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aadnswhthc ‘ not _ tliemia eflhwkedmeuia tiheir Iow,h little above Roccadi

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eulhd I-lanaihal’s camp, from which E . . . aaeflyfoi-tliesesofltoise. 'lh'n they dig pits about filly feet deep, and twenty-five broad at the top, than of a cone. The largerthe it no the snow will rve better. About feet frutathe om, they commonly ' ‘fissweeesa grate which serves for a drain, any ofthe ssew bappeuto melt, which magnate, and hasten the The pit thus lbrined

pvuningsof trees, is filled whhssew, whiebisbestenashsrd as psmible, tifl it becomes a solid body. It is shes-wart covered with more pruniiigs of ltrees,andsroot'israiesd intbe formofa over with draw.

with a mntoek. The quantity daily deman- ded is carried to in the night time, in parts wellcovered with straw.mlt is fem y experience snow, u re down, is not out colder, but presci-vds long- srthsucskeso ice,tskea from ponds and

For the south of Italy and Sicil , snow is reserved in several caverns of Etna, and lit down to purchasers, who compete

for ' e withthe eagerness o roasting men. in Lima, cheap ice from Cordillerss, b a cry to our own cheap bread public mind as shout six revolutions a year in any state of South America, put in all its tumult. ice-m bear a sacred bar-

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den. Nobod dare meddle with the peo- ple's ice. he Chinese understand the use of ice ve well ind - As for Wenham Lake, f at Bouontalk about the state of q

the ice crops as we talk about the state of

wheat. In European cs itals, ice is not only an article ofaniusement ut of trade. Who has not heard of the delights of the sleigh,

galloping over ice and snow at the rate of

twenty miles an hour ? Then there is the Russian version of the ice palace on the Nova, built at the ' e of prince Giilitzin with ice masonry that blunted all chisels, ice chairs, ice din -table, and ice cannons that fired liempen ulletr An iuimence quantity of ice is consumed in Russian housekee ing; throughout the sum- mer, ices are sold in the streets ofevery Russian town; and not on! iced wine, iced . beer,Ibut iced tea is drunk in immense quan- titles. The short but excessively hot sum- mer would spoil most of the food brought to market, had not the winter rovided, in abun- dance, the means of gu ' against such rapid An icc- case is, there- fore, looked upon as an indie nsible appen- dage, not merely to the estab ishments o the wealth , but even the huts of the peasants. In St. etersbu no there are said to be ten thousand ic ouses, and it may easly be supposed that to fill all these cellars is stack of no t ' ' ' ude. It is not too much to calculate that each ice-house, on an aver- age, requires filly sl loads of ice to fill it.— he lisb-mongers, utchers, and deal- ers in ipiass have such enormous cellars that man undreds of loads will go into them ; and the breweries, distileries,&c., consume incalculsble quantities. According] to the above calculation, five hundred t ousand sledge- ds of ice would have to drawn out of the Neva every year; but this calcu- lation is rather under than over the mark. It iscertainly the merchandise in which the most extensive ti-afic is carried on in the winter. Whole processions of sledges laden with the glittering crystall. may be -can ascending from the Neva; and o_uaands of men are incessantly at work raising the cooling produce from the parent river. _ The breakiugofthe ice is .Ol.l'l'IOtl on_ in this way:-Tlie. workmen in by clearing the lion the surface, hat they ma clearly trace the to be deltache . The tbenineasure a argeparl-llo Oflrlm. sndinark the a 'l|;h;e parallelogram su ivided' ’ o a nuni r of squares, of s also to suit tlie.cap_seity of their sledgea. When more

,tbe ' . A ‘roundthe. catty fest atlastsodeepthstthe workmen are y low to the sypxes ifthey had

5... inaniine. courseasuf- Aeieutthiekneaaefiaemust be leftlu the

workmen, which is at‘-

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to yi rig, I be ecudder it will be the most unfortunate is-

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of their country. In the cellars, the ice is

piled up with much art and i-egului-u_v. and all sorts of shelves and niches are lnudi-. Im- the conveinence of placing milk, Illt‘lil null similar articles there in hot weather. Such a discription at least applies to what may he

led a tidy, orderly ice-house;but tidinees and or der do not alive s preside over Rus- sian arrangements, an in the lllaluflly of cellars the ice is thrown carelessly in and broken into pieces, that it may be pm.-kcd away in corners, and that as little space as possible ma be left unocupied. The con- sistesoe an durablity of the ice do not ap- pear to suffer from this breaking proci.-ss; on the contrary, the whole if well-packed, will soon freeze into one compact mass, that is afterwards proof against the warmest weather. The R.ussians are so accustomed to these ice-houses that they are at a loss to understand how a family can do without them; and theirhousewives are in the great- est trouble when they think they have not laid in a sullicient supply of ice during the winter, or when in summer they fancy their stock likely to run short. It may be safely estimated the that ice consumed in St.Peters- burg during the summer costs the inhabi- tants from two to three millions of roubles; that is to as , from three hundred thousand pounds to our hundred and fifty thousand pounds, or two millions of dollars.

