Star. — London, England, 1822-11-26 00:00:00

DRIGIrrON, NOPEMBER t 4. The Km; attended Divine Service in his private Chapel this morning, the body of which, as usual, w 44 c,owded by Nobility, Gentry, and townsfolk, admitted by tickets. The Service commenced at noon—so punctual was his MAJESTY to the time, that he entered his pew while the clock was striking, fol lowed by the Master of the Horse, the Lord Steward, the Marquis of ANOLItaitY, and Lord Sr. Haunts.— The Royal Equerries and Sir C. PAGET were in the a ,ljoining pew. The KING was habited in blue and bore a star, and never had we the s atisf act i on to be hold his MAJESTY in better apparent health. The Royal suite were all in the Windsor uniform, with the exception of the Marquis of ANGLESEY. The Prayers were lead by the Rev. Mr. HOLMES ; an elo quent discourse was delivered from the pulpit by the Rev. Dr. PEARSON, from the 17th chapter and 15th verse of St. John. The harmonious part of the Ser vice was excellent. The King's Band was on duty : the organ was managed by Mr. ATTWOOD. The E irl and Countess COWPER, the Earl and Countess of ABERDEEN, Lord BINGHAM, Lord and Lady T INNING , Viscount Meinoualca, Colonel and Mrs. l'avesnisn, and the Hon. Mr. CURZON, had the ho w= of being included in the evening party at the Palace, last night. The Earl and Countess COWPER, and Lord UXBRIDGE, dined with his MAJESTY and suite this day. 7fiE ARMY. Colonel Baum. HARVIT, long Private Secretary of his late B uy . t i Highness the Duke.nf KM?, has been appointed by his Ikl.ur.sry Fort Major of .Eafinbuegh Castle. It is a remarkable coincidence, that Colonel Watont, who was former Secretary to the Mike, bhouLl have been nominat e d t o th e comman d o f LA Fort. The e. t h Regiment, lately returned from Gibraltar, were in spected tit Fermoy on Monday lan. They expect to be ordered to the county of Limerick. Detachments belonging to the undermentioned Corps--the 37th (or North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot, General Sir C. thtss.s, Bart. Colonel, bearing on its colours and appointments, the following honorary distinctions, in commemoration of its vn i ce3 ....“ Minden," " Peninsula;"—the etth (or Durham) Lo t Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant-General Sir H. WAILDE, K.C.B. Colonel, having on its colours and appointments the un dermentioned honorary distinction, in commemoration of its smite—" Peninsula;"—the 70th (or Glasgow Lowland) Regi t of Foot, Lieutenant-General K. A. Lord Howmtn, of Dfingham, G.C.B. Colonel ;--the 60th (or Royal American) liegunent of Foot, Field Marshal his Royal Highness Falun nt,s, Duke of Yoruc, K.G. and G.C.B. Colonel in Chief ; and the 76th Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant-General Quotes Ca mita, Colonel, bearing on its colours and appointments the following honorary distinctions, in commemoration of its scr vi:es " Hindoostan," K Peninsula ," disembarked at Chath am on the 22d inst. from on board the St. Lawrence transport, from Quebec. The names of the lieutenant, appointed to the African Colo nial Corps, on the 25th of April, 1822, are Thomas Mollan, and not James Mullan. THE GREEKS. The following is an extract from an oration deli' vered at New Haven, in the United States, by Doctor JAMES G. Palmy/AL, an American Poet of some celebrity : '• The world is, indeed, presented with a singular spectacle. Christians are united with Turks to murder Christians ; and this to preserve an abstract balance cf power. A nation in fetters descended from the nation that every scholar idolizes, and every lover of freedom looks to as to its original father, that nation is struggling to break its yoke and assert its rights and liberties. " They have seen their brethren butchered, tor tured, and enslaved. They are threatened with their own extermination, without a friendly Power to cheer, or an ally to protect them : and yet, against this fear ful odds, they do not yield, but, with the spirit of an cient Athens, devote themselves to liberty or death. Tl,e:e is no other alternative. If Christian nations look on unconcerned, if they aid their oppressors, and thwart their generous efforts ; if free nations move not at