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Learning to Swim. — Club Foot in the Horse. Vol. XII. 



green crop than hitherto. But it has been 

 calculate?) thai with respect to nourishment, 

 you would require three acres of wheal to 

 replace one acre of potatoes. Then, can 

 any man look to the condition of Ireland 

 during, I will not say the ensuing six months, 

 but, for the ensuing five or six years, without 

 very considerable apprehensions that the suf- 

 fering of those people may be extreme. That 

 country now contains people to the amount 

 of many millions, living in the most wretched 

 habitations, and feeding upon the lowest and 

 cheapest description of food. I conceive that 

 this condition has been influenced, not by 

 the policy of the Government existing at 

 the present moment, but by Governments 

 long since passed away. I think it but jus- 

 tice to Ireland to assist them by every means 

 in rescuing its people from their present 

 state, and that therefore the House ought to 

 agree to the proposition now before it." 



The effects and extent of the famine in 

 Ireland may be seen in the desolation and 

 almost total destruction of a 'large village 

 called South Reen, in the west part of the 

 county of Cork, which, the Southern Re- 

 porter says, in the early part of the year was 

 composed of sixty-two houses, and contained 

 320 inhabitants, and now has but 50 inhabit- 

 ants and eight small hovels remaining, the 

 rest of the people having died of starvation, 

 and the houses having been broken up to 

 furnish coffins for the dead and fuel for the 

 living. This is one among many such 

 places. 



With respect to the coming harvest, ac- 

 counts generally agree that it will be late, 

 but fully an average. This I think will be 

 found to be the case with wheat, but not 

 with oats, which, in almost every section 

 that I have seen, look thin. The weather 

 has been extremely variable. In the month 

 of May, for three consecutive days, the ther- 

 mometer stood in London at 88, at 50, and 

 75 degrees, being difall of 38 degrees in 24 

 hours, and a rise of 25 degrees in the fol- 

 lowing 24 hours. Rain has fallen nearly 

 every day, in greater or less quantities for a 

 month past, and the mercury has kept so 

 low, that fires and overcoats feel quite com- 

 fortable. In fact the weather is like our 

 March. 



The fluctuations in the corn market within 

 the past two months have been extraordina- 

 ry. The following were the prices on 



May .5ih. June 29th. Julv 3r(l. 



Indian meal por blil. 31 a 33s. 20s. 20 a 20s. 6d. 



" corn white. qr. 70 a 75 39 a 39 a 



" vfllow 08 a 72 38 a .38 a 



Flour per bbl. 47 a 49 34 a 36 32 a 34 



The slightest cloud obscuring the sun for 

 •an instant only, seems to produce a change 



in price either up or down as it may be. 

 Sometimes there is too much rain, up go the 

 rates — then comes a day of sunshine, and its 

 effects are seen as well at the stock market 

 in advancing consols, as at Mark Lane in 

 depressing grain, and so it will be until the 

 gathering in of the harvest. 



The Relief Commissioners of Ireland in 

 the Report just presented to Parliament, 

 state that 1,923,361 rations, at an average 

 cost of 2^d. (5 ct.s.) each are daily distri- 

 buted, and* that 2,022,684 persons are in the 

 receipt of gratuitous relief This will give 

 some idea of the extreme distress prevailing 

 in that island. Yours truly, 



IM. T. M. 



Du. Franklin's Mode of Learning to 



Swim. — Choose a place where the water 

 deepens gradually, walk coolly into it till it 

 is up to your breast, then turn round, your 

 face to the shore, and throw an egg into the 

 water, between you and the fhore. It will 

 sink to the bottom, and be easily seen there, 

 as your water is clear. It must lie in water 

 so deep as that you cannot reach it to take 

 it up but by diving for it. To encourage 

 yourself in order to do this, reflect that your 

 progress will be from deeper to shallower 

 water, and that at any time you may, by 

 bringing your legs under you, and stand- 

 ing on the bottom, raise your head far above 

 the water. Then plunge under it, with your 

 eyes open, throwing yourself towards the 

 Ggg, and endeavouring by the action of your 

 hands and feet against the water, to get for- 

 ward till within reach of it. In this attempt 

 you will find, that the water buoys you up 

 against your inclination; that it is not so 

 easy a thing to sink as you imagined ; that 

 you cannot but by active force get down to 

 the egg. Thus you feel the power of the 

 water to support yon, and learn to confide 

 in that power; while your endeavours to 

 overcome it, and to reach the egg, teach you 

 the manner of acting on the water with your 

 feet and hands, v/hich action is afterwards 

 used in swimming to support your head 

 higher above water, or to go forward through 

 it. — American Agriculturist. 



Clubfoot in the Horse. — A fine black 

 wagon horse, the property of Mr. Millet, 

 miller, of Newton St. Cyprus, was some 

 time since sent to Mr. Tremlett's kennel to 

 be slaughtered, being considered incurable, 

 having a distortion of the foot from a con- 

 traction of the sinew, which made him walk 

 on the front of his hoof, with the heel ele- 

 vated perpendicularly. Being an animal in 

 such good condition, Mr. Trcmlett was un- 



