The Pembrokeshire Herald and General Advertiser

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. The determination of the French Government to have the country placed iinder the control of the mili tary has produced great, dissatisfaction and, the more so as the object has not been sufficiently explained. It is expected that interpellations will he put in the Assembly to the Ministers, when they will not have an opportunity of justifying the measure by assigning the reasons for the resolutions they have adopted. General de Castellanfe is to take the three divisions in which Bordeaux, Nantes and Rennes, are the chief towns General Rostolan the three divisions in which are Perpignan, Toulouse, and Montpellier and Gen. Gemeau is to assume equal authority over the sixth division at Besancon. Seven lawyers have been consulted upon the soli- tary confinement of M. Proudhon and they have decided that his imprisonment is both cruel and illegal. What measures will be taken to justify such dpinion remain to be seen. The adjourned debate on the Education Bill was resumed on Wednesday by M. Thiers, one portion of whose speech, in which he speaks of his honorable friend, M. de Montalembert," was received with shouts of derisive laughter from every part of the Assembly. After a short but telling speech fron M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire, in reply to M. Thiere, the debate was again adjourned. The President of the Republic visited on Thurslay afternoon, in conipany of the Minister at War, the barracks of the Gendarmerie Mobile, ih the Rue de Luxembourg. Prince Louis Napoleon was very well received, and so soon(as the crowd that assembled in the streets heard of his having decorated the June volunteers they raised repeated cries of "Vita Ie President Vive Napoleon The crowd was so great in the street that it was with difficulty his carriage could move on. The Constitutional contains a letter from Switzer- land of the 11th inst., which states that much excitement and alarm were experienced in some of the cantons by the refractory proceedings of the Radical party, who were employing every exertion to effect an insurrection, which they hoped would be coincident with a similar movement in Paris, Lyons, and Strasburg. The Fives closed on Thursday at 95f. 90c., and the Threes at 58f. 10c. GREECE. A letter from Trieste of Feb. 4, pnblished in a Hamburg paper of Feb. 9, contains important infor- mation from Greece:- The Levant steamer, so earnestly desired, has just arrived. Admiral Parker has seized seventy Greek merchantmen, and has carried them off to Salamis and Syra. The Piroeus, Salamis, and Syra are blockaded. No Greek vessel is permitted to leave any of the ports of Greece. All communication by sea is by the Austrian steamer Mary Anne, and the Russian corvette Calypso. The Greek Government has appdinted Generals Tzavellas, Gardi Kiottis, and Mamoris, military chiefs of the kingdom. At the request of the Greek Go- vernment, the ambassadors of Austria and Russia have placed their ships of the line, and among their. p several steamers, at the disposal of the Government, for the purpose of carrying on an uninterrupted communication. The Greek press unanimously and decidedly takes the part of the Government. The public voice and the popular representatives are Also with ane accord on the same side." The following circular has been issued by Her Britannic Majesty's consul at Athens to his col- leagues :— "Sir,-I am instructed by the Right Honourable Thomas Wyse to inform my colleagus, that the CommandSr-in-Chief of her Majesty's naval forces, actirig in obedience to the instructions of her Britannic Majesty's Government, and in concert with her Bitatmi: Majesty's representative, deems it necessary to extend to the Greek merchant-vessels the prohibi- tion to put to sea, which, from an anxious desire not to injure Greek commerce, has up to this moment been limited to. vessels w;!onjt?ig to the Greek 1 9 Government. I have, therefore to announce to you that henceforward the Commander-in-Chief of her Brittanic Majesty's naval forces will not permit any Greek vessel to leave any Greek port; but any Greek vessels having been chartered previous to the present communication to carry a cargo, or part of a cargo belonging td foreign merchants will be allowed to go to sea, an exception which cannot be applied to any Greek vessels chartered by or for foreign merchants after the communication of this notice; The above measure in no way affects foreign vessels of any description, but is exclusively confined to vessels under the Greek flag. I