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Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 87, 4 September 1852, Page 9

The Criminality of Teeming Wives.— All the vices, all the crimes, all the follies of the world, are chargeable to the mothers of mankind, individually, in the several proportions as their children contribute to swell the catalogue ; and to the fathers, collectively, as they have laid a burden on woman's shoulders that she is not able to bear. General Taylor could conquer the Mexicans, but we would just like to have seen him tend a baby for a week ! His mother had more trouble with him, the first five years of his life, than he ever had with any thing from that until his death.— Mrs. Swisshelm in the Pittsburgh Visitor. Action and Lettehs.—A literary man, who is a man;of action, is a two-edged weapon ; and it should not be forgotten that Caius Julius and Frederick the Great were both eminently literary characters, and yet were, perhaps, the two most distinguished men of action of ancient and .modern times.— Disraeli.