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The friends of Polish nationality give a dinner this evening, at Willis's Rooms, to the leading British champion of the cause, Lord Dudley Stuart; the more im- mediate object being to afford an opportunity for presenting his Lordship with a piece of tapestry, worked by a number of ladies in Poland, as a tribute of grati- tude from their country. Its preparation has occupied a considerable period, and horn political considerations has been conducted with much secrecy.

The Reverend Samuel Gobat, who has been appointed to the Bishopric of Jeru- salem, is expected to arrive in town in the course of next week, to receive con- secration from the Archbishop of Canterbury.

A deputation from "the '82 Club" waited upon Mr. Smith O'Brien on Thurs- .day, in his new quarters, and presented to him an inflated address. Mr. Smith made a suitable reply.

The Morning Post makes this odd announcement—" The Lord Mayor went to Spithead on Sunday morning, to view the line of battle ships previously to their 11qm-tare for the Mediterranean."

The Council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science has fixed the period of holding the next meeting, at Southampton, for the week com- mencing 'Thursday, the 10th September. Sir Roderick Impey Murchison is the President.

It is proposed to establish "an institution for the temporary reception of Females discharged from the Metropolitan Prisons and Police-offices, who are anxious to reform their lives; to be called Elizabeth Fry's Refuge."

The Royal Agricultural Society of England are to give prizes for essays on the following subjects. On the farming of Northumberland, Suffolk, and So- merset, each essay, 591.; on the management of sheep, 201.; on the cultivation of wheat, 201.; on paring and burning, 101.; on flax, 201.; history of the drainage, Sic., of the Great Level of the Fens, 501. Prizes of 30/. are also to be given for accounts of the best chemically-compounded manure for wheat, and for turnips. An additional 2501. is placed at the disposal of the Committee appointed to su- perintend the experiments made in analyzing the ashes of plants.

Two sergeants, two corporals two bombardiers, and twenty gunners and drivers of the Royal Artillery Volunteers, were selected on Thursday afternoon, and me- slically inspected at the Ordnance Hospital at Woolwich, for special service on the borders of the Oregon territory; and will proceed, about the latter end of the present month or beginning of June, for their destination, under the command of Captain Blackwood, promoted last month from the Royal Horse Artillery. The Terrible war-steamer is expected to take them to America with a supply of guns and stores. Three thousand excavators are also to proceed from various parts in. this country, and assemble at a certain place on the Hudson Bay Company's terri- tory.—Times.

On Mondayevening, that remarkable phenomenon a lunar parhelion (if we may use the term was witnessed in this neighbourhood. At a short distance from the moon, was a luminous circle, on which were two mock moons, one on each side of the real moon' and having nearly an equal degree of brightness. The phsenome- non continued visible from eleven until two o'clock, when intervening clouds ob- scured it. —Poole Herald.

A few days ago, a lady visited one of the most extensive shopping establish- ments in Glasgow, and made purchases to the extent of 801. On examining the contents of her purse she found she had only SQL; and suggested that one of the shop-boys should just step into the carriage along with her, and receive pay- ment at her mansion. Instead, however, of arriving at a fine mansion, judge of

his surprise when the officials of a lunatic asylum seized him and held him fast! The lady had, of course, specially prepared a warrant for his committal. Before he could procure liberation, the fair one and goods had disappeared, and have not since been heard 0E—Glasgow Argus.

A few days since, aperson genteel dressed was observed standing at the win- dow of a respectable jeweller of Dublin, as if admiring the rich works displayed for sale inside. He had an umbrella placed carelessly under one arm; and while he was gazing, another individual who was passing, apparently prompted by a love of mischief, contrived adroitly to thrust the umbrella through the glass, and es- cape, while the unfortunate gentleman stood on the spot stupified with astonish- ment. A shopman rushed out, and demanded why he had broken the window ? he denied that he had done it; but appearances were against him, and he was obliged to enter the shop to settle the affair. The proprietor of the establish- ment demanded payment for the damage done; and when the other talked of his complete innocence, threatened to send for the police. The pane of glass was strong plate, and the cost thirty shillings. "It is enormous," said the unfortunate.

"I paid it, and you must," replied the jeweller. "Here is half-a-crown," said the stranger. "Send for a constable!" indignantly ejaculated the man of metal. He

was inexorable; and the other at length submitted, complaining bitterly, but observing justly that a gentleman couldn't go to a police-office for a trifle. He took out three 201. bank-notes, gave one of them to the pacified jeweller, received 181. 10s. sterling as his balance, and retired. A friend dropped into the shop shortly after; the occurrence was mentioned, and the note was shown as a cor- roborating proof,—it was a forgery !—Dublin Morning Register.