have, &c., Athens, Jaii. 24, 1850." J. GRFE-Q. PRUSSIA. In the morning sittting of the Second Chamber of Berlin, on Tuesday, the Minister of War laid on the table a bill for granting to Government an extraordi- nary credit for military purposes. This measure was imperiously demanded by the continued maintenance of the army above the peace footing. Government would gladly seize the opportunity when it offered of diminishing the armed force. The great means that would be necessary in case of a war to mobilize the army could not be suddenly procured without great exertion and inconvenience. Therefore a timely foresight was to be recommended. The Government would apply religiously the assigned means to the end pointed out, and only with the consent ot the Cham- bers, which the Ministers believed would gladly co-operate in conducting the affairs of the Prussian and German fatherland to a satisfactory goal. The necessity for the adoption of this measjire is occasion- ed by the menacing tone adopted by Russia, relative to the assembling of the Erfurt Parliament. AUSTRIA. There is a great deal in the Vienna journals on the affairs of Greece, and some violent attacks are made on Lord Palmerston. A Vienna letter of the 3rd, referring to the subject says :—" The Envoy Extra- ordinary of Greece, M. Zographos, has had a confe- rence with the President of the Council, Prince Schwarzenbug and it is said that the Prince has given him the assurance that the Austrian Govern- ment will support all measures which may be taken by France and Russia to maintain the rights of Greece, as guaranteed by the treaty of 1832. An arrangement of the affair is however, expected." A letter from Vienna states that at Pesth, an important party has been formed among the Magyars to demand, not only the abolition of the old constitu- tion, but the adoption of absolutism. A letter from Pesth of the 3d states that already 10,000 honveds have been incorporated in the Aus- trian army, and that the incorporations still continue. ill

THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—According to the Builder, nothing has be^n done to a very large portion of the building for the last four years. There it stands in carcass, just as" it did four years ago The first contract, commenced ten years since, and which was to have been completed in three years, is positively not yet wound up. In the Cotiimons' lobby the scaffolding is standing exactly as it was 18 months ago, and there are no orders yet given for building it. In the Coirimons' library there had not been A man at work for the last two. or three years till last week, when three or four joiners were sent in to take down some pedestal presses which had been put up. Our readers who understand these things will laugh when we tell them that the whole number of joiners now employed on the building is 30. The House of Commons has been standing still for six months. The Commons' refreshment-room, again, is exactly what it was one year and a half Ago, and as it will be one year and a half hence, unless the Commons themselves permit it to proceed. DESTRUCTION OF Bt SHOP'S ROCK LIGHTHOUSE, OFF SoLLY._Amongst the disasters which occurred in the terrific gale last week, was tha total destruction of the Bishop's Rock Lighthouse, off Scilly, the erection of which was rapidly approaching completion. The rock is situated about eight or ten miles westward of the Land's End. As to the immediate cause which produced the disaster, of course no definite informa- tion can as yet be obtained. All that is known is, that on Tuesday night the lighthouse was standing. On the following morning, not a trace of its existence was visible upon the tarbid mass of waters on whose surface it had before risen as a warning beacon, The lighthouse was formed of cast iron columns, braced and stayed with wrought iron rods. The columns were sunk into the rock for this purpose, some fissure of which the engineer might not have been aware, has been rendered a source of that insecurity, ol which we now record the result and that the rock with the lighthouse upon it, has been swept away by the fury of the waters. It was Anticipated that the erection would have been complete early in summer. It would have been upwards of 120 feet high, being 20 feet higher than the famed Eddystone. 0 THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY.—Among the par- liamentary papers issued during the last session was one showing the number of advertisements on which duty was paid in each year from 1843 to the end of 1840. This is the last return, and, as the subject is to be brought before the House of Commons by Mr. Ewart on Thursday, the infor- mation contained in the return is of some value. In England the number of advertisements in 1826 was 77.5,356, and the duty (3s. 6d. each) was £135,687, 6s.; in 1827, the number was 765,593, and the dutv £133,978 15s. 6d.; in 1828, the number was 779,250, and the duty £136,368 15s. in 1829, the number was 777,445, and the duty £136,052 17s, 6d.; in 1830, the number was 788,091, and the duty £137,915 ISs. 6d.; in 1S31, the number was 787,649, and the duty £ i37,838 lis. 6d.; in 1832, the number was 783,557, and the duty £ 137,12^ 6s. 6d. The duty was reduced to Is. 6d. from the 5th of July, 1833. In 1834 the number was 977,441, and the duty £73,308 Is. 6d.; in 1835, the number was 1,038,041, aad the duty £77,853 Is. 6d.; in 1836, the number was 1,173,136, and the duty £87,985 4s. in 1837, the number was 1,206,680, and the duty £90,501; in 1838, the number was 1,315,581, and the duty £98,668..113. 6d.; in 1832, the number was I,351,421, and the duty £101,3!)6 lis. 6d.; and in 1840, the number was 1,425,387, and the duty £106,904 Os. 6d. MARVELLOUS ESCAPE.—Mr. George Thompson, M.P., one of the itinerant orators who appeared on the platform at St. Mary's Hall, last Monday week, retired, after the performance to the Craven Arms Hotel, and about hall-past one o'clock on the following morning, it is believed, went to his bed. Soon after 6 o'clock the inmates of the hotel were astounded by a cry of Fire'" pro- ceeding from his bed chamber, and upon hastening to it, they discovered the hdn. member calling for water, and actively endeavouring to extinguish the flames, which had broken out in his apartment. It is stated that he had been reading in bed, and unintentionally falling asleep before he had put out his candle, found, to his great horror, when awakeried by a fear of his bed being in flames, that such was actually the case. The moreen curtains of the bed were completely deatroyed, the upper part of the bedstead charred, the bed, mat- tress; coverlet, blankets, sheets, and pillow ca.4e, were all very much burnt, a handkerchief on the bed was nearly all consumed, and the blackened and fractured fragments of the candlestick were found among the debris of the conflagration yet marvellous to relate, the honourable gentleman, escaped without having his hair singed, or even his night dress scorched! Is it not very remarkable and mysterious, that after having been so long Z, exposed to the suffocating effects of that mysterious fire-which burnt his sheets, but did not scorch his night shirt—he should have been able to assist so cooly, and with so much composure in extin- guishing it ? Does it not still seem more extra- ordinary, that he contrived to escape without injury ? It has been stated that the damages are estimated at Eloo, and that the house and furniture are fully insured in the West of England Insurance Company.-Coventry Standard. SINGULAR FACT.—A somewhat novel incident occurred at the terminus of the Soutli Western Railway at Vauxhall. A carrier pegion was seen in an exhausted state; it was caught by hand, but died shortly afterwardf. A label was appendep to one of its legs, addressed to his Grace the Duke. of Wellington, which stated that three pigeons were thrown up at the Island of Ichaboe. The distance is computed to be between 2,000 and 3,000 miles from the place where the pigeon appears to have been liberated to its destination in London. The bird, with its appendage, was immediately for- warded to Apsley House, and the Duke of Wellington, by an autograph note, the next day courteously acknowledged the receipt from the party who sent the bird. It has been stuffed and in the prbee-s it has been discovered that the bird was shot, otherwise there can be no doubt that it would have reached home. THE LATE CONFLAGRATION AT THE VILLAGE OF ASHWELL,—>-rt is stated that the exact number oif cottages oecupied by parties whd have, by reason of their misfortune, become for a time dependent upon the public bounty, is 26, and that of their occupants 125, most of them labourers in the employ of parties tn the neighbourhood. The Church has been given up as a temporary asylum for these poor creatures, and a subscription has been started for their relief. All the bankers of Cambridge have consented to become recipients of the bounty of the charitable. About six month ago an attempt was made to tire the same barn in which the fire originated on this occasion. A piece of tarred rope, which had been ignited, was found thrust into the thatch on the first attempt, but it is supposed the dampness of the night prevented the consummation of the project of the incendiary. FRIGHTFUL CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.