The Sun. — London, England, 1833-06-21 00:00:00

a Cal a l j3O O 600. yet the i the '' lace ° Dui Qof it OP' We r notwi Y P 6Pe o f ighl.l ;8j Sr be J ill ' cao ° ol P reil ! 1 its W I le 03° e ctoe 0 otalY lest , ol we V e' tB' w 1 3 0 . 1 1 1, ISe di. rig G °° vio oll l it ll vb ° l,o 4 v e io t " iod at to 0 de: lir t 3 j tn b. es d'' li it 0 UPt' k a 4° oor co ° , ow ,:rpoi .I,iff es , "t 0 1 4 4 Ilir Cu i" ,CITANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) ATTORNEyGENERAL V. THE CLOTH ,NORKEKS' COMPANY. I t4 t hia case his Honour the Vice-Chancellor some days 4tl ede , an ord er , b y consent o f a ll p parties, whereby the of the ch ar i ty estates i n question in the 'Dionne :ere allowed 25 per cent. out of the charity funds, f 4 ,- , ... g erne nt of the property. 4,, "OUR, on coming into Court this morning, stated received a letter from an individual signing hinn.elf ' 1 in which the writer stated that he had seen a the minutes as intended to be delivered out by the ttrarbeen ' and was quite sure if the attention of the Court called to the case, his Honour would never have an order, it being perfectly monstrous that I. o r ° Ttild be allowed 25 per cent. out of charity pro.. : )1 ,2 It B management. The writer also stated, that ~ ;:u h eltad not adopted his real n . ame . , he was well bi Ina Honour, and had felt it his duty to call p o u J ec t to the p ar ti cu l a r attention of the Court, for the ti : ° f Preventi n g, if possible, such an order from be trZ4 Precedent at' any future period. His Honour tit4", r hat in c onsequence of this letter, he had re- IN the Registr a r to furnish him with the precise bt ef the order, from which it appeared that the mat 'tth been before the Attorney-General, and such an iob 4ll ig received his sanction, the Court had nothing t t lt Make the order. Soonsar said that be appeared for the relators, 40 ` k " , Attorney-General had approved of the order he Il e ' A uing to d o but agre e to it. ' „ n rroltNEY-GENEKAL recollected the case being 46 - t I and had thought the arrangement was for the i 0 °f all parties. He would, however, with the per ter- °1 the Court, look over the papers again, to- With the letter received by his Honour. E. SUODEN said there could he no doubt, from the , e , °l the lett e r, that the individual who had written it lf,,,' u aterl by the best of motives. tiPHONOUR handed down the letter to the Attorney . r, 11 who promised to give the matter further con- 4 .T OF KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) 14 t THE KING V. DYER 11r. Montagu AND OTHERS. t 'l case the prosecutor,, one of the ' 4 °l l to th e City o f London, residing at Clapton, had t ,,: d Mary Anne Dyer, Henry Masters (the former 0 been his housemaid, and the latter his footman), 1 , 'tabeth Dyer, with a conspiracy in falsely charging 'l: i s % bein g th e father of a female bastard child, of i t Mary A nne D yer h a d be e n d e livered. Liti JAMEs ScARLETT ma d e a long speech for the pro it - , 1 , b, Which was not finished when we went to press. Nght the trial of the case will last a day or two. ING INTELLIGENCE—(THIS DAY.) Pt.k FROM LLOYD'S. JUNE 20.—Wind light and variable.—The Bry an transport, hound to Nero South Wales, Pro ' , ti,i ti -c eed to the Mother Bank as soon as the wind r . The Mary Stewart, Stokes, from Havinnah, 1 , 41t 4 S. Petersburgh last evening. ej'ROUTH, JUNE 20.—Wind N.N. W.—Passed by „,' l de Harold, Leach, from Singapore—sailed on the q a :' February, Mauritius on the 29th of March, Cape t l - 1, 4 live on the 21st of April, and St. Helena on the '; and Brothers, Towns, from Sydney—sailed on the t ! Febru ar y, an d N e w Zealand on the lot of March. I totPri i JUNE 19.—Wind variable.—Sailed his 1 ,1 1) '' ship Saute, for the Mediterranean ; and the P, l l ' Douglas, for Ceylon. 'll ) l4 totiTa i JUNE 19.—Wind S.S.W. to N.N W., 6 4 I tt " f "es, and squally.—Arrived the Duke of York rwn Jamaica—sailed on the 14th ult. ; and Broad '4;, ur Phy, from Pernambuco. Off port the Jean "W, from Malaga ; Cephas, Barrass. from Villa trother's Friend, Wayth, from Li,bon ; and At ,el}3irber, from Newfoundland. Sailed the Lonax, 1 .1 t1 : 1 % for New South Wales. t hPoor. JUNE 19.—Arrived the Water Witch, ', \ 'thadoes ; Portia, Bennett, from La Guayra and u rleaas ; Herman, Leslie, from Mobile; Mattakesir, pi: 4, and St. Croix, Bradley, from Savannah ; and ti, i d 5 7 1 4 Shaw, Gray, from Miramichi. Off port the 4 p d froma iled Mar theanham Duke of ; and La Brow Hargraves, n, from New. 4 ti for ).1 444 NocK JUNE 18.--Arrived the Jaue Haddow, Hilton, from Trinidad. i,WEB3 nah• JUNE 20,—Arrived the Ceres , Sinclair , from ,;(,),RTLAND, JUNE lg.—Arrived the Jacobue, Vander ) fr„m Batavia "' ju NE vfou n di and. .—Arrived the Emma, Tucker, from The Magnet was abandoned in lorm. 29—crew saved. , Chat Sanderson, from Bton, to St. John's, .1! Brunswick, is lost on Breir Island—crew saved. Solway, be Proctor, from Singapore, has arrived off 1 , 1 °n• 'Cambridge, Barber, and the Mermaid, Evans, from With valuable cargoes, have arrived at Singapore. 11 1 EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Le Roxb urg h C ast l e , f rom B enga l, h as arriv e d off ! I : 4 'th, sailed from Sauger 9th March, St. Helena 9,h 'IVAL S AT ST. HELENA-The Tyne, from the Mall 26th April, and sailed 28th for London; the He tlts-hristiana, from Batavia, 26th, and sailed 30th for 4 dam ; the Fanea, from Calcutta, 29th, and sailed by fo r Liverpool ; the Harmonie, from Bombay, let ', I 'M sailed 2d for Bordeaux; the Albion, from Bum- Al t :"') and sailed 2d for London ; the Calcutta, from tti; tt at Ist, and sailed 2d for Bordeaux ; the schooner ( , 4 ' l , from itvia, 2d, and saild h for Amsterdam itC i idu Haro ß ld, a from Singapore, 4t sth, and sailed 6th i : 4 don ; the Lady Nugent, from Bombay, 7th, and : 4 11 for London ; the Planter passed the island 2d 1. 11 40 in the Mauritius. Lord Amherst put back to Calcutta, having sprung T 6 just as s he was leaving Sanger. Lady Nugent, from Bombay to London, lat. 6, N. ; it„Planter, from the Mauritius to London, near the Islands. k kl tt ivals at Bengal—His Majesty's ship Magicienne, 4 `ladras, 12th Feb. ; the Caledonia, from Penang, '4 4 , 3 the Resolution, from Madras, 13th ; the Louisa , ilii`enang, 17th ; the Ann, from Ceylon, 19th ; King 4tltrithe F our th, from Bombay, 23d ; the Exporter, t he Mauritius, 26th. , t4 trtu res from Bengal—The Sultan, 16th Feb., and .s Bentinck, 18th, for Madras ; the James q r ,c'h, for L on don, 18th ; th e Sir A n dr e w Campbell, Napore, 18th ; the Lord Amherst, fur London, 2 I et. ;1 Of 4 a.• be rld t e c ) THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) (le CORN EXCHANGE. 0,,, return of all kinds of Grain this week are moderate, and 1 / 4i44 "„r_the return is scanty. The Wheat trade remains the %° a .leported on Monday, with not much doing. In Barley, I,: 4 l l kit li , V Pease, no variation. For good sweet Oats the trade tt l "nn, but for other descriptions scarce any sale. Fresh our free sale, at former prices. '.,, ARRIVALS. , Iti, Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. . ...... .. 