COLLECTANEA.

DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE.-On the night of Sunday, Jan. 6, a tremendous storm passed over the country, doing considerable injury. The number of shipwrecks, and the destruction of property on the coasts, especially at Liverpool, were such as have not been known for nearly a century: and scarcely an inland town escaped being damaged by the violence of the hurricane.

The Rev. W. J. Butler, M.A., Nottingham, proposes that the labouring classes should provide against destitution in old age by subscribing weekly or monthly, small sums to purchase deferred annuities, to be paid to them on their attaining 60 or 65 years of age.

On Sunday, Jan. 6, the Rev. Henry Bell was inducted into the vicarage of Ruddington, Notts, vacant by the removal of the Rev. E. Selwyn.

The wharf and building land in Island-street, Nottingham, was sold by auction on Monday, Dec. 17th, by Mr. Peet, in lots at 8s., 12s., and 12s. 6d. per yd. A fine dish of trout was caught on New Year's Day, in Bala Lake. This is considered a great wonder by persons accustomed to fish in that noble piece of water, as the trout there very seldom rise to fly till the middle of May.

COMMERCIAL NAVY OF GREAT BRITAIN,-Great Britain has, including coasters, about 147,000 ships, burthen 12,000,000 tons.-The whole trade of Europe does not approximate to any thing like such a commercial navy.

LONDON DOCKS.-In the half-year ending Nov. 30th, 421 loaded ships from foreign ports had entered the docks, of the tonnage of 88,736 tons, being an increase of 2,337 on the past corresponding half year.

STATISTICS OF INLAND NAVIGATION.-The navigable canals used for the transport of goods and produce in England alone are estimated now to exceed 1800 miles, making together nearly 4000 miles of inland navigation, the greater part of which has been created or rendered available during the last eighty years. The whole extent of navigable canals of the present time available in Ireland does not amount to 300 miles, and, including navigable rivers, the entire water communication does not exceed 400 miles for the whole island.

COST OF RAILROADS.-The cost of the Manchester and Liverpool railway was £30,000. per mile; of the Dublin and Kingstown £40,000.; of the French about £15,000. ; and of the American from £2000. to £6000.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.-The total receipts for 1838 were £14,094. 2s. 9d. and the expense was £12588. 12s. Id. leaving an excess of income of £1505. 10s. 8d. There has been no death among the carnivora during the year.

DOGS.-It has been stated by counsel, that any person who keeps a dog known to bite, loose about his premises, is liable to be prosecuted, if the animal bite a trespasser, and that the law will presume knowledge of the ferocity of the animal on the part of the owner.

FAILURE OF THE BANK OF BELGIUM.-News arrived in London on Thursday, Dee. 30, of the failure of the Belgian bank, at Brussels. This caused a considerable sensation, as its establishment is of very recent date, and its original capital a large one.

THE PRESS. The total number of newspapers whieh passed through all the post-offices of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837, was 42,000,000.

THE JEWS.-The complete emancipation of the Jews in Denmark, according to a letter of the 14th Dec. from Copenhagen, has been voted by the States of that kingdom, by a majority of 32 to 30.

TO PRESERVE POTATOES THROUGH THE WINTFR.-The following hints may be of service to those who have not a dry cellar in which to preserve this useful root during the winter.-When the potatoes are ridged up, ready for covering, let a little straw or dry fern be spread over them, after which let a foot thick of earth be added, chopped, or otherwise rendered as fine as coal ashes; let neither a foot tread it, nor a spade beat it, but leave the whole as light as the soil will admit of; but where the soil is naturally stiff, a greater thickness of it must be added, and the sides of the ridges be left as steep as possible, and the lighter the soil is put on, the more frost will it keep out.

COVENT GARDEN MARKET.-There was a very choice collection of rare vegetables on Saturday, Jan. 6; asparagus selling at from 3s. to 10s. per bundle; French beans, from 2s. 6d. to 4s. per hundred; a few green peas at 5s. the punnet; and potatoes at from 4d. to 6d. per pound. There was an importation of the two latter brought over by the Braganza steamer, from Spain; but the peas met with few buyers. French apples were abundant, but oranges were scanty, and fruit in general maintained standard average prices. Greens of every description were lower than in Christmas week, and very abundant.

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.-From the report read at the half-yearly meeting held January the 8th, it appears that the number of persons rescued from drowning during the past year by the exertions of the society had been 380, of these, 80 cases had occurred in the Serpentine out of 173,976 persons who had bathed in that piece of water from the first of May to the first of October.

ARDENT SPIRITS.-Ardent spirits cost the United Kingdom £50,000,000. annnally; and occasional expenses and losses £50,000,000. more; total 100 millions.

