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AN important step has been made to promote agricultural education in Scotland. During the late agricultural meeting in Glasgow, a number of gentlemen favorable to the establishment of elementary schools for the purpose met in the Merchant's Hall; when, besides gentlemen connected with the Agricultural Chemistry Association of Scotland, several strangers attended, including Lord Wallscourt, Lord Clements, Lord Ranelagh, Sir Robert Bateson, Sir R. Houston, and others. The Lord Justice Clerk took the chair; and Professor Johnston explained the object of the meeting. Mr. Skilling, superintendent of a model-farm at Glassnevin, near Dublin, under the Irish Board of Educa tion, made a statement of the measures carried out by the board since 1838. There are now three thousand teachers under the board; there are seven training establishments to supply teachers, but there will shortly be twenty-five; and it is intended to plant one in every county of Ireland. Mr. Skilling described the plan pursued at the Glassnevin training-school, established in 1838; the class of labor is limited to spade-husbandry, only the spade and wheelbarrow being used

tion of the soil, and the effect of manures, the land best fitted for green crops, the different kinds of grain crops, the dairy, and the system of rotation. Many of these answers required considerable exercise of reflection; and as previous concert between themselves and the gentlemen by whom they were examined was out of the question, their acquirements seemed to take the meeting quite by surprise; at the same time that they afforded it the utmost satisfaction, as evincing how much could be done by a proper system of training. The youths and their teacher retired amidst much applause."

Lord Clements bore testimony to the eagerness for instruction evinced by the peasantry near his property, in the wildest part of Connaught; men twenty years of age coming from a distance of many miles to attend the school. Mr. Atlee, the teacher of an agricultural school, on Lady Noel Byron's property, at Ealing, reported the success of that establishment; there were at that moment five hundred applicants for admission to the farm as boarders.

Principal Macfarlan advocated education in agriculture; but exhorted the meeting to carry on their improvements in accordance with the feelings of the people, not shocking their habits by rash innovations. He moved a resolution, that elementary instruction should be afforded to the rural population of Scotland. This was seconded by Mr. Alexander of Southbar, and carried unanimously.

Colonel Lindsay, of Balcarras, declared that the people of Scotland must make haste lest they should be behind in the progress of improvement

"The scholars, amounting to sixty or seventy, were lodged near the farm, and fed from it. After being engaged on the farm in the mornings of five days in the week, they went into the town for their literary education; but the whole of Saturday was appropriated to examinations. They had a garden, and, in connexion with it, a competent gardener, who lectured for one half-hour in the morning; and he (Mr. Skilling) also lectured to the young men on agricultural subjects. At stated periods, the teachers attended the farm, and witness- "He must congratulate these young men from ed every practical operation which was going on Ireland on the admirable display they had made. upon it. They observed every system of cropping, To be a Scotsman was often found a recommendand got explanations on every subject with which ation in procuring employment elsewhere; but they were unacquainted; and the result was, that these young men from Ireland would soon show to when they went away at the end of the course, they Scotsmen that they were behind the Irish, and were found to be vastly improved in the scientific that, if they would maintain their high character knowledge of agriculture and its practical details. for industry and intelligence, they must be inDuring the course, they were enabled to obtain a structed as they were. These lads from Ireland considerable knowledge of agriculture, chemistry, had evinced so much agricultural information, that, and geology; they also received practical infor- when ready for employment, they had only to ask mation as to the principles of rotation in cropping, to obtain it. He was almost ashamed to admit his the cultivation of green crops, and the like. The belief, that there was not a similar class of youths practical errors which existed as to the manage-in Scotland who would answer the questions as ment of land were also pointed out to them-such these Irish lads had done."-Spectator. as the loss caused by bad fences, seedling-beds for weeds, &c.; and on the other hand, they were shown the advantages of draining, and opening and turning the land, and the beneficial results of these on the general management."

