MISCELLANEOUS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1435, 13 September 1861, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

Coronation Follies —At the coronation of George the Fourth, Mr. Henry Dymoke, officiating for his father, the Key Henry Dymoke, loid of the manor of Sorivelsby, appealed as King's Champion m Westminster H.ill. He was on hoiseback, and attired in a complete suit of bnght armour. Lancaster Herald proclaimed the challenge, and Mr. Dymoke thiew down his gauntlet thiee times — at the entrance of the hall, in the middle, and at the steps of the throne The King then drank to the champion, and piesented him with the gold cup as a fee

The Woolcombkr of NcWitfARKEr — The father of Bmy Yelveiton, who is therpeal-grandfcvther of Major Yelverton, was a uoohomber at Newmarket, county Cork. The piesent Loul Avonmore is in leceipt of a pension of £1,200 a year as Chief Kegistiai of the Coiut of Chancei y, in addition to £1,000 a year from another sinecure as Wine Tctster for the province of Cork, or some such place. Those offices weie confeired in the year 1800, m consideiation of sei vices lendered to the Government in carrying out the Union Job. Venly, this 13 a nice way of supporting the honoiu and dignity of the peerage The family motto, " Ibhall rise again, " seems to have been overlooked by the gallant expounder of "centle blood." — Ennlish Paver.

Japane ffi Gardens.— "Fond as the English are of their gardens, they would appeal to be excelled in this lespect by the Japanese Every one of these singular people, both rich and poor, are said to have a gaiden , the latter, if possible, both in front as well as in the rear of their cottages In them they cultivate the plum and the cheiry, not for the fruit, but for the flower. By a peculiar tieatmtnt theyirapiove them so much as to make the flowers become as large as loses. Indeed, it i<? stated that the plum blossoms have been seen four times the size of our common cabbage loses Tn the season, when they aie in full blossom, these trees aftoid a delightful sight in the gardens, and about the temples and public walks. — Edward Jesse in Once a Week

A Scotch Drinking Bout. — A tavern supper bill for a club of sixteen and a few guests amounted to £24 4s. 6d., of which £4 103. went for supper, jellies, and lillubobs, and the remainder (nearly £20) almost entirely for drink. The items commence with the ominous one of twenty-five pints of claiet (one pint being equal to two quart bottles), and then follow bottles of sherry, port wine, and ''toddie," bread and beer, down to the little beggarly quantu n of " drink to the officers and caddies," a poor 7s 6d. After imbibing at least two quarts of claret each (to say nothing of the sundry and divers other potables), we are not surprised to find breakages among the iteoas. The only wonder is that they did not amount to more than " four and sixpence." Drinking paities were protracted beyond the whole Sunday, having been commenced with a dinner on Saturday ; and it was the especial office of one domestic to creep under the table, after one of these orgies, to loosen the neckcloths of the gentlemen " down among the dead men," who were incapable of any exertion beyond a snore. Mackenzie himself, the sleek and demure author of the "Man of Feeling," testifies that he, as the only piecautionary measure, having joined the good fellows under the table, suddenly felt a small pair of hands woiking at his throat, and on asking -what it was, a voice lephed, " Sir, I'm the lad that's to lowse the neck-cloths."— Bean Ramsay,

A Parliamentary Bore.— The paihamentary boie is generally a person without anything like method in hia mind, who has no system to go upon, and no definite plan of procedure He pecks at an estimate. He dislocates a bill. On a supply day he baika the bark of a foolish dog at the wrong person. He asks a question, at a most unfitting time, upon some subject respecting which all prudent men would be glad to avoid any discussion whatever. If he calls foi a return, and if, by chance, the matter in question is worthy of having a return made about it the terms which he uses to describe what he wants are so vague and so extensive, that the return, when made, will generally be found to have produced nothing but a loss of public time. The parliamentary bore, when he comes from his study into his drawing room, feels a complacent sort of pity, as lie observes his daughter practising the polka or doing crochet work. He thinks what a waste of time those feminine occupations are ! And, all the while, he carries in his pocket (as he is just going down in a great hurry to the house) a foolish bill, or an inapt amendment, or a motion for an impossible return, or a draft of aninational question with which he is about to molest some unfortunate minister, fn fact, he is hurrying to waste a nation's time, and to weary out the patience of all the people who will, hereafter, have to deal with his bungling work. Oh, that he would but remain at homo, and practise the polka with his daughter ! Or, if that be too undignified, thai, he would sit down quietly and spend some hourb in learning the mysteries of crochet-work— thus, for one evening at least, preserving the nation from the ludicrous mischief which he will probably effuet, if he allow hinwolf to go to the house with that fatal piper in his pocket. — Frazers Magazine.

