An Iron Man.--singular Petrifaction

broughtinto Portsrnouth, fiom the Bloom furnace, Snioto county, a purt of an Iron Man, found in the ore bed! The bodv must originally haft-e been petrified in lime, but of tlii.í, there remninsnow enalbe outside incru.-tntion, whfch will crumb!c off. What was the man, is noiv iron. By some natural process, the iron mus! have grown out of the lime, nnd here is a therne for Geologists! Hor iá this change take place ? If wc are right.and the f iets seem te leave no room for doubt, ihis Irort inan would affbrd one of the most beautiftrl subjects for a Geo-logicnl Lecture. The iron ore, in whicti it wa found, is called thecaïcarpoas formation. The process of ils formalion woiild be an instructive sludy. - Cm. Chronide. A patent for an eighf day uatch, made lo go without an inside chain, rias been taken out at Preston, England.