Missellaneous.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XII, Issue 704, 6 August 1859, Page 5

Missellaneous.

JiLLEGET) COPY OF THE SENTENCE PASSED OUT TIZE'sAVIOUJt. The following is a copy of the most memorable judicial sentence which has ever been pronounced,in the/ annals of the world—namely, that of death against the Saviour, .with the remarks which the journal 'Le Dioit'has collected, and the knowledge of. which must ,be interesting in the highest degree to every Christian. Until now I am,not' aware that it has ever been made public in the German papers. The sentence is word for word as follows:—' ; ...',, ' SenUnc pronounced by Pontius Pilate, Intc-ndant of the Province of Lower Galilee, that Jesus of Nazareth shall suffer death by the cross. •Tn''the 17th year of the reigri of the Emperor Tiberias, and on the 25th day of the month of March, in the most holy city of Jerusalem, during t)ie pontificate of Annas and Cuiaphas. Pontius Pilate, Jntendant of the Province of Lower Galilee, sitting in judgment in the Presidential seat of the Praetor, sentences Jesus, of Nazareth to death on a cross between two robbers, as the numerous and notorious testimonies of the people prove— 1. Jesus is a misleader;2. He has excited-the people to sedition. 3. lie is an enemv-to the laws. 4. He calls himself, the Son of God. 5. He calls himself falsely the King of Israel. 6. lie went into the temple followed- by a multitude carrying palms in their hands.Orders the first centurion, Qiiirilius Cornelius, to bring him to the place of execution. Forbids all persons, rich and poor, to prevent the execution of Jesus. The witnesses who have signed the execution against Jesus are— 1. Daniel TCobani, Pharisee. 2. John Zoro babel. 3. Raphael Kobani. 4. Capet. ' .it . Jesus to be taken out of Jerusalem through the gate of Tournoa.

, This sentence' is engraved on a pluie of brass, in the Hebrew language, apd' on ,its sjdes are the following words—" A similar plate has been sent to each tribe." It was discovered'in the year 1280, ;in the city of Aquila, in the kingdom of' Naples, by , a search madeior the discovery of Roman- antiquities, -nid remained there until it was found- by-the •Commissaries of Atf in the .French Army of Italy. I Up to the time of the campaign ia Southern Italy, it was preserved iri the shcristyof the' Carthusians, luein*. ISTapJes^wUtM^it was -kept ,in } a.box of ebony.'l ;Siuc(\th<m;therVliis has been kept-in the. chapel of , Caserta. The Cavtlmsian^ obtained b'y.£l\eir petitions" ;that the cVale'mightl'bViiep'tby1 theni,"wh'ich'\vas an ' acknowledgement of Ihe-sanrific'es"1 which^lhey made I for the French arinyj" The"Frenchrtriinshition was ,made literally by members of the Commission of Arts. . Denon had a jaa 'smile of the'Tplate.en- , graved, .which was bought by Lord Howard, on the jsiile of rhis cabinetj/or 2,890 francs. There seems'to be no historical doubt as to the authenticity of 'this.. The reasons of >the sentence correspond 'exactly with those <of-the .Gospel.-1- Translated from the Kolnische Zeitung.

i,' ; : v Her Eoyal Highness, the Princess Frederick "William of Prussia, is expected to arrive at Osborne > on the 21st or 22hd Miiy, on a vis.it to her illustrious parents, from" 'Berjin, i, It.is very probable that the , Consort and infai t'son of her Eoyal Highness will likewise visit Osborne. The ' Moniteur de I'Avmee' states that the army of the Alps is henceforth to take the name of the army of Italy. , We see from the 'Lucknow Herald' that Lucknow can already boast of a public library and reading room, and a coffee club, where " the newspapers ,for the day are received, and' tea and coffee supplied." ■ ; • „, The ' Hamburg ijTews' states, from Vienna, that, .according to a telegram from Trieste, a British /squadron has'left Malta for the Adriatic. It is; .added that another squadron is to cruise before . Genoa. ' , , . Attempts have been, made by Sardinia to induce the Spanish Government to join her in the cause of Italy. The Spanish Cabinet declared, that they would observe a-strict neutrality, while as a measure, of precaution they increased the army. The effect on the merchant service of the Government bounty offered to seamen can scarcely yet be* ascertained. The supposition is, that it will,lead to an increase of between 20s. to 30s. per month in the rate of wages, v , i r The eft/jets of the war in Italy are already being felt in the metropolis. _ Mark-lane wheat has risen 10s. to 12s. per quarter within the space of a week, while the price of the quartern loaf, which previous to the Austrian ultimatum to Sardinia was on the decline; has advanced l|d. to 2d. The eight ships of the European and. American i Steam Company, purchased by. Mr. 'Lever and others for £235,000, are not for the Galway Company, but have been taken, it is stated, as a private speculation. It was expected that the French • Government would purchase them and possibly the private speculation may take that turn. The Empress Eugenic is said to repose full confidence in the protection of the Virgin of d'Auray, ' the statue in Brittany to which"she did her Imperial homage during the summer. She has distributed * with her own hand medals bearing the Virgin's . effigy, to the officers who have dined at the Tuileries, prior to their departure for thel wars, and the gift will be highly piized by the recipients ; ,its. value may peihaps be somewhat deteriorated in their eyes by some lurking mistrust of its efficacy. In Russia more than one-half of the children born die in the very earliest period of infancy. One-eighth die between the ages of five and ten, and another eighth between ten and twenty; thus threefourths perish before reaching mature age. The late Mr. Joseph Tunnicliffe, of Mayfieldhall, near Ashbourne, has left £30,000, all derived from his own earnings, for the endowment of a hospital, provided that a suitable building is erected, at a cost of not less ( than £5,000, within ten1 years. It was, Lord Aberdeen, I hear, who the other day, applied by letter to the Emperor of Austria,

