him. He was knocked down, and so dreadfully bruised, that he lived only a few minutes.

Silk Worms.-Messrs. Heathcote's, lace manufacturers of Tiverton, in Devonshire, have planted several thousand mulberry trees in that neighbourhood, for the raising of silk

worms.

Infantine Arithmetician.-George Noakes, a child only six years and a half old, is said to be possessed of a precocity of talent for calculation, which has scarcely ever been paralleled, and never surpassed. An examination took place at the Gothic Hall, Piccadilly, in presence of a large party. A va riety of difficult questions were propounded to him, to all of which he gave correct answers, with a promptitude and apparent facility that fully justified the expectation excited of his ability. We subjoin a few of the questions and answers as the best evidence of the truth of what we have asserted.

Supposing a person were to take 13 pinches of snuff during every quarter of an hour, how many would he have taken in fifteen years, reckoning 365 days to each year?—Answer, 6,832,800. I

A person is 29 years and a half old, how many minutes has he lived?—Answer, 15,505,200.

Again; supposing him to have had an income of 4d. per minute, how much will he have received?—Answer, 258,420/. In 650 hogsheads of 63 gallons each, how many pints, and how much would they come to at 5d. per pint?-Answer, 327,600 pints-6,8251.

What is the square root of 576 ?—Answer, 24.

What is the square of 576?—Answer, 331,776,

There are two numbers whose united amount is 240, and their difference 52, what are they?—This puzzled him for some time; but he refused giving up the attempt, and at last answered, 94 and 146, which is correct.

While answering these and numerous other questions, the child's attention never appeared to be abstracted from surrounding objects or irrelevant observations, nor, as far as opinion could be formed, did these in the least impede or annoy him.

The child is stated to be the son of a labourer employed in the Docks, to be totally uneducated, and to be actually igno rant of the value which the characters in common use for expressing numerals represent.

Death by Fighting.-Another man has been lately killed in one of the fights, which are a disgrace to the country. His name was Suffield, of Wiltshire. London Paper.

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Dreadful Accident by Fire.-Lately, Mr. William James, an opulent manufacturer, of Coventry, was so dreadfully burnt at the Swan-with-Two-Necks, Lad-lane, as to occasion bis death. The deceased was in the habit of carrying newspapers to bed with him to read, and fell asleep, leaving his light burning. The curtains took fire, and he awoke amidst the flames, a great volume of which he inhaled. He jumped from the bed, and endeavoured to escape. In this state of things the aların was given, and the porter of the inn burst open the door, knocking the deceased down by the effort. The fire was then extinguished, but the deceased died next day; and on being opened, the Surgeon gave it as bis opinion, that he had died from being burned internally.-Morning Post.

Alarming Accident.—A very serious accident lately occurred at Leicester. Before the coachman and guard of the Express coach were seated, the horses set off at full gallop, without a single person being on the outside, to guide or check their progress. Two brothers were walking arm in arm in the middle of the road, the leaders broke through them, dashing one down at each side; the other two horses and the coach passed over one of the men, and he was most seriously injured in almost all his limbs; his arm and leg were broken, and his left foot was nearly crushed to pieces. The other man was severely bruised.

Such accidents should be a warning against ever leaving horses without some one at their heads, or holding the reins. -Morning Post.

King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands.-The Blonde frigate conveyed to the Sandwich Islands the bodies of the late King and Queen of these Islands, who died in England. The Blonde left England in the autumn of 1824; on her arrival at Valparaiso, Mr. Charlton, Consul-General of the Islands in the Pacific, was sent forward to Woahoo to announce the death of the King and Queen, and the expected arrival of the Blonde with the bodies. When the Blonde arrived at her anchorage, she was immediately saluted by nineteen guns from the fort. The day afterward, Lord Byron, and all his Officers, had an audience of the Regent, at which were delivered, in the presence of all the heads of the nation, the presents sent out in the Blonde by our King. The present King of the Islands is Kaukiauli, a lad about eleven years of age, brother of Rio Rio, who died in England. Four days after the arrival of the Blonde, at eleven a.m. the bodies of the King and Queen were landed, attended by Lord Byron and all the Officers of the Blonde dressed in their full uniforms.

