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i LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. THE TWO AIUNCHAUSENS. BY • VICTUAL ,VI .1 In the late regiment of Light Dragoons, were two vurthy persons, who were denominated the two regimental liars ;—a distinction to which, I . ; :wing- every man his due, they were eminently entitled. The great and fundamental requisites it.: accomplishing lying, I conceive to be a good memory, a fertile fancy, a ready wit, fluency of speech, and a brazen countenance, so that you shall tell a man a most barefaced falsehood, and af terwards adduce such connected proofs as especi ally characterise actual facts. The following dia logue is a specimen of the talents of the aforemen tioned mendacious personages : C.—" Lee a man walk after he was shot dead ! so have I, a whole day's march." B.—" Come, come, that's stealing a march on our senses. No, no, it won't do:—that's a naked one; do may turn them out with some kind of probability covering over them. U.—" What, doubt my veracity !" B.—" Not for the world ; that would be illiberal and un• I kind; and by the way, now I think on it, I believe the possibility of a man travelling without his cranium ; for at the battle of Laswaree, during that desperate contest for British India. I saw a serjeant of the 76th shot dead ; yet the fellow pursued his antagonist some hundred yards after. wards threatening vengeance on the miscreant for having robbed the service of one of its best men. Finding himself weak from loss of blood, he deliberately unscrewed his head, threw it violently at 'the foe, and took him on the spine ; down he tumbled ; the veteran jumped upon him ; fearful was the struggle ; chest to chest ; fist to fist ;at last they joined in the death grapple, and dreadful ind eed was their dying hug." C. 'My dear friend, I was an eye witness of the whole transaction. You have however forgotten the best part of the story. After the serjeant had well pummelled his ene my, he picked up his head again, and thrust it into a neigh. bouring great gun : from the want of his peepers' be made a random shot and killed the horse on which Lod Lake was riding—his Lordship saluted the sod." B.—" I recollect it perfectly ; for the nose of the said serjeant (recognised by bundry carbuncles) was so hard, that the following day it was extracted from the abdomen of the unfortunate animal." C.—" You make a mistake about the nose ; it was dis. covered lodged in a loaf in a corporal's knapsack ; the man could swear to it, for it was perforated by three balls, and otherwise curiously marked. Report said that a shell had once blown it completely off, and that it was stitched on again by a shoemaker, who, ever after, went by the name of the nosy cobbler." " a—Nothing impossible. It reminds me of a story somewhat as strange. During the battle of Delhi there was quarter-master in the regiment, a queer know, who was never at a loss (he is now in the corps, and can vouch for my statement): he was charging at the head of his squadron, when he caught a cannon shot in his hands : instantly dis mounting, he chucked the bell into a field-piece, but, for want of a ramrod, he drove it home with his head. One of the enemy, seeing him thus zealously occupied, fired off the gun; strange to tell, he was not killed ! From constant ex posure to the sun in search of toddy, and from the free use of cocoa-nut oil, his head bad become proof against shot. The distance from the place whence he was projected, to that where he was picked up, measured three miles, two fur longs, three yards, and eleven inches. A hard.headed fel low, Sir. In his career he upset a Colonel and a brace of Captains." i C.—" lie :did ; and where the Colonel was capsized he n a hole by his enormous weight, that the sovereign joftelh w ordered a large well to be dug on the spot, in me. mory of the event." 8....." 1. remember the well—twelve feet three Inches and a half was the exact depth of the excavation occasioned by the fall." C.—" There you are wrong ; only eleven feet three inehee—" B.—" No, believe me, I am right ; twelve feet, and three lathes, to a barleycorn." C.—" Never mind : a little, this way or that, is of no eon •egttence. The most extraordinary thing was, that the Gal lant Colonel only sprained his right arm." B.—" By no means extraordinary. You remembsr the great gun of Agra, in which a regiment of cavalry used to drill." C.—" I do. The one that fired the stone-ball to the wall of Futtipoore Sikrah—twenty miles." 8.--" The sarne. Well, when that gur. was fired, a thing that never occurred but once, the head of the rash man who fired it was afterwards found in the Old Woman's Tank, eleven miles from the spot, without so much as a ble mish, except a slight singing of the right whisker." C.—" Ah ! I can never forget the time ; I had just landed in Calcutta, when we heard the report. Some of the wad ding went as far as Cawnpore." Here the trumpet soundinf for morning-drill put a atop to the colloquy.