THE "EARLY DAYS" OF NEW ZEALAND JOURNALISM.

[Concluded.]

• us to Mr Fahvasser a aversion la"d ( mbe^etb, 1843. It was issued fro.r f i" Chance^trcct, by T. G. ?lry, f« the proprietor J. Moore. M " d c Hsemenb nro numerous, mid Tho then we two worth mentioning ninong tnt' fg (ho fourtll all a j fts t part Tlie Monnaeil'j Maori Grammar, wliicli of »'■ «»u" 0lof publication. Tho price «• °n, 1 rrown, and tho size, 48 pages was M"-2,, tbcr advertisement referred octav' 01 £ho a cruel shot at Mr Falnrasser ""•f.Jrtoe" "ft.Mt run. : " For sale, a """"inr Engliaii-mndo powerful mangle AN'Vin "hit issuo announces "that " v "iitfioient number of subscribers should » El™°!, j lr k. C. Joplin would Til-"* pot entitled "No/zealand." PSears that the necessary subscribers 11 PP to bo found in young Auckland, *"'"■ Vn 21 of tho samo volume of the to'Lil" (27th Dec , 1843) this advor ': Chr°ti »%.: "Just published, te«mef ~ . j- e «- Zealand,' a poem in 3 I*"? "hv X C Joplin. As thore are only cantos, u> • • application is necea 'feffC°C y»t "the Chronicle ' Ollice » ,« w Zealand Almanac " for 1845, prico o n.bfohcd by Ueorgo Buckingham It nnHceable that tho übiquitous Rowland hrf <lyintroduced to the pakelim and V«?i hU incomparable Mncoj^r Oil "..The Southern Croc*. Now Zonknd Rnarilian, and A..ekla.nl, Thames, and Bay • winds Advertiser," commenced it* lorn Saturday, April 22nd, 1843. I. «Ufehed weekly, and charged to sub- Sirs 10s per quarter, payable!., advance A!wrti-ements were inserted at the rato o tfnrsix lines and under, every additional in threopenco. It was printed in Short l"dCrescent for tho proprietor by l\ K« M t «nd 0. E. Hunter. Its leading f r ticlo found a subject, not unnaturally, in Wli-and it. enemies, of whom there wore •nnnrently at least a few before the venture Stto existence. Then follow articles on tho current topics ot the hour :-" New t tand compared with other Australian "totaas a field for emigration ;■ Injun. Mints per Weetminster, two hundred of Ch Padboe n recently landed and badly treated at tho hands of tho authorities ; Great Barrier Mining Company, of which Mr Abercrombie was tho loading spirit, and which promised to hare in tho course of a couple of months 100 tons of copper ore ready for exportation ; County Court ; annual Licensing Meeting, where eighteen public houses and taverns passed under the notice of the Justice? ; Correspondence ; a poem; extrac's from other papers ; and a three wlnmued account of an overland journey from Auckland to Port Nicholeon. Such, with advertisements, are tho contents of ih'efirst number of tho famous " Cross." One of the local paragraphs deserves cita tion-"Good opportunity of forwarding letters to England. Tho Caroline, whaler, toils from tho Bay of Islands for London in the latter end of this month. A mail will bo mado up at tho ro3t Office to go by her and forwarded to thsßay by tha first opportunity." Among tha advertisements this ono reads strangely, though to bo sure tho days of twenty-five perciat. are not yet past in Auckland: — "Wanted £150 to i'2oO upon undeniable security, and for which 25 j>er cont. interest will be paid." The names of tho adver tisers in the first numbor are aa follow : — Nathan and Joseph, John I. Montefiore, Edward Rich. Gibson and Mitchell, Brown ami Campbell (who offer Baltic timber, placed, tongued and proovod at 12s per 100 feet). In tho third number of the "Cross," the following list of current prices is given :—Pork offered by native traders at 2Jd per lb. ; potatoes £2 10s to £3 per ton; tishat nominal prices ; melons, pumpkin!, turnips, cabbage?, and garden staff of native growth at less than half their cost in England. Hire U the first issue of another wcll knayn newspaper, " Tho Now Zealander," nhich bears tlato Juno 7th, IS-1-"), and was printed and published by John Williamson it Thompson's Lane, Shortland Crescent. Its motto was tho hackneyed " Bo jußt and fear not," and its politics as expressed in to Wing article : " In a colony tho only fen.'iWepolitioa for all classes is unanimity in promoting the advancement, welfare and prosperity of (heir adopted country." Tho longest article takes up most of the 1(3 damns of the paper, and has for its sub ject tho courso of events at tho Bjy of Islands from the commencement of Hone Heke's "rebellious proceeding! " to dato. The "New Zealander" could not boast a good start so far as advertisements too concerned, for they aro contained in a couple of columns. The names of the advertisers will perhaps be interest ing to fomo whoso memories reach back beyond tho present generation ; -Brown »nd Campbell, W. S. (Jrahamo, J. and N. Siams, Hart, H. R. Crotnay, John Scott, William Wilson (bakor), R. and D Graham

