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the Lombards in Italy was occasioned by ! a repartee of the Empress Sophia. Two Norman barons fought a duel, and there by was established the kingdoms of Ni pies and Sicily. England and France were involved in bloody wars bv the beau ty of a young Turk. Vl'hree Khans of the Tartars, and several cities were de stroyed, by the agency of a yellow gent. Francis I. came near losing France, by falling*ip love wijha young lady and promising to meet ner at Lyons. Brit tany was reunited to France, and Eng land'disturbed by civil commotions by the love of a duchess dowager lor a J e«v. A German struck a Genoese with astiek and caused the Austrians to he driven: front the city, and Genoa recovered ner | liberty.” Tnr. TitWKU.ii in Bf.i.gu m. The: European corresprtnueiit ol the 1 . S. Gaz ette sa vs he performed the distance from Antwerp to Belgium, near BO miles on the rail road in an hour and a quarter; and his seat, which was a very cloati'and neat one, cost him ‘25 cent', 'i'iiere is .1 peculiar neatness about these cars, and the machinery, ton, a dutch neatness. — These things are kept like wax work. The train is really a show to see. Von do not have much leisure to view the country around you : and the scat is some times too low to do it to advantage, But there is not much lost that way. The country is every where the same in Bel gium. Any ten miles may he taken as a sample of the whole. It is 'all flat ami moist, and thoroughly cultivated; and though not all equally productive, indi:.- try has gone as tar it can m making amends for what nature lots defied.— Some of it is marsh land, redeemed, dyked and drained. Some of it is loose, dry, sandy soil, built up, Ground over, enrich ed and so wholly revolutionized as to have become like a garden. The farms are small and every body makes the most of what he has. Fences are not used. That would be bad economy here, for they want both the wood and the room, and as tor stones they hive none. Tile estates are divided therefore by ditches, which of course do both to drain and define them. These again are lined, almost invari tl b with a thin row of brush or trees; some times fruit trees, hut oftener wood which appears to Ira used fit. fuel. That is kept j trimmed closely, and grows fa-1, and tints a good deal of fuel is had, at the same) with the shelter, the boundary and .the 1 ornament. 1 presume this row is ser viceable also by ifcs roots in sustaining the j soil. In fact, everything tells here. No room, no time, no labor, is wasted. 1 see fruit trees trained over not only tho hous es, but the barns and sheds, taking tip as: little space us possible, standing on tiptoe 1 as it were, against walls, and in corners, and at the same time, like grateful tenants ! as they are, paying liberally for the little indulgence allowed them, l»v coverin'' n . .. . . their owner's houses «l! over with dusters of fruit or a network of foliage and hhium. Nothing in the sh ip.'of fuel, c-qieciallv, escapes. You sen a pile of brush in every yard, which has been ‘picked up’ and ‘trimmed down.’ The roads are rather narrow, but wide enough too, ami very clean. Few beggars or idlers are visible. Mon, women, and children, are at work —spinning, or ploughing, or weeding, or something else—in house or held. They hardly stop to stare even :t* ny t unity Diligence driver as he rattles by, crack ing his whip cs he docs most outrageous ly, for the purpose of making them do so. Tra(.!i .\l livi n: . I’.ecoiit letters from Kardina speak of a tra 'icil < vent of w hich that Island has Jut - . y tn--a tit** timatre. — Tile ties’.tit of t!iancien.t sovereign of tlm 1-: '. a yo::n r man twenty ve tr i.f a.g . the I . t ,-c: i.i of t !:•• i house of Villa her mis i, had, ;t spy c . . conceive*! a pm.-i ui hr a young girl o' plebiun cxtmeti.m. He had f*r some time continued h;s assuhuUo.s to in r, and rumor began to ascribe to him better chances of success perhaps titan he really . possessed, when one morning his servants ! brought him tue cloak of ;i lishennau which had been found fixed in the pannel of his door by the blade of a poiuard. The : young nobleman understood the signal ; j it was a tenthlla, of which fair warning! was thus given h:m, and his grandfather. J with whom lie resided, prevailed on linn for some days not to leave the house unat-; tended. The young Count of Villa Her-; niosa, however, was too hiavc and proud. long to submit to these fatiguing precau-i tious. He declared h:s determination to' go out in the same uurestraiued manner; as formerly, and lie did so. At night he met the rival who had planted the poniard • and viaiitle at the door ot Ins hotel. What passed between them is not known, but it has been ascertained that the body of the fisherman was carried by the Count to the beach and there concealed under a heap of stones. The Count now paid his ad dresses to the girl as freely as before, to the astonishment of those who knew the history of the poniard, and who fully ex pected some signal act of vengeance.