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

' Southanlizpton with a s lendid suite when the

Royal amily lande , and welcomed their arrival with presents, according to Eastern

custom. 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 ofthe 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 ver young and beautiful. The

otlluch did not leave her any part of the' ' It is only a tow of- the Oude party dealer!-

THE ADULTEBATION 0!‘ F901). arrest or ‘ran conusirns or was nous: or coriuons.

The report of the committee appointed by the House of Commons last session to inquire into the adultsratiou of food, drink. and drugs, hasjust been published, together with the evidence taken; it forms a ver voluminous document, extending over 300 pages. The substance of the committee's ‘conclusions and recommendations may, ‘however, be compressed into a small space. IThey examined a large number of witnes- :ses, comprising both men of high scientific attainments and of practical knowledge as Though there was considerable

are privileged to eat 'flesh 2 a few . difference of opinion as to the extent of the

others are allowed to eat fish. All the lower castes can only eat vegetable food, and that consists cliietly of rice. Poultry must be killed twenty-four hours before it is eaten. The dead birds are scalded with hot water, by which they can be easily de- nuded of their skin aml 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, d they are fried in oil. The Hindoo eoolx appear to be perfect in the art of flavouring their dishes. The nu- merous condiments aiid ingredients which they use are all so marvellously mixed as towgive the viaiids ii peculiar but most do- Ifaious flavour. The Oudeans rise early, almost at sunrise, and do not go to bed ' ' before midnight. They indulge, how- , ' , in n lengthened siesta. They

‘ 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 it shop and listen- ing with the most profound and ludicrous gravity to the sliopkeepci-‘s recommen- dation of his wares, and his endeavours to make them understand his prices. The 0nd- 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 uilaam and touching their turbaiis with their tingei-just as aJack Tar touches the forelocli of the hair ofliis head. They are docile and pcuceable, and al- though generally grave, indulge at times in fun and badinage. Although their nations of cleanliness are not like Englishmeii’s they have 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 ofOude still believes that the Queen of England will grant her Ill interview. She states, that if the East India Cotnpgpy had reason to find fault ~wit her son.aad to suspend him from excr- " " flihctions, they ought not to

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o 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 ofthe first order. VVorks are also to be undertaken to complete the fortifications ot 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 of a tremendous earthquake, of the 21st and 22nd. Its shocks were feeble at Algiers, but violent at Constantina and Bona. At hilippeville the concussions were tremendous. They 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 aacrificed. any French villages in the vicinity of Philippeville are destroyed.

In Italy our only news is, that discontent

is spreading in the Legations, and that

alarm exists in the Government at Naples, in consequence of the newly itsoertained movement of the Muratist party. This party has been circulating a programme or proclamation at Naples with surprising Jsereey and activity.”

'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 mangel wurzel; chicory, with roasted wheat, carrots, saw- dust, and Venetian red; cocoa, with arrow- root, potato-flour, chicory, and some ferru- giiious red earths; cayenne, with ground rice. mustard, husk, &c., coloured with red load, 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; marmalade, 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 mid pcrserves with salts of copper; mall‘ with various chroiiiates, red lead, lime, and powdered glass; tobacco with water, sugar, rliubaib, and trcacle; vinegar with water, sugar, and sulphuric acid; jalap, with powdered wood; opium with poppy capsules, whc:it—tlour, powdered wood, and sand; scaininony with wheat- tlour, chalk, rosin, and sand: confectionery with plaster of Paris and other similar llI- gredients, coloured with various pigiiients ofa highly poisonous nature; and acid drops, purporting to be compounded of Jargonelle pear, Ribstone pippiii, lemon, &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 istrict, the greater is the amount of adul- teration. The committee thcn inquired into the laws which existed on this subject in other countries, especially in France, Belgium, Germany, and tlie-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 russiii 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 opinion 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 a orded to the person upon whom the fraud has been practised. As it means of detection, they recommend, that municipal or other local authorities should be empowered to appoint an oflicer or oflicers, 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 0 lysis by some duly qua- lified person a

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the report of such person confirms the sus- picion, a summons should he issued and the eese investigated before justices, who shall have power to indict summary punishment, and to publish the name f the offenders. They recommend, also, at one or more scientific analysers 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- l;ersiau dispute by otfering full satisfaction to England, on condition that Mr. Mcray be recalled.

HOW TO OBTAIN A WIFI. WITH A FORTUNE.

“ Jacques Bflhomme,” a Paris corres- ondent, relates the following anecdote, which he locates in that city:—

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

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

“ Two hundred and fifty francs are but fifty dollars, and, as there are man women in the world who would be glad topurcliase 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 lionour they proposed conferring upon him. ‘ But’ said the self- possessed young gentleman, ‘ you must 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 iinpossilile for me to choose amongst such lovely crea- tures. This tlicn, is my proposition:—Coii- sidcr me as an object put up at lottcry. You number tivo hundred; make two hun- dred tickets, at two hundred and fifty 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 fl sheep.