4,32.0 qrs. 1,760 qrs. 7,310 qrs. 3,l4osacks 7 tv41 .... .i..... ..... 100 --- 4,790 - - - SMITHFIELD MARKET. ic,' '''' 4 ay's supply of Beasts, Sheep, Lambs, and Calves, was btth 4 ,, as to numbers and qualit of Porkers limited. dttt r w,',e. was dullthroughout, with Beef; Mutton and Veal at , lon, of full '2d., Lamb 4d per stone With Pork,..at lk, ' ' prices. Milch Cows went off he w ily at droop g 1 j k a, 4 useful Short-horns, with her small Calf producing t , k ,"`• to 18/. te R 1 4 S PER STONE OF t3LBS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. Pigs. 120 tio i . s. d. to 8. d. S. d. to s. d. N I Beasts 2 0 2 2 Large Lambs 0 0 0 0 'ti t piality ditto 210 3 0 Prime small ditto 4 8 5 8 i lqigeOxen... 3 4 3 6 Large coarse (7alves 3 0 3 8 ~,t i ore a t s , &e. .... 3 6 3 6 Prime small ditto 4 4 4 6 n t i "neep • 2 10 3 0 Large Hogs t 4 qUality ditto 3 6 3 10' Small Yorkers 4 4 4 6 tlq u 'oelled ditto 3 4 4 01 Suckling Calves 12s. to 3:l,.each. WnW ethers 4 2 4 4 QuarteroldPigs 125.t0 18P.each SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK I 'S STATEMENT. Nt i s yi • Sheep and Lambs. Calves 1 9,860 4OO I,j---,., 'VVGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. 4 I rir . At per stone, by the Carcass. S. d.tos. d. s. .1. to s. d ' . ,ii,erior ....... 2. 2 2 4 I Mutton, inferior. .. 2 2 2 . 8 Ki 4t U dling 2 4 2 8 ----- middling.. 3 0 310 ~ 1 iiri,, r4 e large 3 0 3 4 — prime...... 4 0 . 4 2 " , e small_ 3 4 3 6 Pork,large ............ 3 2 3 8 3 0 4 8 —small 3 0 4 8 Lamb ..—.........—......--.35. 4d. to ss. Hid. rt SOUTHALL MA It KET.—June 19. ~Y, , ,,„4 „ ,rs supply of Beasts was limited, of Sheep, Lambs, 21,4,"` . , , Pigs, moderately good. The market was tolerably `ti t „vr4' , ed both by London and country buyers, and the vi % prime small Beef and Veal was somewhat brisk, but t/) of very dull, at the following prices per stone of Sib. to 14 p l Od. to 4s Od 3s. Bd. to 4s. 10 d. I 3 10 410 Pork _ 3 4 4 4 4 ; f' r Lamb ss. OW to 6s. Ott. • vlict going quotations are Lamb 2d. per stone cheaper than h4, 4 Y se'nnight ; prices of Beef, Mutton, Veal, and Pork, Niji'„ Beasts, 155; Sheep and Lambs, 3,151.; Calves, 67; (1, unt a small proportion of the supply left the market t de ‘-%IJTHBERT RIPPON paired off in favour `itiirral Registry Bill with Mr. H. LAMBTON. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE. An ACCOUNT of the PUBLIC INCOME and EXPENDI. TUBE, for the Years ended January 5, 1831, 1832, and 1833. .. 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SPRING RICE. Whitehall reasury Chambers, June 4, 1833. APPREHENSION AND ESCAPE OF A NOTORIOUS SWINDLER. Last night, just as the Magistrates were leaving Bow-street Office, a very elegantly dressed man, his breast decorated with an abundance of gold chain, eye glass, &c. &c., was brought in custody of a policeman, named Flack, No. 101, of the F division, on the charge of having about a week since defrauded Mr. Dulin, the eminent jeweller and money changer on Cornhill, of costly jewels to a very considerable amount. The prisoner was given into the custody of the officer by Mr. Dulin, jun., who happened to meet with him in the neighbourhood of Covent_ garden. The officer first conveyed him to the station-house, where Rogers, the Inspector, was on duty, and by his desire he was taken over to the office, at the same time cautioning the officer to be careful he did not escape, as innumerable charges would be brought against him. The officer took him over, and the prisoner requested to go into the Clerk's office to send a messenger for Mr. Pollock, his counsel. The officer, in defiance of the order he had re ceived, granted the permission, and he stationed himself at the door, deeming him to be quite secure. The prisoner passed through the offices with a gentlemanly air, and opening the door at which the magistrates enter only, deliberately stalked out, the policemen and others about politely touching their hats, and escorting him into the street, believing him to be a county magistrate. It is needless to state, that, on gaining the pave once more, he made the best use of his legs, and effected his escape. Rogers the inspector came over immediately after, and inquiry was made of the officer for his prisoner, when he was told by the simpleton, No. 101, that he merely stepped into the clerk's office to write to Mr. Pollock. Rogers S ew into a violent rage, and instantly handed over Mr. Flack to some other officer. Mr. Thomas, who was on duty at the theatre, was sent for, and he instantly went in quest of the fugitive, and succeeded in tracing him to the house of Mr. Gibbs, the stationer, in Great Newport-street, where, on leav ing the office, he had gone, and calling for pen, ink, and paper, wrote a letter to Mr. Minshull, and forwarded it to him by a boy, to whom he paid sixpence. The letter stated that it was quite a mistake, as he should be able to show, that he did not like to disgrace himself and friends by being in custody, and therefore he had taken leave of absence. Mr. Thomas now lost all further trace, but this morning there is reason to believe he has some clue to his retreat. The prisoner is the same individual who, a short time since, favoured Mr. Wassail, of Pickett place, with a visit. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWCASTLE RACES. WEDNESDAY. —The Northumberland PI ate of 100 sovs. for horses of all ages, added to a handicap sweepstakes of 15 soya., 10 f.. Two Mr. Order's br. c. Tomboy, by Jerry 1 Mr. Surtee's b. f. Maid of Melrose 2 Colonel Cradock's b. colt, brother to Homer 3 The Silver Cup, value 60 guineas, given by the coporation of Newcastle, added to a sweepstakes of b guineas each p.p. Ht.atstwo miles each. 11 subs. Lord Elcho's br. h. Phillips 3 1 1 Colonel Cradock's b. f. by Jerry 1 2 2 Sir J. Boswell's b. g. Craigmiller 2 3 3 Mr. Walker's b. f. Maid of Melrose 4 4 dr. BATH RACES, JUNE 20. The original 5 sovs. stakes, with 20 added from the Racing Fund, for horses that never won 100 suss. Two miles and distance. 11 subs. Mr. Biggs's Pounce, 4 yrs 1 Mr. Blathwayt ns. b. c. by Luzborough Mr. West's Creeper, 4 yrs. The Dyrham Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added. Heats, one mile. 5 subs. Mr. Peyton's Don Juan 4 1 I Mr. Oliver's Cock Robin Colonel Peel's Fair Play 2 3 3 Mr. Harris's Hylas 1 4 2 Mr. Wilkin's Dictator The Tureen Stakes of 10 soya. each. The winner to be sold fir 50 soya., &e. Three miles. 11 subs. Mr. Knatchbull ns. Clara 1 Mr. Sadler's Eleanor 2 Colonel Charritie ns. Louisa 3 The Rubbish Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 10 added, for horses of all denominations. Heats, one mile and a half. The winner to be sold for 40 soya., &c. 5 subs. Mr. W. Day's Temperance 1 1 Mr. Harris's Hylas Mr. Bristow's Pagoda The winner was claimed. KNIGHTON RACES. WEDNESDAY.