make a shew of fighting, to colour the matter the better; and after a while Romanus, as being beaten, was to run away. The armies on both sides saw them together, but nobody knew what they said. Immediately this mock combat began, and Caled laid on so furiously, that Romanus was in danger of his life, and asked Caled, whether that was his way of fighting in jest, and if he designed to kill him? Caled smiled, and told him "No, but that it was necessary for them to shew something of a fight, to prevent their being suspected." Romanus made his escape, and indeed it was high time, for the Saracen had handled him so roughly, that whosoever had seen him after the combat, would have had little reason to have thought he had fought in jest, for he was bruised and wounded in several places.

REMOVAL OF A MILL.

In the Journal of North Brabant, for the year 1810, there is a curious account of the complete removal of a windmill, over the space of 5,520 feet. The removal of the mill was effected in twelve days, from its original site to that which was subsequently chosen for it. No part of this large mass was shaken, and the mill continued in full work during the operation. Even a glass filled with water, placed in the gallery, suffered no agitation, although the mill advanced, each day, a distance of 460 feet. In the same manner was effected the transportation of a house attached to the mill, twenty-three feet deep, and twenty-seven long. The house was chiefly built of stone; its removal was effected in five days. The machinery for the purpose is said to have been constructed in the simplest manner. The engineer who directed the operation was M. Homberger d'Osterwick.

REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.

A singular circumstance took place in the year 1820 at the Comedie Francaise :

Baptiste, who was playing the part of a bailiff, drew from his pocket a paper to represent the warrant by virtue of which he exercised his authority. What was his astonishment on reading the name of one of his female relations, who, through ignorance of a will which had been made in her favour at Dresden, was deprived of a considerable fortune bequeathed to her by her uncle. The paper was a true copy of this will.

Baptiste uttered several exclamations of surprise, accompanied by such comic gesticulations, that the theatre resounded with applause. The audience, however, were far from suspecting the real cause. Baptiste having carefully deposited the paper in his pocket, continued his part, and the next day communicated the discovery to his relation, whose claims were shortly after acknowledged.

This strange adventure is explained as follows: Some time before, a party of the performers of the Comedie Francaise proceeded to Dresden, to play in the presence of the sovereigns, who were assembled in that city. Among other scenic accessories, they found it necessary to procure a number of old parchments; and it is probable the document in question remained ever since in the pocket of the dress worn by Baptiste when he made the fortunate discovery.

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HIGHLAND VENGEANCE.

To elucidate the peculiar manners, customs, &c. of the Scottish nation, has become the favourite occupation of the literary world; more attention has been paid to their local antiquities and wild scenery than to any other part of the British empire. One cause of this is, the inhabitants preserve with scrupulous exactness their ancient legends; another is the romantic scenery. Scotland possesses these advantages as greatly or more so than any other nation; cherishing the remembrance of their ancient lords and heroes, the tales of the father are committed to the son, and so from one generation to the other. The following tale is an authentic one, and the denouement as it actually occurred.

In the island of Mull, in Scotland, is a remarkable mountain or rock with basaltic pillars 200 feet in height, called by the inhabitants, " Benin-Gorod." It was discovered, at least to English antiquaries, in 1789, by Mr. Rashe, and is far superior to Staffa, the Giant's Causeway, or any other natural phenomena. Its name is accounted for by the following tragical story.

A powerful chieftain, lord of the Isle of Mull, lived in a style of the most feudal magnificence. He was proud, sordid, avaricious, cruel, and ferocious; and to increase his wealth resorted to the oppression of his tenantry and vassals, depriving them of their estates on every vain pretext. To accomplish his schemes he was capable of the greatest villany. Contiguous to his possessions were those of a man named Gorod, which were of great extent and fertility. To wrest these demesnes from their rightful owner, had always been his favourite purpose, but he had now long ceased from such attempts. Their possessor was fifty years of age, unmarried; and failing of issue the estate reverted to Macvilar the chieftain.