their call; what can they expect but the scimitar of the Turk and the fate of Scio? They tell us the Greeks have invited their destiny ; that they have set the first example and given the first blow. Can a People suffer for centuries and not be exaspe rated? Can they be governed by unfeeling barba rians, and not strive to break their yoke? And if in the excitement they do retaliate, should we do less? Human nature cannot bear for ever. Cold indeed must be the heart, and weak the hand, that would riot revenge the death of a parent and brother, and the dishonour and slavery of a wife and sister. " But we are far removed from the sight and hear - 1-g of these enormities. They come to us only as the last echo of a dirge, or the dying fall of a tempest. We sit beneath our quiet roofs and hear the war of the winds at a distance ; and, as we gather around our cheerful firesides,we feel a new pleasure that all within i; so pleasant,while all without is cold and stormy." Chichester is to become a bonded port forthwith. Negotiations are on foot for the purchase of some ex tensive premises for a Government store, and the proper Custom-house Officers are now at Portsmouth, for instructions in this new branch orduty. The ancient vessel found in the channel of tbe Ro ther, in Kent, reached its destination, in Waterloo.. road, near Waterloo-btidge, on Saturday morning, at tour o'clock, and is now enclosed in a spot pur 7 posed for its exhibition, is a timber-yard. Tile Keet.stas.— T here are a number of small vessels at Newcastle, Ste. which are called heels: these receive the coals from the spouts, at the quay side, and convey. them to such ships as are too large to ap proach the pier—something - similar to the lightermen on the Thames. Notwithstanding the heavy colliers cannot be loaded without the assistance of the keels, the smaller vessels run in, and are presently freighted under the spouts, or troughs, which are supplied with the coals, from the mouth of the pits, by small car riages constructed for that purpose. The keelmen still refuse to return to their usual employment, but the efforts of the coal-owners to conduct their business without their assistance, have attained an efficiency, which must convince these mis guided men of the utter hopelessness of the struggle in which they are engaged. By the aid of steam boats, and through the increasing skilfulness of the men who have been engaged to navigate the keels, considerable numbers of them have each day this week been brought down from the staiths .above bridge to the ships at Shields, and again conveyed back, under the escort of the boats from the ships of , war at Shields.—Newcastle Chronicle. Herron COLLIERY.—Monday, the 18th instant, the Hetton Coal Company effected the first ship ment of their coals at their newly-erected staith on the banks of the river Wear, at Sunderland. The waggon-way, which extends over a space of eight miles, from the colliery to the river, and in its course crosses Warden Law, (one of the highest hills in this part of the country), was crowded with spectators to witness the first operations of the powerful and in genious machinery employed for conveying the coal waggons. Five of Mr. GEORGE STEPHENSON'S pa tent travelling engines, two 60-horse power fixed re ciprocating engines, and five self-acting inclined planes, simultaneously performing their various and complicated offices with the precision and exactness of the most simple machinery, exhibited a spectacle at once interesting to science and encouraging to commerce. The quality .pf the coal is universally acknowledged; and the shipment of them has been anxiously looked for by the ship-owners and fitters at Sunderland, who had the gratification of witness ing about 100 waggon loads (containing upwards of 100 tons weight) conveyed along the iron railway with astonishing facility and dispatch, to the Com pany's staith, where the coals were shipped by their newly-invented self-discharging apparatus. After the business of the day, the owners of the colliery, with about fifty of their friends, who had been. in vited to celebrate the event, sat down to an excellent dinner, at Miss JowsEY's, the Bridge Inn, Bishop wearmouth.