H * until the death of the latter, in 1820, since which time Mr. Cadell's name stood alone. Thus, for nearly half a century, Mr. Cadell followed his father's example, and perserved the reputation the house had acquired for liberality, honour, and integrity. In 1802 he married a daughter of Robert Smith, esq. of Basinghall-street, by whom he had a numerous family; but we believe the name of Cadell, which has been eminent among publishers for the last seventy years, is no longer to exist in the list of London booksellers. Mr. Cadell died at his residence in Fitzroysquare, London, aged sixty-three years. 1836, Dec. 14. Died, WILLIAM PINE, formerly the proprietor and publisher of the Bristol Gazette. He died at London, aged sixty-eight. 1836, June 1. The Magazine of Zoology and Botany, No. 1, edited by sir William Jardine, bart.* P. J. Selby, esq. and Dr. Johnston. 1836, Sept. 15. The Constitutional, No. 1. The first daily newspaper published in London after the reduction of the stamp duty. 1836, Nov. 26. The Newcastle Standard, No. 1, printed and published by Charles Larkin, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It ceased April 15, 1837. 1836, Dec. 31. The Gardeners' Gazette, No.1. edited by Mr. George Glenny, London. 1836. The Singapore Free Press, published weekly, and printed on European paper. 1836. Chronica de Macao, and the Macaista Imparcial. Two very respectable newspapers in the Portuguese language, published at Macao, in the bay of Canton, and quite equal in contents and appearance to anything which has been seen in the mother country. The first appears twice a-month: the latter is published twice a-week. 1836. The Canton Press, a weekly newspaper published at Canton, in China, and strongly ad 1836. Dec. 20. THE BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION, established in London, for the mutual assistance and support of decayed booksellers and booksellers' assistants, being members of the trade, and of their widows. For the support of this very laudable institution, all the principal booksellers, printers, and book-vocates free trade. binders of the metropolis became subscribers, either by donation or annual subscription. 1836. The New Testament, published in 1526, being the first translation of it by that eminent scholar William Tyndale, reprinted verbatim; with a memoir of his life and writings; together with the proceedings and correspondence of Henry VIII., Sir T. More, and Lord Cromwell. By George Offer. 8vo. London, 1836. This is a reprint of the first translation of the New Testament into English, in the year 1526, by that enterprising bookseller, Mr. Bagster, whose Polyglott Bibles will long render his name celebrated. 1836, Jan, 2. The North Derbyshire Chronicle. No. 1, printed and published by Thomas Woodhead and Richard Nall, Chesterfield. 1836, Feb. 3. The John O'Groat Journal, and Caithness Monthly Miscellany, No. 1, printed and published by Peter Reid, at Wick, price 2d. 1836, April 1. The Dublin Review, a quarterly Journal of Religion, Politics, Literature, Science, and Art; No. 1, edited by Daniel O'Connell, esq. M. P. the very rev. N. Wiseman, D. D. professor of oriental languages in the university of Rome; and Michael J. Quin, author of A Steam Voyage down the Danube, A Visit to Spain, &c. price six shillings. The rev. Charles Simeon, senior fellow of king's college, Cambridge, and rector of Trinity church, in that university, received from Mr. Cadell the sum of £5,000, (the greater portions of which he gave to charitable insti tutions,) and twenty copies upon large paper, from the t Mr. Bagster, with a spirit of liberality which we cannot sufficiently commend, has, as we understand, prepared, at some expense, a copy on large paper, with illuminated capitals, &c. exactly as the original, which he has presented to the British museum. 1837, Jan. 21. Died, JOHN SYKES, late a bookseller at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and author of a valuable compilation, which he published under the title of Local Records, in two vols. 8vo. Mr. Sykes died at Newcastle, aged fifty-six years. 1837, March 20. A fire broke out in the warehouse of the new printing-office of Mr. Spettiswoode, in New-square, Fleet-street, London, and literary property destroyed to the amount of £20,000: of the origin nothing was known. 1837, March 21. Died, JOSEPH BOOKER, bookseller, of New Bond-street, London. He had been for twenty-six years general secretary to the associated Roman Catholic charities in London. The business is now conducted by his sister and nephew. 