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THE TROVERS. It is dear bought honey that is licked off a thorn. A knotty piece of t.inber requires a smooth weJge. A mm who does noi look before, vv.lJ gen* eral.v be found behind. T'tere is very little for the rake afer the shovel. . A mm whose eves require couching, is not a proper 1 to set up as an occulist. »» M my things happen between the cup and the lip.” T.iis proverb aro -e from t.e f.ite o A.rtino is, q:c of Penelo,*’* suites. w.. 0 was shot by ail arrow from t ie bow of U ysse> as lie was going to drink. THE CONTRAST. When we’ve nothing to dread from the law’a sternest frowns, H r.v we laugh at the barrister’s wig?, band?, and gowns ! Bat no soo :er wt- w .nt them, 'd ?ue or defend, Taaa their laughter begins and our mirth's at an end. SARCASM. It is true you are a member o? parliament, bat vou are 100 Heavy a log to be lifted to pre ferment b_\ any co irt 1 ver. He seems to have invented anew sys'ern of ethics wnich discards virtue as a super, u.ty, and rejects integrity as aa incumberance. Tills morning, quite dead, Tom was found in h:s bed, Aldnugh he was hearty las: mgnt: Bit ’tis though - , having seen Doctor G!>na in a dream, That the poor fello w died ot the fright. VITCH7E RATION. Our language has no terin of reproach, the mind no idea of detestation, that has ro* alrea dy beeu happily appl eJ to you, and exaauste i. He is or.e of those who woul I not scruple to apo og ze for every crime that his been committed, from the murder o Able, down 10 t le last burglary recorded in t«c annals of the 0.1 Bailey. He has a fine head of liair, and I trust that the justice of Go I will soon plait it into a halter, as it did Ahsiiom’s; and t.iat the spreading arm of so.ne tree will speedily snatch him to execution. CHINESE ANECDOTE. A man accustomed to deal in marvels, told a country coasiu of his that he had tarce gre <t car.oiitei in a.s poiseiiio 1; unOxtn t oald j travel five hundred m.les a day, a f’oek t.iat teds tSe aoar of t .e nigiit. and a dog t.iat could read in a superior manner. ‘Tne e are ex traordinary tilings indeed—l must call upon you and beg a sig it of them, ’ sa.d tue cousin. T e iar returned ho ne and toid his vv fe waat h ipjHi.ieJ, say.ng ie .iad got into a.scrape arid knew not how to get out. ‘U, never mind,* said site, ‘lean m .uage it.’ The next day t ie countryman cahed and enquired after his cousin, wis to.J tnat i.e nad go..e to Pekin. 4 YV .ea is .re uxpectci bock V * |.i seve ior e:g .t days.'— How can he return so soon V * tie’s go.ie o.T upon oj ox.’ 4 Appropos of taat, 1 am to I that you have a cock taut marks t e lour.’—A cock just then happened to crow. 4 Ye-., s.r, taut is lie; lie not only tells tho hour o< tie tug it, b .t icports w.'ieu a stranger comes.’—• Tnen your dog, t.iat reads books ; mgit 1 beg to .see .inn ?’ * VVny, to speak tho trjt i, as our circumstances are but narrow. We have aeut t.ic oat to keep sc oo!.’ a p.a;n3ow at midnight. Tuts peculiar and suanine phenomenon was witnessed during a launder storm in New Jersey a short time since. Tne editor of the Bi.dgeio.i C.'iromc.e gives a most beautiful description of tire gruuiiuur of the scene, in w.ncu he says: “ i'iie who.e western horizon fio.n aOJtn west to uort.l east, was begirt with clouds piled o.i clouds like Pelion o.i Ossa ; and the play of electricity from bead to i.end, was sublime in t..c extreme.’ ft is added— -44 I .os flashes folio wed each other in such rapid success.on, as scarcely to discover any into vnl. Pile clou J ro >o slowly—aud we c io>e a favorab.e position and gajed upon tue grand and imposing specta ie w.th subdued re.c e.ice and dei.g .tea awe until tue eddying winds admonished us to seek shelter from the t.neale .ed tempest. fuecioad, however, soon passed by and w.t i but little rain tnoagh it fell in torrents nearly all mound us. Alter the b.astof wind was over, wnich was about 11 o’- clock, wo sail ed fortn again to look upon tho scene—aud what was our delig.it nd asto.iis.i meat to hehoid suspended upon tne black cur tain ol the west, a beautiful rainbow, caused by tie moonbeams. Tne arch was entire and bore a perfect resemblance to the bow of sun. shine, except color—this being a glistening white. It was remarked by a scientific man present} that he had never witnessed the like before.” fHE FINALE TO A COURTSHIP. “Flora ah ! dearest