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NEWSPAVERS IN AusTnA6.k.--Sydney has eight news-
papers, (or eighteen in the Week ; Hobart-Town six, (all
weekly); Latinceston four, (weekl-r).;'; Port Philip ' two,
(weekly); South Australia three, (wealy); and at the Swill,
River two, (weekly); in all Australia twenty-five journals,
or eighty-live distinct publications every neck,,
A strange lesson has just been read to antiquaries and vir-
tuosi by a remarkable discovery in the Brij,ll Museum. The
famous. Portllind 'Vase, toe Oricte'oraficetit :111:1'. Wonder of
modern art—the theme of.inany an k,ss7,y, and many a pane-
gyric, has let in a new light upon the iictile representations of
antiquit). A first we.ll:s ago it was deemed necessary to wash
this noble relic, hi oederto reineWe the' centnulated dust of
ages; when lo ! almost every figure was found to be designa-
ted by an inscription,,an&the -purport and procession of the
whole vase (v,e believe) to be there,by,
,explaiiied., We have
not yet' had an opporttitiity of dnianing this.tuenkirabre re
velarichi., but can .state that the theoaeS of the late:Mr. Payne-
Knight-and-Mr. Christie are utterly overturned by the_facts
niYW"ttktvitiffted. -When We consider how admirably these
theories were nettle out, and how satisfactory they appeared
to be, fleeirwe repeat that this is a strange lesson to anti-
quaries-end Virtuosil—biterary Gazette.
.
INctinsmvENEss:---A .short ttme ago, Sir John Lister
Lister: Kaye, Bart, drove his carriage and four to the Royal
Hotel, at Barnsley. On alighting, and proceeding down in
the direction of the posting stables, a lusty fellow, with a
short piph in his mouth, ran after him, and on arriving within
arm's length, he laid. hold of Sir John by the shoulder, and
turning him round, after puffing out a cloud ,something like
that produced by the discharge of a 74, .he said, " Ha say,
coachman, 03Ze consan iz yond?" Sir John, evidently a
little surprised, but quite in gOod humour, replied, " Its
mine, my man." The Barnsleyonian asked not another
question, but strode off with both 'lands in his breeches
pocket, not a little ashamed of the blunder he had committed.

THE LABOURS OF A JocKEY.—Mr. Lye, the Yorkshire
rider, has during the late season been engaged to ride in no
less than 173 races, and he appears' to have been eminently
successful, having won ti races. Of this number, 29 were
for Lord Eglington (of which 12 were on his favourite horse,
the Potentate), 11 for • the Duke of Cleveland, and the re-
mainder of his winnings were for other owners of race
horses: I-Ie has travelled, in gglig from meeting to meeting,
during the season, upwards of 1,000 Miles. Probably this is
a performance unequalled by any of his brethren of thssturf,
either north or south countrymen. What ho has netted by
these labours is of course unknown, except to himself, but
estimating his engageMents at the- lowest. figure recognised by
the turf, viz.--five guineas for a
.whaning race, and three
guineas for a losing race, his fees would exceed G5O guineas
for one year. The probability, however, is, that they 'are
nearer the sum of 1,000 guineas.
THE GRAZING,BITE.—HINTS AND HOPES FOR AUS-
STRALASIA.—No' savannahs were, found in Australia, be-
cause there were no beeves or buffaloes to graze upon them ;
and the grasses upon the uplands were wiry tufts, few and
far between, because there were no sheep to pasture thei.e.
The kangfiril was the only grazing animal ; and it is not
adapted to tine grasses, either in the structure of its teeth, or
in those of its organ of locomotion. The proper grazing
mouth is that which has eight chisel-shaped cutting teeth in
the under jaw, acting against a cartilaginous . surface of the
upper. These cut the herbage clean, wiehout that pulling up
by the roots which is apt to be'perforined by a mouth of any
other structure. The mouth of the great kangaril also con-
tains eight cutting teeth : but they are very differently
,dis-
persed ; fur there are only two of them in the under jaw,
and there are six in the upper. A mouth of this kind makes
a ragged bite, and cankers the remainder of the vegetable
upon which it feeds ; so that a flock Of kangtirils would :very
soon destroy the grass of a park or meadow. * * * *
The mouths of those pachydermatous animals which are do-
mesticated arc also biting mouths, not grazing ones ; and
therefore their browsing does not improve. the pasture to the
same extent as that of the ox-and the sheep. The cutting
teeth of the horse and the ass are six in each jaw, and the
males have always canine teeth, or tusks ; and the hog genus
have always six cutting teeth in the under jaw, and four or
six in the upper. They have also canines, or tusks, which
are very long and formidable in the male of the wild hog ;
but they are not true teeth. * * We need not 'say that
the feeding of hogs does not in any way conduce to the im-
proven-lent of the pastures upon which they are twined; for,
if they are not ringed to prevent them from rooting, they
oough up the surface, and devour the roots of the plants.