—The Liverpool papers give an account of a frightful accident to a carriage and pair conveying Mr. Charles and Lady Townley from the Earl of Sefton's seat, Croxteth Hall, to a charity ball in the town, of which her Ladyship was lady patroness. The traces were too short, and irritated the houses, which began to plunge and kick as they went down a hill leading into the town. The postilion having lost all control over them, they suddenly swerved from the road, and ran with great force on to the footpath, the liorse on whieh the posstilion sat striking the iron pallisading in front of a house, and breaking it in several pieces, along with the stone work in \thich it was fixed, to a lepgth of about a yard and a half. The pallisading fell into the area beneath, and the horse along with it, the latter being suspended for some time by the traces, plunging furiously against the wall, and cadsing great alarm to the inmates. The postillion was, at the same moment, thrown off the horse against the iron pallisading, with his back leaning against them, z5 and for some time it was thought he wai impaled. Meanwhile the other horse was plunging on the footpath, in order to get released from the earriage, which still contained Mr. Charles and Lady Townley who were apparently in the most imminent danger; but in a very few moments afterwards they safely alighted, being, of course, exceedingly alarmed. An immense crowd had gathered round the spot, and the position of the horse in the area, still hanging by the traces, and plunging most despe- rately, was perfectly frightful. At length, there was a cry of "Cut the traces," and this having been instantly done, the animal fell down to the bottom of the area, fortunately alighting on its legs; it was bleeding most profusely, one of the iron pallisades having pierced the creast on both sides. The postillion had received tio further injuries than being severely stunned, although how he escaped seems quite miraculous, The horse was taken through the kitchen lobbies of the lower part of the house, and after much difficulty in getting it up the steps, 10 or 12 in number, it finally regained the street, in about half an hour after the accident. The animal had received very severe injuries, EXISTING TRAITS OF CHINESE CHARACTER.— When a gentleman feels desirous of taking unto himself a wife, he sends to the paternal head of some family containing daughters, for specimens of the sizes of their feet, with the prices attached. One foot is valued at perhaps two thousand dollars, the next smallest at five thousand, and so forth, according to the market. After the foot, (or lady, to whom it belongs) is chosen, she is sent in a sedan-chair to the intended husdand's house; he meets her at the door, looks into the vehicle to take a view of the fair one; and, it she suits his taste, he admits her. As soon as she passes his theshold, she becomes his lawful wife; but if he likes not the lady, he shuts the door, and she is carried whither she came. JUVENILK OFFENDF.RS.—A return made to tha House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. Monckton Milnes, shows that the number of juvenile offenders committed to prison in England and Wales in the year 1847, was 11,195. In the year 1848, it was 11,756. Of those committed in 1847, the number who had lost one parent was 1734 who had lost both parents, 854 who were unable to read, 5206 who had not been brought up to any definite employ- ment, 5,727. In 1847, the number of those whipped in prison once, was 992; twice, 80 thrice, 3 four or more times, 1. In 1848, the number whipped in prison once, was 1617 twice, 95; thrice, 8 four or more times, 3. In 1847, the number committed who had been once convicted before was 2045 who had been twice convicted, 812 thrice, 354 four times, 322 five time. 126 more than five times, 191. In 1848, the number committed who had been once convicted before was 1817 who bad been couvicted twice, 176 thrice, 386 four times, 334 five times, 121; more than five times, 230. Appended to the return is a list of charitable institution for affording temporary refuge to young offenders when discharged from prison." They are 63 in number; THE KNOTTY POINT AT KNIGIITSBRIDOE.