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Tuesday's Gazette notified the appointment by the Queen of Lord Bloomfield, K.C.B., now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary at the Court of St. Petersburg, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Berlin ; of Sir George Hamilton Seymour, G.0.13., now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary at the Court of Lisbon, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. Petersburg ; and of Sir Richard Pa- kenham, K.C.B., sometime Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- tentiary to the United States of America to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court oiLisbon.
The Bishop of Exeter, in a letter to Archdeacon Bartholomew, has an- nounced that he will hold his Diocesan Synod on Wednesday the 25th of June.
The Bishop of Llandaff recently preached a sermon in Welsh at the pa- rish-church of Radyr. His correct pronunciation was much admired. The Welsh people felicitate themselves on again having, after a lapse of nearly two centuries, a Bishop of Llandaff who can preach in the native language.
At a public meeting at the Council Hall, Sheffield, on Thursday last, it was resolved, "That Ebenezer Elliott's long, zealous, and successful advo- cacy of free trade, and his great genius as a poet, deserve to be publicly ac- knowledged by the erection of a monument to his memory." A subscription has accordingly been entered into, and 230/. has been already subscnbed, chiefly in Shefeeld.—Sheffleld Times.
Sir M. It. Shaw Stewart has presented to the Town-Council of Greenock the piece of land called Well Park, as a park for the people of the town. He has also offered a large field in another locality for an experiment : if the younger and operative branches of the community show a disposition to enjoy themselves on it in out-of-door and manly sports, he will make a per- manent gift of it.
The Globe states that an " arrangement " has been made between the parties to the suit of Metairie versus Wiseman and others, concerning the property bequeathed by the late Id. Cane to the Roman Catholic priest Hold- stock, By the arrangement "the principal portion of M. Carre's property goes to his next of kin, instead of to the Burnish Church." Mr. Macdougall, the missionary of the Borneo Church Mission at Sarawak, has sent home an account of an iron-wood church erected at his station—a handsome structure, in the early English style; and of a race of cannibals recently made known to the British : Hoot*, a Dyak who came a fortnight's journey from the interior to seek a remedy for a skin disease, was his au- thority as to the cannibals. Koosoo stated that a race of Kayans, who border upon' his tribe, prefer man's flesh to any other food. "They carry attached te,their sword-scabbards a sharp skewer of about eighteen inches long, which, wfien they have killed a victim' man, woman, or child, they introduce into the flesh, and pass it along the bones of the extremities and spine, working it so as to divide all the mtiscular attachments from the bones. They then take off skin and flesh together, beginning at the soles of the feet, and carry on the operation from below upwards ; doing it so rapidly, that in a few minutes nothing but the bones and viscera are left. They take out the brain, and cook it slightly in a particular kind of leaf, and consider it the great bonne bouche of their abominable feast. When they have cooked and eaten all they want, they cook and smoke the rest, as the Dyaks and Malays do boar's or deer's flesh, and will eat no other flesh while it lasts. Koosoo says, *hen his tribe go to war, some of these people always come to eat the bodies of the slain. They never kill their friends for food, but always eat an enemy when they can get one ; eating all indiscriminately, men, women, and chil- dren. But, with the exception of this horrible taste, Koosoo describes them as very good people, and as more civilized and clever than the Dyaks. He has lived amongst them once and again, and has always found them kind and hospitable to strangers, and very honest in their trading transactions. He is quite sure they would not eat White men, but would be very glad to receive them as friends, and would take great care of theni." The cannibals are a numerous and powerful nation, governed by a rajah. A great match for the Championship of the Thames will be rowed by Ro- bert Coombes, the present Champion, and Thomas Mackenney, from Putney to Mortlake, on Wednesday next at six in the evening.
• The sad news has arrived in this country that Mr. Granville Egerton, youngest son of the Earl of Ellesmere has lost his life by an accident. He was serving on board the Meander as midshipman ; that ship had been on the East India station and the (coast of Borneo but was about to return home ; Mr. Egerton went ashore with a party of officers on a shooting ex- cursion, his gun was accidentally discharged, and he was killed on the spot.
Mr. Adams, a farmer residing near Lichfield, has been struck dead by lightning, while returning home during a storm. The electric fluid en- tered by the left temple ; all the clothes were scorched, and the right boot was torn. •
- A man has died at Woodseaves, near Market Drayton, from hydrophobia, Months after he had been bitten by a dog. The wound does not appear to have been cauterized ; but the dog was destroyed, on the vulgar notion that that would prevent the man from suffering from the bite.
A bricklayer at the village of Docking- in Norfolk sank a well in his yard 115 feet deep; then, from want of skill and the precarious nature of the Soil, he was obliged to desist. Pile, a well-sinker, was applied to : he came with his son and an assistant, and the two latter went down the well, Pile remaining at the top giving directions. At a depth of sixty feet, the men laid a scaffolding on some brick-work; it suddenly gave way, one side of the well fell in, and the two unfortunate men were carried to the bottom of the well and buried under thirty-six feet of soil. It is said that no immediate effort was made to recover the bodies. The father became quite frantic at be- holding his son swallowed up before his eyes.
