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s ; then, pen 5 , gradu a lly 1. alk away thr ekes a our graze, falling aisplaced i him to t was dead. 5 dAicacy, and re gs alone afford tire. DUTY AN I ked it he ha Imes of hi quired. " WI, of Wellington, being ticism on the fourteen vo in the negative, and it ..ay of them ? " He was told that the once WILD ELK: tUlTlerctli In ty treque N ri the word glory did not Orly did. )N.—Wild elephants are mischief they do to the PHANTS I he island. ais very great. Continual war tISI them in every possible way ; heir race is so far from becoming ncrement is said to be from six Ired head. They overrun all the 4d render tf - em almost uninhabit able. Print-, tar was introduced to the sport of elephant-hunting under the enviers of the celebrated Major Rogers. who has probably slaughtered a greater bulk of fle-h than any man living, who is not a butcher by profezeion. now many elephant. he has killed with his own hand cannot be exactly computed, for he left off keeping account eight years ago, after the number had reached thirteen hundred duly told. He has, of course, bad many desperate adventures. Once he was knocke4 down by an elephant, trampled under foot, and tossed about like a ball by the trunk of the infuriated animal. At last, he was flung into a deep hole, and to this circum stance alone he owed the preservation of his life. The injuries lie received were such as would have cured most men for ever of a taste for such sport. All his ribs on the right side were smashed, his right arm was broken, and his shoulder dislocated. — Westminster Review. THE Baitzit. NUT TREE.—The one of all these most attractive was that which produces the Brazil nut, called in the country castanhas. Botanically it is the Berthol letia excelsa. This tree was upwards of 100 ft. in height, and between two and three in diameter. From the branches were ifepending the fruits, large as cocoa nuts. "The shell of these is nearly half an inch in thickness, and contains the triangular nuts so nicely packed that, once removed, no skill can replace them. It is no easy matter to break this tough covering, requiring some instrument and the exercise of considerable strength; yet we were assured by an intelligent friend at the Barra of the Rio Negro, that the guaribas, or howling monkeys, are in the habit of breaking them by striking them upon stones or the limbs of iron-like trees. This friend related an amu sing incident of which he had been witness, where the monkey, forgetful of everything else, poundi ig down the nut, with might and main, in a fever of excitement, struck it with tremendous force upon the tip of his tail. Down dropped the nut and away flew the monkey, bounding and howling fearfully. How long the victim was laid up by his lame tail, our friend was unable to inform us ; but we thought one thing certain, that mon keys had changed since Goldsmith's day, inasmuch as at that time, as we are informed, the tip of a monkey's tail was so remote from the centre of circulation as to be des "--"^(..- When the castanha-nuts are fresh they aste the cocoa -nut; and the white milk, easily expressed, is no bad substitute for milk in coffee. This soon becomes rancid, and at length turns to oil. The nuts are exported largely from Para, and are said to form a very important ingredient in the manufac ture of sperm candles.— Voyage up the Amazon. plantations ai theretore. I totwit hstandi' t Janet, that i hundred to mortht;rn moo rim-fieli waged azai ng which t is yearly 'gilt Inind Vl T aidem titute of much resemble in THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SOLDIER-THE BATTLE FIELD AND THE FIELD OF DE&Tu.—Heat and moisture, absolute essentials consequently t eases and animal com- as I have already informed yo the poisons) agents in eliMinatim t , pounds of which I ha\ _savoured to give yc but I hope effective History. Now, the tw moisture and heat, more especially the tatter, exist in Scinde in an unmitigated and irremediable form. Little , it -, falls in Scinde, but the sudden irrupt' nt torn sof water from t- iwo agents, rain, it is true le upper country, washing the and earth, the half exposed beady upturned grave id filling deep and extensive excavations froin , which earth had been taken for building purposes, not s course constituted literally a solution of dead bodies. These pools of human corruption remained some time after the subsidence of the surface water, gave out their fluid ma terial to the thirsty and fissured earth in every direction, whilst the sun, operating on the surface of these stagnant reservoirs, at a temperature ranging from 120 to 130 de s, produced the most deadly exhalations. Hence it rror in judgment is so disastrous in result ; it the lion in the field, the unyielding in is that an e it is battle, r the eons ke counsel from the votaries , of science, , .hence it is that Englishmen upon visible danger, who have braved bayonet, who have sternly defied the , ted the murderous grape and canister : rvators of Itilth ke bullet and Of to a lament From Mr. G. A. Walker's Fou aolitan Grave-yard ring EMU IN HIS NATIVE PORESTS.—A nativc I ac— Me, and pad suddenly, and, ' About a mile dist pointing with his fir, rds quietly feedin )gether. fresh vi ne of their days, victims r an utterly mistaken policy.- 4 Lecture on the Metro mpanied us all ger, said ce across the prairie were g. The dogs were imme. gour seemed to animate the Di we proceeded to give chase in high sometimes shot with the rifle, but the fling them is by hunting them with come near enough to ay frequently be de- repeatedly tried With the emu lifts up it ghted with th from which it Emus an its With mtidence is not repaid with ing, until ratitying his cur went the ci pproaci sitv by aloud stare, quiet kinus are freqAt kture lifts up its hear] ced in t Percei , him for a tree., and A the extended fl, ;round, and The -feathei party, am' -1 ied in the act of throwing t attitude while the emu g only an object without t thin Th© emus ran per of One of the bird. e others coming up; soon by the time we reached the from the tail were dis- laced in our caps ; and the bird was abandoned. bleb is by no means a The BuOrman. Two o'clock HA NGE. )IN. the east, see Friday, wh !and, and abr Crain, Flour 11, at a declir ilerican no va ther lower te , , barely rea' eal 6d. p 4 .ome reque a about the ; -4 - Pgm'' PERIODICAL LITERATURE : ITS PERILS AND EXAC TIONS.—" W hat's the news ?" So said the Athenian gossip in the days of Thueydides ; and so he still said in the days of St. Paul. In England we do not now use precisely the same form of words ; we say, " Have you seen to-day's paper ?" The occupation of the gossip is indeed gone. The verbal newsmonger is no more. The coffee-house and the barJer's shop are sought as places for eating and drinking, and shaving, rather than as repositones of the last new — bit of scandal, or the last new terrible rumour. No future Horace Walpole will , chronicle the fleeting events of the political world, from sources of information exclusively his owr phrase, " H a ve you seen to-day ' s pd a ier ? revolution in our modes of thought and vehicles of in formation, as remarkable as the marvellous change in the means of locomotion, which is now being r pidly con summated. Observe, too, that we do not say, " Have you read?" We must gather our information, as we per form our journeys, at race-horse speed. If the news is not to be caught up by a glance, it will be unheeded. A few minutes must suffice for the perusal or examination of a quantity of matter equal to that of an octavo volume. The morning's newspaper is actually stale by the evening. The toil of hundreds begins to lose its value by noon day. That vast result of intellectual labour and compli cated machinery, which is one of the wonders of the age, must be enjoyed over the breakfast-table, or during the first two or three hours spent in the counting-house, or its flavour will grow vapid, and stimulate the taste no more.—Rambler. INSANITY CAUSED BY OPIUM EATlNG.