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ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF METTERNICH.—In one of
the great battles of the fifteenth century, the emperor of
Germany saw an entire regiment take to flight with the
exception of one man, who stood his ground and defended
himself gallantly, till he fell covered with wounds. The
emperor enquired his name. It was Metter. That night
at supper the emperor said, talking of the regiment in
question—" They all fled, but Me ter nicht." Every
body knows that " nicht" is the German for not. The
family adopted the additional syllable, and hence the ori-
gin of the name of Metternich.—Dumas, in Blackwood.
PAYNISED WOODEN RAILWAYS.—SeveraI experiments
bave been made with the process to test its applicability
not only for railway sleepers, but actually as a substitute
for iron rails. A wooden tramway was laid down near
Vauxhall, on which 9,000 miles were travelled, equal in
traffic, it was calculated, to a year of a great lane, without
any perceptible deterioration of the machinery; without
even the obliteration of the saw marks on the beams; and
1000 miles of this traffic were performed with 30 cwt. of
tbis fuel, costing ahout 405., being less than one halfpenny
per mile. It is to be observed, that the surface resistance
of unprepared wood is about 50 per cent. greater than that
of iron On prrpared wood the result is the reverse of
this, at the same time that the granulated surface offers a
bite to the wheels which enables the eneines to mount in-
clinations impossible upon an iron railway. The process
is also extensively used at present on the viaduct now
soaking under the direction of Mr. Cubitt, the engineer,
on the Dover line, between the Bricklayer's Arms and
New Cross, two miles in length. The London and Guild-
ford Junction line is to be entirely laid with Paynized
timber rails, as well as sleepers. The chain pier at Brigh-
ton, we may also observe, has recently undergone exten-
sive repairs by wocd submitted to this process.—Poly.
technic Magazine.

