Scoresby, in his voyage, mentioned a fall of rain, in the Arctic regions, so heavy as to fill the boats repeatedly.

Fires extinguished. The mephitic vapour produced by throwing a handful of flour of sulphur on the burning coals, where a chimney is on fire, will immediately extinguish the flames, on the same principle as it would suffocate any living creature.

Polar Sea. Accounts have reached us, from Admiral Krusenstern, that a Russian officer had accomplished the extraordinary journey of fifty days on the Polar ice, and had arrived at an entirely open Polar sea.

Tenuity of Silk. It is stated by Miss Rhodes, in a communication to the Society of Arts and Manufactures, that one line, from a silk-worm, measured 404 yards, and when dry weighed three grains: hence it follows, that one pound avoirdupois, of the thread, as spun by the worm, will reach to an extent of 535 miles, and that a thread, weighing 47 pounds, would encircle the globe.

New Motion of the Earth.-A writer in one of our philosophical journals, finding himself puzzled to account for the geological anomalies, in which both the Neptunians and the Plutonists leave him, has started a theory of bis own, which, of course, sweeps all difficulties out of the way. It is briefly this: The earth, since its original formation, has been constantly undergoing changes in its relative position; the equatorial regions retreating to the cold obscurity of the poles, and the polar succeeding, in turn, to the life and bustle and verdure of the equatorial. This perpetual, though tardy, mutation, will, be supposes, decipher all the hieroglyphic mysteries of the hard science with which he has to do.

Anatomy.-Some recent discoveries made by Mr. Charles Bell, in that difficult and littleunderstood department of physiological science, the nervous system, have struck out a new view of the arrangement and functions of this part of animal life that will probably lead to an entire change in the anatomical positions hitherto assumed on this subject. The great principle which Mr. Bell has laboured to de velop and establish is, that however perfect the enjoyment of any sense, or however exquisite the function of any part may be, one nerve is sufficient to bestow the power; that for one purpose, no more than one nerve is required, and that the accumulation of many nerves to augment the power, or improve the function, is as untrue in fact as it is unphilosophical in theory. This principle the author has not supported by mere theoretical or analogical reasoning, but has gone very far to set on a firm foundation, by some most interesting and striking experiments; and it must be acknowledged, that such a view as this, of the wonderful structure of the animal frame, is quite consistent with that beautiful simplicity, yet powerful energy, which we find pervading all the works of our great Creator.

Rapid Growth of Horns.-One of that fine elk species, the wapeti, now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, lately cast his horns, as is annually done, close by the skull. In ten days the new horns were several inches in length, and from 2 to 1 in diameter, covered with a fine short fur. The growth of this solid substance proceeded at the astonishing rate of

one inch and a half in twenty four hours, before it began to branch, and afterwards above an inch. Two noble branches now adorn the head of this beautiful creature, measuring nearly two feet between the forks.

Miscellaneous.

Wholesale Smoking.-12,478,000 segars were imported the last year into the United States: and it is calculated that the value of all sorts of segars consumed in the United States in one year, is about 50 millions of dollars.

Fatal Carnival.-An appalling catastrophe occurred on Shrove-Tuesday last, during the celebration of the Carnival at Malta. A number of boys, from 8 to 15 years old, who had been collected together for the purpose of regaling them with refreshments, and securing them from accident in the crowded streets of the city, were assembled and shut in a corridor of a convent. By some lamentable accident, the only light in the room was extinguished; and when one of the doors was opened, the rush of the crowd to escape was so great, that 110 boys were either suffocated or crushed to death.

Lords of the Ocean.-An important legal decision has recently been made respecting the right of proprietorship over certain lands left by the sea on the east and north coast of Lincolnshire. The lords of the respective manors which Neptune bad thus enlarged, received a verdict in their favour, against the claims of the crown.

Honey Imported.—It is said that £240,000 is annually sent out of England to purchase the produce of the bee, all which might be retained, if the culture of this valuable insect were sufficiently prosecuted.

Modern Greece.-The present population of Greece is estimated at 1,269,500; and this handful of men has baffled and withstood, unassisted, the ferocity of the Mahometan marauders, for two years.

Cannibalism.-From careful calculation, it appears that more than a million of bushels of human and animal bones were imported last year from the continent of Europe into the port of Hull. They were thence forwarded to the Yorkshire bone-grinders, and from thence dispersed, at a good price, amongst the farmers in that extensive county, for manure!

"Beware of Dogs."-The dogs in Vienna are about 80,000 in number, that is, one to every human inhabitant. They consume every year about 3000 oxen, and 1,500,000 loaves of bread!!!

Juvenile Convicts.-A new arrangement is in future to be adopted in the manageinent of the juvenile convicts of this country. The Bellerophon convict-ship, at Sheerness, is to be wholly appropriated to the reception of these youthful delinquents; where they are to be taught useful trades, by men who are also convicts, particularly those of shoe-makers and tailors and it is intended that they shall be employed in making clothes for the whole establishment of convicts throughout the kingdom. The superintendent of the convict establishment reports, that there were 3031 prisoners on board all the convict ships on the 1st of April.

French Gaols.-The average occupation of the gaols of France, during the last thre

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QUERIES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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Can the art or science of Ventriloquism be communicated to others, or is it a natural gift? 2.

Suppose the earth to be perforated through its centre, and an iron ball of any given diameter to be thrown into the hole from the surface, what would be its progress and varieties of motion; until it obtained perfect rest at the centre ?

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Has the Plough or the Loom been of the greater benefit to mankind? And is it probable, that a knowledge of either, once obtained, should ever be lost?