1837, March 21. Died, WILLIAM KNIGHT, LL.D., professor of moral philosophy in the university of Georgetown, Kentucky, North America. Mr. Knight, was a native of Aber deen, in Scotland, and served his apprenticeship to the printing business. Having received a good education, and being well acquainted with the classics, he published several well written pieces in the Aberdeen papers. Twenty-five years ago, as a journeyman printer, he emigrated to America in quest of employment, and by his superior attainments and moral rectitude arrived at the honourable distinction in which he ended his useful and laborious life. 1837, April 5. In the half year, ending on this day, the number of newspapers stamped in Great Britain, was 21,362,148; and the net amount of duty received, was £82,502. For the whole year the number of stamps issued was The Library of Natural History, by sir William Jardine, has absorbed 23,400,000 impressions, every one of which has been printed individually by the hand. There are altogether about 680 plates of illustrations in the twenty volumes, foolscap, 12mo, of which the work is composed, engraved by Lizars. The work was commenced in 1833, with 500 number of the volume, but the sale rapidly increased to as many thousands, and of the twenty volumes, it may safely be affirmed, that 100,000 copies have been sold. 53,496,207, being an increase upon the year 1836 of 18,000,000. The number of periodicals taking out stamps for 1837 was eighty-five, being an increase upon the preceding year of fourteen. The total number of newspapers which passed through all the post-offices in the United Kingdom, in 1837, was 42,000,000. Since the reduction of the stamp duty, Sept. 15, 1836, there were published one daily newspaper,* one twice a week, twenty-three weekly, one fortnightly, and one occasional newspaper, in London; of which, eight were discontinued, and two incorporated with other papers. Within the same period, thirty-five weekly newspapers, and one three times-a-week, were established in the country, of which, six are now discontinued or incorporated with other papers.‡ 1837, April 7. Died, WILLIAM EUSEBIUS ANDREWS, printer and bookseller, Duke-street, Little Britain, London; editor of the Orthodox Journal and other works. He was born in the city of Norwich, Dec. 15, 1773, and served an apprenticeship to the printing business in the office of the Norfolk Chronicle, published in his native city. Having conducted himself with such perseverance and integrity, he was, when out of his time, speedily chosen by his employers to superintend their newspaper, the arduous and responsible duties of which he discharged for the period of fourteen years, when he commenced business on his own account in Norwich, but in a short time, being encouraged to seek a wider field of action, he removed to London. Mr. Andrews was the third of the London Catholic booksellers who had died within six weeks. He was succeeded in his business by his son and daughter, Peter Paul Andrews and Mary. 1837, May 22. Died, JAMES RUSHER, who had been in business as a bookseller, at Reading, Berkshire, for upwards of forty years, and was much and deservedly esteemed by all who knew him. He was exceedingly charitable, and had for many years devoted a large portion of his income to alleviating the necessities of the poor. He left about £1,000 in legacies to various charitable societies, and his servants and the poor. He died at Reading, after a few hours' illness, aged sixty-six years, leaving a widow, a son (Joseph Rusher, of Kingsdown, Bristol) and two daughters. *The Constitutional. + The Liverpool Mail. 1837, June 28. Died, HENRY FISHER, senior partner in the firm of Fisher, Son, and Co. publishers, booksellers, and printers, Newgate-street, London, and Quai de l'Ecole, Paris. He was the son of Thomas Fisher, a timber merchant, at Preston, in Lancashire; and having lost his father at an early age, was placed at the free school of his native town, under the care of Mr. Shepherd, where he acquired all the education with which he began an active life of business. At the age of thirteen, he was articled to Mrs. Sergeant, who carried on the bookbinding, printing, stationary, &c. businesses. Here Henry Fisher acquired those habits of industry, regularity, and thoughtfulness, which accompanied him through life. Mrs. Sergeant allowed her apprentices task work, that is, to retain for themselves all they could earn above a certain stipulated amount. Henry Fisher exerted himself so assiduously, devoting only a few minutes to his meals, that his mistress objected to pay him the large sums he was entitled to, and said he must be tasked much higher than the other lads of a similar age-to this he peremptorily objected-and his mistress having offered them, he took his indentures, and quitted:-their friendship, however, was renewed in after life, and sincerely continued till her death. leaving Mrs. Sergeant, after four years' service, Henry Fisher articled himself for the residue of his apprenticeship to Messrs. Hemingway and Nuttall, printers at Blackburn. At this period, when but seventeen years of age, he entered into the bonds of marriage, relying upon his indefatigable industry for the maintenance out of his overearnings of a wife and family. A dissolution of partnership taking place between Messrs. Hemingway and Nuttall, the latter removed to Liverpool, where young Fisher went with him, and having suggested the establishment of depots in the principal towns of the kingdom, for the more effectual extension of the sale of standard works in numbers, was himself appointed to the management of a station at Bristol. Here he passed three years with so much benefit to his employer and credit to himself, that he was, without solicitation, admitted to a share of the business, on conditions equally honourable to both; and so essential were his services soon found, that he was, independently of his share as a partner, allowed a salary of £900 per annum, for conducting the business. On Shenstone, the poet, divides the readers of a newspaper Thus, in his twenty-fourth year, Mr. Fisher found into seven classes. He says 1. The illnatured look at the list of bankrupts. 