INTELLIGENCE.

Italian Literature. Beattie's "Minstrel" has been translated into Italian, by Mr. Mathias, and published at Naples. Mr. Mathias is well known in Italy as the translator of the "Caractacus" and "Sappho" of Mason, the "Lycidas" of Milton, the "Naiads" of Akenside, &c. M. Cheloni, of Leghorn, has lately published a specimen of a new mode of facilitating the study of languages; the result of the labor of five and twenty years. This mode consists in the formation of a kind of analytical dictionary, by means of which, languages are reduced to a small number of fundamental words, classed according to the nature of the subjects they express, and to the use which is made of them in speech; to which dictionary of the most common words, others having relation to them are gradually added. Thus order and connexion are imparted to the multitude of words, which at present render our dictionaries a kind of chaos, which the efforts of the most tenacious memory, and the most obstinate study fail to comprehend.

The Canon Jorio of Naples, an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts, and already favorably known to the literary world, by his archæological works, and to the foreigners who visit Naples, by his polite attention, has recently published a very interesting analysis of the labors of many past years, on the manuscripts found at Herculaneum, and of the means, more or less successful, adopted to unroll them. One of the most remarkable of the discoveries which have been recently made, is that of a manuscript by Philodemus, attributing to Theophrastus the treatise on Polity, which has to this day been ascribed to Aristotle. The papyri which have been translated, and which are ready to be published, contain; 1st. Two treatises on Rhetoric, by Philodemus; 2dly. A work on Morals, by the same author; 3dly. Two books by Epicurus on Nature, and a work by Chrysippus on Providence. The interpreters are at present busy with three treatises, by Carniseus, Polystratus, and Epicurus; and a fourth by an unknown author.

Boccaccio. Several travellers have mentioned, that a lady of the name of Lenzoni, having bought the house at Certaldo formerly inhabited by Boccaccio, caused it to be repaired with the greatest care, in order that it should serve as a monument of him, both to his countrymen and to the foreigners who might visit it to pay a tribute to the memory of that great writer. At the foot of the room in which this ingenious storyteller usually dwelt, Madame Lenzoni has caused his picture to be painted, of the size of life, and in an attitude of meditation. The room is also decorated with other pictures, and with two cabinets, containing all Boccaccio's works. In examining, some years ago, his tomb in the church of Certaldo, thirteen manuscripts on parchment were discovered, which unfortunately were scattered, and have not been collected again to the present day. It is probable, also, that this is not the only loss which letters have experienced in this place. It is confidently asserted, that an old woman, at work in the room which we have just described, saw a piece of the wainscot detach itself from the rest, and a packet, composed of several manuscripts, fall from the breach, and that she

hastened to burn them; incited, no doubt, by a mistaken notion of piety, and apprehensive that they might contain some irreligious matter. One cannot reflect without regret, that these manuscripts were probably some work of Boccaccio, hitherto unknown, but now for ever perished.

Paris. The city of Paris pays annually to the state eighty-one million francs, nearly four million four hundred thousand dollars; a sum equal to half the revenue of the whole kingdom of the Netherlands. Of this sum, twenty-eight millions are paid in direct, and nineteen millions in indirect taxes; sixteen millions are received for crown property, acts of registration, and stamps; six millions are derived from the lottery; five millions from the gaming-houses; and four millions from the post-office. Each individual, taking the population at seven hundred and thirteen thousand souls, pays one hundred and fourteen francs; and without the gaming-houses, one hundred and six francs.

Paris, under the principal relations of finance and political economy, is a tenth of the whole of France.

According to the estimate of deaths during the years 1819 to 1821, in which the distinction of age and sex was established, it is remarked, that mortality among males up to the age of twenty-five years, is greater than among females, and that from this age up to fifty, there die more women than men. It is reckoned, that more women than men arrive at an advanced age.

In the year 1821, three hundred and forty-eight suicides were effected or attempted; in two hundred and forty-four of these cases, death ensued. Of this number, two hundred and thirty-six were men.

Thirty-three suicides have been effected by severe voluntary falls; thirty-eight by strangulation; twenty-five by cutting instruments, &c.; sixty by means of fire-arms; twenty-three by poison; forty-two asphyxies by charcoal vapour; and one hundred and twenty-seven by drowning.

French Academy of Medicine. A committee of the Parisian Academy of Medicine, has made a report on M. Lesueur's paper relative to his new mode of administering medicines. Cutaneous absorption is considered by M. Lesueur, as, in many cases, the best method of introducing medical substances into the animal economy; but he thinks, that, instead of simple friction on the unbroken skin, the epidermis ought to be first removed by a blister; a precaution which renders the absorption certain. Fourteen detailed experiments, made before the committee, induce them to consider M. Lesueur's process capable of becoming eminently useful. Among other effects, they saw the acetate of morphine produce, in cases of chronic catarrh, cures, which the introduction of the same substance by the mouth, would never have effected. One evident cause of the difference, which results from M. Lesueur's mode of administering medicines, is, that, by adopting it, they escape the changes to which certain substances are exposed by remaining in the stomach. new committee, composed of five members, has been appointed by the Academy, for the purpose of repeating these interesting and important experiments.

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