—Englishman a Magasine. ENGLISH NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—II was stated at the general meeting, that during the last year 1 , 328 schools had been received into union with the National Society, making a present total of '2,937 1 schools ; and 6,6431. had been voted in aid of building school-rooms in 104 places, the total ex pence of which is estimated at 20,0001. It is cal culated that there cannot be less, in England and Wales, than 710,000 children receiving instruc tion under the care of the clerEy. STOPPING FOR. HORSES FZET.-FOUT MIMES of soft soap are to be well mixed in a mortar, with one pound of genuine Barbadoes rock oil, and such a quantity of linseed meal added as will give it a proper consistence to retain itself when plastered into the hollow of the foot. In winter and very wet weather it is best to substitute palm oil for the sbap, or to use them in equal proportions. The soap facilitates the removal of the stopping when the foot is washed ; and in no instance will the rock oil soil the brushes, or annoy the groom in the way that tar, grease, and other substances are liable to do, when employed for the purpose of stopping the feet— Gazette of Practical Medicine. According to authentic returns on the actual state of the Russian universities, they are thus fre quented :—Moscow, 891 ; Dorpat, 612 ; Helsing foers (late Abo), 471 ; Charkoff, 318 ; Wilna, 303 ; St. Petersburgh, 311 ; and Kagan, 81. The ecclesiastical high schools attached to the Greek church, are those of Kieff, Moscow, and St. Pe tersburgh, of which the first possesses 1500, the second 630, and the last 830 scholars. The whole of the students throughout the Russian empire are therefore 5957 in number. The Russian govern ment have published an edict, prohibiting any na tives between the ages of ten and eighteen years, from being educated, otherwise than in national establishments, or under their parents or guardians roof ; exceptions, in individual cases, may be made with the Emperor's consent. No youths, under the age 'of eighteen, can be sent to complete their edu cation in foreign parts ; and such as shall not con form to these prescriptions are declared ineligible to civil or Military appointments. There are some singular facts' connected with a review of the population returns during the last 130 yews.: ror instance, in 1700, the county of Middlesex' contained 624,000 souls ; in the course of the following half century the+ had not increased than (141,500 ; in the fifty years succeed from 1750 to 1800) they . ' rapidly 845,40 d; and during the tßenty years, lapsed, boteeen 1800 and 182,0, They have grown to no less than 1,167,500, which gives an average increase of 16,105 inhabitants per annum. But the augmentation in the population of the county of Lancaster ha) been still more rapid and extraordinary. It appears that this county had no more than 166,200 souls in the year 1700 ; fifty years afterwards we find them stated nt 297,400; but in 1800 they had attained to 695,103; in 1810 to 985,100 ; and in 1820 to 1,074,000. The two smallest counties in England seem to have least participated in this increase of human beings; for we observe, that in Huntingdon their number was 34,600 in 1700, and not more than 49,800 in 1820, while in Rutland they were 16,600 in the year 1700 and did not exceed 18,900 in 1820. LIVING OURANG OVTANGS.TWO Of these extraordinary creatures, a male and female, have recently been imported into this country, and are about to be publicly exhibited at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. One of them was captured in the Island of Borneo, the other was taken near the banks of the Gambia. Though they are both of the genus Simla, yet their formation and difference of colour prove that they belong to two distinct species of that genus. The male is very nearly black, the colour of the female is a dull tawny. In height they are under three feet, but the position in which they place themselves renders it difficult to form an accurate judgment on that point. The female is very ill supplied with hair upon the body, but the head and arms are not deficient in that respect. Her face is exceedingly forbidding; the lower jaw re markably large, the nose small, the eyes deeply sunk in the head, and the forehead receding in a most remarkable manner. The expression of her countenance is melancholy and discontented. Her arms are long, and wanting in muscularity; her belly is protuberant, and her legs and thighs ap pear to be very weak. The coldness of this cli mate seems to affect her considerably, and she fixes herself as nearly as possible to the fire. The head, neck, and arms, and hands of the male, bear a more striking resemblance to those of the human form than is observable in the female. He appears to be more lively and contented than his com panion. They are both extremely docile, and suffer themselves to be approached without exhibit ing the least sign of fear or alarm. They are not confined by any chain or clog, but move about freely on a sort of counter, and receive with evi dent satisfaction such presents of fruit, &c. as their visiters think proper to bestow on them. They feel much attachment to those by whom they are fed; have sagacity enough to help themselves; and when they are about to sleep, they shake up their beds and draw a covering over them. TARTIN I.