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Lyttelton Times, Volume XX, Issue 1166, 5 December 1863, Page 5

At a public sale of books, the auctioneer put up "Drew's Essays on Souls," which was knocked down to a shoemaker, who, to the great amusement of the crowded room, asked the auctioneer if 4 he had any more works on shoemaking to sell!" One Sunday, when the minister of Udney entered the kirk he was no less surprised than indignant to find that "daft Jamie Fleming"had taken possession of the pulpit. " Come doon, Jamie," said his reverence. "Come ye up, sir," answered Jamie; " they're a stiff-neckit and rebellious generation, sir, and it will take us baith to manage them." The lawyer who filed a bill, cut an acquaintance, split a hair, made an entry, got up a case, framed an indictment, impanelled a jury, put them into a box, nailed a witness, hammered a judge, and bored a whole court, all in one day, has since laid down law and turned carpenter.

The New American Correspondent of the < Times.'—The ' Times' hasjjaid On a new American correspondent, whose statements contrast and conflict notably both with his own editorials and the statements of the author of "There's a Good Time Coming." They admit that, the North is not fared of the war, willing to throw up the sponge and to. accept an ignominious , peace. Shall I tell you who this new emissary is?lt may. interest you. You knew him as a Mr. Mariotti, ail Italian, once, I believe a professor at Cambridge Mass. His real name is ,He first attained notoriety a score of years' ag£ in' connection irith a certain, abortive plot, aiming at assassinating; Charles Albert, father of VictorEmmartuel.present King of Sardinia, subsequeiit to that., monarch's reactionary slump from the extrerteLiberalism; for which, in his youthful days, he was Vni?hed by niß papa,. Gallenga, or Mariotti, a vollitlo'nist. arid member of a secret society, the lUuminati, <k appointed by lot to initfderjthUlcing, the risk the deed being; decided by" cnan'ce. /, He attempted no such thing, however, ihfluehWd by sympathy for the intended victiiia, or a less' worthy t v®®. revealed the conspiracy, thereby incurring the bitter, and lasting enmity of Mazziiii aihd.others of his ex-, friends, who accused him of appropriating m6ney raised for effecting • the J crime. Emulating to the United States, he spent sortie years theta returning in the course of' time to England ana to It|wy, where he became «cE? 1 ? • Naples, Eom'e. and othdr "plAced; chiefly the foriiier. He was also elected, as representative of some urnm? portant locality. t<i the Chamber of Deputies at Victor Emmanuel's capital, and had hopes of the ministry. His letters to Wie«Times'; were marked by so much ill-natured khility ' jw to reader him extremely unpopular among his hftice, probably, his reappearance in London,'awut three months ago, and present change of action.-, A clever, disappointed mitt (he has 'writteft.suhd# qooks\ in Italy), as to stirupulbustiess, he will liar role.as to different from thaV of Ith^ ponderit of Neio York'TMufat;''