THE WALTZ, GALLOPADE, AND POLKA.—Though
ladies are always more graceful than men,‘l must here
warn them against the modern style of waltzing, which is
the reverse of graceful, being little more than a mere
romping twirl, intended only, as far as I can perceive, to
make part'es giddy. The old waltz, sometimes called the
Spanish waltz, was a very graceful dance; but its char-
acter is changed, and there is nothing either graceful or
pleasing in seeing gentlemen pulling and hauling their
partners on, seeing the pretty pairs spinning round and
round, jostling against each other, to say nothing of an
occasional tumble, till the few who can keep time and step
feel their heads going, and till ladies are forced to lean,
panting, and with flushed cheeks and heaving breasts,
against the very walls of the room for support. Gallo-
pades and polkas are worse still, for few, very few gentle-
men can dance them, and with any but an actual opera
dancer this exhibition is ungraceful in the er tretne. The
gallop and polka step, in which gentlemen w th legs wide
astride push their fair partners along, is absolutely dis-
gusting; and I will hold no mother guiltless who after
this public warning shall allow her daughter to join so
brutal a display. In an ordinary way, young ladies may
depend on obtaining easy forgiveness for a few trifling
follies when committed in a cheerful and good-humoured
mood, but let them beware of any thing that is coarsely
ungrateful. No pretty girl, no young lady indeed, whe-
ther pretty or not, should ever, if she values true and
gallant admiration, allow herself to be assec'ated with the
recollection of anything that is markedly ungrateful,
however harmless in itself, and should never therefore
dance modern waltzes, polkas, or gall( pades.—Frazer.
MANUFACTURES OF BEvuoor.—Th-! only shops con-
taining native manufacture somewhat writ thy of note are
those of the silk-mercers. After having seen the coarse
zaachinery in use, one can scarcely conceive how such
beautiful textures can be produced by such clumsy means.
Formerly these silks were more or des employed in the
dress of all classes of the population, hut latterly they have
been areatly supplanted by the cheaper cotton goods of
Manchester. Still the rich gold and silver brocades, ma-
nufactured in Beyroot and its vicinity, are in much de-
mand among the wealthy Syrians as the chief material for
their gala dresses. Caftans made of this gorgeous mate-
rial have a most brilliant effect. The silk sashes of Bey-
coot are also much esteemed, and are exported to different
parts of the East. They are often ten ells long, and an
ell and a half wide ; and, though made of heavy silk, are
yet so fine and elastic that they may be compressed into a
bulk scarcely more than can he covered with both hands.
Worn round the waist, in a band varying from four to five
inches to a foot in width, according to the taste of the
wearer, they are a very useful and agreeable article of
dress, from the support they afford the loins in these
warm, enervating climates. It is rather an amusing thing
to see a gentleman rolling himself up into his sash, like a
great overgrown silkworm wrapping itself up in its cocoon.
Me fattens one end to a door, a post, or a bush ; then
walking out to the full length of the sash, he adjusts its
width, arranges its folds, and turns round and round, with
great deliberation, till the nice operation is completed to
his satisfaction. The part of the dress above the girdle
serves, as it has always done from time immemorial, for
stowing away all kinds of things; handkerchiefs, when
people have any, bread, fruit, &c., nothing comes amiss.
As the receptacle goes all round the body, it is equal to
three or four of those large pockets our great grandmo-
thers used to wear.—Library of Travel.
THE MONSTER MISERY OF LITERATURE.—As regards
the state of literature, take out your pencils, (you all carry
pencils, to calculate either the long odds or the odds on
'Change,) and make out a list of the works published dur-
ing- the last five years, likely to be known, even by name,
a hundred years hence ! It is some comfort to feel, that
by eight they cannot be known—that few of them will
survive to disgrace us—that the circulating libraries pos-
sess the one merit of wear and tear for the destruction of
their filthy generation, like Saturn of old ; for it would
grieve us to think of even the trunks of the two thousandth
century with being lined with what lines the brains of our
contemporaries. So that in the year of grace two thou-
sand and forty-four, we shall have the Lady Blarney of
Kilburn-square (the Grosvenor-square of that epoch,) en-
quiring of the Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Skeggs of Croy-
don Place (the Belgium Square)—" My dear soul, what
could those poor people do to amuse themselves? They
bad positively no books! After Scott's time till the mid-
dle of the nineteenth century not a single novelist; after
the death of Byron, not a poet ! I believe there was an
historian of the name of Hallam, not much heard of; and
the other day, at a book-stall, I picked up an odd volume
of an odd writer named Carlyle. But it is really curious
to consider how utterly the belles-let:res were in abey-
ance." To which, of course, Miss C. W. A. S.—even
Dr. Pannrge could not get through the whole name again !)
—" My dear love, they had Blackwood's Magazine,
which, like the Koran after the burning of the Alexan-
drian library, supplied the place of ten millions of vo-
lumes!" But, alas, some Burchell may be sitting by, to
exclaim " Fudge !" Some groper into archives will bring
forth one of those never-to-be-sufficiently-abominated
catalogues of Bond and other streets, showing that, on a
moderate calculation, twenty books were published per
diem, which, at the end of three months, possessed the
value of so many bushels of oyster-shells'l And then,
pray what will you have to say for yourselves, 0, public I
from your tombs in Westminster Abbey, or your cata-
combs at Kensal Green ? Which among you will dare
come forward, with blue lights in his hand and
accompa-
nied by a trombone, like the ghost of Ninus in Sra
snide, and say—“
We warned these people to write F.:-
immortality. We told them it was their duty to
stickoi in
r
3 few oaks for posterity, as well as their Canada
and Scotch firs. It was not our fault that they chose to
row nothing butunder7ood: It was the fault of the
circulating libraries, which, instead of allowing the milk
of human genius to set for cream, diluted it with malice
prepense, and drenched us with milk and water even to
loathing !"—Blackwood's Magazine.

PRICE OF AN AUTOGRAPH.—M. de Metternich it ap-
pears, is a great collector of autographs, and of course his
position has facilitated the gratification of this taste. Ilis
collection is rich in royal, imperial and princely lvtters ;
nor is there any lack of odes from German poets. and
sonnets from Italian improv;satori. One day, however,
it occurred to him that now the public press had become
a cower in many countries', he ought to have the autographs
of a few journalists, in order to complete his collection;
and as in Italy and Germany, thanks to the cens')rship,
there are plenty of journals -but no journalist•, he was
obliged to send to Fr ince. Amongst others, M. Jules
Jannin, (one of the edi'ors of the Journal des Debats)
received a most polite request for an autograph from the
rival of M. de Tallevrand. Janin immediately took up
his pen and wrote as follows—" Received from his excel-
lency Prince Metternich, twenty-four bottles of Johan-
nisberg, first quality.—Paris, 13th May 1838."—Black-
wood.

