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Otago Daily Times, Issue 127, 12 April 1862, Page 6

Stkat.ixo Nbwspapkii KiiP.inr.-s.—A^a« nra* brought under the nolicoof tin; Windsor magistrates i short time since. Two young men, named. C. Lighthand and J. G. Browii, npprcntices in the service of Mr. K. Oxley, proprietor of tlie Wirdsor 11nil Eton Express, were charged with having1 been guilty ut'a gross violation of the covenant of their indentures. The offence consisted in purloining proofs if the reports of speeches, delivered at a dinner held fo celehrate the election of mayor for the borough of Windsor, and liandinar them over to parties in the service of Messrs. Sullivan and Ten-ell, the proprietors of another paper in the same town, called the Windsor, Slouyk, and Eton ll»yal Standard. The dinner was attended by the members and officer* of the Town Council, and several of the personal friends of\V. B. rioMerne.ss, Esq. (the mayor) who were present- by a special invitation. It was not an entertainment which any person might have attended on payment for a ticket. VV. Vansi'ttart, Esq., M.P., .Ur. Skinner, Q.C., Itocorder of the borough, the Mayor himself, the Hey. 11. I. Ellison, the Vicar, and other gentlemen, however, delivered sperehes of intt-i-est. A gentleman connected with the Windsor uml Eton Express, who was at the dinner, prepared A icport uf the proceedings, oxtendincr to three ■ohimns. No other representative of the press was in •i*. tendance. Therefore, great was the surprise of Air. Uxley and his editor on finding that-the Royal Standard, a paper recently established, contained not only a report of the speeches at the banquet, but with trifling variations and abridgments, a verbatim copy of that which had been written for the Express. lift'defendants pleaded guilty, and expressed their leep rcret for their misconduct. ■ Ligiilbaml stated riuit Biotii. his fellow-appreiiiice, informed imn that =i journeyman of the lioyal Standard office, named Henry bcariett, had applied to him (Brown) for the •' proofs " as a favor, stating that. Mr. Vale, principal manager of the Royal Standard office, simply •vWnd to make a brief abstract ot the speeches, lie Li-lithand) thoughtlessly agreed to iissist Brown to •; pull " the proofs, anil to convey them to Scarlett, \v!:o wailed for a part in the neighbourhood of Air. ; jx'loy's office, while the remainder was delivered to dim hv thu defendant at the Royal StMidard'ofotx. .Ur. JUnrvill, Town Clerk of Windsor, who appeared or the defendants, said that it was not the desire of .Mr. Oxley to have the youths imprisoned; for although their conduct was exceedingly culpable, yet ue considered that they had been disgracefully tempted by persons of greater experience. Dr. Pearl dwelt: in strong terms upon the flagitious breach of trust'of which the defendants had beeu guilty. Were it. not that their master had appealed on their behalf and stated that their general ronduct had been previously good, and that they had hi en the dupes of iithers, the Bench would ha:e sentenced them to imprisonment with hard labor. As it was, the defendnuts were ordered to pay the costs and to forfeit one week's wages. Odessa is so overrun with mice that the cats have iieeome so fat with the number that they have eaten rliat they are no longer capable of performing their inly.

No Englishman over thinks or speaks of an Anuri;au as a foreigner; nor is it without n feeling of Mirjjii»e, and of some degree of pain, that on landing' on their siiores he hears himself called a '• Foreigner."— The American Union. By James Spence.