The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-14 00:00:00

THE AUNT.

Detachments belonging to the following corps, viz. the
35th (Sussex), the 40th (2d Somersetshire), the 19th (the
Princess Charlotte of Wales's or Hertfordshire), the East
India Company's Artillery, the East India Company's In-
fantry, the 20th (East Devonshire), the 27th (Enniskil-
len), the 41st, the 47th (Lancashire), the 51st (2tl York
West Riding), and the 52d (Oxfordshire Light Infantry),
embarked at Cork, on the 21st ult., for Bristol.
Detachment. belonging to the under-mentioned r
ments of Infantry, viz. the 57th (West Middlesex), the
611th (the Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps), the 64th
(2il B:affords...ire), the 67th (South Hampshire), the 69th
(South Lincolnshire), the 97th, and the East India Com-
pany's Infantry, embarked at Dublin, on the Ist inst., for
Bristol.

CH A Tli AM, OCT. 12.—The 60th Rifles, under the com-
mand of Col. Banbury, marched from Chatham on Wed-
nesday fur Canterbury, where they are expected to be sta-
tioned for some time. A detachment of the '2oth and kith
regiments marched from Chatham yesterday morning, for
Woolwich, to embark on board a convict ship, for New
South Waits. The 30th, 97th, 99th, and 99th regiments,
arc ordered for embarkation for the ('ape of Good Ilope,
Ceylon, and the Mauritius, and are expected at Chatham
to embark for their destinations. The Queen's Royals,
now quartered at Chatham, will embark at Gravesend on
the tSil day of February.
licNsiNGTos 'foci.-.—These tolls, which have been
the subject of so snitch memorable discussion, have at
length been most importantly reduced. Large printed pla-
cards have been affixed to the several bars and toll-rate
houses, to the following effect:—
•' Touts REDUCED.-Kensington, &c. Oates.—Nntiee is
given, that henceforth the Tolls nt the several Gates and liars on
this Trust will be reduced. Tickets taken at the Hyde Park
Corner or Pimlico Gate sill clear all the other Gates on this Trust,
including Fulliatn-fields Gate, &c."
We are informed that Mr. Thom has completed his sur-
vey for bringing water into Greenock. Fur 8,000/. as
much water may be brought in as will drive thirty mills,
and if an additional 5,000!. were expended, it is supposed
that the supply would be equal to the power of all the
steam-engines in Glasgow. The advantage cannot but be
great to Greenock. Factories will doubtless be established
there in preference to situations where it is necessary to re-
sort to steam ; especially when the price of coal is liable to
exorbitant thictuations.—Erlinhargi Paper.
A Correspondent says, that a Duuster swivel has landed
on our shores, to establish the long-since exploded doctrine
of animal magnetism; and we have no doubt, that in the
course of a few months the exertions of this learned
Theban will establish a magnetizing society, with its ap-
propriate accompaniments of a journal of transactions, &c.
IVA X•WORK.—LOOpOiIi, while Grand Duke of Tuscany,
caused to be made, under the direction of Fontana, and
exhibited in the Palace 'forreggiano, at Florence, a series of
anatomical sculptures in coloured wax, which have long
amused the curious traveller, and instructed the medical
student. In 1773 eight rooms, in 1794 twenty rooms were
filled with these imitations, which represented in every
possible detail, and in each successive stage of denudation,
the organs of sense and reproduction, the muscular, the
vascular, the nervous, and the honey system. They imi-
tate equally well the form, and more exactly the colouring
of nature, than injected preparations ; and they have been
employed to perpetuate many transient phienomena of
disease, of which no other art could have made so lively a
record. Cupids of wax are mentioned by Anacreon. Samts
of wax were common in the middle ages. For portraiture
in wax Andrea del Vcrrochio was famous, in the fifteenth
century : but the first application of erruplastie to anato-
mical science is due to Cajetaino Julio Y,utnlio, of Syra-
cuse, born in 16.16. Ercole of Bologna, assisted by
Manzollini and his wife, made the first public collection
of wax modellings, systematically adapted to the instruc-
tion of surgeons and artists.
FALCONRV.—The King's falcons were anciently kept
where the stables now are at Charing-cross ; and it was
from that circumstance that it derived its name of Mears—a
termed used in falconry, which has since been generally
applied to all collections of stabling: the place was appro-
