strict in diet. Stomach derangements are a most prolific source of deafness. 9. Never expose yourselves to wet or windy weather. 10. Never consult an aurist who is not an educated and diplomatised surgeon, and who does not admit that deafness is an infirmity often difficult of removal, and very often incurable.-Yearsley's Contributions to Aural Surgery. C'est l'Amour.-M. Maupelas, perfumer in the Rue St. Martin, has commenced an action against Messrs. Gellé brothers, of the same trade, in the Rue des Vieux Augustus, for counterfeiting the form and envelope of a soap which he has entitled Le Savon thermomètre de l'Amour. This, it appears, he issues in a paper case of white and gold, on the top of which is a small thermometer similar to Reaumur's, but the degrees of which, instead of indicating the temperature of the air, show the strength of feeling in the mind of the person who may put a finger on it. This thermometer has but four degrees, viz, slight love, tender love, constaut love, passionate love. The box of Messrs. Gellé is also octagon, and a perfect resemblance to the above, except that they call theirs the Régulator de l'Amour, and it bears their name and address instead of those of M. Maupelas. The tribunal before which the proceedings have been brought has required time to deliberate on so grave a matter. Ancient Mode of Conveying Water to London. - Water has been quaintly called the blood of London. It was first conveyed to London by leaden pipes, in the reign of Henry III., from Tyburn. The first cistern of lead, castellated with stone, was called the great conduit in Westcheap, in 1285. Fresh supplies of water were conveyed to the city from the springs near Perilous Pool, Hackney, Muswell-hill, Hampstead-heath, and St. Mary-le-bone; and in 1546, new conduits were erected in Coleman-street and Lothbury. "The Brook at Tyburn," says Pennant, "furnished nine conduits for supplying the City with water. Here the Lord Mayor had a banquetinghouse, to which his lordship and brethren were wont to repair on horseback, attended by their ladies in waggons, and after viewing the conduits they turned to the city, where they were magnificently entertained by the Lord Mayor." Receding of the Sea.-The Phare de Rochelle states that the sea is receding so rapidly from the bay of Bourg Neuf, that the remains of an English ship of war mounting 64 guns, which was lost on an oyster-bank called Les Retraites des Œuvres, whilst in pursuit of a French ship in 1752, is now to be found in the midst of a cultivated plain. In calculating the depth of water where this vessel struck with its present level, it will be found that the depth of the sea has diminished at least 15 feet. Among the other necessary benefits the air is of to us, one of the principal is its conveyance of sound ;-even the vibrations of a bell, which have the loudest effect that we know of, cease to be heard when under the receiver of an air-pump. Thus all the pleasures we receive from conversation with each other, or from music, depend entirely upon the air. Goldsmith's Animated Nature. THE LADIES' OWN ALMANACK FOR MARCH, 1841.-BY PHILOLOGOS. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 11 Changeable. FRIDAY 12 Fair, pleas. weather. Full Moon 7d. 1h. 37m. aft. This Almanack, which has hitherto been found calculations. Blackheath, February 23rd, 1841. WEDNESDAY 29 Fair. 30 Fair. 31 Rain. New Moon 23d. 2h. 36m. morn. singularly correct, is arranged from original MONDAY TUESDAY Births, Marriages, and Deaths. Births. On the 16th ult, at Hill Park, Mrs. Baillie, of a son, still born.-At Ryde, Isle of Wight, on the 13th ult., the Hon. Mrs. Gum Cuninghame, of a son.--At Reading, on the 13th ult., the lady of Capt. J. A. Murray, R.N., of a son.-On the 17th ult., at 47, Lower Brook-street, the lady of W. Long, Esq., of a daughter.-At the Palace, Corfu, on the 27th ult., the lady of Lieut-Col. F. Dawkins, Deputy-Quartermaster-General, of a daughter. On the 11th ult., at Brooklands, Hants, the lady of S. Smith, Esq., of a son. On the 12th ult. at Adare Manor, county of Limerick, the lady of Viscount Adare, M.P., of a son and heir.-At Logie, on the 11th ult., the lady of J. Kinloch, Esq., of that ilk, and Kilrie, of a son.-The lady of the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Scott, of twins, a son and a daughter. The lady of his Excellency M. d'Oliveira, Brazilian Minister at St. Petersburg, of a son. Marriages. At Pisa, on the 2nd ult., Celia, younger daughter of Sir R. Ottley, late Chief Justice of Ceylon, to T. J. Amos, Esq., son of T. Amos, Esq., late Attorney-General of New South Wales.-At Edinburgh, Sir C. W. A. Ross, Bart., of Balnagown, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Col. Ross, 4th Irish dragoon guards.-At Deyrah Dhoon, India, Capt. G. Cautley, 8th Light Cavalry, to Emma, daughter of G. Christopher, Esq., of Chiswick, Middlesex.-At Walsall, the Rev. S. Newall, curate of Norton, to Lydia, daughter of P. Potter, Esq., of Gorway House, Staffordshire.-On the 13th ult., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, R. N. Stone, Esq., of Grosvenor-place, Bath, to Cecilia, youngest daughter of the late T. G. Smith, Esq. of the Six Clerks' Office.-On the 9th ult., at the Parish Church, Leeds, Thomas, third son of the late E. Peel, Esq., of Church Bank, Lancashire, to Charlotte Anne, second daughter of W. Willock, Esq., Leeds.-On the 16th ult., at Sible Hedingham, Essex, by the Rector, the Venerable Archdeacon Burney, Rosetta d'Arblay, his second daughter, to H. Wood, Esq., of the Bombay Engineers.-On the 16th ult., at St. George's Church, Hanoversquare, by the Very Rev. the Dean of Exeter, A. C. Lowe, Major of the 16th Lancers, to Mary, only child of B. 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