TASMANIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 76, 12 February 1862, Page 1 (Supplement)

TASMANIA.

Wo arc indebted to Captain Pyc, of the "Titmar," from Hobart .Town, for a file of the Hobart Town papers up to January 29th. The Bong Point coal has turned out a failure, at least the first experiment has not been satisfactory. The Advertiser of the 28th January says :—Wc much regret that the Long Toint coal ha's failed to answer the expectations of Mr. Swift. The following letter from the Engineer of the steamer" Prince Albert,"'addressed to the Director of Public Works, gives a very discouraging account of tbe experiment tried at tho instance of Mr. Swift. It is evident that the sample of coals must have been of a very inferior quality for steam purposes, and we have not the smallert doubt but that the unfavorable results of tho experiment are, in a great measure, due to the fact of the coals sent on board the "Prince Albert" being mixed with the worthless rubbish of which the top and intermediate strata of the mine arc composed. If experiments are ever made they should be conducted under the most favorable circumstances. Great public injury is inflicted when such important operations arc left iv careless or unskilful hands. On Board the •'' Prince Albert," ; William's Town, 23rd January, 1862. Dear Sir,—l send you an account of the triaj ofthe coal which you hai*l from Mr. Swift. During the first hour I could not tret lib of steam, when I ought to have had 121bs. I have given them a failtrial for 30 hours, aud was obliged to give them up, otherwise we should never have reached here. I send you a sample of the clinker hy the engineer of the Tasmania.—l remain, your humble servant, Johx Latham. W. R. Falconer, Esq., Director of Public Works, Tasmania. The Tasmanian House of Assembly bns adopted an address to the Governor praying him to cause to be introduced a Bill granting a premium of of .£20,000 to any person or body of persons who shall discover a workable and payable gold-field in Tasmania ; and that he do appoint a Commission for the purpose of fixing the conditions deciding upon the definition of a payable gold-field, and the distribution of the reward after tiie discovery. On the last voyage but" one of the Tasmania from Melbourne to this port. Dr. Mueller of Victoria forwarded six of thc'Nativc Bears of Australia which have been turned out in the bush. The name " Native Bear " seems to be a misnomer, the proper name heing the " Fell Sloth." The animal is quite harmless, is very amusing, and lives on the leaves of the gum tree which abounds in this colony.— Hobart Town Advertiser, Jan. 23.

