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     arms; or THE EAST. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Benton, May 29.-Mont Liban, the Druses, 
     
     the Maronites, and the Naplousians are in a state 
     
    
   
   
    
     of insurrection. A convoy, which was destined 
     
     for Alep, has fallen into the power ofthe .insur- 
     
     gents. Some soldiers have been killed in de- 
     
     fending it. This convoy was'conveymg ammu- 
     
     nition. The Governor of Beyrout is having all 
     
     the forts armed, and the garrison is kept within 
     
     doors.- An attack is feared. All the roads are 
     
     intercepted in the interior. The insurrection 
     
     was brought on thus :—Ibrahim Pacha demanded 
     
     ofthe Emir Beehir that the mountaineers should 
     
     be disarmed. 'l‘tielatter refused to comply, as 
     
     well as the Druses; they stated that the Govern- 
     
     ment ought to have confidence in them, since it 
     
     was to ‘them that it owed the repression of the 
     
     insurrection of Haoran. They affirmed that they 
     
     were only to be disarmed in order that fresh 
     
     levies might be made amongst them; and they 
     
     stoutly declared that they would rise up with all 
     
     the adjoining population rather than give up their 
     
     arms. This had actually taken place. Yester- 
     
     day evening, at nine o’clock, the Governor of 
     
     \ Beyrout had a meeting of every person of dis- 
     
     tinction ; news had been received that a descent 
     
     ofthe mountaineers was going to take place for/ 
     
     the purpose of disarming the troops which formed 
     
     the boundary line required on account of the 
     
     plague, which was raging at Damascus, and the 
     
     resolution was immediately taken to suppress the 
     
     same and send back the troops that composed it 
     
     to the town, inasmuch as being very few in num- 
     
     ber there was too much risk to run. Last night 
     
     and this morning we saw them enter. The 
     
     plague has, therefore, no obstacle to encounter. 
     
     At Seida, Soliman Pacha had a meeting of all 
     
     his people last night, and the result ofthe deliber- 
     
     ation was to send all the troops to be encamped 
     
     round Seida. Convoys of powder have been 
     
     stopped and seized by the mountaineers, and 
     
     some persons (eight) have been assaSsinated in 
     
     offering resistance. The affair took place near 
     
     a village calleb Elsfftttldet. At another place 
     
     two Egyptian oflicers were taken, but one of them 
     
     managed to escape, being still near Seida. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     CURIOUS ADVENTunns or A PnnTENnEo LORD. 
     
     The Liverpool Albion gives some curious par- 
     
     ticulars respecting a mast impudent polygamist 
     
     and impostor, named Robert Taylor. The of- 
     
     fender is a mere youth, between nineteen and 
     
     twenty years of age, but his numerous matrimo- 
     
     nial adventures and devices to obtain money, 
     
     mark him as a person of singular cunning and 
     
     dexterity. His plan seems to have been in all 
     
     cases to practise first on the cupidity of his own 
     
     sex, by holding out a pecuniary reward to any 
     
     one who would procure him a suitable alliance. 
     
     and then, by representing himselfto be of aris- 
     
     tocratic birth and heir to extensive possessions, 
     
     to dazzie and: win over the victim‘and her friends. 
     
     (To aid The views he represented himself as a son 
     
    
   
   
    
      - Lord Kennedy, of Ashby Hall, Leicestershire. 
     
    
   
   
    
     was .furnished with numerous documents 
     
     ed to corroborate his misrepresentations. 
     
     hese, which he carried in a tin case, were 
     
     found on his person when he was apprehended. 
     
