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ready, we understand, it amounts to near twenty thousand; while of the Preliminary Discourse many more have been sold, and a fine edition, illustrated with drawings, is in the press-but confined to that treatise exclusively, the principle of cheapness not allowing any difference in the prices of the others, which all readers of all ranks use alike.'

It is not a trivial addition to the pleasure which these important proceedings afford, to discover, that in far distant lands, at the same time, the progress of improvement is going rapidly onward. A singular proof has just reached us. It is the first four numbers of a Newspaper, published last December, in Van Diemen's Land, and, as we perceive, it is called after the navigator who discovered it in 1642, Tasmania. The advertisements present a picture of the wonted bustle of trade; sales, lettings, clearings inward and outward, freight and passage to all quarters of the world. A meeting of the inhabitants is described-its proceedings recorded, for obtaining a representative constitution, and jury trial, from the mother country. But the following article of intelligence is, above all others, interesting, and we copy it in the words of the original journal.

'MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.-A meeting of several gentlemen, favourable to the establishment of a Mechanics' Institute, in Hobart Town, took place on Tuesday evening at the British Hotel. Dr James Ross was called to the chair, supported by W. H. Hamilton, Esq. J. P.; G. W. Gunning, Esq. J. P.; W. Gellibrand, Esq. J. P.; James Scott, Esq. J. P.; Edward Lord, Esq.; J. T. Gellibrand, Esq., and several other gentlemen of respectability. The rules and regulations for the establishment of the Society were read and adopted. Above fifty individuals have become members, and there is every prospect of the institution being considerably extended; and as the object of the Society is the diffusion of useful knowledge and mechanical science, in its most extended sense, we are confident it will have the support of all classes.

The donation of books, for the immediate establishment of a Library, was urged upon the gentlemen present, many of whom promised to contribute; and we trust every individual favourable to such a laudable establishment, will contribute to it as far as possible.'

The reader is aware that Van Diemen's Land is the souther

We have seen stated, though by able and candid critics, some objection to the title. They have not sufficiently reflected on the analogy upon which it is founded. The title of Laplace's celebrated work is, Celestial Mechanics, or, Mechanics of the Heavens (Mécanique Celeste.) A literal French translation of Animal Mechanics would be, Mécanique Animale.

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most point of the vast continent of New Holland, in 43° 33′ south latitude, and 147° 28′ east longitude-on the opposite side, therefore, of our globe. It is just half a century since our great navigator, (for it had not been visited during a hundred years after its discovery,) described the natives as having less genius than even the half-animated inhabitants of Terra del Fuego, who have not invention sufficient to make clothing, though furnished with the materials;' as living like fauns and satyrs, in hollow trees,' barely acquainted with the use of fire, but existing on the sea-coast, without canoes, or even rafts, to attempt the water. They received every present we 'made them without the least appearance of satisfaction. When 'some bread was given, as soon as they understood that it was to be eaten, they either returned it, or threw it away without even tasting it. I had brought two pigs ashore, with a view to leave them in the woods. The instant these came within their reach, they seized them as a dog would have done, by the ears.'-(Third Voyage, Book I., chap. 3.)

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The exertions of man can claim no higher praise than to have effected the revolution which has changed the face of such a country; nor can his contemplations bestow a purer gratification than to witness it. As our chiefest duty on this earth is to labour for the happiness of our fellow-creatures, so is it our best reward to witness the success of those endeavours.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

From May to October.

It will be obliging in those, who wish the title of their Publications to be inserted in this List, to address their notice to the Publishers, and not to the Editor, in whose hands they are sometimes unavoidably mislaid.

AGRICULTURE.

Bland's Principles of Agriculture. 12mo. 4s. 6d. bds.

ARCHITECTURE, ANTIQUITIES, AND THE FINE ARTS. Murphy's Beauties of the Court of King Charles II. No. I. 2. 2s. Proofs, 31. 13s. 6d.

