MISCELLANEOUS.

Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 506, 17 August 1850, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

AVe-Veraiw-f. Pair.—A correspondent informs us that, on the . IGth Deeemheiv 1849, there died at Wyke, in the parish of'Cromdale, Morayshire, Janet Macintosh at the good old of . 10i5 years; and on the (ith January curt., she was followed by her husband, Robert Stewart, at tho age of 102. This patriarchal pair enjoyed each other's ..society, as man and wife, for the period ul'.7H vuavs ; they had nine daughters and one soil, 48 ..grand children, and 4 great-grand-chirdrcn; and as an instance of longevity in a married couple, it is thought this will hardly be matched.

InFZUEVCE OF MoT.TIF.nS AND SISTERs. —Look at that boyv-whose -sisters have made home happy—who have been his companions, his playmates, his friends— and who count upon his return from school, and bear, with all his follies, and are always waiting round'him with offices of love—and who, as he grows up, have entered into his pleasures nnd his honours. Look ut such an one in the progress of Life at college, in I ho world, and see the difference between" him and the boy who has no sister's love to cheer him, —no circle of home enjoyments, as the purest recollections of his life ; who has no one, if he goes ..wrong, -who will forgive and lead him "back again; and ■who in the midst of the cold selfishness of the.world, cannot feel that there are always warm hearts to love him. Yes, the difference between these two influences will tell on all the man's after life ; —and therefore it is, the right education of the country.

Mail Coachv.s.—On'Satiirdnv last, \h» mail coach visitc 1 .Montrose for the last fimg —the mail being now to be carried northwards on the Aberdeen Railway. The Montrosc and Aberdeen mail coach, we believe, was'the last one between this and London, so that now there.is not one between the metropolis find Aberdeen, n distance of more than r>oo -miles. Men who remember the time when the first mail couch passe:! through this place,-' about 50 years ago, have lived to see n vast improvement indeed in the transit of goods and passengers—the mari at that time running at the rate of six miles au hour, ,and consequently requiring some three or four d;iys between Aberdeen aud London, whereas the journey is now performed in less,- than one day, ill hours being all the time that is requir•ed.—Montrose Stando.nl.

Pir James Alexander reports, in his 'Explorations in British America,' thai when any (me is drowned hy the upsetling.Vif a canoe, the Indians resort to a curious plan for discovering the body. An unfortunate man had been drowned near Sir James's quarters :—' I had two parties ti\it".<h'srgxu\g all next day about the spot where Ivavery was last -seeji, but without success ; on the second day the trapper, Mao Council, *vrent down and watched the proceedings, mill he said, try the Indian plan, float a chip of cedar stfown the stream, watch where it turns round, and drag there.' It was done ; the chip floatc-d down for some distance, then stopped, an;l turned-round two or three times. One of the men looking over the side of one of the bouts cried in some alarm, 'I see him !' The great body appearing larger than life, in twelve feet of water, -.kiy immediately under the cedar chip. -It was -spflc'dlly dragged to-ttuf surface The Ttklians imagine that a particular vapour rising from a drowned body occasions the chip to circle over it, but it. is more likely to be occasioned by the body fit the bottom of the stream producing jm eddy on ihe surface. Whatever is the cause, the faut-is singular; .

Praying and Floggtxg iv tue Army. —Major—, while he commanded the African corps—a covp which was ahvnvs notorions for corporal punishment, was oito Sunday reading-the•morning service of the Church to the men who were formed into a square. The Major, who was , from the nonh of the Tweed, spoke and read the English language with the broad accent of the natives of one of the counties of the north of-Scotland. Upon.reacTng the Creed, and prnnouncing/rn'his queer way, the words, 'Suffered under Pontius Pilate,' a wag in the ranks, wefl known for his uncontrollable propensity to joking aad fun, exclaicaed, • Wfc&'s Ponshewe

