Ziortilaumo.

A special meeting of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce has been called "to take into consideration the present state of our relations with the United States of America."

The Rays says—" A letter from Vienna announces that in a note ad- dressed by the Cabinet of St. James's to the Austrian Government, the assurance is given that all measures of precaution will be taken to prevent the presence of Kossuth at London from troubling the good relations es- tablished between England and Austria."

Enrolled Chelsea Pensioners have this week been selected as candidates for the purpose of drillirs the Militia, and inspected by the Colonels and the Medical Staff. Noncommissioned offi ;el s and privates of the Line are not to be excluded; but preference is t be given to the Pensioners.

A new Chairman of Committees of th 3 House of Commons will have to be elected. The Standard ventures to suggest a candidate. Strangely enough, the gentleman named is not a Derbyite, but a Whig,—Mr. Matthew Talbot Baines, Member for Leeds, and lately at the head of the Poor-law Board.

7"- The Derby bribery case continues to engage the attention of the Liber- als. It is stated that other letters connecting Major Beresford and Mr. Frail of Shrewsbury have come to light. The Tory agents threaten to prosecute Sharrack, the bribed butcher, for taking the bribe. Sir John Pakington left town on Thursday, for his seat, Westwood Park.

Lord and Lady Palmerston were at their residence near Sligo last week.

We regret to learn, and to announce, that Mr. Macaulay's health is not yet in such a state as to permit the hope of his being able to address his constituents on an early day.—Scotsman.

We regret to learn that Mr. Ouseley Higgins, the Liberal Member for Mayo, is dangerously ill. There is little hope entertained of his re- covery.—Galway Vindicator.

The Times draws attention to the case of Mr. Hewitt Bridgman, formerly the Liberal Representative of Ennis, but who now, utterly destitute, and in his eightieth year, lies in King's College Hospital. His wants are supplied by a few, a very few friends, the O'Gorman Mahon among the number. The object of this public notification of the case is to procure means of placing Mr. Bridgman in comfort during the last days of his life.

Sir Thomas Downman, the Garrison Commandant at Woolwich, died on Tuesday.

Lord Kensington died on Tuesday, at Kensington, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. He succeeded to the title in 1801; but he never took any part in public affairs. His son, William Edwardes, who was born in that year, and who succeeds to the title and property, is a Commander in the Royal Navy. Major Herbert Edwardes is a nephew of the late Baron.

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The Duke and Duchess of Montpensier arrived at Lisbon on the 30th July.

The Marquis Turgot, ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs, is about to leave Paris with his family, for Italy. •

M. Cornudet and M. Dufaure have returned to practice at the Paris bar.

Michael Ney, the grandson of the famous Marshal, has just entered the Seventh Regiment of French Dragoons as a private volunteer.

The wife of Don Miguel gave birth to a daughter on the 5th instant, at Mildenburgh.

The King of Naples has appointed the Marquis de Balestrino to the post of Neapolitan Ambassador to the Court of Turin.

Otho King of Greece arrived at Carlsbad on the 1st instant.

Johanna Wagner has been lately making a tour of the German pro- vincial theatres.

Further letters from Lord Londonderry to M. Bonaparte appeared in the Morning Post of Thursday ; but there is no letter to Lord Londonderry from M. Bonaparte. The subject is the release of Abd-el-Kader, who still remains in the Castle of Amboise. As the letters are very characteristic of the writer, whose name may now be added to the long list of M. Bona- parte's dupes, and as Lord Londonderry's literature would be spoilt by condensation, we give the documents entire.

Lord Londonderry to Prince Louis Napoleon.

"Iloldernesse House, May 3,1852.

"Mon Prince—Your Highness cannot be surprised if I again call to your mind the position in which a peculiar fate, under circumstances, has now em- barked me ; and I must first respectfully represent, that I could not believe my letter of the 1st of February last, officially seat through your Minister of War, and by his reply laid before you, should have remained for two months entirely unnoticed. I am convinced, however, that this has arisen from en- tire forgetfulness, under the immense occupations of the vast empire over which you have been destined to rule with entire dominion ; or, otherwise, the usual courtesy between gentleman and gentleman would never have been omitted,—more especially when, under your own hand, you have assured me, que le pouvoir n'a rien change de votre mar.'

