MISCELLANY.

MAIL ARRANGEMENTS FOR INDIA AND CHINA. -Steam intercourse with India is likely to be arranged in a manner to meet the wishes of all parties interested in the subject; and a rapid and most efficient communication will ere long be carried out, by means of powerful vessels to be employed by the Government of India, and probably by the Peninsular and Oriental Company. Without pledging ourselves to details, we believe the following to be a correct outline of the arrangement at present contemplated. There is to be a bi-monthly instead of a monthly intercourse. The mails which leave London and Calcutta si multaneously on the 1st day of every month, are to be conveyed by the East India Company; those leaving on the 15th, by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, if they obtain the contract; and the distance between London and Calcutta, and vice versa, is to be performed in forty days. The effect of this arrangement will be as follows:The mail leaving London on, say the 1st January, will be conveyed vid Marseilles and Suez to Bombay, whence letters will be transmitted, as of India,

have been two other persons, and that the executioner may have belied him. Besides this, I must confess that two things are suspicious to me in the extreme: he first told me that the executioner who told him the story had been the executioner of Stoddart; on another day I asked him which of the two executioners had put Stoddart to death, and he replied he did not know!" The doctor also says:-" A caravan arrived here some days ago from Bokhara; and ask whom you will, the invariable answer is, They may be alive, for nobody has seen them executed, and the Gosh Bekee, or prime minister, who for five years was supposed to have been put to death, has suddenly come forth alive and well from prison.' The chief of the caravan of Bokhara, Mullah Kareem, who leaves that city every two mouths, and has a wife there, told me two days ago, that if any one asserts that he has seen the execution of the two eelchies, (ambassadors,) he is a liar!"Asiatic Journal.

DOCK YARDS OF FRANCE. -The number of

laborers employed in the several dock yards on the west coast of France at present, is 10,170, of whom 3465 at Brest, 1102 at Rochefort, 1212 at L'Orient, and 1127 at Cherbourg; besides 1000 artificers, &c., of the artillery, and 2053 other laborers on the marine works connected with the last-mentioned of these ports. The cost of the matèriel of the French navy is estimated at about twelve millions sterling, or 298,463,000 francs, and out of this sum the ships themselves, without any of their equipments, are estimated to have occasioned an outlay of nearly £2,500,000. From the year 1826 to 1830, inclusive, the yearly consumption of hemp for cordage amounted to 2450 tons; it does not exceed at this time 1470. A ship of the line, with her entire equipments, is estimated to cost the state a sum of £116,000; for instance, the Hercules, which conveyed the Prince de Joinville to the Brazils, did not put to sea for less than £117,580, in which sum, however, some extraordinary disbursements are included.-U. Serv. Mag.

and to Ceylon; those for Calcutta reaching that city on the 10th February, so that answers may be despatched by the homeward mail of the 15th, to be brought by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's vessels, calling at Madras and Ceylon to take up the Bombay and China letters, which will arrive in London on the 25th March, in time to permit of replies by the outgoing mail of the 1st April, vid Bombay. In the same manner, the mail leaving London and Southampton on the 15th January, will be conveyed by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's vessels vid Suez to Ceylon, where they are to drop the mails for China and for Bombay, and then proceed onwards, calling at Madras, to Calcutta, arriving there on the 25th February; thus allowing time to answer by the homeward mail leaving on the 1st March, and reaching London by way of Bombay on the 10th April, to which replies may be transmitted by the outward mail of the 15th April, which will convey despatches to Bombay, China, Madras, and Calcutta, by way of Ceylon. The intercourse with China will be monthly, the Peninsular and Oriental Company having undertaken the conveyance of a mail, which will be forwarded from Ceylon immediately on receipt of the outward mail of the 15th of every month. In order to carry these arrangements into effect, the East India Company are to provide three new vessels of competent power. The Peninsular and Oriental Company, to fulfil their part of the undertaking, pose as a toast, "Success to Practice." Drunk

have ordered an iron steamer of large power; they have also purchased the Precursor, conditionally, for £50,000, and offered $23,000 for the

India.-Asiatic Journal.

SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MEDI

CINE. This is a small but very select society, composed of physicians, surgeons, and general practitioners. Its object is the mutual comparison, so to speak it, of notes, for general edification. It meets once a week, at the house of each member in rotation. At the last meeting

The chair was taken by Dr. Hookie, at the head of his own tea-table. The worthy chairman, with a cup of Hyson in his hand, begged to prounanimously.

The secretary (Mr. Jones) then stated that Mr. Baggs had a communication to make to the Society.

Mr. Baggs would, with permission of the Society, relate an interesting case. The patient was an elderly lady, ætatis 65; her complaint was a sinking at the stomach, accompanied by a singing in the ears; together with a nervous affection, described by herself as "alloverishness." He (Mr. Baggs) had called the disorder Debilitas, and Tinnitus Aurium. Ordered-Pil. Micæ Panis, box one, -three pills to be taken every night: and a sixteen ounce mixture, composed of Tinct. Carda

DR. WOLFF.-Capt. Grover has received a letter from Dr. Wolff, dated Meshed, March 24. The doctor fell in with Saleh Mohammed, called the Akhoondyadeh, whose circumstantial statement of what he said people told him of the execution of Col. Stoddart and Capt. Conolly, was published in all the papers. The doctor thus writes:-" Saleh Mohammed told me that the two persons who were put to death, and of whom he gave a circumstantial account to Col. Sheill, may | mom: Comp. drachms ten: Syrup: Simp.: ounces two: and the rest, Aqua: three table spoonfuls | rated the sensation caused by the lavish generosity

three times a day. The patient had been two months under treatment - expresses herself to have been done a world of good-but should like to go on with the medicine. He (Mr. Baggs) considered that he had been very lucky in his patient, and only hoped he might have many such. A member here suggested the propriety of drinking her health. (No, no; and laughter.)