Fljra—l am come—ah! Flora—l am come to— on! youc.au decide my fate—l am come, my Flora—an!” “I tree you, Malcolm, perfectly. You are come, you tell me. Interesting intelligence, certainly. Well waat next ? “Oh Flora! I am come to—to”—- “To offer me your heart and hand. 1 suppose ?” “ \ es.” ‘‘Well, do it like a .nan, if you can, and not like a monkey.” ‘ Plague take your seif possession !” exclaimed 1, suddenly starlit g up from my knee, upon which I had iulie.i in an attitude that might have won the approval of even Madame de Maillard Frusei ; ‘you make me ashamed of myself.” “Proceed, sir,” said Flora. ——“You like brevity it would seem!” “Yes,” said Flora. “The I —will you marry m«'?” “Yes.”—“Will you give me a kiss?” “You may take one.” I took ti.t pi offered kiss. “Now, that is going to work rnt .onully,” sauf F\ora; “w .ea a thing’s to be said, why may it not be said in two seconds, instead of stuttering and stammering two hours about it? O.i, how cordially I do hate all niaUiries !” ■exclaimed the merry maiden, clasping her hands energetically. “Well then,” said 1. “humbug apart, what day shall we fix for our marriage ?” The Wife Hunter, and Flora Dougla?. A good story is told of an o!d boatman, from the Schuylkill, who repaired to the mena gerie in Pniladelphia, and see’ng all its won ders, thus addressed the chief exhibitor; “Weil friend, I’ve seen all yo r big beasts and zebras, aal zaphyers. and hyenas, and t »e n th ngs— now wnerefe your ms/iagerio? where’s his saga--I waat to look athimr?” ANECDOTES Os JAt .lEN, A baker in Pye Comer, Gng., weighed thirty lour ato ie. (476 lbs.) and frequently ate a shoulder ot mutton at a meal. He [t r sisteu. for o’ e veer, to live upon water groel a id brown b end, by which he lost two nun ded pounds of his bulk. Mr. Jacob Powell, who u.ed in 1754. weighed 560 pounds, his bo ly was above five yards in circumference; requiring sixteen men to tear him to his grave. At Haiu'on, there died in 18’6, Samuel Su gars, w!.o weighed 50 stone (700 lbs.) Daniel Lambert, of Leicestershire, weighed 739 lbs. Mr. Spooner, of Skillington, wcigt.ed 40 stone and 9 pounds (569 lbs.) At Tienaw there was a man who we g! ed 460 lbs, ore of his stockings would contain six'een gallons of wheat. Mr. Coliet, master of Eversliam Aca. demy, we ghed upwards of twenty-six store (364 lbs.) —when twelve years old, he was nearly as large as at the time of his death. At two years of age, he two nurses to ! It him in and our of his bed, one of whom, in “m of anger he ft ed to the floor with a blow of his hand Dr. Stafford, who was < r.or inously fat, was o. o red with this epitaph: Take herd, oh good traveller, and do not trtod hard, Fu here lies Dr. Stafford, in all this church yard. ANECDOTES OF I.E AN MEN. A reverend doctor of a veiy g 0.-tly appear ttr.ee, was one day accosted by a fel.ow with the following salutations: *• Well doctor, I hope you have taken cate of your soulV’ “ Why, my friend ?” said the divine. “Be cause.” replied the other, “your tody is not worth caring for.’* A poor dim nutive Frenchman being order ed by his Sangrado, to drink a quart of ptisan daily, repl.ad with a heavy sigh ; “Alas! doc tor. that is impossible, since I only hold a pint.” When the Duke deCuoisenil, a remarkably meagre man, caine to London to negotiate a pence C larles Townsend being asked whether t e French governn ent h id sent the prelimiua ri -s of'a treaty, answered, “I do rot know but t rey iia\e scut the out!in ° oj an ambassador,' 1 IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT IN WOOLWICH DOCK YARD. In the course of the successive days of last week a series of trials has taken p ace at the above i rincipal steam istablishnu nt for her Mafesty’s steamers,.under the superintendence of Messrs. K.ngston and Deur.en. The grand desideratum so sea-going -team vessels is considered the concentration of inflamiriabij matter in as small a compass us possible, both on account of the stowage of munitions of war ns well as provisions, combined with as much * eco omv as can be attained. The invention under trial is termed prepared fuel, and is a composition « screened (otherwise almost uselessly small)coal, river mud, and tar, cast into blocks of the same size and shape as a common brick. An engine was worked with this prepared fuel on Tuesday ; theconsump. t on for six hqurs and forty-five minutes war 750 po inds. On