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We observe that the question of an electric rail. way for Berlin is being considered. The railway would run from the west to the east of the city, and would establish direct communication with the metropolitan railway. It is to be constructed

An American reporter tells a story related to him by the house-surgeon of the Chambers Street Hospital, New York, of what the doctor "called "the most wonderful case of drink "ho had ever seen or heard of, "About ten o'clock in the

tinkers, tailors, butchers, and. bakers, all good homes, and comfortable situations, GEORGE CANNON, the unemployed seanian for join in to swell the crowd, and even white for the first time, to join in the search for the arrest of whom, if he were still in the Colony, chokered saints in badly paid parishes, gold. The miseries above depicted can

the Magistrate ordered a warrant to issue on have been known to leave their flocks only be found on the Mount Browne road, Monday, was up this morning at the Police Court charged with a breach of recognizance.-Police to their own devices, tempted by the and are well calculated to give the new Constable Beattic said he arrested Cannon yester allurements of the gold-field. If a chum a funny idea of what he, at one day, as he did not appear before the Court on few of the better class ne'er-do-weel time, pleasantly looked forward to

as Monday, as required by his personal recognizance description, young fellows fresh from cal- roughing it, in the wilds of Australia, in the sum of two dollars. The defendant said lege, medical men, and seedy broken- where sure fortunes were to be made, he had been in hospital the whole time.-Beattie, down lawyers are named, and lastly, the and where a hitherto mis-spent life, as recalled, said such was the case and that he practical miner class, one will be able to he fondly imagined, could be begun arrested him there. The defendant was dis form a good idea of the peculiarly mixed again, and carried out to a

success-charged. Community which form the nucleus of a ful termination by the piling up of an Doubtless, a few, and mining town on a new "rush." The gold immense fortune. fever is much more contagious than small not so very few either, have struck pax, and a reported "new rush" attacks rich patches and become millionaires, but, thousands of fresh victims who often ret/ countless thousands who started with highing coolie had no licence to un the two-wheeler, i jected to anothertrial of her engines and machinery At last the hotel-keeper became frightened, and, over the complaint, although it frequently hopes, have become contented to eke out singular predilection for numerical variations, the was an object of interest, and a large number of makes sad havoc amongst many of them. a living in a surer, if slower way in trade. unlawful plyer of the jimicksha had his vehicle officials from the Admiralty were present, includi

LAST night about to o'clock, a 'ricksha coolic brought two Europeans to West Point Police Station and charged them with not paying their fare. It turned out, however, that the enterpris

and so Inspector Thomson ran him in. With a

overhead, and supported on high columns. Stations will be erected at Lutzow Square, Magde burg Square, Potsdam Station, Donhof Square, &c. The trains are to lower themselves on ar riving at each station to the level of the street for passengers to get out and eater, and will then again be elevated to the level of the line over head, all this being accomplished by power sup plied by means of electricity. THE Polyphemus, steel armour-plated rain, 2,660 fons, 5,500-horse power, Commander May, has, says the London and China Express, been sub

on the measured mile, Maplin Sands. The trial

morning two men came into the hospital, one of when, who was apparently about sixty years of age, was extremely nervous from a prolonge debauch. His companion announced himself as a Bowery hotel-keeper. The man, he said, came to his place intoxicated four days before, and had been drinking hard ever since. On the day he arrived he told the hotel-keeper that he had 80 dols, in gold sewed up in his shirt, and that he was going to drink itup in champagne. He engaged a room, ordered several pint bottles of the sparkling to be sent up, and continued drinking for four days, eating nothing during that time.

to the hospital, were he showed the doctor his

although his guest had money left, he took him

book with the account of wine the fellow bad

Without experience they rush madly into station work, and small farming, and numbereri 806, his board 808, and his badge Rooing Mr. N. Bamaby, C.D., President of the ordered, which was three quarts a day, and as it

look back with no sigh of regret to their bitter experiences in gold seeking. Ever since that indomitable fellow, Evans, so well known for many years as an untiring searcher for fresh gold fields, in New Zealand, South and West Australia, Now South Wales and Queensland, registered his name with the police magistrate at Wilcannia, as the discoverer of a payable

came to 37 dols. go c. he insisted on the docter taking the a dofs, so c. left from the 40 dols. he