The English in Mexico.— Advices fiom Mexico state that there can be now but little doubt that the murderous attack on Captain Alclliam, the commander of the British squadron, and his fellow travellers near Orizaba, was not prompted by the desire of plunder, butiby the malevolent and levengeful spirit of some of the most ignorant and fanatical of the Churcli party, who imagined that Captain AlcUiam had, onposed himself to that party and its leaders, a suspicion for which, it need hardly be said, there was not the slightest ground. The character of the outrage may be mfened from the circumstance that when the second diligence sent on to Vein, Cruz was attacked for the second time the day after the affair, near Oiizaba, the malefactors held young Mr. Brett (Captain Aldham's secretary) fast to the ground and demanded .ill papers in his possession. They eveu ripped open the cushions of the carnage to search for documents, and they also especially inquired where Captain Aldliam was, and when he was to bet out from Mexico. They even thiew back into the cairiage some articles of value, saying they wanted papers. The letter giving these details concludes with the remark, so often neglected, but which it is believed -will at length find a full lesponse from our Foreign-office, "Eueigetic measures at thispaiticular juuctiue are much needed to do justice to Bntish interests in Mexico." — Times City Article. Womanly Self-sacrifice — The slave Alexandia, fearing her own beauty, and in pity of the poor soul of hun who loved her, buued herself alive in an empty tomb, and remained ten yeais without per mittmg any one to see her face. Theie was the beautiful and learned Euphrosyne, who, at eighteen, deserted her father and her husband ; and, to escape the better fiom theii seaich, obtained admission, by concealing her sex, into a monastery of monks, wheie she lemamecl thnfcy eight yeais without leaving her cell. JHerfathei, in despan, after useless .soaich by land and sea, came to the same monasteiy to seek some comfort to his mcieasing gnef. "My father, " he said to the first monk whom he met, "puiy for me ; I can bear up no longer, so much do I weep for my lost daughter, so much am I devout ed by this grief." And it was to hoi self he spoke, to his daughtei, whom he did not lecogmse in the monk's, dtess. At bight of the father fiom whom she had fled, and -whom she too well lecogmsed, s>he glow pale and wept. But soon, smotheung ho teais, she consoled him, cheeied him up, piomised that he should one day see his daughtei again, and thus encouraged him for his fmther life; then, finally, when she felt hei&elf dying, she sent foi lum to her bedside, revealed the seciet of hei saciifice, and bequeathed to him her example and her cell, wheie her fathei, so long inconsolable, came to live and die m liis turn.— The Monks oj the West. By the Count de Montalcmbei t

A Sanguinary Combat in 158G —Twenty thousand men on each side now met at push of pike on the bank of the Meuse. The lam was pom ins; in tonents, the wind was blowing a gale, the stieam was rapidly rising and [thieatened to ovei whelm its shoies. By a tacit and mutual consent, both armies pause for a few moments in full view of each other After this brief niteival they closed again in sharp and steady conflict. The ground, slippery with lam and m ith blood, which was soon flowing almost as fast as the rani, afforded an unsteady footing to the combatants. They staggered like diunken men, fell upon their knees or upon their backs, and still kneeling or rolling piostiate, maintained the deadly conflict For the space of one hour and a half the fierce encounter of human passion outinasteied the fuiy of the elements. Norns and Hohenlo fought at the heads of their columns like paladius of old. The Enghsliman was wounded in the mouth and bieast , the count was seen to gallop past one thousand musketeeis and cahvcrmen of the enemy, and to escape unscathed. But as the stiength of the soldieiu exhausted itself, the violence of the tempest increased. The floods of rain and blasts of thehiuncane atlastteiminated the affiay. The Spamaids, fauly conquered, weie compelled to retieat, lest the rapid-ly-nsing liver should sweep away the fiail and trembling budge ovei which they had passed to their unsuccessful assaidt. The English and JSfetheilanders remained masteis of the field. The using flood, too, which was fast conveitmg the meadow b into a lake, was as useful to the conqueiois as it was damaging to the Spamaids.— History of the United Nethei lands.