     Amongst them was a parchment, on which was 
     
     written in a fine clerk hand, what purported to 
     
     be“ Thelast will and testament of Lord Ken- 
     
     nedy,” doc. By this document Taylor appeared 
     
     to be the heir to £1,015,000, three per cent. Con- 
     
     3015, besides immense wealth in coal mines, salt 
     
     factories, woollen factories, quarries, machinery, 
     
     houses, plate, jewellery, and even ships. “ John 
     
     Nicholson, Thomas Johnson, and Mrs. Robin- 
     
     son” appeared to have been constituted “ guar- 
     
     dians of the said Robert Taylor.” The docu- 
     
     ments bore date the 22d ofSeptember, 1829, and 
     
     exhibited the signatures, first, ofthe supposed 
     
     testator, " Kennedy,” and then of the attesting 
     
     witnesses, “ Samuel Robinson, clerk to James 
     
     Lee, and John Turner,” and “ William Cowley, 
     
     barrister.” The bequest was in these words :— 
     
     “ I give and bequeath to Robert Taylor, son of 
     
     Elizabeth Taylor, single woman, £1,015,000 
     
     Three~ per Cent. Consols. and no more.” He 
     
     had also an indenture, certifying the correctness 
     
     ofthe will, and describing his person by certain 
     
     marks on_ his right arni,&,c. He had sundry 
     
     other papers ingeniously enough contrived for the 
     
     purpose of aiding his deception, but, as he is a 
     
     youth of coarse and vulgar manners; the success 
     
     which attended his impostures can only be ac- 
     
     counted for by the blind avarice of his dupes. 
     
     Up to the present time six of his marriages in 
     
     several parts of the north of England have come 
     
     to the knowledge of the police, and there is rea- 
     
     son to believe that the number is much larger. 
     
     It is supposed that he married one or two young 
     
     women in Lancasliire. Like many who have 
     
     pursued a career of base and unprincipled decep- 
     
     tion, this scoundrel affected great sanctity, and 
     
     connected himself atdifferent times with both 
     
     the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists. Indeed, 
     
     one of his principal dupes was a Mr. Fryer, a 
     
    

    
     reacher in the last named connection, who, 
     
    

    
     nylor having promised a reward often pounds 
     
     to any one who would procure him a young and 
     
     religious wife, offered him the choice of his two 
     
     sisters-in—law. Taylor chose the younger, a girJ 
     
     about 18 years of age, and was married to her. 
     
     This preacher not only failed to receive the 'ex- 
     
     pected reward, but was swindled out of £12 
     
     which he lent to the roguish adventurer ! This, 
     
     however, proved the last of his exploits; for, 
     
     having made several fruitless attempts to run 
     
     away from hrs wife, as he had done from the 
     
     others, he was at length compelled to take her 
     
     with him, and on his way through the county of 
     
     Durham he was apprehended. 
     
    

    
     The budget of papers found in the prisoner’s 
     
     possession contained a multitude of curiosities 
     
     beside those above alluded to. It appeared from 
     
     one of them, an indenture of apprenticeship (he 
     
     seems to have treasured all written documents 
     
     most carefully),ihat he had at the age ofthirteen 
     
     been apprenticed to a sweep and collier in Staff. 
     
     ordshire till he would be twenty-one years old. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The indenture described him as a poor child 
     
     from F'atfield, in the county of Durham. 
     
     There Were several licenses and documents 
     
     relating to his marriages. One of these was a 
     
     memorandum of an agreement between Robert 
     
     Taylor and Mary Wilson, ofNewcastle-on-Tyne, 
     
     to marry in three months from October 16, 1839; 
     
     Taylor io forfeit £20,000 if he married any other 
     
     woman, and Mary Arm to forfeit one-third per 
     
     annum ofher yearly salary ifshe proved faitliless. 
     