the vortex, their only idea being to get to the field, and, when they get there, unless a stroke of luck meets them at the outset, they are off home again, sadder, wiser, and infinitely poorer men, in many cases absolutely penniless. The parties who either cannot go back, or do not care to do so, the aimless wanderers, for they have no regular occupation-very proba bly have a turn at mining until the finances. I gold-field, Mount Browne, Mount Poole that the two things (sic) ought certainly to go Haymarket, and it will not again be played by stances is fifteen grains. To my surprise it had

which some friend has probably supplied and Milparinka have become places of to get them away from the large cities common notoriety, Hundreds of peo- where they were confirmed hangers on, ple from all parts of the Colonies run out, and then comes the change. Un-have flocked thither, the majority of less a goldfield be a regular duffer." whom have soon left, either disappointed.

Unlike Rory O'More, he would seem to have had more faith in even than odd numbers and so the Magistrate fined him an even sum of ten cents or a day's rumination in the Victoria Hutch A SUBSCRIBER asks the China Mail whether that reliable authority on such matters, has no suggestions to make concerning the regulation of pharmacists, as well as medical practitioners, by a local Ordinance. Our contemporary observes

together," and promises to "gire a few hints on

Council of Construction. The previous trials of this peculiar and costly vessel had been unsatis- factory, on account of the priming of her ma chinery, but some important alterations have been made which have completely obviated that difficulty. The trial was successful in every way, and the average speed attained was 17 knots per hour. «OURS" has been finally withdrawn from the the Bancrofts, whose rights over all Robertson's comedies will shortly lapse. It is interesting to note, observes a contemporary, that the song Mrs. Langtry is supposed to sing in "Ours," and for which some of her critics have praised her, is not really delivered by Mrs. Langtry. That lady

starvation is almost out of the question if at the prospect, or scared by the wildness that our contemporary's experiences concessing has no singing voice, but the piano is placed in bed. The moment I left him he would follow

actually no help for it, so it is quite com a man is willing to work, and there is

mon to see the once potted collegiate, the broken down lawyer, the itinerant "snuffle- buster," and a few others of a like class transformed into shanty bar-tenders. general knock-about-men, iminers' cooks, &c. &c. The chef de cuisine to a squad

of these distant gold-fields. Before the

the subject is a day or two. Meanwhile the community stands on the tiptoe of cager expecta tion, breathlessly waiting for the evening print's few hints on this all important topic. It must be consoling to the inquisitive subscriber to know

the regulation of phas.nacists has not like its failure, of the water supply, there were

botanical knowledge-grown usty.. We im close against the scenery, and Mrs. Langtry, turning half-fice to the audience, and really about 1,000 diggers left. Many of them patiently await the dénouement.

playing the accompaniment, moves her lips in were idle, waiting for the rains, and the WK learn that Chiarini's Circus and Menagerie agreement with the words, while another lady, few who were at work, the busy bees, were left Manila for this port yesterday, and will well known in musical life, sings behind the "dry fiddling" for the bits of gold they probably arrive here to-morrow evening. If scenes. The illusion is complete, and it has de- were getting, which process is a most possible, the first perfonance will be given onceived some of the most experienced critics.

Friday night. We pajd a visit to Bowrington tedious and unsatisfactory one, as the the other day and found that Mr. Frank G. of miners does not require to be a "tailings have all to be treated over Wilson, the agent of the Circus, had made every talented artist, and have Francatelli at his again for fine gold when water is obtain-requisite preparation for the reception of Signor finger ends; in fact, one day's practiceable. The yield of gold from the Mount Chiarini's vast establishment. A splendid curb Advertisers are requested to forward all notices will fit the merest tyro for the job; and a Browne field, when taken all round, has ring, built of timber, in which the performances intended for insertion in that day's issue not later than THREE O'CLOCK SA as not to retard the man of any sort of physique at all can get hardly been so large as to justify its having will take place, has been completed, and the carly publication of the paper.

his "tucker" and a bit of gold besides, if been proclaimed payable, though some of whole of the extensive space, which the pavilions Gas will occupy, has been carefully fenced în. the party he is attached to are "amongst the more fortunate parties have made their has been laid on, so that the illuminations at causing a large crowd to follow her. She was

the entrance of the circus, and forthe Interior of the various pavilions, will be in every way satisfactory. For the convenience of the public, a booking office, where seats may be booked and tickets obtained, will be opened in the enclosure at Bowrington.