—Amongst the lower class of women who apply for entrance at the ex pected period of accouehement into parochial infirmaries, a large proportion of them are addicted to the daily use of ardent spirits; and, from some inquiries which I have instituted during the last three years, I have found that the habitual consumption of opium amongst the same class is to a far greater extent than is generally supposed by the public. I have been surprised at disco%ering how universal the practice has become, and to what an extent in some cases this drug is taken by them with impunity, or rather, without immediate fatal effects. It is not at all an uncommon circumstance in the infirmary for the head nurse to discover under the pillows of the patients a phial of laudanum or a box of opium pills, secretly put there for daily use; and several young girls even have stated, on being questioned, that independently of the use of spi rituous liquors, they are in the habit of purchasing daily their pennyworth. or more, of laudanum as a dram, and that there are favourite druggists' shops, a. which they get better measure than elsewhere. It might naturally be expected that at. the period of labour, with the removal of such accustomed stimulus, and its usual consequences, we should find cases of puerpera; aania much more frequent in this class, but the tabular statement does not bear out the fact. I may be allowed, however, to state, that in the eighteen years, during which period I have had to sign the certificates of all those who are received as insane into the infirmary, previously to their being transmitted to the various lunatic asylums in the county, I have frequently of late been struck with the increase in number of cases of general in,anity, which is certainly disproportionate to the annual increase of population ; the habitual use of 0. I , c e 4 ;Vr, to - ft X t 14,\ z PiL .. I if a C? t -.?:. opium amongst this class may perhaps explain the tact.— C?. 2 Dr. Winslow's Journal of Psychological Medicine. „ •""„ where; contain everythin g , an d are f oun d every i;..; the only difficulty is to read them_ The thrp.rha -, .. of newspaper correspondence enclose the whole globe in a net-work of espionage. Nothing can happen that is riot sun, to get into a newspaper while it is happening, and sometimes before it has happened. It is no ;We bluster to say that the eyes of Europe are on you. The eyes of Europe are the newspapers of Europe; and these same eyes are on every man, woman, and child, whose lives are of the slightest interest outside their own circles. It has been beautifully said of flowers, that they start up in the most unexpected places, where there is hardly a handful of soil, and even where there is none, striking their ten der yet vigorous roots into the crevices of the naked rock. The same thing may be said of newspapers. Tney seem to be sown, like certain seeds, by the caprice of the winds. Wherever there is a sentiment of a dozen people, you may look out fur a newspaper. The first necessity of a new population is a newspaper. It inverts sometimes the vul gar principle 01 polit►cal economy, which wilt insist that the demand produces the supply ; for it happens with newspapers, every now and then, that the supply produces the demand. The newspaper of a little colony often conies into existence before the readers; sonic far-sighted spe culator being always in advance with an article of con sumption which he knows well enough will become indis pensable by and by. Even New Zealand, while it is yet undergoing the early stages of an excruciating experiment had a newspaper, and Hong Kong, where the fatality of the climate might he supposed to deter any sensible man from risking wore than a mouth's subscription, has its Gazette. incited. we are not quite sure that a newspaper is not a sort of social instinct. People get up newspapers where there is nobody to read them but themselves. Pas sengers on a long voyage, who have no news to tell, ex cept that which they get from each other, and nobody to tell it to when they get it, frequently amuse themselves by playing at newspapers. This is more remarkable than the most. out-of-the-way birth of flowers. A harebell on. a rack is not so surprising as a newspaper on board ship..—Fraser'# Magazine. A BRIDAL VISIT IN CHINA.—In the evening of the same day, we were invited by Hok.ha, one of our neigh bours, to pay a wedding visit so his bride. to whom he was married on the preceding evening. He was a youth of about. twenty-one years of age, apparently a sincere in nuirer after Cttristian 'teeth. MIA - ft eittitatunt Uttpubrimrit the means of grace, both at the chapel and at Mr. Pohl man's family devotions. His tither died eleven years ago, and he was now an assistant to his uncle, a rope maker. The latter, on whom he was in a great measure dependent, had frequently shown his displeasure at Hok ha's continual absence at the missionary services; and on one occasion Hok-ha had to take refuge for more than a week in the house of one of the missionaries, from the harsh severity of his relative. He showed much grati tude, and was evidently attached to the missionaries. He was in an interesting state of mind, and lived in the daily habit of prayer. Seven years ago, his widowed mother purchased for him a wife, who had lived in the family ever since, and was now sixteen years old. His mother commanded her son to celebrate the nuptials, though he would himself have preferred waiting for twd years, till his prospects were brighter, and he became more independent of his uncle. But as the old lady was anxious to establish the family, Hok-ha being her only son, her commaLds were peremptory, and obedient sub mission to her authoritative will became his only alterna tive. Under the circumstances of the bride being already an inmate of the family, there was no marriage procession to conduct her to the house of her husband ; and there had been only the usual feast and nuptial ceremonies on the preceding evening. We were ushered by the bride !morn up two or three flights of steps into his humble apartment, where we took our seats on a couch opposite a table covered with the remains of a feast. By the side of this table the bride stood, having her eyes cast toward the ground, and wrapt up in strict efforts to preserve propriety —custom not permitting a bride to speak to a visitor till after three days, nor to go out, except to the house of her parents, till after thirty days. She was a very pretty, in teresting girl, with a profusion of artificial flowers forming a tiara on her head, and with a handsome bright red bridal robe, her face being covered with pearl-dust, rather beyond the limits of European taste. At her husband's suggestion, she handed to us a plate of sweetmeats from a drawer, of which we partook by way of compliment. She continued to stand during the whote'of our visit. A glass mirror lay on a table close by, into which she directed an occasional • -••. t- s aance, to assure her mind of her strict preset - vation of appearances. Although my companion once or twice addressed her, she strictly preserved silence. She appeared, however, s ome ti mes to exper i ence di ffi cu l ty i n suppressing a simpering laugh, and to be in great danger of breaking through her affected seriousness. Hok-ha seemed greatly pleased with his bride.—Rev. G. Smith's Consular Cities of China. IS CONSUMPTION CUR ABLE ?