Horrible Pyramid of Serpents.— A tiaveller in South Amenca wutes :—"ln: — "In the savannahs of [zacnbo, m Guiana, I saw the most ten lble spectacle that can be seen , and although it is not uncommon to the inhabitants, no tiaveller has ever mentioned it. We were ten men ouhoiseback, two of whom took the lead, m order to sound the passage, while I prefen ed to sku t the gi eat fOl est. One of the blacks who formed the van guard letuined at full gallop, and called to me, 'Heie, sir, come and see the M3ipents m a pile.' He pointed out to me something elevated in the middle of the savannah 01 swamp, which looked like a bundle of aims. One of my 1 company then said, 'This ceitainly is one of the assemblages of serpents which heap themselves on each other after a violent tempest ; 1 have heard of those, but have never seen any ; let us piocecd cautiously and not go too neai ' We weie within twenty paces of it; the tenor of oui hoises pi evented om neaiei appioach, to which none of us weie inclined. On a sudden the pyiamid mass became agitated ; homble hissings issued from it. Thousands, of serpents, rolled spually on each other, shot foifch oat of their circle their hideous heads, andpiesented then enoimous darts and fieiy eyes at us. I own I was one of the fust to dtaw back, but when I saw this formidable 2'balaux lemammg at its post, and appearing to be more disposed to defend itself than attack us, I rode aiouud in older to view its oidei of battle, which faced the enemy on eveiy side. I then Bought what could be the design of this uumeious assemblage, and I concluded that this species of serpents dreaded some enemy, winch might be the great seipent 01 cayman, and that they united themselves after seeing this enemy, in oidei to lesist in a mass."

An Egypiian TYRi.Nr. — Tlie treatment of the natives by the Defteidar, his suboidmatcs, and the uncouth tioops, was bai barons in the evtierne Not only wei c they robbed, of eveiy aiticle of value which came under the obsei v.ition of their despoilers, but the most tuvuvl oftence was punished with a cnielty which, for its ingenuity, Was as peculiar as it was honifyiug. An instance oi two will tlnow sufficient light upon the charactei of DeftercLu, and tlie suffeiingB of hib victims, and enable the loader to undeistand what bittei cause the Kordofane&e had to 1 egi et their change of mastei. One of his soldieis, m open day, walked off with a sheep fiom the enclosure of a pool man, whcie he had seemed it pnor to oft'eim^ it for sale in the maiket. Taken m the act, he not only persisted in keeping the sheep, but treated the peasant -\yith abuse. He might have reconciled himself to being robbed, which was of too ordinaiy occurrence ; but, determined to obtain satisfaction for wanton attacks upon his charactei, he foithwith pioceeded to the divan, and laid his complaint before the Defteidar. Listening attentively, without mteiruption, until he heaid the case, m a sudden fit of passion he said "Dog, do you daie tiouble me with such a trifle ? " then, composing himself for an instant, and catching a fly, at which he was a gieat adept, and which in his wicked moods was a favouiite occupation, he ordeied his attendants to take the man before the Kadi. In a few minutes the poor fellow was blown from the muzzle of a cannon.always leady foi summaiy executions in fiont of the divan, and which the Defterdar called the Kadi. A man complained that he had been struck in the market "By whom?" growled the governor. "By this man " "Is it true ' " " Yes, Excellency ; but " "No buta are necessary ; with which hand did you strike him?" "With this, the right, Excellency." " Then m order to impress upon your memoiy that you have no right to take the admmistiation of justice into your own hands, for which purpose I am here"— giving a nod to his attendants— "l shall have the palm of your hand off " A couple of attendants rushed on the unfortunate peasant, and, with a feaiful iion instrument of the Defterdar's invention, the flesh was torn from its ligaments. " That will do; go to your woik." "Woik!" said the poor victim, maddened with pain, "how can I, in this state?" "Dog, you contiadict me; cut out his tongue, he knows not how to use it ; " and in addition to the tortuie already undeigone, he was deprived of the organ of speech. Dreaded not alone by the aborigines, his officers, troops, and household servants trembled when m his piesence : for they well knew that the slightest offence, neglect, or mistake, would be punished with toituie or death. After the feast of the Beiiam it is customary for servants to receive presents from their mastei s ; and about a score of the Defterdar's giooma, after kissing his hand, and, as is usual, wishing him a long and happy life, imprudently asked him for new shoes, "Yes," was his reply; but judge their astonishment when, on the following day, iron shoes were nailed to the soles of their feet. An Aiab, unable to poise a couple of small field-pieces on a camel's back, oue of which was heavier than the other—" Let me try," said the Defbordar ; ami, ordering the man to be slung by the waist to the lighter gun, without a quiver of ins featiues, ho said, "That will do;" and theie the poor fellow remained tlnoughout the day's inaich, no oue daring to lelievo him from his paaaiul position.— Et/ypt, the Soudan, and Central Africa. Bu John Pelherlck, F.11.G.5.

