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and some s ery good land, and he would make a very fair re-
port of the result. His lordship had no doubt that his noble
friends, Earl Spencer and Earl Ducie, would try it also, and
then all could make report," In our own neighbourhood,
William Miles, Esq., and Captain Scobell, are about to try
it ; therefore, ere the lapse of another year, we shall be put
in possession of the results of the various experiments,
which, if they should prove favourable (and at present we
see no reason to doubt it), will confer incalculable benefits
upon the agriculture of this country ; so that, in the lan-
guage of Mr. Miles, " England will not only grow wheat
sufficient for its own population, but will become an export-
ing country."—Bristol Mirror.
A ROMANTIC STORY.—A. Bayonne journal gives the fol-
lowing romantic tale from the Aldudes :—" In the valley of
the Bastan lived two brothers on the most affectionate
terms, occupying the cottage, and enjoying the small pro-
perty left them by their parents, in common. Ramon, the
eldest, was a robust man, cultivating the land, leading the
cattle to pasture, and seldom returning home without game
of his own killing. Many a wolf fell from the bullets of his
gun, or his iron-shod staff. Antonio, the younger, was less
in size and strength, amiable, contenting himself with per-
forming domestic duties, even•works of the needle, consult-
ing in all things the tastes and comforts of his more hardy
brother. Antonio had been taught, to read, and thereby was
enabled to amuse Ramon during long winter evenings, while
he was mending his nets and tackle. In a cottage near them
resided a respectable family of Saville, composed of a father,
mother, and three daughters. Mariana, the eldest, acknow-
ledged to be the prettiest girl of the valley, not only managed
the household affairs of her own dwelling, but frequently
aided Antonio with her advice. In time, Antonio became
enamoured of Mariana, and made a confidant of his brother,
who, approving his choice, urged him to declare his love. The
timidity of the youth, however, prevented him from speak-
ing, and he at length was so melancholy from the weight of
his love, that Ramon determined to go and demand Mariana
in marriage for Antonio. The parents raised no objections
to the match, and said they would refer to their daughter.
Days and nights passed away, and no answer was sent, al-
though Mariana continued her accustomed assiduities at the
cottage of the brothers. Antonio at length was so reduced
by this suspense that he took to his bed. On seeing his dis-
tress Ramon threw aside all his Spanish haughtiness, and
went again to his neighbours to require their answer. He
was again referred to Mariana, whom he reproached with
her obdurapy. Thus pressed, Mariana declared that she
loved another, and, hiding her face from shame, avowed
that other to be Ramon I Overwhelmed as by a thunder-
bolt, the unhappy youth, uttering some incoherent expres-
sions, rushed to the bedside of his brother, told in two words
the fatal truth, and dropped lifeless on the floor. Antonio
became frenzied, and has since expired, also raving out the
name of his beloved brother. They have both been interred
in the same grave; and, in three days afterwards, Mariana
died of grief for the loss of Ramon."
SINGULAR DEATH.—A lady arrived in Exeter last Mon-
day week, bringing a female servant,with her. On the day
after her arrival, the latter broke a looking-glass. She be-
came greatly alarmed at the trifling accident, covered the
glass over with a handkerchief, and turned it to the wall that
she might not see it. She expressed her conviction that it
foreboded a life of trouble and misfortune, and could not dis-
miss the subject from her mind. She said " she should never
prosper in the world again." Haunted by this idea, she be-
came sad and dejected, and went to bed on the Wednesday,
two days after the accident, poorly and miserable, retiring
earlier than usual on account of her illness. The next day
she was worse, and her mistress desired her not to get up.
On Friday one of the most experienced of the medical gentle-
men of the city was called in. He found her free from bodily
pain, but suffering under a perfect prostration of strength
and spirits. She continued to sink till twelve o'clock the
next day, when she expired, a victim to the absurd supersti-
tion of the dreadful consequences of breaking a looking-
glass.—Harnpshire Standard.
