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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 17, 8 June 1872, Page 3

Pickens's Puivate Opinion of the Americans. — > They arc friendly, earnest, hospitable, kind, frank, | very often accomplished ; far less prejudiced than j you would .suppose, warm-hearted, fervent, and en- j Lhusiastic. They are chivalrous in their universal j politeness to women, courteous, obliging, disin- j teivsted ; and when they conceive a perfect affection , lor a man (as I may venture to say of myself), en- j tirely devoted to him. I have received thousands of people of all ranks and grades, and have never once ! been asked an oll'ensive or impolite question - except j by Englishmen, who, when they have been located : here for some years, are worse than the devil in his j blackest painting. The State is a parent to its | people : Las a parental care and watch over all poor children, women labouring of child, sick persons, and captives. The common men render you assistance in the streets, and would revolt from the otter of a piece of money. The desire to oblige is universal ; and 1 have never once travelled in a public conveyance without making some generous acquaintance whom L have been sorry to part from, and who has in many cases ome on miles to see us again. Hut 1 don't like the country. I would not live there on any consideration. It goes against the grain with me. it would with you. I think it impossible for any Englishman to live here and be happy. I have a confidence that I must be right, because I have everything to lead me to the opposite conclusion and yet I'cannot resist coming to this one. As to the causes, they are too many to enter upon here.— "U. Dickens's Life." Joux Wesley and Samuel Bradburn.— At one time Brad burn was in straits, and wrote to John Wesley, who sent a five-pound note with this laconic epistle " Dear Sammy, —Trust in the Lord, and do gooil ; so shalt thou dwell in the laud, and verily thou shalt be fed. Yours affectionately, John Wesley." Bradburnreplied : " Ilev and dear Sir - 1 have often been struck with the beauty of the passage of Scripture quoted in your letter, I must confess that I never saw such a ' useful expository note upon it, before.' " Wesley and Bradburn often used to itinerate together. On one occasion they had some difference, and the contention was so strong that Bradburn said they must part. It was like Paul and Barnabas parting. .Next morning Wesley asked Bradburn if he was in the same mind. " Yes," said Bradburn ; it will be better for both of us." " Well, said Wesley, "it must be so, except you beg my pardon." "I won't," said Bradburn. '' Then 1 will beg your pardon, Sam." Bradburn burst into tears, and the two evangelists loved each other more than ever.—The. Preacher's Lantern. Diminution of Crime through Increase of Good Education and Training.—The returns of Inspector of Prisons showed that in 1843, when the population was 16,300,000, the.criminals sentenced to penal servitude or transportation amounted to 4495, and that in 1569, when transportation was at an end and when the population was 21,900,000, the criminal sentenced to penal servitude amounted to 2006. That certainly must be re-assuring to those who had an idea that crime was increasing in this country. He believed that the facilities for the detection of crime, increased education, and the charitable institution in which the noble earl opposite (Shaftsbury) took so much interest, repressed crime in this country.— " Speeches of Lord Morley in the House of Lords."

The advantages to be deiived from a regular mode of Jiving, with a view to the preservation of health and life, are nowhere better exemplified than in the precepts and practice of Plutarch, whose rules for this purpose are excellent; and by observing them himself, be maintained hia bodily streugth and mental faculties unimpaired to a very advanced age. Galen is a still stronger proof of the advantages of a regular plan, by means of which he reached the great age of 140 years, without having ever experienced disease. Hia advice to the readers of his ' Treatise on Health" ia as follows " I beseech all persons who shall read this work not to degrade themselves to a level with the brutes or the rabble, by gratifying their sloth, or by eating and drinking protniscously whatever pleases their palates, or by indulging their habits ox every kind. But whether they understand physic or not, let them consult fclieir reason, and observe what agrees and what does not agree with them, that, like wise men, they may adhere to such things as conduce to their health, and forbear everything which, by their own experience, they find to do them hurt; and let them be assured that, by a diligent observation and practice of this rule they may enjoy a good share of health, and seldom stand in need of physic or physicians."