The Daily Southern Cross.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 2966, 26 January 1867, Page 4

The Daily Southern Cross.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 26.

The Nicaragua route will soon offer to the world a new "short-cut" over the land dividing the Atlantic from the Pacific. In two years' time the lease of the American Panama transit company is at an end, and all the world knows what a Spanish American Government like that of New Granada will make of such a line of transit. By that time the Nicaragua route will prohably be open to goods and passengers, and as the choice of the two routes may come before many of the New Zealand public it may be as well to give some information on the new route. Captain Bedford Pirn, R.N., while in command of the Naval West India station at Grey Town (Nicaragua), made the capabilities of the old canalisation scheme of the river San Juan, debouching at Grey Town, his especial study. He found, like many more before him, that the Castillo rapids and the evev-shifting sand on the lower course of the San Juan made the scheme next to impossible on acoount of expense; also the harbour of Grey Tow*, an excellent harbour not twenty years ago, had become totally useless through the silting action of the riversand. The next question became, was there at all any good harbour in the neighbourhood 1 The only point within thirty miles of Grey Town, fit for anchorage, was Monkey Point, to the north of Grey Town, on the territory of the .King of the Mosquito Indians, a protege of the West India Government. Men-of-war had often frequented this anchorage, formed by a bold headland and adjacent Islands. The absence of a river running into the bay has preserved, and will preserve, good depth of water. This point satisfactorily ascertained, probably set Captain Pirn thinking how to connect this harbour with the general transit route. With considerable boldness of conception the projector struck out an entirely new line, leaving the San Juan river, the lakes of Nicaragua and Leon, far to the south, making the port of Realejo at the Pacific and the level lands of Chontales the main basis of his project. The question then remained to be answered whether an opening or gap of sufficient lowneßS could be found in the mountain chain running at the back of Monkey Point, and being the oonnection between the ranges of North and South America. Fortunately for Captain Pirn, the temper of the volcanic influences that have had dealings with Central America, has been of such unparalleled ferocity that nothing like a connected ridge has been left standing ; the opening for his railway was found therefore. The next step was, for a far-seeing man like Captain Pirn, to secure to himself a, good share of the benefits likely to result from this scheme. He bought the site of Monkey Point, from the King of Mosquito, for the sum of £10 ; got his purchase accredited by the Consuls residing at Grey Town ; and in his time returned to England, where he made no delay in bringing his scheme before the public. The Admiralty, incensed at any of their officers getting hold of such a very tempting good thing, upbraided him with malversation of his trust, in having turned her Majesty's time to his own account. Captain Pirn regretted to have displeased the Admiralty, and resigned his commission into their hands, having ia the meantime received one hundred thousand pounds for the sale of about onethird of his land at Monkey Point. Since that the Admiralty has viewed the scheme and the successful projector in a very different light from what "their" captain and his " talk " had stood formerly. It has been officially announced that the Admiralty will support Captain Pirn's transit line by subsidising steamers, &G. There is no doubt that the new line will be a great success, and a great boon to the world. Countries that have been up to this perfect terrse incognitas, except to the most adventurous traveller, will now be opened up, and bring their wealth, dormant up to the present, into the market. The Mosquito shore, once but an impenetrable labyrinth of gloomy virgin forest, where a few scattered tribes of Indians are occasionally met with, will now send its precious woods and indiarubber into the world, while the unparelleled capabilities of its soil and climate for the growth of sugar-cane, rice, and cotton, will soon attract enterprise. Those capabilities, moreover, are not merely idle conjecture ; for, during the latter part of the eighteenth century, the Mosquito shore, then an English colony*

