POLICE OF LONDON,. CRUELTY.—Eliza. Ebner the mother, Eliza Ebner the

daughter, and Ann Rawlinson their servant, were on Monday charged at Bow-street with having ill-treated and starved five female children, who had been apprenticed to them from St. Martin's and St. Clement's workhouses. Mr. Blackman, one of the overseers, when he called to see the children, found them in a shocking state of squalor and starvation ; and took five of them away. One was so ill that he had caused her to be taken to the infirmary, where she was in a very dangerous state, and expected, if she survived, to lose both her feet. Her legs and arms had absolutely mortified. Mr. Blackburn read a certificate front one of the surgeons, which more than bore out his testimony. Four of the children were brought before Sir Richard Birnie. One of them, a girl about five years of age, being divested of her cloak and upper covering, presented a truly miserable picture of emaciation. Her bones protruded nearly through her skin, her eyes were sunk in her head, and she was nearly unable to use her hands. Sir Richard observed that it was a most horrible scene, and he could scarcely believe that women had been guilty of such cruelty. Mr. Blackman said that another child had lately died under their care, and in rather a mysterious manner. On her death it was ascertained that the defendants had said, in answer to some questions, that she was alive. The eldest of the children was then brought forward. Sir Richard—" Well, my girl, what food did the defendants give you ? Any meat ?" Little Girl_ " We had meat, but a very little bit twice a week : and when we had break. fast we had no dinner.' Sir Richard—" How did you sleep ?" Girl- " Seven in one bed, top and bottom." Sir Richard— What kind of a bed was it ?" Girl—' No bed, Sir ; only a blanket laid on the floor." Sir Richard—" Did they beat you ?" Girl—"Yes, your worship, with a roil every day, and every hour of the day." Sir Richard—" Which of the de- fendants." Girl—" Every one of them by turns." Sir Richard—" Did the little eirl that died have a surgeon to attend her when she was ill." Girl- " No,'Sir." Sir Richard—" Did they tell you to say anything ?" Girl- " They told us when she had died to say, if ire were asked, that she was living." The girl was asked several other questions ; in answering which she detailed a series of shocking cruelty practised on her and the little girl lying ill in the infirmary. The deceased child was sent to an undertaker, and buries privately, without the body having been seen by any one, or notice sent to the parish to which she belonged. The prisoners were committed, protesting that they had always treated the children with the greatest care. An inquest was held on Wednesday, on the body of Margaret Howse, aged thirteen, the child whose death and private burial are mentioned above,— the body having been disinterred for that purpose. The body was a mere skeleton—not an ounce of flesh being perceptible on the bones. A surgeon proved that the actual cause of death was want of food. The deceased's fel- low apprentices spoke to the cruelty with which they had been treated, as stated before Sir Richard Birnie. The children were allowed half a slice of bread, and a little water coloured with milk for breakfast. They got some potatoes for dinner ; but this only when their bread and water Was kept from them. Only nine pounds of potatoes were boiled for the eight children. The deceased and her companions often ate meat out of the wash-tub, which was bought for the dog, to allay the cravings of hunger. The deceased died with the portion of her half slice of bread in her mouth. When the woman Ebner was told the girl was dying, she said, "Oh, let her lie and .lie—it will be a good riddance ;" and in the eyeuing the woman and her daughter had a pint of gin for the purpose of rejoicing, as they expressed it. The apprentices were sent to sleep about eleven at night, and called up to work about two or three in the morning. The Coroner's Jury, after deliberating some time, returned a verdict of wilful murder against the mother, and the daughter as

accessary. •

Florence Macarthy was on Tuesday brought to Union Hall, charged with cruelty to his wife. The woman, who is insane, was found in the most desolate condition, covered with filth, and in a state of starvation. The pri- soner was living under the same roof with a prostitute, while his wife was pining away in misery. The house in which they lived belonged to her, and she had 401. a year besides. The poor woman was taken to the workhouse ; and the husband, who says that he has filled some responsible situations under Government, was sent to the House of Correction for a month.