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'pile." What the reefs may turn out yet,

a

a look round at the gorgeous accommodation pro-

Mexican.

had received." The doctor continued: “When - I got the patient down in the ward he said he was used to big doses of bromide and chloral, and must have lots of them. I gave him ninety grains of bromide, and thirty grains of chloral, which is a big dose, that amount of chloral having of chloral given at a time under such circum- been known to cause death. The usual amount

no effect. He was stupid before, but the chloral did not make him any more so. In fact, he seemed more regless than ever. I repeated the duse after two hours, with the same result. I tell you I was surprised. His nerves were in a terrible condition, and I could hardly keep him me, begging with tears in his eyes for larger kept giving him the same dose every two deses. "Of course I didn't dare to do this, but

hours for twenty-four hours, and in that time he had taken 685 grains of bromide and 473 grains of cliloral, without its having had the slightest effect on him. days he took 235 additional gra

grains of bromide, 119 of chloral, and one-half grain of morphia. He was discharged cured on the fourth day, having in seventy-two hours taken 920 grains of bromide, 412 grains of chloral, and five-cighths of a grain sixty, is only about forty years of age. He is n of morphia

The man, although he looks Californian, and his family are there now. He is highly educated, and has many refined tastes, but has evidently been a rake and a hard drinker. all his life. He told me that he had spent months and months in hospitals, both in Paris and in London, in recovering from the effects of his debauches."

In the next two

and Bolles, was recently heard in London before An interesting divorce case, Haggard v. Haggard the Lord President, the co-respondent in which---

Licut. Dix Bolles of the United States Navy-was --

well known in Hongkong in connection with our annual regattas, as a most enthusiastic oursman, rowing stroke, if we remember rightly, in the last American crew that competed in the International Race. In this case, Mr. William Henry Haggard, the petitioner, sought a dissolution of his mar-

There was no appearance* for the respondent or

WAN Akin, 41, wife of Lau Ki-san, was charged this morning at the Police Court with being drunk and disorderly, and assaulting the Police in the execution of their duty yesterday-Police Ser- geant Sultan Mullick said he was in No. 3 Police Station, Wanchai, when he saw the defendant carrying the child in Court upon her back. The woman was drunk and making a great noise,

the color." The shrewd, calculating, and

reeling about without any regard to the laws of experienced miner, who visits a new rush, no one can say with much certainty.

equilibrium, and so he had the youngster taken can be picked out in a moment from Samples of quartz have been assayed with

from her back and given to another woman more amongst the amateurs and "new chums;" favorable results, and there is a large lot

fitted for the charge. He told her to go away, he goes prepared for every emergency, of stone in the paddocks ready for crushing.

but the lady became violent and tore his jacket with enough in his wallet to last him a few Crushing machinery is being erected, but

and inexpressibles, doing damage to the extent of weeks while he looks round, and, if pros. everything must remain at a standstill un-

A BRAVE and humane act by a collier named dollar, less ten cents. The defendant, who said pects are not favorable, take him back to til rain falls in sufficient quantity to warrant Herbert Weston has been recognised at Cheadle, she had been to a wedding, was fined ten cents his old place of work where he knows he the return of the now scattered population. the magistrates of that town, on behalf of the one day's imprisonment, and ordered to can make wages. It was the lot of an Many have gone across the Queensland Royal Society for the Prevention of Crucity to pay ninety cents amends for the damage done to old friend of ours to be cast amongst such boundary in search of water, and forage for Animals, having presented him with the certificate the Sergeant's jacket and pants, or undergo antiage with the respondent, Caroline Haggard

of the Society and a reward in money for saving/additional day's incarceration. After having had very peculiar circumstances. Mr. Inderwick,, The Empire of China has a great reputa crowd as we have been attempting to their horses and cattle; and for this state ation as a gold bearing country, and al- describe while on a visit to the Mount of things the New South Wales Govern- the life of a dog under extraordinary circumvided for the ering by a humane Government in C., and Mr. Searle appeared for the petitioner.

stances. The animal had been for three days though the exclusive policy of the Peking Browne Goldfield, so lately opened up. ment is much to blame. Had they, before heard howling in a disused pit shaft 160 yards Arbuthnot Road, the lady elected to pay the the co-respondent. The petitioner, who is now Government has hitherto prevented any Our friend says that no pen can adequate the summer set in, put the diamond-drill deep, and at the bottom of which was a great