     Annexed to this was a tnemorandum of a loan of 
     
     £4 from Mary Ann’s father, with an engagement, 
     
     on the part of Taylor, to pay £1 per annum 
     
     interest. Matty of the papers related to the 
     
     prisoner’s connection with the Wesleyan and 
     
     Primitive Methodists, and with the Teetotallers, 
     
     of which latter society he appearsrto have been a 
     
     staunch adherent. The most curious paper was 
     
     “ a memorandum of agreement between Robert 
     
     Taylor, Esq. son of the late Lord Kennedy, of 
     
     Ashley Hall, in the parish ofAshby-de-la-Zoucli, 
     
     and those he may engage as servants.” It bears 
     
     what purports to be the prisoner’s signature, and 
     
     from it he appears to have engaged an establish- 
     
     ment of stewards, butlers, footmen, grooms, 
     
     coachmen, gamekeepers, helpers, doc at salaries 
     
     of from £2010£60 per annum, sufficient for half 
     
     a dozen Princes. The stipulation ofthe agree- 
     
     menf is, that the Servants, butlers included, are 
     
     to observe the Teetotal pledge. 
     
    

    
     This imposter was tried at the Liverpool Ses- 
     
     sions, a day or two ago, on two cases, and found 
     
     guilty in both. The first charge was, for marry- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ing Mary Ann Davidson, the sister-in-law of Mr. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Fryer, the Methodist Preacher. The next iii- 
     
     dictment was for having in October last, married 
     
     Mary Ann Wilson, daughter of G. \Vilson, a 
     
     tobaccouist of Newcastle. The prisoner was 
     
     sentenced, for the first case of bigainy, to be im- 
     
     prisoned one year to hard labour,- and for the 
     
     second, to be imprisoned eighteen months to 
     
     hard labour, making altogether two years and a 
     
     half. 
     
    

    
     Prisoner—Gentlemen, when I come out again, 
     
     will any of my wives have a claim uponme ’t— 
     
     (Laughter.) ‘ 
     
    

    
     The Court declined to answer the question. 
     
    

    
     The prisoner is a shabby, repulsive looking 
     
     individual, and very illiterate. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     THE REGENCY BiLL.—This is not, what a 
     
     Ministerial journal of last week described it—a 
     
     measure to provide the country with an acting 
     
     Sovereign during the Queen’s lying-in; but to 
     
     appoint a Regent in the event of a ruotherless 
     
     infant becoming heir to the Throne. The Chan- 
     
     cellor’s speech, on presenting the bill to the 
     
     House of Lords, contains no reference to the 
     
     “temporary suspension of the duties and cares 
     
     of sovereignty, which the accouchement of her 
     
     Majesty will necessarily impose on her ;” but, on 
     
     the contrary, enforces the necessity of providing 
     
     for ‘the full exercise ofthe power of the Crown 
     
     during the long minority which might ensue on 
     
     the Queen‘s death. Lord Cottenham justified 
     
     the all but unlimited regal authority which the 
     
     bill would confer on the Regent, by the coiisti- 
     
     tutional argument, that, although restricted pow- 
     
     ers might suffice in cases where the Sovereign’s 
     
     infancy would soon terminate, or where only a 
     
     brief absence had to be provided for, it was ne- 
     
     cessary to the balance of the three estates of the 
     
     realm that the Crown should not be show of any 
     
     essential portion of its dignity and powers fer a 
     
     period oflong duration. On this principle, the 
     
     Regent would only be restrained from assenting 
     
     to bills for altering the succession to the Throne, 
     
     or interfering with the rights antl privileges of 
     
     the Established Churches of England and Scot- 
     
     land. In all other respects his authority would 
     
     be the same as the Sovereign’s.—Londan Spec- 
     
     tutor. 
     
    

    
     WELSH ~Brsnoes.—A vacancy having occur— 
     
     red in the diocese of St. David’s, by the demise 
     
     of Dr. Jenkinson, the late Bishop, the natives of 
     
     Wales are stirring, both in the Principality and 
     
     elsewhere, with the view of urging on her Ma- 
     
     jesty’s Government the necessity of elevating to 
     
     the vacant see a clergyman fully conversant 
     
     with the Welsh language, and not unacquainted 
     
     with the predilections and habits of the natives. 
     