— Meanwhile, the family of the fisherman who had disappeared, entertaining some auspiciooa of the truth, began to search for the body. It was found, and among stones under whicb-i* was concealed, was also found a seal-ring, on which was en cravedrthe arms of the Count The ring had probably dipped from hie finger, while he was engaged in his deed of darkness. The body wu immediately conveyed to the hous" of a magistrate, and the ring which had been found was produced. An: investigation commenced, and the proofs against the Count werf so'strong, that lie w :s found guilty of murder, and condemn ed tn death. The sentence was submit ted to the King for confirmation. Charles Albert was anxious, if possible, to save j the list scion of a royal race, and accord*! 1 uiorlv caused a communication to the' graiidi'ithcr, tli t if lie applied for mercy,! it would probably not lie withheld. The answer ofthtjold Spaniard was, tint, h iv ing !o choose between justice and his own blood, he could not hesit ite to de cide in favor of the former. The young Count i'ii Villa IJeruiosa has since been beheaded. . Tnr. Nott-tn. Etstern- Buindary.— j The apathy oft he General Government, as ! well as t.he Government <4 Maine, upon the North Er-:oni Boundary question — invoking a« it does a tract of land nearly as hr as the whole state of Massachu setts —is really extraordinary and inex plicable. V'. e and i not understand it.— Time was when the repeated imprison inmitcfr.ii American citizen, acting un-j o'er tic: .nil‘.iori-\ of a sovereign state, by the minions of a foreign power, would have thrilled throughout the land, and roused to the quick every feeling of na tional pride and national patriotism.— Time was when every true American citi zen would have felt such an indignity as; an insult offered to himself, and resented it in the stern language of wounded pride j and conscious honor. But the times j have changed. The political parties in ! this country are so intent upon watching! each other, that they have no time to j watch the movements of their neighbors, j If they would adjourn the question of whigism and democracy for six months or! so, ami in the mean time settle the: Boundary question, they might afterwards! fight their own domestic and political bat tles with (lean hands,- and perform their j l self immolation, if need be, without for-j , eign reproach. I The latest accounts from the Boundary : represent that two hundred men of the | British Province have volunteered to run the line * peaceably if they can,' forcibly i ii" lIn:y must. ’ 1 f i he veomanry of M line | look tame iv on and permit this to lie done without an effort to prevent it, all we can! ! say, is, they ought to change places with ; lire Indians who have gone West of tin.'; ,M is-;; >sinpi. They are not suited to the j : soil offreedom and tlie quicker they emi grate the hi..-t:*-r.— [Boston Tunes. ■ Thu Great American Desert.-—The 1 vast barn-n and trackless region, stret -h --1 ing for hundreds of miles along the foot of the Rocky Mountains, and drained bv the tributary streams of the Missouri j and Missis.-qipi, is thus described in Ir ving's ‘Astori id "This regie i, which resembles one of the iin:ii"asur;ili!e steppes of Asia, lias . not inaptly 1»« :i termed ‘The Great A j merican Desert.’ It .spreads forth into, : mulu! iting treeless pi tins and desol ite s to dy w istes, wearisome to the eve from their extent an 1 monotony, and which'! j are supposed I• \ geologists to h :ve form-i ed the ancient floor of the ocean, outwit-i less ages since, whence its primeval wax es ;he ;t agiiu-t the granite bases of the 1 Rocky M >:julai:ts. jt is a-la ml where no 1 ! ;n m perm men! yal > i les ; for, in c, t it stewon of the yc .r, there mi ' food eith er for the p! in' ror Ids steed. The licr i huge is parched and wit hered, the brooks ! and streams are dried up; the ImiVdo.the elk, and the deer have wandered to dis tant parts, keeping within the verge of ! expiring verdure, and lent ittg behind them a vast numb luted solitude, seamed bv ravines, the he is of former torrents, ba: . now serving <vdy to tantalize and iu -1 crease the I’.iVrki ul the trawler. Orica , .'iotli.ilv tiie ■ a.netouy pf tills \ ast wiilh-l --ne.