So far, newspapers of the North alono have be:n mentioned, but tho "Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chroniclo" takes us to tho other Island. A very curaory examination copTincea one that this was by far tho best printed of the euly newspapers. The paper is of an unusual thickness, tho type clear cut, and tho machining to match. The price chargod was 10s per quarter in "Jrance, anj the proprietor, Mr Charles tJiot A 12 paged supplement to No, 9-1 (23rd Deccmbo', 1843) contains an elaborate «M carefully prepared narrative of tho nuran massacre, illustrated by a map of ™ «ene of the occurrence. There had e.laprcd, it U only fair to remark, a<nple '"as in which to prepare this narrative, for tne massacre took place six months pro viously, Crossing over tho straits wo light upon, "The Now Zealand Gazette, and Wellington Spectator," represented in tho Museum collection by No. 30S, dated December 20th, 1813. It was published wcea ireek. An Almanac for Welling ton, price la, is advertised to appear on Ist. January 1814. Tho paper in question negan it 3 career on April 18th, 1840, and fas, therefore, one of tho first published in 'no colony.

I 1 Jn WellinSton Independent," (No. 35, «ly 30th 1845), mado it 3 appearance on »e<ine?day ß and Saturdays, and proudly claimed to bo " tho only papor in New «aland published twice a week." The Mv«msement sealo was 2* for six lines and unaer, 3d for every additional lino. Tho names on the imprint are fivo, viz., E Roo, i'fjwnt, J. Muir, G. Fcllingham and r. McKenzie. Still another Wellington paper, "Tho »w Zealand Spectator and Cook's Straits r wn'" which W!V3 i?suorl overySatm- ?{; bo. 20 bears dato February 22nd :;. ! a.ni* tn° imprint states it to havo been Wed by E. l; 00 and published by Wm. X, Tho Wellington Almanac for 1845 ti t a year of Publication—is adver tl,» i. interesting fact or two about «>B.shore whaling parties of tho colony tv% i! n tlien°w's columns. It appears WM* darius 1814 there were employed 85 ~ ,r by G73 men, who were success or We °g lll3° tODa Of oil and -7' tons fr»ei?u ning to Auckland, thero remain a mL ?l' papers to mention, but the ro raarkstheroonwill bo brief, as this article „, ''^J exceeded the limit* originally propped "The Anglo-Maori Warder" LI,, 6' \ Iay 30th 1848) was published mtl y, Me?prs w»ll'amson and an '°. ' n question contains a highly Zu^ / nd oul°!*tio ™™ of •n* [ t0 10 "f Thackeray', " Vanity Fair." S iS 6 »f tho autl^ who wm thus AnWji*0 in*rorl"o3 Becky Sharp, C tolll> y> ? nd Captain Rawdon C™" -be,,l. , "land publio cannot Probably to * "!'™ w- for ho was too-modest An-ft. ?• 'nitiala t0 llis Production, fchthlr T mCDt ann 0«»« that on June "Kaivl2 ' WOuld b0 Iniblifil>cd of Price*. klV nata!"-a o nga ;«i ctua." The Journal* v' 1 Examiner and People's ■fi' >?; 3°. 'J^ocl July Oth, 1857. PWMDv ? tOn «««sp« quarter, or6d ran ,d l veF £ t"iemontH werocbarficdat :'Klc a 1 -a-wown for S lines and TbTLSi? 1 overy line additional. 'Sheta w W>; nd,ham-Btre e t, and tho pnb -01, Weie J' RWmitoon, and T. J. San j^Tho Maori Messenger, Te Karen

Tholastpaporto bo mentioned is a tiny 4 paged quarto affair named " Tho Albert t"andTh° U°i' Mr S' J°llnsOn P^d it, and the subscription demanded woa the modest sum of :is per quarter. The repre whirl, 1° °T ■ l h°- lVluSoum i 9 the f°u*h which saw tho light in September, ISG3 Another short quotation from i)r Thorn son respecting New Zealand newspapers will not unfittingly bring the present article to a close 'In lboS.-'says tho Doctor, "there wore 15 newspapers published in the colony: Iwo semi weekly and two weekly, at Auck land j two somi-wcokly at Wellington and Nelson j two weekly at Canterbury and Utaaoj and ono weekly at Taranaki, Uanganm, and Napier." (Vol. II Pp 215-40, J.D.I).

THE AYLESFORD PEERAGE.