the Wednesday tbs same engine was employed for the same period of time, and it required 1,165 pounds of north country coals to keep it going, slowing a saving of 415 pounds in favor of the prepar ed fuel. On Thursday the Welsh coal was used,ami 1.046 pounds were consumed : amt on Friday Po itop coils were supplied to the engine, and 1,098 pounds were required to work the en. gine for tie six hours and 45 minutes; while on the Saturday 089 pounds of the prepared fuel easily performed the same work, thus showing a reduction of expenditure of 418 pounds in f ivor of the invention ; in addition to wiich it is highly necessary point out that, on the average of the consecutive days, it re quired about 59 pounds less of the prepared fuel to get the steam up, which was not o llv tetter maintained by very little feeding, but mo e readily obtained by the inflammable na ture of the material, which will no doubt be generally adopted throughout the service, as, in addition to its excellence of quality for the purpose designed, it has ti e advantage of be ing stowed away in a compact state, and not liable to act as a shifting ballast. FIFTEEN HOURS TO IRELAND. To America, seven days. —Mr. M'Call. of Waxford, has published a letter to the Tieasu ry and the Post master-General, suggesting a plan of tra .smitting the British Mail to the most distants parts of Ireland in 15 hours, and to America, via Valentia, in seven days. The plan is to avail himself, he says, “of the wind w.iich prevails 11 months in the year, leading into Wexford and Fishguard I arbours; with tides abeam, which would ensure punctuality ; w.iereas, he says, the llolyliead packets have repeatedly taken three days to perform the voyage between Kingston and Holyhead, a distance of only 62 miles. Ho proposes to extend the Great Western Railway to Fish, guard, thence to Wexford by steam packets, and by railway thence to Dublin. By this plan .re says only one mail between London and every part of Ireland will be requisite; and the London mails can arrive regularly in the most distant parts of Inland in 15 hours. Regarding the American voyage, he adds, a railway from Wexford to Valentia, ns a for eign packet station, will bring Great Britain and America within seven days sail by steam packets thence to and from Londo i daily in 15 hours, London paper. SINGULAR MARRIAGES. A widower at Camden, who was not very young, became smitten with a young and beautiful girl, and married her. A short time after, the son of this man by a former wife, became also in love, not with a younger per son, but with the motliei of the fathers new wife, a widow lady still in the bloom of life. He offered himself and soon the young man and tne widow were united in the bands of m itr moriy—so that in cons* quence of these two c Hinexions a father became the sonln law of his own son, and the wife not only the daughter-in-law of her own son-in-law. but still more the mother-in-law of her own mother, who is herself the daughter-in-law of her own daughter, while the husband of the latter is the fatber-in-law of his mother-in-law, and father in-law to his own father. Singular confusu n may arise, if ch Idien should spring from these peculiar rqarriages. BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT. He builds too low who builds his hopes be neath tne skies. Let us ti.eu be chiefly an x.ous reflecting the prerent mat we may know bow to profit best by it,and respecting t..e fu tuieoniy as it is coin >cted with our iuteies s in luiot. er world. Behold the var ousexq is. i e scenes w.iicli o; en be:b e our eyes as we proceed in our walk. Look at this path which winds before us till it is k><t in shade. See how beautiful its borders are diversified w.th plants of every tint and every tbrni Mark how the light breaks in from above, and how it trembles amo.ig tiie leaves. L.s’en to the no e of th • wood pigeon, the distant lowing of the cattle, and the bark of t..e watch dog.