IIASZARIYS GAZE'I."I‘E,

OCTOBER. 4

ILICTRIC COMMUNICATION WITH AMERICA.

The following interesting statement is ex- tracted from the Cork Coiisti'tution:—

" Lying at anchor off Queenstown for the last few days ma have been observed a small, unsightly, ill-painted, rusty-bottom- ed screw-steamer, without one point of at- traction about her, except the stars and stripes fluttering in the breeze. Yet that host and some ofthe officers she contains have been the world's wondertor a season, and have just now concluded a task which

is the forerunner of an event more wonder-~

ful still. The Arctic was the vessel that was sent to rescue Dr. Kane, who had pre- viously been sent to rescue Franklin. She was successful, and brought home Dr. Kane and his crew, who had been obliged to abandon his ship and search. She was then a light ship on the American coast. She is now the bearer of Lieutenant Strain of Darien notoriety, and Captain Berriman, who has l--fore, and now again, crossed

from Newlonndliind to take soundings of

the whole Atlantic from St. John's to Val- encia, with the view to ascertain the proba- ble success with which a telegraphic cable may be laid between these points. The re- sult is satisfactory. For some 50 or 60 miles from St. John’s and again on this side, is a bank varying from 9.5 to I20 fath- oms. Between these there is a plateau

nearly level, the bottom soft, composed of

shells so fine that only the microscope can discover them, each shell perfect in its minute beauty, proving the absence of cur- rents at the bottom. and, with due defer-

ence to Stephenson and others, the want of

that vast pressure, which was to be so dreaded, and exhibiting at every point not only a capacity, but the most perfect capa- city, for the very use for which it is requir- ed. The whole apparatus for arriving at these facts is most perfect. Steam-power, separate from that of the ship, works the axle from which the sounding-line is “ paid out." Soundings have been taken to the depth of 27.000 fathoms. By a neat con- trivance each sounding shows not only the depth, but the nature ofthe bottom, which is brought up in live quills, and the tem- perature ofthe water, the latter being given by the expansion or contraction of metallic spiral ribands placed round a centre pin, fixed at the top, and attached at the btttom to a needle and indicator, the latter remain- ing fixed a er the first has ceased to act. Ihowing t exact variation between the surface and the bottom. Most careful draw- ings have been made by Mr. Van Den Berg (to whom has been assigned the spe- cial post of diaughtsmau) of the soundings, showing a profile of the bottom of the sea with the greatest accurac .

There can be no doubt that telegraphic communications between Irelan and St. John's, a distance of I610 geographical miles, may be regarded as a certainty. It is in the hands of a small American com- pany, but, though small, if its members possess but a tithe of the energy oftheir re- presentative, Mr. Cyrus VV. Field, who is also here making every inquiry, it will be enough to overcome every ditliculty. Cap- tain Berriman laughs at laying the cable.

. He asks but a ship large enough, atid he will undertake to do it at 10 miles an hour right across. The company have already obtained the sole grant for erecting tele- graphs through Newfoundland, and have already some I700 miles at work, or will have in a few days, which is in connexion with the American lines. The difiiculties and trials of temper in taking these sound- ings have been tremendous. Repeatedly alter ‘ paying out’ tens ofthouiiands of fath- oms of line, and getting all up within some 60 or 80, it was snapped, and all had to be done again. Six and eight hours have been occupied in getting one sounding only, and these ave been made nearly every half degree the whole way across. From the ca tain to the cabin-ho each has given his wi ling aid. No trou le was thought too much--no time too long; each appeared to feel the honour of his nation at stake, and proud in every way to advance the ob- ject in view. They have done their work well. Nature has granted all we could ask; art will soon do its part. while nature, sci- ence, and art, worked out by man's hand, will produce one grand whole to benglit mankind.”

A CRIMIAN Hr.aoiua.—Among the wo- men accompanying the expedition we find a Mrs. Kelly, now a resident of Tallow, in this country, whose husband was a rivate of the 4th Regiment. She was at t a bat- tle of Alias, and was close to the regiment during the engagement, and subsequently witnessed the battle of Inltcrmann and the cavalry afl'air at Balalrlava. Her husband, whom she attended with unflinching con- stancy through sickneiis and danger, having died ot cholera, she was sent home to her native town, in the enjoyment of a pension of £l3 per annum, and on her arrival she received her late husband's medal with clasps from the authorities at the Horse Guards, who had become acquainted with her exemplary conduct—her patient en- durance under privations, and her services to the sick and wounded .— Carlow Sentinel.

Disruaaiitcss AT RoMs:.—'I‘he last steamer from Civita Vecchia brings the news that street rows had taken place at that port between the French soldi'ers and the ai-tillerymen ofthe Pope. For two days there had been acontinued scene ofquar- reling whenever the opposite parties met. The authorities began at length to suspect that Swiss soldiers had been exciting the French against the Ponlificalists; they ac- wcordiiigly arrested and imprisoned the in- istigators, whereupon the collisions ceased.