"Under the impression, nevertheless, of a seeming oblivion, I hope, with the most perfect respect to the President of the French Republic, and the magnanimous French. nation, I may venture, for the last time, to place my petition before your Highness for the liberation of the brave warrior at Cha- teau d' Amboise. I fervently hope that in the heroic and gallant hearts of all Frenchmen, soldiers as well as citizens, and of all Europe, I shall stand acquitted of impropriety in the measure I am now pursuing. "My letter, February 1st, here annexed in copy No. 1. and the answer of the Minister of War, No. 2, will certify as to the cause of regret I have ex- perienced at my late communication being neglected. I come now to your Highness's autographs of September 1851 and May 29, 1851. I need not now make them known to the world; but if your Highness refers to them, you will not wonder that I wrote in my last epistle to you, that I had a let- tee de change, payable a vue ' ; and what does this consist in ? or what is the value thereof? Your honourable, recorded, never-to-be-blotted out words, 'Jo veux, tot ou tard, mettre l'Emir en libeste, parceque je °rola l'honneur de la France y'est engage.'

"Your Highness then most sagaciously adds, that it would be more diffi- cult for you to accomplish the object if urged by any foreign power, any in- fluence of the press, or any discussions in our Parliament. For more than one year and a half, sire, undoubtedly from your opinions known, no one has breath- ed the great captive's name ; but this cannot last for ever. But then, further, what were your Highness's next declared impediments ? The Ottoman Porte ? No By the vigorous and praiseworthy efforts of your enlightened Ambassa- dor, they were ready to facilitate an arrangement equally honourable to France, Turkey, and humanity.

"Your own former Ministry and objections, by your own splendid career, are no longer in your way; you are absolute, supreme, omnipotent, account- able to no one but yourself; and between you and your conscience, Abdel Kader still lingers. " Beyond all this, and more forcible than all I have urged, as regards your brave army, I hear from authority not to be doubted, that the last remaining tribe of Kabyles have been entirely and signally defeated, and the war in Algeria for ever at an end; thus affording no reasonable, or oven politic ground for further delay. "The time and moment, then, seems, at length to have arrived, in the eventful year of 1852, which you proclaimed to me would be a period easy for you to carry the object into effect—to take the bold, glorious, and cou- rageous decision of liberating the fallen chief, your noble prisoner. "Away then with all chimeras of difficulties, delicacies, and consequences : your decrees are final. Announce Le President le vent,' and Abdcl Kader's prison-doors fly open ! And you will give effect alike, by this proceeding, to your wish and to your wilL The unsullied honour of France and the desire of its powerful ruler (the chosen of eight millions) will be accomplished. "I have the honour to remain, with the highest consideration, and most perfect respect and regard, your Highness's constant friend and wellwisher,

VANE LONDONDERRY, Gen.

"P.8.—It is right I should add, that, waiting all respectful and due time, if my humble representations receive (as my last) no attention, I shall feel it due to myself, my position, and all the circumstances of the case, to place the whole of our correspondence, which from the first has been official, and in no degree marked as private by one or the other, before the public and Europe; when the best judgment will be formed of all that has passed on this important affair."

Lord .Londonderry to Prince Louis Napoleon.

"Wynyard Park, August 9, 1852.

"Mon Prince—I could not have conceived it possible, after our former in- timate relations, and my letter of 3d May last, (sent through your Ambas- sador in London,) that you should have shown me so little courtesy as again not to vouchsafe any reply. Such a course cannot now be from accident or occupation, but must be from design ; and I have only to leave the world and Europe to judge, by the immediate publicity of our correspondence, between my humble and repeated solicitations and your word of honour, pledged to me that, sooner or later, you would liberate Abdel Bader. "Mon Prince, if any event could hasten your mind to adopt the Emir's liberation more than another, it would be the sudden and lamented death of your former intimate friend and boon companion Alfred d'Orsay. You can- not but know, mon Prince, he anxiously aided me in our common and un- ceasing efforts to bring your conscience to a clear sense of what was promised under your own hand ; and this important letter I now annex in attested copy. I forbear adding the lengthened former details that have been al- ready published ; but I would place on record communications from that highly talented spirit that has flown to that Tribunal before which we must all appear. If, to show his deep sympathy, together with my own, aught can move your Highness to act nobly, generously, and bravely, it will be the words of your departed friend. Girardin, your great and gifted writer, has proclaimed, 'Palaces have only two doors open to truth, the door of friend- ship and the door of adversity—of friendship, which is to adversity what lightning is to thunder, invisible justice, equal justice for all. The justice of which death holds the scales counts days when it does not measure gifts.' " Remember, mon Prince, there is but one step between us and death. If the Emir languishes and dies in prison, who would be in your Imperial robes—who would envy blighted faith and broken promises ? "I remain, mon Prince, an Irish soldier, devoted to military honour and well-deserved glory. VANE LONDONDERRY."