THE FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT THE PHILADELPHIA THEATRE. (From The Times,\Ocioher 3.) Tlie Philadelphia Pr?ss, describing more fully the accident of which a brief account appeared in our columns a day or two ago, says :—" An accident of frightful fatality occurred at tlie Continental Theatre, in Walnut-street, on Saturday night. Since the destruction nnd accompanying casualties of the National Theatre, some years ago, we have had no theatrical matters so terrible to recount. A few weeks ago Mr. William Wheatley, an old and favorite actor and manager, leased and refitted the place. At great expense he produced the stage edition of Shakspeare's " Tempest," and devoted unusual means to perfecting the scenic and mechanical arrangements. The ballet corps was numerous. All at once those accustomed to witnessing show pieces saw an unnecessary light glaring over the top of the rear scene. Before they had time to speculate upon it, a number of men in shirt sleeves (stage carpenters) made their appearance, and, while the confusion grew momentarily, a sharp scream rang upon the ears of the people, and a woman in ballet costume, with her dress on fire, emerged from the side scenes, waving her arms above her head. Iv a moment she fell into the abyss where the ship was riding. At the same time a succession of screams ensued. Trinculo suddenly ceased to joke, and dropped into the water, while Stephano forgot to be drunk, and became as sober as a judge. The girls were dressing for the ballet. The dressing rooms adjoin Sam-son-street, and in one at the north-west corner of the BHbuilding the Misses Gale were adjusting themselves |Hfor the ballet for Act 11. Miss Zelia Gale, oue ofthe j^Hsisters, stood upon a settee to reach her dress, and in the act of handing it down, the flames of the Hfgas from an adjacent tube set it on fire. The flames to her underclothes, and she was all in an instant. Her sisters rushed up to exHBtinguish the tiro, and they, too, were ignited. The HSfire mounted to their a,rms and breasts, inflicting terHBrible burns. Panic-stricken, they ran from the roam a narrow'passage-way-into the next dressingI^Rroom, filled with ballet-ladies. The gauze dresses of i jHfche.se blazed up directly, and screaming, struggling, the poor creatures either turned and leaped ' BBfrom the windows into Samson-street, or ran hither ' thither calling for assistance. Miss Zelia with her clothing on fire, and tttHHeiing loud screams, ran downstairs and upon HHthe stage behind the scenes, falling below the stage I^Bjevel, where she was caught in the arms of Mr. j^BThoinas Bayard, the carpenter of the theatre, Mr. |^fcayard, in attempting to extinguish the fire with a '■ sea cloth," was himself burnt about the hands and Miss Clara Clifton was caught in tlie arms of by-standers, having leaped down and escaiied ttn-HMiui-t, her clothing . not having taken lire. Miss - HHHanimh Gale did not jump from the window until jHkhe was badly burnt' and when she leaped, she fell HKo the ground upon her back, and sustained severe |Hpjuries from the fall as well as from her burns. She ' |H^'as carried into Greer's Tavern near by, where she • in an almost hopeless condition at a late hour. I HJhn Sunday, at 10 o'clock, she expired at the hospital, ■ HBn great agony. Miss Anna Nicholls, in her fright, ' from a platform to the stage, a distance of s ten feet. Sin: will not recover. Miss Abby 1 was burnt about the breast and waist. Phrehe I died in the morning at 9 o'clock ; Miss Anna -1 died at ti o'clock in the morning. Misses < Madeline Gale and- llut-h Gale are badly burnt; their f ■Rases are *ot hopeless. Sirs. Hermou will not live'; her Hnusband watched her up to a late hour last night. |BrJ: 's. Anna Phillips died during Sunday afternoon. -| HKu'.te Harris was burnt slightly. The Misses Gale ] young ladies of prepossessing appearance: they ( Hgvere excellent dancers ; they were English by birth, they first appeared professionally in this city in j j^Bhe Ronzani troupe at the time Faust was brought j as a ballet, at the Academy of Music. Six of these ] women had died up to mid-hour last night, and more are not expected to survive the next hours. All of them suffered terribly, , for water most piteously, and maintaining , senses unimpaired to the last. Mr. and Mrs. were in the hospital throughout, mini.' ter- j to their .necessities, and doing all in their power to [jHpaki: their last moments peaceful. The matter was \ accidental, and no stigma can hi any way be . upon the management. J The following additional particulars are from the ; North American: "Hannah Galo had < l^Wihi at Greer's saloon. Soon after she was brought j her pain ceased, the result of inward mortiticaHHioii. She was entirely tranqnil, and calmly asked , present to read the Bible to her. An intimate Miss Annie Wilkes, spent some time with her Hveading the sacred hook. For herself she had no apbut for her sisters and her mother she keen anxiety. Anna M 'Bride died first. Her , wandered shortly after her reception at the and at six o'clock death removed her. Miss HS'helps was the next to go. At one o'clock the niesHBenger came, and she expired in the full possession of ' Mmiei' faculties, glad to be released from sufferings which ' utterly fail to give a description of. Hannah ' died at three o'clock. A deathbed more solemn, ' less mournful, is seldom seen. The Gale sisters ' BBL.ave lived —so says everybody who knew them —a life. Less selfishness in a circle of sisters, j BBierhaps, was never known. Hannah during her last j manifested a degree of resignation too sub- - Bairne to result from anything but sustaining grace. , |vhe had lived a blameless life, and, dying, she dethat he who had been her strength in life was HHiow supporting her as the veil between life and e.tergrew thin. The dying girl conversed as few I^B-^ople would suppose her capable of conversing, and, the last breath fluttered upon her lips, the name of ( Saviour was pronounced with it."

