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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 90, 15 September 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

A BLUiroEUiNG Preacher. — Dr Pringle, a^ Scoleh preacher of celebrity, had a ciVrious habit of blundering at times in the pulpit, substituting one word for another, &c, although it was remarked that, like certain horses, though he often stumbled, ho never fgll. Preaching once, he had occasion to quote the words, " from the crown of the head to tbe sole of the foot." He quoted them thus, •" from the crown of the foot to the sole ofthe hend;" and then correcting himself, fairly convulsed the congregation by saying, " Toots ! from tlie sole ofthe head to the crown of the foot." Once describing the bad qualities of Judas, his avarice, treachery, dishonesty, &c, he came to a climax by crying, *' And, to crown all, my friends, he was a bachelor," meaning probably, what may seem to some a convertible term, a suicide. The Emperor and nis American Horses. — It is stated in our last letter from Havana that the French transport Seine was about to sail from New York to take on board half a dozen horses intended for the use of the Emperor. This will make the fourth batch of riding horses from this country that his Majesty has purchased. It seems that he prefers for bis personal use animals of the American j breed, and now keeps his stud continually renewed from it. — eto York Herald. ; A LucilD Government. — Gen. Butler, , when superseded, posted to Washington to ; know the reason of his removal. He asked ihePresident: Mr Lincoln " didn't know." He asked the Secretary of War: Mr Stenton " didn't know." He asked the General-in-Chief: General Halleck "didn't know." He asked the Secretary of State: Mr Seward "doesn't know." And General Butler •■* doesn't know," to ibis moment. Quker Epitaph. — In tlie Cathedral churchyard, Winchester, to the memory of Thomas Fletcher : — " Here lies in peace a Hampshire grenadier, I Who caught his death by drinking cold small beer, j Soldiers, be wise from Lis untiiuelj' fall, And, when you're hot, drink strong or none afc all.' What is C-iieek. — Pray pardon the use of a slang term ; Impudence wili not do, for it may exist without shrewdness ; nor Self-possession, for that is a passive rather than an active » irtue ; nor Courage, which is often aliied with modesty; -.or Boldness, which a man may have without humor. True, you may say that a man has the face to say or do anything; hut that is a roundabout way of expressing oneself, and you cannot speak of his face in an allegoiical sense, or call him facey. Grant me the term, then, and I will endeavor to explain it to my young brotherless lady readers. Cheek, then, is a rare uniou of fun, impudence, readiness, perseverance, and intelligence, endowingits possessor witb 1 the power of walking quietly over social obstacles, which form an impassable barrier to the majority of mankind. For example, it was " cheek " that gave Diogenes the advantage over Alexander ; that procured wives (it is great al that) for the early lto it i ans ; that got dear old Falstaffout of his scrapes enabling him to *' malce a good end," instead of a parlous bad one; that procured James Boswell admission to it club and a niche in history denied to ii-any a better man ; tliat enabled the j great Barnum to gull his fellow-creatures ! out of a fortune, and when he had spent thaf, to make a second by telling his dupes face to face, how he had done them. — Once a Week. A skait measuring 8 feet 3 inches in length, 6 feet 11 inches in breadth, and weighing about 2i cwt, has recently been taken in Loch Hourne, Glenelg. On Saturday, 21st, counsel was heard before the judges of the First Division of the Court of Session on the petition of Charles William Campbell, lieutenant in the 19th Kegiment of Bengal Cavalry, claimant to the succession of the Breadalbane estates, in competition wiih the respondent, John Alexander Gavin Campbell, of Glenfalloch, praying ttie court in the meantime to sequestrate the entailed esfates of Breadalbane, and appoint a judicial factor til I the settlement of thequestionof the succession. MrGifford addressed the court for the petitioner, and Mr Clark for the respondent. Their Lordships took time to consider their j udgment. Tn a Fifeshire church, a pew-owner, on finding hisseat occupied by a tradesman of that place, seized him, and after a struggle in which a bible was used as a weapon of offence, the assailant was worsted, and took his seat elsewhere. At the termination ofthe service a fight again ensued, j The Dundee Advertiser state-) that the j minister of a village church in Ross-shire, being disturbed in his discourse one Sunday by the snores ofthe beadle, recalled that functionary to a sense of his position by hurling the Psalm-book at his head. The Emperor of the French is in his own right a canon of the Basilica oi St. John of Lateran at Homeland, wishing to follow the example of Charles X„ King of France, his imperial nwjesty has presented eight brevets to the canons of, that chusch — that is to say, eight pensions of 200Gfr. each, and has likewise bestowed the sum of 8f)00fr. upon the subordinate membars of the clergy of the same- church. According fo * La France,' King George of Greece will remain for another year in Denmark to complete bis studies. At the end of next may his marriage will be cele- | brated wi& th,e Uihd diat&ghter of Quseu Victoria.