-s is mu rrupti'd In mountainous belt 'of sand and i e'stone, in broken and confused mas-' with precipitous cliffs and yawning vatinrs, looking iike the ru ins of a world : or is traversed bv lofty barren ridges of rocks, almost impassa ble, like those denominated Berk lulls. Beyond these rise the stern barrier of Rocky Mountains, the limits, as it were, ; of the Atlantic world. The rugged de files and deep rallies of this vast chain i form sheltering places for restle.-s and ferocious bands of savages, man v of them' the remains of tribes once inhabitants of the prairies, but broken up by war and violence, and who carry into their moun tain lnuuts the fierce passions and reck less habits of desperadoes.’ Spirit or Co\r ra*dhtion.— Cornelia 1 is not absolutely a scold, but she has an 1 unpleasant habit of never agreeing with your views on anv subject whatever— there is always some shade of distinction between her opinions and yours, which she expresses in a most dogmatic manner, as if it were quite impossible for Iter to be mistaken. The argument seems to be endless, though you yield every point to her. Is there any cure for such a malady but absolute silence, till her yarn is w hol ly exhausted I For the least contradic tion, or even the most perfect verbal as sentation avail nothing, and induces Cor nelia to direct in the sound of your voice some mental reservation, and therefore that her victory is not perfect ! Profound silence seems to be the only remedy. Antidotb for Arsenic. —TlMpugof Prussia has given a gold medal to Profes sors Russel and Berthold, for the discov ery of ox by drate of iron, as an antidote (for ar&enk-.” BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. Foreign Items. The coronation of! the Queen of England will take place in May. Many foreign Princess, it is said, will witness the ceremony. The Bulk of England has reduced its rate of discount from fiveto four per cent, hut was not likely to loan its money at that rate ; for the best bills were readily discounted lay the out-door money deal ers at 2 1-2 per cent. .Mr Siiici, the Irtsh orator, h is brought up the subject of emigration to America before the Town Council of Eiverp ul. Tiie British association for the advance ment of Science, was in Session at Liver pool, on tiie loth Sept. More thin five hundred members dined together. A inong the foreigners named in attendance, are three Amtric ms, Mr M axey front Washington, Mr. Ilurdman Philips, Pa. and .Mr. S. W. Roberts, of Philadelphia. Among other papers laid before them, was one from the High Constable of Liv erpool, giving a return of-all the inhibi ted ceil ;rs in .that town, which were m number 7,802 —estimate;! to contain :>!),- >1 id ! Nearly 40,0 ff) human beings liv ing under ground in the second city of England 1 Joseph Buonaparte, ex-King of Spain, and now known by the name of Count de ! Survilliers. has taken Bretteaham Park,! in the neiglihorhoo 1 of Lawshall Suffolk, for a permanent residence. The arrange ments of the household on a most prince ly scale. The Count ITorolawski, a Pole, and a once celebrated dwarf, died at Durham in the ‘.M)th year of his age. lie was ex actly thirty-live and a half inches in height, and liis person was a model of svifunetrv. An Englishman, Mr Griffith Williams, has been ordered to quit the French ter ritories, for calling for the Marseillaise hymn in the Boulogne Theatre. It is said, tint the King himself, recently at Versailles, command the performance of the revolutionary air. Mrs Trollope’s new novel, “The Vicar of Wrexoill,” is just published. It is intended, in 1809, to hold a cen tenary in commemoration of the first for mation of the Methodist United Society in 1789. Capt Back, who went out in June, 1800, in seareli of Capt Ross, in the ship Ter ror, returned in that ship to Lough Swil ly, near Dublin, after hiving been confi ned in the ice near Southampton Island, from August is:)b, to August 1807. The ship was nit brought to anchor, hut was wedged in the ice, and in constant danger of being crushed. She was very much injured. They saw the natives but twice during their detention. The" crew were much exli msted on their arrival. Three died during the