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 the Northern Institution. We have just inspected them, and can assure our readers, that—though the fry would go but a small way towards satisfying a few hungry GILLIES—they will abundantly gratify the curiosity of every visitor.

A strange circumstance occurred at Brest, in June 1817:—A man, in the last stage of a dangerous disorder, sent for a priest to give him EXTREME UNCTION. The priest, after some conversation with the man, told him that he could not give him EXTREME UNCTION unless he surrendered up the lands that he held, and which belonged to the Church previous to the Revolution. In vain did the poor man point out that he had purchased them at a valuation, and had a large family to bequeath them to; the priest told him, if he did not, he would be d-d and go to hell! The poor man replied, he would not give up the land, but take his chance. In a few days he died, and was refused the rites of the church, or Christian burial, on account of his having died without receiving EXTREME UNCTION; and the priest told the family that he was certain of going to hell, and that the devil would come that night and take away his body. The wretched family were dreadfully alarmed, employed an old soldier to sit up all night and watch the corpse, furnishing him with a bottle of wine,