MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 408, 11 April 1863, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Five thousand -wearers are now out of employment in Berlin, from the scarcity of cotton.

Dr Gunning, who served during the Peninsular, war, and amputated tho arm of Lord Fitzrur Somerset, afterwards Lord Raglan, died at Paris-recently, aged ninety. ,

French Sorrow and Sentiment.—At Montmartre Cemetery, a tombstone has been erected with a colossal tear carved on it, and the words underneath - " Judge how we loved him !"

Haymarket Theatre.—Mr Buckstone is said to have clewed nearly flve-aud-tweiity thousand pountis in 1862 alone by Lord Dundreary, Mr Sothern'* services, it is believed, are re-securfil at the rate oi Ll2O a-week, or ft little over 1/5,000 a-year! Mr Wuukstone has re-engaged Mr Sothern for no one knows how long. At present, all that can be predicted is that the cad seems as far off as ever.' '.'.,' ..

A I.otfa Wire.—The New York Herald states that the message from San Francisco announcing the capture of the Aliel, was trausmitfed over the telegiapiiio lines to New York in less than two hours—a distance of above four tliousa-arl miles. The despatch wa« t-iegraphe'i from Sacramento to Olmcifo, a liia tanca of two toou'-aud four liundrwl ami fll'ty mile^. direct—that is, without belli,; repeated at any inter-, mediate station. , • ■

Savace Customs.—The Rev H. A. Stern; an Abyssinian missionary,, writes :—" Fond ' as, ths Abyssinian women'are of embroidered garments arid other fiuerlcs, it is strange that they should never try to pain even n slight acquaintance with the lisa, pf the nesdle. High and low alike depend upon.their, male friends for'every*stitch in their dress. Tastes,, of course, vary in different countries ; but I confer that it always provokei me to see a.tali, Ueardel fallow acting the dps*malc«-, and a sleuder girl performing the functions of the groom." , ". .; ■

' Using up tiie World.—The Times complains that mankind are u^ing U[> the world top fast. Incessant cultivation,' it is alleged, is stripping earth of iv C.-at of mould, which cnaoot be replaced ex-.v:pt by a raturu to the primeval forest.1 There are facts i". existence a HUle incdusistent with that, very a'armintrstatement. The plain rouni Benares has certainly bean <!ulturp.:l for three thousand years, ami'is u-* rich as ever. The country round Damascus was a garden in the beginning ot history, and is a ppufilan iiow. No forest ha* ever renewed the soil of l\rorthern Italy, hoc is the glorious fertility of Asia Min.'r artificial- " Districts have, it is true, perished, but if has always been from human folly, the outtinir down of the trees tiif fbe rain erased, aud Hut 'AelKs sank, iw is now occurring iv some parls of Upper India. Wheu we couqiKtred the Wjaub the vast province did not contain oue tree, and in thirty years wouM. Shut* Ix-cmii-:-, like t.to Buby)o;ria:> desert, and fraa the saiue cause, a Btt:rilu plain.— 'Sjiectatoi:

' A Kmv i'li.vsp, op Highway Robusry.—The Bii'»iii'gha>n Pus' reports a novel■iiii.t ustriurilitmrv eiso of highway robbery which has ucenrred :at Bdir'.tastoi?, !,v snbiu-b of . UirmhijT'iani. A ytmn*: ia:ih nam'id Oiiiiilss Taylor, ■•wtn walking- aiongl thii turn-.iikt» l'u.irl in o-iiiipa-.>y- with tt 'ferns,!c' da 'Sim-ii'-y cvtuin^. While the two were iv fawiiiar oonviii'-. s'ttion, a man approiwhail and ta,»ij->e-! Tavlor' on tii« .Rhonh.lI-, and intToinciug himself as a, dc'toijtive pri.acs oiiicir, steitt'd that, be wantfi't His youjifj: tnmi,: and t'aat. be must nccoiapuriy him to the'1 police stii--:tion. Taylor, in. his perplexity and am!iZ-moßt, suft'-rcd himself to be tak(-n along tlie roatl by-hi* captor. They bad not proceeded far Sv'ore the '• offl.:ul" mode a search of Tayloil in cliarsiftumtic'1 police s'.yle, atuJ tiitnsferrsd ai! the prisoner po«<';ssear I'itQ his rt»"n pocket?, i-icludiiip; a watcli, ifttjr this' pperniiou thn "'defectivel'' grado'dlly n-laxed hia Ut>l(i of the prisoner, anil,- when^a favorttble opjxjitutiity-oooun-ed, ran off.-with what he bail got; and-Taylor,; more rvstounded tlian before by 'the'-coolness with which lit; had been plundered, soon lost sight of the" thief. The cunning villain has also elnded the vigilance of a-patty of "real" detectives who were as soon »3possible upon liia track. >■'•'■■ ■

■ CoaiiS of Fire.—'4 In sending food to the starving weaver.* cf Lancashire; we are .heaping fcoals : of i!ve ; ba thn head of 'England.—Speech at. tlie,Meetiag .of the New York Chamber of ..Commerce, Dec. XSO'I--:_On this n Lancashire Spinner writes two good verees in tits.Liverpool Albion: —;" ... - , ; ..<• i; If helping burning cotils of fire, ;> ; .) : , On England's head bs your desire, ~■;-.■ . , • And coal» of fire take fpfm of ; yictiial3, ; : ~; Vast be your furnficesand/kettles ; ~.,,... Increased the nuinberof.^ypuv. etPfers,;,, ; And inuch'etilar'ged.the.sw'e.pfipokei'B... . .-.-.; : Whate'er.the motives be wliieliled> V ; •■■■ [■''■■: ■*' ' i Your treuerbus lieartsto'sfrhir us bread,■ ; ' ■ ImpuUive alms, when freely-given, Are quite acceptable to heaven; Money from unreflsctive sinners, Will give our wives and children dinners; And charity, when heart can doubt it, lixcels philosophy without it.