Another member thought that Mr. Baggs had made a good thing of it.

Mr. Baggs rather flattered himself that he had. He had charged "Iter," each visit, 5s., besides medicine, and he had seen the case daily.

The same member wished, if it was a fair question, to know what might have been the prime cost of the drugs?

Mr. Baggs said that the tincture in each bottle,

he should think, was about threepence-halfpenny, and the syrup perhaps three farthings. The aqua was an insignificant fraction of the rate on that fluid; as was the Panis of the baker's bill.

One member considered that a few powders, now and then, might have been sent in. Another would have applied an Emplastrum Picis to the Epigastrium. It would have been 3s.

Mr. Baggs thought that a little moderation was sometimes as well.

The Society, generally agreed with him.

Dr. Dunham Brown then recounted an instructive case of gout, occurring in an alderman. He had been in attendance on him for a twelve-month, and had taken, on an average, three fees a week. The Chairman next read a valuable paper "On

Professional Appearance," in which he strongly A discussion ensued respecting the advantages of spectacles in procuring the confidence of paThe Chairman inquired who was for a game at whist? Several members answering for themselves in the affirmative, cards were introduced.

recommended black gaiters.

tients. At its conclusion

The Society separated at a respectable hour.

Punch.

of the Monarch who appears to "hold the gorgeous East in fee." We are too busy a people to mind portents long: it is very doubtful whether, were some of those green knolls once said to be the haunts of "the good people," to open at our feet and reveal the elves gambolling in caverns rich as that in which Aladdin found his lamp, the marvel would excite more than an exclamation of momentary surprise. The Imperial visit has come and gone like the lightning, "which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens." If the Emperor-instead of, as is probable, merely gratifying a momentary whim-calculated upon exciting a sensation in England by his meteor-like transit, he has reckoned without his host. Spec.

POLICE INTERFERENCE IN GERMANY.-An En

glishman is just arrived in a German town, with youths under his care, for the finishing of their education. Some of these youths are nearly grown to manhood. They have their guns and pistols, and practise at a mark, or at

birds, in their tutor's garden. A flock of sparrows settles on a tree; they fire at them. A man in a neighboring garden raises his head and gazes sternly and significantly at them. Presently arrives a policeman, with a long printed paper of regulations against the shooting of birds, with all the pains and penalties. The youths lay aside the fowling-piece, and amuse themselves with shooting at the sparrows with pellets of putty, sent from a sarbacan or blow-gun, blown by the mouth. Presently appears again the grave servant

of justice, with another long printed paper, showing how strictly it is forbidden to kill singing birds, with a a list of those which are decided by the wisdom of the government to be singing birds, and the various fines for such offences, mounting up in severity from a tomtit to a nightingale, the penalty for whose death is five florins, or 8s. 4d. Guns and blow-guns being thus spiked by the police, the unfortunate youths betook themselves into the open wood behind the house, where they supposed they could molest no one, and amused themselves with firing at a mark with a pistol. At the very first crack, however, out steps a wood policeman, in his long drab coat with green collar, seizes the pistol, pockets it, and walks off. Astounded at this proceeding, the youths for some time desisted from all sorts of shooting; but, tempted one day by a handsome brass cannon in a shop-window in the city, (what do these shop keepers sell little brass cannons for?) they immediately conclude that with cannons you may shoot. People do not shoot singing-birds, at all events, with cannon. They therefore bought the cannon; and to avoid all possible offence, they carried it into the mountains, and far up there, in a rocky hollow, they commenced firing their cannon at a mark on the wall of a precipice. Bang goes the little cannon, back it flies with the shock, -out starts a policeman, and puts it in his pocket!

A GLIMPSE OF FAIRY LAND.-The Emperor of Russia is the only existing representative of the Emperor of the Fairy Tale or Arabian Nights' Entertainment. For fair speeches and rich gifts on every side, there has been nothing heard of like him since the little girl out of whose mouth came lilies and roses whenever she opened it, and out of whose hair was combed pearls and diamonds. He scattered his drafts for 1,000l. or 500l. about him with as much nonchalance as a stage Cræsus could distribute bits of white paper. Lords of the Household have received his Majesty's portrait set in diamonds; Equerries, his "cipher," similarly adorned; maitres d'hôtel have diamond rings; and even menial domestics have gold boxes, rings, and watches. In reading of this shower of good luck, one is carried back in imagination to the days of Danaë; Sinbad's Valley of Diamonds rises to the view-a fat cook setting a delicate The patience of the youths was now exhausted. roast before the Autocrat, which is withdrawn They demanded, "What! cannot we even fire a with a jewel sticking to it. But the provoking child's cannon?" The reply was, "Nein, das ist part of the story is the imperturbable phlegm with am strengsten verboten." "No, that is most which John Bull endures this vision of Fairy- strictly forbidden." The youths, with English land opening for a moment in the midst of his spirit, protested against the seizure of their cancommonplace world. The Chelsea Bazaar, Mr. non. "Good! good!" was the answer, and the Ward's motion about the Irish Church, the Sugar- next day they were summoned to the Amt-house, duties, a hundred other topics of the day, each in and, on the clearest showing of the printed reguturn driving out the other, have already oblite- | lations, fined ten shillings.-German Experiences.