—Nesucastk Courant. MINING INTELLIGENCE.--The Copper Ores sold at Truro on Friday, 2247 tons—standard £lO6. 1 Is. Copper Ores for sale next week at Truro, 1847 tons. i A most diabolical attempt was made, on Thursday last, to poison a family, in the village of Doune, near Stirling, by mixing arsenic with the potatoes they had for breakfast. A precognition has been gone into, but no distinct clue has yet been found to lead to a discovery of the wretch who has been guilty of so base a deed. The sufferers are, a woman of middle age, her daughter of seventeen, and a son of eight years of age. From prompt and judicious medical aid, the three persons are in a fair way of recovery, though still suffering from the effects of the poison. On the 17th of this month, at four o'clock in the ' morning, the lightning struck the vane of the belfry of the cathedral of Valencia, and set it on fire. The ' progress of the flames was terrible; they consumed the whole rapidly, in spite of the united exertions of the garrison, of the firemen, and of more than 4,000 persons who came to their assistance. The weather was stormy, and great disasters were dreaded had rot the wind changed to the north. All the bells are broken ; only the walls remain. The loss is estimated at more than 40,000 francs, and it would have been much greater if the firemen of the town, by their ronrage and skill, had not succeeded in confining the fire to the steeple to which the cathedral is attached. Never was a more terrific thing seen. No lives were lost, and only a sapeur wounded by a burning flake. One of the most adroit robbers of France, who seems the head of a considerable band in the Southern Departments, has just been arrested in Paris. He robbed by housebreaking, a few months ago, a no tary of Mons (Sarthe) of 29,000 fr. The Court of Assizes of that town condemned him to twenty years bard labour. While in prison he contrived to escape, a4cl came to Paris. This man went under various names, es. gr. Roux, Jean, Fiarnette, Abbadie, Lab badie, Lacroix, k.c. his arrest facilitated the arrest of several of his accomplices, particularly his concubine. Thursday, one of the Coventry weavers, who, hating been brought up for judgment, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, was committed to the King's Bench Prison, previous to bis removal to a wunty jail, contrived to disguise himself,. so as to elude the vigilance of the turnkeys at the lobby, and got clear off. Na PAL INTSLLICENCE. . . . ' •- . , ARLAN!). . . . . _—___ • • • • . . the Ilitrrea, GIGO gnus, Captain Werrreac, in the Sound, is We ban sees a lettei froth Dublin, which dates; ordered to be fitted op for the conveyance of Lord Amine,, that 23 more tonspiratOrs, Ribiiimmeit, wire arrested ;Governor-General of India, to Calcutta. His Lordship is a - lin that city on Thursday night. and uaderwent an petted at Plymouth, to embark for his destination. The East India Company's ship Berwickshire sailed tr ots% I examination before the Priv?) , Counsel, 'on the fol- Bombay for China on the 6th of June ; the Dunks: and Dike o j lowing day i all the King's Council were in attend- York en the 7th of July; the Buckinghamshire and Macqueen i ante. Nene of the Dublin papers hitherto received were expected to follow about the 20th of July; and the Orwell Paper. and Castle Iluntly th e b eg i nn i ng o f A ugust. have menti one d t hi s occurrence.—Cork EmaIsICILLIM, N ov . 21. — 0 n t h e n i g h t arlhe 2J FALMOUTH, Nov. 24.—Wind &S. W.—Arrived the Duke of Kent packet (2), from Lisbon, in eight days. Put back the instant, five cows were honghed on the lands of William Harris, Masts, for Jamaica. Aughintain, y. about a mile and a half from Clabo Altavista Lerma, SAMS Dave--Th e D u k e o f K ent packet The cattle, two o f w hi c h are s i nce d ead, b elonged arrived here this morning from Lisbon, whi c h pl ace s h e kit on Owen Phillips, and Mi c h ae l B reen , w h o at pre the 16th Novembe r : s h e b r i ngs an account that it was reported to Deputies were about to be sent to Bahia, and that more troops sent hold farms out of which men of the name of would sail almost immediately for the same destination. Dennis were ejected prior to May last, a circum- Poicrusoora. Nov. 25.