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New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 539, 4 August 1865, Page 5

" NOTHING NEW" UNDER TEE SUN." Tis voir strange (lint in theso (lays, vrhen intellect and' skill Have fathomed e'en the lowest depths and topped the steepest hill— When 'neath tho sen, with lightning speed, ideas are flashing through — We folks " the other side the lino" can hit on nothing new. Take Sir .Duncan's case: The other day a demonstration gran I Appeared to cheer the gallant chief before he left our land. True—spite of knaves —his work he did, and nobly did it to? ; But England knows that, in /<<> ease, the fact is nothing new. There a doctrine now, to make tho people .-tare, .Starte 1 l»y t.no T»i\ Darwin, that mankind has sprung from air ; But the ancients, who, with all their faults.', still knew a thing or two, Have left us many r.-cords that tho matter's nothing new. Pythagoras was one of these ('twas from him Darwin stole) Who taught to his disciples " Transmigration of the .soul." To suit it to these modern days, pray why not mix the two, And speculate jn the ( fleet in making something new. Thus: eubslituiiug mim' for nnl—'twas this the aneknt, meant — Supi> se t!.e mind of Sophocles within a monkey P -lit, Awni'ing the progression that (see Darwin) all go through ; Tho " nature of the beast'' would then afford a subject new. By plow gra-':it:onss rising. from on atom is discerned V. " eabbaize," .iliieb, through " species ' law, into a

" rroo ; e" is tcr-'iod ; Wliirli, "5 time rolls on immutable, is changed a " tailn" to, Yet c'lhhagc, r/oose, and tailor, all must own, are nothing new. Still who knows the wondrous changes—should the dot-nine he but visrhl — That, likf hmpii'.! '■ ity's earthquakes, may o'erwhelm ns in a ? Perchance a transmuted form we'll pay our homage to, Or donkev, as our Governor —will thai, be something new ? The poet Gray has written that, although the frame expire', "E'en in onrushes" run his words, still " lirs our wonted lires Suppose both Darwin's theory and Gray's assertion true, And William Pirr revived in Well', that will be something new ! Supporters of this theory our credence would exact l?v pointing to the yeirs it cost amassing fact on fact, lint, to empl 'V a simile, an ass may browse, 'tis true, On thistle:.'long, yet still a a ass, lie gives us nothing new. Till some foundation more secure than " guessing" run be found For throwing all religion by such nonsense to the ground Darwin's followers will lead us to believs they ve ne'er got through The 1,/uiil-ci transformation, and thus long for something new. THE "{'-"FIELD'S GOOD-BYE. "A Sfitsrirrri: ri>« fiLNro"i>i:i:.—A new gunpowder is s-iiil to li.ive l-eeii -.lisenveivil llv -"Mr- II- Lhrllnnlt, a ( ierin ill 11 e.niM-'.s ot'iMiniie Millie aiid, or the re»in of commerce. mid cl.li.rme or nitr.M-M'potash. Tl.e new gunpowder is stated t<> lie of tlave linus llie explosive iurce ot that now in ami oiie-lialt e!i"iiper.— J itlt d, ctc. Each dog has his thy, Ho they say (When the sun shines then let him make hay). As it is in such trifles As dogs, 'tis in rifles — They're paragraphed, then thrown away. Brown Bess first camc out: Ko doubt She tn-ide in th" papers a rout, Bui her mullet so lax is, It, won'; keep the axis, And terribly wobbles about. The Miiiio came, too — Something new— And made a tremendous ado. Its grooving was spirnl— i-'ome said it would tire all Its bullet a mile—-some said two. We the Eniitlds attention engage — The rage We became, and just suited the age : 'j lie the Peers, The troops. Volunteers, Lord hlclio, am l Captain Flood Page. But, alas ! the times change— Our range Is too short now the i'oe to derange ; And so Whitworth's grroving (With Hichard's improving The breech) has come in as a change. Never mind ! out of date, We wait To be shelved, not too early or late. When they're bringing a mess in Of potash and resin As powaer, who'd mourn such a late . And then there's a change in the lead— 'Xis sud . . They're maliirg si ■ hard stm. M s ' cat So gaod-bye. T!lls W . U Till the fa-hion is p^t, And something lu