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Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 66, 30 May 1846, Page 3

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Mr. Boulton, the partner to the celebrated James having waited upon Gsorge 111., to explain to him one of the great improvements which they had effected, the king said to him, "What do you sell Mr. Boulton ?'' The honest engineer answered, "What kings, sire, are all fond of—power. Several newspapers give the publication of eighty columns of advertisements, in the Morning Herald the other day, as an unprecedented event, whereas in the Leeds Mercury, on Saturday, ninety columns and upwards of advertisements appeared in email type. The New Medical Act, —By Mr. Wakley's new Act which is expressly to extend to the whole British Empire; all prescriptions are to he written both in the English and Latin languages, so tfiat the most learned and most ignorant apothecary's as« sistant may read them accurately. All poisonous preparations are to be placed in one department only of the shop, and to be marked in large letters •' Poison." All drugß trj be marked with the Emj lish and Latin name. Active poisons are only t 0 be sold when two persons apply, who are to sign their names in a book kept for that purpose; Breach of the Act, £100 ; half to the informer. At the Woolwich marshes a newly-intented process for making shot red hot was shown in operation to some distinguished visitors; it i 3 a small portable retort, and is the invention of Capt. Addisoß, of the Bengal Artillery. The process is very simple, and the time occupied in heating the first shot is about an hour and twenty miautss, but the subsequent shots only twenty minutes. The invention appeared to excite considerable interest. Americans, English, Germans, and French are nocking into California, and receiving la:;d (given to settlers) by the Local Government. The number of inhabitants in the Ci'y of New Yotk, agreeably to a census just completed, is 3GG, 78S souls. In 1840, it wes 312,710, being an in. creas in five years, of 54,075 souls. The populationof the whole state is about 2,750,d00. Sir William Temple recommends timid people to put a small piece of myrris in the mouth ha cases of danger of contagion from fever. It has proved effectual daring the plagues in the East. ! , A simple way to revive withered fiowsrs is to plunge the stems in boiling water, and by the time the water is cold the flowers will revive. The ends of the stalks should then be cut off, and the Sowers put to stand in cold water, and they will keep fresh for several days. Many stories are told of tbe feats of strange ad. ventures and hair-breadth escapes of the " free mounted '' trappers, but it may be worth while to mention one which Richardson, a Kentucky man well known to the servants of the Company as one of the most astute and dare-devil traders of the mountains, used to tell. It is his boast that he never carries provisions with him on the most dreary and distant journeys. His good horse, his trusty rifle, his pistols, and his knife, his steei flint, his traps, a coil of cord,- and wallet, are his only accompaniments, and his only trust is in Providence. Furnished with these, I have heard hini sbV he fears nothing, over river; or frozen lake or mountain, or barren plain. He was once out aloney hunting buffaloes, and, at the close of the day, was retiring to his tent, when he heard a clattering of hoofs behind him,- and upon looking back, observed three Blackfeet well mounted in hot pursuit of him. He immediately threw off his cargo of meat to lighten his horse, and then urged onwards the animal to bis utmost speed, in hopes to outstrip his pursures, but discovered that the enemy were gaining rapidly upon him and would soon have him at their mercy. He then adopted an expedient as singularly ingenious as it was desperately bold. Drawing bis long scalping knife, he plunged it into his hotse's neck, and at once severed the spine. The animal dropped instantly dead, and the determined hnnter, throwing himself behind the fallen enrcase, prepared to meet bi s pursures. In a moment one of the Indians came within the range of the r fie, and was shot through the heart. The other two seeing the fate of thei r companion, halted for a moment, and then prepared to surround the enemy, bnt as the fi st man had spent his ball whistling by the ear of Richardson t be himself dropped from his horse from a ball from one of Richardson's long pif-tols. The third, seeing this rather a dangerous game to play, whipped his horse and was soon out of sight. Richardson had then only to gather the fruits of his victoryHe caught the two Indians' horses, mounted one, loaded the other with the discharged cargo of meat and returned home with two spare rifles, and » good stock of ammunition.