GLEANINGS

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 105, 22 October 1858, Page 4

GLEANINGS

FROM LATE ENGLISH PAPERS. The Prince of Wales attended the bazaar in aid of a new church which is being built on Richmond-hill. At one of the stalls^ a little fairy-like child, not knowing whom she addressed, said, Will you buy, sir ?' at the same time presenting a basket of trinkets. 'Yes, my little dear,' answered the Prince, I will buy them all if you will give, me a kiss into the bargain'—upon which, terms the contract was immediately sealed. The fate of the King of Delhi is sealed. JHe is to be transported for life to Fort Cox, in British Caffraria. • ' . A short time since, a young man. in the employ of Mr. Wilson, farmer, Cairngarroch, Stony kirk, fell from a footpath leading along the edge of the Cairngarroch heughs, and rolled down the declivity, computed to be nearly three hundred feet in depth. Stunned by the fearful descent, he lay for some twenty hours before he was discovered. Some of the nails of his fingers were torn off by his desperate efforts to clutch the rock, and he was much bruised and cut, but not a single bone was fractured, and he is fast recovering. ' A short telegram takes about two hours and a half to be conveyed from London to Lisbon. This time is chiefly occupied in translating. A message iii the English language for Lisbon, delivered in London, has to be translated into French before it is transmitted to Paris. There it has to be translated into Spanish to be sent to Madrid, where it has to be translated into Portugese to be conveyed to Lisbon. '-■ The Prince Consort visited Mr. Bell's studio, Kensington, for the purpose of inspecting the statuette of Cromwell. . The marriage of the Prince Royal of the two Sicilies with the Duchess Maria of Bavaria was to be celebrated by proxy, at Munich, during the present month of October. The Queen has purchased the Baron de Triqueti's marble statuette of 'Edward the Sixth as Leader of the Protestant Faith,' for the sum of ?500 guineas. . . / Her Majesty was about to visit Leeds, and had determined to accept the offer of the use of Woodsey house, the residence of the Mayor of Leeds. . . The claim of W. Constable Maxwell, Esq., of Nithsdale, in the county of Dumfries, to the Herries peerage, has been de-r cided in his favor. A royal commission has been appointed for the purpose of enquiring into the expediency of removing all toll-gates within six miles of Charing Cross. In the Court of Exchequer, on one of the hot days lately, Mr. Knowles, one of the counsel, applied to the Lord Chief Baron to be allowed to takeoff his wig. The. proposition was, however, rather snubbed by his lordship, and wigs were worn as usual. The Great Western railway company have made arrangements for establishing a steamboat ■between Weymouth and Cherbourgh, for the express importation of eggs. They expect and are likely to obtain a very large traffic. France, according to the Univers, has mistaken her mission in China. Her policy is to secede from the British alliance, and to acquire the gratitude of the Celestial monarch by driving the rebels out of Nankin, and restoring that lost jewel to the imperial crown. ; A young woman at. Gibraltar recently destroyed herself by swallowing a quantity of lucifer matches. A Berlin engineer, by means of a portable machine, easily worked by two men, cast 4000 Minie rifle balls in an hour. The site selected for the Wellington monument is a piece of ground now occupied by a chapel, at the west end of St. Paul's Cathedral. ; A poor woman, named Susan M'Kmney, of Tattycor, in the parish of Dromore, Ireland, died under a terrible attack of" hydrophobia* -a few days ago, induced by a bite from a cat.

. Death of John Shahspere.— We regret being called upon to'notice the death of this esteemed gentleman, at the age of eighty-three,^ which event took place, at Langley Priory, on the 10 th June. The deceased gentleman will be remembered for his princely benevolence in giving the sum of £5000 for the purchase and preservation of the immortal Shakspere's house at Stratford-on-Avon.

A Man Eaten ly his own Pigs.—An evening or two since Mr. Isaac Love, of Bradford-on-Avon, marine store dealer, left his home for the purpose of going to his garden, about a quarter of a mile distant, where he had several styes of pigs. His wife, finding he did not return, went to the garden to search for him, and not finding him, further search was made, but to no effect. ~ln the morning his son went to the garden, and on looking over one of the styes, containing nine small pigs, observed their noses were very bloody, which induced him to go into the house part of the sty, when he Was horrified at seeing his father lying on his back, quite dead, with the whole of his face and part of; his neck completely eaten by the pigsi It is supposed that the deceased went into the stye, < and while there had a fit. He was a stout man, and in his 58th year.

Six Months' Imprisonment for a Kiss. — At the Wareham Petty sessions a few days since, one Williani Craft,, a carpenter, was charged with the following offence:—Miss Collyns, daughter of the Rev. H. & Collyns, of Farringdon Rectory, Devon, went with some relations on board the steamer Ursa Major, from Poole to Swanage. The defendant was also on board. He kept staring at her, and when they landed on the quay at Sawnage, he pulled her down and kissed her. It does not appear that she was hurt. Craft said that he had done no harm, and he would do it • again. The magistrates convicted him, and sentenced him, under the Aggravated Assaults Act,-to six months'imprisonment in the jail ,at Dorchester, with hard labour.

