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The receipts into the Treasury during the first three quarters of this year from all sources amount to $23,467,072.52; the estimated receipts for the fourth quarter amount to $6,943,095.25, amounting to $30,410,167.77, and making with the balance in the Treasury on the 1st of January last $31,397,512.80. The expenditures for the first three quarters of this year amount to $24,734,346.97.

The whole quantity of gas generated annually being upwards of 397,000,000 cubic feet, by which 61,203 private, and 7,268 public or street lamps are lighted in the metropolis. In addition to these great companies, there are several private companies, whose operations are not included in the foregoing statements. Abridged from Matthews's History of Gas-Lighting, and the London Magazine, Dec. 1827.

+397+. For Egypt there is the testimony of Herodotus, who describes a procession of women bearing small phallic images and singing hymns in honor of a deity whom he calls Dionysos probably Khem or Osiris or Bes; such images are mentioned by Plutarch, supposed by him to represent Osiris.

I cannot do it and I take the responsibility of it upon myself." The letters which were exchanged between the President and his premier set out the differences between them with the same distinctness. Mr. Curtis, "Life of Buchanan," Vol. II., p. 397. In some points which I deem of vital importance, it has been my misfortune to differ from you.

The first proposition of the Jansenists was, that there are divine precepts which good men, notwithstanding their desire to observe them, are nevertheless absolutely unable to obey: God not having given them such a measure of grace as is essentially necessary to render them capable of obedience. Mosheim's Eccles. Hist., ii. 397.

The name Leang remains in the department of Leang-chow in the northern part of Kan-suh. The "southern Leang" arose in 397 under a Tuh-fah Wu-ku, who was succeeded in 399 by a brother, Le-luh-koo; and he again by his brother, the Now-t'an of the text, in 402, who was not yet king therefore when Fa-Hsien and his friends reached his capital.

I then handed them the check for $397. The moment seemed sacred when these poor dark figures, struggling toward the light, walked out of my presence. The pit has been successfully planted in Galveston, and we are from time to time informed of its bearing.

'Disorders of intellect, answered Imlac, 'happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. Rasselas, ch. 44. See ante, i. 397, for Kit Smart's madness in praying. Yet he gave lessons in Latin to Miss Burney and Miss Thrale. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 243.

It seems certain that a serious confederacy was formed in the year 397, aiming at the overthrow of Eutropius.

In heaven the right ear is the good of hearing, and the left the truth thereof, 316. EARTH, the, or ground is the common mother of all vegetables, 206, 397; and of all minerals, 397. EARTH, the lower, in the spiritual world, is next above hell, 231. EARTH, or country, 13, 27, 37, 49, 69, 71, 144, 320, &c.