— How teautiful is this scene and its attendant circumstance;! Yet all the earth is cliange.able. The yel low tints of autumn have already begun to dis color ti e leaves: t e winds will speedily lay those leaves in th dust, and the vvho'e face of nature will soon be vei'ed in the .snowy mantle if winter. Ai! there circumstances,t. erefoie. all these changes, even to tiiefallin of > leaf, ought to be received by us as so many warnings not to rest in present scenes, b t to press for ward to ?ho-re which are eternal. And altrio’ there is nothing in this sentiment which has rot been repeated a thousand times, yet I believe it cannot be too often repeated or too leeplv felt. THE MIND OF MAN. Who can chain the mind of man, or bid the imagination down from her lofty height ? When the body exhausted by labor sleeps to be refreshed, tiie mind, unvve ir ed, except with j earth, takes its fight into the land of spirit", ! and converses vv itn t! e inhabitants of ti e in • real world. Now it sweeps, like the b ast o. winter, over the fan face of the earth, chang ing and moulding its surface, with childish j spo; t, rearing palaces and temples, in the air, —anen, o’er tne frozen surface of the North— above it Winders, pausing and with finjrers fantastical wreathing the flowers on the juiting points of the rude rocks, and twining the lux j uriant vire over tne sparkling tops of the sun. I gilded glazers. And now, w 1 en tire face of , the ocean is Doubled with the first hot breath of the coming tempe t, it is on the deep—or i with the spirits of the air, viewing the dreadful preparations of the gods toscournge, w ith the hurricane, the ear*h and waters. Now, seated with the god «f tempest, in whose car are harnessed the black steeds of night, whose dus ky r nnes flung athwart the sun, o’er shadows tne narth, and makes the pale faced man look paler. Nov; perched upon a cliff that o’ei looks the fight, it views with eye serene, the strife of man. Now with unlimited ken, it pierces the veil of distance, and gazes with rapture upon the glory and grandeur of ti e land of the saints, sees the bright spirits of the good floating like summer clouds around die throne of him who rules the tempest, and holds the water in the hollow of his hand. Wiieu the remembrance of departed friends,or some dear relative, whoso love was prised above the goods of this earth, comes over the ■ mind, it sends it back among the scenes of | our youth, and the friends of our early days, I with a sadness like ths murmur of the forest when vintor has stripped it of its leaves, and strewn item in anger upon the bosom of the earth. Who would awake from such a dream, or doubt tire re*?.lities ofu life beyond the grave? T.oi'isvil c Enquirer- CHARACTERISTICS, BY SIR WALTER SCOTY. Leyden, the Scottish Foci, —Few who read i these pages (Border Minstrelsy) can be unac. j quainted will tiie leading facts in the history of John Leyden. Few can need to be re minded that tnis extraordinary man, born in a i shepherd’s cottage in one of is e wildest valleys of Roxburgsbire. and of course almo. t enure | ly self educated, had, before he attained h < ! nineteenth vear confounded the doctors of | Edinburgh by the portcntious mass of his ac* | quisitiens in almost evi ry department of iearn- I ing. He had set the extremest > enury at ut ter defiance or rafter In had never I ren con scious that it could oj crate as a bar; for bread and water, and access to books and' lectures, computed all w ithin the bounds of his wishes: and thus lie toiled and battled at the gates of science affer science, until his unconquerable perseverance carried every thing before it; and yet, with this monastic abstemiousness and iron hardiness of will, perplexing those about him hv manners and habits in which it was hard to say whether the moss-trooper or the schoolman of former days most prevailed. He was at heart a poet. Mist Seward. —l have teen for about a fortnight in this huge and hustling metro: olis, when lam agreeably surprised by a |>acket from Edinburgh, containing Miss Seward’s letter. lam truly happy at the information it I communicates respecting the life of Dr. Dar j win, who could not have wished his fame and character intrusted to a pen n ore capable of do tig them ample, and above all, discrimina ! ting justice. B ography, the most interesting perhaps of | every' species of composition, loses all its in j terest with me, when the sha-’es and lights o r the principal character are not accurately and ; faithfully detailed; r.or have I much patience with such exaggerated daubing as Mr. Hay ley j had bestowed upon poor Cowper. I can ro more svmpathize with a mere eulogist than I ; can with a ranting hero upon the stage; and ! it unfo tunately happens that some of our dis- I respect is apt, rather unjustly, to be transfer red to t! e subject of the panegyric in the one case, and to poor Cato in the other. Unnp. prehensivc that even fr’endship can bias Miss Seward’s duty to ‘he public. I shall wait mo<t anxiously for the vol line her kindness has promised me. Ritson. —Poor R’tson is no more. All his vegetable soups and puddings have not been able to avert the evil day, which, I understand, was preceded by madness. It must te worth while to inquire who has got his MSS.