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Ready for Publication. The Teaching of Jesus Christ, the model of Pulpit Instruction, a Sermon by the Rev. RICH. WARNER, F.A.S.

Illustrations of Prophecy, in five dissertations,-on an Infidel Power; The Abyss, or Bottomless Pit; The Symbolic Dragon; A Millennium; and the Coming of Christ.

The Last Days. By the Rev. E. IRVING. Sermons preached in St. John's Chapel, Bognor. By the Rev. H. RAIKES.

Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical, by the Rev. J. PROCter.

A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Ely, by the Rev. J. H. BROWNE.

An Essay on Political Economy, by Capt. PITTMAN, R.A.

The Imperial Remembrancer; being a Collection of valuable Tables for constant Reference and Use: including all the Measures, Hackney Coach Fares, New Rates for Watermen, Stamp and Excise Duties, &c.

An Annual printed in gold, and called the Golden Lyre, being a poetical selection from the works of English, French, and and German authors.

A new edition of Salathiel, a Story of the Past, the Present, and the Future.

The Trials of Life, a Novel, by the Author of De Lisle, or the Sensitive Man.

The Second Series of the Romance of History, to comprise tales founded on facts, and illustrative of the Romantic Annals of France from the reign of Charlemagne to that of Louis XIV. inclusive.

The Life and Times of Francis the First of France.

The Manual for Invalids, or Practical Rules for the Attainment and Preservation of Health, with popular illustrations of some of the most important functions of the Animal Economy.

Conversations on Intellectual Philosophy, or a familiar explanation of the Nature and Operations of the Human Mind.

The Scotch Banker, or the Subjects of the Country Bankers, Wheat, and the Metallic Currency, Famine, &c.

The Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery.

The Subaltern's Log-Book, including the period of the Regiment's remaining in India.

The Present State of the Tenancy of Land in Great Britain, by L. KENNEDY and T. B. GRAINGER.

Tales of the Great St. Bernard, by a distinguished writer.

The Protestant, a Tale of the Reign of Queen Mary. By the Authoress of Foix," &c.

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The Man of two Lives, a Narrative written by Himself.

Sailors and Saints, by the Author of the Naval Sketch Book.

Tales and Confessions.

RITCHIE.

By LEITCH

A Treatise on the Diseases of the Bones. By BENJAMIN Bell.

A Tale of the Holy City under the title of Zillah. By Mr. HORACE SMITH.

Preparing for Publication.

Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in North America, including the United States, Canada, the Shores of the Polar Sea, and the Voyages in Search of a North-west Passage; by Hugh Murray, esq. F.R.S.E., &c.; Author of "Travels in Africa, Asia," &c.

Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Paul Jones, now first compiled from his Original Journals, Correspondence, &c.

Counsels for the Sanctuary and for Civil Life; or, Discourses to various Classes in the Church and in the World. By Henry Belfrage, D.D.

The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk; containing the real Incidents upon which the Romance of Robinson Crusoe is founded. By JOHN HOWELL, Editor of the "Journal of a Soldier of the Seventy-first Regiment."

Scenes of War; and Other Poems. By JOHN MALCOLM.

Diversions of Hollycot; or, the Mother's Art of Thinking. By the Author of "ClanAlbin."

A Guide to the Universal Trader; being a Complete and Systematic View of the Monies, Weights, Measures, &c. of all Nations, with their Proportions to those of Great Britain and France.

The Reformer of the Catholic Church. Memoirs of Scipio de Ricci, Bishop of Orato and Pistoria under the Reign of the late Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany.

The Life of Nollekens the Sculptor. By JOHN THOMAS SMITH.

MR. BRAYLEY's Londiniana; or Reminiscences of Ancient London.

A New Year's Eve; and other Poems, by BERNARD BARTON.

The Interpositions of Divine Providence, selected exclusively from the Holy Scriptures. By JOSEPH Fincher, esq.

Typical Instruction considered and illustrated, and shown to be suited to all, but particularly the early Ages of the Church. By JOHN PEERS, A.M.

Essays on the Universal Analogy between the Natural and the Spiritual Worlds. By the Author of "Memoirs of a Deist." Sermons, chiefly Practical. Preached in the Parish Church of Clapham, Surrey. By the Rev. W. DEALTRY, B.D. F.R.S.

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A View of some of those Evidences for the Divine Origin of Christianity which are not founded on the authenticity of Scripture, by MR. SHEPPARD, author of "Thoughts on Devotion."

The Parochial Lawyer, or Churchwardens' and Overseers' Guide, containing the whole of the Statute Law, with the Decision of the Courts of Law on the Duties and Powers of those officers. By J. SHAW.

The Legendary Cabinet, a Selection of British National Ballads, Ancient and Modern, with Notes and Illustrations. By the Rev. J. D. PARRY, author of "Illustrations of Bedfordshire."

