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There is a law in Mexico, enacting, that bo one shall be allowed to exercise the suffrage after the year 1850, unless he can read and wiite. Comfort for Paupers.-—Dr. Handyside r who designates himself Secretary to the Association for Obtaining an Official Inquiry into Pauperism in' Scotland, in his examination before the Poor Law Commissioners, stated, that he would say from - observation,"with regard to a father and mother with four chidren under 10, at the working period of life, thaft 3s. 6d. or 3s. a-week might make them comfortable. The Doctor adds, that Is. a-week might do for a single man, of which 6d. is alloted weekly for nourishment. He .considers 2s. 6d. the lowest sum on which,a man. with a family of four children might be supported, exclusive of houseand clothing. Dr. Handyside's idea of comfort and support for paupers seem to be based on homoeopathic principles. We would advise the Doctor to try the system for a week personally, and then give his opinion. In all probability, he so generously allots to six. individuals for seven days, would not prove sufficient to pay for a dinner for himself alone, — -Medical Times. The Working Man's Friends.—Little indeed is attempted to ameliorate the condition of ihe labourer; on the other hand, the manufacturers are becoming daily more anxious after the welfare of the artisan —a project to provide for them walks, parksj and playgrounds, a* Manchester, at a cost of £50,000, has met with the support and approbation of all the leading men of that town, and £10,000 was subscribed in one day to carry the plan into effect. Ten thousand pounds, in a few hours and by a few individuals! —a larger sum than would be subscribed by the agriculturists of any half dozen counties in England. This is sufficient to show that, whilst discontent and disaffection are fomenting amongst one class, in another the wealthy and the influential are doing all in'their ■ power'to check it —to procure for those under them plenty, and to promote their happiness'and comfort. — Worcester Chronicle. The New Royal Exchange.—For the three days that this building was open to the public the subscriptions for the widows and 1 orphans of four men killed during the progress of the works, amounted to £93 Os which was received in the following coins : — Four sovereigns, one half ditto, one crown piece, 88 halt ditto, 992 shillings, 842 sixpences, 142 fourpeony pieces, 5 threepenny ditto, 655 pennies, 667 half-pennies 25 farthings.—Weekly Dispatch. Two Ways of Telling a Story—Trie origin of "nine tailors making a man," is said to be as follows:-—"A poor beggar stopped near a tailor's shop, where nine men were at work, and craved charity ; each contributed his mite, and presented the beggar with the total. The beggar went upon his knees, declaring they had made a man of him. Capture of a Pirate off Calabria. —The Observateur of Trieste, of the 9lb, announces that the merchant vessel Vittoria, which had arrived at Ragusa from Otranto, had brought word that a Neapolitan war steamer had captured, off Calabria, a piratical vessel, manned by sailcgrs of all nations. The Lloyd's of Trieste, of the 7th, states that the Austrian war schooner Fenice had received orders to cruise on the coasts of Albania against the Cymariotes. Perilous Enterprise.—Four mechanics three of them 'English and the other Irish, arrived at Lewiston last Saturday from Bermuda, in an open boat, after 14 days' of peril and suffering. They went to Bermuda in search of employment, but being disappointed, left there in the boat for want of means to obtain a passage in any other manner.—New Yoi'k paper. A Fatal Mistake —The Courrier de Lyons states that on Thursday last a man, living at Franconville, returned to his house at night so much intoxicated that he find his way to his bed, and laid himself on the/ top of a table, where he probably would have slept through the night, had he not, in turning fro.in one side to the other, crushed a bundle of chyraical matches which he had in his pocket, and set them alight. His clothes caught, fire, and, although immediately." awakened an,d sobered by the flames, he was. so much -bJsned before assistance arrived that he expired fie next day.

covery. The accomplishment of this combination constitutes the antidote. The prussic acid is turned in the stomach into Prussian blue, there an inert, harmless body. Food. —In the form of substantial food, Mr. Chadwick states, the transported thief receives in a week 330 oz.; the convicted thief, 231; the suspected thief, 181; the soldier, 168; the able-bodied pauper, 151; and the independent labourer, 122. Magnanimous self-devotion. —Letters have been received, (and are now published upon authority) from Dr. Wolff, dated Bokhara, June 27, and August 1. Their * contents exhibit the same magnanimous selfdevotion, but they stand in melancholy contrast with some idle reports which have appeared lately in the papers, and which, whatever may be the motives of those who employ themselves in originating them, can answer no other end than mystifying and misleading the public on this very grave affair. In his letter of the 27th, the Rev. Doctor says: — "I have now been already two months in this place, and though five or six times the King has promised to send me instantly to England with one of his ambassadors, I am in the greaest danger. I cannot stir out of the house without a guard of three men. Dil Hassa Khan, the fellow sent with me by the Assoff Addoola has shamefully robbed, deceived, and outraged me. The Persian Ambassador, Abbas Kooli Khan, is kind to me, but I think he will not have it in his power to rescue me. Nayeb Abdool Samet Khan has extorted from me a writing to pay him 5,000 tomans to effect my liberation. I suspect him that he was the cause of Stoddart's and Connolly's death, in spite of his continual protestation of friendship." "The Ameer is now at Samarcand, and 1 am here awaiting the most fatal orders from the King daily to reach me. It is true that poor Stoddart professed openly Christianity after he had made a forced profession of Mahomedanism. Do for me what you can, as far as the honour of England is not compromised. All the inhabitants wish that either Russia or England should take the country. Do not believe any former reports of my speedy departure, for I am in great danger. "JOSEPH WOLFF." Bokhara, Aug. 1, 1844. "to all the monarchs of Europe." " Sires, —I set out for Bokhara to ransom the lives of two officers, Stoddart and Connolly; but both of them were murdered many months previous to my departure, and I do not know whether or not this blood of mine shall be spilt. I do not supplicate for my own safety,—but Mouarchs, 200,000 Persian slaves, many of them people of high talent, sigh in the kingdom of Bokhara. Endeavour to effect their liberation, and I shall rejoice in the grave, that my blood has been the cause of the ransom of so many human beings. lam too much agitated, and watched besides, to be able to write more. "JOSEPH WOLFF."