rounding the place with a ball of fat earth, or loam, bound fast to the branch with a piece of matting: over this they suspend a pot or horn, with water, having a small hole in the bottom just sufficient to let the water drop, in order to keep the earth constantly moist.-The branch throws new roots into the earth just above the place where the string of bark was stripped off.The operation is performed in the spring and the branch is sawn off and put into the ground at the fall of the leaf. The following year it will bear fruit.

To increase the Growth in Trees.-It may be depended upon as a fact, that by occasionally washing the stems of trees, their growth will be greatly increased: for several recent experiments have proved that all the ingredients of vegetation united, which are received from the roots, stem, branches, and leaves, of a mossy and dirty tree, do not produce half the increase either in wood or fruit, that another gains whose stem is clean. It is clearly obvious that proper nourishment cannot be received from rain, for the dirty stem will retain the moisture longer than when clean, and the moss and dirt will absorb the finest parts of the dew, and likewise act as a skreen, by depriving the tree of that share of sun and air which it requires. A common scrubbing-brush and clean water is all that is necessary, only care must be observed not to injure the bark.

Recipe for preserving Lemon or Lime Juice.-Strain the juice through fine muslin or filtering paper, and add as much loaf sugar as is necessary to make it sweet; then put it in a bottle, which must be nearly filled, corked, waxed, tied over with wet bladder, and put into boiling water for an hour. Let it cool gradually, and put it by for use.-Domestic Encyclopedia.

The best mode of preserving lime juice in this climate is to add about 1-20th of pure spirit to it.

Method of increasing the Effects of Gunpowder, and also shewing the Necessity of certain Precautions in loading Fire-Arms. It is a well known fact, which cannot be too often published, that a musket, fowling piece, &c. is very apt to burst if the wadding is not rammed down close to the powder. Hence it is obvious, that in loading a screw barrel pistol, care should be taken that the cavity for the powder be entirely filled with it so as to leave no space between the powder and the ball If a bomb or shell is only half-filled with gun-powder, it breaks into a great number of pieces; whereas, if it is quite filled it merely separates into two or three pieces, which are thrown to a very

great distance. If the trunk of a tree is charged with gunpowder, for the purpose of splitting it, and the wadding is rammed down very hard upon the powder, in that case the wadding is only driven out, and the tree remains entire; but if, instead of ramming the wadding close to the powder, a certain space is left bétween them, the effects of the powder are then such as to tear the tree asunder.

The Cornwall Correspondent.

On Monday last, a Special Slave Court was held in Court House here, before His Honour the Custos, Ewen Cameron, and Wm. Hine, Esquires, when the following slaves were tried:

Andrew, belonging to Mr. Alexander M'Bain, was brought to the bar for murder, but on account of one of the Jurors having served on the Coroner's Inquest the trial was quashed, and he was discharged by proclamation.

James Richards, belonging to the Estate of Miss Owen, deceased, for stealing crockery from a crate on Doman's Wharf.-Guilty.-He was sentenced to hard labour in the Workhouse for three months. To receive 50 lashes in the Water-square, before going in, and another 50 at the expiry of his imprisonment.

August, or Argus, belonging to Mr. Joseph Ayrane, for the practice of Obeah. His Honour in summing up said, that though not proved guilty under the 49th clause of the Consolidated Slave Law of the practice of Obeah, yet he was proved, by several witnesses to have had "materials notoriously used in the practice of Obeah" in his possession, which by the 53d clause of the same law incurs the penalty of transportation, or such other mitigated punishment as the court may deem proper.-Guilty.-Confinement in the workhouse for life.-Value £7 11s.

Epitaph on Joseph Crump, a Musician,
"Once ruddy and plump,
But now a pale lump

Beneath this safe hump,

Lies honest Joe Crump,

Who wish'd to his neighbour no evil.

What tho' by death's thump

He's laid on his rump,

Yet up he shall jump,

When he bears the last trump,

And triumph o'er death and the devil."

PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR, BY ALEX. HOLMES.