to sanction the presence of ' The Times'' corres--1 pondent at, the Austrian head-quarters, and this re- ' quest has been granted. Mr. B,lakes>ley, thegentleman who assumes this- important,duty is, I believe, an officer of Engineers. • I am told Lord 1 Aberdeen did not scruple to remind his Imperial Majesty thatthe-Austrians had suffered more than they might be willing to confess by their supineness in allowing1 French- pens to monopolize mo<"Vrn ■ military history.— London, correspondence of the Manchester Guardian. . M. Megan, French Consul at New Orleans, has i been arrested there on a charge of harbouring a free negro sailor who had deserted.his ship. The British, Prussian, Spanish and Belgian Consuls all protested against this,arrest. - Letters from Japan.to the 31st December, state that the yellow fever had preyailed with great virulency at Jeddo; the deaths-are reported to have .been 150,000 in.a month. Some of- the people superstitiously attributed it to the foreigners. • - The ' Moniteur' publishes a decree prohibiting, the exportation of avms of war of all kinds, lead,' sulphur, gunpowder, saltpetre, nitrate of soda; flints, percussion caps, warlike projectiles, clothings 1 camp equipments, and military stores, -horses; machines, and,parts of machines "for steamers;,and every; other, object, either in a rough or finished state, connected with naval or military matters. Exceptions may, however, be made by the authority of the Minister of Finance, according to the m- t tended destination, on'a proper guarantee."being furnished to the consular agents of France. General Gueswiller, commanding the land and sea forces in Algeria, say's a letter from Marseilles of the Ist, embarked last, evening for Algiers. During, the day he .related to some .friends the particulars of his npmination. When; war 'appeared imminent, he went and offered his services to the Emperor. ' " Why you are already appointed to a command," was the reply. " What command, sire ?" "In Algeria." General Gueswiller then went to the Minister of War, and Marshal Vaillant, in reply to his enquiry, said, "1 am not aware of your appointment; but as the Emperor gaid so, it'must be true." Two hours after General Gueswiller received a note from the Minister,r,equesting his presence immediately. "You are not only appointed," said the Marshall " but you must,start this very night." The London Ragged School Union is flourishing. There are 23,000 children in the schools; 326 shoeblacks earned in the year £4,000; there are 2,700 voluntary teachers and more are wanted. We cull these facts from the report presented at the fifteenth annual meeting. * Madame Goldschmidt.it'is said, is about to sing a°"ain in public—at Leeds for a charity. She has been singing during the past week, in London, for the society of Female Artists—an institution worthy of all support, and, as such, by a great female artist gracefully supported. " The'tenth annual meeting of the Irish Missionary Society took place on Wednesday, in London, Mr J. C. Colquhoun in the chair. The society has enjoyed an income of £25,980; it employs 592 " agents;" but it has been compelled, in consequence . of £ dimunition of funds, to' reduce the number by eighteen. - • . , , , - An Austrian vessel of war is reported to have blown up at Ragiwa. The loss of life is estimated at about eighty men. ' , An Austrian Lloyd's learner, the Imporador, and fifteen Austrian mercantile vessels, have taken refuge at Malta.

