WINE AND WATER.
The same quantity of wine diluted intoxicates sooner than the same quantity drank in the same time without dilution; the wine being applied to a larger surface of the stomach, acts with proportionably greater quickness—though wine diluted sooner intoxicates, its effects are sooner over.—Dr. Kitchiner.
NEW SOUTH WALES.
Of the total population of New South Wales, which, in round numbers, may be taken at 40,000, the Free Emigrants
amount only to about ............ 7,000
Native Children ................. 5,000
Emancipated Convicts............. 8,000
Convicts in Servitude .......... 20,000
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40,000
OMEN.
As Cooke, the solicitor-general, was beginning to open the pleadings at the trial of Charles I, the king gently tapped him on the shoulder with his cane, crying "Hold, hold!" At the same moment the silver head of the cane fell off, and rolled on the floor.