DEPTHS OF THE MOST 'REMARKABLE ARTESIAN

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WELLS EXECUTED B—Y
THE H AND OF MAN.—The
perforations, by which the Chinese obtain salt water have
been already mentioned ; they are 1800 feet deep : but as
the water does not of itself appear, they are scarcely Ar-
tesian. The seventh bed of water at St. Nicholas d'Alier-
mont, already mentioned, is 1025 below the surface. As
coals, not water was the object of search, the works were
abandoned, but the Artesan well remained. A hole re-
cently boared at Geneva, did not reach water at 682 feet.
At Sursene, near Paris, a hole 663 feet deep has been
pierced; but no water flows: as the chalk-bed is nearly
penetrated, it is to be regretted that the works are not
continued : it is on Mr. Rothschild's property. The
fountain at Cheswick belonging to the Duke of North-
umberland, is 582 feet deep. The deepest fountain of the
Pas-de-Calais, is 461 feet. T ,ere is a well at Tours 259
feet deep; and one at the silk manufactory of the Cham-
poiseau, 273 feet.—Polytechnic Magazine.
THE RHINE.—" On the Rhine, I am never more than
twenty years old !" says the Countess Ida Hahn Hahn, in
her Erinnerungen. " There only do I feel myself quite
at home. Whether arriving from the Baltic or the Qua-
dalquivir, I have always a recurrence of the same name-
less home-feeling, which renders me at once happy and
tranquil. 0, the Rhine! the Rhine! What are other
rivers—your Seine, and Garonne, and Tagus—compared
with him ? But small and second:lly streams beside the
mighty Rhine. There are certain rivers which represent
nations, and ideas, and periods of history—the Scamander
for instance, bringing t our thoughts the days of Grecian
heroism ; when men fought with gods, and in so doing
seemed to wrest from them a portion of their supernatural
strength and beauty—the Nile, the priestly Nile, myste-
rious as a dogma, but rich in blessings as the agency of a
divine spirit; concealed in its source, but manifest in its
operation—then the Jordan, the s! ream of revelation, on
whose banks is heard the rushinc, of the wings of the dove,
while a voice, other than that of man, murmurs over the

waters—and the Tiber, a small and muddy stream, but
the gigantic and sparkling reflex of Rome's immortal
turrets. But the Rhine, that heroic river, which nations
never cross without buckling on their armour for the
fight; and yet, on whose banks life is so free, so safe, and
so delightful. H ark to the clatter of wine-cups, the echoes
of music, the whispered legends, and the clash of wea-
pons ! while the old river flows on so cheerily, murmuring
as he goes words of encouragement to his children. I em-
brace thee, 0 Rhine ! and wherever I go I will not cease
to love thee. * * * * When I pass in review all the
beautiful scenes 1 have visited, and then ask myself the
question, Where I would fain see the sun set for the last
time the answer is unhesitating and heartfelt, and inva-
riably the same—

' Behind Stobzenfels, on the Rhine.'"
—Blackwood's Magazine.
THE INDIAN ARrly.—lt bas been contended of late

years, by some public writers, that we hold India entirely
by the force of opinion ; that is to say, that we are per-
mitted to rule simply because the principles of justice and
equity, and the respect for the religious usages of thou-
sands under our sway, are carried out to the fullest extent
compatible with human frailty. On the other hand it has
been argued that our empire is held entirely by the sword ;
and our wars. victories, and their political results, have
been pointed at as evidence i f the soundness of the theory.
Truth lies, in most cases, between extremes, and there
seems little reason to doubt that such is its proper posi-
tion in the present instance. The highest opinion that
might be entertained of our character as governors, would
of itself, we apprehend, avail but little of the retention of
the country against the schemes of disaffected or design-
ing men, if it were not backed by a well-organized, and
judiciously-distributed physical force. If there were no
descendants of the countless chieftains, who once held
possession of the country, eager, upon any pretext SUP-
ported by opportunity, to assert fanciful claims to territory
or to privileges : if there were no frontier foes, whose in-
cursions it were necessary to resist or prevent, as much
for the peace and happiness of the people as for the main-
tenance of Brit'sh supremacy ; there would still be evil
powers within the heart of the empire against whose
machinations the greatest amount of political integrity
could not successfully contend. The Hindoo and the
Mussulman are priest-ridden; and the Hindoo and the
Mussulman are alike avaricious. What elements more
potent than priestcraft and avarice to excite a populace to
rebellion ? while the Zindar's disinclination to pay his
rent ignited the spark of insurrection, on the one hand
there would not be wanting the ambition and the self-in-
terest of the Brahmin, and the savage religious fervour of
the Moollah, to fan the flame, upon the other. The sword,
therefore, is an indispensible agent in the retention of
India ; and it is a happy thing for the populace of that
empire, that the mercy and humanity which distinguish
the administration of a civil government attemper the
steel by which the sedition of the disaffected and the incur-
sion of the foreign foe are chastised.—Stocqueler's Hand-
Book of India.