.Peelate, I wonder ?' The Major paused, j and laying aside the Prayer Book, said, ' Ah, Jolin, is that you nt your jokes ngw.in ? just come out here my soldier stepped forward, a drum-head cont't-inartiid was held, the triangles .ringed out, and .lohn received one linndml.laslies without-saying.a-word. The ihv"A»" hiivin.g been «ompleteil, the Major "resumed .the Prayer liook iiud (inishoii tiie-service of ihe ikn.—MGmhnl/'s Mil!tart; Mlieelltmy. A rich officer of revenue- one day nsked a man of wit whatsort of a. thing opulence was. "Jt is a thing," replied the philosopher, "which can give a rascal the advantage over.Qn honest.man." The Tows has an unconquerable dislike of Aldermen. "It would be difficult," it says, " to find a nuisance of which some iihj-crman or other would not choerfully become.the patron. Should a .society be formed 'for the propagation of .stenches and the conservancy of oil'al, or a committee be appointed for discovering the most economical method of .generating and diffusing through the town copious supplies of nitrogen gas, we should know vciv well where to lay our hands upon a chairman."

It is rumoured that it is the.intentior. of the Government to decline renewing tho charter of the East India Company, upon any of their maintaining to themselves the full, absolute, sole, and uncontrolled functions of govern ment.

*ri:c proposed sub-marine- telegraph between Dover and Calais, which we ( Weekly DhpaicK) announced some months since, as having been conceded to Messrs. Scott and Co.. by the French Government, is approaching completion. The tower for the battery, offices, and general works at Dover;-is-.nearly erected;, the insulated wires are in a forward .state of progress, and expected.-to he-sunk across the Channel hi the course of next month.

Turf Wixn'in'gs.—The following are the r.:spi»cUve sums won by several of the leading turfites, in ':hm\l c-ash,' during the racing season of .184.9, calculated without reference to second or third money, or ' value' of cups :—Lord.Eglinton, £ 19,42b"; Sir J. ftawlev, £9,()al : Lord Chesterfield, ; Duke of Bedford, £3,983; Mr. ». Greenstahle, £7,285 ; Colonel Peel, £7,195 ; Duke of IliclnmuKl, £o,$A5; Lord Exeter, •£0,325; Lord "Stanley, -£4,080; Mr. Meiklam. £4,515; Lord H. Lennox, £4,322; Lord Clifden, £3,740; Mr. Payne, £3 42-5; Mr. Greville, £3,080; Mr. PeJiey, £2,980; Mr. vP. Rolt, £2,007; Mr. Gratwicke, £2,605; Mr. Merry, £l.,C!8; V Annul

Lt.T-l Zetland, £1,11.0; L'ir.l Htrathmore, i,035; Mr. Jaques, £955; Mr.-Osbal-deston, £891 ; Mr. B. Eddison, £890; Duke of Rutland, £775; Lord Glasgow, 500 ; Sir C. Monk, 359 ; and Mr. Guiiy, 285.—I)oncasler Gm-'/te.

