The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-01 00:00:00

The Nursery Stakes.

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Nancy's mouth has been examined, and she is found
to be only three years old.

PREVALENT OPINIONS AMONG THE DUTCH.
(From Notes and Queries.)
1. A baby laughing in its dreams is conversing with
the angels.
2. Rocking the cradle when the babe is not in it, is
considered injurious to the infant, and a prognostic of its
speedy death.
3. A strange dog following you is the sign of good
luck.
4. A stork settling on a house is a harbinger of hap-
piness. To kill such a bird would be sacrilege.
5. If you see a shooting star, the wish you form be-
fore its disappearance will be fulfilled.
6. A person born with a caul is considered fortunate.
7. Four-leaved clover brings luck to the person who
finds it unawares.
8. An overturned salt-cellar is a ship wrecked. If a
person take salt and spill it on the table, it betokens
strife between him and the person next to whom it fell.
To avert the omen, he must lift up the shed grains with
a knife, and throw them behind his back.
9. After eating eggs in Holland you must break the
shells, or the witches would sail over in them to Eng-
land. The English don't know under what obligations
they are to the Dutch fur this custom. Please to tell
them.
10. If you make a present of a knife or scissors, the
person receiving mast pay something for it; otherwise
the friendship between you would be cut off.
11. A tingling ear denotes there is somebody speak-
ing of you behind your back. If you hear the noise
is
the right one, he praises you; if on the left side, he Is
calling you a scoundrel, or something like that. But,
never mind! for if, in the latter case, you bite your little
finger, the speaker's tongue will be in the same predica-
ment. By all means don't spare your little finger! ,
12. If, at a dinner, a person yet unmarried be placed
immediately between a married couple, be sure he or i
she will get a partner within the year. It's a pity t
must be inadvertently.
13. If a person when rising throw down his chair, be
is considered guilty of untruth.
14. A potato begged or stolen is a preservative against
rheumatism. Chesnuts have the same efficacy.
15. The Nympbres, or water-lily, whose broad leavest
and clear white or yellow cups, float upon the water, was
esteemed by the old Frisians to have a magical Vie.po
"I remember when a boy,e says Dr. Halbertama,
we were extremely careful in plucking and handling
them; for if any one fell with such a flower in his pos-
session, he became immediately subject to fits."
16. One of my friends cut himself. A man-servant
being present secured the knife hastily, anointed it with
oil, and putting it into the drawer, besought the patient
not to touch it for some days. Whether the cure was
effected by this sympathetic means, I can't affirm; but
cured it was; so, don't be alarmed.
17. If you feel on a sudden a shivering sensation in
your back, there is somebody walking over your future
grave.
18. A person speaking by himself will die a violent
death.
19. Don't go under a ladder, fur if you do you Will
be hanged.

ST• PANCRAS PAROCHIAL CONSOLIDATION BILL."""‘
The Lords have thrown out this Bill, the object of which Was
to consolidate the nineteen paving, lighting, and cleansing
boards of the parish of St. Pancras into one.
THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.-NEWCASTLE .0241'
TYNE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30.•-Today the Wesleyan Cow
ference, composed of about 300 ministers of that body, com-
menced its sittings in this town. Committees had been de-
liberating for a fortnight previous, and a meeting of influeli:
tial laymen and ministers, consequent upon the disordered
state of the society, and convened by the President, has 510,
been held at Manchester. The returns shows a defection 01
nearly 60,000,members of the society; and the meeting o'
laymen passed a string of resolutions, recommending certain
concessions in the mode of memorialising the Conference,
but not affecting the main question at issue between the
ministers and the disaffected, viz., open Conference and :in
infusion of lay influence. The voting for the president :---
resident ; John Scott, 14; Dr. Alder, 11;
Dr. Hannah, 157, P
J. P. Haswell, 4; Dr. Beaumont, 3 ; John Lomas, 30 ; Dr.
Dixon, 1; Mr. Naylor, 1; S. D. Waddy, 1. The Conference
conducts its deliberations with closed doors.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.--it
appears that it is the intention of the directors of this cora"
pany, at the meeting to be held on Thursday next, to re;
commend a dividend for the half-year ending the 30th of
June last, at the rate of 31 per cent.:per annum on the capita,
stock of the company.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—The number of 13116:
sengers conveyed on this line to and from the London-bri°g'
terminus on Wednesday was 19,374, namely, 9,941 to Lon-
don, and 9,433 from London.
PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.—The Taff Vale Rail"
way have been paying 9/. a share, 1001. is the nominal cost;
but many of the present holders bought at 501., so tll3.
they are getting eighteen per cent. Most of the hares sr.
now held by persons in Bristol, Cardiff, and Merthyr.