The Perth Constitutional narrates a surprising but involuntary feat of horse- womanship performed by the lady of Captain Austen, of the Eighty-seventh Royal Irish Fusileers, a detachment of which is at present in Perth. Mrs. Aus- ten was riding along the Edinburgh road on a high-metaled young bunter; the animal took fright at something, and dashed off at a furious rate. "All in sight were petrified with alarm for the lady's safety, but none dared offer their willing aid. That she would be thrown and killed outright was momentarily expected; ba to interrupt by any means the forward progress, was thought more likely to render such a catastrophe certain. The lady stuck by her seat as if lashed to the saddle; and, Mazeppa-like, the frothing animal dashed across the vale of

Strathearn with the same impetuous career. The sight was at once picturesque and terrific. The fair form of the rider, her hat hanging over her shoulders, heç

long hair dishevelled, and with the ample drapery of her riding-habit floating in the breeze, would have been a fine subject for the pencil of the artist. Without any relaxation of impetuosity, both were observed to penetrate the Ochils, and were lost to sight in the deep recesses of Glenfarg. At length, exhausted by his own exertion, the animal came to a dead stand beyond the middle of the romantic pass—having gone over about six miles in eight minutes. Fdrtunately, the lady

sustained no material injury in any way but from well-grounded alarm. She had the nerve to manage the bridle-rein BO as to steer clear of dangerous obstacles; for many carts and other carriages came in the way ; and, after bleeding, which the strained state of her arms rendered advisable, she has been comparatively well ever since."

Towards the evening of Tueday last, Mr. A. Lianbden, surgeon, delivered the wife of William Corrington, of Coningsby, carrier, of one of the strangest male-

formations of nature it has ever fallen to our lot either to see or read of. This was no less than a double child, or two children connected together in the most singular manner. They are joined from the head down nearly to the bottom of the body. The head presents one face entirely round, and every way perfect, but with the form of two heads in one; while on the opposite side of the head there is a single eye between the two ears that are very near together. The bodies are connected by the side, or rather the left side of the breast of one to the right side of the breast of the other, all the limbs being perfect. It has, therefore four ears three eyes, four arms and hands, two bodies, and four legs and feet. The nurse informed us it lived two hours.—Boston Herald.

About a fortnight ago as a man named Thomas Holland was in the act of dig- ging a grave in the yard of Cowgill Bridge Church, in Dent, when he had dug about four feet deep he came in contact with a skull.On taking it up, he found in the inside a quantity of hay and straw; out of which, to the no small amaze- ment of Mr. Holland, jumped two full-grown mice. How they got there, or what was their fancy for building a nest so much below the surface of the ground, re- mains a mystery—Preston Chronicle.

The influenza, the customary forerunner of the cholera, has appeared at Berlin —Globe.

According to a letter from Vienna, the revenue derived by the nobility of Galicia from feudal service represents a capital of sixty-nine millions of forms. It is proposed, says the writer, to indemnify the nobles to the extent of two-thirds of this capital; thus making them support the loss of one-third, The other two- thirds to be paid half by the state and half by the peasantry.—Morning Chronicle.

By the new penal code in Russia, it is decreed that in all cases, where, accord- ing to the old legislation, the punishment of the knout would be inflicted, the whip shall be substituted; and in cases where flogging by the whip would have been inflicted by the old code, the rod is to be substituted.—Morning Chronicle.

We learn by a recent report to the Egyptian Government on the endemic dis- eases of the country, by Dr. Peron, the French physician at the head of the mili- tary hospital at Cairo, that out of every twenty inhabitants, live only are un- affected by ophthalmia; of the remaining fifteen, one becomes totally blind, fear lose one eye, and ten have the disease in a chronic or acute state. The frequency of this complaint, according to Dr. Peron, arises less from the nature of the country and climate than from want of all precaution among the people to protect their eyes against the glare of the sun and the sand of the desert, and from their complete ignorance of even the simplest remedies and means of prevention.— Galignani.

A Western editor speaking of the Oregon question says—" If we must have a war, let us be found erect, in a posture of defence, and at least with our national pantaloons braced up."

From a Paliamentary return just issued, it appears that the cotton manufac- tures exported in 1845 from tine United Kingdom amounted to 1,091,686,069 yards, of the declared value of 18,029,8081. In 1814 the quantity was only 192,340,825 yards, but the declared value was 16,480,7501.

Mr. Fortune, of the Horticultural Society's Gardens at Chiswick, who was seat out to China about three years since, and who has been very successful in ex- ploring the horticultural and botanical novelties of that country, particularly in Hong-kong and the vicinity of Canton, returned to London in the course of last week. He has brought over with him a very large collection, in the finest condi- tion, of horticultural and agricultural products, contained in eighteen glazed cases, which have been transmitted to the gardens of the Horticultural Society.

A short time since, a tradesman of Bath and his assistant went a journey on pedomotive machines, and travelled the distance of eighty-seven miles during the day.