winter, of scurvy. Capt Back had reached London. Tim Marquis of Waterford, who receiv ed a (1 tugerous wound in the head, from a watchman, in mi affray in,Bergen, was iikeh to recover. The Marquis inherited an income of A* I (IP,ODD a year. The London Stock Exchange was thrown int > an uproar on the 9th of Sep tember, I)v the disc ivery th it a man iriin ■l Cltrko hid absconded with about t‘2 ),‘K)O, which he Ind borrowed from various parties. He was confidential clerk to a broker. Efforts are ,no\v made to extend tlim j culti vati i:i of the cranberry in Engl uid, ! so as to furnish a regular supply to the Lou don m ivkets. At present it is confined to the Nnihern counties. Owen M os, of tiie long firm of Long man, Hurst, Rees. Onno, Brown and Green, publishers, died at his residence in (i 1 miorganshire. on the •">il l of Sep tember. He wastl - ve trs old. i Mrs Graham undertook to make an other ascension, on the loth of Septem ber, but the balloon hurst in process o! inflation. The ncHd'vit was not accom panied bv any explosion, and no cause for it is assigned. \t tin- July fetes, at Itheims, a balloon : ascended, ami the aeronaut fell from the car when the balloon was in its “pride of place.” The aeronaut was a stuffed fi gure, and not a living being : a practical joke of great cruelty to the spectators,and calculated to blunt the feelings. Kennebec Dam. The bold enterprise of damming the'waters of the Kennebec 1 river at Augusta M line, to the height ot fifteen feet, for the purpose of producing i an immense mill power, is so far comple ted that the passage of the water has been j closed, and it now Hows in a uniform! street over the top of the dam six hundred feet in breadth, presenting a beautiful ob ject to tlie eve. After the Dam was clos ed, it was found to be so tight, that a person could w alk across the channel, be-j low the Dam. The basin above the Dam | is so large, that it was five davs in fii-' !| "S- Emigration to Texas.— The last Lit- j tie Rock (Arkansas) Advocate, says —: "Hardly an hour in the day passes but a party from eight to ten well mounted horse-1 imen is seen passing through our town, | bound to Texas. Wagon alter w agon throngs our streets —all passing on to j Texas. Not a night but our taverns are j thronged with travelers and emigrants for the Red River counties and Texas. It is thought hat the influx of emigrants into Texas this year will amount to something like 6090. The majority of these are the j better class of Tennessee ms and Missou rians, »Scc. and appear to be mcuof intel ligence and wealth.” ! Tiib Price of Tea rose from fifty to \sixty percent in London between the ] l3th Aug, ami the loth Sept. St. Pierre. In this late discourse he- j fore the Philermenian Society Hon. A. ! 11. Everett spoke of a visit which he made to Bernard de. St. Pierre at Par is. The author of Paul and Virginia had always been a favorite with the fair sex ; and Mr. Everett met with a most con vincing proof of the fact. St. Pierre, then 80 years of age, of a most venera ble appearance, had just entered into the holy bonds of matrimony for the second time ; and with whom, prithee reader ? Perhaps with some prudent and well pen sioned widow, or a worthy old maid too long neglected : No such thing. His wife to tiie astonishment of Mr. Everett, was a blooming girl of fair scvtiitteu, rich, and of a rank in the \v6rld, Good hea ven ! A Frenchman never grows old or rather lie is never too old. Would I were a Frenchman ! Mr. Everett mentioned a curious an ecdote of St. Pierre.—At the time whgu atheism was rank in France, the amiable St. Pierre still adhered to the ancient pri• jurf.ee of the tri? truce of (Jod ; and in a discourse before the French A - lie took occasion modestly to vin dicate this great doctrine from the con temptment into which it had fallen. His discourse gave the greatest offence to the Academicians, and, incredible as it may, seem, after the meeting had closed he received from several of them challenges to singh combat! What testimony this to the depravity of the leading men of France ! The atrocities of the Revolu , tion can be easily accounted for. [Prov. i Courier. The Sen Flower. The Sim Flow er is a plant of much greater value than is generally known. Insteid of a few being permitted to grace a p irtorre, and considered only as a gaudy (lower, expe rience warrants my saying it should be cultivated by every planter and farmer as part of his provision crop. It can be turned to profitable account on ail