TEA IN INDIA.-Twelve chests of tea grown in Assam, a part of British India conquered from the Burmese, have been imported into this country. It is said to be of very excellent quality, possessing strength without roughness, and aroma without perfume.-Large forests of the plant are said to abound in

Assam.

THE LATE DR. BRITTON.-A monument is about to be placed in the Cathedral Church of Durham to the memory of the late Dr Britton, who for a long period of years was head master of King's School in that city.

Eleanor," the last of the Umfrevilles," is now an aged inmate of the hospital in the Manors, Newcastle. Such is the end of one of the oldest aristocratic families in Northumberland, which for a long term of years dwelt in Prudoe Castle, now in ruins.

TO TAKE STAINS OUT OF IVORY.—Make a light paste of sal volatile, oil, and prepared chalk, and rub it on the ivory with leather. Afterwards put a little more on, and leave it to dry.

TO TAKE GREASE OUT OF SILKS.-If a little powdered magnesia be applied on the wrong side of silk, as soon as the spot is discovered, it is a never-failing remedy, the dark spot disappearing as if by magic.

MURDER OF MILLIE.-After a long and patient investigation of the murder of Mr. Millie of the savings' bank, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a verdict of wilful murder was brought against Mr. Bolam, who, it will be remembered, was found wounded in the same room.

MONTHLY RECORD.

Private letters from St. Petersburgh state, that steps have been taken by the English legation for the promotion of harmony between England and Russia. It was positively affirmed, that a note had been presented by the Marquis of Clanricarde, in which particular mentiou is made of the affairs of India; and, in which, it is remarked that the military expeditlon which the British government in India had undertaken into Afghanistan in favour of Shah Siouja Poll Moolk had no hostile intention with respect to Persia, and that so far from that, the British government would never cease to consider and treat that kingdom as the common ally of England and Russia.

The French Service in Africa.-The Sentinelle De L'Armee draws a woful picture of the state of the troops in L'Algeri. At Algiers only are the soldiers supplied with beds; in all other quarters they sleep in their clothes, and are glad to get a little straw to separate them from the damp earth. The Sentinelle quotes a letter from an officer stationed near Storee, in which he tells his father he would not part with a pair of wooden shoes which he has just procured, for the sum of £8.

The Russians in Circassia. -After a short suspension, the Circassians have recommenced hostilities. By letters from Anapa we learn that, on November 24, a corps of 3,000 Circassian horse of the tribes of the Abages and Tichessenes commanded by the Abagian Prince, Dury Ichnil, and the Russian deserter, Petrowski, made an incursion into the plains of Alazana, where the Russians have lately established military veteran colonics, and sacked eighteen of the new villages, massacring all the men and aged women, and carrying of to the mountains the young women with all the cattle. Contrary to their custom, they refrained from burning the houses, with the exception of an old Hetman of the Cossacks, named Wieygutine, against whom they had a rooted animosity on account of some act of treachery committed by him. The Cossacks of the line and those of the Don, under General Orloff, marched to the assistance of the Colonists, but they had scarcely come within the boundaries of the plain, when they were attacked by the Tichessenes, and driven back with a loss in killed and wounded estimated at 4,000 men, The colonists massacred, are said to amount to 1,500. This event has so much alarmed the Russian Generals, that they have resolved to act only on the defensive, and have concentrated their forces at Leflis, Derbent, Anapa, and Soukoum Kale. Desertion from the Russiau army increases daily.

The American Congress has passed a resolution forbidding the discussion of the abolition question, and deciding "that every petition, memorial, resolution, proposition, or paper, touching or relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to slavery, as aforesaid, or the abolition thereof, shall, without any further action thereon, be laid on the table, without printing, reading, debate, or reference." On the question being put, “Shall the resolutions pass?" Yeas, 198; Noes 6,

Indian Army. It is in contemplation to equip for immediate service the whole of the European corps, artillery and cavalry at Secunderabad, Jaulnah, and Nagpore. It is said that definite orders for the occupation of the Doual arrived in Sept. 13th from Calcutta.

An order has been received at Chatham yard to get in readiness without delay, those fine frigates, the Thalia of 46 long guns, and the Winchester of 36 long 32 pounders, which are expected to be commissioned immediately.

The Right Hon. Thomas Erskine was, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, sworn in a serjeant and a judge.

Mr. Stephens.The committal of Mr. Stephens, the chartist agitator, for sedition and conspiracy, forms a leading feature in the political papers of the day.

The Dock Yards-Orders have been received for the sail makers in the several dock yards to be employed by task and job from Jan. 1, to 31st of March next, and to be paid unlimited earnings.

Great indignation is excited by the murder of the late Lord Norbury. A reward of £2000., and an annuity of £100. are offered to any person who shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the assassin within half a year. It is fervently to be hoped that the murderer will be detected, as a more daring outrage has never been witnessed. All agree in giving the highest character to Lord Norbury as a landlord and a country gentleman.

