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London, England, 1830-07-15 00:00:00

SCINTILLA!.

.e instance of the very improper way in which
recommended to fill the office of watchmen in New.
ted in the Mayor's Chamber there en Wednesday
who was detected stealing, produced, man answer
felony, a written character, setting forth that be was
to be appointed a watchman
since that some persons were prosecuted
• mixing ground bones with flour; While
species of bread has lately been manufactured
of bones which is stated to he highly nutritious.
. ACT OF PARLIAMENT.—" The Collec-
infallible. The act for regulating parochial registries,
range Oversight, contains, as Its penal provision,
years transportation. one half of which goes
. the other half to the poor of the pariah, or to
charitable purposes."
A HUMOUROUS TESTATOR.—The will of an SCUM-
Me gentleman, who, thirty yeses ego, was Judge Advocate at
Gibraltar, contained the following provision tom" I desire that
the gentlemen attending my funeral, and a few of their Mends,
meet at a tavern to congratulate my getting rid of diocese,
and to drink a jolly toast to my requiem, the expenses of the
meeting not to exceed fifty pounds, which sum I request my exe.
eaters to pay."
Sir J. Mackintosh, in his new "History of England,"
in adverting to the nautical genius of thinadves of these Wands, adds
this curious and somewhat novel remark—that " it is not unreason.
able to surmise that the settlement of so many pirates in England,
the natives of every country from the Elbe, perhaps from the
Rhine, to the North Cape, between the sixth and tenth centuries,
y have contributed to cultivate those natal propensities which
arm a part of the British character."
ALORRINZ PUNISHMENTS.—Every sentence pro-
nounced by the Dey of Algiers is inflexibly executed. Thieves
have their right hands chopped off, and tied to their necks; others
cruelly bastinadoed ; same are strangled; and for graver of-
mess, the king= is awarded, and the criminal thrown over the
• part of the Beb.Asona, and caught by huge books in the wall,
where he writhes in dreadful= until he le relieved by death.
The horrible cruelties of im t are also practised, but not so
frequently as the kingan.
The present armies of Europe form an effective force of
2,500,000 men—that is to say, they amount to one man in every 92
employed in pursuits of industry and agriculture. In Denmark
there is 1 soldier in every 51 inhabitants; in Russia lin 57 in
Switzerland lin 60; in Prussia in 76 ; in Sweden and Norway 1
in 83; in Turkey lin 9!; in Bavaria 1 in 113; in Austria 1 in
118 ; in the Netherlands 1 in 1124 Is Prance and Portugal 1 in
139 ; in the kingdom of Sardinia 1 in 163; in the British Islands
1 in 290 ; in the kingdom of Naples 1 in 247 ; in Spain 1 in 278 ;
in Tuscany 1 in 318 ; in the States of the Pope 1 in 43L—ftlessenal
de Gaud.
All the regiments, it is said, are to be so far " re-
Anglicised" as to be shorn of their " mustachios," and all peculiar
promineney of whiskers ! The Hussars are to be excepted, they
being viewed as corps of "foreign" origin. The consequence will
be a sad railing of in " valorous appearance and as to the bucks
and dandies, what will become of them ?
On Tuesday last, during the Proclamation of the King
ar Manchester,agentleman from Newcastie.upan.Tyne,whik stand.
ing with John Sutcliffe, Esq. of Willow Hall, near Halifax, to see
the procession pass, was robbed of his pocket-gook, containing 8001.
in Bank of England notes, and a bill for 301.
Mr. Bretherton, the great coach proprietor, has taken
bet that he will run a common coach against a locomotive "wisp,
the Manchester and Liverpool railway, provided he is allowed a
Art of ten miles, and four relays of horses. The odds are in fa-
vour of steam.
