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 16              THE MONTHLY Charles Fox, is an artist in Market-street. Robert Peel, is now a labourer in Salford; and Joey Hume, an engraver in Shudehill. Horatio Nel- son, now " fights his battles o'er" at the King's    Arms, Ancoats Lane; and to crown all, Charlie Stewart is now a mill-wright near St. Peter's.    Although Manchester, in point of population, stands second in the British empire, containing up- wards of 230,000 inhabitants, among which there are no less than 20 Savages, it is a melancholy re- flection that there is only one Wisenman in the whole parish.-- Manchester Guardian.

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THE POISONED VALLEY.

THIS valley is in the island of Java; and is par- ticularly remarkable for its power of destroying in a very short space the life of man, or any ani- mal exposed to its atmosphere. It is distant only three miles from Batur, in Java, and is known by    the name of Guevo Upas, or Poisoned Valley. On the 4th of July, Mr Loudon, with a party of    friends, set out on a visit to it; and, following a     path which had been made for the purpose, the party shortly reached it with a couple of dogs and some fowls, for the purpose of making experi- ments, When a few yards from the valley a strong nauseous and suffocating smell was experienced, but on approaching the margin this inconvenience was no longer found. The scene that now pre- sented itself is described as of the most appall- ing nature. The valley is about half a mile in    circumference, of an oval shape, about thirty or