produced all these articles in such perfection, that, the "West India interest becoming jealous (those were narrow-minded days), that colony was given up in 1799, in a treaty with Spain, in which England sur* rendei*ed cei*tain rights to that country in consideration of certain benefits elsewhere. At the present moment, the ruins of forts and factories, and here and there half-buried guns, are found in the virgin forest, which has once more asserted its power over man's fashionings ; and some decrepid and halfblind old negro dame may tell you of the time she was a slave on the plantation of so-and-so, where now the tiger and the wild boar alone argue territorial rights. The Mosquito Indians have been an exceedingly fine race, and are partly so to this day- They are the boldest boatmen in the world, either for surf or a voyage of hundreds of miles at sea in their dug-out canoes. They inhabit principally the coast, and live by fishing and selling tortoiseshell and green turtle. They were the only raoe of Indians the Spaniards never conquered. Six vessels of war sent against them were surprised at anchor ont boisterous night, and crews and soldiers massacred, with the exception of the one to oarry the despatch. These Indians were the staunchest and bravest allies of the Buccaneers ; and later, Lord Nelson, on his disastrous expedition up the San Juan river, speaks of the Mosquito Indians, who accompanied him, in the highest terms. They are now drunken, lazy, and' debauched, but the old spirit seems to awaken in them as soon as they enter their canoe and ride triumphantly on the rollers of a crashing surf. Ohontales is a province of the State of Nioaragua, and is famous for the cattle herds on its plains along the shores of the fairy lake of Nioaragua, and the metallic riches of its hills to the north-east, where oopper, silver, and gold have formerly and lately been obtained in large quantities. The State of Nicaragua once had won for itself a name amongst the fire republics of Central America as being the most abandoned country under the sun. Gifted with a delicious climate j with vegetable and mineral wealth untold ; with a scenery where bold volcanoes, lakes, islands and forests, savannahs and rivers, blend their ineffable beaiity ; a country well populated by early Spanish civilisation, — the people of Nicaragua lived but in a whirlpool, of passions the worst, social >and political, making of their beautiful cities of Leon, Granada, Nicaragua, Managua, and Masaya modern Sodoms and Goniorrahs. Nothing seemed capable of teaching them prudence, till Walker, the filibuster, taking advantage of one of their periodical revolutions, succeeded in fastening the robber's dutch upon them. When Walker had proved that he was incapable of rising from the robber to the regenerator, and had to leave Nicaragua in spite of unlimited assistance from the Southern States, the Nicaraguans rose, like one from a sick-bed, an altered people, and ever since have gone on progressing. Eealejo, the harbour on the Pacific side, is well sheltered. The channel of an inlet running to the settlement is rather intricate for sailing vessels with certain winds, but for steamers that does not exist. In that port embarked for California, in 1849, the first party of Americans who had crossed Central America from the Atlantic. They had brought out with them a large wooden flat boat (in pieces), which, by , means of a small steam-engine, was to be propelled up the San Juan river ; thence taken once more to pieces to be transported to San: Francisco to do river servioe there. The machinery proved inadequate to deal with the San Juan current, and native boat* had to transport the bold but not successful pioneers. Their experience, however, was utilised by Yanderbilt, the great American gentleman who, with » party of friends and his family, can afford to go in a steam yacht of 2,000 tons, on a tour round the world, of which the expenses are estimated at 500,000 dollars. During Walker's time the Vanderbilt Transit Company had great losses and sold out. Some other company took it up, but the concern languished till the Panama line took the wind out of their sails altogether. Now, however, it is expected that the traffic will not only give full occupation to both the Panama and the Nicaragua lines, but that auother line will soon be required ; this will be the line across the ishmus of Tehuantepec, in Southern Mexico. The Panama line does nothing for the accommodation of goods, and so the Nicaragua line intends to devote itself to that branch, a matter of great importance to us.