—The Radnorshire Stakes, of 5 sove. each, with 50 sous. added by the Cuunty and Borough Mem bers. Heats, twice round, and the distance. Mr. Burton's b. g. Catlass Mr. Fuller's b. to. Lady Harrington Mr. Bodenham's c. by Young Phantom The Whipstakes, of 5 soya. each (with a Whip given by the St,ward). Heats, once round, and the long length. Mr. Jones's b. g. by Master Henry 0 I 1 Mr. Stephen's c. g. Heir-at-Law 0 2 2 Mr. Ackers na. br. in. Kate Mr. Wilkins' c. g. The Infant 5 4 dr. The Farmers' Stakes of 3 sues. each, with a Silver Cup added. Heats, once round, and the long length. Mr. J. Weyman's b. g. by Comus I 1 Mr. Roger's b. g. by Spectre 2 2 Mr. Wilkins' b. g. by Apparition 3 dr. TATTERSALL' S. The attendance yesterday was thinner than on Monday, and the betting less interesting. The few engagements made were on the Newmarket July Stakes, for which Sir Mark Wood's colt is, nominally, the favourite. There is a large field, and every prospect of its becoming a good betting race. The follow ing were the closing prices : NEWMARKET JULY STAKES. 5 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's Louisa colt (offered) 7 to 1 agst Mr. Sowerby's Iklalcolm (taken) 7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Musquito (taken) 7 to 1 agst Mr. Stonehewer's Emma filly 10 to i agst Mr. Greatrex's Trulla colt (taken) 10 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Vidocq GOODWOOD cUP. 6 to 4 laid agst Sir M. Wood's Camarine (p. p.) DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 5 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Muley Moloch 7 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's Belshazzar 12 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's Rockingham 13 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Mussulman 14 to 1 agst Colonel Crawford's The Mole 18 to I agst Mr. Waiker's Connoisseur 25 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge We give these as the current odds. Nothing was done on the race, the majority of the subscribers being at Bath races. ABSENCE OF MIND.—A west country man, who bad lately occasion to provided himself with a pair of new shoes, took the measure of his own foot to a nicety, intending to send a boy to the shoemaker's, about three miles distant to fetch him the shoes. Something, how ever, occurred to prevent the boy from going, and the man resolved to go himself. He accordingly set off for the cordiner's, and was about half way on his road, when he suddenly stopt short, scratched his head, and muttered to himself, " Confound it! I've forgot the measure!" Back he went accordingly to procure it, and then proceeded to his original destination, whete he learned with asto nishment from the man of awls, that his foot would answer better than the measure !—Scotsman. MISCELLANEOUS. The population of Belgium on the Ist Ja nuary, 1832, was 4,130,121, and on the Ist January, 1838, 4,142,257, showing an increase of 12,136. We are informed upon good authority that so great a quantity of hosiery goods never left this town during May for the last thirty years as during the month ju-t expired. Many orders still remain unexecuted.—Leices ter Chronicle. On Monday se'nnight, a Seal (Phoca Linn), was shot in the River Severn, near Sharp ness Point, the dimensions of which were four feet and a half in length, and measuring the same in circumference. It weighed three cwt , and has been exhibited in the hamlet of Littleworth, near Gloucester, during the week. —Dorset County Chronicle. LOSS OF THE CLYDE STEAMER.—Me learn that the Clyde steamer, while on her passage (torn Glasgow to Liverpool, with upwards of 100 passengers, struck, about one o'clock on Sunday morning last, on a rock nearArdwall Bay. The vessel was speedily got off, and, while filling fast - , was, by the utmost exertions, run a distance of four miles into Portnessock, where, fortunately, all the passengers were landed in safety. Im mediately after, the Clyde sunk.—Dumfries Courier. MANNERS IN 1741.—The ball began at eight, each man danced one minute with his partner, and then began country dances. The beauties were the Duke of RICHMOND ' S two daughters and their mother, still handsomer than they : the Duke sat by his wife all night, kissing her hand. The supper was served at twelve; a large table of hot for the lady dancers; their partners and other tables stood round. We danced (for I country danced) till four, then had tea and coffee, and come home. —Sketches of the Court of England (1741), by Horace Walpole. BOTTLED TEARS.--1(1 some of the mourn ing assemblies of the Persians it is the custom for a priest to go about to each person at the height of their grief with a piece of cotton in his hand, with which he carefully col lects the falling tears, and which he then squeezes into a bottle, preserving them with the greatest caution. This practically illustrates the passage in the 56th Psalm, viii. :—" Put thou my tears into thy bottle." Some Per sians believe that in the agony of death, when all medi cines have failed, a drop of tears so collected put into the mouth of a dying man has been known to revive him ; and it is for such a use that they are collected.—Mirror. DEATH OF THE KING OF THE GIPSIES. —We have to record the death, at an advanced age, a few days since, of LAWRENCE BOSWELL, said to be King of the Gipsies. He had been declining in health a considerable time, and during the last two or three months was, with part of his family, lying encamped in Draycot. lane, between this town and Nottingham. As a proof that he was of some consequence among the fraternity, many tribes of gipsies from distant quarters assembled to bid him a last farewell. A coffin of the best Nor way oak was made to receive his remains, which are expected to be interred in the parish church of Wilne.— Derby Reporter. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Wed nesday afternoon, while a couple of little boys were amus ing themselves by the side of the wall which fronts the Green at the bottom of Charlotte-street, Glasgow, they happened to stumble upon a bag, partly concealed among a quantity of rubbish, which contained something of con siderable bulk. On cutting it open, to their horror, and to that of every other onlooker, it was found to contain the dead bodies of a middle aged female, and in a handkerchief by her side a young child. Round the neck of the former a piece of rope was firmly twisted. The corpses were carried to the Police office. The female appeared to have been dead about ten days.— Glasgow Courier. COOL AS A CUCUMBER.—A grave-digger, in a neighbouring parish was busily employed the other day in preparing the last home for the remains of a de ceased parishioner, when two gentleman passed the man of spades and mattocks at his melancholy employment. "6 Whose grave is this?" asked one of the gentlemen of the venerable and hoary-headed sexton. " It's for my third wife, Sir," responded he of the mortcloth ; " and I'm takin' up my first wife, to let her intil her place. Ther's her banes (casting them out) rotten eneuch ; and titer's my second wife lyin' aside her (clapping an adja cent grave with his shovel) ; fa kens but I may pit my fourt in her place too. Oh, it's an awfu' wand' Ay, ay ! Ech, ech ! Och, och !"—Aberdeen Observer. METHOD OF QUELLING A RIOT IN THE HIGHLANDS.