THE VISITORS FRO! OUDE. The Rajah of Surat. now in this country, has taken the deepest interest in the affairs of the Royal Family of Oude. He came to

' SouthanIi‘pton with a s lendid suite when the

Royal amily lande , and welcomed their arrival with presents, according to Eastern cust_om. He is also now assisting them in getting a suitable residence and introduc- tions in London. On Monday one of the Hindoo princesses in the suite of the Queen of Oude took a bath at Vardy's Hotel. She was conveyed closely veiled to the baths in a fly, accompanied by an eunuch. She is very young and beautiful. The stlluch did not leave her any part of the E. It is only a few of‘ the Oude party . are privileged to eat'ﬂesh: a few

others are allowed to eat ﬁsh. All the‘

lower castes can only eat vegetable food, and that consists chiefly of rice. Poultry must be killed twenty-four hours before it is eaten. The dead birds are scolded with hot water, by which they can be easily de- nuded of their skin and feathers. Fish are wiped dry with towels ; they are then rub- bed over with eggs, after which curry pow- der and various spices and seeds are strew- ed over them, they are fried in oil. The I-Iindoo coolig appear to be perfect in the art of ﬁavouring their dishes. The nu- merous condiments and ingredients which they use are all so marvellously mixed as tqgive the viaiids ii peculiar but most do- fotis ﬂavour. The Oudeans rise early, Iost at sunrise, and do not go to bed

' ' before midnight. They indulge, how- , A , in a lengthened siesta. They go " shopping all day long, and the presence of any one oftheir number in a shop is indi- cated by a crowd outside. It is amusing to see them sitting down in a shop and listen- ing with the most profound and ludicrous gravity to the sliopkeepei-‘s recominen- dation of his wares, and his endeavours to make them understand his prices. The Oud- eans evidently pride themselves on the few English words they are able to speak. They salute any one who goes into the hotel by saying snlaam and touching their turbaiis with their ﬁngei-just as a Jack Tar touches the forelock of the hair ofhis head. They are docile and peaceable, and al- though generally grave, indulge at times in fun and badinage. Although their notions of cleanliness are not like Englishmen’s they liavo conformed to the sanitary regu- lations of Southampton, so as to give no annoyance to their neighbours. They do not use knives and forks in eating, but the frequent ablutions at meal-times of the higher class renders the use of ﬁngers less disagreeable than some would imagine. The Queen Dowager of Oude still believes that the Queen of England will grant her In interview. She states, that if the East India Coinpypy had reason to find fault -wit her son.a'nd to suspend him from exer-

_ci ' iljnhctions, they ought not to ..;-mg.’ I‘ I‘ gui tless ofo

"led her grandson, who is ence, and who is the descen- dant ofa long line of princes.

It is stated in a Constantinople letter, that the fortiﬁcations of Kars are to be re-estab- lished, and that it is to be made a fortiﬁed place of the ﬁrst order. \Vorks are also to be undertaken to complete the fortiﬁcations of Erzeroum and Van. These three places belong to Turkish Armenia, and form the line of defence of the Asiatic frontiers of

the Empire on the side of Persia and of

the Russian possessions.

By advices from Algeria to the 24th, we

have news ofa tremendous earthquake, of

the 21st and 22nd. Its shocks were feeble at Algiers, but violent at Constantino and Bone. At Philippeville the concussions were tremendous. hey were renewed on the 22nd, when towers were thrown down, and houses laid in ruins; but the previous day hd alarmed the inhabitants, and they were sacrificed. Many French villages in the vicinity of Philippeville are destroyed.

In Italy our only news is, that discontent is spreading in the Legatioris, and that

' alarm exists in the Government at Naples,

in consequence of the newly ascertained movement of the Muratist party. This party has been circulating a programme or proclamation at Naples with surprising Joe:-soy and activity.”

THE ADULTIZRATION 0! F_00D.

anronr or ‘run coauurras or run iiouss or cosiarons.