Wnaaa rna Cons Coins I-‘ROM.—-ll is proved by the returns of the foreign corn trade in the last few years that a change is taking place in the principle sources ofthe supply of food.—The United States and the Baltic are no longer b an means our largest producers. Their yearl sur lus falls short of our yearly wants, an it is mm the fertile districts and line rivers of Eastern Europe that we now draw our greatest and most inexhaustible supply. In 154:, when the total imports of wheat into this kingdom were 2,400,000, quarters, only $30,000 uarters or about one-tenth came from Rus- sia, Turkey, or the Mediterranean. In 1852 the total import of wheat (exclusive of ilourl was about 3,200, quarters, of which 1,700,000 quarters came from the ports of those countries, and taking the whole im- port of corn at 6,750,000 quarters, the sup- ply from the East was 3,350.0ll0 quarters. Of this quanlit a large proportion is shipped at Galtaz an Ibraila and other Turkish ports which are the natural channel for the abundant produces of Hungary, and of the fertile provinces south of the Danube.- Egypt also sent us in 1852 no less then '276,(Xl0 quarters in I43 vessels. M. Mon- gredien pointsout that this lar e and increas- I trade is almost exclusive y in the hands o Greek merchants established in England, with branch houses in the Levant, and that the ingenuity and peruversnce of the Greeks are displaye to an extraordinary degree y the manner in which they have contrived, in about thirty years, to found and retain this extensive commerce. The reek firms in England amount to about ‘H10, and the yearly amount of their tran- sactions in the grain trade alone is computed at no less then four millions. Their busi- ncss is conducted with the utmost diligence and exactness, and even in this country the Greeks successfully compete with the tra- ders in corn from all parts of the world.

-—EriglisIt paper. GLEAIIIGS 1'30! LATE PAPERS.

JUNCTION or run A1-Lia-ric AND riciric Ocaans. On Tuesday the Emperor of the French ranted an audience at Paris to a deputation of the English company who pro- pose joining the Atlantic with the Pacific ocean. he Ambassadors from Peru and New Granada joined the deputation, and were also received by the Emperor. Sir Charles Fox, the president of the company, stated the ob'ect w ich the shareholders have in view. an solicited the patronage of his Majesty for the completion of this grand un- dertaking. The Einperor asured the depu- tation that he would ive them all the support which their noble e orts so richly deserved. I am he py" added his Majesty, “ to have receive your honourable deputation aller the deputation from the merchants of Lon- don, who yesterday expressed the strongest sentiments in favour of the maintenance of pzace. Those sentiments have at all times an mine own.’ STATE 0!‘ NEW ZEALAND. Mr. Walter Brodie, of Auckland, New Zea.- land, in a letter to the London Times, gives the following interesting account of the oolony:— lam sorry to inform on, that gold was dis- covered about thir mi es from here, at it place called Coromandel arbour, soiue few days ago. It was very doubtfiil at first whether the reports were true, until his cellency Lieutenant- Colcnel W&nyard, sent Major N agent (her Majesty's t j, who is native secretary, and Mr. Johnson, nterpreter, to the spot. These fiutlemen were acoomrnied by seven respecta- e merchants of Auok nd, who formed part of the Auckland Gold Committee, who all returned from the above-named on the 23rd instant

to say, onlya very small uantity has been found—eome in quarts and lack sand. The land belongs to the natives, who have prevented some Europeans frouidigging for ld. If it should turn out to be found in sufi out can- tlties eld a handsome profit by work

co ever made in this colony, and bad the Auok is o redarswardof £500 fo the discovery o coal, in place of gold, they would have more sense. - We are now beginning to lliel the advanhgs of the Ausu-alian colonies finding gold, and, should our late discovery of pld turn out not worth working. in a few years we shall be In a lhr more bsalthyasd I-one condition than any of the other A an colonies. The great adva up we have in New halaad and the southern

