THE TAXIDERMIST. 
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of preserving the natural shape of the rose 
after it has dried, 'i'he same precaution 
should be adopted with the ears, which, in 
the Cat, require but little attention in setting. 
We must again recommend the stuffer to 
see that he has sufficiently applied the pre- 
servative soap ; and the nose, lips, ears, and 
paws, being very liable to decay, must be well 
imbued with spirits of turpentine. 'I his is 
applied with a brush, and must be repeated 
six or eight times, at intervals of some days, 
until we are certain of the parts being well 
primed with it; and, after all, it will be ad- 
visable to give it a single coating of the solu- 
tion of corrosive sublimate. 
The methods of stuffing, which we have 
pointed out in the preceding pages, are ap- 
plicable to all animals, from a Lion down 
lo the smallest Mouse. Animals of a large 
description require a trame-work suited to 
their dimensions ; these we will point out in 
their systematic order. 1 hey are also some 
animals, whose pectiliarity of structure re- 
quires treatment differing a little from the 
ordinai’y course. 
(To be continued.) 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Plate vi, fig. 2, exhibits the manner of 
inserting the wires in mounting a Cat. 
Fig. 8. — The wires as they are put together 
before being placed in the skin ; a, the tail 
wire ; b, c, head and neck wire ; d, e, and f, 
leg wires. 
Fig. l3. — Wire employed for forming a 
double ci-oss in the larger quadrupeds. 
Fig. 12, exhibits the manner of articu- 
lating the joints of the large quadrupeds, in 
setting up skeletons, a, an iron plate ; h 
is the nut which tightens the screw of the 
iron peg ; c is the head of the second iron 
peg, the nut and screw of which are the 
same as that shown in front, and is placed 
behind. 
THE 
SPIRIT OF THE INDIAN PRESS, 
OR 
MONTHLY REGISTER OF USEFUL INVENTIONS, 
AND 
IMPROVEMENTS, DISCOVERIES, 
AND NEW FACTS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE. 
RUSSIAN INFLUENCE IN CHINA. 
We observe, from the following letter in 
the Bengal ITurJcaru, that Russian influ- 
ence is extending in a quarter least expect- 
ed. 
“ You observe, in your paper of to-day, that 
the affairs ot tlie Foreign Barbarians in the 
celestial Empire, appear to have arrived at a 
ciisis. My own impie-sion is, that, although 
the present may be a passing cloud, the crisis 
will verv speedily come in earnest. But 
why ? — whencel- wherefore? Why should 
the “ Outside Barbarians” be either more 
fiercely dealt upon in person, or more ham- 
pered in all their commercial transactions 
than heretofore ? Have the Chinese Govern- 
rpent suddenly become blind to all the bene- 
fits attending their trading relations, with the 
Empire ? Have the Barbarians them.‘;elves 
been guilty of any greater contempt for the 
■^on of Heaven or of any greater violations of 
his edicts touching foreign dirt than they have 
for the past twenty years? Where then 
arises this sudden and loud clatter of edicts, 
this more than ordinary activity of respecta- 
ble functional ie.s not to he allayed even by 
the accustomed bribe ? We .see things, hut 
as through a glass darkly; yet a cau.se occurs 
to me, and 1 know not how it has escaped 
your attention, and that of your contempora- 
nes, which accounts for these things. Mv 
own Idea, and I should like to see it worked 
out by persons more capable, and better in- 
foiuned on suen points. is-That Russian 
influence IS at the bottom of the lohole. The 
eyes 0 / tlm great vulture are never for a mol 
ment withdrawn from the affairs of the ea.st. 
ink not that her astute Government is so 
absurd as to contemplate a “ houra” upon 
Bornbay or Calcutta. Russia knows that 
whatever she may threaten, and her official 
organs do threaten, her advance to the Indus 
must be by sap and mine. The creeping 
process of a siege with all its zig-zags, and 
not a rush after the fashion of Attila or Ti- 
moor. But in the meantime she mav make 
our Indian Empire too costly to he worth the 
hoidtng ; indeed, 1 look upon that as the na- 
tuial termination of our dominion in the East. 
he may embarrass our Commerce and our 
Finances : all that is trouble and loss to us 
IS gam to her. 
In a memoir addressed to the Emperor by 
one of his diplomatic agents, credit is taken 
for Russian policy in contributing to those 
Commercial disasters in this Country from 
which we are but now recovering. Kuissia 