This model-farm had not only paid its rent, but returned a profit of 150l. or 170l. a year. wards, five boys educated in a training-school at Larne, in the north of Ireland, were introduced and examined

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THE statue of the Apostolic Bishop of Bordeaux, Cardinal Cheverus, was inaugurated on the 8th instant, in his native town of Mayenne, with the pomp, civil and religious, due to the occasion. It is not to the honor of the dead, but of themAfter-selves, that men erect monuments to such as Cardinal Cheverus. No city that has such a son can afford to let the record perish. The statue, which is by the sculptor David, is highly spoken of, and They seemed to belong to the better class of is described as expressing, in attitude and sentipeasantry, being clad in homely garbs; and they ment, the Sinite parvulos of the Gospel. Four appeared to be from twelve to fourteen or fifteen bas-reliefs present passages in the life of the caryears of age. They were examined, in the first dinal; one exhibits his heroic bearing amid the instance, by Mr. Gibson (inspector of schools) on tempest, on the coast of France; another his grammar, geography, and arithmetic; and scarcely meeting, in the American forest, with the native a single question did they fail to answer correctly. converts who had lost their pastor; a third repreThey were then examined by Professor Johnston sents him administering consolation in the hut of on the scientific branches; and by Mr. Finnie of an aged negro; a fourth shows him bearing wood Swanston and Mr. Alexander of Southbar, on the to the sick chamber of the poor woman, whose practical departments of agriculture. Their ac- husband returns home unexpectedly to find the quaintance with these was alike delightful and | holy man discharging this work of lowly charity.

THE CULTIVATION OF THE CURRANT.

Cephalonia, July, 1844.

here that while in its three-quarter ripe state it may be eaten with impunity, but that it becomes unwholesome when perfectly ripe. As soon as I HAVE made a great many inquiries as to the the fruit is fully ripe, when it is almost black, it method of cultivating the currants grown in these is carried to the drying ground, which is a spot in islands, (Cephalonia, Zante, &c.,) and consulted the vineyard, cleared and levelled, sometimes flagmany works that treat on the subject, so that, com-ged and covered with a coating of cow-dung. bined with my own personal observations, I hope The fruit is then exposed to the sun and freto be able to give you a true and particular quently turned until perfectly dry. It is then account of everything connected with this subject separated from the stalk, and brought to the maga-in the hope and belief that some of your West zine-over one of which I am at this moment Indian readers, if there be any not yet quite sitting, the houses here having in fact no habitable ruined, may profit by it. ground floor, the whole of it being taken up by these magazines; and a dreadful nuisance they are-for at the time of packing the stench is intolerable, and the hallooing, fighting, and swearing amongst the laborers, in that odious modern Greek which they manage, when in a rage, to speak in a high squeaking tone, through the nose, is a dreadful way of being roused in the morning. Before exportation the currant is packed in casks, and trodden down by the dirtiest Greeks, with naked feet, so that the quantity of dirt in an English plum-pudding may be guessed at. When the currants are drying the fears of the grower are highest, for should rain come they are lost; a single shower destroys immense quantities, and anything like heavy rain entirely destroys the crop. Cephalonia has 6,242 acres of currant plantation, Zante has 6,440 acres they make no wine of them, they are too valuable for that. I tasted some made by a private gentleman, but it was sweet and sickly.—Athenæum.

Currants are delicious in their raw state-we eat them regularly at breakfast. They grow exactly like grapes, in bunches, but each berry close to the other, so that they form a compact mass, something like a fir cone. They differ also from the common grape, in having no stones, that is to say, there is only one berry on each bunch (which they call the male currant) that has them. This one is always much larger than the others. They grow them in large fields, just like vineyards but unlike the grape, the inhabitants take the greatest care of them-whereas the grape is allowed very much to take care of itself, the cultivator being quite satisfied to make the wretched country wine, which is not drinkable, instead of trying to improve the quality and render it fit for exportation, which I have no doubt might very easily be done I have in fact tasted some very fair wine, something like champagne-the Zante wines too, are preferable to the Cephalonian, of a dry flavor, and if pains were taken with them they would make a very agreeable table wine, something like those of the Cape. But to return to the currants. The islands at which they are principally cultivated, are Zante, Cephalonia, and Ithaca.

Abundance of water is necessary, and essential to the fertility of the currant vine, and the plantation is enclosed with mounds and ditches, provided with sluices, to let in or keep out the water as may be necessary. The vines are planted in rows, with perfect regularity, three or four feet asunder. A new plantation is formed, either by layers, shoots, (cuttings,) or grafting the currant on the common vine. The latter is the best. The shoots (cuttings) are cut in December, and planted in spring. It requires six or seven years to bring them to full bearing. The grafts produce in three or four years. The proper pruning of these vines is the great thing to be attended to. In December, the dead, weakly and unpromising branches, are cut off. In January, the remaining branches are curtailed-three or four eyes only are generally left. Each eye throws out three branches, one large and one small on each side. The large one only bears. In February, the earth is scooped out, about the roots to warm them. In April, the surface is levelled. Manure is not generally used. The ends of the shoots of the currant vine are not broken. Some say they are always supported by stakes, but here this is seldom done. Great care must be taken that the shoots are not broken, so much so, that an annual general order comes out, forbidding us to shoot, or allow our dogs to hunt in the vineyards. The gathering takes place about August. The fruit is generally ripe enough for eating about the middle of July, and is much more agreeable to the taste, than when it is fully ripe, as it becomes then almost too sweet. Unlike other fruits, they say