The Housekeeper's Oracle; or Art of Domestic Management. By the late DR. KITCHINER.

No. I. of Eminent Women: their Lives and Characters. Designed for the Improve ment of Female Youth. By Miss JANE PORTER. To be published monthly.

The Castilian, by DON TELESFORO DE TRUEBA, author of "Gomez Arias."

A second series of Tales of a Voyager.
A new novel, called the Disowned, by

the author of Pelham.

MR. GRATTAN, the well-known author of Highways and Byways, is engaged on a new series of Tales and Sketches.

The Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, by Madame DUCREST, the niece of Madame DE GENLIS.

A new comic romance, called Rank and Talent.

Letters from the West, containing Sketches of Scenery, Manners, and Customs, with Anecdotes connected with the first Settlement of the Western Sections of the United States. By the Hon.JUDGE HALL. Tales of Military Life.

Part XV. of SKELTON's Illustrations of Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court.

ZODIACAL LIGHT.

Sept. 29. A most curious phenomenon appeared in the heavens about eight o'clock at night. Its appearance was that of a column of bright smoke, or light trausparent cloud, increasing from the horizon to the zenith, forming an arc, and somewhat resembling a comet's tail of an immense size. It sprang up from the west, and stretched itself across to the north-east, its basis still

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continuing in the west, whilst the other extremity travelled from north-east to due east, covering the Pleiades in the east, and Lyra in the west. It continued its course from east to south-east, and about nine began gradually to sink down into the western horizon, fron. whence it had sprung. For about three minutes after it disappeared no stars were visible to the naked eye in the west. The weather was very fine, and the stars shone brilliantly. Its elevation must have been many miles, as it appears to have been seen in every part of the country.

WELSH AMERICANS.

A tribe of Americans, about the 40th degree of north latitude, and the 45th west longitude, are said to possess many curious manuscripts about an island named Brydon, Their language resembles the Welsh, and from which their ancestors long since came. their religion is a sort of mixed Christianity and Druidism. They know the use of letters, and are very fond of music and poetry. They still call themselves Brydones. It is generally believed that they are descendants of some wandering Britons, expelled from home about the time of the Saxons, and carried by wind and current to the great continent of the west, into the heart of which they have been driven back by successive encroachments of modern settlers.

CAPTAIN BEECHEY'S EXPEDITION.

The Blossom, Captain Beechey, has arrived at Portsmouth after an absence of upwards of three years on a voyage of science and discovery. The main object of this voyage was the conveyance of supplies to Icy Cape, for the land Arctic expedition under Captain Franklin, in the event of that reaching the extreme north-western point enterprising traveller having succeeded in of America. During her absence she has visited Pitcairn, Society, Sandwich, and Loo Choo Islands, and discovered several islands in both the North and South Pacific. In 1826 she discovered six coral islands in the South Pacific; and in June, 1827, found the group of islands called Islas de Arzobispo, which were formerly laid down in our charts, but which had been erased in modern ones, under an impression that they did not exist. In September, 1827, she discovered, near Behring's Straits, Port Clarence, which offers most excellent anchorage.

of ten or twelve, (observes M. Sallier), were brought a few years ago, with a collection of antiquities, from Egypt, by a native merchant of that country, and they contain, for the most part, prayers or rituals, more or less extended, which had been deposited in the cases of mummies. There is among them the contract for the sale of a house,

entered into under the reign of one of the Ptolemies; and three rolls joined together, written in superb demotic characters-characters which, as is well-known, were appropriated to civil purposes. M.-Champollion could not express his joy and astonishment, when, upon looking at the first of these rolls, which is pretty thick, he discovered that it contains the history of the campaigns of Sesostris Rhamsis, called also Sethos, or Sethosis and Sésoosis, and that it gave most circumstantial details respecting the conquests of that hero, the countries he traversed, and the force and composition of his army. The manuscript concludes with a declaration of the historian, who, after stating his names and titles, certifies his having written the work in the ninth year of the reign of Sesostris Rhamses, King of Kings, a lion in battle, the arm to which God hath given strength,' and other periphrases in the oriental style.

"The epoch to which the MS. belongs, goes back to nearly the age of Moses, and it is probable that the great Sesostris was the son of that King who pursued the Hebrews to the extremity of the Red Sea. Perhaps he is also the same personage as Egyptus, who forced his brother Danaus or Armais to fly to Greece, for having in his absence attempted to occupy the throne. Upon the same manuscript, and after a blank margin, commences another composition, entitled The praises of the great King Amemnengo. A few leaves only, separated by intervals and numeral marks, complete this roll, and form the commencement of the history, which is continued in the second of my papyri. It appears to me that conjecture might fix the date of Amemnego's reign before that of Sesostris, as the author wrote in the ninth year of the latter King's reign. This conclusion might also be drawn from the well-known custom of the Egyptians to represent in their monuments, after the principal person, the portrait of his father, and sometimes of his uncle. Lastly, the successor of Sesostris bears the name of Phero in Herodotus; in Diodorus, that of Sesostris II.; and in Manetho, that of Rapsaces or Rapses: while his father is called Amenophis, or Amenoph, -a name which resembles the one deciphered in the manuscript. A more attentive examination may be expected to remove all doubt on this point. But I am only acquainted with my papyri by the rapid inspection which M. Champollion gave them during the few moments which were at his disposal. The third roll consists of a treatise on astronomy, or astrology, or what is most likely, on both those sciences conjoined. This manuscript has not yet been unrolled, but we may easily imagine that it contains matter of great interest. It is likely that it will make us acquainted with the celestial observations of those remote