Even the horse, which comes perhaps the nearest to a
grazing animal of all the order to which it belongs, cannot be
said tO be an improver of the surface. Its bite is ragged, and
it is apt to tear up the herbage in tufts ; and, unless it can
get " a long bite," it cannot subsist. The characteristic
grazing mouths are'therefore those of the ox and the sheep,
of which that of the sheep is decidedly the.neatest ; and,
when either the one or the other of these is turned upon
.proper pastures, not in too great numbers, they always im-
prove the
,qnality of that pasture. Sheep, indeed, bite so'
close that they cannot be, with impunity, turned upon some
of the more valuable artificial grasses ; for those grasses have
.crowns or coronal.plates, at or above the surface of the ground,
from which alone vegetation can he made and if those are
nibbled off, or even jagged and torn by the sheep, the plants
grow no more. - Oxen- do not bite either so clean or so close
as sheep, and therefore they require more rank herbage ; but
they can be allowed to paSture upon fields of those plants the
crowns and the vegetation of which would be destroyed by
sheep.—Madie on Domesticated Animals.

THE ELEPHANT.—The Duke of Devonshire kept an ele-
phant at Chiswick, which had learnt to make herself useful in
many acts of labour. At. the voice of her keeper, she came
out of her house, and immediately took up a broom, ready to
perform his bidding in sweeping the baths or the grass. She
would follow him round the enclosure with a pail or a water-
ing-pot, showing her readiness to take that share of labour
which the elephants of the east are so willing to perform.
Her reward was a carrot and some wafer ;'but, • previously to
satisfying her thirst by an ample draught, she would exhibit
her ingenuity in emptying the contents of a soda-water bottle
which was tightly corkel. This she effected in a singularly
adroit manner. ' Pressing the small bottle on the ground
with her enormous foot, so as to hold it at an angle of about
43 degrees, 'she-gt-adually twisted out the cork with her trunk,
although it was a very little above the edge of the neck ;
then, without .altering the position, she turned' her trunk
round the bottle so that she might reverse it, and thus empty
the water.into the extremity of her proboscis. This she ac-
nomplished without' spilling a drop ; and she delivered the
empty bottle to her keeper, before-she attempted to•discharge
the contents of the trunk into the. re.Outh,•-:.She- perfoimed
ambler* trick W•hiett-retinired equal nicety and patieneil'.'
4crypri who was accustomed to ride on her neck like-t4tewia
liciotS, Or .eLphant- drivers of India,- had a ,large. cloth or
housing, which-hesprea.l over-her, when he thus bestrode
bee, in somewhat of oriental ,state. Upon. alighsing,,,whieh
sheullowedhinato .do by kneeling', he desired her to take off
the cloth or honsing, which he spread over her. This she ef-
fected by putting the ransoles,of her loins in acticaa, so that the
shrinking of her :loose
_skina-ave.tuetion.to- the cloth,: and it
gradually wriggled.on.pnessikti4 44011 by its own weight.
The cloth wasilieo,af. -course,/,*;a,illOala.i..bat the elephant.
spreading it carefully anion the grass with her trunk, folded
it up, as a napkin is fotile4, ai!lisiapalrsufliciently compact for
'her -purpose,s,Sbatia-etr sp9l7sed.sstyriaithAer,frunk. bra few
seconds, and,by,.pnejtarkthreW-4xlv-er*Oleart•to :the centre
• of herback; where.
,it„romatine4; aS E.lltatiS as if the burthen
hatpreen adiraste4:l4;44nsan
TIIIVVILLAGE OF ICLXI,qICI, AUSTRALIA.—
All our readers probably -are:As:Sire, that there exists, about
three miles.-Ifortli"Of.,'Adeirfidtt, a German village, named
Klein* ; -but we have reasoni tti think,• that this interesting
little settlement is' not so well' known among uses it deserves
to be. -Klemzig is sititliferNh tbenorthern side of the Tor-
rens,•Mi the estate of Geoc-ge''Fife Angus,' Esq. Like Ade-
laide, it is. sormunded with noble trees, and from many
points 'counuands, near views of our 'magnificent range of
mountains. The river winds past it, and Contains for the
-season a:considerable' depth of 'water. An air of serenity
pervades the-iPof, Which, is exactly such an one as the ima-
gination would pourtray as the retreat of persecuted piety.
The industry and quiet perseverance of the German charac-
ter...have been-. fuhy devehaPed in Klenizig, • Four or. five
months only have elapsed since the hand of man began there
• to. efface the features of the wilderness, yet nearly thirty
houses have already been erected, and good and spacious
houses some of them arc. All are neat, clean, and comfor-
table. They are birilt mostly of pise, or of unburnt bricks
which have been hardened by the sun. The more humble
cottages consist of brushwood and thatch. The sloping
bank of the river is covered with gardens. These consist of
small unfenced plots of-ground, Separated by narrow paths.