A Famous Caao Rcvivod,

TUB long-ponding contc3t for the right of succession of the Earldom of Aylesford came on before tlio Comtuittca of Privileges of tho lloufo of Lords on July the Ist and 2nd, and ended in tho recognition of tho claim tho of Hon. Chas. Wightwick Finch brother of tho lato Earl of Aylesford! From tho London "Standard,''-which pub lishes full reports of this caso, wo gather that Edith, Countoss of Aylesofrd, claimed tho poerago on behalf of her son, Guy Bor trnnd, but this was oppo?od by tho Hon. C. W. Finch, on the ground that the Countess's son was illegitimate and thorefore not on titled to succeed to tho peorage. Tho facts wore sot out in Mr Finch's petition. The lato earl married on January S, IST I, as his first and only -wife, Edith Williams. Ko hud issue two children, both daughters, but while ho was absent in India, towards tho onrl of the year 1875, his wifo formed an adulterous co noction with tho Marquis ot Blandford (now Duke of Marlborough), and left nor homo and lived with him. On hearing of hw wife's aduhory in March, 1870, tho Earl of Ayiesford re turned from India, and after" lib return nover lived or cohabited or had any inter course with his wife. A deed of separation between tho earl and his wifo was executed in May, 1877. In December, 1577, tho oarl filed a potition in the Divorce Court, pray ing for a dissolution of his marriage (by reason of his wife's adultery with tho Marquis of Blandford). Pleas were filed on behalf of tho Queen's Proctor, and upon the petition coming on for trial, un»l being heard in support of the ploas, tho jury on July 4, IS7S, found that Edith, Countess of Aylesford, had committed adultery with tho Marquis of Blandford, and that the Earl •f Aylesford and the Marquis ol Blandford had been acting in collusion for the purposo of obtaining a divorce, and that tho Earl of Aylesford had committed adultery. Tho Court theroupDn dismissed tho petition. The adulterous intercourse fcotwoen Edith, Countess of Aylesfocd, and tho Man>i< of Blanford, wai" afterwards resumed and continued from timo to time, and amongst other times botweon Decombor, ISSO, and Apri', 1831. In November, 18S1, the Coun tess of Aylosford and the Marquis of Bland ford resided together in Paris us man and wifo, under the name of Mr and Mrs Sponcor, and tho Countess thero, on September 4, ISSI, gave birth to a male child, who, shortly after his birth, was registered in Paris under tho name of Guy Beitrand, and as tho child of unnamed parents. It was alleged that the Earl was not tho father of this child. Tho Earl died on January 13, ISSo, at Big Springs, in tho county of Howard, in the Stato of Texas, in the United States of America. Tho petitioner, Mr Finch, now submitted that upon these facts ho succeeded to tho honours and dignities of the Eurl of Aylesford and Baron Guernsey. In tho course of the trial the following lettors from Edith, Countess ot Aylesford, to the Dowagor Countess of Ayle-ford (the mother of tho lato Earl) wero read : - "Friday Night—Dear Lady Aylesford, —By tho timo this letter roaches you I shali have left my hou^o for ever. Guern sey-(at this time tho Earl boro the cour tesy title of Lord 'Juornsov) -knows of this, which will account for his telegram to you. I do not attempt to say a word in self defence ; but you can imagine I must havo suflbred much before I could tnko such a step. How much it would be impossiblo to toll you ; but it is tho only representation I can mako to Guern sey, and he will now have the oppor tunity of getting rid of ono whom ho has long ceased to care for. You do not know, and you can never know, how hard I havo tried to win his love, and without success ; andlcannot live uncared for. Idonota.*k you to think hardly of mo. I know you could not do it ; but, for God's s-ako, be kind to the children, and do not toich them to hate their wretched mother Let thorn think Inm dend ;it will bo best. I hoard from Minna the other day, but never an swered hsr letter. She will now know why you hiTe always been most kind to mo, and it is tho last word I shall ever fay to you. Do not be offended if I thank you for all your kindness, and ttll you how very wretched it make!- mo to think flint I should havo brought such sorrow and disgrace upon you all ; and, oh ! Lidy Aylesford, if it is possible, try and forgive me as you hnpo for forgiveness. I know that Guern sey does no* Ciro for mo, therefore I do not think ho will fosl my lo?f, and perhaps may bo glad to be free; but whit i t costs mo to leave my children I cannot tell you, and 1 cannot bear to think. That tlioy will bo well cared for I know, as you will be a mother to them ; but, my God, I shall never .°eo thoni again —it is like being dead and yet alive. I could not givo orders about tho children, therefore know nothing, co please to give tho necossary orders yourself. I havo left the diamonds with Ja'mos, and as regards tho things belonging to me, I havo written to him to sond thorn, and they will bo for warded to me. I wrote to Madgo to como to me to-day, and I have told her all I havo told you. Sho has just returned to town, and I fimloftalonocomplotly broken-hearted. I bring this letter to town myself. I would havo seen you, but feel that perhaps you would rather not soc mo. God bless you, dear Lady Aylosfor<>, and for the last timo farewell, and try not to think too hardly of EIIITH."