—The most decisive action in furtherance of the separation of Church and State is that mentioned last week as having been commenced at the church of Saint Paul, Wilton-place, of which the Rev. W. Bennett is the incumbent, and who preached his second sermon on the subject in question last Sunday morning. The royal supremacy, he endeavoured tb show, is now utterly untenable in any point of view. The Church he said, is at the mercy, not of the Queen, but her Ministers and the House of Commons. That such a body should control the Church, he contended- should influence the appointment of her bishops, and interfere with her discipline, and even pronounce upon her doctrines—was intolerable. Mr. Bennett intimated that, unless these evils were remedied, he could not conscientiously remain a minister, even if a member, of the Church of England. The time has come, ho gave his congregation to understand when, unless redress of these wrongs can be obtained, the post of honour is a private station. Many of the Cabinet Ministers were pretant, in,udi-nz the Premier himself. Lord John Russell occupied his usual seat, accompanied by his brother, the Duke of Bedford. Lord Campbell sat immediately under the pulpit. The Bishop of Gloucester was also present and all these great personages paid the most marked attention to this extraordinary discourse. Lord John appeared to labour under some emotion, and the Bishop of Gloucester also seemed much effected. It was inti- mated that a protest against the present connection of Church and State, and an address to the Primate, would be ready for signatures in the church porch on Wednesday morning.—OxfoM Herald. TH^CTARIAN HUMBUG AT OTTERY.—We are told that Dr. Cornish has recently ordered that tHe funeral bell is never more to be tolled on the burial of a Dissenter in thegraveyasd adjoining the Independent Chapel nor are the nmptials of heretics to be announced by a merry peal from those sacred bells. Whether it be that the bells have been re-coiisecrated is not known but some persons are so unkind as to declare that is a mighty bit of spleen, of which in charitable moments, the doctor may well be ashamed, and at which his humbler brethren of the conventicle laugh most heartily. In the event of the Bishop having a loaf and a fish to Spare, he could not find more deserving recipients than some of the Ottery clergy, residing in a little hamlet of the parish, went to the cottdge of a poor woman to baptise her infant. The minister demanded a basin of water, which was brought, the woman no doubt placing her best one before a gentleman. The usual ceremony was just concluded, when the astonished mother saw her chÍ:Ja dashed in pieces 011 the floor, the minister informing her that having been once used for holy purposes, it would be a sin to me it again for secular ones." It would be a sin to allow the weary labourer to taste his accustomed broth from the sacred basin The most surprising fact is, however, that the reverend gentleman did not collect the scattered fragments togeter, and deposit them in some chest near the altar. How very short-sighted, to allow them to mingle with common things on a heap of decomposing matter. THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMSIISSIO^.—The Government have contrived, with some dexterity, to defeat Mr. Horsmarj in his demand for an enquiry into and a reforniatibn of the Ecclesiastical Commission. With much of the honourable member's sentiments we entirely disagree but we are disposed td think that he is by no means so hostile to the Church as it was sought to make him appear. The case brought forward by him on Tuesday night, was well-founded it was not without errors, but it was based Sufficiently on truth to warrant the House in giving it further consi- deration. It was just this further consideration that Ministers dreaded, and which they effectually stopped by the introduction of a bill the previous night in the House of Lords, the object of which is to bring obout results similar to those desired by Mr. Horsman, but by a different course. When the details of the new bill are before us, we shall be better able to speak of them. They have already had the effect of compelling the member for Cockermouth to withdraw hia motion but the existence of the bill itself is an assurance that his power is felt, and that his influence is not to be resisted. Mr. Floritruin goes* roughly to work, but he has to do with men on whom the most candyed courtesy would be spent in vain. We accept the roughness in respect for the good intention and we shall not regret if every one of his rudfe measures fail, provided they compel from the reluctant Govern- ment others more acceptable and profitable to the Church.