ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 198, 8 December 1876, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Letters to the agent of the Georgia Minstrels show that, owing to the efceetlimb business doing in San Franeisoo. the toiupiiny had deeided to remain there iinvil next mail. A, person named C'ocbyn, KttmtS foe John Bennett, of Sydney, took iiivanta ;w to engage tea non-pn>fessionat lurkies foe Hyiliiwy, and shipped them as lint Georgia Minstivls. T.iey went in the Jity of Sydney. Kieby, the agent, is in'.meted ti.> wi to Sydney and expose them. I'lio Salt f'ranelseo fW severely denounces tho proceeding as a fraud. EVlicien David, the composer, reeentty kweased, h«J* left at least out? piece of inlores tint goods behind him, arid likely to w valued" by the curious. It is a dram, fith silver nails and silver riband, on Che Wtihment of which is inscribed the fact h/tt it is the tanned skin of a young Woman, The first time a piano was •livyuil in the same roonx with it, strange 'ibrations broke forth frotu the other intrument, which rather alarmed its proiriefcor. Ho began to think that the tune livough tender" association might have wakened, some pathos in the parehmentt, hough the stretched skin hadn't course 'tily "vibrated to the music. W« wptidt-r Hii'it "• this pretty thing/' as the children my at " forfeit,"'will sell: for. Under the heading. "Tiny Tumblers,'* i ,; Beer-drinkev" writes to tlio Melbourne LyiM;— As a barrel of ale is reputed to toil tain thirty-six gallons, or uiTti half|iints, and as such barret uf ate generally hilus in, Melbourne at about £T r it follows that at sixpence tiie half-pint the publican »<mld receive Cor his barret no leis than I'll) Hs., or a pro lit of something tike IHX> for eeuf. t but as, unfortunately, every dm engaged in tho liquor trade is allowed h> attaint.is own meaning to the term "glass of ale," ono is invariably sjrved »itii a glass running, on a fair average, >l)out aU to the i|uart, and is therefore lixmt tv. *iw very pretty tune of ,£-■> 2*., in or*- vihat ikmtfaue may revet in 300 per %,:./ and play Sir Dandy in his Ihu/" would the same cormorant j>n. Th.i.'noi-.bjs «onlct bat shut up the Mediae shop. ttAi'i. lues-street,

The New York Herald continues a special from London, winch says the feeling that Russia is determined to force on war is daily gaining ground there, and people who began to console themselves with the hope that the dreaded struggle would be postponed, at ha.-*t for the winter, are losing heart again, and making tip their minds that the worst is to come. It is noted by well-informed people that Russian demands become more emboldened at every stage of the negotiations. As soon a3 the Porte yielded one point, another still more humiliating was laid down, and the conviction gradually forced itself upon the public mind that the time will soon cox.e when such conditions will be proposed as the Porte must peremptorily reject. Then the solution of the Eastern tjueation wilt naturally be Mt to the sword, and Turkey must tight for her existence. The action of Russia is said to be attributable to the fact that the fJovemment of the Czar has found it necessary to y it-Id to the general sentiment <>f the Russian people for war, a feeling which has become so intense that the authorities cannot longer restrain it. In a book just published, entitled, " A Handbook of London Bankers," we find the following : " Lord Westmoreland was dining with Mr. Child one afternoon at Temple Bar, and amongst other subjects upon which they conversed, Lord Westmorland said. ' Child, I wish for your opinion in the following cass : Suppose that you were in love with a girl, and your father refused to consent to the union, what should you ih» f * Why, run away with her, to be sure,' was the prompt reply of Mr. Child, little thinking at the time that it was bis daughter the (pterist was in with. Either that same night, or a few nights after, Lord Westmoreland clop-ad wttli Miss Sarah Child from a Berkeley-square Holism. The duenna, who shpt in the outer room of Miss C.iild's apartment, was drugged by her maid, and her flight was only discovered by the night watchman finding the front door open and raising an alarm. Mr. CaiM at oiic-j took a post-chaise and pursued the runaways. Whether 3lr. Child had better horses, or whether he had mora relays than the pursued, is not known ; but he approached so_ near to them in Cuutberlaftti that Lord Westmoreland w»a eomp, 11.,-d to stand up in his carriage and stio >t the leading honte in Mr. Child's ciiaise. T.ds bo'.d proceeding gave Lord Wtstmoretand tiutu* t>» get over the t'ordyr, w.iei'e tue blacksmith w;is in readiness, and the pair were married at Gretna tireen before- Mr. Child could interfere with the ci-rei«r>nv."