     With the exception of a small part of Pembroke- 
     
     ,shire, the diocese of St. David’s extends over a 
     
     great extent of country in which the Welsh lan- 
     
     gjiage is vernacular, and most of the livings of it 
     
     are in the gift of the Bishop. It is, therefore, a 
     
     matter of the highest importance, both to the 
     
     Church and to the inhabitants, that an efficient 
     
     Bishop be appointed, It has been the custom 
     
     for the last 130 years to sacrifice the spiritual in- 
     
     terests of the Principality to political partizan- 
     
     ship, and to force upon the Welsh people an 
     
     English supporter of the existing ministry, utter- 
     
     ly regardless ofthe injustice thereby inflicted on 
     
     the national religion—Morning Herald. 
     
    

    
     [The Reverend Cannop Thirwall is the new Bishop] 
     
    

    
     Urrcn CANADA CLERGY SOCiE'i'v.—Wed- 
     
     nesday, the annual general meeting of the sub- 
     
     scribers and friends of this institution took place 
     
     at the Hanover-square rooms; the Marquis of 
     
     Cholmondeley occupied the chair, supported by 
     
     the Earl ofGalloway, the Right Hon, Lord Beri- 
     
     ley, W. E. Gladstone, Esq, M. P., Sir Walter 
     
     Farquhar, Bart, the Hon. Captain Maude, the 
     
     Hon. W. Kinnaird, the Rev. H. Beamish, the 
     
     Rev. S. Ramsay, doc, 6w. The noble chair- 
     
     man having briefly opened the meeting, the Rev. 
     
     S. Ramsay, the secretary of the society, read the 
     
     report. which showed that vast benefits were ac- 
     
     cruing to not only the white but the Indian po- 
     
     pulation _of Upper Canada, by the exertions of 
     
     the misstonaries sent out by the society. They 
     
     still, however, required further aid, as in some 
     
     of the districts one missionary had to extend his 
     
     labours over a surface of two thousand square 
     
     miles. The society had received the most im- 
     
     portant aid in their labours from the Society for 
     
     the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 
     
     and it was deemed by the committee that a mord 
     
     efficient plan of co-operation might be establish- 
     
     ed by the incorporation of the society with the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     above mentioned, under the title of “ ThngP‘ 
     
     per Canada Committee of the 80381;}?! Trig; 
     
     pagating the Gospel ln Foreign ar . um of 
     
     report proceeded to show the 8"?“ “m0 d P 
     
     spiritual destitution which still extsled, In". “,8 
     
     ged the most strenuous exertions in the society 
     
     support. , 
     
     ATTEMPT A'r SELF CRUCIFIXION IN Conn.— 
     
     The medical officers at the dispensary in Cork 
     
     were lately presented with one of the most 
     
     extraordinary cases that had ever come before 
     
     them. Upon a car, brought to the door ofthe insti~ 
     
     tution, was laid a stout hale man about 30 years of 
     
     age; he was tied down, and it was with difliculty 
     
     the persons in charge could restrain him. .Upon 
     
     being brought into the consulting room it was 
     
     found that his feet and hands had been perforated, 
     
     apparently with large nails. It appeared from 
     
     the statement of those by whom he was brought 
     
     to thé dispensary that his name is Bartholomew 
     
     Donovan; that lie is a labouring man, has resided 
     
     several years at Carrignavar, had frequently be- 
     
     trayed symptomsof insanity. and was found in 
     
     an outbouse contiguous to his own dwelling bleed- 
     
     ing profusely at the feet and hands, haying in 
     
     each a large nail, with a view, he stated, of “cru- 
     
     cifving ” himself! His wounds being dressed, 
     
     the unhappy creature was sent to the Lunatic 
     
     Asylum. 
     
    

    
     SINGULAR ClRCUMSTANCE.—On Sunday last, 
     
     no less than six sermons were preached by six 
     
     different clergymen, at six different places of 
     
     worship, in these towns, from the same text :— 
     
     “ Remember Lot’s \the l"—Cornwall Guzrtln. 
     
