SHIPPING INTELLIGENCES.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

morr™^l^ fT"**' 5- Ki SUN-RISE : To, ,2^,™= fMs evening, 7.81, to-morrow

ARRIVALS.

juoss '-Jan. barque, from Nelson SMr °l *ne south, s s., Holmes, from Itnssell

DEPARTURES.

v lncent, cutter, from Tauranga Fairy, schooner, for Wanga;ioa

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

>ot T\ ellington : Luna, Government steamer, early v i? ut.l)crn Ports : Taranaki, s.s., Monday i or rapier : Esther, school er, to-morrow -tor Honolulu and San Francisco Nebraska, mail stf:m>er, 17th April ror Northern ports: HoTvena, s.s., Tuesday next *or Sydney and Melbourne: City of Adelaide, s.s.. _ early J For IJobart Town : Bella Mary, barque, Monday next ror (..ork : Mops Glen, barque, early Jtor^ewcnstle: T'.riton, barouo, to-morrow i'or Monte Video : IT.I.M.S* Vettor Pisani, 3rd April £or \\ anyiirei : Sovereign of the Seas, cuttur, Monday -I-or Loverly Bay : Upotiki, schooner, Monday

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Castle, ship, from London. Sailed 29th Deccmher Pw-fcce, ship, fmni London. Sailed 12th January A<jr.'i, ship, from London. Sailed Zang.l, barque, from Liverpool. Sailed jLwuntless, schooner, from South Sea Islands satellite, cutter, from Levuka .Ladybird, s.s, from Sydney (in the Manukau) w c. nen {.worth, barque, from Sydney of Adelaide, s.s , from Sydney VclodrUde, barque, from Lyttelton. Sailed 24th March Thames, barque, from New York, via Sydney. Loading AJice Cameron, baroue, from Sydney Mariner, schooner, from Lvfctelton. Sailed 20th March Moss (4]on. barque, from Nelson. Sailed 20th March Nebraska, mail steamer, from Honolulu Bast Lothian, barque, from New York. Sailed 20th December Jo?ib=, bi.rque, from Lyttelton. Sailed 28th March We learn by telegram that the fine steamer City of Adelaide cleared out on the 21st inst. at Melbourne for Sydney and this port. She may therefore be expected to arrive here on Monday evening. The s.s. Hero was announced to leave Melbourne for Sydney and Auckland on the Ist proximo. The s.s. Phmbe arrived at Sydney on the 22nd instant from the Manukau. The Government steamer Luna left the Bay of Islands yesterday for the Manukau. The s.s. Eowena would leave Russell to day for Auckland. -There were nine whalers lying at the Bay of Islands when the Star of "the South left. Five coasters were loading with coal. The barque Loehnagar was loading with oil, and is expected to take her departure for New Bedford, U.S., in a week or ten days. The s.s. Star of the South arrived this morning, from Russell, with 200 tons coal, 10 cases fruit, and the following passengers : —Saloon : Messrs Carter, Taylor, Carlton, Daviea, Oxley, Hargraves, J. Williams, Eoss, Mrs Hodgson, Mrs Treyonin?, Mrs Nelham and child, Mr and Mrs Conolly, Captain Andrews. Steerage :Mr McAlpin and two others. A rowing boat, with sails, gear, &c. complete, is for sale by W. Marshall, waterman, at the Queen-street wharf. The barque Corrido, Capt. Lamont, has reported .it the Customs, from Newcastle, with 'MX tons coal, J. S. Macfarlane & Co.; 10 coils rope, 1 pk# chandlers, order. The schooner Merlin has reported at the Custom?, from Russell, with GO tons coal, consigned to M. Niccol. The barque Moss Glen, under charter to take the Polar Star's cargo of guano, arrived this morning from Nelson. She left Nelson on the 20th inst., and came round the North Cape. She was becalmed for two days off Cape Ecmont. The barque is now anchored at the powder ground, but will be brought alongside the Polar Star on Monday. The s.s. Go-Ahead arrived at Wellington at ]0.?,0p.m. last night from Onehunga. We are requested to state that the barque Bella Mary will leave for Hobart Town on Monday next, and not for Melbourne as stated, by one of our morning contemporaries. The excellent passenger accommodation of this favourite clipper is to well known to ' neod comment. The barque Briton has cleared outwards for Newcastle in ballast, and will leave this evening. Tho schooner Queen has cleared for Russell in ballast.

COMMERCIAL.

MEETINGS. John o'Groats. Mr F. A. White's office, Auckland, 3 p.m., 31st March Golden Acre, Company's office, Shortland street, Auckland, 2 p.m., 31st March Yon Moltke, Coromandel, 2nd April Lucky Diggers, Messrs Russell and Devore's office, Shortland street, Auckland, at 11 a.m., Bth April Moanatairi Union, Mr F. A. White's office, Shortland land sheet, Auckland, 3 p.m., Bth April Daughters of Freedom, Gra'hamstown, 14th April Ben, Grahamstown, 15th April Nol&n's Candlelight, No. 1, 41, Insurance Buildings, Auckland, 3 p m., 21st April Margaretta, Mr A. A. Browne's office, Wyndham street, Auckland, 3 p.m., 23rd April Bank of New Zealand, Bank, noon, 24th April

AUCKLAND STOCK AND MINING REPORT.

