tiAsZA.RD's GAZE'l‘TE, "MAY '24.

iuscsI.muiaotis._

Sr. Micnu:i.’s Oiuiioas.—'l‘h _ are planted at about twenty-ﬁve to thirty feet apart, in regular rows, protected by tall’ shady hedges. They take seven years to arrive at maturity, and from that age, if properl cared for, continue_to bear well, till t sy attain to a good size and an enormous age. In good seasons some of the large trees yield as many as twenty boxes, of a thousand oranges each, and as many as twenty-six thousand fruit have been known to be gathered from one of -these proliﬁc trees. No wonder that, during the ripening season,lavge sup- ports have to be placed under the brancli- es, to prevent them front being torn away. from the trunk by the great weight of plump and juicy fruit that glows amidst their glossy foliage.—The quintas of the Azores are full in blossom in the month of April. By October, the most forivard oranges begin to ripen ; and in Novem- her, the first _gathering is tiiade for the London market. The orange harvest occurs in January and February ; and by the anti of the latter month, the trees are cleared of their juicy burden, and most of the fruit has been despatched front the Islands. In Spain and Portugal, the same mode of culture is practised as in the Azores, excepting that there no fen- ces are required to shade the trees. The orange-trees of these countries, however, are of greatly inferior size, and the aver- age yield proportionably less; the usual annual crop of one of the Seville trees being about eight thousand. No less than three hundred millions of oranges are annually consumed in this country, and to transport that number here gives employment to upwards of two hundred vessels.

Ci-i.uu'rv.—The Jews would not wi|' lingly trend upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; fol’ possibly, said they, the natiic of God may be oti it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet, truly, there is nothing but good religion in it, if we ap- ply it to men. Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there that thou knowest not of. The nauic of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on ; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of as to give his preci- ous blood for it _: therefore, despise it not. —Lei'gliton.

San Accincrsr T0 ALADY.—-A lady who was passing along the south side of Cliesnut street this morning, met with it sad mishap. Her dress was only mode- r tely long, there not being more than a ialfofu yard of the costly material of which it was composed, trailing along the pavement. Notwithstanding this coni- mendable nioderation, the lady was victi- mized. A gentleman who was passing along, had the misfortune to tread upon this identical liiilf ofa yard, and an awful ripping was the result. The "gathcrs” being the weaker point, gave way first, and disclosed underneath a hooped ar- raiigcment, that might readily have been mistaken for a ditiiity cask. 'l‘lie lady looked (loggers, and the innocent cause of the tiiishap declared his regret at the occurrence. He thought himself perfect- ly safe, he said, at the ilnie of the acci- dent, as he was fully four feet in the rear of the lad , and having his attention di- rected to ier boniiet—-wliicli he was ap- prelicnsive was about falling off behind-— he trod upon the train and caused the mischief. Isle‘ was very sorry, but all he could do was»to empl a stout lad who would ‘gather and carry the hall’-score yards of silk liq‘! h'un froin_the lady, likcaﬂtg fr ‘F, its sta on a calm day. We not, llI0tli__qr.or-not~tlt0

oticr ma accepted.—Philadelphia Bah htin.

A young man who was convicted of

0 "cc: , bigamy at Nowburyport last spring, upon

serving out his term of punishment, was met at the railroad station by his first wife, who took him to a clothing-store gave him a new rig, then presented to him $300 she earned since he deserted her, and they departed together for their former home in New Hampshire. If he isn’t faithful to her for the rest of his life, he ought not to live long. It is only the woman that furnishes such instances of constant and forgiving love.

