portunity, at the end of this supplement, to express his strong conviction that the memoirs are authentic.

ART. XXXI.-Abbotsford; being the first Number of Colonel Murray's

National Work, in which the Literature and History of Scotland are connected with its finest scenery. Part I. of the Central Division. 4to. Perth: D. Morison. London: Simpkin and Marshall. 1833. THIS is the first of the series of Colonel Murray's publication which we have seen; but we are quite pleased, even after so unnecessary a delay. to become acquainted with so spirited and intelligent a confrère.

Colonel Murray, we understand, is the nephew of the ci-devant colonial minister, and has, with the gal. lantry which distinguishes his family, resolved upon establishing such an association between the history and literature of his country on the one hand, and its beautiful scenery on the other, as will tend to confer a fresh and a more durable interest on both. The series to which our attention is now drawn, consists of scenes and illustrations whose site is the central division of Scotland. The number before us contains capital outlines, by Colonel Murray, of several views of the seat of Sir Walter Scott, and of the beautiful scenery which immediately surrounds it. The Colonel adds, in the letterpress, some very curious details, drawn from personal observation, of the objects which were seen at Abbotsford. He very properly assigns to Sir Walter the credit of having properly appreciated the universal adulation which was heaped upon him; and as his understanding enabled him to estimate the true value of the praise, so did his judgment direct him to seek more solid happi

ness in the cultivation of those occupations which adorn as well dig. nify social life.

The work is in every respect highly creditable to the author. We lament that it was not in our power to notice it at an earlier opportunity. We heartily wish success to the undertaking, firmly believing it to be well worth the public patronage.

ART. XXXII.-A Manual Hebrew and English Lexicon, including the Biblical Chaldee; abridged with the latest Improvements from the Works of Professor W. Gesenius, and designed particularly for the Use of Students. By JOSIAH GIBBS, A.M. Professor of Sacred Literature in the Theological School in Yale College, United States. London: Priestley. 1833. THIS brief but most important work is a condensation of the substance of the Hebrew and English Lexicon, which was published at Andover in the year 1824. Every one of the words in the large and expensive Lexicon are preserved in this manual, which also combines the more important of the proper names. It gives the various significations of particular words, and the distinct meanings are separated by a semicolon; references to passages in the Bible are made for the purpose of authenticating the import attached to it. We find also in this work, that the words which occur only once in the Hebrew Bible, are followed by a reference to the passage in which each is found. This is an important provision which the Hebrew scholar will immediately understand. There is a number of other characters peculiar to this work, which we deem it unnecessary particularly to allude to. It is only

proper that we should mention, that the plan of the work excludes all supposititious meanings which are drawn merely from inference and analogy. The work is evidently one of great labour; but the author will feel, we are sure, that his labours are amply compensated, should the work prove useful in abridging the labours of the Hebrew student.

ART. XXXIII.—An Address to Traders. London: Suter. 1833. THIS is a temperate and very judicious collection of remarks on the

impolicy (to say nothing of the profaneness in a religious point of view) of trading on Sunday. The tract emanates from the Sunday Trading Suppression Society, which from all that we have seen of it highly deserves the approbation of the public. It proceeds on a practical basis, for it proves, that the severe observance of the Sabbath as a day of rigid exemption from all sort of business, is not only an ordonnance enforced by divine sanction, but that, in fact, it is intimately connected with the welfare of families, and the well being, prosperity, and happiness of the country at large.

Zoological Garden.-Amongst the late additions of specimens to this splendid collection are three rare species of antelope-the m'horr, the cervine, and the sing-sing antelope. A new species of bear is also amongst the additions: it is called the spectacle bear, as around its eye is an annular shaped band, of a peculiarly light colour, which gives to the animal's features the same appearance as if a pair of spectacles were before the eyes. The loss of the beavers lately has been supplied by the generous attention of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Literary Discovery.-A curious work, being an account of the British island prior to the invasion of Julius Cæsar, has lately been discovered in the possession of the Brahmins of Benares. In this valuable treasure of antiquity, Britain is called by a name which signifies the Holy Land; the Thames, the Isis, and other rivers, are called by names

similar to the present ones; and Stonehenge is described as a grand Hindoo Temple! The Asiatic Society of Calcutta are said to be preparing for publication a translation of this interesting manuscript.

