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4I Dy David V. Cnlley. Terms 3 Pfl IfMJ? 33 PER CENT. DISCOUXT M.WE OX ADVAXCE, OR IGi OX HALF YEARLY PAYMEXTS. RTO. 48.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF EUROPE. Br N. P. W1IXI8. Account of Vesuvius; the hermitage; the famous largima Christi; difficulties of the path; curious appearance of the old crater; odd assemblage of travellers the new crater; splendid prospect; Mr. Mathias, author of Pursuits of Literature; the archbishop of Tarento. Mounted upon asses much smaller than their riders, and with each a bare-legged driver behind, we commenced the ascent of Vesuvius. It was a troublesome path, worn through the rough scoria of old eruptions, and after two hours' toiling, we were glad to dismount at "the Hermitage." Here lives a capuchin friar on a prominent rib in the side of the volcano, the red hot lava dividing above his dwelling every year or two, and coursing away to the valley in two rivers of fire on either side of him. He has been there twelve years, and supports himself and probably half his brotherhood at the monastery by selling ligrima Christi to strangers. It is a small white building with a little grass and a few trees about it, and looks like an island in the black waste of cinders and lava. A shout from the guide was answered by the opening of a small window above, and the shaven crown of the old friar was thrust forthwith a welcome and a request that we would mount the stairs to the parlour. He received us at the top, and gave us chairs around a plain board table, upon which he set several bottles of the far famed wine of Vesuvius. One drinks it, and blesses the volcano xi.it warmed the roots of the grape. It is a ripe, rich, full-bodied liquor, which "ascends me into the brain" sooner than any continental wine I have tasted. I never drank any thing more de- ... JO licious. We re-mounted our asses and rode on, much more indifferent than before to the roughness of the path. It strikes one like the road to the infernal regions. No grass, not a shrub, nothing but a wide mountain of cinders, black and rugged, diversified only by the deeper dye of the newer streaks of lava. The eye wearied of gazing on it. We mounted thus for an hour or more, arriving at last at the base of a lofty cone whose sides were but ashes. - We left our donkeys here in company with those of a large party that had preceded us, and made preparations to ascend on foot. The drivers

unlaced their sashes, and passing them round the waists of the ladies, took the ends over their shoulders, and proceeded. Harder work could scarce be conceived. The feet had no hold, sinking knee deep at every step, and slipped back so much that our progress was almost imperceptible. The ladies were soon tired out, although more than half dragged up by the guides. At every few steps there was a general cry for a halt, and wo lay down in the warm ashes, quite breathless and discouraged. In something more than an hour from the hermitage we reached the edge of the old crater.

1 he scene here was very cunous. A hollow, perhaps a mile round, composed entirely of scoria (like the cinders under a blacksmith's window) contained in its centre the sharp new cone of the last eruption. Around, in various directions, sat some thirty groups of travellers, with each their six or seven Italian guides, refreshing themselves with a lunch after the fatigues of the ascent. There were English, Germans, French, Russians and Italians, each speaking their own language, and the largest party, oddly enough, was from the United States. As I was myself travelling with foreigners, and found tny countrymen on Vesuvius unexpectedly, the mixtures of nations appeared still more extaordinary. The combined heat of the sun and the Volcano beneath us, had compelled the Italians to throw off half their dress, and they sat or stood leaning on their long pikes, with their brown faces and dark eyes, glowing with heat, as fine modles of ruffians as ever startled a traveller in this country of bandits. Eight or ten of them were grouped around a crack in the crater, roasting apples and toasting bread. There were several of these cracks winding about in different directions, of which I could barely endure the heat, holding my hand at the top. A stick thurst in a foot or more, was burnt black in a moment. With another bottle or two of "lagrima Christi" and a roasted apple, our courage was renewed, and w ? picked our way across the old crater, sometimes lost in the smoke which steamed up through the cracks, and here and there treading on beau

tiful beds of crystials of sulphur. The ascent of

the new cone was shorter but very difficult. The ashes were go new and light, that it was like a steep sand bank, giving discouragingly at the least pressure, and sinking till the next step was taken. The

steams of sulphur as we approached the summit,

were all but intolerable. The ladies coughed, the guides sneezed and called on the Madonna, and I never was more relieved than in catching the lirst clear draught of wind on the lop of the mountain. Here we all stood at last crowded together on

the narrow edge of a crater formed within the year.

