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London, England, 1835-04-15 00:00:00

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for Quebec to the care of Mr. H. Your obliginciupply
of newspapers reaches me at no expense, Aso an occasional
number of the Leeds Mercury from my fritty&Xr.
" I have just met with two Scotch gentleviiijrcio. king cat,•••-••
for land, and a note received this morning fromrtfriallisWri\‘'.
Sherbrooke, says—' They have been induced to visit tfitket
part of the country by the recommendations contained in
. your letters to your friends in England. They have one, „
copy only ; and as soon as our villagers saw it, they seized.
hold of it, took a manuscript copy of it, and are getting it *.
reprinted.' These are probably the extracts which you
said were taken by Captain G—. We have this year
additional reason to congratulate ourselves on the salubrity
of the country we have chosen. The cholera, which seems
to have been imported, has severely attacked almost every
part of these provinces, except the eastern townships. The
destruction of life in the cities of Quebec, Montreal, King-
ston, and Toronto, has been great. One case has never yet
appeared here.
" I have just had the satisfaction of half an hour's con-
versation with his Excellency Lord Aylmer, Governor of
the Canadas. I am much pleased to find that he takes what
I think a correct view of the condition of the eastern town-
ships. He is delighted with this country, and says that it
resembles the most beautiful parts of England more than
any other portion of Canada. A gentleman from England
remarked to me the other day, that our valley (the Mas-
sawippi) reminded him of Wharf-dale in Yorkshire."

IMPROPER USE OF DOGS.

Our attention has been called to a subject which, though
apparently trivial, is of much deeper importance than will
be supposed upon the first mention of it ; we allude to the
very general employment of dogs as animals of draught by
itinerant dealers—bakers, costermongers, coal venderE,
and the tribe of idle vagabonds, who, caring Lass about cru-
elty than their own convenience, are pleased to prefer dog-
cart luxuries to the wholesome labour of walking. The
summer months are fast approaching, and unless some steps
are taken to interdict this pernicious system, public danger
and private distress to an alarming extent may be the con-
sequences.
The dog is a rabid animal, and under the influences of
heat, thirst, improper exercise and irritation, such a degree
of cerebral excitement may be induced as to originate the
frightful disease of canine madness. It is evident from the
organic structure of the creature that it ought not to be
employed for such a purpose. It is not provided with the
power of cutaneous perspiration, the secretions from the
tongue and mouth being only a local substitute for that
common consequence of increased circulation of the blood,
and the violent compensating action of the lungs, as exhi-
bited by the gasping and inordinate respiration of the animal
when over-wrought, cannot have a very sedative tendency
on the nervous powers ; its feet being unprotected by any
natural defence are manifestly unfitted to act under heavy
pressure, for whether the weight be carried or drawn, the
pressure is of course the same. Moreover, its latent ferocity
is elicited by undue labour, which renders it especially dan-
gerous of employment. It seems, therefore, both cruel to
the animal to subject it to a use which nature certainly
never designed it ; and unsafe to ourselves to risk the esta-
blishment of a malady communicable to man. Human
labour, God knows, is just now cheap enough and abundant
enough to render it quite impolitic that recourse should be
be had to the gratuitous assistance of dogs, and the public
health is not to be endangered for the private advantage or
the personal convenience of petty penurious dealers, and
the indolent vagabonds with whom the practice prevails.
Acts of great cruelty may be daily witnessed (particu-
larly about the suburban parts of London) towards these
poor animals by their owners. The size or species of the
creature never appears to be considered with relation to the
weight it is made to draw ; little or weak, so that it can be
procured, it is of no consequence ; the owner has no inte-
rest in economising its labour or in providing sufficient sus-
tenance to maintain it in good condition, because as soon as
one dog is starved or wrought to death he is able to get
another, on pretty much the same cheap terms as those by
which he acquired his equivocal property in the first. Un-
restrained therefore by law, humanity, or expediency, he is
enabled to indulge his convenience or tyranny to the full
extent of his inclination, and the chastisement which these
dogs consequently receive in kicks and flogging is often
most wantonly and cruelly inflicted. During all hours of the
day, particularly in the evening, they are to be met with
dragging their owners through the streets, who by hoarse
and incessant cries urge the tired animals along to the top
of their speed,—a punishment of itself sufficiently severe if
we may judge from the strained eye-balls and the short
spasmodic bark by which they indicate the painfulness
of the efforts, without any other infliction. Such a spectacle
may amuse gaping children, but its unforbidden occurrence
is a disgrace to the laws of a civilised country. If Sir
Andrew Agnew or Mr. Poulter would abandon their silly
Sabbath Bills and take up this matter, they might lessen a
prodigious amount of physical suffering, and protect the
public from a formidable danger ; it would be equally ho-
nourable to their own feelings, and far more profitable in its
results than their present undertaking promises to be.