-In a certain burgh in one of our moun tainous districts, the important personage who filled the office of fiscal was one night enjoying himself over a glass with a friend, when the servant opened the door in great haste, and announced that there were two men fighting in Mac's (a neighbouring public-house), and the fiscal was wanted immediately. The night was cold, and the official felt reluctant to leave the comfortable situation in which he found himself; turning. therefore, to the gill, he or dered her to "go and tell Mac to give the men a dr ,m to be quiet." " But what if they'll no be quiet then, Sir ?" asked the girl. " 0,1 it - 1" cried the fiscal pettishly, " just tell him to make them fight till I come."—Perth Advertiser. MENTAL SYMPATHY.—There is a sympa thy between minds and persons, which in all cases, even in common intercourse, speedily attaches certain indivi duals to each other, who neither attract, nor are attracted. by certain where. It is a❑ old remark, that no man ev er looked on, at a game of chance Pr skill, played by two people, both previously unknown to him, without, in lees than five minutes, feeling an interest for the success of one of them over the other ; and there certainly are some un definable points of accordance, some harmonies of thought or expression, of which we are not ourselves clearly con scious, which almost immediately attract the attention, and fix our thoughts upon the individual, who as uncon sciously as ours-lves, happens to possess them.—Hook's Parson's Daughter. Sir R. WALPOLE was in the habit of having sometimes at his table the landlord of an inn in the neighbourhood of his seat. On one occasion, when 11Ionsey was of the party, an old dull Norfolk Baronet, who had nothing to recommend him but wealth, was so jealous of the attention the landlord received, that he openly remonstrated with Sir ROBERT on his permitting such a man to sit in his company. The landlord mo destly observed that as Sir ROBERT, who gave the dinner, and all the gentlemen present condescended to admit him, he saw no reason why the Baronet should take exceptions. " Pho," said the Baronet, " your father was a butcher." Well," said the landlord, " there is no great diffe rence between your father and mine, for if my father killed calves yours brought them up." All the company took the joke immediately, except the Baronet, who replied " What! do you make my father a grasier." We see by an Irish paper that Mr. O'CONNELL has written a letter to Ireland in which lie professes to give his reasons for not bringing forward the " repeal question" during the present session of Parliament. When he pleads the advanced period of the session as an excuse, he hopes, we suppose, that it will be forgotten that at the very commencement of the session—during the (!ebate on the address—he was challenged by all parties to make good his pledge, and let Parliament hear and decide upon the subject. And yet this is, in fact, the only point of his letter which can be mistaken for a reason. Mr. FERGUS O'CONNOR should immediately give the repealers of Ire land his reasons for bringing on the discussion, as no doubt he will bring it on, for we are sure he will not for feit his ple,;ge to take the sense of Parliament on the question before it rises for the vac ition.— Times. DRAMATIC AUTHORS.—A meeting was held this week, at the Garrick's Head, of gentlemen who have written successfully for Drury lane and Covent garden Theatres. The object of their meeting was to prevent their dramatic works from being pirated and per formed in the country theatres without their receiving due remuneration, and to have a property in their dramas for ten years, and to assimilate the law, in a great degree, to the regulations in France for the protection of the works written for the stage. After some discussions, resolutions to the above effect were adopted, at the same time that it was agreed to act with all possible liberality towards the provincial managers who hereafter perform their plays and farces; and it was resolved to appeal to the Legislature for the protection of their respective interests. A copy of the resolutions was transmitte I to Mr. BUI, WER, MX., to be embodied in his Bill for the protection of dramatic literary property. A gentleman was nomi nated as their agent, and a solicitor was appointed, after which the meeting adjourned. TAMBURINI.—A singular story is told of this gentleman during his residence in Palermo, where a custom prevails of allowing, during the first day of the carnival, the audience at the theatres to interrupt and drown the performance by every sort of discordant noise. The prima donna, offended at this license, refused to per form her part; the people were furious; and TAMBURINI, who had once ()Olin: allayed the storm by his ready wit, now undertook to go through the scene in the dress of Etrza, and in the high tones of his clear falsetto, which he is said to have done with the most perfect success, contriving even to perform the duet, with which the scene concludes, by rapidly changing from the high tones of the female part to the deep and full tone of his own natural voice. He gave another proof the versatility of his talent at Napieq, wi,ere the principal woman having through sudden illness lost her paver of singing, he went through the who'e aria while she leaned motionless upon his shoulder.— Hat nionicon. KING JAMES'S CLASP KNIFE.—The word " Jockteleg," which is still Scotch for a clasp-knife, was of ❑nknown etymology till a knife was fund with the in. scription, " Jacques de Liege," who was a famous cutler, and supplied Scotland with clasp knives. It is said of JAMFS VI., that to puzzle his courtiers in England, he one day said to his stable boy :—" CALLAN, ba'e, there's thretty pennies, gae wa' and buy me a jockteleg ; an' gin ye byd, I'll gang to the bougars o' the house, an' tak' a cabir and reesle your riggin wi' t." That is, "Boy ! here is thirty pence, go and by me a clasp-knife ; and if you delay, I shall go to the roof of the house, and take a rafter and thresh your back with it. —Janzieson's Diet. in Voce. ANECDOTES OF SIR ROBERT W ALPOLE. —When Prime Minister, Sir ROBERT, as his son tell us, " was called in the morning, and was asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow, for I have frequently known bins snore ere they had drawn his curtains—now never sleeps above an hour without waking ; and he, who at dinner always forgot he was Minister, and was more gay and thoughtless than all his company, now sits with out speaking, and with his eyes fixed for an hour together. Judge if this is the Sir ROBERT you knew." Anticipat ing his being out :—" Trust me, if we fall, all the gran deur, the envied grandeur of our house, will not cost me a sigh ; it has give❑ me no pleasure while we have it, and will give me no pain when I part with it. My liberty, my ease, and choice of my own friends and company, will sufficiently counterbalance the crowds of Downing-street. I am so sick of it all, that if we ate victorious or not, I propose leaving England in the spring." He (Sir R., after his retirement) " says he will keep the 12th of Fe bruary, the day he resigned, with his family as long as he lives."—Horace lVolpole's Letters. _ DIGNITY OF A ItEPUBLIC.