Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-03-29

Erft"ordinay Printing Press. The London
Times is now printed on press, which, in con-
sequence Of improvements made by tho ori@ina
inventor, throws oil (om thousand Impressions
~ an hour. The following is the language o!
| the Times:
| The fret machine printed Ge, eleven hun
dred sheets III the hour: the reader now hold
in his hand an Impression which II new ma cbine
has yielded at the rate IF foar thousand an hour
Such ease, rapdily, ami accuracy united, could
hardly ever before be ascri6ed TO any fabric
constructed by the hand Of man, neither is il
now possible. we conceive, .ur the printing ma
| chine to receive any further Improvement. or 90
arrive at a fnorc.compltc degree Of perfection.
Let br, the reader contemplate, if he can, WIZ
must be the rap;tli,y Of those motions which
throw nh lour thousand printed sheets in every
hour, or nearly sc,ea'y in II miuule'
Singular iron Case Tho Boston Evening
Gazette memiinns, that u merchant of that city
expecting ship from Russia, laden with iron.
entered into n contract, some time since, FOR the
s"lr oil il at certain rate, provided the vessrl
arrived before the st Of March; or if after thar
time, the contract was 10 be null. On the o0ih
IF Feb. the ship was autographed, and in ,he
course Of the day. she came 10 anchor in the
lnwer harbour, briuG compelled TO do from
head wind and tide Since the contract was
made, Iron has risen in the market, and both
parties claim the cargo: Que tina, The ship had,
aud the other that she had not, arrived.
Quc1c. When may Il ship be said to have ar
rived, and where must she lay? In cunning up
tie harbour, the ship 90, ashore The point at
Fort Warrcn-had she arrived then?
Irish UH.-Thc response tn Sir w. Scott.
III IL late C"eette, is not perhaps superior TO
one made, as il is told, 10 Surgeon Aberucthy.
IL repairing the street IN which he resides, it
happened. lately, that the paving stones were
accomplished near his door. The doctor, in an
ger, demonstrated with Paddy -labourer on
the occasion, aud the following dialogue cnsued ::
Dr.. A.: Way the ID have you laid your rub.
Dish opposite my door, where So many carriage.
are daily stopping? Pat: Fat, yunr honour,
II must he laid some here all the strait i menh.
Ell. DIR Ii may he so, hut it must not be laid
there. Pat: Where can ] pu, il, then, your
honour? with a sig niiican, puzzle Of look. J
DIR. Pa, in HI, and be. &c, &c. if you like.
Pat: Maybe, I'd better put in heaven. yonr
honour, il would be more out of your honour 5
way !-Literary Gazette.
The Worcester (Eng) Herald gives an ac-
count OF a little girl, ten mouths old, having
second tongue, forming under and near the tip
II The first 10 which II grows. II is said that
he annals of medicine and surgery furnish but
one similar instance, and that in the person Of
Il female OF color. On which Noah remaI ks {:
Milton, aud many other saSes, have found
one tongue enough for a woman, in all CON
science; as we, however, do not belong 10 tha,
c"ptIOus class wiIo wish to close IL females Inns,
or give her only half. n tongue; consi ler
nus as an invaluable improvement Of Dame Ma
urc; Tor some ladies by being supplied with
hem, may, by the aid Of both, talk plainly aud
"'e!ligbiy, whereas, the single one ratlcs so,
lh"t II is impossible for herself or any other
mortal 10 understand the drift OF her DISCOURSE
The Scotch .Noreis.-It is not generally
known that more Of the parties engaged in the
production OF these immortal wOrks-nOt even
heir distinguished auihor---at first anIicipal ell
ih"Ir astonishing snccrss; or rather, they all
;rarcd that Uarfriy might prove failure
Wayerly was written about the period when
the authors pOeiica fame WIS beginning TO
decline; and il lay half printed for about lw o
years in the warehouse of Messrs. BalIar yne s.,
Gu. IN whose booksclin.; trade Mr.. Scott was
said 10 be interested "a partner. Upon the
failure of Mr.. BaIautyne, part of his stock was
transferred TO hlr. Constable; but even thai
saGacious bookseller demurrcd TO Tie Purchase
Of the half printed WavcIiy. AT last, however.
The novel was completed, and appeared. lis
success was equally sudden aud surprising, and
its anonymous author received all the honors of
a first rate novelist, long before either Review
or Magazine had proclaimed to the world that
such mighty genius had ariscn.-London
Weekly Reriec.
Good Namc--Tbeir Majestic$ Of Sardinia.
according to the Genoa Gazette, lately stood spon-
sors 10 noble child, who was baptized simply
and shortly, Charles Felix Joseph Marus Chris
tInus Dennis Paul Francis-de-Paula Bcrnardin
Anthony Raymond Gaetanus Jean Neppmucemis
Andrew Avellin Ma,ius-de- Miracles Diego Peter
dAlacantra. When this young gentleman. who
is the son of an ambassador, comes to sign Ges-
patch notes it will be. for brevty, in initials, G..
+. M. {. ID. p. +. de-A. b. A. II. G. ]. N, A.
NJ des-M. D. p. d'Alacantra
Shccp.-It is estimated that there arc 400, 900
OF Sheep in the State of New-York; 5000, 900 in
Pennsylvania; 900, 900 in Vermont; 500 900 in
Massachusetts,; $4,000 in Rhode Island, and about
o,O0O,O0 in the rest ofthe states. This estimate
IS IN gross, and in the numbers assigned TO the