A Thorough Soamt.—At the Circuit Court, in leptember last, a man named Shanahan was tried and onvietcd on a charge of rape, on a young woman lamed Margaret Betts. From her evidence it appeared that she had been married at Deuison to a man Villiam Betts, who shortly afterwards deserted her, nd went to Melbourne. This man was lately appreended in Gipps' Land for horse-stealing-, and by the ctivitv ofthe chief constable at Cooma, in conjunction with the Victorian police, it. has been proved that ie has three wives alive, viz., the young woman who ppeared as the prosecutrix against Shanahan, anther in Gipps' Land, and a third iv Melbourne. He as been forwarded from Cooma toGoulbourn, in eomany with two other prisoners.convicted at the late Juarter Sessions there.— Goulburn Chronicle. ETIQU-ETTJ3. —The word *' etiquette " is French, nd nietpis in that language a ticket pr card. It apiears that in former times it wast the custom in 'ranee, on occasions of ceremony or festivity, to disribute among the guests tickets qr small slips of laper, containing an outline ofthe proceedings and irections for the conduct of the company. Thus, if thing wps properly done, it was stud to be done ccordjng to the ticket, or the "etiquette." In the ourse of time the word ncquired the present general leaning, and was adopted into the English lanuage. It is rathor curious, —as showiag how nearly plgnr slang resembles polite conventional lanuagei—to observe that even at the present day the ipression "tospenk by the card," is recognised as 'parliamentary," whiltf " that's the ticket," is low od vulgar.

Bi.ackfei.low" amd Cuixama.w —A correspondent tit Avoca sends us flic following :—The aboriginal natives of this colony have a deeprooted aversion to the Chinese. They no! ice their dishonesties, habits of jiving, their dealings with Europeans.and consider.hem much inferior to themselves, in point of Imncsiy they certainly

are. Frequently credit lias been given them for tobacco, and the very next time tbey enmo that way they called and paid fin- it. But should the storekeeper demur to supply them with it on such terms, the immediate rejoinder would lie '" What for? all right ;me no Chinaman." They never question the right of Englishmen being here, but they will ask, " What for Chii'.aniati come to my country ?" There is generally a scone when they meet, especially if they have to rem.ii-i for a short time in each other's presence. Xo- long

ago the following took place at Avoca. A Chinaman was at the counter, purchasing a pair of trowsers, when a blaekf'ellow and lubr.i entered filestore. John turned round with evident contempt, muttering .something- in Chinese. The

aboriginal took up the insult. " What for Chinaman yabbcr at blaekf'ellow V Chiniitnan no goml 1 Chinaman buy trowsers—' how niiichy'—Knglishniiin say seven shillings — Chinumaii say five I shillings.—Bhickfellow no do all a same—Biaekf'ellow all a same as Englishman. .lJluckfellow huy trowsers — Englishman s:iv seven .shillings — Bhickfellow say 'all right, bore him money.' What for Chinamen no do all a same ? Chinaman no good !" The aboriginal then turned to the storekeeper, and looking with contempt upon John, says, •' What" China man ? he no whiicfellow, he no blaekf'ellow—he no bullock, he no horse." (Then puffing his hand behind his head, and bending it backwards with a'l the sarcasm a.t his command)—" Him all a same pig—got hint tail." But at I this was not enough, lie caught hold of John's side pantaloons, ami si retching them to their full extent, " What for Chinaman have 'em all a same ? —no gold!" This roused the Chinaman's indignation, very much to the satisfaction of the aborigine*. On another occasion a similar scene took place. An aboriginal having observed tlie Chinese making their obeisances, and going through their ceremonials for tho dead, took the opportunity of teaming a Chinaman about it in the same store, one day. Putting his hands together and making- the obeisances like them, he said " What for Chinaman do all a same 'i Ugh ! —Blaekf'ellow big one corroboree—big one corroboree—big tuck out." And giving some ocular demonstration of tlieir movements on such occasions, shoaling, brandishing, his waddy, the Chinaman exhibited much uneasiness at his wild gestures wliich served to inspire the bhickfellow to greater extravanganeies,' till John made a sudden bolt, and the blue It fellow became convulsed with laughter.—" M. and 1). Advertiser."

