The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

Oct, 24, 184 S. Ifttrature. VARIETIES. Since the severe articles in the Times, Louis Blanc de blares that England is as bitter as Gaul against him. Platina is stated to have been discovered in large quan tities in the Alps, on the frontiers of the department of the Isere. The editor of the Arkansas Journal says :—" Where our office was two weeks ago, now runs the Mississippi river. Out of respect for the father of rivers we left." Mr. Anderson, the tragedian, calls Poet Bunn "the cholera of the dramatic world," and says " his approach is fatal to it." An editor out west, wishing to give some faint idea of a contemporary's meanness, says that his soul is so small that it might dance a hornpipe in a musquito's watch fob, The condor, in descending from its flight, frequently Passes fhrough three miles of atmosphere in a few mo ments. The whale is said to go from the surface of the Sea to the depth of 1,000 fathoms. France is a land of debt. A recent official report values the soil at £1,600,000,000, and estimates the aggregate of the mortgages now upon it at nearly a third of that value, viz., £500,000,000. SINK AND THE DEIICE.—A Seal Engraver, hearing the Thames so poisoned the atmosphere that it was dan gerous to live near it, called it "a first-rate sink fur a die." In 1775, there were in England 250,000 landed proprie tors in capite, who were reduced in 1815 to 30,000. and 'now they do not exceed 10,000. In Scotland there are only 3000, and in Ireland 6444 landed owners in capite. A GOOD INTERPRETATION—A gentleman asked a Wit . the meaning of the passage, " He clothed himself with ,curqes as with a garment;" to which the wit replied, He had a habit of swearing." _ A NOVEL ADVERTISEMENT.—A corn cutter lately ad "vertised in a Manchester paper, stating that corns had no roots, then adding that there are no such things as corns, and concluding by a list of charges for removing them. Buonaparte presented Moreau on one occasion with a . magnificent pair of pistols, and paid him a striking corn vopolfiemymoeunf or v t fort., " I intended," said he, " to have got the names I.4o u r i i! , s , engraved upon them, but there was not The potat o disease is often superficial, or, at all events, lying 1 - • mr a short way below the surface, and the black spot may be readily cut out before boiling, whereas the proces s of boiling drives the plague spot inwards, and diffuses the disease over a larger portion of the potato. LADIES; FASHIONS FOR IRELAND.—TWO spinsters— in correspondence with the rebels—have been committed to Clonmel gaol. They wore percussion caps in their hair; no doubt—with the spinster purpose—of the more readily going off! TIEI E MARTYR'S OAR.— Ihe Ipswich Express states that this great oak, in Oxne Wood, said to have been that before which King Edward the Martyr was shot with ar rows, has fallen, and, marvellous to relate, that, on cut ting up the trunk, an iron point, supposed to have been an arrow head, was found a foot below tht bark and about five feet from the ground. It is conjectured that this may have been lodged there at the time of the murder, and cased by the subsequent growth of the tree. Chilblains arise generally from defective circulation. Sitting in wet shoes, the habit of putting the feet close to the fire when they are very cold, and neglecting to take sufficient exercise, cause chilblains. Socks made of soft Wash leather, if adopted before the cold weather sets in, 'Will generally protect the feet from chilblains. As soon as any indications of chilblains appear, rub the affected parts every night with soap liniment, or with - an onion dipped in Salt, or with an ointment composed of salt and hog's lard. Great care should be taken that they are not suffered to break, as they then become not only exceedingly painful, but difficult to heal. EFFECTS OF SHOCKS ON THE SYSTEM. — The case of the young man, recorded in the Hereford Journal, who 8 0 suddenly recovered his speech and hearing, is easily accounted for on physical principles. There can be no doubt that the deprivation of the power of speech and hearin g was the result of the shock riven to the nervous aYstem by the thunderstorm: such effe'ts as this are not violently whenever the mind hal been suddenly and !latently agitated by grief or other emotions—such as t error, or even joy. How many of ns have experienced , 1 18 effect in a slight and temporary degree, so far, a t l east, as no t t o b e a bl e to speak for some m omen t s a ft er the receipt of unexpected intelligence, which has strongly affected us ? In persons of different temperaments the effect would, of course, be varied, and more or less per manent in proportion to the excitability of the nervous system. STRANGE MODE OF ARRIVING AT A VERDICT.---I was In a • case some little time ago in which one of the parties, tr Orn an humble anxiety to save his client the costs of a s Pecial Jury, acquiesced in a Common Jury ; who, to ,his consternation, gave a verdict for four hundred pounds 1 0 the plaintiff, who, the late Chief Justice Tindal had Told them, was not entitled to one farthing ! One of the Jury afterwards declared that he had bean resolved to give verdict for the defendant, but - that all the others had determined to give a verdict for the plaintiff, and after several hours' altercation they put four slips of paper into a hat, bearing respectively the four sums one farthing, fifty pounds, four hundred pounds, and one thousand Pounds ! It was agreed that the foreman should draw one of them, and the verdict be accordingly • and he drew the slip which bore the sum of £4OO !--:Warren's Practice of the Law. - NJa-d . 41. ................ Sll mine had his d ec l ara tion on A a bill of Exchange demurred 10, becaus e i ns t ea d o f th e wor d s "i n th e y ear o f our L or d ..t 3 . 3 4," he Lad written " A.D. 1834." I attended the late M Justice Littledale, at chambers, to endeavour to get the demurrer set aside, as frivolous, or leave to amend on OftYment of a shilling; but that punctillious, though very able and learned judge, refused to do either. " Your cli ent, Sir," said he, " has committed a blunder, Sir, which can be set right only on the usual terms, Sir. A.D.' Sir, Is neither English nor Latin, Sir. It may mean anything 13 r nothing, Sir. It is plain, Sir, that here is a material a nd traversable fact, and no date to it , Sir;" w h e reupon ne dismissed our poor summons with costs! That de murrer had been spun out by a pleader to an inconsider able length in ringing the changes on that one objection ; and my 'client had positively to pay, out of his own pocket, between seven and eight pounds.—Warren's Practice of the Law. MARINE CURIOSITIES NEAR EGREMONT.—In my daily walks along the sandy beach between Egremcnt Ferry and Sea Bank. in the summer months, after the reflux of the tide, and especially after a few hours of clear sunshine, my observation has been drawn 1-n ►,nn.t..p,la pressions of medusa that have beenlcitlnqhe ' sand, vary ttlg in size from 3 to 18 inches in diameter, and of several ecies. These impressions almost always assume the f orms of the perfect animals; and their surfaces, when de siccation has been complete, are covered with a very t hin film of glistening animal matter—the only apparent "Mains of the animals ; and, according to the volumes of their masses, the impressions left are more or less deep in d eeper sand. The larger , masses, of course, being always :'eePer than the smaller. From the outer margin of these ! I bPressions, all round, there is a slope downwards and °Wards, at an angle generally of about 45 deg. , upon W hich is retained very distinctly the fringed and concen tric lines of the lower sides of the discs, also the steps, as I t were, of the progressive stages of contraction during the Proyress of desiccation.—Paper, by .1. Cunningham, Esq. 4:STOB.;rAMSPARROW.—A fiery pretty trait of t ural affection on the part of these despised birds, the N'arrows, occurred here on Monday. A large number, 131 and young, had gathered together in an entry in the high -street, Perth, and were partaking of a dainty dish, „., Znich had been laid down for some hens as their afternoon Zeal. The tiny birds were all unconscious that one of hei r fiercest foes, a black Tom cat, was eyeing them from e side of a door, and gathering himself up to make his a fternoon's repast upon some of them. Tom was, how- Zer, watched too, not who, dog or any of the infeVior crea ,la, but by a fair lady, seeing his purpose, deter ""med to defeat it, and that when he fancied himself se !ure in having possession of his dinner. He at length selected his victim, made the spring, and had it in his t e mnrseless maw, when he was at the same instant seized ,y the lady. Reluctantly enough, no doubt, he dropped °"s prize, but the poor bird was so much hurt as to be _tltite unable to fly and rejoin his companions, who assem bled on the top of the dyke, testifying the feelings with which they were agitated by an unwonted chirruping and c hattering. The lady took her little charge and placed it the inside of her window, watched all the time with treat anxiety by his companions. Seeing that kindness Was meant, they immediately set about contriving to keep lip and comfort the, spirits of their wounded mate. A number circled about Lim, while others went for food, with which he was liberally supplied. This attention is still kept up with unceasing constancy, for we regret to °al' the little invalid, although much improved, is not yet !tide to trust to his pinions, to which the presence of the lady forms no barrier. Indeed she may be seen sewing With half a dozen of the birds beside her, throughout almost the entire day.