The following are the quotations of the Auckland Stock and Sharebrokers' Associa tion for M.arch 2S :— Bank of New Zealand, £17 2s Gd—buyers, £17 2s Gel. South British Insurance—buyers, £31. Caledonian, £16 2s Gd—sellers, £1G 10s. Harbour View, 17s Gd. Moanatairi; 31s. Otago, 20s, 21s. Sona of Freedom, £11 15s. Albion (first), sellers, 92s Gd. City of London—buyers, 7s Gd. Bright .Smile—buyers, 455. Cure, 10s—sellers, ]os. 6d. Tokatca—buyers, 80s. D. B. Orchard, Secretary.

There are in the United Kingdom 114 Schools of Art, with upwards of 20,000 students. In Dublin, a brute, convicted of beating a child to death with a belt, got off with a sentence of seven years' penal servitude. T)R. 15iti<:iiT'sPirosTMrnr>v NE . —Multitudesof People are hopelessly suffering from Debility, Nervous and Uver Complaints, Depression of Spirits, Delusions Unfitness for P.usiness or Study, Failure of Hearing, bight, and Memory, Lassitude, Want of Power, &c, ■whose cases admit of a permanent, cure by the new 1 remedy Puosphodyne (Oxonic Oxygen), which at I onco allays all irritation and excitement, imparts new energy and life to the enfeebled constitution, and rapidly cures every stage of these hitherto incurable Stnr !w' fi ma'-l <lics- Sold by all Chemists and P-imi-ri'T rS tl) r? uF hout th<> Colonies, from whom B^rv 1? ta4 ning testimonials may be obtained. PWioI 1<w—B? Particular to ask for Dr. Bright* TOirTC^t.," "y 1*?™" »™ abroad; and avoid loMinc^e^ b°ttlM ' the article being

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

| KAtls tviil Close as Under : — ! For Thames, this day, at 5.30 p.m., and on Monday, 31st inst., at 10.30 a.m., and 5.30 p m. For Coromandel, on Monday, 31st inst., at 1.30 p.m. For Rub.el, per M??el'an Cloud, this day, at 4 p.m. For We'lington, Canterbury, and Otago, per Luna, on j Monday. 31s,t inst., at S a.m. j For Taranaki and Southern ports, per s.s., Taranaki, on Monday next, 31sd inst.; at 9 a.m. For Wangarci, &c., per Sovereign of the Seas, on Monday, 31st inst., at 9 a.m. For RuFsell, Wangaroa, and Mongonui, per Rowena, on Monday, 3!st inst., at S p.m. For Gisborne, per Upotiki, on Monday, 31st inst., at 3 p.m. For Whitianga, Tanran&a, and Opotiki, per Southern Cross, on Tuesday, Ist April, at 3 p.m. For Ka-na.ii, Wangarei Heads, Mangapai, etc., per j Lady Bowen, on Tuesday, Ist April, at 3 p.m. For Napier and Southern provinces, per Nebraska, six hours after her arrival. Notk. —A Post-oitiee will be opened in Wangaroa Harbour on Ist proximo, to be named " Wangaroa." j The office known hitherto as " Wangaroa " will in i future be called " Kaio." The Runto office will retain its piesent name. (Signed) S. B. Bias, Chief Postmaster.

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News.

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1873.

* For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrongs that need resistance, I'or the future in the distance, And the good that we can do

