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IN PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-
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THE WEATHER,
The weather continues so exceedingly and un-
naturally
that we begin to fear there is almost
no hope of any more winter. Indeed, for some days,
if not for some weeks, we appear to have been living
and breathing in the atmosphere of May or June.
Nothing but a sustained high wind indicates the ex-
istence around us of any atmosphere at all. It
neither bites, nor freezes, nor sleets, nor even rains
much. Saturday was a day of most brilliant sun-
shine—not cold, and icy, and ungenial, as the gleams
of a wintry sun ought to be, but sensibly warm, and,
therefore, delighfully unseasonable in the middle of
January. The inference is that if we have sum-
mer in January we shall have winter in July. Mon-
day was another breezy day of unclouded brilliance,
and of too pleasant a temperature. Yesterday
ditto. The snow drop is peeping up, and the
general appearance of the fields is that of the latter
end of I or the beginning of March. While
gossiping on the weather, we may remark that the
terrible storm of wind and rain on Sunday se'nnight
was not unaccompanied with more terrific elements
in some adjacent districts. Even in this neighbour-
hood we believe that thunder was distinctly
heard. It appears that at Norwich and
Yarmouth the lightning was vivid, the thunder
loud, and the hail of a ponderous and ener-
getic character. At Sandon, Essex, on the farm of
Mr. William Ratcliffe, a shed was blown down upon
six horses, one of which was crushed to death. At
Halstead, in the same county, en alarm was given
that the spire of the church was falling, which pro-
duced the most horrible excitement and terror in the
congregation, who rushed pell-mell to the door. It
was found that the vane had been twisted a little out
of the perpendicular, but the spire had sustained no
injury. At Ipswich the hailstones were of consider-
able size. At Great Effingham the sails of a wind-
mill were blown sheer off; and in the same parish a tree
was struck by lightning. In many of the districts
through which the tempest passed large trees were
torn up and windows broken. A contemporary states
that at Yarmouth "attention was excited by a
portentous cloud of unusual blackness, scudding up
with an alarming rapidity from the west or west-
north-west, hurrying towards the sea, as if anxious
to forbear its discharge till the upper might mingle
with the nether waters. Suddenly the cloud burst,
and it seemed for a few moments as if its entire con-
tents were being literally hurled at everything that
obstructed its furious progress. The wind, which
had been blowing in fitful gusts during the night and
morning, seemed now lashed to the fury of a hurri
cane. The rain, which fell in torrents, was accom-
panied with large pieces of ice, while the terrific
peals of thunder that followed in rapid succession, and
the vivid flashes of the electric fluid, conspired to
produce sensations very far from agreeable, even to
those who were warmly and snugly housed, while
some, who were unfortunate enough to be caught in
it, were literally obliged to make a dead stand, and
turn their backs to its merciless peltings." This
appears to have been the same storm which lately
produced so much havoc in the northern and eastern
coasts of Scotland, consigning numerous fishing
crews to a watery and premature grave.—Cambridge
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A charge of attempting to poison a wire was
heard yesterday before the magistrates at Bristol. The
accused, Henry Evans, is a carpenter by trade, but with
his wife and a policeman and his wife had been latterly
taking charge of the new poor-houso in Clifton Wood.
About six weeks ago the wife was confined, since which
time she has been repeatedly seized with attacks of vomiting
and purging. She was confined to her bed, and her hus-
band usually took her her food. On Sunday he cut her
some slices of roast pork, but on looking at them she
perceived that they were sprinkled over with a white
powder. Upon tasting the meat, she did not like the
flavour, and left it, and afterwards hearing from a little
girl that the husband had taken the meat to a cupboard,
where he appeared to be sprinkling something over it,
she mentioned the fact to the policeman's wife, who in-
formed her husband, and the remains of the slices were
taken for examination to Mr. llerapath, the analytical-
chemist, who, on applying the proper tests, found that
the white powder was a corrosive salt of mercury, com-
monly sold as white precipitate. Oa searching the pri-
soner's room some sugar of lead was found, and he has
been remanded for further examination.

SLIGHT SHOCK OF EARTHQUAKE.—We learn from
a correspondent that a slight shock of earthquake was
felt in the centre of the Stewartry on Monday last. He
was travelling from Laurieston, and when about a mile
and a half from Glenlochar-bridge, at a quarter to eight
A. 31 heard a rumbling sound, and felt a slight motion of
the earth,
as if a heavy carriage had been rolling past.
The noise apparently came from the west, and gradually
died away towards the north. It coatinucil, as nearly as
could be calculated, for about the filth part of a minute.
Met a gentleman on the road who stated that he ob-
served the same phenomenon. He must have been two
miles from our informant when the shock was felt.
Several persons in the neighbourhood felt the same sen-
sation at the same hour.—Dumfries Courier.
EDINBURGH, JAN. 23.—An awkward blunder has
been discovered in the Removal of Nuisances Act, which
dill in some degree retard sanitary progress till an
amendment be obtained. By the English Act nuisances
on all highways are illegal, but from a decision by the
sheriff substitute of Perth, it appears that in Scotland
they are illegal only if on roads supported by rates; on
w
turnpikes they may offend sight and smell 7ith impu-
nity. The sheriff of Edinburgh has also decided that a
manure depot, containing 800 cubic yards, is not a nui•
sance because it is 280 yards from the nearest dwelling-
house—the occupiers of tenements
.being thus assumed to
be as destitute of locomotion as their domiciles.