and liable every moment to bo overwhelmed with burning lava. There was scarce room to stand, and hot ashes burnt our feet as they sunk intoit. The females of each parly sunk to the ground, and the common danger and toil breaking down the

usual stiff" barrier of silence between strangers, the conversation became general, and the hour on the crater's edge passed very agreeably. A strong lad would just about throw a stone from one side to the other of the new crater. It was about forty feet deep, perhaps more, and one crust of sulphur lined the whole. It was half the time obscured in smoke, which poured in volumes -from the broad cracks with which it is divided in every direction, and occasionally an eddy of wind

was caught in the vast bowl, and for a minute its bright yellow surface was perfectly clear. There

had not been an eruption for four or five months,

and the abyss which is for years together a pit of fire

and boiling lava, has had time to harden over, and were it not for the smoking seams, one would

an English clergyman of my acquaintance to our surprise emerged from the smoke. He had been to the bottom for specimens of sulphur for hii cabinet. Contrary to the advice of the guide, I profited by his experience, and disappeared in the flying clouds, reached the lowest depth of the cratei with some difficulties of foothold and breath. The cracks, which I crossed twice, were so brittle as to break like the upper ice of a twice frozen pond beneath my feet, and the strength of the exhaling gass, was nauseating beyond all the sulphuretted hydrogen I have ever known. The sensation was painfully suffocating from the moment I entered the crater. I broke as many bits of the bright golden crystals from the crust as my confusion and failing strength would hIIow, and then remounted, feeling my way up through tho smoke to the summit. I can compare standing on the top of Vesuvius and looking down upon the bay and city of Naples, to nothing but mounting a peak in the infernal regions overlooking paradise. The large crater encircles you entiiely for a mile, cutting off the view of the sides of the mountain, and from the elevation of the new cone, you look over the rising edge

of this black field of smoke and cinders, and drop the eye at once upon Naples, lying asleep in the sun, with its lazy sails upon the water, and the green hills enclosing it, clad in the indescribable beauty of an Italian atmosphere. Beyond all comparison, by the testimony of every writer and traveller, the most beautiful scene in the world, the lovliest water and the brightest land, lay spread out before us. With the stench of hot sulphur in our nostrils, ankle deep in black ashes, and a waste of smouldering cinders in every direction around us, the enjoyment of the view certainly did not want for the heightening of contrast. We made our descent by jumps through the sliding ashes, frequently tumbling over each other, and retracing in five minutes the toil of an hour. Our donkeys stood tethered together on the herbless field of cinders, and we were soon in the clumsy saddles, and with a call at the hermitage, and a parting draught of wine with the friar, we reached our carriages at the little village of Russia in safety. The feet of the whole troop were in a wretched condition. The ladies had worn shoes,

or slight boots, which were cut to pieces of course, and one very fine looking girl, the daughter of an elderly French gentleman, had, with the usual improvidence of her nation, started in satin slipped. She was probably lamed for a month, as she insisted on persevering,and wrapped her feet in handkerchiefs to return. We rode along the curve of tho bay, by one of these matchless sunsets of Italy, and arrived at Naples at dark.

Philip Dickerson, Samuel Fowler, V S Schenck, William N Shinn,

Xew Jersey. Ph

James Parker, F

Thomas Lee. Delaware. J J Milligan. .Maryland. J P Heath, Isaac McKim, Turner, Francis Thomas, J T Stoddart, Carmichael, L P Dennis, W C Johnson.

Virginia. John M Patton , John Y Mason, il

Dcaf, Dumb and Blind. At the Asylum in Hartford, Connecticut, there is a girl, who, from her birth, has been deaf, dumb and blind. This is the only instance of the kind on record, with the exception of a boy in Europe. We have heard ma-

I ny curious and unaccountable facts in relation to this

unfortunate girl. After she was removed to the Asylum, she endeavored to imitate the employments of those about her. She discovered that they were

and she would frequently

liam F Gordon, Thomas T Bouldin, William S Ar

cher, Nathaniel H Cliborne, Joseph W Chinn, occupied with books,

Charles F Mercer, Edward Lucas, Samuel McD. j place one before her, and would also try to teach a