The Journal de Fi'anlfui'd of the 30th ult. states that jewellery to the amount uf‘V ,- 000f. was stolen a few days before from the Villa Grunebourg, belonging to Baron de Rothschild. Active steps were being taken to discover the robbers.

Pouassir ix Ittniii.—A Calcutta cor- respondent of the Times states, that the ‘Government oflndia has finally determined to limit the practice of polygamy by legis- lative enactment. Hindooism is base upon the theory that every man has a son to succeed him, and to perform these cere- monies which, far more than any act of his own, secure to the Hindoo eternal bliss. The man, therefore, whose wife is barren, or bears only daughters, takes another wife. This will still be permitted, but every other form of polygamy will be pro- hibited.

A vessel called the Gleaner was launch- ed the other day at Bristol on “teetotal principles,” in bottle of pure water being

wine.

WHEN is A MAN RICH imouon ?

VVhen a lad, an old gentleman took the trouble to teach me some little knowledge of the world. With this New I remember he one day asked me, “ When is a man rich enough?" I replied, “ \Vlien he has a thousand pounds.” He said, “No.” “ Two thousand?” -“ No." ‘ ‘ Ten tlioii- sand ?’, “ No.” "A hundred thousand '.”’ H which I thought would settle the business; but he still continued to so no. I gave it up, and confessed I could ‘at tell, but beg- ged that he would inform me. He gravely said, “ When he has a little more than he has, and that is never! If he acquires one thousand, he wishes to have two thousand, then five, then twenty, then tifty; front that his riches would amount to one hun- dred thousand, and so on till he had grasp- ed the whole world, after which he would look about him, like Alexander, for other worlds to possess.” Many a proof have I ‘had of the old gentleman's remarks since he made them to me, and Iam happy to say, I have discoverrd the reason. Full enjoyment, full satisfaction to the mind of man, can only be found in possessing God, with all his infinite perfect-ions. It is on the Creator, and not the creature, that can satisfy.

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Mr. R. S. Whitfield, resident medical officer of St. Thomas's Hospital, London states that the corporation of Antwerp now receive 120.000 frances a year for the sweepings of the streets and the contents of the cesspools, contractors converting the nuisances into a powerful manure. For- merly the corporation used to pay 20,000 frances yearly to get rid of the city refuse. At Paris and Milan “ town guano" is manu- factured which has extraordinary power as a fertiliser.

used in the ceremony instead ofa bottle of

Tris Dnu Sn.—-Though in breadth not exceeding ten miles, the Dead Sea seems boundless to the eye when looking from north to south; and the murmur of the waves, as they break on its fiint-strewn shore, together with the lines of drift-wood and fragments of bitumen on the beach,

ive to its waters a resemblance to the ocean. Curious to experience the sensation ofswimming in so strange a sea, put to the test the accounts of the extreme buoy- ancy felt in it, andl was quickly convinced that there was no exaggeration in what I heard. I found the water almost tepid, and so strong that the chief difficulty was to keep sutliciently submerged, the feet start- ing up in the air at every vigorous stroke. \Vhen floating, halfthe body rose above the surface, and with a pillow, one might have slept upon the water. After some time the strangeness of the sensation in some mea- sure disappeared, and on iipproaeliing the shore I carelessly ilroppcd my feet to wade out, when lo! as if a bladder had been at- tached tv each heel, they flew upwards; the struggle to recover myself sent my head down; the vile, bitter, and briny water, from which I had hitherto guarded my head, now rushed into my mouth, eyes, ears, and nose, and for one horrible moment the only doubt I hiid was whether I was to be drowned or poisoned. Coming to the sur- face, however, I swam to land, making no further attempt to walk in deep water, which I am inclined to believe is almost impossible.—Easlern Travel.

Tit: Hoivir.v-Guise.-It is not always easy to discover the natural hives of wild bees. There are, however, two or three active little guides, which are of great ser- vice to those who are in search of honey. One ofthese, found in South Africa, is a bird called the honey-guide. It is about the size of a chatlinch, and of a light grey colour.

Mr. Cumming, in his “Adventures in South Africa,” thus describes the curious habits ofthe bird:—“ Chattcriiig and twit- tering in a state of great excitement, it per- ches on a branch beside the traveller, en- dcavoring by various wiles to attract his attention; and having succeeded in doing so, it flies lightly forward in a wavy course in the direction of the bees’ nest. alighting every now and then, looking back to ascer- tain ifthe traveller is following it, all the time keeping up an incessant twitter. \Vhen at length it arrives at the hollow tree or deserted white ants’ bill, which contains the honey, it for a moment hovers over the nest, pointing to it with its bill, and then takes up its position on a neighboring branch, anxiously awaiting its share rf the spoil. When the honey is taken, which is accomplished by first stupetying the bees by burning grass at the entrance of their nest, the honey-bird will often_lcad to a se- cond nnd even to a third nest. The person thus following it generally whistles. The wild bees of Southern Africa exactly corre- spond with our domestic garden-bees. They are very generally diffused throughout every part of Africa, bees-wax forming a considerable part of the cargoes of ships trading to the gold and ivory coasts, and the district of Sierra Leone, on the western shores of Africa."

