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Francia y en los Estados Unidos de la 
America Septentrional, por Don AN- 
TONIO ORTIZ de Zarate y Herrera. 
No puede menos de interesar mucho la 
publication y lectura de esta importante 
obra, pues que establécide in Espana el 
sistema de jurados, podra contribuir en 
gram manera a facilitar con acierto el 
desempanho de una de los mes nobles 
funciones de cindano; la de juzgar a 
sus iguales.”’ 
ITALY. 
There is in Naples an_ institution 
whose main object is the conversion of 
the Chinese to the Catholic religion. 
The means employed to accomplish 
this object are to bring young Chinese 
from their country (commonly by de- 
ceit or viclence), and having instructed 
them in the usual conventual learning 
—having converted them to the religion 
of Christ, and received their vows not 
to shrink from death in its defence, they 
bind their loins with the red girdle of 
martyrdom, and, as opportunities occur, 
they are sent back to.their own country 
to live or die as the event may deter- 
mine. On the Ist of September, four 
young Chinese were brought to Naples, 
the eldest 24, the youngest 16 years of 
age. They were conducted by the Su- 
perior of the College to the palace at 
Capo di Monte, where they were pre- 
sented to his Majesty, who received 
them with kindness. After they had 
made his Majesty the Ko-sen (a Chi- 
nese reverence only paid to the Empe- 
ror), they conversed with the King, by 
means of an interpreter, nearly three 
quarters of an hour, and his Majesty 
gave them permission to walk where 
they pleased in the gardens of the Pa- 
lace. On the morning of the 16th, in 
the church attached to the college. and 
in the presence of the Prince and his 
family, they resigned their Chinese at- 
tire and assumed the conventual dress. 
They are the sons of Chinese Catholic 
parents, and have been brought thither 
with their own and their parents’ con- 
sent, at the expence of the establish- 
ment. 
RUSSIA. 
M. Kriukof’s description of a sea- 
animal which pursued him at Behring’s 
Island, where he had gone for the pur- 
pose of hunting, is very remarkable. 
Several Aleutians affirm they have often 
seen this animal. It is of the shape of 
the red serpent, and immensely long ; 
the head resembles that of the sea-lion, 
and two disproportionately large eyes 
give it a frightful appearance. “It was 
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very fortunate for us,’ said Kriukof? 
“ that we were so near land, or else the 
mouster would have swallowed us: it 
stretched its head far above the water, 
looked about for prey, and vanished 
The head soon appeared again, and that 
considerably nearer: we rowed with all 
our might, and were very happy to 
have reached the shore before the ser- 
pent. The sea-lions were so terrified at 
the sight, that some rushed into the 
water, and others hid themselves on the 
shore. 
UNITED STATES. 
Dr. LYMAN SPALDING, of New 
York, has transmitted to Europe, a 
memoir on the plant which the bota- 
nists call Seutellaria Tateriflora, but 
the people of the country, Sknll Cap. 
This vegetable, according to the Ame- 
rican Doctor, is am infallible remedy 
for the hydrophobia. It may be taken 
at all times; whether the individual 
has been fresh bitten, or the symptoms 
have already appeared, its efficacy will 
be equally felt. The discovery of this 
specific is traced to 1778. Dr. Lawrence 
Van Der Veer, of New Jersey, made the 
first trials of it on anumber of men and 
animals, and they were ever successful. 
At his death, the discovery became the 
exclusive property of the Lewis family, 
of New York, and by them it was gra- 
dually made public. It came, at length, 
to the knowledge of Dr. Lyman Spald- 
ing, who has been studiously circulating 
it among his fellow citizens. He pro- 
duces positive testimony, confirmed by 
a great number of facts. The number 
of men restored to sanity by the Scu- 
tellaire amounts to 850, and that ofani- 
mals to 1,100. 
A person on reading an article ex- 
tracted from the Westchester Herald, 
‘relative to a toad being found in the 
solid part ofa cedar, called at the office 
and related the following circumstance : 
Seventeen years ago, he (the informant) 
was digging a well at Newburg, and, 
after digging through five feet of earth, 
and blasting through eleven feet of slate 
rock; a living turtle, nearly the size 
and about the thickness of a dollar was 
found. It was very soft, but on expo- 
sure to the air soon became hard, and 
was delivered to John Dewint, Esq. of 
Fishkill, On relating this to a gen- 
tleman, he expressed no surprise, but 
stated. a fact, which he said was well 
authenticated—that a person, who had 
marble jambs to his house, often heard. 
the croaking of a toad, whenever the 
fire became warm, and at length was 
indueed 
