The Press.
London, England, 1858-09-25 00:00:00

as the bell was ringing for the start, and, notwith-
standing her vast circumference of hoops, made a
bold dash at the gangway. She had nut advanced

three feet, however, when the stuck fast, and from
her hoops protruding between the rails on either
side became hopelessly fixed, and, unable to advance

or retreat, became "the cynosure of neighbouring
eyes." The boat was about to start and time was
precious, so the impatient captain sent two sailors to
her rescue. The tars set to work with a will—one

vigorously hauled in frunt, while the other shoved
behind—and in this undignified manner the young
lady was shipped, amid the laughter of all who wit-
nessed the incident.

Art AGED LUNATIC performed an adventurous feat
at Southern Hill, Berkshire, on Thursday week. The
man, whose name is Luaton, and who is between
seventy and eighty years old, managed to rush out
of the house, and running some two hundred yards,
he came to a high poplar tree, up which he climbed
with an agility which nothing but the diseased energy
consequent on madness could have enabled him to
exhibit. Here at the height of fifty feet he wag
perched, screaming and raving so that he could be
heard in the London•road, and abusing and defying
the neighbours who flocked to his rescue in such a
manner that many doubted whether he would not
throw himself off and so perish miserably in their
sight. However, ropes were obtained, and loops
made in them, with which several experienced
climbers ascended, and one of them, getting above
the old man's retreat, adroitly let down the loop
cords, and, fastening them round him, managed with
great ditficuly and danger to let him down and re-
store him to his friends.

THE JEWISH NATION, dispersed in almost every
part of the globe, without forming everywhere an
independent nation, amount in number in 1858 to
4,858,800, not comprising 30,000 Samaritans and
1,200 Ishmaelites, which would make a total of
4,81)0,000 persons. The total number of Jews in
Europe is stared at 2,451,179, making the 110th
part of tho whole population of Europe at the last
census.

THE PRINCE OF OUDE is not gone back to India,
as stated, but is merely gone in person as far as
Alexandria, with the Ladies of the Household of the
late King's brother and Queen-mother, in order to
see them safely embarked for Calcutta. The Prince
intends to return to this country as soon SS this
mission is performed.

THE LAST WORDS OF SIR HENRY LAWRENCE are
reported in the Anglo•lndian Magazine for July.
Immediately before death he partook of the Commu-
nion, and gave directions concerning his burial.
He Emit], " Let there he no fuss about me." " Let
me be buried with the men." "No nonsense—Here
lies Henry Lawrence. who lived to do his duty." All
this in disjointed sentences, speaking as it were to
himself, and then turning to the chaplain. " I
shonid like a text of Scripture." "To the Lord our
God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we
have offended against him." "Is it not from Daniel ?
It was on my dear wife's tomb."
Tut: BATHING AT OSTEND has lately caused con-
siderable commotion. From time immemorial a por •
tion of the beach has been designated by the name
of" Le Paradis," where persons have been able to enjoy
the recreation of bathing with greater freedom than in
other places near the town. The medical men have
even recommended certain of their patients to bathe
in this spot as being better for their health, and no
one has ever dreamt of considering the freedom
enjoyed by the bathers as an infringement on the
laws of decorum, the place being so completely
removed from ordinary resort. A fews days since,
however, the commissary of police of the district
took it into his head that the practice was in cmtra-
vention of the enactments of the penal code, and an
attack on public decency, and by his orders a party
of gendarmes proceeded to the spot, and arrested
several persons who were bathing there—among them
the Russian Prince G--. They were all marched
off through the town to the commissary's office, and
since that the parties in gnestion have received sum-
monses to appear before the Tribunal of Correctional
Police to answer for the offence. The whole town
has been thrown into commotion by this affair, and
petitions have been drawn up, one to the Minister
of Justice, protesting against the arrest, and another
to the communal administration, calling for a revision
of the regulations relative to bathing. At a meeting
of the Communal Council, which afterwards took
place, the matter was discussed, and a decision was
unanimously come to that an official application
should be made to the Minister of Justice to prevent
the recurrence of such a discreditable scene. It
appears from the Brusset papers that the foreigners
remaining in Ostend have addressed a petition to the
Communal Council, in which they express their
regret at these proceedings, and beg that the regu-
lations as to the baths may be published in the
continental journals, so that a second surprise may
be averted.