CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume III, 28 September 1844, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of ths Nelson Examiner. Sir — I consider there are many channels of profitable industry at present lying dormant, which might, by a little cooperation and impetus, assist in the maintenance of the needy. For instance.

Brown ware is suited to the wants and circumstance of the people. The process of manufacture easy, and the first expense very trifling. Stone abounds of a superior quality, for grindstones, sink stones, hearth stones, &c, &c. The first is much wanted ; the second would meet with customers; and the third ought to be in every house. All these we are doing without for want of a little encouragement in the right way and quarter. Flax, I believe, would make a very excellent kind of open coarse trellis-work mat, which would be very serviceable in wet weather, and would pay for exporting. At any rate it is worth one experiment. Slate also is said to be in the immediate vicinity, equal to any that is imported. I leave these suggestions for you to make any use you may please of them, and remain, Yours, &c, Nelson, Sept. 19. William Dartnall.

[We insert the above letter with great pleasure, and trust that other correspondents will favour ns with Bimilar suggestions. — Ed.]

Court op Chancbry.— -A further reduction has been made in the taxation of suitors in the Court of Chancery. By a recent order, which reduced by one-fifth the charges for copies in the office of the Clerks of Records and Writs, the charge to the suitors was diminished by n^ore than £5,000 a year. Another order has been issued, in consequence, as we believe, of the compensation of the present Lord Abinger having ceased upon his accession to the peerage, by which the charge for office copies in the Examiners' office of the Court of Chancery has been reduced from 14d. per folio (of ninety words) to Bd. per folio, making a further diminution to suitors'to an amount exceeding £1,100 a year. — Examiner.

Atrocious Sentence: in America commuted. — The horrible sentence of death pronounced on a young man named J. L. Brown, by Judge O'Neal, in South Carolina, for assisting a female slave to escape, has been commuted for a public flogging; but such is the severity with which the cart-whip is often applied, that this may prove to be only another and more torturing way of putting him to death. The following are Judge O'Neal's, words :— " John L. Brown will not be hanged. By the recommendation of myself and my brethren of the Court of Appeal, he was pardoned by the Governor, on the condition of receiving on Friday, the 26th of April next, at Winsborough, thirtynine lashes on his bare back."

" Bigotry far beyond the Law." — Under this heading the Londonderry Journal introduces the following statement, observing that " we would consider it incredible, were it not that it appears in an eminent Orange print — the Fermanagh Farmer's Journal:" — "The newest news, the newest wonder in this age of wonders, occurred in our quarter sessions court on Tuesday, before James Bessonet, Esq. His worship was investigating a case, and a witness was produced whom Mr. Bessonet inquired of, * was he ever in church or chapel ?' The man promptly replied, 'No.' 'Then I cannot hear you.' The man was set down. In rain did W. A. Dane, Esq., attorney, remonstrate, and urge the moral and religious instruction the young man possessed— -equally unavailing was the testimony of the man that he was trained in the Christian church by that most pious and exemplary Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Mr. Johnston, of Tullylish, and met, for the last five years, in class, amongst the Methodists, and dearly and distinctly stated his Christian belief on bearing false witness.".