VIOLENT Denna IN CAl.IF0ll.NlA.— The Alta California says :-—-The homicidal and accidental calendar in California, is one of fearful magnitude, and astouiids us when ive begin to contemplate and esti- mate thc great number of persons who have met death by violent means, either designed or accidental in our young and scarcely populated State. Some attempts have been made to keep an account of the homicides, btit they become so nume- rous, or so common, as to be uniniport- ant, or from some other cause, the re- cord lias been discontinued. It is thought by those well calculated tojndge from an extensive observation in Califor- nia, that the number thus swept out of existence suddenly, and b_v violent means, will equal an average ofabout five per day. A great proportion of this estimate is front accidental causes, in consequence of the necessary exposure oftlie persons oftliose engaged in most mining lociilities. The Nevada journal upon this subject says:

“ The number of men who meet with deaths in California, cannot be less than I400 a year, at the rate these deaths are occurring amongst us at pre- sent. The number resulting front mining casualties is enormously large, and will doubtless continue to increase

in proportion to the extension of hydraulic washing. Those killed in this manner are the bone and sinew

of the State, and California could much better afford to lose another class of

men. The deaths by banks caving exceeds at this time the lioiiiicide

calendar. At the rate this tiiortality goes on, it will require the average number of men brought by live steamers to supply the places of those

who meet with violent deaths. ” Siiociriivo I)EA'i'H—-Cﬂpl. William

Eaton, of Wells met with a most sli0ck- ing death on Monday last. lie was en- gaged in his mill sawing logs, when ,by sortie means not known he was tlirown across the carriage which Supports the logs, mid directly in front of the saw. and was sawii completely through, part of his body falling through the mill into the stream below. Capt. ‘ittlott was very much respected, and his sudden and shocking death has caused a pro- found sensation in the towti, He was aged about 66 years. Ilc was alone in the mill at the tiiiic.—-l’oi'tlaiitl Advertiser.

PAPER has been tirade from the bark stripped from cotton stalks, with favorable results. The Savannah Republican says:

“ The practice with the planters hith- erto liiis liceii, after the cotton has been gathered, to collect the plants into heaps before preparing the ground for another crop, and burn tlicm,out so that the hemp that may hereafter be obtained from them will ban clear gain, and add so much

‘additional to the yield of their cotton

fields.”

_ From twenty-six medical colleges in the United States, there graduated, last year, about thirteen hundred doctors.

. t-T‘ s - n I.aai.uui,..--Once more emigration is on

tlia country in large numbers.

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A VISIT T0 EDlsI:¥lYJR(iH—TIiE UN1VER- interesting fossil remains. There is here a c

, . Correspondence of the Newark Advertiser.

This city owes its prosperity almost entirely to its liter-arv and scientiﬁc institutions, its University and law courts. The commerce of the place is very triﬂing. I visited, this morn- ing, the Parliament House, where the courts of justice are held. Lord President l\IcNiel pre- sided, and there wiisa formidable array of lawyers, engaged in trying a. case for damages sustained in ii coal-pit. ' he judge, as well as the lawyers, were dressed in ﬂowing gowns and capacious wigs. Nothing looks more odd, or more ridiculous, than to sea these lawyers, many of them young men, with black gowns and enormous wigs, the curls reaching down to their shoulders. The proceedings were some- what different from those in our own court. The oath is administered to the witness by the

judge, and the lawyer. in making his exami-,

nation, stands up, and does not resume his seat till through with the witness.‘ inter. ruption is allowed by op using counsel: every- thing is conducted with t to most rigid decorum. Adjoining the court room is a spacious hall in which the Scottish Pat-liiuent was formerly held. It is 120 feet long by 50 wide, has It curious and elaborately wrought ceiling of oak, and the floor is iiiiido of the same material, laid in large blocks.

The tildes of the merit are adorned with seve- riil beautiful statues by Cliantry, l\lll0llI7 which were those of Lord Melville, Blair, and Jcﬂi.-- rics, the cclchriitetl editor of the Edinburgh Ile- vicw, who was one of the judges of the Court. This room is appropriately called the suitor'a room, as it is exclusively used by tlioso having suits at Court. The librar room is exceeding- ly tasteful aiidlienutiful, 1 0 fcetlong,-ill wide and 35 high. In the centre is a cupolii, orna- mented with paintings in oil of Apollo and the Muses. ’I‘lie library, ii. rare and choice collec- tion, consists of upward of (30,000 voluiaes The vestibule and stairs are also adorned with portraits and busts of distinguished men. In