THE MOURNFUL MOTHER,

(Of the Dead Blind.)
"Dost thou weep, mournful mother,
For thy blind boy in grave?
That no more with each other
Sweet counsel ye can have?-
That he, left dark by nature,
Can never more be led
By thee, maternal creature,

Along smooth paths instead?
That thou canst no more show him
The sunshine, by the heat;
The river's silver flowing,

By murmurs at his feet?
The foliage, by its coolness;

The roses, by their smell;
And all creation's fulness,
By Love's invisible?
Weepest thou to behold not

His meek blind eyes again,—
Closed doorways which were folded,
And prayed against in vain;
And under which sat smiling

The child-mouth evermore,
As one who watcheth, wiling
The time by, at a door?
And weepest thou to feel not

His clinging hand on thine-
Which now, at dream-time, will not
Its cold touch disentwine?
And weepest thou still ofter,

Oh, never more to mark
His low soft words, made softer
By speaking in the dark?
Weep on, thou mournful mother!"
Miss Barrett's Poems.

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SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

galvanic process in the depreciation of coins, was read to the Academy. "If," says the author,

PARIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.-Aug. 5.-M." this process is of immense service in the appliArago read the report of a committee on a system of barrage mobile," proposed by M. Thénard, with a view to render navigable at all periods of the year those rivers in France which are now during the summer occasionally nearly dry in parts, and therefore unnavigable. M. Thénard's system consists in barring a river from bank to bank in those parts where the water is usually shallow, and placing gates upon such a principle as to regulate themselves, and keep up a permanent level from bar to bar, with sluice gates to enable barges and other vessels to pass through.--A paper was read on the Pyramids of Egypt. The author, M. Persigny, is of opinion that the use of the vaults of the pyramids was not the original object of the construction of these stupendous specimens of human labor. He thinks that they were intended as barriers to the sands of the deserts. His theory is that the pyramids, by dividing the column of air, prevent it from carrying with it enormous masses of sand the sand falling at the foot of the pyramids, as against a wall.-A communication was made by M. Coulvier Gravier on the meteors vulgarly called falling stars. He thinks that all the changes which take place in the terrestrial atmesphere have their origin in the upper regions. If, says M. Gravier, we watch at night the direction, number, and changes of color of the falling stars, we shall be able to predict with certainty the wind that will prevail, and the rain, storms, &c., that will take place on the following day. M. Gravier declares that he has for several months passed entire nights in observing the falling stars, and that every morning at seven o'clock he delivered to M. Arago, at the observatory, his prediction for the day, without having been once in error!-M. Masson laid before the academy some observations on what he calls electrical photometry. He has endeavored to ascertain the relation that exists between the quantities of light and heat developed by the same electrical current, and also the degree of sensibility of the human eye. estimates that the eye can distinguish the differM. Masson ences of light to the minute degree of a sixtyfourth.-M. Selligue, who recently made a communication respecting a mode of impelling vessels of large burthen by means of a piston, acted upon by successive explosions of a mixture of hydrogen gas and atmospheric air, this day informed the Academy that the explosion of the small quantity of five litres of hydrogen gas produces a force of impulsion equal to 3,475 kilogrammes (about three tons and a half.)—M. Thénard, jun., read a paper on the formation of phosphuretted hydrogen. He shows that this hydrogen, which is spontaneously inflammable, owes that property to the presence of a small quantity of the vapor of a liquid hydrogen phosphure, which is alone spontaneously inflammable.

