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1893, Feb. The Bannantyne clab established at Edinburgh, through the exertions of sir Wal- ter Scott, the first president, and also of Thomas Thomson, esq. the successor of sir Walter in that office. The object of the institution is to print works illustrative of the history, antiquities, and literature of Scotland, either at the expense of Uie club, or as contributors from individual mem- bers. It consisted originally of thirty-one mem- bers. The number of copies printed is limited to one hundred and thirty -six ; a smaller number, however, has been printed of the earlier publi- catioDS. The club derives its name from George Bannantyne, from whose active life, during his youth, is owing that rich collection of Scottish

foetry which bears his name. He was born eb. 22, 1645, and was living in 1606, but the period of his death is not precisely known.

1823, Feb. 18. Dud, Thomas Deiobton. bookseller and stationer, at York, aged forty- nine years.

1823, FiA. 22, Died, James Harbop,* pro- prietor and printer of the Manchester Mercury and British Volunteer. He was also postmaster of Manchester for several years, but when the whigs came into poWer in 1806, they deprived Mr. Harrop of that situation. His conduct as a public character, and the proprietor of a news- paper, was distinguished fft loyalty to the king, ana an unshaken attachment to the constitution; and he had, universally, the merit of consistency, and the credit of political integrity. He died at Broughton priory, near Manchester, in the axtieth year of his age, and was succeeded in hb business by his el£st son James Harrop.

1823, March 7. Died, the rev. William Ward, a missionarr at Serampore in the East Indies, under the direction of Dr. Carey .f Mr. Ward was a native of Derby, where he was born October 20, 1769, and served an apprenticeship to the printing business to Mr. Drewry, pro-

Srietor of the Derby Mercury; he afterwards evotedhimseli to the ministry ,anddiedat Seram- pore, aged fifty-three. It is gratifying to leam that the printing establishment at Serampore, so diligently and perseveringly carried on,continttes to flourish at the present day.; and according to the Eighth and Ninth Memoirs, we leam that at the close of 1822, they had printed the New Testament in twenty languages besides the Chinese : also that they had finished the entire Chinese Bible, with moveable metallic types, printed on paper forwarded from China to Cal- cutta. In 1823, notice occurs of the press erected at Fort Marlborough, near Bencoolen ; in 1824, it is mentioned that a lithographic press had been forwarded to Bencoolen, for the purpose of printing the scriptures in Javanese ; and in 1826, notice occurs of a lithographic

«u brother-in-lAW to Mr. Huiop.
 * Joha BeatBon proprietor of the Itle of Man Oojutte,

t William Carejr, O.D. was born of poor parents, at Paalenporr, NoithamptODshlre, Aagmt 17, 1701. He became oiie of the most eminent miasionaries that ever laboored for the ulvatlon of the heathen, In the east, and died Jane g, 1834. His Ufe was written b]r bl« nephew, the rev. Eiutace Carer.

press having been sent some years ago to fiatavia, m the isle of Java.

1823, March 10. Died, Phillip Addison, printer and stationer, at Pieston, in Lancashire, aged fifty-one. He was much respected as a tradesman for punctuality and integrity in the discharge of his engagements ; and the inoffen- sive urranityof his manners procured him many friends.

1823, May 18. Died, John Heard, printer and publisher of the West Briton, published at Truro, where he died, highly respected for punctuality in all his dealings.

1823, Jime 17. The royal society of literature now first assembles.

1823, Aug. 6. Died, Mr. Metleb, proprietor of the Bath Herald, in his forty-second year. He was a member of the common council of the corporation of Bath. He left a widow and five young children.

IS23, Sept. 9. Died, Henry Richardson, proprietor and printer of the Berwick Advertiser.

1823, Sept. 16. Thomas Beeman, warehouse- man to Mr. Bensley, printer, in Bolt-court, was sentenced at the 01^ Bailey to seven years' trans portation, for stealing one hundred and six copies of Lingard's History of England, printed by Mr. Bensley for Mr. Mawman. Thomas Cahuse, a bookjeUer, residing in High-street, Borough, was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation forreceivingthe same, knowing them to be stolen.

1823, Sept. 24. Dr. T. F. Dibdin, in the Library Companion, says, there appeared the most marvellous phenomenon eveY witnessed in the annals of Bioliopolitm. The Times NeuS' paper had four of the five columns of its last page occupied by an advertisement of Mr. Thorpe, containing the third part of his catalogue for uat year. On a moderate computation, this advertisement comprised eUten hwiirei and twenty lines.

1823, Methodical Cyclopadia, edited by Mr. Mitchell.

1823, Oct. 7. Died, James Smith, proprietor uf the Liverpool Mercantile Advertiser, agei forty-two. Mr. Smith was a man of superior at- tainments, and greatly excelled in mechanical pursuits. He was the compiler of two works that were found extremely useful, namely, the Panorama of Science and Art, and the MeehatUc ; or. Compendium of Practical Inventions. He was a native of Kendal, and in fellowship with the KocieW of friends.

1823, Oct. 22. Died, Rowland Hurst, book- seller, proprietor, and publisher of the Wakefield and Halifax Journal, aged forty-seven.

1823. Mechanics' and Apprentices' Library established at Lancaster.

1823. A delegation of printers and booksellers, from Philadelphia, in America, attended the four hundredth grand anniversary of the inven- tion of the art of printing, held at Haerlem, in Holland, in honour of I^wrence Coster.

1823. A machine was invented for rolling books, instead of beating them with a hammer, by which process as many hooks may be beaten

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