The the editorial charge of Rev. William H. Goold, | of water. 25 feet of gas burnt in an atmopyre has been commenced. The doctrinal works will per hour, produces steam sufficient for one-horse occupy five volumes, the practical treatises four, power. Hence the applicability of the invention and the polemical seven. The first volume con- to baths, brewing, &c.— At the late meeting tains a life of Owen, by Rev. Andrew Thomson of the British Association, Major Rawlinson, of Edinburgh. This edition is edited with re- after enumerating many interesting particulars markable fidelity and care, and will prove a of the progress of Assyrian discoveries, stated valuable accession to theological literature.— that Mr. Layard, in excavating part of the palace Washington Irving has received from Mr. Mur- at Nineveh had found a large room filled with ray £9767 for copyrights and £2500 from Mr. what appeared to be the archives of the empire, Bentley, who has paid nearly £16,000 to Coo- ranged in successive tables of terra cotta, the per, Prescott, and Herman Melville.- The writings being as perfect as when the tablets Principal Theological Faculties in Germany are were first stamped. They were piled in huge those of Berlin and Halle. The subjoined list heaps, from the floor to the ceiling, and he had will show that almost all the Professors have already filled five large cases for dispatch to attained a wide reputation in the department of England, but had only cleared out one corner sacred letters. At Berlin the Professors are of the apartment. From the progress already NITZSCH, Theology, Dogmatic, and Practical; made in reading the inscriptions, he believed we HENGSTENBERG and VATKE, Exegesis of the should be able pretty well to understand the Old and New Testaments, and Introduction; contents of these tables-at all events, we should TWESTEN, Exegesis of the New Testament, ascertain their general purport, and thus gan Dogmatic Theology; F. STRAUSS, Homiletics; much valuable information. A passage might JACOBI, Ecclesiastical History; UBBMANN, Ori- be remembered in the Book of Ezra, where ental Languages. The Professors at Halle the Jews having been disturbed in building the are: JULIUS MULLER, Theology, Dogmatic, and Temple, prayed that search might be made in Practical; THOLUCK, Exegesis and Moral Phi- the house of records for the edict of Cyrus perlosophy; HUPFELD, Hebrew and Oriental Lan-mitting them to return to Jerusalem. guages; GUERICKE, Ecclesiastical History, In- chamber recently found might be presumed to troduction; HERZOG, MAYER, and THILO, Ec- be the House of Records of the Assyrian Kings, clesiastical History.- A new apparatus for where copies of the Royal edicts were duly dethe production of heat has been invented by Mr. posited. When these tablets had been examined D. O. Edwards. It is named the "atmopyre,' and deciphered, he believed that we should have or solid gas fire. A small cylinder of pipe clay, a better acquaintance with the history, the revarying in length from two to four inches, per-ligion, the philosophy, and the jurisprudence of forated with holes the fiftieth of an inch in diameter, in imitation of Davy's safety lamp, is employed. The cylinder has a circular hole at one end, which fits upon a "fish-tail" burner; gas is introduced into the interior of the cylinder, with the air of which it becomes mixed, forming a kind of artificial fire-damp. This mixture is ignited on the outside of the vessel, and burns entirely on the exterior of the earthenware, which is enveloped in a coat of pale blue flame. The clay cylinder which Mr. Edwards calls a "hood," soon becames red hot, and presents the appearance of a solid red flame. All the heat of combustion is thus accumulated on the clay, and is thence radiated. One of these cylinders is heated to dull redness in a minute or two; but an aggregate of these "hoods" placed in a circle or cluster, and inclosed in an argillaceous case, are heated to an orange color, and the case itself becomes bright red. By surrounding this "solid gas fire" with a series of cases, one within another, Mr. Edwards has obtained a great intensity of heat, and succeeded in melting gold, silver, copper, and even iron. Mr. Palmer, the engineer of the Western Gas-light Company, by burning two feet of gas in an atmopyre of twelve "hoods," raised the temperature of a room measuring 8551 cubic feet, five degrees of Fahrenheit in seventeen minutes. The heat generated by burning gas in this way is 100 per cent. greater than that engendered by the ordinary gas flame when tested by the evaporation Assyria 1500 years before the Christian era, One The captain and second mate of the steamer Orion, which was wrecked in June, have been sentenced, the former to eighteen months' imprisonment, the latter to ten years' transportation, for gross and culpable negligence of duty. -Lieutenant Gale, somewhat celebrated as an aeronaut, lost his life while making an ascent on horseback at Bordeaux. said, no word can be spoken lest thousands of He had descended in safety, and the horse was removed; the diminution of the weight caused the balloon to ascend rapidly, with the aeronaut, who was somewhat intoxicated, clinging to it. He of course soon fell, and, a day or two after, his body was found, with the limbs all broken, and mutilated by dogs.—Mr. Mongredien, a London cornfactor, has published a pamphlet, in which he endeavors to estimate the probable amount of home-grown food upon which Ireland can calculate the coming year. As the result of extensive inquiries, he is of the opinion that the potato crop will suffice as food for the masses only until January; and that the wheat-crop amounts to but three-fourths of last year's amount.