1826.] 
mous sum of £39,174,722 is now in the 
Bank of England, standing in the name of 
the Accountant-General of this “ poor 
hunted” Court of Chancery!!! 
It appears, by authority of the printed 
documents of the House of Commons, that 
1,597: persons were imprisoned during last 
year for offences under the Game Laws! 
France. ~The project of rendering Paris 
what is rather absurdly called a_ sea- 
port, by the formation of a canal from Paris 
to Havre, capable of conveying merchant 
vessels, with their masts, sails, rigging, car- 
goes, &c. has already been noticed. ‘Two 
rival plans have since appeared, either of 
which, and especially .the latter, seems to 
be really practicable; the one, by M. 
Berigny, consists in establishing partial and 
occasional canals, rendering the Seine, by 
deepening it and other expedients, the chief 
mode of communication; the other, by M. 
Navier, is the construction of an iron rail- 
way, on which he maintains that goods may 
be transmitted at much less expense than 
by water-carriage. The subject itself has 
undergone Jong, repeated, and interesting 
discussion in the Academy of Sciences, in 
which M. Dupin has taken a very active 
rt. 
Longevity of Animals.—A little treatise, 
by Aristotle, on the length of the lives of 
animals, has recently been republished at 
Gottingen, with notes by Professor Schultz; 
these notes contain a summary of all that: is 
known on the subject by the moderns. M 
Schultz gives an account of some very cu- 
rious experiments on cercerie ephemerce ; 
and although of all vertebral animals, birds 
are those which have the shortest lives, he 
brings forward, in opposition to these be- 
ings of a few hours, the instance of a parro- 
quet, carried in 1633 from Italy into France, 
which was still living in 1743, and which 
consequently was above 110 years old; he 
also quotes the no less remarkable fact of 
a fish taken at Kaysenslautern, in 1497, in 
a reservoir, where it had been deposited 
267 years before, as appeared from a ring of 
copper with which its head was encircled. 
Whales, which according to Byffon live for 
1,000 years, are not forgotten; but M. 
Schultz prudently observes, that the cele- 
brated naturalist may perhaps have been 
deceived on that point. 
Snails.—It is stated by M. De Martens, 
that the annual export of snails (kelik po- 
matia) from Ulm by the Danube, to be 
used as food in Lent at the convents of Aus- 
tria, formerly amounted to 10,000,000 of 
these animals, which were fattened in the 
gardens in the neighbourhood. Before the 
reyoltition in France, large quantities of the 
H. aspersa’ were exported from the coasts 
_ of Aunis'and Saintonge in barrels for the 
_ Antilles; and some are still sent to those 
: nds ‘and to Senegal, for food. The con- 
ion of snails is still yery considerable 
in t depart ents of Lov 
the Gironde. 
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Varieties. 
OF RG alone, itis” 
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estimated at the value of 25,000 frances. At 
Marseilles the commerce in these animals 
is also considerable ; the species eaten are 
the H. rhodostama, H. aspersa, and the H. 
vermiculata. In Spain, Italy, Turkey, and 
the Levant, the use of snails as food is com- 
mon. 
Polish Coinage.—The Emperor Nicho- 
las has ordered the gold and silver coinage 
of the kingdom of Poland to continue te 
bear the bust of Alexander I. as “‘ Restorer 
of the Kingdom of Poland in 1825.:’" on 
the reverse a crown, witha legend, nam- 
ing the reigning emperor, &c. 
The Moose Deer.—The perfect head 
(with the horns attached, and twelve teeth 
perfect in each jaw) and other bones of a 
moose-deer have very lately been dug, out 
of the bog at Killinew, in the county of 
Meath, Ireland. ‘They were deposited at 
the depth of eighteen or twenty feet, and 
are of Jarge dimensions, measuring. as fol- 
lows: head, in length, one foot eight and a 
half inches; horns, from tip to tip, eight 
feet four inches; length of horn, five feet 
eight inches; and greatest width of the 
antlers, three feet one inch. 
Thorwaldsen, the famous sculptor, has 
been appointed President of the Academy 
of St. Luke, at Rome. He is soon ex- 
pected at Warsaw, to fuse the metals, and 
erect the monuments he has undertaken, to 
Copernicus and Joseph Poniatowsky. 
His Holiness Leo XII. has presented 
the King of France with a well known table 
of ancient Mosaic (called the shield of 
Achilles), in gratitude for the protection 
which his Majesty has afforded him against 
the Barbary states. 
Old Coins.—Lately a mason at Bou- 
logne, in digging a foundation upon land 
formerly belonging to the abbey of St. Wil- 
mer, found a bronze vase containing 236 
golden coins. A great number are nobles 
of the Paris mint, in 1426, and coined by 
Henry. VI. of England, then also king of 
France. 
Rules for the Eyes. —The Le-king, one of 
the classical books of the Chinese, contains 
rules for looking at persons: to look higher 
than the face, indicates pride; to look 
lower than the girdle, indicates sorrow; to 
look aslant, indicates perfidy. Ministers of 
state must not look the emperor in the 
face; they may not look higher than the 
vest which binds rounds his neck, nor lower 
than the girdle; they must fix their eyes 
upon his heart, and with profound reve- 
rence wait the high decisions of his sove- 
reign will. 
The Walrus.—The ability of the walrus 
to climb steep surfaces of ice and smooth 
high rocks, which has often astonished Po- 
lar navigators, has been found by Sir Eve- 
rard Home to be owing to their hind feet, 
or flippers, being furnished with a cupping- 
like apparatus, similar, but on- a gigantic 
scale; to those in the feet of flies, which 
enable the Jatter to walk on upright glass, 