Secretary to the British Chargé d'Affaires "at thing like reliable prospecting by competently describe the hardships which man and in use and bored for water to supply that depth of water. On the third day Weston was A CONSIDERABLE landslip occurred at about half Stuttgart, was, in 1875, attached to our Lega- foreign experts, in what are reputed to be beast have to endure crossing the great far distant western portion of the Colony, lowered at the end of a rope, and, after a perilous past one on Monday afternoon in Ice House tion at Washington. In December of that the richest districts, there would appear to plains which lie between the Mount Browne which is one of the richest gems in a diadem adventure, brought the animal to the surface Lane, about 100 yards below the Telegraph year he married Caroline Carroll, an Ameri be sufficient evidence forthcoming to give country and the Darling and Lachlan exceedingly rich, the water famine at alive. Had Herbert Weston been a member of office. The slip embraced an area of about 45 can citizen, who had obtained a divorce from grounds for the belief that besides iron, rivers during the summer months. The Mount Browne might have been averted. the élite of society, his courageous deed would feet long, 10 feet broad, and some 14 or 15 fect Colonel Kinny, also an American citizen, on coal, tin, lead, &c., gold is plentifulín many scarcity of water combined with the ter- There was a general feeling of confidence have been a nine days wonder, and the Albert deep from the level of the lane, and is considered the ground of his deserting her, and who, on of the provinces of the Middle Kingdom. rific heat, dust, and plague of flies, are throughout the district when our informant medal for bravery, or some other notable decora- to have been the result of the action of the recent obtaining that divorce, resurried her maiden name tion would have marked his Sovereign's appre- rains upon made ground-a nullah, which was of Carroll. The President of the United States, At what period of their future history the enough to undermine the strongest consti- left that the reefs are rich, and, should that ciation of an act of self denial, seldom, if ever filled up, having formerly, we hear, existed our Minister, and other distinguished personages Chinese will be sufficiently enlightened as tution that ever faced a rough journey. idea be correct, a great future is in store equalled in our country's history. Herbert Weston at the place-together with the loosening of the assisted at the marriage. Mr. Haggard was at to thoroughly understand their own best The distance from Mount Browne to Wif- for Mount Browne and district. That is only a collier, but he is also a true hero and a earth, consequent upon the building operations that date 28 years of age, and his wife represented interests, it would be difficult to say: how-cannia is about 200 miles, divided into reefs are plentiful is undeniable; they crop brave man, whose heroism and bravery, displayed going on just underneath the lane, in connection herself to be 26. At the end of 1875, or early ever, there can be no doubt that the day stages of reasonable length, but the tracks out of the surface, and may be traced for at terrible personal risk, to save a poor dumb with Duddeli Street, which necessitated the em- in 1876 they came to London, and Mr. Haggard will come, when the search for the precious are sandy and very heavy.. The accom-

miles. Specimens which have come under animal from suffering, deserved some more sub-bankment being infringed upon. The retaining was employed at the Foreign Office. He stated metal in China will be a practical repet-modation provided for travellers along our correspondent's notice showed good stantial recognition than the certificate of the wall in course of construction just underneath in his examination to-day that, even on the voyage the lane, was covered to a height of about five ¦ over, Mrs. Haggard exhibited much violenca of Ition of the earlier days of California, and the road consists of rudely constructed indications of the precious metal, and re- Royal Society, and a few paltry shillings. of that still fater field for mining enterprise, shanties called. by courtesy, hotels, kept minded him of similar ones he had seen at RESPECTING the unpleasant incident in the Ro- the three Chinese workmen engaged upon it, October, 1877, the constantly indulged in violent.

fect by the falling mass of earth, and luckily for temper, and during the year 1876, and down to the Australian Colonies. We are heating by a class of people, technically termed Gymple and Charters Towers. The workman Catholic Cathedral in Wellington Street they were just returning from their "chow" language against him, even in the presence of Lo much from the North of China about the Jammers daun," who are better undoring of the crushing plant will be watched alluded to by our evening contemporary, from when the slip occurred; had they been at servants, and, being of a very Jealous disposition, efforts now in progress to open out, and stood by travellers than they can be with interest; however, observes our friend what we can gather, the young man, a Cavern work, they would have been buried beneath made accusations for which there was not a work the rich deposits of iron and coal in accurately described on paper.