—The admirable violinist, and once esteemed composer, relates the following anecdote, as the origin of his chef. d'oeuvre the " Devil's Sonata." " One night, it was in the year 1713, I dreamed that I had made over my soul to his Satanic Majesty. Every thing was done to my wink; the faithful menial anticipated my fondest wishes. Among other freaks, it came into my head to put the violin into his hands ; for I was anxious to see whether he was capable of pro ducing any thing worth hearing upon it. Con ceive my astonishment at his playing a sonata with such dexterity and grace, as infinitely to sur pass whatever the imagination can conceive.— I was so much delighted, enraptured, and entranced, by his performance, that I was unable to fetch another breath ; and, in this state, I awoke, I jumped up and seized upon my instrument, in the hope of re-producing a portion at least of the un earthly harmonies I had heard in my dream. But all in vain ! The music which I composed, under the inspiration, I must admit the best I have ever written, and, of right, I have called it the Devil's Sonata; but the falling off between that piece and the sonata, which had laid such fast hold of my recollection, is so immense, that I would rather have broken my violin into a thousand fragments, and renounced music for good and all, than, had it been possible, have been robbed of the enjoyment which the remembrance afforded me." DESCRIPTION OF A BOROUGHMONGER.-Al the Maimesbury Reform Dinner, Mr. Ponlett Scrope, the Chairman, gave the following description of a borough. monger : " It was an animal of unclean habits and vicious propensities. Like the swine, food of wallowing in mire, with the voracious appetite of the wolf, the cunning of the fox, and some few redeeming touches of the ass about it. The inhabitants of the country, however, in which it was found, were now so thoroughly alive to its wolfish character, that, just as thirteen centuries back, under good king Edgar, they hunted out of the island the breed of four-footed wolves, so now are they banded under King ►Villiam to extirpate the race of these two-legged, but equally mischievous ani. mals." GOOD PILOTAGE.—Nothing is more amusing l than the alacrity of Irishmen in getting into scrapes, and the happy naivete and blundeta by means of which they ends your to extricate themselves. A captain of a man.of.war, newly appointed to a ship on the Trish station, took the pre caution, in " beating out" of harbour, to apprise the pilot that be was totally unacquainted with the coast, and there fore he must rely entirely on the pilot's local knowledge for the safety of his ship. " You are perfectly sure, pilot," said the captain, " you are well acquainted with the coast ?" "Do I know my own name, Sir ?" " Well, mind I warn you not to approach too near to the shore." " Now make yourself asy, Sir; in troth you may go to bed if you plan." " Then, shall we stand on ?" '• Why,—what else would we do ?" " Yes, but there may be hidden dangers which you know nothing about." " Dangers ?—I like to see the dangers dar hide themselves from Mick. Sure, don't I tell you I know every rock on the coast ;" (here the ship strikes) " and that's one of 'em 1" A SLIGHT COLD.—Consider a " alight cbld" to be In the nature of a chill, caught by a sudden contact with your grave ; or, as occasioned by the damp finger of death laid upon you, as it were, to mark you for his, in passing to the more immediate object of his commission.— Let this be called croaking, and laughed at as such, by those who are " awearied of the painful round of life," and are co the look-ont for their dismissal from it ; but be learntAZ heart and remembered as having the force and tr u th of by all those who would "measure out their span upon die earth," and are conscious of any constitutional Oa,/ of feeble neat ; who are distinguished by any such tendency death ward, as long necks, narrow chicken-chests—very fair complexions—requisite sympathy with atmospheric varia tions ; or, in short, exhibit any symptom of an asthmatic or consumptive character, if they choose to neglect a slight cold. Let not those complain of being bitten by a reptile, which they have cherished to maturity in their very bosoms, when they might have crushed it in (he egg. Now, if we call ' a alight cold' the egg, and pleurisy—lnflammation of the lungs —asthma— consumption, the venomous ireptile—the matter will be more than correctly figured. There arc .4 no many ways in which this 'egg' may be deposited and batched Going suddenly, slightly clad, from • heated into a cold at mosphere, especially if you can contrive to be in • state of perspiration ; sitting or standing in a draught, however slight ; it is the breath of death, reader, and laden with the vapour of the grave ! Lying in damp beds.