MISCELLANEOUS.

Press, Volume VII, Issue 744, 18 March 1865, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

EXFOBTS AND IMPOBTS OF BRITISH COA£.— , Daring the month of November the total exports of coal from the northern, Yorkshire: Severn and ■ Scotch ports, and from Liverpool, amounted to 693,167 tons, being an increase of 77,639 tons over i the exports of November, 1863. The total exports I from January to November, 1864, inclusive, were 7,459,534 tons, being an increase in fevor of 1864 over the same period of 1863 of 416,786 tone. The l largest exports were to France, 142,467 tons; the i smallest to New Zealand, 140 tons. The exports from the northern ports were 349,332 tonr* from the Yorkshire porta, 31,415 ; from Liverpool, ', 60,070; Severn ports, 218,153; and Scotch porta, , 65,166. The exports of coal coastwise from Liverpool, during November, to various ports of Engj land, Wales, Scotland and Ireland were 10,438 tons, t being a decrease compared with November, 1863, of 92 tons. The imports of South Wales and other coals coastwise into the port of Liverpool during ' November, 1864, amounted to 15,010 tone, an in- ' crease of 8202 tons in. favor of 1864. For the , eleven months ending November, 1864, the imports x amounted to 121,427 tons, being an increase of 16,961 tons over the corresponding period of 1863. [ MJUICHBSTBB ShAKBSPEAEE COMMSMOKATKHT. — ■- The apparent abandonment of the proposed national * memorial at Btratford*on-Avon and the growth of the \ local fond at their disposal since last year have in-*

