... BIRMINGHAM PnooF HOUSE—The number of guns and pis- tols proved at this establishment during the past year (viz. from March. 1636 M.rrf,, 1837), ,„;Zd thomaud. The charge upon proofs has lately been redu-ed from Is to 3d a barrel. ANECDOTE OF SnAnspEAnE.—Burbidge the actor, while play- ing lUchard the Third, struck the fancy of a fair citizen, who appointed him to call upon her under the name ...

... BANKRUPTS.—William Henry Hunt.of Crown court. Cheap- side, City, dealer and chapman.—Wtuiam Antonio Rocher, late of CHfford's inn passage, Fleet-street, Gity, but now of Broadwall, Blackfriars, wine merchant.—Warner Liddiard and Robert Kitton, of 20, Golden-lane, City, carpenters.—John Green and George FMey, now or late of Birmingham, and of Thavies'-inn, Holborn, City, wholesale jewellers.- ...

... KUBY.—The dealers in precious stones must take care of themselves, for modern science is even superseding the rubies of the East. M. Gaudio has been making rubies so hard, so brilliant, and so perfect, that when one of them was taken to an experienced lapidary to be cut and polished, be pronounced it to be one of the-finest of oriental rubies. EXPLOSION OF STF.AM-BOILEIIS.—The valves being in ...

... MINERAL WATER.—The Induttriel Calaitier states that mi- neral water has been lately found near the sea-baths of Calais, of a quality resembling, but in some respects excelling, those of the Leamington spa. The discovery appears to have been first made by aD Englishman, and the virtues of the water are spoken of by several of our countrymen who have derived benefit from its use bnt no ...

... SPAIN. The following are the details of the disastrous battle, in which two-thirds of the gallant, but unfortunate Legion, vvere destroyed:— On Tuesday 12th, it was observed that on several points along the left bank of the river Oria the Carlists erected works with embrasures for artillery; but as they still ap- peared in little force, and as they are in the habit of making show to erect ...

... Mr. Gilllngwater, a respectable yeoman residing at Navland vas so affected at his son having been transported, that he put I period to his existence by hanging Iiimso, If.-Burii Herald. EATING SWALLOWS' NESTS.-The swallow is often used as one of the trifles of the table. But there is a kind of swallow common in several oriental countries, which builds a nest of a very curious nature and not ...

... The Parisjournalsof Sunday have arrived. It proves not truethattheyarrisons of Irunand Fontarabia have revoked but,on the other hand, the important post of Peuacerrada is taken, which makes the Carlists masters of the couutry near Burgos. This, too, Espartero might have prevented by u few marches. But the Queen's authority over all the province and armies is sacrificed to the pleasure of ...

... The Asia, 84, Captain Fisher, was at Cagleira, in Sardinia, on the 4th of August, getting a supply of water. A few nights previously, a man fell overboard, and though it was dark and the ship was under way, Mr. H. D. Shaw, assistant-surgeon, without hesitation, went out to the end of the spanker boom, and dropped into the water to save him, in which he succeeded, though with some hazard, as ...

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... IMPORTANT TO CREDITORS OF IRISH BANKRUPTS. — The learned Chief Commissioner of the Bankrupt Couit in Ireland, in remarking on a case which came before him last week, in which the bankrupt had creditors to a large amount in England and Scotland, expressed himself tothe following effect: there is a fact which I would wish to make known through the press, and which is a matter of serious import ...

... ECONOMICAL HOUSK MKAT.— It is said to have been proved >y ex|>eiimenls that 1,000 kilogrammes, or 2,205lbs. of oats, nade into 480 loaves, and two of these loaves given daily to a iorse, will keep him in better concfitrOn than six times the quan- ity of oats in a raw state.— Paris paper. The magnificent gold bedstead, and silver rhairs, pieSented )y one of the native Princes of India, to his ...

... r? ^me ™y childhood, tbese lang years forsaken, Doth bless my fond gaze, ance again ere I dee But sad are the thoughts our auld dwelling doth waken,— A hame tis nae langer to mine or to me. The,green sprinkt wi!h daisy and kingcup's before me, Where summer first wooed my frail footstep to stray But where are the arals o'er each hollow that bore me, The loved and the loving,—all faded away! Our ...