ment employé, who is the hero of the dis The in concluding his interesting sketch. "I

creditable occurrence, is wholly and entirely tane is now blocked up to traffic, and it will availed himself of an opportunity of becoming the mass, and, most probably. killed, The particle of foundation. In October, 1877, ho the provinces of Chikli and Shantung, that quality of the refreshments supplied by should be extremely sorry to adviso any some scheme to commence gold-digging some of these vendors of choice wines one to try gold seeking at Mount Browne

for trafic to be resumed upon it. The other for the Persian capital without having informed. be some time before it will be in a fit condition attached to our Legation at Teheran, and started may not be so far distant in these days of and spirits is, unfortunately, too often ill- until a good rainfall has taken place, or progress, as the traditional retrograde ustrated by the maddening effect produced until the Government see fit to provide a

portions of the embankment, which are not made his wife that he was going there. He, however left her a kindly-written letter in which he told policy of China might induce one to be. on those who swallow poison. One need sufficient water supply from artesian wells,

ground, appear to be quite safe and firm,

her he had come to the conclusion thataseparation lieve. A few gossiping observations re- not expect any comfort either in or out of or in some other way. That the Albert

AMPLE material for a sensational novel might be

between them was inevitable, and he had, lating to gold mining in Australia founded the coach between Mount Browne and gold-field will become prominent I do not

gathered, says a contemporary, from the strange accordingly, set out for Teheran. She had 400 on personal experiences may prove in-Wilcannia. The road is simply a Sahara, doubt, but, much requires to be done to

and adventurous carcer of the venerable Marquis a year of her own, but he enclosed her, 100 to le Doulcet de Pentécoulant, who lately died in teresting to some of our readers, whose and our correspondent believes that a make it permanent and payable,"

pay her passage out to the United States, wliere Paris, at the advanced age of eighty-eight. Dur- he wished her to reside with her mother. She Ideas on the subject have been erroneously Belouin Arab would describe his own formed from various unreliable sources.

ing his long life this remarkable old nobleman replied to this letter in one of much affection, had followed half a dozen callings, and achieved

In it she over and over admitted her faults of The thirst for gold seems to have been

fast the present Superior of the Mission was Armée," he served throughout the Russian cam pray for him and for the time when she could distinction in all. As an officer of the "Grande per, expressed deep regret for the pain ho strongly imbued in human nature from

had 'caused him, and said she would constantly time immemorial. The Hebrews of old,

obliged to give orders that the door leading paign of 1812 under Napoleon I., and was taken again join him, to do which she was willing to and their natural enemies the Philistines,

and also when the service was concluded. The captivity. He took an active part in the crown to it should be locked during divine service, prisoner at Tarantina, remaining two years in make any sacifice. In reply to this he wrot those fellows whom Samson the strong

Government employéin question, however, despite ing struggles of the Hundred Days, which cul again suffering what he had gone through. With that the separation was to be for ever, and that no power would induce him to run the chants of went for so vigorously with the jaw-bone of the ass, were, in ancient days, much ad

the Brother Director's remonstrance, attempted minated in the definitive overthrow of the First this letter all communication between them dicted to making collections of the filthy

to force his way up stairs, and said if the door Empire at Waterloo. Shortly after the Bourbon ceased; but in 1880 he leamt, at Teheran, that were locked lie would burst it open, using the restoration he emigrated to South America, for a divorce in the United States, on the ground #40 › days' public notice of his wife's application lucre in the shape of shekels of gold, and

highly discreditable language in a Church, that became a leader of the Brazilian insur of his desertion, had been published in America, still it is the same. The Hebrews of the

they (the Brothers), men of high character, rection, was captured and condemned to though no notice of the proceeding had been present day are known to be large holders

were a set of rogues. It would appear that death, but contrived to escape from prison served on him. He came to London, and arrived of the valuable metal, and the other races

this highly polished and educated youth had on the eve of the day fixed for his execu- here on the 23rd of June, 1880, to consult a which have spring into existence since that

the effrontery the same evening to rudely stop tion, and returned to his native country as a solicitor, but the evidence in the divorce suit was

in a British ship. A few years later taken in the United States on the 8th of stowaway memorable time when "Adam delved, and

the Brother Director and demand a public he played a conspicuous part, as commander of month, and on the 8th of July a divorce was Eve span," also seem struck with the