cation of one metal to another, it may be employed to the injury of the public, for a piece of gold or silver placed at the negative pole is reduced without any apparent change." he places at the disposal of the Academy the sum He announces that of 2,000fr. as a prize to the author of the best legal project of preventing the application of electricity to such a purpose.-M. Breton, an engineer of the Ponts-et-Chaussées, submitted some observations tending to show that the sun and the whole of the solar system are surrounded by an atmosphere in the same way as the earth has its atmosphere.— M. Coulvier Gravier, who had already stated that he is able to predict the weather by attending to the direction of the meteors called the falling stars, read another paper to the academy, containing a number of instances in support of his assertions. Our readers will recollect that on a former occasion M. Coulvier Gravier stated that he had communicated the result of his observations to M. Arago, and that he called upon that gentleman to confirm or refute him. M. Arago this day answered the appeal made to him, by saying that the predictions which M. Coulvier Gravier had made to him frequently in the morning, after having observed the direction of the falling stars during the preceding night, were exceedingly vague, and could be interpreted in various ways. M. Arago added that it was impossible to turn such observations to any useful end.-M. Dumas made a report on experiments made by M. Boussaingault relative to the feeding of cows with beetroot and potatoes. M. Boussaingault states that two cows which were fed exclusively on beetroot fell off in flesh in seventeen days nearly one-sixth, and their milk diminished from eight to nine litres each per day to five litres. They were then turned into pasture, and soon resumed their former weight, and gave the former quantity of milk. They were next fed exclusively on potatoes, when they fell off still more in flesh than they had done with beetroot, day. On being placed on a mixed food of hay, and the milk was reduced to two litres each per chopped straw, beetroot, and potatoes, they again recoverd their flesh, and gave the former quantity of milk. The conclusions of this gentleman are, that beetroot and potatoes do not perform the part usually imputed to them, of fattening cattle, or increasing the quantity of the milk of cows. experiments show that this is the case when this food is given to the exclusion of all other; but there is not, we believe a cow-keeper in France who would think of suppressing the use of beetroot or potatoes as part of the food to their animals. Experience upon a large scale, which is far better than scientific experiments and conclusions of the nature of those of M. Boussaingault, proves that beetroot and potatoes in proper proportions, form excellent food for horned cattle.

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CARBONATE OF SODA IN THE PREPARATION OF

August 19.-M. Arago gave a summary of a work by Don José Garay, on the means of con- COFFEE.-M. Pleischel states from experience, necting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. author is of opinion that it would be much better superior taste, and is rendered more concentrated, The that the infusion of roasted coffee acquires a far to form the communication by the Rio Coatzacoal-consequently that a much larger amount of bevecos than to execute the project of a connection either by Panama or Nicaragua; the canal of twenty leagues proposed by Don José would, he says, cost only sixty millions of francs, and would be navigable by frigates.-A paper by M. Christofle, on the danger to be apprehended from the

rage can be prepared from the same quantity of
coffee, by adding to the boiling water, just before
pouring it over the coffee, 1 gr. of crystallized car-
bonate of soda for every cup, or 2 grs. for every
half ounce of coffee.-Med. Jahrb. des Oestr. St.,
in Gardeners' Chronicle.

A VERY remarkable discovery has recently been cal contrivance-that the colossal tube, in length made by M. Bessel, of Konigsberg, which opens about 50 feet, and in diameter nearly 8 feet, is now out new views of the constitution of the sidereal suspended in its permanent position, between two universe. By a long and laborious examination of walls of solid masonry, built to correspond with the the places of Sirius and Procyon, as deduced from architecture of the castle. It is attached at its the observations of different astronomers since the lower extremity-where the speculum, weighing year 1755, (the epoch of Bradley's observations,) four tons, is to be placed-by a massive universal including his own, carried on at the Konigsberg joint of beautiful workmanship, and weighing Observatory, he has come to the conclusion that nearly three tons; and its counterpoise, about the proper motions of these two stars are not uni-seven tons' weight, is so skilfully contrived and form, but deviate from that law, the former in adjusted that it easily adapts itself to every alteraright ascension, and the latter in declination, in a tion in any required elevation or depression of the very sensible degree. Astronomers will at once instrument. At the time of our informant's visit perceive the importance of this conclusion, which the speculum was in the actual process of being proves that the stars describe orbits in space, under ground, which, together with the subsequent the influence of dynamical laws and central forces. polishing, would occupy perhaps a fortnight; so Reasoning on the observed character of the devia- that in about a month or six weeks from the present tions which he has established, M. Bessel comes time the public anxiety will probably be gratified to the singular and surprising conclusion, that the in learning the first results, upon which it is imposapparent motions of these two stars are such as sible to calculate, of an undertaking which, we might be caused by their revolutions about attrac- may confidently expect, will redound no less to our tive but non-luminous central bodies, not very national honor than it already does to the acknowlremote from them respectively; that, in short, edged talents and munificent liberality of the patrithey form systems analogous to those of the lunaryotic and noble proprietor.-Belfast Chronicle. double stars, but with this peculiarity-that they A LETTER from Milan states that, on the occasion have dark, instead of bright partners, to which they of course perform the friendly office of revolv- of the Scientific Congress, which is to open there ing suns!-Athenæum.