Gorod was inspecting some of the neighbouring islands, when he accidentally saw a lady of great beauty and accomplishments. Captivated by her beauty and her wit, he made proposals of marriage to her, which were

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readily accepted, as he was of much superior rank to the lady. They were united, and returned to the Isle of Mull, where the marriage created much surprise, and evidently disappointed Macvilar, as Gorod seemed likely to have heirs, and thus to thwart the ambitious designs of the avaricious chieftain. Incensed by disappointment, and incited by lust, he resolved on destroying the happiness of his vassal by the seduction of his wife; which, after much assiduity, he with difficulty accomplished, bearing her in triumph to his castle, leaving the unhappy husband to mourn over one of the most afflicting circum stances to which mankind are liable.

Gorod determined upon a deep and bloody retribution; but he had the art to conceal his desire of revenge, and while he concerted the means, his heart felt a sullen satisfaction in the hope of retaliating tenfold upon the laird. A large hunting party was assembled; and among the company invited, including the chief people of the island, were Macvilar and his only son, and the injured Gorod and his faithless bride. In the course of the day's sport, Gorod contrived to lead the whole company to the summit of a lofty mountain; and advancing to the brow of a stupendous precipice, he seized the son of Macvilar -and clenching him in his arms, with a furious tone of voice he loudly exclaimed-" This instant I'll plunge myself and this boy down the cliff unless that infamous woman is put to death by the hand of her seducer!" Macvilar, struck with horror, hesitated, but the desire of rescuing the only support of his house at length determined him; and the lady offering her bared breast, he plunged his sword into her body, and in a short time her soul winged its flight. Gorod then cried out, "I am revenged, but that villain must suffer!" and clasping the unhappy youth still closer in his arms, he sprang from the precipice, and both bodies striking against the projecting parts of the rock were instantly dashed to pieces. Macvilar retired overwhelmed with misery and grief cursing his own avarice and lust; and the other spectators returned to their homes horror-struck at the dreadful scene they had been witnesses to.

The place has ever since been called "Benin-Gorod”- "The Hill of Blood." The yawning abyss, the murmuring rivulet below, the overhanging crags, and the steep rock at the sides, with the contemplation of what once happened there, create in the mind indescribable sensations of horror and melancholy. Seated on the top of the rock, the spectator almost fancies the very characters are presented to his mind; the proud chief, the adulterous lady, the revengeful vassal, and the poor youth trembling at the approach of death which presents itself to his eyes; all combine to render this scene terrifically grand and interestingly dreadful: but the spectator is soon glad to retire

"Lest the brain turn, and the deficient sight
Topple down headlong."

TERRIFIC DEATH OF A PAINTER.

Peter Peutemann was a good painter of still-life; bure.nost memorable circumstance relating to this artist was the incident which occasioned his death. He was employed to paint a picture of an emblematical representation of mortality, expressive of the pleasures of this world, and of the shortness and misery of human life; and that he might imitate some parts of his subject with greater accuracy, he painted them in an anatomical roon, where

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several skulls and bones lay scattered in profusion about the floor. Here he prepared to take his designs; and, either from previous fatigue, or the intenseness of his study, he fell asleep. This was on September 18, 1692, when an earthquake, which happened while he was dozing, roused him, and the instant he awoke he perceived the skulls rolling about the room, and the skeletons in motion! Being totally ignorant of the cause, he was struck with such horror, that he immediately threw himself down stairs in the wildest desperation. His friends took all possible pains to efface the dreadful impression from his mind, explaining the true cause of the agitation of the skeletons; nevertheless, his spirits received so violent a shock, that he never recovered his health, but expired soon after, aged forty-two.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF A MURDER, IN 1740.

