A company has been formed at Amsterdam to conatract a
railroad front that town to Cologne, with a subscribed capital of twelve millions of thwin The distance is one hutalsed and eighty miles.
In the prineimility of Neufchatel, Switzerland, the King or Prussia has lately repeal.:d the prohibition by which illeaitimates are prevented giving aw, y their estates while living, or bequeathing them by will. Letters from Naples mention that the eruptions of Vesuvius bad becomev& av menacieg. Five large torrents of lava had descended the moonetin, am! enormous stones Lad been vomitted by the volcano. The celebrated guide Salvatore had predicted that a tremendous eruption was about to take place. The torrent ef lava on the 19th ult. in the direction of Torre del Greco had already burnt up several of the vim yards, and was not more than one quarter of a league from the first houses of that little town.
There have been extensive conthigrations of the forests in Lithuania and the North of Prussia, which probably have been caused by the very dry weather.
Intelligence from Dautzie to the 30th of July, mentions that the harvest, which was not usual until August, was then very far advanced ; and that wheat, oats, and barley promised a good crop. The beat had, however, much injured vegetation, and the fruit had suffered for want of rain. The drought was so great, indeed, that the navigation of the Vistula had been impeded.
The fields of Baden have been so overrun by mice, that in one com- mune containing nearly 20,000 of inhabitants, no fewer than 20,000 .of these mischievous little animals have been killed. It is impossible to form an idea of the destruction they commit. No sooner is the harvest over than they betake themselves to the vineyards, where they make a greater devastation than amongst the corn. In an adjoining country, there is a race of small black rats, which appear to be multiplying to an equal extent with the mice.
On the 13th ultimo, a music-master with his four children, three daughters and a son, took a walk on the right bunk of the Vistula ; when he came to a place where the bank is very steep, he suddenly threw the four children, one after the other, into the river, and then leaped into it himself. He and three of his children perished, but the youngest, a girl, by an incredible effort, climbed up the bank and saved herself.-Aainigsbery Gazette.
A meeting of the friends and admirers of the late liammohun Boy was advertised to take place at the Town lad), Calcutta, on the ath of April, to take into consideration the most suitable manner of com- memorating the public and private virtues of the deceased.
It is stated in accounts from Penang, that a serious mutiny bas taken place in his aslajesty's 41st Reginierit, at. Moulemin. Tim grenadiers and light companies quitted their quarters with their arms and animutti- tion, and retired to the jungles in a state of open revolt ; where, it is said, they were surrounded tiara regiment of Native Infantry, and taken into custody.
The Sidney Gazette of the 13th of February says.-" The Lanneeston papers contain the most alarming accounts of the state of that part of Van Diemen's Land, from the almost daily outrages committed by armed bushrangers. The outrages of these desperate banditti are not confined to nocturnal attacks on the lonely settlers, but arc frequently conmutted in the open day. and in populous places-even in the very town of Launceston. Armed robbers show themselves in the streets, walk into people's houses, tic the inmates to chairs or tables, and then deliberately sit down to regale themselves in their presence! Why, in the worst days of hushranging here, we have bad nothing like this ; and yet, if the public journals at Launceaton are to be credited, the authorities seem to be all quietly looking on." [ Prabably one or two outrages of the kind here mentioned may hare OrrIIITCd : it is in- credible that they can be of frequent occurrence, and that the autho- rates can be quietly looking on.all.the while.] Aeother splendid gin-palace is about to raise its unsightly head on the Sorry side of Blackfriars Bridge. The lomac at present is a common public-house ; and the money aareed to be paid for its ronver- mon is :.P.)00/. Notwithstanding the frequency, as well as the severity of the remarks svhich have so recently lue n nude in both Houses of Purl mutate in condemnation of these iotoxiaating receetacles, they !eon to have bad little influence upon these Lear!less and ntonell-grasp. bug speetdators.-Hereka
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