MISCELLANEA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume III, Issue 527, 9 February 1869, Page 2

MISCELLANEA.

Strong -Language.—We trust that no such, language as the following- will "disgrace the New Zealand pen. It is a comment of the NewYork Tribune on a suggestion thrown out by President Johnson in his recent message:—"The man who makes this suggestion is a villian —a brazen, reckless, shameless, villain. He has sheepish confederates who share his knavery but lack his effrontery, The people have set their heel hard down on the whole tribe in endorsing the Republican Platform of 1868 through the election of Grant and Colfax. Repudiation will gain nothing by Johnson's endorsement— it will rather receive a darker smirch from his well earned infamy. How naturally a traitor to those who trusted and honored him lends himself to every form of baseness was already known; but the truth has received a fresh illustration in Johnson's crowning infamy."

The United States of The World.—lt will be seen from- the following extract from President Johnson's Message, that there are Americans who think that the Constitution of the United States could be made to embrace the whole civilized world, He say^ :— " lam aware that upon the question of further extending our possessions it is apprehended by some that our political system cannot successfully be applied to an acre more extended than our continent ; but the conviction is rapidly gaining- ground in the American mind that, with the increased facilities intercommunication between all portions of the earth, the principles of free Government, as embraced in our Constitution, if faithfully maintained and carried out would prove of sufficient streng-th and breadth to comprehend within their sphere and influence the civilized nations of the world."

Sir George Grey.—The following- is an address from Sir George Grey to the electors of the Western Division of the count} r of Worcester, dated Nov., from Old Cblwall,'|Malvern. It will be seen that he has not abandoned the idea of yet representing that division in Parliament: " Gentlemen, —Strong efforts have been made by my friends and myself to give the Liberal electors "of your division an opportunity of recording their votes at this election. But the time is so short, and men's .minds are so occupied with other elections, that it has proved impossible to give the Liberal cause a fair chance on this occasion. I therefore reluctantly withdraw from a contest which, I think, if I could have come fonvard at an earlier date, might, from the support promised me, have been conducted to a successful result. In announcing to you this intention, I return my most grateful thanks to those gentlemen who gave me their support or promised me their votes. I shall ever remember their kindness, which, perhaps, they may extend to me on a more favorable opportunity.".

A shocking- railway accident has occurred in Bohemia. A night passenger train, containing- some i?SO men of the 26th Hungarian Regiment, who were going- on furlough, having- completed their drill with the breechloaders, got into a snowdrift near the station of Horowitz, and was run into hy a luggage train coming after if* The three hindmost carriages, where the unfortunate soldiers were packed, were broken, to atoms, and nearly one half of the inmates killed, and more or less severely wounded. As the wreck has not been cleared away, the casualties are not exactly known, bait, according to what is known until now, some 33 men have lost their lives, 9 were found dead on the spot, 4 have died since, and 20 are still missing, and are supposed to be buried uncter the wreck. Some 70 are more or less wounded, 44 severely, 'ihe fourth carriage was a first-class one, where the officers of the detachment and some civilians were seated. It was broken to pieces but its inmates escaped unhurt. Strange to say with the exception of a brakesman, none of the servants of the company received the slightest injury.