—Perth Courier. VEGETABLE MARROWS A SUBSTITUTE FOR POTATOES. have been trying various experiments this autumn tt,ll ripe vegetable marrows, and I find they cont a i n a t en. sugar and farinaceous matter ; and to my taste, are , fi r l; and those gentlemen to whom I have sent them ver y beer uch approve of them, if cooked after the following man- C llt t h the e marrow into manageable lengths, take out pith and seeds, boil them in plenty of water with salt, and when wall boiled scrape out all the marrow, and put ti between two dishes and squeeze all the water out of it, ne n Put a little salt, pepper, butter, and a little milk, Ana mash it well ; it is then fit for a Queen, let alone a . krr person. Nothing can be better for fattening pigs. i„e will suppose that early potatoes are grown (to grow ones any longer is a waste of land), the early sorts , t ,T'ing ben taken great care of during the winter, and Itted as e recornmented in my pamphlet. The seeds of ',.e 'narrows may be sown about the first of May in the teen ground in any warm corner : when transplanting b ,, 410 comes, the early potatoes will not be near ripe, but r oe thus,—lift a root of potatoes every five or six feet it " the row, leaving six or eight rows of potatoes, and then 1 1 °ther row of marrows, and so on. I find that with mo derate ri c h l an d, I can grow twenty tons to the acre t g s l , l Y, and when ripe can be stored away anywhere, and boiled along with other food for the pigs—for all food for r ,'”nught to be boiled • whenever we find the cottagers l e s' l "rig the food, they always have the best pigs, and in sa tim e fit f or mar k et or h ome consump ti on . The cot eager will And room to grow the marrows in all ways he wan think of, and where other things will not grow ; such s t u ver walls, up the pales, trellis, up poles, or over his m ta ge; the trouble of training will not be much, anu it h r uld occupy his time in the evening, Landlords and M eg perhaps would be induced to give those cottagers tln•ize in the shape of a load or two of dung who grow 10 e l argest and finest crops ; there is no mistake about marrows being first-rate food for pigs. 1 have, up to tr, eaten half a pound, dressed as above, every day c e se six days past, and like them much better than those 4,4-ar and half poisonous potatoes that we now buy.— a les Cuthill, Florist, Camberwell. HOW TO BUY OR LEASE LAND IN AUS- TRALIA (From Sidney's Emigrant Journal.) The following statement will supply a general answer to the numberless inquiries which are daily addressed to us on the subject of land in Australia. According to our experience, nine-tenths of those who emigrate, of what. ever rank, take that step with the view of becoming land holders. _ _ _ In New South Wales and Port Phillip the lands are divided into town lots, suburban lots, and country lots. Town and suburban lots must always be sold by auction. Country lands, after having been exposed for sale by auc tion at least once, at an upset price of £1 an acre, may be sold at any time by private contract, at not less than £1 an acre. Lands sold by government private contract must be paid for in cash. Lands are put up for sale in lots not exceeding one square mile (640 acres) in extent; and, as a general rule, it is not easy to purchase a less quantity than a square mile of country land. Suburban lots are smaller and dearer. It is a principle of our Colonial-office and Colonial government to throw every possible obstruction in the way of the purchase of land by labourers and persons of small capital, and for this reason the lots are made up as large as possible. It is better for persons of small means not to think of purcha sing- land from government. By looking about the inte rior of the settled districts of New South Wales, they will find old grantees of the Crown, or ruined speculators, or drunkards willing to sal small lots, and even farms, on very reasonable terms, as low as 2s. 6d. an acre ; and for £l, fine improved land. Great privileges are reserved for great capitalists. The man with £20,000 may select 20,000 acres by special survey in any part of New South Wales, whether surveyed or not ; while men of less for tune can only buy what happens to be surveyed. It is by these special surveys that the great capitalists have se cured magnificent estates of fine, fertile, well-watered land, while frugal shepherds have found it difficult, often impossible, to purchase from government a little 80-acre farm in a suitable situation—hence debauchery and ruin. In these two colonies a pre-emption right to choose land may be purchased in England, which entitles the purchaser to name five labourers for every £lOO for a free passage, but as this only entitles the party paying the money to a credit, and not to a piece of land, it' he pay £lOO only he may be years before he meets a £lOO lot to be sold, so that as this privilege does not entitle the purchaser to a free passage, and is of little use except to one who can lay out £640, it is, as regards the working classes, a dead letter. In South Australia, waste lands are sold by auction only, but under the same rules as to a minimum price of £1 an acre, as in New South Wales. In consequence of the discovery of so many rich mines the special surveys have been suspended, and land is sold in lots of moderate size. This change in favour of small capitalists has been brought about, not by any desire on the part of the au thorities to modify the colonial land. monopoly, but in order to prevent the purchasers of lots of land of 640 acres from also becoming the purchasers of mines of incalculable value. The Burra Burra mine and 10.000 acres of surface land cost £lO,OOO, and one shareholder out of many de rives an income of £16,000 a year from an original in vestment of £2OOO. But such cases cannot occur again. In a word, whether in New South Wales proper, Aus tralia Felix, or South Australia, we re commen d th e man with less than £lOOO to be very careful how he buys land from government. There are few lots of waste land in Australia, offered for sale by government, worth £640 for 640 acres for agricultural purposeS, Perhaps not more than 100 acres fit for the plough out of the lot. The Law of Squatters' Runs.—But if the laws for the sale of waste lands are framed foolishly and unjustly, the cupattOn Ot waste pastures are upon a most satisfactory footing as regards those Who own flocks and herds. Unless some occupation retains a co- or regu lonist near a town, it is much better to lease than ouy land from the Crown. Indeed, the sale of land, except near large towns, and in mineral districts, has virtually ceased ever since the price was raised to £1 an acre. - LIVING WITHOUT MONEY.—There is a man in New ark, New Jersey, (says the New York Sun) named Palmer, who has lately published an essay agains t the use of money. He says it is "an engine only of evil," for two years he has declined to receive or use it : and he is now convinced that it is the duty of all to adopt a course which will supersede the use of it. What that course is, Mr. Palmer does not reveal. REAL FAME.—Scott had tasted at our house the Yar _mouth bloaters (then an article of less savoury notoriety than at present), allowed their superiority to the " Finnan haddies, ' and inquired where they were to be got. My hnvins undertaken the commission, applied to h monger, . - - Mr. B. of Billingsgate, a most worthy and matter-of-fact Triton, w.._ pected of an addiction to poetry or romance. Hearing that the half-hundred small fishes were to be sent as far as Sussex-place, he rather shook his head at the inconve nient distance. " Rather out of our beat, ma'am ; there are pl , -f ,71 4. I hom no one woulc ~...enty et places where they can be got good.