1 AUGUST 1868, Page 3

It is said that genuine mosquitoes have got into England,

and it is certain that they have got into the papers, and been the sub- ject of a lively correspondence. One gentleman, writing from Nice, says that his wife accidentally discoveze that a bunch of resemary in the room is a specific against their attacks ; and the present editor accordingly tried the experiment against the British gnat, which he regards as quite the equal of the mosquito in vexatiousness and inflammatory poison. The induction was partial and very imperfect, but if the gnats were not away on other business, and came as usual, the rosemary appears to have succeeded in repelling them ; they, at any rate, intermitted their attacks.