Retreious DISSENSIONS.—A respectable young man stated to the Magis- trate, at Lambeth-street office, on Wednesday, that on Sunday evening, as he

and ciis wife came out of the Parochial Church of St. Mary's, Whitechapel, after bearing divine service, they were met by his father-in-law, who forcibly placed his daughter in a chaise, drove her to his house, and has since peremp-

torily refused either to return her to her home, or permit him to have her back again. The cause of their difference is religion : the wife and her friends are strict Methodists ; and the husband being attached to the Estes hlished Church, did not allow her to attend the Methodist Chapel. The appli- cant wished the Magistrate's advice how to act. The Magistrate said, that the only legal measure he could take was to apply to the Court of King's Bench for a habeas corpus.

Wolienocse Rior.—Four young men, paupers, were on Monday brought to Worship-street office, charged with rioting in Shoreditch workhouse. The

prisoners and about sixty other paupers applied on Sunday for leave to spend

the day out of the workhouse; and being refused leave, as a punishment for previous misconduct, they got up a riot, and broke the windows. They were sent to the tread-mill for three weeks. In one of their fits of insubordina- tion, some of the paupers demolished twenty-fire bedsteads, and cut the blankets up and threw them into the fire.

Romienies.—Charles Rodius, a foreigner, dressed in the most fashionable style, was accused at Queen-square office, on Wednesday, of having robbed Lady Laura Meyrick of her reticule as she was leaving the King's Theatre on the previous evening. The prisoner was secured while attempting to rob another lady ; and the contents of her ladyship's reticule were found in his pockets. He was committed for trial. William Riley, an invalided soldier, was brought to the Thames Police office on Wednesday, charged with having plundered the luggage of Major

Noble, on the passage from Bombay to. England. The Major died at sea ; and after his body had been consigned to the deep, it was discovered that his trunks had been robbed. Thirty-six sovereigns and some Indian coins were found concealed in the prisoner's shoes ; and he subsequently confessed the robbery—observing, " I shall go to Botany Bay for this robbery : they can't hang me—thank God." He was committed for trial at the Admiralty Sessions.

George Sewell and Henry Perkins, were on Tuesday charged at Queen- square office, with being the principals engaged in the robbery of the Govern- ment stamps from the Bull and Mouth Inn, in September last. The prisoners were apprehended at Manchester. There was no evidence against Perkins. Sewell failed in proving an alibi and was committed.

George Denshire was charged at Marlborough-street office, on Saturday, with plunderino. the Royal Institution of books and other articles. It appears that during the last three months, a vast number of books have disappeared from the library, and also hats, cloaks, umbrellas, &c., belonging to the mem- bers, from the reading-room. The prisoner was particularly charged with having stolen from the reading-room, a cloak, value eight guineas. The pri- soner sent a note offering to restore the cloak fur five guineas ; and by this means he was apprehended. Two volumes belonging to the Institution were found in his pockets; and it was discovered that he had pawned other books. The prisoner admitted his guilt, and also that he had given a fictitious name ; but rather than disclose his real name, he said he would suffer eternal confine- ment. He took the property, he said, from extreme distress,—hating his mother and sister dependent upon him for support. The prisoner was com- mitted for trial.

Estuszusstssiy.—Vgilliatn Wright was on Monday convicted at Worship- street office, of having embezzled one hundred and thirty yards of silk, the property of his employer. He was sentenced to the tread-mill for three months, and to be once publicly whipped.

COAL FsAuns.—Messrs. Riddle and Pearse, coal-merchants of Bridewell Wharf, Blackfriars, were fined in 201. at Union-hall, for sending out coals deficient in measure.