- -The Postmaster General has directed that all letters addressed to the United States, shall be forwarded by the first mail packet that sails, whether British or American, unless specially directed otherwise. - Vis-sent in search of Sir John Franklin, had been count Fielding, who occupied the chair at the seen by an English whale-ship west of Devil's great Church Meeting in Free-Mason's Hall, Thumb, in Greenland, having advanced 500 on the 23d of July, has abandoned the English miles since last heard from.- -The new CuChurch for that of Rome.A number of the nard Steamer Africa, of the same dimensions Catholic bishops of Ireland were appointed by with the Asia, is nearly ready to take her place government as official visitors of the New Col- in the line, and the Company are about to comlege, to which they were known to be bitterly op-mence another ship of still larger size and posed. The appointments have been scornfully power. Disastrous inundations have derejected by the bishops. The Britannia stroyed all the crops in the province of Brescia, Bridge, one of the greatest triumphs of modern in Lombardy. Subscriptions were opened in engineering, was completed on the 13th of Sep- Milan, the aggregate amount of which (about tember, by the lowering of the last of the tubes 50,000 francs) was sent to the relief of the to its permanent resting-place. Some curious unfortunate inhabitants.- -There are in the acoustic effects have been observed in connec- prisons at Naples at present no less than 40,000 tion with this work. Pistol shots, or any sono political prisoners; and the opinion is that, from rous noises, are echoed within the tube half a the crowded state of the jails, the greater numdozen times. The cells at the top and bottom, ber will go mad, become idiots, or die.are used by the engineers as speaking tubes, Lines of electric telegraph are extending rapidand they can carry on conversation through ly over Central Europe. Within four months, them in whispers; by elevating the voice per- 1000 miles have been opened in Austria, maksons may converse through the length of the ing 2000 in that empire, of which 500 are under bridge-nearly a quarter of a mile. The total ground. Another 1000 miles will be ready next cost of the entire structure has been £601,865. year. The telegraph now works from Cracow The total weight of each of the wrought iron to Trieste, 700 miles.- -On the 1st of October, roadways now completed, represents 12,000 tons, the new telegraph union between Austria, Prussupported on a total mass of masonry of a mill- sia, Saxony, and Bavaria, was to come into ion and a half cubic feet, erected at the rate of operation, under a uniform tariff, which is onethree feet in a minute.-Mount Blanc was half of the former charges.-The Hungarian ascended on the 29th of September, to its top-musicians accustomed to perform their national most peak, by two gentlemen from Ireland, Mr. Gratton, late of the army, and Mr. Richards, with a party of the brave mountaineers of Chamouni. The enterprise was considered so dangerous, that the guides left their watches and little valuables behind, and the two gentlemen made their wills, and prepared for the worst. The ascent is always accompanied with great peril, as steps have to be cut up the sloping banks of the ice; one of the largest glaciers has to be passed, where one false step entails certain death, as the unfortunate falls into a crevice of almost unknown depth, from which no human hand could extricate him. A night has to be passed on the cold rock amidst the thunders of the avalanche, and spots have to be passed where, it is airs in the streets of Vienna, have been ordered to quit the city. It is said they will go through Europe, in order to excite popular sympathy in behalf of their unfortunate country, by means of their music, the great characteristic of which is a strange mixture of wild passion and deep melancholy.After eight years' labor, the gigantic statue of the King of Bavaria has been finished, and is now placed on the hill of Saint Theresa, near Munich. The bronze of the statue cost 92,600 florins, or £11,800.-The will of Sir Robert Peel prohibits his executors investing any of his real or personal property on securities in Ireland.- -From a late parlia mentary return, it appears there are are thirtytwo iron steamers in Her Majesty's Navy. Recent letters from the East speak of very val- | pronounced for the revision, or have pronounced uable and extensive sulphur mines just discovered upon the borders of the Red Sea, in Upper Egypt. The products of these mines are said to be so abundant, that a material fall in the prices of Sicilian sulphur must inevitably soon take place. The working of the newly-discovered mine and its productiveness are greatly facilitated by its proximity to the sea. The Egyptian Government, which at first leased the mines to a private company, is now about to resume possession and work them on its own account. against it; thirty-three are in favor of a legal revision; thirteen demand the revision without explaining on what conditions they desire to see it effected; and six demand it immediately; making the total of eighty-five. From GERMANY the most important intelligence relates to the Electorate of Hesse Cassel, a state containing less than a million of inhabitants, and having a revenue of less than two and a half millions of dollars. By the