—Wind &W.--Arrived the Anna stance, which may afford a clue at least to sus pi c i on . Christina, Hansom, from Rosto c k f or Fayal, with loss of saib, ... . and it is feared the cargo (wheat) is damaged. we are deeply concerned and mortified to have to Haulms, Nov. 25. Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Welling- notice the appearance, in so peaceable a district, of ten, Naastre, from Leith for London; and_Eosily, Barren, this brutal a n d unman l y species of outrage, and we from Gottenbur g h, w i t h M a il s . trust no efforts will be wanting on the part of the Drat., Nov. 25.—Wind &W.—Arrived last night and sailed • - . Mrtrates to bring to justice the perpetrators. for the River, the Regulus, Heelers, from St. John's, New Brunswick. The Palmyra. Lams, from Bengal, Is reported to 'e have heard of another outrage lately commit have passed through the Dow. last night. Also arrived to- ted in the mountain district of Glen, not far from day, the Fame, Tweeze, from Lisbon, il4 seven days.—Came Trillick, which indicates the prevalence of a bad spirit down front the River last night and to-day, the George, Futt., among some portion of the people in that quarter. for Naples, Palermo, Sec. Henry Williams, WRILTS, for Gibras tar ; and Ardent, BAYLIC, for Belfast.—The Brisset, HOLDiII, The haggard of a respectable farmer, named McQuaid, for Dominica, lost an anchor and cable in the Downs, on the was entered a few nights ago by a gang of nocturnal 23d inst. and proceeded to Ramsgate. depredators, who pulled down, scattered, and tram- Cowes, Nov. 24.--Wind S.& W.—Arrived the Good Hope, Do g led five lare stacks of oats Itu.xsav, from Richmond, l a d e n w i t h to b acco , b oun d here for , in such a manner as to • otders, 23 dayspassage. Put back the Dutch brig Actif, Rice- damage the grain very considerably. , seas, for Liverpool, which sailed from hence the 16th Instant. Sailed the Arethusa, Puns, for Bremen. A letter has been written by 'Mr. GOULRURN, by Cove, Nov. 16.—The vessel which foundered off Poorhead on command of the LORD LIEUTENANT of Ireland, to Wednesday morning last w as th e Prince Regent, Capt. itvAits, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, expressive of the Vice bound from Liverpool for this port, and was laden chiefly with toy 's entire approbation of the jud g me nt , fi rmness , crates of ware, tobacco, cotton twi st , an d other dry gnosis.— which his Lordship di s ch arge d hi s Some of the cotton twi s t was was h e d as h ore at B a ll ycroneen and temper, with Bay, and secured by the Preventive Water Guard on that station. duty, in prohibiting the dressing up of the statue of She was at anchor at the time she foundered, and the whole of King William, on the 4th of November, which duty she crew, consisting of *even persons, perished. 'There was one was rendered difficult and invidious by the peculiar ilassenger, a lady, on board, who had arrived in Liverpool from circumstances. of the moment. America, where she kept a boarding school, and was proceeding for this city, near which, we understand, her friends reside, but The income of the Marquis of STAFFORD is said to we have not learned her name. She was possessed of some pro- be nearly One Thousand Pounds per day; much of it party, having bad several hundred dollars on board. A few of arises from the profits of the canals which were pro the bodies of the crew have been since washed on shore, one in . jetted by the late Duke of BRIDGEWATER, under the particular in a mutilated state, with a spar tied across the body. Custom-House, Nov. 25.—Ships Entered Inwards :—The superintendence of the well-known Mr. GILBERT.— Smith, Sisters, and Belluncle, from Stangate Creek ; Dryad, A __large portion of this income will descend to the 1 from Demerara • John , and Rachel, tram Si. Peter.burgh; Wil- Marquis's second son, on whom it was entailed by liam, from Lisb on; Mena, from Virginia; Tobago, from Gre the . N . oble Duke, so that Lord GOWER, even with the nada ; Acorn, from Oporto • Surprise, from Malaga ; Earl Bathurst, from Rotterdam ; Oporto; from Alicant ; Atalanta, addition of his mother's (the Countess of SUTHER' from Harlingen; and Union, from Quebec.