POOR LORD Eanox.—Jones, a discarded coachman of the Earl of Eldon, in whose service he had spent eleven years, has been at Marlborough-street office as an applicant for parish relief. He was followed by a wife and five children, and told a long story about his wane and solicitations, and the hard-heartedness of the family. The Earl gave nothing : the Countess gave Mrs. Jones a sovereign,—at the same time remarking, that although she (the Countess) could dine off half a,mutton chop, yet the expenses incurred by her grandson, Lord Encombe, at the University, and the cost of their esta- blishment in town, rendered it quite impossible that she could afford them any further assistance. The story entered into other family particulars ; and the narrator was rewarded with 3/. 10s. to pay his rent.

TIIE Stave TRADE.—There is now in the Thames an American-built ship of 183 tons burden, employed in the illicit slave trade, which has been sent

home, as a prize slave vessel, from Sierra Leone. The space allotted for the miserable wretches measures two feet six inches in breadth, and extends from stem to stern : the captives must have been laid in a reclining position, as there is not space for them to sit upright ; and there is no inlet for air except at the end of the platform. In this receptacle 250 slaves were placed, or rather. stowed in bulk, and were landed at Sierra Leone in a state of com- plete nakedness.

EXECl/TIONS.—Joseph Burnham, aged twenty-seven, and Benjamin Barrup, aged twenty-six' were hanged on Tuesday morning, in front of Newgate.

Barrup reeened the announcement of his impending fate with thiS-xclama- tion—" I am glad my time is fixed; for the suspense I have been in since I was pronounced guilty has been worse than death." Both the prisoners de- clared that they were "happy ;" and Barrup walked to the scaffold with a firm- ness scarcely ever equalled. Muses:m-0n the night of Sunday week, an atrocious murder was com- mitted near Dumnanway, county of Cork. Wren, the son of a respectable farmer, who had married a daughter of one of his father's labourers some time since, conceiving a dislike to his wife, parted from her, and the woman had gone to service in a gentleman's family. On Sunday night, Wren went

to the house where his wife was at service, and having called her out, under

pretence of making arrangements for their coming to live together again, he decoyed her some yards into a lone part of the ground, and then shot her with a blunderbuss, and left her as he thought dead. The unfortunate woman in a short time recovered strength enough to crawl to her master's house; and, having stated the circumstances, expired. The murderer was appre- hended in bed.

On Wednesday week, a party of the Police went to Bansha, in Tipperary, for the purpose of dispersing a party of men assembled in a smith's shop. The men said that they would not yield while they had fire-arms and whisky. The Police fired, when one man was killed and one wounded. The others were taken prisoners.

Desi..—A hostile meeting took place at Frankford, near Shinrone, on Fri- day week, between Mr. William Sadlier, of Tipperary, and Mr. John Doolan, of Shinrone. After an exchange of shots, without effect, the parties left the

ground. The dispute originated at a horse-race the previous day. Before Mr. M'Donough, one of the seconds, could retire, a crowd had collected, and

commenced an attack on that gentleman. He fired, and shot Mr. Davis, of that neighbourhood, through the head, and wounded another person. Davis had attempted to fasten a quarrel on the gentleman in consequence of an old grudge. He had presented a pistol to his breast, and instigated the mob to assail him, before the fatal shot was fired. The ball passed through his head, and wounded the person who was behind him.

ROBRERIES.—The vicinity of Kennington has of late been the scene of numerous robberies. In one night last week, no fewer than fourteen crimes of this kind were committed.

On Monday evening. the premises of Brookbank and Atkins, Coopers'-court, Cornhill, was robbed of chronometers valued at 2001.

At the Crown and Anchor Anti-Catholic meeting on Saturday, a citizen was robbed of his purse.

At the Dublin Brunswick meeting on Friday, Alderman Beresford was robbed of his gold watch.

