Star.
London, England, 1824-09-17 00:00:00

A FOSSIL ELEPHANT

Has been discovered on the east side of Lyons, in a
garden situated on the hill which separates the Rhine
and the Saone. The bones were discovered in what the
men supposed was virgin earth, never having been
turned up by either spade or pick-axe. M. Bieiin, the
Directeur of the Royal Vete: 'wiry School, repaired to the
spot, and recognised, in the huge bones discoverel by
the workmen, the bones of an elephant. The humerus
was twelve feet and a half long, and nine inches broad
at its upper extremity ; the tibia was two feet and a
half, and two fragments of the scapulum were together
tsso feet in length. There was tlie head of a
_femur,
and several other pieces of bones, so that M. Bredin
had no difficulty in coming to a decision. Ignorant
persons supposed they were the bo:ies of some giant ;
others thought they had belonged to a Ma.nmoth ; the
lovers of historical recollections supposed they might
have been the bones of one of the elephants of Han-
nibal's army ; but M. Biedin sees in this skeleton a con-
firmation of that religious tradition which has pt eserved
an account of the catastrophe that formerly destroyed
the globe we now inhabit. Among the elephant's bones,
the bones of an ox were also discovered.
HONEY SUGAR.—The Jews in Moldavia and Ukrane
have a method of making honey into a hard and white
sugar, which is employed by the distillers of llaiitzic
to make their liqueurs. The process consists in exposing
the honey to the frost during three weeks, sheltered
from the sun and snow in a vase of some material
which is a bad conductor of caloric: The honey does
not freeze, but becomes transparent and hard as sugar.
—llanoverisches Magazin.

STEAM-CARRIAGIL—About two years ago, we men-
tioned the invention of Mr. Gough, of a steam-can ilge
to run on common roads, and its having been tried on
tha StoCkport road. Since that time, we have heard
nothing of this vehicle until the present week. Tuesday
evening, however, the inventor gave it another trial.
Its pace on level ground was about three miles an hour,
and, in addition to the guide, who sits in front, it car-
ried three or four passengers. The steam-engine is on
the high pressure principle, and its power, we under-
stand, acts exclusively on the hind wheels.—Manches-
ter Paper.

Tuesday, as JAI4Es BLAKELEY, Esq. the Tutor of the
children of the Dean of &ram, residing at the Royal Crescent,
Brighton, was bathing to the east of that town, he was unfot.
tunately drowned. The usual means to restore suspended animation
were had recourse to ineffectually.

A field of five acres, at Heworth, has produced the
very great quantity of 351 thraves, or 702 stonks, which
are estimated to yield at the rate of upwards of thirty
bolls per acre.

It may not be generally known, that by an Act of
Parliament (6 Anne, cap. 31), the Churchwardens of
every parish in London and Westminster are directed
to fix plugs, or fire-cocks, in the streets; and m.default
thereof, are liable to a penalty of 101.

Saturday week, in the parish of Davidstow, Devon,
a person gave a tea-spoonful of oil of vitriol, to an in-
fant, in mistake for syrup of rhubarb. The little inno-
cent lingered in torment for an hour, when death put a
period to its sufferings.

A circumstance of a novel kind occurred at St. Mar.

tin's Church, in Birmingham, last week. A youthful
couple presented themselves at the altar to be married.
The bridegroom performed his part of the ceremony
with due propriety, but when the consent of the bride
was required, she remained silent, and the earnest per-
suasion of all the party could not induce her to speak.
They were of course dismissed. On the following day,
however, they presented themselves again : the capri-
cious Lady had recovered her speech, and, after a suit.
able admonition from the Clergy man, they were mai vied.
An Inquest was held at the Union, Covent-garden,
on the body of the youth, whose death we announced
in our last.—When a Medical Gentleman imputed his
death to a bowel complaint, and not to starvation, as at
first conjectured ; and the Jury returned a verdict—
Died by the Visitation of GOD.

Between seven and eight ►:'clock on Wednesday
evening, as one of the Hampton•court stages was pro.
ceeding down the road from Piccadilly, full inside and
out with passengers, just as it rvached Knightssridge,
opposite the Cannon Brewhouse, the axle•tiee broke,
the coach was upset, and the %thole of the passengers
pitched into the road, several of whom received severe
bruises, but only one, an old Gentleman, was very
seriously hurt.

Some time since a sailor, on his ship being paid off
at Portsmouth, hired a post-chaise to convey him to
town, and particularly ordered the postillion to keep a
look-out ahead, and be sure to inform him when they.
touched upon Bagshot-heath, for (to use his own ex-
pression) he had heard that that coast " was damnably
infested with pirates."—Jack had provided himself with
a quantity of pistols, and other deadly weapons, and
aimed "from top to toe," he crept into the vehicle,
bidding the driver " shove off," with a volley of impre-
cations. Nothing notorious occurred till they reached
the bot ders of the piratical province, when the post:llion
turned round and informed his honour," they were
upon the heath :--" Then, damme," good' lie, thrusting
both his feet through the front gia.ses of the chaise
" down with the bulk-heads, and stand prepared for
action !" and in this position, with a pistol in each hand,
to give the enemy a brOadside in case of his appearance,
the tar continued to the end of his journey.