The fall and restoration of the Gladstone Ministry constitute a very significant feature in modern English history. A few days since we received intelligence of the check given to the revolution that has been silently but steadily proceeding in the supreme councils of the Empire ; and the announcement is imme diately followed Ly the tidings of the barrier being swept away. No one can contemplate such an incident without being struck with the change that must have come over con servative England. The thought of such innovations as have been effected within the past few years would have made the hair stand upright on the heads of English men half a century ago, and now when an effort has been made to stay the current of change and progress, the arms fall down by the side as if paralysed by the spirit of pro gress. Such innovation as that which has been making inroads on the time-honored in stitutions of old England is one to which can with certainty be attached the motto "orescit eundo " ; and this recent feeble half hearted and foiled attempt to return to the good old ways of conservatism prompts the idea that those who boast a pride in the dogged and unchanging stubbornness of every thing English will soon feel this crutch of their loyalty knocked away. England may affect to set no value on her colonies, but her colonies are becoming her salvation ; and we believe that history will yet tell that it was the free thought and free action and irrever ence for prestige, developed in the colonies, that saved old England from the dry rot that would otherwise have consumed her. European telegrams tell us that the army of France has been fixed at one million fighting men. The indemnity is being paid, and the last soldier of Germany will soon be. withdrawn from the French soil ; but this seems of little moment under the dark shadow thrown over it by the former an nouncement. To suppose that the with drawal of the German legions from the trampled soil of fair and gallant France would be the closing of the struggle, would be to forget all past history, and to ignore the principles of human nature, and especially Gallic human nature. Sooner or later those milliards wrung from bleeding prostrate France will be asked back, and Alsace and Lorraine will be found necessary to close up the wound in the side which triumphant Germany inflicted. Deplore it as we may that million of armed Frenchmen is ominous of a renewal of the strife, and whatever may be the final result Germany will yet mourn with bitter tears for having been merciless in the hour of victory. The telegraph investigation has, we believe, led to a determination to make several changes in the department. New offices are to be at once secured, the situations of the pi-esent offices being so unhealthy that the operators have suffered greatly. Two of the present messengers are to be dispensed with : and besides their places being supplied, two additional ones are to be obtained. A head messenger is to be appointed, expressly to look after the boy 3. It seems that a large propor tion of the complaints has arisen through the faults and negligence of messengers, the boys hitherto taken into the Auckland office having proved more than ordinarily unruly. Dfcher changes are, we are told, contemplated; but it is not necessary to speak of them at present. The chief cause of complaint in Auckland would no doubt be removed by the erection of an additional wire between Auckland and Wellington. Efforts have been continuously made to meet all requirements by the existing lines until the difficulty of obtaining new wire from home could be overcome. But a supply having now been received it has been decided to erect another wire without delay, and it is hoped that the work will be com pleted in three months and a half. Meanwhile every exertion will be used to avoid delays and all other causes of complaint.

One day more and the electoral rolls of the colony will be closed for another year. Till the close of office hours on Monday ap plications will be received by the various Returning Officers, and thereafter any one shut out from the franchise will have but himself to blame for his negligence. In j another column, in reply to a letter from "Elector," we furnish the names of the various Returning Officers of the province so far as we have been able to ascertain on short notice, and we would merely add that any one calling at this office on Monday will be furnished with advice and assistance, as to the right method of presenting his claim. It is unnecessary to say that any person can possess a right to vote in every electoral division of the colony, if he have property to qualify in each, and have made his claim in proper form and time.

"Eyes have they, but their sight deceives them." Such was the case this morning with the signal-man stationed on Mount Victoria, North Shore, for the signal was run up, " Steamer from New South Wales with mail on board." There was immediately a hurrying to and fro by those who have business tran sactions with the sister colony, and those who expect friends from Sydney. Boats were hired, and the watermen, calculating the time that the steamer would show up round the Heads, hurried off to partake of a hasty morningrepast, and perhaps in the expectation of extra business, a nobbier, or glass of some thing short, just to wash the meal down. The two shipping reporters of the morning journals were aroused out of their lirst sleep, and came down with huge lik-s of newspapers in hand as bribes for similar courtesies from those on board. Conjectures were rife as to which vessel the steamer would prove to be. Some said it was the Wonga Wonga, but the idea was scouted by those who knew that the City of Adelaide was already on her way to this port, while to them it appeared remark able she should show up so early, hav ing only cleared out at Melbourne for this port, via Sydney, on the 21st inst. It was therefore decided that it must be the long-expected Ladybird, which had made for this port instead of the Mauukau. The number of people on the Wharf began to in crease, the cabmen on the Queen-street stands were on the gui vice, and the watermen were getting nois3 r and their boats in trim, when down came the tiags T. and V. from the mast head and up went the coastwise bunting and everybody was doomed to disappointment. Presently the Star uf the South came steam ing round the Heads and set all doubts at rest. Is it not nearly time this playing at signalizing was finished, and the business on

[Mount Victoria carried on steadily and correctly.

We have been called on to-day by Mr. J. Webb, who appears in our yesterday's issue by his familiar appellation of " Adelaide Jack." He has stated to us his share in the transaction narrated as having passed the other evening, opposite Mr Shortt's, in Queen-street. From this statement it ap pears that steps having been instituted with out result for the judicial separation of the lady in question and her husband, she had gone to live under the protection of a friend. This gentleman having gone to Sydney, and deeming it unbecoming that the lady should be in an unprotected state in Auckland, had written to her re questing that she would engage the assistance of Mr Webb to place her boxes on board the " Hero," and generally to look to her protec tion and welfare. In the exercise of this trust he had been taking a walk in Queen street with the lady, when they were accosted by a person, a total stranger to Mr Webb, but whom he subsequently found to be Mr S z, the husband of his protegee, when language passed which induced his assertion of his right to defend an unprotected female. Such is the explanation given to us by Mr Webb, which we have much pleasure in publishing ; but as the scene which occurred is to be brought up for judicial review, in fact Mr Webb having in his pocket thu invitation to come and explain to the magistrates the circumstance of the forcible contact between his pedal extremity and the base of Mr S z's vertebral column—we refrain from any remarks on the subject. But as Mr Webb, with a commend able respect for appearances, very naturally fears that his name being thus mixed up might prejudice his fair fame, and that his friend in Sydney might suppose that he- had not been faithful to the trust reposed in his honor and propriety, he is anxious that his share in the affair should be placed in its proper light. From the foregoing we have no doubt the general public will take in the whole case at a glance, which will receive further elucidation in a few days in the Police Court.