Suictess.—On Sunday morning, a private in the Coldstream Guards cut his throat in bed, in the hospital Vincent-square, Westminster. It appeared on the inquest that the deceased had been confined in the hospital during the last seven months. He appeared unusually cheerful about a quarter of an hour previous to committing the fatal act; and just before he expired Is

. shook hands with one of the sergeants. The deceased laboured under con. sumptiou, and in the opinion of Mr. Gilder, the surgeon of the hospital, could not have survived a fortnight longer. In the course of the inquiry, it was stated that the hospital was entirely maintained at the expense of the officers of the Foot Guards.

Richard Perry, groom to Mr. Grant, M.P., committed suicide the other day, under the impression that lie had been guilty of some offence towards his master. On the inquest, it appeared that the crime of which he accused himself had no existence but in his imagination. He had been long in Mr. Grant's service.

PLasTsits.—The practice of sticking plasters on people's mouths is be- coming very prevalent either as a dangerous frolic, or as a facility to commit crime. In one case, the fear caused by the endless tales of plasters and re. surrection-men has been attended with loss of reason to a woman in the Ful- ham she became frantic at the prolonged absence of her son, who had tarried from home longer than usual; and imagined that he had been stolen away for the purpose of dissection. In a lonely part of Lambeth, the other night, a youth had a plaster placed upon his mouth, and was at the same time robbed of his watch and a few shillings. A mischievous fellow placed a plaster upon the mouth of a sleeping watchman in the Borough, to his great terror. As he could not use his own tongue, he instinctively sprung his rattle ; and some of his brethren came round hint, removed the plaster, and restored Min to utterance. A booby, who annoyed an acquaintance by fol- lowing him to a public-house and drinking his liquor, had a piece of paper besmeared with treacle, stuck upon his mouth, out of revenge. He ran to a police-magistrate, with his tale of terror; and was censured for the conduct which provoked the joke. These stories have the effect of preventing the more timorous from venturing abroad in the evenings.

BURKE Immtovso—A clergyman in Kirriemuir, a parish in Forfarshire, has been " improving" on the crimes of this wretch and his associates. As

to the future state of the murderer, thus saith the preacher I do not say that it. is impassible that his soul may go to heaven, but it is altogether im- probable, for the holy angels would not keep company with such a criminal"

EDINBURGH RIC/T.—A few days ago, a vast concourse of persons assembled at Newington, near Edinburgh, and proceeded to the residence of an anato- mist who resides there, and who, by recent events, has rendered himself ob- noxious to the lower orders. They suspended his effigy from a tree in the shrubbery, and were about to set it on fire, when several policemen arrived and drove them off, but not until every window in the doctor's house was broken. Nineteen of the rioters were apprehended and lodged in gaol.

AN ANATOMIST Hosxsn.—A well-known carter in Leith had the misfor- tune to lose, when in the straw, a brood sow the other day, to the unspeakable grief of a host of young piglings, which had, perhaps, been rather prema- turely ushered into this world of wo ; and in consequence of the large sums which he had heard were in the habit of being given fur bodies, it occurred to him that he might realize something for the behoof of the growing family by disposing of the corpse of their lamented and amiable mother. Accord- ingly he had the body scraped and prepared, and. forthwith repaired to Sur- geons-square, with the subject carefully packed up in a box, and actually sold it to a certain celebrated lecturer for 8/. The doctor, however, had only 5/., which he gave to the body-dealer in the meantime, and promised to pay him the balance on the morrow. This suns the wag pocketed ; and it is un- necessary to add, that he has not visited the square since, being satisfied that he had received ample remuneration for the body given.—Edinburgh Ob- server.

Five resurrectionists were secured on Thursday night at Woolwich, after a desperate resistance, in which the military were called out. They ' had been caught in the act of disinterring bodies from the burying-ground close to the barracks : three escaped.

WARNING TO REsuanscrioNssys.—Mr. Thomas Clemishaw, gunsmith, of Easingwold, has invented a species of artillery to fix in coffin-lids, which will explode and blow up any resurrectionist that may attempt to- invade the sanctity of the grave, without the least damage to the collin.—Leeds Mercury.