—Church and State Gazette. In Blackwood s Magazine for February is a second article of high importance, on British Agriculture and Foreign Competition. Startling ds have been the statistics brought forward by Blacktoood on the subject of foreign competition, they are exceeded by facts in the article before us. We edge in a pic- ture of the producing powers of the Mississippi Val- ley from Mr. Mackay's authentic work on the United States The following estimate, writes Mr. Mackay, of the cost of raising wheat for the first time, from prairie land, I procured from a gentleman in VVashington, himself a practical farmer in the j west, and at the time a member of Congress for a western constituency Dols. Cts For ploughing an acre of sod. 2 0 H Seed. 1 0 Spwing seed 1 0 Harvesting 1 25 Threshing 1 75 Here, then, we have seven dollars, or about 29s. 2d. covering the whole expense of producing an acre of wheat in portions of the valley and this is the cost at which the prairie can be cultivated for the first time. In subsequent years it is diminished as, after the sod is once turned up, the land can be ploughed for one dollar an acre. This reduces the aggregate cost to 25s. per acre. The average yield of good prairie land, when properly tilled, is about thirty-five bushels per acre but as it is generally farmed, it yields an average of thirty bushels. This gives the cost of production at very nearly Is. the first year, and at 10d in subsequent years. The American is somewhat smaller than the English bushel; bat making ample allowance for this differ- ence, 10s. sterling may be assumed as the cost of pro- ducing a quarter of wheat in most portions of the Mississippi valley where the land is prairie land." THE CRIMINAL POPULATION.- The metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle shows statis- tically that there are 28,708 persons of known bad character infesting five of the principal towns in England. According to the average proportion of these to the population, there will be in the other large towns nearly 32,000 persons of a similar cha- racter, and upwards of 69,000 of such persons dispersed throughout the rest of the country. Adding these together we shall have as many as 130,000 persons of known bad character living in England and Wales without the walls of the prisons. To form an accurate notion of the total number of the criminal population we must add to the above amount the number of persons resident within the walls of the prisons. These according to the last census, are 19,888, which, added to the 130,000 above enumera- ted, gives within a fraction of 150,000 individuals for the entire criminal population of the country. A WEST INDIAMAN LOST.—On Tuesday the Sarah, West Indiaman, Bridges master, bound from Jamaica for London, made the Margate roads, and in the course of the forenoon was taken in tow by the Trinity steam-tug. As the day advanced the gale sprung up with destructive fury. The ship and the tug laboured sorely, and between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, when running through the Prince's Channel, the towing hawser snapped asun- der, and the ship got adrift. The tug immediately brought up, in the hope that the weather might mode- rate. The wind, however, continued to iric,ease until it blew a perfect hurricane, and about midnight the steamer was driven from her anchorage. She lost cable and anchor and was compelled to run for safety. The Sarah was then lbst sight of, and from the tempestuous weather that prevailed during the following twenty-four hours, and the fact that nothing has been seen of her since, although she was right in the track of vessels trading to and from the river, coupled with the circumstance that a quantity of West India produce has been picked up in the vi- cinity of where she went adrift, as also pieces of wreck apparently of the same class of vessel, there is little doubt that she perished, with all hands. Several casks of rum having been seen floating about, and Mr. Cullum, the master of the General Steam Navigation Company s ship Soho, reports having passed part of the wreck of a ship, a quantity of cocoa-nuts, and pimet to casks, about a dozen miles to the eastward of the North Foreland, and conse- quently almost in the very p!ace the Sarah is sus- pected to have been lost. Whether this wreck be- longed to the Sarah or not, however, it is evident that a large ship was lost is the neighbourhood. At present the number of the Crew has not been ascer- tained, nor whether there were any passengers' on board. THE LETTER OF INTRODUCTION.