At the Supreme Court yesterclay his Honor reserved judgment in the case of Watt v. the Central Italy Gold Mining Company. An application for a writ of habeas corpus, to obtain the release of Macintosh, alias Sullivan, convicted of specimen stealing at the Thames, and sentenced to twelve months' imprison ment, was made by Mr Hesketh, instructed by Mr Macdonald. The application was made on the ground that the offence with which prisoner was charged was an indictable one, and that in sentencing him to twelve months' imprisonment the Magistrate had gone beyond his jurisdiction. His Honor appointed Tuesday next for hearing counsel in support of the application.

We regret to learn that Thomas Beckham Esq., .Resident Magistrate, was unable to attend to his magisterial duties to-day in consequence of sudden indisposition.

The sea-wall to Custom-House street is nearly completed. It is extended to within 100 yards of the wharf, and it is not inten ded to carry it any further, so as to leave room for the silt-basins. In order to make the wall secure a foundation is being dug and piles driven a depth of 18 feet into the beach. On these a substantial platform will be erected, and on this the corner end of the wall. As the work is below high-water mark the foundation has to be pumped out every day at low -water. For this purpose the Californian pump is made use of, and works very well. It empties the hole containing over 40 square yards of water in one hour.

As an instance of the despatch shown by the Bay of Island Coal Company we learn that since the repairs to the bridge, which were completed on the sth instant, over two thousand nine hundred tons of coal have been shipped.

Between the Ist November and the 30th April on an average £9500 are given annu ally away in prizes for horse-racing in the province of Otago. During the Christmas and New Year holidays the amount expended in prizes for various sports exceeds £2500. On the various racecourses of the province there is annually spent £21,500 in liquor. This makes a total of £33,500 devoted every year to sporting ; not so bad for a pro vince of .70,000 inhabitants of essentially not sporting tastes. Nearly one-half the popu lation never visits a racecourse, and a con siderable proportion consider sporting of every description disreputable. There is scarcely a legitimate sporting man in the whole province, scarcely a decent race horse owned in it, and betting is not in dulged in to any extent. The principal part of the money given as prizes goes to horse breeders and livery stable keepers, resident in Canterbury, who annually send their horses to the Otago meets, 'thereby an nually draining Otago of a considerable sum.

We are sincerely sorry to learn that the reference in a paragraph in yesterday's S/ar, relative to a fracas in Queen-street, has been wholly misunderstood. The paragraph stated that the incident occurred "in front of the emporium of Mr Shortt, hairdresser," and a few lines further down goes on to say "on this very spot, at the time before mentioned, stood Mr S., who had lost his wife," & re. We can distinctly see nowhowreadilyany one might have understood the "MrS."so referred to as being "Mr Shortt," already named. Although quite needless to inform any one that knows Mr Shortt, we desire to say that Ihe is not the "Mr S." that was involved in I the street row, and we exceedingly regret i that the identity of the initial letters, which i was wholly overlooked by the writer, has given a colour to the supposition. Mr Shortt's character as an unobtrusive and worthy citizen, .and his relations, social, domestic, and commercial, are so thoroughly blameless that he is about the last in the City at whose expense any one would like to see a smart paragraph. Mr Shortt had no share or part in this affair saving that the glare of his gas lamps blazing forth on the darkness of Queen-street revealed this little manifestation of the peculiarities of social life.

At the meeting of the Central Board of Education yesterday, it was agreed to apply to the Superintendent for the free use of ferries to school-children. In reference to a previous application from Kauwaeranga, Mr Hurst moved—-"That the two teachcru be allowed salaries of £200 per annum, with the object of grading their salaries by an adapted scale ; teachers to come up for ex amination when called upon to do so. TJent and fittings to be allowed as requested. The question of assistant teacher to be considered when the necessity to do so arose." Carried. It was resolved to allow £200 a-year salary to the schoolmaster at Graharastown, and to enlarge the school-room when necessary. Several other minor applications were con sidered and disposed of. Mr Lusk then gave notice that he would move at the next sitting, "The adoption by the Board of a scale in accordance with which assistants and pupil teachers in the school will be .sanctioned by the Board, in proportion to the number of scholars." His Worship the Mayor inti mated his intention to propose at the next Board meeting—"That the Board anthorize the continuation of Domain-street through certain Grammar-school reserves in Symonds strcet." The meeting then adjourned until Tuesday next at three p.m.

When the wife of your bosom is in a bad humour it isn't always safe to say : " What's up, old gal ?" A gentleman in High-street, Brooklyn, did this last week. She turned on him with, "Who do yo\i call old gal, you miserable, old, red-headed, idiotic mud turtle?" He lied instantly as he saw her eye roving round in search of a weapon of attack, lie made his peace with a new bonnet and a pair of ear-rings.