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a cvsrtheethercolontss settlements of New Zealand is, an lmaisan tlve population, which are chiefiy la iii

and which I consider the backhoe

Ono settlement alone at Rangeswliea, on the Wiilksto and Waipe river. last year had 2500 acres under cultivation, and five wnieruiills, which on an avers cost £600 ouch. At 'l.\uronga. in the Ba of Plenty, the natives, sixteen moderate sued schooucrs; in fact a’ Mosquito Fleet (us the small vessels are called belonging to the natives about here, won sstonisli many of our Southern scttlesl. I no doubt, that during the next year £100’ will made by the settlers and Ilerchlllllw nlioiit lwre ; viz., in Kanii timber and housesil‘ .\l~~ll-ournc, wlxicli tiinl»-r done not grow thirty miles south of Aiioliliiud ; stilt pork, bums, bacon, wheat, maize, potatoes. onions, &c. have now nearly 4000 tons of produce waiting hi be exported to the colonies, and cannot t ships to carry ittliither, although we have efi ships, bi_irqiies.nndlirigs,bosidos sohooners, ‘ lon lrigto Auckland. The enormous sxerfitlili tun o the last twelve months by the settlers here are almost incredible. We have now 'ib’6iit lt3,tl00 acres of land fenced in, and the greats- pnrt in produce for the colonies ; and I me that the natives have far more land under cul - vation, with the idea of their gaining vs hi

rices for the produce for the colonies. rfieop

ere complain about the dullness of the times, butl assure you. Sir, that it is many cars since Auckland was in so flourishing a con ition, and without the assistance of one sixpenoe of the Parliamentary grunt, all of which has been spent at the southern settlements.

NiNavan.—Anoiher deeply interesting volume from the pen of .\Ir. Lsyard, has been published in England. It details the result ofa second expe- dinon to the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, sud sflbrds new evidence of the integrity of the Old Testament history. Mr. Lziyard lias sucveeded so fairs to identify the palace at Kouyuujik, the principal scene of his investigations, with Senna- chenb as its builder. His name is found on al- most every brick. His are the triumphs that are pit-_lured on the walls, and his inscriptions record the kings and countries he subdued, the gods whom he carried away. -.iud.even the exact iium- lier of talents wlm-li lie exacted from Hezekiah. llis ‘an appearance is on an alabaster slab, in the act of delivering up the city of Lschish, to be spoiled. We hear nothing, indeed, of hieigno- iniuious retreat from Jerusalem, afterthe total de- struction ol his army, but he appears ‘.0 have our- vived his reiurn for some four or five years before he was slain by his sons, while worshippingin the house ofNisroch, his god. Mr. Lsyerd ex- pects, when the written records ol’ the kingdom are all decipliered, that many more historic events will be brought to light; that in fact, we may come to know the lii~iory of Assyria more accurately than we know that of Rome or Greece, or even of our own country, except where we have the some materials, the rolls and records of the kingdom, to guide us. All this new hood of knowledge at so late an age is very wonderful.

Ci.Iors'riu‘s Nsrou.-—Mr. Anderson. the managing director ot' the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, lelt England for Egypt about a month since for the urpose of making arrangements for the transmission of Cleopatra's Needle from its present bed on the shores of the Mediterranean to the Park at Sy-V denbam. It would appear, lrorn communications recently received from Mr. Anderson. that great dilliculiics in the way ofilie ri-rnovsl oftliis secl- ent memcn have presented themselves. The needle is actually built into a part of the sea wall and ramparts forming the fortification of the city of Alexandria, and to pull down so much effortl- fication as would be required to disintertlie obelisk and to launch it, and afterwards to rebuild the wall, would not only occupy a great space cftime. but mtlst involve aconsidereble amcuotofsxpenae not originally anticipated. in addition to these circumstances, it is stated that. the Viceroy blui- sclf has a very strong objection to a'breeeh of such a nature being made or left open for any time in the present state of European politics. With respect to procuring casts from ancient works ol art in Eirypt, which formed also one of the objects of Mr. Anderson’s visits to Alexandria, the gen- tleman reports, that be had an interview with the Viceroy of Egypt on the 5th ofthe present month, and that the Pasha then kindly assured him that every facility should be afforded to any person commissioned by the company to collect copies of works in Egypt. The Pasha inquired into the nature and objects of the exhibition, and took the the greatest interest in the details submitted to him At the date of Mr. Anderison's letter, that gentleman was proceeding to inspect the statue of Rameses at Mitralienne, and to visit the new exca- vations atssccsrsb, which are likely to furnish valuable contributions to the fine one department of the sydenhsm Palace.

New Dssclurrioiv or S1-aiimi.—A new des- cription of steamer has commenced to ply on the Clyde, between Glasgow and Dumbarlon. The peculiarity‘ of her construction lies in her com ctness, er puddles being much lower than her liulwa}-ks : and. as her engine is on the

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rotatory principle, it likewise occu res very little space. T o inventor, Mr. Davi Na 'er, says :—“ The advanta s these engines ave over others are. that tioy are more compact, consume one-fourth less fuel, and require no engineer; the steersmsn, by ii peculiar valve, moves the vessel ahead or astern, without com- muniaiting with any one. The furnace bars contain water, consequently the hot ashes, which are destructive to the common furnace bar, in this case tends to the production of steam. There is alsoa simple application of the fan to assist combustion. ’

l Bonus.-Thanks to the electric telegraph of Trieste and Marseilles, we are in scion of news from Bnrmnh to the 14th of ebruary. The intelli nce thus received is necessarily brief and elicient in details, but the general character of it is happily such as to warrant the cheering hope, that hostilitiesso long and so laments ily protracted in the country are about to cease, and that the objects for which the war was undertaken will be at» tained without any further efiiision of blood or waste of treasure. rs, that the report brou t by the revious mail from the East of the eath of the ing of Ava by the hand of his Prince Minister was erroneous. re now inform the King is alive: but that he is confined toa by a young-

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Of the complete success o the young Prince little or no doubt appears to be euterhiaed.

