HASZARD’S GAZETTE, APRIL 26.

Pitocltsss or Asrltoilosiicu. Sciatica.-_ Seventy-five years since, the only planets known to men of science were the same 'wliich were known to the Chaldean shep- herds thousands of years ago. Between the orbit of Mars and that of Jupiter there occurs an interval of no less than three hundred and fifty millions ofmiles, in which no planet was known to exist before the commencement the present century. Nearly three centuries ago, the immortal Kepler had pointed out something like a regular progression in the distance of the lanets as far as Mars, which was broken In -the -case of Jupiter. Being unable to reconcile the actual state of the planetary system with any theory he could form res- pecting it, he hiiznrdcd the conjecture that a planet rt-.illy existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and that its smallness alone prevented it from being visible to -IISll‘OlI0lIIt,‘l‘S. But Kepler soon rejected -this idea as improbable.

Knmvuziics or run WORl.D NECESSA-

I.!.——N«~thing has so imich exposed men 01'

-~Iettrning'to contempt and ridicule, as their ‘ignoraiicc of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who have been -taught to consider the institutions of thc vcchools as giving the last pt-i-fcction to hu- man abilities, are surprised to see men wrinkled with study, yet wanting to be Ill- .-structcd "in the minute cll‘Ctlll|SlallCt‘Stir propriety, or the necessary forms of dail dransiictions; and quickly shake otftlicir .reverence for modes of education, which they find to produce no ability shove the rest of mankind. Bmlrs, says Bacon, rriii iiwer (each the use of books. The stutli-ut ‘Inns! learn b_v coiniuerce with mankind to .rcduce his speculations to practice, :ind «accommodate his knowledge to the purposes of life.

Ctii-:Mis'r!-.v AVD M.i'rr.iu/ii.is.vi.—'l'hc

renowned Liebig delivered it public lecture -on “ Aniznal (Jlieiiiisti-y" at Munich, on she -l9tli of Jantini-y, in ivliicli he took occasion to declare. from his position as chemist aml naturalist, his opposition to the widely spread views of Mi-li.-sclir-tt, Vogt. .Bucliner, and others of the most rugged urytcrialisni. He pronouiici-d liiinsclf, uitli digUt_v niitl energy, against the “dt-nit-rs of mind anil vital power,” and illustrated Ind ~coinli.~ited, from his pi-ufouiid convic- tion, .lll‘3ll' erroncou.-i tlieoi-it-s on puie sci:-ntitic grcmnd. He showed how impos- sible it is to explain, on cliciiiical principles, the cxiatt-nco of even the lowest connecting parts of an organism—of ll cell or tl mus- cular ‘l‘ll)t'P—i|lKl how much more so to -account. for the mysterious processes of life and thinkingliy a. change of matter. He 4lemoiisIrirt4..l -how unable lllillf‘.I‘ltlllSlS were to distinguisli organic: couibinzitions from those pm-etly cheuiical. Nothing, he said, was more nbsuml than to derive the process ol'tliiultin_-_r and willing from it piiospliot'e.~- -ctiniec of the brain, as Molt-scli-int hail done. lloiv much more of tliiiikiiig stuff then, (iiiuteriiil of thinking). would then: be contained in bones, which liave four liiindred times more phosphorus than the brain?

Coxi. AND \Voon.—W'.ood used as fuel generates heat more rapidly than cniil; but a pound of the latter (nntliraciti-) will evaporate three times uiore water than a pound of wood. As a couipsct fuel, coal, thi»ret'ore, is the best for use -iii gt-iterating steam, because plenty ot' dralt for rapid combustion (Jill easily be obtained by a blower or toll eliiinncy. As wood contains I great quantity of oxygen, and nntliriicito coal none, less air is taken from an apati- lnent wheii wood is used for fuel, than when anthracite coal is used. Fhis is the reason -why the iitinosphcre of tipartments lieiited with wood fuel produces, as it were, a more genial influence, and why such fuel is also more healthy for heating: also why it does not rt-quire such an amount of cold air from the outside to supply the tire.

CAMP A1‘ WI\CHliITl2R.--ln§ll'llCllOlt IIIRVO been given by the govt-niinent, that ‘500 acres at’ land in the neiglibonrhood of Wincliiaster shall be purchased for the pur-

-pose of forining s perinziiicnt camp of 500

men.

EAit1'uqusxss.—-There are two theories respecting the cause of earthquakes. 1st. The igneous theory, which main- tains, that this earth was once a molten fiery hall, and tluit its intcrioris still ii fiery mass, and is sometimes unused. to generate wares, which produces oscillations on the eartli's surface. 2d. The electric theory, which attri- butes the shocks to disturbed magnetic action in tho cru.-it of the glolic——that the shocks are nothing uiore than powerful electric shocks. _ As i-urtliquukes are local, those who dis- iitc the igneous theory assert,that if the interior of the earth were a molten mass, and earthquakes were caused by waves ol this lliiid, then the oscillations would be equally strong on every part of the «earth's crust.

