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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 308, 7 November 1864, Page 6

Statistics or the Gloiik.—The following curious facts are stated by the slbcille Medicate :—The earth is inhabited by I,2SS millions of inhabitants, viz., 30!),0t)0,000 of tho Caucasian race ; 552,000,000 of the Mongolian nice; 190,000,000 of tho Ethiopian ; 1,000,000 of the American Indian; and '200,000,000 ot the Malay races. All these respectively speak 3,001 languages, and profess 1,000 different religions. The amount of deaths per annum is 333,333,333, or ill, Dot per day, 3,730 per hour, GO per minute, or 1 per second ; so that at every pulsation of our heart a human being dies. This loss is compensated bv an equal number of births. Tho average duration of life throughout the globe is 33 years. One-fourth of its population dies before the seventh year, and one half before the seventeenth. Out of 10,000 persons, only one reaches his 100 th year; only one in 500 his eightieth; and only one in 100 his sixty-fifth. Slurried people live longer than unmarried ones ; and a tall man is likely to live longer than a short one. Until the fiftieth year women have a better chance of life than men, but beyond that period tho chances are equal. Sixty-five persons out of 1,000 marry ; the months of June and December are those in which marriages are most frequent. Children born in springare generally stronger than those bora in other seasons. Births and deaths chiefly occur at night. The number of men able to bear arms is but one eight of the population. Tho nature of the profession exercises a great influence on longevity ; thus out of 100 of each of the following professions, the number of those who attain their 70th year is : Among men, *12, agriculturists, 40 j traders and nuvnufaoturers, oo ; soldiers, 32 ; clerks, 3w ; lawyers, 20 • artists, 2S ; professors, 27 ; and phvsiciaus, 24 ; so that those who study the art of prolonging the lives of others, are most likely to die early, probably on account of the eflluvia to which they are constautly exposed. There are in the world, 330 millions of Christians, u millions of Jews, 600 millions professing some ot the Asiatic religions, 160 millions of metans, and 200 millions of Pagans. Of tho Christians, 170 millions profess the Catholic, 76 millions the Greek, and 80 millions the Protestant creeds.

Commerce has no prejudices. It will turn its hand to anything to earn an honest penny. We confess to some admiration of the ingenious* Frenchmen who, on the occasion of the running of the Grand Prix de Paris, seeing the enormous crowds assembled, speculated on the excitement and rush with which the return journey was sure to be accompanied. lie bought a great number of third-class tickets at sixty centimes each, and 6old them outside the station to people in a hurry at a very respectable profit. He was, it is true, taken into custody on u charge of swindling tho public, but was at once acquitted by tho tribunal. The French are really beginning to understand the workings of our political economy.—Liverpool Albion.

American auctioneer announces that he hus so much business, that he lias already worn out two hammers, and is on the second end of the third.

