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s a Fitoc'tc.—At this period of the year especially there‘ is a disposition in the. minds , smote particularly of some young people to play_pran ks by fiightetring each other with supposed apparitions or

ghosts. The following lamentable fact may serye as a , warning tothose who thus thoughtlesst and ’wtckedly .iinpo'sefnp'on their companions or friends. One certain v‘ evening,“ the close'of last ‘weekrt'hree young me_tl_ In. ., ; to frighten other three oftheir companions.

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. iv bugging theiaemblance of a winding sheet, and at an ap- ‘ L':§":Il0‘l_ll’ made hieappearsnee in the company with all z the'fvightful appurtenances of a ghost. Oneofthe young at_‘ men, residing in CampRoad, struck with terror at the ghostly appearance, immediately made for the door, but gr ‘Qlle ofitis companions, (babig iii the secret,) havnig previ- k'oualy fastened' t, he was unable to make his exit. ‘fi Stutfi with or at what he supposed to be a spectre, .‘ 'de‘iic'eg:_foraook him, and since that period he has , . - ‘ V anin (aisle of raging madness. To the inexpressrble ' fof his parents and friends, no hopes are entertained

A he will ever ,sgaiii be restored to sanity.

,thflAORDINARY Murmnrt or A Bov.-—A short time since, John Smith,- aged nine years, was sent by his la- dler, a baker, in Ho’ulston, to Shetford-hall, Norfolk, distant abouts mile, with a basket of cakes. Whilst on . his way, he met with another boy, named Barker, aged ten years, who accompanied him to Shotford-bridge, - where the boys loitered, and Smith got astride on the

parapet-wall ofthe bridge, when Barker took a cake

from the basket, and ate it. Smith, upon this, began crying, and said he would tell his father. Barker then pushed him over the bridge. The boy did not return at tight, his body was found oti yesterday week, when " in int“ was held upon it, and a verdict ofwilful mur-

, r was returned against Barker, who, confessed having flashed the deceased i the water, and having eaten the re [odor of the ca es, and spent the night iii a

d, a ‘ re the basket was found. Barker was then minitted to the castle, to take his trial at the next as- sizes.

A horrible cash was revealed to the sitting Alderman

It the Guildhall, ndon, lately. A Mr. Snow, who

had fittirned from Port? Philip, gave such a glowing ac-

‘count ofthat colony and its prOspects, that be induced some ofhis friends to entigrate. He undertook all de- tails, art?! they were ready to depart from Plymouth, only waiting for him to go on board,'when, finding that he

did not appear, they went on board the vessel, and dis-

covarcd that no places had been taken for them, that «alone of their property was On board, and that some

trunks addressed to Mr. Snow, towards which he had directed the greatest care. as enclosing‘ much valuable property, turned out to be filled with old paper, straw, bits of iron, and other rubbish. The condition of the parties thus robbed and left destitute may be conceived.

One of them was Snow s otvn sister, whom he had in-

duced to tnarry Mr. Williams,_another of the party. She , was very young, and had given up a handsome income for this "good speculation.” Snow has not yet been discovered. ' ,

The University of Oxford has determined on pur- chasing by subscription the drawings ofMichael Angelo and Raffaello, formerly iii-Sir Thomas Lawrence's col- ; lection; £500 has already been subscribed for the pur- l ' pose; be placed in the new galleries now in ‘ course egoction it} the University.

Tbs-County of Surrey Lunatic Asylum, capable of accommodating 300 patients, has been just completed, xugh. espouse of £90,000.

' ‘ Jewels ofva'lue, probably pledged by James or Charles,

have been discovered in the Exchequer Oliicc. It would have been well ifthis had been the only discovery late- ly made there. _

The Marquis of Westminster has presented the muni-

.. ficent donation of"£500 to the Society for the extinc- tion ofthe Slave Trade, and the Civilization of Africa.

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At a meeting of Chartists, at Ipswich, on Wednesday, to consider the best means to relieve the appalling dis- tresses of the labouring poor, it was agreed that appli- cation ahould be made to the government for a grant of

~ $90,000,000, to locate the poor on the waste land. Some of the speakers thought they must wait until they had obtained lter before their application would be granted. "

There has beénhgpgoduced this season, at Poplar

‘ Bank, Kinnoul, amyeasuring in girth 15 inches by

y 14, and weighing difipouhd and three quorters.——Ayr Observer. we ’