TIIE NEW DINNER TABLE DIRECTORY.—AS
every one is more or less interested in the subject of good
cheer, combined with economy, we may congratulate the pub-
lic generally on the appearance of the new and cheap edition
of " The Lady's Own Cookery Book." The Receipts com-
posing this volume have been- collected under peculiarly fa-
vourable circumstances by a Lady of distinction, whose pro.
ductions in the lighter departments of literature entitle her to
a place among the most successful writers of the present day.
Moving in the first circles of rank and fashion, her associa-
tions have qualified her to furnish directions adapted to the
manners and taste of the most refined luxury ; whilst long
and attentive observation and the communications of an exten-
sive acquaintance, have enabled her equally to accommodate
theni to the use of persons of less ample means and of simpler
and more economical habits.

Mr. GALT'S BOAT.—In the picture of " Acis and
Galatea," by Raphael, there is a representation of a boat with
paddles exactly similar to those of our steamers, which also ap-
pear to have been moved by machinery in the inside of the
vessel. Mr. Galt has, for some time, been attempting to make
a boat like that in the picture ; but being, from want of loco-
motion, obliged to instruct a carpenter verbally, he has only
last week accomplished his object. He has, however, suc-
ceeded, and has made a paddle-boat like the painter's, capable
of going on rivers, canals, and across ferries, on the same
principle as a spinning wheel, and he intends shortly to make
it public. A much more curious invention, however, has been
the result, which self-defence obliges him to disclose a little
prematurely, the carpenter having inadvertently spoken of it to
a millwright. It is a vessel that sails against the wind, or at
least 350 degrees out of the 360 degrees of the circle, the wind
being the moving power. It is nearly the same as the steam-
boat, but depending on the wind, is not so fit for punctuality.
These curious machines are reduced to the smallest number
possible of wheels. We have seen them both, and understand
that they are soon to be made public. Till Saturday, no other
person except the carpenter and Mr. Galt's servant were ac-
quainted with the experiments.—Greenock Advertiser.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU.—A statue in bronze,
by Pradier, a countryman of Rousseau, has been placed with
great pomp in the city of Geneva. It is seven feet high above
the pedestal, and has been the result of a subscription, among
the contributors to which we see the names of many clergy-
men.—Athenceuni. _ _

THE FEMALE SAILOR.—This eccentric individual
arrived in Donegal by the Derry mail on Friday last. As soon
as it was understood who she was, a vast crowd collected to
see her ; but the sailor hurried to the house of her sister, in
the Back-lane, where she remains at present, we believe. We
were fortunate enough to have seen the young woman, and
certainly consider her admirably adapted to personate a sailor.
She is of a dark, swarthy complexion, of the middle•size, and
stoutly built. She gave us a full account of her romantic his-
tory as a sailor. She is now quite tired of the sea ; she says
she would not again join it for 5001. a-year, as it is the most
wretched life imaginable. She says she was offered 5001. to
appear at the theatre in Liverpool for six nights, but she de-
clined the offer. Upwards of 3,000 copies of her likeness have
been sold. While on the coach she frequently forgot herself,
and, when the horses became restiff, called to the driver to
" mind the helm"—to " steer right"—to " haul that chain,"
Stc. Her family sailed from this port for Quebec, in the May-
flower, about four years ago. She says she will never marry.
—Ballysliannon Herald.
MURDER.—On Friday week a ,young mason lad
belonging to Biggar, travelling in the neighbouring parish of
Carmichael, went into an alehouse at Ridgeside colliery and
had some liquor. Four suspicious-looking strangers came in
and had drink also. In the course of the evening the mason
happened to make an uncalled-for display of a parcel of bank-
notes, but nothing further of a particular nature took place,
and he soon left the house to proceed on his journey. Next
morning, when the colliers went to begin their work, they
were surprised and shocked at finding the mangled and lifeless
body of the mason lying at the bottom of the pit. An alarm
having been given through the neighbourhood, and an exa-
mination made by the authorities, it was found that the money
was missing from the lad's pocket, as was also his watch ; and
the four strangers, apparently Englishmen, have been appre-
hended and lodged in Lanark gaol, en suspicion of being guilty
of both the robbery and murder. Glasgow Courier.
AFFECTING CIRCUNISTANCE.—Iburing the severe
storm of the 31st of March last, two young persons, named
Thomas Maclennan and Murdo Cross, residing at Achdete,
son, Rosa-shire, lost their lives. Maclennan, the elder of the
two, who was a robust, spirited lad, had ocelsion to traverse
the bleak range of mountains which forms the western boun-
dary of that parish, and at the request of his younger compa-
Ilion's father, took charge of his fellow sufferer on their return
home, a distance of several miles. Two days afterwards, their
hodies were found locked in each other's arms, stretched on
the lonely moor, and wrapped in Maclennan's plaid. There
is every reason to believe that the latter exhausted himself in
carrying his weaker companion, and, unwilling to abandon
him, with an excess of generosity, sacrificed his own life, in
his attempt to save that of his friend. This mournful event
has awakened the deepest sympathy throughout the surroun-
ing district, where Maclennan was very generally esteemed.—
Inverness Courier.

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