ODDS AND ENDS. (From late European Papers.)

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 176, 5 February 1848, Page 4

ODDS AND ENDS. (From late European Papers.)

The earnings of what are termed the halt-penny stram-boats, which ply between London bridge and the Adelphi, average one hundred pounds per day. So late was the spring in Sweden, that on the 21st of May snxAv "»s m fpet deep on the road from Stockholm to Swartwick. The Wilderspin tribute amounts to £1800 —this, with the pension of £1(10 from the Queen, will rentier this worthy man's old ac;e comfortable. The suthoi of a work on A«SRm mentions that theGarrows, a savage tribe inhabiting the hills boidcring on (hat pro. vinre, conbidrr a do*? fattened on rice, and rca-ted alive, an eiquisile dainty. It is stated in an Illinois journal, that the famous Mormon Temple at Nauvoo, has been 'sold for a Roman Cuthohc Church, for the large pi ire of 73000 dollars. JtnnyLind refused to accept an offer of 400 guineas for a single appearance in Sheffield. An electric telcginph has been established between Amsterdam and several of the principal to* ns in Holland. The Chinese spend annually £'90.000,000 for incense to burn before their idols— about five shillings for every man, woman, and child, in the empne. Sir Robeit Peel was elected a vice- President of Kind's College Hospital. The Brighton and Co»tin«ntal Steam packet Company, have commenced runningtheir new packets from Shoreham Harbor to Dieppe in five hours and to Havre in six hours. A New York paper publishes the following— "A young lady perfectly rom. petent, wishes to form a class of young mothers and nurses, and to instruct them in the art of talking to infants in such a manner as will interest and please them." A book juit presented to the Royal Dublin Society is probably unique in the history of Literature. It is entitled— "The Traveller in the East, by Godfrey Levinge, Esq.," who comprises in his own person, traveller, author, and pointer. The new College of St. Augustine, at Canterbury, founded by A.J. Beresford Hope, Esq., M.P, is to be opened in October, for the education of a Colonial Clergy. By the potent aid of steam, 50,000 copies of the Times, containing Sir Robert Feel's celebrated speech announcing the repeal of the Corn Laws, were printed snd ciiculated in the course of ihe following morning. A Commission de I unatico inquirendo, held in Carlisle, adjudged that Sir E. Marmaduke Vavasour, Baronet, of Haselwood Castle, Yorkshire, aged thirty-two years, was of unsound mind, being a furious lunatic, and fancying himself Julius Ciesar, and other delusions. A con* siderable quantity of bananas had been imported into London from the West Indies. The Municipal Council of Copenhagen have given order* to have two gieat establishments of baths, for the poor, to be constiucted in that City— the admission to be gratuitous. Tiie Cttizens of Cork manufacture writing papers, but until the articles make an excursion to London, and ieceiv e the London mark, they decline to use them. The corporation of London intend to erect a new coal exchange at Billingsgate ; the site will consist of the present coal mart and the ground on which thirteen adjacent houses stand— the building is estimated to cost 100,000/. The New York Mirror mentions that one house in Boston in a single year sent to Asia 101 vessels with cargoes of ice, which yielded as much as the product of the whole wine harvest of Bourdeaux. Several success ful experiments have been lately made in France on the etherization ot bees, so as to be able to take their honey whilst they are in a state of inaction, without the necessity of destroying their lives. The late Duke of Northumberland's personal and funded property of which be died possessed within the province of Canterbury alone, has been valued at jgIGO,GOO, and the executors have paid into the stamp-office the duty of £2,100 on the probate. By a decree of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt offlciers tie sonU, dentists and midwives are forbidden to u^e the vapor of ether in their operations. His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen hat lately presented to Mrs Gur»ood t widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Gurwood, a diamond ring from his Majesty the King of Prussia, as an acknowledgment of the last-remaining volume of the ' Despatches of the Duke of Wellington,' tmd as a mark ot his esteem for the late compiler. An Irish car-driver in his list of journey-expenses, charged —" Refreshments for the howe, 2d,"— on enquiry it turned out that the rogue meant whipcord ! The Brit, ish and Foreign Institute, which was set on foot and conducted by Mr. J.S. Buckingham, h«s ceased to exiit. A printed Report statei the cause of its cessation to be want of funds, partly occasioned by several members omitting to pay the arrears of their •übscriptions. Lord John Russell has announced her Majesty's gra cious intention of conferring a pension of iIOO a-year upon the children ot the highly gifted but unfortunate author, Hood. A New York paper states that a man named Neville is in custody for taking " a drop too much"i — namely, for marrying Miss Amelia Drop, while he had another wife living. To put the silver edging to muslin, which is always torn off and thrown away before converting the material to use, costs the country £20,000 a-year ! Miss Fuller, correspondent of the JNeio York Tribunal, thinks that men ought to do the washing of a family, since they are stronger than women. Precisely one hundred and twenty-nine years have elapsed smce Lord Stanhope moved for and appointed a committee of the Lords to enquire into the state of tliG public records—and the archives of the English nation aic still kept in a stable. "Are you fond of tonpue, sir ?" asked a talkative lady— "l was always fond of tongue, Madam, andl like it still,'' was the reply. The letter of the Norwood Cemeteiy Company to its proprietors commences thus — k< Sir, your grave (No. — ) is now ready. Ihe magnificent temple of the sun at Balbeck has been destroyed by order of the viceroy, tor the sake of its fine stones, which are to be employed in erecting barracks (or the cavalry, and a forage magazine. The money coined fn the United States during the forty five years of < peration of the mint, in copper, silver, and gold, amounts to 122,500,000 dollars. The House of Common*' Committee have determined, by a majority of one, to report in favor of continuing the maiket in Sailbfield. The increase of banks in J ndia during the last ten years has been so rapid, that while in 1867, the aggregate paid up capital of all the banks was only A87j,000, it now amounts to upwards of 5,000,000. Ten years «go the town of Girvan had only two Churches in wh-ch public worship was regularly performed, with two chapels in which there was occasional service ; since then three new Churches have been built, and there are now no less than nine congrega ions of different denominations in Girvan— all this while the population bas not increased above 700 or 800. An Agricultural Congress hat been held at Stockholm— it consisted of 420 numbers, *nd held twenty sittings, ac all of which the Kino; was present. The Cincinnati Horticultural Society, U. S., have kept a daily register of the number of butdieis of strawberries sold in that market— in twenty-six days the number so d was 4,572— the largest number on any one day was 314 bush Is. There arc ibree " Sporti >q Newspapers" published in London, one of which boa-ts, of a circulation of 27,00 >, which is twice as large as that of all the " Religious Newspaper*" put together. Ingenious Parisian thieves dress as servants, and request from tradesmen copies of their accounts againsf customeis, then dres^as tradesmen, call upon the customeis, and approp-iate the cash. The gross total re*enue of the island of Malta, for the year 1846, amounted to £103,172, and the torn! tXi)t-n<liiu.re to £112.597, thus leaving a deficiency of £9,425.