3Ioore, A Stevenson, Thomas Davenport, John J. i tavorite kitten to read a newspaper. To accomAllen, George Loyall, James H Gholson, Edgar C j plish this object, she would spread out the sheet Wilson, James B Beale, W P Taylor, John H Ful- before the little animal, and then feel its ruouth,to ton, William McComas, Henry A Wise. i ascertain whether it moved its lips, but finding this Xorth Carolina. M T Hawkins, Thomas II was not the case, she would shako it, and then Hall, W B Shepherd, Jesse Speight, James M'Kay, j evince her displeasure at her intractable pupil. If Abraham Rencher, Daniel L Barringer, Edward j several watches are handed to her at the same time, Dcberry, Lewis Williams, A II Sheppard, Henry i no artifice can succeed in inducing hertogiVO them W Conner, Jesse A Bynum, James Graham. j back again, except to the person or persons of

bouti Carolina. Henry L t'meknev, James whom she received them. hen she was first ad-

blair, Thomas D Singleton, Warren U Davis, W : mitted to her present abode, she employed

K Clownev, William J Grayson, George John KGnffin,John M Felder.

McDuffie,

From the Globe. TWEXTY-TIURD COXGRESS. SENATE.

Names of members and the year in which their term of service respectively expires. .Maine. Ether Shepley, 1839; Peleg Sprague, 1835. JV. Hampshire. Isaac Hill, 1837; Sam. Bell,133. .Mats. Nath. Sillsbee, 1835; Daniel Webster, 1839. R. Island. N. It. Knight, 1835; A. Robins, 1839. Con. Gideon Tomlinson, 1837; N. Smith, 1839. Vermont. S. Prentiss, 1837; Z. Swift, 1839. jY. V. - S. Wright, jr. 1837; N. P. Talmadge, 1839. JV. J. T. Frclinghuysen, 1837; S. L. Southard 1339. Pa. William Wilkins, 1837; one vacancy. Del. J. M. Clayton, 1835; A. Naudain, 1839. Aid. E. F. Chambers, 1837; Joseph Kent, 1839. Va. W.G. Rives, 1835; John Tyler, 1839. JV. C. B. Brown, 1835; W. P. Mangum, 1837. S. C. J. C. Calhoun, 1835; S. D. Miller, 1837. Geo. G. M. Troup, 1835; John Forsyth, 1837. Ky. G. 31. Bibb, 1835; Henry Clay, 1837. Tenn. H. L. White, 1835; Felix Grundy, 1839. Ohio. Thomas Morris, 1839; Thos. Ewing, 1837. La. G. A. Waggaman, 1835; one vacancy. Ind. J. Tipton, 1839; W. Hendricks, 1837. .Miss. Geo. Poindexter, 1835; one vacancy. . J. M. Robinson, 1835; E. K. Kane, 1837.

Ala. W. R. King, 1835; Gabriel Moore, 1837.

Jou. T. H. Benton, 1839; Linn 1834.

seat at the table, fehe is remarkably ; hilherto K.ou furni,hcJ to suWril)ertJ.

in measuring the size of the various apartments

and the heights of the stair eases. She would get

Georgia. James M. Wayne, R II Wilde. G Ri down upon her knees and smell at the thresholds.

Gilmore, A S Clayton, T M Foster, R L Gamble, j and so perfect is her knowledge of the building now, Seaman Jones, William Schley, John Coffee, j that it is aiJ she never makes a false step upon Alabama. C C Chv, Joint Murphy, S W Mar-' a. lllht of 6tairs cr enters a w'on door or tukes

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neat, and arranges her wardrobe with the most per

fect order; and if a single article of her clothing gets out of place, she knows it at once. When the baskets of clean linen are brought forward, en eh week, she readily selects those that belong to her, however carelessly they may have been thrown into the general mass. Many presents in money have been given her, which are deposited in a box, and she has been made to understand that its contents belong to her.

She frequently takes it in her hand, and thus weighs

and manifests her toy according to its weight.

ho can get

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dis, John McKinley, Dixon II Lewis.

Mississippi. Henry Cage, F E Plumraer. Louisiana. Philemon Thomas, II A Rullard. One vacancy. Tennessee. John Bell, Cave Johnson, James K Polk, D W Dickinson, Bailie Payton, John Blair, Samuel Burch, Luke Lea, James Standifer, John B Forrester, William M Inge, William C Dunlap, David Crockett. Kentucky. Chilton Allen, Thomas A Marshall.