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times, and with the system of the heavens, adopted by the Egyptians and Chaldeans, probably the first people who occupied themselves with the science of astronomy.

"I must add to the preceding details some account of a little basaltic figure which was included in the articles which the Egyptian sold me, and which appears to have been found together with the three rolls. It represents a man upon his knees, whose length, if extended, would be eleven inches, the head being fifteen lines. The figure leans upon a sort of table, the top of which is in the form of a desk; upon it are placed his hands, which, though broken, appear to be in the act of writing. On the front of the desk is engraved the device of Sesostris, and on the back of the figure within a border is placed, in hieroglyphic character, the name of the figure, with the title of the Bard and Friend of Sesostris.' A drawing of this figure was made for M. Champollion before he saw the papyri. I neglected to take down in writing its name, and none of the persons who were present at the enrolling of the papyrus thought of inquiring whether any conformity existed between the names sculptured on the figure and those mentioned in the manuscript. Every thing, however, leads to the belief that the figure is a representation of the historian of the Papyri, in whose tomb were deposited his portrait and his works. Of what great importance, then, must these writings be, as their author, a contemporary of Sesostris, cannot he presumed to have exercised the functions with which he was clothed, without following the hero in his victorious course."

At the conclusion of the report, which was listened to with great attention, M. Sallier received the thanks of the society, and was requested to give a copy of his statement to be deposited in the archives of the institution; and an abstract of it was directed to be sent to the different French and foreign academies.

Intelligence has been received from M. Champollion, who arrived at Alexandria on the 18th of August. His last communication is dated August 29, in which he states that he should remain till the 12th of September, to complete the necessary preparations for his journey into the interior of Egypt. He says "I have visited all the monuments in the neighbourhood. Pompey's pillar has nothing very extraordinary about it. I have, however, discovered that there is still something to be gleaned respecting it. It rests upon a mass of solid masonry, constructed out of some ancient ruins, and I have found among those ruins the cartouche [so in the original] of Psammetichus II. I have not neglected the Greek inscription on the base of the columu, upon which some uncertainty still prevails.

BAGATELLES-By MRS. CAREY, Author of "Lasting Impressions," &e. On reading, in the Sunday Observer of October 5, that one Sweeper-boy carried his Comrade in a Sack through the Gate at Waterloo Bridge, to evade the payment of the Toll.

MISERS who love their pelf to heap,

May now take lessons from a sweepFor who, of all their race, knows any, Who took such pains to save a penny? Toll-men, look out-for, should those elves Pursue this mode of cheating, You must, in justice to yourselves, Give every sack a beating. West Square, Oct. 6.

On reading, in the Gentleman's Magazine,

that a Monsieur B. had invented a mode of moving and continuing under Water for a considerable Time, without any communication with the atmospheric Air.

For then, when trac'd through each disguise,

You might elude Law's thousand eyes;
And beat its fleetest coursers hollow,
By diving, where they could not follow.
There you might lurk, uuseen and quiet-
Water and fish your slender diet-
And-when the news had spread around,
That you were fairly sunk and drown'd-
Rise, like new creatures, from the water,
And plunder in some other quarter.

On Icebergs appearing off the Cape of Good
Hope.
HOW must the Hottentots with wonder

gape,

To see huge Icebergs sailing to the Cape! But what does Parry say? He knows, full well,

The dreary regions where those Icebergs dwell,

And he, I ween, will not conceive it strange, That they, at length, should seek some

pleasing change;

And, taught by him, to venture, wisely try To warm themselves beneath a southern sky.

On a Horse going up in a Balloon, and
Kites drawing a Coach.
OH! wonder not, that horses take such
flights-

Mount on the breeze, and soar aloft like kites!
Well may they to the upper regions go,
Since kites are train'd to do their work below!

On seeing a Lady, in thin shoes, walking over a Macadamized crossing on a wet day. THAT wet feet are injurious, physicians declare,

So, gentlemen all, of the ladies take care,
And too many have cause to believe.
Or Mac Adam will leave you no Eve.

On a short Epigram, with a long Introduction.

would thrive,

If you, like Monsieur B. could dive:

The point is scarcely seen at all. West-square, Sept. 1.