"AFFAIR OF HONOUR,"

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 117, 4 February 1873, Page 2

"AFFAIR OF HONOUR,"

A New York exchange says : — Colonel J. Robinson and, John Cornell, local politicians, quarrelled about a Fordham. widow, and Cornell, suggosted recourse to a duel to settle; the dispute. "We will," says the Colonel, " mark off the ground, and shoot it out." Cornell accepted the challenge. J. H. Robson was Cornell's second, and J. D. Armstrong was second for the Colonel ; Dr. R. Shea, of Boston, wa? surgeon, and General Lawrenco referee. The weapon* chosen were seven-barrel navy revolvers ; the distance — ten paces — was arrangod, and the hour was 8 a.m. It was agreed that each should draw at the word " fire," and firing until one or the other fell. The seconds loaded the weapons, ' and paced off the ground m the rear ot the .Fordbam Hotel. It so happened that a large willow stood on one side of the ground paced off, and just to the left of each principal. Each man placed his hand on his revolver, and the referee counted "one," "two." Before <( three" could be pronounced bolh principals simultaneously dodged behind tho willow, and J fired. Colonel Robinson's shot went into the air, and Cornell's into the ground. After the smoke had disappeared Cornell stuck his head from behind the tree, and shouted, " Say, Colonel, I don't see the use in me and you having any fuss. If you are in a mind to treat the crowd, I woujd just as soon stop shooting.' The Colonel returned, " Wejwon't insist on the duel going on if you don't, but I won't treat. I am willing to leave fui ther proceedings to the seconds." After a few moment's conference, the seconds decided that if each would open a basket of wine the duel might end there. The, , duellists stepped from behind the trees, shook handi, invitod, their friends into the hotel, and produced the wine.

Two of tho French papers — the Temps and the Constitution, — oall the attention of their readers to the manner in which liberty is understood by the authorities in England, as Olus-J trated by the caso of Sir Charles Dilke. "England," says,* the Temps, is the only country in Europe where the Government is so firmly established, and where the respect of tba citizens for liberty has become so habitunl, that speakers may, without disturbing anybody and without being themselves disturbed, go from town to town, and publicly carry on a campaign, against the Government of the country-" It adds that if at some pubho meeting Sir Charles Dilke be proclaimed President of the English Republic, it will bo under the eyes and protection of the police. The Constitution, after wwlhig in almost similar terms respecting tho liberty which publu! speakers enjoy in England, complains that in France " under the Republic in the year 1871" whoever dares to avow Republican convictions at once becomes a uspectcd person. , The Pall Mall Oasette, in an article on I/ondon Theatres says that in those frequented by the shopkeepers and worlingmen, what the spectators applaud is not tho acting, nor the play, but the sentiments uttered: every flat utterance of feeble morality, especially when verging upon the domestio or the dutiful, touches the audience to the heart. It adds : " It is really impossible to regret this survival of the archaic^ simplicity of pre-msthetic ages in our English sbop-ieepinjjß and wages-earning classei. At the same time, it shows most undeniably the naturo of the gulf— both intellectual ar4 moral — which divides tlie world of wealth and culture from the world of toil, even now when the same social and roligious potions are supposed \o be pervading all ranks of society alike. While tho fashionable and the educated flock to see ' Nos Intimes' and tho ' Grande Duehesse de Gerolstein,' it is certain tha,t the. htciajl English rendering of any such play would bo hooted, from (he stage before it was half finished by the largQ majority of tho rough and uncultured, London people." ' ' ' A warning tp rn.otb.ers, is given by. Bendigo Advertiser^ —"On Saturday last a chijdseven weets of James O'Mallay, £a.imer, Salisbury, wai put to bed in the foienoon by hvj mother, with his head on a pUlow alongside, , to prevent \ivtx rolling out of the bed. "in an hour and a half the mother went in,to the room and found the child black in tho face, and dead, with his head buried between, the pillows. An inquest was held on the body and the evidence showed that death had resulted from the child, having smothered ltsalf between the two pillows " When is a photogi aplijc album Itko au old-faeuumcd clun^ chop. J WiiCll ita i'.lH Of 4^lj -uUga