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New Rr..\ii:nv son Sss SlClKNl2Fs.—- Mrs. Etntiia \Villard of Troy, proposes a new i-eiiieily furtbis unpleasant sickness, which coiisists in forcilily expelling the ini- piire air, froin the lungs, and tilting tlzcin with pure air. This is her ndvii-e:— " Make your chest as small as possible by istooping, drawing down your ribs, and pressing your arms to your sides; ll”’0‘V out the air by :i violent and lung-coiitinuetl -cvlialiug, lilowin-_{ it {ruin your inoutli as il"_ engaged in blowing up a tire. Tlieiicliange, make a long and forcible inhalation, open- ing your chest to its fullest dimensions by standing erect, and raising your arms from your sliouldt-rs. Three or four of these long forced brcntlis are stitlicient to relieve a severe case of st-:i-sickness.”

l.\'Tl-‘.Itl‘.STl\'G P(tRTR\lT.—-Tito ship Fri- gate liird, iit l’hiladi-lpliiti, from London, irouglit a line original _portriiit of the lit- mous Britisli patriot and statesman, John

(firm the 8!. Joint Morning Courier?)

The Railway Bills, as passed the Legislature. provide for the issue of Debentures to the amount of £200,000 sterling r annum for i-ailwiiypurposcs. Of coui-se,t 6 ex adituro will be determined ii. good deal by the state of the money market: in England. When Mr. Fisher began his arrangement with Messrs.

- ring. the unsettled state of commercial utisirs in consequence of the war, which then appeared likely to lost another year at least, seemed to present an inseparable dificulty raising money. Both himself and his colleague. Mr. ltobertsun. were surprised, we believe, when the promise of £50,000 sterling was ob- tained fur 1850. at six per cent. This sum, it is expectc , will completely tinisli the ma from the [lend to Shediiie. and provide lor the surveys on the extensions, 4120., during the pre- sent year.

It is very easy for parties who some months since ridiculed the bare possibility of our Go- vernment succeeding in raising money at suci a time, to try now to misrepresent the terms. It is enough for us to know, that we have made in very bad times, as good an nrrangeuient for money to build our Railways, as Canada, with all its resources, made in very good times; and every rational man, who is willing to risk bor- rowing money for such it purpose, will ac- knowledge that is much better bargain was made than we could have expected.

We refer to this subject now for another pur- pose. Although we only get £50,000 sterling during the present year, and probably could not well expend it, it" we hit more, we autliority under the Bill to create 4.'l.'i0,tl(ttl additioniil debentures. 'l‘lius, if in 1857 and 8. the money market. should be very easy, we can go to the extent of £550,000 sterling. That amount with the £50,000 this year. and tho £t'-0,1700 which will be paid to Jackson, will make altogether the sum of :l.'9Ci0.ll0tl sterling by the end of l858.—Now, assuming that the Guvorniiient draw this full amount. it is pretty clear, that by that period we shall have an im- pgi-taut line of ltailway completed, and two others couiinenced.

Sonic persons who ought to be good judges, say, that our Railways can be built by the (jo- ierniueut, when payments will be cash, for ii.

5 —. c.

Hainp(len. lt belonged to the Hon. John

ilimii-_vli My ltiiclianan, to the Congress of the United States.

ADU1'.TEll.\'l'lt)l\'S or (1iii.\'ii\'i:.—"l‘lir high price at which sulphate of quinine (an now be had in its purity. has led to ltt-t (~.\ti-iisivu ndultt-ration. Pliysiciiiiis and the public should be ()l| their. guard, nnd only obtain the article from sale and reliable hands, else they may be using arscitic, ])lI)('l'l).'('. or sti-yclinine, for till tlusc are t-inployetl for ndultt-rating purposes.—-.Mcdical Guzi-ltc.

SL'cci:s'rivi: FAcr.—It is estimated, that every one of the soldiers who lirsirged Sehastopol, has cost. on an average, far more to France and Eiiglatid tliiiii ii ‘_[1l~'lll'l uiissioiini-y would have cost, according to, the usual rcuiuiieriititiii, in every part of the globe.

Mon'ri\i.i'rv or Bit1'ciii;ns.—An rrticlv of rcci iit date in the lmiitloii Jlfrdiuil 'l'iim-3,. states, that the liiglii-st ratt-s of Iiioitality are foiind aiiiiiiig the butclu-rs, as is shown by olliciiil statistics, and coutiiincil by isnrctiil observation. The llorid coinpli.~x- ion, which is peculiar to the liiitclu,-r, does not seem to indicate enduring liealth.