At the sitting of the Provincial Council, yesterday, a petition mis presented from Mr. Osmund Lewis, praying for a land grant. A petition was presented from a number of merchants, farmers, and boat* owners, praying for an alteration in the by-laws regulating the Panmure Bridge. A number of ques. tions were put by Mr. Wyn a respecting the Grammar School Trußt, and answered by the Waste Lands Commissioner. On the motion »f Mr. Wynn, an addreis was agreed to by the Council, to be forwarded to his Honor the Superintendent, regarding the Grammar School Trust Fund. The Impounding Bill was further considered in committee, and the remaining clauses agreed to. The third reading will be moved on Wednesday next. The Cattle-Brand-ing Bill was ordered to be committed on that day three months. A motion in reference to allowing the claim of John Lundon, amounting to £338, compensation for loss on a contract, was negatived. The Bush Fires Bill and Education Elites Bill were expunged from the order paper, the Executive not being prepared at that late period of the session to move their second reading.. On the motion of Mr. May, the recommendation of the Committee on Petitions in reference to the petition of Elizabeth George was adopted, and a copy ordered to be forwarded to the petitioner. On the motion of Mr. Creighton, a respectful address was ordered to be presented to his Honor the Superintendent, requesting him to send to the Council copies of all correspondence relating to negotiations for the purchase or lease of a block of 40,000 acres of land at Turanga, Poverty Bay, in the locality of the petroleum springs; also, all correspondence relating to the purchase or lease of a block or blocks of land in the district of Waiapu, East Coast, on account of the Provincial Government, or for any third partly. On the motion of Mr. Williamson, the Council, at its rising, adjourned until Wednesday. It was stated that his Honor the Superintendent hoped to be able to prorogue the Council on that day. It was thought by some yesterday that the old joke of "shaky Wellington" -was about to be turned upon us most unpleasantly, but on inquiry all fear was spetdily dispelled. The «xplosion of 8001b. of gunpowder, used in blasting the hulk • Marion,' produced a shock resembling the earthquakes which we periodically read of in our Wellington contemporaries, and which have gained the Empire City no enviable notoriety. The blast was not noisy owing to the depth at which it was effected, but the shock was felt very generally and unexpectedly. A detailed account of the experiment upon the hulk will be found in our shipping columns. The- Auckland Troop of Royal Cavalry Volunteers will parade on the afternoon of Wednesday next, at two o'clock, at One-tree Hill, when all members are requested to attend. ,„ . • A tea meeting will be held at the Remuera Congregational Church, on Tuesday evening next, at fire o'clock. ~ •• , -

The Auckland Regatta Committee meet to-night, at the Star Hotel, Albert-street, to receive entries for the various races announced in our advertising columm. The programme, it will be «een, is a very liberal on?, and speaks well for the induitry of the committee in these not very liberal times. Should the weather prove favourable, nothing will be wanting to ensure the suocess of the regatta] of 1827, if we may judge from the completeness oi the arrangements already effected We expect to; lee a large number of entries for the various races,| and consequently some spirited contests for the prize* to be awarded. At a meeting of the committee lasts evening to arrange for flag-boats and other details, a request was received from Onehunpa that a dingy; race for boats under 13 feet, and pulled by youths, under 18 years of age, should be inserted in the programme, acoompanied with a promise of £5 towards* the race. The committee decided to comply with' the request if the sum promised is subscribed. The steamship 'Auckland' has been generously placed at the disposal of the committee for a flagship by Captain Harris, her commander. A fire broke out yesterday in the premises of Mr. Price, grocer and baker, Freeman's Bay, and which, had it not been for the energy of the neighbours and the excellence of the appliances on the spot, would certainly have caused a great destruction of property. Mr. Price's premises are close to the Freeman's Hotel, and in a thickly-populated locality. It seems that there was a considerable quantity of cut wood lying in the bakehouse, and upon these the ashes from the oven had been raked. A couple of buckets of water were thrown over the ashes to extinguish any that might have been alight, but this had not been effectual, for at 11 o'clock, about an hour after the ashes had been pulled out, the wood burst ini>o flame. The fire quickly caught the walls of the bakehouse, and communicated to the roof. Of course, the fire was teen at once, and the neighbours promptly took measures to prevent iti spreading ; the women even turned to, and "manned" the buckets with most praiseworthy alacrity. Mr. MoLeod, of the Freeman's Hotel, keeps a number of buckets, ladders, 4c, in case of fire, and these proved mott serviceable, for in abont ten or twelve minutes all chance of the fire spreading was at an end. Nothing could have saved the whole block, which is, we believe, not insured, if the fire had not been so promptly