    

    
     Tun Rev. MR. WrLLiAMs,&c.—-—H.M.S. Fa- 
     
     vourite, on her departure from this port, intends 
     
     to pay a visit to the Eastern Isles, particularly 
     
     those of Ereinangoe and Tupia; on the former 
     
     was the unfortunate missionary, Mr Williams, 
     
     and another gentleman, most wantonly and 
     
     tre'iclierously murdered by the natives. These 
     
     murderers will meet with a due meed ofpnnish- 
     
     ment, as a warning for them to behave them- 
     
     selves. with riiore respect and forbearance to En- 
     
     ropeans who may hereafter visit that island; at 
     
     the same time, it is the intention of Captain Cro- 
     
     ker to procure the remains, or any portion thereof, 
     
     of the two unfortunate gentlemen, to bring to 
     
     Sydney for interment in consecrated ground. 
     
     On the latter named island (Tupia) it is expect- 
     
     et that some part, if not the whole of the twelve 
     
     men belonging tothe whaler Achilles maybe 
     
     rescued from the natives, who seized them while 
     
     they were ashore trading, as in all probability 
     
     the Favourite will call to ascertain what was their 
     
     fate and, ifliving, to ransom them from their 
     
     bondage—Sydney Granite and Commercial 
     
     Journal of St]: February. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF VAN DrE- 
     
     MEN’s LANn.—Van Dienien’s Land is an island 
     
     of the South Pacific, lying between the 4Ist and 
     
     44th deg. of South latitude, and 144th and 148th 
     
     ,deg. ofeast longitude. It is not quite so large 
     
     'as Ireland. It was discovered by a Dutch navi- 
     
     gator named Tasman, in 1642, and by him ob- 
     
     tained its present inharmonions appellation, in 
     
     compliment of Van Diemen, the then Governor 
     
     of the Dutch East Indies. For a length oftime 
     
     it was erroneously conjectured to form a portion 
     
     of the main land ofnew Holland. Indeed, even 
     
     yet there are many, otherwise well-informed per- 
     
     sons, who conceive Hobart Town and Sydney 
     
     (although 800 miles apart) to be towns of one 
     
     colony, and perfectly contiguous to each other. 
     
     Bass, a surgeon of the Navy, was the first to dis- 
     
     cover the narrow strait that separates the island 
     
     from the Continent, which strait has ever since 
     
     borne the discoverer’s name. Upon the original 
     
     formation of a British penal settlement, at the spot 
     
     which has obtained so much Old Bailey celebrity 
     
     as Botany Bay, the embryo colonists struggled 
     
     with difliculty and privation through many a tedi- 
     
     ous year. Crops failed—sheep and cattle were 
     
     driven or strayed away—provisions grew scarce 
     
     —supplies were rare—and few or no trading ves- 
     
     sels hastened to their relief; in a word, starvation 
     
     frequently stared them in the face. Norfolk 
     
     Island was crilonised in the hope that it might 
     
     become a granary for the infant-mother settle— 
     
     ment. The attempt, to a certain extent, pros- 
     
     pered; however, it afterwards was deemed pru- 
     
     dent to extend the plan, and in a different direc- 
     
     tion. \Vitli this view, Colonel David Collins, of 
     
     the Royal Marines, was .despatched to form an 
     
     establishment on the south coast ofNew Holland. 
     
     The spot selected by that officer was the present 
     
     rapidly increasing dependency of Port Philip— 
     
     so called in honour ofthe Governor. After a 
     
     short stay, Colonel Collins, apprehending a 
     
     scarcity of water, struck his tents, rE-embai'ked 
     
     his staff, and made sail for the Derwent (the 
     
     principal river of Van Diemen’s Land): arrived 
     
     there, he first broke giound on the 9th of Au- 
     
     gust, 1803, at a spot called Restdown ; hut sub- 
     
     sequently changed his position, and established 
     
     his camp five or six miles lower down, and on 
     
     the opposite bank ofthe river, at Sullivan’s Cove, 
     
     the. present magnificent port of Hobart Town, 
     
     which was founded on the 19th of February, 
     
     1804—a little more than thirty-six years back— 
     
     C'olonial Magazine. ' 
     