priated to stables in the time of Edward VI. There is no
sport of the field in which the fair sex have so largely par-
ticipated as that of hawking. The ladies of former times
kept hawks, which were then as much domesticated, and as
great favourites, as lap-dogs are now; but when fire-arms
were introduced, ladies abandoned the pleasure of the
chace, both because it could no longer be conveniently fol-
lowed, as formerly, on horseback, and because the use of
these weapons was attended with alarm and danger. The
custom of carrying a falcon was also esteemed as a distinc-
tion belonging to superior rank: thus it was formerly a
common saying, that " one might know a gentleman by
his hawk, his horse, and his greyhound ;" and, in fact,
persons of that condition usually carried one on the hand.
Harold, afterwards King of England, is described, when
departing for Normandy, as embarking with a falcon in
his haul, and a dog under his arm. Henry 11. is repre-
sented at his nuptials, attended by a nobleman with that
bird; and in an ancient sculpture in the church of Milton
Abbas, in Dorsetehire, the consort of Kiug Athelstane
appears with a hawk iu her hand, in the act of tearing his
prey.
The rains have been extremely heavy during the last
week ; in some parts the meadows are completely flooded.
and a great quantity of barley has been washed away.
We have also accounts of cows, sheep, &c. meeting the
same fate.—Brirts/ Mercury.
The following Notice is a literal copy of the original,
which was published in a village not many miles distant
from Exeter.—" And all the Bakers In the parish of
and all The Millets and all The Shopkeepers and all The
publicans and all the haglers you are desired to keep Your
Weight and Measure Else there shall Be and heavy, Fine
laved upon You all You that keep any pig or pigs to let
Them on the common own Ring The Shall he put to
pound oa any One That got any stock to common are de-
sired To take It of The that have got No right It Shall be
put to pound Or any one that entteth any fuz to any of The
commons The That have got no right The Shall be prose-
cuted according To The law."
Mr. John Hay, whose case has so frequently been before
the public, has within these few days been liberated from
the Calton-hill jail, Edinburgh, after finding caution in the
terms of his sentence. Mr. Hay was given to understand'
that no objection would be made to any cautioners lie might
choose to offer.
Early yesterday morning some persons entered the brig
Bromly, lying in the Gun Dock, and stole eight sovereigns
out of a writing-desk, and a quantity of wearing apparel
from the Captain's cabin. The Captain was sleeping in
the cabin at the time of the robbery.
Da nixo Ron a ILY.—Tuesday, about three o'clock in
the afternoon, a butcher was knocked down near the door
of a public-house in Stoke's-court, Bristol, by a stout man,
who turned the contents of his pocket completely out ; the
whole being the work only of a moment, and though se-
veral people were passing at the time, be ran off with his
booty.
On Friday the Ist inst.. an inquisition was taken at Rs-
disham Hall, before IVilliain Hs 1111 l lend, Gent. on the
hotly of Robert Evans, servant to John Garden, Esq. who
died in conseqtrence of a wound given him by .1. Strutter,'
a coachman. It appeared in evidence. that on the '2Bth
ult. Strolger and Evans were quarrelling together in the
servants' hall, and whilst Strolger was laying the cloth for
dinner the deceased came up aad collared him, and after-
wards kicked him, upon which Strolger, in the heat of '
passion, nitrite a thrust at him with a dinner knife he then
had in his hand, and wounded him in the lower part of his
body. Evans then seized a poker, and aimed a heavy blow
at Strolger's head, which he avoided. Evans died the fol-
lowing morning. The Jury returned a verdict of " Man-
slaughter.' against Strolger.—Bury Pest.
Simmons, the Bury horse stealer, who, it will be recol-
lected, swallowed a quantity of arsenic when under exami-
nation on his first apprehension, still continues speechless,
and until very lately it was impossible to make him hear.
These defects, it is now believed, are the consequences
arising from the effects of the poison, and are not feigned in
order to escape the vengeance of the law. The prisoner has
lately recovered a slight sous of hearing on one side ; but
the poison continues to prey upon his conatitittion, and such
are the symptoms, that it is thought to Isis other crimes he
will have added that of self-murder.—Esser cra.V.