Tin is Old Emi»ei;or.—lt is a delicate' subject this history ofthe old Umpcror, anil one on which there is a great deal to be remarked just. now. When Louis Napoleon restored the Empire he supposed it would be a wise thing to revive the traditions of the " Great Emperor," and the order was given to rake up and publish every- document ofthe time. But all told against them ! Every scrap of original writing served to put the First Napoleon in a. bad light.-and held him up to horror as a cold-blooded tyrant, who would have sacrificed the whole human race to his selfish ambition. The correspondence with his brother Joseph first turned the current oi'pnblie opinion against him, and then came an stjeinpfc, too lightly made, to print in the Mimilenr the entire map of military documents, oidm dujuitr, and what not, concerning the first campaign of Italy. It was no; found possible to carry-it on. however ;'it was absolutely " too bad," j-,ml had to bo stopped, wliich it was abruptly. But irom that moment men's minds took to occupying themselves about the reality ei'the First Emperor ; and the legend is likely to suffer considerably. Hay after day the voting '■ rising" men of France came Into the field of public life v>ith strange doubts about the modern Charlemagne ; and, as Eotlien says, speaking of the scepticism of Lady Hester Stanhope's followers, " the religion ofthe place" i.s in danger.— London Reekie. I

Bush Fires, and Loss or Lifk in- Gum-s Land.—"We have wilh much regret to announce the destructive effects ofthe bush fires which prevailed on last Wednesday all over North Gippn Land, and we fear that we are as yet only informed of a very snn.li moiety of the actual mischief that lias Icen dune. On the morning of that day. the whole of the plain seemed to be'one mass of flame, extending front Mafra down to Wim tin, and detroyed everything which came withiu its' reach. The whole cf tie; grass paddocks of Mr Siftle, Mr" Cunningham, Mi- Pearson, Mr Weir, and Mr ,loh'i,s;in were "completely burned, and the fire extended into the standing crop--of .grain', reducing to ashes about forty acres of wheat nnd barley, the properly of Mr "Wifiiaiii Craig, and about six acres of grain, the property of Mr Gove. At one lime it appeared as if no human iuterveiilion could save any portion of Mr Craig's crop, which amounted to about 200 acres, hut fortunately in the afrernoir.i the wind changed, and to that cire'ninslanco is owingthe preservation ofthe remainder. Early in tin-day the fire reached the bridge over the Thomson". lea-ling to Mr Pearson's, and it was owing to the active i-xi-rtiens of a party of men under the direction of Mr. ltawiinsou, the district road engineer, that tiie structure was saved. Nearly the whole cf Bu-hy Park and the Strallifieldsnye rims weie on fire, a nil a greater portion ofthe former were conip'ctely burned. The fire also extended to within a few yards of the Mitchell, mid great fears. v.\vu at one time entertained i\,v ;Jie safety ef Messrs. Drevermann and (Vs :-tore. At present it is impossible to cslim.ite the lu:s which has thus accrued to the district, our dates b.'ine.- as vet very incomplete ; but we hear of a large number of cattle missing, and of several ucei.lents to horses, besides the destruction of some farm buildings.

