MISCELLANEOUS.

Southland Times, Issue 85, 23 December 1864, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

At a Soitiee just given in Glasgow to Richard Weaver, the pugilistic preacher, who has just completed a " revival " engagement in that cit", the Rev. Mr. Howie of the "Wynd Free Church, in the course of his remarks referred to the speech which Lord Ardmillan had; made in proposing the memory" pf 'Burns at the Ayrshire^ Society Banquet on a previous evening, and said he' should like to know what good the productions of that poet coull possibly effect among those living in the . wvnds and' alleys" of , Glasgow. Weaver, who delivered an address afterwards, said with magnificent loftiness that he did not wish to be told of a^ Shakespeare of England, or a " Bobby Burns " of Scotland ; but he did like to be spoken to concerning John E iox or Martin Luther.- He had no desire to hear of men who cast chaff to the people ; for where was the soul that had ever been blessed by tlie writings of a Burns or the -- acts " of a Shakespeare ? As for himself, he would not learn a verse of the one, or quote tlio lines of the other. Mil Duncan Thompson, lately deceased, lias left a large .sum of money for the benefit of the town of !lothi*-=ay. Of his whole fortune, amounting to about £50,000, ho has bequeathed about ■£18,000 to his relatives and friends, £3,000 to the .endowment- of 'the Free Church and school at - Kamesburgh, and £12,000 for the erection of a poor-house for the parish of Rothesay. The remainder of his estate, which will amount, after deducting legacy duty, to about £20,000, he has left entirely at the disposal of his trustees, with restriction "that it mnst be devoted to benevolent and educational objects in connection with -the Five Church. Death in a DrvrxG Apparatus — Sanv:e Warren, " aged twenty-four, a seaman and diver belongi-.g to the ship" St. George, was suffocated in August, while . diving in Falmouth Harbsm\ He went down from a boat in thirteen and a-half. fathoms of water, for the purpose of recovering a set of boat's crutches that had been io.st from the St. George. He selected^ his own attendants unfile occasion from the ' ship's company, aud arranged with them the signals, which were to be -- one°pulL less air," " two pulls, more air," " three pulls to come up." About half a minute after he was down he signalled for more a'.r, and moiv, was pumped down. Warren then walked about one fathom ancl a-half, there being aboutfifteen fathoms and a-half air-pipes out when hs signalled to come up. The pulling up was immediately commenced. He had been about four minutes down, aud the boat's crew was about two minutes hi pulling him. up. The mouthpiece of the dress was ' taken off, before ho was taken into the buat, and he put his right, hand across liis mouth. The diving dress ■ was immediately taken off, and Warreu was carried on board the St. George ; liis face, ears, nostrils, and helmet were covered' with blood. He did not speak, but gave a convulsive struggle and died just before he was got on board. The diving dress was a new one, "which tlie deceased had borrowed from the falmouth Dock Company. It was found on examination, that the air-pipe had burst at about nine fathoms from the helmet, and that the valve for the outlet of the foul ah was fastened. This had occasioned an extra pressure on the tube, and hence the accident. m A Female - Miser — Extraordinary Discovery. — A few days ago an old woman died in the small town of Lievikzee, on the banks of the Scheldt. The old lady was regarded by her simple neighbours as being- withiu only a few removes from positive poverty ; but sllO died, and as she had always had licr will during her lifetipe, she left no will behind her ; but to the astonishment of her neighbors, what she did leave behind her was cash, bank notes, aud stock amounting in value to about two million guilders. There were pots fidl of the gold and silver of withdrawn ' and - forgotten currencies, wliich had been buried foi* years ; there was a box'full of Austrian and other stock certificates, the coupons v of which, had not been cut off for a quarter of a century ; while in a tin canister, which might have been tlie domestic tea caddy, was a quarter of a- million's worth of bank notes, musty with the accumulated damp of years. ' • " Attendance at Cnc-acii — Tnr. FobcinoSystem.— The Gazette of FehUcirok publishes the following singular aud almost incredible .instance of the Austro-Catho'.ic rule in the Tyrol:— The euro of Raggel has issued to tho servitors or tlie church the following order, countersigned by. tho Mayor of the Commune - — " As it is known that -\£ v ; jtf_i_L_has-not como to church for a long tinu, you arc directed to go to his house and to bring him to church. If he should resist jon will call in tho.assistan.-e of two o:!un\* and brin,' him here by force, ll.u'ing com3 into tho church yoii will sit rear him ; should ho feign illness and fall down you will allow him to remain on tlie floor ; but if he makes any uoisc bestow upon him, by .way of euro, from ton lo twolvo blows of a stick. — li^jjsl,