---for there his cold arms shall embrace you ; continuing in wet clothing, and neglecting wet feet—these, and a hundred others, are some of the ways in which you may slowly, imperceptibly, but surely, cherish the creature, that shall at last creep in extricably inwards, and lay coiled about your •ery vitals. Once mace again—again—spin I would say, attend to this, all ye who think it small matter to —neglect a slight cold ! PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. The STAR has tor several months exhibited such a pie. titre of the Domestic Events of the Empire, as never before was attempted. It gratifies unspeakably the natives of districts who reside in London and distant counties, and is a LITTER Taos( HOME to every provincial in foreign countries, or in the colonies. It raises also into general importance the exertions of local talents in every public cause. Then as this is a duty performed alone by the STAR, those load patriots would ill deserve their name, if the STAR and its interests were not reciprocally promoted by them in every district. We know it has been so in many places, and the STAR in principles, and in all the best qualities of a paper, has justified preference; but we reasonably expect the same attentions EVERY WHIRL, U the means of at once recompensing our diligence, and adding to the utility of our valuable and exclusive information. We call also on the Provincial Proprietors of Papers, whose local labours we thus illustrate, and invite with !earnestness their powerful attentions in promoting those interests of the Paper which they best understand. We notoriously excel all London Papers in priority of Foreign News, and our display of the transactions of the country is equally exclusive and pre eminent. to more tt •_ ing (viz. I r'en to which etni 11116 L INVERNESS COURIER, JUNE 1. After Mr. Charles Grant had been returned for this county without opposition,on leaving the Court-house,he was received by an immense concourse of persons with the most enthu elastic plaudits. The incorporated trades, all well dtessed, and wearing their insignia of sashes, aprons, &e. were in at. tendance, headed by their Convener, and with flags flying. A chair, superbly ornamented with silk, ribands, &c. was also in waiting, and Mr. Grant being ushered into it, the caval cade proceeded up the Haugh, down Castle -street, Church. street, &c. The whole had a very Imposing appearance, and the Right Hon. Gentleman as he was carried along was sa luted from every window with cheering and waving of hand kerchiefs. About six o'clock, Mr. Grant entertained his friends to dinner in the Northern Meeting Rooms. The company consisted of about 150 gentlemen, and a more splendid entertainment was perhaps never before witnessed in the town. Mr. Wilson of the Caledonian Hotel exerted himself in his best and happiest manner: turtle was pro. cured, and all other delicacies, with wines of the finest yin tige, graced the board. Ihe band of the 72d regiment from Fort George, were stationed in the lobby, and continued doting the evening to play appropriate airs. On the right of Mr. Grant sat Lovat, and on his left Macleod of Harris. Glenmorriaton and Cantray officiated as croupiers. Sir Hugh Inneu sits for Sutherlandshire, with the appro bation of all and sundry who love reform. The result of the Ross-shire election has occasioned some surprise, and to no one more than to the excellent and talented gentleman who has been returned, who entered the Court-house at Taira prepared for a defeat, little dreaming that the friends of , Sir Francis Mackenzie would abandon their leader and rush in'o his ranks. But for this strange junction, Kilroy world have been returned by a considerable majority. The cause of reform, however, has suffered no loss. Our election here passed off admirably, the enthusiasm of the people affording no bad substitute for the excitement of a contest. Mr. Grant was in high health and spirits, more animated than we ever before saw him, and unboundedly popular. Our election was, we believe, the last,—and but for the un lucky absence of one Mr. Macleod of Cadboll's voters, which threw the county of Cromarty into the hands of an anti-reformer, we should have been able to boast, as was remarked b Mr. Grant at his election dinner, that every county nort h of the Highland border was consecrated to reform. A letter from the pariah of Laggan, in Badenoch, dated Monday weer., states that the country bad been visited by a most tremendous thunder storm on Sunday. The flood was much higher than on the memorable 3d of August, 1829, and the writer says he fears there will be sad accounts of it. He states what had taken place in his own neighbour hood. " The bridge at the farm of Shirrabeg is gone, and the end of a hero carried away. The hailstones were larger than pigeon's eggs, and have done immense injury to the crop of barley and oats. To-clay the country has a most de solate appearance." Inverness Corn Market, Mar 31.—The demand for all kinds of corn continues limited in the extreme, and no va riation can be quoted in the prices ; indeed, the greatest part of our grain is out of the hands of the growers. Some sales of good fresh 601 b. wheat were made yesterday at 545. per quarter. Wheat, best, 560 to 58s ; ditto (second, 62s 64s ; potatoe oats, 24. 26s ; oatmeal, per boll of nine stones— Dutch, 23s to 24s ; ditto, per peck of 91b ditto, la 6d • bearmeal, per ditto, 10d ; potatoes, pee do . 10ed ; fine loaf , 41b 5 ounces and a half, 10d ; brown do. 8d; butter, per lb. 10d lld ; Angus oats, 22s 24s ; barley, 33s 345; peas and beans, 34s 35s ; eggs, per doyen, 3d 4d beef, per lb. 3d 4d; veal, per ditto, 4d 5d ; mutton, 3d 4d ; pork, Sjd ; hides, per lb. 4d bd ; coals, per barrl, Is 104 ; hay, per atone, 6d 7d. MARRIED.