Constitution the Chamber has the exclusive right of voting taxes. The Elector, acting probably under the advice of Austria, resolved to get rid of the Constitution; and as the first step toward to raise the taxes, without specific votes of the Chamber. The Parliament replied by an unanimous vote, that however little the ministers possessed the confidence of Parliament, they would not go the length of refusing the supplies, but requested to have a regular budget laid before them, which they promised to examine, discuss, and vote. To so fair and constitutional a resolution the minister replied by dissolving the Parliament, and proceeding to levy the taxes in spite of the Parliament and the Constitution. The cabinet went to the extrem From FRANCE the only intelligence of interest relates to political movements, concerning which, moreover, there is nothing but partisan and un-it, he appointed as his minister Hassenpflug, a reliable rumors. The President, in his various man wholly without character, and who had letters, addresses, &c., insists uniformly on the been convicted of forgery in another State, and necessity of maintaining the existing order of with him was associated Haynau, brother of the things, and speaks confidently of an appeal to infamous Austrian General. Months past away the people. Contradictory rumors prevail as to without the Chamber being summoned, but at his intentions-some believing that he meditates the time when the session usually closed, the a coup-d'état, but most regarding his movements Parliament was called together, and an immeas aimed to secure the popular vote. The As-diate demand made for money and for powers sembly is to meet on the 11th of November, and his opponents intend then to force him to some ultra-constitutional act which will afford them ground for an appeal. A series of military reviews has engaged public attention; they have been closely watched for incidents indicative of the President's purposes: it is remarked that those who salute him as Emperor are always rewarded for it by some preference over others. -The Councils-general of France have closed their annual session. The chief topic of their deliberations has been the revision of the Constitution, and the result is of interest as indi-ity of proclaiming the whole Electorate in a cating the state of public opinion upon that subject. It seems that twenty-one councils separated without taking the subject into consideration; ten rejected propositions for revision; two declared that the constitution ought to be respected; thirty-three departments, therefore, refused, more or less formally, to aid the revision. On the other hand, forty-nine councils came to decisions which the revisionist party claim for themselves. But a very great diversity is to be perceived in these decisions. Thirty-two pronounced in favor of revision only "so far as it should take place under legal conditions," or "so far as legality should be observed;" two of those called attention to the forty-fifth article of the constitution, which makes Louis Napoleon incapable of being immediately rechosen; but another demanded that his powers should be prolonged. One council voted for revision, and also desired to prolong the President's power; ten simply voted for revision; five pronounced for immediate revision, but by very small majorities; one went further, and proposed to give the present Assembly-which is legislative and not constituent-authority to effect the revision. Three councils express merely a desire for a remedy to the present situation. Thirty-three departments have not state of siege, and investing the commander-inchief with dictatorial powers against the press, personal liberty, and property. The town council unanimously protested against these arbitrary acts; and such a spirit of resistance was excited that the Elector and his minister were constrained to seek safety in flight. The Elector left Cassel on the morning of the 13th, and arrived the same evening at Hanover, where he was afterward joined by Hassenpflug. Some of the accounts state that M. Hassenpflug was agitated by terror in his flight. On the 16th, the Elector and his ministers were at Frankfort. The government of the Electorate had been assumed by the Permanent Committee of the Assembly.- -In Mecklenberg-Schwerin a similar revolution seems likely to take place. In October, 1849, a new Constitution was formed by the deputies of this Duchy, which received the assent of the Duke. This Constitution was quite democratic in character. The Duke now feeling himself strong enough coolly pronounces the Constitution invalid, absolves his subjects from all allegiance to it, and restores the old Constitution, which was formed in 1755. It is supposed that the Diet will adopt the Hesse Cassel system of stopping the supplies, and so starving out their sovereign. LITERARY NOTICES. employs his brilliant fancies for the elucidation and ornament of truth, but never for its discovery. On this account, he inspires a feeling of trust in the sanity of his genius, although its conclusions may not be implicitly adopted. Still, with the deep respect with which we regard the intellectual position of Dr. Williams, we do not think his writings are destined to obtain a wide popularity. Their condensation of thought, the elaborate and often antique structure of their sentences, the profoundly meditative cast of sentiment with which they are pervaded, and even their Oriental profusion of imagery, to say nothing of the adamantine rigor of their relig modern readers, whose tastes have been formed on models less distinguished for their austerity than for their airiness and grace. Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, Boston, have recently issued neat reprints of The Poetry of Science, by ROBERT HUNT, a popular English work, exhibiting the great facts of science, in their most attractive aspects, and as leading the mind to the contemplation of the Universe; The Footprints of the Creator, by HUGH MILLER, with a memoir of the author, by Professor AGASSIZ, who characterizes his geological productions as possessing "a freshness of conception, a power of argumentation, a depth of thought, a purity of feeling, rarely met with in works of that character, which are well calculated to call forth sympathy, and to increase the popularity of a science which has already done so much to expand our views of the plan of Creation;" and a third edition of The Pre-Adamite Earth, by JOHN HARRIS, whose valuable contributions to theological science have won for him a high reputation both in England and our own country A new work by Rev. WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS, the eminent Baptist clergyman in New York, has just been issued by Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, entitled Religious Progress, consisting of a series of Lectures on the development of the Christian character, founded on the beautiful gradation of religious excellencies described by St. Peter in his second Epistle. The subjects, which succeed each other in the order of the text, are, Religion a Principle of Growth, Faith its Root, Virtue, Knowledge, Temperance, Patience, Godliness, Brotherly Kindness, Charity. No one who has read any of the former productions of the author can fall into the error of supposing that these topics are treated accord-ious views, are not suited to the great mass of ing to any prescribed, stereotyped routine of the pulpit, or that they labor under the dullness and formality which are often deemed inseparable from moral disquisitions. On the contrary, this volume may be regarded as a profound, stringent, and lively commentary on the aspects of the present age, showing a remarkable keenness of observation, and a massive strength of expression. The author, although one of the most studious and erudite men of the day, is by no means a mere isolated scholar. His vision is not confined by the walls of his library. Watching the progress of affairs, from the quiet "loop-holes of his retreat," he subjects the pictured phantasmagoria before him to a rigorous and searching criticism. He is not apt to be deluded by the dazzling shows of things. With a firm and healthy wisdom, acquired by vigilant experience, he delights to separate the genuine from the plausible, the true gold from the sounding brass, and to bring the most fair-seeming pretenses before the tribunal of universal principles. The religious tone of this volume is lofty and severe. Its sternness occasionally reminds us of the sombre, passionate, half despairing melancholy of John Foster. The modern latitudinarian finds in it little either of sympathy or tolerance. It clothes in a secular costume the vast religious ideas which have been sanctioned by ages, but makes no attempt to mellow their austerity, or reduce their solemn grandeur to the level of superficial thought and worldly aspirations. The train of remark pursued in any one of these Lectures can never be inferred from its title. The suggestive mind of the writer is kindled by the theme, and luxuriates in a singular wealth of analogies, which lead him, it is true, from the beaten track, but only to open upon us ar unexpected prospect, crowned with original and enchanting beauties. His power of apt and forcible illustration is almost without a parallel among recent writers. The mute page springs into life beneath the magic of his radiant imagination. But this is never at the expense of solidity of thought or strength of argument. It is seldom indeed that a mind of so much poctical invention yields such a willing homage to the logical element. He the Revolution. Harper and Brothers have published Nos. 7 and 8 of LOSSING's Pictorial Field Book of the American Revolution. The character of this popular serial may be perceived from the ex tracts at the commencement of the present number of our Magazine. With each successive issue, Mr. Lossing's picturesque narrative gains fresh interest; he throws a charm over the most familiar details by his quiet enthusiasm and winning naïveté; and under the direction of such an intelligent and genial guide it is delightful to wander over the battle-fields of American history, and dwell on the exploits of the heroes by whose valor our national Independence was achieved. Among the embellishments in these numbers, we observe a striking likeness of the venerable Timothy Pickering, of Massachusetts, portraits of Gen. Stark, Joel Barlow, Gen. Wooster, and William Livingston, and exquisite sketches of Baron Steuben's Headquarters, View near Toby's Eddy, The Susquehanna at Monocasy Island, The Livingston Mansion, The Bennington Battle-Ground, and other beautiful and interesting scenes in the history of Household Surgery; or Hints on Emergencies, by JOHN F. SOUTH (H. C. Baird, Philadelphia), is a reprint of a popular and amusing work by an eminent London surgeon, designed for non-professional readers, and pointing out the course to be pursued in case of an accident, when no surgical aid is at hand. The author puts in a caveat against misapprehending the purpose of his book, which he wishes