The report of the committee appointed by the House of Commons last session to inquire into the adulteration of food, drink. 1 and drugs, hasjust been published, together ‘with the evidence taken; it forms a very voluminous document, extending over 300 pages. The substance of the committee's ‘conclusions and recommendations may, "however, be compressed into a small space. They examined a large number of witnes- ses, comprising both men of high scientiﬁc attainments and of practical knowledge as dealers. Though there was considerable .diﬁ'erence of opinion as to the extent of the adulteration practised, the committee can- not avoid the conclusion, that it does wide- ly prevail, and that injury to the public health, great pecuniary fraud, and much damage to the commercial morality of the country, ensue from the practice. The principal articles of food adulterated are the following:—Arrowroot, with potato and other starches; bread, with potatoes, plaster of Paris, alum, and sulphate of copper; bottled fruits and vegetables. with certain salts of copper; coffee, with chicory, with roasted wheat, beans, and mnngel wurzol; chicory, with roasted wheat, carrots, saw- dust, and Venetian red; cocoa, with arrow- root, potato-ﬂour, chicory, and some ferru- ginous red earths; cayenne, with ground rice. mustard, husk, SLc., coloured with red lead, Venetian red, and turmeric; gin, with grains of paradise, sulphuric acid,and cayenne; lard, with potato-flour, mutton suit, alum, carbonate of soda, and caustic lime; mustard, with wheat-flour and tar- meric; inarnialade, with apples or turnips; porter and stout (though sent out in a pure state from the brewers) with water, sugar, treacle, salt, alum, cocculus indicus, grains of paradise, iiux vomica, and sulphuric acid; pickles and perserves with salts of copper; snutl‘ with various cliroiiiates, red lead, lime, and powdered glass; tobacco with water, sugar, rliubaib, and treaclc; vinegar with water, sugar, and sulphuric acid; jalap, with powdeied wood; opium with poppy capsules,wheat-flour, powdered wood, and sand; scatninony with wheat- flour, chalk, rosin, and sand: confectionery with plaster of Paris and other similar iii- grcdients, coloured with various pigiiieiits ofa highly poisonous nature; and acid

Jargonelle pear, Ribstone pippiii, lemon, St.c., with essential oils containing prussic acid or other dangerous ingredients. They report also, that adulteration ofdrugs is ex- tensively practised; and in regard to drinks, they conclude, that the intoxication so de- plorably prevalent is, in many cases, less due to the natural properties ofthe drinks themselves than to the admixture of narco- tics, or other noxious substances intended to supply the properties lost by dilution. They state, moreover, that the poorer the district, the greater is the amount of adul- teration. The committee then inquired into the laws which existed on this subject in other countries, especially in France, Belgium, Germany, and the-United States. In all those countries, they found that means . were employed by the government to detect adulterated articles, and that when dis- covered, the vendors were severely unish- ed by ﬁnes, imprisonment, and in russia by bodily punishment. They describe the present state of the law in this country, which gives redress to individual consumers by action, and, if the injury be general by indictment, by summary charge before a magistrate. and by proceedings instituted by the Excise. Some of these are repre- sented as cumbrous, costly, and defective; and the committee are of o inion it would be most desirable that in all cases of the sale of adulterated or ﬁctitious article, a cheap and easy remedy, by summary charge before a magistrate, should be aﬁbrded to the person upon whom the fraud has been practised. As a means of detection, they recommend, that municipal or other local authorities should be empowered to appoint an oﬁicer or oﬁicers, who, on complaint made, or in cases of reasonable suspicion, shall procure portions of any article sup- posed to be ad rated, with a view to their examination lysis by some duly qua- liﬁed person a

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drops, purporting to be compounded of

the report of such person conﬁrms the sus- icion, a summons should he issued and the cese investigated before justices, who shall have power to inflict summary punishment, and to publish the name f the offenders. They recommend, also, at one or more scientiﬁc anal sers should be appointed un- der the authority of the Board of Health, to whom the local authorities may refer sus- picious articles.