Ames Davis, Thomas Chilton, Benjamin Hardin, ! '

r Su1?' TVm'Sl0p"(;r. 10,P- She has long known thut with money kins, P. II. Pope, Albert G. Hawcs, Chutenden j jier wants supplied.

Lyon, KM Johnson, 1 P Moore. j The following curious anecdote are told of her, Ohio. Robert TLytle, Taylor Webster, Wil-j and their explanation is not a little difficult. One liam Allen, Jeremiah McLane, Thomas L llamer, ' morning during the last summer, while engaged nt John Chaney, Robert Mitchell, John Thorrpson, j ucr needle work, she was incommoded by tho warmth Benjamin Jones, William Patterson, II H Leavitt, ! ofthe 6Un 81,0 arose, opcnedjlw window, closed the David Spangler, James M Bell, E Whittlesey, and tlms resumed her work. The gestionis, Thomas Covwin, Joseph Vance, Samuel F Vinton, Z ch.uU phe 1t.he, lR;at f ro,l tl .f un t .i cji t i tt n that by closing the blind, she might exclude its rays! Jonathan Sloan, Joseph II Crane. At th lca.tafl0 with wholeralnil on 1 rJ u Indiana. Amos Lane, Jonathan McCarty, hcr cup to have it replenished, one was accidentalJohn Carr, George L Kinnard, E A Hannegan, j lv returned to her which belonged to another perRatlifTBocn, John Ewing. json. She discovered the mistake the moment she Illinois. Joseph Duncan. Z Casav. Charles ' took the wrong cup into her hand, and nushed it

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Slade. Missouri.

WH Ashley, John Bull.

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Appointed by the Governor to fdl the vacancy

caused by the death ofthe Hon. A. Buckner.

Jacksonians, 20 National Republicans, 19 Xullifiers, 6 Vacancies, 3 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Maine. Rufus Mclntire, Francis O. J. Smith, Edsvard Kavanagh, Gorham Parks, Leonard Jarvis, Joseph Hall, George Evans. One vacancy. J lew Ham pshire. Henry Hubbard , J. M. Harper, B. M. Bean, Franklin Pierce, Robert Burns. Vermont. Hiland Hall, Horace Everett, Heman Allen, William Slade, Deming. .Massachusetts. Isaac C. Bates, Rufus Choate, J. Q. Adams, John Davis, George A. Briggs, Edward Everett, George Grennell, jr. John Ueed, William Baylies, Benjamin Gorham, G. P. Osgood. One vacancv.

CnnnerHriit J. V. Huntinsrton, W. W. Ells-!

worth, Noyes Barber, S. A. Foot, Ebenezer Young, Samuel Tweedy. Rhode Island. Tristam Burges. One vacancy. JVu York. A. Huntington, J. B. Van Houton,

C.C. Cumbreleng, C. P. White, C. W. Lawrence,

n. Selden. Aaron Ward. Abraham Uockee, .lonn

W. Brown, Charles Bodle, John Adams, A. Vanflpmnnl. J. Piersnn. G.Y. Lansing, John Cramer,

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Reuben Whalon, u. 11. Giliett, Charles :uctean, Abijah Mann, jr. Samuel Beardsley, J.Terrell, Daniel Wardwell, Sherman Page, N. Johnson Henry Mitchell, Nicoll Halsey, S. G. Hathaway, William Taylor, W. K. Fuller, Rowland Day, Samuel Clark, Edward Howell, H. C. Martindale, John Dickson, F. Whittlesey, Geo. W Lay, P. C. Fuller, A. Hazeltine, M. Filmore, Gideon Hard. Pennsylvania. J B Sutherland, Jesse Miller,

Joseph B Anthony, II Muhlenberg, Joel lv 3ann, Rohert Ramsav.D D Waener, Henry King, An

drew Beaumont, John Laporte, Joseph Henderson, George Burd, John Galbraith, B S Harrison, Richard Coulter, Horace Binney, James Harper, John

G Watmoucrh. William Heister. William leaning-

Jacksonians, National Republicans, Anti-masons, Nullifiers,

Vacancies, -Jacksonimajority 58. DELEGATES FHOM TEHWT0B1EI . Florida. James M White. Arkansas. Ambrose II Sevier. Michigan. Lucius Lyon.