• am sorry for that ; for I am afraid Sir Walter Scott will be disappointed, having learned that yours are the best." " Sir Walter Scott, ma'am ! God bless my soul ;is Sir Walter in Ile very hundred you can find in that fresh lot from Yarmouth. Well, ma'am and how is he looking ? Why, if you had told me they were for him, 1 would have sent to Jeru_a lem or Johnny Groat's House. Now mind, Tom, that the boy starts directly—remember, 24, Sussex-place, and no mistake about it." This circumstance being recoun ted to Scott, he cordially exclaimed. " Well, now, this is all the minauderies of the old French Countesses who used to bother me at Paris with their extravagant compli ments, and were only thinking, I'll be sworn, of their own vanity all the while."—New Monthly Magazine. HER MAJESTY AND HER DYING FATHER.—Nor was " the closing scene" of the well-remembered Duke of Kent less remarkable for simple faith in God and devout acquiescence in His will. An unimpeachable witness, Dr. Maton, again and again alluded to it as singularly evidencing the courage of the man and iristian the C.____ The duke was seized at Sidmouth with inflammation of the lungs, which defied medical treat ment, and in a few days proved fatal. To the announce ment of the nrn7tahla I;cfartna firmness " This is sudden ; but, I am perqua'ded, is for the best. I confidently leave the Princess to One above who cannot err. I feel that He will watch over her and protect her. Earthly parents err fondly and fatally : He cannot." He turned his thoughts entirely to sacred subjects ; and ap peared, from the motion of his lips, and his upraised eyes. to be absorbed in prayer. Addressing one of his attend _ y to God's wilt: my death, perhaps, will do more for my daughter and the duchess than my life." He then relapsed into his former devotional mood, and seemed again absorbed in prayer. After the expiration o an hour, observing the duke change his position, one of his household ventured to ask him if he had any com mands to give, or if there was anything which his Royal Highness required ? He replied with difficulty—" No thing now but a simple trust in the merits of the Re deemer. That I possess." These were almost the last words he uttered.—Closing Scenes. CURIOUS MODE OF SHOOTING SANDPIPERS INAMERICA. —ln Rhode Island, where alone the sport is now pursued systematically, the mode adopted is this—the shooter, ac companied by a skilful driver, on whom, by the way, the whole onus of the business rests, and to whom all the merit of success is attributable, is mounted in what is called in New England a chaise—that is to say, an old fashioned gig with a top. In this convenience he kneels down, with his left leg out of the carriage, and his foot firmly placed on the step, holding his gun ready to shoot at an instant's notice. The driver, perceiving the birds, as they are running and feeding on the open surface, se lects one, according to his judgment, and drives round it rapidly in concentric circles, until he gets within gunshot of him, and perceives by its motions that it will not per mit a nearer approach. He then makes a short half turn from it, pulling the horse short up at the same instant ; and that very instant, for the sandpiper rises invariably at the moment in which the chaise stops, the shooter steps out lightly to the ground, and kills his bird, before it has got well upon the wing. In the timing of all this various work on the part of the driver and the gunner, there is a good deal of skill requisite, and of course a good deal of excitement. But the real sport and the real skill are both on the part of the driver, whose duty it is to deliver his marksman as nearly as possible to the game, yet never to run the thing so close as to allow the sandpiper to take wing before he has pulled up. The difference in the judgment and skill of the drivers is immense, and there is one gentleman in New York, a well-known and old friend of the public, who is said to be so infinitely better to all others, that the gun in his chaise, even if it be handled by the inferior shot, is sure to come off the winner. It is not unusual, I am told, to bag from twenty to twenty-five couple of these delicious birds in a day's sport, in this manner ; and I have heard of infinitely greater quantities being brought to bag.—Herbert's Field Sports of the United States. JOSEPH VON JELLACHICH, BAN OF CROATIA.—A short sketch of the ban, who has acquired so sudden a celebrity, will be read with interest. I have had occasion (says the writer from whom we borrow this description) often to converse with Jellachich. He is a man of the middle height, of a powerful and firmly-knit frame, 49 years of age; in his youth of a delicate constitution, but now en joying excellent health. His head is bald at the top, but encircled with a fringe of jet black hair. He has a high forehead, bushy eyebrows, a mild clear dark eye, an aqui line nose, a finely-chiselled mouth, with an expression of great decision of character. He leaves the impression upon the observer of a man of mild but determined cha racter, fully confident of his own powers. He has not one particle of pride about him ; and one would scarcely look upon him as the leader of a wild race, or a man of high ambition. His voice is soft; his education is entirely German ; be speaks German as if it was his native tongue, and with the Austrian accent; he is a great admirer of the German language and literature, but his Sclavonic na tionality scorns the German arrogance which disdains any thing Sclave ; he speaks the Hungarian, Croatian, and Italian languages equally well; he is unmarried, does not possess, and does not care for, riches, but is devoted to his nation. It was only last year that he was colonel of a Granger, or frontier regiment, which was annihilated in an expedition on the Turkish frontier—he himself escap ing almost miraculously in a shower of balls. The secret of his influence over the Croats is that he is a Croat, and proud to be one, and all his energies are turned towards one object—to procure for his nation that position in Hun gary which they claim. He speaks the dialect of the peo ple ; "It is the language of my beloved mother (he said to me one day), and I am proud that I can speak it." Their ban and their general, he converses with his Croats, and tells them things they had never dreamt of—visions of honour and glory. It is no wonder that when he ap pears every eye is turned upon him—that they listen, open-mouthed, to what he says, and that they are ready to follow him to Buda, Pesth, Vienna, or Milan ! When they see him, they shout their enthusiastic " Zivio " (let him live!), and will follow him anywhere.—Morning Chronicle. THE LITERPWOL STANDARD. etneral ffitatllanp. The northern parts of England and Ireland were visited on Wednesday with heavy falls of snow. John Bright, Esq., M.P , is undergoing the hydro pathie treatment at Wharfdale. _ Amongst the candidates for the Provostship of Edin burgh is Mr. William Chambers. During several days last week, herrings were sold at Dumfries at the rate of eighteen for a penny. Captain Mitford, R. N., with his son, have left the Church of Rome, and joined the Church of England. The Brussels Herald of Saturday, gives a favourable report of the potato crop in Belgium. The total number of the horned cattle annually sent to England from Dumfries-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtonshire, is estimated to amount to 29,000 head. In Mr. Pilkington's garden, on the Hunger Hills, a moss-rose tree was, at the beginning of this week, bearing a number of roses in full bloom.—Notanyham Journal. The Standard states that on Friday .36,000 muskets were shipped at Southampton on board a steamer for Italy. There is considerable falling off in the Linen trade of Barnsley. A considerable number of hands have been turned off. The city of London has voted an allowance of £5OO per annum, as the salary of the medical officer appointed to superintend the health of the metropolis. Of 397 boys removed from Parkhurst prison, in the course of last year, 371 received conditional pardons, and 16 free pardons. During the past fortnight several cargoes of potatoes have been shipped from Ramsey for Liverpool, and other cargoes are being shipped and some ready for sea. On Monday week, three horses which had strayed from a field on to the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway were killed by the mail train at a short distance from Newark. For several weeks past the Solway Frith, which has been comparatively abandoned by the tribe for the last 40 years, has swarmed with innumerable shoals of herrings. The Rev. Mr. Clarke, Presbyterian minister at Dal reooh, near Perth, has been thrown from his horse and killed. Sarah Searle, who died last week at Chelsea, bequeathed her body to Dr. Pettigrew for dissection, and it has ac cordingly been given up to him. with On Monday, the body of a domestic s Abbott, was found in a ditch near Roche face covered over with a carpet. It is feared she•has been murdered. Mr. Charles Braham, son of the celebrated vocalist, made his debut at the Princess's Theatre, London, on Monday night, in the new opera of Leohne, and experi enced a most enthusiastic reception. At a recent meeting of the Edinburgh Chamber of Com merce ;ndt, a resolution approving of an attempt to induce government to grant a higher rate of interest for deposits in savings banks, was F dop ted. _ The Cholera is still making but slow advance in Edin burgh. In Leith it has broken out, and with some seve rity, but with nothing like the virulence that has prevailed on Continent On Tuesday, the Thames rose to such an unusual height as to cause very great damage to property. Tow ards evening, when the tide was at its highest point, the steam-boats could scarcely pass under the bridges. Government has come to the resolve; on the recom mendation of the Board of Health, to do away with the idle precaution of six days' quarantine, inflicted on vessels from continental ports suspected of cholera. Letters from; Exeter announce the rather sudden de mise of Mr. Thomas Gray (the ingenious but unrewarded improver, if not originator, of the railway system), on Sunday week, in the 61st year of his age. At the quarter sessions held at .. Berwick on Friday, there were agt 1 occasion, in succession, al bias been no business before the court. BREAD SELLERS.