On the arrival of the boats at the landing point, they were placed on two funeral cars, and drawn by native chiefs (about forty to each car), to the late room of audience belonging to the Regent, the tomb-house not being finished. Kaukiauli (brother of the late King), and the Princess Nahienaena, were the chief mourners, supported by Lord Byron and the British Consul, the numerous Chiefs of the Island, and the Officers of the Blonde, formed an extensive funeral cavalcade. The Blonde proceeded from Woahoo to visit the isle of Owyhee (about three days' run), and refit there. She an chored in one of the finest bays in the world (now called By ron Bay), which Vancouver was deterred from entering by a coral rock appearing to impede the entrance, but which ac tually forms its principal security. It is a most safe position; and its scenery rich and beautiful. The natives are in nearly the same state as they were when Captain Cook discovered them, in 1779. An American Missionary had arrived there about six months since, whose instructions would, no doubt, advance them in civilization, as those of his brethren had the natives at Woahoo. The Blonde then returned from Byron Bay to Woahoo, and Lord Byron took leave of the King, Regent, and Chiefs. The Blonde was literally laden with stock and provisions of every description, by the natives, who refused payment for any thing they could supply the ship. The Blonde left Woahoo for Karakokooa Bay, where Captain Cook was unfortunately killed. Here Lord Byron erected a humble, simple monument to the memory of the great circum navigator.

The dagger with which Captain Cook was killed, is in the possession of a literary gentleman of the Blonde, who has collected many new, interesting, and curious particulars rela tive to his death, and of the past history of these interesting islanders.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received the Communications of N. N.;—I. H. G.; -N. C. T.;-and those of some nameless Correspondents.

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Cottager's MonthlyVisitor.

JUNE, 1826.

REMARKS ON THE THIRTY-SEVENTH, AND THIRTY-EIGHTH CHAPTERS OF GENESIS.

(Continued from p. 200, vol. 6.)

VERSE 1." AND Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger." The difference in the expressions applied to Jacob and his father, leads us to the conclusion, that he felt more at home in Canaan than Isaac had done-he began to take root there, unconscious, that he was, in his old age, to be transplanted to a foreign land, and to be gathered to his fathers in a far country. We may see, in this part of Jacob's history, an instance of what still happens continually among those who, like him, are training for a better country. Have not you, who observe the ways of the Lord, been struck with his treatment of you in this respect? Do you not find that, when you begin to settle down in your situation, when you look around with satisfaction, and say, "it is good for me to be here," when you delight yourself in your home, your friends, your family, or your comforts, some reverse is at hand? Joseph is not," or "Simeon is not," or "the report of them is evil," or you NO. 6. VOL. VI. . M

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must "arise and flee into Egypt," there to learn that difficult lesson," rest in the Lord, delight thyself in Him, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart."

V. 2. Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher, were the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah. "Joseph brought unte his father their evil report." A child cannot be too open towards a parent, but a parent should never encourage a child in tattling. "The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds," -soon made, but long festering. Whether the evil report which Joseph brought was respecting such actions as it was right for his father to know, or whether the mere love of telling news prompted him to speak, it is impossible for us to say; but this we know, that many a cha racter is injured, and many a bosom wrung, by those who spend their time in "hearing and telling some new thing." "Be not witness against thy neighbour without a cause," is a command, which should make us stop and think, when about to re peat an anecdote to the discredit of some one who is the subject of conversation. Honesty would lead us to confess a fault we have ourselves committed, when there is a cause for doing so, when harm would come of concealing it;-"love thy neighbour as thyself," and you will only disclose his failings in

the same case.

V. 3. Israel loved Joseph more than all the rest of his children, "because he was the son of his old age." Was this a reason? Should he not have checked such an unjust partiality? Should he have suffered it to appear in his conduct? "Doing nothing by partiality" is a rule applying as much to the government of a family as to that of a church. Take care, parents, how you have a favourite. If Jacob could have looked into his children's hearts, and seen the bitter envying and malice that his partial fondness produced, and, if he could have looked forward, and beheld the sorrow it would entail on