- Lying in Spate.— A Queen's speech.— (Punch )

HiNf fob Birdkgepbrs. — Many persons who keep bullfinches find their plumage getting gi adually dai kei , until at last it assumes a black hue. This change of colour is mostly produced by two causes — one the confinement in a smoky atmosphere, and the other the presence of hemp seed in the food. Hemp seed when too libeially given has often this effect upon cage-birds, and even the light colours of the goldfinch will darken into dingy black and brown under its influence. The reason of so curious a phenomenon is not known, but it is viitually a problem which, when solved, may be of gicat value.— JlouilecMs Natural History.

Sparrows on Boabd Ship. — Like other familiar buds, the sparrow sometimes builds its nests in very unsuspected localities, and there are several examples of their nests being placed m different parts of a ship's nggmg. For example, while the 'Great Britain' was lymg in the Sandown giaving dock, some sparrows built two nests in the " bunts" of the main andmizen topsails ; that is, the place where the sail is gathered up into a bundle near the mast. As the sail could not be set without disturbing the buds, the sailors augui ed a speedy anclpleasant voyage. Mi . Thompson gives an instance of the spanow building upon the fuiled sail of the Aiuora, of Belfast, but as the sail was loosed during the second voyage to Glasgow, the nest was destroyed and the eggs bioken.— Routledrje's Natural History.

Last but not Lfast —Mr. George Augustus Sala, at a banquet of the St George's Eifles, held lecently, m leturmng thanks for the press, drew the attention of his audience, as Dr Mackay has on several ocasions, to the piactice of pioposmg the toast of periodical luera tme at " the fag end of the evening." This habit leminds us of the story of the tiaveller who, when leaving the ship, after a long voyage, counted his luggage again and again , and at last, when almost satisfied that he had not foigotten anything, exclaimed, " Yes, by the vvay, theie's my wife " Sfcewauls of public dmneis lemembei the ai my, the navy, the chanman, the ■vice chan man, the visitois, the ste wauls, the ladies, and then, when eyes aie closing and the cioss tables aie husky, they discover that theie is one toast they have neglected. \Ylnlo hats aie bomg lecoveied, for ciuinpled tickets, a few words aie mumbled about »the fouith estate May eveiy gentleman who is called upon to lespond to buch mumbling, show the courage and dignity of Dr. Mackay and Mi. Sala • — Lloyd' i> Weelh/. J