Par-..iamkxtaky Lakouace.—The Hoi art Town '•' Mercury" thus writes a! out a vrell-kinv.-n member of tho Tasmanian Assemf.iy:— Mr. Gi\r.'.-on lira been the assassin of his own character.1 And he l:;;s done the work cfself-itetruction mote effeciuaily t.'nn can ever be undone. What is the position J.fr.'Gregson holds at tl.is moment in the Assembly '! What have 1 done— he a-;ked—that these : t-rktares should be thus made upen iuel He l.rs done thin. He has -disgusted every ren::. liable man iai he HoiK-e, with his irregular p-.:s-skais; with his offensive egotism; with his systematic rleliaucs of order, and his roif oral el insults to the cluiir; with his intesE-ant intetrupiion r-f the c..ur=o of delate and bis unmaniu-red personalities. lie hits dofinitoly strengthened the ministerial positicn : put an cfl'tctive end to .i'l .the schemes that were in limitation for a coliliou between the independent jiaity and tlie model at 3 oppoition. Of the articles of wh.'eh tliis gentleman eomp'ains so bitterly, and the presumed "writer of which he assails in a fashion j.o cowardly, l.'ie o.ily really offensive pa:sages are literal quotations front Mr. Gregson's own speeches: and reference.", to points on which he prided himself to dwell. We tell Mr. Grceson again t:.at, hy the poliiieal course he has been pursuing, by Ids reckless abuse of opportunities, by his exhibition of uncontroll-id passion, and by hi.; habitual indulgence ma habit of .slander revoifii'::,' to every man of gentlemanly feeling, he has been in truth, assassin of his own reputation.

Brctai. Tkeatmest or Ai'l'kentio^r.—The following case occurred in Bedfordshire not many days ago. A man named AVhitelock had two orphan girls, aged 15 and 10, appi enticed to him bythe poor-law guardians of Hemcl Hempstead, to learn tlio bonnetmakiug trade. One morning he asked his own children as well as his apprentices it' they had'seen a purse which he had missed the previous ni.j.ht. They all denied knowledge of it, on which he retailed to the stable for a whip. One of the poor ghfs, having but too often experienced what was likely to follow, fled into another room. He followed her, made her kneel down, put her head between his lees to hold her tight, and then the brute actually "' double-througoii " this wretched child as hard as he could lay it on for nearly half-an-hour. He seems to have been somewhat proud of the feat, for he declared that " all the devils in hell should not keep him from thrashing his girls." About the same time the other girl had four dozen bonnets portioned out lo Iter on a Saturday to '•' paper," or whatever that may he. At half pai, 11 at night she had finished till but three. Wliiicloe': coining in, for-nd that she had " not done her woi-!: yet," and announced a thrashing. He took a birch rod and flogged her for nearly forty minutes. One would like to see such a brute " knouted " after the latest Russian improvement, but the Bedfordshire magistrates appear to have been of a different opinion. They sentenced the ruffian to two months' ituprironuient, with hard labour—one mouth for each assault. —London Paper.

1 Pouridgk.—As national characteristics probably " run in the blood," of what peculiar characteristic in the Scottish blool can the fact be representative that " mangai.e.-e exists in the sol of Scotland I it i.s taken up by the oat plant, and thus conveyed into the blood of the Scotch, who feed on porridge ; and Scotchmen are said to have manganese in their blood." As some members ofthe Royal Family are said to he very partial to porridge, they must be getting inoculated with this peculiarity in the Scotch blood ; and, if the blood of Earl Grey, who waa induced by Her Majesty to try the porridge, were analysed, we dare say some traces of Scotland might be found there too. Englishmen seem to have a special contempt for oatmeal and porridge ; English oats being really only fit for horses. But English oats are not Scotch oats, and a Scotsman in London detests porridge made of oatmeal perhaps as much as an Englishman can do. The oatmeal of Scotland is sweet and pleasant to tho taste ; while that of England i.s rank and bitter, and, as wo have said, only fit for horses. Nevertheless, English oats must be highly nutritious, else our horses could not thrive ne well on them, — Builder.'