ONE or riiii: TRICKS oi: BURGLARS.— From a confession madegy a rogue, now injail at Hartford, Con cticut, Tor vari- ous burglaries recently committed in Far- mingtoii, it appears that one of the gang with whom he was connected, travelled

through various towns selling polishing“

powders, with a view of ascertaining where silver plate was to be found. In visiting dwellings, he was always quite bold in fol- lowing the inmates to adjacent rooms t; test his powders upon silver spoons or plate. He made a memorandum of what he saw, ina book, nothing particularly those houses where a dog was kept.

A “Coiliitci-tou."—A Persian mereliaiit. com- llilliflll Very heavily of some unjust sentence, wsstold_by the judge to go to the esdl. "But the cam is your uncle !’ urged the plaintiff. "Then you can go to the grand visiei." -‘But his secretary is your cousinl" "Then you may appeal to the Sultan.” "Bait his favourite sul- tana is your niece !" "Wall than go to the devil.”

“All ! there is a still closer connection,” said the merchant, as he left the court in despair.

question of beauty is another

C Tn: Gasrr Ru-ust.ic.— '

ship has returned to New giiirlli Ilrlfgy-"er absence ol nearly two years, during “rig time she has been employed, together with a large number of other American shi :1 f all sizes, in the French Government Il',tln(:. port service during the war in the Crime; Some idea of her capacity may be guhereé trom the fact that on one of her trips I". Marseilles to Kamiesch, she carried 49'; cavalry horses, for whose accommodstio the two between decks were partitionell into stalls, beside over 500 troops, and ‘he provisions and forage necessary for the voyage. On her last return trip from se. bastopol, she brought to Marseilles over 3000 infantry, besides her own cum md a large corps of cooks, servants and ’wait- ers required for Commissary Department and this, too, with her lower hold full oi guns of great size, shells, baggage, and the necessary water and provisions, In every port she has visited, she has been tlirongcd with people of an c|as'e' who have expressed their admiration iii‘ he.- enornious size and beauty.

New Aaricta or Tiuni:.—A paper publislieil in British India, publishes a let: tar from a person at Karracliee, who says that he is determined to export |‘,w000 salted l'.'ll8 to_ China. The Chineseicat rats, and he thinks they may sell. He says he has to pay one pice a dozen, and ill‘? “lung. tfressing, and packing in caslrs, raises the price to six pice a dozen, and if he should sueced in obtaining any thing like the price that rules in Whampoa and C_8M0n. for corn-grown rats, his fortune will be made!

Tris Linias sun riisiin BARRICADEI.--A spicy correspondent of the Pau-tucket Ga- zetle.thus “ lets himself out” on the ax. pansive subject ofhoops in ladies dresses: —'f And, talking of the ladies, they are positively getting bigger and bigger. The petticoat _mania rages fearfully. They fill up the side-walks as they brush by you. You feel bones—-whalebones, Imean—for there are no others within half is mile of ‘on. What a dreailful reversal of nature is all thisl do not object to plumpness and rotundity in_ the proper place; but what sense is their in being so orbicular about the feet? Between you and me, Mrs. I’. T. has fallen into the fashion, and, maugre my remonstranees, has purchased one of the most monstrous. of the inventions. len- mined it with much awe the other night, after she had gone to bed. Oh, Roberto! it was indeed most wonderfully made ! It is an institution. In size it is like a small country_liiw-ofiice. I think it must have been raised like a barn. It is latticed, iind cornered, and stiffened, with the utmost in-

enuity. When she has it on. my 'gude wife’ is (so to speak) like Hamlet’: father, ‘clad in conipleie steel.’ She is just as safe as if she were in a convent. She is entirely shut out from this vain world. The matter.” Another American paper says, "One viii- tue, at least has been discovered in the hooped peiticoats mad dogs cannot bite the wearer. Excellent things, therefore, for summer iveai-!”

Tiia Goon or iii. Foii1'uiia.—Franlilin used to say, to be thrown upon one’s own resources is to be cast in the very lap of foiiune, for our faculties then undergo a developiiieiit, and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Rut. Piiii.osoriiv.——lf you wish to be happy,‘ keep busy. Idleness is harder work than ploughing. Iiidolence is not case- neitlier is wealth happiness. “Lil'e’s cares are comforts, and be that vhath none must be wretched.” »

A Danish writer speaks of a but so uti- serable, that it didn't know which way to fall. and so kept standing. This is like the man that had such a complication of dis- eases that he didn’t know which to die of, and so he lived on.

Long life does not consist in many years, but in the period being filled with good services to our feliow beings. He whose life ends at thirty may have done much,‘ while he who has reached the age of one

hundred may have done little.