    

    
     INrEnvmw BETWEEN GEORGE THE Tmnn 
     
     AND JosnPn LANCAs'vER.—On entering the 
     
     Royal presence, the King said, “ Lancaster. I 
     
     have sent for you to give me an account of your 
     
     system of education, which, I hear. has met with 
     
     apposmon. One master teach five hundred chil- 
     
     dren at the same time l How do you keepthem 
     
     mordel', Lancaster '1” Lancaster replied, " Please 
     
     thy Majesty, by the same principle thy M ajesty’s 
     
     artny Is kept in order—by the word ofcommand.” 
     
     His Majesty replied, " Good, good ; it does not 
     
     require an aged general to give the command— 
     
     onc of younger years can do it." Lancaster ob- 
     
     served, that, in his schools, the teaching branch 
     
     was performed by youths who acted as voting 
     
     monitors. The King assented, and said, " Good." 
     
     Lancaster then described his system ; and he 
     
     informed me, that they all paid' great attention, 
     
     and were highly delighted, and as soon as he had 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     finished, his Majesty said, “ Lancaster, I highly 
     
     approve of your system, Ind IQ is my wish that 
     
     every poor child in my dominion: should be 
     
     taught to read the Bible ; I Will do anything on 
     
     wish to promote this object.'_’ “ Please thy a. 
     
     jesty,” said Lancaster, “ if the system meet. 
     
     thy Majesty’s approbation, I can go through the 
     
     country and lecture on the system, and have no 
     
     doubt, but in a few months I shall be able to 
     
     oive thy Majesty an account where ten thousand 
     
     Boo: children are being educated, andsome of 
     
     my youths instructing them.” His 'Majesty im- 
     
     mediately replied, “ Lancaster, I Will subscribe 
     
     1001. annually; and,” addresstng the Queen, 
     
     “ you shall subscribe 501., Charlotte, and the, 
     
     Princesses 25!. each; and then added, “ Lnn. 
     
     caster, you may have the money directly.” Lap-r 
     
     caster observed, “ Please thy Majesty, that Will! 
     
     be setting thy nobles a good example." Tho 
     
     Royal party appeared to smile at this observer 
     
     tion; lint the Queen observed to his Majesty, 
     
     “ How cruel it is that enemies should be foundi 
     
     who endeavour to hinder his progress in so good 
     
     a work.” To which the King replied, “ Charo 
     
     lotie, a good roan seeks his reward in the worldl 
     
     to come.” Joseph then withdrew. It may here 
     
     be stated, that every succeeding monarch of 
     
     England, including her present Majesty, has fol'- 
     
     lowed his example.—Carslun'5 Sketch of Joseph 
     
     Lancaster’s Life. - 
     
    

    
     Sco'rcn Gums—2r). DitAGOONs.—The ser- 
     
     vices of the Royal North British dragoons have 
     
     been of a character calculated to call forth the 
     
    
   
   
    
     record Deriving their origin as a corps of ca-- 
     
     valrv from the commotions in Scotland during 
     
     the reign ofCharles 11., their first duties were of 
     
     a painful .and perilous nature. Habituated to 
     
     fatigue, privation, danger, and the observance of 
     
     strict discipline, they became a valuable body of 
     
     men to the Government. After the Revolution 
     
     in 1683. their services against the Jacobites in 
     
     Scotland Were of an important chgracter; and 
     
     while serving under King William III. in Bel- 
     
     gium, they \vere admired for their warlike apo 
     
     pearance and gallant bearing in the field, and 
     
     for their orderly demeanour in cantonments. 
     