Furs.-The uses of the zoological creation to man may to some extent be imagined, when we state that the Hudson's Bay Company imported in one year 3,000 skins of the black bear, 60,000 ditto of the pine marten, 1,800 of the fisher (a species of sable), 4,600 of the mink, 7,300 of the otter, 8,000 of the fox, 9,000 of the Canadian lynx, 60,000 of the beaver, and 150,000 of the musk rat. Independently of those, there were imported a great many skins of badgers, wolves, and racoons.

United States. The population of the United States, according to the last census, is over twelve millions; and the increase in 1831, including the negroes and the emigrants, exceeded 500,000 souls; so that at the

same rate the country might have, in twenty-five years, a population of twenty-five millions.

An easy Recipe.-In moist or rainy weather we feel oppressed and drowsy, because all moisture greedily absorbs our electricity, which is the buoyant cordial of the body. To remedy this inconvenience, we have only to discover a good non-conductor of electricity to prevent its escape from the body, and this we have in silk, which is so excellent a non-conductor, that the thunder bolt or the forked lightning itself could not pass through the thinnest silk handkerchief, provided always that it is quite dry. Those, therefore, who are apt to become low-spirited, and listless in damp weather, will find silk waistcoats, drawers, and stockings, the most powerful of all cordials.

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Post Office. The ordinary business of each day is, in letters in the inland office alone, 35,000 letters received, and 40,000 sent away— 23,475,000 annually), exclusive of the numbers in the foreign office department and the ship letter office, and altogether independent of the twopenny post. The number of newspapers daily varies from 25,000 to 60,000 (on Saturday 40,000, and on Monday 50,000), of which number about 20,000 are put into the office ten minutes before six o'clock. After that hour each newspaper is charged one halfpenny, which yields a revenue of fully £500 a year, and of which 240,000 newspapers are annually put into the office from six to a quarter before eight o'clock.— The revenue derived from the charges for early delivery in London is £4000, and the sum obtained by the charge of one penny on each letter given to the postmen who go round with bells to collect the letters is £3,000 a year, giving 720,000, or nearly 2,000 daily. The revenue of London is £6,000 a week, above £300,000 a year; and yet of all this

vast annual revenue there has only been lost by defaulters £200 in 25 years. The franks amount in a morning to 4,000 or 5,000, or more.

Slavery in England.-If credit is to be placed in the evidence delivered before the Parliamentary Committee on the Factories' Regulation Bill, it would appear that children, in some instances mere infants, are kept at work for 14, 15, and even 17 hours a day (exclusive of the intervals in which the poor animals are allowed to feed). Beating in various shapes is what children are commonly subject to―nor even perhaps, in the excess in which it is said to be employed in the mills, does it constitute a substantive grievance of the first magnitude; but the beating is employed to urge them to labour beyond the power of their exhausted natures-to keep them standing when fatigue would impel them to fall down-to keep them awake when nature almost forces them to sleep.

Extent of the Cotton Manufacture. The cotton spun in Great Britain last year amounted to about 288,000,000lbs. Of this vast quantity a tenth was spun in Scotland. The United States supply threefourths of the consumption, or 213,000,000lbs. The East Indies about 20,000,000lbs. The West Indies 1,600,000 only. All the cotton, except the growth of the East and West Indies, pays a duty of one 5-8 d. per lb. This duty would last year exceed 690,0007.; would be as nearly as possible 10 per cent. on the return of the cotton in bond.

Newspapers.-The different newspapers printed in the United States amount in number to nearly one thousand, and the aggregate number printed annually is estimated at fifty millions, which is about one press to every 1,300 persons, and four newspapers annually to each inhabitant.