The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-05 00:00:00

ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, JAN. 3.

The Victoria, Nissen, from Copenhagen ; Independence,
Nye, New York; Ann, Bay Chaleur; Konohassett, Davies,
Charleston; Laura, Rickets, Memel; Henry, Le Vesconte,
Jersey ; Actif, Idman, Jacobstadt.
ENTERED FOR LOADING.

The Harmony, Brown, for Marseilles; Shakspeare,
New York ; Herald, Clark, Sierra Leone ; March, Genoa;
Eliza Jane, Brown, ditto.
CLEARED OUTWARDS. _ _ _

The Venus, Andrews, for Leghorn ; Amelia, Cholditch,
Genoa; Boddingtons, Moss, Africa; James Dunn, Dunn,
Lisbon; Friendship, M'Culloch, Trinidad; Anne and Jane,
Cocks, Berbice ; Finley, Africa ; Bradshaw, Mulroy, Mo-
bile ; Isabel, Lima.

TELEGRAPHED.
Off port, inward bound, the Lancashire Lass, Tennessia,
from Savannah.
Off Point Lynas, outward bound, the Erin, for Charleston.

Yesterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, a
runaway horse, with a gig, went dashing along the West-
minster-road at a fearful rate. Nearly opposite to Union-
street, the animal ran against a respectable married woman
named Pollett, and knocked her down with tremendous vio-
lence, and the off-wheel of the gig passed over her breast.
Mrs. Pollett was taken up in a dreadfully injured state, the
blood gushing from her mouth, and was conveyed to St.
Thomas's Hospital.
The Governors and Masters of Harrow School,
anxious to meet the wishes of the public with respect to ex-
pense, have agreed to reduce the terms for boarding 10 gui-
neas, and private tuition five guineas, which, with several
extras, will make a difference of at least 20 guineas a-year.
This will, of course, to many be an important object ; but
what is still more so is, the improved plans of the new Head
Master, the Rev. Mr. Wordsworth. He encourages ma-
thematics and modern languages, which will, for the future,
form a part of the examinations, both for classes and scholar-
ships. Indeed he seems quite prepared to carry out a more
general system of education than has hitherto been adopted
in public schools, and to impress upon flat higher classes
the necessity of their keeping pace with, if not going beyond,
the middle classes of society, by a solid education.
The tenants and feuars of Mr. Hamilton, of Sun-
drum, in Ayrshire, as a mark of the approbation in which
he is held by them as a gentleman and a landlord, enter-
tained him at a sumptuous dinner on the 15th ult. ; afford-
ing another in addition to many gratifying instances we have
to record, of the happiness it is in the power of landlords to
create in a community, by giving their tenants not only the
benefit of their fortunes by a residence amongst them but
by their society and counsels.
A few days since a 'simple country girl entered a
haberdasher's shop in this city, and proceedting to the
counter, asked, with the vulgar accent of the district
to which she belonged—" Would :you, thin, Miss, have
anything that would shoot a young, parson ?" The fair
shopkeeper thus interrogated, looked exceedingly puzzled ;
she thought at first, that the country lass bad mistaken
the establishment for a gunmaker's shop, and uttered an
exclamation of wonder at the question. However, an ex-
planation was speedily obtained, when it appeared that the
rural fair" meant to ask for some article that would suit a
young person.—Kilkenny Journal.
During the whole of last week the Oxford-road
between Newbury and Winchester was blocked up with
snow, so as to be impassable by ordinary means ; and the
only vehicle which reached the latter place by this rout was
the hunt carriage of Colonel Hawker, well-known as an ac-
complished and intrepid sportsman, who, at the head of 12
men, cut his way across from his seat at Longparish to
Winchester, and from thence passed on to the coast.
Some of the principal cafes in Paris have just
changed owners. The price for which they have been sold
will give an idea of the increased consequence acquired by
this branch of business. The Cafe Vilette, at the corner
of the rue Montmartre and the Boulevard, fetched 250,000 f.
(10,0001.) ; the Cafe de la Rotunde, in the Palais Royal,
312,000 fr. (12,4800 ; and the Cafe de Foy, 525,000 fr.
(21,000/.)
The ordinary meeting of the Entomological Society
was held on Monday evening, at its rooms in Bond-street,
the Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S., President, in the chair.
Mr. Raddon exhibited two varieties of insects obtained
from gum anime, the sinapis and camma moth, the latter
of which feeds npon turnips, and is one of the endless de-
stroyers with which that root is infected. He also explained
the mode of cleaning insects procured from turpentine, by
washing them in a strong solution of ammonia, or several
times successively in spirits of wine ; and exhibited a col-
lection of insects from Africa preserved in a bottle of rum,
which he recommended as an easy and expeditious plan for
transmitting insects from abroad. The President also re-
marked on the ingenious suggestions of Mr. Raddon, of
breeding eggs found in turpentine, by which the cabinets of
entomologists were enriched with the choicest varieties of
North American insects with very little trouble and ex-
pense. A communication was then read from Mr. Sells,
on the economy and habits of the cteniza nidulas, a spider
met with in the island of Jamaica, which excavates its nest
in the earth, affording a most ingenious instance of insect
architecture, valves being placed at the neck of the cells to
prevent the access of water. The conclusion of a paper by
Mr. Waterhouse, descriptive of a collection of insects from
New South Wales, was also read, including an account of
one analogous to the turnip fly of this country. Mr. West-
wood read a paper on caprification, or the practice of ripen-
ing figs in the West of Europe and the Levant. In their
natural state the fruit, before maturity, is attacked by a
gnat, which perforates the parenchyma, and either by the -
access of atmospheric air or stimulating the former, causes
it to ripen more quickly. As these insects do not naturally
attack the cultivated fig, it is found necessary to bring into
the plantations some branches of the wild fig, or some other
tree to which they are attached ; and they are also aided by
artificial punctions, made by an awl, the time for doing
which is suggested by the experience of the peasants, who
are very dexterous in the work. The meeting adjourned
to January 23, when the anniversary will be held.

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