TELESCOPIC OBJECTS. FEBRUARY.

DOUBLE STARS, &c.-y Leonis, a binary system, the large star white, the small reddish white. Period of revolution 1200 years in a retrograde direction. w Leonis, both stars red 7, p, and Leonis are double. 90 in the same constellation is a triple star. Cancri is formed of six small stars; 0, 4, 3 σ and Cancri are double. is a triple star, and a difficult object; a (Regulus) Leonis is double; σ, and x Orionis are quintuple. Coronæ Septentrionis and e Bootis are exceedingly delicate double stars, the former requires a very large and perfect instrument, but the latter may be seen with a power of 250. In the right fore-foot of the Unicorn is a beautiful triple star, visible with 120.

NEBULE, &c.-Below the southern claw of Cancer is a cluster of stars, in which two hundred have been counted. Near @ Leonis are two faint nebulæ. In the right wing of Virgo, and in the constellation Coma Berenices are great numbers of nebulæ, generally of a faint description.

On the 14th, at 16 hrs. 11 min. the planet Venus will be in conjunction with the Moon, distant only 5′ south, and on the 15th at 19 hrs. 52 min. in conjunction with Uranus, distant 46'south.

The planet Mars exhibits his ruddy orb in the east about 10 at night.

J. R. H.

ERRATA in the Jan. number.-For & in "Telescopic Objects" read 8.-page 62 line 24, for 1838 read 1839,-line 31, for 67 years read 6-7 years.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORT,

From December 20th 1838, to January 20, 1839.

THE most remarkable circumstance during the past month, was the tremendous gale of wind on the 7th Jan.-a gale which has certainly not had its equal since Jan. 14, 1827. It appeared the more alarming as the general tenor of the weather previously had not been tempestuous, its sudden violence creating (and in too many instances not without occasion) the most fearful apprehension for personal safety. On the evening previous to this awful visitation, the barometer fell rapidly, and coutinued to do so till the gale was at its height, but it did not fall so low as on the 28th and 29th of Nov. although the fury of the tempest was incomparably greater. This difference is owing to the wind in the latter case blowing from nearly West, while in the former it was very little removed from the South, and it will always be found that the effect of a gale of wind upon the barometer, will be greater or less according as the wind blows from the South or West.

On the 24th of December there was heavy rain of some continuance from the East, and on the day following a clear sky with a slight frost from the Northwest. On the morning of the 26th, the thermometer stood at 20°, but before night, clouds and rain arose from the South-west. The hurricane before spoken of was succeeded by sharp snow storms, and a frost of three days continuance. On the morning of the 10th, the thermometer was down to 18o, but on the 11th it was up to 519, making a difference of 33 degrees in thirty hours. Frost and snow were again threatened from the West on the 15th, sinking the thermometer on the 18th to 20, but as in the former case, what the West wind produced, the South wind destroyed. With the exception of Dec. 24th and 25th, and Jan. 6th, the wind has scarcely ranged beyond the West on one hand, and Southwest on the other, and yet a very great alteration of temperature has several times been produced by the shifting of the wind upon this small arc of the horizon. The quantity of rain has been much below the average-an unusual circumstance, considering that the frosts have been transient, and the barometer low during much of the month.

OBITUARY.

At his residence at Stowe, on Thursday morning, Jan. 17, in the 63rd year of his age, His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandes. By his death the offices of Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county have become vacant, and also an Order of the Garter is placed at the disposal of ministers.

On Jan. 17th, at Battersea, aged 94 years, Mr. Stirling, the venerable coroner for Middlesex.-He was elected to his office in 1816, after a very severe contest with Messrs. Gude and Taylor.

On the 12th Jan. at the Somerset Hotel, in the Strand, George Bragge Prim, Esq. of Charlton Park, Cheltenham, and of Yeovil, Somersetshire.

On Thursday, Jan. 10, at Cheadle, Staffordshire, aged 46 years, Mrs. Eliza Alcock, wife of Thomas Alcock, Esq. of that place, and only sister of Mr. Richard Sutton, bookseller, Nottingham.

On Jan. 10th, at Paris, aged 88, the Countess de le Fertè Menu, mother of the Duchess de Revière, and whose two grand-sons have married the daughters of Count Molè, the present prime minister of France.

On Monday the 9th ult, at Birstall House, Leicestershire, aged 61—John Mansfield, Esq, formerly one of the representatives in parliament for the borough of Leicester,

On Wednesday, Jan. 9, Lieut.-Colonel James Nicholson, of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines.

On Monday, Jan. 7, at Bilsthorpe, Notts, the Rev. Henry Gordon, aged 43. On Sunday, Jan 6, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. J. Harriman, Poultry, Nottingham. aged 31.

