accompanied with rain and lightning, came on. The beautiful spire of the church, which had been consecrated only on the 1st of August preceding, attracted the electric fluid, and was immediately rent to atoms. Some of the stones fell upon the roof, which caused it to give way, but it so fell upon the pews, that only one female lost her life; five others were dangerously wounded, and many suffered from bruises.-Dublin Evening Mail.

EXAMINATION OF A MUMMY.Paris, October 7.-A few days ago one of the mummies in the museum of the Louvre was opened. It was one of the finest of the valuable collection made by the chevalier Drovetti. According to the hieroglyphic inscriptions, this mummy, which was the embalmed body of Nouté Mai (the beloved of the Gods), had been, during a few years, one of the priests of Ammon. It was enclosed in a kind of pasteboard, richly ornamented on the outside with figures of Gods, and symbolical animals. The preservation of this funeral covering was perfect, it having been originally protected by two wooden coffins, in which the mummy was conveyed to Paris. The pasteboard was untouched by decay, and in the same condition as when it at first came from the hands of the embalmers. As soon as it was opened, the minute pains, which the Egyptians bestowed upon the arrangement of their mummies, was observable. The successive unrolling of the cloth and ligatures which bound the body manifested the various operations which were gone through by the embalmers, and of which the following is the description:First, After the process of desciation by the natron had been finished,

the dead body, enveloped in a sheet, had been plunged into a vessel of boiling bitumen, which penetrated every part in such a manner as to form, in crystallizing, a bed of solid bitumen surrounding both the body and the sheets in which it was wrapped. The back of the head had alone been exempt from immersion in this penetrating liquid. Secondly after the immersion, each member had been enveloped by bandages-the fingers first, then the arms, and the legs, separately, and, lastly, the entire body, which by means of different pieces of linen placed upon the front of the neck, the breast, the loins, the abdomen, and upon the outside of the arms, and the thighs, &c. and kept firm in their place by innumerable turns of the bandages, preserved the just proportions of the living body. This dressing concealed the excessive meagreness of the corpse, which was, in reality, reduced to skin and bone by the natron.

When the body was completely unrobed, the head was discovered to have been shaved, a custom which literary antiquities, as well as ancient monuments, prove to have been adopted by the Egyptian priests. The teeth remained in their place, and an attentive examination showed that the individual had been about forty years of age when he died. A leaf of gold covered the mouth, a plate of silver lay upon the breast, and straps of coloured leather hung from the shoulders. The cavities of the eyes were filled with plugs of linen, which, like the bandages, had been soaked in oil of cedar, a celebrated preservative against corruption. The interior of the head was empty, but the envelop of the brain was preserved. Drops of pure bitumen, of extreme brilliancy and some

thickness, were found upon the breast, between the thighs, and upon other parts of the body.

7. QUEEN OF PORTUGAL.-The young queen of Portugal arrived in London, from Bath, on Monday the 6th, and took up her residence at Grillon's hotel, Albemarle-street. In Marlborough, Reading, and the other towns through which she passed on her journey, she had been loudly greeted by the people. Next morning a deputation of the Portuguese nobility, gentry, and principal merchants at present in the metropolis, waited upon her majesty, to present an address. Some of the most distinguished members of the deputation were introduced to the queen by the marquis de Palmella, as the Portuguese minister, previous to the presentation of the address. The deputation were subsequently introduced into the presence of her majesty, who was attended by the marquis de Barbacena, lord Clinton, and sir William Freemantle. The Brazilian minister, and several gentlemen attached to the Portuguese and Brazilian legations, were also present. The following address was read by the marquis de Palmella:

"We trust your majesty will allow us to have the honour, this day, of fulfilling the most sacred and most pleasing of duties. A number of faithful subjects of your majesty, present themselves to-day at your majesty's feet, and hope that you will deign to accept, in conjunction with the declaration of our homage and respect, the expression of delight which we feel at the arrival of this happy day, when we have the felicity of being in the presence of our beloved and revered sovereign. It is unnecessary, madam, to use superfluous

words to express our sentiments of attachment and loyalty to your sacred person; our presence in this country, and in this place, fully proves the sincerity of our attachment. Your majesty is now surrounded by persons who have voluntarily risked their all, and sacrificed every thing to maintain their honour and keep sacred the oaths which they had sworn to your majesty and to your august father, the magnanimous and generous legislator of Portugal. But we this day regain the best part of what we have lost. Here we still have a country, the true centre of which is the diadem which encircles the august brow of your majesty, by the grace of God, and by virtue of legitimate right, and of which no human power can ever deprive you. May your majesty deign to accept the homage of our vows, which are in accordance with those of all Portuguese who have been driven from their homes by tyranny and a government founded upon usurpation; and which are also in accordance with the sentiments, equally fervid, though from necessity silent, of many other faithful subjects of your majesty, which terror and chains compel them to bury in the bottom of their hearts."

