THE CHARGE AGAINST MR DANIELS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1166, 27 September 1865, Page 4

THE CHARGE AGAINST MR DANIELS.

To '.he Editor of the Daily Timk.)

Sik—ln your issne of to-day, under the head j>f .Resident Magistrate's Court, it is reported that there was a charge against me for having forcibly entered the premises of M'.ssrs Key aud Berwick, and removed furniture therefrom, whiih was adjourned to Thursday. I wish to state that the above serious charge, for which I had to give L2OO bail, was withdrawn.—l am, &c , J. D ANIEX3. Princes street, 26th Sept., 1865. [ There we.s no announcement in Court that the charge referred to had been withdrawn ; but there was a statement by the Magistrate that the "other cases" arising out of the affair were, like the assault case^ adjourned until Thursday.—Eo. D.T.J

A Pus nY Mb. Frederick Peel.— Mr Frederick Peel has made a joke. It took everybody by surprise, especially the hon. gentleman himself. The greatest excitement, it is said, prevails at.ttie Treasury. Colonel North asked why the houses of the Ministers in Dowling street escaped local rates ? Mr Peel explained that, asthe Ministers used the houses only vboffices, and not as dwellings, there was no such beneficial occupation as would reader the buildings rateable. '" But," said the Colonel, " we all know parties were often, given there; does that make no difference ?" Upon which Mr Peel very solemnly declared that official parties by no means constituted a beneficial occupation ; and then sat down evidently rather alarmed at the shout of laughter" which greeted his unconscious pun. — Pall Mall Gazette. Mr LiKcdur's ParvATE Life.— ST. Laugel, in the Revue dcs Deus. Mondes > gives a graphic description of the President's life, passed amid all the signs of civil war, and disturbed by ceaseless anxieties. Apart from his .osvn need of quiet and repose when he was at home,, his modest resources did not permit him to» indulge in very lavish hospitality at the White House. He would- never receive his salary except in paper raoaey, like the other public officials, though Congresswould willingly have consented to his being paid in gold. So. far from growing rich as President, he impoverished himself. He abandoned himself entirely to- the business of the country. " During the four years of his residence in. the PaesidentiaL man3ion, he ws3 only once in the fine conservatory attached tt> it. At his sole relaxation, Mr« Lincoln led him. now and then, almost in spite of himself,, to .the theatre. He had a passionate love lor Shalcspeare. ' It inibes little difference to me,* he said one day to me> ' whether Shakspsare is well or ill played ; in his ca3e the thought is enough.' " M. Laugel once accompanied hint to the theatre—the sime which has since acquired such a tragic interest, and sat in the very box which was the scene of his assassination. The play was "Lear," and the President paid the closest attention to the whole performance, conversing with Ma guest only between the seta,— Pall MetL Gazette.