observed and mastered. The actual damage done can be repaired for about £10 or £12. Operations were commenced yesterday by Mr. T. Rodden. the contractor for the works at Drakestreet, Freeman's Bay, and will, no doubt., be continued energetically. The works in Cook-street were also commenced yesterday. An amateur theatrical entertainment was given at the Prince of Wales Theatre last evening, by men of H.M. 57th Regiment, at present doing duty at the Auckland garrison. The performance was under the patronage of the Major-General Commanding, and was in aid of a regimental charitable fund, but, owing to the very unfavourable weather, the attendance w»s limited. The pieces selected were " A Day after the Fair," and "The Irishman :n London," which were produced with full casts, and a good display of theatrical taste on the part of some of the amatems who assisted on the, occasion. Where each strove so well to rssist in a fair representation of the pieces produced, it would ■ be invidious to criticise the result. Suffice it to say, the amateurs deserved very much better suppoit than they received, or are likely to receive, at the handi of the Auckland public, if the rebuke administered by Mr. Charles Poole on h ; « lrst appearance was at all significant. 1 A hornpipe iv character was very creditably gone through, and loudly redemanded. A " Song on Songs,' in character, wn likewise well received ; and an encore being requested, the amateur aiiiste substituted the wellknown air, "There's room enough for all." The farce, with which the performance terminated, was very successful. Alfred Barchard, landlord of the Victoria Hotel, was summoned yesterday, before his Worship Mr. Beckham, having supplied spirits to the natives. A half-caste and three natives bad gone into the hotel, and Mr. Barohard had given them, on the order of the half-caste, two glasses of "shandygaff," and two glasses of rum. The case for the prosecution was conducted by Mr. Gillies, who, in opening, alluded to the impression that had got abroad that the sale of spirits ordinance had been abrogated by the Native .Rights Act, 1865. That wa«, he said, quite an erroneous impression, as the Act mentioned was merely declaratory, and could not abrogate a positive enactment. Mr. Wynn, for the defendant, said that he would not attempt to argue that the Native Bights Act affected the ordinance. He urged, however, that the facts in evidence did not warrant the Magistrate in finding the case proved. His Worship found the defendant guilty, but imposed only a nominal penalty of Is. and costs. Miss Bye has addressed a company of ladies and gentlemen at the Bristol Guildhall. She was introduced to the meeting by Mr. Commissioner Hill, Q.C., and said, — " That she wanted the public of Bristol to cj-operate with her in the mattar of female emigration. For some years she bad been working among women, and had both seen and read of the distress of many of her countrywomen. Many persons were trying with her to solve the I problem as to what was to be done with the young women of this country. All would agree that something more might be done in remedying the evil. Emigration was one great way. So no six or seven years ago she had established a lawoopying office in London for the employment of young womm, but the applioants were a hundredfold more than the number that could be employed. This induced her to think of emigration, and she sent out s ; x governesses who applied to her for assistance to Sydney, where they did very fairly. Several others were afterwards sent— 3ome to Natal, some to the Cape, and some to Melbourne. Altogether 130 ladies had been sent out ia this way, only two of whom had disgraced themselves by improper conduot, and only four of whom had refused, or forgotten, or neglected to pay back the money which had been lent them. A considerable balance was still in hand, with which she was prepared to send out governesses to the oolonies. At the outset, the newspapers attaoked the scheme strongly, bub this had acted rather beneficially than otherwise to the movement, Several working girls came to her, and many wanted assistance, but were frightened to go by themselves on account of stories which they had heard abont the ships, whicb, she regretted to say, were in some instances only too true. Thirty were sent to British Columbia, forty to the same place subsequently, and a hundred to Queensland. Misi Rye herself determined to go out and see how these young women were going on. She recounted the successful results with which she had been met on every hand, not more than six per cent, of three hundred that had gone out altogether turning out badly. She refuted the notion that it was an idle and worthless class of girls that was wanted, and Mid that her plan had always been and always would be to select good ones. When the girls got to the colonies they were taken care of, and. reverting the usual order of things, a character was nquired with their intending mistresses before an engagement. The ladies at Melbourne had started a servant*' home, where, by paying a moderate sum, a girl who found her situation unsuitable could remain for a time wntil she obtained another. The wages averaged from £20 to £40 a year. When it was remembered that there were half a million more women than men in Englaud, it became a matter of consideration whether some of the surplus could not be put into a respectable sphere of life in other parts of the world. Miss Rye intended to start a •hip for Melbourne at the end of next month, and one for Hawke's Bay almost directly. Knowing that there was a superabundance of girls in the West, sha had come to solicit the co-operation of the British friends.