The Kordoi'Ans of Aikica. — Money was unknown amongst them , but theie was no lack of gold and silver, which, woikecl by native aitisans into ornaments, weie worn by the women, and even then slaves, in the shape of anklets, biacelets, necklaces, ear and noserings The majouty of the nugs worn on the fingeia weie of silvei, and of clumsy constniction, those of the men, as m the piesent day, had then names in Aiabic engiaved on them, while the women's were simply massive or twisted, in some of them stones of agate being rudely set. Fond of ornament, the women loaded themselves with jowelleiy to such an extent, that in some instances the soles of their sandals weie of gold ; solid rings, an ounce m weight, weie worn in each eai, to leheve which fiom the pain occasioned by such a weight, the nngs weie supported by a stung passed ovei the head and interwoven with the han. Half an ounce of gold foiined the nose-nug, winch, hanging over the mouth, was suspended to the right nostiil The necklaces weie composed of stnngs of the same metal, lesemblmg baileycoins and cubes The heaviest ornaments ueie the biacolets, some of which weighed nine ounces , and, taking all together, theie weie many women who dccoiated then peison with fifty ounces of gold.— PethencVk Southern Afiluc, <Lc. Driß Convici-, — During the last yeai, out of 1,400 pnsoueis who passed through Millbank puson, not fewer than 300 weie identified as having been theie undei pievious sentences of tianspoitation 01 penal servitude. Obseive ' Theie — in that one puson and within the memoiy of the piesent waideis. I wondei if 300 out of 1,400 of life's ordinary travellers v ould evei dream of returning to the same hotel ' These penal places must siuely be pleasant places. Money enough has been spent upon them to make them so , and when I tell you that the cost of keeping some 6,200 juisoneis in these convict pusons, ten yeais ago, was neaily 200.000Z , and that m the last yeai the cost of maintaining some 5,200 was upwaids of 323,000/ , you will easdy compiehend that the conveniences and comfoits of the inmates aieuudeigomg no diminution as the establishments glow oldei. 320, 0002. odd, foi S, 000 men i Why, that's neai ly 40? a head — oi just double what a Dorsetshne labouier gets by the sweat of his honest blow, for the maintenance of himself, his wife, and may be half a scoie of childion And the Doisetshue labouier has not the advantage of buying the neccssaues of life wholesale, and by coutiact, eithei.— Bwlens's All the Year Round.

A Model Womvn.— Mis. Wintluop was one of these. She was in all lespects a woman of scrupulous conscience, so eager for duties, that life seemed to offer them too scantily unless she lose at half -past foui, though this thiew a scaicity of woik over the moie advanced liouis of the morning, which it was a constant pioblem with hei to lemove Yet she had not the vixenish tempei which is sometimes supposed to be a necessaiy condition of such habits ; she was a veiy mild, patient woman, whose natme it was to seek out all the sadder and moie senous elements of life, and pastme hei mind upon them She was the peisou always Hist thought of in Eaveloe when theie was illness 01 death m a family, when leeches weie to be applied, 01 theie was a sudden disappointment in a monthly nui se She was a comtoi table woman — good looking, ficsh complexioned, ha\mg hei lips always slightly sciewed, as if she felt heiselt m a sick loom with the doctor 01 the clergyman piesent But she was never wkunpeung , no one had seen hoi shed teais, she was simply giave and inclined to shake hei head and sigh, almost impel ceptibly, like a funeral inouincr who is not a 1 elation It seemed suipusiug that Ben "Wmtlirop, who loved his quait pot and his loke, got along so well with Dolly ; but she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as eveiytliing else, consideimg that " men would be so," and viewing thestiongei sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make natuially tioublesome, like bulls and tmkey-cocks— Silas Mai nci , ilia Weaicr of Raicloe ; by Gcouje Eliot.

