MISCELLANEOUS.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 41, 10 December 1845, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

Forget not that human vitue is a polished steel which is rusted by a breath. The Emperor of Austria has reduced the period of nrlitary service from fourteen to eight years. The right lion. Lord Rendlesham, M.P. for the eastern division of Snff.jlk.bas ordered all Ute hares *nd rabfnts upon his extensive estates to be immediately destroyed. A Tipperary RoclOts sends a letter of advice to a neighbour, about taking a certain piece of hn.i or letting it alone ; and ends with this pithy qu*st : on, ' What's the whole world to a man ' if his wife be a widow ?' " The Literfool Albion- st3tes that a proposal to build a bridge over the Mer.-ey has been revived, and Mr. William Stuart, a Scottish, endne»r, has submitted a very ingenious plan for carrying the project into effect. _ The rcm-iins of a Portuguese sailor, found, some time since, in a state of singular preservation, at Ichaboe, and brought to Liverpool, have been deposited in a handsome glass case, and will forthwith be exhibi ed at all the principal towns i-i Enghnd. _ We understand that Mr. Van Amburgh his decided upon retiring from his profession, and retnrning at once to America, and that his who c establishment of elephant-, giraffe?, linns, leopard?, and ftud of sixty hor?es, will be brought to the hammer, at Manchester, in the course of the present month.—Liverpool Albion. There has just been completed, at the manufacture of the Gobelins, an immense and magnificent carpet, for the great hall of the ambassadors at It was commenced as long ago es 1753. At the four corners are bouquets of roses from the Wrawings by Madame Elizabeth, the sirter of Louis XVI. The cost of the British establishments formed for putting down smuggling is upwards of £500,000 a year, while the value of the contraband goods seize-! do not perhaps exceed ,£3OOO a pear ; and vet it s a fact that {roods to the value of bet ween £3,000,C0 ) and £4,000 000—chiefly branry and tobacco—are every year eniuggleu into ihe tUn c kingdoms. Ri ts at Lisbon.— Accounts have been rec.ived at Lisbon, daied the 12th irsf., which Mate that a seri L U3 disturbance had broken out in th« wine c mntry on the Douro, attended with the less of ninny lives. This utmr took place in the district of Felguieras, in consequence of an attempt of the tax-gatherers to levy a new impost on wine. Tha farmers had resolved to oppose it, a.- d they were aided by a vast number of the country people, who opposed and fired upon the troops, who fled and dispersed, leaving ten of their number dead on the fi« Id. A flock of bottle-nose wha'es, 139 in number, and very :at, have been captured at Uikney. A committee of geatlemeu, including Sir Lyttort Mr. Macready, an.) Mr. Colbarn, have liberally guaranteed to the children of the late Laman B anchard, the annual sum of £300 for the next thiee years. A gentleman, observing a clergyman in the Gazette, as a bankrupt, expressed'his a.-tonishmenr, and wondered what article he could deai in. Thirty nine was the reply. From two to thrre hundred thousand pounds have been invested in the soil, by the Free Traners of Yorkshire, Lsacashire, and Cheshire, since the month of October. The house in which the great John Wesley lived, in Westminster, will shortly bs pulled down. It is at present the residence of a sweep, and the chapd in which he preached his last sermon is used as a warehouse for soot. A lad was charged at the Mnnsion-honse wiih stealing two plutograph'G likenesses. • Two foet o' graphic likenesses?'asked Sir Peter. It w.-s exI plained to the alderman, and, after a little titierinsf, the charge was proceeded with. Clever boy. that, Peter. Lord Morpeth presided at the 71st anniversary dinmr ot the Royal Huuii.ne Society. The dinner was served in the large halt of the Freemason's Tavern. About 300 noblemen and gentlemen were present. An old opera singer has voluntarily confessed that he set fire to the Bc-rlin theatre last August. Hs motive, he statts was revenge against the leader of tie chorus, At Leicester court, a subscriber to the Leicester Mercury excused his non-pay-ment of an advertisement account-on the ground that he ' took in' the paper. The court taught him that he must not • take in ' the proprietor into the bargain ; so he paid the del t with costs. This • patron of the press ' might as well refuse to pay his grocer for coffee, because he deals with him for tea. Now that the duty on glass is to be repealed, it is stated that the manufacture of glass is to be revived in the city of Cork; and that the sum of £10, COO is ready to be embarked in the manufacture. An extraordinary calf was last week slaughtered by Mr. Richard Swan, of this town. It was only fourteen weeks old, and weighed twenty-seven stones, eleven pounds. It was bred by Mr. Thoj* Lowes, of Gallaeharig.—Newcastle Journal.