Mr. Hind, the astronomer, has named the planet newly discovered be- tween Mars and Jupiter "Melpomene."

It is said that the seat of the Russian Embassy is about to be removed from Ashburnham House to Chesham Place, the lease of the former having expired.

The Courtier du Bas-Rbin announces that the German Governments have ratified the convention with France for the junction of the French and German railways.

The electric telegraph is complete to Plymouth ; and it is suggested that Greenwich time may now be easily adopted in the West of England.

Steam navigation has lately increased in an extraordinary manner at Constantinople. More than twenty steamers now ply daily in the Bos- phorus and the Sea of Marmora. It is said that a Russian company is about to be formed, which will have twenty vessels, to run in opposition to those now established.

What is the cause of the potato-blight ? This question is again upper- most in the minds of the thoughtful, who apprehend the effects of the disease. Mr. Freeman Nuttall, a gentleman of Wicklow who farms his own land, is one of these ; and he has put forth a theory on the subject based on practical observations. He thinks that the disease does not arise from atmospheric influence, but from insects. It first shows itself in small black spots. "Now," says Mr. Freeman, " the spots on the potato are caused by in- sects. They come about the middle of July, I think at night. It has been remarked, that the disease in many places has appeared on or about the same day each year ? how many birds and insects do so ? They are at first mostly in couples, and are to be found on the under part of the leaf, on the before-mentioned black spots, but are most difficult to find ; for on touching the leaf, they spring off so quickly, and with such force, that, although most invisible to the naked eye, an acute ear may hear the sound of their jump. In a few days they increase in size, and deposit their eggs, which are white, and very pointed at the ends ; after which, the female, from a bright yellow, becomes almost white; and dies. I have found many of the mere skins of them quite perfect in shape. The eyes are near the top of the head, and are very dark-coloured. The young are soon found in great numbers, creeping over the whole plant, particularly on the stalk : these are much less inclined to jump than the first ; some days, when even touched they would not do so."

The next point is, how to get rid of the insects ? Mr. Freeman uses a bush-harrow over the crop, followed by lime, which he has found effect- ive; and he publishes his views in order that the attention of scientific men may be directed to the subject.

In a report to the Wesleyan Conference, "it appears that, from the divisions occasioned by the discontented party, known by the name of Reformers,' several circuits have been crippled, and some ministers have been reduced to the verge of starvation ; and that the contingent fund, though nearly 5001. more than in the preceding year, is in debt something like 60001. Several chapels have been sold during the year, but the precise number is not stated. Some of these, however, are to be succeeded by more commodious buildings, and, as at Cleckheaton for example, with little or no debt remaining. On the whole, therefore, the loss is less real than apparent. The general condition of trust estates is very surprisingly improved. Eighty-six new chapels have been built or completed during the year. Nearly two-thirds of the erections and enlargements have been completed without the slightest increase of debt, and the amount actually expended for building exceeds that of the year preceding by 18,0151."

Railway statistics are always interesting, especially when marked im- provement in the receipts is recorded. The results of railway traffic, collected by the Daily News, for the last six 111911ths, may be considered as subsidiary illustrations of the general prosperity:

