WANGANUI.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 58, 8 April 1846, Page 3

WANGANUI.

[From ova Wanganui Correspondent ] Wanganui, 16' th March, 1846 H.M.S. Castor anchored our bar, at 2p- m. to-day. His.Excellency ths Governor and suite, left the frignte i;i the course of the afternoon in t*o of the ship's boat*, precsededbya wkalehoat that bad gone out in the morning with our Police Magistrate, Mr. K\m, for the purpose of conducting his f-xceilency t 0 the shore- Unfortunately the person who piloted his boat either mistook the bar of the river, or was misled by a strong ebb-tide, which consequently brought it among the br f akns, and heaving its beam to them, it instantly upset. By this most untoward accident one of ihe oarnnen —a very worthy, well conducted man, — named George Smith, was drowned Neither bis body uor the boat have been found, and it is provable they have been Bwept out to seaward tv tbe tide, and may not be recovered. The boats crew including our worthy Police Magistrate were, after repeated immersion!:, sated by the gallant cr.- vr cf the frigates barge, wuich providentially happened to be at a short distance astern when the melanch ly catastrophe occurred. The Rev. Mr. Taylor's boat being in company now led the way, sad all came into the river without further trouble or aniiety. His Excellency landed at tbe Missionary Station and was received by the congregated lilm-r e« uf Vat extensive Putiki pabs vociferously end joyously. Captiin Graham, Col. Wbkefield, and the other officers and attaches, came to the tcwa and are zicommodated at the Commercial hotel. As numbsts cf our up-river natives, and all our out-settlers are i xpected in town to-morrow to wait upon bis Excellency, Petre ia likely to be a livelier place than it has been for a ions time pas'. No doubt seems to be en>er:ain?d that any diSculty or demur wilt be experienced in settling the long, unnecessary long pending land question. But, of vis hereafter. Tue,-d*y, 1/th March.-—His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor crossed tie river from Put.ki and landed at Patre at 11 o'clock, this forenoon, where he was received by Captain Grahame cf tbe Castor, Col. Wakefield, the officers of his Excellency's suite, the Magistrates, and a very full assembly of the inhabitants. Three hearty cheers marked the welcome event—an event rendered additionally more interesting to us by the circumstance of his Excellency being the first of his high cai'in* who has considered it expedient to visit thisdist.ict personally, and not to be directed in bis decisions by interested reporter as to its suitability or nnsuitability as a settlement for the eseition of British industry. This was what we craved from his predecessors, but no appeal could rouse them to do us the justice. Aftsr the introduction of the Magistrates, his Excellency proceeded to the Commercial Hotel, when the deputation appointed to present the public address of congratulation was introduced by tbe Police Magistrate, to which address bis Excellency made a suitable reply. Some of the resident settlers then waited on his Excellency, after which be proceeded up the river, accompanied by Captain Graham, and attended by Colonel Wakefield and others in another boat, to inspect the district in its vicinity. From this excursion he returned late in the evening-, and we are glad to learn that he expressed bJinsdf highly gratified with the appearance of the country. Wednesday, March IS.—His Excellency met a large assembly of the different native tribes at noon, to day, when several of the chiefs addressfd him. All expressed themselves desirous to have the land question settled ; and were unanimous in the desire to have more white people settled among them. His Excellency replied that, shortly, he would send round his Honor the Superintendent, and oihsr officers, to mark cut the portions of the different native claimants, when each should be paid his share of the amount awarded by the Land Commissioner. He then recommended them to observe and cultivate a good understanding with the white population, for that by so doing they would ensure their own prosperity, and induce new settlers to come among them. His Excellency then dismissed the assembly, which, let it be observed, was throughout most correct and orderly. After visiting different parts of the town, his Excellency embarked with all those who had accompanied him hither, and returned to the frigate, which sails to-morrow morning for Nelson.