—Arthur Anderson, of Dee Bank, Aber deenshire, Esq. to Harriet, only daughter of Thos. Rawlins, Esq. M.D. of Baker -street, Portman-square—at Monk wood, Thomas Best, Esq. Aberdeen, to Jane, daughter of the late Wm. Dunlop, Esq. of Glasgow. DIED.—At Bridgend, Perth, Mr. Samuel Muir, Rector of the Grammar School of Perth. MACCLESFIELD COURIER, JUNE 4. THE SILK Taus.—At a time whet; the British silk manufacturer scarcely knows where to sell his goods, or a British throwstct where to obtain a pound of silk for his machinery, we present our readers with the imports during the month of April of foreign manufactured tilts : 5,186 square yds. of silk tulle lace at 106 .. .C 2,693 Foreign silk goods (duty ad valorem) .. 50,410 4,573 pieces of East Indian Bandannas ... 4,801 2,050 pieces of China piece goods, at 120 s. .. 12,300 1,710 silk craped shims; at 10a. ... ... 856 70,959 610 bales of foreign thrown Bilk, at ..100 per bale .... ... 180,000 .C230.9:?9 We have not received the import lists for the month of May, but the first seven days shows the import of foreign silk goods to be Z2V,000. If Mr. Hobhouse, and his right hand man, Mr. Wortley, would set about getting protec tion for labour, against unequal foreign compaition, they would do more real service than by meddling with the hours of labour. The Population Returns for the township of Macclesfield have not yet been completed, but the aggregate amount ex ceeds 23,000, exclusive of the adjoining townships of Sutton and Hurdsfield, the returns for which are not made up. The following will show the comparative increase for the last thirty years : 1801 8,743 1 1821 - - 17,748 1811 - - - 12,299 1 1831 - - - 23,000 The census for the township of Stockport has been taken, and the increase over that of 1821 is much less than had been looked for. The increase in ten years being only 3,723.-1 The returns are, males 12,233; females 13,210 ; total, 26,449. The returns for Heaton Norris give the population of that township at nearly 13,000. After a long continuance of dry sod beautiful weather, the neighbourhood of Knutsfold, Sandbacb, and other places in those pans of the county, were on Sunday last, visited with very severe hail and thunder storms. At Sandbash the elements raged with great violence nearly three-quarters of an hour, during which hail-st Ones as hard as bullets, and seven inches in circumference, fell with force aufacient to break the slates on the roofs of the houses. The cabbage plants and other produce of the gardens were entirely de troyed, and the ground was covered with leaves of trees for a considerable distance. The electric fluid struck an out building belonging to Mr. Lea, of Brindley Green, and burnt a quantity of corn and potatoes. Five large trees at Twemlow were also prostrated by its effects; andm damage was done t o t h e green-houses belonging to co Ford, R. Wilbraham, Esq. Lady A. Kaye, R. Leyeester, F.sq. Sir H. hlainwairing, Lien. and Colonel Parker. On Thursday Nathan Sutton of Brinnington, was fined at the Stockport Police Court, by Capt. Humphreys. R. N. for neglecting to furnish a cart and hone, to convey the baggage of the Tenth Hunan, from Stockport to Man cheater. In order to compete with the railway. the packet boats on the Irwell are plying for 2s. foe the passage between Li verpool and Manchester. What they want in speed, it seems very evident they allow for in the charge for the passage. A " TLIST ALT" LETTLILA TV, respectable silk manufacturer of this sown, who is solue.gabfil Penceal4 tranmet at stated periods considerable business in the city of Dublin, recently paid a visit to that place, agreeably to his usual custom, but he had scarcely set foot in his hotel, when be received, by rather a mysterious mode of delivery, an alarming epistle, of which the following is a copy : Sia—l am directed to inform you to quit this country before to.ntorrow ; or if you do not, you must prepare your coffin. his (Signed) TERRY X ALT, Witnessed by Captain Rock mark. and David McCleary. Whether the tending of this note was meant in real earnest on account of the too free expression of sentiments opposed to those who concocted it, or as a mere joke upon a harmless individual, or to evade the present payment of an unsatisfied account, it appears to have fully answered the object for which it was intended, for the recipient, by the advice of his friends, and actuated by a desire to remain in this world somewhat longer, promptly obeyed the mandate, and the eh. suing morning found him safely landed at St. George's pier. head at Liverpool. TURN-OUT OT COLLIRRS IN Srarronnslitat.