—About a fortnight ago, the son of a wealthy merchant, of Bordeaux, arrived in Paris, to enter one of the colleges. He had a letter of introduction to an old friend of hit! father's, but having found that he had lost it, resolved to postpone his visit until he should be able to get a new letter. The lost letter unfortunately fell into the hands of a clever thief, who took it to the gentle- man, and was received by him with the warmest cordiality. The next day the thief presented himself at the house before the gentleman was up, and lequested permission to write a few letters. The servants recogsi £ ing him as the honoured visitor on the previous evening, left him alone in the room, and the thief then possessed himself of a considerable sum of money, with which, after a while, he went away, on pretence of posting his letters. On discov- ering the robbery, the gentleman was naturally greatly indignant, but out of regard to his old friend, refrained r m making a complaint to the police. Y ester,day i the voung man, the real Simon Pure, presented him- self with the letter, but no sooner did he announce his name to the servant than the latter seized him by the collar, and cried Thief thief 1" Astonished at such a strange reception, the young man struggled .to break from the servant's grasp, but in vain, and he was safely locked up. The gentleman, however* having heard his explanation, immediately bad him released. The cunning thief has not yet been discov- ereeL-Paris Paper. NOVRL HUNT.About two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon the inhabitants of Cambden Town were astonished at the unusual sight of a fine stag, or red deer, running at full speed in the direction of Somers Town, with five hounds in full cry at his heels, fol- lowed by one solitary rider and the huntsman, on hdnes that had evidently done a liard day's work.- The meet of Mr. Bean's hounds had been at Hendoo, from whence, in a circuitous route, the stag broke away for Finchley common, skirting Coldfalls wood, and passed Highgate on to the metropolis. He en- tered Somers Town by Brewer street, and through Skinner street, Philips's buildings, and Wilsted street, finally crossing the New road, with the five hounds close at his haunches. He here made a bolt at the iron gate leading through Mabledon place into Burton cresent but being headed by two of the hounds, and terified at the number of vehicles pas- sing the New road, he dashed in at the gate in front of the house of Messrs. Prior's stove-grate manufac- tory, from whence, seeing the shop door open he darted into the house, and was there speedily secured. Tlis unusual sight attracted some thousands of per- sons, and it required the assistance of about a dozen policemen to preserve Messrs Prior's railings from destruction. Such was the curiosity excited on the occasion that numbers of women and children paid a penny each for admission to the yard to see so strange a visitor. The run, from first to last, was over not lers than thirty-five miles of ground; and although a strong field had mustered in the morning, dogs and horses were all fairly beaten except the small remnant who came up at tl e t ike. FACT FOR SupKRNATURAnsTs.—Mr. Kerr of Blunty's mill, near Yetholm, is a happy man. He has two poachers in his service whom the Game Laws can- not touch. His dog and cat go a-fishing in the Bow- mont—sometimes together, more often separately- and, without net, or line, bring fine fish to bank. The dog, who owns a Newfoundland mother, and is affiliated upon one of Lord Ossulston's stag hounds at Chillingham Castle, was observed, some months agoi for the first time, to look intently upon the river, and then make a sudden spring into the stream-whence, to the envy and admiration" of the beholders, he returned with a fine salmon. He has since been seen, repeatedly, performing the same feat. Mr. Kerr's cat, too, has been found to possess the like accom- plishment. She dashes headforemost into the mill stream—transfixes the poor trout with her claws- seen, repeatedly, performing the same act. Mr. Kerr's cat, too, has been found to possess the like accom- plishment. She dashes headforemost into the mill stream—transfixes the poor trout with her claws—and reappears with her trophies, Cat and dog are often seen gambolling together on the banks of the river, pursuing their sport; but whether the dog,tang)),t the secret to- the cift, or threat to the dag, they bave the discretion to keep to themselves.— Gateshead Observer. DAIHNG HIGHWAY RcBBERY.