A Singular Fact.—A somewhat novel incident occurred very receutly at the terminus of the South Western Railway, at Vauxhall. A carrier pigeon was seen in an exhausted state; it was caught by hand, but died shortly afterwards. A label was appended to one of its legs, addressed to bis Grace the Duke of Wellington, which stated that three pigeons were thrown up at the island of Ichaboe, atid bore date July, 1815. The distance is computed to be between two and three thousand miles from the place where the pigeon appears to have been liberated, to its destination in London. The bird, with its appendage, was immediately forwarded to Apsley House, and the Duke of Wellington, by an autograph nbte, the next day courteously acknowledged the receipt from the party who sent the bird. It has been stuffed, and in the process it has been discovered that the bird was shot, otherwise there can be no doubt it would have reached home, and it is supposed not to have had strength to cross th« Thames.—Bell's Messenger, Sept. 1. Consecration op a Rowan Catholic Bishoi'. —On Sunday the Right Rev. Dr. Viard was consecrated Bishop-coadjutor, with right of succession, to the Kight Rev. Dr. Pompallier, Vicar-Apostolic of New-Zealand. The ceremony to k place in St. Mary's Church, Hyde Park.— Herald, January 6. Ireland.—The Government, it is understood, have finally determined upon establishing one of the provincial colleges at Cork, and it is understood that Dr. Murphy intends to bestow his immense library of 130,000 volumes on the institution.— Clare is in a very disturbed state: armed men prowl about in open day, and commit fearful outrages.—At a meeting, according to an ancient custo.n, at Holy Well, in Bantry, a man named lohn Murphy was barbarously murdered, and several others severely injured.—On "the oilier hand, the famous Donnybrook Fair passed off with remarkable quietness and sobriety ; and it is said that in Lii rim 100 stand of amis have been delivered up by Molly Maguire's children. Iceland TRANSF<;fe\iED into Sunland. —M. Gayonard read to tbe trench academy of Sciences, at one of their recent meetings, a letter which he has received from Roykiavik, in Iceland, informing him that for an entire year there had been beautiful weather in that island, and scarce'y any winter. Tue summer of 1844, and as much of the present summer as had passed, have been delightful. The meadows are in the finest possible state, and the fisheries highly productive. India.—The quietness of the Punjib appears to be the quietness of death. The sikhs no longer mete out death to each other, but disease sweeps them off by thousands. The cholera, in its most malignant type, has been raging in Lahore and the aeighbourhood, and it was calculated that the deaths averaged from 500 to 700 per day. At the date of the last accounts, this dreadful disease was on the decline, after having carried off between 20,000 and 30,000 victims. The last advices from Peshawur represent that city as almost deserted. Every one who bad the meins of removing had left the city. The number of deaths in that place between the 30th of March end the 2nd 6F May. amounted to 4825. In the midst of this direful affliction tbe state of parties bad not changed mate, rially. Cholera had reached the banks of the Sutlej, and made its appearance at Ferjz p>re, v t:iough not in our cantonments The mortality among the officers of tha Madras army had been greater than any remembered for many years past. The news from Scinde is altogether of a pacific character, although the fact that reinforcements had been demanded at Shalipoor had given rise to warlike rumours. Having reduced his foes to obedience, Sir Charles Napier was engaged in levying transit dues on all grain, sugar, ghee, firewood, &c, brought to any military cantonment; by which he rxpects to add a lac and a ha!f to the revenues 0 Scinde. Capture of a Slaver.—One of the British experimental brigs, the Mutine, fell in with a suspicious looking ship, near Quillimane, in April last, which turned out to be the notorious Brazilian slaver, the Princeza Imperial. She endeavoured to detach the brig from pursuing her by hoisting the stripes and stars of the United States, and assuming the appearance of an American whaler ; she was well calculated to deceive one not thoroughly convinced of her character. The prize was upwards of 400 tons burthen : she had made three successful consecutive trips to Santos, in the Brazils, and had carried altogether 2400 slaves. When captured, she was quite ready for thereception of 800 or 9JO slaves. The Princezi was given in charge of Lieutenant the Hon. T. A. Pakenham, under whose c .mmnnd she sailed to Sierra Leone, for adjudication. She had previously been chased by several other cruzeis> and had escaped capture by her superior sailing. Since capturing the Princeza, the boats of the Mutine, under the orders of Lieuts. Mends and the Hon. F. Curzon, on the 6th, off Madagascar, after a very spirited and well-managed chase, captured an Arab slaver/with 231 slaves on board. The Arabs, though desperate mtfn and we H armed, jumped overboard at the moment the r vessel was boarded. The Arab vessel was not in a fit state to undertake a voyage to the' Cape of Good Hope at. this tempestuous season, and was therefore destroyed. The Mutine sailed with her cargo, mus'ering nearly 200, including crow and supernttineriei>.—Atlas, Aug. 16, The Jews in Russia.—The Ami de la Religion publishes the following, dated from the frontiers of Russia, on the 30th, of July :—" On the sth June last, the inhabitants of tbe town of Saratow, on the Wolgai witnessed, for the second time this year, a most interesting religious solemnity. One hundred and thirty recruits, belonging to the Jewish creed, who joined their battalion at the close of May, had expressed a desire to be admitted into the orthodox Greek church and baptised. Early in the morning the liturgy commenced in the cathedral. The. Israelites, who awaited the holy baptism, had been stationed behind the church, at the porch facing the west, the tenets of the Greek religion not allowing them asf yet to enter the sanctuary. The liturgy being over, they formed in two files in front of the church and marched to the river. A procession shortly afterwards followed them with all the.pomp which the Greek church,displays on such occasions. The square of the cathedral and the banks of the Wolga were covered with spectators, attired in all sorts of costumes, the town of Saratow being inhibited by mea of all the countries and religions of the east and west. After being baptized, the 130 Israelites returned to the cathedral amidst the ring, ingof all the bells of the towQ."