—A dealer in bread has been fined half-a-,guinea, in Edinburgh, for having sold a loaf on which the weight was not marked in distinct figures. The conviction was made under a new statute. At a temperance meeting in Broseley, Salop, the Hon. and Rev. 0. W. Forester said he was informed by one of the medical attendants of the Duke of Wellington, that for the last two years his grace had not drunk a glass of wine—water being his only beverage. FATAL ACCIDENT AT SCARBOROUGH.—On Friday last, as two men were bringing fish to the harbour from a L/54 ay, ai oealth and spirits, and the greater po . rtion, says the New York Herald, from Great Britain. From May to December, 1817, there landed 129,082, and from the Ist of January to August, 1848, 110,404 were landed, making 239,486 in fifteen months ; of these 53,180 were Germans, and 52,496 Irish. Every month the num bers arriving were increasing. Thomas and Alexander Efeathcoat, razor-blade grinders, of Sheffield, were tried in December last, for destroying machinery in the Kelham grinding-wheel, belonging to Peter Bradshaw, a razor-blade grinder, and having been found guilty, they were each sentenced by Mr. Justice Coleridge to seven years' transportation. At a subsequent period they confessed their guilt, and divulged a variety of lawless transactions of a similar nature to that of which they had been convicted. The result of their disclosures was the apprehension of four of the principal members of the Committee of the Razor-blade Grinders' Union, who were at the ensuing Spring Assizes arraignpfi nn the transportation, the principal witnesses against them being the Heathcoats. In consequence the Heathcoats' sentence has been commuted to eighteen months' imprisonment. SRANGE STORY.—While Mr. John Yearsley, iron monger, of North-street, was acting as foreman of the grand jury at the Lewes sessions, on Tuesday morning, he was suddenly seized with a fit of anonlexy. In nrtipr to . . allow the rest of the jury to proceed with the business, he was removed to the large room in which they sat, where he lay during the day attended by a sur geon, who e-x- Cowper's 'residence, at the back of the county ball. .Mr. Yearsley passed a very restless night; but on the follow ing morning he had recovered sufficiently to ask a variety of questions. indicating that he had no recollection what ever of what had passed subsequently to the attack. — Brighton Gazette. ROYAL CONDESCENSION.—Her Majesty has visited the houses of several of the humbler cotters in the vicinity of Balmoral, and the Royal condescension will not soon be forgotten by those who have been thus honoured. Sir Walter Scott, whose regard for all things pertaining to Royal dignity, was peculiarly conspicuous, describes an of furniture, in which some King of England had conde cended to rest himself, in such reverence, as to preserve it, in all time after, from being polluted by being the seat of any humbler individual Cliut there are now many " Queen's Chairs" in bumbler homes than the baronial homes of England, and as much revered as that Sir Walter describes, One old woman, whoEe kitchen sne wouia not give the chair in which her beloved Sovereign sat for " a gueed lan's lair."—Seotsman. THE CHOLERA AT HULL.—We are very happy to state that, up to a late hour last night, there were no indica tions of the prevalence of cholera in Hull. The Times of yesterday announces that since Thursday last nine cases lolera have emu proved fatal Our opportunities 'of knowing how w. die of cholera here are fully equal to those enjoyed by the Times, and we have only to assure our readers that nei ther Dr. Ayre nor Dr. Horner are prepared to s a y th a t a • . • - ...oat+, El V II 11 ull Una Ueen at. LacKeu wan cholera since Thursday last. In fact, Dr. Ayte and Dr. Horner are doubtful whether a single case of real Asiatic hese, ....I. -I • T T . . ilan yet, appearea in Hun in which the malady was not directly imported by the person attacked from Hamburg. Many persons here have been suddenly seized e corn- mencement of is very questionable whether a single inhabitant of this town has yet fallen a victim to the epidemic.—Hull Ad- THE CHOLERA:-It may perhaps arise only from that common feeling of politeness that prompts us to pay more attention to a stranger than one of our own household. the more formidable diseases which constantly at our population are but little regarded. When medical men tell us that fever kills more people every year in this country than the Asiatic cholera did during the eighteen gioUs disease, which cholera is not, scarcely an effort is made to avoid its infection. Even though we have been for case, a more expensive disease than cholera, no one has believed it. Again, take the case of influenza and other prevailing epidemics. In one month last year these diseases destroyed in London alone four thousand one hundred and nine persons above the average, a number nearly equal to half of all the persons who died of cholera in 1831-2, and yet how little fear of these diseases exists, and how feeble the efforts to remove their causes. THE PRICE OF RESTITUTION.—WhiIe Miss Moore, of Nottingham, was at George-street Chapel on Sunday her house was entered and the sum of £5O in gold and silver stolen. Vigilant inquiries were made, but up to Tuesday no clue had been obtained as to the manner the robbery had been effected. On that day, however, a youth in her employment went to her and confessed that he had been an accessory in the felony, stating that he would tell her all about the matter if she would not prosecute. She did so promise, and he then told her that he had been per suaded to take the money by a man whom he named, and that they had divided the X5O equally between them. He then fetched her £24. having spent £1 of his share of the spoil. Miss Moore having ascertained the whereabouts of the other person, went to a miserable place where he lived, and demanded the remainder of the property. The fellow perceiving that he had a woman of too kind a nature to deal with, replied that he had parted with £4 of the mo ney, and that the rest was buried in a field ; but that he would not fetch it unless she promised to let him have another pound. Having obtained her assent to this bare faced oroposal, he went out and in a short time returned with £l9, which he restored. SELECTION OF BUILDING S using care in the selection of stone for building purposes was not felt till recently—the fact that the same quarry, of whatever stone it may be, will supply a bad as well as a good material was unnoted, and the result is that many modern structures are in a state of obliteration. Black friars-bridge, built of Portland stone, began to show symptoms of decay before it was finished. Several modern rhorehps hnilt of the cpmp aantou,a ,11U1 u. utic mt4lllC watenai retain l►ttle or none of their original carving : and some of the mould ings in the arches at Hyde-park-corner are all to pieces. We could even point to a building of the same material not yet finished, where, in spite of more than usual care, time ; and yet we all know that the Portland quarries do furnish stone as lasting and as good as any we can obtain. The appointment of the commission to select stone for the Houses of Parliament, and the report which they have published, have led to a different feeling on the sub ject, and cannot fail to be productive of advantage. Knowledge is now wanted, and that can be obtained only by careful inquiry and diligent investigation.—Builder. DISSOLUTION OF THE ORDNANCE OFFICE.