"Taking the eleven great lines of&glmld, -Viz. theft either leading to, or actually centering in the Metropolis; It *add appear that in the first half of the year 1852, as obrupared with the corresponding period of 1851, their receipts have been 4,587,0361. as against 4,488,239/. ; showing an increase in the whole of 88,797/. But as in that period 64 miles have been added to the length of these eleven lines, the mileage receipts have not, it is clear, gone on augmenting in the same proportion as the gross receipts ; thus adding another to the many proofs we before had, that, however great may be the advantage to the public of extensions, branches, and spurs, it is on the main and original lines and schemes that proprietaries must rely for profit and dividend, " Descending, however, from these general results to particulars, the in- creased sum taken last half-year has, it will be found, been produced by seven of these eleven lines,—viz. by the South-eastern, 10,8641. ; the Mid- land, 25,6981. the Lancashire and Yorkshire, 34,529/. the Eastern Counties, 14,931/. - the 'North Midland, 96321.; the 'York and Berwick, 37271. • and the Great Northern, 549481. And of these particular cases of increase, ?those of the Midland, the North Midland, the Lancashire and Yorkshire, the Eastern Counties, and the Great Northern, are encouraging, as showing the gradual development of traffic under the pressure of great competition for it ; for in none of those five lines is there any mileage increase; it is exactly in the instance of those two, the Midland and the Great Northern, where the rivalry has been greatest, that the increase in receipts has been largest. " The falling-off in the traffic during the last half-year has been chiefly in the North-western ; and, what is remarkable, while there is a decrease of 46,4191 in its receipts, there is an increase in its mileage of 21 miles. So also with the Great Western ; there is a decrease of 20481., and an addition of 15 miles to its extent ; and with the South-western, an increase of 5 miles has been followed by a decreased traffic of 12981. In the case of the Brighton, the decrease is between five and six thousand, but the mileage has, we be- lieve, been stationary. The antagonism between increased mileage and de- creased receipts in the first half of 1852 is not, of course,. cause and effect; and, as traffic is only gradually developed, it is quite possible that this in- creased mileage may hereafter turn out profitable ;_though .experience is rather against any such expectation. " Part of this falling-off in these four cases is no doubt attributable to the loss of the Exhibition traffic which they enjoyed in 1851—for it is observable that the earliest impressions on receipts produced by that traffic were exactly on the lines on which there has been in 1852 a decreased take; part to the uncertainties of the weather and of the London season ; and something pro- bably in the case of the North-western to severe competition on both Eastern and -Western sides. The decrease, it must, however, be remarked, would have been more serious had it not been for the increasing receipts from mer- chandise; thereby showing, that though the individual locomotion has been less, the general trade of the country has been progressive.

"So far as the half-yearly accounts have yet appeared, it is inferrible that the working expenses have increased in the last half-year. This is so in the North-western and Great Western ; but is accounted for by ,part of the re- pairs arising during the Exhibition year not having been paid for until the first half of the current half-year. The effect of this increase in working charges and of the decrease in receipts, on dividend in those two companies, is, that to maintain the rates formerly paid, very considerable sums have to be taken from the balances carried over after payment of the dividend for the half-year ending December 31, 1851."

Since the destruction of the Amazon, fires at sea have excited unusual attention on the part of the directors of the Royal Mail Company ; who have taken partial precautionary measures against fire. It would appear i

that, with this view, they have issued printed instructions, dated the 1st of March last, which are suspended to the mainmast abaft the engine upon the main deck, but which refer solely to the engine department ; where, from the number of persons at all times employed, the least danger is to be expected. A want of like precautionary measures as regards the cabins, or what may be termed the general police of the ship, has well nigh led to a catastrophe on board the Severn as appalling as the late sad occurrence with the Amazon. " A Passenger " tells the story in a letter to the Times.

"The Severn left Madeira at about six p. M. of Thursday the 5th instant, with upwards of 110 passengers, or, including the crew, with more than 200 souls on board. At between one and two o'clock of the following Saturday morning, the 7th, I was awoke by my child, who slept in a cradle in my cabin, crying. Twice I succeeded in quieting him ; but as he awoke again, I got up, and finding him rather cold, I placed him in my own berth for greater warmth ; where, while trying again to get him to sleep, I suspected. I smelt smoke. In a few seconds I became more convinced of this; and,. fortunately for the occasion, occupying an inner berth upon the main deck, I opened a small window in it which looks down into the saloon ; when I at once discovered the body of the ship filling fast with smoke, rising from the saloon-cabin below,—where, strange to say, numbers were sleeping totally unconscious of their danger. Unwilline.° to leave my child, I at once gave the alarm by crying Fire on board !' Mr. Rooker, who occupied an ad- joining berth to my own, was the first to hear me ; when he, undressed as he was, at once rushed upon deck to give notice to the officer of the watch.. Admiral Grenfell, who slept in another adjoining berth, immediately called Captain Chapman, and accompanied him below to whence the smoke pro- ceeded. By this time all the passengers in the after part of the ship had heard the confusion, and were rushing upon deck, half dressed, the body of the vessel filling fast with smoke. " The captain, officers, and crew, deserve the greatest credit for their coolness and promptitude of action throughout. Mr. Struts, the chief officer, whose conduct is beyond all praise, went below, and, at the imminent risk of his own life from suflbcation, descended to where the fire was burning, and by his exertions was mainly instrumental in saving the ship and lives of all on board, assisted by Mr. Baker, the fourth officer. Mr. Leeds, the second. officer, was employed in seeing an ample supply of water sent below, and en- couraging all who came near him ; while Mr. Richards, the third officer, who