Rights of Woman. Since the passage of the Reform Bill, considerable excitement has taken place among the fair sex in England as to their civil rights. One lady (unmarried) of fortune and family, named Mary Smith, of Stanmore in York, had presented a petition to the House of Commons, on the subject, in which she said that females were only kept in thraldom among barbarians and heathen nations; but that in England which had risen to such a high pitch, of civilization, such restrictions should he abolished. She complained that females were amenable to the laws and liable to be punished for their crimes, whde they were tried by judges and juries of the opposite sex; they should therefore be allowed to sit upon juries. In fine, she prayed that unmarried females of mature age, should be put on a footing of equality with the male sex, and be admitted to a share of the representation. The petition was read by Mr. Cobbet, amid

shouts of laughter from all sides of tho house. A member then observed that it might be an

awkward circumstance, if six unmarried females and six males were on the same jnry, and that they happened not to agree in their verdict, they might be locked up together all night. Mr Cobbet, said, the house might perhaps think that of no consequence. He Iwd knosvn males and females to be locked up together, and even to sleep in the same room together, both in England and America, without any awkwardness ensuing from it. The petition was laid c.i ihe table; so that the qualifications of females lo sit on juries, or to be returned to parliament, are in a fair way of undergoing discussion in that body. X. Y. Eve. 6Var.

from her with some slight manifestation of dislike, as if her sense of propriety had been disregarded. There was not the slightest difference in the cups, and in this instance she seemed to be endowed with a degree of penetration not possessed by those who were in the full enjoyment of light. Thus, it seems, as has often been observed, that in persons deprived of any one or more of their senses, an additional quickness and exquisiteness arc bestowed upon those which remain. Portsmouth, X. II. Journal. The Death of Owens. The Nullifiers have seized upon the death -of Owens to inculcate their doctrine in Alabama. Owens resided among tho Cherokces, in that state. Tho United States Deputy Marshal, (says the Mobile Hegister) whose duties are merely executory, in obedience to a mandate from his "legal superior, and clothed with all the

powers of law, called upon Owens and notified him, that in consequence of his iniquitous conduct, he was required to remove from the public domain. This he peremptorily refused to do, declaring that he

would die before he would obey tho requisition. The Deputy Marshal provided himself with the force expressly pointed out by law, and arrested Owen. Then it was that the dastardly miscreant decided on his plan of operation. He solicited the indulgence of the officer, begpod to be released from tho arrest, and promised, with apparent faithfulness, to remove. His request was acceded to, and no sooner had the Marshal left him, than after removing his family, he set a magazine of gunpowder under his house, to which he affixed a train, and immediately commenced an indiscriminate abuse ofthe Indians, swore he would burn their dwellings, and murder any of them who approached the land ho had swindled from them. His plan thus ftr succeeded the Indians overtook the Marshal, ho returned with his command was hailed by Owens at his gate, and invited him to his house. At the moment when his destined victims were about to dismount

he stepped out of his dsvelling, and applied a mutch to the train, tho alarm of gunposvder was given by an Indian the Marshal hesitated, and his life was saved, in an instant the house was blown to atoms, with a tremendous explosion. Frantic with rage at the failure of his scheme, ho attempted to shoot down the Marshal, but his piece providentially m Used fire. He was pursued, and in the act of taking the life of the sergeant, he was shot by cne ofthe guard. Such is a faithful outline ofthe case of Owens; and this is the man w ho is now held up by the State rights party as a martyr to federal vengeance; and skulking, treacherous, diabolical attempt on tho lives of men, in discharge of an official duty, is ex-

A Human Team. A novel spectacle and, we j cused, palliated, and justified. .Morning Post.

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may aua, a moving one was wnnesseri in tins

place ten or twelve days since exemplifying in

one ofthe strongest points of view a state of bodily

dtgrad!ir. rrjv panful and revolting to the feelings of human nature. It consisted of a wagon, filled with such articles of furniture, ccc, as usually belong to any emigrating establishment bound for thelfir West" drawn by two men and a boy, all duly harnessed, acting in .the capacity and doing the work of a team of horses! The individuals thus engaged appeared cheerful and patient in the exercise of their laborious employment. They were ascertained to bo emigrants from Germany, on

their way to the distant regions of the est. Albany X. Y.) paper.

scarce suspect the existence of the tremendous ton. David Potts, ir. William Clarke, Harmar Den

volcano slumbering beneath. m Iny, Geo. Chambers, T M T McKennan, John After we had been on the summit a few minutes,! Banks, Andrew Stewart, Charles A Barnitz.

