-ON A VERY SIMPLE MEANS OF ARRESTING EPISTAXIS. By Dr. Negrier, of Angers.

This consists in nothing more than closing with the opposite hand the nostril from which the blood flows, while the arm of the same side is raised perpendicularly above the head. In every instance in which he has had recourse to this means during the past three years Mr. Negrier has always found that it suspended the hemorrhage: a fact of which he offers the following explanation.

When a person stands in the ordinary posture, with his arms hanging down, the force needed to propel the blood through his upper extremities is about half that which would be required if his arms were raised perpendicularly above his head. But since the force which sends the blood through the carotid arteries is the same as that which causes it to circulate through the brachial arteries, and there is nothing in the mere position of the arms above the head to stimulate the heart to increased action, it is evident that a less vigorous circulation through the carotids must result from the increased force required to carry on the circulation through the upper extremities.

TWO CHAPTERS OF ROMANCE. In Hook's droll story of Maxwell, the hero, who is the son of a surgeon, protects a young lady of romantic disposition from an imminent danger. My deliverer! she cries in a transport of gratitude. Jove!" says a facetions friend to the preux chevalier : takes you for your father ! »

By she

A novel-reading girl fell into a river, and when in great peril of too much of water, was dragged out by a brave and skilful swimmer. As soon as she came to herself, she expressed her firm determination to marry her brave preserver. Impossible cried her father: What, is he not young?» Why not then ? »—

Extremely.

Yes! - Handsome?
It was a Newfoundland dog. »

A GRISLY BORE. Madame du Deffand said of a man who drawled out his words in an intolerable manner : "I wonder he is not bored to death with his own talking. "

STUCCO PAINT CEMENT.-We have examined some specimens of this cement upon plaster, slate, and wood. It has all the appearance of stone, and forms a complete impermeable coating, and answers the combined purpose of both paint and cement; it is manufactured and sold in a fluid state, like white lead, and when used it is mixed with sand, in the proportion of 3 of the latter to 1 of the former, and laid upon brickwork in the usual manner. If used upon brick, it requires about 7 lb. of the fluid cement, and if upon plaster about 4 lb.: it is sold at 12s. per cwt. For damp situations, and for walls exposed to a south-western aspect in the country or on the sea side, it will be invaluable. Specimens may be seen at the Bernasconi Gallery, Chenies-street, Bedford-square.

PERMITTED TO BE PRINTED,

St. Petersburg, November 1st, 1842.

P. KORSAKOFF, CENSOR.

Printed at the Office of the Journal de St. Pétersbourg.»

AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION.

BY CHARLES DICKENS.

2 vols. Chapman & Hall. 1842.

When the public has devoured the scenes, characters, and dialogues in this book, it will be time enough to award to Boz' his peculiar place among the English tourists to America. For the present, then, we merely offer ourselves as tasters,-extracting from this eagerly-expected book as copiously as time and space will allow, and leaving criticism for some future day.

Many will be curious to see how one so masterly and minute in his portraiture of terra firma, deals with the perils of the deep. For the gratification of their curiosity, we will give a fragment or two from the voyage out." In the first, a party on board the tender are rapidly nearing the Britannia steamer, which is lying not far from the mouth of the Mersey :

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And there she is! all eyes are turned to where she lies, dimly discernible through the gathering fog of the early winter afternoon; every finger is pointed in the same direction; and murmurs of interest and admiration-as How beautiful she looks! How trim she is!'-are heard on every side. Even the lazy gentleman, with his hat on one side and his hands in his pockets, who has dispensed so much consolation by inquiring with a yawn of another gentleman whether he is going across'- -as if it were a ferry-even he condescends to look that way, and not his head, as who should say No mistake about that: and not even the sage Lord Burleigh in his nod, included half so much as this lazy gentleman of might who has made the passage (as every body on board has found out already; it's impossible to say how) thirteen times without a single accident! There is another passenger very much wrapped up, who has been frowned down by the rest, and morally trampled upon and crushed, for presuming to inquire with a timid interest how long it is since the poor President went down. He is standing close to the lazy gentleman, and says with a faint smile that he believes She is a very strong Ship; to which the lazy gentleman, looking first in his questioner's eye and then very hard in the wind's, answers unexpectedly and ominously, that She need be. Upon this the lazy gentleman instantly falls very low in the popular estimation, and the passengers, with looks of defiance, whisper to each other that he is an ass, and an impostor, and clearly don't know anything at all about it. »

In the next extract the imposture of the lazy gentleman. will be seen in all its true colours. After half-a-dozen yery vivid pages, which will make qualmish those who affect to laugh at a winter voyage, in proportion as they fear it, comes what the musicians would call a grand crash: "

A heavy gale of wind came slowly up at sunset, when we were about ten days out, and raged with gradually increasing fury until morning, saving that it Tulled for an hour a little before midnight. There was something in the unnatural repose of that hour and in the after gathering of the storm, so inconceivably awful and tremendous, that its bursting into full violence was alaiost a relief. The labouring of the ship in the troubled sea on this night. I shall never forget.Will it ever be worse than this?' was a question. I had often heard asked, when everything was, sliding and bumping about, and when it certainly did seem difficult to comprehend the possibility of anything afloat being more disturbed, without toppling over and going down. But what the agitation of a steam-vessel is,

on a bad winter's night in the wild Atlantic it is impossible for the most vivid imagination to conceive. Tos y that she is flung down on her side in the waves, with her masts dipping into them, and that, springing up again, she rolls over on the other side, until a heavy sea strikes her with the noise of a hundred great guns, and hurls her back—that she stops, and staggers, and shivers, as though stunned, and then, with a violent throbbing at her heart, darts onl ward like a monster goaded into madness,to be beaten down, and battered, and crushed, and leaped on by the angry sea-that thunder, lightning, hail, and rain, and wind, are all in fierce contention for the mastery-that every plank has its groan, every nail its shriek, and every drop of water in the great ocean its howling voice-is nothing. To say that all is grand, and all appalling and horrible in the last degree, is nothing. Words cannot express it. Thoughts cannot convey it. Only a dream can call it up again, in all its fury, rage, and passion, And yet, in the very midst of these terrors, I was placed in, a situation so exquisitely ridiculous, that even then I had as strong a sense of its absurdity as I have now: and could no more help laughing than I can at any other comical incident, happening under circumstances the most favourable to its enjoyment. About midnight we shipped a sea, which forced its way through the skylights, burst open the doors above, and came raging and roaring down into the ladies' cabin, to the unspeakable consternation of my wife and a little Scotch lady-who, by the way, had previously sent a message to the captain by the stewardess, requesting him, with her compliments, to have a steel conductor immediately attached to the top of every mast, and to the chimney, in order that the ship might not be struck by lightning. They, and the handmaid before mentioned, being in such ecstacies of fear that I scarcely knew what to do with them, I naturally bethought myself of some restorative or comfortable cordial; and nothing better occurring to me, at the moment, than hot brandy-and-water, I procured a tumbler-full without delay. It being impossible to stand or sit without holding on, they were all heaped together in one corner of a long sofa a fixture extending entirely across the cabin-where they clung to each other in momentary expectation of being drowned. When I approached this place with my specific, and was about to administer it with many consolatory expressions, to the nearest sufferer, what was my dismay to see them all roll slowly down to the other end! And when I staggered to that end, and held out the glass once more, how immensely baffled were my good intentions by the ship giving another lurch, and their all rolling back again! I suppose I dodged them up and down this sofa for at least a quarter of an hour,