. Miss Paton and Messrs. Sapio and E. Taylor have
been attend' ng the Manchester and Liverpool concerts, during the Christmas and succeeding week. We have the pleasure to learn that Miss Paton, who is now at Bath, is in excel lent voice. She will begin her engagement at Covent Garden early in February, probably in the opera of Ninetta, an English version, by Bishop, of La Gazza Ladra. A farce in two acts...a comedy, the bills term it—from the French, has been played at Covent Garden twice this week as a first piece. It is called the Corporal '8 Marriage, or a Husband's Mistake, and seems to have been a mistake on the part of the Managers—it is a poor affair.
A young lady who resides at Charing Cross, having long entertained scruples as to the efficacy of baptism by the mere sprinkling of water, was on Tuesday last ducked in a large tub by the Rev. Dr. Richards in St. Martin's Church. The lady was bred a Dissenter, but this ceremony has converted her into a High Church woman.
Among the many modes of making money, sham poisoning is coming into favour. It is stated that some interesting young females make a very snug thing of it by allowing themselves to be found in the agonies of death, caused by arsenic or laudanum, which they hate never swallowed.
There is now exhibiting at the Horse Bazaar, Portman Square an immense ox, weighing between 4,000 and 5,000 pounds, 17 hands high, andnearly 11 feet in length.—Globe.
As there seems to be a demand for monsters of all sorts, a Dutchwoman, if we may believe a French paper, has. accommodated herself to this propensity in the public, by giving birth to a child with three heads, for each of which she has been at the trouble of finding a separate name.
The severity of the season has brought a great quantity of game into our markets. A bittern was shot at Treluswell, near Penryn, on Wednesday, which stood nearly three feet in height. Even when severely wounded, it made considerable resistance before it was captured ; it was at length driven into a pit, and killed. It is now in the possession of Mr. E. Tregoning, Falmouth.— West Briton.
A very singular scene was witnessed at the Cross of Glasgow on Thursday night. Previous to proclaiming the ominous hour of twelve, nearly three thousand people were assembled in the four adjacent streets, which were, to a certain extent, blockaded, in order to be the first to touch with their foot the Cross-stone. When the hour of twelve arrived, an eye-witness declares that he never saw such a scramble to gain the first footing on the Cross; • and after the persons who passed themselves off as officials had attained their object by the protection of the watchmen, every person got himself gratified in that way ; and three cheers were given for the New Year.—Glasgow Chronicle.
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