" Dearest Lady Aylesford,—l must write to you for tho la"»t time to thank you—Oh ! I thank you .°o, so much for your goodness to me. I have not deserved it frcm you, and I havo not been a good d.iughter-in-law to you, and you have behaved to me like an angel upon earth. My own mother could not havo been moro generous and kind than you havo been, and, as long as this poor wretched child livos, she never, never will forget tho lovo you havo shown me, notwithstanding all eho has done. I know how porry you aro for mo, an.i how littlo i deserve it; and, my God, if it had been possiblo for me to give him up I would havo done it if it had only been for the angelic way you have behnvod to mo. But, dar ling Lady Aylefford, I cannot tell you how awfully I love him—it is the only excuse I am able to givo you. Say good-byo to tho Colonel for me. I think he liked me, and will bo ?o ry for me. I could not *oe bun myself ; "ood byes uro so oroadful when it is parting for over Dearoet Minna, a^k hor to forgive mo for the di-greea I have brought on hor : eho knows now why I could not answer her letters. 1 am eoino- to Wales to-morrow, as Bland ford 0 cannot break his word, and it would only make- matters worso Lord Randolph Churchill is very sensible, and knows bettor than I do what should bo done. I send you the dres-ingcase, and en clo.-c tho koy ; tho hand: looking glass, James has it, and it was broken and I gave it to him to havo it mended. I should like darlina Hilda to hive tho dres.-ing-ca.'o, pica?o. I have asked Guernsoy in my letter to have Hilda's picture done some day. I think ho will not deny me that; you will not I know, if ho should refuse. I shall not send ray loiters to James until my return. Mv letter to Guornsoy I will send you before I leave-; .1 do not fool ablo to wnto it to night, and now I must wish you my ast rroorf-byo, and to my dying day shall I ble^s you £ r your great goodness and generosity to mo. Vow I reproach myself for not havin" been a better dauphtcr-in-law to you, I cannot tell you. May God koop and bless you will always bo tho fervent prayer of her who has no longer any right to call you her mother-in-law, and if eomo day Guernsoy fhould marry again, may she. whom ho chooses prove a bettor daughter-in-law than lhavebeci.. Good-bye! Good-byotoyouall. ~"!ntforfar-cresccnt Exmouth, Wednes-

-Dear Lady Aylc:ford,-I must write wl ,vk you if vnu can in any way use your nlh'cnoewith Guernsey to stop h.m fam lighting the Queen's Proctor. He will not TOiu the ciso, and it will be so dreadful to have tbo whole thing mado soipublic as a defended suit will entail. Ido not know for certain who it was who instructed t.io Ocens Proctor, but have heard from sevoral people that it is Mn TAltt'e brothor in-l-w But. the Qnoen'3 Proctor has a *tronir case a-winst him, the first bring collusion, wbicii alon.. ice uugh to stop him potting his uivo>-fic, but I l.ea. ll.at he is determined nevcrtholets to %ht him. 1 cannot say how sorry I am that ho should do so ;it will to so dreadful having a case

of tliateort in tho papers, I never dreamt for ono moment that if the Queen's Proctor intervened he would fight tho case. If he had any chance of gaining, it would bo perhaps worth his trouble; but frem what lorn told, ho cannot. Can no one do anything to stop him ? lam so sorry, too, dear Lady AyUsford, for your sake, as it will te most disagree able for you and for me ; it will be dreadful, , for it must drivo mo from England, 1 could not remain, of course, with a case of that Rort going on. You will say, perhaps, that it is my own fault, and so it is, of course ; bat it does not make it less hard for all that, and I would havo done any thing to have prevented a defended suit if I ever had dreamt that there w«uld have beon ono, for, as I told you, I should novor havo defended it. I hopo my children are well, and that Alexandra is lesa frettish than she was. Oh, dear Lady Aylcsford, I am so, so sorry for all this trouble I havo caused you, for if nothing will stop Guornsoy it will indeod be dreadful. Perhaps if you went to him and Minna aUo, and imploro him for all your to'.ves to -withdraw, it might stop him- Thero is no time to be lost, ns tho Queen's Proctor has delivered his plea°, so that itmay come on any day.— Yours affectionately, Kditii."

Thoro wore some other let tors, in ono of which the Countess complained that she was not permitted to poo hor children, na sho wad not divorced. The Countess added: —" Of course it would bo very disagree ablo for mo to havo rocouree to law ; but if you still rofuso to send them to gee me I havo no alternatifo but to do so - I remain yours truly,—E. Avr,ESFOI3U." In a further letter tho Countess asked to sco Lady Aylesford, adding—" Lord Blandford and I havo parted, or I should not dare to ask you this fiivour." There was also another letter to Lady Aylesford, in which the Countoss wroto —"Does Guernsey care for his children, and does ho otton soo them ? Because, although wo are parted, I should liko to feel that lie istondof them, and does not hato them because they aro mine."

Several letters from the Marquis of lilandford wero also read, and a quantity of ovidenco givon as tot ho relations existing between tlio Marquia and tlio Countess of Aylesbury,

Judgment was given unanimously in avour of Mr Finch.