THE Prussian government, with the view of reducing the chances of disaster by railway conveyance, is about to found a school for express instruction in the art of driving locomotives. The number of pupils is to be 400, the course of instruction to extend over a year; and a legislative ordonnance will enact that no one shall be employed in driving an engine upon a railway who shall not have a certificate of capacity from this establishment. Something of the kind has been in contemplation in France; and it is understood that its institution only awaits the acquisition of a plot of ground of sufficient capacity for the establishment of a model railway, presenting all the difficulties common to railways, varieties of curve, slope, &c., and all other incidents calling for care and skill on the part of the engineer.-In the same capital, an exhibition of the produce of the Trades, similar to that which has just closed in Paris, opened on the 19th inst. All the trades of Germany, it is said, are represented at this industrial congress; the number of objects sent in for exhibition amounting to about 36,000.-When we recently adverted to the spirit of association which seems the active moral agent of the day, we scarcely expected to have to record its application to trivialities like the following:-It is stated, that in the same metropolis, a society has been formed, having for its object the abolition of the practice of salutation by taking off the hat. The announcement reads more like a squib than a serious statement. However, as the Berlin police have seized the cockades by which the members were distinguished-and it is not likely that they would meddle with a mere absurditythey probably see beneath the hats so doggedly worn, heads capable of entertaining thoughts dangerous to the public peace.-Ib.

on September 12, there will be an exhibition of industry in the great Ecclesiastical School, which will be at that period available, in consequence of the vacation. This will be the fourth exhibition held in Europe during the year 1844. One took place at Archangel in May, when the Grand Duke Constantine was there; another in Paris in May and June, and one is open at Berlin at the present moment.

A FIRST trial of M. Andrau's new locomotive power, Monday on the Versailles railroad (left bank) in by means of compressed air, was made on the presence of Messrs. Bineau and Baude, commissioners appointed by the government, of the engineers of the railroad, and a great number of spectators. Although the locomotive was charged upon the low pressure system, because there was greater extent, the experiment perfectly sucnot a sufficient power to compress the air to a ceeded. In expending two or three atmospheres the locomotive ran a quarter of a league with great rapidity and regularity. The trial is to be Andrau, who is an engineer of great skill, has repeated in the course of the next month. M. for the last four years been engaged in experiments with compressed air.

THE Agricultural Society of the Var has addressed a memorial to the Prefect of that department, entreating him to prevent rigorously the shooting of sparrows and other small birds, their value in destroying insects far exceeding that of the grain which they consume.

OBITUARY.

THE death of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary must be regretted by every lover of earnest and severe scholarship; a kind of literary man now LORD ROSSE'S TELESCOPE.-We are informed unfortunately too rare. Mr. Cary well deserved by a rev. gentleman who lately visited Birr Castle, the place in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, and experienced the courteous attention of its which on the 21st August was granted to his renoble owner, in being conducted by his lordship mains. His translation of Dante is one of the through his extensive workshops, and in a minute master-pieces in our language, and will ensure his examination of the "monster" telescope-a stu- name an abiding place in our literature, in conpendous monument of scientific skill and mechani-nexion with that of the Florentine poet. Nor is

