MISCELLANEOUS.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 26, 28 June 1845, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Example.—A man named Edward Norris went to see the execution of Crouch, the murderer—declared himself " delighted," it was such " a beautiful sight," and next day hung himself. '

The 32nd clause of the Factories' Bill provides that all females shall be considered as young persons. The factory, then, after all; is surest/onfai?w dejovence.

It is said that pouring water along the back from a watering pot, for a considerable time without intermission, will effect a cure for Locked Jaw in Horses. In Manchester, the sum subscribed for the testimonial to Mr. Rowland Hill, of Penny Postage celebrity, amounted to upwards of £500 in three days. Several of the most eminent opponents of monopoly, have determined upon instituting a Free-Trade Club in London, the want of which has been long felt. It is said that the gold and silver plate at Windsor Castle .is valued at £2,000,000. A single gold service of George IV. contains all the dishes requisite to dine 130 guests. Cure for the Hooping Cough —Take carbonate of Potass, one drachm, Cochineal, one scruple, boiling water eight ounces. The dose is a tea-spoonful three times a day.— Dr. Alnatt. A calculation has been made by a late accurate philologist, that there are 13,000 words in common use in England which do not appear in any dictionary of the language. A lady, under the initials of A.8., last week left at the Chambers of the Incorporated Society for promoting the enlargement and building of churches and chapels, a Bank of England note for £1000. At Ostend, a few days since, five Belgians, in a rowing match, were outstripped by one Englishman, named Newell, a London waterman. The distance was twelve miles. The bakers of Coblentz have lately been prosecuted, for combining to keep up the price of bread, and, being convicted, have been condemned to two months' imprisonment, and a fine of IOOf. each. .Mr. John Duncan, the African traveller, left town on Monday, the 10th inst., by railway for Portsmouth, to embark in H.M.S. Cygnet, which sails immediately for the coast of Africa. Mr. Duncan will land at Cape Coast, and from thence his purpose is te reach the Niger, by way of Coomassie. Great additions to geographical knowledge may be expected from Mr. Duncan's known energy and zeal. In Herkimer county (N.Y.) his Honor Judge Smith charged the grand jury as to their duties, when the first true bill they brought in was against his Honor himself ior forgery! He was held to bail in 1000 dollars,.but has since absconded. Public indignation is loud against his learned brethren for the lowness of the bail, ana their connivance at his escape. The Shipping Interest.—Shipping to a value exceeding £40,000 has, it is said, changed owners at the port of Sunderland within the last month. Thirty churches have been built within the last ten years in the diocese of Chester, providing sittings for upwards of 22,000 persons. London and Paris. —When the railroad from Calais to Paris is completed, the whole distance from the metropolis of England to the metropolis of France may be done in twelve hours. Anti-Joinville.—An immense steamer, to be named the Terrible, and to be fitted with engines of 800 horse-power, is now building at the dock-yard Deptford. She will be soon ready for launching. The City of Hogs.—During the past year there were slaughtered in Cincinnatti (Ohio) alone 240,000 pigs! In 1835, the price was six dollars each on an average; last year it was only 2\ dollars. In Vienna, every man, from the prince to the shoemaker, wears a riug ! The noble has his arms engraven on it; the merchant his initials; the mechanic the device of his trade. From the quantity of jewellery given away by Nicolas on his late visit, it is evident that he thinks the surest way to lead John Bull by the nose, is to put a diamond ring in it. A man is going about Liverpool, selling canaries, which turn out to be sparrows painted yellow. Several persons have been taken in.--Several agricultural villages in England have petitioned? the House of Commons to re-inflict the punishment of death on persons guilty of the crime of arson. Niagara.—Measurements have been made of the volume of water of the Niagara river, from which it appears that ' the motive power of the cataract of Niagara exceeds by nearly forty fold all the mechanical force of water and steam power rendered available in Britain, for the purpose of imparting motion to the machinery that suffices to perform the manufacturing labours fir a large portion of the inhabitants of the world, including also the power applied for transporting these products by steam-boats, and steam-carts, and their steamships of war to the remotest seas. Indeed it appears probable that the law of gravity, a s established by the creator, puts forth in this single waterfall more intense and effective energy, than is uecessary to move all the artificial machinery of the habitual globe.—Sillimon's Journal.