■SV. Jamm' 6'< i :<■//<?,referring to this action, said—" The Aylesfoid peerage case, deter mined yostorday, has mot with tho samo rapid troatmont us tho recent Lovatpoorago enso, Tho ciicnm°tances of tho former in quiry are of a painful description ; and when it camo to tho turn o! L'.idy Aylosford's representatives to adduce their evidence on behalf of hor son's legil imacy, they admitted that thoy wore not in a position to resist tho care that had been made out for tho petitioner, Mr Charles Finch. Under thoso circumstances, Mr Finch «as hold entitled to the honours and dignities of tho Earl of Aylesford and Baron Guorneoy; and certainly it is dillicult to understand why tho claim on behalf of Lady Aylesford's son was ever made. In fact, it was a most dis graceful attempt at doing an additional

wrong to a family already wronged by. tho acts of ono party in the case. And what did his Ciraco tho Duke of Marlborough think of Lady Aylesford's proceedings? \Yi\-s it with or without his knowledge that tho claim of his illegitimato sou to tho Aylesford title and estatOß was asserted? Ho know tho child tj bo his own, at any riito."

The Fate of a Crack Joe Ke.

\Yji. Nkwhousk, who was a few years ago a celebrated jockey, and ono of tho best known

uen on the turf, died lately in St. Giles's Work-house, having literally worn cut every

friend on earth. Heavy betting brought Nowhouso to giicf. " (fc was," fays Mr Corlett in the course of nn interesting memoir

in the " Sporting Times," " decidedly the best light-weight of liis day," and possossed of the most unlliucliing courage. Not even

the moat daring acti of horsemanship of Archer have eclipsed the performance of Newhoiiso, and we havo moro particularly

in our mind's eyo a raco bo rode on The Sh ih at Brighton. The horso had been

laJe tho mod him of a desperate plunge, in

diich Nowhouso was a sharor. In tho race ie vfat apparently hopelessly shut in until cry near homo, when it bucamo a caeo of 'nick or nothing" with him. He deter-

mined on risking his nee!;, and, dashing in next the rails, whero there was not Dearly room, fairly pushed hi; principal oppnnont out of the way, and won by a het.d. Tho owner of tho horro, when wo lust paw him. ivas not in a much botter plight than

his jockoy. Tho ruin of Newhouso was heavy hotting, and for this ho neglected his riding. Wehavoseen hitnporched inthenwst

prominent part of tl.o ring, openly betting in hundred* and monkeys, either on hi~ own horces or other people*. Ho took part in that famous expedition Sir George Chet wynd lifted out for the pnrpnso of rooking tho Khedive, and anything more humorous was noror told (lian his description of it. Tho most fairy like tales hadbeen told of the onormons prizes that wcro given by tho Khedive, and of the lnrgQ sums ho betted. A llrst-class In wo culled Countryman, who was top in tho T. Y.C. handicaps, was rent cut for " leading bufinecs," and a cist iron hun.Uo racer to do the "walking gontlcman," Tom French, thocrack jockey of the rlay, who had just ridden a Derby winner, was iirst jockey. So far from rook inc.' tho Khedive, it was tho English party who wcro rooked, n* Countryman, it is believed, was puUoncd, and tho height of absurdity was readied when England's great jockey, who would havo scorned to riiio at, a meeting in this country not tinder Jockey Club rule?, meekly got into tho saddle, and won a trivial hurdlo raco, which was tho only pri/.o tho party di<l win. "If wo had won every race on tho card," said Nowhouso, "they would not havo amounted to more than wo could havo got in one go at Croyden." On his re turn from I'-gypt (it U not Napoleon we aro speaking of), Newhouso went to Monto Carlo, whnro ho was denied admission to tho gamingtables, on tho ground that children wcro not admitted. This error was soon rectified, and tho following day, to tho astonishment of the croupiers, he was seen staking "maximurns," not altogether with out success. It was hero that ho enter tained several members of tho Jockey Club with a most princely dinner, tho company not breaking up until tho morning sun sent its beams into the room Nor aro wo Fnr priserl at it, as Newhoufo was a most excellent on;l entertaining host. A shrewd observer, his power.i of description wero most graphic and humorous, and there was enough fun about him, combined with hard hitting repartee, to havo mndo tho fortune* of half ado/.on professional wits. Tho lirst timo wo saw him rido was at Lowes, uherc ho won on Touch and (io, when ho was so small that ho had to bo lifted into tho scales, and carrying tho big saddlo was altogether out of the question. His weight at thi-i time was little more than three stono. It was not long boforo ho took tho load amongst tho light-weights, but all this timo ho was treated morely (is a stable boy, and every night ho had to clean his horso, for which purposo it was nocOFSary for hiai to stand on a bucket. As will bo gathered from what wo havo said, ho had far moro intelligence than tho ordinary run of jockeys, and this very intelligence was perhaps his ruin. Ifo became one of tho biggest backers of the day, and at one period was worth many thousands of pounds. Tho evil day rarao, and, hiving lived so long in luxury, ho did not seem to caro to return to tho drudgery of tho saddle, and, wearing out his friends, he gradually fell and ;01l until ho became a ITaymarket lo^fur, and linally, poor fellow, found a pauper's grave Tho lo??on of his life is a Fad ono ; but wo fear that it will soon be forgotten. Tho Haymarket i^ a rock on which many jockeys havo boon wrecked before this day, and wo can see moro than ono of the prosont school drift ing perilously in the samo direction.

The Catholics and The Riel Rebellion.