—in consequence of the resolutions passed at a recent meeting of coal-masters and agents, an extensive turn-out of colliers has taken place by the authority of the " Union," in this town and neighbourhood. Bundem, Tunstall, Cidgrove, Norton. in-the-Moors, end the adjacent villages, and bids fair to he of long continuance ; for there is evidently no disposition to concede in either party. We understand that the men de mand such prices as will enable them to earn 4s. or 4s. sd. each, for a day of ten hours. This, considering the nature of their employment, is not an excessive demand, if—and we are sorry that this if stands in the way, the state of the coal trade will admit of an advance of price. But the chief obstacle to pa. cification is the refusal of the coal proprietors to recognise the authority of the union, or allow the interference of its Inspectors in disputes that may hereafter arise between the employers and the employed. This turn-out of the col. lien has already had the effect of stopping some of the prin cipal manufactories in this neighbourhood ; and as it is probable that the colliers in the southern part of the Pot. taint will be stopped next week, the prospect of the trade of the whole district is any thing but pleasant. We have just heard that the turn-outs, yesterday morning, in considerable numbers, waylaid the men who had been employed by Mr. Kinnersley, at the Cidgrove pits, with a view of preventing their attendance ; but the 10th Hussars, and the Pottery and Newcastle Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, came to theft assistance, and succeeded in capturing twenty-six of the malcontents, who were, in the course of the day, committed to Stafford gaol for trial at the assizes. Bir. Pearson an eminent surgeon at Milnthorpe , re cently put an end to his existence, by swallowing a quantity of opium and prussic acid, whils t labouring under temporary derangement. A private soldier, named Badman, in the 70th regiment, stationed at Dublin, and his three brothers, have lately come into possession of a property of 12,0001. a year, and nearly 300,0001. in cash. MARRIED-111r. Thomas Harding, solicitor, of New. castle.under-Lyne ' to — Clarissa Sarah, daughter of John Gilbert, Esq. of Foregate-street, Chester.—At Kirkham, W. H. Hornby, Esq. of Blackburn, to Margaret Susannah, daughter of the late Edward Birley, Esq. THE CORNUBIAN, JUNE 3. Bliwiwo —At no period do we remember so much suc cess as at present attends on mining speculations in our neighbourhood. Besides a number of tin, copper, and lead mines, now in profitable working within twenty miles of Plymouth, several others are in a promising state of pro gress. Among the latter, a lode of silver lead, recently cut' in the Barton of Tinnel, near Cargreen, may be presumed to take the lead in importance, as these is no doubt of its being a continuation of the famous South Hooe lode, (worked on the opposite side of the River Tama:), which made such princely returns to the Beeralston Mining Company. A most distressing and melancholy circumstance took place in the parish of St. Buryan, on Saturday evening last. A woman having put her four children to bed (the eldest being about 9 years old), went to a shop at some distance for a few necessaries against Sunday. During her absence the fuel in the wood-corner by some means caught fire, and entirely destroyed the house with the four children in their beds. The father of the children was at the time at a far mer's house at some distance on business. The following questions and answers occurred in the Py der poll-booth at Lostwithiel, during the election, on the polling of an old man of the name of Hick, of St. Beal, by the advocate of Lord Valletort : Advocate—Who gave you this property ? An/seer—What's the difference to you ? Advocate—Did your grandfather give it you ? Ammer—No. (Very eargy.) Advocate—Your grandmother ? Answer—No : and serve you in your own coin. Advocate—Which of these gave it you ?—your father, mother, uncle, brother, sister, cousin, nephew, or niece ? Answer—Neither wan of e'em, r. Gentleman. . _ Advoatte—Then who the D-1 gave It you ? dimmer—You blockhead ! Why my aunt to be sure : and you ought to have named her after my uncle. A pretty lawyer you. (Great laughter followed this.) The old wag, after these interrogatories, got polled for for Mr. Pendarves and Sir C. Lemon. Quantity of Copper Ore sold, 2291 tons. Average Pro. due*, B—Amount of Sale, 11,7621. 15s. 6d. Average Standard, 981. 17s, Copper Ores for Sale of Rednals, June 91h. Binner Downs, 774—Forre3r Consols, 324—Marazion Mines, 300--Doleoath, 2`2s—Wheal Elizabeth, 180— 'Wheal Jewell, 170—Wheal To4us, 166—Wheal Mary, 138—Wheal Boller, 105—Wheal Harmony, 69—Wheal Trannaek, 66 United Hills, o—lvey's Ore, 47—Total 2618 Tons. --; lairitO, Joys I.—Wheat, p 7.; Barley, 12s 3d; Oab, 10s Od. HELSTON, VAT 28.—Wheat, (average) 26s 6d; Bar ley, 12s. PADIZAWCZ, MAY 19.—Wheat, 295; Barley, 14, Od ; Oats, 9s. _ __ MARRlED.—Elisabeth Love Biddy, daughter of W. Baldy, Esq. muter repo-maker of Plymouth dock-yard, to T. Wattle, Esq. of Bicton.—At Seaton, Thomas Cann, Eaq. surgeon, to Henrietta Mary, only daughter of Wm. Had, Eaq. DIED.—At Pilton, near Barnstaple, Capt. Richard Pel. lowe, R.N. formerly of Penryn. Captain P. was First Lieutenant of the Nymph, in the action with and capture of the Cleopatra, French frigate—Mr. W. Walker, aged 91, eldest son of the late Mr. Walker, of Exeter—Jane lit. Au. byn, widow and relict of Francis St. Aubyn, Esq. late of Devonport—At Bithney, Miss Mary Wallis, sister of the late C. Willis, Esq. of Trevarrow, 81—At Penzance, John Luke, Eq. aged 73. SINGULAR RENCONTRE.—(From Correspon dent.)