SaLECF-<TIIE LATH-i-QuEKN DnWAol:!t's Stud.—On Monday Messrs. Tattersall disposed of by auction, at their establishment, Hyde-park-cormT, the coach horses of her late Majesty the Queen Bov/ager. on-which occasion, the spacious yard was crowded v/ith.-members of the fashionable and sporting .'Avorkl, among whom there was a very active cempetition fur the purchase of the .various animals, soveral of whom were very highly bred and sold well. There were forty-two horses, the roajiwity ~of which were nearly 1? hands high. The following were :the prices fetched :—Archer, .60 guineas ; Comns,.4o guineas; Constable, 70gn.n\is; Seal, :47 guineas; Streamer, 50 guineas Syrius, 72 guineas.; Syntax, o!) guineas ; Siiyloc , guineas; Weasel 5o guineas; Quicksilver, 03 guineas ; a bay "gelding, 50 guineas; a ditto, 41 guineas"; a ditto, 4o guineas; Clareridmi, . 12:3 guineas; Cook Robin, 16"-5 guineas ; Quaker, 100 guineas.; Smuggler, 70 guineas:; -Capsicum, 1(50 guineas; Blade Mess, 83 guineas ; Captain 7G guineas; Coxcomb, 52.guineas; Sovereign, 93 guineas; Sultan, 100 guineas; Witch, 76 guineas; Quartet, 80 guineas ; Atherton, 4!) guineas ; Waverley, 70 guineas ; Witch/48 guineas; Drayman, 78 guineas; Lion, 57 guineas; Alfred, 40 guineas ; Crirdin, 100 guineas; Slnikspeare, 125 guineas; Douglas, 75 guineas; Davling.74 , guineas. There wero v/hich'lm'd'been usofi as job horses, the property of Mr. William C4rey. Among this lot Gall went for AI6S;-igutiieas ; Grey, 92 guineas; Grampus, 77 gninerts ; Gordon, 00 "■ iineas ; Ganges, 58 guineas. A mare in foal, the property of Sir D. Davies, went for 21 guineas. Some of the harness was sold, and fetched good prices. The royal carriages were sold yesterday, one of the state vehicles was bought Tot exh'iBition for 100 guineas. The others, consisting of travelling carriages, hritchkas, landaus, phajtous, barouches, a cab and .iog cart, did not fetch very high prices. A correspondent of the Jewish Chronicle informs us, Rothschild declines signing the papers necessary for the completion of the loan to the Papal government iiiitil certain political concessions nre made to the brethern residing at Rome. If the above be founded in truth, wo ahull, says that journal, indeed be rejoiced. It will bo an additional evidence of that increasing moral influence which will, we trust, ere long make money the supporter of libexaU opiaiotis,,itie!eftdoffolngr fta.i,,

has ton generally been made, the abettor of oppression ami tyranny. A (ire broke out, op. Wednesday, in All Saint? Church, Oxford road, Manchester, destroying the- roof, organ, and most of tin; wood work in the church, doing damage to the amount-of -.Cii.oUU. A poor cuiP'ie, unuhie to pay for a license, to he married elsewhere, and unwilling to wait tluvrestoralion of llie church, were iiuirinied at the alia.-:, by the incumbent, ihe jlev. Dr. Burton, aniiflst the heup of ruins next moruMig.- — Uminlian, Feb. \\\.

A-s we intimiited hist week in the Portscript, a vor.y fierce, gale, accompanied by rain, prevailed during Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Much damage was done. Besides numberless minor accidents, such as tile.and chimney pots toppling down into the street, some very serious ones occurred in Loudo-n 'by the fail of chimneys, hi Pnicd-stroet, Paddiii'ton, r a roof .was crushed in, and three people were covered with the.ruins wiiilu King in bed: the police rescued them, find it was found that they wen: not seriously hurt. Seven persons were buried in the rubbish of a house in Kentish Town, which was wrecked by the, wind ; but hure, 100, ■the police got the, people out, little hurt from the ruins of the roof and chitnnev: soou after this the front wall fell in. Oilier ciusnaltie-s of.the kind are reported. Much damage was done to the various -cmft in the River Thames. The Parks do not -appear to have snlTered much. At Woolwich and-.Char!ton many walls were blown down. A tree iVI! on an empty carriage on Eiampetend Heath, hut the driver and.his horses escaped unhurt. This hurricane appears .to have been pretty general. At Liverpool, :the town was strewed with chimney-pots, doors, shutters, and other articles; but the casimlties were .not Ten , serious. The shipping suifered mure.-; vessels' were wrecked ; hut tlie crews nppear to have been saved. At Nottingham nnd Lincoln the storm was accompanied hv Jthnnder nnd lightning. The wind was j terrific—it drowned ihe noise of the thnivler. In one house at Nottingham, where the inmates were covered with | rubbish by the fall of a chimney, a girl's j legs were broken. At Oxford, sevenil fine old trees wereTiUnvn down, and one of the'-Fellows of Jesus. College hud a j narrow escape from nn immense stark of! chimneysfthat,fell,.crushing through his sitting room to the next .floor, whilst he' was in bed in the next room, '{'he pin-] nacles of the tower of Christ Church,! Cheltenham, were blown down through thf. , roof, and (lid damage to the extent: of £200. It is feared that •sevenil Ranisgnte Mshiiig-sivuieks have fouu'lered nt sea, as the.v have, been absent 4hv weeks, '{'he wreak wf.one has been seen off the Knnc!;. Three vessels having put out from -Suiiderlanl \vhile:-thore w;;s a heavy sea and strong win I, ,tliey were soon driven oshore near the South pier. A :v,urn attempt was njatlfc to lounch th' ; !: life-boat ; then rocket;-; were :thrown to the vessels, iinri the crews of two were ! drawn to land; the people in the third attempted to gain the shov<± by other means, and four perished. On the western coast eijual, if not greater, damage appears to have tcken place. Several vessels driven -ashore, shattere'r'l nmong the breakers, and in one case the whole crew drowned. Indeed, from the whole coasts rtil round the island have come accounts of fatal disaster during the gulc of Wednesday. TJauv shipwrecks have been attended with a loss of the ere-sv. Many mansions on the coast, and a church at Cardigan, have been seriously damuged. A .West Indiaman, being towed up the Channel, broke the hawser, and was then driven about by the wind j till she sank .with all her crew on board. — I bill