front of the iuuin entrance to the courts is ii. ,

statue of Charles II. In the couimeruial towns ofSeotland. there are no lawyers. All the law business of the whole country is transacted in this city, and the number ofjudges, advocates, writers ,&c.. exceeds twelve hundred. in the court room, during the progress of the trial, one of the counsel took occasion to make it fling at the medical profession, expressing his regret. tliat there were so many contradictions and uncertainties in medicine. Front no class ofinen does ii. remark of this kind come with so ill ti grace as frora gentlemen of the bait-.-— 'l.‘hey seem to forget the law's delay, and its worse than uncertainty. The lines of the poet are full of force and truth.

“ There was on both sides much to say,

Ile‘d hear the cause another day—-

And so be did—ii.nd then a. third

llo heard it.—t|icii he kept his word

But with rejoinder.-i or replies,

Long hills, and answers stuffed with lics

For twenty years the cause was spun,

And then stood where it first began."

The grounds ‘in the immediate vicinity of the Parliament House, now an open space, was once a. portion of St. (i‘i1es’s churchyard, and here were interred the remains of John 'nox, but the precise spot where he was buried is un- known. Thc house in which the great refor- mer livcd and died is situated in Caiiiangittc street, and is carefully presi-rvcd. Tliorc is a

window on the North side, where a. pulpit it-:i.~g

formerly erected and front which lxnox was ac- custoiiied to address the people. Here are to be seen his sitting room and study, which latter is ll. icry small room 9 feet long by 6 wide, the l‘illlllt.‘llllgS of oak. with an old uakcn

our and primitive kiiockcr. It was in this room, that he composed his history of the re- forinatioii.

Iii Cl!.ll(iiI;_{t|I0 street, most of the noblcmen resided when llolyrood House was occupied by Queen Mary. The most conspicuous of these ancient mansions of the nobility, is that of the I-‘.aii'l of I*‘oi'u_v.—Uli\cr Cromwell took up his residence in this lioiise in 16473. It liiis an old stone lalcoiiy in front. 'l‘he building is now used nan schtml-liouse, bclongirig to the Free Church of Scotlaiid. In the iieigliborliood of this house is a venerable-lookirig building which for it long series of years was the princi- pal hotel in Hdiiiliurgli. ' that Dr. Johnson stopped with lloswcll on his mi ‘ to the llciiridi-s.

(inc of the most iittriictive objects in this re- markable city, is the superb monument of Walter Scott. 'I‘lie design is most beautiful. It is 8tl feet high, with fluted turrets. ()n the pedestal fronting the street is placed it marble statue of the poet and novelist. and which is considered an excellent likeness.

The University Btiildirigs are ver showy and ornamental. 'I‘hc l|lllliIH'l' of stu ents rc- gisteredis nearly twelve hundred. The quad rniigla is 358 feet long by 255 wide. The pil- lars oftlis portico are 26 feat in height, each one oi solid atone. The library consists of 90.- 000 volumes, with man valuable and curious iiianuscripts. There is in the rootn aﬂna statue museum has a good ‘collection

It WEI at this liin,.

table of Napoleon with a burnt s t

, used b him at St, Helena, _ _ t, marks by_liis oegar. n he opposite si e of the street is the Royal In- 'iirma The building is three stories high, llwith two long wings. Over the principal on- troncs is a status ot'Gsorge II. in Roman cos- tum On one side of the statub are the words. " I was naked and ya clpthed mo,” and on the ggpoaéte stldcd ‘ill Wﬂﬂfllsck and ya visited moi’; : e oya ‘o age 0 ‘ur eons isa. beauti u ‘structure with a noble hal hun round with lthe portriiits of distinguished meng, The Medi- :cal sehopl gt‘ mlnbﬁlfglt hasMalways ranked among t a rat in urope. onroe Cullen §Blaok and Gregory are among the cmiiient maii lwho have fillo pi-ofessorsliips in this college. 5 _ad the pleasure _of an introduction to Dr. ‘Miller, the distinguished professor of surger , i&(Vi)d't\:ll0tl.l”l l rec'ii‘ihir_ed theﬂmost kind atqd mar - ie is en ions. is gen enian is in to mac yoflifo, and unites profound learning andpskill twith the most pleasing manners.

