[9] The port dues on a vessel of 1,000 or of 100 tons are alike!

    [10] The Chinese will not admit a foreign nation to trade at two
        places; for instance, the Russians are excluded from Canton
        because they enjoy an overland trade at Kiachia, which is 4,
        311 miles from St. Petersburgh, and 1,014 miles distant from
        Pekin.

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FOX-HUNTING.

The following are the items of expenses, laid down by Colonel Cooke, in his “Observations on Fox-hunting,” published a few years since.  The calculation supposes a four-times-a-week country; but it is generally below the mark; we should say, at least one-half:—­

Fourteen horses .................................  L700
Hounds’ food, for fifty couples .................. 275
Firing ............................................ 50
Taxes ............................................ 120
Two whippers-in, and feeder ...................... 210
Earth stopping .................................... 80
Saddlery ......................................... 100
Farriery, shoeing, and medicine .................. 100
Young hounds purchased, and expenses at walks..... 100
Casualties ....................................... 200
Huntsman’s wages and his horses .................. 300
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L2235

Of course, countries vary much in expense from local circumstance; such as the necessity for change of kennels, hounds sleeping out, &c. &c.  In those which are called hollow countries, consequently abounding in earths, the expense of earth-stopping often amounts to 200_l_. per annum, and Northamptonshire is of this class.  In others, a great part of the foxes are what is termed stub-bred (bred above ground), which circumstance reduces the amount of this item.—­Quarterly Review.

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THE GATHERER.

Curious Epitaph._—­In Nichols’s History of Leicestershire, is inserted the following epitaph, to the memory of Theophilus Cave, who was buried in the chancel of the church of Barrow on Soar: 

  “Here in this Grave there lies a Cave;
  We call a Cave a Grave;
  If Cave be Grave, and Grave be Cave,
  Then reader, judge, I crave,
  Whether doth Cave here lye in Grave,
  Or Grave here lye in Cave: 
  If Grave in Cave here bury’d lye,
  Then Grave, where is thy victory? 
  Goe, reader, and report here lyes a Cave
  Who conquers death, and buryes his own Cave.”

P.T.W.

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Equality.—­All men would necessarily have been equal, had they been without wants; it is the misery attached to our species, which places one man in subjection to another:  Inequality is not the real grievance, but dependence.  It is of little consequence for one man to be called his highness, and another his holiness; but it is hard for one to be the servant of another.—­Voltaire.