---Entered Out- LAND) wealth, which is derived from vast estates in wards :—The Accord, for Antwerp; Perseverance, for Calais; the Highlands, will never equal in fortune what his New Harmony, for Dublin ; Bee, for Hamb u r g h ; Clifton, and Laurel, for Jamaica; John Baker, for Leghorn; Three Sis t ers, father now enjoys. for Rotterdam • Alfred, for Tobago • Erin ' for Wrterford ; and AN ANECDOTE IN lion L IFE .--A man o f Hi g h Dispatch, for Cadiz Cleared O u tward s :—The Alexander, Fashion, who deals largely In a certain combustible material, bad for St. Domingo • Grace, for Hamburgh ; Leipsie, for Trieste ; long been attracted by th e p ecu li ar l y fi ne f orm o f a widow be- George Hibbert;for Antigua; and Prince George, for Jamaica. witched, then under the protection of a Gentleman of great wealth. He bad frequently said that he would give fifty pounds solely to be seen walking by her side in Bond-street. His wish was accidentally one day gratified thus :—At the moment of a slight shower, the object continually uppermost in his thoughts appeared in the very scene. The gentleman tendered his um brella ;it was accepted. Under the awning of a jeweller's shop they stopped, and chatted about the weather—the lady's eye be ing occasionally directed to the glittering toys in the window, 0 They are very pretty," she said. " Very pretty, indeed ! suppose you go in and look at them," was the rejoinder. The lady acceded. " That is vastly beautiful! is it not ?" speaking of a necklace. "Itis ! but how wilt it look round your neck ?' " Try." He did try; when the lady dropping a curtsey, added, with the utmost sang fruid, a Thank you! The rain is over : we will now, if you. p l ease, walk." In an instant she was in the street, liavini the gentleman behind. The latter looked at the shopkeeper, and then at the door, and then on the jeweller again : lastly at his pockets. This a wkward adventure, for the lady wasgone, ended, by his giving the tradesman his card ; it was deemed satisfactory. In three days the bill was sent in ; the item consisted of a necklace of brilliants, valued at 650 guineas. When a certain witty Dowager heard of this she said— " Well! I hope this will teach married men to be more cautious in future, and particularly when they touch gunpowder. !" COVENT-GARDEN. THEATRE.—;Mss F. H. KELLY again performed the character of Juliet last night, and, as on former occasions, was received by a very crowded audience with enthusiastic applause. Cosmic.--A new Melodrama was produced kir the first time, last night, at this elegant little Theatre (now under the able direction of Mr.\\'. BARRYMORE), called Frederick of Bavaria, from the pen of Mr. Mimosa. It possesses considerable interest, and was received with reiterated shouts of approbation. Mr. HUNTLEY personated the Monarch in a most admi rable manner. The character of Adelaide, the Queen, was well sustained by Mrs. STANLEY. Mr. Row soma rat, in Adolphus ' the Monarch's confidant, was particularly successful, and his efforts were amply rewarded by the shouts of applause of the audience. The Piece went off with considerable eclat, and pro mises to become a lasting favourite. The entertaining Mythological Ballet, Jupiter and Dane, was again produced, and the performances of the evening ter minated with another new Melodrama, called The czar of Muscovy ; or, The Three Ambassadors, which met with decided success. The brilliant Saloon was an object of much curiosity, and certainly is highly creditable to the Artists concerned in its fitting up. The audience was numerous and genteel. Last night, about twelve o'clock, the neighbour.. hood of Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, was thrown into considerable alarm by the cries'of 66 Murder r proceeding from a female. Upon the watchmen run• ning to the spot, it was discovered that a fellow, well known as a dancer at a minor Theatre, had been most brutally using a female whom he called his wife— she was literally covered with blood. Upon being taken to the watch-house, the poor creature, from fear of further ill usage, declined giving him in charge, and the fellow was allowed