One of the striking features of Edinburgh is the extraordinary height of the houses. Many of tlieai are eight and ten, and some even twelve stpries high. Each story is called it flat.

rave o ten seen as many bell-pulls at the front door as there were flats, cacl fair il liav- ‘ ing its appropriate hell. I took this aitei-noon what is called the Quecn’s Drivc around Salis- bury Craig. Near the to of the hill is the Queen's walk, which con ucts to the Peak of Arthur's Seat. _\\'altei- Scott has rendered soiue of] the lloculities gbouiit doubly iiitere%t- ingiii tie “ lcurt of ilid otliian.” On t a right of the Peak is the place where the rebel army was encauiped before the battle of Pres- ton Pans in 1745, and here to is the very spot near the site of the ruins of w it was once a chapel where Jeanie Deans had her interview with Staunton, her sister’s betrayer, avid refus- ed to save her life by a falsehood.

Yours, . .

‘The same rule is now observed in the Su-

preme Court of New York,—l§n. Cox. Ant’.

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The following is an extract from a letter re- ceived from Mr. John Ross, late of Boularde-

“Stran e to say, we had an Election at the Mines of éietoria. Yes ; the Miners who were this time last year, thotiglit nothing of better than to be shot down by the troops, and with the order of the Government, are this year allowed the privilege of returnin tuo Members to represent them in our Asseinb y. But it is still more surprising, that the man who headed the mines against the troops last year, has been returned as one of otir Members by the largest majority of any in this Province, This time last year, £500 was offered for ' his head by the Government, dead or alive. This may remind you of the circumstances connected with the present Emperor of tho Frencli.—l]ero we have no politicians; we have no Ilowcs or Johnstons, you would have no patience to listen to the senseless harangues about the Rights of the Crown, while the Rights of the people have been naglected.—'l‘hc pett Govern- moat Oilicers here have carried on a I manner of tyranny, bribery, and corruption; which ought not to exist in a Country claiming to be ii. Colony of Great Britain. Public grievance will. liowevcr, in the course of time. obtain a. hearing, even in Australia. ”—C. . 'ews.

Tilt: Two llos1'o.\'s.—lt would appear that the town of Boston, in Lincoliisliira, and the town of Boston, in the United States, are ver fru- ternnl_ At it vestry meeting held last wet-kin the Lint-olnsliire Boston, the vicar announced the receipt of two thousand dollars froiu the Hon, l-Edward Everett of Boston, .\lnssncliuset.t£,

resented in the name of tlio desceiidunts and admircrii of the vicar of old Boston in the reign of Charles I., for restoring the south west chapel of St. Botolph's and the erection of a inonuriicnt tl’t0l"9ll‘I to the nit-inory of the said vicar.— Jerrold’: llbclxfy, 12!/i.

Anririciii. Piioinicsriort or Fisu.——This sub-

tic much attention. The ston Journal informs us, that a. strong movement is there being made to secure the aid of the State in an attempt to repeoplc the pondii, brooks and water courses with ﬁsh. A_ committee of the legisla- ture‘ have the subject under consideration : and the plan urged upon the committee hits the support of Professor Agassiz, who as iven his testimony to the perfect feasibility o’ tho project. The Montreal Natural History Socia- ty have appointed a committee to consider the same matter, and report as to how it can be carried out in this Caiiada.—Montrca1 Tran~ trip!

A Mari Bntaniao Hla Owiv Moitvinir-r.--Dr. Orville Dewey has doiiated the earnings of his last winter‘: Laciiiiss to his native villa s, to lie akpettlcd ili planting shade trees, ‘a On‘ its

hirn blessed.

_ rie, C. B. dated Bzillarat, Australia, Nov. 10th While 1355 :_ .

jcct is now attracting on this side ofthe AtIan- .

fttrdatsi-Iniitl its children alisll rid up-arid’ etll '