—The policy of my government being to give to its public servants small salaries, the latter act but in unison with this policy, in having their establishments small. It is not for those honoured by being selected to serve the Republic abroad, to complain. Nor, with the English, do I believe, tdat the considera'ion attaching to foreign ministers, is depen dent upon the salaries they receive. However large these may be, and sometimes are, in the persons of the repre sentatives of the Imperial and Royal Governments of Eu rope, they are still so much below the wealth of the borne circles in London, as to be no distinction, supposing dis tinction to he sought on that ground. The surpassing in comes in the home circles, and habit of expenditure, with the ample accommodations by which the many who pos se's them live surrounded, incline their possessors to re gard such official strangers as objects, rather than agents, of hospitality. It may be otherwise in capitals on the continent, but this is the general relationship which the diplomatic corps holds to society iu London. —Rush's Narrative of a Residence at the Court of London. THE MOTHER.—It has often been remarked that great and eminent men receive from their mothers, even before they see the light, half the mental dispositions and other peculiarities of character by which they are af. terwards distinguished. Thus in GOETHE'S character we find a most sensitive shrinking from all intense impres sions; which, by every means, and under every circum stance of his life, he sought to ward off from himself. We find the same peculiarity in his mother, as we shall see from the following curious and characteristic traits:— GoETHE's mother, whenever she hired a servant, used to make the following conditions :—" You are not to tell me of any thing horrible, afflicting, or agitating, whether it happen in my own house, in the town, or neighbour hood. I desire, once for all, that I may bear nothing of the kind. If it concerns me, I shall know it soon enough ; if it does not concern me, I have nothing whatever to do with it. Even if there should be a fire in the street in which I live, I am not to - know of it till it is absolutely necessary that I shou!d."— Goethe, from Austin's Trans lation of Fah/ie. SHAPE OF THE EARTH ILLUSTRATED. —We have before likened the inequalities on the earth's surface, arising from mountains, valleys, buildings, &c., to the roughness on the rind of an orange, compared with its general mass. The comparison is quite free from exaggeration. The highest mountain known does not ex - ceed five miles in perpendicular elevation; this is only one 1600th part of the earth's diameter; consequently, on a globe of sixteen inches in diameter, such a mountain would be represented by a protuberance of not more than one-hundredth part of an inch, which is about the thick ness of ordinary drawing-paper. Now, us there is no entire continent, or even any very extensive tract of land, known, whose general elevation above the sea is anything like half this quantity, it follows, that, if we would con struct a correct model of our earth, with its seas, con tinents, and mountains, on a globe sixteen inches in diameter, the whole of the land, with the exception of a few prominent points and ridges, must he compris-d on it within the thickness of thin printing-paper; and the highest hill would be represented by the smallest visible grains of sand.—Sir J. Herschel on Astronomy—Ca. binet Cpclopcedia. HORRID ATTEMPT TO MURDER A WIFE, AND SUBSEQUENT EFFORT AT SELF•DESTRUCTION The people of this town were, on Saturday morning, struck with alarm, on hearing the reports then preva'ent to the eff.-ct above mentioned. It aprars that the guilty nil now suffering individual, John O'Neill, a barber, re siding in Mill-street, had been greatly addicted to whisky drinking, and that, under its baneful influence, he, a few nights back, deliberately proceeded to murder his wife, by the secret, and therefore inure than ordinarily atrocious means of pouring a quantity of aqua fortis into her ears and mouth, when asleep ! After the commission of this crime, his wretched victim still lingering, and though as yet unable to speak distinctly, intimating (as we are told) her knowledge of his guilt and determination to bring him to justice, he, either dreading punishment, or being stung with remorse, attempted suicide, o❑ the morning of Saturday, by cutting his throat, in the most determined and desperate manner, with a razor. He was discovered about six o'clock by his daughter, who gave an immediate alarm. Surgeon Morrison having been sent for, that gentleman succeeded in staunching the blood and sewing up the frightful gash, several arteries having been cut through and the windpipe nearly severed. As soon as safe or practicable, the miserable man was removed to the hos pital, where he now remains under the care of Surgeon Morrison, but in such a state as to leave the hope of re covery extremely doubtful. His wife is not expected to survive.—Newry Telegraph. CATSKINS SOLD FOR l'UßS.—Some of the Londoners (the lower ones, of cJurse, we speak of) are very ingenious and very cruel ; they have a particular zest for sacrificing domestic animals, and will skin them alive, or set them to gnaw one another just for the petty profit of one and the amusement (-o.ci, amusement !) of the other. The poor cats of the roetropolii are the chief holocausts to the god Pluf.o. In the vicinity of \Yapping and Shadwell the carcasses of dead cats used a few years ago to be as thick as paving-stones early of a morning. Sometimes the wretched animals were seen smoking from a recent tomahawk operation, the nerves on their backs, shoulder=, and heads, still convulse I with pain. A trades man in the suburbs of London is out of employ, or haply is seized with a fit of intolerance of labour ; let him steal a dozen cats per day and he can live like a gentleman. Cat skins are valuable things; they constitute very capital _ . mock furs, and some of the most eminent furriers in trade give seven or eight shillings a dozen. The skin, how ever, is scarcely worth anything if it be not taken off when the cat is alive. It comes off with the greatest facility, and gives the peeler much less trouble when the creature is in the full vigour of life. in the flaying alive, too, there is no blood manifested ; the operator has no " damned spots" to wash away before his conscience can become quiet. The flayer begins by slitting up the fore legs, he then does the same with the hind legs; continuing the incision along the belly, he divides the skin completely in the middle line, and tears it up by degrees until he sepa- rates it on either side up to the back-bone. These mon sters have some method of stifling the voice of the cat. The worst feature of all in this murderous crusade is, that some of the agents are women.-211onthly Review. GENIUS AND A P RIS ON.