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London, England, 1824-09-11 00:00:00

THE RUSSLIV CILIMICTER.

pr. 14811, in his work on Russia, has given • number'
of ins:laces of the habitual bands and dishonesty of the
lttwsiati people. An amusing case of solemn trickery is of
the following tenor:-
0 Ifutionrs ail immunities; are now given, it seems, in
Ihissia--- not only fur military services, or in return for!
prescuts wade to the crown, but for the institution of!
public schools and charities ; and a certain General N.
bting desirous of the riblxm of Vladimir, bethought him-
self ufebtaining it by the erection of a great ho.pital upon'
his estate. l'ur this purpose he bad a showy edifice run
up of this hoards and basket work, nod plastered over
with clay, but nsuilily painter) ou the outside, and sue—
mounted with a light lath dome, coloured green, mal
crowned with a gilt ball. In the iimi.le coarse bedsteads
were arranged in some of the wards, and hogs of hay far
beefs in edicts; and so things were got in order for the in-
spection of Graeral Arakteheef, who was to repert to the
Emperor on the amount of Gensial N.'s contributions to
the public comfort.
'• !-early in the morning of the day appointed for General
Aral:tat:era arrival (says Dr. I.yall) above a dozen of
people, men sod women, were employed in washing, and
cleaning, awl arron;ing the hospital; the kitchtm--tove
was lighted, and the kitchen itself stored with good pro.
visions under the rare of an excellent cook. 'fhe beds
were made up ; and black boards were placed agait.st the
walls over the heads of the beels, upon which were written
with chalk, the names and age of the patients, the technical
and the Russian appellations of their diseases, the date of
their admission, and the diet allowed them, as is always
the case in the public hospitals in Russia. All was thus
arrangssl; but there were no sick, except three or four in-
valids in the village. In the transforming empire of Russia,
lioweva, this was of no consequence. The women who
had washed the hospital, and a number of peasants, musks
and females, who were ordered to repait to it, in oh edien=
to their lord's command, disrobed and washed Cc:loss:leas,
put on the dressis provided fur patients, gut into bell, and
feigned sickness.
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After an elegant dinner, the host conducted t/Lmerai
Araktebeef, and a 'mintier of other visitors to the hospital,'
where they were treeing, by a clerk in the lobby, with the
report-books in his hand. which he showed to his Excel-
leacy. do physician being then in the neighbourhod,
tl: • village upottle,•ary assumed his name and oflice, and,
as the party paced the wards, gave all necessary explans-
tions respecting the diseases of tile patients. His assistant'
then brought in a basket full of medicines, vials, powders.
ointments, plasters, whicii he distributed to ach, add-
ing, according to the circumstances of the case, This is a
mixture for thy fever,—those herbs are for thy cottAli,'
&c. &e. A plateful of excellent soup. with a piece of beef
is it, a quantity of kasha and butter, pieces of black and
white bread, and a bottle of kvass were now presented to
tleCtilii" that t kneral A rak tcliect might be able tojudge
ride: manner in which the sick were fed. lie was highly
pleased. it is said, with the institution, and took his depar-
ture. He had not been gone above a few minutes, when
all the patient-actors started from their beds, threw Or'
their rob's, and, being highly amused, lam.diud heartily,
and then bent their way home,—wishing for a repetition of
the farce, as they had had an excellent day's provisions.
And so the hospital was left dreary and void.
" in a conversation with a general who haul been nearly
forty years in the service of Russia, and had been tuts:toned
in almost every government of the empire, I expressed my
autonishment of the above &fair ; to which he replied,
' It is no surprise to me: I have seen such things many
tisacs in my "

The importations int) Buenas Ayres from Great Britain, 1,
for the ltrs:l, amounted to 1,300,000'.
Accounts from Prosoia stile, that the crops, particu-
larly those of rye, arc most boottotittol.
lirsTs ot• Tin: Cot. N•cay.—We may now• (says the
ftwhing Post) regard the basis' as perfectly safe.
In abuntlanc., and quality, it is wort ; and there,
is, Ise)ond a doubt, an appeacsnee of prosperity diffused
threuA the Farming and Lintlisl interest, which has 1101
been experienc.d since the conclusion of the last war.
'Ter •is now i pooped this moderate rents will be paid,
and that a fair and equitable remuucration will be received
by the Farther for his capital, his labour, and his time.
The markets, particularly for meat, teumgh not so high
as they were some time lime, are still firm and fully
remunerative.