-Dr. Deshon, in his work entitled " Consumption, its Prevention and ' gives the following instance of the recovery (if a £bat medicinal appliances n were required, but still only as aids to the system of cold affusion and exercise :—" I was lately requested to attend a young lady, aged sixteen, who was represented to be in an incurable state of phthi sis, so ill that it was said my attendance was required merely to alleviate her distressed and painful condition, as a cure was out of the question : in fact, to soften, as far as medicinal means might allow, the way to the grayp. I found my patient in "died, in a high state of irritative fever, pulse 130.. tongue red and thickly coated with 'a yellowish fur; abdominal and pectoral pains, with urgent diarrhoea, amounting on some days to a dozen evacua tions, and distressing cough. Percussion elicited sounds res Aration. with mucous riles The hisiOiy of this young lady had been as follows :—Four or five years pre viously she had contracted a pleurisy, since which time her health had been undermined, at one time pectoral, at another abdominal symptoms, with hectic fever, predomi nating Numerous were the physicians at h - ome and broad consulted, and various the remedies employed. Bleeding, blistering, medicated baths, cod-liver otl; &c., &c., had all been tried in turn, but to no avail. Bhe had travelled largely over the continent, and had spent the last winter in Italy, where the physicians havic•e eiven her over, it was determined that she should proceed to England. My impression was, that tubercular deposition, to some extent, had taken place in the structure of the intestines ; that congestion at least, highly favourinz d posit, was present in the lungs, and that, unit opposed idications, in this case, were first to control local intim inatiOn, which existed in the intestinal tube even to ulce ration, as shown by the character and frequency of the dejections, the pain, &c., and then to improve the condi tion of the blood, and to promote its circulation. A generous diet, without stimulants, was at first directed. r- which, commencing with the white meats. ultimm.pi. ave place to the red and more fibrinous ; nor was light nd bitter ale, after a while, interdicted, although spa• - .ised at first. But, in proportion as horse and could be taken, so could - stimulants be young lady was constantly in the air, or sailing. Teal.' snomiinr_wm,..h other exercise endured. Th . seqnently by open sea bathing, regard to medicines, the following sued :—The urgency of the diarrhoea was s resorted to, reatment was pur- a cretaceous mixture with opiurr made with an iodine ointment with b and counter-irritation Hydrocyanic acid ad iodine of potassiut bitter" infusion, proved effectual in subduing the intestinal irritability, and enabled me to improve the constitution by quinine and iron. Chloride of sodium, with carbonate of soda, was now administered, beginning with small doses, gradually increased. She is now free from cough, diarrhoea, pain, or irritative fever ; her pulse is natural tongue clean, appetite good, and exertions regular. Shi has gained flesh and a h ea lthy co l our; poin worthy of especial mention as regards th - e' chloride.' S DAY eral more hich, with roLd, con ., and Oat- le of Id. to xiation. TlllB. lized last ad cheap- awe as on .... z 1 1 I TIE LIVEIPOOL STANDARD. A DROLL ANECDOTE.—Etna, notwithstanding its pe riodical destructive eruptions, is a real blessing to Sicily ; and I am almost inclined to think the people would gladly reconcile themselves to the occasional annihilation of the villages by its fires, rather than be deprived of its snows. Ices and lemonades supersede entirely the Howqua and all other infusions of the tea plant. The ices are occasionally made to represent different species of fruits, and often bear a very cicse resemblance to nature. Brydon has told a ludicrous anecdote of a naval officer of the old school, who was completely taken in by the deception. He was din ing with a large party, at the house of a gentleman no less distinguished for the elegance of his table than for the strict formality observed at it. After dinner, the ices were produced in the shape of various fruits and sweetmeats. One of the servants handed what appeared to be a fine large peach to the captain, who, unacquainted with deceit of any kind, never doubted it being real. Cutting it through the centre, in a moment one-half of it was in his mouth. At first he looked grave, and blew out his cheeks to give it more room ; but the violence of the cold soon brought the tears into his eyes, and he began to tumble it from one side of his mouth to the other; at last, unable to hold out any longer, he spat it upon the plate, exclaim ing, " A painted snowball, by jingo !"—Reco llections of Malta and Sicily. ADVICE TO CLERKS.—Economy and prudence in his pecuniary affairs are not however the only duties neces sary to enforce on the young clerk, nor is it the only means in his power to promote his welfare in after life. He must feel that his future position depends chiefly, if not entirely, on his own exertions in early life. He must not confine himself to the strict letter of his duty, but readily avail himself of every opportunity of exertion for the benefit of his employers, resting satisfied that the day of his reward will arrive. If he has a leisure half-hour he should employ it by investigating, as far as practicable, all matters connected with the business of the establish ment, in whic'i he is engaged ; in making himself ac quainted with the duties of others, in order that, should occasion require, he may be prepared to perform those duties; and if at any time it should occur to him that an improvement in the method of conducting any portion of the business of the establishment may be effected, he should not be backward in suggesting such improvement to his principal, and, if needful, offer his services in car rying it out. His pride should be to court, rather than shun, responsibility. In short, he must make it his busi ness to obtain a high character for integrity, zeal. indus 'try, and perseverance ; to prove himself deserving of a position superior to that which he at present holds. This will either insure his promotion by his present employers,- or enable him to apply for and obtain a higher appoint ment elsewhere when opportunity offers.—Advice to Clerks and Hints to Employers. SISTER AND BROTHER.—M dame Schopenhauer de scribes at great length a scene of almost unexampled magnificence which she witnessed at Versailles. It is as a large picture, which we are unable fully to describe or lack time to copy ; but there is a portion of it that is a picture in itself, as our readers will say who peruse the ' following :—" A smiling little boy was sitting in a child's carriage on the great terrace close to the palace; and a slim, pale, little girl, of about eight years of age, walked by his side holding his hand, and looking with merry eyes on the gay world around her. That boy was the mest innocent sacrifice of the time—it was the dauphin ; the delicate little nymph was his sister, alterwards Ducht ss of Angouleme, one of the most unfortunate of her family." That poor boy ! Torn from the comforts and refinements of the condition in which he was born, he was given up to the keeping —no, not the keeping, hut the cruelty—of persons of the lowest class : he was maintained in dark ness, filth and hunger: he was tatvzht to utter the obsce nity which he happily did not comprehend : he was savagely beaten if he bore his ills in silence, as one who was sullen : and he was still savagely beaten if he ven tured to sigh audibly, as one who was rebellious. That poor boy ! The heroic child endured a thousand horrid deaths—his murdered parents hut one : disease daily devoured him, and compelled dirt and squalor sharpened the pangs of disease—hunger lacerated him—obscurity terrified him, though from the breast of the little martyr it could hardly ring a groan ; and obscure blasphemy belched imprecations and taunts, inure cruel than daggers. into the dungeon which was rendered as like unto hell as heartless, human demons could make it. Such was his pas sage to the brink of the grave, into which the son of a race of kings fell in such foul and hideous condition that loath someness itself would turn sick to contemplate; and all this inflicted by men, by Frenchmen. on a defenceless and a guiltless child ! Again, we say, that poor boy ! Heaven and earth, things animate and inanimate, yet cry aloud for vengeance on France for that most unnatural of all unnatural murders; hut vengeance is the Lord's and in His own good time it will exact national expiation for a national infamy. And where is that bright little sister who, in the era of earthly greatness, walked by his side, and held his delicate hand, and " looked with merry eyes on the gay world around her ? " Go some autumn eve to the Prater at Vienna—go when the leaves are falling and unkind winds are blowing ; or to the Hradschin at Prague, when storms howl over that deserted throne of by-gone kings—go searchingly about when Bloom is in the sky, and on the earth, and in the soul, but never when sun shine and gladness are abroad, and you shall haply see an aged woman moving purposelessly about as one on whom something like insanity has gently descended ; but, if you have time to mark her well without offending respect, you will see that she feels the iron that is in her own soul. Those aged eyes still weep for parents mur dered and a brother slain; and as that venerable woman passes on, you may perceive, directed as her thoughts are to lirtorra nod forgiveoes, of her elicatiGn. amt. .7.lasn still 1- has'tierce and bitter memories of the things on earth, and that among them she remembers that tl e throne of her dead husband is usurped by the son of one of the mur derers of her father ! Into' such a time-and-sorrow stricken woman has developed that glad little girl who, once in her life, and but once, "looked with merry eyes on the gay world around her."