CLIMATE OF NEW ZEALAND.—New Zealand being
situated within the temperate zone, although nearer to
the equator than Great Britain, possesses, from its pecu-
liar geographical position, especially from its being insu-
lar, and also from the nature of its surface a climate,
so modified as to resemble that of England more nearly
than that of any other country lam acquainted with. It
is moderate in every respect; the range of its tempera-
ture throughout the year and during the day being very
inconsiderable. This is principally owing to the immense
expanse of ocean which surrounds these narrow islands
on all sides, preserving a temperature little varying, arid
moderating alike the cold of the antarct7c regions, and the
beat of the tropics. The continent of Australia,—for as
such we must regard it, is too distant to affect the climate,
which it would undoubtedly do if it were nearer; as New
Zealand would then receive an air heated in its passage
over the vast plains of Australia, which extend far within
the t:opics. In like manner, the southerly winds which
although at all times the coldest, as corning from a polar
terra firma, surrounded by eternal ice, are greatly tem-
pered by the intervening ocean. If instead of tie latter,
a continent extended to within a little distance of New
Zealand, as Europe and Asia do, with re'erence to En-
gland. it would produce all the phenomena of climate in
which we observe England to differ from New Zealand,
such as the greater cold in winter, and during certain
winds. The east coast on which Wellington, Auckland,
and the Bay of Islands are situated is colder than the
western, where the settlements of Nelson and New Ply-
mouth have been fmnded, and where the air is far softer
and milder. I ascertained this by actual comparisons,
and in this respect the western coast must have great ad-
vantages over the eastern. In the inter:or of the islands
the climate is colder, and less changeable, in consequence
of the presence of a snow clad mountain-group, and the
greater distance from the ocean. I found at Taupo, the
acacias of Van Demen's Land, the Ricinus palms Christi,
and potatoes, affected by the frost, a circumstance which
never happens near the coast ; the leaves also of several
trees had become yellow, and deciduous ; the landscape
assumed an autumnal tint, although it can scarcely be
said ever to have had a wintry appearance. At Welling-
ton, on the contrary, and along the whole coast, the natives
plant their potatoes at all seasons of the year, the forest
remains evergreen and the opening of the flower buds is
merely a little retarded during the season of winter, the
presence of which is oily indicated by more frequent
winds and rains.—Dirffenbach's Travels.
BRAVERY OF THE KOORDS.—Though pastors, the
Koords are a people of dauntless bravery ; they are habi-
tuated from their childhood to the use of arms and to feats
of horsemanship. Their breed of horses is small, but
hardy, active, and full of spirit, and superior, perhaps, to
every other breed in surefootedness. A Turkish troop
succeeded, in the year 1837, ii) capturing one of the most
formidable chiefs among the Koords. His age was barely
thirty, his figure was tall and finely shaped ; so handsome
a Koord had never before fallen into the hands of the Os-
manlees. He was led into the presence of Hafiz Pacha,
and, had he been a vizier, he could not have been treated
with more flattering attention by the generalissimo of the
Sultan's forces. Haft Pacha and the cadi of the army
exhausted all the arts of persuasion to induce their pri-
soner to give them information respecting the movements
and resources of the Koords ; and the seraskier even went
so far as to promise, that, if he replied frankly to his
questions, he would make him colonels of one of his regi-
ments. " You are mistaken, Pasha," replied the captive
Koord, " if you think to find in me another Revendouz
Bey. Having once been a chief of the Koords, I will
never be the chief of anyother people; were I at the head
of one of your regiments, the first thing I should do would
be to turn my arms against you ; and, Allah knows, I am
no traitor. As for the disclosures you expect from me,
you shall never receive them : fate has thrown me into
your hands ; do with me whatever you will." Despairing
fair means, Hafiz Pacha had
sentencing the prisoner
of re-
courseeffecttoi
to receive five hundred bastinadoes on the soles of his
gtoarntuyrteh.inglibey began by
feet. As the stouthearted Koord lay on the grouud, with
his heels in the air, which the executioners were beating
to a jelly, he coolly asked for a pipe ; it was brought to
him, and, raising his'head on his hand, he began to smoke
with perfect composure.
Amazement seized the two ex-
ecutioners at the sight of such unparalleled fortitude, and
for awhile they forgot to strike. But the horrible punish-
ment was renewed, and repeated on two successive days.
On the third day the invincible Koord was stripped naked
and placed in a cauldron of water, under which a fire was
lighted. The same questions were reiterated to hirn • but
not a word passed his lips. " You do not answer, said
Hdfiz Pacha: "do you not hear me ?" The Koord raiseda
his head, and, looking sternly round on his foes,closed , said
calmly, d
calmly, " Allah be thanked, my ears are not
my tongue is dumb to your questions." to.rture,
more severe can we think of to make the fellow speak
said the cadi, to the seraskier. An expression of fierce
disdain lighted up the sufferer's features at these words.
" No torture," he exclaimed, pointing to a man opposite
to him. " no torture could be more horrible to me than to
see there, before my eves, a dastard Koord, who has de-
serted h's brethren, to consort with our foes !" The
Koord thus addressed, struck with sudden remorse,
snatched a pistol from his girdle, put the puzzle in his
mouth, and blew out his brains. The unfortunate chief
expired soon after in the boiling water.—Library of
Travel.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The duty on wool will cease the moment the act of par-
liament comes into operation.
It is slated in Herapalh's Railway Magazine that an
invention is about being tried to make boats go on canals
at some thirty miles an hour.
The appointment of Sir Henry Hai dinge to the Gover-
nor-tleneralship of India has caused a vacancy for the
borough of Launceston.
A woman named Amelia Ogden, is in custody at Ashton,
charged with cutting her son's throat, and attempting to
murder her hush intl. She is supposed to be insane.
Friday, the 24th instant will be the aniversary of her
majesty's birthday, when the sovereign will complete her
25th year.
On Wednesday last nnless than 2,310 gallons of spirits,
which were going to be rectified at a hif,her strength than
the law allows, were seized at Messrs. Smith's distillery,
in London.