—! mean his own notes and writings. The 'Life of Arthur.’ lor example, nius contai i many curious facts and quotations, which the poor defunct had the power of assembling to an nstonishirg degree, without being able to com. bine any thing like a narrative, or even to de duce one useful inference. Witness his‘Es. says on Romance and Minstrelsy,’ which re mind* one of a heap of rubbish, which had ; either turned out unfit lor die architect's pus , pore, or beyond his skill to make use of. The ballads I.e hid collect, and hi Cumberland and Northumberland, too, would greatly interest me. It tey have fallen into the hands of anv , literal collector. 1 dare say I m g.it be indulged with a sight oi tltem. Pray inquire about tiiis matter. Lockhart’S Life of Scott A SINGULAR ADVENTURE. Once upon a time a traveller steps into a po t coach. He was a young man, just start ing in 1 ft*. He found six passengers about him. all of them gray headed and extremely aged men. The youngest appeared to have seen at least eighty winters. Our young tra veller was struck with t:e singularly mild and happy aspect which distinguished his fellow passengers, and determined to ascertain the secret of long life, and the art of making old age comfortable. He first addressed the one who was apparently the oldest, who told him that he had always led a regular and absti mi ous life, eating vegetables and drinking water. The young man was rather daunted at this, inasmuch as lie liked the good things of this l fe. He addres ed the second, who aston ished him by saving ho had always eat roast beef and gone to te l regularly sud lied for se venty years—adding, that all depended on regularity. The third had pro’onged his days by never seeking or accepting office—the fourth hv resolutely abstaining from political or religious controversies—and the fifth by going to bed at sunset ami risiigat dawn. Tne sixth was apparently much younger than the other five—his hair was less gray, and the-e was more of it—a placid sm le. denoting a perfectly easy conscience, mantled his fice, and his vo ce was ; ocund and strong. They were all surmised to learn that he was by ten years t' e oldest man in the coach. —“ How,” exclaimed our young traveller, “how is it you havr thus preserved the freshness of life— where ttero is one wrinkle on your brow there are fifteen on that of each of your iuniors— tell me. I pray, your secret of long life!” “ It is nrt mystery.” said the old man, “ I have drin k watei and drunk wi e— l have eat meat and have eat vegetables—l Inve held a public office—l have dabbled in politics and have written rolig’ots pamphlets—l have some times go* e to ted at sunset and sometimes at I midnight—got up at sunrise and nt roon—l ALWAYS 7AID PROMPTLY FOR MY NEWSPAPERS!” SAGACITY OF THE HORSE. The horse | ossesses the faculty of finding bis way home from a considerable distance. Some j dozen years have rolled over my head since I met my friend, Mr. Robert G il. of Richmond, j Yorkshire, at the little town of Bowes, vv. ere i we mounted each a poncy for the purpo. e of ! proceeding to WearJalc. intending to snoot on lire Durham moors the following day (tne 12th :Augu .t.) There being no direct main road. | in our progress we traversed a considerable 1 quantity of moorland, threaded a number of ; lar.es, and, at length, after much nquirv, at I twilight found ourselves on the border on an extensive common, intersected by numerous ! sheep-walks, over which, however, it was ne i cessury for us to pass. Tiie night did not bee m e so dark but we were enabled to dis ! corn the summit of’a mountain, (pointed out to i us by a s lepherd,) which s trved as a beacon to guide our wav. We reached our qu.tr ers at twelve o’clock. After spending a week in 1 YVeardale, and amongst the mountains which ! surround it, we began to retrace our steps. ! Strangers to the way, whenever we we e in i doubt I stonglv advised leaving the decision to our [io iie>, and