Correspondence.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIII, Issue 899, 8 February 1856, Page 3

Correspondence.

tg|£°Our Correspondence columns being impartially open, we are not to be identified with any opinions exressed therein.

To the Editor of the Southern Cross. Sir, — An erudite gentleman, under the alias of "Vox Populi," adds his little item of dirt to the nasty columns of last Wednesday's ' New Zea'ander,' in abuse of the present' Provincial Executive. Thus holds he forth : — " The memher for the Northern Division is unfitted, from want of education, for a legislator." If the hon. membrr for the Northern Dh ision were to write in the style of "Vox Pop uli" I must admit that he would show, at all events, a lamentable ignorance of Lindley Murray. I do not think, however, he would be found constructingsuch a sentence as this: — "a small modicum of sen^e would be more preferable," &c. He knows •' more better," as "Vox Populi" would ha\e it, what he is about. Neither do I think that he would speak of an " absolute subservient majority." He might, in a similarly constructed sentencesay — " Vox Populi is an absolutely stupid donkey," but he would know better than to qualify one norm with two adjectives. I conclude with Mr. Vox's pious exclamation, "Oh that men would stick to occupations for which they are gifted by nature." If " Vox Populi would follow this advice he might distinguish himself highly as a costermonger, without making himself ridiculous as a penman. I am, yours Sc. Verdant Green. Auckland, February 7th, 1856.

p.S. — Dr. Johnson does not spell bawl " ball." Tooaw ] — D r . j. S ays, means— to call out, to shout. " Ball," colonially speaking, is often the result of a " shout"— a result which, I fear, " Vot" nnde hi.nself too fanrliar with on the afternoon of pitching his hazy voice in the Gallery of the Council Chamber. Y. G.

To the Editor of the Southern Cro s. Sir, — I observe that one of the three gentlemen who usually attend the Council Chamber on behalf the ' New Zealander,' has not, on a recent occasion, been permitted to take his usual place, and has thus, as he observes, been -•prevented from following his avocation. What that avocation usually is I cannot say, but, on Friday, when I happened to attend the Chamber, the avocation of the gentleman in question was confined to picking his teeth, and holding communication, orally and by note, with seveoal of the — I was going to s-ny other hon. members, for, so far as a stranger could judge, he appealed more as one of themselves, than in any other capacity. Yours, {ye., ____ O.VF. IX THE G\T,T.F.RY.

The skeleton of a man weighs from 12 to 16 lbs., and the blood 27 or 28 lbs There is iron enough in the blood of forty-two men to make a ploughshare weighing 24 lbs. A man is taller in the morning than at night to the extent of half an inch, owing to the relaxation of the cartilages. The human brain is the twenty-eighth of the body, but in the hoiso but a four-hundredth. Ten days per annum is the average sickness of human life. One fourth of the deaths in London are from consumption, and one-eighth of the deaths aiise fiom drinking sphilnous liquors.