A man and his wife were striving about who should wear the breeches; in the mean time one knocked at the door; the good man stepped out to see who was there, and asked him whom he wished

to speak with; the person answered, he wished to speak to the master of tho house. Wait, said he a little time, and I will answer you, for as yet the case

is doubtful, so stepping in, his wite and he went to it again, and she at last yielded him the victory. Now, friend, thou xnayest speak with me, I am the master ofthe house; but I could not tell thee so before, because my wife and I had not decided the controversy.

Singular. In Mr. Flint's Indian Wars of the West, h relates the following singular circumstances which it will puzzle the gownsmen satisfactorily to explain. 4iOn the side of a mountain in Tennessee, arc the marks ofthe footsteps of men and horses in the limestone, in great numbers, and as though they worn the tracks of an army. Some of tho tracks shosv as if the army had slipped in miry clay. All hive the appearance of being an actual impression in soft clay, which afterwards hardened to stone, retaining a perfect impression. Characters of great freshness of coloring are marked upon many rf the

bluffs, that impend the western rivers. Inscriptions of this sort are found in Missouri, on the Illinois, and in various other places. A remarkable track of a human foot was found in a solid block of

I limestone, on the bank of tho Mississippi, at St.

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Loui3. The most ancient tradition of the West do

not touch the origin of theso mounds of char

Hritish Home of Commons i 1 have often fcen strangers, admitted for the first timo within our sacred precincts, utterly astounded by tho bear-gardeit presented to them. Inspired with asse nt the great names, and the long speeches printed in tho eloo columns of the morning newspapers, they bad comedown to tho actual theatre of all this glory, with hearts beating with excitement, and a t-pec-es of reverential respect marked in their whole demeanor Their first garo is invariably one of inuto astonishment. The Speaker fiat with difficulty obtained, and the pass word "Permission,' gisen, they ure directed by the peremtory official to take a K'at under the gsllery. At length quietly seated, their attention is riveted to the cene before them, and assuredly such u eccue has seldom been knosvn many other civilized land. A unaJl, ill-conditioned room, with a high-backed chair nnd green table on tho lloor, with benches rising on each side, is the House of Commons. The Speaker, with hU full-blosvn wig and tlosving gown, occupies the chair, three clerks in wigs sit at hi feet; and around and about, over-

bead, in the galleries, on the floor, lying nt full length on the benches, talking, laughing, hooting, coughing, bleeping, are to bo teen the member; the t.lite of this great nation in the character of legislator; and one unfortunate wight is, anmU thin M range and uncouth assembly, endeavoring, in the lang phrase, to obtain the attention of tho House in other words, is making a jooch. Why, aui'dt uch an uproar, doe he continue! i the question of eery stranger. He i talking, not to the loue, but to the newspapers to the country. The din und turmoil around him is tho ordinary condition of our House. Were ho to wait till they were attentive, he would bo dumb forever. TaiCt .Magaunc,

Letters from Constantinople Kate that two TurkUh females, who wero carrying on an intrigue with two officers of tho Russian army, wero lately urrestod in the very place in u hicli they hud luado an assignation with their lovers. The woman of tho houe in which the remit :vous wua to have taken place, was likewise arretted, and all three were,

; without any form of trial, tied up in sacks, and cnt

mtothc Bosphorus. One of the women is iesonytu to have been very young, and singularly beautiful. Desirable 7?f ( ncc A Meath gentleman, willing to let hi place, advertises that "it lies within two miles of tho kennel of the club-hounds, one mile of a lagc bog, and has attached to it a seat in thr tvirisli eimivh " What a variety of ottractiong

acter.

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Prodigality. A gentleman in Ireland, whose

laborers recently discovered a hoard of lUO guineas

in an old house, and handed it over to him, rewarded these honest fellows by a donation of ono shilling to each man of the party.

cxerciso, warmth and devotions, all compact. X. Y. Con.

A keal ciant, weighing five hundred pounds, six feet and two inches high, and nearly seven feet broad, rny bo seen at Letton's Museum. What freaks Dame Natu.ro aoiuetiruei takrs. Cin. Skidd