was spirits, but 'tis only water.' He was next branded on the forehead and cheeks. While the blood was flowing, the wounds were rubbed with gunpowder, so as to render the circular marks, nearly as large as a halfpenny, quite in delible, except by excision.

"The woman screamed and groaned terribly during the infliction of the strokes. When loosened, she seemed to faint, and was laid upon the earth, and then covered with a shoob, or sheep-skin pelisse.

"Two boys and a woman next received the pleti, or whips. By turns, their bodies being partly uncovered, they were laid flat down with their faces on the ground, and were held firmly by a number of assistants. The executioner, standing on the right side, inflicted a certain number of strokes, and then as many while on the left. All the sufferers cried most bitterly; and, indeed, this mode of punishment, although apparently peurile, is extremely severe. It leads to the most indecent exposure, and could be only tolerated in a demi-civilized or barbarous country."

DR. LYAL'S TRAVELS IN RUSSIA. There is a good description of the rapidly rising port of Odessa, to which, however, we only refer, as several interesting letters on the same subject appeared in our pages some time ago. From Odessa the travellers went by Kherson, across the Dneper, and Dr. L. gives us the following anecdotes of a Tartar in that neighbourhood:

ANECDOTES OF A TARTAR. "We were not sorry that Oxman, the only Tartar whom we had met since leaving the Armianskoi Bazar, had been detained here; especially as he spoke a little Russ. He was a good specimen of his countrymen; tall, well built, with an open, pleasing, and interesting countenance, and full of good humour. We begged the officer to ask him to his house. In a long conversation he spoke of Abraham, Isaac, Jesus Christ, and Mahomed (whom he called Mam-bed,) as great prophets, and with great reverence; and he seemed to have some just ideas of the Divine Being and his attributes. When we alluded to rewards and punishments, he said, “My body may be thrown to the dogs, provided my soul goes to the houris.' He was a married man, and informed us that, though a Tartar was permitted to have four wives, it was not lawful to sleep with more than one of them

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the same night. He also stated, that he was allowed to shave his beard till he had attained forty years of age; but that after that such a practice was absolutely condemned. He concluded emphatically in these words, “for my part, rather would I allow my throat to be cut than my beard to be shaved.' We remarked, that the heads of the Tartars were generally shaved, even of the youths; that some had them but partially shaved; and that many were quite bald, except a tuft of hair upon the crown. A Russian who was present said, he supposed this tuft was left by the Tartars that Mahomed might seize them, and pull them to Paradise after, death. To which Osman, with great vehemence, replied, “You Russians let your hair grow thick and long, that your prophet may have a good hold in dragging you to heaven."

CUPID'S WRIT.

FOOTE versus HAYNE,

CUPID, by the grace of Venus, of the United Empire of Love and Beauty, Slayer and Piercer of Hearts, to the Sheriff of Notoriety greeting: We command you that you take Hayneous Peagreen and Berkeley Hunt, if they shall be found in your bailiwick, and them safely keep, so that you may have their persons before our Ministers of Hymen, in Arcadia, on the morrow of St. Va

lentine, to answer Thalia Foote-it, in a plea wherefore with guile and deceit,

the heart of the said Thalia at self-interest they broke, and other indignities to her did, to the great detriment of the said Thalia, and against our dominion. And also, that the said Hayneous and Berkeley may answer the said Thalia according to the custom of our Temple of Hymen, in a certain plaint of stupidity and vanity, to the loss of the said Thalia of two children; and have you there this mandate. Witness, Diana, at Ephesus, the twenty-first day of December, the three thousandth year of HENRI. our golden reign.

NUMERICAL ACCURACY. We find Mahommed very exact in his punishments of the guilty in another world. The slightest of sinners will be confined in hell 901 years, so very hot as to make the brain boil through the scull: but downright sinners for 9000 years, in a place where the beat is seven times more horrible.

PUNS.

Those, who know any thing of the origin of sterling wit, must be aware that, for many years past, there has been established, about mid-way between Kensington and Shepherd's-bush, a manufactory of puns of so light and portable construction, that they have come into use among a certain party of wits and politicians all over the country. A few, however, of the latest productions of this manufactory show either great decay in the machinery, or great carelessness in the management. "Wherefore," said his Lordship," does Mr. Hone call his tincture of the almanacks the Every-Day Book?" "I suppose," said the wit, "because nobody ought to read it upon Sunday."

This is bad enough : "but it is nothing to the following.—Ã tom cat, coloured not unlike a hare, was descried mousing in the pleasure-grounds one morning, and off went the wit, hound, and beagle, full chace after his tabby majesty, who "Well," said his Lordship, have you was caught, killed, and carried home. had a farce?" "No," said the wit, it has been a tragedy; for (pulling tom from under his coat) there is the cat-as-trophy.".