—The Morning Herald of Saturday says,—" It is said that the Ordnance Office is doomed—that the fiat has gone forth, or is about to go forth, for its abolition. It has been discovered that the board is a useless incumbrance upon the state—that the only good of it is to make a certain number of appointments, with a Master General at the head of them, to distribute a certain amount of patronage, , and to create a certain number of jobs; and it is said, that, the discovery having been made, it has been deter mined to effect a considerable annual saving, without any detriment to the efficiency of the Ordnance corps, by practically acknowledging the right of the Artillery and the Engineers to be regarded as integral parts of the army, and by transferring. the miscellaneous business of the department to other offices where it is likely to be less out of place. If we desire to reduce the Ordnance esti mates in such a manner as really to confer a benefit on the country, we must abolish the Ordnance Office itself. There is no sort of reason why the military business of the board should not be transferred to the Horse Guards, and the remainder to the War Office and other suitable departments. It is believed that some such measure has been determined upon, and we earnestly hope that the report has truth for its foundation. The Ordnance Office must fall sooner:or later. The sooner, we are disposed to think, the better. Such we believe is the opinion of the majority of military men, who are entitled to be regarded as competent authorities." THE WRONG SIDE OF THE STREET.—Ina town in Oxfordshire, favoured with the existence of one of those systematic structures for the relief of the poor, yclept " Unions," not many years ago the following rather sin gular mistake happened :—The chaplain of the union, the Rev. —, having been called to a distance on business, engaged his friend, the Rev. —, to perform divine ser vice in the chapel of the union on a certain Sunday. The latter is an excellent mathematician, but a singularly " absent" man ; and the latter failing or f culty frequently brought him into queer situations, not the least embarras sing of which arose out of this very union engagement. Mr. was punctual to the hour in his visit to the town on the morning in question. It happened that the union chapel is faced by a Roman Catholic chapel, in the vestry of which, about the hour for commencing service, walked a gentleman, a stranger to the sexton, but showing enough of the "points" of the profession to satisfy the latter that it was some strange " holy father" come to officiate at mass for the priest then in charge of the mission. The stranger being apparently chary of words, intimated by familiar gestures hie wish to be robed, and accordingly the priestly paraphernalia was speedily displayed upon the person. Apparently it struck him that he had donned rather more :than the usual vestments for the reading desk. He was:absorbed at wondering at his finery, and busily eng age d in feeling the stiff embroidery of his cope, and regarding with wonder the silky texture of his other flowing robes, when another gentleman entered the vestry room, and the following colloquy took place. Second comer—May I inquire who it is that I have the pleasure to address ? First comer—By all means ; my name is and I have come here this morning to officiate for Mr. —. Second comer—But, my dear air, Mr. —is a clergyman of the Church of England, and this is a ca tholic chapel ! First corner—A what ! Catholic chapel ! So, so. I beg a thousand pardons. I have made a very singular mistake. I thought that I was in the union over the way.—Worcester Herald. 3 A Herefordshire paper relates that an expectant bride- PRECAUTIONARY HINTS ON BODILY HEALTH.—Every groom visited his betrothed lady on the evening before the man has an unfailing barometer in his own person. He day which had been fixed for the wedding, and in the knows, if he will know, what elev a t es an d w h at d epresses course of conversation observed, that as he intended that the quicksilver of his bodily health. The great thing is the £5OO which constituted her portion should be paid to keep up the general health to the highest possible down, he might as well take the money home with him standard ; and this is best to be done, not by resorting to that evening ; but to his utter discomfiture, the lady and any violent changes, but by adhering to that diet and her parents were so indignant at the mercenary nature of regimen which experience has taught him to consider not his affection, that he was instantly turned out of the only safe but salutrrv—regarding, of course, all peculiar house, and was forbidden ever again to speak to the lady. symptoms which may induce him to vary either the one Amongst other matters important for this country to or the other, and adapting both to those atmospherical know, is the vast number of emigrants arriving in the viccissitudes which indicate, at all ti mes , th e propr i ety of United States from Europe, and more especially from the some modification, and especially when a virulent epidemic United Kingdom, and which are constantly adding to the is committing its ravages among the people. It is the numbers, the wealth, and the power of those states. fate even of the most salutary articles of human food to From sunrise to noon 1800 emigrants landed at New have discredit thrown upon them by the excesses of those York, and in the afternoon 934 more landed, making who have suffered by their abuse of good gifts, intended 2 " in one dr - 1 I in 1— • -nd ay rovidence for the promotion, not the prostration, of the health and vigour of the human family.—Herald. On Monday, nineteen young women, in a very dis tressed state, applied to the Clerkenwell magistrate for relief under the following circurnstances.—They had been engaged by a Mr. Owen, in Goswell-street, Clerkenwell, to work at " ladies cloakmaking" in a room at No. 60. Goswell-street, early in the morning till late at night, at the rate of Os. a week. On Saturday night the forewoman took the cloaks to Mr. Pawson's establishment, in St. Paul's Churchyard, and returned saying she could not get the money, and the applicants were in consequence desti tute and starving. They could not find either Mr. Owen or the forewoman, and many of them had had nothing be yond a bit of dry bread during the whole time they had been at work. Some person present answered for Mr. Pawson that. he would not knowingly encourage su:th pro ceedings, and undertook to see him and explain the cir cumstances ; he also promised work to some of them im- something for their immediate necessity, and the poor half-famished creatures appeared very grateful for the kind attention shown them and returned thanks with tears in their eves. CONSERVATIVE UNION. (From the John Bull.) Abro , ' nnd at home we are getting daily into difficulty and da:,er. Our colonies murmur, our revenue dimi nishes, and boasted prosperity grows dim ' • Ministers, wickedly rt y elling in the havoc occa9ioned by treachery and folly, pi. , ye themselves no better than the convicted felons whom we eject from our shores. Religion herself looks pale and sickly in the midst of the universal discou ragement. Does this state of things preach no lesson, and suggest no policy ? We think it does. We do not ask the hon. gentlemen who voted against Protection to be reconver ted, and to become again Protectionists. We do not call upon Protectionists who, manfully and bravely, have fought the battle to the last, to eat their words, to deny their faith, and to become free-traders. But since free trade has, against our will, become the law of the land, we would earnestly recommend both parties to forget that such a term as " Protection" ever existed, and, as en lightened, conscientious men, taking things as they find them, to set about such a thorough reconstruction of our whole commercial policy as may satisfy all the lawful de mands of native labour, and, at the same time, all the pressinc , exigencies of the national exchequer. W e h ave no doubt whatever, that the people of England would willingly consent, even at the present moment, to a mo derate duty upon foreign manufactured goods for the pur poses of revenue, for the maintenance of the national cre dit, and for the advantage of the whole community: and more than this, we have now, at all events, no hope or chance of getting. _ . The free-traders themselves must, ere long, demand such a reconstruction, if they be not altogether inclined to accept it now. Granting the principle of free trade as enunciated by our economical quacks to be without a flaw, its application has been so wild and aimless, so tho roughly independent of all rule and system, that whole sale ruin must speedily be the inevitable consequence of a dogged persistance in our present course. We call upon Conservatives, then, to reconstruct the commercial edifice, and to do that which the present wretched Government has no strength to achieve. We implore both sides to