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and in October, 1830, he had the misfortune. to lose his head 

 by a similar accident. The fracture in each case was incisive ; 

 the marble (in this instance statuary) was cut away as clean 

 as if it had been a pat of butter. Few evidences now remain 

 in Brussels ; for, though the Belgian congress, in. its wisdom, 

 voted a law that no shot marks were to be completely re- 

 paired for twelve months, and the glory spots remained even 

 on the king's palace till after Leopold's accession, M. Profft 

 has contrived to fill up his marks on the Bellevue hotel with 

 real shot themselves, stuck about the walls, like plums out- 

 side of a Scotch cake, and the Cafe de PAmitie has been 

 restored to its pristine smoothness of exterior; yet there may 

 be here and there a post still looking like a broken stick of 

 barley sugar; and if any one should be curious to observe 

 the truth of what I have mentioned, he will see many slabs 

 hollowed out below all over Belgium, and a garden wall at 

 Hougoumont, in the field of Waterloo, the upper part of which 

 is built of the same limestone, shattered in the same way as 

 the posts and. walls in Brussels, the shot having wounded it in 

 the same manner in 1815 as in 1830. — W. B, Clarke. Parle- 

 stone, Dorset, Sept. 6. 18-3^j imws-oni 



P. S. My object has been, in the above, to speak of the 

 limestone; but it may be permitted, perhaps, to mention, 

 even in a book of science, that the shot at Brussels did droller 

 mischief than described above. There is an iron plate on the 

 corner of the " Hotel de l'Europe," with these words thereon. 

 A ninerpound shot carried away five letters, and the inscrip- 

 tion left was " Hot Europe !" ' v. . , ff 



A remarkable Meteor observed from Bury St. Edmunds. — 

 At about a quarter before twelve o'clock in the night of Sep- 

 tember 4., a remarkable meteor was observed from this town. 

 The first appearance was that of a triple flash of lightning, 

 after which it took the form of a very large star surrounded 

 by a bur or halo ; and, having moved slowly along the sky 

 for a considerable space, separated in the middle with two 

 points, and disappeared. ( The Bury and Norwich Post, Sept, 1 2. 



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