in charge of the deck, saw that the boats were ready to be lowered in case of necessity ; but as they were insufficient to have held the whole of the passengers and crew, it is to be supposed much loss of life would have ensued had they been called into requisition. In less than half an hour the fire was entirely got under, and by degrees the passengers became reassured.

" It has not been possible to discover how the fire originated. It com- menced at and was confined to the after part of the ship, below the saloon, where the water-tanks are kept : this space is divided by a bulkhead from; that allotted to the wine, spirits, and other stores for passengers' use. Four days previous to the fire, and at about ten p. tn., Admiral Grenfell and Mr. Busk, two of our passengers, while sitting in the saloon, saw a man, employed as a barman, go below with a lighted candle in his hand, when he passed up sundry bottles to two others, who remained above. They at once communi- cated this occurrence to Captain Chapman, who went down into the saloon to inquire into the affair; but what explanation was given I know not. It is, however, suspected that one of the servants, a short time pre- vious to the fire breaking out, must have gone down with the view of steal- ing something to drink, when the accident may have occurred. Upon the tanks were the remains of some beer-casks, and some straw which had burnt ; the side of the ship had taken fire, and it had worked its way along to the bulkhead ; which in less than two minutes more, as stated by those who went below to extinguish the fire, would have burnt so far as to communicate with the adjoining store-room, where, in addition to wine, &e., thero was an abundance of straw, the ends of some of which were beginning to show the effect of fire. In such case there would have been little ehance of saving the ship : the deck above, and the berths, all of pine, would have burnt but too readily; moreover, the smoke would then have prevented any one approach.- ing the spot. "Upon first removing the grating leading to the tanks the fire was plainly seen burning, and only after a supply of water had been procured was it pos- sible to go below. This, however, was at hand, and, very fortunately, also Mr. Strutt,the first officer, who led the way, and risked his life to save the ship. Captain Chapman had the misfortune to fall twice while superin- tending below. He was very much hurt, broke one of his ribs, and has been suffering much since.

"There can be no doubt some kind of police regulations must be intro- duced on board of steam-boats carrying passengers, else no life can be con- sidered safe ; all are at the mercy of any reckless or drunken servant, upon whose conduct there appears to be no check. Upon the day preceding the fire, when going into the fore-hold to get at some of my luggage, I saw a man serving out tar with a lighted candle in his hand. Another man, upon the day succeeding the fire, was confined for being found below with a lighted candle. " Might not all seagoing steamers be obliged to carry sufficient boats to save the entire of their crew and passengers ? This would tend to check over-crowding. "It is to be hoped that this occurrence, following so soon after that of the Amazon, may lead to the adoption of strict police regulations on board of these vessels."

Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last.

Zymotic Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration of Ten Weeks 1841-50.

3,757 ....

465 ....

1,857 ....

1,159 ....

273 ....

733

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Week of 11391.

379 36 205 116 34 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 752

Diseases of the Kidneys, ftc 92

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c 67

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Jointa„ 8cc 07

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc..

19

Malformations 28

Premature Birth Atrophy 240

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32

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435 66 ....

41

6

ViOlente,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 317

Total (Including unspecified causes)

10.663

1,124

Fifty boys of the "Shoeblack Brigade" had a treat on Tuesday,—a trip to Erith, with a feast of pies, cakes, and other delicacies. They bore a banner, surmounted by two brushes and a blacking-bottle containing a bunch of flowers.

