THE Inangahua Times PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, FEBRIAEY, 1, 1878.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 28, 1 February 1878, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, FEBRIAEY, 1, 1878.

'fho Goebijg Adrortiaer atfttos thuftho miUtorj authwitcj about to plaeo heavy ordhanoe atPort !phtllip Hoodi for the pufpo*e of dofondipii' the entrance ta tho jjo'y ftotn the Bea|)oaf<J. Captain Snee I yfaited' Geolong tho other $uy, and made all , the neoeaiftry ftrrapgomon^ for transporting tho bW guns to Quoonsoliff oyorl^nd. This work will not bo a very easy task, seeing that that two of the guns doßtinod to command the sea entrance vfcigU Id tons oaph'. Ko tiine'is W ne'lostin'for wording tho deforce proparatiojis \n tho mannor alluded t0,." A great antl Russian meeting, pomposocf largely of working mon, hold on Saturday in Trafalgar square, was tho ptetext for a pro« Russian gathering in another puffc df |hfl ifttoe plaoo. Baoh of the orpwdu poi»W«d all the elementa of ft' aob, 'and th» dlipU* of thre* ftaiUab flagf in the first aMemblage preoipttaiea an attaekbylheweond, More than $000 people wre present. ATie eonf«|i.«»<, was so gr*»t at the IwWsh meeting that th« speakers were not heard., A Buiiian nag saddenly appeared in thfl oro«ra, and a Aw» flght, lasting an hour a|jd |re mfnu^ Afe suod, led by a taj^4^~tms,m)Wifm^ like a B«sh{»Ba*eak, Bti A«gl«v < TttrWE ofaarged etifflaW M^tyMx* P,a«^. 'Tho standard bwrer *»• tiken and aoupdly thrashed, and the Mttieet tte Ijag destroyed, the fortoi of the hornyhandod frlotid^f th^Ozu raliied, and. 'carried, by »siftt}U th,e position held, by tho oolour-beaiers-ing party tb^ rotriiat was iinpssstble, and it became a aerlojji bufinoss for the men in front. Ihe standard!* were totally flestroyed, and the victors glared for a few moments at the seething crowd before th,em, apparently' anxious to know if theip wore any of tho obnoxious flags near. The wouwifld wore not butchered, but only jampda Opott playfully, and *icfc»a &mti W: : hotmA Lai'^aiißbiy'-aoon^^ke^^ wheimlnfjiy Turkish that tho Ruesopallei oo*pe»ei to withdraw. The polio intorforred three hours after tha meeting was first organised and two arrests were made. Nobody of any pjromineneo was presont, T^e meeting has no po^ltioa^ B|goiflotwioo. " The eomodios of I'luutus, with those of Terence, who woe about nihe years old when Pinutue died, and tho iragodios of the Roman philoiopher Soneoa, who died by command of Nero, a. D. repreiented (he old latin dramfttio literature to mediaeval scholars who knew little of $rook; and th^ts PJautus and Terenoo for oomody, Soneoa for tragedy, represented to most toholars t^ie old elaisida. drama clown even to Shakespeare's timol Qut of the study and imitation of tboso pl^ys in schools and universities the modern drama most disjiuotly rose. It would so hare arisen if there Yd, nerir beei»-;Stiy Miraold Plays. It did hot in any Way arlw out of the Miraole Tln-ys did not pasi into Morality Plays, nor did Morality Plays aftor^ds pass into true dramas. Miraole kar# are otic thing \ Morolitlos are, another things each form of wrtyng ha« its own distinot bogloning. aim, and end. They are two different forms of literature, one arising' out of tho church, sortiboi the other an offwhoot from the allegoriottl didaetio poom. When the two (brms of Jitorature were both they wero occasionally mixod, but there new*. nM a time at whioh ono changed in^o other Like the aroma proper, they turn to ttooo^ni'tho inst^not forimitation that hai, j na sense, made' aotorij qf all ohildren bom into the world, and thus they may claim coiwinship with our era that bad. its beginning in the sixteenth century j they are its cousins, not its, parents.— «< Oasiell's library of Knglish titor«ture, for November ."