A night or two ago (says the correspondent of a Liverpool paper) I found myself in the company of an individual who considers him self quite an authority on the management of gaols and workhouses. I may as well be candid ;he was in a police lock-up for beg ging—nothing else ; for, as he told me after wards, "I'd rather starve than steal. If I couldn't get an honest livin', without stealm', why I'd lie down and die." " How many gaols have I been in ?" he said, in re ply to my inquiry on that dedicate subject. " Why, a many," Counting on his fingers— Durham, three times a month ; Northallerton fourteen days, Wakefield a month, Gloucester a month, that place were the biggest goose fair in England is (Nottingham) a month, Reading a month, Colchester a month (for begging, and I wanted more, and 1 gave a fellow a blow in the eye, and I got three months more for that), Liverpool fourteen days, Manchester four teen days, Swansea ten days, and Mor peth, in the north of England, a month. I cannot remember any more." I hinted that the list was tolerably,complete, and that he need not trouble further. He had established his claim to be an authority. " How did I get in ? Why, nothing but begging. Sun day is the best day. T got sixteen shillings in Reading once on a Sunday. You see there's a great many people about on Sunday, and they mostly have coppers. The best gaol in all England is Morpeth ; Colchester is a good !un, you get more exercise there. I never work on account of my "arm, you see. At Wakefield, I sent for the officer and asked for my hard labor. I had been sent to hard labor, and I would have it." What did he say?" "Why, he slapped the door in my face. Durham is a bad place. You get no bed there but boards for a month, and dry bread too. Liverpool is another bad 'un ; you wont't get much there. But I'd sooner be in the worst gaol in England than the best work house. The unions are the d . In a gaol, if a body is washing about ho can do well. The officer will give him a bit of baccy, and he can go into all the cells when the prisoners are at exercise and get 'chuck.'" My question as to his religion did not take him aback at all. " I was a ' Catlike once, but I soon found out that wouldn't do." " Why ? " " Because you don't get out to church an hour every day, and two hours on a Sunday. I'se been a Church o' England since." My informant had an apparent dread of workhouses. In answer to his appeal, as to Avhat else he could do but beg, I hinted that, as he could not work, the union was his place. He,knew better that that. "I'se generally more content in my mind in a gaol," he said, " and I reckon you get more to eat in a prison if you can only get in for four months." According to my friend's account, begging is not so " bad a game as people think." The doleful counte nance, the shirtless trunk and shoeless feet, are part of the "get up," as much as the threepenny lodging-houses care places of meeting, where notes are exchanged, and the weaknesses and idiosynci'acies of householders are discussed. The little story of Wakefield Gaol and hard labour is instructive. Fancy the bewilderment of the official when the prisoner demanded his " hard labour." The irony of. the situation is instructive, especially to visiting justices.

A poor German woman was executed about five years ago, near Philadelphia, and her confession in her broken English, was one of the saddest things we ever read. Her man had "peat" her, peat her so much, made her work in the ffeld when she was so sick and so tired ; peat her for not keeping up ; peat her for stopping to nurse her baby ; made her work in the house while he rested and smoked, and peat her if she was not ready to go out to work when ho was ! She was so tired, could never get no rest. She want to leave liim and go away ; biit he take her children from her, she have four little children, he peat them too, she could not leave her children. She was so tired she gave her man stuff. She sorry she kill her man, but she no know not what to do, she to tired. The dailies made occasional news items out of the case, and the poor old worn out slave was universally voted a monster of iniquity. The majesty of law was vindicated by sending her from the gallows to the un erring judgement, where her toil-worn hands and tortured soul must have been very white compared to the bejeweled lingers of the charming monsters, who slip so graoe fully through the elastic meshes of the law. Bricks from coal shale are being very ex tensively manufactured in Stailbrdshiro,

The only business at the Police Court this morning was the summary disposal of a cluster of drunkards, among whom in a wild and disordered state appeared the mothef of "Little .Taphet."

The April number of the New Zealand Presbyterian Chiirvh News was issued id-day. Wo learn with pleasure that the circulation of the Neios is extending throughout the colony. The present number contains an able article on " The Church's Chequered Prosperity ;" a portion of the Eev. 11. Mac kinney's lecture on the Bible. A sketch of the history of the Whau Church. Three and a half pages of Church news, in addition to a large amount of interesting extract matter. Amongst the " Extract Readings" is a characteristic paper from the New York 'Evanydid on '' Sermonising versus Preach ing," which, in the assumedly rough way common with many American writers, directs attention to one of the great errors fallen into by many of o\ir modern expounders of theology.

