1825:} , 
baskets! fullkof (bones have already \beew ex- 
tractedy belonging» to, othe ox ‘and. its 
tribe svofithe ‘latter: there) are: several: va~ 
rieties, including the) elk. | There are also 
a:fewiportions ofthe: skeleton of a wolf, 
and of a! gigantic, bear... The bones are 
mostly in a state of preservation, equal to 
that bof common: grave! bones; but it: is 
clear, from the fact of some of them belong- 
ing tothe great extinct species of the bear, 
that they are of an antediluvian origin.”’ 
Mr. W.:Mogford, veterinary surgeon, 
lately cut for the stone a valuable horse, 
belonging! to: James Veal, Esq., in Devon- 
shire » the calculus extracted weighed more 
than four ounces ‘and a half. The opera- 
tion® succeeded perfectly; and the horse 
soon recovered. ’ 
Itappears from the recent annual report 
of the Westcof England Eye Infirmary, 
that: 436: cases! have been cured within the 
year; of >whom five were blind from cata~ 
ract. 11) } ‘ 
. Australasian Agricultural: Company.—A 
new! company; under this. title, has just 
been incorporated by royal charter, for the 
purpose of extending cultivation, and pro- 
duemg “wool of the’ finest quality, in New 
South Wales» Government has made a 
grant of a million ofacres, rent-free, for the 
first five years, tothe company. 
The excessive rate of tonnage charged on 
the: Stroudwater Navigation, and the com- 
pany refusing to take 24d. per ton per mile 
for-ecoals, and’ so in proportion for other 
goods, have induced the spirited manufac- 
turers, .who-are sufferers thereby, to pro- 
jeet the Stroud and Severn railway, from the 
Thaimes‘and Severn canal termination, near 
Brinscombe, to the Severn ; with branches 
tos Milsworth and to other villages near the 
line ;» £40,000 is the estimated expense of. 
these works. 
Avconspicuous green buoy, the usual de- 
nomination of a sunken wreck, has by the 
Trinity Board, been placed in the part of 
the ‘Thames mouth, called the Cant, on a 
sunken, sloop; which endangered vessels in 
low: states of the tide, sailing between the 
five-fathom channel and the, Nore. From 
this) buoy, Minster church bears W. by S., 
and the spile buoy E.S:E. 
‘The expenses of the projected railway 
from Birmingham to the banks of the Mer- 
sey, are found so far to exceed the esti- 
mated amount, that the branches to Shrop- 
shire; Dudley, and Stourbridge are aban- 
doned :, notwithstanding this, it has: been 
determined to raise’ a further sum of 
£290,000; by the creation of £4,000 addi- 
tional shares ; thus increasing the number 
from 12,000 to 16,000. 
It is proposed to form’ @ rail-road | from 
London to Birmingham, connecting at the! 
Jatten | splave- with ithe ‘alréady-¢ommienced | 
undertaking, ‘the: Birmingham vand ' Livers 
pookrail-road:<\ the expense is estimated at 
£5,000,000, andsthe nurhber of shares pro“ 
Pp to be/issued is, 20,000, at: £50! each. 
ontuty Mac. No, 404, 
Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
5535 
Measures are’ ‘taking to unite this with 
another company at Birmingham, who have 
long ago engaged in the same object. 
Mr. Wood, of Hawkeshead, has; | with 
one or two terriers, killed 125 rats and°one 
foulmart within the last’ few weeks’: “he 
has calculated that, supposing there’ are 
1,300 mills in England and ‘Wales, “and 
that each mill contains 150 rats; each’ rat 
destroying two ounces of méal a day, the 
whole number will consume about 151bs. 
per day, or about 5,375 lbs. per year; and 
supposing that there are 1,300 towns and 
villages, each containing onan average 160 
houses, and each two rats, consuming in 
the same proportion, making 52,000 Ibs. 
Add to which, that, though mice consume 
less, yet as their number perhaps is four 
times greater, the destruction produced by 
them will be about the same : ‘that is to 
say, we may calculate upon‘an annual de- 
struction of upwards of 100,000 ibs. weight 
of meal by domestic vermin’ only.— Query. 
How many poor families would this com- 
fortably sustain ? , Mato! 
Mr. J. Beedel, the celebrated penman ‘of 
Ottery St. Mary, whom ‘we ° noticed. a 
short time since, is now engased’ ‘in exe. 
cuting a number of beatitiful etchings,’ and 
various kinds of writing, on a Spacious sheét 
of drawing paper, which bid fair to exceed. 
any of his former productions as ‘specimens 
of penmanship, p 
Different languages, to the number of three 
thousand and sixty-four, aré in use im‘ ‘di 
ferent quarters, states, and districts of the 
earth, as_appears from a learned’ work of 
M. Aldeling, wherein are arranged ‘and 
classed the vocabularies, more or less per- 
fect, of 937 Asiatic, 587 European; 276 
African, and 1,264 American languages: 
and dialects! If all languages’ originated 
amongst the constructors of the Tower of- 
Babel, as.some contend, what a mighty 
confusion must haye attended and’succéed- 
ed the conclusion of that work. 
A dangerous leakage from thé gas-pipe into 
the empty water-pipe, under the pavement of 
Gell-street, Lisson Green, took place some 
time about the middle of November ; which 
on the 19th, and again on the 2d of Deeem- 
ber, occasioned most alarming explosions, 
on the taking of. candles into cellars, on 
both sides of the street, by persons who, 
having no gas-pipes in their houses, could 
have no suspicion of the caution which,- 
nevertheless, all persons ought to use, on. 
the smelling of gas in any cellar or close room, 
by instantly sending for the gas-man, and 
keeping candles carefully from the spot. 
The ball-cock of one house-was forcibly 
blown off into the water-butt, on happén-~ 
ing to bring a candle near the pipe’s mouth. 
The superintendents. of the laying of gas- 
pipes ought, to use the precantion of ram” 
ming tempered clay between fheir joints, 
and those of the water mains, or the sewer 
culverts, when néar each other, for’ pre | 
venting other oceurréntes of this’ nature ; 
4B and, 
