The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

BREAK DOWN OF THE ADELAIDE

AUSTRALIAN STEAMER.

(BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAVIL)
PLYMOUTH, Dec. 20.
The Adelaide Australian steamer put back here
leaky yesterday. She takes in water at the hawse boles,
and her rudder is defective. She is expected to be detained
►ere several dap.
Letters have been received from the Australia (Austra-
lian packet), dated Port Phillip, Sept. 5. She left the Cape
on July 2'2, and arrived at Adelaide on Aug. 29. The crew
took the gold fever, and refused to work, but eventually
agreed to go round to Sydney, and be discharged there.
Seamen want W. each for the voyage home. Her crew
and passengers were well, and the vessel proved a good one,
bat through the lou of the crew, it is uncertain when she
will be in England.

FRETTING HORSES.—If horses will not cat their
oats, mix it with chaff and beans—a sprinkling of salt is a
good thing, and an are cut carrots. In Austria they give
their horses small doses of arsenic, but I should not like to
try it. I once had a mare so thin as to be a di•grace, to any
stable, yet so fast and high.eouraged, and with such sport-
ing points about her, that I could not make up my mind to
get rid of her. Yet she was the argue of my riding life, a
perfect Rosinante. I tried everything I could think of,
but what with, ejecting her food and fretting over her work,
she was nothing but a bag of bones. At last, chance
brought me acquainted with a noted character, now no
more, Dick Wetherell, the trainer. "My Iced," said Dick,
who always used this form of address as a matter of refined
diplomacy, " I'll tell you what you go and do with her. Take
• lot of barley, a go,,d lot ou it. Power ame biting water
on it, jilt enough to cover it. Then putt it, or leastways
afore you putts the biting water, putt the barley in • glazed
pan so as nothing of the steam can git through, and there let
it soak. Next mornin go and putt some manses in along
with it, and stir it all Don't trust your groom to do
this if he 'diet one of the right sort, coo he'll eat the melasses
if ylnu do, or perhaps take 'em 'rime to his missus. When
you've made this mister up (it's like a stiffish pudding, it
is, when it's made right; or a jelly, as you nine say), give
her a lot on it mixed in with her corn, and it she don't
slobber that into her, and get fat on it too, never you trust
me again. Let her have four or live feeds on it a day."
Much was the summary of Mr. Wethi roll's wi.dom, and the
best advice I can give the reader is, in the words of the
Duke of Wellington to Sir Charles Napier, " If you under-
stand these instructions, go and execute them."—Diehlins's
Ilmuelsold Words.”

REGISTER-OFFICE SWINDLING.—A keeper of a
bureau de placement (office for finding places for servants),
named Perrot, was on Saturday tried by the Tribunal of
Correctional Police fur swindling. It was proved that he
bad caused a great number of poor creators' to pay him
different sums, on the condition that he would procure them
employment • and that after sending them on different fools'
errands, he had disappeared, and had commenced operations
in another part of the town. In one ease, he had had the
impudence to send a pour fellow who hail paid hint for a
place to a writing-master, who had paid him to procure
pupils. It appeared al.o that when any pretty servant girls
went to him, he used impudently to propose to them to go
and lire with single men, and dazzled them by promises of
luxury and wealth. There was reason to fear that he had
brought many of that class to ruin. In his impels was
found the following letter, which, though disgusting, is
curious, es showing the infamy which exists in certain
classes of society:—" 1%6., 2Gth July, 1862 Sir, I take
the liberty of asking you a service. lam in want within
the neat fire nays of lOnfr., to which must lie added your
commission, which you will fie yourself. If you think you
can find a foolish young fellow, or in default of a young one
an obi fellow, write to me immediately, to the address,
' Mlle. L. 0., Poste Itestante, Paris.' En attendant—A
prompt reply. I hate the honour to salute you. L 0."
fLe tribunal condi tuned Perrot to thirteen months' impri-
sonment. A Belgian woman, named Itlessiau, was tried
with him as his accomplice in the swindlings, but was
acquitted. A., however, it appeared that she had been ex-
pelled from France for misconduct, and had returned
without permission, she was, for violation of the law
relative to foreigners, sentenced to three months' impri-
sonment.
Tit r: Niw Foal. sT DEER ItraorAt-- Yesterday,
a bill in the Rolm of Commons, brought forward by the
late government, was printed, to amend the act passed last
year, respecting the New F. r, st as regards the publication
of claims, and the pri (erring and delivering objections
thereto. It apps ors tl at the el rims made exceed 1,200, and
the retort cannot be eons cniently advertised ; and further,
it is i eccuary to off rd further time to make objections to
such claims, and al,o toeomplete the register of claims and
objections. It is proposed to repeal a provision in the for-
mer act, and that the making of objections shall be before
next August, and that the completion of tho register all '
, be extended to the Ist November next.
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