In the ncighbouoo.).l of Salisbury, the wheat ling been
ell got in, and the gr .31,1 part of the oats and barley.—
There is a plentiful supply of all kinds of grain. A field
of one acre anti a half (says a corr.--pondisit) at Stratford-
sub-Castle, yielded seven loads and a half, many of the
stocks having so pods.—/),tizes Gazelle.
It g'v.s us pleasure to be enahlidto state, that not only
tha condition of tile larimr, but also that of the labourer,
has been greatly improved during the present harvest. We
understand that higher wages I ace b en generally given by
tha f rulers, and that the la' minors are consequently
healthier and happier. Tide is prudence. The sickness
of the pow necessarily falls upon the parishes, and it is
absurd to expect the same degree of labour from an op-
press el and ill-fed workman, as from thou.. who receive a
Just return for the sweat of tittoor brow.—boot Paper.
Cita cmsroati, St. rr. 10.—Since Mond ty the rain has
fallen very generally throughout the comities of Norfolk,
ti.tff'olk, and Essex. In the two former comities, it will
materially benefit the finest and largest breadth of turnips
ever beheld. and for which some alight alarm hod pre-
vailed. The wheat is mostly got in in both counties; but
the barley, a cop very heavy upon the ground, is lying
upon time swarth in a precarious state, not one-third
hiving been carted. In this county, the small wheats
have been harvested in the beat condition : a small portion,
hawever, of the latter. and the rivets, are still abroad, as
well as melt swarth corn ; all of' which, but for the return
of favourable weather in a few days, will be in great
'beg T of spearing.
As : n t videtice of the increasing prosperity of the Irish in
Gleatow, it may be mentioned that a company, composed
of the brokersl in Bridgegate, have commenced building a
sittare for their exclusive use. A large land is to face the
lindgegate, still another the gaol ; and a range of buildings
et melt side will form the square. There will be Se shops.
his tube ready for the roof by the end of November. The
n.vou work will cost above 2,000/. It will occupy about
yards of ground. A number of the miserable hovels
we in the course of removal.—Glusguw Paper.
WALsi LS—AN EXCELLENT FAMILY MEDICINE,—
E:ery body eats walnuts; every body knows how to make
a pickle of walnuts; few, however, know the medicinal
vtrtue of walnuts. New the fact is, walnuts, when
pre; and rramium arterrr, are an excellent opening meth-
cif* and alterative ; and this is the way to prepare them :
tan the green walnuts fit for pickling, put them in a stone
up with moist sugar, at the proportion of about
'au a round of sugar to a score of walnuts; place the jar
13 a "UcEl4lll of boiling water for about three hours,
takiag care the water does not get in, and keep it
'n simmer-
ilurino• time operation. The sugar, when dissolved,
neal cover the walnuts, if it does not, add more. Cover
ht tote, NW in six months it will he fit for use ; the older
better it is. One walnut is a dose for a child
of age, as a purgative; and it has this
(vantage over drugs, that, whilst it is an excel.
'file, it it It tile same time very pleasant to the
will he esteemed by the yet. ig folks as a
Who can say as much of salts, jalap, and
s stilt!? and in a large family it will abridge
bill ten pounds a year.—Economist.
favourite gander, which hail lived So
fann of Locherwood„ end a still longer period
ta/al died a few clays ago at the latter
worn to by age and infirmity. Thus fair
is fully known; but as lie was evidently no
then that domesticated at Locherwood, it is not
that his ism was stretched to the long period
years. Irew eastern potentates have bad inure
nut one of them, perhaps, so many rims smut
and if there be any merit in furnishing the
to several huniln•il Christmas feasts, we should
ow the Nleslem who has been half so useful in
eeneration. This season, the geese of Mouse-
a nos only failed to breed, but refused to take
race of gtslings that hail been hatched as her i
. indiscriminating duck ; in this emergency, thel
iitafic rand.r stood forth as sponsor to the orphan
by nightly Fathering thin under his wings,
' to have base:lied hi:own dissolution.—CVer-'
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