called Bricklies, the remnant of the crue was scattered, and everie man forced to shift for himselfe; whereupon Little John was faine to flee the realme by sailing to Ireland, where he sojornied for a few daies at Dublin.  The citizens beeing doone to understand the wandering outcast to be an excellent archer, requested him hartilie to trie how far he could shoote at random; who yeelding to their behest, stood on the bridge of Dublin, and shot to that mole hill, leaving behind him a monument, rather by his posteritie to be woondered, than possiblie by anie man living to be counterscored.  But as the repaire of so notorious a champion to anie countrie would soone be published, so his abode could not be long concealed, and therefore to eschew the danger of laws, he fled into Scotland, where he died at a town or village called Moravie.”  But, Mr. Walker, after observing, that “poor Little John’s great practical skill in archery could not save him from an ignominious fall,” says “it appeared from some records in the Southwell family, that he was publicly executed for robbery on Arbor-hill, Dublin.”

A bow, said to have belonged to Little John, with the name of Nayler upon it, is now in the possession of a gentleman in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[6] SWAINE.

    [6] Sir George Armitage, of Kirklees Hall.—­See Mirror, vol.
    xix. p. 322.

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ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY.

[This is one of the Naturo-Philosophical volumes of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia, and is therefore to be viewed as a portion of that series rather than as a substantive work.  Its preparation has been entrusted to Mr. M. Donovan, Professor of Chemistry to the Company of Apothecaries in Ireland; so that it comes to us with some share of recommendatory experience on the part of the editor.  It would, however, be difficult to point out the advantages of Mr. Donovan’s volume over others of the same description.  Neither will such distinction be looked for but in a scientific journal.  The arrangement is clear and satisfactory; the manner plain and illustrative; and the matter in accordance with the science of the present day; though in a few cases the nomenclature is somewhat overloaded with hard names, and presumes more previous acquaintance with the subject than is consistent.  We subjoin a few extracts of popular interest.]

Caloric, or the matter of Heat.

Heat is admitted by the philosophers of the present day to be the principle concerned in repulsion; and heat and cold are known to produce expansion and contraction in all bodies.  Heat is, therefore, the antagonist of cohesion.  Chemists have thought it necessary to make a distinction between the senses in which the word heat may be taken.  In its usual acceptation, it merely means the effect excited on the organs of