Considering that the season most favourable for gardening
has not yet commenced, the number of vegetables which the
Germans have at the present Moment tinder culture affords
strong proof of their industry. Among these are lettuces,
potatoes, cucumbers, French, broad, and scarlet beans, car-
rots,
,turnips, onions, radishes, spinach, brocoli, cabbage,
and green. peas; also rueltms, maize, mangel-wurtzel, mus-
tard and Cress, and few dowers. The inhabitants them-
selves are. not the least interesting subjects for contempla-
tion. The visitor will find_ them, one and all, as busy and
cheerfulas English bees in the spring season. Out of doors
they are Weeding, or watering, or •hoilding, or fishing, milk-
ing, washing, cutting wood, or carrying water. Within
doors the housewife plies har'domeatic toil with equal assi-
duity. She ,is engaged in bread-making, butter-making,
cooking, cleaning, or some such oeeupation. Not a soul is
idle. Even the children, who are too small to work, yet
large enough to learn, will be-sci found, in ordinary school
hours, receiving the tuition of their excellent and indefatiga-
ble pastor. The visitor will be struck with the obliging dis-
positions and courteous manners of the people. The male
peasant raises his hat as he passes you, and bows with an air
equally removed from boorishness and servility. The fe-
male, although perhaps bending 'under a load of wood, has
a smile, and some other expression of respectful courtesy, to
offer the passing stranger. • Even the few natis'es who assist
them in some of their labours appear to have imbibed their
spirit, being retiring and unobtrusive. We do not disparage
our labouring,' fellow-countrymen in Adelaide when we say
that they may learn one or two valuable lessons from our
German brethren in Klemzig. We trust these observatons
will not be thought out of place. We do think our neigh-
bours are entitled to touch consideration from us. Driven
from their native country, betanS'e-they would not yield to
that worst kind of tyranny, which seeks to rivet chains on
nien's minds, and dictate -to them their faith, they came
hither, erected their altar among us, and are now presenting
,us with hanoilel of practical colonisation well worthy of our
iridividual imitation ;--Artstralian Miscellany. •

...HUSPAN D. 'OF A 1.4.1t10.7. Nr.----The second instance
of a married queen. regnant in our history was Queen Anne,
who married George, Prince of Denmark. This sovereign
was married many years before'she came to the throne. Her
husband was,' soon a f..er the marriage, created Duke of Cum-
berlan
d, and• took 'some part 'n politics, as a peer of parlia-
ment, in the 'reign of William 111. Thus we find him, in
1692, among those who entered a protest in the journals of
the house of lords against the rejection of a popular bill of
the time. The first exercise Jif Qeen Anne's power on her
corning to the throne was the nomination of the prince her
husband to the offices of Generalissimo and Lord High Ad-
miral. Being regarded only as a subject, however, he still
continued to occupy a seat in the house of peers, in the qua-
lity of the Duke of Cumberland. in a subsequent period of
the reign, having interfered- in politics, he was threatened
with parliamentary censure by one of the great contending
parties in the-state, which probably would have fallen on him
had he not so soon afterwards died. Prince George had
never, at any time, any pretensions to any character but that
of a subject. In November, 1702, a provision was made fur
his highness, and the yearly sum of £lOO,OOO was settled on
him; in case he should survive the queen. "And this was
• seconded," says Burnet, "by those who knew how accept-
able the motion would be to the queen, though it was double
of what any queen of England ever had in jointure, so that it
passed without opposition." We humbly conceive the con-
stitutional doctrine to be, that, by whatever name the con-
sort of a queen regnant be called, he is only a subject, and
has, as we conceive, no peculiar privileges. lf he be created
a peer of parliament, he would, of course, be privileged as
such, or he may enjoy any rank or any station in the public
. service expressly conferred on him_ by the sovereign ; but,
unless so conferred, he does not appear to have any recog-
nised rights by the common law, such as the queen consort
has, for instance. The present King of Belgium, on his
marriage with.the Princess Charlotte, may be considered as
standing in nearly the same situation as the consort of a
queen. We believe be declined a peerage, and merely took
the rank in the table of precedency and in the army expressly
conferred on him. .We conceive, therefore, that we have
now shewn the correct rule to be, that the husband of a queen
regnant of England, by whatever name he be called, king or
prince, is a subject; that no allegiance is due to him; that
no treason, without au express act of parliament for that
purpose, can be committed towards him ; and that, as it
would seem, he has no acknowledged rank or privileges but
what are expressly conferred on bim.—Legal Observer.

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