Any one that wishes to see the stone we have within the boundaries of our pro vince, while we send away to England for Yorkshire nagging, had better peep into the establishment of the Messrs Morrin. At the door stands a block, from Happy Creek quarry, at the Thames, respecting which comment is needless. Not only is it fit for flagging, but the manner in which it _is carved and dressed exhibits a capability for ornamentation that shows it even deserv ing of a part in the future archetectural ad vancement of the city.

The grand complimentary concert to Miss Carrie Emanuel and Mr Alfred Anderson will take place to-night in the Choral Hall, under most distinguished patronage. These eminent artistes will be assisted by Mons. de Lias, and Madame and Mr Winter, and we can assure all lovers of music that the con cert of to-night will be one of extraordinary merit; in truth the most brilliant in every respect of the season. A quartette has been promised by Messrs Brown, Hemus, and Beale.

The Auckland Serenades will appear in their grand performance on Wednesday next, at the Onehunga Institute, for the benefit of the widow of the late George L. Low, who was accidentally killed on the Panmure road. There will be a change from order of their previous programme. A well-known gentleman amateur will appear on this occa sion in an aria from the admired opera of "Maritana." The original prologue will also be re-delivered by the author ; and we believe that the entertainment at One hunga will find especial favour with the in habitants of that interesting settlement. The concert will conclude with a select quadrille party.

To-morrow (Sunday) Dr. Wallis will dis course, at Newton Kirk; Morning: "Christ ascending into Heaven." Evening: "Christ descending into Hell." Samuel Edger B.A. will discourse in the City Hall; Morning: "Religion, all comprehensive." Evening: "Things that God cannot do." And in the United Methodist Free Church; Morning: l!ev. T. 11. Fisher, of Christchurch ; even ing, Rev. G. F. Turner.

A writer in the South London Press says : — '•I have the greatest admiration for one Brixton clergyman, and this is based entirely upon a single circumstance. He stands higher in ray estimation than any clergyman ] know, and that because the other day he was seen turning a mangle. Not a dignified occupation you will say. No ; but Christian ity knows n very little about dignity, and a greab deal about duty, and more still about charity and loving kindness. The mangling came about in this wise. The clergyman, going his visiting rounds, called on a poor woman who kept a mangle, and who was "at her wit's end," seeing that her husband was ill, and she oould get no one to take a turn, "so that she might get her work home in time, so as not to lu.se her customers." The kindly clergy man listened to her tale, saw her diffi culty, and said he supposed turning a mangle required no very particular skill —could he do it ? The wsman protested that such a thing was impossible ; but in spite of her remonstrances, the rev. gentleman insisted upon trying his hand, and continued at the work till far into the night, until all the clothes were ready for delivery next morning. This was a true muscular Christian of the Apostolic type ; and if ever a. memorial window should be raised to him in his church it should repre sent him in the. most glorious action of his ministiy—turning the mangle."

The Tichborne case has assumed a new phase in Australia. As will be seen by our telegrams a woman has turned up who claims to have been married to the real Simon Pure, and says that the present claimant is Arthur Orton. Probably the woman's mind has become excitftd with the constant repetitionof thecase, and her present declaration may be the result of a monomania. Or it may be, that seeing the success which has attended the present claimant's pretensions, she may see an opportunity for earning an easy living for herself. It is possible, however, thatjthe woman may know something about Sir Roger, with whom the precent claimant must have been acquainted, and she may perhaps furnish a missing link in the chain of evidence that has been got together during the long trial.

The committees of the several departments of the Young Men's Christian Association were appointed last night to serve through the year. The business mostly was of a chatty character relating to the future progress of the Institute. Various suggestions were made as to the best mode of operating for greater success, which suggestions were ac cepted and reserved for consideration at the next general committee meeting. This society professes to act in a general inexclu sive spirit, and as far as the library is concerned the utmost literary freedom is permitted ; there is no bat-, therefore, to the enquiring mind within the Institute. TVe are glad of this, because some of our best and most influential books, thoiigh not free altogether from the charge of heterodoxy, have the effect of strengthening the reasoning faculties without impairing the understanding. The most fastidious of readers can be satisfied m what is singiilarly termed the Young Men's Library, for unfortunately the young men who call at the Institute are far down in the minority. There the reader may enjoy, if he the extremes of literature. He may revel in the thoughtful, eccentric volumes of Carlyle, and repose beside the beautifully tender essays of great Christopher North; or he may, if his stomach is out of order, enjoy the wild-sensational fancies of Miss Braddon, or the tame milk-and-water prose of good Mrs Stowe. We hope to see in the forth coming prospectus of Essays and Debates, the names of some of our younger shoots in connection with subjects of popular interest ; and trust they will try to shape their opinions into readable Saxon language without any of those petty pilferings of other days, which will be exposed as soon as detected, especially if such literary thefts are perpetrated by men of years and experience. We hope also to see in the future lecture programme the name of some intelligent worker, as we think that patient, plodding industry should be represented in the nstituto as well as theology, commerce, and law.