- lt was i n prison that Bcethius composed his excellent work on the consola tions of philosophy; it was in prison that Goldsmith wrote his " Vicar of Wakefield ;" it was in prison that Cervantes wrote " Don Quixotte," which laughed chi valry out of Europe ; it was in prison that Charles I. composed that excellent work, the " Portraiture of a Christian King ;" it was in prison that Grotius wrote his " Commentary on St. Matthew ;" it was in prison that Buchanan composed his excellent " Paraphras e on the Psalms of David ;" it was in prison that Daniel Defoe wrote his " Robinson Crusoe" (he offered it to a bookseller for 10/., which that liberal encourager of literature declined) ; it was in prison that Sir Walter Raleigh wrote his " His tory of the World ;" it was in prison that Voltaire sketched the plan and composed most of the poem of " The Hen riade ;" it was in prison that llowel wrote most of his " Familiar Letters ;" it was in prison that Elizabeth of England, and her victim, Mary Queen of Scots, wrote their bebt poems; it was in prison that Margaret of France ( wife of Henry IV.) wrote an " Apology for the Irregu. larities of her Conduct ;" it was in prison that eir John Pettas wrote the book on medals called " Fleta Minor ;" it was is prison that Tasso wrote some of his most affect ing poems. With the fear of a prison how many wor lo Lave been written.—Ladies' Magazine. A LADY OF THE OLD COURT.—Lady SUNDON is dead, and Lady M disappointed; she, who is full as polite as my Lord HERVEY, had made hers, if an absolute servant to Lady SUNDON, but I don't he r that she has left her even her old clothes. Lord Suranos; is in great grief; I am surprised, for she has had fits ~f madness ever since her ambition met such a check by the death of the QUEEN. She had great power with her, though the QUEEN pretended to despise her ; but had unluckily told her, or fallen into her power, by some secret. I was saying to Lady POMFRET, "To be sure she is dead very rich ;" she replied, with some warmth, " She never took money." When I came home I men tioned this to Sir R. "No," said he, "but she took jewels ; Lord POMFRET'S place of Master of the Horse to the QUEEN was bought of her for a pair of diamond ear-rings, of fourteen hundred pounds value." One day that she wore them at a visit at old MARLNRo's, as soon as she was gone, the Duchess said to Lady MARY WORTLEY, " How can that woman have the impudence to go about in that bribe ?" "Madam," said Lady MARY, "How would you have people to know where wine is to be sold, unless there is a sign hung out ?" —Sketches of the Court of England (1741), by Ho race Walpole. BONAPARTE'S CELEBRATED BERLIN DE CREE.—The principles assumed in this famous decree were not mere affectation, as is sometimes suggested, on the part of NAPOLEON, but seem to have been adopted from a conviction that he had found out the vulnerable spot where England might be most fatally struck. This honest impression appears at once breathing with all the energy of life in a private letter to JUNOT, then Governor of Paris. The date is two days subsequent to tl at of the Berlin decree, and it contains earnest exhortatioos to the Governor to assist with all his might in establishing the continental system, particularly in Paris. " L-t your wives," enjoined NAPOLEON, " drink Swiss tea; it is as good as that from the East; and chicoree coffee is as good as the coffee of Arabia. Let'them set this example in their drawing rooms, instead of amusing themselves, like Madame DE STAEL, with political disquisitions, Let them beware that I do not find them wearing dresses of English manufacture; tell this to Madame JUNOT. If the wives of my principal officers fail in setting an ex• ample, where am Ito look for it ? This is a question of life or death to France and England ; and I expect assist ance in carrying it through from those who are nearest to me. I rely, JUNOT, on your zeal and attachment. The arch-chancellor wilt communicate my orders to you."— Madame Junot's Memoirs. NATIONAL ENAIITY.—We have just been reading one of the amusing books of Capt. BASIL HALL, in which he intimates that the French and English are natural enemies, and ever will be. The " ever•will-be" prophecy is the counterpart of its rash friend the " never will-be," and comes to the same point. The French and English, according to Captain HALL, ever will be ene mies : they never, by any growth of common sense, or the sacrifice of the less to the greater, or the arrival of rational years of discretion, will become aware of the policy of living peaceably with their next door neighbours, and interchanging their goods. They will always he fighting, more or less, and captains of vessels will always be getting good prize-money. Human nature is always to be playing at soldiers. There is no such thing as ad vancement in experience and wisdom. The French and English massacre one another when they take cities, just as they used to do; the massacres of St. Bartholomew and Smithfield are not gone by. " Oh, yes, they are; but still the English and French will remain enemies." Why so? Why, if neighbours get rid of one, two, or three grounds of offence, may they not get rid of six— of all ? Captain HALL, who is a very entertaining, intelligent, and, we believe, generously disposed man by nature—spoilt for a wider policy by the narrow limits of his quarter deck—used to be of opinion (if our memory is not mistaken) that the impressment of seamen for the naval service, was an evil not to be got rid of. This opinion is now changed, and he has shown us that many in'elligent officers confidently look for its abolition.— Tait's Magazine. Four savages, three men and one woman, be longing to a tribe of Indians called Charruas, which was almost entirely exterminated a short time back by the troops of the Republic at Uruguay, of which Monte Video is the capital, have just been brought to Paris by M. Curel, Director of the College of Monte Video, with the special permission of the Government of the Republic. Among them is the Cacique Vaimaca, surnamed Peru, who, in 1814, entered the service of General Artigas. They are all copper •coloured, their heads are round, and their hair is of the deepest black. The Cacique Peru, who is about 50, has an immense scar on his body from a sabre wound he received in battle. Notwithstanding his grave and solemn demeanour and stern countenance, he could not refrain from smiling at sortie ladies who went with a party to visit him. Tacuabe, who is the youngest of three men, has very agreeable features, and was cele brated in his own country for his skill in taming wild horses end bulls. He displayed the manner of throwing the lasso, or cord with which they entangle and imprison their enemies. The young female is called Guyunuaa ; she is not handsome, but her com plexion is not so red as her companions. She is only 20 yeirs of age, and is the wife of Tacuabe, who is of the same age. She formerly cohabited with Peru, but this change of husbands is allowed by their customs, marriages being made and dissolved without any formalities. The fourth Charrus, named Senaque, was the constant attend ant of the Cacique Peru during the war against Brazil, and is renowned for his fidelity and bravery. He has the mark of a wound from a lance on his breast. They are all nearly naked, and are generally crouched round a fire. at which they broil the fresh meat that is provided for them. They at first showed a fierce alarm on the appear ance of a large party that went to visit them, but soon became familiar, and conversed freely in Spanish and Por tuguese. They have been visited by M. Geoffrny de St. Hilaire, and many other men of science. At present they are residing at No. 19, Allee des Veuves, Champs Elysees, but it is said that they will shortly be exhibited to the public.