to depart. N 0.286 of the London Medical and Physical Journal, to be published on the first of December, will contain—Original Communicatiuns from' J. Suaw, Esq. on the Nervous System (with a copper-plate); Dr. ASIISURNIR, on a ease of Rupture of both Ventricles of the Heart; Taos. Rose, Esq. on a case of Ossification of the Heart; Dr. WEISTRIL, on looping-cough; R. Pam; Esq. on a case of Retention of Urine, effectually relieved by leeching; Dr. Buaaows, on the Suicides in London and Paris; Dr. KINOLAtIty on Excitement and the Circulating Fluids. —C-otticrattrai Mama : An Account of the last Illness, De ceue, and post-mortem Appearances of Napoleon Bonaparte, by AacuusausAamorr, Esq.—CrilicalAnalpis : Dr. Sraea's Me dical Report, lice. Dr. antes, on fatal consequences resulting from slight Wounds received in Dissection; BASON LANEY and R. Dunousox, Esq. on the Use of Moxa as a Therapeutical Agent ; Dr. Macau:maxi:a new View of the Infection of Scarlet Fever; Mr. COTNII, on the Nitro-muriatic Bath; Jour!' SWAN, F.sq. on the Actkin of Mercury on the Living Body ; W. Weionv, Esq. on the Effects of Mercury on the Organs of Hearing; Dr. THOMAeS Way to preserve good Health. STATISTICAL MICRICINII: Dr. MACLICOD'S Report of Diseases at the Westminster General .Dispensary.—Mawcat irrattiolexcv :1 Some Account of the Medical School at Berlin • W. COOKS and J. Snaw, Es on the use of Muriate of So da in Antinionial Preparations; J. limas, Esq. on Bleeding as a remedy fur poisoning by Prussic Add ; F. Bunt, Esq. on removing Opium from the Stomach by a syringe; J. Moat's', Esq. on inliam mation in the Chest.r-Biographicat Account of Dr. S. roman? out, ate. &e. SPORTING nrrtzzzoENcs. sintibro AT TATTERSALL'S, NOV. 25. biauv. 9to 1 apt Emily (taken) I9to 1 apt Talisman (tato) OAKS. to 1 apt Zelda j tl to 1 eget shier to SAW CLAM?. 7 toil test James I 7to 1 apt Ajax (taken) 7 to 2 sift Swap Even betting between Ajax and Frolic. • Ditto between Al*: and Aquiline. nowcasesa LUMEN. 12 to 1 apt Sherwood (taken) 112 w 1 apt Min Fanny JG. - iamb Astley'a Hounds meet to-morrow, at Feulsbam Town; Friday, at Bale. Mr. Dewing's Hounds meet to-morrow, at Burgh; Thurs day, at Mantby. Mr. Chaworth's Fox-hounds meet on Thursday. at Ravens thorpe ; Friday, at Dustnn. The Duke of GraftOn's Hounds meet to-marrow, at Cattle Mill; Friday, at Wappeubam. The Hampshire Hounds meet to-morrow, at Hinton House; Thursday, at Grange Park ; Saturday, at Windmill Hill. The Hambledon !founds meet to-morrow, at Wickham Lodge, Friday, at Westbury House. Mr. Shard's Hounds meet on Friday, at Dowks. Col. Berkeley's Fox-hounds meet to-morrow, at Combe Rad. The members of the Hampshire Hunt have hitherto experi enced a most successful season since the commencement of their favourite amusement, not having had one blank day. Monday sennight they bed a run of an hour and a half, and killed the fox in gallant style. The hounds ran through Lord BOL?011 . 11 Park, and the gate being fast at the further end of it, a Gentle , man, named AULIRY, charged the pales, and got well over, al though they are full six feet high. PRDESTRIANIS3I. Ralston, the pedestrian, has been matched against Dawson and Harcourt, to run two miles on Langton Wold, in North amptonshire, about the middle of December next, for wogs, a-side. Dawson is to ruo the first mile, and Harcourt the second, WILD FOWL The levels at Brede, in Sussex, are at this time more largely visited by wild fowl of various descriptions than for some years past at so early a period of the season ; and many are daily killed by gunners who watch their flight to and from the sea. Several couple were on Thursday last taken to Lewes, which were pur chased the day before at Hailsham, at four shillings the couple. COURSING BY STEAM! A few days ago, during the late high spring tides, the people on board the dredging vessels employed in widening the channel at the Ford, Waterford, were alarmed at a kind of squeaking noise in the water, which at first they supposed to be the cries of an infant, but which, on further examination, were found to proceed from an unfortunate hare, which, by some strange and unaccountable accident, had been caught by the foot in .one of ! the buckets just put in motion, and was br oug h t up alive A citizen, who has two sons, the eldest of whom is a fine gentleman, but the other always attentive to business in his father's banking concern, gives to them the appellations of Count and Discount! A very venerable Gentleman, of the name of TROT, who was exceedingly fond of a very beautiful little girl, was found one day by the late Rev. Dr. DELANY, fondling this little favourite. " Oh, oh:" said the witty Doctor, "how is this? I don't approve of these liberties."" Oh !" said the old Gentleman, " I have nothing to fear from my little Helen."