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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 287, 4 December 1867, Page 2

Artificial stone is in greater favor with the French than with' any other people. They are even using it in enormous blocks of over 120 tons weight in building the new works in the harbor ot Brest, called the Port Napoleon. The material consists of rubble- stone, Portland cement, and sand. The blocks are lowered into position as foundations in the water, being constructed* with wooden blocks in the interior, near the four corners, of the upper fiace, into which iron sus-pension-pivots are inserted. Artificial litho- ' graphic stones are also made for presses which require cylindrical stones of larger size than are easily obtained from nature. •*■', The Canadians continue to display the liveliest interest in the , (.development of their gold resources. Mesers Wyckoff - and Co., of Greenpoint, Long Island, have just been experimenting with ore Irom the celebrated Richardson Mine, iaMadoc Township, Hastings Cojinty, Canada W^st, and have .-obtained admirable, results. The Wyckoff process, consists in fif«t v reducing the ore to the utmost possible degree of fineness, and then treating it, in connection with mercury, with salt water and steam. It is claimed thatiii this manner a more complete, union of the gold with-the mercury, is obiaiued . tban can be done by any other known pvocess. About 160lbs of earth, taken from the crevices of the rock, were found to yield 18ozs of gold of 23 carats fineness, valued at £4 per oz, which is equivalent to about .£I3OO per ton of earth. Robert Christie died recently.at AUoa, aged 9S. At the early age of iis he engaged with Captain M'Parlane, of the Caledonia, as cabin-boy, but left that .ship, and' joined another" belonging to Greenock. He had not been long on. board of her however whenthe pressgarig made its appearance there,' and he, along with several of liis shipmates;, was forced on board his Majesty's ship Blood-; hound, where he remained under training for some ■■ tinip, after wbich he was sent on board the man- ' of-war ship San Josef, and fought on board of her at St Domingo, for which he received a silver clasp. After tliis he was transmitted to the Superb, and fought with Admiral Nelson at Copen- - hagen, and in several other engagements, including the renowned battle of Trafalgar, where the 'mighty Nelson' fell. He was engaged also at the battle of Algiers. The last battle he took part in was Navarino, when the combined fleets of iiritain and Russia destroyed the Turkish fleet. Altogether . he was engaged in nearly forty ibattles " and - skirmishes; and, strange to say,, in-.all. these conflicts he never received a wOund. After peace was restored Mr Christie was, in 1820; discharged with a pension of £20 per annum, , which, he ; received up to death. May it not be reasonably presumed that a plagiarist writes with a steal pen ? ; '■""..' At what kind of school should a young. Conservative be educated ? — A Frep'are-a-Tory School.