THE TWEED BANK.—The first meeting of the creditors of
Messrs. W. S. Batson, J. Wilson, and J. Langhorn, part-
ners in the Tweed Bank, Berwick, bankrupts, was held at
the large assembly-room of the King's Arms Inn, in that
town, on Wednesday, for the purpose of receiving proofs of
debts and appointing assignees. The room was crowded to
excess with anxious creditors, from town and country,
throughout the day ; and, after sitting from ten o'clock in
the morning till eight at night receiving proofs of debts, the
commissioners adjourned the meeting until the following
morning, when the business of admitting claims was resumed,
and at its close the assignees were elected. The amount of
proofs admitted on Wednesday and Thursday was very large,
and it was thought that the liabilities of the bank would
amount to nearly £350,000. The deposits prove to he very
heavy indeed, and the note circulation is also considerable.
There are several large debtors to the estate, and as to the
amount of dividend much must, of course, depend upon their
ability to discharge, or satisfactorily compound, their obliga-
tions. It is believed, however, that the assets are considera-
ble, and that they will be divided with all practicable de-
spatch.—Scotch paper.

MURDER OF THE BOY THOMAS MAGUIRE.—Since the
holding of the inquest on the remains of the above ill-fated
child the county coroner, Mr. James M`Carthy, M.D., has
been indefatigable in attending to every information calcu-
lated to throw any light that might possibly lead to 'the dis-
covery of the perpetrator of the atrocious murder. Ad-
ditional depositions to those given on the inquest have from
day to day been received by him in his magisterial capacity.
Some portion of this goes strongly in corroboration of the
former evidence, establishing the fact of the boy having been
seen with the prisoner Delahunt, shortly prior to the dis-
covery of the body in the lane off Pembroke-road : while
other portions of these subsequent informations refer to
different points bearing on the case. We select the follow-
ing:—James Maguire, a market boy, living at 4, Cherry-lane,
Great Britain-street, was, in consequence of a statement
made by him to the coroner, sent on Thursday to Kilmain-
barn prison, where, amongst seven or eight other persons, he
he at once identified the prisoner John Delahunt, and whom
he deposed to having seen, on the afternoon of Monday last,
at half-past five o'clock, enter Mr. Drake's public-house, in
Capel-street, with a boy, answering generally to the des-
cription of the deceased Thomas Maguire, whose body he had
viewed Also on Thursday at the irishtown police station-
house. Soon after entering the public-house Delahunt went
out, leaving the boy behind him ; he returned in about a
quarter of an hour, and, without mentioning any name, desired
the child to come away; the little fellow did so, and they left
the place. It appeared that a boy named Butler, living in Plan-
ket-st., had stated that on Monday he saw a man go up to the
deceased, who was at the time at play with other children in
Francis-street, and call him by his name, Thomas Maguire,
telling him to go with him, which the other did. An infor-
mation was sworn by Thomas Gavan, aged 10 years, from
which it appeared that while he and two other boys, named
Michael Harney and John Hand, were at play in the field
described at the inquest as adjoining the lane off Pembroke-
road, in which the murder had been committed, he found,
within a few yards of the wall bounding the lane, a knife.
The knife was produced. It appeared to be an ordinary
breakfast knife, having a white haft, the blade rather consi-
derably worn, and narrowed very much towards the point,
but the edge not particularly sharp. Some parts of the blade
bore marks strongly resembling blood stains. There was
further evidence besides that adduced before the coroner
in the first instance, showing that the deceased had been seen
late in the afternoon of Monday, in company with Delahunt,
in the neighbourhood of Baggot-street. A person named
James Mooney, resident in Eastmorland-street, deposed, on
instant,
at last, that on Monday evening, the 20th
at about ten minutes to seven o'clock, he saw John Delahunt,
whom he had known by sight for some three or four weeks
previously, walking up and down ina stable lane off. East-
morland-lane. The foregoing comprises the principal of the
facts elicited since Monday last. On Christmas morning
the body of the murdered boy (which bad lain at the Irish-
town police station-house since the view of it by the jury on
Tuesday), was consigned to the grave in St. Kevin's Church-
yard.—Dublin Freeman's Journal.