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.—Ti-uc 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

(For llaszard‘s Gazette.)

No. 3. To ‘run rltusnss or xlnr nts'i'Itic1' scitoot.. Géntlsmen,

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 roper interfe- rence of some rents with the usincss of the teacher. On t is latter point let me only add, that I freely grant to every parent the privilege of determining what articular branches his child should or slioul not study. But some

s ssossing good natural arts, though a love ofindolence or adestre of ing always in the street, will often complain totheir parents,

that the tasks given them by the teacher to nted for the purpose. If , '

loan at home,—ssy in Grammar or Geography

oc As if to reward our ventgyzsl young friend for his courage, his fort ate ’

-4‘ are too hard, and they cannot learn them." Now it shows great weakness and lack of Wig- ppm in parents, :3 lg istluenoed by such plead. to‘t'lie't)eaelie:.“ i.n?:isih°ii'> °h"-3'? in any tolearn Geo rh hp" Nd" a'“- ' w“ '3'" [Wu to 3 p y or. .a_ase,,sir, Ma said, _ 0 oung to do ad men or, “please arr, Ma said, I was to t a new lesson &o." _1\ow it‘ the arena bel eve the teacher to be men able o assigning the children such tasks pnld essonts as arp _s‘u‘;te_d to their age and men. .i...°.i .a.°..:::. : g'"w:P"" no u t L _ 0 a new pssen, then these ‘é’i.‘§.'.." to ‘iii. Z3?! .'.'.’.$i°'1"-“.‘-°“"i'~'.’. °“"“"*“‘ _ d_ _d I I ui ion. are may be in ivi pa s em eyed as teachers who possess insutiieieigt Ju gment and discernment in these piilatters, at if so, they are novices indeed, in e profession, or perhaps, int_e:1o 9", Permit me to state yet one r_evil w i¢|_~, prevails to a greater extent in this city, than in any other localit in_which I have over yet taught; namely, t e migratory habits of the scholars. I have at present some upils that have gone the round of all the sc ools—snd still, all of these Inovcable characters are very_poor scholars indeed, noneofwliom possess the more elements of the ordinary branches of an English education, Now a boy will progress inore speedily _and do more good with an instructor who is even below mediocrity, if he attend h_iin regularly anddpunctually, than he will, with the ablest an most experienced teachers, when he keeps moving round from the one to the other, and remaining with no 0l_I0 l0ng e’|IOIlgli to be fairly introduced with lps system or to allow the teacher to learn his .::::::'::.‘:."..°.:..:'.°"‘"'°--°-w- -=.:w*-.-Aromas _ _ gather any inoss. 'Ihe same principle holds true _in every other department ot l\o man without capital can accumu- 1:21. i:;'..“.*’.' ..';i. ‘.‘.".°.t"}‘.“...°.".'.‘.?.§“"i“’ p are of busi-

ness tlonnothor, and never contin_uing at any one p ace long enough to make a fair start, and ac aim the necessary business knowledge and ha its. llluch le_ss can intellectual wealth be stored by indulging in unsteady and vagrant habits. tsonstancy, diligence, and punctuality, are indispensably necessary to ensure success in any and every thing. This shifting habit of

is the ruin of our schools. Under present

habits, boys attend schools for ix or seven

years, and sometimes longer, without acquir-

ing a thorough knowledge of the commonest ‘nglisli branches.

{tow let any parties entrust me with from 30 to o0 boys, all of whom can with case read the becond Book, and; let these boys attend me constantly and punctuolly for two ycars—cx- cepting of course the usual holidnys—and let me have thirty shillings er quarter each as tuition fees. andl am rea y to pledge myself,

iat at the expiration of the two years, I shall have them tliorougli in all the following brun- ches_, namely, English Reading, Writing, Arith- metic, Uraniinar. Geogru 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- dcr. this _a dear purchase of knowledge, must set its price at a very mean figure indeed, and must possess but a very meagre appreciation of its real value and importance.

I am, Gentlemen, Your Obdt. Svt.. A. A. MACKENZIE. Charlottetown, Sept. 18th, I856.

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Wednesday. September 24, 1856.

Mr. George Mackenzie, of New Glasgow near Pictou, has, we understand, made an otfer tq the government, to put an iron steamer on the line from 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 aw in Scotland, after the most appro- ved models and with the latest improvements in machinery, and expressly fitted to the pecu- liarities of tide, place, the , so that the passen- gers, &c. will step on board at either place and step out again without trouble or the intervention of boats. This is an offer which deserves serious consideration, and inasmuch as a bird in the heme worth two in the bush, we should prefer ing with Mr. Miiclrensie,

we are. The objection started to complying with this otler, it is hint d, is, that the go- vernment intcnd to change the route from Pio- tou to Tatania ouohe; we confess, that we are partial to this otter place, as bein more direct and bringing usnearer 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 rents. are is one consi- deration tliatouglit to operate strongly in favor of keeping to Piotou, and it is, that a consi- derable deal of commerce has arisen between

pupilsain the city and of teachers in the country, '

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