MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 7, 10 December 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

jfir Thatcher, nppnt for MV J>vr. H>© great cornet solowt. wrifp* as folio vst>> the Otago Hailv T"no-c : — •' Since th* papers ol this oniony ovi|i>nHv think it incumbent on fh'-m 'o pr «fltfni M» » fn^fc thnt mv princ'p!)!, F. »i*v. 'in I to seek tho protection of tie I'i9->lve>iev dwrt of Victoria, you. w'io pnbhs'i the rot»'»ft, as wpll ns other paneps.panno in common fairness rpfus ■ fo giv a brW aiatviiH'nt of the causes that point>el!i i 'l bin to do so. After I lefi t» i »»» in Ad. -laid •, one Allison, a theatre I nu«»nt-. upon thu pt'ene'h of s<>m • asj-pe n-nt. in \>\o in New York, bud linn serv.-il n'li ;i wrir. for £500. Tlim A! is ii !»>l mpvim* met. Levy, nor done n<iyii»i.ig f"i- him sinct* his nrrival, but Ia ' snl I is ii>ter»«t. for £750 (o a MeH'ounii' fi in without ox* petidins? a shilling tin his account. I lml engaged the Melbourne Town Hall, and innirr d several hundw 's of pounds liabilities there and in ihis colony, r»H »n the provinces of South Australia. L-vy was forced either to give bail t< r £500 that he would return and answer the case, which would entail a loss of £1000, or meet the demand. So by the advice of the lawyers he paid down £240. and some £'50 law expenses. A celebrated basso who was engaged to appear in Adelaide sent to say he could not come for a week, and Levy very justly told him to keep away altogether. He claimed £500, and took out the usual writ. Another vocalist eonsidesed herself insulted by tile terms in which her services were dispensed with, and she cisiimed £1000, having recourse to law, of course, to vindicate her reputation. Other people I tumped up all sorts of ridiculnou* cases, and Levy's leg'tl advisers suugested a dose of whitewash,, as good gardeners whitewash (he trunks of trees threatened by v<>rmiu." London Mayfair supplies ihe follow* in* account of the fnrn of " giving theRoyal assent": — The clerk on the right hand of the table before the woolsack in the House of Lords takes up a bill, and 1 , turning round so as to face the Koyafc Commissioners, bows low, the clerk at the. other side performing at the samo time precisely the same gesture, as if tie two were connected by an axle, anil turned by a single cogwheel. The c erk on the right, who is known as the Clerk of Parliament, reads the title of the bill, and then fuce< to the left. The Clerk of tho Crown on the other hand faces to the right, and being thus brought face *o face, the Clerk of the Crown • chants, La Reyne le veult ! Then some oue in charge* possibly the resident engineer, gives another turn to the invisible wheel, theClerk of Parliament aud tho Clerk of Crown simultaneously turn towards the five figures and bow down almost to their boots. The Clerk of Parliament takes up another bill and reads the title, after which he turns and bows again, the Clerk of the Crown bowing at the same. Then, they turn and fuce each other as before, and once more there rings through the chamber the polenta lugubrious chant* La Reyne le veull \ Fancy this going on without intermission or variation fpr the space of a quarter of an hour, add to it an aspect of settled melancholy on the face of the Clerk of the Crown, aud an ever deepening sadness in the monotonous chant, La Beyne le veult ' aud some ex« cuse may bo toand for the ladies, who, to the number of 16, were, before the ceremony was over, reduced to a state of exhaustion through uncontrollable laugh* to"*, which it was felt desirable should bo like Grand Court's smile, inward.