Miscellaneous.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 502, 26 August 1857, Page 5

Miscellaneous.

Abstetjse Calculation.-—Mr. O'Flaherty undertook to tell how many were at the party. The two Crogans was one, meself was two, Mike Finn was three, and—and—who the mischief was four? Let me see (counting his fingers)—the two Crogans was one, Mike Finn was two, meself was three—and, be-dad! there was four of us; but St. Patrick couldn't tell the name of the other. Now it's meself that have it. Mike Finn was one, the two Crogans was two, meself was three—and—-and be the powers, I think there was but three of us after all.— Punch.

Non-Advertising- and its Consequences. —Warren's celebrated blacking manufactory has now ceased to be. The business has "died" out, simply from a resolution taken by the proprietors, who succeeded the spirited original of the firm, "to discontinue advertising in the newspapers as a useless expense." The consequence might have been forseen, the firm of "Warren" has ceased to exist within one generation. — English Paper. The^British Bank. —Mr. CommisionerHolroyd is entitled to public gratitude for the admirable judgment which he pronounced yesterday in the affair of the Royal British Bank. He is about to direct that copies of the examinations taken under the bankruptcy shall be transmitted to the Attorney General with a view to the institution of Criminal proceedings. "I do not," said the learned Commissioner, " believe that a scene of greater recklessness, fraud, and criminality of conduct in the management of a banking establishment was ever exhibited in a court of justice than is disclosed by the examinations taken in this court under the adjudication of bankruptcy against the Eoyal British Bank, and I may observe that these examinations will be admissible against the parties, in case of a prosecution." Why, then, should Sir Richard Bethel hesitate for one single moment on such

a matter P We are confident that we are but giving utterance to the expressed opinions of the ablest criminaHawyers in the country when we say that a prosecution of these great criminals can be conducted to a successful issue. Yesterday, at the Old Bailey, the Bacons were on their trial, —that was well enough. The New Court, however, under the auspices of the Recorder, was occupied on the trial of a wretched creature who had stolen six pairs of boots. The Third Court, presided over the Common-Serjeant, expended its powers upon a lad who had, as it was said, wrongfully given a receipt for £7 Is. Bd. It turned out that ho had done nothing of the sort. All this while the Esdailes, and Stapletons, and Camerons, and Craufurds, and Browns, and Pellatts, whose conduct, as the Commisioner tells us, has been tainted with such gross " recklessness, fraud, and criminality," are walking about the streets. One of them, indeed, occupies a seat in Parliament for the town of Berwick. Sir Richard Bethell, we repeat it, will be himself guilty of a heinous neglect of duty if he does not take the most instant and effectual measures to carry into effect theTecommendations of Mr. Commissioner Holroyd. We should fail in giving full expression to public feeling with regard to this matter if we did not add that Mr. Linklater has earned the highest approbation by the spirit and intelligence he has displayed in the conduct of the recent inquiry. Times, MayVStli.

The Prussian Government has a complaint against the United States for the kidnapping of Prussians in American ports to man merchantvessels. For some time past the Prussian Government have advised emigrants to go to Canada or Australia-Monarchical colonies, where law is supreme—in preference to Republican America.