• few instances, materially injured the quality of the grain
or retarded the saving of it. Hop-picking has commenced in the neighbourhood of Maidstone,-and in other parts of Rent. The She, teld Iris notices the fact, that a little magnesia or soda may be properly mixed with the .flour of wheat which is in any degree spriny. We believe there will be -little occasion for such medicating. Sir Humphrey Davy, we recollect, recommended in 1816 the proportion of • from 10 to 20 grains of mag- nesia to-each quartern loaf. About two hundred pockets of the new crop of bops have been brought to market from Kent and Sussex, and sold at 70s. to 120s. per cwt. Duty estimated at 140,000/.
We learn from a friend of ours just returned from the North of Scot- land, that there have been fewer boxes of grouse sent to England this season than has been the case for the last eight years. The cause is attributed to the very general system of muir-burning, which has been carried on to such an extent in some districts, as very materially to in- jure the breed of grouse ; and unless Highland landlords put a check to it, they will find it will have a tendency to deter English gentlemen from taking moors North of the Tweed. We could mention several districts that have suffered severely ; but we believe, in Glenlyon this baneful practice has been persevered in to a greater extent than else. where. One party, who have had an extensive take for fourteen years in Glenlyon, are under the necessity of abandoning it, owing to the gra. dual decrease of grouse, consequent on the preference given by the landlord to the grazing tenant over the sporting one.—Courier. [Our contemporary talks simply on the subject of " muir-burning," which has been practised there for a much longer period than the memory of the oldest man in Scotland. The lack of boxes arises, we suspect, more from the scarcity of English gold to throw away upon Scotch moors, than of birds. The pinching times have given many a Joe Manton a holyday, instead of its master.] A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.—On Friday morning, nearly the whole of Dover was either upon the Piers, the Heights, or Marine Parade, to witness a chase of a singular kind. A Mr. Curtess and his lady had been living there at the City of London Hotel six weeks. On Wednes- day, a Monsieur Sole, a French gentleman, with a wooden leg, tall and good-looking, arrived at the same hotel. On Friday morning, the lady of Mr. Curtess left his bed cautiously, and started off with M. Sole for ( 'alais in a fine four-oared galley. Soon after Mr. Curtess discovered his has, and pursued the parties in a 35-feet six-oared galley ; the men wcte to be paid Si. for their trouble. About three or four miles from shore the rival boats came together after a smart chase. The husband lay in the bottom of his galley during the chase, but when alongside his runaway wife's boat, he jumped up. This so frightened the lady that she fainted of course, and went into the most appalling fits. A dread- ful sea fight then ensued; oars, boat-hooks, &c., were used with the greatest effect on both sides. The crew of M. Sole's boat at last gave in, in consequence of the terror they were in of having bad a hole stove through her bottomby the terrific agitation of M. Sole's wooden leg. The two boats then returned to Dover, Airs. Curtess weeping bitter tears, with her hair, like Niobe's, hanging in negligent festoons over her face and back, and the husband looking alternately at his wife, and at the proprietor of the wooden leg. M. Sole, it is said, gained great honour, and his wooden leg, during the celebrated three days in Paris. — Globe.
Eight 101. and two 51. notes, received at Harlow Bush Fair the other day, in payment for a couple of horses, Lave proved to be coun- terfeit. The forgery is indifferently executed. They are dated May and June 1832.
On Thursday last, a serious accident befel Mr. Daniel Lloyd, painter. Whilst shooting near Henfield, his double-barrelled gun ex- ploded, and dreadfully lacerated his left hand, taking off the first joint of the fore-finger, and seriously injuring the palm. The gunstock was completely shattered. He made the best of his way to Mr. Morgan, the surgeon, of Henfield, who amputated the finger below the wound; and we are glad to hear that Mr. Lloyd is now doingwell. About twelve months ago, a gun burst in Mr. Lloyd's hand, when be had a narrow escape, having had a piece of hie hat torn out.—Brigliton Gazette. [Does Mr. Lloyd artist to a "charmed life," or will he condescend to use the Somerville safety-gun 9]
A professional gentleman of Tunbridge Wells, who had occasion last week to go to Lewes, ordered his carriage to Uckfield to bring him home at night. He got to Uckfield about midnight, and being much fatigued, fell asleep soon after he took his place in his chariot. The man had been directed to drive by Maresfield, at which place he mis- took his way, taking the London road instead of the road home. He continued to drive on until he reached Godstone turnpike ; when his master's slumbers were broken by some altercation about the toll. His chagrin may be readily conceived, when he found he had travelled twenty-three miles, and was still twenty-seven from home. The dis- tance from Uckfield to the Wells is fourteen miles ; in performing' which he had gone a circuit of fifty.
On Saturday, the neighbourhood of Barnard Castle was visited by one of those curious phenomena commonly called whirlwinds, which passed from east to west, breaking branches off trees, and scattering the newly-cut corn in all directions. This was followed, the succeeding night, by one of the most tremendous storms of rain, hail, thunder, and lightning, that was ever witnessed. The damage done by the rain alone to the newly:cut corn near Gilling, and other parts of Yorkshire, has been very serious. The rivers Greta, Swale, &c., were more flooded than ever before known.—Durham Chronicle.
On Saturday, the house of Mr. John Ramsey, farmer, at Wawn, was struck by a ball of fire, about twelve at noon. It entered the house by the roof, and descended through a wall into a sleeping-room directly over the door, where it stripped, splintered, and singed the wood to pieces ; from thence it ran down to the room below, into a closet, where it injured the wood in the same manner. It struck upon some books in the closet, burned one to a cinder, and singed several others ; it par- tially destroyed a sugar canister made of tin. From thence it took a sudden turn through a wall eighteen inches thick into the kitchen, -where it struck a gun loaded with powder, discharged it, melted all the lead about the gun, and split the stock in two.—Hull Advertiser.
An elderly woman from John's parish was discharged cured, from the Cholera Hospital, on Tuesday last, but would not be allowed by her neighbours to reoccupy her own house. The consequence was that she had to proceed a little way out of the city, and take up her lodging that night on the brow of a limekiln, where she was. found suffocated in the morning.—Manchester Guardian. -
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