THE LATE MURDERS NEAR TAUNTON.—A subscrip-
tion having be-n raised to send Mary and Faith Sealy out
of the country, they have proceeded to one of our seaports,
whence they will take their departure for Australia.
REPRESENTATION OF PRESTON.—A rumour is preva-
lent in this town that Sir Hesketh Fleetwood. Bart., M.P.
for this borough, intends shortly to resign his seat in Par-
liament.—Preston paper.
A Court of Directors was held at the East India House
on Monday, when Lieut.-General the Right Hon. Sir
Henry
,Hardinge, K.C.8., was appointed unanimously
Governor-General of India.
CARGO OF WINE.—The first cargo of foreign wine
ever imported direct to Preston arrived in our river on
Friday from Oporto, on board the Georgina, for Mr.
Richard Threlfall of this town.—Preston Guardian.

A child, aged five years, was poisoned in London, last
week, by swallowing a small piece of putty which had
been incautiously given to it to play with. A post mor-
tern examination of the body showed clearly that the child
had been poisoned.
LUNAR ECLIPSE.—A total eclipse of the moon will
take place on the last day of the present month, Friday,
the 31st instant. It will commence at 14 minutes after
eight in the evening and end at 26 minutes after one.
This eclipse will be visible.

On Sunday week, the Minister at the Independent
chapel at Long Sutton, Wilts, preached his farewell ser-
mon, in which he informed his wiached congregation
of his intention to obtain ordination in the Church of
England.

