The new Work of the Author of the Hermit in London is a Tale in 3 vols entitled, "The Highlanders."

It is rumoured in the dramatic circles, that the MS. of a considerable portion of Mr. MATURIN's Tragedy of Osmin (which was preparing for Covent Garden Theatre) has been lost in transitu per coach.

The new volumes of HORACE WALPOLE'S Remains are expected to appear in January. They will form the 7th and 8th volumes of his Works-the sixth having been lately completed by the publication of the Letters addressed to George Montague, Esq. and the Rev. William Cole.

Mr. HIGHMORE is preparing an Account of the Public Charities in London, since the date of his former work in 1810.

The Author of "The Mystery, or Forty Years Ago," and of "Calthorpe, or Fallen Fortunes," is about to come forward with a Tale, entitled "Lollardy," founded on the persecutions which marked the opening of the Fifteenth Century. It comprehends that stormy but interesting period, when the subjects of this country, who presumed to read the Bible in their vernacular tongue, were liable to be hanged as traitors to the King, and burned as heretics to God.

New Editions of Mr. BROWN's American Tales, Wieland and Ormond, are preparing for publication.

The French Government have authorised the publication of a new and less expensive Edition of the splendid and important work on Egypt, the result of the Observations and Researches made in that Country during the French Expedition. Messrs. Rodwell and Martin, who are appointed agents for the sale in England, have just published a detailed Prospectus, to which we invite the attention of the public.

M. LANGLES, Keeper of the Oriental MSS. in the Bibliothèque du Roi at Paris, has published a work on the ancient and modern Monuments of Hindostan.

Early in the ensuing month will be published Conversations on Mineralogy, with plates.

Preparing for publication, in 1 vol. 8vo. Europe, or a General Survey of the present Situation of the principal Powers, with conjectures on their future Prospects. By a Citizen of the United States.

JAMES HOGG, the Ettrick Shepherd, will shortly publish, in 3 vols., The Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft.

Mrs. OPIE has in the Press, Madeline, a Tale, in 2 vols. 12mo.

The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable HENRY GRATTAN are preparing for publication, in 1 vol. 8vo.

Miss SPENCE will shortly publish a new Work, entitled Old Stories, 3 vols.

In the course of a few days will be published, in 8vo., the Second Edition of Views of America, in a Series of Letters from that country to a Friend in England, during 1818, 19, 20. By F. WRIGHT.

In the press, Proofs and Illustrations of the Principles of Population. By FRANCIS PLACE.

Miss HILL, author of "The Poet's Child," has just ready for publication, Constance, a Tale.

A Correct Annual Guide to the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, which has long been wanted, is announced under the title of The Royal Blue Book, or Fashionable Directory and Canvassing Guide, for the year 1822. It is compiled on an entirely new plan, all the squares, principal streets, &c. being arranged according to their local situation.

A Grammar of the Sunscrit language, on a new plan, by the Rev. WILLIAM YATES, has just been imported, in 1 vol. 8vo.

Mr. BRITTON'S History and Antiquities of Canterbury Cathedral, consisting of 26 engravings by J. Le Keux, &c. and an ample portion of letter-press, which is now in course of publication, will be finished in March next. About the same time will be completed the fifth volume of the Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain. This volume is appropriated to a chronological arrangement and classification of the architecture of this kingdom, which is illustrated by 80 engravings, mostly by J. Le Keux, with a Historical and Critical Essay on the rise, progress, and characteristics of Ecclesiastical Architec

ture.

Mr. BERNARD COHEN, Editor of the Exchange List, has in considerable forwardness a work on the Public Debts and Finances of Foreign States, with an Appendix, including a compendious View of the Increase and Present State of the National Debt.

Speedily will be published, Instructions for Civil and Military Surveyors, in Topographical Plan-Drawing; forming a Guide to the just conception and accurate representation of the Surface of the Earth, in Maps and Plans. Founded upon the system of John George Lehmann, late Major in the Saxon infantry, &c. By WILLIAM SIBORN, Lieut. H. P. 9th infantry.

Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites. Mon. 26, 7 h. 30 m. 26 s. 2nd sat. emers. Tues. 27, 11 h. 21 m. 30 s. 1st sat. emers. Thurs. 29, 5 h. 50 m. 29 s. 1st sat.emers. Thurs. 29, 6 h. 43 m. 36 s. 3rd sat. emers.

The Weather.-The variableness of the climate of Great Britain has never been more remarkable than of late. On the 2d Nov. at six in the morning, Fahrenheit's thermometer stood at 604 degrees, and at the same hour on the 4th of July last, it

was only at 52; so that at one period in the middle of the present summer, it was 84 degrees colder than in the month of November. On the night of Nov. 1, at York, the minimum of the thermometer was 49; on the night of the 2nd July last, it was 36; being 13 degrees colder. On the 5th of November, at the same hour in the morning, the thermometer was at 30, being 19 deg. colder than three days before.

ON ushering in the new year, we should have been happy to congratulate the agriculturist on the prospect of terminating his perplexities with the old one; but candour obliges us to confess that we are visited by no such gratifying forebodings. The price of grain, we apprehend, has reached the ultimatum of depression; nevertheless no material advance is likely to take place before the farmer has provided for his regular payments of rent and tithe, together with the current expenditure for labour, when not a bushel of corn will be left in his hands to raise a fund for contingencies in the shape of tradesmen's bills and other incidental expenses.

Fortunately the rigour of the season has not contributed to his discomfiturefine open weather has afforded great facility to the operations in husbandry, and the avocations of the season are consequently in advance. Its beneficent influence, moreover, is not confined to this department-the resuscitated and luxuriant appearance of the wheat-plant would reanimate his hopes, did not pecuniary difficulties, and the dread of continued low prices, paralyse all his efforts.

Turnips yield an abundance of feed, though the bulb is less in proportion to the whole produce than we have occasionally witnessed: this circumstance, however, will be the means of preserving them from the effects of frost, should severe weather occur, and may ultimately prove an advantage. Indeed, keeping is altogether plentiful and cheap, to which the price of meat is rigidly commensu→ rate not so that of lean cattle; and if the holders have conceded a little in their demands latterly, they are still too extravagant to admit of the most distant probability for the grazier to obtain remuneration. This is one of the many evils which beset farmers in general; namely, that when they are purchasers of lean cattle, they have to contend with a few interested men, who can and do, by combination, command the market, and secure their own prices. The same remark is equally applicable when they become sellers also, whether of fat beasts or grain;-a few of the principal butchers and merchants set the price, and the farmers have no alternative but to submit to their terms.