—On Wednesday last, whilst Field. Marshal de Hour. moat, Comte de Crotty, and a party of friends, were visiting the Arsenal of Woolwich, they were met by the ei-decant Queen of Holland, Hortense Besuharnois, Louis Buena. paste's wife, and daughter of the Empress Josephine. The gentlemen of both parties saluted each other; and their re. spective post-boys, without any order, and by mere chance, conducted them all to dinner at the same tavern. TYPHUS Fey ta.—At an Inquest holden at the London Hospital last evening, before Mr. Baker, on the remains of a child accidentally burnt, the rumoured appearance of contagious disease in that hospital, as well as the Eastern districts of the metropolis, was incidentally brought into discus sion, and naturally excited amongst the Jurors and those present a feeling of powerful interest. It will be seen, by the admission of a medical gen tkman belonging to the Institution, that the re pert has not been wholly unfounded, though, as in' sat cases of the same description, the evil has been considerably exaggerated. After Mr. Thomas Clarke, a medical student belonging to the beer tal, had concluded his testimony in the case or which the Jury were empanelled to enquire into, the Coroner asked him if the state of the typhus fever in the hospital was as bad as had been repre sented in the newspapers? Mr. Clarke replied, that it was by no meansto, though there were at the same time in the hospital a good many patients labouring under typhus fever, but the violence of the dimes' was considerably abated, and the deaths from it, at present, were much decreased to what they had been. A Juror inquired if he was aware bow many typhus-fever patients there were at pre/- nest in the hospital ? Mr. Clarke replied that he was not, but that on that day three were taken in libouring under the disease. SCINTILLA. ON A DANDY. A dandy is a chap that would Be a young lady if he could; But as he can't, does all he can To show the world he's not a man. SONNET—RiEU NI A TI3 Thou gnawing pang, that grip'st me like the rack ' Thou ceaseless torture, that delight'st in groans ! Thou hungry vulture, picking bare my bones, Drinking my heart's blood, with thy fangs so black ; When wilt thou cease to cramp my shrinking back When will thy shrieks, that echo like the tones Of tempests wild, 'mid desart skeletons, Cease thus to desolate my early track ? Does not the pallid thinness of my brow, Does not the sunken dimness of tray eye, Does not my shivering form, that totters now, Express my weakness to do aught but die ! Coins then, kind death ! tor who would wish to live, When life can nothing but its tortures give. I AN Accost PAN IMENT.—The most bing a l r , spit in the world is that of the Count de Castel Ma r i a , of the most opu'cnt Lords of Treviso. This spit tams 13n different roasts at once, and plays 24 tunes' and whatever it plays corresponds to a certain degree of cooking, which 1, perfectly understood by the cook. Thus a leg of mutton, a rAnglaise, will be excellent at the 12th air, a Jowl a i n Flaswa►de, will be juicy at the 18th and so on. It would be difficult, perhaps, to carry farther the love of music acci gosirtnanderie. An Irishman asked one of the new pclice the m an why he wore the white mark round his arm ? is show that 1 am on duty," replied the policeman. and it's that you tell me ; by the powers I was thinking 1: was to let you know your right arm from yo ur fejt. TUT BILL.—A gentleman, a few days ago, when he was leaving Long's hotel, had his bill presented to him by one of the waiters. The gentleman paid it to I single penny. The waiter stood in expectation of the us u g gratuity, but received nothing. " Sir," said the *aim. " I hope every thing has been to your mind." " Perfe'rtly so," replied the gentleman. " I hope, Sir, I hare given you no offence." " None whatever,' answered the gentle. man. "Will you be pleased to consider the servants?'— " No, no, my man ; I am for the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill !" A TENDER HUSBAND. "I was invited," said Dr. Wolcott, "to sup with Mr. P. a rich planter, and his wife. During the repast, my friend desired a fenhd: slave in waiting to mix some toddy ; on which the black girl, in her peculiar way, asked him if it was to be drinking for dry or drinking for diunkey ? When our supper was ended, the night hadjbecome tempestuotri, and our water being exhausted, Mr. P. sent his wife a short distance from the house for a fresh supply. The thunder and lightning being excessive during her absence, I said to him, why do you not sapd that girl (the slave) for water such a night as this, instead of your wife ! Oh ! no, replied he, that would never do; that slave cost me forty pounds. ILL REQUITED LONE.—The passion of love, so powerful in its influence over savage beasts, rules with a feeble and transitory sway over the subjects of our present enquiry. The male spider approaches the female with the greatest circumspection, fearful lest the sexual fecEng should not have banished that thirst for blood which, under ordinary circumstances, induces them to prey as readily on each other as on winged insects. It therefore not unfrequently happens that if a small male approaches a large female whose feelings unfortunately do not coincide with his own, instead of being caressed he is eaten. SAILORS' NOTIONS OF POLTOASIY.