— Galignani's Messenger. ANGLING.—Anglers of adequate skill and experience have had capital sport during the present sea son, particularly in the lochs of Dumfries-shire and Gal loway. Not long ago, a friend and townsman caught six trout, which together weighed 151b5., and his opinion is, that loch trout this year are larger than usual. At Loch Dee he killed some very large pike, simply by using big bait,—a secret which is not generally known. Skinned eels of some size are found very attractive, and easily seen, and bring grown voracious pike from the lowest depths of their watery abodes. At Loch Skerrow, near Lochenbreck, and about six miles from Gatehouse, the fishing is excellent, and the scenery picturesquely grand in some points, and sublimely so in others. The lake is of considerable size, and is studded with islands, some of which are beautifully fringed and wooded. One of th , ni would afford scope enough for a house and garden, along with grass for a small flock of goats or sheep ; and might easily be formed into a crack residence for a Hermit or modern " Lady of the Lake." The largest island is fre quented by at heist one brace of eagles, which build their nest on the tops of the highest trees. At the same spot herons build in spring, and lodge in summer, that they may be near a capital fish market, and find little difficulty in treating themselves and their greedy young, to a capital dinner and breakfast, of the finest trout. The herons are old stagers : the eagles new-comers ; and this year the neigh bouring tenant witnessed a pitched battle between the first class of Scottish feathered belligerents. The herons said, or thought, " the island is ours ; like his Grace of New castle, we have a good right to do what we like with our own ; you have no business here at a'l ; the tnoun tains may be yours, but not so the valleys, and you must not presume to squat upon our property." To this doe , trine the eagles demurred, seeing there were plenty of trees to spare, which owed no obligation to the hand of man ; and from words, if words were spoken, the parties immediately came to blows. The eagles had the advantage of the lex talionis—the herons in numbers ; and though the battle was a tough one, numbers prevailed, and the eagles finally were beaten off. The victors, however, were generous, and permitted the enemy to retire with the honours of war, and locate themselves on the island next in size to their own.—Dumfries Courier. A POKER'S END.—In my visits among my patients one morning, I went into a room where two, who were acquaintances of each other, were accustomed to live; immediately I entered, I noticed an unusual degree of dejection about one of them, and a feverish kind of excitement in the other. I inquired what was the matter ? " Matter !" said the excited one, "matter enough ! he has done for himself !" "Why, what has he done ?" "Oh, he has only swallowed the poker !" During this short con versation, the other looked increasingly mournful ; and on my inquiring what was the matter with him, he replied, " He has told you true enough ; I have swallowed the poker, and I do not know what I shall do with it !" " I will tell you how it happened," said the first. "My friend and I were hitting by the fire, talking on different things, when I offered to lay him a wager he could not eat any of the poker ; he said be could and would ; took it up, twisted the end of it backward and forward between the bars of the grate, and at last broke off some inches of ~_ x ~~-~ It, and instantly wallowed It, aid choly ever since!" " I did not " a word of this tale;" and I supi. uc' , for be added, " 0, you there is the rest of the poker." examined the poker, which, beini, much burned ; and, where the action fiercest and had worn away the iron, a piece of be.we iwo and three inches had been wrenched off and was miss ing. Still I could hardly credit that the human stotry.ch could receive such a dose, and remain " feeling," as the professed swallower of it said, " nothing particular." However, the constant affirming of the first, united to the assent and rueful looks of the second, induced me to use the patient as though the account were true. I admi nistered very strong medicines, and watched their effects constantly. The man ate and drank and slept as usual, and appeared to suffer nothing but from the effect of the medicines. At last, to my astonishment, the piece of the poker came away, and the man was as well as ever. The iron had undergone a regular process of digestion, and the surface of it was deeply honey-combed by the action of the juices.—Life of Adam Clarke. LOCH - LOMOND.—Loch Lomond is not so much like an arm of the sea, as the sea itself—a Mediter ranean. Along its shores might you voyage in your swift schooner, with shifting breezes, all a summer's day, nor at sunset, when you dropped anchor, have seen half tht beau tiful wonders of the Fairy Flood. It is many-isled ; and some of them are in themselves little worlds, with woods and hills, " where roam the spotted deer." Houses are seen looking out from among old trees, and children play ing on the green sward that slopes safe'y into deep water, where, in rushy havens, are drawn up the boats of fisher men, or of woodcutters who go to their work on the main land. You might live all your life on one of those islands, and yet be no hermit. Hundreds of small bays in dent the shores, and some of a majestic character take a fine bold sweep with their towering groves, enclosing the mansion of a Colquhoun or a Campbell at enmity no more, or the turretted castle of the rich alien, who there finds himself as much at home as in his hereditary hall ; Sasse nach and Gael ❑ow living in gentle friendship. What a prospect from the Point of Firkin ! The Loch in i a whole length and breadth—the magnificent expanse un broken, though bedropped, besprinkled, with unnumbered isles—and the shores diversified with jutting capes and far shooting peninsulas, enclosing sweet separate seclusions, each in itself a lock, the mighty mother of them all being in deed a sea. Ships might be sailing there, the largest ships of war; and there is anchorage for fleets. But the clear course of the lovely Leven is rock-crossed and intercepted with gravelly shallows, and guards Loch Lomond from the white-winged roamers that from all seas come crowding into the Firth of Clyde, arid sometimes, as they glide along, carry their stream ing flags above the woods of Ardgowan. And there stands Ben. What cares be for all the multitude of other lochs his gaze commands—what cares be evert f 4. the salt-sea foam tumbling far away off into the ocean ? All-sufficient for his love is the loch at his feet. How serenely looks down the Giant ! I. there not something very sweet in his sunny smile? Yet were you to see him frown, as we have seen him, your heart would sink ; and what would become of you, if all alone, by your own single self, wandering over the wide moor that glooms in utter houselessneas between his correis and Glenfalloch—what if you were to hear the strange mutterings we have heard, as if moaning from an earthquake amongquaginiree, till you felt that the sound came from the sky, and all at once from the heart of night that had strangled day burst a shattering peal that might waken the dead—for Benlomond was in wrath, and vented it in thunder ?