On the 3d Jan., after 42 hours suffering, the Earl of Norbury. He was shot by a miscreant while walking in his own grounds.

On the 3rd ult. after only four days' illness, Lieutenant-General the Earl of Carnwath, aged 70.

On Wednesday, Jan. 2, at her residence on the Barnes-terrace, Mary, relict of the late John Foote, Esq. of Charlton-place, near Canterbury, and mother of Robert Foote, Esq. of Scotholme Lodge, Notts. in her 75th year.

Suddenly, at Vienna, on the 31st Dec. Prince Alexander of Wirtemburg. At Pisa, on the 2nd of January, in the 26th year of her age, the Duchess Alexander Wirtemburg, daughter of Louis Phillip king of the French.

On Tuesday, Jan. 1, at Bilton, near Rugby, aged 65, Mrs. Bridgeman Simpson, lady of the Hon. John Bridgeman Simpson, of that place, and of Babworth, near East Retford.

On the 29th Dec. at his father's house, at Mapperley, Notts. aged 32, Mr. Robert Carver.

At Gibraltar, on 18th Dec. Thos. J. Dundas, Esq. ensign in the 48th regiment, eldest son of the Hon. and Rev. T. L. Dundas, rector of Warpole.

On the 20th Dec., at his residence, High-pavement, Nottingham, John Nixon, Esq., in the 69th year of his age.

On Friday, Dec. 29th, at his town residence, Upper Merrion-street, Dublin, the most Rev. Dr. Lawrence, Archbishop of Cashel.-This is the first Archbishopric that has become vacant since the passing of the Irish Church Temporalities Bill.

On the 22nd Dec. at Florence, the Rev. Hugh James Rose, the principal of King's College.

On the 22d Dec. at Walmer-terrace, Deal, the Earl of Clarendon.

On the 21st Dec., at Paris, at the Abbey of St. Germain des Pres, of water in the chest, M. de Pouqueville.-He was a member of the Institute, knight of the Legion of Honour, and of the order of the Saviour in Greece. He was formerly consul-general of France to Ali Pacha of Janina, and author of the well known travels in the Morea, Turkey, and Albania, from 1798 to 1801, as well as of the History of the Regeneration of Greece.

On the 20th Dec., at Old Field Lodge, Berks, in his 94th year. Sir Wm. Horne, Knight,―a Magistrate and deputy Lieutenant of the county.

On the 12th Dec., at Ellingen, in Bavaria, Field Marshal the Prince de Wrede.-After his death, a ball was extracted which he had received 25 years ago, at the battle of Hanau.

Recently, the Duke de Choiseul.-His remains were interred on the 12th Dec at the family estate of Horie-court in the Vosges.

Suddenly at Cape Coast Castle in Africa, Mrs. Maclean, the wife of the Governor, a lady so very well known in the literary circles under the name of L. E. L.-She was found dead in her room on the 15th of October last. It is supposed that, being troubled with spasms in the stomach, she took an over-dose of prussic acid, which proved fatal to her.

On the 28th Dec., at his son's house in Worcestershire, aged 79, the Rev. Whittington Landon, D.D., Provost of Worcester College. Dr. Landon also held the Deanery of Exeter, and a prebendal stall at Sarum; he was also a Delegate of Accounts. Mrs. Maclean was niece of the deceased Provost.

Lately, at Swansea, in her 75th year, Mrs. Hatton, only surviving sister of the late John Philip Kemble, Esq. and Mrs. Siddons. She was well known in the literary world by the name of "Ann of Swansea."

Lately, at Arundel, in Scotland, the Countess of Buchan.

Lately, at Rome, Cardinal Benvenuti, Bishop of Osino and Cingoli.

Prices of the English Funds from December 20 to January 20.

Bank Stock..
Three per Cent, red..

Three per Cent Consols..

202 to 2031
93 to 938
92 to 94

Consols for Account ........ 92 to 941

3 per Cent, red

New 3 per Cents
Long Annuities

The average prices of grain for the past month have been

Wheat ང་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་ཤ་འཀགའ་འའ་བྷ་ཀ་6)8.@ 86s.
Rye 《་ཤ《་་་ཤའ་ར་གཉའ་་་་་་་་་་་་་་འ་འའ་་འའ་འགན་་་44s. 549.
Barley

《་་་་་་ཇ་

0ats ཀ་་་་་འ་འ་འའའའའའའ་ཤཏ་འའ་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་25s,
Peas ཀ་་་་འ་་འཏ་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་བྷ་388.ང་ 50s.

Beans 《་་་་་་་་་

་་་འཆ་འ་་་་དའ་་378,、,455.

Grain of almost every kind continued to advance till about the beginning of January, when the markets took a turn, and the prices have since been descending.

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