The Scotch banks have 340 branches, and the Irish
137, being in the former case one bank to every 7.750
persons, and in the latter one to every 60,000. The
banking capital of Scotland is £l5 per head to the whole
population, and in Ireland £1 18s. 6d. per head.
THE MURDER ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE.—The inquest
on the body of Airs. M'Farlane was continued yesterday
morning week, when a verdict of wilful murder was re-
turned against Augustus Dalmas. The examination of
the latter was resumed on Friday, and continued on Sa-
turday, when it was adjourned 011 to-day (Tuesday).
The expensive establishment of the royal buck-hounds,
which with the salary to the noble master, the Earl of
Rosslyn, £2,000, the chief huntsman, Mr. Davis, and the
wages to whippers-in, feeders, &c., amounting to a con-
siderable item in the civil list, is to he broken up. Prince
Albert will still keep his fine pack of harriers.
SALE AT ROSSALL H ALL.—The sale of Sir P. H. Ft-et-
wood's furniture, books, picturt s. &e., at his Seat, Ros-
sall Hall, near Fleetwood, is advertised to take place the
first week in June. The building has been engaged for a
large school, a prospectus of which appears in our ad-
vertising columns.

UTILITY OF LIFE-BUOYS.--The entire crew and pas-
sengers, upwards of two hundred souls, which were on
board the emigrant ship Amity, when she was wrecked,
during a hurricane on the 3d January, on the reefs of the
Mauritius, were saved by means of two of Carte's life-
buoys, which had been purchased in Liverpool.
Lord Brougham, cho has not presided at any public
meeting at Exeter Hall since 1838, is to take the chair at
the anniversary meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-
Slavery Society, on the 17th instant. Many well-known
and old friends of the cause are likely to be present, and
among the rest Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., has sig-
nified his intention to attend.

The fourth Bristol Tea Sale took place on Wednesday,
when 4000 packages, were offered for competition. In
consequence of the Trade having freely laid in stock a
week or two ago in anticipation of a reduction in the duty,
they were not in a position to support the sale as well as
heretofore. The proportion sold, therefore, was small ;
the prices in most instances were reasonably taxed.

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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Friday last, an extensive fire
took place at the malting-houses of Mr. Garrad, situate
near the Hythe, Colchester. In about three hours nothing
was left standing but the brick walls. Between 3,000 and
4,000 quarters of malt, and 1,303 quarters of barley, be-
sides a considerable quantity of valuable merchandize, was
consumed or rendered useless. The value of the property
destroyed is estimated at about £13,000.
ST. HELENS.—THE COLLIERS. —The strike in this
district may now be considered as completely at an end.
We believe that all the pits have now their fall comple-
ment of hands, and that notwithstanding the transference
of a portion of t e coal trade to Wigan and other p 1 ices,
owing to the strike, St. Helen's is doing quite, if not
rather more than an average amount of business in the
mineral. The general trade of the town is slowly'recover-
ing from the shock which it sustained by the recent strife.
SCANDALOUS CONDUCT.—On the decease of the Rev.
G. W. Onslow, some months back, the Incumbent of
Pyrford, near Ripley, Surrey, the Churchwarden applied
to an Anabai tist preacher of Horsing, a'neighbouring
parish, to officiate on a Sunday in thr parish church of
15yrford, which he actually did. Ile put on the surplice,
went through the usual duty, buried a corpse likewise, but
refused to baptize a child brought by its friends to the
church. Of course Archdeacon Wilberforce will inquire
into the business.—Church Intelligencer.

MISHAP TO BEAUMARIS PIER.—A considerable por-
tion of the outer extremity of the pier now in course of
erection at Beaumaris gave way and sank several feet on
Thursday last, whilst the masons, who observed the
later d movement, were at work. Damage to the amount
of from £5OO to £6OO has, we hear, been done, besides
retarding the opening of the pier, which, it was hoped,
would have taken place at Midsummer. It may be ob-
served that the masonry was so good that the walls have
not given way, and the work has been resumed.—North
Wales Chronicle.

Speculation has been rife as to who shall succeed Sir
Henry Harciinge, the new Governor-General of India, in
the office of Secretary at War. Sir George Clerke, Secre-
tary to the Treasury, and the Hon. Sidney Herbert,
Secretary to the admirality, have been named ; but the
latest on dit is that Mr. Herbert will be appointed to the
office, without a seat in the Cabinet; and that he will be
succeeded as Secretary to the Admirality, by the Hon.
H. T. Lowry Corry, one of the present Lords Commissio-
ners of the Admiralitv, and that Mr. Cardwell, M.P. for
Clitheroe, will probably be called up to take Mr. Corry's
seat at the Board.

TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY.-1000 to 10 agst. Daw-
son's lot (tn.) 5 to 2 against Mr. J. Day's Ugly Buck ; 3
to 1 agst. Mr. Crock ford's Ratan ; 18 to 1 against Mr. A.
Wood's Running Rein ; 25 to 1 against Mr. Scott's Bay
Momus ; 30 to 1 against Sir G. Ileathcote's Campanero
(taken) ; 30 to 1 against Mr. Oborne's Mount Charles
(taken); 30 to 1 against Mr. Bowe's T'Auld Squire
(taken) ; 30 to 1 against Sir G. fleathcotes's Akbar • 40
to 1 against Ongley's King of the Gipsies (taken); 40 to
1 against Mr. Ford's Qui Tarn (taken) ; 1000 to 7 against
Mr. - Nisroch ; 2,000 to 5 against Mr. Bradshaw's
Sir Isaac; 2000 to 12 against Nisroch and Radnor.

DRESSMAKERS AND MILLINERS IN LONDON.—OR
Saturday week last the first annual meeting of the society
for aiding and benefitting the London .Milliners and
Dressmakers, was held at London, Lord Ashley in the
chair. It appeared that since the formation of the asso-
ciation last year £575 had been received in donations and
subscriptions, of which sum £250 had been invested, and
£lOO remained in the treasurer's hands. An effort is to
be made by the society to have the hours of labor con-
fined as nearly within twelve hours per day as possible ;
and they impress upon the fashionables of London the
propriety of allowing more time for the making of their
dresses, and the paying for them when made more punc-
tually than they do.

EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—On Tuesday, Mr. Emidy,
" master of the horse" to Mr. Batty, proprietor of Ast-
ley's theatre, undertook for a wager, laid a few days ago,
to drive 14 pair, or 28 horses, from NiTestminqer road as
far as Greenwich and back in the space of two hours and
a half. Large crowds of persons. attracted by the novelty
of the bet gathered in the neighbourhood. Precisely at
five minutes to one o'clock, two outriders, mounted on
handsome piebald palfreys, started from the theatre.
They were immediately followed by Mr. Emedy, the com-
pany of actors, and the band, in a large van drawn by 28
horses. They set off at first at a steady pace up the York
Road, where, getting beyond the crowd, they increased
their speed, and turned town Waterloo Road, and then
strhight to Greenwich. Mr. Emily appeared to have no
difficulty whatever in the management of the horses, but
held the reins with as much ease and confidence as an om-
nibus driver would his single pair. Not the slightest ac-
accident occurred, with the exception of the breaking of
the traces ; and at twenty minutes past three o'clock, (five
minutes within the allotted time,) the carriage returned to
the theatre.—London Paper.

NOVEL AND EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE FROM A
SHERIFF'S OFFICER —A collier named Cope, who keeps
a public-house at Kidsgrove, having been sued by the
landlord at the Swan Inn, Tunstall, for a debt of £lOO,
was arrested upon a warrant by two bailiffs at a colliery at
Kidsgrove, where he was at work. Cope expressed his
readiness to go with them, asking them to accompany
him to his house. To this they consented ; but on their
way they had to pass the mouth of a coal-pit, when Cope,
seeing that an empty corfe was descending, suddenly
made a spring at the rope, and slipped down into the corfe.
Woolley, one of the bailiffs, though quite inexperienced
in such Pxploit3, made a similar spring at the rope, and
slipped. into the corfe with his prisoner. In this singular
situation they reached the bottom of the pit, when a brief
colloquy took place between the parties as to the propriety
or impropriety of Cope's attempt to escape, Woolley ex-
pressing his d( termination to pursue Cope whatever di-
rection he might take; upon which the latter called to
his brother colliers, who speedily came to his assistance,
and after a severe struggle rescued Cope from the hangs
of the officer. The rescued collier soon made his exit,
and the unfortunate officer was pinioned and kept in close
custody for half an hour, and then allowed to leave the
pit. Cope has not since been heard of. Such are the
circumstances as related to us of this extraordinary inci-
dent.—Stafford Adverti,er.