MEMORANDA OF A MUSICIAN,
LY GEORGE J. 0. ALLMANN.

" Notes, notes, forsooth, and noting!"
Su A RISPELE.

No. VII.
LEONARDO DA VINCI.
How versatile and extraordinary was the genius this
remarkable man possessed who united in himself the
treble mastership of the arts of Painting, Poetry, and
Music. In each and all of them he excelled, and al-
though his professed avocation was the first named
brarch of art, he was esteemed a perfect scholar and
fulfilled the post of violinist in the orcheilre of Ludovico
Sforas Duke of Milan. His instrument was a very
singular one, and possessed a silver neck shaped like
that of a horse. Francis the First held him in high
esteem, and venerated the extent and diversity of his
talent, and all the world knows that when the great
Artist was seized with his last illness the noble. hearted
Monarch hastened to visit him, but arrived only in time
to clasp the beloved painter and poet-musician in his
arms and receive his last sigh as the heaven•born
spirit winged its silent way through the paths of Space
to its final abiding place, to dwell for ever with the Just.
My friend Mr. Fisk has made this scene the subject of
one of his finest pictures. The deathbed of Da Vinci,
the anguish expressed by the countenances of all who
surround it, and the attitude of the grief-stricken and
sorrowing Francis, together with the sublime and holy
inspiration which shine out, like a halo of immortal
glory, from the collapsed features of the dying hero, are
portray«l with the most consummate perfection of art,
which takes nothing else than Nature for its model.
lii;tory affords few parallels, save those of Michael
Angelo and Salvator Rosa, of such wonderful and ver-
satile genius being united in one individual.

AN ANCIENT BAGPIPE.
We are told by the Greek Historian Dion Chrysostom
that the Emperor Nero performed on an instrument,
which ho describes as possessing a tube perforated with
holes, and appended to which was a bag, which was
placed under the performer's arm, thus answering the
purpose of bellows to supply the wind. This is
evidently nothing but the common primitive bagpipe.
" The reason," writes he, " why Nero preferred this
Tibia utuicularis was because he might avoid those con-
tortions of the face which he observed all who played on
flutes with their mouth invariably made, and which so
horrified Minerva us to cause her to dash the instru-
ments to pieces when she beheld herself reflected in the
brook."

HANDEL
When he was preparing his opsra of Ohio for produc-
tion n as violently enraged one day because Cuzzoni who
whs to perform the principal rule, arrogantly told him
that the lovely air "Falsa immagine!" was not worthy
to be sung by her and that she would not therefore sing
it. The contempt with which this operatic queen spoke
of his composition provoked Handel beyond himself, and
he vociferated in a voice which borrowed strength from
the enormity of Cezzoni's offence, that although he was
aware she was a devil, yet he would let her know he was
Beelzebub, their prince. He then actually caught her
up by the waist end vowed if she did not immediately
obey his commands he would precipitate her from the
window into the street. Tee temper of the kir Italian,
generally untameable, was not proof against this sum-
mary mode of retaliation, and she was, much against
her will, forced to yield to this energetic and irresistible
spirit which our modern Timotheus displayed.
I recollect reading in La Revue Musicale some few
years back the following anecdote of our Great Musi-
cian. It says, while Handel was conducting the re-
hearsal (qy. where?) of one of his oratorios (qy. which ?)
he heard among the basses an unknown instrument
" grunting out gruff mysterious sounds"—" Vaat are
dose apominable sounds," he roared out, "dat split mein
ears?" Sumo one answered " a serpent!" ".Der
teufel I" growled Handel, "a saarpent ? by mein- honours
it is not dat py wich Eve waas seducet." This story,
this pretty fable, is doubtless as good as most things of
its genre, but fathered with as little truth as the legions
attributed to the immortal and world-renowned Joseph
Miler, but that M. Fetis (Monsieur L'L, diteur de la
Revue), who is something more than a well-informed
musician, should have forgotten his wonted accuracy
and have thus committed so absurd and glaring an
anachronism seems truly strange. How easily could he,
if he had not strength of mind enough to sacrifice his
joke, have selected some more recent composer as a peg
whereon to bang his plaisanteric. There were about as
many serpents in Handers time as there were jupons in
L'aradise on the day of Eve's nuptials.
Charles Dibdin used to narrate a whimsical tale.—
When he was travelling to the Land's End he met some
" bold Cornish men," some of whom carried musical in-
struments, others bearing music books. He inquired
whither they were proceeding, and received the reply,
"To church to rehearse our music for Sunday:"
" And pray whose music do you play?" again asked
Charley. " Oh, Handel! Handel, of course," was the
answer that rather staggered their interrogator. " But
do you not find Handel's music rather difficult of per-
formance?" he inquired simply. " Whoy, ees, it war at
foorat, but we alter'di 'un, an' so we does vaary wull
wi' un new (now)!" This was quite enough for our
Ocean Bard, who threw them a crown, and telling them
to drink the health of the author of "Poor Jack,"
hurried away as if pursued by a spirit.