A PrksjsYTEJUAN correspondent of "Tho Canada Proabj terian " puts n quiotus on the vague rumours that therobcllioninthenorth M-est was fomented by tho clergy of tho Tinman Catholic Church. AVriting from Wirrrpcg, ho Bay? : "In this country no clergyman liai dcnouncsd tho wickedness of the rebellion in n.orc unsparing terms than liis grace, tho voncrablc Archbishop of Winnipeg, and tho fact that fevoral Catholic prio^ts romained firm in their al k-gianno to tho Queen and exposed their persons to tho violcnc-o of tho bloodthirsty Indian.--, and died at, thuir posts in endca vouring lo restrain the murderous ferocity of savage?, should for ever silence such calumnies. Those men did not 1100 for safety to tlio older .-ottlemcnts, nor oven botuko themselves to tlio fora for protection, but de.l liko bnivo n.on aL< tho pjst of snored duty." Such a statement in'a reputable frjtwtant religious organ 13 a deserved robuko to Ihosa foolish peoil) who are nlways on the lookout for a light over re li;!on. - "N. Y. Tribune.'

A SENSATIONAL TRIAL FOR MURDER.

Careor of the Aooused.

(Fkom Our London CoRiiEsroNMNT,)

London, July 3. j The " flash " French murderer Marchan don, aomo particulars of whose crime I sent you a few mails back, waß tried at Paris on Friday and Saturday, under cir cumstances of unusual interest. The best account of the affair I have seen so far come« from tho Paris correspondent of the " Daily News," who also supplies many novel dotails of tho accused's career. Writing on Friday ovening, he says:— Marchandon's trial hai drawn that motley sightseeing kind of auditory which attends first representations c-f plays. Tho severe dresses of tho judges' ana eminentadvocates1 wives ha,vo been mingled with the oxtrava gantly elegant dresses of pretty actresses. Loading actora wore in full force, and ftig front bonehos were occupied by thoso of the Francois, their fair professional associates, and favourite pupils. Dressmakers of European farao wont to study the toilettes. Tho windows of tho Assize Court all look ing south, ]and every spot being orowded, tho heat was suffocating. Tho dock facing tho window, the prieoner was in a strong sunlight for many hours. Tho roomy bench was crowdod with judgos of tho other tribunals who camo to Fpo Mnrchandon. As his guilt is clear, curiosity was only excited about his person and tho manner in which ho would try to get out of the charge of premeditation when being questioned by tho presiding judgo. The prisoner glided rapidly into tho dock, and was scatod with his hands boforo his face, before thoro was time for tho tin mannerly part of tho auditory to levol at him their opora glasses. On tho table beneath the Bench were his cano, umbrella, carbine, a puir of dogskin gloves, the black coat which ho had cut in two and thrown into tho latrino, a small leather satohol, and an opon portmanteau, containing a liouton ant's uniform, which lie had stolon. Tho indictmont was very long. Forty oight witnesses wero cited, among whom waa Jeanno Blin, his mistress. When hor namo was called nnd sho stood to answer, all oyes savo Marchandon's- wove fixed on her. Ilor reputation for beauty was oxaiz gontcd. A harshor phyi-iognomy it h diffi cult to imagine Marchandon, on being told to stand up, still held his hands before his faco and went nn sobbing. When ho coasod and tho interrogatory bogan, ho lowered them. Ho looks young, is only 21, and has something in his face euggoe tivo of horsey habits. In point ctf fuot, he bogan his career at tho ngo of 12 as a stable boy of tho Finance Minister, who paid him 30 francs a month. Everyone liked him, but lio lost his placo in consequeuco of tho dofoat of tho 16th of May Government, nnd in going from situation to situation beenmo perverted. Ticking up somo English with tho irrooaic, ho pasted off in 18S0 as tho eon of a rich London morchant This do coption was practised to mako a con quest of a girl of light inannors, for who?o fako ho etolo for the lirst time money and jowols. Ho was dotOftod and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. On leaving gaol ho obtained a goo'l place, but \va* soon dismissed, be cause his master thought him dangorous. His noxt situation was at Do la KochetU's. When there ho mado Joann* UUnS) ac qvaintnnco, and persuaded hor that ho was tho natural eon of his employer, whom he robbed of money and a carbine. Ho noxt robbed tho Chateau do BuseieVo, whence ho took ;S,OOO francs, nnd much valuneU jewellery, which ho gave to Blin, telling her it was a present from a great lady who loved him passionately. He doaerteJ from the army after a short period of igrvioe, robbed a former omploycr of 13,000 frnncß, and then took tho villa atCompiegno undor the names of Monsieur and Madame de Hlainvillo. Thero was a mausoleum of a family named Marchandon at Mont Parnnwo, which ho represented as his father's. Money getting scarco, ho committed hit grcalo.-t burglary at Doctor LacharrioreV, after which ho robbed Lieutenant do la Kochctte of his uniform.