-Frightful • Accident.-^L fatal accident occurred in the Royal • Laboratory, at Woolwich, on the 21st, J>y which a little boy named George Hooper, eleven years of age, and who was employed at the machinery. for turning minie rifle bullet plugs, had his right arm literally torn from, his body. The department was about to recommence its operations after the' breakfast hour, at nine o'clock, and tha huge shaft which works the whole of the machinery, in the long room was already in motion, when the man in charge perceived that a part of the machinery was still by the accident of the leather band having slipped off the revolving drums which connect the working of the machines. He thereupon requested the unfortunate boy to see that the lower part remained in its place while he proceeded to readjust the one uppermost. In this attempt the poor little fellow's right arm was; caught in the loosened strap, which being suddenly put in motion, his arm was dragged off at the socket, a portion of the bladebone still adhering, and thrown out among the machinery at some distance. The body was instantly confided to the care of Dr. Parratt and Mr. Coleman in the Royal Arsenal Infirmary, where the-usual remedies were adopted to suppress the hemorrhage, &c, but the poor little sufferer only survived till ten o'clock. . , . The London Smofa-prevention Company. —Lately, a party-of gentlemen assembled on board one of the Citizen Bteamboats for the purpose of testing the superiority of Mr. O'Regan's patent smoke prevention appaartus as applied to locomotive boilers. A few words will explain the nature of the apparatus:—The doors of the furnace are constructed with a channel or casing at the back; air is admitted to such casing or box through long horizontal slots in front of the door, near the bottom, and is discharged on the inside of the furnace through similar slots, ports, and smaller holes near the top part of the door-casing—thus heating the air arid cooling the door; and a bridge is applied at the back of the boiler of similar construction. The company's patented apparatus is applicable to: marine, land, and locomotive boilers, distilleries, breweries, and furnaces in general, and it is said to be.the only invention applicable to domestic stoves. In each case the company undertakes to economise fuel, generate more steam, and totally prevent the smoke nuisance. The apparatus is cheap, and may be easily applied; and, if desired, the company will undertake to keep the apparatus in perfect order, at a mere nominal charge per annum. The importance of the movement cannot be over estimated—7oo patents have been" already granted for the removal of the smoke nuisance. A Gfood Story. —The Friend of India tells a good story of Lieutenant, Stewart, deputy superintendent of electric telegraphs in Bengal, which our contemporary says ought to be true if it is not. It seems that this officer, whose services during the mutiny are not yet recognised by the public, has two somewhat eccentric habits. One is that of travelling so fast that it tasks his telegraph to record his progress, and the other of getting nearly killed. About once in every three months Lieutenant Stewart is sure to turn up in the papers carried away by a tiger or ripped up by a bear, or dying of cholera, or doing something from which only men of India rubber ever escape. Of course, Lucknow being the place where it is easiest to get killed, he has gone to Lucknow. Permission was given somewhat reluctantly, and the Governor-General telegraphed to the Commander-in-Chief that Lieutenant Stewart was, if possible, not to be killed. Sir Colin read the order, and looking up, saw the object quietly slipping out with his rifle to join a party of skirmishers, who expected hot work. "Come out of that," shouted the chief in strong vernacular; " not content with killing yourself, you must give me the discredit of it."— Hurharu. - ... _„ • Mr. Sturgeon's New GJiapel. —Mr. Spurgeon and his congregation have at last fixed on a site for the large chapel they are about to erect. The spot they have chosen is the open space opposite the Elephant and Castle.' The ground belongs to the Fishmongers 11 Company, and they are to receive a ground rent of £150 for it. The building will be speedily commenced. Greek O-ospel. —lt is stated in an Athens journal that a manuscript copy on parchment of the Gospels in Greek, and bearing the date 480, has recently been found in the garret of a house in that city. It is said to be in good preservation, and has been deposited in the public library of Athens. The Toll Nuisance, —On Easter Sunday all the turnpike toll-gates in Ireland were abolished. It is to be hoped that ere long this obnoxious impost will cease to be levied in any portion of the kingdom.— lllustrated News. Don Miguel, in a recent manifesto,, asserts " his rights" to the throne of Portugal. When Sir William Scrope was about to charge with his troop at the famous conflict at Edgehill, at the opening ball of the parliamentary campaign with King Charles 1., he said to his young scapegrace of a son, * Jack, if I should be killed, lad, you will have enough to spend;' to which the witty rogue answered, *And, egad, father, if I should be killed, you'll have enough to pay-' . • ■ The penalty which will be incurred by the European and Australian Company" for delay in bringing to England the heavy portion of the Australian Mail, recently*" brought to Suez in the steamship Victoria, will amount to about j€5250. , Stiblime Description of an Escape from a Mad Bull. —The bull roared like the rolling I thunder, and I ran like the nimble lightning; and springing over the fence, with the swiftness of a star falling from the^fir- ' mament, I tore my trousers asunder with a crash as loud as if the globe had been shivered by si, comet.