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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 35, 10 February 1874, Page 2

The Zouave, the Lord Chief Justice's yacht, goes to sea every Friday evening or Saturday morning with the learned judge, for a cruise of about forty hours, thus giving his lordship time to be in London on Monday morning for the Tichbome trial. The Chief Justice, when on board, is engaged almost the whole time in writing. A correspondent kindly sends us the following extract from the 'Garden:*— Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, being very fond of cherries, one day ordered a general crusade against tbe sparrow tribe, some of them haviug ventured to peck at his favorite fruit. A price of six pfennings a brace wat set on them ; consequently throughout Prussia the war was briskly carried on, and so successfully that at the end of two years thit only were cherries wanting but most other fruits. The trees were covered with caterpillars, and completely stripped of leaves; insects had increased to a most alarming extent, for other birds had been frightened away by the extraordinary measures taken mainly against the sparrows. The great king retracted his degree, and was even obliged at a considerable expense, to import sparrows from afar.