—Blachwood's Magazine. ANECDOTE OF THE COURT OF NAPOLEON. —Madame JuNor states that, amongst the measures adopted by NAPOLEON for rendering his Court the su preme example for brilliancy to the rest of the crownel heads of Europe, was tl.e revival of the dance called qua drille; and this, by a specific regulation, was to be danced only by those who appeared in proper costume. The fun damental principles of these laws was, that the quadrille dancers should be distinguished each by one of four colours, white, green, red, and blue. The white ladies must wear diamonds, the red ones rubies ; the green ones must be de. corated with emeralds ; whilst sapphires and turquoises were required for the blues. The costume was the Spa nish, and consisted of a robe of white crepe, slashed with satin, which must have the colour of the quadrille, and the slashings of which were to be trimmed with lama. A toque of black velvet, with two white plumes, formed the head dress. All this seemed to the Duchess absurd enough, but the dress of the men for the quadrille out-heroded every thing. This was a body coat of white velvet ! surmounted by a scarf of the colour of the quadrille. It was tied in a bow at the aide. The quadrilles were usu ally rehearsed in the daytime, and large companies used to assemble for the purpose. Some curious instances of purloining costly articles from each other at these meetings are given by the Duchess. One is a case in which a young lady, a member of some exalted family, was caught in the very manor, after having picked up a shawl, precious in the eyes of its true owner, on account of the exquisitely beautiful parrots which expanded their variegated feathers on the borders. But what, in all these instances, we chiefly admire in the narrative, is the admirable coolness with which the lady thief meets the charge, though the evidence against her be as clear as the sun. A Madame HAMZLIN, for ex ample, stood up at a ball to dance a country dance. She laid down a beautiful black shawl, and, after the dance, on going to look for her shawl, it was gone. Pre sently she saw the identical shawl on the shoulders of a well known lady, to whom she went and spoke. " Ma dame, I beg pardon, but you have got my *haw)." " I assure you, Madame, you are mistaken." " By no means, I can prove it to be mine, for it has thirteen palms, a very uncommon number; perhaps you will do me the favour to count them." "It is unnecessary, because any shawl has thirteen palm•." " But, Madame," said Ma dame HA3IELIN, " in coming here this evening I had the misfortune to tear ir, and should know it by the rent." " That is vet) , singular," replied the other, " for mine has also its rent, which is precisely the reason of its being mine, as it enabled me to purchase it much cheaper than I otherwise could have done." The possessor of the shawl knew her strength, and sbe left poor Madame HAMELIN no other compensation for the loss of the thawl than what the latter might derive from having a capital story at her command. FASHIONABLE DINNER PARTY IN ABYS SINIA.—A great degree of scepticism has been enter tained in regard to the mode of supplying brinde, or raw meat, to the guests in the fashionable parties at Gondar, the capital of Abyssinia. When the company have taken their seats at table, a cow'or bull is brought to the door, and his feet strongly tied ; after which the cooks proceed to select the most delicate morsels. Before killing the animal, all flesh on the buttocks is cut off in solid square pieces, without hones or much effusion of blood. Two or three servants are then employed, who, as fast as they can procure the brinde, lay it upon cakes of teff placed like dishes down the table, without cloth or any thing else beneath them. By this time all the guests have knives in their hands, and the men prefer the large crooked ones, which in the time of war they put to all sorts of uses. The company are so ranged that one gentleman sits between two ladies ; and the former with his long knife begins by cutting a thin piece, which would be thought a good steak in England, while the motion of the fibres is yet perfectly distinct. In Abyssinia no man of any fashion feeds himself or touches his own meat. The women take the flesh and cut it lengthwise like strings, about the thickness of one's little finger, then crosswise into square pieces somewhat smaller than dice. This they lay upon a portion of the teff bread, strongly powdered with black pepper, or cayenne, and fossil salt, and then wrap it up like a cart ridge. In the mean time, the gentleman, having put up his knife, with each hand resting upon his neighbour's knee, his body stooping, his head low and forward and mouth open, very like an idiot, turns to the one whose cartridge is first ready, who stuffs the whole of it between his jaws, at the im minent risk of choking him. This is a mark of grandeur. The greater the man would seem to be, the larger is the piece which he takes into his mouth ; and the more noise he makes in chewing it, the more polite does he prove himself. None but beggars and thieves, say they, eat small pieces, and in silence. Having despatched this morsel, which he does very expeditiously, his neighbour on the other hand holds forth a second pellet, which he devours in the same way, and so on till he is satis fied. He never drinks till he has finished eating ; and before Le begins, in gratitude to the fair ones who hove fed him, he makes up two small rolls of the same kind and form. Each of the ladies opens her mouth at once, while with his own hand be supplies a portion te both at the same moment. Then commence the potations, which, we are assured, are net regulated with much regard to sobriety or decorum.—. Alt ells time the unfortunate victim at the door is bleeding, but bleeding little ; for so remark a bly skilful are the butcher s , that while they strip the bon e s o f the flesh, they avoid the parts which are traversed by the last they eyper fall i upon the thi g h s lik ew i se , perishing from l oss o f bl oo d, andgrea t soon arteries. the At animal, becomes so tough that the unfeeling wretches who feed on the remainder, can scarcely separate the muscles with their teetb.—Edinburgh Cabinet Library, No. X l4 l Nubia and Abyssinia. .~.f L(r it Per 1.i.40 . ) V- -. . - T -----,-._-,--t,; .- t,r.-- r zi.,..... i ,- , .. w , , ....,-. ~. _ id , - . r, .--.. , - .....N. .. . .' believe," said,. -. 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