forget old animosities, and to obliterate, if possible, the marks of past collision ; to rounite upon well-understood and accurately-defined principles,—for the sake of the mighty and many interests of the empire,—for the sake of the nation's faith, as well as of its material prosperity,— in the name of the Queen they love, and the GOD whom they adore ! THE COLONIES OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AND CANADA These colonies are the remaining ones to be embraced in our summary of the minutes of the Colonization Com mittee. As regards the Cape, it appears that the average annual emmigration to that colony during the last six years has not exceeded 398 people. Its temperate climate, and its being nearer to England than the Australian colo nies, would at first sight lead to the supposition of its proving more attractive, but the western or older division is interspersed with vast desert tracts, while its popula tion is chiefly Dutch ; and the eastern division, of which Algoa Bay is the port, and which was settled by the Eng lish emigrants about 28 years ago, (a scheme which was attended by many failures, and on which £50,000 of the public money was expended). has the drawback of possess ing no navigable river, added to the inconvenience suffered from the neighbourhood of the Caffres. In point of cli mate and soil there is nothing to complain of, but wood is not considered to be abundant, and the port is not good, idthough it might be made so by a breakwater, which has been talked about. Up to the commencement of the Caffre war, however, the settlers in this division had in a ereat degree surmounted all their_ difficulties. The white population is 3:3.146, and the black, who are very orderly, though not industrious, 37,075, making a total of 70,221. Its revenue has for several years been in excess of its ex penditure. Its live stock is valued at two milli ons ster ling, there are 35,000 acres of land under cultivation, chiefly wheat, oats, and barley, and the annual produce of the settlement is valued at £269,000. Sheep farming is the principal pursuit, as requiring less labour than tillage. This part of the colony is divided into six districts, and about an equal distance inland. The distance from Gra ham's Town, its capital, to Cape Town, the capital of the western district, is nearly 700 miles, and an overland mail twice a week conveys the post in about five d a y s . From Yort Elizabeth, which is about 94 miles from Graham's Town, over had roads, there is a steamer to Cape Town that performs the distance in about three days. The co- lonisisare desirous of promoting inomigration, but whatis wanted is a continuous rather than a large supply of really useful English labourers. The sum expended on immi gration from surplus revenue was, in 1844, £5OO ;in 1845, £285 ; and in 1846, £5885. In 1847 the authorities thorised the Commissioners to proceed with emigration, 0,000 for the purpose, but the apprehensions entertained among the labouring classes in England as to the dangers of the Caffre war put a stop to it. In the old or western colony the immense grants originally made of Crown land have had an injurious effect. In freeholds lately sold the price has been about 2s. per acre, and this is now the Government upset price for country lands. In • this division there is generally an abundance of water. The wheat grown in some of its districts is said to be the finest in the world. A great road in course of construc tion from Cape Town to the eastern frontier by convict labour is likely to promote, in a high degree, the im provement of the territory. The colony of Natal is about 1,200 miles from the Cape settlement, and 600 from Algoa-bay. It is a country abounding with wood and water, having a very fertile soil and a most delightful climate, although not so salubrious as Cape Colony proper. Its only want is a safe and com modious harbour, and it is hoped that this may be gained. There is no road from Algoa-bay to Natal, but Sir Harry Smith has it in view to create one, although the difficul ties are very great. There are, however, good natural roads for horses and ox-waggons, and before the war there was a reg ~,„ liar postal communication carried on by native runners to Graham's Town, As yet there has been no regular exploration of the Natal district. The whole area has been estimated by the Surveyor-General at upwards of 13,000 square miles. The district seems capable of grow ing every useful product, and, above all, it is believed auailable for the growth of cotton, which, unlike the Ame rican cotton, is not an annual, but a perennial. Some specimens, grown experimentally in a garden, and sent to the manufacturing districts in England, have been well re ported upon, and Lord Grey has instracted the local autho• rities to give every facilities for its cultivation. Indigo is found as an indigenous plant. Fine crops of wheat are said to have been grown ; but the abundance of water and a luxuriant grass, which covers a large part of the district, render it especially favourable for pasturage. The amount of European population is not known. The early Dutch emigrants hold large grants, which. it is apprehended, may prove an obstruction. Most of the new settlers, how ever, have bought their land from the Dutch at very low prices. The settlement was originally formed about 11 years back by an emigration of Dutch boors from the eastern districts, but it was not recognized by the Home Government until 1845. It is at present governed by a Lieutenant-Governor, who holds under the Governor of the Cape, and about 500 troops constitute its military establishment. For the year ending January 5, 1846, its imports were £32,000, and its exports £lO,OOO. A SOLDIER.—There he is—a hundred thousandth part of a great thing called an army. A great thing wonder fully organized—most ingeniously devised; a very impos ing, a very costly thing, made up of very varied materials, but, most homogeneous as a whole. It is hard to say what it does not contain. Nothing so hard, nothing so soft • nothing so full, nothing so empty ; nothing so ga y, nothing so mournful, as not to be a part of it. Light plumes and heavy ordnance; the empty drum anl the well-charged shell: the gay music, and the mournful funeral-pall—there are all sorts of contrasts and contra rieties in it, but how complete a thing is it as a whole ! Look at the intricacy of its Machinery—the wonderful ad hesiveness of its parts—the unity and integrity of it. Dispersed though it be in a fragmentary state over the whole surface of the globe, there are chains and wires, which take no account of space, keeping it together as surely and irrefragably as though it were a compact mass. Within this mighty circle, there is nothing so majestic— nothing so insignificant, as not to be brought into imme diate contact with each other. The minutest component of that great fact—the British army, has an intimate affi nity and is a matter of immediate concernment to the greatest and most glorious of the realities, who give a dig nity and a radiance to the whole. There is a link which unites the small child who tinkles the triangle with the mighty warrior who conquers nations and overturns dy nasties, and revolutionises the world. The voice of that small hero of the triangle may make itself heard by the great hero of history •, and not so insignificant is the child —being an atom of that great comprehensive army—but that his injuries will be resented and redressed by the ve- teran of a hundred fights, and. a hundred orders.—North British Review, THE MEANS OF DESTROYING SNAILS.—I determined to undertake the analysis of the small gray snail, (Limax agrestis,) so frequently found in gardens and in the fields, and which has this year done so much damage to all kinds of cultivation. hoping that such an investigation might lead to the discovery of a means of preventing the too great increase of these creatures. My attention was es pecially directed to the glutinous matter which they co n _ tinually secrete, and which serves to attach their bodies to their surfaces over which they pass. I endeavoured to find out in what way lime, which has long been recom_ ended to cultivators as a means of destroying snails, acted upon them ; and I have ascertained that lime water, diluted with three times its bulk of water, was sufficient for their destruction. Water, scarcely rendered alkaline by the addition of potash, killed them still more quickly, causing a large quantity of slime to be thrown out. Solutions of the metallic salts, when added to this slimy matter, produce an abundant coagulated mass; that which is produced by the action of nitrate of copper dis solves in an excess of potash, and produces a violet coloured liquor. Of all the poisons which I have tried on snails, there is none which has appeared to exert so deleterious an influence as the alkalies. If a drop of caustic ammonia, or of caustic potash, be added to a quart of rain-water, an alkaline solution will be formed of such little strength that it scarcely affects delicate test paper, and causes no impression on the organs of taste ; if, however, we place some snails in this solution, they soon die, whilst other snails, placed in rain-water alone, escape out of the vessel in which they are placed. It would appear difficult to find more energetic poisons for snails than those I have indicated ; I therefore think that a weak solution of caustic potash or soda, or, what would be still more economical, the refuse lyes which have served for the washing of linen, diluted water, to which a small quantity of quicalime has been added, will enable us to attain the object we have in view more readily and certainly than by the use of lime alone in the state o f powder, as this is speedily converted into a carbonate of lime by the action of the air, and thus loses its poisonous influence on the snails.