OXFORD, Dec. 30.-The following subjects are proposed for the Chancellor's prizes for the ensuing year, viz:For Latin verses, "Eleusis;" for an English essay," The Study of Modern History;" for a Latin essay, "De Auguriis et Auspiciis apud Antiquos." The first of the above subjects is intended for those gentlemen of the University who have not exceeded four years from the time of their matriculation; and the other two for such as have exceeded four, but not completed seven years.

Sir Roger Newdigate's prize for the best composition in English verse, not containing either more or fewer than fifty lines, by any under graduate who has not exceeded four years from the time of his matriculation-" Pæstum."

WELSH LITERATURE.-The members of Jesus College, Oxford, have of fered the undermentioned prizes for compositions on the following subjects: For the best essay in the Welsh language, on the Advantages likely to accrue to the Principality from a National Biography," 201.; for the best translation into the Welsh language of the first of the sermons on the Sacrament, by the Reverend John Jones, M. A., of Jesus College, Archdeacon of Merioneth, Bampton Lecturer for the present year, 107.; for the best six Englynion on the words of Taliesin, "Cymru fu, Cymru fydd," 21.; to the best Welsh reader in Jesus College Chapel, 6. ; to the second best Welsh reader, 41.

CAMBRIDGE, Jan. 5.-The Norrisian prize is adjudged to Mr Kenelm Digby, B. A., of Trinity College, for an essay, shewing, from a review of the civil, moral, and religious state of mankind at the time when Christ came in to the world, how far the reception which his religion met with, is a proof of its divine origin.

The Hulsean prize is adjudged to

the Reverend Robert Brough, B. A., of Benett College, for a dissertation on" The importance of Natural Religion." The subject of the Hulsean prize dissertation for the present year is, "The expedients to which the Gentile Philosophers resorted, in opposing the progress of the Gospel, described, and applied in illustration of the truth of the Christian Religion." The Reverend C. Benson, M. A., Fellow of Magdalen College, is continued Hulsean lecturer for the present year.

Jan. 11.-Sir William Browne's Medals.-Subjects for the present year: For the Greek ode, 'Qxsavos ò YmgBogtos.

For the Latin ode, Maria Scotorum Regina.

For the epigrams, Επαιζεν άμα σπου δάζων.

PORSON PRIZE. The passage fixed upon for the present year, is from Shakespeare's Othello, Act I., Scene III. Othello's apology, beginning with,

"And till she comes, as truly as to heaven." And ending with,

"Here comes the lady, let her witness it.” The metre to be Tragicum Iambicum Trimetrum Acatalecticum.

FRANCE.-Among other periodical publications, there is one at Paris, bearing the name of Bibliography of France. About 50 numbers appear annually, composing a volume of from 800 to 1000 pages. This work exhi bits a list of all the printed works and re-impressions throughout the French territory. Once a-week, there appears a number of 16 pages, more or less. Every publication, whether printed at Paris, or in the departments, is noticed instantly after its appearance. Works of minor, as well as of the greatest im portance, are announced alike. The number of bookselling articles announ ced in 1820, was near 5000.

FRENCH ASIATIC SOCIETY. - A number of learned men have united to form at Paris an Asiatic Society, the object of which is, to encourage in France the study of the principal languages of Asia. It is their intention to procure oriental MSS., to circulate them either by means of printing or lithography, to have extracts or translations made of them, and to join in the publication of grammars and dictionaries. This new Institution will correspond with other societies, which devote themselves to the same object, and with learned men who apply to the study of the oriental languages. 25 francs per annum is to be the subscription; many learned men are enrolled.

The French literati are occupied in a work of some importance; preparing translations of Plutarch, Sallust, Tacitus, Aristotle, Hippocrates, &c. from the Arabic MSS., into which language, many, or all the best Greek and Roman authors, are known to have been translated.