2. The poor to the price of bread. 3. The stockjobber to the lies of the day. 4. The old maid to marriages. 5. The prodigal son to the deaths. 6. The monopolizers to the hopes of a wet harvest. himself placed in a situation of responsibility and considerable emolument, for which he was solely indebted to his activity, his integrity, and his ability. During this ardent promotion of knowledge by the novel and unique business of num 7. The boarding-school and all other young misses, ber publishing-(a system that has proved of the to all matters relative to Gretna Green. An old pensioned marine, one who was present at the battle of Bunker's Hill, a second Corporal Trim, was very fond of reading the newspapers when he could get them. When repeatedly annoyed by inquiries as to his appetite on this subject, he once replied,-" Why, to tell you the truth, when I was in the corps, a goat was kept in the barracks, which was in the habit of eating the papers, and being killed, I was asked to partake of it. I can give no other reason." highest intellectual and moral advantages to the poorer classes of society, by enabling them to purchase various works by small periodical pay * Jonas Nuttall, the original founder of the Caxton press, at Liverpool, was a native of Blackburn, and served his apprenticeship with Mr. John Ferguson, printer, Liverpool. He died September, 1837, at his seat, at Nutgrove, near Prescot, Lancashire, which he had erected. ments,) Henry Fisher formed an intimacy with the learned Dr. Adam Clarke*-an intimacy which became closer in proportion as it was extended. Dr. Clarke made advances to his friend out of his rich store of learning, and was in return liberally and generously compensated by his friend and publisher. Dr. Clarke's first literary production was printed in Liverpool, by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon. For many years reciprocal benefits and kindnesses were interchanged between Dr. Clarke, and the house of Nuttall and Co., who employed his services in numerous editions of standard and divinity works, which now issued rapidly from the Caxton press, the partners in which had, in 1815, been appointed printers in ordinary to the king. In 1818, Messrs. Nuttall and Dixon retired, having realized handsome fortunes. The printing office Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.R.A. was born in the village of Moybeg, in the county of Londonderry, Ireland, either in the year 1760 or 1762, and received a classical education from his father. On August 25, 1782, he left his home and country for Kingwood school, near Bristol; and, Sept. 26, of the same year, by the direction of Mr. Wesley, he entered on the duties of a minister of the Methodist con nexion, at Bradford (Wilts). At the conference of 1783 he was taken into full connexion, and from this time till his death, the length and breadth of England and Ireland, from the Norman Isles in the south, to the Shetland's in the extreme north, has acknowledged the sway of his master mind as a teacher of the people. But, it is not revered by posterity, but by his vast knowledge, and his alone as a Christian teacher that Adam Clarke will be elaborate researches in the vast field of philosophy and philology, that will stamp him as one of the most learned men that ever lived. The chief-the mighty work of his laborious hand, is his Commentary on the Bible-which may be said to be an encyclopædia of biblical science and literature, that will remain longer than the Egyptian pyramids an appropriate monument of the wisdom, piety, benevolence, zeal, Herculean labour and indefatigable pains-taking, of its gifted and distinguished author. This work is found alike on the boards of the mechanic, and in the cabinets of the learned, on the shelves of the poor man's cottage, and in the libraries of the princes of the earth. By his constant attention in the printing-office during the publication of his Commentary, he had acquired a tolerable knowledge of the art, and went so far as to appendages, in which he arranged, tied up, and transmitted procure a composing stick, of wood, with other useful to the printer for insertion in the places marked-the words and sentences in the Samaritan, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and the various foreign languages, which appeared in the original edition, so great was his anxiety to be correct. This eminent scholar and divine, died of cholera, at Bayswater, August 26, 1832, aged 72 years.His widow died at Stoke Newington, Dec. 20, 1836, aged seventy-five years. Dr. Clarke published A Bibliographical Dictionary ; containing a chronological account, alphabetically arranged, of the most curious, scarce, useful, and important books, in all departments of literature, &c. Vols. 1, 2, and 3, 12mo. printed by Jonas Nuttall, Liverpool, for W. Baynes, Lon don, 1803 vols. 4, 5, and 6, printed by Randall & William Dean, and Co. Manchester, for W. Baynes, London. 