papers if it were refused. We know the subsequently fought like a hero on the popular was married to Lieutenant T. Dix Bolles, of the apology, threatening to write a letter to the a free corps, in the Belgian revolution, and pronounced. Some time after, Mrs. Haggard desire to get, and to hold on to the most

sort of apology he would have received from side throughout the Parisian émeutes of July United States Navy, the co-respondent in the precious product of Mother Earth. In no

us, and are prepared to tender it to him in full 1830 combatant and political agitator. The Haggard were examined and corroborated their This, however, was his last appearance present suit. The father and mother of Mr. country in the world has the search for

should he favor us with a visit. We remember remaining half century of bis life was devoted son as to the jealousy and violent temper of the gold been attended with so much success

a case which occurred at a Military Station in to literary pursuits and the study of music. For respondent, and stated that in going to Teheran for. as in Australia. The modus operandi seldom

England some years ago, when a military offices 214! Ausical, chiefly upon the subjects of acted on the advice of his family and the family many years he was a contributor to the periodical, the purposeofseparating from his wife the petitioner varies. Whenever a new gold field has

misconducted himself at divine service. An acoustics and the construction of orchestral solicitor. Mr. Haggard, the father, added that been struck, tens of thousands of people of

officer of superior rank happened to he present, instruments By birth an aristocrat, whose family in his opinion, his son could not have continued all classes make for the spot, causing what

Church, he demanded his sword and placed him be made his debut in society as an ardent soldics his own self-respect, The President could not and immediately upon the other's leaving the politics were essentially of the Legitimist variety, to live with his wife without having sacrificed' is technically termed a rush." The

in arrest. The option of selling out or standing conspirator against monarchical rule" wherever been proved against the wife justified the of the Empire, soon to be transformed into a say his mind was quite satisfied that what had clerk leaves his ledgers, the counter- Jumper his nicknacks and furbelows;

a Court Martial was given the officer who had found," and finally to tame down into a musical petitioner in deserting her. He would further misconducted himself. He elected to sell out. reviewer.

consider the matter before pronouncing judgment.

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TELEGRAMS.

Reuter wires from London yesterday, that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in reply exists between England and France in regard to to a question, said that a complete understanding Egypt, and that the United Squadrons were now

country as a paradise compared to any portion of it. The drivers of Cops and Co.'s coaches, he states, seldom cease whipping their cattle from the beginning to the and of the road, and during the journey are often more knocked up than the poor, brutes, they flog. Imagine a full-on the way to Alexandria. packed coach, with the thermometer re- gistering 125 deg. inside, and 180 deg. LOCAL AND GENERAL. outside, slowly wending its way through a cloud of dust 200 miles long, and some THE steamship Blackhalls was undocked at idea of the sensation produced can be Aberdeen, this morning. formed. There are millions of flies, WE note that the steamship Flora left Amoy on which keep one's hands constantly em- the rath inst. with 637 Chinese passengers for ployed about one's eyes, nose, and the Straits Settlements. ears, and in spite of every precaution WE (Amoy Gazette) notice that the Chiriaman they will sting, and occasionally get trap- who was caught stealing the trees from the Fo- ped in one's throat. Oh! for an iced drink reign Cemetery fast Sanday, has been put outside under such circumstances, instead of hot, the Cemetery gate in the cangue as a warming to muddy water. The driver cursing and others.

fogging his horses, the blinding dust stick-A "LITTLE BIRD" has whispered to the China ing to one's body in thick layers, the un-Mall that the steamship Glengle is capable of merciful-flies, and the aroma peculiar to attaining a speed of 178 knots. Our evening close-packed coaches in the summer time, pill, prefers to wait for further confirmation contemporary, instead of swallowing this gilded besides an ever increasing thirst, are well before believing that statement. The Maids calculated to make lasting impressions"little bird" must either have bech a parrot, or upon the minds of those who have left a jackdaw.

to blame, and we know some services in

which his conduct would be quickly made the subject of official investigation. Owing to the limited accommodation for the large number of Catholies who assemble in the Cathedral, the Christian Brothers, we understand, some time ago spent some two or three hundred dollars in en targing and fitting up the choir gallery, in order to accommodate their pupils. A number of uneducated youths, upon whom the birch would be well applied, had been in the habit of rushing up to the choir and conducting them selves in a very unseemly manner, until at

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