reached the top, a glance into the immense abyss so affected the novice in climbing mountains, that he declared to the guide he was unable to move either backwards or forwards. All persuasion was fruitless; he burst into tears, exclaimed he should be starved to death, took out his pocket book and wrote his last will, which he committed to the guide, with directions how and where to deliver it. Happily the latter succeeded in procuring assistance; but it was only by employing violence that they were able to force back the adventurer into the world.

ORDER OF THE GARTER.-Honi soit qui mal y pense.-The general account of its origin is, that the king's (Edward III. 1353) mistress, the Countess of Salisbury, having dropped her garter in a ball-room, Edward, taking it up, observed some of his courtiers to smile, upon which he called out, "Honi soit qui mal y pense-evil to him that evil thinks ;" and in memorial of that event, he instituted the "Order of the Garter," (K.G.) which is composed of the sovereign and twenty-six companions, who are styled Knights Companions of the Garter, and generally consist of princes and peers. They wear a medal called the George, representing the patron saint of England killing the dragon, suspended by a blue ribbon across the body from the shoulder. A garter of blue velvet, bordered with gold, is buckled under the left knee, with the inscription in French, "Honi soit qui mal y pense." The knights are always installed at Windsor. The bishop of Winchester is prelate, and the bishop

of Salisbury, chancellor of the order.

The late Sir Peter Parker, who was killed on board the Menelaus, in America, in 1814, was a brave and very skilful officer, but uncommonly wild and thoughtless. He was once on a cruise up the Mediterranean; and after having been some months at sea, went on shore at Malta, where, happening to be greatly gratified by a band of instrumental performers that he casually met with, he ordered them to go on board his ship; they did so, and he speedily followed, and sailed off with them on a cruise for six or eight months; after which he unshipped them at the place where he took them on board. This lively freak nearly lost him his commission. His father, who was Admiral of the fleet, was so provoked at his numerous irregularities, that he determined to hold

no communication with him, further than what was absolutely necessary in his public capacity as Commander-in-Chief. While sailing at the head of a numerous fleet in the Atlantic, he received a communication from his wife, in which she desired to be remembered to her son, which he effected in the following manner:-" Make a signal" said the Admiral, "for the Menelaus to lay to;" this was done. make the signal for the captain to come on board:" this was done also, and captain Parker, in his boat, proceeded to the admiral's ship. When he got upon the deck, he was met by his father, who saluted him with the following laconic speech :-" I have received a letter from your mother: she is perfectly well,

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and desires to be remembered to you; I have delivered the message, and have no more to say, so be off."

A gentleman being asked, what the Marquis of Londonderry could possibly mean by the expression" the subtle fluid of a simple unit," when speaking of the circulating medium in the debate on Monday evening, the 13th instant, replied, "Oh! no doubt the noble lord alluded to the watermark in a one pound note,"

The Earl of Dundonald has written a biographical sketch of the family of the late Mr. Coutts. Speaking of this gentleman's grandmother, a daughter of Sir John Cochrane, he relates the following anecdote ::- "Sir J. Coch

rane being engaged in Argyle's rebellion against James the Second, was taken prisoner, after a desperate resistance, and condemned to be hanged. His daughter having notice that the death-warrant was expected from London, attired herself in man's clothes, and twice attacked and robbed the mails, between Bedford and Berwick, one of which contained the death warrant; thus, by delaying the execution, giving time to Sir J. Cochrane's father, the earl of Dundonald, to make interest with father Peter, a Jesuit, King James's confessor, who, for the sum of 5,000l. agreed to intercede with his royal master in favour of Sir J. Cochrane, to procure his pardon-which was effected.

was, when he married me, and is, barring the bating he gave me yesterday, just for nothing at all, your honour, that I knows of; ounly that he listens to bad folks, the neighbours of us; and bad folks they are, sure enough, your honour, for that same; and your honour'll be plased just to do me the kindness to make them hould their pace, and not be after taking away the senses of my own husband from me, to make him look upon me like a stranger, your honour, for what would I be then?"

Poor Florence would have gone on murmuring forth her little griefs in this manner, by the hour together, if his Worship would have listened to her. But the office was crowded with business, and he reminded her that

Still, however, poor Florence would not be pacified; and snatching the bible from the table, she pressed the sacred volume fervidly to her lips, and then, raising her eyes, she exclaimed-" So help me God! that, barring Phelim and myself, I don't know man from woman!"

All this while, Phelim stood hanging down his head, and fumbling at the buckle of his hat in the simplest manner imaginable.