FLYING. —A writer in the Mechanic's Magazine announces that he has succeeded in constructing an apparatus for flying, far exceeding, in strength

and lightness, any thing produced by nature ; and of to dispose of a fourth share in the profits of a discovery so important for 1,5001.

CoNcessioN.--;A letter from Dover says-4' The salute fired from the heights and the castle of Dover-on Saturday last in honour of the arrival of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, shook to the foundation the house of a baker in this town. It now presents a most alarming appearance, and must of course be taken down."

Three-and-twenty debtors, now confined in Oxford gaol, have one hundred and thirty-one children.

A young man having for many years paid his vows to a young woman of Leicester, and having given her his likeness, among other things for keep- sakes, he last week jilted her, and got married to another. The disappointed female took his likeness, and tore it from its frame, and cutting off the head, inclosed it under a cover to him, with this inscription, "Behold the head of a traitor !"-Ikrottingliant Review.

While some men were quarrying stones on Monday last, in the glen of Gargunnock, they found an acorn in the solid rock, entire, full twenty feet below the surface, and fifteen feet from the spot they commenced digging.-- Edinburgh Evening Courant.

Last week, some fine large haddocks were purchased at Nairn, and on opening them, in the body of one was found part of a newspaper containing intelligence from Ireland !

SAGACITY OF A Doo.--During the late snow, a remarkable incident of the brute-reasoning kind occurred at a farm-house in this neighbourhood. A num-

ber of fowls were missed one evening at the hour when they usually retired

to their roost, and all conjectures were lost in trying to account for their dis- appearance. While sitting around the kitchen Ingle, cursing all the " gangrel bodies" who had been seen that day year the house, the attention of the fa-

mily was roused by the entrance of the house-dog, having in his mouth a belt apparently dead. Forcing his way to the tire, die cautious animal laid his charge down upon the warm hearth, and immediately set off. He soon en. tered again with another, which he deposited in the same place, and so con- tinued till the whole of the poor birds were rescued. Wandering about the

stack-yard, the fowls had become quite benumbed by the extreme cold, and had crowded together, when the dog observing them, effected their deliverance. They had not lain long before the glowing ribs, ere they started to their legs, and walked of to their hawks, cackling the hen's march, with many new va- riations, in thanks to their caninefriend,--Scotsman. FIRE-ESCAPES.—The Society for Preventing Loss of Life by Fire, on Thurs. clay exhibited, at No. 18, Aldermanbury, a great variety of curious models of inventions and specimens of machines intended to facilitate escape from the danger of fire. There were models of variously-contrived ladders and other machines, fit to be kept in the parish-depositaries and at fire-offices ; there were also inventions of ropes, so managed as to afford an easy mode of descent from any part of a house on fire. These are already fit for use, and may be purchased at moderate prices by every housekeeper. The mode of usites' them is simple, and their utility is great. This was repeatedly illus- trated on Thursday, by grown-up persons and children being made to de- scend from the second and third stories of the house into the yard adjoining it. On the part of Captain Manby, who is at Yarmouth, Mr. Jasper Atkin- - son explained to the meeting a variety of inventions connected with the views of the Society, which showed that the solicitude of the captain for the welfare of his fellow-creatures continues unabated. The meeting was as numerous as could conveniently gain admission, and was composed of persons of both sexes of great apparent respectability. MR. RALPH WATSON'S SHIP-PRESERVERS.—On the invitation of a friend, who feels strongly interested in favour of The plan for preventing ships foun- dering at sea, explained last week in the letter of one of our correspondents, we attended a private exhibition of the model ; and were much gratified both with the completeness of the mechanism and the perfect demonstration afforded by the experiments. It is intended, we believe, to raise by inctivi- ' dual subscription, a sufficient sum to exhibit the efficacy of the plan by ex- periments on a grand scale, and publicly conducted.

The order for the call of the House of Commons on Thursday, March 5, in Wednesday's Votes, bears this addition—" Members not attending to be sent for in custody of the Sergeant."

