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 The following is an extract from the Liverpool Mer- cury of May 29th:

 BEST ENGLISH DICTIONARY. .. To the Editor of he Liu@poOl Mercury. SRI am always happy # can, in any way, CO., operate with those who like yourself are anxious 10 aid the audable pursuit of knowledge and self-im- pr0yement. By far the hest English Dctionary-in- deed the only one to which appeal can now be made as an authOrity-is Websters; an American publi- cation, republished in London in two quarto volumes.

 JAMES MARITNEAU.

 We have good authority tor saying, that this Die tionary, which employed the author twenty years. and cost twenty thousand dollars, produced al- most exclusively by the proceeds of a small premium for copyright on the sales of the authors spelling hooks. That little book has been the instrument of instructing, in the rudimens Of our language. more persons than are living in the United States. It is said to have corrected multitude of errors in spell ling and pronunciation, and contributed more to give uniformity othe language. from Nova Scotia and Ca- nada to New.O Orleans. The attempts to improve i; ave mostly failed and the disconnuance of the of it would probably be public evil.

 The authors quarto dictionary is now in use among the Iterati in most of the countries of Europe. We understand that new edition. with great improve: mentr. is now in the press at New Haven, and will he published in about six mouths. This edition will be in two volumes large octave. and afforded at a much less price than the QuaYto.-N. J. Fredonidn.