Sinrn 0‘Bataa.—-Mr. William Smith O'Brien has addressed a letter, from New folk, to the niemorlalists in lhvour of the li re 0 the Irish state prisoners. He says that,t ough he encouraged resistance to an unconstitutional enactment of the British Parliament, be was willing to acknowledge the Queen of Great Fri- tain as dejsresind dc ‘ado, Sovereign of Ireland. lie ex rssses his issppointment, that , Mr. Whites do, Mr. Napier, and Sir Fitzroy Kelly who, both as his counsel and in private, had expressed their opinion that he was not tried according to law, should, when raised to ofice

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Ausraiis Coirriacarioss is Ini.r.—Upon the circular of Count Strassoldo, Governor of Lorn- bardy, extending the operation of the previous spoliatory decree, the Debuts remarks :—-4‘ In law, is ii V of the victims ofsueh measu- lass ifonlyo secondary eonsldsrltion; the prin-

d la b evutythin . I is. however, not out of pllice to rflark tgat '

this confiscation ro of near] one

It inliistpebreuatlded, thya it netonly to individuals suspected of having partici ted directly or indirectly in the recent troub es of Milan, but that it coui rehends the exiles of 1848. and even those 0 1820. Thus, at Man- tus, the authorities have seiaed the estates of Court A , a of 18$), who ' oe that year hasres dad in lgium, where, :: belledb, hehae obmlnsd letters of natura-

lisation, and where, as we know, he has need his time‘ in study, and ubllahsd wo s on economical sub’ , wblc have r

rocu him as honours escieutific repumdon. Count Arrivabene, nevertheless, is one of the victims of 1858.”

Tue Damisaii Cos-raovnsr.—Aratber amusing controversy is at present being carried on tween the two cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, ‘and the point in dis ute relates to the res fr ive intemperanoe o the inhabitanm. A short time a a Parliamenmry return was printed, on the motion of Mr. Hume, which contained some important statistics with res to the amount of drunkenness existin is several cities of both England and Sootlan ;aad from sonic researches which have been since made b licrd Provost M’Maren, it would sesui that the returns for the cit of Edinburgh were ver incorrect. Hence t quarrel ori ' ated, an a considerable amount of labour been em played by the partisans of their respective cities,

make as bad a case azpoesible for their op- oaents. The Nortli Brit’ Daily Mail, which denotes two columns to the subject, has the following extract from the 8cotmisii:—“ e do not care to plunge into the details-we are willin , in the meanwhile. to take the Edin- burgh turn as a vated by our Lord Pro- vost; only we uiusta so, on the grounds alread smted, take the Glss w Return in its correc form. The figures t on sssunie this veriyoggly form :—Edinburgb, 9,318 cases in 166, of population, or 1 in 18; G w, 26,000 cases in 333,657 of population, or in 13. This is what our Glss w friends have to thank our ovost r. His |ordship's attempt was, not to raise Glasgow, butto lower Edinbur and there we are, Edinburgh low, but Glasgow lower still."

Tits Jol-is Boar. Nuocai-.—A Mr. Potter, one of the successful adventurers in that wonderful lolter , the gold diggings of Australia, has broug ibome the fruit of his success in the :-l'I:I|l0 of an enormous nugget. which, in compliment to its burly proportions. he has christened the " John ul ," and proposes exliibiiiug it to the curious, before it goes to the crucible. The cxbi. bitm was one of a party oftliree who went " pros- pcctin" la the White Horse Gully, Bendigo, Port Philip, and, after a short season of barren re- aulls, was at last fortunate enough to turn up this giant of the mine within it inches ofthe surface, and in a place which had been literally honey- combed by the pickases of previous diggers. There were holes all round within a font and a half of the lucky a at; so that " John Bull" must have been in boar y danger of exhumation for a whole season, fore he was ultimately brought to light by Mr. Potter and his friends. Like his great original, he presents an aspect rugged but kindly, the mellow nature of his inner man every- where bresking through the rough crust of quarts which he at first presents to the careless observer. His solid contents are 45 lbs. 0 cs. troy of pure gold, worth £4 an ounce; and this bare feet will haves greater elfcct in attracting visitors than any elaborate or scientific description.