The Union-street school, under the clirec- I tion of Mr and Mrs Brabazon, is one of the | best-conducted and most successful schools I opened under the new Education Act. There i are now 17") pupils on the roll, and the applications for admission are far beyond what it is possible to accommodate. Children • have come to the school from City East district and City West No. 2. The district in which the school is situated is a ; lar^e one, and the children i« it are more J numerous than one school can accommodate ;■ ■ it is therefore desirable that children froirt [ other districts should not be sent there, as some of the schoob —amongst them St. Paul's—have not their lists fully made up. Parents should send their children to the school -within the district where they reside, and then, if it is found that one school is not sufficient for any district, it^will devolve upon that district school committee to make increased provision for the educa tional wants of the householders who elected them. We observe that the annual distribution ot prizes to the pupils of the Hebrew School will take place at the Synagogue to-morrow (Sunday), at three o'clock in the afternoon. A telegraph clerk was lately advertised for at Lausanne, the salary offered being 200 ! francs (£S) per annum. ! The following paragraph from an English i newspaper has revived recollections which had well nigh faded from memory :—"After I nearly twelve years quietude, the Princeite i inmates of the Agapemone, or ' Abode of i Love,' near Bridgewater, are now holding a series of revival meetings. One of these was held on Sunday afternoon at Hamp, near Bridgewater, and was largely attended, and addressed by two of Brother Prince's fol lowers, including Mr Williams, formerly a clergyman of the Church of England, Mho declared that the Gospel dispensation had ended ; that the judgment day had com menced ; that Brother Prince had the spirit of judgment in him, arid had purged and purified their bodies a.H well as their souls. He then alluded to the reproach heaped upon them, and professed that they lived moral lives, and received in the Agapemone nothing but spiritual good." The beautiful valley of the Agapemone, the Greek term for "Abode of Love," is situated in the woody outskirts of the town of Bridgewater, at a small village known as Charlynch, and general consternation was caused some years ago by the abode of love on the escape of a dissatisfied sister. This sheltered establishment was founu cfl by a religious enthusiast, Henry James PriLlce >_ originally a clergyman of the Church 01 England. Prince commenced to shape his theological peculiarities in the water-side town of Weymouth, where he formed his first abode ; but Dorsetshire was not exactly the country for the new light, and with an eye to natural beauty, and to evade rural scandal Prince fixed upon the spot which in other years had gratified the poetic taste of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and where he preached Sunday after Sunday in a blue coat, and white waistcoat to a crowded Unitarian congregation. Brother Prince went to Bridgewater, and settled down with his devoted followers in one of the sweetest of West of England localities, in the con fines of the town which gives a name to those famous theological discourses, known the world over as the "Bridgewater Treatises." Prince therefore breathed in the very atmosphere of theology, and it is not surprising that he himself should turn author, and write other treatises among the wilds of Dorsetshire, which Mr Vogel designated the C4arden of England, but which is, except in its land, one of the muddiest and most pauperised of English counties. Prince was regarded by the peasantry as one possessed of an evil spirit, Was shunned accord ingly, but in Somerset he was li terally worshipped as the "Lord," and hundreds believed that in the person of Henry James Prince they saw the Messiah who had come a second time to proclaim the reign of peace and universal harmony. The "Abode of Love" to the fanatics was the new Eden of happiness which the original garden had shadowed forth, and of which in its perennial loveliness they believed Milton had prophetically sung ; Prince was, moreover, a man of considerable musical taste, and not without some literary abilities, and it is possible he might have believed in his mission. His " Abode of Love" near Bridgewater was fitted up in the most exquisite style, "containing a magnificent music-hall, with all kinds of melodious instruments." The abode was situated in the centre of a lovely park, surrounded by trees where birds made music through the long summer day, and nightingales warbled through the silent watches of the night. Brother Prince's followers rapidly increased in numbers, and farmers and farmer's daughters (he had a special regard fo.r farmer's pretty daughters), anxiously waited at the noble gate for admission to the new Eden that they might he privileged to do the " will of the Lord." Prince not merely looked upon nature with a poet's eye, but he had an eye upon the one wordly thing needful. A Lazarus might lie at the gate, but could find no admittance to a home, especially made for beauty and gold. And yet, according to his own written confession, Brother Prince was the most unselfish of mortals. He says in his journal, "for like George Fox and John Wesley, this latter-day saint kept a daily record of his thoughts and pro gress. " Having neither wishes nor desires my will can have no disposition whatever to move in one direction more than another, but like the finely-poised beam of a well-adjusted balance it hangs delicately suspended on the Diyine will in a hoty equilibrium of inward pas'siveness,' " There is a very good account of the Agapemone to be found in Hepwortk Dixon's work on "Spiritual Wives." We have not space to enter minutely into a description of the conventual life of the abode, with its insane absurdities, which have led to immoralities subversive of the growth of rational piety, and yet this retreat exists like a blot in Heaven's bright creation in one of the most enchanting valleys of the land of Bacon, Milton, and Locke. There are few persons of taste who have not read one or other of the novels of Jane Austen, especially her "Mansfield Park," which Sir Walter Scott so admired, and which greatly interested Lord Macaulay, who pronounced it the best fiction of the age. This lady wrote but five volumes, and they are each remarkable as unexaggerated pictures of real life, drawn by the hand of a true artist. Miss Jane Austen was a lady of exquisite taste—a member of an ancient Hampshire family, and sister of Admiral Austen, under whose command Douglas Jerrold gathered his sea-faring experiences when a sailor-boy. An English friend in forms us that a memorial has recently been placed to Miss Austen's memory in Win chester Cathedral; and such a memorial was due to the noble-minded woman whose short life was devoted to the dissemination of virtuous thought, and whose personal character was an honour to her sex. The inscription on the tablet runs thus : "In memory of Jane Austen, known to many by her writings ; endeared to her family by the many charms of her character, and ennobled by Christian faith and piety. She was born at Steventon, in Hants, December 16, 1775 ; and buried in this Cathedral, July 24, ISI7. , She opened her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue was the law of kindness.'" Prov, 31 v. 26,