A great crowd of colliers having attempted to rush into Ayr:Circuit Court to hear proceedings against two of their body, a granite pillar to which one of the gates was hung was forced down : it fell upon a Policeman, killing him on the spot; the falling gate struck two men, Land they were much The Edinburgh Assenioly L'ari Wag struck by lightning on Tuesday morn- ing, and a part of the wood-work of the interior was set on fire. The flames, however, were promptly extinguished, and the repairs of the damage will not mush exceed 100/.
Proceedings at the Brentford Police Station, on Saturday, illustrated the un- bounded extent to which the "believing" faculty of a country girl may be tasked by an artful fortune-teller. Elizabeth Egg, "a dark-looking woman," was charged with obtaining 3/. 8s. and much wearing apparel from Ellen Carpenter, servant to Mr. Marais, a gentleman living in The Butts. Car- penter, a simple-looking young woman, stated, that the prisoner came to the house on Tuesday afternoon last, and rang the bell. Carpenter went to the gate, and the prisoner asked her if she would have her fortune told ; and she said "No"; but the woman so bothered her, and said she would tell it for sixpence, that she went up stairs and got one shilling. "She asked the prisoner if she had got a sixpence to give her in chance: but she made no re- ply, only asking her to let her go down the steps and stand by the kitchen- door ; she consented, and the fortune-teller said she could not give her the information she wanted under another shilling. The complainant gave her a second shilling ; and she said she still would not tell her her fortune, and appointed to meet complainant at the same place that evening. She did so, and gave her a third shilling. The prisoner then said she could not tell her till she gave her five shillings ; and complainant said she could not do that, as she had no more money. The prisoner then said to her, 'Can't you bor- row?' and complainant said she knew no one. She then said, You can go to your green-grocer's, where your mistress has her things, and borrow it in her name ': complainant acted as she told her; and gave prisoner the five shillings ; who then said she could not tell her her fortune that night, but would come to her at nine o'clock the following morning: which she did, and now said she must have thirty shillings to tell her ; and that she could go to Mr. Lightfoot's, the baker, and ask for thirty shillings for Mrs. Harris, who had only a note of heavy amount in the house. She went there and obtained the mo- ney, and gave it to the prisoner, who had followed her up close. The prisoner then told her that a gentleman would come in his carriage the next day, and give her 4o1.; that the prisoner would see that he came, and then the com- plainant was to give her the odd 51., and she would return her what she had had from her. Next day, she met the prisoner, at half-past one o'clock. No gentleman had come ; and the prisoner again induced her to go to a Mr. Callen's, of the Castle, and tell the same story. She did so, and got thirty shillings, which she also gave the prisoner ; who had got from her a dress, a pair of stockings, and a neckerchief, Mr, Cullen's potman saw the money given to the prisoner, and, having some suspicions, told his master; who sent to Mr. Harris, and the imposture was detected, and information given to the Police ; by whom the prisoner was apprehended." Elizabeth Egg was sent to prison for three months of hard labour.
A Madras Government paper has been publishing a series of statistical tables of the health of the European and Native troops of that Presidency, ; from 1842 to 1849 inclusive, together with returns showing the influence of intemperance on sickness, morality, and crime, and the comparative ratio of I punishments awarded to the teetotallers, the temperate, and the intemperate men of the European force. These documents exhibit a decided improve- ment in the general health of the men, both European and Native. The returns of the relative state of intemperance in the former show that there were, in 1849, 450 teetotallers, 4318 temperate, and 942 intemperate soldiers in the Fifteenth Hussars, Twenty-fifth, Fifty-first, Eighty-fourth, and Ninety-fourth Foot. Of these 589 teetotallers, 6114 temperate, and 2024 in- temperate men, were admitted into hospital ; of the- first five died, of the temperate one hundred, and of the intemperate forty-two. On this a Bom- bay editor remarks—" Thus, though the intemperate only number a trifle over double the teetotallers, they had nearly four times as many sick, and upwards of eight times as many deaths, during the year! While. the temperate, numbering above ten times as many as the water-drinkers had exactly twenty deaths to their one, or, in other words, two moderate driLkers died for every teetotaller. This is glorious news for the disciples of Father Mathew, and shows the great importance of encouraging the establishment of teetotal societies in every European corps in India." The return of the number of punishments awarded in 1849, in the Royal regiments, shows that 159 teetotallers, 3882 temperate, and 2498 intemperate were punished. The number of courts-martial during the year were—on teetotallers, none; temperate, 143; intemperate, 289. • At Professor Tennant's last lecture upon mineralogy, at King's College, he exhibited, by permission of H. J. Prescott, Esq., and W. Marshall, Esq., Governors of the Bank of England, the largest lump of Californian gold yet brought to this country. It was dug out of an alluvial bank at Carson's Creek, on the Stanislaus river, in August 1850,kby an Irishman named John Hughes, of Ardglass, near Downpatrick. It is a water-worn specimen, and weighs 18 lbs. 3 ozs. 8 grs. ; and its value as a specimen is about 10001.- It is the property of the Bank of England.—Hining Journal.
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