—A Lon don paper of thk week, contains the following paragraph : " W. Burch, a rough weather.beaten sailor, has been com mitted from the Thames Police Office for Polygamy; he had three wives living, and was on the' rint of marrying a fourth when aprehended."—lt is notorious that sailors bate no very clear ideas on the subject or the criminality attached to marrying two or three wives. They seem in general to be entirely unaware of the existence of any kw forbidding them to follow the Turk in matrimonial affairs. In short, thy do not see the slightest harm in having a plurality of mar. We recollect this moment a popular sea song, in r 1.7. * at Jack is made to say— I have a wife at Portsmouth Gatos, Another at Goree, A copper.colour up the Straits, And a black at St. Lucia. MACA DA MIZATION.—London is the groat thea tre for the display of every spsdss of useful, elegant, and ingenious talent, and the Bari* are beyond cespare the most indulgent, confiding pawls is the world t witness the dretater, the Bohemian minimis e tate psr, &c. why, then, does not the newly 11111/1811 Isar lel Gams artist come ben at once, nand of sennt to pick up a few florins at Cassel. I man N. who has, happily for himself and asaikissi is gawk dimmed a me ld of so atrik lima esinher as torsion erasable sounds. This se (net kvaeas Is calls by a word elorrarndlos r frenewst took wash of his discovery. The hemp@ stain bops lama poor to afford a tens aullelenly Eiselikeltts ohs paryanabst by as seadits amiss of sedges the mow is which Mew sod Deressthssas, it sad Class, ems se iN =o =set a we. at length was boas* 1 Let this gent sow cuss is as saw wimps& be (amid ad say s.teieh binedt. sedges. dily eso, hy his swaths tams, Ine by anew egyllindon ut his saiamw. sight ceevas lea emits otesishos ism& died. who now pass dolt dew, downy lee ilmeaselias sod deeppmesly for poarssews. is the mess wok st breaking mess se the tads. U lawasery es be sonmsed hoot two lists, why eat km lbssillidos of monism a metal as irate with ow= of wallas' granite ? Let 11. Back. stein but reduce his valmlls an to a few simple rules—let him harmonise our herd working labourers, and make our public ways melodious. wet a inteful nation will not fail to reward him in a meager ossensesurate to the importance of his services. BIRTHS. The 6th inst. the lady of the Hon. 0. Talbot, of a daughter.—The 6th lost. bin. F. ti. Francit, of a son.— Tne 6th inst. the lady of J. Nelson, Esq. of a son.—The 4th inst. the wife of Lieutenant J. Thomsoo, of a son.— The 4th inst. the lady of T. o.oardiuer, Esq. of &daughter. —The :id inst. the lady of G. Dickson, Req. of a son.— The 6th inst. the wife of W. Hutchins, Keg. of a dsughtet The 3d inst. Mrs. W. Hicks, of a daughter. MARRIED, I lOri Saturday, the 4th inst. at Brighten, by the Rev. R. Andersoo, Charles itawlineen, Esq. of Deughty.aucet.— to Louisa, daughter of the late Martin Bernell, fisq. of Great Comes-street.—Thursday. the 2d hot, at St. Bride*, Mr. G. Ritchie, of Gracechurch.sueet, to Anne, second daughter of the late Mr. J. Reynolds. DIED. Saturday, the 4tb inst. in Alfred-place, Captain Isaac Richardson, late of the Hon. Company's Indian Nary , aged 71, leaving a widow and six children to lament his irreparable loss.—The sth inst. at her residence, Oteenwict. Mrs. Mary Millington, aged 70. —Yesterday, at his house in Srelbeck-street, Robert Fullerton, Esq. late Goternor 4.f Prince of Wales's Island. Singapore, and Maim:ca.—The sth inst. at Newington-green, Mrs. Parker, widow of Lc: Mr. Reginald Parker, of Doctors'-commons, in her 75 h vesr.—The 4th inst. Mrs. Gilbert, of Holborn-Lill, in ihe . 72d year of her age. SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKET—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, .t 101. to LI 15e Useful ditto, £3 Os. to £3 ISs. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grass Hay, £3 13s to £4 4s. Clover titv, ft os. to £5 10s. Oat Straw. £1 Ss to XI 14s. Wheat Straw, £1 14s. to it Ills. per load. CUMBERLAND HAY-MARKET—THIS DAV. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, XS 51. to 10s. Useful ditto, st 2 101. to ifo. Fine l • Pian Meadow and Rye Grua Hay, £4 .516 to £4 10.. Vie_ Hay, £3 10s. to £5 10s. Oat 3traw,Cl 12s. to Xi to Wheat Straw, £1 16s. to Cfs 2a. par load. NEWGATE AND LBADENHALL—THIS DAY. There was again only • abort supply at Mew markrts this morning, and prices were high. By the Caresse.—Per stone of Bfts. Beef . - 5 . 04 54 10d 4s sd Mutton - - 3$ isd sis 4d 4s 6d Veal . - Ss tOd 4s lOd Ss 04 Pork . .Se 84 4. 4d 4s 8,1 Lamb - - Ss nd Ss ad 69 Od ____—............ Lownox : hinted and roblisbed by Joey Meese. attire bra. OrrlcE, No. I. Picket:l3lov, Tempts Dar. r H. Gentle nit oi l , that G which hollow sufficit Dress Ditto, Frock - sill• Trout Ditto, Ditto, Waist A Fo Ws A Sui A diti A Sta A Fa Gol W hol Gel waital AI Gown ble as H. 1; TUE B` T' Ferry Vale( At G. The the nu of Col no `re peat 1 c ontai FOUI Of vei vided The Thesi' log, bi and U Pei. Heists) Head. and A Rees House Mum Ward BC patro thud, purcl it ev4 favor that only Ma, Mem the 1 of p ing MT tell Paw 4 L _ l •Y ' nal Iri s Pro I reli pal - as tec