But a few SayVifrto Gr'efrofal de Guyon made some ■application to th<fPop6—of what nature Ido not ;know—-bujb the answer was, '\ General, there must ,be limits to all things'; Hiayejiow, reached mine and yl will not dtii'* ft'ora it. I will grant, you nothing more. You may do whatever ■'you'"choose, ,but I.dp 119 mpio." You see;:tl>at jug olI'water standing on that table ; well, if you ware to ask me ;to give jou a glassful fiom it,,'l would refuse." F O r jthese words. I can t answer as 'though' I had been , .prbbent.—Pfciisconegpondenceof the, Manchester. Guardian. . ' * . 'A&'an instance'of "rapid bMpbiulding.it maybe mentioned l!fcliat the'9l-gu'n steam snip, Anson.rommeiiqed three,months ago, at Woolwich, will be shortly finished. ' '

The mechanical production of this country is alieady the chief wilder of the world. All that it has yet done in thd arts of peace it will sui'pass in the manufacture of material-for'its next wa -.—The Times., ( . "The friends of the London Missionary held their,annual meeting on Thuisday, the<Lord Mayor in the chair. , Fiom'the report we learn' that the income of the year £73,288, the ex-penditure-£67,303. During'the year r £ll,oß4'had been contvibuted for new special missions, and £7,527 for-China missions; giving a total revenue 'of £92,641. The society employs 154 missionaries and 600 native agents. The lawsuit between Mr. Gye, of the "Royal' , Italian Opera,'Covent'Gard cn } and Mr. E. T".l Smith of Diury-lane, for the services of Signior Graziani, the singer, has been decided in favour of the f6rmer-> Vice-Chancpllor Wood issued an injunction' on Wednesday-to restrain Graziani from singing, during the year 1859, at any opera or concerts other than at Covent Garden, without the written permission of Mr. Gye. 1 I say it would have been 'cheaper for the people 1 of England to give the, Government £100,000 capital ,to be expended in secret ,service money in buy- , ing up the-Galway votes and debauching the voters rather than £70,000 under contract for seven years —(Loud applause). -But they made the contiact, and the consequence has been that Mr. Lever, the head of the company, was returned at the head of the poll an avowfd suppoiter of Lord Derby.— Sir' James Graham at Carlisle. The Austrian postal service by sea between Tiieste and foreign poits having been interrupted by war, no letters or newspapers can, for the present, be forwarded via Belgium, (the first portion of the : Trieste route,) to the lonian Islands, Greece, the Levant, or Egypt. Letters, &c, for Bosnia, Servia, the Danubian Principalities, liustchuk, Seres, Salonica, Sophia, Adrianople, or Constantinople, when specially directed to he sent " via Belgium," will be '■ forwarded from Vienna by the land route. 'By command of the Postmaster-General, Rowland Hill, Secretary. General Post Office, May 14 > The troops at Aldersliott number about 13,000 men. • The Chancellor of the Exchequer has declined to remit the instalment of the hop duty payable in May.""' We hear a grand naval review is to take place at Spithead on the 24th May.— Court, Journal. The defences of Malta .are being strengthened. Mr. Cobden has been staying with President .'Buchanan:

Advices from Utah report- that great disorder prevailed, and that the rulers,, civil and" military, were at loggerheads. .Returns, it is said by a New York paper, prove that, from .the period ;of the -inauguration of the coolie apprenticeship system, 44,549 Chinamen ■ were "shipped for Cuba, of which number 37,755 were landed alive, showing a mortality of 6,794 —a . little over fifteen per cent. Dr. Russell, of the ' Times,' goes to Sardinia to write the history of the war for that paper .t—Court Journal. • "When tbe Imperial Guard were embarking at Marseilles, it is said that a party of distinguished English tourists were conspicuous by the energy of their enthusiasm. — Coiirt. Journal. The young Ducde Cbartres, grandson of King Louis Phillippe, holds the rank of sub-lieutenant . in the Piedmontese Regiment of Dragoons at Nice, commanded by General Caccia. — Paris correspondent of the Brussels Independence. , The wife of Capt. Variders'tein went to meet her husband, who had just arrived in the London Docks, after an absence" of seven years. Mrs. Vandersteiri went on board the ship, where she embraced her husband, suddenly became much excited,fell insensible upon the deck, and died. ' Lord Ossulston has been snmmoned to the House of Peers, by the title of Baron Ossulston. A Couit of Common Council of London has voted the sum of 100 guineas towards the fund now raising for 'the Italian, exiles. • The Victoria Cross has been conferred on Major Frederick Millar, R.A., for gallant conduct in the Crimea; and Lieut. Thomas Adair Butler, Ist Bengal 'European Fusiliers, for gallant conduct in India.' , to the ' United Service Gazette' no , correct drawing of Armstrong's gun and shells has yet appeared ;' the projectile' admits of being used indifferently as "solid shot, shrapnel, percussion shell, and commpn ; case,; and. possesses 'extraordinary efficiency-in all these capacities. , ,, v , ' There is to be"a great fleet' in 'the channel and a great fleet in the Mediterranean; and it is only to be hoped that the' same ships are riot to'figure in both capacities,'like- the supernumeraries who march in and out of the side-scenes in a theatrical proocession.— Saturday Review: Nearly all the Italians in London have left for >the seat of war. Mr. Tennyson's new poem, ''Idylls of the King," is m the printer's hands, and will shortly be published. A Marseilles letter, in the ' Journal dcs Debata,' sa y S: —«A day qt two ago the Zouaves of the Guard embarked,'full of that fun and frolic which is the characteristic of that corps. They scrambled -up the side of the vessel as though they were mounting to an assault, and those who were the first to jump on deck cried out to the others,' Now, Messieurs les voyageurs, take your places for Austria.' The following incident gives some little notion of the warlike ideas inspired by the fever of the mo ment. There are at the back ot La Joilette dozens of estaminets, wine-shops, and eating houses, generally frequented by the sailors, but the > military have for the moment completely expelled the bluejackets. The proprietor of one of these gastronomic establishments ornamented his signboard with a new sketch, representing a Chasseur of Vincennes sitting quietly on a bank smoking his pipe, with his rifle lying on the ground; in front of him, and at a'short 'distance, are two Austrian Grenadiers, with their musitets on the charge, and between whom and the Frenchmen the following short colloquy is supposed to take place:—• Well, my little Frenchman, .will you not attack us?' 'No, lam waiting until there are six of you.' This warlike and attractive sign has had its effect, for all the soldiers make it a point of honour to give that house a preference." The Retoet Uncotjeteous.—" The discordant spirit which recently prevailed in your party," s.iid -one politician to another, "seems to be passing into ours." " Oh, yes, when the devils were cast out of the man they went into the herd of bwine." A young fop, who had just begun to sliave for a board, stepped into a barber's shop, and, after a grand swagger, desired to be shaved. The barber went through the usual movement. The joung sprig jumped up with a flouiish, exclaiming, " Maw foine i'ellow, what's your charge ? " Oh ! no .'hai «c,' was the reply. "No clinra.e! how's tluiCr1 ''' A hy, we are always thMiikfuPwliPTi we can s^t soft calfskin to wliei our.razors on."

When Cas-a- was asked by Brutus' how many P£gs he had eaten foi breakfast, he answeietl, " Jiit tv, Bnite.'" r , "I guess," said Jonathan Downing, writing from 'Canton to'his uncle in Ainoiica, "I guess that-there can be but two soits of good oovein- ■ 'ment in the native of things, bamboo as in'Chinn, 1 'and bamboozle as in the old country, but we in the I United States use'emboth, and ours is thegiandest .•government in-the universe; bamboo for the ni»g«r, and bamboozle for-ourselves." ] ' A. respectable elderly lady recently received a telegiaphic'despatch, purporting'to be fiom her husband. She read it carefully, and then letuincd <it to the messenger, with the iem ark that it could ( notbeifiom her ' lipgp lord.' for it was not'in his handwriting. No explanations'could convince her of her mistake. , Dunot on Dkbt.—" It must be confessed that }my creditors are singularly unfortunate. "They int variably apply the day -aftpr I have spent all my ,money .^ I always say to them, ' Now ibis is very provoking. ■ Why didn't you come ye4orday and I coiild have paid'you in full?' But no, they 'never will. They seem to take a pciverse pleasure !in amving always too late. It's my belief tho rascals do it on purpose. ' , Wisdom is not likely to die with all Scotchmen, ' canny,' as they are admitted to be in general, if we are'to believe a stoiyin an English journal to' j this effect: —" A Pifeshire man brings his child to 'the minister to be baptised, who asks him 'are you 'prepared for so impoitant, for so solemn 'an ooca-, jsion?' 'Prepared?' he echoes with some indig-' 'nation. 'I ha'e a firlot 0' bannocks 'bnkin', twa \ bacon hams,'a gude fat kebbuck/an' a galloit'o' the best Hielan whub'ky ; an'l wad'just'like to ken uvhat better preparation ye could expek fra a man" "in my condition o' life!' He meant the ' clnisten'ing' at homfe." A kindred mistake is made by * another peasalit, who hearing Piince Albeit piayed" for in the service, fancies a small steambbat of that" name is the object intended; and, on coining out >of the chtirch is greatly incensed that the 'minister sould ' mak sic a sang about a bit cockle-shell 0' a thing they ca' Piince Albert, a craft nae muckle bigger than a common wherry that carries a wheeri , coals, an' a sma' steam-kettle in its belly !'— Knickerbocker.