— Australian Mail. Frederick Lewis and George Ray, two men who have recently come out of gaol, were charged at the Police Court yesterday with a breich of the Vagrancy Act, by having had in their possession a housebreaking implement. It seems that of late two attempts have been made to enter Messrs. L ewis Brothers' store, Albert-slreet. These attempts, there can be little doubt, had been made by Lewis and Ray, for they were apprehended on Thursday morning last coming from Albert-street, and the crowjack they were in possession of corresponded with certain marks on the doors of the store. His Worship found them guilty of being vagrants, and sentenced them to six months' imprisonment. A lecture will be delivered in the Christian Meet-ing-room, Cook-street, on the evening of Monday next, at half-past 7 o'clock, on " Sectarianism and its Results." On Monday, the 4th proximo, a discourse will be given on the subject, " Unity without Uniformity : is it practicable?" And on the following Monday, the subject of a lecture to be given will,be, " The Christian Bond of Union." The Rev. Mr. Edger will occupy the chair, and questions may be put each evening at the close of the lecture. A vocal and instrumental concert of operatic music will be given by Madame MOhler, on the evening of Friday next, at Mr. Hoffmann's rooms. Mr. J. Brown will officiate at conductor, ' •

William Hawkins, soldier of the Royal Artillery, was brought bofor« his Worship, yesterday, charged with a breauh of the Domain by-law* by having taken * dog into the grounds. The Domain constable deposed that, when he saw Hawkins, he asiked him to go back with the dog, which he would not do. At the Court, yesterday, defendant said that the dog did not beloug to him, but lived in the bar* racks, and would follow any soldier. A fine of 10s. and costs was imposed. The prosecution wu conducted by Mr. MacCormiok. A soldier of the 57th Regiment, named John Clarke, was, at the Police Court yesterday, charged with having stolen a watch from a oomrade named Patrick Welsh. After hewing the evidence, Clarke was committed for trial. We understand that the Rev. W. Colley has resigned the pastorate of the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Edwardes-street, owing to ill health, and leaves for Sydney this day week. The Emperor Napoleon has lately had some experiments made in his presence with a new gun, which fires more than the minimum of twelve shots a minute at present required, and which has the great advantage over the Chassepot of costing no more than the old musket, that is to say, 35f.» while the needle-guns cost 70f. This weapon, of which the mechanism and management are very simple, will, it is said, be given to the artillery, whom the Chassepot does not very well suit. The new gun has this advantage for the artillery — that of having a larger bore, which is necessary for soldiers of this arm, to repulse cavalry, against whom they are most often engaged. — Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. The Rer. S. Edger will deliver two sermons, at the Parnell Hall, to-morrow— that in the morning, " On the Divine Character — Lore," and in the evening, " The Dignity of a Christian in Prison." The high scale of charges which has been fixed for messages through the sub- Atlantic cables has led to the establishment of a system of " working the telegraph" by no means advantageous to the AngloAmerican or Atlantic Telegraph companies. The plan adopted is similar to that of " parcel-packing" by carriers which has been the source of so much litigation on our railways. The charge of £20 for a message of as many words (or £10 as the price is now reduced to) includes the name and address of thejsender and receiver, and the date of the message ; thus practicably limiting the number of word* in the shortest message that can be sent to some fourteen or fifteen. For instance, "Brown and Co., Broadway, New York, to Robinson, Leadenhall-atreet, London," takes off a very large proportion of the message, eaoh word representing a charge, at the present reduced [ scale, of 10s. Now, the combination of packers in London or New York were not slow to perceive that in these names and addresses on each message there existed a very profitable field for enterprise. On either side of the Atlantic the "packers" have a number of clients for whom they transmit or receive the messages at a price considerably below the traiff of the company. Each of these customers or clients has a correspoudiug figure or letter by which he is known, so that, instead of sending some eight or ten words giving the names and addresses, the message is simply "A. 8.," or any other two letters that may be agreed upon, the first representing the sender, the second the receiver, and thus a saving of tome 20 per cent, is at once effected. Beyond this, however, a very complete code is arranged between the " packers," by which the number of words in the messages is very greatly abridged Half a dozen messages, for instance, direoting different correspondents to buy or to sell, may be " packed " in one message, and thus the repetition iof many words be avoided. A variety of plans are adopted by which several messages are thus sent or ' ' packed " in one, and a very handsome profit is realised by the operators at the expense of the companies.