To which her Majesty made the following answer:

"Faithful Portuguese,-I am grateful for the sacrifices you have made for my sake. Believe me, I shall never forget the martyrs of legitimacy." The members of the deputation were then severally presented to their sovereign by the marquis de Palmella. The duke of Wellington and lord Aberdeen arrived shortly afterwards, for the purpose of welcoming her majesty on her arrival in the capital. They

came in their state carriages, were dressed in military uniform, and decorated with their several orders. Messages of congratulation were also sent from his Majesty at the royal cottage at Windsor.

8. FALCONRY. The duke of St. Alban's, Hereditary Grand Falconer of England, gave a grand day of falconry, at Redbourne. Among the party who were invited to partake of the entertainment, were the mayor, aldermen, townclerk, sheriffs, and coroners of the county of Lincoln, the neighbour ing gentry, and the tenants of his grace. The birds, eight fine falcons, were each chained to a section of a cone of wood, about fifteen inches in height, and ten inches in diameter at the base. They were unhooded, but belled, and mostly sat at the top of their posts. Six of them were taken for the sports of the day.

1st Flight.-A dog having pointed, a hawk was unhooded and loosed; it rose wheeling over the heads of the party, sweeping to the right and to the left; now rising into mid-air in the distance, and now attentive to the hawker's call, gradually contracting its range of flight, and narrowing its circles; descending suddenly to the surface of the earth, and then rising again with equal abruptness. The partridge was flushed, and flew with the wind, towards the company; the hawk marked it with apparent unconcern, and as if little disposed to take the same direction; yet, without exactly pursuing any track, he gradually neared it to within a certain distance, when he suddenly crossed on the bird's line of flight, and, seizing it at a height of thirty or forty yards, bore it in his beak, bleeding and screaming over the heads of the company, carrying it

down into the belt of a plantation adjoining the road. The hawk was immediately recovered to the hand of the hawker.

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2nd Flight. As soon as the hawk was loosed, the wind carried it with great violence to the east ; and though the hawker exerted his utmost endeavours, the sound of his call did not appear to reach the bird, which kept wheeling in large circles, and making for the east and north-east alternately. length it crossed the road at a distance, and flew off for the woods to the left of the company. The duke galloped after it with "drawers" or lures attached to his girdle, and was followed by a number of other horsemen; but, though they came up with it again, it changed its course, and went off.

3rd. Flight. Though it was evident, from the state of the wind, that there was great danger of losing the hawks by persisting in the sport, a third hawk was tried. A bird was flushed, on which it darted almost immediately, and killed it. A second bird rose, and made across a large field for the company. The hawk was at a considerable distance, but bore obliquely on the same line: all were convinced that the bird would escape: but when it was about half across the field, the hawk, being at a

height of twenty yards above the bird, flew rapidly, as if to pass over it, and then descended in a sudden swoop, curving down with great force, and striking the bird, which had lowered itself, with a violence that made it roll over several times as it fell on the ground. Yet the point of contact was not visible to the eye; the motion, when it was struck, could not be traced; only the effect was visible. The hawk rose again, and crossed

the road; but soon returned over the spot where the bird lay trembling. The partridge again rose, and flew down a lane; the hawk followed it with apparent indolence, but soon made a second dart, strik ing the partridge with violence into the ditch.

LAUNCH OF A FRIGATE.-On the 8th a new forty-six gun frigate, called the Clyde, was launched at Woolwich with the usual ceremonies. She was built upon a plan furnished by sir Robert Seppings, of a light, elegant, and peculiar construction, being round at the stern, the work of which was low, so as to allow the stern chasers to be fired over them. The following were the dimensions:-Length on lower deck, 152ft.; length of the keel for tonnage, 127ft. 3 in.; extreme breadth, 40ft. 34in.; depth in hold, 12ft. 8 in.; burden in tons, 1,081, 29-94ths.

