Reaumur's Mode of preserving Eggs.-Daub the eggs -all over with spirit varnish; this will not only keep them sweet, but they will produce chickens after two years.

Preparation of Ginger Beer Powders.-Take two drachms of fine loaf sugar, eight grains of ginger, and 26 grains of potash (all in fine powder); mix them intimately in a Wedgwood's-ware mortar. Take also 27 grains of citric or tartaric acid (the first is the pleasantest, but the last is the cheapest.) The acid is to be kept separate from the mixture. The beer is prepared from the powders thus:-Take two tumbler glasses, each half filled with water; stir up the compound powder in the other; then mix the two liquors. An effervescence takes place, the beer is prepared, and may be drank off, which must be done directly, or it will become flat.

To make famous Buns.-One pound and a half of flour (a quarter pound left to sift in last) and a half pound of butter cut up fine together; then add four eggs, beat to a high froth, four tea-cups full of milk, half a wine-glass of brandy, wine, and rose-water, each, and one wine-glass of yeas; stir it all together with a knife, and add half a pound of sugar, then sift in the quarter of a pound of flour, and when the lumps are all beat fine, set them to rise in the pans they are to be baked in. This quantity will make four square pans full.

Excellent Dinner Pills.-The following composition is strongly recommended, as superior to any other preparation for Dinner Pills. Extract of Rhubarb Root one drachm; extract of fumitory (fumania officinalis of Linnæus) half a drachm; dried subcarbonate of soda, and fresh powdered Jamaica Ginger, of each half a drachm. Make into 30 pills, one, two, or three, as may be necessary, to be taken about an hour and a half before dinner, with a wine glass of water.

Indian Cure for the Ear-Ache.-Take a piece of the lean of mutton, about the size of a large walnut, put it into the fire, and burn it for some time, till it becomes reduced almost to a cinder; then put it into a piece of clean rag, and squeeze it until some moisture is expressed, which must be dropped into the ear as hot as the patient can bear it.

To produce a Colour which shall appear and disappear by the Influence of the Atmosphere.-Put into a decanter some volatile spirit, in which copper filings have been dissolved, and it will produce a fine tincture; if the bottle be stopped, the colour will immediately disappear; but when it is unstopped, the colour soon returns. This experiment may be repeated frequently.

The Cornwall Correspondent.

On Saturday, a Special Slave Court was held at the Court house here, before his Honour the Custos and a full Bench of Magistrates, for the trial of several runaway and rebellious negroes, who were taken in the woods a short time since, by a confidential party of Black Shots. They were ten in number, including two confederates, for supplying them with arms, powder, and apprising them of the approach of Mr. Sutherland's party. The Jury found eight of them guilty, and acquitted two, who had, as appeared from the clearest evidence of Mr. Coulson, been forcibly carried away in 1817, and detained in the woods. They also recommended one man and one woman to mercy; namely Joe Reid, to Hampden Estate, and Hilltop, alias Peggy, to Miss Williams,-the man from the circumstance of his being a harmless tool of Warren's, and under his tyrannical command, and the woman (who had been grievously misrepresented in former newspaper reports,) from her being in a state of duresse, and under the brutal control of the same man, and having no power to escape with life, if she attempted, it. She was ably defended by Mr. Grignon who made a very eloquent speech from the gist of the evidence, which was contrary to his expectation as well as to that of the Court aud Jury. Here we cannot avoid noticing the highly improper conduct of the public prosecutor-in ́so anxiously interrogating and leading the witnesses to give evidence in support of his notes of examination, which perhaps, were elicited from them in the same way. There was a degree of austerity shewn to the witnesses by other examinators, and we hold it to be a step beyond justice, to resort to such measures. The more delicately witnesses are treated, the greater hope there is of obtaining that which is wanted

Select Thought.

THE TRUTH.

The gradual unfolding of the human mind while in a state of childhood, is similar to that of a plant expanding into maturity. The plant is liable to make too rapid a progress under the influence of an unclouded sun; or to be nipt in its growth by the inclemency of a rigid season. So that mind which is fostered by an overacted tenderness, expands itself too fast for the judgment to strengthen its exertions; or if too much checked by disappointment and adversity, is crampt in its progress to maturity and perfection.

Falmouth:

PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR, BY A. HOLMES,

(Nicholas Currycomb, continued.)

"Gan, dram, trampet, blanderbuss, and thander."

In showing off the traits of character peculiar to the redoubted Nic Currycomb, I omitted in its proper place, a very important consideration in the estimation of this valiant man, that is, a certain propension for res militaris-an itching for martial glory! He would be a soldier, and all the "live-long day discourse of war,"-its arms, "palisados, glasis, parapets, counterscarfes, forts, fortresses, stockades, ramparts, bulwarks, and bastions are his usual dialect," Nothing but military men," as the celebrated con

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jurer said with his book of magical characters. Nothing but military men will suit the calibre of our friend Nic, who, from the cut and button of his surtout to the setting of his hat—from the expression of his phiz to the commanding intonation of his voice, ia à la militaire. By the bye a jack-of-clubs-shaped man looks bad in a surtout. N'importe, one would almost imagine, at times, they saw this youth

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth,"

though the thunder of that cannon were as inert as that other species of it which issues from the mouth of our soldier himself. We need not here detail his successful promotion, from the carrying of brown Beas to the blushing honours with which he is now enveloped, and which he bears with such peculiar naïveté -such a becoming modesty, that none but genius of the first water might be supposed to display.

His conversation, in other respects, is chiefly con

fined to military men-" Nothing but military men ?” If he be a GREAT man- "Ho! I knew him in England-Ah! he is an old acquaintance of mine !—Oh ah! Sir is a gallant fellow, and Colonel you may easily perceive, has associated with none but the very highest of the high,-I-I myself am particularly anxious to avoid the society of persons of the plebeian order-in fact, both as regards myself and family." His gallantry even extends to fetes of the Fancy; but here, alas, our friend shows off with indifferent success, and once or twice he has been known to mistake his man, and what from over-wrought prowess, and fluency of speech, he has had the ugly luck to get pinned up in a corner to the no small alarm of all concerned, and the dis

composure of his nerves and cravat-his muscles and his wristbands-his military courage and exquisite "sensibility, and from which drawn battle, it is said, he has never completely recovered. The Irish maxim of protecting the head by keeping a dacent tongue in it had escaped the memory of our hero on this memorable occasion, and his unfortunate sconce thus suffered from the indiscretion of that mutinous member. But of this enough at present. It is said that he expects still to attain a title ere he quits this transitory scene, and has been heard to mutter' Sir Nicholas Currycomb, K.B.!' "Some men, are like bladders blown up with wind which the least flaw crushes to nothing." Such is the material that swells the vanity of our heroic soldier. He thought, like the mechanic in Rasselas, that "he that can swim needs not despair to fly to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler." But he forgot, that "respiration is difficult even upon lofty mountains, yet from these precipices, though so high as to produce great tenuity of air, it is very easy to fall: and from any height where life can be supported, there may be danger of too quick descent." Let no man henceforth presume to soar too high, lest, losing sight of the spot from whence he took his flight into the " regions of speculation," he may drop suddenly to the ground, and never rise again.

Biography.

ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS.

A correspondent informs us that John Monro, the old man in Glenary, Argyllshire, famed for his singular predilections for immersing himself in cold water, breathed his last on the 15th instant, at the advanced