The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-05 00:00:00

LlTta_litY and scusTivic, INTELLiorNer.

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tntot4 ifitthitri souFicLs.i
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RdYAL SOCIETY LITERATUIt.t.--lliS a.
jest;: has intrusted the fdrmation of this instittt•
to the •lerlied. find eminent_ Dr, Thomtti
• Blirgesi-,- Bishop. of St: liairid's: diet' bra.nche
of the Royal .have becorrte 66bscribets
Min oiSte ,give.. their aidv; many of, thP'most
angst-4404 atnotig tixe cincl,ir in proinat-
in,,,i,the plan ; and the leading Meedberi of ,both
Utiivcrsities are- among; .its frietidS., 'Vhe s. fund
are. already cons 4 al lerle.; 11isMajegty-may
be cosi4eteci as. the personal as ..wO.l
Founder and Patron. of the Society. .'Tie first
Prize Questions to lie phlitised.ae as follow
Pronititiisfiw the l'eui-s alit/ 1822. .

1. The Pretniain of O'th 1.1 'Endre 1
Guinects, for the hest,dissertation on the a,ge,
triti;igc; and"genius of2.4orner •;• arta en the Stutz
of Society;- l'raearnin4; and the. Arts,
during that period;
.colleCted ,froni titre writhip
of Hower: . •
2. The Society's Premium. of Fijiy. G fiinea s,
for..the be.'3t. Poem 011,17artnioar. .

3.. The Society's Premium ~Of :Tre-entj.:fiz.s4
Guilieas,...ft4 the hestl.lsSay on the liiitory of the
Greek Lanfinit,9,-.e. of 'the -present iian-guage of
Greece, especially in< the lonian Islands ; and
on the ditlerence between Ancient and MOdern
Greek. . .

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H W omta.—lt is knon that the first Manuscript.;
from whiCh the Editions of Homer Were Made, is:
of no-later date than . the 10th centiiry-:' -4 recenC
discovery has' taken place in the 'Ambrosian Li.
brary -at Alilan, of a ' inanuScript, consisting of
several fragtrints of the Iliad, which appears tti
:be of the 4th centurys being about Six
.hundredyears more ancient. than the former. The cha-;
, racters.are all capitals, -and of a Square fdrm, si=
milar to those of the most refitted agt,s; Without
distinction of. words, and witty-. 4 aceents,- or any
indica.tions of'modern orthography. 'This Matta.;
script is embellished with sixty paintings 'on irel-;
Inm., equally antiqcie ; the subjects represent the
principal passages of the Iliad.
' M. Angelo Maio,- Professor at the Arribrosian:
College, has caused the mantiscript.tO be printed
in
,one volume, with engravings from the picture
and the ,numerous -Scholiae which accompany
them. ~

KRAUSE'S ' ILLUSTRATIONS or IlUmte..-Pro4
fessor Krause, of Gottingen, has written and added
a sixth volume to an unfinished work., comprisin2;
Notes and Illtistrations on Homer's Iliad. The
fist five volumes have been repeatedly reprint-
ed ; .new editions of them have appeared at
Bonn and Hanover, .and the sixth volume.
completes the whole series of Note's. They
are stated to bear the impress of profound eru:
dition. •• A similar commentary is • preparing on
the Odyssey. . .
h SCHOLIA ON JUTENAL.-=-114, Cramer, Counsul-
lor.of State of Keil, has published‘certain pass,
ages of a curious M.S. which -he found two years
ago ..in -the library of the convent of St Gall.
It, is of the eleventh- century, and. consists of
Scholia upon Juvenal ; they have the character
of being. superior in value and'-eorreciness to
any others now known. This programme!
which
.was composed on occasion Of a fete given,
by the :King of Denmark, has the title of Speci
men 210VW Editionis scholiitstre iuvenalig.

RESTORATION OF P:AtNTINGS. The white usel
in oil painting: is .generally prepared froin lead;
and forms the basis of many other 'pigments.,
and is extremely liable to turn brown or black,
when affected by sulphureous vaPours. M. The•
nard, of Paris, has restored a painting of
Raphael's, thus injured, :by means. of oxygenated
water. applied with a pencil, which instantly took
out the spots, and restored the whi:e. The fluid
was so weak, as to contain not more than five or
six times its volume of oxygen, and had ito taste:
ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.—The late eclipse,-:con.
,trary to the calculations of astrOnotheyS,—„Wa3
annular at Florence for the space Of 1 min. 44'sec.
The end of the eclipse took plade in that: city
at 4h. 26 win. 6 sec. ;- that is 34 sec. 'after the
time predicted by the astronomer Carlini, .and
28 sec. after that calculated by-Bridessor Lipari.
LoNaEvrrir,The Foreign Journals give the
following extraordinary statement:—
The tables of .Longevity published fOr the
year 1817, in the. Russian Empire, giVe the fol•
lowing results :
Amongst 828,561 Persons who have dieci,.all
belonging to. the Greek Church, there appear: to
have been as follows :--,

I Aboie . 140:
1 do. . 1:-15
7 db. . 130
21 do.• . 125
Gil do. . • 120 .
83 do. 113 . .
763 do. . 100 .

Years of Age:
do.

du.
do.

The banks of Lake Chaniplain, in thelinited
States of America, afford an instance of longevity
which has seldom been equAled since the period
of Holy Writ; the individual alluded to Is a
German by birth, aged 135 years. This yene-
rable character belonged to Quceti "'AS
Guards, at her Coronation in the year. 170, at
which time he was 18 years old; and Navin
served to the end .of the war,-he then \vent to
America. He is still robust, and very strong ;
he, sees and hears perfectly, and has still pro:-
served his hair.; lie has a soldier-like air, and
proud of his temperance, in having always ati.
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stained, from spirituous liquors. His youngest
son is 27 years of age, so that he was born when
his father was 108 years old. The above coin.
munication is frOm a-Mi.sSionary, and therefore its
correctness cannot be doubted.

Lady CAmpfirr.t. left the Admralty House,:
Portsmouth, on Wednesday morning, with the,
Honourable-Sir CirAnLEs PAGFrr, for his seat.
Fair - Oak, slants, and thence to 'the Ranger's_
Lodge at Richmond. Rer Ladyship gave twenty
guineas, on her departure, to be distribut4
among the poor. -

Stanage Park,. near Shropshire,„ is
said to have at this time more tide. plantations of
of growing tiinber trees, particularly of oak, than
any demesne of equal extent in the kingdom.
Within a very few years mare th.,:n. half a million
has been planted there.