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'known in this .cOantry,• nor even in France, so cele-11'
'braced for her progitss it) that away: 'BO were it
known, we fear that it could not be conveniently prae-,
tised in Greet Britain, in consegnente.of the imrnen,..e
expense of importing the animal alive. In detailing the
uses of the reindeer, Doctor Richardson told his audia
ence that the natit•es used every part of the body as •
[food ; and that they carried their epiebristh so far, as •
to eat the contents of the stomach: They seemed to
imagine that the lichens which had been masticated by
the deer, and partially decomposed by the action of the
gasuic juice. of this most interesting animal, were
thereby rendered more fit, proper, and digestible for the
use of man, Chacun a son gout !
Dr. Richardson then named
.a very singular_ fact relative to the
period of these animals sheddipg their horns. It woirld appear:
that the most usual season for their sustaining that logs is the au-
tumn, but he said that some of them had been observed to retain '
their horns so late as February, and if we mistake not very much,
some examples were not wanting of their co:ltioOrg till May.
The Mask Ox was the next quadruped, with an account of
which the Siscieiy was favoured by Dr. Richardson. Wien a herd
of theie animals is fired at, if the huntsman keep hintrelf well con•
.coaled, they imagine the noise to be thunder, and crowd close
together ; but if by the excellence of their smell, which sense they
possess in.great acuteness, or by other means, they discover a hu-
man being, they immediately disperse. It occasionally happens
that a wounded musk ox will turn on the hunter, and endeavour
to make a violent attack on hint; in this case the hunter will be
perfectly safe, if, with a little activity, and much presence of mind,
he starts on one side, and takes the opportunity of stabbing the
disappointed ox as he rages past hint.
In speaking cf the Musk Rat, which did not form a part of Dr.
Richardson's memoir, Ile liaid that he supposed the musky odour to
be emitted from all parts of its skin ; and that it was only at parti-
Cular ,periods of the year that the animal was observed to have a
very strong sc::nt. This rat is nearly as la• ge as our common cat,
and must indeed be a most formidable inmate in any house, if its '
habits were like those of our common rat, and its resolution in-
eteated in proportion to the size.
Several other animals, also not included in the account written
by Dr. Richardson, were produced, for the purpose of hearing such
obeersiations from that distinguished traveller as his experience
might enable him to make ; but as we must unfortunately hasten
to conclude this article, we are under the necessity of passing them
over in silence.
We bear that Dr. Richardson will, in proceeding with this sub-
ject, read an account of the fishes collected by our distinguished
countryman in the Polar Regions at the next meeting of the Se-
citty.—Edinburgle Literary Gazelle.

II b:LAND.

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THE LATE MURDER. IN KILDARE.
An 'airiest was held in the county. of Kildare, on the
body of John Fitzgerald,. already stated, to have been
barbarously murdered.. The verdict was wilful murder
against one John Lay, Who had introduced himself to
the deceased and his family, as deceased's son-in-law.
The wife of the deceased deposed that the said John
Lay came to deponent's hOuse at thinniurry, about the
hour of two o'clock, onSaturday, the 10th imam, and
introduced himself as the son in-law of. witness and de-
ceased, and said he was Mari ied to witness's daughter,
Catherine, whom he left in Manchester, on a visit to
her uncle, Mr. Forbes ; depo'nent and the family sup
po.:ing him from his account tti be shell a erson as he
'desrribed himself to be, he was accordingly treated
tali : was prOVided in refresfitfient, his soei taken of
and polished, and everything in the pOwer of fhe de-
teased arid family done to render their *Vices- aftee-
Itile ; tient to rest that night, accompanied the:xi to
Mass nett morning, and sb far in every respect appeared
to be such as he introduced himself to be ; returne.i
lidime on Sunday with the deceased, and being enter-
rained as fir as their ttriall means would allow, paised
• the evening in conversation very agreeably ; exit When
• the deceased was about putting in his mare kir the
tight, Lay said he would do it, and .retuned of oriljr,
saying he had lost a button, upon *Cried Witnets,,gOt up
CO provide one, but watt. interrupted by the, riedikeci
ying he saw one in the window, at which tithe wit
nest supposes he furnished himself with the razor, with
which he .inflicted a deadly. wound afterwards On her
husband's throat, The evening pasted of agreTbly as
aforesaid, but in the middle of the night Witness heard
her husband cry, "Kitty, Kitty, the villain hat cut off
my head r when she arose, and her daughter
beth' who met the murderer coming into therobin
where she lay, who seiied her by the hair of the bead,
but the deceased having got up and opened the door;'
she extricated herself, and ran for assistance; vliteiLay,
who returned from pursuing her, culled for hirclothes,
and dressed himself and Maxle Off. •
The witness Elizabeth Fitzserild„ datighter of the
deceased, corroborated this evidence irieiery.Particular.
Lay was brought from Steal to the InqUisition
after answering the questions putt° trim, admitted &xi
fact; but said that the deceased's daughter, lifter Mar."
rying him, left him, and went with another iciurig man,
named White, who inlisted in the East India service,.
I-Ltd it not been for the exertion of the girl, it is thotight
be would have murdered the whole family. Lay says
he is a native of Lancashire, and that he deserted from
the 86th Regiment in April; and that when he was
quartered in Dublin he married Catherine, the daughter
of John Fitigerald, whom* he intirdered.
CtlkitlNATlOii AND fiAititAttlTY.
Friday evening, about eight ecloel, a ging. of this-
creams, at least twenty in number, rushed into the
house of Patrick Kahil, a poor man who resides inStrat-
ford-row,•Off Summer-hill, and beat and stabbed hiM so
terribly that he now lies in Jervis-street IlOspital, it i
Said, without hopes of recovery. ,Not content with this
,bitital manifestation of their ferocity, the sZvages
tacked his wretched Wife, who. cbarieed to eater the
house while they were engaged in this diabolical act,
and left her in a state of insensibility, covered with
wounds and bruises. The unhappy woman is in an ad-
vanced stage-of pregnancy, and to complete the satanic
cruelty of the barbariins, they nearly strangled *tee
infant children that were in bed when they burst in. -
Kahil is a journey
". man sawyer, and after obeying the
ruinous mandates of the body-men' for several. Mouths,
until his Miserable farMly were reduced to befigary—,
being sometimes fOr several days without a meal of vic-
tuals—he accepted of employment last Thursday, on
wages somewhat lower than those detestable assassins
deemed consistent with their lawless regulations.
! • The police arrested five suspicious persons, four of
Whom Were sawyers, and one a -schoolmaster, named
'Cassidy. A quantity Of paperi were discovered in their
possession : they are Of a very mysterious nature. On
searching their retidencesin one.of them two bayonets
on poles Wert fount:l,-00 pieces of iron. shaped like
:words, and three large blddgeons, such as have been
used for the purpose of combination, and called slaters.
A blow from them is generally likely to prodtrce death'.
The five men have been committed to Newgate for frir
tiler examination:—Dublitt Paper.

triday, the Loan PROVOST of Edinburgh received
a lett* from Mr.. Secretary Pkat, granting a respire,
'during his Majesty's pleisure, to John. Doughis, under
sentence of death in our jail, for' robbing a man on the
road from Portobello to Mussclburgh.