they did not deceive us in a single instance. However, ujion ore no a | Sion, two lanes were presented, the ponies ! leaned to the left, vv.ien my friend insisted they j must Ire wrong- YY’e, therefore compelled I t.e animals to take the right, wnich t ,ey did ! very unwillingly. After proceeding half a mile, we discovered our mistake; we icturied, and did not afterwards oppo. e the w ill of our little sagacious nags. T..e-e an niuls had le ver been in this part of the country at any prior period; but, having once pro ceded, lor some thing more than tuirly miles, through a very intricate country, having crossed moorlands, numerously intersected with si eep-vvulks,they v'.ereenabled, unerringly, to find tier way back. and that without the least d.fficultv. The dog possesses this faculty in still greater perfection ; indeed, it may he said to be geirer. al amongst quudrup. ds, in which respect they arc superior to mai. O 'Servations by T. B- Johnson. ENCHANTED MOUNTAINS. The follovvu g account of a natural curiosity is from tue Texas Telegraph: This singular mountain or hill is situated on the head waters of ti.e Salley—a small tribu tary of the Colorado, about eighty miles from Bastrop, is a north-westerly direction. It is anout three hundred feet high, and appears to te an enormous oval rock, partly imbedded in t e earth. YVhen the sun shines, tne light is ! reflected from its polished surface as from an j immense mirror, and the whole mountain j glows vvitii such a dazzling radiance, that the j beholder who views it even from the distance ! of four o: five miles, is unable to gaze upon it without experiencing a j ainful sensation, simi : lar to that which islult wren looking upon the ! rising sun. Ti e ascent of this hill is so very gradual, that persons can easily walk up to the lop; but tne rock is so smooth and slippery that tnose wlio make the attempt arc compelled to wear moccasins or stockings instead of shoes. Tnis act, together with tsc name of the place, Holy Moci taiu, reminded the visi ta t veiy forcibly of ti e command made to Moses at Mount Hored “ Put off the shoes from off thy feet,” &c. TlieCamanches re gard this bill with relig’ous veneration, and Indian pilgrims frequently assemble from the remotest borders of tl eir tribe, to perform their Paynim ri es upon its summit. TRANSPOSITION. An old covie ordered his son to turn out the sad lie and hang up the mare. Said he to a ne’ghbour, “ YVhen ] came home yester day, I found my wife ajar, and the doors sick a-bed ; the gate had left the boys open, a id the field was in the hogs; so I caught up a hog and broke it over every rail’s back in the field, and every puinkiu took a hog and run !” * ram the MicroCoent, A MOST REMARXAELS AND VVONDERFUL ESCAPE Someth) ft m tire tatter part of the summer of 18 » a young man had taken a hunting excursion among t..e mountains aud valley* adjacent to his father’s farm. He continued in pursuit ofhis game, until he had wandered some considerable distance from his home. Sometimes ho clambered among rocks— somet mes he was almost lost in the deep lor. est; and hom his many windings he could scarcely recollect the direction of his father’s house In the course of a lew hours after he had li ft Lome, tne:e ro>e a most tremendous thunder storm. The cloud gathered in dou. b.e blackness along the w estern horiso i, and began to ro.l up toward mid heaven. Ocea sioually ti.e lu id igntnings bursted out in liv. nig flumes from the dark bos m of the storm, ibliovved at short intervals by lou I, reverbera. ting crushes of thunder, which trembled the everlasting mountains to their four.dat oi.s, ar.d seemed to leap from crag to crag, and then d.e away among the distant hilis. Aa tlio srorm approached, it appeared, at times, as if the whole heavens were one waving sheet of flame. Tue thunder's tone was deep and aw. (id. It bellowed and gioai.ed along tie val leys, and was echoed and re-echoed buck again and again, lrom the mountain caves. Ti e wind'increased in violence ; tic tall pines and the distant hills towed majestically tetbic ti e svveepii g blast. The storm continued to in crease; from a tempest it became a tornado, and bore every thing down before it. The forest was prostrated ; ancient oaks that had stood for ages before the hurricane, and old stately pines were crusho like reeds. In its march it spread desolation along. After it had ceased its raging?, and the calm followed, such a spectacle never was seen. Roads were obstructed—j>i!es upon piles of broken trees— houses swept down ti their foundations—cat tle and horses killed, heads upon heads, and naught was heard but the voice of laments tion. And now says the reader, what and when was the escape—the remarkable--tl e wonderful escape ? Why. I will tell you. Ti.e young man spoken of, s;,vv the storm approach, ing, and he ran home likelightuing; thestoim not passing that way, he escaped. OMEGA. YANKEE SHREWDNESS. Coming it over the fifteen ga/lcn /cte.