The Decay m-- M i:xico.—Less than three ( , years ago the rapid decay of Mexico, and the i_ diuieulty of cither letting it alone, protecling it, .. or coiKj-.ierii'.g it, was a far greater perplexity to rite Government offho United Sluies than slavery, v.-hich.nearly everybody tolerated, and Secession. .;n wliich no one believed. It seemed to be the j. inevitable! fate of that beautiful country to he f gradually.annexed to the overgrown dominion of , Brother Jonathan, and the wisest statesman in ", Washington, whether Democrat or Republican, ; in speculating upon 1 lie probability ofits conquest, '. I'lmfiirre-l iv the earnest- hope that it might- lie , delayed as long as possible, fur fear of the evil ' consequences which it might entail upon the , [."nioii. and that no rash hand would cx]>cdite n . catastrophe which, com. when it might, would '. conic 100 soon for the comfort of the existing 1 generation. But three years have operated a C great and unexpected change in the mutual rei kit ions of the parties. The huge American t'nion lias broken at its weakest point, and lies, , tiki: ilie great ship, rudderless and helpless in the '_ trough nf a raging rea ; white Mexico, relieved i iVofti all tear of aggression from that quarter, bus ' been left (o the ileeuy and disintegration c-ouse- . qucni-.npon her own inherent rottenness. Instead [ of paining any relief from tlie removal of a source . of such imminent peril as the enmity of n too powerful noiglibeiir. she has but grown weaker . and more distracted hy the operation of time. Life is insecure, properly is not respected, and , liberty is destroyed in Mexico. Her fields are unfilled ; her roads are infested by armed lian- ' dit li : law is powerless or non-existent; and one { ruffian after another grasps the fust fading remnant of authority, and uses it for plunder and extortion for :i iL'w weeks, or it may be months, whtu he i.s supcrtedc-d in his turn, and perhaps liiiinh'i-ed by :i::nther riillimi. us base and brutal as himself, and destined to run a course as short nnd as detestable. Nature, that has done so much tor Mexico, has denied her the one thing needful io make a great and a prosperous country. It has given her ;>, lovely climate and fertile soil ; broad and deep rivers ; mountains teeming with mineral wealth—gold, silver, iron, lead and copper : plains of a fertility .•miiicient to feed « continent. But .all these, with their beauty and riches, are of no avail without true-hearted men. And men capable of turning these unpnrrelleled re.-ourcFS to account arc wanting in a land that, for natural beauty and capabilities, has no superior under the sun. The European races which, after the first discovery of America, took possession, have gradually died out. Tlieir numbers bave not been replenished by immigration from tho parent stock, and the i'ew who remained in the country at the . trine whom Mexico threw off tho yoke of Spain, and who, in proportion to the aboriginal races and haif-brceds, were as one in eight, kave since that time become fewer and fewer. Their children have intermarried with the Indians, and the progeny of t\it;se have intermarried with muluttoes. and even with negroes, so that a mongrel race predominates, having all the indolence and ferocity of the aboriginal Indians, and fill the vices of the African, with scarcely any of the virtues of the Kuropeun, and certainly not that great virtue of self-control which isas essential to true civilization as it is to liberty. Men of purely Anglo-Saxon or English blood arc to be counted in the United and the Confederate States by millions, Iv Mexico the men of pure Spanish or other European blood can scarcely be counted by hundreds ; and the persons who assume or grasp such power as remains are of .he inferior, not the superior race. General Alvarez, whose father was a Red Indian, whose mother was a mulatto, and who long ruled over a large portion of Southern Mexico with despotic sway, and set the authority of the Central Government at defiance, was a specimen of the class of men to whom Mexico hus lately been subjected. With such a population, and such aspirants for authority, it is not half as wonderful as it is deplorable that anarchy in its worst forms should be the normal condition of the country; and that the few foreigners who are attracted to the chief , eiiies in the hope of successful trade are plundered or murdered with impunity by every faction that ■ comes into j-owcr. — London Reeieiv Ixcoxsistexcies ik im: .Autocratic Character. —At one fell stroke the present Kmperor of Russia offends a noble i-i every parish of his dominions by tho vioh-nt emancipation i.f some million of serfs ; and Kurope, even when ii criticises his policy, or blames hi- rashness, appiaucls Li's moral courtige, and wonders at !:;:• po'iiiral nerve. Concurrently with flu's, ho flints up the University of St. Petersburg, because eithsr certain professors, or certain students, have ;.iven rent to ceitain opinions in the way of politics. There is not much learning in Russia, and the little thai then; is is thus placet in abeyance until it he pin-iliod fi"-n the taint of liberal ideas. There is not much lil.-.'ra'ii-y in tho St. Petersburg lecture-rooms : but the little that cxiew is tv leaven to the learning -.villi which it'iscomliinad. The Emperor is two mcii in oee. A philanthropist, when the rights of others ere in the field and lit; deprives no one but his nobles i t'euvthirg. an egotist- when his own autocracy is rhre.vten.dly even the shadow of a shade. He abol- -, ishes r-xifeve. list persecutes liie opinions hy which alone it. can be vindicated. He is two men—r.n inI tcllige.'it well-meaning man as Alexander; a repressive despot as a Czar. His goo.! sjnse, his right fueling, r.ud"bis ini/.dligouee, lie owes to the' times'' in : which he lives. His egoiis-.ii, his narrow-miudednes, Lio ideophj'/ia, he inherits, with his instincts, from his an jesters. He must be taken for what lie is—a mixture nf iiiß'l nii-.'t ba.1., st-iv-igth and weakness, courage land thiiid.ii.-y. alter tiie fashion of men in general.— London Itrvitif. Pat's llolaxd For. Brougham's Oi.ivku.—There are many anecdutcs concerning Lord Brougham current in Biillln, but the following may, we bt-lieve, be rolled upon as authentic. .During the meeting of ihe Srcial Sciencj Association he was partioalarly . sharp from time to time with one of the secretaries, . and more tiif.n i.re.c, when ariailgenienis did not phase him, exclaimed " Oh, that's Irish ! " Ho had arrange! to leave flu Four Courts at a certain ho.ir OJieilay, ami ordered tho carriage to he in waitm,-; ' but when he stepped into the court-yard the carriage

