MRS PAUL PRY'S LECTURE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 279, 25 November 1867, Page 2

MRS PAUL PRY'S LECTURE.

To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Sik — The inclosed MS. was found in one of the main streets yesterday, it took me sometime to read, as it is blurred and stained in many places, and judging from these marks it appears that poor Mrs Pry has been shedding tears. I hope thut brute Paul will take her advice. She seems to be a gi'od hearted creature — pity she can't put him under a tub. Try what you can do with him, Mr Editor. I am, etc., Mart Ann, the Finder. Motueka, November 1 6. Oh dear, oh dear, I wonder -what will become of me! Paul, you fo ,'isli muddleheaded Paul, when will you be advised by me? You know vou have very little brains ; you are unfit for any business; you love strong liquors, and you wish to make your pothouse companions think you are witty, that you might indulge in your low and pernicious habits ai their expense; 30U know you cannot afford to pay for these indulgences, and if you could, your inclination would, not allow you to do so. With grief and sorrow 1 have observed your evil propensities. I have, like a true friend and a good wife, advised you to flee from and try to escape these low and degrading habits; you have disregarded my advice, and now I fear you are beyond redemption. Hitherto 1 have grieved in silence. Once i thought I was entitled to take precedence of any in the land. Oh, how am I fallen. You, my maudlin, scribbling husband, have declared in'publie print that I have found an old acquaintance in the landlady ot a publichouse, and that we were glad to see each other. 1 declare I fear I shall go mad; it is more than my poor head can er.dure, you infatuated man, what will you not have to account for? I feel inclined to call you a beast, but I must not degrade myself. You have stated that I have a very tenacious memory, that I remember and tell all your faults; true, I often tell you not to visit publichouses when you have no money in your pocket, not to stand at the bar hoping that some chance traveller would ask you to tipple. I know you love beer and low company. Lately I have'set-n you in earnest conversation with a villanous-looking fellow, and I have heard him call you Paul, and ask you to drink; you accepted the invitation without a shudder. Goodness gracious! To judge from the fellow's appearance he is capable of strangling his mother. You say I am oblivious of your good qualities. What do you mean by your good qualities? Surely you do not complain or expect me to compliment you, win n you wash up the dinner and tea dishes, or assist me on washing days. ISo, Paul, I will not compliment you, because you are, when so engaged, in your proper sphere; indeed I am sometimes inclined to think that nature intended you to be of the other sex, and if she had carried out her intention you might be of some service in creation; as you are, you are good for nothing; certainly you are better at the washtub than scribbling and making a fool of yourself in a publichouse. You know, Paul, that you have contributed those senseless effusions which have from time to time appeared in print, you also know how easily and readily people could call to your recollection things that you .and. I wish to be forgotten. Take my advice now, it may not be too late. Mind your own affairs, act honestly and candidly, abstain from beer and low company, wash the dishes clean and don't' break any, for you know, we cannot afford to replace them; and : I will not allow (if I can help it) any person to call you an ass, as people are in the habit of ; doing..

It is pleasant to learn that the Princess of Wales continues to make such progress towards recovery as may almost be said to exceed the anticipations of those who were most sanguine of a cure. She improves daily, and is constantly gaining more use of the limb. Mr Allen, the senior alderman below the chair, has been elected Lord Mayor of London. Mr Hamilton Hume. Secretary to the Eyre Defence Fund, has published a long affidavit by Captain H. B. Eden borough, late a lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy, who has hitherto been absent from England, to the effect that, in June 1865, the late G. W. Gordon, of Jamaica, endeavored to buy from him an armed schooner then at Jamaica, with the avowed object of using the vessel and crew to create a West Indian Republic. The latest, accounts of the Abyssinian captives are to the 57th July, when they were at Magdala, a prison some 60 or 70 miles from Debra Tabor, where the camp of the' Emperor Theodore was fixed. Mrs Lincoln, the widow of the late President of the United States, says that through the ingratitude of the Republicans towards her lamented husband she and her family have been left to undergo want and destitution. She complains ia the most bitter manner that men who besought her influence in happier days to secure them official positions, and who then professed themselves her best friends, now ignore her altogether. She is particularly severe on Messrs Raymond, Seward, Weed, Waketnan, and other prominent Republicans, through whose influence, she says, a plan to raise a voluntary subscription of the people of lOU.OoO dollars for her was defeated. She also says that the late President thoroughly tested those men and had become fully aware before his death of their treachery and falseness. The funeral services over the remains of Sir Frederick Bruce, the British Ambassador at Washington, took place in Boston on the 24th October. The remains of the lamented diplomatist a day or two afterwards were forwarded to England in the steamship China. Eli Howe, the inventor of the sewing machine, is dead. The yellow fever has ceased its ravages ia Galveston, and is abating in New Orleans and other places. The bodies of John Wilkes Booth, Payne, Atzerod, Harold, and Mrs Surratt, the assassination conspirators, have been removed from their late burial places and burieu in one common grave in Washington. Those two observing men one of whom said he had always noticed that when he lived through the month of May he lived through the year, and the other of whom *aid at a wedding he remarked that more women than men had been married that year, were neither of them Irishmen.