should be judged solely on its merits. No one is to expect in it a whole body of surgery, nor to obtain materials for setting up as an amateur surgeon, to practice on every unfortunate individual who may fall within his grasp; but directions are given which may be of good service on a pinch, when the case is urgent, and no doctor is to be had. In the opinion of the author, whoever doctors himself when he can be doctored, is in much the same case with the man who conducted his own cause, and had a fool for his client. With this explanation, Dr. South's volume may be consulted to great advantage; and although no one would recommend a treatise on bruises and broken bones for light reading, it must be confessed, that many popular fictions are less fertile in entertainment. An exquisite edition of Gray's Poetical Works has been issued by H. C. Baird, with an original memoir and notes, by the American Editor, Prof. HENRY REED, of Philadelphia. It was the intention of the Editor to make this the most complete collection of Gray's Poems which has yet appeared, and he seems to have met with admirable success in the accomplishment of his plan. The illustrations of Radclyffe, engraved in a superior style of art, by A. W. Graham, form the embellishments of this edition. have rarely, if ever, seen them surpassed in the most costly American gift-books. The volume is appropriately dedicated to JAMES T. FIELDS, the poet-publisher of Boston. We by ROBERT MACFARLANE (G. P. Putnam), is the title of a useful work, describing most of the propelling methods that have been invented, which may prevent ingenious men from wast ing their time, talents, and money on visionary projects. It also gives a history of the attempts of the early inventors in this department of practical mechanics, including copious notices of Fitch, Rumsey, Fulton, Symington, and Bell. A separate chapter, devoted to Marine Navigation, presents a good deal of information on the subject rarely met with in this country The Country Year-Book; or, The Field, The Forest, and The Fireside (Harper and Brothers), is the title of a new rural volume by the bluff, burly, egotistic, but good-natured and humane Quaker, WILLIAM HOWITT, filled with charming descriptions of English country life, redolent of the perfume of bean-fields and hedge-rows, overflowing with the affluent treasures of the four seasons, rich in quaint, expressive sketches of old-fashioned manners, and pervaded by a generous zeal in the cause of popular improvement A more genial and agreeable companion for an autumn afternoon or a winter's evening could scarcely be selected in the shape of a book. Success in Life. The Mechanic, by Mrs. L. C. TUTHILL, published by G. P. Putnam, is a little volume belonging to a series, intended to illustrate the importance of sound principles and virtuous conduct to the attainment of worldly prosperity. Without believing in the necessary connection between good character and success in business, we may say, that the examples brought forward by Mrs. Tuthill are of a striking nature, and adapted to produce a deep and wholesome impression. In the present work, she avails herself of incidents in the history of John Fitch, Dr. Franklin, Robert Fulton, and Eli Whitney, showing the obstacles which they were compelled to encounter, and the energy with which they struggled with difficulties. She writes in a lively and pleasing manner; her productions are distinguished for their elevated moral tone; and they can scarcely fail to become favorites with the public. The second volume of the Memoirs of Dr. Chalmers, by his son-in-law, WILLIAM HANNA, is issued by Harper and Brothers, comprising a most interesting account of his labors during his residence at Glasgow, and bringing his biography down to the forty-third year of his age. The whole career of this robust and Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet; An Autobiog sinewy divine is full of instruction, but no part|raphy, is the quaint title of a political and reof it more abounds with important events than the period devoted to efforts in bringing the destitute classes of Glasgow under the influence of Christian ministrations. Whether in the pulpit, in the discharge of his parochial duties, in the construction of his noble schemes for social melioration, or in the bosom of his family, Dr. Chalmers always appears the same whole-hearted, frank, generous, energetic man, commanding our admiration by the splendor of his intellect, and winning our esteem by the loveliness of his character. Some interesting reminiscences of the powerful but erratic preacher, Edward Irving, who was at one time the assistant of Dr. Chalmers in the Tron Church, are presented in this volume. History of Propellers and Steam Navigation, ligious novel, understood to be written by a clergyman of the Church of England, which is said to have fallen like a bomb-shell on the oldfashioned schools of political economy in that country. It purports to be the history of a youth of genius, doomed to struggle with the most abject poverty, and forced by the necessity of his position to become a Chartist and a Radical. Brought up in the sternest school of ultraCalvinism, he passes by natural transitions from a state of hopeless and desperate infidelity, to a milder and more cheerful religious faith, and having taken an active part in schemes for the melioration of society by political action, he learns by experience the necessity of spiritual influences for the emancipation of the people The tone of the narrative is vehement, austere, |