Chemistry, and Member of the Medical Society. of Genoa, who had already given Mr. Moraiau some valuable information upon the employment of the acid fumigations in that city, and which forms a part of the additions made to the second edition of his treatise, has sent him some farther information on the subject, which he thinks of sufficient importance to be made publicly known, as it is only by giving publicity to the instances or examples of the advantages obtained by these. means, especially when attested by professional men, that we can hope to overcome the inattention, or prejudice, which neglects to afford this relief to humanity. "From the moment we perceived the progress of the epidemical fever," says Dr. Majon," the acid fumigations were employed in the churches, hospitals, lazarettes, prisons, barracks, and in the apartments of many of the sick. On the 20th of March, 1800, I was sent for to the church of St. Andre, where two grave diggers had fallen down dead at the moment they were going into one of the vaults. As I found the church infected with putrid exhalation, I immediately ordered the opening into the vault to be built up; and, after shutting the windows, I placed in the middle of the church a large earthen vessel containing six pounds of common salt, and three pounds of sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol), and to disengage the acid vapours more quickly, we placed lighted faggots around the vessel; the process was over in two hours, when the windows were again thrown open, we found the infectious

smell entirely gone off, and people entered the church without the slightest inconvenience. The same effect was still more remarkable when I employed the oxygenated muriatic acid, which I did in the largest buildings, particularly in the church of St. Dominique, where the air was so much infected, and charged with putrid exhalations, that the fœtor spread to a considerable distance, and was perceptible even in the neighbouring houses. I employed for the fumigation eight pounds of sea salt, four pounds of sulphuric acid, and one pound and a half of the black oxyd of manganese. To purify the air in the smaller, and inhabited buildings, I employed in preference, fumigation with the nitric acid (the nitrous fumigation of Dr. C. Smyth), which was equally successful in destroying the putrid miasmata without occasioning the slightest inconvenience to the sick, and there was not an instance of any person being infected by the contagion from the sick where this fumigation was constantly used."

Anecdote of the King and Queen of Prussia.The marriage of their Prussian Majesties was brought about in a manner rather unusual among sovereigns. The circumstance which led to their union is thus described by an intelligent traveller, who lately visited Berlin. At a grand review, which took place at Frankfort on the Maine, M. Boathman, one of the richest bankers upon the continent, appeared at the parade, with a

superb equipage. Struck with his appearance, the king inquired his name, and M. B. was introduced, who invited his Majesty to a grand fete he intended giving that day at his chateau, which invitation the king accepted, and there met the lovely Princess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz. To look upon and to love her were the same. About eighteen months after their marriage, they paid a visit to M. B.; and as they entered the room, where their first interview occurred, the king caught his royal bride in his arms, kissed her, and with tears of sensibility exclaimed: "It was in this very room, my dear Boathman, that I found the treasure of my happiness."

From Dr. Trotter's Essay on Drunkenness.--When a drunken man is lavish of promises which he never made when sober, be assured his kindness is not worth your thanks. When you hear a drunken man boasting of his generosity to his friends, beware how you receive a favour from that man. When you hear a drunken man telling family secrets, whether of his own, or those of other people, put that man down for a fool, and take care of what you say in his presence. When you hear a drunken man boasting of his favours from the sex, be assured, that man has no honour. When When you hear a drunken man bragging of his courage, mark that man a coward. When you hear a drunken man vaunting of his riches, be assured he cannot be estimable for his

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virtues. When you hear a drunken man pitying misfortunes, which he did not relieve when able, it is the strongest proof that he possessed no goodness of heart. Receive no donations from a drunken man; lest he should ask them again when sober. Avoid the company of a drunkard; for if he insult you, and you should insist on satisfaction, he will plead want of recollection, as an apology. Let the sober man beware of the society of drunkards, lest the world should say, that he means to take an advantage of their credulity."

The Shipwrecked Mariner.

BY MR. UPTON.

Ben Block was a sailor, as brave as could be,
And Nan, faithful Nanny, his wife;
And seven fine boys for the ocean had he,

And he lov'd them as dear as his life.

Then Ben, as he thought, had enough for them all,
Till Fortune, that slippery jade,

One night shipwreck'd all he was worth in a squall,
And poor Ben a beggar was made.

Yet think not he whimper'd, or shrunk from the man,
No, Ben was as brave as before;

His life was preserv'd for his true-hearted Nan,
And he scorn'd what was lost to deplore:
"Besides," said the Tar, "not a boy have I now
"But can fight for his Country and King!

"I can work, so can Nan, and show Fortune as how,
"In spite of her frowns, we can sing!".

"Twas thus argued Ben, as he sat on a rock,

Near which his trim vessel went down;

And the hand which had snatch'd from the billows Ben

Block,

Determin'd his wishes to crown:

For Ben at that moment, his eyes stretching far,
Beheld a white sail heave in view,

Which reach'd him, and took in the poor shipwreck'd tar,
To join with her jolly ship's crew.

"I thought so," spoke Ben, as he sprang on the deck, "A mariner ne'er should despair;

"Besides, as you see, I am sav'd from the wreck, "And so I am still Fortune's care.'

"You are," said a 'Tar, as he grappled his hand,
('Twas a messmate he'd once sav'd from jail,)
"For now I can pay what I owe, when we land,
"So cheerly, my heart, let us sail."

Ben dropt on his knee, sent a prayer up aloft,
Call'd Providence watchful and kind;

Then cry'd to the friend he had sail'd with so oft,
"We Tars are oft shook in the wind!

"But what matters that? there's an Angel unseen "Will take us poor sailors in tow;

"And when we're in danger will e'er step between "Till Death lets the sheet-anchor go."

Two Ghosts.-A singular story is in circulation, of which we state the particulars precisely as they reached us. Some weeks ago, a niece of Lord G-, a young lady about 12 or 13 years of age, rushed out of her chamber in great alarm, exclaim