PUNCH'S TABEES OF PRECEDENCE. Thb changes in society having Tendered the o!3 . Tables of Precedence, to be found in the Peerages, ' &c., obsolete, Punch, Garter King at Anns, has been comAianded to prepare new Tables, to meet the want* of the age'.-. He subjoins them, and they are to be suspended in' ivory respectable house inhis dominionsand those of ITetf'Btajesty. I'KECEaXBJTCB AMONG I. The Prince of Wales"; 2: The Baby. 3 1 . Mr. Punch. 4. Contributors to Mr. Punch. 5. Rest of the' Koyal Family. 6. The wise Bishop' of Dr. Tait. 7. Sir Rowland Hill, D.C.L. 8. Sir Joseph Paxton. 9. Sir Edwin Landaeer, when the- lions shall bedone. 10. Artists. Those who smoke pipes- to- walk behind, not as a mark of inferiority, but Because" Cavendish is rather strong to be blown in the faco 06 the others. 11. Tlio Medical profession; but no advisers,quacks, or other scum. 12. Yeiy broad Church Parsons, and Muscular ones, headed by the author of the Water-Babits. Ij. Readers of Mr. Punch from his beginning. 14. Headers of Mr. Punch for the last fifteen years. 15. Other readers of Mr. Punch. 16. Archbishops, Bishops, Dukes, ami tße rest of the Peerage, any how they can settle it among; them, but Yiseotint "Williams to be in a good place.. 17. " Literary men possess a station' in society although the law takes no cognisance of their ranis inter sc," (Dod's I'ccrnye, payc 50) so lliey will comeat the head of all the other professions, but must not quarrel inter sc. j 18. The Judges, Sir Plaisted "Wilde- in a good place. 19. The Beaks, according to Mr. Puncli r & certificateof inerif. 20. Naval Officers. 31. Military dittoes who can both fight and spelL 22. Owners of Winners of the Derby. 23. Members of Clubs, having paid subscriptions, and owing nothing. So the waiters. 24. Members of Parliament who hare never spoken. 25. Volunteers who attend drill, keep clean, and never make rows. 2G. Admiral Fitzroy, while Clerk of the Weather. 27. Mr. Paul Bedford and hk new Book, Jlccalleetions and Wanderings. 28. Anybody who sells a good cigar--20. Conscientious Barristers. 30. Honest Solicitors. 31. Elegant Articled Clerks. 32. Inelegant Articled Clerks. 33. Actors who never say kyiud or umble. 31. Singers who jronounce their words articulately. 35. Mr. Bunting.

30. Tailors who never send in bills. 37. Other tradesmen who hare never got a large amount to be made up by nest Tuesday. 38. Newspaper bovs. 39. Preachers, of (ill arms, who never exceed five and twenty minutes. •10. Persons who hare never writ len poems. 41. Persons who have written poems and burned tliem. 42. Person? who have never read poems, except those of Punch. 43. The Bishop of Bond Street. i 4. The Editor of the Catalogue of tlie fioyal Academy. 45. The Hanging Committee. 4G. Persons T'ho eat Periwinkles with Pins. 47. Persons who crack Periwinkles in Doors. •38. Big Porter at Northumberland House. 40. Mr. Paddy Green. &0. The Public in white waistcoats. 51. The Public in any other kinds of waistcoats. 52. Ihe Pnblie without waistcoats at all, or coati either. 53. Mr. Tliwaites, when the sewerage shall be finished, and as he then will be 97 at least, he may ride in a Perambulator. 54. Sir John Shelley, if aim-in-arm with an Italian Organ-r.ian. # 55. Sir John Trelawny, if with an Organ-man on one arm and a conscientious Dissenter on the other.

56. Mr. Ayrton, rf riding on a donkey, typical of his constituency, and playing an organ. 57. Extinguished Tollmen. 58. The Volunteer who shoi the Dog. 59. The Bargee who cut tfwr Pie under Marlow Bridge. CO. Everybody else.