—Church of England Quarterly Review. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, With a never-ceasing change and an endless variety, the resources of M. Dejean's superb troop continue to receive that attention from the public patronagewhieh they richly deserve. No expense is spared to gratify his pa trons : fresh engagements are made with any talent which commands attention, without reference to country ; in fact, this gentleman seems determined to have concen trated the entire talent of Europe —we had almost said the world. Such enterprise has its due reward in respec table and crowded audiences. M. LOISSRT has a fine manly figure, with a length of limb in which are combined great strength and activity. There is also much symmetry of proportion in his form The costume in which he appears in the "Roman Games" is the best to show him to advantage. His skill as an equestrian is also displayed in this act by the manage ment of six horses. The various changes in the position of the steeds are very admirably managed, bestriding three horses at a time. It requires considerable power to accomplish this feat. His agility is shown in his perfor mance on two horses, by leaping through hoops and per forming many feats with a smaller one in his hand, wind ing it round his person, at the same time turning himself sharply round. The costume in which he appears in this act is elegant and tasteful. But his masterpiceeof strength is shown in the act entitled " Pukiana." in conjunction. with M. Nief and young Loisset, all dressed in the Ro man style. He forms a pillar of strength, bestriding two horses, and supporting M. ,Nief on his shoulders, with one foot on his extended arm. Young Loisset is then . added to the group, and mounts on the shoulders of M. Nief; and thus the horses travel round the circle. This is a truly 'istonishing feat, and Loisset must be a power ful man to accomplish it. He smiles over the exertion as if it were no labour to him. What a fine sight to see men trained to this perfection of strength ! With the : towering Grecian helmet, spear, and shield, the figure of . M. Loisset would be that of the Trojan hero, Hector ; and we should much like to see him in this costume. MADLLE. CAROLINE exhibits in a style of horseman ship sitting in the saddle. She is a fine-looking woman, with a beautiful figure, which she carries with much no bleness. She sits on the horse as if she were, centaur like, a part of the animal itself. Whether the steed rears plunges, capers, wheels suddenly round, leaps bars, gal lops, or suddenly stops—there she sits as if it were pas time to her. Nay, such is her skill, that when you think the horse, from his wildness of action, must surely throw her, you see her smile, and are relieved from the anxiety by finding that it is, the most consummate skill of the rider. Her costume, as she appears on " Jupiter," is the most superb and liady-like picture of the kind we evet: saw out of a picture :--a long flowing black velvet robe, splendidty edged with gold circles, inlaid with variegated colours; hangipg sleeves, lined with crimson silk ; her Arms, neck, and head bare ;' her hair elegantly braided 'with a gold band. "Jupiter " is a beautifnl creature — white, with a very intelligent head. The rich scarlet and gdld saddle finely contrasts, as a piece of colour, with the dress of the rider. His action is extraordinary, stag-like, plunging forward, and striking out with his hind legs in fearful style. " Russe" is the most noble animal of the stud—a light grey, with dark touches in the mane, tail, and legs; a charger in figure, and the bow neck of a war horse. With a wildness of action, he paws the earth with his fore feet. Her dress on this animal is a splendid mixture of scarlet and gold, Russian costume. " Juno," another of the steeds she rides, is a mare of a light bay colour, with dark mane, tail, and legs. Her .ess, a dark crimson velvet riding habit, black hat with white stream ers, of the time of one of the Louis. Her style of riding exceeds anything of the kind we ever beheld. She sits th a dignity wort MADLLE. MATHILDE is another splendid rider, and must come in for her share of the above praise. She shows equal skill, is a fearless rider, and has a beautiful figure and carriage. When she appears in the Indian costume, in the " Four Quarters of the World filer costume is the modern FrenchAmazone riding hab and hat. She offers a fine example to our lady eques. trians. How we should like to see her in Hyde Park " Norfolk," the horse she rides, h fine eye, and is of a chesnut colour a neat head and a pink rose on hi nink border... it MADLLE. FANNY STANLEY.--- 7 11i9 young lady, who we believe is the only English female equestrian attached In the company, has scarcely excited the marked applause, which has greeted Palmyre Anato and others, .yet never theless is most deserving and clever. Perhaps one reason of this may be that the act in whichshe chiefly appears — the scarf-dance—depends more upon graceful than upon dashing riding. To our taste, and to that of many, it i 0 much more feminine, and therefore 'pleasing. Madlle, Stanley is an accomplished dancer ; and her feat of riding upon the tips of her toes, in opera fashion, and' at full speed, is one which displays great training and power. Upon all occasions there is great Spirit and daring, as well as grace, in her performances. pearance really di] AURIOL 1.5% rare fellow—the clown of all clowns. Is 1 haC )ody in the hands ol the credit Ors, who would thus be compelled to defray the expenses of its burial. When completed, tho Westminster Palace clock will be the most powerful one in the empire. According to the specification in certain Parliamentary papers which have been published, it is to " strike the hours on a bell from she dis- I eight to ten tons. and if practicable, chime the Quarters on feet in diameter at 'Malin( :low the time upon iou With the exception of , nsioni surpass those of any the above other clock-face in Euro,— The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce has petitioned vfith one dissenting voice, against the game-laws. 0.11 , 111, 11,.• Mr. Cowan,M.P. maintained that as crops, it was quite legitimate in thc what lit gra,l adopteilly-themrreejting ame destroyed entertain nan food THE STRIKE IN SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—The strike n :this district is now assuming a more unfavourable ap- The men are being acted upon by those who __t consult their interests,—who know little of the necessity which has given rise to the proposed reduc tion. House after house is going into the Gazelle throughout the district, and yet the cry is "No surren der ; the old wages." On Thursday, a large meeting of miners was held, when it was decided to continue the stand out, POET•OFFICE OVERCHARGE.—At the Rugby County Court on Wednesday last, a plaint was preferred by Mr. Wratislaw, solicitor, against the Postmaster-General for the recovery of the sum of 2d. overcharge on a Bohemian (foreign) letter, and for the recovery of the value of another newspaper detained by the General Post.—For the defence the Despencer case, viz., that the money had not reached the hands of the Postmaster-General, was relied upon. and the plaintiff was non-suited. The Staffordshire mining district, which, six months ago, presented a scene of busy and profitable industry unequalled in any other part of England, wears just now a changed and cheerless aspect. There are altogether 137 blast furnaces in the district. Of these 58 are out of blast, and 79 in, and so lately as since December 38 of the 58 named 'as blown out, have been stopped, in conse quence of the present distressed state of trade. The num ber of furnaces in blast in the depressed state of trade in June, 1843, was 72, and out of blast 69—total, 141. BURNING OF A LOCK•UP.