6:69.) Manufactures and Useful Arts.

M Hayley, of Wimpole-freét, who has long diſtinguiſhed himſelf by the accuracy of his time-keepers, has lately made an improvement in the conſtruétion of theſe machines, which is himple, and promiſes to bring thèm to the greateſt perfetion. A model and deſcription of this machine is preparing by the inventor.

M. Hof, of Berlin, has made a ſort of grain or rice,(as he calls it, from-

otatoes, by granulating them in a machine, invented by him, through which the potatoes are preſſed. The grains thus, prepared and put in broth make a very good ſoup. 3 Î

Mr. Wild has lately obtained a patent for a harrow of anew conſtruction. It is contrived ſo as to obviate the inconveniences in rough and ſloping lands where the land is often done unequally. Dr. Anderſon has' alſo obtained a patent for an improved hot-houſe. i

A gentleman, of Grayſtock, in Cumberland, has lately invented a churn, which. is ſaid to be worked with ſo much eaſe tlata boy of twelve years of age can churn with it faſter than a man with the old churn. 1

Fine Arts, Sciences, and Literature.

TR grand Gallery of Antiques at Paris was lately opened, in which thoſe chefs d'œuvres of art that were brought from Italy, with many others that the French before poſſeſſed, are exhibited; it forms the fined aſſemblage that has ever been colleê&ted.

A gold medal has lately been prelented to Dr. Jenner, by the Medical Officers of the Navy, for his promulgation of the Vaccine Inoculation.

At the Leiphg Eaſter fair the number of new books were 2,894, and ſap- poſing the Michaelmas fair to be little more than 1,000, the whole will nearly amount to 4,000 The Publiſher of this Magazine imports them re- gularly.‘

In England it appears, by a very corre& liſt of books in the annals of philoſophy, literature,&c. that the whole number of books and pamphlets

does not quite reach 700,

Natural Phoenomena.

HE wite of Mr. Leddon, near Bath, was laſt week delivered of three boys and a girl, all likely to do well.

‘There is now living at Bampton, Oxtordſhire, a man named Petty pher; his age is 84; lis father lived 80, his grandfather 96, his great grand- father 102, and his great great grandfather I06 years;

During the thunder ſtorm laſt month, the houſe of Mr. Hill, at Marks- bury, near Bath, was(truck by: lightning, and în a ſhort time reduced to aſhes, Mes. Hill, with her infant child, and ber fiſter-in-law, were the only péerlous in the houſe, and, alarmed at the ſtorm, had bolted the doors, and cloſed the window ſhutters, and removing as far as poſſible from the win- dows, got to the chimney» gown which ſome ones ſhortly tell, accompanied by ſparks of fire, and a{trong ſulphureous ſmell. The fiſter-in-law, who ſtood with her back to the fire-place, was ſtruck dead, although the only marks-of injury that afterwards appeared were ſome livid ſpots on the back of her neck and fhoulders.„Mrs. Bill, who ſat cloſe by her, ran with‘her in- fant into an adjoining room and fainted.- The houſe became in a few mi- nutes involved in flames'z andy although the fire was immediately diſco- vered, yet ſo much time elapſedin forcing open the doors,&c. fhat itwas

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