A woman living at St. Neots, returning from Elsworth, where she had been to receive a legacy of seventeen pounds that was left her, for fear of As she was going home, she overtook being robbed, tied it up in her hair. her next door neighbour, a butcher by trade, but who kept an inn, and who lived in good repute. The woman was glad to see him, and told him what she had been about. He asked her where she had concealed the money? She told him in her hair. The butcher finding a convenient opportunity, took her off her horse, and cut her head off, put it into his pack and rode off. A gentleman and his servant coming directly by, and seeing the body moving on the ground, ordered his servant to ride full speed forward and the first The servant overtook the man he overtook to follow him wherever he went. butcher not a mile off the place, and asked him what town that was before them? He told him St. Neots. Says he, "My master is just behind, and sent me forward to inquire for a good inn for a gentleman and his servant." The murderer made answer that he kept a good inn, where they should be well used. The gentleman overtook them and went in with them and dismounted, bidding his servant take care of the horse whilst he would take a walk in the town and be back presently. He went to a constable and told him the whole affair, who said that the butcher was a very honest man, and had lived there a great many years in good reputation: but going back with the gentleman, and searching the pack, the constable, to his great surprise, found it was the head of his own wife! The murderer was sent to Huntingdon gaol, and shortly after executed.

JUVENILE CRIMINAL.

"Among the children," says that active philanthropist, the Hon. Grey Bennet, in his evidence before the Police Committee, "whom I have seen in prison, a boy of the name of Leary was the most remarkable; he was about thirteen years of age, good-looking, sharp, and intelligent, and possessing a manner which seemed to indicate a character very different from what he really possessed. When I saw him, he was under sentence of death for stealing a watch, chain, and seals, from Mr. Princep's chambers in the Temple; he had been five years in the practice of delinquency, progressively from stealing an apple off a stall, to housebreaking and highway robbery.

He belonged to the Moorfields' Catholic Chapel, and the rebecame acquainted with one Ryan in that school, by whom he was instructed in the various arts and practices of delinquency; his first attempts were at tarts, apples, &c.; next at loaves in bakers' baskets; then at parcels of halfpence on shop counters, and money-tills in shops; then to breaking shop windows, and drawing out valuable articles through the aperture, picking pockets, housebreaking, &c. Leary has often gone to school the next day with several pounds in his pockets, as his share of the produce of the previous day's robberies; he soon became captain of a gang, generally since known as Leary's gang, with five boys, and sometimes more, furnished with pistols, taking a horse and cart with them; and, if they had an opportunity in their road, they cut off the trunks of gentlemen's carriages, when, after opening them, and according to their contents, so they would be governed in prosecuting their further objects in that quarter; they would divide into parties of two, sometimes only one, and leaving one with the horse and cart, go to farm and other houses, stating their being on the way to see their families, and begging for some bread and water; by such tales, united with their youth, they obtained relief, and generally ended by robbing the house and premises. In one instance Leary was detected and taken, and committed to Maidstone gaol; but the prosecutor not appearing against him, he was discharged. In these excursions he has stayed out a week and upwards, when his share has produced him from £50 to £100. He has been concerned in various robberies in London and its vicinity, and has had property at one time amounting to £350; but when he had money, he either got robbed of it by elder thieves, who knew he had so much money about him, or he lost it by gambling at flash houses, or spent it among loose characters of both sexes. After committing innumerable depredations, he was detected at Mr. Derrimore's, at Kentish Town, stealing some plate from that gentleman's dining room; when several other similar robberies coming against him in that neighbourhood, he was, in compassion to his youth, placed in the Philanthropic Asylum; but being now charged with Mr. Princepts' robbery, he was taken, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, but was afterwards respited, and returned to that Institution. He is little, and well-looking; and has robbed to the amount of £3000 during his five years' career. This surprising boy has since broke out and escaped from the Philanthropic, went to his old practices, was again tried at the Old Bailey, and is transported for life."

THE ORIGINAL BLUE-BEARD.

As this extraordinary personage has long been the theme not only of children's early study and terror, and as no afterpiece ever had a greater run than that splendid and popular musical entertainment which bears the name of Bluebeard,---the following is the character of that being who really existed and who was distinguished in horror and derision by that appellation.

He was the famous Gilles, Marquis de Savals, a Marshal of France, and a general of uncommon intrepidity, and greatly distinguished himself in the reigns of Charles VI. and VII. by his courage, particularly against the English when they invaded France. He rendered those services to his country which were sufficient to immortalize his name, had he not for ever tarnished his glory by the most horrible and cruel murders, blasphemies and licentiousness of every kind. His revenues were princely, but his prodigality was