—On Sunday morning, the lock-up at Gravesend was burnt, and a drunkard, named Thomas Budge, who was confined in it, was burnt to death. It is not known how the fire originated, as Budge bad no combustibles about him. On Friday evening, a poor destitute woman, who subsisted by selling lucifers about the streets, was allowed a night's lodging in the refuge. ' It is thought that a match may have dropped from her amongst the straw, and the poor fellow rustling about may have fired it. THE MOTHER WANTED.—A poor old woman applied at the Camberwell Police-court, on Monday, for advice. She said she kept a school for little children. Wishing to increase her limited means, she put into her window a paper announcing that she nursed children by the day, and on Monday last, a well-dressed female, unknown to her, brought a babe about a month old, and requested her to take charge of it for a few hours, while she assisted in removing from her lodgings, and she had not since re turned. The child was sent to the workhouse. EXTENSIVE FRAUDS IN GOLD BARS.—On Saturday morning a respectable-looking young man, by trade a jeweller, was brought before the sitting magistrate at the Public-office, Birmingham, charged with fraudulently cutting off the assay marks affixed to bars of pure gold, and affixing them to a spurious metal which he had sold as genuine to Messrs. Alston and Co., the eminent refi ners and bullio”-merchants of that town. The frauds committed by the prisoner, already detected, are said to amount to upwards of £1,500. The prisoner was re manded. THE DISAPPOINTED ARTIST.—On Saturday Mr. Wak -lev held an inquest at Chelsea, on the body of Mr. Joseph William Brett, aged 34 years, (the son of the Rev. Joseph Brett, a clergyman of the Church of England,) who com mitted suicide by cutting his throat. The deceased had competed for the prizes for the cartoons to embellish the new Houses of Parliament, choosing for his subject, " King Richard pardoningthe soldier who had shot at him," but hike the large majority of his brother artists,. was unsuccessful. This affected his health, and induced the dreadful act. PROCESSION TO " SNIG'S•END."—On Monday a rather novel turn-out was witnessed in Cheltenham, when a pro cession of members of the Land-scheme, men and wo men settlers, preceded by a band of music and followed by the " movables," took place to Snig's-end. There were in the whole procession,• three waggons and eight carts, drawn by altogether thirty horses;. the latter were all noble-looking animals, and we could not help con trasting their plump and corny appearance with the look of squalid and shivering wretchedness of the 20 or 30 women and children huddled together in an open cart. — Mr. Fearaus O'Connor did not attend as was expected.— Hereford Journal. A :JUVENILE DUEL.—On Friday morning last a con course of boys were gathered together near Pitville Circus, and, by their violent gestures, appeared to be quarrelling. Soon after one of the party, by name Cooke, left the group and ran a distance of about fifteen yards, when, turning round, he fired a pistol at a boy named Hughes. The latter seemed determined to have satisfaction, and proceeded a little distance along the road, apparently with the intention of performing a similar•manceuvre. When the two youths were about twenty yards apart,. Hughes turned round and fired a pistol at Cooke, who received some of the shots in his shoulder and thigh. They were arrested.— Chelfenharn Chronicle. ---- FREE TRADE — P ROSP ERITY. — The Bradford Observer says—" Many persons. having large families, and, with only one or two exceptions, woolcombers, have applied to us for advice : they uniformly . ' xpress great anxiety to be assisted out, being fully satisfied that their ch ance o f bettering themselves here is utterly hopeless, whil e th e y are sanguine of doing so in the United States or the colonies, To the objection that an emigrant's life is one of hartsliip and suffering, there was but one reply. "We can't be worse off. master, than we are now."' If such is the hapless condition of the poor, what is that of the rate payer ? Last year, in the township of Bradford, two rates were laid, amounting to 3s. 6d., the last being laid in October. Already, a new rate, number one for the year 1848, has been laid ; it is a 3s. rdte: and how many more will be wanted before the close of the year it would take a wise man to say." PAPER FROM STRAW.—We are persuaded that if a comparison were carefully made between our free and en slaved manufactures, it would be found that the de terring nature of the excise grasp—like that of Bruin the bear in the show—tends wonderfully to keep all inquiries and experiments at a safe distance from the possibility of an embrace. One of these imported inventions—destined to exercise a great revolution, if we mistake not, upon the manufacture of paper in Etttrone,_ancl _which already ex cites much Interest among the trade in Great 15ntam—is that of the use of straw as a material. Mr. Lemuel W. Wright, a native of the United States, obtained a patent in this country for this process in 1843, and we believe has disposed of a patent he acquired at the same t me in France, for a great sum, to a large company in Normandy, who are now fitting up very extensive works for the manu facture of straw paper on boards.—. Edinburgh Chronicle. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF SIR JOHN MILDMAY, BART.—Tt is our painful duty to record the death of Sir John Mildmay, Bart., which took place by his own hands at an early hour on Monday morning, at his residence. 6 Halkin-terrace, Belgrave-square. It appeared that the deceased gentleman occupied the upper part of the house, his establishment consisting of two male and two female servants. For several days past his valet had noticed that he appeared depressed in spirits, but on the previous day he appeared somewhat better. He retired to rest between eleven and twelve o'clock, and nothing more was heard or seen of him until shortly before fire o'clock on Monday morning, when his valet was awoke by a deadened report of fire-arms, and on entering the room he discovered his master lying on the carpet. His head was shattered to atoms • a double-b arre ll e d h o l ster p i sto l, w hi c h h a d b een recently discharged, was lying close to his right hand, and had evidently been discharged in the mouth. LIVE STOCK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.—From that invaluable work, " M'Queen's Statistics of the British Empire." we learn the enormous value of the live stock in the kingdom. It appears that there are 2,250, 000 horses, of total value of £67,000,000, of which mo re than 1.500,000 are used in agriculture, and that their value is £45,000,000. The number of black cattle i n the king dom is about 14,000,000 to 15,000,000. of the value of £216,000,000 ; the number of sheep 50,00 0 • 0 , whose value is estimated at £67,000,000 ; and the extent of capital invested in swine is still more e xtraordinary, when we reflect how little it is thought upon or taken into account. The number of pigs of all ages. breeding and rearing. is calculated to 've upwards of 18,000,000, whi c h, taking one-third at £2 each, and the remainder at 10s. each, gives a value of £11,870,000, as the capital invested in pigs alone, ma ki ng th e t o tal amount of capital i nves t e d young lady, 5uf ,270,000. i f n e r iT t i ng e E f a rp h o o om y c e Tt o s oo p ß e t i a c e s uh o eG f ,Hw a i Fr eNn i t c A u pi l n t p t u to r a r,r Ga l . s_ s_ t u o A c r g k ey , n 's shop a few days ago to have a tooth extracted on the painless prin ciple Having inhaled a small quantity of the substance, dropped on a handkerchief, she immediately became in sensible; the tooth was extracted without the slightest feeling, and she went away shortly afterwards, highly sa tisfied at having so easily got rid of what had caused her so much suffering. After she was gone the surgeon and a gentleman, who happened to be present during the ope ration, were remarking what a pleasant flavour the chlo roform had. The former at the time had the handker chief in his hand, and but for the presence of his friend he would have fallen to the ground ; as it was, he had to assist him to a chair, where, in spite of all his endeavours, by shaking and pulling him, he remained unconscious for fully ten minutes, to the no small astonishment of the gentleman. The doctor himself. on consciousness re- turning, was as much surprised as was his friend at what had occurred.