"For shame, Phelim," said the magistrate, as Florence made an end of her oath, "for shame, Phelim! how can you stand there and see the distress of such a wife without coming forward to assure her of your confidence. Give her your hand, man, and comfort her as she deserves."

Phelim stretched forth his hand. Florence grasped it almost convulsively, and raising it to her lips, all chapped and sunburnt as it was, she kissed it. They looked each other in the face for a moment, burst into tears, and hastily left the office arm-in-arm.

As a woman and her daughter, (a girl about eleven years of age) in the employ of Mr. John Kent, of Stanton, were gathering herbs, the girl trod upon a viper, which immediately curled itself round her ankle. She called her mother to her assistance, and being anxious to extricate her daughter from such a dangerous predicament, the woman took her knife, and severed the viper's head from its body; but, unfortunately, in so doing, the enraged viper turned itself and bit her in the finger twice, before she could succeed in cutting off its head. The wo

man not aware that the viper had bitten her; but from the accute pain in the finger, and the whole limb becoming suddenly swelled, she suspected what had occurred, and immediately returned home. The symptoms of the animal poison rapidly became more apparent; the lips and tongue, were soon exceedingly swelled; the sight failed, the pulse became weak, slow and irregular-with pain at the heart, cold sweats, and all the usual symptoms attendant on the absorption of animal poison. Medical assistance was immediately procured, proper remedies used, and she is now in a fair way of recovery.

It is time that the Parisians should expunge the well-known commencement of a French novel," In the gloomy month of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves." The suicides of 1821, in Paris, are only seventeen below one for every day in the whole year!

AERIAL NAVIGATION FROM BOмBAY TO LONDON!-It appears by a certificate, published in the Bombay Gazette Fxtraordinary, by Mr. Warden, Chief Secretary, that a Mr. T. Boyce had made application to the governor of Bombay to be allowed to carry the mails, &c. from Bombay to London, by means of a balloon, he professing to have discovered a method of giving horizontal motion in aeronautics. vernor referred Mr. Boyce to the philosophical society of Bonbay. A Mr. C. Hodgson has also put in his claim to aeronautic fame; and another competitor has appeared in the Calcutta Journal of Sept. 20, where the mode of operation is explained at

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The Anniversary Festival of the Sons of the Clergy was celebrated on the 23d ultimo, at St. Paul's Cathedral. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops of London, Ely, Bangor, Carlisle, St. David's, and Bristol, Lord Bolton, the Lord Mayor, &c. were present. The subscriptions at the door were very liberal. On the closing of the performance the company repaired to Merchant Tailors' Hall, where a sumptuous entertainment was provided for them.

On the 23d ult. the Magistrates of Middlesex proceeded to the election of a Treasurer for the County, at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, when Sir R. Baker was elected into the office.

A dreadful occurrence took place a short time since between Durrow and Ballyragget, county Kilkenny. A stallion, the property of a Mr. Shelly, grazing in a field, turned upon its owner as he was passing out by the gate, and killed him. The horse reared, knocked him down, broke his thigh, seemed to suck his blood, and then tore off the flesh, scattering it about the field. Our postman, who delivers the journal on that route, saw the melancholy spectacle of the man's mangled remains, and describes it as one of the most appalling scenes that could be witnessed. Some people having been drawn to the spot began to pelt the horse with stones, on which he dashed through the fields, swam across the river, and was not brought back when

discovered of converting, at a much reduced expence, English iron into steel-a process which has yet only been effected with foreign iron.

Trade is always discovering new channels. We are now importing ice from Norway, and exporting potatoes to Ireland.

The importation of ice into this kingdom pays an ad valoram duty on its arrival. A dispute arose a few days ago about the value of a cargo; and before the dispute was settled, the captain of the vessel was deprived of his freight and the custom-house of the duty, by the dissolution of the ice.

Madame Christophe, ci-devant empress of Hayti, is about to take up her residence at Blackheath. It is generally understood that she has saved about £1500, per annum, from the wreck of her deceased husband's fortune.

Mr. Stuart, the survivor in the late duel, with Sir Alexander Boswell, is arrived at Edinburgh, preparatory to his trial before the high court of justiciary.

Mr. Kent, the water pedestrian, has undertaken, for a wager of a thousand guineas, to walk across the sea, from Dover to Calais !!!

A street, in Trowbridge, has been waggishly named Heavenlystreet, from seven persons of the name of Angel, two of the name of Church, four of the name of Parsons, and one of the name of Clerk residing in it.

WEATHER. As an illustration of the singular character of the last winter, it may be mentioned that while the thermometer was