A Jolly Race of People. —The Abois aio leportod to bo a jolly, social soi fc of fellows, keeping up a louud of feasting all the yeai tlnougli. They are not at all pai fcicular about what they cal , and cveiy auinial, from a mouse to an elephant, has a place in their bill of faie. The skulls of every beast that has graced the festive boaul aie caiefully pieseived, as testimonials of good fellowship , and wheu the mastei of the house dies, the whole collection is piled upon his giave, as a monument and epitaph. Then inariiage ceiemomes closely resemble those of the Taitais, the fotheis of the happy pan- .mange the whole affaii, whilst the pnncipals nevei see one anothei till the wedding day. The most delicate compliment a young Aboi swain can pay Ins sweetheai fc is to send her a couple of field mice, not as pets, but as a dinner. In fact, this is equivalent to popping the question Pievious to mamage, a new house is built by the village! s for the happy pan, who take possession of it aftoi they aiemamed, and live thoie. It is not uncommon for one woman to have two husbands living m haimony under the same roof, they being bi others. The Abois woislup one Supieme Being, but make offenngs tonuineious minoi deities. They have no knowledge of medicine, but believe eveiy disease to be lepiesented by its peculiar demon. When any one is sick, he is supposed to be possessed by a devil, and then ceitam sacufices aud leligious coiemonies aie peifoimed by the priests to duve it out. — A7b Oicrland Route between Calcutta and China. The Man Fish. — This aminaj. inhabits the mouths of the Amazon, Ounoco, aud other South Amencan riveis. Its name (Manatee) has refeience to the peculiar form of its swimming paws , these, as m the other genera, aie composed of soft paits, and a membrane which enfolds the bones of the hands and fingeis ; but in the manatee, four flat nails aie seen attached to the edge of the paw. The tail, also, is peculiar, being about one-fourth the length of the body, and oval shaped, not unlike that of the otter. The head is round, attached to the body without a ueck , the muzzle, in which the nostrils aie placed, lslaige and fleshy ; the upper lip cleft and bustled at the sides ; the lower lip much shoiter, and the mouth small. The teeth, which are all molais, bear a lesemblance to those of some cloven-footed quadiupeds The mammas of the manatees and dugongs are pectoral, and this structuie, joined to the adroit use of their finger-like flippers, have caused them, when seen at a distance with the anteuor part of the body out of the water, to be taken for some creature appioaching,to human shape. The effect has been deepened by the thickset hairs of the muzzle, giving somewhat the appearance of human hah 1 , 01 a beaid. Thus the Spanish and the Poituguese give the manatee a name which signifies "Woman-Fish ; and the Dutch call it the Dugong Baaidmannetze, or Little Beaided Man. In this way, doubtless, some of our stones of mermaids have ansen ; and "it is not at all improbable," says Scoiesby, "that the wall us has affoided foundation foi otheis. I hive myself seen the sea-hor3P m such a position, •'that it lequnes little stretch of imagination to mistake it for a human being; so like, mdoed, wis it, that the suigconof the ship actually imported it mo that he had seen a man with his head just appealing above the suiface of the water." — Cusi,ell's IllnslmUd Natural History.

Presence of Mind.— M. Ebel relates that a young hunter in Switzerland having discovered an eagle's neat, lolled the male, and was descending the rocks to destroy what lemained, when, at the moment he was putting his hand into the cleft to take the nest away, the mother, indignantly pouncing upon him, fixed her talons m his aim and her beak m his side. With great presence o£ mind, the hunter stood still ; had he moved he would have fallen to the bottom of the precipice ; but now, holding his gun in one hand, and supporting it against the rock, he took his aim, pulled the trigger with his foot, and shot the eagle dead. The wound he leceived confined him to his bed, however, forsix weeks.— Qcusscll's Parlour Natural History.

