MISCELLANY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 24, 11 October 1873, Page 12

MISCELLANY.

In the bar parlor of a snug hotel in Kiltaore, some few nights ago, a discussion arose conceruiug the merits r.nd demerits of 6ir Charles Gavan Duffy. After much had been said for and against the hon. member for Dalhousie, au impartial old gentleman delivered himself of the following oracular remark ;—"; — " Fot I blame Duffy for was for bringing his pravious exsparienco into his afther career ; but in spoite of that I forgiee him on account of the usefularity of the man." The effect on the disputants was wonderful. A leading office-bearer in the local Hibernian Society cried " Hooroo !" and a Pastinaster of an Orange Lodge shook the ashes from his pipe as he sententiously observed, " Give us the same agin, and tie the mule at the door." The order was carefully attended to, and spoons were soon heard to gingle pleasantly against the sides of the glasses. In 1848 the total stock of gold, coined and uncoined, in Europe and America was estimated at £560,000,000.- The actual coinage of gold at the principal mints of the world from 1848 to 1872 was :—: — England ... ... ... £123,608.000 Sydney ... ... ... 28,799,000 France ... ... ... 259,801,000 United States ... ... 185,579,000 j Total ... £597,787,000