A PASHA l‘T1‘ENDli\'G Cuurtcn.——A let- ter from Ji-riisnletn states. that en ti l't'(.‘l‘lll Sabbath. his Exctillciicy, Kiainil l’asli:i, at- ti-ndvd the Eugli.-'|i service in company with his two sccretsi-ics, and followed as for as the door by a long train of servants. \Vho would have iiiiticipatcil such an 0t,'(‘lll‘l'1"llt'(‘. a few years siiii.-o!-—Cliristian i:|iui~¢;h Iii-ll... ringing in the Holy City, and n 'l‘uilti.~li Paslis walking gravely to -church.

Tits l’.Asrr.iu.Y Wixns.—-Letters from llnisterdain state that n siiigiiliir spectiiclo new presents itself. which has not been seen for the last half century; the Zur- dt-rzcc, in conscquenct: of the long eon- titiiiaiice of northerly mid easterly winds, is nlniost dry. Between Gencniinilcn, lllockzel, Lenimer Kanipan. and Harder- w_ik the bed of the sea may he crossed dry-footctl, and steainbonts and other

l\lc(:I’(?'_'nl' of the llritish l’nrlinuieut fot'.unai-ieriige. (;|,,_,-gm.-) ..,,¢«| is to be presented by him, lrity, tl-ai.n contrartorofi-iniiiem-e,hasalready

.i'/nnmliiilely built. Could they cxpcr d .

sum not exceediiig £5000 sterling a mile. on We are inl'oi'uied on good autho-

exprissed his willingness to build the line from Slicdiac to St. John tor this sum. If this be so, and we lielii-ve it is, there is nothing to prevent the whole line froui Sliediac to St. John being built by the autumn of 1858, or at latest early in 1851!, besides an expenditure of coiisideralily iipuai-ds of .t.'l00,000 sterling on the two ex- tciisiiiiiu by that time.

We hi-lie-vo that the design is, to complete from Slimline to tl:e Ben as soon as possible: then to i.-oinplotc front at. John to llainpton, fo which the contract can he issued at once. 'l‘lii part of the road, tlicrofore. niay also he opened in-xt yeiir-— l'c lCllt'\’0 that the line to the

loud may he broiiglit into use. nnd inado to pay it. little. its in ‘on as particular partsaretiiiisliod.

'l‘hi~. extensions will be surveyed during the present sciisun. iind the expenditure will roll}- ini-nce upon them next ‘car. Many would lIn\‘c I-l't5li.‘l'l’I‘(l seeing the line already under eoiitrai-t 4-oinpleteil lirst, but this was found iiiipossilvle. piincipally because of the feeling ot the counties on the upper part’. of the llivier .\t. Jolin. The Atlflfllt-y ticii--ral wits not nil- ling to allow York County to he unpi-oiidrd for iiiiiiii-diat-,-ly, and as he had been so instrumen- tail in I-'t't‘tll‘lllg the coniincnocincnt of the work, tlicarrangeiiient to pvoiido tor the road from rt. John to Woodstock was assenttd to. This, of course, also led to the provision lor the ex- t--iisioii to Chatliiini, already secured by the old Bills.

We have been a little surprised M: the dis- satisliictioii wliich some parties in Fredericton

are said to have felt at not liming

ll Sheiliac line. to give way for an tnlirr/IJ new line ol'ro.iill Puitliiiig. we are persuaded, but the

wish ol the (ioverninent iind the llouse, to do all that was possible to meet the Attorney Ge- ni=riil's views on tl.is oint, in consrqueiicc of his own exertions. would have induced them to consent to iin_v expenditure on ll‘t‘t'X!0ll§l0nl, until the Sliediac and St. John line was liritt coinplcteii.

lint our friends in the interior are now per- fi-,i~tl_y s:it'e. They have for the that time a llnilroad secured to \\'oodstock. 'l'hcy will inve a. siiriey iininediately, and during the next. two years nn ex cndituro which uill iiinke thoin probiibly tuclve or liftcen miles of road. 'l‘l'en they will get their full share. The delay

that the value oi’ tiie road upwards, towards

will receive the mus should ever require it.

It’ for inslitnce. in 1852. when the Facility llills were passed, an arrangement similar to

i influential support, if it

vessels are everywhere high on the sands.

miles of road towsrds Mirsinlchi would like- wise be com leted , art of the rosd from Fre- dericton to V oodstoc would slsobe completed: and pow the work would be proceeding on the who 0 line.

