General Intelligence

Statuary is a branch of sculpture employed in the making of sfatues. The term is also used ior the artificer himself. was the greatest statuary among the ancients, and Miehael Angelo among the modems. Statues are not only formed with the chisel from marble, and carved in wood, but they are cast in piaster of Paris or oí her matter of the same nature, and in several meials, as lead, brass, silver and gold. The process of casting in piaster of Paris, is as follows: the piaster is mixed with water, and stirred until it attains a proper consistence; it is then poured on any figure, for instance a human hand, or foot, previously oiled in the slightest manner pössible, which will prevent the adhesión of the piaster; afíer a few minutes the piaster will dry to thehardness of softstone, taking the exact imprcssion of every part, even the minutest pores of the skin. Thisimpression is called the mould. When taken from the figure that produced it, andsngntiy oued, piaster, mixed with water ns before, may be poured into it, nnd it must remain until it is hardened; if it be then taken from the mould, it will be an exact image ofthe original figure. When the figure is flat, having no deep hollows or high projections, it may be moulded in one piece, but when its surface is much varied, it must be moulded in many pieces fitted together, and held in one or more outside or containing pieces. This useful art supplies the painter and sculptor with exact representations from nature, and muhiplies modelsof all kinds. It is practised in such perfection, that casts of antique statues are made so precisely like the origináis in proportion, outline, and surface, that no difference whatever is discoverable, excepting in color and material. Blaclis in Office. - The chief justice of Dominica, Glanviile, is a mulatto; Sharp, the at torney" general for Barbadoes, is a mulatto; Goroway, judge ofthe court of appeals in Barbadoes, is a mulatto; the governor of Nevis is a mulatto; thirty-two editors of newspaper? n the Britieh Weit India colonies are negroes and mulattoes; twenty-one magistrates are molattoes: in all the legislaüve councils and houses of reprèsentaiives there are no loss thon seventy-two mnlattoes and two negroes making laws for thcir former maslers - the svhifes. Two-thirds of the army or garrison in those colonies arealready composed of African soldierp, cómrrmnded by white officers. The church is also abundantly supplied with black and mulatto clergymen; the jurymen are almost wholly composed of negroes and mulattoes. - Da Costas "Facts for the Veo■ple.Jl l'ersonal Verb.-ln "Martin Chuzzlawit," we find that "a verb is a word os signifies to be, to do, or to suffer, (which is all the grammar, and enotigh, too, as ever I was taught,) and if there's a word alive, I'm it. for l'm nlways a bein,' sometimes a doin,' and continually a sufferinV' Emigration on a grand scale. - We learn from a Liverpool paper, that n large sect ion of Calvlnistic Methodists, 1,000 at least, from Caernarvon and Anglesey, are preparing to emigrate to tbis country, witli a view of forming a community on tbe banks of the Mississipi. Ono of the remarknble fa ets in the diet of msnkind ie the cnormona consnmplion of tea and coffee. Upwards of eight himdred millions of póunds of these articles nre annualJy con8umed by the inhabitnnts of the world. Thefe is a clerjryman in this city, whose every drop ó'f blood hates "laveryjbiU he don't bcliove in carrying it into politica." He hns 'no objfction to carrying pro-slavefi into politics; and will probably vote for a elaveholder in November next. - Utica República n. Popiilation of Bvffalo. - Wc ]earn from Mr. Horatio N. Walker", that according to his census, completed a short time sinee, the population of Bnffalo ia 2(5.503. This a large aftd gra'tifying increase since 134C, whèn occording to the census of that yéar, it was 18,234. That tho census jnst taken is as correct as thai of '40 we have no doubt. - Bvff. Adv. Will a Christian church appóin'i an infidel for their minister? No. Will a temperance State appoint a rúmseller for' their governor? No. Will men opposcd to sfavery vote ,for a 6laveho'der for the president of the United States? No. Well, brother, then seo that