AN OBSTINATE Cow. On Wednesday the 8th, an action was tried in the county court at Preston, before the under-sheriff, by Mr. Joseph Pacey, against Mr. John Ramage, the keeper of the Vauxhall-road watch-house, in Liverpool, to recover damages for alleged negligence of the defendant in omitting to take proper care of a cow, impounded in a pinfold kept by him. The circumstances of the case were of a somewhat singular nature. It appeared, from the evidence, that, about six o'clock in the evening of the 8th of July last, a cow was found wandering in Tithebarn-street in a very disorderly manner, to the terror of the lieges, several of whom it had thrown down; and, for this conduct, it had been seized, and dragged to the pound, kept by the defendant. Here the restive animal determined on making her escape, and, ascend

ing a flight of six stone steps, she proceeded along a passage, and, breaking open a door, found her self in a room where Mrs. Ramage and her family were taking tea. The company ran screaming from the room, leaving her to the uninterrupted enjoyment of the bohea, and, buttered toast. The cow, immediately commenced operations on the good things before her, but from natural awkwardness, overthrew table and tea-service; and, after doing some other mischief, bolted through a door opposite the one at which she had entered the room, and down five steps into a yard, where egress was stopped; and, before she could retrace her steps, Mr. Ramage and his assistants took her into custody, and conveyed her to her original place of durance. The next morning, Mr. Ramage, on visiting the yard, found that his prisoner had again escaped, and he immediately made a search for her. She had climbed a heap of stones, lying in one corner of the yard, to a wall about twelve feet from the ground, along which she had walked (though the wall was but on brick and a half thick) a distance of sixteen feet, and climbed somewhat higher to the top of a shed; this she had walked over, and again elevated herself by gaining the top of a building used as a filecutter's shop. Not being sufficiently acquainted with that part, she at once pushed one of her feet through the sky-light, to the inexpressible horror of Mr. Rockett, the file-cutter, who was at work below. Having extricated her foot, she again ascended, and walked along the roof of a warehouse, the height of an ordinary three story house. This roof proved to be too weak to support the weight of the

animal, and she fell through upon a pile of bags of cotton, and rolled to the floor, where her journeyings ended, for she was found in this room, lying on her side, very materially injured. The owner of the cow had to pay 21. 2s. to the proprietor of the warehouse as compensation for the injury sustained; and he now sought to damages from the pinfold keeper, for allowing the beast to wander. After some deliberation, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 21. 2s., subject to a point reserved for decision as to the jurisdiction of the court to try the cause.-Liverpool Courier.

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9. PAUPER MARRIAGES.-At the Mansion - house, a gray-headed man, upwards of seventy years of age, and his newly-married wife, charged the officers of Bishopsgate parish with having refused to support them, although they belonged to the parish.

The Magistrate.-What could have induced two such objects to marry?

The pauper said, that he could not do without a companion.

The beadle of Bishopsgate ward stated, that the pauper was a regular speculator in wives, and that the female, who appeared by his side, was his fourth spouse. The moment he lost a wife, he was ready to take another, if he could get any parish to portion one of its female paupers off to him. The system was this. When a parish has a troublesome woman, either as a drunkard or prostitute, the officers very willingly give her two or three pounds as a marriage-portion. This fortune is large enough to tempt male paupers to aim at her hand. She has often to make her election between from four or five lovers, but the officers will not

give the cash to any suitor who does not belong to some other parish. The moment the marriage takes place, the parish, to which the female belongs, gets rid of her for ever, and that to which the husband belongs is burdened with both. The present couple were married about two months ago, but they spent the whole fortune in two or three days in gin and beer.

The Magistrate desired, that the pauper's wife, who was standing out of sight, should come forward.

She confessed that her husband was not long paying his addresses to her. They were both widows, and were not likely to have children, and he asked her to speak for a fortune to the beadle, and they would get married.

The Magistrate.And what did you do with the 27. 10s. ?

The old woman replied, that she never saw a farthing of the money; but she belived the beadle kept half. If her husband thought he would have been served such a shabby trick, he would not have relieved the parish of her.

The Magistrate.-How long did you know him before you married him?-I knew him one day, and was his wife the next.

The Magistrate refused to make any order upon the parish-officers in favour of the man, and advised the overseer to take the couple into the workhouse, and to employ them moderately there.

EARTHQUAKE.-Genoa, Oct. 9. After a slight shock of an earthquake last night, about ten o'clock, not perceptible to the greater part of the inhabitants, a more violent one shook the city for about thirty seconds. The oscillation was accompanied by a horrible crash. The greater part of the population,