—" Ay," said the Doctor, " but you should recollect she would not be the first Helen that set Troy on fire."-.Lit. Citron. Miss NUGENT, daughter of Alderman NUGENT, voted as a freeman of Dublin, at the late Guild Elec. ti.m in that city. A certain witty Judge having heard that Miss Nu- GENT was brought up to vote for Mr. SUTTER, .of Orange notoriety, and being shewn the printed list of candidates, on which, under the statue of King WILLIAM, was written—' Good men in bad tir - Oes. " Ay, bad times, indeed," said his Lordship, n the daughter of a respectable man like Mr. NUGENT is compelled to turn orange-woman I" A few days since, a Gentleman settled his yearly grog bill at a public•house, in Scarborough, which was for/ft een hundred gla,ses of rum and water! Th e Gentleman is nearly sixty years of_ age, and says that during the last seven years he has enjoyed his glass with as much pleasure as during the past year. A farmer's servant having a.cheese set before him to take his breakfast, and sitting a long time over it, his master asked him when he intended to have done? Sir," said he, " a cheese of this size is not so soon eaten as you may think!" Some of the English Quidnunc, at Verona have written to their friends in London, requesting to be informed what Congress is about, or what it has done? HISTORICAL DOUBTS.—An auctioneer, at a late sale of antiques, put up a helmet, with the following ' candid observation :••••" This, ladies and gemmen, is a helmet of RomuLus, the Roman Founder; but whe ther he was a brass or iron founder, I cannot tell !" VORACITY OF HYANAS.—In the Menagerie of the JardiM des Plantes, at Paris, was an old hyena, which broke its leg by accident. One night, before the bone was united, the creature actually bit off his own leg • and it was discovered in the morning that he had eaten it up, bone and all!!!—Quarterly. Review, October, p. 467. THR ELRPHANT.—A Gentleman from India as sures us, that he has seen elephants employed to pile wood, and which have, adding heap to heap, drawn back and placed themselves in a situation to see if they have kept a perpendicular line and preserved a just level in their work, and have then corrected any perceptible defect in one or the other. The same per son has seen two elephants employed to roll barrels to a distance ; one has kept them in motion while the other has been prepared with a stone in his trunk to stop their progress ht the required spot.•—• Amer ican Paper. Lusus NATI:YRS.—A very extraordinary fish 'of the sole kind, was taken about eight days since in the Eden, at Rockliff, by John Cartner, innkeeper 'her:. It was formed alike on both the upper and under parts; that is, the belly could not be distinguished from the hack, and it was furnished with two pair of fins and gills, and four eyes—the mouth as usual. It lived three days in water, and might have been pre served longer, had it not been injured by handling. MAMMOTH SUNPLOATER.—We have been presented by NI rs.Veclder, of Guilderland,with a prodigiuns large sunflower, which grew in her garden, in that town ; and which, although contracted by the frost, is yet 14 inches in diameter. It is of that kind which produces white seeds, and is by far the largest plant of the spe cies we have ever seen.—American Paper. The New Marriage Act was on Sunday read in a Parish Church near St. Paul's; and the Mirister, thotrgh an excellent reader, did not appear to relish bis task, as be gabbled it through as fast as his breath would permit. The congregation, especially the fe males were iu a titter during the whole time. I , • 1 • 1