We understand that the Marquis of Stafford has purchased from Lord Reay the estate of Reay in the county of Sutherland, at the price of 300,0001. This extensive property, added to the earldom and estate of Sutherland, makes the Marquis the first proprietor in point of extent of territory, in Scotland, if not iu Great Britain.—Edinburgh Weekly Journal.

Mr. Kean is rusticating on the banks of his favourite Loch Fad, in the island of Bute; and is busy improving his romantic residence. Miss Paton and Lord W. Lennox were in the dress circle of boxes at Covent Garden Theatre, on Wednesday evening.

Mr. Abernethy, the surgeon, is recovering.

A subscription for a monument in Westminster Abbey, to the memory of Shield, the composer, is begun.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF BRIDGEWATER.—A Paris paper, dated the 13th,

announces this event in the following terms Francis Henry Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater, Peer of England, has just sunk under his long infirmi- ties. His Commentary on the Hippolytus of Euripides, and on the little that was left us of Sappho, his valuable Notes on the Literature of the East, his important works upon History, and on England's Navigation, the chief title of glory to the family of Bridgewater, have acquired him a reputation throughout Europe."—It is added, that the reports of his fortune, as well as of his testamentary bequests, have been singularly exaggerated.

SIR WILLIAM CURTIS.—The will of the late worthy Alderman has been proved in Doctor's Commons, and probate granted to the executors under 140,0004, personal property. The freehold estates are in general entailed upon his family, commencing with his eldest son. He leaves a variety of legacies-2001. to his brother, James Curtis, Esq., and 501. to his " very dear and noble friend, Lord SidmOuth." His own portrait, likewise the por- trait of his father, both painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and the Coronation Medal given to Sir William by his Majesty George IV., when in Ireland, ac- companied by the following words, "'Take this in remembrance of me," arc to remain at his house at Southgate, as heir-looms. He leaves his widow 20001. in money, an annuity of '20001. a year, and the house at Ramsgate (in which the Baronet died) for life. Rings are left to every member of the Court of Aldermen.

SIB. GILBERT Easr.—The will of Sir Gilbert East, of Fifield, Berks, has been proved under 300,0001. The deceased Baronet leaves 7s. a week for the board of each of his dogs, and directs that they " shall be fed on milk, barley, or oatmeal, or sea biscuit and tripe." He has left 8s. per week to defray the expense of each of his horses ; and he directs that " in winter chaff, bran, and hay, be daily and plentifully given to them, and a warm shed or sheds for them to shelter themselves in, be provided, and that they be allowed to run in my meadows at Fifield particularly." To a woman who is to have the charge of a parrot, he leaves an annuity of 601.; and on the death of the said parrot, the annuity is to be reduced to 201. The parrot is to have a new cage every two years. None of the dogs or horses are to be killed; and all expenses for shelter and medicine to them is to be paid for independent of the annuities left for their keeping. The baronet has also directed that his own " remains shall be put into a cedar coffin, lined top, bottom, and. sides with Russian leather, and shall be placed in a coffin made of best wrought iron, and painted three times inside and outside with black paint, and then embellished with armorial and funeral devices richly." M. de Beausset, Archbishop of Aix, who died recently, bequeathed his heart to the Jesuits. The will was written with his own hand. His Ency- clopedia, horses, and carriages, are left to the seminary of his diocese.

DEATH OF THE EXECUTIONER AT NEVVGATE.--.FOXIOn, who for sixteen years has held the place of chief executioner at Newgate, expired on Satur. day, in the sixty-first year of his age. During this period of office, this man had executed Bellingham, Fauntleroy, Thistlewood and his five coadjutors, Thurtle, Corder, White, the booksoller, of Holborn, and numerous others of both sexes, and of every age and condition. Foxton is succeeded by a man named Cheshire, who has been his assistant some years.