The Constantinople correspondent of the Morning Chronicle furnishes the melancholy particulars of a dreadful collison between two Turkish steamers, on the night of the Uth of July last, on the B'.ack Sea, about forty miles east of the Bos-: phorous, by which one of them went one, hundredand thirty-five passengers and crew. The vesse's were the Scutari, commanded by Mr. Dubbons; and the Medjehrai Tedjahret, commanded by Mr. Lambert. The one was coming from, and the other going to, Trebizond. The commander of each vessel was perfectly aware of the approach of the other full twenty minutes before the fearful event happened, and there was apparently no danger. But Captain Lambert, fancying he had an Austrian vessel before him, to obey a rule in the Austrian Service, pot bis helm a star-board, whilst the commander of the Scutari followed the rule of the English service; put his helm a port. Thus the ; former ran right under the bows of the latter, and the collision was inevitable. If both commanders had put their helms a-port, no accident I am informed by naval men, could possibly have happened. Though is was a moonlight night, there was a good deal of fog, so that the mistake was not discovered till it was impossible to avoid its terrible consequence. The Medijehrai Tedjahret was struck between the fore rigging and the engine. The shock "was tremendous. There were a great number of passengers on board both the vessels, chiefly Turks and Italians, and a scene of indiscribable dismay and confusion arose. At first it was not known which of the steamers had received the fatal-damage. As the Scutari is an old ship, and greatly out of repair, it was thought that she must have suffered most, but the-contrary proved the case. Whilst this was in doubt, however, her commander, proposed that the vessels should be lashed together, or that if either of them should be found unseaworthy, or in a state of wreck, the sound vessel might be ableto rescue the ship's company and passengers of the other. This .proposal was most unfortunately rejected. The vessels parted ; the Medijerai Tedjahret droppod a mile a stern, and in course of less than a quarter of an hour it was found she was sinking rapidly. The Scutari which had got but slight damage, then went to her help, but it was too late. Very few, comparatively, could be saved. Ihe boats of the devoted vessel were so overcrowded by those who strove with frantic eagerness to make their escape, that they sank at once. About seventy however, by swimming, and by clinging to spars, reached the Scutari, where they clustered round the paddle-boxes till they were taken in. Capt. Lambert and an engineer were picked up by a boat of 'the Scutari. All the rest, 135 souls perished. The agony was a short one, but it was terrific As the fcctttari approached the wreck she healed over (the people on the deck like wild maniacs were visible in the moonlight,) and as the sea sucked her downas tbe vortex of waters she formed in sinking, almost made the Scutari spin round with the motion, there arose a Bcream ot utter horror—a last scream !— which they who heard it will never forget. But more impressive still-was the passive resignatio-i of the Turks-: they sat motionless, muttering their prayers : neither by cry nor gesture, did they manifest any consternation. In impressive silence—and the shrieks of despair of Christia s—the fatalists met their fearful doom. From the first shjck to the sinking of tne vessel noi more than half an hour elapsed. The commanders of the Swo vessels, you will see by'their names, were English-; the;enginetrs were also English. Upon English navigation and engineers, therefore, this terrible accident mutt bring much disci edit in this part of the world. Indeed, after every account has been given, no one knows how to explain it. Two ships on the broad sea, being perfectly aware of each other's vicinity, ran foul of -each other, and nearly the whole of the crew and passengers of one of them perished! These Turkish steamers have now been for seven years commanded by Englishmen, and worked by Englißh engineers, and out o1 seven hundred voyages they have only three times met with accidents. Mr. Fletcher, at Limebouse, is building a war. steamer of 1,440 tons, for the East India Company. Some idea may be formed of the strength of this vessel when she requires a paddle beam of 64' feet 9 inches in length, and 2 feet 2 inches by 21 inches in size throughout. The difficulty of obtaining trees of that dimension has been completely obviated by the application of JeiYdrey's marine glue to four separate pieces of timber; and by a new discovery in the application of that material, the adhesion has been effected in a cold instead of a hot state, by the application of pressure by cramps* Mr. Greeu is building a tister steamer for the East India Company, at Blackwall. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have purchased the Achilles, of 1.000 tons, and 430 horse power; and, in additition to the nine new steamers now in the course of budding, they are constructing another new iron boat of 1,000 tons, and 400-korse power. We understand it is the intention of the Directors to place one of the largest on the Alexandrian line, making the Great Liverpool an auxiliary boat, which will enable the other to lay by an extra-month occasionally to undergo a complete overhaul. Three, if not four, of the hew vessels will be put on the China line, and the others, on the Constantinople and Alexandrian line, with a determination to afford better accommodation on the Bombay passengers. There can be no doubt that in the course of next year, the communication between India, the Straits of Malacca, China and England, will be as complete as can be wished, provided the Egyptian link be made perfect; and here we hope for a better state of things under the able negociation of Sir Emerson Tennant. The intercourse by steam will be extended Irom Singapore to Sydney, and from Sydney to the Mauritius; in the course of a short time, we have also reason to believe. Telegraph over the Atlantic.—A writer in the "New York Tribune" suggests a plan for bringing Old England within a speaking distance. He" proposes to run a'copper wire, well covered, and as large as a pipe stem, from Nova Scotia to the coast of Ireland. This, as is thought, may be accomplished by winding .the wire upon reels, and arranging it on board a steamer so as to be reeled off as fnst as the boat goes, and dropped the whole width of the Atlantic. The writer says —"Its gravity would *ink it to tbe depth where water was so dense as to be of equal gravity, and of coursebeyond the rea,ch of any kind of collission. Beginning and, ending upon a bold beyond the reach of anchors, it would bd out of harms way, and exposed but to two kinds of accidents, viz.,—from separation by its own

Sa extend to Europe and *. cort, I th.uk, would be less than ami lion « if dollars. The gallant commander of the Hazard, JJoyia Roberts 8 as first lieutenant assumed he Kooerwon, , b t B ; nC3 promoted I 'at New Zealand, will ; be SfA E RULLocoMOTtv. r W f havebeen | reading a few remarks on Signer Must's system ot i Aerial Navigation, and it s rikes us as a very ingenious, and at the same time, perfectly natural and reasonable plan, judging from all the fixed laws _.n the navigation of the air. The object wh.ch the ingenious professor seeks to attain is, to steer or direct his machine, and by a small experiment he has been enabled to test the principle to the satisfaction of the most distinguished Savans in Italy and in this country. As there, is no brod surface opposed to the currents of air, the machinery for steering it is exceedingly simple. A baloon with 400 lbs. of fuel can navigate the air for fourteen hours, and can carry 400 lbs., and the expense will be short of 10,000 dollars. If the air can be safely navigated by one engine for twelve hours, and 4000 lbs. weight can be safely carried at tbe same time, the great advantages of such an improvement should, we think, secure all the capital required for the experiment*—New York Sun. It is said that five of these machines, constructed at an expense of tin or fifteen thousand dollars each, could perform the mail services of the United States, going from city to city, at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Modern Dancing.—Though ladies are always more gracefal than men, I must here warn them against the modern style of waltzing, which is the reverse of graceful, being little more than a mere romping twirl, intended only, as far as I can perceive, to make the parties giddy. The old waltz, sometimes called the Spanish waltz, was a graceful dance; but its character is changed, and thers is nothing either graceful or pleasing in seeing t.entlei men pulling and hauling their partners on, seeing the pretty pairs spinning round and round, jostling against each other, to say nothing of an occasional tumble, till the few who can keep time and step feel their heads going, and till ladies are forced to lean, panting, and with flushed cheeks and heaving breasts, against the very walls of the room for support, Gallopades and polkas are worse still, for very few gentlemen can dance them, and with any but an actual opera-dancer this exhibition is ungraceful in the extreme. The gallop and polki step, in which gentlemen, with legs wide astride push their fair partners along, is absolutely disgusting j and I will hold no lady-mother guiltless who, after this public warning, shall allow her daughter to join such a brutal display. In an ordinary way. young ladies may always depend on obtaining easy forgiveness for a few trifling follies when committed in a cheerful and good-humoured mood j but let them beware of anything that is coarsely ungraceful. No pretty girl, no young lady, indeed, whether pretty ornot, should ever if she values true and gallant admiration, allow herself to be associated with the recollection of anything that is markedly ungraceful-, however harmless in itself, and should never, therefore, dance modern waltzes, polkas, or gallopades.