Id duced the Manchester Shakespeare Commemoration is Committee to consider their scheme for a permanent ie recognition of the tercentenary in Manchester. In. s. stead of the one scholarship determined npon in is April, to be held alternately by the Free Grammar af School and the Owen's College, it was yesterday - resolved to divide the existing fund (£2060 net) into d two equal sums, for the foundation of two or more a, scholarships for the study of English literature, one ie to be held by each of the local institutes aboven> named. 10 Thb Pbice op Land in Scotxand.—We under. 19 etand that Mr E. Foreman, M.P., the present lessee 18 of the Glenfwhie shootings, has purchased the fine c little property of Alvie from the trustees of the lato L " Mr Baillie of Kinguseie. The purchase price, we r hear, is £20,000. Taking the present rental—£soo., r as a criterion, we would say Mr Horsman has paid ,r for his whistle ; bnt the property is susceptible of r much improvement, and mar, with a moderate out* lay, be made a tolerably good and at the same time a 0 most desirable investment. It is not many years 1 since the late Mr Baillie purchased from the late s Duke of Gordon the above property, on which he 8 never expended a single shilling, for £6,500. — Elgin r Courant. 9 > Expecting too Much.—l remember here an 3 anecdote a very dear old friend once told mc. He . was rector of a parish once in Ireland, where, from the . habits of the Scotch church prevailing largely, it is f not unusual to find some two or three men taking ) rank and place amongst the congregation, and assom- , ing, with the Episcopalians, somewhat the character I of elders in the other community. One of these, a man of hitherto unblemished integrity, had been i accused of some sharp practice in money dealing, and I the case was reported to the rector. My friend sent , for the man, narrated the charge, and anxiously asked " —Could it be possible that such an imputation , could attach to him ?—" for," said he, •* I have re* * fused to credit it, Matthew, nor shall I, till you yourself declare to mc it is true." " And it is, your reverence," said he, submissively, and much sorrow* stricken, "it is just true, and there's nodenyin , it. But," added he, with an effort, " it's unco hard to be ' in grace , in the flax season.— Blackwood's Magazine for November. Change of Profession.—The Record quotes a paragraph under this heading which appeared in the Times, and adds the following:—" The case of the Rev. Henry Smith, incumbent of Milverton, Leamington, a case resembling that of Mr Hathaway, as he practised on the Northern Circuit several years, until in 1838 he was ordained by Bishop Bloomfield, by special favor, as Mr Smith was over 30, whioh was the Bishop's limit as to age. The late Boy. Lewis Way was another instance of a barrister taking orders, but in his humorous way ,he was accustomed to say, that although ' bred ' to fehe bar the bar was never 'bread , to him. He was a man of great eloquence, and used to preach in his stuff gown in his chapel at Stanstead Park." : Rusted Whbat for Sbkd.—As further evidence that shrivelled rusty wheat is as good for seed as good wheat, we may instance the fact that, two farmers at Broadford, named M'Donaldand M'Leod, have very good crops, the seed sown being almost worthless, owing to rust. One has eleren acres and the other nine, the crops in both oases being the best in the neighborhood. - Wβ are aware aleo of a small patch of wheat in Forbes, grown from rusty seed, and another, of several acres, on the Surrey, that look well.— Kilmore Examiner. An UNFOBTUNA.TB Expbbiment.—A few days ago an incident occurred at Buxhall, near Bildeston, which reminds one forcibly of Riccabocca's experimental investigation of the machinery of the parish stocks, as related in Mg Novel. Mr John Gage, butcher, of Buxhall, who is also constable of the parish, has a man. in his employ who set about cleaning a pair of handcuffs, and having a mind to see how they would fit him he snapped them on bis wrists. He then sought liberation, but discovered that his master was gone to London,' and had taken the key of the handcuffs with him, so that he was obliged to remain a prisoner until Mr Gage returned. — Bury and Norwich Post. A LiBEHAL Employes.—M. Dolfus, the wellknown manufacturer, of Mulhaueen, being struck with the heavy rate of mortality among the infant children of women working in his factory, some time back introduced a regulation allowing women during their confinement six weeks' leave or absenoe, without any suspension of wages, in order that they might afford to their infanta' the necessary attention. The experiment has been highly successful, as the mortality at once fell from 86 to 25 per cent. The loss to the. factory during the year from this liberal measure has been 8000f. Several other manufacturers of the same town have followed M. Dolfus's example.— Galignanfs Messenger. A Frenchman on English Cookbby. — M Theophile Gautier, son of the distinguished author, enlightens the readers of Lβ Moniteur dv Soir on the mysteries of English' feeding. This gentleman declares that we have no cuisine; that we do not know how to eat; that we are a business people, always in a hurry; that our invariable maxim is, "Time is money," and that we have no leisure moments to devote to ingenious sauce combinations. But if his affairs do not leave him time to sit down deliberately to a good repast, the activity whioh the Englishman displays produces a great loss of force, and the humidity of his climate adds to hie "m» petite. It is necessary that he should eat quickly ' and often. "Boast beef satisfies admirably this double want. This meat, which is cooked in blocks without any other apparatus than a spit, without' ingredients, gains greatly by being eaten cold. The Englishman finds it everywhere on his road. Directly he feeh hungry he enters the first tavern he meets, and devours, standing up and in about five minutes, a large slice, rich with succulent juice. This he washes down with a pint of strong beer, and. then he starts off again to continue his business." What prevents the English from possessing a cuisine is that want of sociability which is the foundla* tion of the French character. It is also an exaggeration of that practical spirit which leads .them to eat in the most condensed and expeditions manner possible. ' ■'■ An amusing incident occurred in a Scottish town near the Border, where an ambitions wight had reached the summit of his desire by being promoted to the magisterial bench. With his head as high in the air as he could carry it, he swaggered along till he went against a quadruped which had no» the manners to set out of the way of the new-made bailie, and was lazily browsing by the wayside.— " Man mind my coo, cried the indignant owner.— " Woman, I'm no longer a man—l'm a bailie!" A reduction in the Boyal Marine forces is .contemplated to the extent of 7000 men. A* a step, towards it, the standard height has been increased to 5 feet 7 inches. • ..- \\ ,-, ■-: .'■, Among the novel proposals of the day is one for the construction of a small battery in the Cross-trees, the battery to be made .of strong iron plating, to be very small—just sufficiently large to work a small rifled gun, which can be hoisted in time of action— and with which it it thought the decks of the enemy could be swept. LiEßienr EicetAWß.—The Journal deFrancfort states that the celebrated chemist, Baron laebig, has announced his intention of relinquishing his professional chair' and laboratorifce in the University ot Munich, in order to settle in London, where he has been offered an important position in connection with a large scavenging and sewerage company. . On the Canadian shore of Lake Superior, a bill 630 feet in height, and several miles in length, composed mainly of iron ore, yielding sixty per cent of iron,. has been discovered by an Indian. It v said - to form part of the Marquette range of iron ore.— Builder. The Paris Prune says • —"An iron vessel for]an English shipowner is in course of construction at tine Transatlantic Shipyard, St. Nazsire. This'- vesael, which is about 1000 tous, is the first built in .France for England, a fact that shows we are able, when we choose, to rival England," . ,;