MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1244, 27 August 1869, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

It is asserted that the Repeal League, established in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has resolved to mako annexation to the United States the platform of tluur policy. A young gentlemen, heir to extensive properly in Clare, Ireland, attempted suicide lately, in consequence of hia family refusing to sanction his marr'aw with a domestic servant. He fired a pistol at bis breast, and the ball took effect in his left arm. The Austrian Consul at Leghorn was assassinated in that city on May 24 wbilo walking with :lio Austrian General Crenneville, who was also w<>un:l- d in the face. The outrage seems to have arisen f'nv.i motives of political revenge. Several arrests l.avo been made, but the actual murderer lias jioS ie n taken. A CURIOUS case has been before the Eftinbirrreh town council. A woman had applied to havo !;;>>• husband admitted as a burgess, and a comaiiShv, to whjm the applioalion was referred, reported thai; tinl man had no claim, but that the woman had eoinj.'iii'c! with all fclio old conditions of burgess-ship, a::d s;:o>nd bo admitted a bur^ss in her own right. Tiio esuncii unanimously resolved that in special ca=c:; \\o\uvn might still be admitted to the rights of when they comply with the ancient conditions.

' England and Canada.—lf the peoplo of ile Canadian Dominion wish to quit the Empire, nnd will say so constitutionally, Great Britain will 3vi<>;iso them from their allegiance without a sigh or a duinur. But under no circumstances short of utter exhaustion, of total inability to keep up even the scmlvhnco of dignity, will Great Britain surrender the Dominion to any people but its own. — Spectator. The receipts of the Atlantic cable on the Ist and 2nd June, at the reduced charge of £2 per message, show an advance of more than 50 per cent, on the receipts of the corresponding days of last year —the income of the two days being £1534 this year, as compared with £929 on'the Ist and 2nd June, 1868. * The Economy op Advertising.—For many years performances on the orgnn at St. George's 'Hull, Liverpool, have been given twice a week by Mr. \Y. T. Best. Some months ago the corporation, in a fit of economy, agreed to discontinue the short advertisement published in the three daily newspapers of the town. The result was that the Council saved £34 in advertising, and lost £250 in the receipts. The corporation being convinced of the folly of their economical experiment, have now directed the advertising to be resumed.— Liverpool Albion. A curious calculation has been made of the weight in gold which each of the liberated Abyssinian captives has cost the country. Ten millions sterling, reduced to weight in sovereigns, represent:— Tons cwt. qr. lbs. oz. dr.«. 78 12 1 14 8 1.9-Isths. or, for each of the sixty men, women, and children released from the clutches of King Theodore, an expenditure in solid gold of Tons cwt. qr. lbs. oz. drs. 1 6 0 23 1 11.0-251113. We have often heard of people who were worth their weight in gold, but the Abyssinian captives must be precious indeed to be worth, on an average a ton and a third of the precious metal! The Pacific Railway Tbaitic.—The Pacific Railway being open, through trade from ocean to ocean has begun. An invoice of soap has been _ont from Philadelphia to San Frnncisco, and tea from tho latter city is coming to Chicago and St. Louis. Tho Western States will get their tea by this route instead of from the Atlantic cities. Three Englishmen, bound from London to Hong Kong, were among the first passengers. Woman's Rights.—Mrs. Olive Logan, in a speech at the Brooklyn woman's meeting, said: —" I reject the trousers with contempt and scorn. Men cut a sufficiently ridiculous figure in them themselves. The trouble is they don't like their own costume, and are envious of our laces, jewellry, frills, and dresses. ' Trousers, forsooth trousers ? Shake nob the ridiculous garment at me. No, so long as we can have our silks, satins, and- shawls, we will repudiate your absurd bifurcated unwhisperables. Look at your swallow-tail coats, stovepipe hats ; and you wear your hair so short, some of you, that you look precisely like monkeys, and I don't wonder that ono of your number has written a book showing that animal to be the father of his race." This speech was greeted with roars of laughter and applause. Rights of Dissenting Ministers.—A question affecting the right of a Dissenting congregation to dismiss a minister was decided on May 28, in the Court of Chancery. The ministrations of the Rev. S. C. Gordon having given rise to dissensions amongst the congregation of an Independent chapel at Reading, a majority of the worshippers passed a formal resolution deposing him from tho office of co-pastor. There was no imputation whatever upon Mr. Gordon's character, but he was disliked by the congregation, for whom it "was contended that they possessed an. inherent right to elect or to dismiss a pastor at any time. Mr. Gordon resisted the resolution, on tho ground that, as he had been guilty of neither misconduct nor neglect of duty, ho had a life interest in his appointment, and could not be removed at the caprice of a majority. The Vice-Chancellor, however, ruled otherwise, and granted an injunction restraining Mr. Gordon from officiating in the chapel in question. Decadence op the Turf: —The following curious paragraph appears in Sell's Life: — " We have ..dipped pretty deeply into all the records of the past ihat have had anything to do with the turf, and we find that there were five times as many patrons of the turf claiming Dukedoms thirty years ago as we can boast of at the present day. Earls havo become scarcer and scarcer, lords of every degree fewer and fewer, and baronets have been dropping away by tens; our statistical investigations having t further informed us that men of no position a quarter of a century ago are now holding high positions od the turf, and if the present increasing scale of rank continues in connection with the turf; and its fortunate magnates grow upout of those who have risen from obscurity through the money got out of the pockets of foolish young lords by racing, tho question is, will the turf be an aristocratic institution, or even respectable, in another quarter of a 'century?