LON-DOX FKMALKTIMIfiISATinV SoCIKTT. —This benevolent association has praotiwiljy commenced its operations. On Mowlay the first nnder the auspices of the society, proceeded downthe-river to t'bc•ship Culloden, lying nl Gravesend. The. society have refrained from chartering a ship exclusively for their emigrants, believing it.:to be belter policy to send them-by-small purtison board the ordinary class of vessels. Thrty-eight was the number of female emigrants who constitirtall the party destined for the-Cullodeh. The girls were, in a few instances only, accompanied to the railway by their friends and relations. There were, of course, in the-ec cases, con-hing and affectionate farewells. The thirty-eight voungwonien despatched by the b'emale Emigration Society consist of individuals scleeti-d with anxious and discriminating cure.— Morn in ij Chronicle.

Sixty-two mom hers of Parliament have claimed to be wholly excused from serving on election committees, on account of bning more than sixty years old.

Among the recent conflagrations in Qritiiin, wiie -that of the great establishment of Messrs. J. nnd 11. ltnirnes & Co., wholesale druggists, in .Edinburgh; the amo'int of property destroyed was considerable, hut the value of the premises and stock were said to be covered by insurance.

Tfee Experimrntal Bat/loovs.—The largest'!)! , the balloons despatched from the Admiralyt on Friday last, oarrying with it 2500 slips or mesengee, ha? been jvery suocessfol. Tib a flret lot ot slips