—Wc understand that previous to the Division Mus ter at Dedham, a shrewd or e hit upon the fol lowing novel expedient to evade the licem-e law. He made application to ti e Selectmen for a license to exhibit a str/pedpig during the parade day, which was granted. He accord, ingly produced a pig, and with a brush painted some strij es on his back, and had a tent erec ted on the field, with due notice on tire exterior, that a striped pig was to he seen within; price of admission six and a quarter ants. Tie rate being so low, numerous visitors were in duced to call upon his swinish majesty, and every one on coming out appeared highly gra tified with tho kind and courteous reception he met with from tho keeper of tiie remarkable pig, for each comer was treated to. a glass of brandy and water, or gin, or whatever 1 quor he might prefer, without any extra charge. Some were so w ell pleased, that they were in duced to take a second look at the animal, aid were so kindly and liberally treated as at their first visit. At the last accounts the exhibition was driving a brisk business, and was likely to make a profitable day’s job in exhibiting liis “ striped pig." Boston Sentinel REMARKABLE ANTIQUITIES. Some researci.es lately made in ti.e cathedral of Rouen, have led to the discoveiy, under the pavement of the sanctuary, of the statute of Richard Csesur de Lion, which used to orna ment his tomb, and a b >x exclosing his heart. Ttiis statue, vvh'cli is in p« ifect preservation.is six leet aud a half in length, and represents the Kmg in a recumbent position, w.th his feet lesingon a lion eouchant. The tomb was once ene!o<ed by a railing of silver, which was sold in the middle of the 13th century, in order to pay the ransom of St. Louis. This tomb is to he restored and placed in the chapel of the Holy Virgin. JONATHAN AGAIN. “ How old are you said Mr. Kiplings to a dwarfish young man. ‘Twenty.’ ‘I won der you aren’t rglit down ashamed of beii g no bigger ; you look like a boy often.’ ‘ All comes of being a dutiful boy.’ ‘How no?’ ‘YVhen I was ten, father put his hand on my head and said, ‘Stop here,’ and he ran awnv ; never seen him since, and Id dn’t think t right in me to go on growing without his leave.’ POLAND. Private letters from YY’ar<aw dated 2nd ulti mo refer to an extraordinary conspiracy said to have teen detected in the Polish capital— (denounced by the French Government as it was believed) —and to which was attributed the numerous arrests which has lately taken place in Warsaw and other parts of Poland. It was the intention of the conspirators, among whom were several Ru sian officers, to blow up the Emperor in the fortress of Bola, to visit which was the principal object of his journey. 03- The Great Western left hor moorings to the dock at the foot of Pike street, precisely at half past time o’clock on Thursday after noon, and proceeded t* sea. She has on heard one hundred and twenty-five passen gers, being nfl she could with any convenience accommodate. For some days past her a gents have been ■ ompelled to refuse to receive any more passengers, though numerous ap plications were made to them, and a premium offered on the established price of the passage. She has also al! the merchandize on freight she can carry, and we are informed a larger number of letters than she ever carried before. Besides the freight and passengers, she takes fifty thousand sovereigns, remitted, no doubt, on account of the advanced rate of exchange. The steamboats Robert L. Stevens and Passaic accompanied the Great Western down the Bay, filled with passengers, and the con course of people, on the wharves and Battcy, collected to witness her departure, showed that the public interest in the success of Atlan tic steam navigation is no ways diminished. New York Eveaiog Herald, Oct. 4.