_— 3 & £5 LS & : the id ileof the hive L legving it so loose below, that Bees. will have Sufficiem room between it and the hive—then raise the lid of the hive a little, and blow in the simqke from asegar; afew puffs of which as t is very disagreeable, will drive them down : continue raising the lid gradually, biowing in the smoke all round, and in a few minutes it will be found that they bave all gone out of the hive. You may then take off the lid, and cataway as much ol the honey as you may think propers 1 the operation be performed the beginning of July, you may take nearly all, as there wii be time enough to provide a sufficiency for their support during the “winter. A soun as you have the hoacy, pa! on the lid, fousen the cloth, and spread it out, in an hour or two the bees will have returned into the hive. It may thenbe re. placed on the stand, and on the following day they wili be found at work as usual: This method 1s very simple; and pre- ferabie to that sometimes practised; of driv ing the bees into another hive; as vou get all the honey, and moreover the new comb which is sitll empty; and the young bees. noi yet out of the cells, aie preserved There is also danger in driving of, then not liking their new habitation, and, in that case, of thir sallying out and making war upon their neighbors. The above method has frequently been practised by myself and others, and we have always found it to do well. AMATOR MELLIS. | imerican Farmer. ris OF TOPHAM, STRONG MAN. We learn from private accounts well at tested. that Thomas Topham, a - man. who ke. pt a public house at 1slington, performed surprizing feats of strength a8 breaking a broomstick of the first magnitude, by striking it against his bare arm: lifting two hoesheads of water; heaving his horse over the turnpike gate; Carrying the beam of a house as the soldier his fivelock, &c. But however belief might stagzer, she soon recovered herself when this second Sampson appeared at’ Derby, as a performer in public, at a shilling each, Upon apulication to” Alderman Cooper, for leave to exhibit, the magistrate was surprized at the feats he proposed ; and as his apicarance was like that of other men he requested him to strip, that he might examive whether he was madz like them; Lut he was found be extremely muscu lar. ‘What were hollows under the arms and hams of othef, were filicd with hga- ments in Bim. : : He appeared near five feet ten; turned of thirty, well made; but nothing singulac 5 he walked with a small limp, He had for- merly laid a wager; the usual decider of digpuies, that three horses could not draw him from a-fiost which he should clasp with hig leet; but the diver giving them a sud- den lash turned them aside, and the unex- pected jerk had broke his thigh. The performances of this wonderfuil man, in whotifwere united the strength of twelve, were rolling up a pewter dishrof seven pounds, as a man rolls up a sheet of paper—holding a pewter quart at arm's Jongth, and squeezing the sides together Lke an egg -shell-=lifting two hundred weight with his little finger, and moving it genidy over his head. The body he touch- ed seemed to have lost their gravation. Hel also broke a rope fasicnad to the floor, that would systais twenty hundred weight—— lif ed an oak table six feet long with his teeth, though half" a hundred weight was | hung to the extremity ; a piece of leather was fixed at one end for his teeth to_ hold, two of the feet stood upen his knees, and | be raised the end with the weight higher, than that in his mouth—he took Mr. Cham- | bers, vicar of all saints, who weighed 27 stone, and raised him with one hand—his head being laid on one chatr, and his feet «1 the tal-on Lanvin ACCOUNT THE I i 10 OU an sg - y : foreig ty 3 3 3 —— Latest from England, Short passage.— The Martha, Sketchley sailed from liverpool on the 25th of last ponth. It will appear from our papers, &c. to this date that there was a little wmprove- ment in the ma: ket and in the public funds. The Smithficild meetings occupied, mor. han avy thing else the attention of the in- aabitanis of London ; and the public. prints weve filed with the subject, some for and thers against the proceedings The Loudon paper of the 23d of July, xives an account of the pfocecdings ol the Court of Common Council, held at Guild sail the preceeding day, mm the conrsef of which it was declared by the Lord Mayor, that inlormation had been laid before him om oath, of the existence of a conspiracy, che ‘oiject of which was to excite the as- semblage in Smithfield to acts ol open vio- lence, and even bloodshed, had it not been checked, by the measures of precaution adopted by the government and magistracy. "The report of a rupiure between the Al- yerines and Spain, is not confirmed. The Smithfield reformers bad a raeeting at Smituficld, op the 2ist ult. Alnuuber ol speeches were delivered in favor of reform. The London Courier sepresents * the busi- acss of the day nearly as Snsipid as a bottle of scda water, five minutes atier the cork is out-There was, indeed; a little of the usual twittlc wattle about taxes, non repre- sentatioa, borough mongers, sinecures, &c but even these were cooked up without any Cayeone.”—There were 50,000 persone pretent, “The Statesman observes, ¢ the meeting procceeded with a degree of harmony, which does honor to the people, and must prove most mortifying to its calumniators.” There had been meetings of the friends of reform in Leeds and Nottingha. the French Chambers have also ad journed. : ; It is said in Paris, that Generals Grou chy, Clause}, Lefebvre, Desuoneties, and some other expatriated Frenchmen in the United States ave shortly expecied in Bel- ian, where they have obtained permiss. ———— n Intelligence. Sg £1 ion to reside, : Den Onis left Paris on the 9thiult. to re- turn to Macrid. Sir Charles Wellesley, Bart, and Joseph Harrison, a dissenting minister of Stock: port have been imprisoned in England, for | delivering seditious speeches at Stockport on the 26th line, i Some conversation took place in House of Cortmmons, oun the subject of an outrage committed by a Spanish trigate an English merchant vessel, Lord Castle A had not omitted to take such steps as were deemed necessary oun this vecasion, The Chaucelior of thie luxchequer propo- 50,000, to be issued from time to time, for the encouragement of persons disposed to settle at the Cape of Good Hope. tending emigration to the Cape oi Good Hope, over those to the Uniwed States. SMITHFIELD MEETING. Mr Hunt opened the business of the meeting by a speech which was received with great applause. MeroGast read the resolusions 18 in number, "on the subject of rdorm, and of an equal representauon in Parliament. After debaicy the resolutions were carried, with only eae or two dissen- uent voices. During thie ¢iscussion of the on another ; Hur people, 14 stone each, sat upon his body, which be heaved at pleasure and in a short time aficrwards nearly the y one inch!whole of the Peer’s scats were occupied by at {iouse to witness the ceremony of the Pro- ~he struck a round bar of i tiameter, against his” nake vae stroke bent it Jike a bo and feeling seemed fled toge Being a master of music the company with Mad Tom. § sing a Solo to the organ iu St. church, then the only one though he might perform with jadgmeat, yet the voice, more I rrible than sweet, scarcely seemed human. Though ei a pa- cific temper, and with the appearance of a gentleman, yet he was iiable of the rude. The hastler at the Virgin inn where he resided, having giver him dis- gust, be took one ofthe kitchen spits from the mantlepiece, and brut it round his neck Jike a choose to tuck the end in the hostler’s bo- soni, the cumbrous ornaniented excited the laugh of the eompany, till he cond :scended to un his iron cravat. Had he abounded with geod naiare, the men might or Ys il ~ © L fie tic have been in fear for the safety of their per-| lug taken his seat on the throne, in his covered, Sir T .omas Tyrwhitt, he eould instantiy roll vp both|the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, sons, & the wonren for that of their pewter shely es, as —Oae:blow with {ist would forever have! silenced those heroes of the bear garden Johnson and Monuoze in Derby ; but! hendkerchie! ; but as he did not Carrving tne sword of State. resolutions, $c. the Rev. Mr. Harrison was taken out of the crowd by the consiabies, for uttering Intcinperate language. Londan, July 18. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. House of Lords, July 13 —