— Railway News. The Newton Congregational Church anniversary sermons will be preached to-morrow at the church — that in the morning by the Rev. J, F. Mandeno, and in the evening by the Rev. James Hill. Collections will afterwards be made on behalf of the bir'ding fund. The anniversary services of the High-street Wesleyan Sunday-school will be held to-morrow, when sermms will bo preached in the chapel, by the Rev. J. Buller in the monrng, and the Rev. P. H. Cornford in the evening. At the cloie of the services, collections will be made in aid of the school f pads. On the 12th, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by Major-Greneral Sir Hope Grant, Colonel Mould, R.E., and Colonel Jerroise, proceeded to the Ordnance Surrey Office at Southampton. The fir9t duty here perfoimed by the Duke was to lay the first stone of some new bavraoki, which are to be built for a company of Royal Engineers, at the south entrance to the Survey Office, the old buildings which stood upon the site having been found inconvenient and ill adapted for the purpoat. The buildew are Messrs. Bull and Sons, of Southampton, and the architect Sergeant Downing, of the Royal Engineers. — Wellington Gazette and Military Chronicle. The New York Times correspondent at New Orleans writes :—": — " I had rather die in some other place than this. The • lay' "of the ground precludes all possibility of proper drainage ; some parts are actually lower than ordinary water level in the Mississippi ; in fact, the city is on a morass. There are no cellars ; three feet below the surface you find water. For the same reason graves are not dug ; but in their stead you find in the cemeteries long row* of brick and mortar, which resemble in their architecture a number of big Dutch ovens, with apertures in tiers, into which the encoffined body is shoved and plastered op, apparently air-tight. For nine or twelve months, during which time decomposition is said to occur in this climate, the sun pours its hot rays down on the ' oven.' Then, unless the tomb has been regularly purchased, and a good title given to some surviving friend, the oven door is opened, the few remaining bones, with the worm-eaten remnants of the coffin, are raked out, and wheeled to a xjonvenient spot, and the debris of a hundred rotten oarcasea are buried together ia the swamp water. The rental per annum of one of these ovens is from $25 to $50, according to its elegance and the size of the body." Messrs. Jones and Co. will sell by public auction, to-day, at 11 o'clock, at their mart, beef, pork, maize, potatoes, cheese, butter, lugar, tea, oats, barley, soap, &c. Mr. Henry Ridings will offer for sale by public auction, to-day, at 11 o'clock, at b'n new mart, potatoes, furniture, guns, watch, Dec. Mr. Alfred Buckland announces that he will sell, to-day, at 12 o'olock, at the Haymarket, hones, ■addles, bridles, socket pipes, &o. Messrs. Hunter and Co. advertise that they will offer for sale, to-day, at 11 o'clock, at the Durhamstreet sale-yard 9, the racer • Pasha j' aho, other horses, and Sydney ma ; ze. Mr. C. Stichbury will sell, to-day, at his stores, at 11 o'clock, soap, cheese, sugar, tea, furniture, tinware, &c.j and, at 12 o'clock, cast and wrought iron work. Meßsra. Turrell and Tonks will sell to-day by public auction, at 11 o'clock, at the : " mart, groceries, drapery, ale and porter. Mr. George Sibbin will sell by public auction today, at the Produce Stores, potatoes, meal, tea, cheese, jewellery, wine, &c. Mr. L. "W. Eaton will sell to-day, at 2 o'clock, on Custom-house-street, timber, pleasure yacht, and two boats. Messrs. C. Arthur and Son will sell to-day, at 12 o'clock, at their mart, piano, fowls, pigeons, vegetables, furniture, &c.

A Stbaxgk Stoky.— About 7 o'clock last Sunday night the attention of Police-constable 21 D was called to a crowd of people congregated in the Edg-ware-road, in the midst of whom was an exceedingly beautiful young lady, who £was apparently in a state of stupor. What dre^s she had on was of a rich and expensive character, but portions of it had been violently torn away — for instance, on lifting up her mantle, the whole of her person from her waist upwards was entirely naked, and the condition of her dress undoubtedly indicated that the clothes had been torn away, and the young lady subjected to much ill-treatment. She was taken to the infirmary of the Marylebone Workhouse, where she still remains She does not speak or answer any question put to her; consequently her name and address are unknown. She is about 23 years of age, fresh colour, has a profusion of auburn hair in ringlets, wean a light silk dress, black silk mantle, a fasbiouablebonnet trimmed with mauve lace, and a portion of her linen is marked "M.8." Mrs. Douglas, the matron of the workhouse, will bo happy to answer all inquiries.— Globe. The following order, verbatim tt literatim, is said to hare been received by an undertaker from an afflicted widower :— " Sur— my wife is ded, and Wants to be burried to-morro. - At Whinner k^ ok - U knows wair to dig .the Hole— bi the »ide of my too Utter wives— Let it be deep."