Tlio expenses of the Compii-giio establish ment rapidly risinjj,ho endeavoured to obtain actuation at the rrincoss Ponistowßka'ii,

and, fuiliup-, <n!oredthat of Madame Cor net, whom lie murdered. Hor hui-b»nd «-as railed «s ft wit ness, and prored that Marchandon h«d taken off the tongue of tho boll communicating bctiycori his wife's room and the Uitchou. 110 must havo done ho with a tool. Marolmndon admitted thsi he had siloticed tho bell, but ?aid it was by wrenching tho tongue with his lingers. He did it before lis nttmnptcd tho robbery. This, was tho salient fact brought o:it today to establish i romeditation.

Tho piteous attitude of Marchandon, and tho circumstance ot his having wrenched tho clapper our of tho belt communicating with Madame Cornet's bedroom before ho set about robbing her.precluded th» expec tation that tho jury would quaNfy their verdict by finding extenuating circum stanco?.

There had boon no mystery about the murder from the day of his arrest, when ho acknowledged his crims, but lie wa« vorv cunning in evndin^ questions the drift of n'Mch wa,s to got him to own premeditation. Hiswrittonaccountofhis crimaloftiiodoubt tint lis with great foresight made preparation tc kill Mftdamo C-nrnot if sho came upon him when he was robbing tho de»k in her salon, where fho kept her jewels and money. Hi* s'ory that he took a knifo from tho kitchen moroly to cut tho twine with which ho wantod to tie up parcels, and that being detected tie rushed without knowing what ho did on tho unfortunate lady and cut hor throat* was a plausible lie, was mad* to doTct.iil with other circumstances, nnd might have succeeded but for the wrenched boll clatter and his snivelling attitude. The boll at Madnmo Cornet's was not tho first ho had mutilated. Ho isolated an electrical alarm boll botween tho bed room of Doctor 1 acharrMro and tho kitchon boforo ho besian to rob his study. M. Dnnot did all that was possible for him to obtain for himextonuatingcircumstancps, bringing tho murHcrw's worthy and honrt broken mother into Court as a witness to got her to imploro for mercy, and making use himself of pathetic effects in epsaking of her.

Tho only thine that fcemod at all likely to causo any sort of reaction in his favour was tlio disgust excited by Joanne Bin's harsh ness in rotating her domestic Hfo for oightocn months with Marchandon and her pretentious vanity. Sho gavo her testimony glibly, wont into book-kooping details that wore not asked for to show sho had got from him in all 21,000 francs, and assumed picturosquo attitudes. Marchan don did not daro to look at hor, but hor bendy oyen i»hot ill-natured glanoos at him. Sho drew oft' her <;lovo coqucttiihly to h" aworn, and ofton looker! round as thr.-. ;

to geo tho efl'oct fiho produced. M. D.a.i mado a point of Marclmndon boing a pro fessional thief,nnd «o used to succufe that ho was not likely to compass a murdor in order to csoipo detection. Ho could have rbbbod at his caso tho noxt day, whon Madame Cornot would havo gono as usual to spend an hour and a half in the vaults of tho Madeleine beside hor daughter's coffin. A murder ho would have calculated must mako the polino, who had him on their black lists, m jro eagojLJn catch him. After deliberating for half an hour, a verdict of guilty without extenuating cir cumstances was returned. On hearing tho sentence of death, tha convict fell down in an inort though not fainting state Ho was then carried out.

Mademoi?ella Blin, having been hooted on loaving the Palni? de Justice on Friday, did not come on Saturday, but remained at homo granting journalists interviews.

Marchandon is the nineteenth persen under capital f entenco in Franco. Of these six aro in tho Roquetto prison. The actors who wont to see Marchandon were gratoly disappointed. Ho was too ignoble a scoundoel to be imitated on the stage.

THE GRATON MURDER.

Confession of the Prisoner.

THIS Coroner's inquiry at Grnfton, New South Walo.x, in the matter of the recent murder resulted in the jury finding a verdict of wilful murder against Mattnow Friako. who was committed on tho Coroner'n warrant to take his trial at the next Circuit Court to bo hold at Grafton in October. Tho prisoner i? now in custody in Grafton gaol. Tho following is tho substances of his confession :—At half past .8 on Thursday last bo was complaining of being c>ld and shivering, and requested to be allowed to have a HtUo brandy. This was given lii:n, and about a quarter of an hour afterwards he said to the con stable, "I see you are a Christian, and I want to be a Christian too.1' Ho added, " You neoi not trouble any more." You have got all you nun find. I did it. I killed my m.ata Matron." Tho yoliceraan then toll! him !o wait iill he pit tho writing matoiial.s to note it down. Tho aecr.sedthen continued, "I struck him on the spino of the back as hard as I could with the axo