PRECEDENCE AMONG WoME>% 1. The Queen. 2. The Princess of "Wales. 3. The Princesses. 4. Miss Florence Nightingale. 5. The Honourable Mrs. Punch. G. '1 lie Misses Punch. 7- ives of Contributors to Mr. Punch. 8. Daughters of Contributors to Mr. Punch. y. Their Godmothers. 10. Nieces of Contributors to Mr. Punch. 11. Their Godmothers. 12. Ladies who love Mr. Punch. 13. Authoresses who do not write Sensation ovels. 14. Lady Artists, including amateurs who draw caricatures of their friends, which they show about ui confidence. 15. Madame Griai. 16. Ladies who would not wear crinoline if they were not obliged to. 17. Ladies who never hurry milliners. 18. Married ladies who listen to their husbands' jokes, and laugh as affably as if listening to s stranger. 19. Ladies who are generally laughing. 20. Ladies who can speak French, and therefore never do when English will do as well. 21. Ladies who understand cookery. 22. Ladies who understand politics. 23. Ladies who understand themselves. 24. Engaged young ladies -who can talk to other people besides their young men. 25. Ladies who know the difference between Federals and Confederates. 26. Ladies who encourage smokine in tho parlour and the library. 21. Ladies who discourage all sorts of snobs, high and low, rich and poor. 2S. Ladies who hold up their dresses from the pavement. 29. Ladies who sing when asked, and never otherwise. 30. Ladies who do not ask for autographs or photographs, except those of Mr. Punch and his Contributors. 01. Ladies who like Gounod and Verdi, without disliking Handel and Mozart. 32. Ladies certified by Mr. Punch, or any of his contributors, as pleasant neighbours at dinner. 33. Ladies who delight in reading Mr. Thomas Carlylc. 34. Ladies who flirt with Mr. Punch and his contributors, and with nobody else. 35. Ladies who look well in anything, and theretore can afford to be economical in dress. 36. Ladies who don't, and therefore can't, and for whoso extnvaganee the charitable make allowance. 37. Ladies who have held stalls at fancy fairs, but have not been vulgar in that vocation. 38. Ladies who, having pretty feet, play well at Croquet. ' f J _ 39. Ladies who know the way to their own kitchens. 40. Ladies who like Beer, and say so. * 41. Ladies who know the Postal Initials. 42. Ladies who invariably denounce the IncomeTax. 43. Ladies who never cheat at caids. 44. Ladies who never ask riddles of which they pretend know the answers. 45. Ladies who are always ready to come away irom the theatre when their mascul n; protectors ara bored. c 46. Ladies with blue eyes. 47. Ladies with violet eyes. 4S. Ladies with grey eyes. 49. Ladies with hazel eyes. 50. Ladies with black eyes. 51. Ladies with green eyes. 52. Ladies with red eyes, but only after seeing .Leah. 53. Ladies with any eyen at all. 54. Good plain Female Cooks. 55. The Electric Clerks. 56. The Ballet. 5/. Kico Girls at Pastrycooks Shops. SS. Ladies' Maids, pretty. 59. The Laundresses. 60. Remainder of the Sex.

The intelligence which wc liavc received from a gentleman at Matakana, corning as it does from one oil whose statements we can place tlic titniost reliance, is of a very painful nature. Can nothing we ask lie done to prevent murder and bloodshed in the ]N T orth ? Are fhe escaped rebels preying upon the property of the settlers living around Omali — insulting the women -.'ion left unprotected in the absence of their 'i bands and fathers—slaying the cattle, and V-rnvise destroying the property which our settlers have gathered about them with great toil and many years of privation,— :ire these escaped rebels, we ask. to be allowed to continue this course of action until emboldened by the impunity which is permitted by the Governor they proceed to still further enormities. or until the justly exasperated settlers, as our correspondent writes is even now contemplated by them, shoot down the plundering wretches in self-defence.

Thoroughly as we should be inclined to exonerate them from blame, if, in defending their women and families from insult aiul outrage, tln'v resorted to the use of arms, we most strongly advise the irritated and scandalously neglected settlers to reso?t only to such extremity when no other remedy exists. To do so would "only he playing the game of Sir George (Irev- A war in the North would be a trump rani in his hand if that war were brought about, directly, by the act of the settlers. .His mission in Now Zealand has been an utter failure, and under the cloud of a new war caused, as he would characterise it. hv colonial bloodthirstiness. he would return hack to Europe in triumph. lie would talk of all that would have been accomplished but for this last agression of the colonists, and would no doubt, for a time, be believed by the easily gulled credulous people at home. As matters have now arrived at so dangerous a crisis in these Northern districts, and as the (lovernor neglects to take any steps to prevent the spillingoi"blood, we think the time has fully arrived when the settlers tliemselyes should organise some means of protection, so as to assist the law which the Governor with only ten thousand troops is to weak to enforce. The first work of the settlers in each of these threatened districts should be to render bullet-proof some large building to which the women and children could be at once removed in the event of immediate danger. Then when any outrage is committed by any band of these marauders w here the otlenders are known, and more especially wlu-re they can be taken in the eommissTon of the crime itself, let the proper person to whom the duty belongs proceed at once to their capture. and call in the name of the Queen upon as many of his neighbours as he may deem suflicient to assist him in their capture. A constable or justice of the peace has this power. Let the otlenders be taken whatever their resistance. Against which, of course, suitable precautions must be taken, and however distressing such capture may be to a pliilo-Maori Governor, let them he ironed and marched down to town and handed over to the civil authorities to answer for the crime for which they have been apprehended. We do not believe that a bold act of this kind would be attended with disastrous results : on the contrary, we think that when the rebels saw that law could and would be enforced, tliev would waver and submit just in proportion as we were decided and firm. But if on the other hand they resisted, then we believe that, not being taken unawares, the Northern settlers would be quite able to hold their own until the troops came in and made short work of it. which they soon could do in the North, where the country is accessible, and of no great width from sea to sea —nor would General Cameron be long in coming to their assistance. He at least is a Christian and a mail of feeling, and has some little regard for women, though their skins he white, and for the men and little ones of his own race.

