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Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 5, 16 April 1845, Page 3

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Dr. Wolff.: —-We have received, by express, a letter from our correspondent at Constantinople, dated October J7. 'We subjoin an extract. —"I am happy to be enabled to state, on the best authority, that advices have beeu received of the arrival of Dr. "Wolff at Mem, on' his way to Teheran, having thus crossed the frontier of Bokhara, his personal safety has been insured, and his return to the civilized world will be hailed with general satisfaction. Instructions of the most peremptory nature have been received from his Government by Sir Stratford Canning, to obtain immediate and unconditional payment of the sum of £2,000, which the Turkish Government had acknowledged to be due to Sir Baldwin Walker, but which, on the most frivolous pretences, it had afterwards refused to liquidate. There are other pecuniary claims of British subjects upon the Porte, which the English Government would do well to deal with in the same determined spirit.— Weekly Dispatch, Nov. 3. Death of a Miser. —On Saturday week a very old inhabitant of Brighton (Mr. Thomas Ruxton) died worth some £10,000. Fie had lived alone for many years, denying himself e?ery comfort, and preparing what food he did indulge in himself. His property

under a will, made six years ago, goes ta his sisters children, but they are not to be found. Information of his death has, however, been sent to Ireland, in which country ~ the old man was born.— lbid. Advance of Wages at Stockport.— The threatened turn-out by the spinners and others for an adyance of wages, which was to have taken place on Saturday, has fortunately been avoided, the masters having conceded an increase of 5 per cent. The advance proposed by the men was 10 per cent on the hand mules, and 20 per cent on the selfactors. — Ibid. The drapers at Gloucester have agreed to shut their shops at 7 o'clock during the winter quarter. The debts of Father Matthew, it appears, amount to about £5,000. His embarrassments have been caused solely from his devotion to the teetotal cause. A subrsription is afloat to relieve this worthy individual from his difficulties. The Duke of Leinster has subscribed £50, and Earl Fortescue £25. — • Ibid. The mortal remains of Weber, the composer, gho died iv Loudon in 1826, have just been finally deposited, with some pomp, in the Catholic cemetery of Dresden. A block of phorphyry, weighing upwards of 50,0001b5., has been taken from the quarries at Morlaix to be used for the sarcophagus of the Emperor Napoleon. A regular line of packet ships is now forming to sail between Southampton and Madeira, the first of which, the Dart, Capt. Newton, a very fine ship sailed on Thursday on her outward voyage. Accident to the Prince of Prussia. —We learn from Berlin that, on the 10th inst., while the Prince of Prusia was inspecting the Babeisberg, he fell and broke both the bones of his right arm, two inches above the wrist. The fracture was immediately reduced, and his Royal Highness was, at the date of this account, doing well. French Colonists at Algiers.—A Toulon letter of the 12th, in the Algerie, announces the s ival there of the Grondeur, with 234 passv ;rers from Algiers. More than half of tU-m are said to he colonists, who have returned home in sickness and misery, after having in vain attempted to turn their labour to good account in the colony. . - . : Vegetable Phenomenon.—lα the garden of W. Grimstone, Esq., of the Herbary, Highgate, is now to be seen a pea plant in full bearing, which is remarkably illustrative of the great length of time the germinating property can continue in seeds. This plant was produced from one of three peas presented to the above gentleman by J. T. Pettigrew, Esq., surgeon, of SavUle-row, having been taken by the latter and the authorities at the British Museum from one of the vases recently extracted from an Egyptian sarcophagus, and where, according to computation, the vases, with their contents, must have remained for no less a period than 2,844 years. The vases contained a large quantity of dust, supposed to be the decomposition of a number of grains of wheat, vetch, and other peas. Some of the grains of wheat have been sown, and found productive, but the vetch peas have not germinated; the other pea, resembling the British culinary pea, has in the above instance been tried effectually. The three peas were placed by Mr. Grimstone's gardener in a hotbed, and watched with great care. After some time onetmly was found to spnmt; it gradually increased in height, growing like a sprout; at the end of each petal are three singular fangs. Each flower was of bell shape, something like a convolvulus, but not so large, from the centre of which the pods have shot forth,, and are now nineteen in number and fit to gather, and they are in shape something between our marrowfat and scimiter peas. They have of course not been tried, but it is believed they are suitable for culinary purposes, judging from the blossoms having been white. Mr. Pettigrew, and several eminent botanists, scientific and other gentlemen, have seen this vegetable phenomenon, and take great interest in it.— Glasgow Herald. The Isthmus of Panama. —A letter from Naples states that the King has just appointed a commission of seven members tp r report commercially and scientifically on the Isthmus of Panama, and a great part of the coasts of America bordering on the Pacific. A royal frigate is to be placed at their disposal, and it is believed that they are to repair to the East Indies and' China to seek out i means of establishing commercial relations be? tween those countries and the kingdom-of the Two Sicilies. An Old Street Newlt Named. —: Gateaton-street has been named Gresham? street, and the end houses labelled accordingly. . Jews in Prussia. —There is a report current in the French journals to (he effect that the King of Prussia is about to eniancir pate the Jews. ; , .