—Frazer's Magazine. The statistics of two widows' funds in Glasgow respectively maintained by the medical and legal professions, show that the doctors Lse their wives twice as fast as the lawyers I— Formerly* it would appear, the medical men were less given to matrimony than at the present day. A qu-.iter of a century »go, nearly one half of the "faculty" were bachelors; but now, 73 out of 90 are benedicts. New Zealand gum had fallen in the London market £20 per ton, being heavy of sale at £35, having met with a serious competitor in an inferior gum from Manillia, which was selling at .£lO per ton. ' Upwards of 3,000 Indian shawls were lately sold in one day in London, and nearly 6,000 changed hands. The new tariff has led to a large trade of this description, and British merchants now supply Constantinople and other cities of the East Famine in RussiA.-The " Courier Francais" publishes the following letter from Konigsburg of the 18th of September:—" Famine is much more severely felt upon the Russian Frontier than in our neighbourhood. Hundreds of Russsin peasants, driven by hunger, cross the frontier, and plunder our fields. In order to prevent these acts of spohation, the Government will be obliged to station troops in that quarter. If the Russian Government does not speedily come to the relief of those unfortunate beings, they will absolutely perish from starvation. They are so wretched that the parents compel their children at a very eaTly age to quit the paternal roof and.provide for them, selves as well as they can. Her Majesty's Health.-We are enabled to state that her Majesty the Queen is in a situation wh;eh promises to add to her domestic happiness, and whibb cannot fail to excite the affectionate solicitude of her people—Britannia. oo At Tu L^ I ° RTAUTV, '- PoRtSMJ ' UT H» Sept. r. »» e Ste * m Sloop ' Comm ander Walter Gr. B. Estcourt, came up to the Mother'oahk- this morning, about nine o'clock, with the yellow fog with a black ball iv its centre, flying from her mainmast head, emblematic of death on board She has been so awfully visited with sickness since she has been on thecoa f t of Africa that she has been sent home. The awful number of 62 have died in the vessel, and others are dying hourly We regret to state that Commander Estcourt U among the number dead. The names of the other officers and men we cannot at present tell, no com munication being allowed* We are informed there are now twenty-ihree ill on board. The surgeon was alive this morning, and on the quarantine officers going alongside the vessel, we are informed he answered their inquiries, and said the mortal ty was from a fever something between the yellow and the black. One of the men died this morning. The Customs authorities are fearful of removing any on board. We believe, however, that fresh provisions have been sent to the vessel, but whether any humane assistance we cannot find out The Admiralty despatches are landed, but nothing else A boat rows guard round the vessel to prevent com-' mun.cat.on and consequent contagion, as well as , to prevent one escaping from the vessel improperly! | The Eclair was only commissioned last August j twelve months, and is a new vessel ffirst nam ° the Lucifer) of 350 hor BC . power. Jg£o»k,

Ocular DkrmcVn'StUtion.— Hating the h| ff 1 continued wet weather, n country laird in tl le Up I per Ward of Lanarkshire became very uneasy L I the safety of the crops, But, if • the honest lni„p 8 1 anxiety were great on account of the weather, hi. I mind was still more preplexed by the state of p barometer. Morning,noon, a-id night,"did hecom fl t; ' from the fields dripping with wet. and as often It visited turd tapped his " weather-glass," which to * ; ' his daily'increasing surprise, and notwithstanding & the rain coniinue'd to pour down in torrent, always indicated ; weather. This state of matters cdii, $ tinued for neirly a fdrtnight; when the laird one l'{ very wet day, having determined to put an end to J the misconception, lifted the barometer fiom fa ]l position ou the wall, and presenting its face at the '"'.* door exclaimed, with an oath, "\ Will you believe it your am een V'—Scotsnian. II penury.