A Beautiful Tradition. — It was on that fearful Friday when our Saviour hung in hiß agony upon the cross, when the sun wasjturned into blood, and darkness was upon all the earth, that three birds, flying from east to west, pas&ed by the accursed hill of Golgotha. Fust came the lapwing, and when the bird saw the sight before him he flew round the cross crying in his querulous tone, "Phnhain I plinham I torment him I torment him i" For this reason the lapwing is for ever accursed, and can never be at rest ; it flies round and round its nest, fluttering and uttering a plaintive cry ; in the swamp its eggs are stolen. Then came the stork, and the stork cried in its soirow and its grief for the ill deed done, "Styrk ham' styrk ham !— give him strength ' give him stiength '" Therefore is the stork blessed, and wherever it comes it is welcome, and the people love to see it build upon their houses ; it is a sacred bird, and for ever imhaimed. Lastly came the swallow, and when it saw what was done, it cried " Sval ham ! sval ham ' — lefresh him ' cool him !" So the swallow is the most beloved of the three , he dwells and builds his nest under the very roofs of men's houses, he looks into their veiy windows and watches their doings, and no man disturbs him, either on the palace or on the houses of the pooiest peasants. For this leaaon as you tiavel in Denmaik you will observe the swallow's nest leinam undisturbed ; no one would dicam for a moment of scratching them down or destioying them as we co m England. To tins tradition the Swedes add a fourth bud, the turtledove, who peichmg on rhe cioss, in its anguish cued, " Kume ' Kunie i Kurrie" (Kyne — Lord 0 Since that day, the dove has never been glad, but flies tlnough the forest still lepeatmg its sad notes — Marri/alt's Jutland

Ameriuan Sensations. — But the sensation that immediately preceded my arrival in the new country was not "the Japanese" but "the Heenau." Telegiaphic wiies weiebusy flashing across the continent, from the shoies of the Hudson to the banks of the Rio Giancle, exultations about the supposed victory of the American champion. The airny of the Israelites could not have rolled and loaied more hoarse tuumph when David smote the Giant of Gath, than did the people of New Yoi k at the news of this drawn battle. Eveiy face in Wall-street bughtened as if shaies weie using ; the papers were full of violent and exaggeiated veisions of the mtei national duel ; Wilkes papei (the Bell's Life of America) declared thai American yachts had beaten English jachts, that Ameucan horses had out-trotted English hoises, and now that an Ameucan prize fighter had beaten an English pugilist. They went on to say that the English backeis of Sayeis, finding him defeated, had biokenup the ring and stopped the fight, and that m auothei lound Sayers would have been (yes sir) ciushed by the unmjuied Heenan The New YoiL Ha aid outciowed them all ; it took a higher stand on a loftiei hill, commanding a widei view of life and humanity. It discussed the fight as a contest between two nations, as a competitive comparison and stiuegle between the New and Old Woild, between two rival races At the cud, aftei wondeif ulswoops of rhetoric, it descubed the English Lion as well whipped and slinking of with its. tail between its legs In vain I eveiywheie descubed Heeuau as neaily blind and Sayeis by no means exhausted, while at the same time I confessed Heenau's superiority from his youth aud height. I might as well have tried to twist rope out of cobwebs ; I was set down as an mtoleiable Englishman, who would not admit an undoubted victory. And shoitly afterwaids, an exhibition opened in Bioadway, of "Heenans fightmg-boots. — ■ Admission twenty-five cents " The boots were a "sensation," and diew wondeifully.— All the Year Round

