QUEENSLAND.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1294, 7 February 1860, Page 4

QUEENSLAND.

The Telegraph bring* Moreton Bay papers to Thursday last, January sth. The Courier, in the course of an article on the choice of a Speaker for the Aisembly, advert* to the probability of some " scenes" taking place on the as»erabling of the local Legislature, but contends that, Queensland cunnot possibly be wone th»n its neighbours in that respect: — The lamentable exhibitions somo time since made in the Legislature of Tasmania, and the scenes of broad farce' and burlesque even now frequently represented In the Melbourne and Sydney Assemblies^ nffoid sufficient excuse for the anticipation that the deliberations of the Queensland Home of representathe* will not be distinguished at the outset by. ait the proprieties. Each of the elder colonies has i its legislatojal canditate for the" cap and bells In Tasmania, Mr. Gregson beards the Speaker, and emphatically declares his brother senator " a I scoundrel." In Melbourne, Mr. Carpenter emulates thf antics of the clown in the rin?, ericiting roars of laughter from the titillated .auditory. In Sydney Mr. John Campbell decla'res'',that ,he would rather be riding donkies at. Manjy Beach than 'joining in the debates, and ' Mr.JHamiltpn. taunted from the, 'opposite' benches; makes a motion to , pull offhU cout.and loudjy dares his 'antagonist 1 to "bjaze, away!" ■ That people ' yrKo conduct .their Parlja. mentary deliberations after 'this'-'fashioh should ex-< pect at leaat an equal amount of buffoonery in this iPWftoi !ALß«trflU«f ( it* not"'At1«!l 'to bo' w'ondered^t. [WHWIMk c«re, e /hWeV«rVw> may be able to dls'; •JPPP!nlis»e,|iU!iind'to present' a marked and pleasing , c mW4l?^%cdlleciitei' irisdorn of.Queensland, pvti ■ tha, buftyingiipropeniJWell >6i Mr. Gregn'onl'thV l ?fi^|U.t«m > acd#ofi*|fcrOaVp^nler;- the donkay. WM^ifi&iJßiMfajWUß H^x r» t fMl HfcJfl*- { ' " , *8» iris's <iJ? 14 ,I'vV,K.Jil piw \U%

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I The FniJNCH,;ExtEm*ioM (ro'CniNA.— A'pnrnin Qalignani^Mawiger sdy»:A.« The trdopt | to embai k for China nre tiame^, and ready to.gp on board so «oon,as J.rQn»portsore*provlded, which it it anticipated will not bo< v bofore the 15th 'bf 'next t month. , The tfiwLßnttnlion of Foot iChasieursnre under .oitlcre to.le»vc Vineennes, where 'they are in gtnison, for 'i onion, <lhcy nre expected to it»rt next Satuiday. The ioldiou belonging to the expedition are to be supplied with »ti'u\v hats, linen blouiernnd tiousers. A battalion of Foot Ch*iseur# is generßlly composed ,of eight teiYico companiei and two depot companies, each of aboutilOO'inen But the companies of the 2nd Battalion, under' oiders ior China, are to be raised to 250 e»ch, which will, make a total ot 2000 men. Tho 101 st nnd 102 nd regiments of the line now-, at Lyons, have also been designated ior the expedition. ]

A FoiixuNATß Shopwoman. --There is an Italian pi o verb which snys that "handsome women nre horn married." The meaning of this is not v.hkth«s been supposed, that marriages nre made in heaven, but that, such is the power of beauty over the human heait, that those who ar« possessed of it can marry when and whom they please. A verification of the axiom took place last week at Brompton A millionnue purchased it imall pocket-book at a stationer's ia that fa^hionabb locali'y. Ho wni served by a lady of,gient personal attractions. So smitten was Mr. Scott with her beauty, that, understanding she'wus single, he then and theie made his fair enslaver nn offer of his hand and heart. The sequel it to bo found in the mairiages nnnounced as ha\ing taken place at a church of some Puseyite notoriety in the neighbourhood, la3t Wednesday, when the pietty shopwomon stepped into u carriage and 30,000/ a year, after n courtship of only one day.-)— 7 Court Ciicular,