—M. Bruconnot, in the Florisi, Ramsgate smack !yin.- in the roads, the smal which they were embarked was upset by a heavy sea boat in USHAW COLLEGE.—Five bishops were present at the recent opening of St. Cuthbert's new chapel, Ushaw, and nearly one hundred priests. Dr. Wiseman preached at the opening, having the previous week given a " retreat" to the students. _ _ _ , The first living specimen of the tree kangaroo which has ever reached England, has been presented to the London Geological Gardens by Lieutenant-Colonel Butterworth, The wife of a framework knitter, living at Daybrook, Notts, died last week from the effects of several large doses of tincture of colchicum, which she had taken in me hope or curing herself or rheumatism, a alsease irom which she had suffered for some time. A few days since, at Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, a two year-old bull and a fat stag furiously attacked each other, as witn tne greatest aimcuity tnat ti victor was removed from the dead body of his fallen foe One large factory at West Ham, which has a large con tinental trade, has, within the last fortnight, received an order of some magnitude from an eminent house in Paris, which is the only order received worthy of notice from that capital since the revolution in February last. —Essex Standard. ACCIDENT FROM GUNPOWDER.—On Wednesday, a young man named Russell, of Bowling, near Bradford, 16 years of age, was playing with some gunpowder, when it accidentally took fire and exploded. The whole of the windows in the house were completely shattered to pieces, and the lad was sadly burnt. COLD WATER CURE.—The Montrose Review mentions that a believer in the cold water cure has been committed for trial, on a charge of having occasioned the death of a labourer named Smith, by causing him to be wrapped in cold wet sheets, as a remedy for a rheumatic fever, under which he laboured. Two accidents on board the Grampus, off Portsmouth, occurred on Wednesday, by which one man lost his life and another was very seriously injured. An iron water tank fell upon the former, crushing his head so suddenly that death was instantaneous. The other man, who was in a sling, fell from the mast, and was much injured. LIEUTENANT EDNVARDES.—As was anticipated by every one who had the slightest appreciation of military skill and successful gallantry, the special elevation of Lieutenant Edwardes to the local rank of major has been followed by a decoration of the order of the Bath. We are sorry, however, to see, by the Gazette, that he is only appointed to the third class of the military division C.B. The Coventry Standard says that a new fraud was suc cessfully practised at the last Rugby cheese fair by two men, who brought about a ton of the worst cheese, but contrived to plug each cheese with a sample of the best quality, which they gave buyers to taste, and which pro cured them a ready sale for their goods, as they sold single cheeses at the wholesale prices. How DID THEY COME !—Mr. James Ellis, of Goose gate, Nottingham, box-maker, has a pear-tree in his gar den on Windmill-hill. Sneinton, which blossomed in Spring, and bore plentifully in July. There is at this time another supply of fruit upon its branches, and, what is the most surprising circumstance attending this second bearing, it has not been preceded by the slightest appear ance of blossom. SHOT IN A QUARREL.—On Monday night a surgeon named Addison was in company with Mr. Thos. Hartnell, a painter, drinking at a public-house in Southampton. They left about two o'clock on Tuesday morning quarrel ling with each other. When they arrived at the Hound well, a large open space in the centre of the town, Addi son took a pistol from his pocket, and shot Hartnell in the groin, who lies dangerously ill. _ _ _ BELGIAN CATTLE.—The arrivals from Belgium are so large as to attract particular attention, in consequence of the comparative novelty of the supply of live cattle to any extent from that country. The steamer Triton, just ar rived from Ostend, has brought, besides a general cargo of the usual character, 100 sheep, individually addressed, and 140 sheep, several calves, and the large number of 74 cases of poultry, consigned to order, the production of Belgium. On Sunday week, a very destructive fire took place at the Mansion House, Vickers Island, Derwent Lake, the residence of H. C. Marshall, Esq. Every article of fur niture in the library, together with the entire collection of valuable books and paintings, were destroyed, as well as the contents of the rooms above and below in that part of the building, which was a wing attached to the' original premises, the latter being protected from the fire by a strong gable-end wall. So great was the probability of this whole building being destroyded, that every portion of furniture at all removeable was taken out of the house. CAUTION.—Mr. George Hancock, solicitor, of Yeovil, received on the 23d September an intimation from the so licitor to the Board of Stamps and taxes that a prosecu tion would be commenced against him in the Court of Exchequer for the recovery of two penalties of £2O each, for giving unstamped receipts. Mr. Hancock replied, admitting that in the hurry of business he had written " settled " to two bills of costs for £166 19s. 3d., and £169 Bs. 5d.. the bills referred to. The Board replied to this communication on the 6th October. staying the pro ceedings, and mitigating the penalty to the lowest sum, viz., £5. EXTRAORDINARY FEATS.—The Fife Herald narrates the antics of a steeple and chimney climber on the top of a chimney stalk at Newton of Abbotshall, 136 feet high. He fixed a plank ten inches broad, and projecting about twelve feet on each side, on the top of the chimney. In the centre of this plank he placed a pole sixteen feet high, having a small piece of wood on the top, which he climbed up and stood upright on, holding a flag in his hand. After doing so, he descended to the top of the stalk, when he walked out to each end of the plank and struck an axe into them. He then turned about towards the centre, and, to the great alarm of the assembled multi tude, stood on his head for some time, and, returning to his feet, he stamped firmly upon the plank on each side of the chimney. He then safely descended bead-foremost. THE DUTCH DWARF.—A most diminutive specimen of the genus homo has recently arrived from Holland. He is the smallest dwarf of his age, which, by authentic cer tificates, appears lo be ten years, ever exhibited in this country, and is even less than the celebrated Jeffery Hudson, whose exploits are recorded by the writers of the time of Charles 11., and on whom Sir W. Davenant did not think it beneath the dignity of his muse to write a poem. This little gentleman, whose real name is John Hannenia, but who has assumed the nomme de guerre of Admiral Van Tromp, is only 28 inches in height, and weighs but 161 b. He is well dressed, active, intelligent, and pleasing in expression of countenance. SINGULAR DISEASE OF THE EYE curred last week at the Glas A. singular case oc gow Eye Infirmary. A girl of sixteen years of age, having applied on account of loss of sight of her left eye, the cause was ascertained to be the presence of a living worm or Hydatid (the cysticircus of scientific naturalists) in the eye, close before the pupil, which it completely obstructed. This species of animal • ' ,e size of a small pea, bbdy, w Inch is a ment, consisting of numerous rings, and capable of being elongated and retracted at the creature's will. The body ends in a neck and head, and the latter is supplied with four lateral suckers. All this was plain to the naked eye in this instance, but appeared still more so when the ani mal was viewed through the microscope. As the exist , 1. . . - - ily prevents vision, but ultimately destroys the wh'ole texture's of the organ, it was resolved to remove it by operation. This was successfully effected on Saturday last. The pa tient behaved with perfect steadiness, and found her vision The hydatid continued to liv. fn immediately restored _,.ratted. As only four similar cases are on record, the worm excited much curiosity, and was examined by numerous visitors, both lay and medical.