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land. Captain Cutl^e lias an agreeable 
countenance; lie is tall and stout ; speaks 
English well; dresses in the cjuakev stjiej 
and wears a large flapped rtbite hat. 
• In the press and shortly will be pub¬ 
lished, An Essay on the Bite of a Rabid 
Animal, by James Gillman, surgeon, of 
High c^ate; being the substance of an 
essay which received a prize troin the 
Roval C>: Jege of Surgeons. 
The Madras Cour’e- 'be''-R"' - 
ing account of the or.iy insrUiiv-e ot sp 
iiTiinolation that has occurred in the 
neighbourhood of Calcutta for several 
months;—Neerierham Dutt, a Hindoo 
of the Coist cast, died on Sunday morn¬ 
ing, at the age of eighty-one years. On 
his decease, his wife, who had attained 
her seventy-first year, forthwith declared 
her resolution to be burnt with her hus¬ 
band, with whom she had lived in a state 
of uninterrupted happiness for sixty^ 
Tears. Accordingly at two o’clock of 
the day of her husband’s decease, she was 
placed^ in a palankeen, being too infirm 
to walk, and borne with the body of her 
husband to Cossypore, where tne cheeta, 
or funeral pile, bad been prepared. 
After ablution in the Hooghly, and the 
usual Brahminical ceremonies, she was 
laid upon the pile, her right arm passing 
under her husband's neck. The signal 
beino- given, her son applied the lighted 
torch, "the pile caught the flame, and the 
pious widow was quickly placed beyond 
the reach of suffering.” 
A Danish paper states, that the dread¬ 
ful whirlpool of Maplestrom, situated to 
the westward of the coast of Lapland, 
has within the last two years increased 
its phenomena. Vessels at the distance 
of eight or nine miles are no longer safe; 
and its vortex, when agitated by a storm, 
will reach them and the larger kind of 
animals, at the distance of ten miles, and 
hurry them into its gulph ! Two vessels 
and their crews, bound from Norway, 
being driven last. summer within nine 
mile's of the Maplestrom, were lost ! 
Bv an Act of Parliament lately passed, 
an incumtjent of any living is einpow ered 
to borrow at tour per cent, of commis¬ 
sioners appointed for that purpose, twice 
the amount of tlie net annua! income of 
his living, for the purpose of building a 
new, or improving his, parsonage-house. 
Tiiis sum, Imwever, is to be restored by 
instalments in twenty years. Should the 
incumbent die before the whole is paid 
off, his successor is bound to discharge 
what remains, in the same proportions, 
and under the samg conditions. Co- 
phical Intelligence, [OcL 1, 
vernment have advanced 50,0G0l. ex¬ 
pressly for this excellent purpose. 
A skilful invention has just been intro¬ 
duced into our dock-ya.ds, for makiiig 
cables for the heaviest ships of spriisg 
-ciiains, so skilfully wrought in iron a* to 
be stronger and more durable than iop« 
cable can possibly be made; and two or 
three line of battle ships are already 
equipped with these iron cables ! 
es brewing tlieir own malt liquor 
may use mirty-two pounds of brviwii su¬ 
gar with two bushels of malt, which will 
produce fifty gallons of ale, as good in 
every respect as if made from six bushels 
of malt, efiecting a saving of 31s. Sd. 
The sugar is mixed with the wort as it 
runs from the mash-tub. 
By a particular mode of culture, the 
onion in this country may .be grown 
nearly in form and size like those from 
Spain and Portugal. The seeds of the 
Spanish or Portugal onion should for this 
purpose be sown at the usual period in 
The spring, very thickly, and in poor 
soil, under the shade of apple or pear 
trees. In the autumn the bulbs will not 
be much larger than pease, w hen tliey 
should be taken from the soil and pre¬ 
served until the succeeding spring, and 
then planted at some distance from each 
other in a good soil, and exposed to the 
sun. The bulbs will often exceed five 
inches in diameter, and will keep through¬ 
out the winter much better than those 
cultivated in the usual manner. 
Two daughters, a daughter-in-law', and 
grandson, of Mr. Macgowan, of New'- 
rv, going lately to walk in the fields, 
picked a fungus, resembling a mushroom, 
of which tliey all ate. They were in¬ 
stantly attacked with the symptoms at¬ 
tendant on taking vegetable poison, and, 
notwithstanding medical aid, fell a sa¬ 
crifice. 
A paper on the alcohol of wine has 
been read to the Royal Society by iMr. 
Braxde. He gave a table of the quan¬ 
tity of alcohol contained in various wines 
and malt hquors; the highest was, that 
of Marcella wine, which contained 26 
per cent, of alcohol; red Champaigne, 
20; Port, from 20 to 24-; Madeira, 19; 
Claret, 15; Cyder and Perry, 12; Ale, 
9; Brown Stout, 8; and Porter, 6. 
An hydrostatic time-piece has lately 
been constructed by the Rev. Johx 
Groce, and is at present in regular mo¬ 
tion, at Shank-hill, near Bray. The ma¬ 
chinery not only embraces the usual 
functions of striking the hours, half-hours, 
4cc. but is also so adjusted a* at reu,ular 
periods 