The Persian ambassador in Paris is to roceed to London to terminate the Anglo- ersian dispute by offering full satisfaction

to England, on condition that Mr. Muray be recalled.

HOW TO OBTAIN A WIFI. WITH A FORTUNE.

" Jacques Bﬂhomme,” a Paris corres- pondent, relates the following anecdote, which he locates in that city :-

“ A oun man of ﬁne family, though impoverished by the revolution, apired to a post under government, to occupy which it was necessary to furnish a certain sum to deposit in security. Our hero could not obtain the requisite amount from his friends, and at last, hit upon an expedient to put an end to the difficulty. He caused an adver- tisement to appear in one ofthe journals, as follows:-—

“A young man, occupying an honorable position, wishes to marry a lady well brought up, and possessed of two hundred and fifty francs.”

“ Two hundred and ﬁfty francs are but ﬁlly dollars, and, as there are many women in the world who would be glad to purcliaso a young, handsome and honorably connect- ed husband on such moderate terms, it was quite natural that the advertiser, in the course ofthree days during which his notice appeared in public, should have received many letters and applications. The young man addressed a note to each ofthe appli- cants, appointing to a place and hour when he would meet them altogether; and polite- ly inviting all to come and look at him- On the evening indicated, they came. and it is said, the company numbered full two hundred women. \\'hen all had assembled, the young man ‘organized the meeting,’ and made a speech, in which he thanked these ladies for the honour they proposed conferring upon him. ‘ But’ said the self- possessed young gentleman, ‘ you lllilt un- derstand, ladies, perfectly well, that I can- not marry you all, moreover, you are allso charming‘ (many of them were horrible witches), ‘it would be utterly impossible for me to choose amongst such lovely crea- tures. This then, is my proposition:—Coii- sidcr me as an object put up at lottery. You number two hundred; make two hun- dred tickets, at two hundred and ﬁlly francs each, and the gross sum realized shall be the fortune ofthe lady who draws the lucky number, and whom I pledge myselfto marry immediately. They hesitated a moment, but the youth was good-looking, and the

ladies were anxious to marry. One of

them determined to accept the proposition,

and the rest followed after like a flock sheep. As if to reward our ventur s ate '

young friend for his courage, his fort stars directed that he should fall to the lot ofa youthful and pretty girl, whose greatest fault is an unhappy passion for practising on the piano.—Truc to his word, the young man married her, and at last accounts, the couple thus strangely brought together were passing a pleasant honey-moon. ”

CORRESPONDENCE

(l"or llaszard‘s Gazette.)

No. 3. To ‘rill: 'rItus'rsI:s or xnirr nts'rlttc'r scHooi.. Gentlemen,

In in second letter I referred to the hindran- ces an annoyances which arise from irregula- rity of attendance and want of punctuality at school. Ialso hinted at the im ro er interfe- rence of some rents with the usiness of the teacher. On t is latter point let me only add. that! freely grant to every parent the privile e of determining what articular branches his child should or shoul not study. But some boys possessing good natural rte, though is love of indolenee or a desire of ing always in the street, will often complain tothsir parents,

that the tasks given them by the teacher to nted for the purpose, If‘ loan at licme,—say in Grammar or Geography‘

—" are too hard, and they cannot learn them." Now it shows great weakness and lack of wis- dom in parents, to be inﬂuenced by such plead.

ings. so far as to direct their children to say to the teacher. “ please, Sir, Pa said, I was no; to learn Geography" or, ” ease. sir, Mo said, [was too young to do ad ition" or, “please sir, Ma said, I was to t a new lesson &c." ' arents bel eve the teacher to be inca able 0 assigning the children such tasks and essons as are suited to their age and men. tal ca acity, or of 'adging properly when they shoul be advance to a new lesson, than than parents not very inconsistcntly in entrusting them to his care and tuition. There may ‘be individuals eiqployed as teachers who possess insuﬁicient ju gment and discernment in these matters, but if so, they are novices indeed, in the profession, or perhaps, interlo ers.