4 Bibliographical Miscellany, being a Supplement to the above, two vols. 12mo. printed by R. Edwards, Crane court, Fleet-street, London, for W. Baynes, Paternoster-row. In 1815, Dr. Clarke was persuaded by some of his friends, who had observed with solicitude the decline of his health, to relinquish, for a time, all public pursuits, and retire into the country. By their munificence, an estate was purchased for him at Millbrooke, in Lancashire, towards which Mr. Jonas Nuttall presented £1,000,and Mr. Henry Fisher, £300 towards building a library, having also his two sons under the doctor's tuition, at the liberal remuneration of 200 per annum. + Thomas Nuttall, F. L. S. Professor of natural history in the university of Cambridge, U. S. Honorary member of the American philosophical society, and of the academy of natural sciences, &c. &c. was born at Long Preston, in the north riding of Yorkshire, Jan. 5th, 1786. He received the rudiments of his education at the endowed school of at Liverpool was considered the largest establishment of the kind in Great Britain, and at one time they had at least one thousand persons in their employment. In 1818, Mr. Fisher established the Imperial Magazine, under the editorship of Samuel Drew, M.A. On the 30th of January, 1821, the Caxton printing-office was entirely destroyed by fire, the loss sustained being estimated at £40,000, considerably more than the stock was insured for. At this period, Mr. Fisher removed to London, accompanied by all his foremen,and a great number of those employed by him. The printing establishment was fixed in Owen's-row, Clerkenwell, where it has ever since continued; the publishing business being carried on in Newgate-street, whence have been issued those splendidly illustrated works-The English Lakes; Syria; Devonshire; Cornwall; Ireland; Lancashire, &c. which have stamped him as the most extensive publisher of such works in the kingdom. In 1825, he took into partnership his eldest son Robert, who at the time of the fire was studying at Cambridge, with the intention of entering the church, and Mr. Peter Jackson, his old and faithful London agent. Mr. Fisher had some years before leaving Liverpool, built himself a very handsome house, about eleven miles from that town, which he called "The Caxton Lodge." In private life Henry Fisher was respected, and much admired for soundness of judgment and kindness of heart. He was elected one of the common council for the ward of Farringdon-within; and the very year of his death had been urgently solicited to fill the high and honourable office of sheriff of London and Middlesex, Mr. Fisher was in politics a whig. He died at his residence at Highbury park, aged fifty-six years, leaving a widow, two sons, Robert, (appointed his sole executor) who succeeded him in the business, Seth Nuttall, a captain in the 51st regiment of foot, and one daughter, married to captain But that place; and whilst yet a child, a strong bias towards the pursuits, in the prosecution of which he has since so much distinguished himself, became evident; and be was frequently absent whole days, gathering flowers and plants, which he used carefully to preserve and assort as well as he was able, though totally ignorant of any botanica! system. In the year 1799, Mr.Jonas Nuttall requested his nephew to reside with him, with a view to his acquiring a knowledge of the printing business. He accordingly was bound apprentice in the commencement of 1800. is this new sphere of action, however, his former propensi ties continued to influence him, and he was never so happy as when he could steal from what he considered uninteresting employment in which he was engaged. to ramble in the country. His apprenticeship expired early in 1807, when he at once formed a resolution so completely contrary to his pecuniary interests, as to astonish those of his friends who could not enter into his views. Indeed, to those with whom the "auri sacra fames" is the overing principle, it must have appeared little short of insanity to leave the brightest prospects, connected with a most lucrative and extensive business, with every chance of succeeding to his uncle's fortune, for the apparently will scheme of exploring the forests of America, in search of those treasures, which were, to him, “better than gold' Such, however, was the course which he chose to pursue nature, was to him, "in every charm supreme;" and having collected his little patrimony, he sailed from Liverpool, America, in the March of that year, where he has on tinued principally to reside. Nuttallite was discovered in 1824, by Mr. H. J. Brooke, of London, among some minerals brought to this country by Mr. Nuttall. |