The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-09-28 00:00:00

THE RED NOSE.

A wan did surmise
That another man's eyes
Were both of a different frame;
For if they'd beta matcher.
Ti...., phis, poor wretches!
His nose would have set 'em in a flame.
HORACE BEcKroaD, Esq. left Thomas's Hotel,
Berkeley-square, yesterday. for Mislry Es-
sex ; as did Lord CHARLES FITZROY, fur his brut
in Suffolk.

A punster proposes that Manchester shall be
in future called Manslaughter.
The conversation of the fashionable circles st
Edinburgh has been enlivened for sonic days past,
with an occurrence of Paine novelty in that gunner
—an elopement to Gretna Green ! A putstot
soon took place ; but from accident, or, it tnieht
be, from a prudence which is not usual to lovers,
no horses could be obtained by their followers oim
time route—mid nothing followed, of course, hut
the most triumphant Wert SS on the one side, and
disappointment on the other.

The origin of the appellation Beef Eaters, as al>•
plied to the Yeomen of the Guard, is us followa:
At the institution of the Yeomen of the Gum d they
used to wui t at table on ull great Court solemn:-
ties, and were ranged near the but tlio, pro-
cured them the name of Buff-tiers, which in time,
owing to the corruption arising Cons the ignorai.ce
of the French lanbuage, degenerated tato that of
Beef Eaters.

LONGEVITY OF THE OAR.—Tear Maloold
Cattle, in the centre of the New Forest,
shire, there is now standing, though in the limo.
stages of decry, the memorable oak nil which
TYRREL'S arrow glanced which ►hot WILLIAM
RUFUS. It was fiast paled round by on coder of
CHARLES 11.

The two most interesting and beentifol objects
in the planetary system, Jupiter and Saturn. may
now be seen every clear evening. Jupiter is very
conspicuous in the South, about 25 degrees shove
the horizon, bud Solar* about 10 degrees higher,
and wore to the ream:ad.

There are at Pitmuin, Inverness-shire, a pair of
eagles., mule and female. A pointer. followed by
her whelp, rune too near the perch 'where one of
the eagles is chained, when lie darted up•iu the
puppy, und retreated to his cover►, *hien is II .
tended by stakes in the form of a small house : the
pointer got in pint oh her body, suit' nostril:wird a
desperate conflict in defence of her offspitag, but
the eagle prevailed. The pointer was beaten cif,
and the pour puppy dcsourrd.
EDWARD MoRGAN, of the Coldest Grove, ow
N•ertlr %Vales, has plaiosti a held of
aims, with Iwllyhocks, on a speculation of applying
some part or the exttrual fibre to the purposes of

hemp.
BOXEll9.—.Sutton, the black. is matched to tight
Larkin, the lilt-guardsman. in a 24 feet roped
square, on the 4th of November. A deposit of 20
guineas has been made, und the remainder of the
money is to be made good at leaudall's on the 28th
of October. Sattion is the &attitudes
A German Astronomer, M. Hayes, has published a new
hypothesis respecting Comets. He conceives that these ce-
lestial bodies are ovesipmed of wafer only, and that their
tads are but• solar rays passing thiough their medium ;
that they attract to themselves a quautdy of impart ps
ties/114n its the air. which is seals dispersed wi dory ap-
proach the frau. hey urieiume a guest qatatity of sayoen
eau, and thus rout, ibute to purify the atmosphere and pro-
Mute vesetatioa.