It is useless. however, to argue s point which is so plain. We may well express our thank- fulness, that we have got rid of the great coa- triictors. It is ttltogetherei3le'l.o ssy.kibst they‘ would ever have cemplet t is wor even I our Government had met their demiindslsst summer. Their present conduct with rpppsct to Ciinadn,slow tlat. the are not to e e- pended upon‘. 'l‘hiii Proviynco has got into 5 sea. of trouble with them, which will, we fear, seriously ouiliiirrass its railway movements for

d some time to come

We shall now await anxiously the action of the Executive in taking the necessary steps to set the work in motion. t. is necessury,wo presume, that the Attorney General or Provin- ciiilsccretary lllullld proceed to England and finish the arrangements. But, in the nienntime, pl'Ollll'lll'li| _y measures may be determined, but with respect to the road botwen Slicdiuc and the bend, and the curve of the extensions. We trust the Executive will do their duty promptly and energetically.

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_ Sataaday.

'l'nstiii: are some expressions which derive their importance from the clinriictt-r and situa- tion of the person using them. For example Mr. Coles in speaking of persons who in the exercise ofa cotistitutionul right signed an

terms, it is true, on the conduct of the present: ‘l1dllllDlBll‘tItl0n, calls them persons “eating the bread of that Government,” whose measure they luivc had the ingntitude—l'or that is the import of the spccch—to tind fault with. When language such as this is used by the person calling himself the leader of tho (-'ovt-rnnicnt: it is best to meet it at once. Docs Mr. Coles mean to say, that because it man is a public otlicer, in the receipt of a public salary—of no consequence how l|Illt‘.ll or how little-—tlint the fact ot' his receiving such salary constitutes him it servant of the existing adiiiinistratiou -‘ whose bread he eats 7” Yes, he does lll(:ttn ex- nctlythis, in other words, "You are to a certain degree dependent oti the \'otc of the House of Asscniblv for the means of living. and if you dare to lind fault with a single act of tninc,l will turn you out ' my own crcitturcs in your is language that would be considered constitu- tional, right. and proper in llussia or Turkey, lint among a people who boast oftlieir descent t'roin lliituns, it. sounds, to say the least ofik rather strange and hardly Il('t.‘UI‘tlB uitli the rt/"rain of the most popular song in their lan- guage, “For llriton.; lt(\'tl', ll(\(‘l' will he sliivi-s.” int \\'llt'l‘l§ docs Mr.(.‘olt-s get this notion of olliiwial .~iibs«-i-\'iei.<-_v? l\'ot li-uin tlio innsiins and practice. oftbe British Parliaiiveiit, we are most ccrtiiiii. Let him or iiii_v other person turn his eye over th-2 list. of tho oppo- sition. ntid he will sco Generals and (‘olont-lii, and other ollicers in the iiiiny and Adiuirnls and (‘nptaiiis in the navy, some on lull iind some on hull'-pay. speaking and voting iigiiinst the present. iitliiiiiiistritlioii, and thc llliiiisti.-i"-— ifsiicli could be fouiid—\\hu \voi.l-l dare to insinuate that they were “eating ll.‘l.' lII'(‘lld of tiovcrnincnt" would be assailed by such it stoi-in of indignation and coiiteinpt. that would convince him that he had no longer any l-uri- ncss there. Wlieii it niau rci-eivt-ii tl salary for any scniccs he may render the public, we have been always in the habit of siippoisiiig, that he

was indebted to the people for the i-einunt-rn-

,tion he received. and no think so still. not“ ill)- lstnnding the high iiutliority of the leader of the the road Goveriiiiicnt. ' t this city, about this, because. if the idea is adopted iind the other counties iiniucdiiitcly on the at-ti-il upon. we shall liiive lii.-coiiie n ioeuncr

are the more piirtii-uliir

and more abject race, tluin the slaves of Russia and Turkey; and because such iieiitiinentsnrc diniuetricully opposite to the liubits and man- n:rs oftlic British pcolle, and the miixiins of the constitution. A severe jealousy ot' the party in power is the rule Soldiers are or- dered olfat a. distance from the scene of elec-

. tions. because their presence might intimidate

the voters; every prct-nution is taken to pre- vent Govcrnincnt making use ol its piitroiuigo in order to influence elections. The contrary we know is the case here. Men are putinto places in the mngistracy. the excise, the road service or any otli:-r service on the vcrv express

condition. that they exert their own influence,

‘and the influence ot' their relatives and l'i-ieiids is a very small one. and we can assure tlieni, f in keeping the party in power in their seats an ’|'L‘[\I’0l0nlBll\'t‘8 of the people. Such practices the Province bound iry, iii cstiisuted lierc, iind ' have always belonged to the worst periods oh;

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nation's history. We have great hopes how- ever founded on the general good sense and sound iinderstandiag ot men engaged in agri- cultural pursuits, that such tlebusing senti-

thiit now made had been elected. we should ments as those itivolved in Mr. Colcs' phrase 0 now in 18.36, have been about in this condition : “eating the bread of Government" will be the whole road t'roin Shediiic to St. John would repudiated by the body of the people. Ind that be completed and in full operation, several Gocernniciit bread '

-caters when seen coining to