DELI CAC T.—A young lady who is known to be rather
fastidious in her expressions, being lately at a dinner party, a gen.
deman who was carving a couple of ducks requested to be informed
what part she preferred. His gravity was completely overact when
she replied, " trouble you, Sir, fur a little of the bosom"
THE PROUD DUKE OF SOMERSET AND THE PAIN-
Tra.-1114 Grace was himself s patron of art, and did not ob.
tain his sir-name without cause. He had employed James Sey.;
moue to paint the figures—artists say ts—of his hetet* at
Petworth, and condescended to sit with his humble namesake at
table. One day at dinner his Grace filled his glass, and saying
with a sneer, " Cowin Seymour, your health," drank it at—" My
Lord," said artist, " 1 believe 1 have the honour of being related
to your Grace." The proud Peet rose from the table, eta ordered
his steward to dismiss the presumptuous painter, and employ a
humbler brother of the brush. This was accordingly dens; but
when the painter saw the spirited works of his prolsonesse, be
shook his head, and retiring said, " No man in England ma ass.'
pets with James Seymour." The Duke now condesomded to recalll
his discarded cousin. "My Lord," was the answer of &pawn,
" I can now prove to the world that lam 0f,.., blaml....lorms' I Nee.
—.Family Lib ; Lives of British Paster, mod Seriplees, Vol. 111.
GELATINE Biscuivs.—The French
metzezdition
against Algiers, is provided with 200,000 of this new which
have bass prepared under the care of M. D'Areet, the inventor.
On disembarkation, every soldier is to receive ten of these biscuits,
which we aqua to five rations, and form a nutritive as well as
pleasant food. D'Arcet makes use of every part of the bullock in
the manufacture of this article ; the meat is converted into three
kinds, Maui& au builiion,—biscuite d is ffbrise,--and grains,
well seasoned. The bones after they have been deprived of all their
nutritive matter, and reduced into a MID calcareous state, constitute
the only residue. The provisioning of a a bole army is, by this
excellent method, placed beyond the hazards of war, and render. d
esey and less costly of transport, than any other portion of its
composition, whether animate or inanimate.
IBET.—At Kit-sioo-soo, and the region occupied
by the thirty-nine clans, early last spring an immense quan.
thy of snow fell, and smothered the cattle of the shephetd.—
The natives, who are under the immediate coot/out of Thibet under
their liege bind the emperor of China, suffered meetly ; and also she
fung.koo Tartar soldiers who cultivate lands in that neighbour.
hoed. His Imperial majesty has, therefore, remitted the value of
supplied annually as tribute, viz. 30,000 tolls, wad In addl.,
don has sent officers to distribute certain monies subscribed by men.
Chants. The silk, and tea, sod cloth, usually mimed upon these
foreign clans, as a return for their tribute, is, as usual, to be given
them, notwithstanding there is no tribute forthcoming this yea.
Canton Register.
PEKING GAZETTE.—As this paper contains only
what is either sent to, or comes from the Emperor, one is often sun.
prised at the trivial things which are admitted into it. Appoint.
ments in all the departments of government of comae are inserted,
as in the government gazettes in other countries. But there are
often references made to the emperor by governors of •provinces,
which seem more fitted for a police magistrate then farewell digni-
tes.ching, the imperial eonweiwa--

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tied personages. Nayett.ching, the Impala commissioner, ;rho .
S. John Quin was charged with attempting to stab his wife with si has been so long and actively engaged in arranging*, affairs of the
knife. The prisoner having nothing to offer in in his defence, was llahomedan cities of Cashpr, Kowa, lea is now governor el the
province of Chlh.le. He has addressed a long letter to -the emperor
have taken place since ordered to find bail, for want of which he was locked up.
tailors, rho have held Toww•Hat.t...--Theaser Carter was charged on a warrant by about an inferior military officer who married a prostitute. This
pointed for melanin, Henry Tabspetly, an old man upon _crutches, with wounding him on her woman about agambling
he Flints, as the doable the head with an iron bar. The prisoner lodged with the proem. lady got into a squabble with tome other
debt. and the officer chastised the oginding party. This is a sped.
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fled with putting their tor, and as his custom, came home very late in a Mate of intoxicit. oleo ii,
_.,_.t. many of the Palsers.,., whirl' at Mk" "pet* in the rattle of
mole contented and un- don. The prosecutor, who got up to let him in, remonstrated with tbeeesestsai ritilire''''."l".
e purpose of beating. he him, when the other seized a pair of tongs, and afterwards an Iran MORTAL
ess either for the double bar, and with the latter kwelkd the prosecutor by a blow upon the on the surface of the known habitable globe is estimated at
I they general) ime choose temple that stunned him, and from which be was recovered only by 883.300,000 souls. If we reckon, with the ancients, that a genera.
ses of Call. T tailors copious bleeding. The smarms's statentint was pat in, and t don lasts 80 years, then in that space the above number of human
I untailordike manner prisoner held to bail. beings will be born and die; consequently 81,700 must die every•
id the Duns, as if the rt.