In the Edinburgh Jury Court, Mrs. Janet Donald or Eadie obtained a verdict of 1001. for herself, and 2001. for her children, as compensation for the death of her husband, who had been killed in the pit of the Barton's Hill Coal Company, at Dykehead, owing to the unsafe condition of the pit, in which the deceased was engaged as a collier.

News has arrived of the wreck of the Trusty, an English emigrant-ship, off Cape Gaspe. There were nearly two hundred passengers. The ship struck on a reef of rocks during a fog. Against the command of the master, a boat put off from the vessel with twenty persons : it was capsized in the surf, and all perished. After being in peril and terror for eight hours, the crew and emi- grants who kept to the ship were rescued by passing vessels the Trusty went to pieces.

.4. fearful gale raged on the coasts for some days this week. Much damage was done to shipping on the South and West coasts of England, and it is feared that some vessels have foundered with their crews.

The bodies of two more infanta have been discovered in the vicinity of Nottingham, which has such a bad eminence for the concealment or murder of new-born children.

A woman has been killed at York by sleeping in a room where a bottle of nitric acid, forgotten for twelve years, had been accidentally broken.

A man, a girl, and two boys, have been killed by the explosion of a boiler at the cotton-factory of Messrs. Baron and Tatersall, at Birtle-cum-Bamford, near Rochdale.

Messrs. Hoiroyd and Simpson's extensive woollen-factory at Rochdale has been entirely destroyed by a fire.

Mr. Blackford, an innkeeper of Malmesbury, had hastened to a neighbour's where a rick of hay was on fire, and got on to the top of it to assist in es.tin- guishing the flames : the rick suddenly gave way beneath him, and he was dreadfully burnt, and died next day.

A young woman has been found dead in a garden at Sheffield, from sun- stroke : she had been hanging out clothes, and was exposed to a noonday sun without any covering to her head.

The side of a limestone-quarry at Llangattock in Monmouthshire has given way, and some 60,000 tons of stone have fallen. At least two workmen were buried under this mountain; and many days' labour will be required to re- cover their bodies.

A boy, about six years of age, son of Mr. Whittaker, farm-bailiff to Vis- count Hill, was playing near a steam-engine at Marchamley farm, when suddenly his silnafore was caught by a spindle, which twisted it round and whirled the child round with tremendous velocity for nearly three hundred revolutions before he was rescued from his perilous situation. The spindle is not above eighteen inches from the ground, and the most miraculous part ,of the casualty. is that the little fellow has not suffered fatal injuries. His head was not injured by blows, but was black and swollen to a great degree. His left arm was broken, one ankle severely injured, and his clothes com- pletely torn to shreds. He was immediately attended by Mr. Walmsley, surgeon, of llodnet, and is expected to recover.—Shropshire Journal.

A Bordeaux journal states that a wealthy farmer in the neighbourhood of that city lately perceived that some of his fowls and pigeons were stolen. As two enormous dogs were let loose in the farm-yard at night, it was supposed -that the theft must have been committed by some persons in the house. The farmer determined to post his men in various places in the premises the next night, and have a strict watch kept. The men remained at their posts until a little after twelve, when the noise of a key turning in a lock was heard, and the moment after the farmer himself made his appearance in his shirt, evidently in a state of somnambulism. He proceeded straight to the pigeon-house, twisted the necks of two birds, and carried them off with him ; be did the same with two ducks, and then returned tranquilly to his own room, where he hid the birds carefully in a press, and went to bed. This oc- currence being related the next day to his sons, they adopted measures to prevent it from taking place again.

A curious grotto, 800 feet long by 70 feet in width, and richly encrusted with stalagmites and stalactites of the most varied and fantastic forms, which it must have taken ages to generate, has just been discovered at Montecatini Tuscany, a place celebrated for its powerful mineral springs. The most

singular circumstance connected with this grotto is, that its temperature is permanently at 96 degrees Fahrenheit ; which, together with the close air, renders it impossible to stay within unless in a state of nudity, and even then a copious perspiration is unavoidable. The water, slowly filtering in from all sides, has formed a sort of lake within, to which a flat boat has now been conveyed for the convenience of visitors. This grotto has only been explored to the extent above mentioned; but it is considered certain that it has extensive ramifications, indications of which have already been found.— Galignani's Messenger.