A WIIALE—A novel article of merchandise was offered for sale on the Royal Exchange on Wednesday : it was a spermaceti whale, taken off the Kentish coast, and was lying at Whitstable. The fish was sixty feet long, and sold for about 701. The whale, when taken, was found dragging a small cable and anchor, probably having got entangled with one of the great num- ber left in the Downs during the gales in December last.

MAKING RELICS.—It seems that a resident in this town, one of those geniuses who are never backward in taking advantage of passing events, has been reaping a plentiful harvest from the recent lamentable calamity at York. This industrious person, who is by trade a turner, some time ago purchased several logs of oak that had formed part of an old Dutch vessel, wrecked a year or two since at the entrance of our harbour. They had lain useless in his cellar for a considerable period, till the fire at the Minster, and the in- tense anxiety excited in the public mind by that deplorable event, suggested the means of making a profitable adventure of them. Our artist has been employed day and bight in converting the crude material, by the aid of his lathe, into snuff-boxes, which have been, as fast as he could supply the ma- nufacture, forwarded to York, and there sold as precious relics, formed from the ancient timbers of the venerated Minster. Nay, so well has the thing taken, that many of these boxes, if we are not misinformed, have been bought in York, brought back to Hull by the purchasers, and resold at a con- siderable advance in price.—Hull Packet.

MUCH READING AND LITTLE PROFIT THEREBY.—The French correspondent of the Morning Journal says, that he has read the King's speech at the open. big of Parliament at least one hundred times, and others have done the same, —for what purpose does not appear. He says the English in Paris are in- ' dignant at the concessions to the Catholics. " Our trust was in man," says the sage; " we have now only God and the energy of the British people to confide in."

THE LATE DUKE DE BERRI.—Traversing the Bois de Boulogne one day, he met a child carrying a basket. The Prince stopped his cabriolet. "Where are you going, my good little fellow ?" says he to the child. "I am carrying this basket to la 1I1uette," replied the boy. "That basket," said the Prince, "is too heavy for you; give it to me, and I shall put it down when passing." The basket being put into the cabriolet, the Prince delivered it faithfully to the address. Afterwards he goes to the fattier of the child, and says to him "I have met your little boy ; you make him carry too heavy baskets ; by doing so you destroy his health, and hinder his growth. Buy him an ass to carry his basket ;" and saying so gave the father money to purchase the ass. —La Quotidienne.

SUGAR FROM HAY.—A Vienna paper puts forward the following with much gravity :—" A criminal confined in the House of Correction in this city pre- tends to have discovered a mode of making sugar out of hay. It is well known that all vegetables contain more or less saccharine matter, but the discoverer maintains that it is so abundant in hay, that a pound of sugar may be obtained, by a simple process, from six pounds of hay. It is said that the Government, which liberally supports all useful discoveries, will pay parti- cular attention to this one."

SUBSTITUTE FOR lEA.—Sir H. Willock, Chargé d'Affaires at Persia, states that a root well known inEngland under the name of endive or succory, is roasted and reduced to powder by the inhabitants of Moscow, and the greater part of Russia, as a substitute for tea or coffee ; that he has derived much benefit from its use as a beverage, and that he provided a considerable quantity to take with him to Persia.

GAIN OF GODLINESS.—The following appears in the Jamaica Courant of the 5th of January :—" Two respectable young ladies of colour were yesterday read oat of the Methodist Society, one for having the audacity of hesitating to part with her jewels when required to do so by the trinket merchant (Methodist preacher), the other for daring to enjoy the healthful exercise of dancing. We appeal to the good sense of the people of Calvin, to abandon a sect, whose sole aim is to rob them of their property, in order that the preachers may roll along our streets, as they daily do, in their carriages."

PECUNDITY.—A German paper contains an account of a birth of five twin children, three boys and two girls, all of whom were born alive, but died within three days. They were from fifteen to seventeen inches in length, and weighed little more than half the weight of healthy new-born children. The mother did not suffer much during her pregnancy, and recovered rapidly after delivery.