Hunt's Parsonage Houses. 4to. 17. 1s.; India, 17. 11s. 6d. bds. Britton's Union of Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting. Med. 4to. 21. 2s.; Royal, 31. 3s. bds.

Architectural Antiquities. Part III. Howard's Outline Plates to Shakspeare. No. I. Paper, 4to. 17. 1s.

21. 2s. bds.

4to.
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Willement's Salisbury Cathedral. Post 4to. 11. 5s.; Royal 4to. 17. 18s. bds.

Tour in the Brazils, with Drawings by Rugendas. No. I. Folio. 12s. Plain; 15s. Coloured.

Light's Views of Pompeii. Part I. 4to. 10s. 6d.; Proofs, 15s. bds. Shaw's Antiquities of the Chapel at Luton's Park. Folio. Part I. 15s.; India, 17. 10s.

Grindlay's Indian Scenery. Part III. Imperial 4to.
Robinson's Vitruvius Britannicus. Part I.

51. 5s. Coloured.

21. 2s.

Folio. 31. 3s. Plain;

Jenkin's and Hosking's Architectural Ornaments. 6s.; India, 10s. 6d.

Part I. Folio.

Le Brun's Thirty-seven Lithographic Drawings. Folio. 5 5s. bds. Hunt's Architettura Campestre, displayed in Lodges, &c. 4to. 17. 1s; India, 17. 11s. 6d.

Robson's Views of Cities. No. III. Medium 4to. 17. 1s. Imperial 4to. 21.

Buliver's Twenty-six Views in the Madeiras. Folio, 31. 3s. India, 47. 4s.

Twenty-six Illustrations to Walton's Angler. 8vo. 17. 1s. 4to. Proofs, 2/. 2s.

ARTS, SCIENCES, AND PHILOSOPHY.

Sir Humphry Davy's Discourses, 1820 to 1826. 4to. 17. bds. Burnett's Hints on Painting. Three parts in one vol. 4to. 37. 3s.; Royal 4to. 57. 5s. bds.

Tom Telescope's Newtonian System. 18mo. 3s. bds.
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Captain Brown's Ornithology. No. I. Imperial 4to. 15s.; Atlas

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Jameson's Philosophical Journal. No. VI. 7s. 6d. sd.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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Catalogue of the Library at Queen's College, Cambridge. 2 vols. Imperial 8vo. 47. 4s. bds.

Bibliotheca Parriana. With Notes, by Dr Parr. 8vo. 16s. bds. BIOGRAPHY.

Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. By the Author of Waverley. 9 vols. 8vo. 41. 14s. 6d. bds.

Bateman's Life. 2d Edition.

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Hamper's Life of Sir W. Dugdale. Royal 4to. 21. 2s. bds.
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Nicolas's Life of Augustine Vincent.

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Dibdin's Reminiscences. 2 vols. 8vo. 17. 8s. bds.
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The Students; or, Biography of Grecian Philosophers. 12mo. 6s. half-bd.

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Life of Linnæus. 18mo. 2s. half-bd.

Walton's Lives. 48mo. 6s. 32mo. 8s. bds.
Memoirs of Lord Liverpool. 8vo. 15s. bds.
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BOTANY.

Hooker's Museologia Britannica. 8vo. Plain, 17. 11s. 6d.; Coloured, 31. 3s. bds.

Caledonian Horticultural Memoirs. Vol. IV. Part I. 8vo. 8s. bds. Smith's Introduction to Botany. Sixth Edition. 8vo. 14s. Plain. 28s. Coloured, bds.

CHEMISTRY.

Farraday on Chemical Manipulation. 8vo. 18s. bds.

CLASSICS.

Ovidii Opera, Notis Variorum et Burmanni. 5 vols. 8vo. 31. Large paper. 51. 5s. bds.

Homer's Iliad. With English Notes, by the Rev. W. Trollope. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 4s. bds.

Cæsar, Anacreon, on the plan of Locke. 12mo. Each 2s. 6d. bds.
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