It is said that Mr. H. Ca...
The Times, 1824-05-05T00:00:00

tis raid thagrt Mr I, Cat pbell, s n ho offered h1iis services g"me yearo art to the A fican Company, h from to rocee to explore Africa at nis own exsese, the melencholdeats profd bUepu.boi.hed. ich man beironi huing left I hhe 6eld oteuterprse open in that qsiarterof the globe. Mr. Canipbell hav areadylbeen se- veral mileb up the rivers oC c aAeroons, Old Calabar, an the Gongob he is aan oficer of tile navy, edixor Of the orews of Ossian, ard authior of s~veral respectablei works. The new Vagrant w Bill, at presen heporse Parliament, oif- fers but littlefrom theLateAct,excptin takin'aw ayby lthether thcre. wards hitherto payable to constables and othfrs apSruhending oIQend ers; antd al,so that the circumance hich has been so mruch abudti and misunderstood by certain of the iagistrates is no longer to be enumerateri among the oiesrces. 'fi'te Higlhland Suciety, we uniclerstand, have concludecl 'their inquiry inito the propartions of health to 5icktness among indi. viduals throughiut Scotland-an Investigation somewhat ontiinal in its,nature, iance we are not aware that any general inquiry re tile 'kind had prevtiously been undemtakei in this or in any other kind doma. According to the experience of the Friendly Soieeteas of Scot. land, it is found that the average annual sickiies o' a indies is pretty nearly us follnw :-tFrom 20 to 3g, abost onletenth part of f week for eachl live yeae of his age u thu it wl beatou, six-tenths of a week annually on a n average. In the decade fromn 4a to 50, it Jis about one week annually; frnm .0 to v d0, the aver age is about two weeks annually ; from f0 to 70, six weeks.- anti above 70, about 18 wveeks annutaly. For the guidance of Friend:. lv Societies, tables founded oil these results are, we understand, to 'he published, whichl may he useful,in preventing the general ruin f'rom imisealculation to which such inistitutiens havelogbensb. ject-J'nvernex.f journal. l ensb On Thursoay altornoon, whiile a boy was gathering bones from a duinghilil in North Albion-street, Glasgow, he discovered a humani body. The place was explored.- and tihe corpses of two Wo- men and a man were broughit out in the presence of a numiber of sp ectators. The bodies were conveyedI to thie police-office, where til two vwomkn were recognized, andI tairen alway by their relations. The mn was a pensioner of the namre of Sutherlanid agedl 104. The bodlies wvere stolen front thne Ramashorn ChUrCh yard, and tile robbery h2d been perpetrated with unusual conflidcnce'and delibera. tion. Two of the bodlies were in-erred on Tuesday last in a grave of unusaFet depth, an-d as there waps to be another ftineral on tile same da,the grave-digger took a boriv that had been interred above si ots and placed it above the other two, thiat the reisurrection esen on trying the corpsRe miight find it too old for their purpose and proceed no farther. But the fellows were not to ha deceived in this way. They dug, past ttile thtree collins, drove the sides and lieatls out of the unidermost two, and extractwd and carried ofF the bodies. The afterwards opcened tile other grave and stole the body, and finished their unhasllowed work by fillng up the graves so neatly, thteven the grave-diggers had no suspicion that they, had beets vio- lated till tile bodies were discovcred-~Glatow CJtrstfr..