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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 43, 15 February 1889, Page 15

There aie several " good things " of Whewell't", the fame«s Master of Trinity, collected in the December number < f Ttmple Jttr, but one of the very b st is left out. Whewell was at one time eogafed in a controversy with Sir David firewater about tl.c p'nrality of worlds, and took, as is well known, tbe view tha* there was bat one world — which, as someone happily remarked, was very nat»ral, eon* sideritig the prominent place be occupied in it. S -me one •lyly pointed out to him the passage in the Vulgate : tfonnc errant d*e*tn mimdi? (I' should be txplainei for '• the ladies ' thai mundi m»t mean either worlit or cleanttd.') Wneweil instanily tnim-d vi t^xt against his opp >u< nt by replying : " Very true ; but look at tbe n«xt question : übi sunt novem t " — Pall Mall Budget Ttie frit-nds of Gladstone and of Ireland will be glad to know that he has not for many years felt in such good health a d spirits as he does to-(Uy. Advices fiom Naples describe him « a robust aud ruddy, full of animation, and walking and driving with an ardour equal to that of the youngest member of the party. He actually talks of climbing Vesuvius and renewing acquaintance with the tamous cra»< r which he tirst made 3£ jeirs ago. If r Liberals are always exceptionally bopelul and enthusiastic on the birthday of the great lealer. To-day they are cheerfully asking one another why Mr. Gladstone should n<>t live as long a* Viscount Eversley, the former speaker of tbe House of Commons, who died recently at the age of 95, full of intellectual vigour to the last. De Lesser* is three jean older than Mr. O.adutone, and i-, to all appearance*, good for mat y years of bard work. Lord Palmerston diel in tbe harness at the age of 91, and might have lived ten years longer or more h»4 betaken as much cart of himself as Mr. Gladstone 4oflf.