plan tations ; for certain purposes it is more valuable than any other grain known to us ; inasmuch as it can be made to yield more to the acre in exhausted soils, with little labor, and with greater prospect of success. Its seed are wholesome and nutritious food for poultry, cattle and hogs, and very much relished by them. From the sved an oil is obtained, with great facility, as delicate, it is believed, as that of olives. They are also pectoral. A tea made of them is quite effective ns flaxseed, or any other, in cat lrlial affections. On one occasion, this tea, sweetened with honey, w is of so much more service to me than the prescriptions of my physician, tii it I attributed my early restoration in health to its agency alone. Certainly a favora ble change cl id not occur until 1 used this tea, which I did upon the recommenda tion of a citizen of one of the upper counties of North Carolina. Its leaves and stalk, in the green state, are preferred by cattle to any other prov ender, I h ive thrown green grass and fod der in one heap and sun flower leaves in another, to try the cattle, and they have j even commenced eating the latter first; [this 1 hive tried often with the same re [still. The whole, cut up in the green ! state and boiled with cotton seed, or a lit tle moil, affords a delicious food for cat lie and hogs. Gi.ouiols Reply. --The United Ser- j vice Journ and relates this anecdote of Sir Sidney Smith. The reply to his protest ing ollicers, is memorable alike for its' justness and its spirit : "lua furious attack that Buonaparte, made on Acre, in April, 1699, Sir Sid-; nay Smith found it necessary to risk his rdiii) (the Tigrr, 14,) by Wurping'lier into the shoal w iter on the south of tiie town, in order to !l mk the French batteries and trenches, and such were the fire and ef fect of this movement, that all w is reduc ed to silence in a very few minutes. On this occasion, as Sir Sidney was going! over the ship’s side to land and hasten to the beach, the First Lieutenant anjl inns-j ter chose that unseasonable moment to serve him.with a written protest against , "placing his majesty’s ship in danger of [being iost to which he calmly replied j. “Gentlemen, his Majesty’s ships arc built !on purpose to be placed in danger whon j ever bis majesty’s service require it, and of that the Commanding officer is the j best judge.”—N. Y. American. Hire's a compliment to the la lies of A. ir England from the South. —The ed itor of the Norfolk Beacon, says — “There is nothing more fascinating than a New England lassie ol eighteen, with her finely intellectual face, admirable in feature and coloring, and beaming with new beauty in the gleiw of conversation. There is an absence of that girlishness, which is equally at war with good taste and manners, and which, we regret to say, is sometimes assumed as something ex cessively captivating. * * * But we i have no time to talk of the Boston ladies as we would wish, and vve are not sure that our grey hairs are not more plentiful than when we first saw them: but, be this as it may, we aie decidedly of the opinion that the women of New England are the richest as well as the lovliest treasure th at she holds.” ’ Tiicv are piiihug di vn the American Hotel, in Bro l.viy,, New York, to erect | another Astor House, or one as large. The following jeu (Tesprit, from the Cincin nati Gasette, is a home thrust at the vitiated taste which has almost banished the legitimate drama from tiie stige Lines written for the Prologue of the New Theatre, an I rejected on account of their being too good for the occasion. Friends of the stage, Once more the charms of Shakspeare’s glowing page Shall greet your ears, And from the heart draw forth its hidden tears. We welcome you again, In a hunJred-dollar strain. Most glorious drama! here, in all their pride, Belbrc your sight shall ranting actors g.ide, And teach.you how to play ! We’ll follow not the rules Os other schools, But clothe our Trojan in-a Highland dress, And Platt’s neat tights, sage Cato’s limbs shall press. A black Othello In Dc-sde mfn i’s ears Ins love sh ill bellow ; And Indian chiefs shill go to war in boots And fashionable suits. i Kind friends, for you What will not we, poor humble actors, do? Since you decide ’lis welcome to your taste, By clowns and monkeys shall tiie stage be graced! And sometimes, as a treat, A cow and calf we’ll purchase from the street, j And deck’d with plumes and gaudy ribands too, Parade it to your vie w. j The good eld