• RAWLS Pomor.-.-Yesteeday, Riellmwd KM** and Sr u ay, 8470,every hour, or about 36 every minute
line their rainilies fir" 3 Weft charged with stealialia boat, value SRI. Mr. Barnes, lighter POLYONOMOUs PERSON AG E.-1110.1 Voting Queen of.
.__ . man, said the boat was It property. The Magistrates sentenced Portugal, Donna Maria da Gloria, is so called from an appellation
ht before the borer them to three months' imprisonment and lard labour at Brixton as under which the Virgin is worshipped in Brazil, as the patroness .
hild.birth. The Now Samna do Work, is the Juno Lunn of
It'llegultsPw•roontith haoflllingPubernbite. rePtited thievesCapfaitsdert Brown Norrsoorlliy, of the ship John, was the Bea:Maas ; and the late Emmett, in gratitude for successful.
charged with the commission of the following outrage. On Mots prayers, devoted her first-born to her. Her entire nomenclature is
tied.,_ths,scen,! as TIMSI day evening the ship was being towed up the river by the Brockle• Donne Maria da Gloria, Joanna. Carlotta, Leopoldina da Crus,
cold. be
bank steamemand several watermenfastened their boats to the a rancisca Xavier da Paula, Isidore, Michatio. GAM% Raphael.tiles. W hen they la- of the vessel, according to the custom on the Thames. Off Blacker wimp.
persons standing urn he ordered the watermen to let go; they were rather slow in obey. 1
11l engaged. The mesa ing this order, when the Captain called for powder and shot, and BIRTHS.
, era,well as Psets7allllll7 musket. Thee cabin boy did not bring them, en which the de The 13th inst. the lady of G. Gregory, Esq. of nones.oireet. de
with an intrepidity this fendant flew into a violent passion, and hurled several large st daughter—. The 11th inst. at Biniliurst, Croydon. the lady oft.
o. they had so mocugon: et the watersnen One he threw at Robert Apes, a young water ieut..Col. J. Tod, of a cos.—The 14th ins'. in Hunter.res,!
„„.I.nt 'work ,f"eseh hail man which struck btu on the forehead, and inflicted a dangerous Brunawiek.equare, the lady of H. J. &Silva, En. of a daughter. '
"`"' nne., "' them nail a wound. His hand was cut open, and the blood spouted forth. H
mere` wow% that fell over the side of the boat, exclaiming "0, Goo. I tan a dead MARRIED.
td, and *ache might be man," but was dd'in by Wm. Valiance. who was in his am The lith iatt—at St. George's. Honorer- care. Lord Edwatd.
)1011. tetired asinisaddi, petw . and he remained foe some time apparently dead, bleeding Thyme. son of the Alarqua of Bath. to 'Elisabeth, eldest. daughter.
then the •e°lll°llo tolaely. He has never spoken since. A eertifisate from
he l'i of W. bleb", it+ of W°"dfesli, E"rx--Tite 1" ins'. at Si-
re the constables • des sod, Hl
ot the Surrey Dispensary, sensed that the George" Blooms WV, Mr. W. 8. Burn, to Mary, daughter of.
Itendedoad hikes tot me 6lr. .I. Field. nt limed..
woo in lima danger, and ,zooid oot be removed.
...I_3"intaineignill.,._ itlavelYo Mr. DALLaweltra wild if the man died, he ahsaid commit WED.
'•••••• .• s* night, de primmer fm wilful wader. 'head kaat.at ihatads, J•eagailbsil• rfalia.o.llanwth, ft.,
ties. sad meat to ' . arimeetromeitow al hilliiiient los the swag az Dumbarton...4h, arn
ire buil far may all
ffolivallintor &Song ELovinver.—Ou Thursday last mfg of .tba Ural inter iiitidalaara•-aor DoOlilfe 0. Whitman. EA. aged IL-
'AWN* Inowallar.a.linserina Wm% L. W. Waott, Esq. low at
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