Pisciculture.— Moie than 200 yeais ago a gieat Monarch ami a great Minister set to -ft oik to regenerate a gieat conntiy. The Sovereign was Henri Quatie; the Minister was Sully. The King took mauufactiues under his protection He built the Place Hoyale — the oldest bquaie m Pans — to house a colony of silkwoikeis. In oidei to impiove the supplies of law matenal he oidered niulbeny tiees to be planted in all public gaidens, and it was through a similar oider issued aftei wards in England that tiees of this kind weie placed on the lawns of our Colleges in Oxford and Cambudge, wheie many of them still lemam. While the King was thus occupied the Minister charged himself with the eucomagemeut of agrccultiue and the production of food. It was not, however, to the fields that he first tinned. Foremost among the objects of his caie weie the nveis of France, aDd, above all tilings, he determined to piomote the bleed of fish, no found the sti earns in such a condition that little fish were almost as scarce in Fiance as little buds are now. No attention had been paid to the fisheries, ■tthich weie left to be pillaged and disturbed without hindrance. The consequence was that many useful bleeds of fish weie becoming extinct, and a wholesome descuption of food was lost to the people. Sully set all this right forthwith. Among all the "lefmms" accomplished by tins famous Minister, none was more conspicuous than his lefoini of the fisheries. He was the foundei of "piscicultuie." lie stocked thenveis anew, protected the young fry, and strictly foibade fishing dining the spawning time. The achievement may be deemed a trivial one, but Sully knew what he was about, and one of the latest French histonaus has lemarked that it ■\\ ould be well if somebody would do now what this great Minister did so many yeaio ago — Times. Fkencu Priestly Inteigue —(Morning Pott ) The oidinaiy way of descnbmg these male or female biothei hoods or sistei hoods is, Piene Ciespm, en lehgion Fieie Thomas , 01 Louise Duval, en lehgion iSafiir Adeline. Now, if either the one or the other has any seciet mission, or has committed any crune oi offence, the pationyrmc is at once dropped, and the alias of lehgion, as it is pi of finely called, is at once substituted This is amonstious system, which may bo made fruitful of the woist abuses. For instance, in the last week a wan ant was issued at Samtcs, in the Chaiante Infeueme, against the under mastei of the Ecole dcs Fieies, one Adolphe Chanbonneau; but when the wanaut came to be iv process of execution, it was, found the fellow was known in lehgion, that is, among his confraternity, as Brother Cesai ms. Notwithstanding the alias of the holy man, howevei, the police pounced upon him and lodged him in puson, chaiged with infamous piactices,%r which seveial of his biethien are awaiting tual. A vigoi ous measui c of this kind was to be expected from a government which compelled the dissolution of the Redemptonst fatheis at Lille and the dissolution of the Capucms at Ha?ebiouck. The lesuscitation of tins 01 dei of Capucins was foolishly peimitted by Loins XVIII, who lemaiked that the Capucins were such a stupid and stolid order that they could only pieach a Oapuanade, winch may be leudeied, discouises vulgar as dull Yet, though the Capucius did not wax veiy stiong in the northern and eastern depaitmeuts from 1824 to 184S, they multiplied amazingly m the south, and for the last ten yeais they have considerably mcieased even in Pans itself, Indeed, it is said they possess half as many establishments as they possessed eighty years ago, when they bad 400 houses. No older, excepting the Jesuit? woiks the confessional more adioitly to its own eudsl The fact that the temble and execrable Chabot was a member of this oider ought to be sufficient to inspne a prejudice against the very name of Capucm. It was Chabot who, m 1793, uttered the blasphemy, "le Utoyen Jesus Chnst etait Ie premier sans culotte ; " and he fitly followed up Ins speech by voting foi the most cruel and sanguinary measures. It is not lenity to spare unauthorised communities such as this. If they wish to continue legally m the French priesthood, it is easy enough for them to f ulfil the obligations i equn ed by the Fi euch law. Lloreute, m his " Histoiy of the Spanish Inquisition," relates the history of a Capucm who was the spiritual duector of a convent of seventeen BGgiunes, thirteen of whom weie young and pietty, which M. De Persigny might piofitably read, but which we may not quote here. The measures taken by the Fiench government in lefeience to the religious orders not legally authonsed have aheady had an excellent effect in Fi ance, and also m Belgium. An Antwerp j esuit, the lady siipenoiess of a convent, and an Irish kidnapper of the name of O'Callaghau, have all been biought to tnal within the last week at Ghent for the abduction of a protestant girl, and the Jesuit, the nun, and their confedeiate, a dressmaker, have been sentenced to imprisonment and condemned in costs. This condemnation woidd never, probably, have taken place if it were not for the initiative taken by the minister of the interior m Pans. When it is lemembered that a Capucm of the name of Ai change (piobably his name m lehgion) has recently beeu imprisoned for an indecent attack on a female in a railway carnage, in the dopaifcmeut of Cher, and that •mothei of the name of Giclat has been impusoneil at Bourges for a similar offence, we may be paidoned for dwelling on the qualifications of the older.