stage that blest the and ivs of yore Shall rise no more. Talk not of decency—we scorn the name, ! All that we wish is your applause to claim. Reform is nil the go, The King of Taste at present is “Jim Crovy;” ; Miss Horton’s strains please not like “Long tail Blue,” | Ah! who so fit, kind friends, to judge as you?” j In vain does Romeo speak the words of love, In vain does Hamlet seek the Soul to move, Vain are the tears of Lear; The half-filled boxes damn them with faint praise, But when Jim Crow his blackened face dis plays, llow throng the thousands here! • Though fpallack’s art Could draw the tears from beauty’s heaving heart, A few, a very few, Was all that to the house ho drew. Bur ah, how crowd, of high and low degree, Night after night the city’s hosts, to see Fair Celeste ! stop! There let the curtain drop. Sweet friends, farewell! Be sure, be sure, that here, W h it taste approves to please you shall appear, And this proud city, Queen of al! the West, By mammoth hogs :ui 1 monkeys sh ill be blest. Nicknames, A late English periodical states, “it is notorious ill it in the moor of Lancashire there are numerous instan ces where females, after having enjoyed the married state for several years, only know their liege lords by the nickname custom has given them, and not in their names; nay in .-ome cases, it has actually happened that men do not know their own names. We have heard of a simd ;r case which occurred at Salem several years since, of a Marblehead man, who actually knew not his own name. A case of law being tried at one of the courts, and the name of John Florence was called, as one oi" tho witnesses. There was no answer. Tiie sheriff bawled out. “Is John Florence in the court?"’ No an swer. Judge J?tory, who was then apr ic titioucr at the Essex bar, rose and said, “May your honor, .! will call the witness. “Skipper Flurry ?” Upon this the old weather beaten m iriner twisted Jiis cud, and squirting histobiceo juice, sung,out, “Here l am, Sir,” to the infin ite amusement of the whale emit, who were instantly convulsed with l uiMiter.— [Dad iyun Advertiser. M ock Thule. One of the new Brighton jukes last summer is an on fit about a certain Philudelphi in, who, in visiting his affianced one, left an Irish' serv ant standing so tie ir him in an ante chamber, tint the latter could distinctly hear his master saluting the lady, accom panying each caress the while with the epithets, “My sweetest —my dove—my turtle—my sweet turtle!” Suddenly,how ever, he was interrupted by an outcry near, and a black chambermaid rushed in to claim the protection of her mistress, followed by Pat, whose face seemed redo lent of a joke. "You scoundrel, you, what’s the meaning of all this cried the exasperated lover. “Mane, your honor ? why, it only manes that while you were enjoying your turtle in tin? parlor w ith my lady there—bless tier rosy lips—Patrick thought he’d just help himself to a little mock turtle in the entry, by the favor of this dacent young woman, with a skin like a pot itoe peeling.” Apropos to mock turtle. There is a good deal of quiet hu mor in that question of Jarvis, w ho while eating some of Gassin’s best at the house of a friend, coolly asked the latter : “is this from an old recipe, or did you make it out of your own head ?”—[N. Y. Mir ror. The Richmond Enquirer should h we a patent for the penning of obituary notices. The last number says of some deceased friend, that he possessed “the spirit of a true Israelite without guile, was a inemlrer of the Anabaptist church, and opposed to the Bulk of the United Stites ind the tiriflf.’’ This association of virtues in such ludicrous propinquity, reminds us of tiie touching elegy to the memory of Juba Grimes: ‘‘lie had no malice in his heart, Nor rubles on his shirt.” [N. Y. Commercial. The" Arch-General. In a letter from the Rev. Mr. Cooper of Boston, dated June Ist, 1778, written to Dr. Franklin who was then in Paris, is the following anecdote : “1 have long intended to give you an anecdote of Lord Percy, Before General Washington took possession of Dorchester Heights, which frightened the British troops from this town, to cover hia design he for several nights threw some bombs into the town, not having aminuni tion sufficient for a more continual bom bardment. During these .nights, though the damage was trival, his valiant Lord ship retired to the cellar of William Vas sal's house, in which he then lived and slept in liis wine arch. His servants made themselves very merry