THE FIRE BRIGADE PROCESSION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 836, 26 August 1864, Page 5

THE FIRE BRIGADE PROCESSION

BT Pl/*ECE3I VK X,

(From the Evening Star.) We're goine'to ava a grand prossession, ■-■ Captain Obs sez unto me ; Hand it would be a grate transgreshun, j f v shud not hinvited B. 4 yur presents tbros a lustur "Wick genus sheds wear hair it goes ; Hand a chorus skating sink, till hating*" Sparks of wit haad genus flues. Oli! Obsses I. oh spear mi blushes, (Tho' wot; you say is quite korrekt;) 1 feels the fire of genus pushes Me, yur hinvite 2 except. To then T feeds the serried phalanx, The Publick gives a defnin chair; Hand marching past in matehiess koium, Hanmatched Ilia this einispere. Then their cums the glorious Hengu^ Urorn byihorses lent on ire ; The publick cvys ear cums Fayheaton, Again to set the world afire. Then wos erred the strains of vnewsiek, Produead by harf a drzen wistles; By musicians s'i'l sew yuasr, 'That there bones his honly grissels. Born a'oft by zsffirs gentil, Still the straue selfistrial cums ; While a man with strength hessenshal, Like a Blacksmith beeta thee drum. There torches blazed with light rifalgent, Applaws at once, the people razes; Hand with kind feelins most-indulgent* Cries there fit to go 2 blazes. The populace brort up the reer,^ With many a seedy-looking sinner j At. last we stopped hand did our beer, Hand then made tracks 2 g3t our dinner. We set down 2 a glorious feed, 2 meny a dish of boiled hand roast; The wine did soon the clorth suck seed, I then rose 2 dropose a toast. Ears 2 the fire Brig-a-dears, I'm sure U all there virtus nose; At danger they aye showed no fear. But rushed forih boldly with their hose. The res many a time as we no well, There conduct admerashun claims; Wen they have saved thi* wooden <*ity, From destruekshun by the flames. .A Gent the Town Boied did propose, Hand caused a general smile; * Wen straitwav. up a member rose, Hand spoke in Oriental style. Ses he, we'll have an altersshun, More powers wots we want U C; The present hacts a borherashun, And quite a hold Uyederftite. We then proposed our volunteers, By whom we are defended ; 2 which of course we gave 3 chairs, Hand so the meating ended. Then karefully we come down stares, Bean tender of our nex; Hand wh mi outside, they gave 9 chairs, 4 Mrs Pieeemen X: * We presume the Constable means coruscating, scintilating. The Ashantee War.—The papers on the orieriu of the Ashantee war have been published, and reveal three rather remarkable facts. First, that Mr KichavJ Pine, Governor of Cape Cjasfc Castle, really proposed a war of aggression, asking permission to invade and conquer Ashantee, a territory say about the size of England, with, 2,000 British troops and 50,000 auxiliaries; that the Duke of Newcastle rejected this proposal; and that a conditional assent to it was subsequently given by Mr Frederick Rogers, permanent Under-Secretary, avowedly " in the absence and with the sanction of the Secretary of State." Was the -'sanction" a particular or. only a general one, for the practice of ordering wars ot aggiession with 50,01)0 savages for troop 3, through an irresponsible officer, is a novel one, and not, we think, an improvement on the British constitution. The war, admits the Marquis of Hartington, very soon cost us thirteen;officers and 600 men, and it is believed that the total loss, killed and invalided, without ever seeing aa enemy, is about three times that number. All this while the army of Quacco Duah, the much dreadeJ potentite, was, says Mr Piue, not ap« preaching our frontier.— Spectator. \n array correspondent of the JVeio^ York Times states that the Confederate soldiers are much better shots than tha Federals. On a recent occasion some C patrols stationed on a river side side shot a cow on the Federal side, and, with matchless impudence, at a favorable moment, swam, across th 3 river to secure their prize. They were, however, seen and takea prisoners, and were marched up to head-quarters i in their shirts and drawers. J MANSE STREET.