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Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 92, 9 October 1852, Page 10

Mr. Feaegds O'Connor.—Mr.O'Connor,M.i\ for Nottingham, who lately excited so much attention in the metropolis by his strange eccentricities and ungraceful demeanour, W arriving in Liverpool, took up his residence at.the Queen's Hotel. During the night, after all had retired to rest, Mr. O'Connor alarmed the inmates by making an undress,descent from his sleeping apartment to the ground floor, where he unhesitatingly commenced a repast on a dish of raw beefsteaks which had been inadvertently left in the way, occasionally washing them down with, copious draughts of water. Being detected in this unusually awkward position, he abandoned himseld to a little frolic, and commenced hanging the remaining unmasticated fragments about the heads of the domestics. After committing other oddities he was somewhat appeased, and again conducted to bed by his temporary valet-de-chambre. He took a passage by the steam ship Europa for Boston. The object of Mr. O'Connor's flight is said to be to avoid the commission of lunacy which lias been issued against him.— Liverpool Albion. An Unimaginative Wife.—She could count the strokes of the town clock between his kisses, and could listen and run off to the sauce-pan that was boiling over, with all the big tears in her eyes which he had pressed out of her melting heart by a touching story or sermon. She accompanied in her devotion the Sunday hymns, which echoed loudly from the neighbouring apartments, and in "the midst of a verse she would interweave the prosaic question, " What shall T warm up for supper?" and he could never banish from his remembrance that once when she was quite touched, and listening to his cabinet discourse upon death and eternity, she looked at him thoughtfully, but towards his fest, and at length said, " Dont put on the left stocking to-morrow—l must first .darn it."— Richlcr.