his version of Pindar less deserving of notice, Ghuznee in Affghanistan, and Cappoquin, county though most unjustly neglected. A correspon- Waterford, was born in 1781, and married first, in dent of the Times has given a brief memoir of 1806, Miss Smith, second daughter of General him; and as, from that modesty which always Smith, by whom he had issue several children, accompanies extraordinary merit, the amiable and and secondly, in 1840, to the youngest daughter accomplished author himself has left few auto-of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Boland. He enbiographical notices, we think it desirable to refer tered the army at a very early age; his comto the statement, though on some points it is mission as ensign dating as far back as 1793. In strangely erroneous. "At the early age of fif- 1812 he was destined to join the army under the teen," says the writer, "Mr. Cary published an Duke of Wellington at Madrid, and immediately ode on the death of Kosciusko, which attracted on his arrival there, intrusted with the command public notice, and was mentioned in several peri- of a brigade in the third division, in which corps odicals of the day as giving evidence of great he served until the end of the war with France, in youthful genius." Here is evidently some blun- 1814. In August, 1814, he was appointed to a dering, for Kosciusko was alive nearly twenty command, ordered for particular service, and, on years after this ode was published; neither could his arrival at Jamaica, being senior officer, asit have been written by Cary at fifteen. The sumed the command of the military force destined facts, we believe, are these: the poem referred to to cooperate with Sir Alexander Cochrane, for as written at the age of fifteen, was "An Ode to the attack on New Orleans and the province of General Elliot," and published in 1787. This Louisiana. On the morning of the 8th of January, was followed, the next year, by "Sonnets and 1815, he was severely wounded in two places. Odes," and ten years after, or in 1797, by the Subsequently, as is well known, the gallant gene"Ode to Kosciusko." The memoir writer thus ral held the sole command of the forces employed proceeds, we believe correctly :-"At the age of during the campaign in Affghanistan and Beeighteen, he was entered as a commoner of Christ loochistan, and it was owing to the brilliant Church, Oxford, where he proceeded to the de- achievement of the assault and capture of Ghuznee, gree of M. A. While at Oxford, he pursued his that he was rewarded with the honor of a peerstudies with unremitting diligence; and not being age, receiving the thanks of the House of Comshackled by the stringent rules of modern academi-mons, and a pension of 2,0007. during his life, cal instruction, made himself conversant not only and entailed, on his decease, to his two successors. with the great authors of antiquity, but with For his services in Egypt he was rewarded with a almost the whole range of Italian, French, and medal, and for his services at Martinique, Vittoria, English literature, as the notes to the first edition Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, and Toulouse he of the translation of Dante fully evidenced. In gained a cross and two clasps. The deceased 1805, he published the 'Inferno' of Dante in Eng-lord is succeeded by his eldest son, Captain the lish blank verse, with the text of the original. An Hon. Edward Arthur Wellington Keane, born in entire translation of the Divina Commedia' ap- 1815, appointed major (by brevet) March 5, 1841. peared in 1814, but the work lay almost unnoticed The present peer acted as aid-de-camp to his for several years, until Samuel Taylor Coleridge, father throughout the war in Affghanistan.-Erforming at the same time an acquaintance with the aminer. translator and his great work, drew public attention to its merits; from that time the work has taken its place among our standard English authors. To this Mr. Cary afterwards added a translation of the 'Birds' of Aristophanes and of the 'Odes' of Pindar. But, perhaps, the not least valuable part of his literary labors is to be found in his continuation of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets,' and his 'Lives of Early French Poets,' all of which have hitherto only appeared anonymously in the old London Magazine. In 1826, he was appointed assistant librarian in the British Museum, which office he resigned about six years since. From that period he had continued his literary labors with almost youthful energy, having edited the poetical works of Pope, Cowper, Milton, Thomson, and Young, together with a fourth edition of his own Dante, to which he added many valuable notes. The late government marked its sense of his literary merits by granting him a pension of 2007. a year.'

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CURIOUS AND INSTRUCTIVE.-A stone crossed the Firth with the S. W. wind of the 5th. A single plant of sea-weed had grown upon it, and being covered with numerous air bladders, migrated with the stone to the north shore. Upon being lifted out of the water the stone weighed 3 lb. 11 oz., and the material of the plant 2 lb. 3 oz., making in all a weight of nearly 6 lb., which the buoyancy of the air inclosed in a multitude of small pods had safely ferried over. The plant did not seem to be loaded to its full floating power; although some of the pods had been injured and some burst, enough remained entire to transport the stone, thus suggesting an idea to all makers of floating jackets, chairs, and other contrivances to be used in shipwrecks, never to inclose the air in one mass, but in a great number of subdivisions, each watertight, and containing each a number of little balls filled with the gas. A slight injury, such as perforation of a pin, may now render the best Mackintosh floater fatal. Not so, however, with the FROM Carlsbad we learn the death of Herr algae, when they go a-sailing, and execute on a Volfgang A. Mozart, the second son of the im-small scale what icebergs are said to have permortal composer, and himself a distinguished formed, in transporting the large boulder stones musical author and pianist. The Requiem' of over the globe.-Caledonian Mercury. his great father was performed on the occasion of his funeral by a body of 500 professors and dilettanti.

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LORD KEANE.-The decease of this gallant nobleman, at his seat in Hants, took place on the 26th of August, the immediate cause of his death being dropsy. John Keane, Baron Keane of

THE Ministers of the Interior and of war have, says the Moniteur Parisien, under their consideration a plan for forming an agricultural colony on the southern of Sahel, in Algeria. The Abbé Fissiaux, founder of the penitentiary of SaintPierre, at Marseilles, is to be charged with the realization of this project.

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