He had no sooner arrived in China, than he wished to survey the country; but he had nearly forfeited his life by the attempt. A country not to be seen, had no charms for Captain Ramble, and he returned in an India ship which was sailing for Europe, as wise as he went; but with a very unfavourable opinion of Chinese hospitality, though he ought to have done justice to its policy. On reaching the Cape of Good Hope, he determined to proceed no further till he had visited the Hottentots, and ascertained some facts in their formation and natural history. It would be endless to enumerate all his adventures in this quarter of the globe. Sometimes he was reduced to the greatest distress and danger; but his ingenuity invariably brought him off. At last he landed in England, found his father was no more, and, in consequence, took possession of his patrimony.

It might have been supposed his adventures would now have terminated, and that he would have been happy in the enjoyment of that quiet which fortune

allowed him to possess. No such thing: he had never made the tour of Europe though he had sailed round the globe, and spoken with the antipodes ; and he was determined not to sit down as a country gentleman, till he had visited the continent. He soon reached Paris; here he began to display his usual activity; he could neither be idle, nor usefully employed. He began with uttering some speculative opinions, by the adoption of which, he conceived that the French government might be vastly improved, and the country made one of the most desirable in the world. For these, he was speedily rewarded with a lodging in a French prison. During his im prisoument, for two tedious years, he began to think more seriously as well as more correctly of human life and being thus obliged to resign his busy and active pursuits among mankind, he could, through theloopholes' of his present retreat', peep out at the world to see the stir, and yet not feel the crowd he heard the noise at a safe distance, as the poet says

Where the dying sound

Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjured ear After the term of his imprisonment had expired, he waited upon a Parisian bookseller, and offered him the copyright of a literary work, which he had composed in prison; for with his other propensities, he had a fertile imagination, and a happy turn for composition, which, in prison, he had an opportunity of cultivating, and as gloom and dejection are the common inmates of a prison, it is natural to expect their offspring to be pathos--the production, therefore was a beautiful and pathetic tale. The bookseller, however, was cautious, as all gentlemen of his profession, generally are, and submitted the work to some English critics, who, eager only for the advancement of their own fame, easily found means to "damn with faint praise" a production infinitely above their own mediocre genius, and with all that amiable politeness peculiar to the French, the man of books rejected this firstborn essay of poor Ramble. Disgusted with Paris, he returned to London, and soon found a publisher, who, upon his own inspection of the merits of the work, liberally offered to risk its publication, and paid

him £60 for the sole claim to the copy-right, with a dozen copies of the first, and half that number of each subsequent edition to the author. Ramble felt quite

overjoyed at his success, especially when he remembered the fate of Paradise Lost and other works of first-rate excellence, whose prices could barely have paid for their transcription. Mr. Douglas, the name of the bookseller, kept a reading room in the Strand, and here Ramble had an opportunity of becoming initiated into, and fraternised with the literati of the metropolis, society with which he had had comparatively little intercourse, though in his peregrinations a transient savan, or book-worm, would come occasionally in his way, and that interchange of sympathy and feeling, which none but the literate know, would break forth to divert the tedium of society, where the enterprise of wealth and a passion for the good things of this life, supersede the pleasures derived from either taste or imagination. Mr. Ramble had now set himself down as a professed author, though his patrimony was ample enough to support a handsome establishment, and by which also, he could afford relief to poor and deserving authors. He now gave converzationes, and was invited in turn to the coteries of savans and blue stockings, and after a successful attempt at dramatic composition, the sphere of his society became so enlarged, that, from morning till midnight it was little else than a round of entertainments among authors and actors, poets and poetesses, musicians and actresses, that from the morning rehearsal of his own tragedy, and the lively conversations of the Greenroom, to the dropping of the curtain at midnight, his imagination was kept in a perpetual whirl. The lady who personated his own heroine now began to attract his attention she was young, beautiful, and accomplished. His attentions to her were incessant, and she soon began to receive them as they were intended. In a short time, with the free approbation of her parents, he led her to the altar, and during their stay in London, and it has been ascertained, after they went abroad, lived happily together. About this time he had made a study of the German language, and became an enthusiastic admirer of the authors of Ger

many. Enthusiasm will lead to perfection. He now