It is very evident ljy the tone of our correspondent's letter, and by all that ivc learn from the disturbed districts in the IS'orih that a crisis is impending- flesh and blood cannot sit by and calmly receive insult and outrage and endure. A long suffering people have been the settlers of the Northern island in their relations with the Maori, but there is a point beyond -which endurance can be no longer carried, blatters have already reached that point in the case of the settlers of Pakiri. of Matakana, Omaha, and Mahurangi. If unfortunately some outrage should be inflicted on the wife and family of a sattler bv a party of these miscreants, and the settler shoot down his aggressors in the act. does Governor Sir George Grey believe that the people of this province and colon}' will blame such an one ? Does he believe that for long the people of England will be misled by his misrepresentations to believe that the colonists arc (lie aggressors ? Sir George Grey may not understand the affection of a husband for his wife, or that of a father towards his child, but lie must think our Northern settlers something more or less than men to stand tamely In* and see —as our correspondent says —" these ruthless marauders insulting our wives and children in our absence."

Something must be done, and that quickly ; either by the Governor or by the people themselves, to prevent worse from happening. We can sit quietly down on many points to await the meeting of the General Assembly : but the General Assembly cannot- deal with the question of the Maori freebooters whom Sir George Grey took from the safe custody of the Colonial Government and placed upon the k'awau. where every facility existed for their escape. Properly speaking, it is for Sir George Grey as Governor to uphold law in the country. There seems little probability of///.v interfering to secure or remove these escaped prisoners. At the present moment he is not thinking of the outraged European settlers, who look to him to save their property from rapine, their wives and little ones from violence and outrage —but is dallying with the charms of his island's beauties at the Kawau, within sight of the very homesteads which may at any moment greet his eyes wrapt in flames. Sir George Grey has made his efforts to induce these escaped rebels to submit. He has tried bribery and cajolery. Both have failed. Promises of liberal supplies of food, and of ?. residence at some more pleasant spot: 011 t'ae main land were treated with lofty contempt. Equally so were the attempts made to cajole them by Sir George Grey's emissaries, foiled in both these attempts, Sir George Grey resorted to stratagem. The native schooner belonging to Paul, the ' Victoria,' was se::t down on a secret cruise, she touched in at Omaha. The friendly natives quietly proposed to the escaped prisoners to take them on board and land them up the Thames, where they might rejoin their late comrades in arms, but the I!angariri prisoners were not to be caught in a trap again. It would lie a very awkward thing for the little ' Victoria ' to be overhauled by a " man of war" between Omaha and the Thames, and they declined the passage so kindly offered them. AN hat is more, the friendly natives confessed the stratagem. What faith will any native place in Sir George Grev's word after thisr 1 .bribery cajolery, and stratagem, have all then been tried one after the other, and all have failed. What then can be expected from a Governor whose natural weapons have been foiled? Tt is needloss to say that the settlers, must look to themselves for that protection, which a continued appeal to the Governor through numerous respectful deputations has failed to obtain. "WhatI'ver course the}' pursue, let it be done as temperately, and, though firmly, with as little irritation as possible to the resident Maoris in the ortli.—" 2\"ew Zealand Herald," November 1.