—An Irish labourer, from A r . p magh, was drowned while attempting to say e j 1 , penny for ferryage, by river Dun. He 1 had lived for three weeks on 6s. 8d. f had£39 Sl 6d, 1 in money in his pockets, and had left ,£lO i n the P hands of a person near Huddersfield for whom he 1 had been working. • , g§ A very lamentable occurrence took place, a day |8 or two since, to the gamekeeper in the employ 1 of Lord Clonbrook, whose entire family wer R poisoned by using a copper keftle that had been laying by for a long time. Himself, his wife, and five, children fell victims to the poison that had -fed. & hered'to the vessel, ' F Fortifying Sheernkss.—The fortifications erf I this garrison are to be considerably strengthened iand 70 guns are to be immediately placed on the it old batteries. A detachment of the Royal Sapperg fj and Miners has commenced work on the south side, 1 near the drawbridge, by throwing out the mud and 1 clay from the a Vjiining mo»t also raising it higher, 1 and a large number of masons has also been set to 1 work to complete the job. The greatest activity jj prevails throughout the whole of the official de; 1 partments, which leads the inhabitants to think 1 that a " storm is brewing.'' 1 Potatoes. —The Tuam Herald, and most of tbe 1 other country papers in that quarter, describe tb« 1 province of Connaugb, with little exception, as free I from the visitation that has befallen the po'tatd crop I in other parts. | American Packet Station.—lt is said that I BerehaVen, within Bantry Bay, has been fix id hnon | by the Biard of Admiralty as the future station for § the American line of packets, and that as soon as I the arrangements are completed for removal from! Liverpool, this change will be announced. 1 A do? belonging to Mr. Thompson, Back Sana*. I holes, 'Paisley, which had lately been chained in the I garden for the purpose of watching it and some bee* 1 hives, had snapped at a few "of the bees that wete I humming about him, and killed some of them. As I is the usual practice with these Insy insects, thai whole swarm turned out to revenge the death of 1 their fellows. The dog was accordiugly attacked by f the humming tribe in hundreds, and so unmercifully \ punished for his temerity, that be died in the course % of the aiterooon. On examining the dog after death; i it was found that sixty-nine of his tormentors had ,- fixed their stings in one ear. j. Fortifications. —The company of artillery r stationed here are employed'in placing guns ofjf" heavy calibre on the several batiteries commanding c the entrance to the harbour. The works on Stad. f. don and Maker Heights are beitfg forwarded with t, rapidity; notices have been served on the lessesof I Long Room, that the Ordnance Board intend j 1 taking r-possession, and a strong fort is to be I erected, the guns from which will command thd 1 ■ channel between the island and the main. The 1 canteen, &c, at Drake's Island, is to be taken | • dowrij and a barrack capable of accommodating if considerable military force erected on its »ite. Ex-[ . tensive barracks are also to be built in connection"' ; with the fortifications on Staddon Heights.—Ds-' , vonport Telegraph. I Lord Howe is immediately 16 be married to Mis! I I Gore, one of the Maids of Honour to the QueSnF I Dowager. This will afford a practical answer to"*----f the gossiping interrogatory one has heard so often i r asked within these last few years, or—" Is Lord Howe privately married to Queen Adelaide .'"- - ' Dublin Mail. » f The Napoleon Column at Boulogne has only' 3 just been terminated, although the first stone war r laid by Marshal Soult on the 9th of Nov;, 1804. , Prolific Yield.—-A farmer's labourer in the' r neighbourhood of Spalding, planted last year in htl f garaen one single gndn of wheat, and in harvesting- | his crop this year he finds more than 2000 grain!' l have been produced from it-. f Stowing of Wheat.—Colonel North having' r had given to him, two years since, some few grains t of wheat, taken from an Egyptain mummy) and' ' supposed to be 2000 years old, p'ac-d them in 'he • bands of Mr. Innes, his steward and head gardener' of Wroxton. Mr. Innes raised a small quantity, and this season planted the produce on about t • • third of a chain of ground, within the incisure of. tbe gardens, in rows, at 18 inches apart, every s grain b£ing deposited singly at the distance of nine ' inches from each. On an examination of tbe crop ' *V' Jn d ' V,at from ever y g raia « sprung upwards • of 40 stems, every stem bearing an ear; on two i stools taken at random., the number of stalks were ' , « and 40. This great stooling of wheat is not i ■ pecul.anty of this mummy.wheat •'- it is known that J' , the common English wheats, if cultivated with car*/. > on rich sods and sown thin, will do the same. At;' ' fm ~ tton ' thls season, On land m the occupatio» r * i ot Mr. Colegrove, a small quantity of wheat being! sown with tares, and the crop allowed to ripen, ug many as 50 stems have been Cbunted.~Banburyt ' Cuardian - 1 . ■_ jj