Plans of the most signal Battles.

A Treatise on Theology, written by Mrs. LUCY HUTCHINSON, author of "The Memoirs of the Life of Col. Hut chinson," is preparing for publication. It is proposed to annex a Letter from Mrs. Hutchinson to her Daughter on the

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Sir F. CHARLES MORGAN, M. D. is preparing for the press a work, to be entitled Outlines of the Philosophy of Life; which has for its object the diffusion of a more general knowledge of the fundamental facts of physiology. It is somewhat singular that, while every other branch of natural history is so universally cultivated as to become a part even of school education, the more interesting and important science of physiology should be studied only by those who pursue it in connexion with medicine. The best informed and best educated are too often ignorant of all that concerns their physical existence, and whether for the purposes of personal health, or the more extended objects of legislation, are wholly unable to distinguish the suggestions of science from the delusions of quackery. This deficiency has, in a great measure, arisen from the supposed dryness and difficulty of the subject; but for all general purposes the study of physiology is a pursuit of no extraordinary labour; the vital laws só far as they are known, are simple, and the facts within the scope of ordinary intellect. It may also be asserted, that physiology is not less curious and inteFesting from the moral and metaphysical views it opens, than for the light it reflects upon those daily habits which influence so extensively the health and well-being of the species.

The Rev. JAMES GILCHRIST, author of "Reason the True Arbiter of Language," has in the press a work, entitled the Labyrinth Demolished, or the Pioneer of Rational Philology.

Mr BROOKS' Dissent from the Established Church Justified by an Appeal to Facts having been some time out of print, a third edition, improved, will appear in a few days.

A volume, entitled Repertorium Bibliographicum, (to be printed for subscribers only,) is in a considerable state of progress. It will contain an account of the most celebrated British and Foreign public libraries; of eminent collections dispersed by public auction; of British private libraries now existing; with copious lists of curious and rare books contained in them; interspersed with bibliographical remarks, biographi cal anecdotes, &c. Portraits of eminent collectors, and other plates, will be added to the volume.

Mr. RICHARDSON has nearly ready Illustrations of English Philology, in a

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A Tour in Istria and Carniola, &c. &c. in spring 1814, by an English Merchant, is nearly ready for publication.

Mr. E. V. UTTERSON is preparing for publication Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry, in which no piece will be given that has been printed subsequently to the close of the 16th century, nor any that did not either in its subject or style possess claims to popularity. The work will not exceed two volumes, and the impression 250 copies.

Dr. SAMUEL RUSH MEYRICK and Mr. CHARLES HAMILTON SMITH are engaged upon a work on the costume of the original inhabitants of the British islands. The sources to which they have had recourse consist, not only of all that the Greek and Roman writers have left, but of the more curious and less known documents in the ancient British and Irish languages.

An heroic poem was considered by our unenlightened ancestors as the highest flight to which the human mind could aspire, and as a work that required the labour of little less than a whole life. Among the numberless ingenious inventions of the present day, we cannot but reckon one that must have materially abridged, as well as facilitated, the process, and, as we presume, enabled the professors of poetry to perform their work by contract-like bricklayers, by the foot, yard, or rod. Such, at least, is the inference that we cannot help drawing from an advertisement which appeared immediately after the arrival of the news of the battle of Waterloo, announcing that " an heroic poem, under that title, to commemorate this most glorious victory," would actually appear in the month of July; that is to say, would be written, printed, and published, in six weeks or less from the day on which that ever-memorable engagement was fought.

The venerable ARTHUR YOUNG will speedily publish a Selection from Baxter's Works, under the title of Baxteriana.

Mr. J. MAN is compiling the Ancient and Modern History and Antiquities of the Borough of Reading, with maps and prints.

The Rev. WM. M'GREGOR STIRLING is preparing for press the Priory of Inchmahome, an historical and statistical work, illustrated by engravings. He is also about to publish an engraved Chart, chronological and geographical of British History, with a short Memoir.

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The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is engaged in the publication of two tracts on the means of establishing authentic records relative to the state of the collieries in that neighbourhood, and to other points which promise to be both of national and local importance.

In consequence of the numerous inportant discoveries that are daily making by Berzelius and others in the science of chemistry, Mr. W. HENLEY is induced to delay his promised series of Chemical Tables some time longer, in order to render them as perfect as possible; particularly as the composition of many of the vegetable bodies is not at present correctly determined.

The eighth volume of Shaw's Zoology, under the superintendence of Dr. LEACH, is in considerable forwardness.

Speedily will be published, an Address to the Nation on the relative Importance of Agriculture and Manufactures, and the Means of advancing them both to the highest degree of improvement of which they are capable; with Remarks on the Doctrines lately advanced by Mr. Malthus on the Nature of Rent, and the relation it has to the Amount of National Income; and a Prefatory Letter to the Prince of Benevento on his late Exposé of the Financial State of the French Nation.

An Officer of the Medical Staff, who served in the late campaigns in Spain and Flanders, will soon publish a poem, of which the battles of Waterloo, Orthes, and Toulouse, will form the principal subjects.

Mr. ROBERT STEVENS, of Lloyd's, will shortly put to press a second edition of his Essay on Averages, and on other Subjects connected with the Contract of Marine Insurance; to the preparation of which he has devoted a considerable portion of time, in the hope (by elucidating these subjects) of making them better understood, both in theory and practice, than they have hitherto been.

The Author of "The Battle of Nevil's Cross, a Metrical Romance," " Ode to the Emperor Alexander," &c. has in the press, and nearly ready for publication, in one volume, 12mo. a History of the House of Romanof, the present Imperial Russian Dynasty, from the earliest period to the time of Peter the Great; designed as an Introduction to a History of the Life and Reign of that celebrated Monarch, and including the Russian History from the first Accession of the Family to the Throne. In elucidating

the momentous transactions of the minority of Peter, during the regency of the Princess Sophia, and in reconciling the contradictory statements of former historians and travellers, and of the Russiah Archives, the most laborious attention has been bestowed.

The same author is also preparing for publication, Plans for ameliorating the Condition of the Lower Orders of Society.

The Society instituted some years since for the purpose of superseding the cruel method of sweeping chimnies by means of climbing boys, continues its benevolent exertions. The necessity of such exertions is unfortunately but too strongly proved by a case of peculiar atrocity, in the treatment of an infant by his master, tried at the Dublin Sessions in April last. The boy was examined on oath, in the arms of a nurse; he appeared, from excessive torture, hardly able to speak; he said, he lived as an apprentice to the prisoner, who used to burn straw and gunpowder under him, to make him go up the chimnies quick, and used to pull him down by a cord tied to his leg: it was this cruelty that caused the sores which prevented him from going up the chimnies when ordered. The Lord-mayor deposed, that when the boy was brought before him, there did not appear a square inch in his body without a sore; he had several cuts in his head. The prisoner had been formerly brought before him for inhumanity, and now told him he acted thus because the boy refused to do as he bade him, and that he would do as he pleased with him, having bought him from his mother for two guineas. His lordship said, that the boy could not walk, on account of sores on the soles of his feet, which were inflamed, and discharged corrupt matter; when put into the hospital, they were forced to place him between oiled sheets, to prevent the linen from sticking to his body. -If the knowledge of such facts cannot but harrow every feeling mind, it may be some consolation to state, that, though the society have not hitherto completely succeeded in introducing the mechanical method of cleansing flues, and thereby abolishing the practice of sweeping chimnies by climbing boys, yet they have lessened the number of its victims, and the sufferings of those employed in it; and that, independently of the instances where their interference has been evidently useful, in many others cruelty has been checked, and oppres

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