—North British Mail. .-110URS OF LABOUR IN FACTORIES.—A London news paper contains a report of a very important case, heard before a bench of Essex magistrates, on Tuesday week, on an' information preferred by Mr. Bury, the factory inspector, against Messrs. Brown and Moy, silk manu facturers, at Colchester, for having employed a female for more than twelve hours in a day; the fact being, that she really worked only two hours and a half, namely, from s ix in the evening to half-past eight. It was contended, however, in support of the infor ~mation, that, inasmuch as Messrs. Brown and Moy had fixed up in their mill a notice to that effect that the hours of labour there were to terminate at six o'clock, they could not work any female or young person later than that hour without raising the legal presumption that such female or young person had been employed from the usual time of commencing work in the morning. As the party in question had worked till half-past eight, the legal presumption was, that she worked thirteen hours and a-half. The magistrates sustained this view of the case, and tined Messrs. Brown and Mov—there being twenty-three other informations of similar character—in penalties amountin g, with costs, to £76 9s. 6d. CRIME IN ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND. — On reference to " Parke's Statistics of Crime in England, Scotland, and Ireland," it would appear that in the latter country the amount of crime is the greatest. Ireland, with three times the population of Scotland, has six and a half times the numb— Engt-- ......ucr of commitments ; and o .anc, with more than double the population of Ireland, has only an increase of 4000 over the latter country, proving that the actual amount of crime of a serious nature in Ireland is twice as great as that in Great Britain ; and, strange to say, in those districts where crime is the greatest in England the largest proportion is committed by Irishmen nv. are also borne out by )&—ct. (the t wo he greatest ............. U 011104., Wll4/ 1.... p - for nearly a quarter of a century. On a tt en ding at the various police-offices in the metropolis and at the vari ous Petty sessions in the suburbs — viz. Kensin gton , Ham- ImatetersrmiinthciudEindgmothnetonp,allslhforodf, mrStraesttfHorlim, proportion of offenders will be found to consist of Irish. or those born of Irish parents. The total number of capital crimes in Ireland are committed by natives; while in Great . Britain official documentS prove that fully one half of the capital offences are committed by the Irish. These are startling truisms, and we advert to them without wishing to raise any invidious feeling of distinction between this and the sister kingdom,— I Chelnutford chronicle. MYSTERIOUS MURDER.—We have this week to record the murder under very mysterious circumstances, of respectable farmer of this neighbourhood, Mr. Walling ham Hazell, of Dundry. It appears that Mr. Hazell way. missed by his family on Monday last, and no tidings could be obtained of him till Thursday, when his dead body was found in a well, considerably bruised about the head. and body. The circumstances under which the discovery of the body was made are not the least singular and mys terious connected with the affair. Two men of the village of Dundry, named Henry Gover and Benjamin Payton, dreamed that the body of the missing man was in a eel* taro well ; their dream they told to a man named Stakes, and be informed some men who were thrashing in the de' ceased's barn. The well in Question Was then search and the body was found in it, as we have already stated. A man named John Hall deposed to finding by accident at bludgeon, with which, there can be no doubt'. the murder was committed. He had also found, in a most' unaccount able place, an umbrella, which the deceased bad when he left home on Monday. Two nephews of the deceased are in custody upon suspicion. —Bristol Journal. LOVE AND SUICIDE IN WESTMINSTER.—CIO Wednes day, Miss Harriet Leet, aged 21, lately residing wilts her mother, at 28, Rochester -street, Westminster, committed suicide by poison, under the following deplorable cirorns stances. It appears that the deceased, who was a youtv girl of considerable personal attractions, bad, for a period. of three years, been corresponding with a man , earne d M'Kay, to whom she was greatly attached. About tvtio' years ago, in consequence of some little misuoderstand'd ing between the deceased and her lover, she grew des, pondent, and attempted self-destruction by poison. Os recovering, the deceased still continued the correspond ence, and evinced the deepest marks of affection, fre quently avowing to her friends that she sh•nild never be happy until the became united to her love. Latterly, however, the deceased had become exceedingly depressed in spirits, and would wander about in the most disconso late manner, notwithstanding the kindness of her friends. On Monday evening she retired to rest' at the u-ual hour, and next morning she went out, and having purchased some oxalic acid, she returned and swallowed off a large dose of it. A surgeon was called in, but all efforts to restore animation were fruitless. EXTRAORDFNARY CASE OF BIGAMY.—An extraordi nary case of bigamy was investigated on Saturday at the Cheltenham police court. A richly dressed woman who has lately introduced herself into fashionable circles in that town under the name of Lady Ada Alice Wyattville, was placed in the dock, charged with bigamy. From. the evi dence produced against her, it appears that she . vvaq mar -1 ried on the Bth of November, 1838. at Kensingtoreehurch, wider the name of Octavia Sarah Moore de Bellevue,. (at which time she described herself as the daughterot Lucia* Moore de Bellevue, Marshal of France,) to Mr. Henry - Wyatt, architect, son of Mr. Matthias Coles Wyatt, th, celebrated sculptor. Subsequent to the marriage the par ties went to reside at Boulogne-sur-mer, but they sepa rated after a short residence there. It further appeared, that in May last the prisoner was charged with hitramv at: the Marlborough -street Police-court, London. ! y marrying with another person, from which I harge•she escaped. The offence now charged against her that she contracted marriage, a few months since, i» the name' of Lady Ada Alice Wyattville, with another gentleman, at civil• engineer, her first husband, Henry Wyatt, being alive , at the time. The prisoner was fully committed for trialN at the next Gloucester assizes. A Weetex Suor.—A most deliberate act of homicide , was committed at the Cavalry Barracks of Leeds, ow Friday.. About seven o'clea, a married man, named William Garrett, a private in the 57th Regiment, was in his room at the barracks, with his wife, private Michael. Stokes, sergeant Keenan, and private Dooley or Doolan, of the same regiment, and, without angry words or the slightest observation, Michael Stokes got his musket from the rack in-which it was usually kept, and took it for moment or two to a table as if he was about to clean it. He, however, suddenly turned' round, put the piece to his shoulder,.pulled the trigger,. and shot Mrs. Garratt. She fell to the ground mortally wounded, the bullet from the musket having entered the abdomen and passed out at her back. Mr. Jackson, the regimental surgeon, was immediately called in attendance upon the poor woman, but she expired - in about an hour and a half afterwards. Stokes, who - had fired the mu , ket, was instantly taken into custody, and given up to the civil authorities. There is not any known, or even supposed, cause for the perpe tration of this fatal act. The prisoner is a young man, a native of Ireland., It is stated that after he was taken into custody, he acknowledged that he had premeditated the deed for two months, and that he loaded his musket about. two hours before he fired it: Ott Saturday, at the coroner's inquest; a verdict of " wilful murder ' was re turned against Stokes. None of the witnesses could give any reason for the committal of the fearful act, snd the prisoner said no one should ever know but the priest. EMIGRATION.