was not there. The customary, "Oh, that's Irish'" rose at o'.'ce to hi-; lips; hut, the secretary to whom we lave referred tiis'.aniiy replied, ''No, my lord, that's

.■lit Ir't'li. The carriage that wal-. to have conveyed y.mi- lordship to the Vice-Regal i/odite belongs to'an JOnelir-h rohleinaii, and. was manufactured in England; th.' horse.-i were bought in England, and the servants are English ; so that there is nothing Irish about the

■.•:i.-aij;:ur.'.-me;it." He added, /' If your lordship wi'l permit ie to call an Irish carriage, it will wait upon you at once, a-id then you will be Brougham in bt-.:.iig":am." It, nes-.i not I'O added, the nob'.e was net s<!of.hc! by the rebuke, but lie was not heard to re] e.t the offensive sa\ing. An unmarried lady, a perfect specimen of an old

maid, being- on a visit to a friend who lived in a large manufacturing town, went one Sunday to church n'ono, and was shown into a large square pew, in wliich half a dozen females were seated. The prayers v.-.'i-o drawing to a conclusion, when the officiating minister deviated from the afternoon service into

anof her with which she was acquainted. This was novelty to Miss P , who was in the habit of attending public worship at a fashionable chapel in Londo":i. When this interpolated service began her co-powers stood up j she, as a matter of course, followed their example, and on doing so, was surprised to see all the congregation except themselves either sitting or kneeling. Her companions presently knelt down. She again followed their lead, and, by payititr great attention to the succeeding prayer, she 'discovered that it was a thanksgiving- for sate deliverance irom the great pom and perilof child-birth. The usual afternoon service being-over, she rose from her knees with crimsoned cheeks and in an agitated state of'initid, which were not lessened bythe clerk coming into the pew, and_ asking her, " Have you a child to be christened, Ma'am ''." Pushing him aside she rushed out of ihe churching pew, into which she had inadvertently been put, and made the host of her way out of the church. On entering her friend's drawing-room she looked so excited and alarmed that Mrs M—— exclaimed, "My dear Charlotte, what has happened to you i Have you been l-oiihed or assaulted?" " Worse—worse—much worse," hysterically fobbed the old maid, " I've been churched !'•