Tue Nioaa haunted—The Dzedalus, Captain . Martin, arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday, from the "x .coast of Africa. Captain Martin reports that the Niger i expedition entered the Nun branch oftbe Niger between . the 13th and 15th of August, the Soudau loading. 3 The expedition had, up to that date, lost nine hands by ‘ deathe-We have much gratification in stating, that the i abovfnews from Liverpool, of mortality among the per- sonsen'gaged in the expedition to the Niger, proves to begreatly exaggerateds Aletter from a gentleman on board the Albertpfiltad ofl'the Nun, August 10, says ——“The Wilb Soudan and Amelia joined us yesterday; the 0 cars and men of all the vessels, so far asI can learn, are in good health.” On the 18th he again writes—“ We are now anchored above Alburkah Island, having passed over the shallow part ofthe nar- row creek, where we had 14 feet water, with the Ame- lia tender in tow ; the Wilberforce andthe Soudan come tip to-morrow morning. There is one coloured man in the Albert, and another iii the Wilberforce, who have the African fever, but the symptoms are favourable; both these men were West India uegroes, and entered the . ships in England. \Vith these exceptions, I am happy is: to say, the officers and men ofthe expedition are quite well." A letter from another gentleman, dated on board she Albert, the l9th of August, says—” We entered . this river on the 14th. The health ofthe whole expe- dition has beenall along very good, considering the a number engaged in it, and any illness of consequence which has occured has been almost exclusively confin- ed to the black men. In the Albert we have unfortu- nater lost twa men; a white fell from the foreyard arm during our passage from Sierra Leone to Cape Coast, and died two hours after the accident .from injury to the brain; the other was Mr. Back, the mathematical ,in- 'ystrument maker, who was attacked on the 9th inst. with sympmms offers: of a_ low typhoid kind. It appears that he had been suffering for some time with dyspepsia, ' and this attack supervening upon a constitution previ- . and, gamma y}, proved_fatal on the 15th; there evi- dently was V‘ lyi‘tig‘local in the cause of his death." A letter from the‘chsplain to the expedition, dated the 18th ’ofAugu‘sg' says—t“ All the officers and people of the t . whole “mm enjoy at present perfect health.”

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From letters received up to the dateof the 20th of an- gust, the whole ofthe losses sustained appear to have been three, from casualties durin '. the voyage, which, with two coloured men and one Turopean, the latter not from African fever, comprise thqtentire loss of life sustained by the expedition front the time ofisa quitting England to the 20th August. :‘ The total number em- ployed in the expedition is about 300 persons.

tsiataloom'i‘nv IN INDIA.-—The Cu tta papers lately re- ceiv d contain a most mela _ I account of the-cele- hrat on of the “sf al of In , ' ant in June last. Up- wards of two' ‘, redr-thdnsa r'natives’ intended the d' stin exhibition ; anduthe rites were performed wi ’ mo ' ii ordinary pomp and display. Many Eu- ropean _lso present, and it is suggested that their lively eagerness'to gain an early' sight of the elephan- tine image, left on the native mind a very eneral im- pression that they really’belieaed in the divi or power of the hideous idol.......Tlie fefiful results 0 festival were more than ordinarily disgusting and,. The “ heavenly" town of Porce was filled " death, and ptitrescence. Its hospitals pres which ordinary nerves shrank from: the dead were turned out every twenty-four hours. Starvation, naked- ness, disease, mingled in the crowded streets with mor- tality. The various roads to the town were interrupted by the bodies ofthe dead and the 'iig; the vultures fed on the carcases decaying, and a tilence prevailed in all the surrounding districts. .-

PllSEYISM.-—Il is ofthe essence of Puseyism to repudi- ate the right of any man to tliianor act for himself. It demands the surrender of his private judgment, and the independence of his action, to the teachings and injunctions ofthe Church. Men are to be tnere ma- chines—passive agents, .equally in civil and religious matters. “Hear the Church,” is the siim and substance of Puseyism. It sets aside, with nnceremonious hand, the Bible and the Constitution ; and would compel uni- versal obedience‘ to its despotic dicta. It usbrps autho- rity over the State and the Sovereign, and is prepared to trample on monarchy itself, should it dare to oppose its designs—London Advertiser. "

Tm: Pnorssnur aim Caruouc POPULATION or Paussu.—In Prtissia, according to the latest census, it appears that there are about eight Protestants to five Catholics, while all the other sects compose but one- seventieth ofthe whole population. Iii Berlin there are more Jews than in any other town, viz., 5,615; and in Potsdam 2,576.