—Glasgow Chronicle. AN OLD TRICK IN A NEW WAY.—During the present week, the following circumstance has been the general topic of conversation in . the vill .ge of Horton. On Thursday week, one of the inhabitants, who has long 1-,,,,.1.,•.A ,-.0 n----:- n. _1 • •• ing transactions has always exhibited a considerable degree of jealousy and suspicion, took it into his head to attend the fair, which is held annually at Wibsey. he had not been long on the ground b e f ore h e was accos t e d i n a fa- who offe 10s. if he _ prospect of _ pocketing —6overeign induced this sapient individual to coin ply with this request. The stipulated price was to he £l4, and no more, and after a good deal of bantering the bargain was struck at that sum exactly. The purchaser the half not nem: possessed at that moment with the means of paying for it, and his " friend" not being just then at hand, he proceeded to Horton, and borrowed three five pound notes of a neighbour, with which he returned to Wibsey. The horsedealer was readily found, and as rea dily was the money paid. Another man_ (evidently an hen requestec to go anc deliver him t wuere oe muna. tie then returnea to the place where lie had left the horse-dealer, and discovered that he also had decamped. Filled with vexation and chagrin at being thus defrauded of both his horse and the money, he flew to the place where he had appointed to meet his " friend," and, alas ! to his additional _grief, he_found that he also le sovereig❑ receivec change out of the notes, upon examination, turned out to be a counterfeit.—Leeds Mercury. SIR CHARLESNAPIERAND THESCINDE PRIZE MONET. —lna letter which Sir C. Napier has addressed to an l• . .uktilue, an riast mom mrector, had said, while speak, ing in a debate which passed in the House of Commons about Scinde, ' Sir Charles Napier had been sufficiently .eceived seventy pounds prize money,' or words to that effect. I wrote to Mr. Baillie to ask him how he could make such a statement, for which there was not the slightest grounds, as I never had received a single farthing of prize money, and that he, as a director, and therefore a trustee. Ilousan must know this better than any one. Mr. Baillie an swered me that he was not a director, but had made the statement on the authority of a director. On arriving in Europe I heard that Sir James Weir Hogg was the man, and I vsked Mr. Baillie, who answered, that it was Sir James Hogg; that he, Mr. Baillie was speaking on the debate, and Sir James Hogg, who sat next to him, said, Tell them he has received £70,000 prize money.' Now, sir, this Sir James Hogg was not only a director, but I believe he was even chairman of the Court of Di rectors, and the directors were trustees for the Scinde prize money. Therefore the case stan.ls thus :-Ist. This Hogg knows perfectly well, e,v officio, both as a director and as a trustee, that I had not received one farthing of prize trolley ; yet he deliberately told Mr. Baillie to assert in the House of Commons that I had received £70,000. 2nd. He (Hogg) knew that not only had I not received a farthing of prize money, but that he and his colleagues were at that moment trying to prevent my receiving that share of prize money which their own regulations awarded to the commander of the forces, and from which act of injustice on the part of these trustees I was protected by ; the Duke of Wellington, by Lords Ellenborough and Hardinge, and by the Lords of the Treasury." I ANONYMOUS WRITING.—There is a gross unfairness, a virtual tyranny, and a sort of insolence in this outcry f against the anonymous pen. Were the battle nn-'- perfectly equal and fair, every knight might justly draw his visor, and ask the like of his foe. But the battle of opinions in this country and in these days is not equal. Rank, wealth, party, and position exercise an enormous sway. Nearly all intellectual power is in some form of combina tion or other to give opinion a more than intrinsic efficacy. There have been times when no man could count on a day's tenure of life, unless' a, . property or L. .. he attached him self to some chief, some league, or some shrine ; and if he choose none of these, he must at least keep out of the way. That is our case now. or' a man is not a p eer by birth, or an M.P. by mon e y, or the member of a dis. t'—uished 1 &mil _.y, or a thick and thin partisan, or possessed of extraordinary physical powers of agita tion, he will speak and write in vain, The whole vulga rity of the world is against him. Who is he ? What is he ? And as soon as the question is answered in negatives, the writer is dismissed without ceremony. Now, in all warfare the weapons m us t b e e i t h er the same or of equal - Small arms are no match for artillery. If we power. nave to contend with disciplined hosts, colossal engines, and elaborate fortifications, we must have some corres ponding advantage. That equivalent in our case is a limited degree of secrecy and irresponsibility. There is, however, no conspiracy. Our work is necessarily public. What is prepared in the night is published in the day, and what is written by an unknown hand is perused by per haps a million readers. Ihe advantage is a certain pre- favour, with an immunity from personal considera- tions.— Times ANECDOTE OF JENNY LlND.—During the late visit of Jenny Lind to Glasgow, a little incident occurred, which, if it proves less striking than some of the stories which have recently gon3 the round of the newspapers respect- ing the great cantatrice, has at least the . merit of tieing strictly true. Two German girls, resident in Edinburgh, had come hither by rail for the express purpose of seeing the far-famed prima donna i n " L a Fi g li a d e l R egg i mento. Through the politeness of the manager of our theatre, with whose family they were intimate, the young enthusi asts were accommodated with seats in the stage box. Anxious, however, to obtain a sight of Jenny Lind in her own character, they made their way to a position behind the scenes, where they knew she would soon pass on her way to the stage. From this place they were re quested to withdraw by some one in the temporary management of the theatre, when, fortunately, the fair Swede tripped from her room, with her heart no doubt filled with the part she was about to enact, and the large audience she was about to face. All they obtained was a glimpse of the bright " star" in the somewhat obscure passage, but it was enough, and the one eag erly whispered to the other,—" Das ist Fraulein Lind ! " The person in authority was in the act of bowing them away, but the language familiar to her in her own native Stockholm, where German is much spoken by the better classes, had caught the quick ear of the prima donna, and, turning round, she bounded frankly forward, took both the strangers by the hand, and addressed to them the kindli est inquiries. They stated that they had come all the way from Edinburgh to see her—a statement which she met with the modest rejoinder that she " was not worth coming so far to see;" and thus the colloquy went on, (in German, of course), until the work she had to do, and the expectant thousands who waited for her entrance —all seemed to be forgotten in the animated reminiseence ces of the " water-land," The moist eyes of the young ladies betrayed their joyful emotion, this was too much for the keen sensibility of the songstress. She clasped them in her arms and kissed them with the fervour of a sister. The next instant the theatre shook with the thunder which hailed her entrance, and ere the tears which had paid tribute to her eloquence in this little episode were dry, the hearts of the assembled spectators were thrilled with the glorious " Ciascun lo dice" of the gay and high-spirited vivandiere. This little anecdote would hardly be complete if we neglected to narrate that next day the fair Germans obtained a ready audience with Jenny Lind at the Star Hotel—a favour denied to parties of higher note—and were enabled to introduce two youth ful friends, the daughters of our worthy manager, who presented the queen of song with a beautiful cushion, their own work, with the name " Jenny Lind" elabo rately wrought in gold on the velvet—a gift which she acknowledged in such a manner as [' l to leave on the minds of her young and delighted visitors the liveliest impressions of her simplicity, good-nature, and genuine warmth of heart.—Glasgow Citizen. slier, An a eath, gen ept a ?.ntY- rally ,etter toms could urer, chial d in )loy- liis have d for they .sent Art/ the ob day •ely the ion arY the