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The Royal and Special School of Living Oriental Languages in Paris, is to have its establishment completed by the creation of a professorship for modernGreek, and another for the vulArabic. These two languages are of no less importance in commercial and political transactions than in literary fabours. The individuals promoted to these newly created chairs, are entitled, from their known talents, and from the facility with which they speak the respective tongues, to the honourable appointments they have received from his Majesty. One is M. Hase, professor of modern Greek, and the other Böether, professor of the vulgar Arabic.

MODERN GREEK.-M.Jules David, son of the celebrated French painter, after diligently studying the modern language of Greece, during his resi

dence in that country, has published the results of four years' application and observation, in a treatise, entitled Paralelle des Langues Grecques, Ancienne et Moderne, in which he labours to prove, that an acquaintance with the modern idiom is indispensable to those who would fully comprehend all the force and beauty of Homer, with other ancient writers. He has compared the ancient and modern idiom in a very ingenious manner, and elucidates many things in the former that had been before negligently and superficially treated of, or even not at all noticed. Among these, are the theory of the Syntelic and the Paratasis, the collocation of words, and the structure of hypothetical sentences; on all which questions he has succeeded in throwing considerable light.

In literature much business was done by the Germans, and, notwithstanding the restrictions laid by the Congress on the liberty of the press, and the general complaint of there being little demand for books, owing to the general depression on the minds of the people, from the circumstances which always succeed a long war, we learn by the Leipsic half-yearly Universal Catalogue, that 393 German booksellers have delivered no less than 3322 new articles. This far exceeds the publication of former years, a sign that human learning, in spite of various hindrances, stands higher and higher in the scale of perfection, and reflects great honour on the author, publisher, printer, and engraver, whose industry must produce the happiest effects on the public mind in the civilized parts of the world. Among these publications are :—

704 Pedagogical Books of Instruction; 172 Children's, Juvenile, and School Books; 11 Introductions to Writing, and Specimens of Penmanship; 204 Philological and Universal Gram

mar; 21 Antiquities; 35 on Perfection in the German Language; 350 on Learning Modern Languages; 42 on Arithmetic; 32 on Mathematics; 7 on Astronomy; 136 on Geography and Statistics; 73 Charts; 10 Atlases; 8 on Universal History of Nature; 235 on Medicine and Surgery for Men and Animals. From the Muses, 74 Poemssingle and collections; with 58 Plays to cheer the mind and heart; 252 Miscellaneous Works, to employ and misemploy the time, among which are 157 Romances and Novels; 18 of Play and Gaming Treatises, for small and great children; 255 on Theology, Religious Instruction, Dogmatic, Catholic, and Israelitish, for the cultivation of the mind and heart, and to give us a more perfect idea of the invisible power and wisdom of God; with 45 on the Art and Science of War. The number of Works of Pulpit Eloquence appear to be on the decline.

LITHOGRAPHY.-A society has been formed at Munich for the imitation of Oriental MSS. The object is, by means of Lithography, to multiply copies of the best works, which are extant in the Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and Tartar tongues; and to dispose of them in the east, by the port of Trieste. The cabals of those, whose business it is to write MSS., and the different ornaments with which the Turks and Arabs adorn their writings, have been obstacles to this design hitherto; but, by the aid of lithography, the difficulty, it is thought, may be overcome. Thus the cheapness of that mode of engraving will contribute to spread, to an unlimited extent, the treasures of the best writers of the East.

ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS.-M. Maïo has made some new discoveries of lost works of ancient writers, among which are several parts of the mutilated and lost books of Polybius, of Diodorus, of Dion Cassius, some