upon the occasion and g ive him the title of tli£ A/r/i-Gan eral. This story, 1 mgh it may be is the child of truth llis'' Lordship’s m< rhs jn the American service have been so puffed in Britain, and his behavior here, on several occasions, particularly to our friend Mr Bo.vdnin, was so dishonora ble, that it mty not be amiss f»r this tde to follow him to Europe. ” [AJ vertiser. Revenge Beyond the Grave. The Duchess of St Albius in leaving <£lD, )i)0 a year to her husband, clogged it with a condition that if certain members of her husband’s family should reside with him for more than eight days in a year, the bequest should be'void. Her Grace’s vindictive spirit, however, has defeated itself, as anything contrary to morality cannot be sustained in law. The ani mosity evinced by her Grace towards Lord Frederick Beauclerk, of the Roval Navy, one of the Duke’s brothers, arose out of liis refusal to meet her wishes in an alliance with her intended heiress, Miss Angela Burdett.—[Hudson’s Express. The Staff of Life. Mr Barton, an English medical gentleman, has publish ed statistical tables of the number of deaths in seven manufacturing districts in Eu rope, compared with the rise or fall of wheat. In 1800, when wheat was sold at 110 shillings the quarter, the number of deaths was 50,000. In 1807, when the price was Lit) shillings, the number of deaths was 55,(500. Butin 1801, when the price was GO shillings, the deaths were only 45,000, and in 1804,-when the price was 70 shillings, the deaths were 48,000. \\ hence he deduces the fact, that a rise or fill in the price of wheat, is, to the laboring poor, a question of life or death. A Trifling Property. George Rob hius, the celebrated London auctioneer, had an offer, I itely, of Hi .009 guineas —m round numbers ‘Mi },090 dollars— for a siiijle est ite in Yorkshire, England, which lie was employed to sell. It be longs to Sir Bellingham Graham. Comfortable scraps for men of Genus. Horner was a beggar; Plautus was a miller; Terence was a slave ; Boe thus died in Prison; Bogerce starved; Tasso had not money enough to purchase candles to write by ; Cervantes died of hunger ; Benterogho was refused ndrriit t nice into a hospital which he had found ed ; Agrippa died in a workhouse; V augelas left his body to the surgeons to 'p iy his debts ; Cnmoens ended his days in an alms-house; Bacon lived in distress; R tleigh and Moore ended their and lys up on the scaffold: LeSago never knew coni- I lort in pccinii iry matters ; Spencer died in want : Collins went mad from the world s neglect ; Milton sold his Paradise Lost fur J! i > in three instalments,and cli ! ed in obscurity : Drvden died in distress; Otway died prematurely and in want; Lee died in the streets ; Steele was dog j ged by the b iihff’s ; Goldsmith sold,through l Johnson, the Vicar of Wakeford for a I men; trifle to release him from prison ; Fielding lies without a stone to m irk his j grave ; Swage died in Newg.te, at Bris tol, where he was imprisoned for AS ; Hitler ‘lived neglected and died poor;' and the immortal Chutterfon, in conse quence of want, put an end to kis exis tence in his 18th year. Bridge of the Nile. The construe tiou of the gigantic bridge of the Nile, so long projected, is at length about to com mence, and will lie completed, it is said, in less than six years. This colossal work is to be erected at the point of the Delta, five leagues below Cairo, at that |) art of the river where it divides into two branches. During w inter and a part of spring the waters of the Nile are too low to be turned to the account of the bridge will therefore he made to form a kind of lock, to keep the w aters at all times at the necessary elevation. The husbandman will thus he spared an infini ty ot labor, and will only have to direct the irrigation into the canals of absorp tion. The preliminary works of rectify ing the bed of the river, raising dykes, and digging the lateral canal, will require 24,903 laborers, besides which the arse nal of Alexandria is to supply 349 smiths and 659 carpenters. As Egypt cannot easily furnish so great a number of men, it is in contemplation to employ four or five Aegiments of infantry upon the works. The stones are to bo transported by a rail road, to extend to the mountains of Mock atam, which are t.vo leagues distant from the Nile, Tne fortune to which Miss Angelina Burdett has succeeded by the will ol tne Duchess of St. Albans, is only J'JJsay uiue millions of dollars. Sho has changed her name toCoutts.