were liberated over I^Or^^Tir? 55 * tion of hctwewi yOOOnnd 4000 ■ Va - ■ some of the slips foil iv L() V ]m, m j| street, some in BellmnWreen ,• |L others were found on the San ■' ,L ''--S ■ tiic water, and down the riv ep si,j !" de l,r ■ • urcenwieh, affording evidpnp',,7, ° n . e «r W first lot wore seaUered over 1 ** I several nnles. From thcmm^roS.<* I' ol paper returned to the Koi.ro* la •-B Admiralty from different^J™' 1 * I' balloon appears to have, ttikoii tl/'V ,Ilt! 1 I Chester, and than crossed f,, r , , X period into Essex, and „«,„;,, '~ * '.' rt § course I'.r Uaidstone, Cra.hnlT ,,, I «F t!.o Frouoh coast. hl t^v »« 1 Dun-eness, ncponln.g tt>:tlio tino f ; 1 seen there, it had drop ])P( ! ;12()0 n f ,f I slips, and 1.-JOO ,rcn»uiu«l r,, P ' k I d.strib,,tio,n. .«, )me of ~| e .' »tW |, have returned the inmnßes , ,,, I infMrn.ed u-hetluM- " it is f>ll I ;' if some person has nnt bet-n pluVinJ'! I jokfi upon tbinn r , " One ludy states il I her the slips ofl '!' i tho -fariMMi, and she, ,wns t-onfidcu it J § not tl.crp the. ni R i,t btJi" >re,, but h n ,! i caiiie she did not know. ft l-'.xvr IIACK-HK-rw*™ A Lo.. n ASD I ,y"i AY "%~ l "°V s,,m «- tlm « Previous.„»!,; «>t tin: inhnbitanls .olXuatlcdnwsfoi and its einiroiks evinced conbidumble aiixietv for its arrival, as tlint d.ry it was vhh Vvm \ was to decide ihe pedestrinn capnhiliii M ; ol a lord.and a labourer in the nei/rhh,,,,,.' : hood. Out: o'clock in the .afternoon of f the iibovo-uicntioned-diiy I who Clustered eiumgh to m] t) I the domains of the Itight lion. G. \{ X Dawson, that they had #u»e for nothing 1 The niuvs()us.\veregallopiii S 'iij):,u,,l ( | 1 seemingly till indife. Other gentlejnen I i)\' no less note, .were doinjr the sjiidr,nnii *- seemed e<iiiiiliy interested. Slmrily ft afterwards the tyro peilostriniis cammiiit I Jin full UTiiform. 11 k; Lordship is about I live feet ten indies in lieight, slender I ..limbed, lightly made, and about nineteen I I years of ujjfe. JJ is countemuice is very j Ir&nk, and njion .thejvhole, « very likclV looking person to take such v thing in band, .lames Keenan (lor such is the mime of the .weaver) is about five fort j ihe inches in height, proportionately j 'built, about forty years of and has a j wife and six children. Tiie length of the j rime vras.eight miles, r.nd file I j eaoli.si-le. liis.Lni-iisbip backed:hiniscli', 1 i an.'l the il'iwsims biu-ked Keennu. His i ijordship had on a par of well-made white pantaloons, wash leather pumps, I'-and a yellow jacket. (.V.'iian ran in a J pair of wliite drawers, barefooted, anil.a I blue Jacket. Kpoiian ctmimencetl, anil, I after he had »nt a start ol'alxuit six-.yan's, his Lnnlshi;) followed, and ran in a scientific manner, keeping iiis aims wefl jup and his elbows ele.se at his s'de. jKiceuan, on Uwother iiani, van vi'h his i iirnis hanijing down and-quite loose, but jhe was well with the art of gettiiiuf over the ground. 'When'he bad

run two miles (which he did in 12| minutes) lie was about a quarter of a mile •bttfore his nohle competitor; so lie ,(Lord Lurgan) ihirfking it ol'mio use lo contest longer, gave up when he had rim

about two miles and si qunrter. Keeimn, limvcveu, Villi on, inak'ng the second two

miles in l-'.H miniiics-;:the third two he van in 14 minutes ; ;intl the last two in 13 V minutes ; running tho eight miles in •03' i minutes.— Vurl'mls I'm'rioi.

Dwixcixi.;. —Of ;i certainty 'we muet make merr-y tin:l begiivl, nature will have it so, and so--will the Creator, Music and dancing, furnish tho fundamental 'iJcu in the great opera of creation. The worlds dance, singing their circuit.rouiift the sun ; the wims of ihc anil Ac loaves of the trees dunce in the wiutl.and the wind itself plays to their dancing; the wilJio'-'he-Avisns -dunce on the mooTi find heaven itself (hincos the schawl teoei and rapidly, now in one way and now in another, dripes itself with cloiitls. Savages dance in joy an I pain, nriiii ti e educated, who have brought those rude iittetnpis k> the highest degree of perfection, sing nnd dance, so tbht. t» e animals listen, and the nngcls in heaven smile. Not long sinoo a,gent!oman in Birßim?' %am, hating •■occ;isi(fli <to see a f'neJiu, called at his house, and -was 'told he w ,f gone out ; to save the trouble of <!«s!'s iif?iiiti, he expressed a wish to mistress, biit .she also was.gone out. 'Ihat no time -might he .lost, 'he' _ W «C(3 the young nmstßr, hut \w li.ty , .^. , ?? was out. Wishing'ho-wiivpr, -not to % a without, accoinplisiiing his !b;tisine,sß, on saying liß.wtuild then \yalk in, and sit, by •the fire till one of thorn 'rßtiHiied/be Vfl.3 told by Pat, ■• indeed, sir, ;aud'ypu for that too is (jonv. out V