Jewrsn GENEROSITY.-—Tlle following details, from a Hamburgh paper, run pleasingly counter to the popular idea concerning the cupidity of the “ Jewish nation :” —“ Herr Solotnon Heine, the rich Israelite banker of otir town, who has so often distinguished himselfby his patriotism and munificence, has just afforded two addi- tional proofs ofliberality which deserve to be generally published. The Lutheran church of the parish in which M. Home resides being in a very tottering condition, and the Lutheran parishioners not possessing or not be- ing able to contribute the necessary funds to secure its thorough repair, it was'resolved that a collection should be made throughout the parish, without religious dis- tinction. The deputation entrusted with the task of making the collection presented themselves first at M. Heine's with the list, which was still a ‘ virgin page.’ ‘ Gentlemen (said the banker), I shall contribute to the repairs of your church with the utmost pleasure; but. I can by no means accept the honor you odor me of in- scribing my name at the head of the list. Gogto Herr Von Bauer, the richest of your own parishioners, and entrcat hint to head the subscription: whatever he gives, I will give the same.’ The deputation followed his counsel, and Hen Von Bauer, perceiving that the re- quisite sum was 30,000 current marks (about 2,0001.) subscribed with splendid liberality for half the amount. The deputation having again presenter] themselves be- fore Herr Ileine, that gentleman immediately handed them an order upon his cashier for alike sum, thus cutti- ,pleting at once the entire subscription, and exoneratiug the poorer parishioners from the necessity of asingle farthiug of outlay. Another splendid instance of Herr

ously, under the following circumstancesz—An indi- vidual natned T , the head ofoue of the oldest commercial houses in Hamburgh, called on Herr Heine, and solicited a loan to cover a liability for an accepted bill to the amount of 30,000 marks (about 2,000L) He complained to Herr Heine that iftliis bill was protested, both he and his partners, with their numerous families, would be mined, and eiitreated the banker to convince himself of the accuracy of his representations by in- specting this books ofthe house. The banker entered his chief clerk's office for a moment. and then accom- panied '1‘ to his own house. There be satisfied himself, by an examination in detail, of the actual posi- tion of T ’s affairs, reproached him slightly for his imprudence in compromising the greater part of his fortune by a hazardous speculation, and afterwards handed him a paper folded in the form ofa letter, using the words:—‘ Take this paper; it is all I am able to do for you at present.’ The banker theti withdrew hur- riedly, as if greatly pressed by business. We need scarcely say that T immediately tore Open the letter, when, to his astonishment and delight, he found therein his own acceptance for 30,000 marks, noted with the words ‘ Pay at your leisure.—S. Heine.’

Fi'r'riitn Rmmnurron.—A letter from Lille, in the Constitutionncl, state's that a man in that place had met with his death by swallowing a live mouse. He was in a public house, and the mouse having just been caught, he laid a wager that he would swallow it alive. He did so, but immediately afterwards wss attacked by violent convulsions, and in three hours was a corpse.

THE CHINESE Tannin—Among the many whimsical anecdotes told of the peculiar habits of the Chinese, per- haps few will be considered more characteristic of their love ofimitation than the following :—-Towards the close of the last century an officer of the “ Pitt." East India- man, when that ship lay off Canton, sent ashore to a na- tive an order for a dozen pair of trowsers, to be made of the nankeen for which China has been so long famed. The Chinese artisan required a pattern; he could not make anything without a pattern. So a pair of trow- sers were sent at his request, which pair had been mend. ed with a patch and needlework on the knee. In due time the dozen pairs were sent on board, ofs fabric of exceeding beauty for fineness and quality, but every pair bearing, like an heraldic badge, the obnoiious patch on the one knee, exactly copied, stitch for stitch in a style that reflected the highest credit on the me: chanical skill of. the workman, and for the diflicult ex- ecution of which an’extra charge was made upon the purse of the exasperated owner, who had no alternative but to bring home his btgain as a qualification for the

Travellers' Club.

ri— THE COUNTRY Oé'PARIs.—One of the' great cha‘ _, ‘

Heine’s generosity was afforded a week or two previ-'

of Paris, as a metropolitan residence, consists in peculiain rural gharacter of the environs. Up to .1 very gates‘sit' the city, the country'is really country, and within view of the exterior Boulevards small farms are carrying on their agricultural operations With all the rude simplicity ofour remote counties. Instead of e ten miles of Villas and Londonized hamlets surrounding our metropolis, the student walks out from the Pays Latin to watch the process of the harvest, or from the Quartier des Invalides proceeds to botaiiize in the woods of Mendon or Vincennes. This is again. partly the re- sult ofthe absence of coal-smoke.“ ,It Is well known. that many species of flowers (the yelbw rose for instance) will not blossom within ten miles of London ; Paris, on the contrary, produces the finest flowers, not alone in the royal gardens of the Tuileries and Luxemburg, but in the nursery-grounds of the famous rose-growers, Noisette antl Laffay, which in the Faubourg St. (iter- main enjoy advantages such as it would be necessary to retreat many miles frotn London to secure. In the older portions of Paris, every house of note has its garden; and it is sometimes startling, in a narrow, gloomy, ob- scure street, to perceive, at_the extremity ofa long pas- sage, a grove of green acacias, or some of those gaudy flower-pots which the dry and sunny climate clothes With such brilliant colours.