—In 1846, which was a year - of larger emigration than any that preceded it, amounted to 129,851. But in the first three quarters of the last year the emigration extended to no less than 240,732 persons, almost the whole of them being Irish emigrants to North America. The component parts are thus stated :—From Liverpool, 114.301; from other English ports. 22,094 ; total from England, 186.395; from Scotland, 8,155 ; from Ireland, 95,911: grand total, 240461. Those who em barked from Liverpool were almost entirely Irish ; and there can be no doubt that the Irish helped to swell the tide from other ports of Great Britain,. especially in the west of Scotland. It is scarcely necessary to observe, eilbesess peopled, from one er thinly peopled history records no singl e transportation at all to corn flare with this_ Tha sz, rdt slow ° i ° n z t in o gs an another e i r n r fa a n th t tribes only pee thplede district more fertile. In actual figures. the irruptions from the North into Southern Europe were never at one time more immense. When Columbus crossed the ocean with his little band, and even a century afterwards, when a few straggling English adventurers were making vain attempts to found a settlement on the shore of Virginia, they little imagined that after a lapse of only seven generations a quarter of a million British subjects would in one year, not only cross the ocean, but find new homes in those so recently inhospitable wilds. Such an event is a landmark of history. It shows the magnitude of the powers which surround us, and enlarges the mind both as to the neces sities and the resources of our time. DEATH. OF, MR. DISRAELI, SEN.—The Times of Fri day announces the death of Mr. Isaac Disraeli, father of Mr. B. Disraeli, the member for Buckinghamshire, and , well known as the author of the Curiosities of Literature, and other valuable and popular works, chiefly on subjects connected with the history of literature. Mr. Disraeli, who was born'at Enfield, Middlesex, in the year 1766, was the only child of Benjamin Disraeli, a Venetian merchant long settled in England. He was partly educated at Am sterdam and Leyland, and after lie had visited Paris in 1786, he returned t o E ng l an d , i n t h e expectat i on tha t his friends would desire him to engage in commercial pursuits. They appear, however, to have consulted his wishes, and he was placed in such pecuniary circumstances as enabled him to indulge his taste for literature. One of the ear liest works which he published was the Curiosities of Li terature, which appeared when its author was in his twen ty-fourth year ; and it was, followed by the Quarrels of Authors, the Calamities of Authors, the Illustrations of the Literary Character, the Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles 1., and the Amenities of Literature, be sides several novels which he published anonymously, and. some contributions to the Quarterly Review. It is re-. markable that he composed the Amenities of Literature after he had become blind, in the year 1839 ; and it is be lieved that, if his sight had not perished, he would have , written a life of Pope, a theme for which his friends sup posed him to be peculiarly qualified. The decease of Mrs.. Disraeli took place at his country seat, Bradenham House s , in Buckinghamshire ' and he has left one daughter an d three sons, the eldest of whom is the present member fec Buckinghamshire. _ _ _ The annual meeting of the Provident Clerks' Mutual Benefit Association was held on Monday last, at the London Tavern, Mr. R. H. Jones in the chiar. It ap peared from the report of the committee read on this oc casion, that the state of the society had been one of gradual progression from its formation down to the present day. During the last year, although one of heavy commercial pressure and epidemic disease, the number of policies effected was 417 for an amount of £84,740, con.. trasted with 374 for £69,200, in the preceding year, The rate of mortality had been unprecedently small, up to the end of 1846 five deaths only had occurred, making claims to the amount of £6OO, and this, too, in the face of the Registrar-General's heavy returns; while, during the last year, the amount paid was only one per cent. on the amount assured. The first division of profits would take had joined place in 1848, the necessary documents being at present most beneficial effects had resulted from these visits. In i f n r t in h e t h h a e n hands societyo f th e t o a h tt e a Deputations r g y r . eatprovinelai t o hd ns b: a e n n d ae tu n e t many y ad not been aware of the existence of the society. B the balance i 0 14 11 1 s a n t c o h t e h s e t er, visita n do fthe Bi r mingham, deputation, m sheet it appeared that the funded propert y h ad increased to £10,500, who, Liverpool :pl.ev independent of the guarantee fund ; the amount of income from premiums and interest on stock being about £6,800. The report concluded with re commending the four out-going managers for re-election. Th e question that the report be adopted was put and unanimously adopted. A remuneration of £3OO to the Managers for their labours during the last year was also, put and unanimously agreed t o . Jevcratx DEP AV I TY.--At the Lambeth Police-court; on Tuesday, Joseph Parnell, a little fellow whose head did not reach the top of the hoar of the felon's dock, was charged with stealing eight sovereigns belonging to his parents; and Sarah Walker, a middle-aged female, was also charged with receiving a part of the money, knowing it to have been stolen ; and further, with unlawfully her!, bouring the child. From the statement of the mother of the youthful prisoner, which was corroborated by himself, it appeared that on the sth instant her son absconded, taking with him eight sovereigns, which herself and hus band had, with the greatest care, saved, and did not return until the day before. From questions she had put to the boy she elicited that on the day he took the money he met a boy belonging to the female prisoner, and accom panied him home, and from that time until the day before she harboured him at her house. It also appeared, that in order to disguise the boy, and prevent the police, who had been made acquainted with the robbery, from know ing him, the female prisoner' had caused the long curly looks of the boy to be shorn off, and, further, purchased a suit of coarse slop clothes, and a sou'-wester, so as to make his disguise perfect, but on finding that all his money was gone she turned him out and desired him to go about his business. The poor woman, who seemed almost broken-hearted, said she had eleven other children. six of whom were younger than the prisoner, that she worked hard at ironing from morning till night, that hot husband had also been obliged to work hard to support their large family, yet the fruits of many years' labour, and that which they accumulated by sixpences and shil lings at a time, was now gone. The only defence set up by the female prisoner was that her boy had brought her fellow-prisoner home, when the latter said that he had Tt no father' or mother, and that the money was his grls‘ he prisoners were mantled. Inimitable in all he does; his tricks are infinite, his per formances are innumerable. His figure is adapted for the purpose—small, compact, and muscular, with a lghtness that is truly surprising. His dress is capital, and hanging loose to his limbs, it in no way impedes their action. To describe all he does would be endless, and might extend from this time till the Easter holidays ; and as that time is approaching, we will only give a general idea of them. His feat on the bottles is nothing less than wonderful, and must be seen to be credited : it is beyond description. He has also a humorous manner, which keeps the per formances alive, and wins for him the favour of his audi ence. He is a kind of spoiled child among his brother performers, putting all sorts of affronts on them, which are taken in good part. Auriol is also a very first-rate equestrian. and we are disposed to consider the somersets which he turns backwards—the contrary way to the mo tion of the horse—as the most astonishing feat ever at tained in the equestrian art. YOUNG AURIOL is also clever, and is following close after the steps of the elder. General Arligrellanv. -.