     During the war in the reign of Queen Anne, 
     
     their splendid career under the renowned Marl- 
     
     borough exalted the reputation of the corps, and 
     
     procured it a celebrity which has since been 
     
     preserved untarnished. In Scotland during the 
     
     rebellion in 1715 and 1716 ; in various parts of 
     
     the Continent from 1742 to 1748 ; in Germany, 
     
     under the Marquis of Graiiby, during the seven 
     
     years’ war ; in Flanders. under his Royal High- 
     
     ness the Duke of York, at the commencement 
     
     of the French revolutionary war, and on all other 
     
     occasions, the Greys have been distinguished as 
     
     a hardy, patient, obedient, and valiant body of 
     
     men, inferior to no troops in Europe in the quali- 
     
     ties which constitute good soldiers, and thereby 
     
     verifying their motto—“ Second to none.” Their 
     
     gallantry at the glorious battle of Waterloo, on 
     
     the 18th of Jniie, 1815, rivalled the deeds of the 
     
     renowned warriors whose achievments have been 
     
     recorded by Ossian and other ancient bards of 
     
     Caledonia. The Scots Greys had the proud dis- 
     
     tinction of capturing the colours of the French 
     
     regiment du roi at Ramillies—the white stand- 
     
     ard ofthe French household troopsiat Dettingen 
     
     —-and the colour and eagle of a French infantry 
     
     corps at Waterloo. Their patience and forbear- 
     
     ance when employed in supporting the laws, and 
     
     preserving tranquillity at home, form a striking 
     
     contrast to their valonr when opposed to a for- 
     
     eign enemy in the field. Their reputation hav- 
     
     ing become established, their title has long been 
     
     associated with ideas of valour, loyalty, good 
     
     conduct, and usefulness to the Crown and king- 
     
     doni.—C'(mnon’s IIistorz'cal Record. 
     
    

    
     GRENADIER Guanos.—The following is the 
     
     origin of Grenadiers, transcribed from Evelyn's 
     
     Diary 2—“ In 1678 were brought into service a 
     
     new sort ot-soldiers called grenadiers, who were 
     
     dexterous in throwing granadoes, every one hav- 
     
     ing a pouch full ; they had furr’d caps with cop- 
     
     ed crowns, like Janizaries, which make them 
     
     look very fierce, and some had long hoods hang- 
     
     ing down behind. Their clothing is pybald, 
     
     yellow, and red.” 
     
    

    
     AN APT Rent—In one ofthe latest days of 
     
     Fox, the COHVPrSHIlOH turned on the comparative 
     
     wisdom of the French and English character. 
     
     “ The Frenchman,” it was observed, “ delightsi 
     
     him with the present; the Englishman makes 
     
     him anxious about the future; is not the French- 
     
     man wiser?” “ He may be the merrirr,” said 
     
     Fox, “ but did you ever hear ofa savage who 
     
     did not buy a mirror in preference to a teless 
     
     cope.” 
     
    

    
     LETTING Orrin—An Irish tailor, having made 
     
     a gentleman’s coat and vest too small, was or~ 
     
     dered to take them home and let them out.. 
     
     Some days after, the gentleman, inquiring for 
     
     hIS garments, was told by the ninth part of an. 
     
     Irishman, that the clothes happening to fit a 
     
     countryman of his, he had let them out at a shil-. 
     
     ling per week. 
     
    

    
     Fashion is a poor vocation. Its creed, that. 
     
     idleness is -a privrlege, and work a disgrace, is 
     
     among the deadliest oferrors. Without depth 0&- 
     
     thought, or earnestness of feeling, or strength of 
     
     purpose, livmg an unreal life, sacrificing subs- 
     
     stance to show, substituting the fictitious for the 
     
     natural, mistaking a crowd for society, finding 
     
     its chief pleasure in ridicule, and exhausting its 
     
     ingenuity in expedients for killing time, fashion 
     
     is among the last influences under which a hu-. 
     
     man being, who respects himself, or who com-- 
     
     prehends the great end of life, would desire to 
     
     be placed. 
     
    

    
     Weeds may be prevented from growing on 
     
     gravel walks by watering the walks with salt and 
     
     water; the salt will likewise kill the weeds of. 
     
     ready there, and if these are large. they should, 
     
     of course, be hoed up and raked olf- 
     
    
   
   
    
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