fragments of Aristotle, of Ephorus, of Timeus, of Hyperides, of Demetrius of Phalaris, &c. some parts of the unknown writings of Eunapius, of Menander of Byzantium, of Priscus, and of Peter the Protector. Among the unedited works of Polybius are prologues of the lost books, and the entire conclusion of the 39th, in which the author takes a review of his history, and devotes his 40th book to chronology. The fragments of Diodorus and of Dion are numerous and most precious. Among them is a rapid recital of many of the wars of Rome; a narrative of the Civil, Punic, Social or Italic, and Macedonian wars; those of Epirus, Syria, Gaul, Spain, Portugal, and Persia. Parts of the history of the Greeks and other nations, and that of the successors of Alexander, &c. are among these. These were discovered in a MS. containing the Harangues of the rhetorician Aristides, from a large collection of ancient writings, made by order of Constantinus Porphyrogenetes, of which only a small part are known to be extant. The writing appears to be of the 11th century. M. Maïo has also met with an unedited Latin grammarian, who cites a number of lost writers, and a Latin rhetorician now unknown; also a Greek collection, containing fragments of the lost works of Philo. He has also found writings of the Greek and Latin fathers prior to St Jerome, with other valuable works.

GREEK LITERATURE.-The great College at Chios, which has increased so as to become a kind of European university, continues to flourish in spite of all obstacles. The number of students amounts to 476, a considerable number of whom are natives of the Peloponnesus, Cephalonia, and the islands of the Archipelago. It is remarkable that two youths from the

interior of North America have come to Chios, to study the language of Homer. Mr Varvoti, one of the richest Greek merchants, has presented 30,000 francs to the College, together with a number of books purchased at Paris.

A quite new and very useful establishment at Constantinople, is a phi lanthropic fund for the support of indigent students. It is under the immediate direction of three Greek archbishops, and several merchants. The celebrated Patriarch Gregory constantly shews himself a zealous friend and protector of public instruction, and courageously opposes the rapacity and machiavelism of the greater part of the Phanarists, i. e. the Greeks who are in the service of the Sultan.

The Abbé Amadeus Peyron, Professor of oriental languages in the university of Turin, has discovered some fragments of Cicero, in a MS. from the monastery of St Colomban di Bobbio, a town on the Trebia, in the King of Sardinia's dominions. This MS. contains important new readings of orations already known, and confirms the identity of several texts which have been tortured by indiscreet critics. It contains, besides, fragments of the orations, pro Scauro, pro M. Tullio, in Clodium, which are unfortunately lost. Some of those fragments have been already published by M. Maïo, after a MS. of the same library at Colomban, preserved in the Ambrosian library at Milan.

RUSSIA. According to the latest estimation, there are 350 living authors in this country, about one-eighth part of whom are ecclesiastics, but the far greater proportion consists of persons of rank. Backmeister, in his Russian Library, computed, that, previously to 1817, there existed about 4000 different works in that language. In the extensive collection of national literature belonging to the Academy of

Sciences of St Petersburg, there were, in 1800, 3000 works printed in the Russian tongue; among which, only 105 belonged to the class of novels and romances. Since this period, authorship has increased so much, that last year no fewer than 8000 volumes were printed in this language. Translations are very numerous, particularly of dramas, novels, works of imagination, and the Belles Lettres. There are newspapers and journals, both German and Russian, published at St Petersburg, Moscow, Riga, Revel, Abo, and other principal cities. At the first of these places there are fifteen printinghouses, and ten at Moscow.

NEW SOUTH WALES.-On the 23d of March, 1820, Governor Macquarie, (New South Wales) laid the first stone of a school for the education of poor children. It is to contain 500, and adopt Lancaster's method. There is another school in the colony for orphans, (male,) another for ditto, (female,) and a third for indigent children of both sexes. In these are taught, the elements of the Christian religion, reading, writing, and arithmetic, the principles of drawing and practical agriculture. Their progress, as reported, is very satisfactory. Civilization is making advances among the savages, many of their children being in these schools. The ulterior intention is to intermarry the young persons, when of age, and to grant them farms, cattle, ploughing implements, &c. On the 1st of Dec., 1820, Governor Macquarie laid the foundation of a new town, to be called Campbeltown. The situation is in the district of Aird, within a large level territory of the same name. This will make the seventh town erected in that part of the world. The others are Sidney, Paramatta, Windsor (late Hawksbury,) Liverpool, Newcastle, and Bathurst.

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