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Evening Star, Issue 3120, 18 February 1873, Page 3

During 18? I the emigrant ships took frpm India 7,300 coolies The total number of natives of India, now in Jamaica, is 37,000, in' British Guiana 48,000. The vintage on the Rhine is described as very unequal, but on the whole very poor this year. Prices, both in the higher and lower qualities, of Rhine wines will range very high, and consumers will have to be doubly watobful of the adulterated article, Once more the romantic legions which enlivened the historical text books of our boyhood are assaulted ; but it is not often that they suffer so signal and, we may add, so painful an explosion as thejlegend of William Tell has recently suffered from the researches of the Historical Society of the Old Swiss Cantons- The conclusions arrived at on this subject by the learned body in question are thus stated by the Vafogne Cfa^Me M There never was a Landvogt Dossier nor a William Tell Tell never refused to lift his hat, never fired at an apple on his son’s head, although the very crossbow with which the deed was done is exhibited at Zurich j 1 he never crossed the Lake of Lucebe ik a tempest of wind and rain'; he neVer boldly jumped upon the Tell Platte, never spoke nia speech fnfhe doSleat Kus‘paqt. apd peyer. shot the Landvogt. What is more, the inhabitants bfUri So'hwyz and Untarwalddn nevef met by night on the Rufcli;” ’