Star.
London, England, 1829-08-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

lits—l noticed in your Paper of Monday last, under the heal
of 0 Trareilisse Is Paris," what you were pleased to term a correa
Eat of the public vehicles of that city, amounting in the whole to
no
less than 6,101, exclusive of about 600 which run in the environs,
I know not from whence you derived this information—from the

lending Annual, for aught I know ;—but do you believe it to be
true? There are not more than 1,100 hackney coaches, and I be.
Ueve about 150 cabs, plying about London, and only 421 short stages.
Can there, then, be such a disproportion between the number of
conveyances in the two places? I heard an English country
bumpkin—who for once in his life had been in London—very
gravely assure his gaping neighbours that there were upwards of
100,000 waggons and carts daily moving about this metropolis;
nay, that he bad actually aux with his own eyes the number
109,000 and odd I—Y ou may also every day see coaches (short
stages) running to and fro about London with numbers as high as
4,000 and upwards. Now, I imagine that the contributor of your
correct list of the public vehicles of Paris is some such sort of
statist as the countryman with one hundred and sum iiioustand
waggons; at all events, no person with two ideas, who knows the
two places—London and Paris—but must instantly perceive that
your correct list is a gross exaggeration.
The following account of the number of short stage coaches
standing in the streets of the city of London, and of the daily num-
ber of jwurnies performed by them—printed by order of the Police
Committee of Aldermen, pn the 7th of December, 1112.5--inasasuch

as fts accuracy may be relied on, will, I think, be more

erving of
lof Paris.

attention than the exaggerated account of the public

'Journies.

The Bank..
Bishopsgate-street
St. Paul's Church-yard.
Leadenhall Market....
Leadenhall-street ..
Holbona.
North side Royal Exchange
South ditto
Fleet-street . ..
Fleet Market
Moorgate

Total
I am, Sir, yours obediently,

421 1 1,194
J. R.

CURIOUS CASE OF SOCIAL INCUBATION.

It is a fact well known to the Ornithologist, that the
male and female of many different species of Birds alternately
relieve each other on the nest during the progress of incubation :
but we believe an instance similar to the following, with birds of
a different species, to be of very rare occurrence, either in the wild
or domesticated state t A Lady, in the neighbourhood of Ball's
Pond, who retains the antiquated virtue (exploded by all modern
fine Ladies) of superintending the breeding and rearing of domestic
poultry, about three months ago set a turkey hen and a common
ben of the game species in one of the outbuildings, each upon a cer-
tain number of her own eggs. The nests of the two birds were
placed at a considerable distance from each other, and were sepa.
rated by a boarding upwards of two feet high : nevertheless, the
turkey, by some means, contrived to remove all the eggs from the
nest of the common heti, and deposited them in her own. During
the whole of the day, after this act of robbery was committed by
the turkey, the common hen manifested the greatest impatience
and dissatisfaction at so strong a development of the bump of an-
peepriariseness in the bead of the turkey; and although she ap-
peared inconsolable at being deprived of all hope of a future
progeny, she did not seem disposed to submit calmly to the act
of spoliation, but Went repeatedly up to the nest of the plunderer
In a threatening attitude, and boldly challenged her to battle.
—The turkey, however,' evinced no pugnacious disposition to
meet the assailant in the open field, but kept fast to her nest, and
evidently manifested an inclination to enter into treaty; and
a'though we have nut metaphysical acumen enough to explain the
nature of the association of ideas, or the mode of their communi-
cation between the belligerents, the pacific intentions of the turkey
eventually prevailed, and a perfect reconciliation was the conse-
quence : for next morning the two were found seated in the same
nest. with the head of the common hen projecting from under the
wing of the turkey, which appeared to be spread Gut with the
greatest complacency for its accommodation. In this manner the
two went on harmoniously together, evincing the strongest solici-
tude to promote each other's comfort ; and when the one left the
nest for a few minutes to feed, the other remained in its place
until it returned, when they invariably resumed the same position.
As it is well known that the eggs of the turkey require about nine
days longer to complete the process of incubation than those of
the common hen, a good deal of curiosity was excited to see the
effect produced by the appearance of the young brood of chickens,
and if any dispute or disagreement would arise in claiming pro-
pinquity. When that event occurred, however, the common hen
walked away with her own brood in the usual manner, leaving the
turkey on the nest to complete the incubation of her's without the
least disturbance, which she afterwards accomplAed ; and they
together superintended the education of their respective families,

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little mogul/ion of each other as they were unconscious of the
nature of the geometrical ratios of dlr. Nlatnics, or the evih of
a redundant population. M.

In the City it is still believed,---or rather hoped for---
that the English, French, Prussian, and Aust in Ambas-
sadors will interfere, and prevent the destruction of Con-
stantinople.
Mr. Owr.x, of Lanark, arrived by the Pacific, at Li-
verpool, at four o'clock on Thursday evening from New York. lie
says the Americans are not capable of governing themselves, and
he consequently abandons aU idea of reforming them.
That distinguished young Nobleman the Marquis of
Asiacoas, has recently returned to town from visiting, for the
finttifne, his extensive estates in Ireland. The reception his Lord-
ship met with from his numerous tenantry was the most flattering.
The Earl of Coax has subscribed 1001., Viscount
Dom AAAAA 20/., and the Viscountess Duva AAAAA 101., towards
the erection of the intended Hospital in Cork.
Mr. arm AY CAVE, M.P. is attending the Clonniel
Anises.

Among our most distinguished arrivals for the benefit
of the here, we observe the name of Sir Asnrr Comma,
who is now residing at the Plough Hotel, where on Wednesday he
invited the faculty of Cheltenham to a sumptuous dinuer.—Chef-
instamos Ckronicle.

From Dieppe we learn that the Duchess of BERRI.
who is fond of antiquarian researches, has been present, with ber
suite, at the opening of some antique barrows in that neighbourhood,
when several remains of Gallo-Roman pottery were discovered.
The Duke of RicilmoND arrived in town yesterday
afternoon from Rghani.
The Earl of ABERDEEN has given up his residence,
Grove House, Tunbridge Wells, the pressure of °litchi duties at
the present time requiring his presence town.
Mademoiselle SONTAG is at present at Dieppe for the
benelt of sea-bathing. She returns to Paris at the end of the month
to repeat her favourite performances in “ the Semiraniide," the
Donna di Lego," the " Barblere di Siviglia," &c. She then
leaves France for Berlin, where she is engaged as fret slitter in the
Chapel Royal of the King of Pawns..
It is with satisfaction we observe the gradual introduc-
tion of Sawn and C.o.'s Patent Metallic Shutters fee Shop froota
—an invention requiring only to be known to be fully appreciated.
Independent of the great security afforded, their convenience alone
Is Whim to ensure their general adoption ; and, in a short period.
we feel convinced that few shops will be without them. Indeed,
the press* niods of carrying out heavy wooden gotten and iron
bars, to the great danger of passengers, is a public nuisance, and
ought to arrest the attention of the public authorities, when k can
be so easily avoided by the present invention.