King Leopold has appointed a commission for encouragment of steam-carriages
in Belgium ; for whit It the country, Leine almost a perfect plane, is peculiarly well adapted. Two adventurers bare already started carriages from Brussels. One of enormous size, we,,, ‘rhs eight
,ther tons, and is capable of exerting a power equal to 120 horses ; the is of much smaller dimensions and power. The speed of both likened to the gallop of a good horse. The Belgians are confident their use will become general.
Six giraffes have been taken in Egypt, and brought to Grand Cairo, preparatory to their shipment fur England. One of these beautiful animals has been procured by Mr. Burton, the architect, who is now travelling in Egypt, for the Zoological Society in the Regent's Park, and arrangements are made for shipping a pair for the Surry Zoological Gardens.' Another Giraffe has been taken in the back settlements of the Cape of Good Hope, and is now on its passage to this country: it is a private speculation, undertaken by a merchant.
An interestine° occurrence lately took place at the Ecole de Medi- cine, in Paris. A young man, of an olive complexion, speaking very pare French, though with a foreign accent, underwent his final exami- amil.n. and Obtained his diploma as doctor. 1-Jc is a Mussulman, born and one of the Egyptians sent to France by Mehemet Ali. 11: is said to be the first Mussulman who has taken a degree in Europe, a': least since the revival of letters in the West.
On Sunday week, a woman, %vim was suffering from a violent brain f.ver after her confinement, threw herself from the second story of No. A Rue Richelieu. It appears that, when fhlliag, she awoke to the iiiirror of her situation, and endeavoured to cling to the blind ()Inside :Le window ; but her strength failing her, she glided down the wall. e he was taken up alive, and without any apparent wound ; she died of hemorrhage a few hours afterwards.
painplilet has lately been seized in Prussia, beating the remarkable talc of " The Orloff:, Assassins of the Imperial Family of Russia." A free Black fancy ball took place on Thursday night last, at Mr. :`,Iorels Long-room, in Church Street, Ehigston. Carriages, ;liaises, 1;-cgan to arrive about nine o'clock ; and the assemblage, about ten, ecls us as exceedingly pleasing and picturesque. There were Spanish i mid Donnas, Italian Princes and Prini!t‘sSt'S, French Counts and 'emitesses, Naval and Military Officers represented to the life, and :I it oil the grace and elegance of the Ahnaeli se1;04. [This is capithl- a flack eIlitetek*s! the Exclusives of St. limos's mite now hide their diminished heads.] The representatives of tim ( 'oiliness of :lltd:-riave, and Lady Rowe, sustained their characters with dignity. The person who was specially invited to represent Lord Mulgrave, was absent tin °ugh indisposition. The ladies' dresses were rich, fam-iful, and beautiful. The group looked like the sons mud daughters of jollity and revelry, and gave delighful specimens that they were the children of harmony too. A splendid supper was served up at about three o'clock iirthe morning; and nothing could. exceed • the gallantry of the gentle- men during the entire night. All was. pleasure to. the brim, and all was joy and delight. The dancing was kept up till a late hour ; and the daughters of Terpsichore resembled so many sylvan goddesses, ",tripping it along on light fantastic toe."—Jamaica Dispatch, August: .
The discovery of the hull of a vessel imbedded in the beach near Newlyn, Mount's Bay, has excited much curiosity. She was about 50 tons, flat-bottomed, clincher-built, of oak, SO feet long. Her ribs were only four inches apart, and sufficiently strong for a vessel double her size. There were marks of nails, but not a bit of iron was found. The vessel appears to have been in ballast when lost. Two ancient coins were found on board ; one of which was in a perfect state of pre- servation, and bore the inscription " Ave Maria ;" but of what age or country, it is difficult to say, as it was without date. It resembled the coins of the fourteenth century, and is supposed of Anglo-Norman origin.
In a collection at the door of the Salisbury Cathedral, for the benefit of the County Infirmary, amounting to between sixty and seventy pounds, there were no fewer than thirty-two farthings.
We lately gave an accout of a man in Dublin, who, during a fit of intoxication, had part of his face and hand eaten away by a pig. Ile was taken to the Meath Hospital, and the following statement of his present condition is given in an Irish paper.
" MENoixe.—The poor patient in the Meath Hospital, who had been much
in.iared by the pig, still continues to mend. He was so well on Thursday as to he able to allow Mr Porter to amputate the index finger, and two joints from the second and third fingers. It is expected that he will soon be so completely restored as to be taken before the Lord Mayor, and fined a crown for getting drunk. That will mend him entirely."
One evening during a performance at Norwich all the audience, save one, were intent upon Madame Vestris' repeating the ballad of Pray Goody. The dissenter was one of the male gender, and possessing lungs of very mammothian vociferation, his " No, no !" and " Off!" were very great nuisances to the sonestress and her supporters. At length the " Ayes" had it. The Lady advanced to the foot-lights, the band struck up, and the song proceeded as usual, till she reached the lines—
"Remember when the jotigment's weak The prejudice is strong."—
MorsrNc. CTIROSTCLE—The continued opposition between the Go- vernment of this country and the People during the last thirty years, has led to some very unpleasant results in the way of legislation. The Govern- ment set out with maintaining that nothing could be more perfect than the Criminal Law of the country ; and we remember when any attempt to mitigate the severity of that law was strenuously resisted by Lout Liverpool, Lord Eldon, and all the other Tory Ministers of the day. By clinging to a system already condemned, by the thinking part of the community, and abandonine° it bit-by-bit reluctantly and with the worst grace in the world, our whole system of Criminal Law has become in- congruous. If we had possessed a national instead of an oligarchical Government, and a Ministry at all acquainted with legislation, they when turning to the side-box within which sat her uproarious opponent, would have at once applied themselves to the placing the law in harmony she paused and dropped him a curtsey. The applause was tremendous, with the opinions of the age, and have met the demand for change by and the Stentor kept the peace for the remainder of the evening.— a well-considered system of penal law, of which all the Farts should True Sm. be in keeping. Instead of this, by changing a bit here and a bit
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