Permit me to state yet no r evil w ich prevails to a greater extent in this city, than in any other localit in which I have ever yet taught; namely, t e migratory habits of the scholars. I have at present some upils that have gone the round of all the schools—snd still, all of these Inoveoble characters are very poor scholars indeed, noneof whom possess the more elements of the ordinary branches of an English education, Now a boy will progress more speedily and do more good with an instructor who is even below mediocrity, if he attend him regularly and unctually. than he will, with the ablest andp most experienced teachers, when he keeps moving round from the one to the other, and remaining with no one long enough to be fairly introduced with his systeni’ or to allow the teacher to learn his disposition or mental capacity. Such “rolling

ones can never gather any mess.” The same principle holds true in every other department of life. No man without capital can accumu- l|1i° Wealth. by keeping constantly shifting from ﬁrm to firm and from one place of busi- ness to . another, and never continuing at any one place long enough to make a fair start, and ac uire the necessary business knowled eand ha its. Much less can intellectual wealth be stored by indulging in unsteady and vagrant habits. tlonstancy, diligence, and punctuality, are indispensably necessary to ensure success in any and every thing. This shifting habit of

D as

is the rum 0 our schools. Under present habits, boys attend schools for dx or seven years, and sometimes longer, without acquir- ing it thorough knowledge of the commonest English branches.

Now let any parties entrust me with from 30 to 50 boys, all of whom can with ease read the boeond Book, and; let these boys attend me constantly and punctuully for two years—ex- ceptmg of course the usual holidays—und let me _liuvc thirty shillings er quarter each as tuition fees. andl am rco y to pledge myself, that at the expiration of the two years, 1 shall have them thorough in all the following bran- ches, namely, English Reading, Writing, Arith- metic, Grammar, Geogra liy and Composition.

'I here then would be on y twelve pounds paid for these six most essential and useful branches; and the parent or guardian who would consi- der this ii dear purchase of knowledge. must set its price at a very mean ﬁgure indeed, and must possess but a very meagre appreciation ofits real value and importance.

I am, Gentlemen, Your Obdt. Svt.. . A. NIACKENZII.

Charlottetown, Sept. 18th, 1856.

/erfszannts GA

Wednesday. September 24, 1856.

Mr. George Miicltcnzie, ofNew Glasgow near

ictou, has, we understand, made an offer tq the government, to put an iron steamer on the line t'roiu this to Pictou to run daily, (Sundays excepted) and when an‘ English mail arrives there, to start immediately after coming from Charlottetown, and thus perform two trips in the day. He will undertake it is said to have the vessel uilt in the course of the ensuing winter at Glas ow in Scotland, after the most appro- ved models and with the latest improvements in machineiy, and expressly ﬁtted to the pecu- liarities of tide, place, due, so that the passen- gers, Jic. will ate on board at either place and step out again without trouble or the intervention of boats. This is an oﬁ'er which deserves serious consideration, and inasmuch as a bird in the hows worth two in the bush, we should prefer than going on in the unsatisfactory way that we are. 'I‘lie objection started to complying with this oﬁer, it is hint d, is, that the 0- vernment intend to change the route from ic- tou to Tatanie ouche ; we confess. that we are partial to this attor place. as liein more direct and bringing us nearer the Atlantic ya day: but then the question arises, as to whether we are prepared to overcome the obstacles that lie in the way of the new route. There is one consi- deration thatought to operate strongly in favor of keeping to Piotou, and it is, that a consi- ‘dsrable deal of commerce has arisen between

pupilssin the city and of teachers in the country, ‘

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ing with Mr. Mackenzie,