Gooi>_ Anvic;!.—A few weeks ago a young foreigner male hinisflf remarkable at one ofthe rouge-et-noir taWes,_ in Baden Baden, by his reckless and'desperate gambling. For many hours iv succession ho had invariably lost upon every point on which he had ventured. At length, taking a single golden Napoleon between his finger and thumb, he showed it to the croupier. "Here," said he, "is the last piece of gold of which 1 am now the owner. Where, my friend, would you advise me to put if!" "Monuieur."" replied the croupier, "as you 'ask my opinion, and appeal to mo as a friend, and tell me that it is your ltti-i- Napoleon, my advice to you is to put it — in your pocket.' — London. Review.

Immigp.atios Kovkltv.—A free passage to New South Wales has been obtained for 150 ofthe persons lately evicted from their holdings on Derryveagh, County Donegal—fifty men and one hundred women, between the ages of fifteen and forty, whether married or single, provided they be healthy and strong of their tv^e. A married couple, having one or two children, may go out. Each must have two suits of clothes, but new bedding, with cooking utensils, will be provided on board, and will he given to the emigrant on landing if well conducted. Such is the tenor of a notice extensively circulated by the secretaries ofthe Derryveagh Relief Committee.

The Giieat MiSTitoroLis.-—A return recently made from the metropolitan police-office states that within a radius of six miles from Charing Cross there are 2037 miles of streets. Since 1849 t: c number of houses lias increased hy upwards of 00,000, and the length of street? by nearly 000 mile*.

Womax axn Laiioii.—" After the publication of ' Woman's Bight to Labor" generous men came forth to help me to carry oat my plans. The best printer in Boston said, ' I am willing to take women into my office at once, if you can find women who will submit to .■in apnremiresliip like men.' Un the same r-on-ditioas a'disi.le.guished chemist offered to tako a cla.vs of women, and train them to be iir.st--class apothecaries or scientific observers, as they might choose. To these offers there were no satisfactory._ responses. ' Yes," said tho would-be printers, 'we will go into an oliice for six months ; but by that, time our older sisters will ho married ami our motheivswill want its at homo.' 'An apprenticeship of six years!' exclaimed the Yonua ludv of a chemical turn, ' I should like very nr.u:Ji to leaiii. so that I could be a chemist if I over had to : but poison myself over those fumes for six years—not I .-' Ifc is 'easy to rail against society and men in general ; but it is very painful for a woman to confess her heavies'! obstacle jto success, viz., the weakness of woman. ' Six years out of the very bloom of our lives to be spent i'u the printingoffice or.the labratory !' exclaimed the dismayed, band, ami they flutter out of reach through the side walks of Beacon-street, or throutrh ihe mazes of the 'Lancers.' What doer, common sense demand, if not that women should make thorough preparation for trade or professions : aud having taken up a resolution, should abide by all its consequences like men ?" • — Practical Illustration of Woman's liiijlii to Labor.

To I<\vstex Kxifk Haxplks.—When knives or forks have coineotit ofthe handles from buingciirelc-isly put in hot water, or otherwise, a cement, made as follows, will be useful to refasten them :—Take of gum shellac two parts, and prepared chalk one part: reduce them to powder and mix thoroughly. Fill the opening in the handle with the mixture, heat the shank of "the knife and press it in. ' Then keep the handle out of hot Wider.— Chemical Gazette.

A t'liitt--. Ron Ciii'iicn Si,KKi'i:us.—The old monks' seats in Westminster Abbey, in Henry Vl'l's Chapel, were placed on an axis which pass«l through the centre. As lung as they remained awake nothing happened, but directly they went to sleep the seat upset ami tumbled them out. This uneleriea) merriment, was also provided for at the Church of Bishop'H Stortibrd, where the seats were similarly constructed. The idea i.s worthy of introduction into some of our modern '•"sensation" churches. — Court Journal.