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of 250 pupils, receives 2,500 guineas annually for deliver-
ing a lecture, which occupies one hour daily for half a
year, the expense of which to him, for dead bodies, &c.,

Cloes.not exceed £4O

For the dissecting room he also

receives six guineas for the season from each pupil, about
150, making 900 guineas. He receives five guineas for
two courses of surgical lectures, about 150 pupils, making
750 guineas. His share of the receipts from pupils for
attending the hospitals is about £1,500, making, in the
whole, not quite £6,000 per annum.
THE JEWS IN THE EAST.—The Jews of Jerusalem do
not follow any trade ; they read and pray night and day,
and are supported by the subscriptions of their brethren
in all parts of the world. Soon after the arrival of the
bishop he instituted daily service ; and great influence
was givenby two physicians who went out with him, who
have attended to the poor Jews, for whom an hospital has
also been established. There is a great movement
amongst the Jews there ; they secretly make inquiries ;
and three rabbis who have embraced Christianity, and
suffered the loss of everything, have been received into
the college, and in a few years will prove the most effici-
ent missionaries in the East.

IGIITING A DUEL.—Napoleon, when he was told that
a cannon ball had killed a sailor who had hid himself in
a cod of rope in the hold of a man-of-war, observed, " A
man can never avoid his fate ;" a fact well illustrated by
the following circumstance :—An Englishman, " brave as
Julius Caesar," challenged a Frenchman to mortal com-
bat. Knowing John Bull to be a dead shot, the French-
man, being the challenged party, and having the choice of
place, time, and weapons, selected night, a large dark
apartment, and pistols. The seconds were to remain out-
side and give the word, after which each was to fire when
he pleased. " Fire !" cried the seconds, when the com-
bats had been locked in, and declared themselves "ready."
But no sound was beard. Johnny Bull could find no
mark for an aim; and his adversary hearing him groping
about the room fired at random. John was safe enough
now ' • and, after searching every corner of the room in
vain for any indication of the whereabouts of his antago-
nist, at length exclaimed, " Come, I'm tired of this fun ;
besides, I'm satisfied ;" and he accordingly groped his
way to the fireplace, and fired up the mouth of the chim-
ney. There was a shriek, and a yell, and down came the
Frenchman, dead as a door nail!—American paper.
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THE FABLED MELODY OF THE DYING SWAN.—The
melody ascribed to the dying swan has long been well
known to exist only in the graceful mythology of the
ancients ; but as few opportunities occur of witnessing
the bird's last moments, some interest attaches to Mr.
Waterton'spersonalobservationsonthispoint,which we can
ourselves corroborate, having not long since been present
at the death of a pet swan, which, like Mr. Waterton's
favourite, had been fed principally by hand ; and, instead
of seeking to conceal itself at the approach of death,
quitted the water, and lay down to die on the lawn be-
fore its owner's door. "He then left the water for good
and all, and sat down on the margin of the pond. He
soon became too weak to support his long neck in an
upright posit'on. Ile nodded, and then tried to recover
himself; and then nodded again, and again held up his
head • till at last, quite enfeebled and worn out, his head
fell gently on the grass, his wings became expanded a
trifle or so, and he died while I was looking on. . . .
Although I gave no credence to the extravagant notion
which antiquity had entertained of melody from the
mouth of the dying swan, still I felt anxious to hear some
plaintive sound or other, some soft inflection of the
voice, which might tend to justify that notion in a small
degree. But I was disappointed He never
even uttered his wonted cry, nor so much as a sound, to
indicate what he felt within."—Blackwood's Magazine.
EQUAL JUSTICE TO IRELAND.—IS it necessary to ask,
under circumstances such as these, what ought to be done
by men who have high principle to maintain, and who have
precious interests at stake? Their course ought to be
sufficiently clear—they should combine—take counsel to-
gether—and unite their strength for the maintenance of
their beleaguered cause. They should open out before the
British, as well as the Irish people—before judges, adver-
saries, friends—what they are—what they complain of—
what they desire ; and they should make known the re-
sources at their command for the enforcement of their
rights. Equal justice should be their cry; and a united
people should raise it. England will soon respond favour-
ably to such a demand. She will see, on the one hand,
large masses impatient of connexion with her, possessed
with a spirit of hatred to her institutions, which conces-
sion cannot conciliate, anti calling out for increased powers
that they may crush fast iriends of hers, or perhaps win
them over from her through disgusts which she has caused
them : on the other hand, she will see a body less ntrne-
rous, but needing only her encouragement to prove that it
is not less powerful—a body which has never yet shrunk
from her in any emergency—which has ever rejoiced in
her triumphs, and sympathised in her distresses ; and she
will hear from this body the simple demand of justice—
the demand, that, as they had relinquished to her great
powers, on a compact that she herself would use them, she
do not hand them over to what they may well call, (from
the manner and because of the principle and spirit in
which it will be exercised,) a foreign jurisdiction. She
will hear them say, let Ireland be governed as a part of
the British empire—a right purchase at a very high price
—and not be regarded as a colony handed over to the
power of Roman Catholic bishops. She will hear them
! ask, that the system of undertakership be altogether aban-
doned ; and this claim, duly and perseveringly urged upon
the attention of the British senate, will be heard and
granted.—Dublin University Magazine.