CONSUMPTION or ANIMAL Foou 1N LONDoiz.—-Of the quantity ofcattle annually disposed of in Smithfield maiket, the number is ascertained to amount of 150,000 beeves, 2| ,000 calves, [50,000 slteep,:and 26,000 pigs.— This does not, however, by any means, form the total consumed in London, as large quantities of meat in carcases, particularly pork, are daily brought from the counties round the metropolis. The total value ofcrittle sold in Srnithfield annually is calculated at £8,250,000. The quantity of poultry annually consumed in 1London is supposed to cost between £70,000 and '$80,000; the game depends on the plentifuluess ofthe season. There is nothing, however, more surprising than the sale of rabbits; one salesman in Leadenhall market, during a considerable portion ofthe year, is said to have sold 14,000 rabbits weekly. It is supposed that a mil- lion a year is expended on fruits and vegetables. The consumption of wheat amounts to a million of quarters annually; of this four-fifths are supposed to be made into bread, being a consumption of sixty-four millions ofquarter loaves every year, in the metropolis alone. The annual consumption ofbiitter in London amounts to about ll,000, and that of cheese, [3,000 tons. The money paid annually for milk is supposed to amount to nearly £l,250,000.

THE Inisu MinuLu-atAN.——A middle-man was usu- ally, in his origin, “one ofthe people,” who having made money, took a farm, or an estate—rented a bun- dred, or, as was often the case, athousand acres; the Iaiidlord in chief, generally an absentee, looked to hiin alone for the piyment of his half-yearly rent, and knew nothing whatever of the condition ofthe. cottiers who dwelt itpon his estate; if we add that he cared nothing, as Well as knew nothing, we shall not be far from the truth; for while pursuing a course of pleasure in the metropolis—in Dublin, , sometimes, but in London more frequently—lie was far away from the sight of their sul- ferings. The peasantry, badly housed, badly clothed, badly fed, were no way necessary either to his luxuries or his necessities; the middle-man was always a punc- tual paymaster, and lie was theionly person upon his cs- tate with whom the landlord was brought into contact, or called upon to correspond. This middle~man had to transmit to his employer perhaps three or four thousand pounds—often more—every year. And how was he to procure it? First, his system was to parcel out the es~ tate into small bits—seldom more than two or three acres to each, but generally averaging an acre. These “ hits” were invariably let annually, and never on lease; the occupier, therefore, had no temptation to cultivate the land. His slip ofgronud seldom bore any other pro- duce than potatoes; these were designed solely for the consumption off-is own household and the support of a pig, which, if it lived, and no unusual misfortune atten- ded the family, was “to pay the rent.” Of course, the land was let at the highest possible rate, and to the high- est or most thoughtless bidder; the middle-mart had to pay the landlord, and grow rich himself; as the tenant was invariably in arrear, he was at all times iii the power of tlie middle-man; and the putting on ofa new coat, the additon ofa trifling article of furniture, or the appearance of any thing like comfort in or around his dwelling, was a sure and certain notice that the bailiff would be “ down upon him” are the sun had set. This infamous system is, as we have said, almost at an end ; out Of it arose the wretchediiess of the Irish peasantry, and unhappin it originated a war between landlord and ten'tot, the effects of which have not disappeared with the cause—Mr. and Jlfrs. [fall’s Ireland.

Commence—The good or evil .we confer on others, very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capa- ble of doing injuries withoutpaying themselves some pangs for the min which they bring on their fellow-crea- tures.—Firlding. ,

The fiilloiviiig inscription is on it stone in the wall of Chiswick church-yard :—“'l‘his wall was made at ye charges of ye Right Honourable and trulicpiaus Lorde Francis Russell,.Earle of Bedford, out of true zeale and care for ye keeping ol'this church-yard, and ye roar: - robe of: Gurld’s saints, whose bodies lay therein buried from violation by swine, and other prophanation.—Sd wttnesseth William Walker, Vo. A. D. 169.3.”

ECONOMY is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease; and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheer- fulness, and health: and profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in, depend-

ence and debates; that is, fetters them with “irons that enter into their souls."

PIG Pans—I made a yard, adjoining the hoe-pen equal to ten or twelve feet Square, for each hog, in DWllchI I deposit a layer, at least a foot thick, of black swamp earth, such as may be easily obtained in dry time by al- most .every farmer. The hogs having a way to pass deposn all their manure in the yard, which leaves the; pen clean and healthy, a decided advantage in fattenino hogs. Ifthe yard becomes very muddy, I throw in lita- ter. Ah the hogs are killed, I deposit another layer of the like earth, of about halfthe thickness .of the for~ iner, and put tip my store pigs to winter, which I think is far better than to suffer them to run at large. In the lsprlggl, I havela finedrich yard of manure, which I veri- y e ieve, w ten u iciousl ‘ ’ hundred per cent.LCultivuf’arilpphed, Pays more man a

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winter feeding and littering