-.....e.r-. Vast numbers of wild ducks and geese have made their appearance in the marshes on the banks of the Trent. - George Hudson, Esq., is to lay the foundation stone of the new docks at Sunderland. On Wednesday, Mr. Staniforth, solicitor, of Sheffield, expired at his office in a fit of apoplexy. Mr. Thomas Duncoinbe, by the death of his father, comes in for £200,000, and pays off debts to the amount of £BO,OOO, by insurances. So great is the difficulty of transport in Russia, that the Russian corn we have been eating this year (1847) is not the crop of last year, but of 1845. A renter's share in Drury-lane Theatre, formerly worth £5OO, was on Thursday knocked down at the Auction Mart in London for £7O. The widow of the late Dr. Parr, the celebrated scholar, died at Kenilworth on the 13th inst., at the advanced age of eighty-two. A fine nosegay, composed of wallflowers and auriculas, all grown in the open air, was gathered last week at Hud dersfield. The Roman Catholic clergy of Newcastle have memo rialised the Pope to allow the bishops to be elected by the ecclesiastics. It is said that chloroform has been successfully used for opening oysters, as a little of it applied to their shells causes them gradually to open. A fiat in bankruptcy has been issued against Messrs. Batson and Son, of Dudley, in the iron trade. The ob ligations are only £lO,OOO. One of the Swiss Jesuits who have been expelled from Friburg, arrived on Stonyhnrst on Monday, and two others are expected at the same establishment. At the Hereford Guildhall, Inst week, the magistrates decided that bushes were agricultural produce, within the meaning of the act, and therefore exempt from toll. The inhabitants of Nottingham, Leicester, and other towns, are about to hold public meetings, and petition parliament in favour of a national poor-rate. The export list of sherries from Cadiz during the year 1847 is stated at 31,602 butts, showing a decrease of 1,094 butts as compared with 1846. At a meeting of the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, Dr. Candlish intimated his final determination to resign his connexion with the College as Professor of Theology, awl to confine himself to his ministry. LONDON Tuds.—Tn Bristol, and several other places, some of the public clocks are provided• with two minute hands. for the purpose of distinguishing the local from the railway or London time. Defalcations to the extent of £4000,. or some other considerable amount, are said to have taken place at the Glasgnw Post-office, and an official inquipy is at present being instituted. Consilerable numbers of weavers in Barnard Castle are still out of employment. An effort is being made to get up a subscription for the purpose of affording them tem porary relief. _ The insolvent court has refused to re-hear the case of Mr. Alderman Johnson. whose bank failed some time ago, and who was refused his certificate. None of the creditors opposed the last application. On Thursday a public meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held in Leeds. when resolutions were passed deprecating any increase in the army. The court house, in which. the meeting was held, was crowded. _ The total quantity of sherry wine exported from Spain during the past year, was 31.602 butt,4, showing a de crt•ase of 1,094 butts, as compar'd with the exports in 1846. On Tuesday, a fire broke out in the cabin of the Viceroy steamer, trading between Dublin and Gla , gow, by which the beautiful furniture and fittings were destroyed. The goods in the after hold will be much damaged ' . - A NOVEL REMEDY FOR THE TOOTHACHE.—SeveraI parties, on being troubled with the toothache, have filled the open cavity with Gutta Percha, which they first melted. They state that the remedy-is a most effectual one. Elizabeth White, a pauper, whose settlement is at Exeter. committed an a4sault on Alderman Sidney, M.P., on Ludgate-hill, on Wednesday, in order, as she declared, that she might be sent to prison in preference to a work house. A strange story, copied from the Bath. Journal, has been going the round of the papers of a professional gen tleman having, in consi (pence of his wife dreaming it, found £l6O sewed up in an old deceased It dy's stays, to 1u Qe emery tie.bas lately been caned upon to administer. • • "' The Watchman gives a contradiction to the statement which originelly appeared in a Bath paper, that some Wesleyan ministers, near Bridgewater, have become Tnieyites. As we hinted in copying the paragraph, there is not a word of truth in the whole paragytiph. ' . „ . NIGHT POACHING.—IMPORTANT ORDER.—WC learn that her Majesty's Secretary of State has issued a circular to county magistrates, ordering that persons committed for night poaching should be tried at the assizes. and not at the session•. Among the bankrupts who have lately appeared in the London bankruptcy court is a licensed victualler, natned Drew, who has been six times bankrupt in eleven years, and on five occasions has not paid a farthing in the pound. It is a fact that there have been already opened at the Bankruptcy Ciurt. in Paul-street, one-half as many fiats in bankruptcy, during the first fourteen days of the pre sent month of January, as during the whole of the year 1844.—Exeter paper. Charles Gage, one of the sufferers by the fall of the buildings at the Euston-square Station, died on Sunday in the University College Hospital. This makes the second death amongst the wounded. The others are doing well. The cottage of a quarryman on the Edinburgh and Northern Railway, at Lochgelly, in which were several barrels of gunpowders, was blown up last week. The accident was occasioned by three children, who were left alone in the cottage, and, strange to say, they all escaped with life. THE ST. KATHARINE'S DOCKS. — The earnings last year were larger than any year since the opening of the docks. The increase of trade over 1846 amounted to 724 vessels. 190.857 tons. The dividend was therefore not reduced, as had been anticipated. It will be 2 per cent. for the half-year. FEVER IN LONDON.—The unusual prevalence of fever In London is shown by the fact that during the last thir teen weeks it. has been fatal to 1208 persons; whereas in the early part of last year, and generally in former years, only about one-third of this number died of it during the same length of time. THE NEW AMERICAN STEAM-PACKETS.—On Tuesday tlke America, one of the new line of steam-packets, having received her engines, left Napier's wharf, Glasgow, and the Niagara, belonging to the same line, immediately took her place. The America has spacious accommoda tion, and is beautifully fitted up. The largest wine cask that has ever entered the port of London has been landed in the St. Katherine's Docks, by a vessel which has arrived from Cadiz. This immense cask is- supposed to contain about 500 gallons of sherry; but the customs officers at the docks were somewhat pOzzled to gauge it, as the rules in daily use are not cal ciliated for such large vessels. Among the domestic inventions of the day is a " Baby Jumper," or Infant Gymnasium. by means of which in fants of three months old may exercise and amuse them selves. This must indeed be a useful " matrimonial brad" to mothers whose attention is incessantly re- Ruired to the care of a family or the necessity of gaining a k . v_elihood. MITIOATION OF SENTENCE.—Mr. Bethuel Hutchings, who was convicted in 1846, on a charge of embezzling public money, the value of one penny, (he then being postmaster of Bude Haven) and was sentenced to seven years' transportation; has recently received a free pard,n from, the Crown, and has returned to Bude amid the con gratulations of all his friends.—Cornwall Gazelle. BATH.—An awful instance of sudden death occurred in this city on Thursday night. A gentleman named Spen cer, a surgeon, residing at Castle Coombe, near Chippen- ham, was going along - Dorchester-street from the Rai way Station, where he had just arrived by the train, when he was observed to stagger, and, before assistance could be rendered, fell upon the pavement. 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