—OnThurdavevemng last, as Mr. W. H. Apperley, land-agent, returned from Abergavenny towards Hertford, in his gig alone, he waa stopped by three men, in the parish of Langua, at a lonely part of the road near the river, but elevated some 8 or 10 feet above the stream. Upon Mr. Apperley perceiving the intention of the man who was foremost, he began to flog his horse. The man having caught the reins, and Mi. Apperley continuing to use the whip, the horse and gig were brought almost from the opposite side against the hedge upon the river side of the road. Mr. Apperley now observed the other men coming to assist, and that resistance was useless, and having a sum of money upon his person, he leaped from the gig over the fence down into a strip of land adjoining the river, the field being here many feet below the road almost before he regained his feet he heard the horse and gig roll over the fence also. He ran for assist- ance, and found three men at home in a cottage not 300 yards distant, who immediately returned with him they found the horse and gig (the latter doubt- less uf.set in its passage over the fence,) near the river. The highwaymen had evidently followed the gig down to the place, and ransacked the contents where it then stood the driving-box was broken open-but only containing papers, they were thrown down, as was the lamp-box the only booty, there- fore, they obtained, was a letter-case, in which were some tracings of maps, a rent-book, and about five or six French coins, which, from the rattle, they no doubt thought a prize. Fortunately, not the least damage was Sustained by horse, gig, or harness. Mr. Apperley having sent a communication to the police at Abergavenny, preceded upon his journey to Here- ford. Mr. Apperley upon nearly all occasions travels with a six-barrelled pistol, but unfortunately had left it at home on this occasion, not expecting to be detained in Abergavenny so late.—Hereford Journal. A CimisTiAN.—Show me the mrfn who can quit the brilliant society of the young to listen to the kindly voice of age, who can hold cheerful converse with one whom years have deprived of its charms—show me the man who would no more look rudely at the poor girl in the village than at the elegant and well-dressed I lady in the ytloou—show file the man who treats unprotected maidenhood as he would the heiress surrounded by the powerful protection of rank, riches, and family—show me the man who would abhor the libertine's gibe, who shuns as a blasphemer the traducer of his mother's sex, who scorns as he would a coward, the lidiculer of woman's foibles or the exposers of womanly reputation—show me that man ■ who never forgets for an instant, the delicacy, the respect that is due to woman, as woman, in any condition or class—show me such a man and you show me a gentleman—nay, you show me a true Christian. EXCISK CASE. —CAUTION TO IIAWKKRS IN TEA.— At Lydney Petty Sessions, on Tuesday week, Mr. Richardson, of the city of Gloucester, tea-dealer, ap- peared to a summons charging him with selling tea at Woollastone, without a license. It appeared front the evidence of Mrs. Lewis, that in August last, the defendant was passing near her house, when she asked him to sell her a quarter of a pound of tea, for which she paid him Is. 3d.. Mr. Richardson's license, which empowered him to sell tea at his resi- dence in Gloucester, was produced, and the witness was cross-examined in order to shew that she had previously ordered the tea, which would have come' within the meaning of the Act, as the defendant may afterwards have delivered it from his residence in Gloucester but in this they failed, as Lewis posi- tively denied giving any orders for the tea. The Bench convicted the defendant in the penalty of £ 20" and costs. A SHARK STOHY.—While the b&rk Annabella, Mr. John Pater son, commander, was on her passage home from Trinidad to Clyde, on her last voyage, she was- one day going through the water at the rate of about three knots- an hour, with a iight wind, when a shark was observed following the vessel. The shark hook was immediately called for, baited with a piece of pork, and thrown over the side, when the shark at once seized hold of it and was hooked. As is usual in such cases a bowling-hitch was passed round the body of the shark, by the mate to secure it. While in the act of doing so, the mate Mr. Dow, now commander of the same vessel, lost his balance, fell overboard, and caught hold of the back of the shark thus both shark and man hung suspended. The master, seeing the imminent danger to which his mate was exposed, sprang overboard, holding a rope in 0110 hand and grasped the mate with the other. The shark at the moment got clear of the hook, and was1 preparing to seize his prey, when bol o the master and mate were drawn on deck Jpeecl less and pule a# death by those o» buanl. Glasgow Chr<jfticle,f