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST THAMES NEWS.

400 ozs. Gold from the Bright Smile. 366 ozs. Gold from the Golden Crown. i Albion, Kuranui, Moanatairi, and other CLushin^s. } GRAHaMSTOWN. : This day. • Bright Smile.—The result of 13 days' crushing with ten head of stampers is 400 ozs. gold. The return : was unexpectedly large. j Golden Cbown Company. — A ; crushing of 75 tons has yielded 289 ; ozs. of gold. The crashing for the ■ tributers has yielded 3G6 ozs. of gold from 75 tons stone. j Little Sweeney.— A crushing of 13 tons stone has yielded 8 ozs. gold. A lbion. —Kelly's tributehas crushed 100 tons of surface stuff" with a yield of 9 oz. gold. Kuranui.—The fortnight's return ■ is 211 ozs. gold. '■ Caledonian. —Two hundredweight of specimens are to hand. I Otago.—The cleaning-up has given 1 a return of better than 2 ozs. per ton. Tookey.—Westwood's tribute has ; crushed 20 tons of stone with a yield of 13 ozs. I Moanataipi.—A crushing of 360 : tons has yielded 162 ozs. i Imperial City.—lhe return from J the 1-i tons of stone crushed is 30 ozs. i gold.

LATEST FROM COROMANDEL.

COEOMANDEL. This day. Tokatea.—A few specimens have been taken out to-day. Haei3oub View. —The mine 'looks well. The Royal Alfred takes up 3,000 ounces of gold to Auckland.

TAURANGA.

This day. The settlers are memorialising the Defence Office to suspend the Militia Act in the district, urging that the continuance of militia duty is unneces sary and inconvenient, as there is no probability of any future native disturbance occurring. The Southern Cross sails to-night.

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

' The Wellington Ironsand Company. Street Tramways in Wellington. Remarkable Death at Wanganui. WELLINGTON. Yesterday. [Presented 12.35 p.m.; received7.s p.m.] The City Council has accepted the offer of Messrs O'Neill and Thomas to lay street tramways. This day. The brig Moa, bound to Lyttelton from the .Bay of Islands, put in here yesterday. The Go-Ahead has arrived. The City Council offer £50 for the best scheme of city drainage. The s.s. Wellington and Pateraon have sailed South, and the Chatta nooga for Dunedin.

WANGANUI.

Yesterday. The s.s. Wanganui sails for Auck land at 4> p.m. to-day. This day. The Steeplechase races take place on April 29. *The stakes for the big race are £150. Horses from all parts of tke colony are expected. This day. George Williams, who swallowed muriatic acid by mistake in January last, died at the hospital yesterday, having been literally starved owing to obliteration of the gullet by the poison.

NEW PLYMOUTH.

Yesterday. The bill to lease a part of the beach to the Wellington Iron Sand Com pany passed through the Provincial Council. The lease is for 21 years, with a power of renewal, a royalty of one shilling per ton on the metal produced to be paid. The Company must manu facture one thousand tons during the second year; 1,500 tens the third; 2,000 tons the fourth; and 2,500 tons every subsequent year, or pay a fine of 10s. per ton on the deficiency.

NELSON.

Yesterday. The Handicap Hurdle Race was won by Dick Turpin. Town Plate. —Kakapo, 1. Criterion Plate.—Slander, 1. Consolation Plate.—Peeress, 1. Magenta came in first, but was dis qualified, not being entered in time. A deputation, consisting of the Superintendent and Messrs Renwick, Shepherd, and Pitt, will be sent to Wellington to urge the resolutions adopted by the Inland Communication relative to the construction of the Foxhill and B runner ton railway.

HOKITIKA.

Yesterday. The Albion sailed yesterday for Melbourne. This day. Sailed—Tararua, for the North.

PORT CHALMERS.

This day. The Christian Me A.us]and and Agnes Muir sail for to-day.

THE EYBKIH& St^lt, SATURDAY, MARCH 29,1873



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