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When Marquis Wellesley, as Governor-General of India, gave an order for the black troops to appear in boots, the Hindoos urged, as a plea for exemption, that the sacred veneration due to the cow forbade them to wear any garment made of the skin of an animal to whom worship was due. This petition was presented by the black captains, who received from his Excellency the Governor-General a full permission for all private native soldiers to come to parade without boots; but that, if any aspired to the rank of Captain, they must appear in complete uniform, including cow-skin boots. However, his Excellency did not insist that any native should become an officer; they were all free to serve as private soldiers, in compliance with the religious prejudices they were so anxious to retain. In a short time several of the black captains asked an audience of Lord Wellesley, and shewed themselves equipped in boots. They were immediately promoted, and all the others followed their example: whereas, if the Governororder, a mutiny might have ensued, General had arbitrarily enforced his

THE FIRST EARL OF CARLISLE,

When this magnificent nobleman journeyed to Holland, he paid the innkeepers where he did not travel, because they might, unknowing of his route, incur expenses in preparing for his reception.

"Let thine Eye descend "To trace with patient Industry the page "Of Income aud Expense."-Shenstone.

KITCHEN STUFF.

Some housekeepers allow their cooks a certain sum instead of the kitchenstuff. Give those you are obliged to trust every inducement to be honest, and no temptation to play tricks. A kitchen-stuff merchant gave us the fol lowing anecdote of the History of Grease:-"Some cooks will strip your meat of its fat-crib your candles cabbage your potatoes, &c. to increase the contents of their grease pot; nay, are so naughty as even to cheat me! Do you know that, after melting 20 pounds of fat, that I have found almost half that weight of potatoes, which when nicely mashed, and stirred well into the hot dripping, alas! worse luck, I cannot detect till melted!!"

BEER AND TABLE BEER.

Beer should be at least a month in your cellar to get settled and fine before it is tapped. If you have good and capacious cellars, desire your brewer, about the months of March and October, to lay in the quantity of beer that will last the family for at least six months-or if you have room to contain enough to carry you through the whole year, the brewer will engage that it will keep good and fresh the year round; and if it becomes too stale will take it back and change it for fresh. This is the best plan of having good beer.

It is a good rule not to draw more than half a pint per head-we mean this for the kitchen dinner; for the present fashion has voted that Sir John Barleycorn's old English cordials are extremely ungenteel in the parlour: however, the saccharine and mucilaginous material of the malt, and the astringent and tonic power of the hop, render good beer a much more nutritive and strengthening beverage than any wine.

If more beer is drawn than is drunk at dinner, put a piece of bread into itand it will be almost as pleasant drinking at supper as if it were fresh drawn.

LUNCHEONS AND SUPPERS.

In serving luncheons or suppers, the frugal housewife will forbid all cutting up cold ham, tongue, &c. into slices, to make what those whose eye requires more pleasing than their palate does, call pretty dishes.

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Meat should be cut at table as well as bread, if either economy or enjoyment be desired; it not only prevents waste, but preserves the flavour and succulence of it till the moment that the mouth is ready.

Some cooks, to make cold meat look smart, cut off the outside slices every be done, because the first person helptime it goes to table. This should never ed will not like the outside-but expect in the kitchen should be repeated in the the ceremony which has been performed parlour.

COLONEL BOSVILLE.

had his dinner on the table exactly two The late hospitable Colonel Bosville minutes before five o'clock-and no guest was admitted after that hour, for he was such a determined supporter of punctuality, that when his clock struck five, his porter locked the street-door, and laid the key at the head of the dinner-table; the time kept by the clock in the kitchen, the parlour, the drawingroom, and the watch of the master, were minutely the same; that the dinner was ready was not announced in the usual superlative time-keeper himself declarway; but when the clock struck, this ed to his guests

"Dinner waits."

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1. THE FLOWERS OF LITERATURE.

No. CIX. [or

Vol. IV.

Extracts from Dr. Kitchener's Journal..
Conversazione of the Editor ..........
The Rock and Fortress of Gibraltar....
Chronology for the Year 1824..........
A View in the Horse Bazaar .......... 394

THE Harbour of Boulogne was, during the last war with France, of considerable importance to us, and was indeed an object of vast and intense anxiety. The immense armament prepared in the Harbour for the invasion of the opposite English coast, by an almost countless flotilla of gun vessels and transports for troops, made it to the natives of Britain, appear the very centre of the warlike preparations of NaVOLA IV.

poleon, and the object of an incessant vigilance to our fleets of observation an object of attack, whenever the state of their preparations indicated unusual activity, and at all times a spot kept in the eye of the administrative government.

Our engraving shows the sea view of the fort, batteries, and the town, the neighbouring heights, with the then unusual encampment of troops, and the

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