that you got.'' He hero pointed out on tho policeman's back tho placo whore he struck his victim. "Tho murdered man," ho con tinued, " was standing over that big stump hole, poking the fire. There was a big fire in it at tho time. The troo had not thon fallen down, but there was a big hole in the stump whore the firo was. Ho was in a stooping position when I camo behind him with that axe. 1 struck him as hard as I could. The blow knocked him into tho tiro. His leg stuck out, and I could not shovo it in. 1 thon shoved op tho leg of hh trousers and chopped his leg ofF; and I threw tho leg away, and his boot fell off. I picked up tho boot and throw it in tho fire, and thon got a long stick and commenced to poke up tho fire and bones." Friske was taken to tho place by the pol'eo, whero ho further explained the occurrence. Ho pointed out where the leg was cut off, and where he had chopped off tho blood-marks. Ho pointed out whero tho leg lay in some ferns, some nino or ten yards off, and explained that after they had gono to tho hotel after tho search ho had watched them and placed it thore, as he was frightoned. Ho said lie nOvor thought to throw away the log whon ho chopped it off. Ho added that tho leg and bones wore thoso of his mato Matson, and ho was wild whenjho coinmittod the act. Ho stated that his mute was doing him wrong by giving him a false cheque. Ho expressed himself as much relieved aftor making his confession. Botli men hud been fivo yoars in the country. Mats-on was about 20 yoars of ago, and tho mur doror is about G7, and has a wife and family at homo, and he has reoontly sent for them to come to Australia.

MONTANA COWBOY FUN.

How Thoy Boarded a Train

" I shall never forget an o.\-pcricnco of mine in Montana a littlo over two years ago," said Brakcman Scbultz, of tho Northern Pacific. "Thero wore Andrews, tho csnductor, Wylic, the engineor, Colby, the iiroman, arid myself running No. II pas eengor on tho Montana division, and ono night about dusk wo wero getting out of Milo City, when a red light was seen by tljo engineer, and ho stopped the train Just as it stopped, about a dozen cowboys rigged up in full uniform, each with a braco of revolvers in his bolt, got into tho coaches, while a few tnoro guarded tho engine. I knew troublo was coming in soon as I saw thorn got on, and I took a scat among tho passen gers. Tho conductor did net appear at first to roalifo that anything was wrong, but wont to tho forward part of tho coach, whon hall-a-dor.ou of tho buckskin-clad boys grabbed him and sot him upon tho coal box. Ho protested, but tho bojs paid no attention other than to toll him not to move a liugor, as thoy wero going to ehoot the heels of his boots off. 1 rather enjoyed tho fun, though I lay mighty clo.so, fearing that they would notico mo, but thoy didn't hi fore- tho conductor was short the liools of kis boots. Ho wad whito as a enovvlhiko, but ho hold up bravely, fearing a miscalcu lated shot. Thou thoy caught mo and tied me and a passenger back to back,and set us over a seat, and then commenced bolting among themselves which would pull tho other over. The stakes were put up, and th«n two of thoin got prongs and began touching us up'witu them. Tho follow 1 had [Htted ajjain-tmo Has a Swede, and neither of us had any chow to pull the other over. Then 1 resorted to a stratagem, and when thoy gaTQ the Swodoa pronj;and ho jumpod about n foot I pulled hard, and lie camo Hy ing over tho foit and went s-o far over that henoirly broke my back. We were loosened then, »ud thuy took the Swedo's boots off irad stood him on his head, and then played tho bastinado on the solos of his feet. ' Well, you'd die a laughing to hear that poor follow bellow, entreat, pray, and cuss thoro cowboys, and although my log* weru .^minting from somo dance*) I got I just roared After thoy had dono enough mis chief they shot out tho lights and left 'ho' train. —"St. Paul (ilobe."

Registering His Own Death.

A COBHESI'ONDKST at Leek telegraphs that William Mollor, a farm labourer, who so cleverly succeeded in repiosenting himself as dc\d, and in registering hia do >th and obtaining burial money from a lo<lgo of Foresters of which ho wan a member, is wantod by the Lei k police upon a chargo of stoaling » horse eight days ago from a f>U bio at Upporhulmo, near Leek, of which placo Mcilor id a native. Thu horso has been traced to Manchester, wlicro it wns poll for £13, It is stated that Mcilor, when only nitio years of age, collected 8s for a VVesieyan juvonilo miss;onary, ami then got drunk and burned the box. Nearly twenty years ago ho joined tho Manchester force, but was .soon di-missed. Two years later ho made a false declaration and was admit ted to tho Staffordshire constabulary, but the perjury was discovered and ho was dismissed aftor two diys1 set vice. Ilia noit imposture was to apply to a money society for funds with which to stock an imaginary farm. When the inquiry officer enmo over, Mollor coolly took him over a B-ell-ordored farm in tho neighbourhood, tho rightful owner of which ho knew was nb.'ont. In this way ho was successful in obtaining .Cl'2o, with which sum ho de camped, nnd was not hoard of again for ton years. Tho police think that lie has now succeeded in escaping to America with tho proceeds of tho horse robbery. Tho inoi dint of registration is held by many persons to add to tho reputation of Mollor for ucutonos!l, and not a fow hopo that he has made his escape good. Tho fact that the medical man actually went with tho suu posed d«ad man to register his death is deemed not to be tho least startling feature of the startling deception.—''l'all Mall Gazette."

Jumping from a Running Train.

Troy, Juno 22,—William Payne, eighteen years of ago, but swore that ho was unilor liffoon, was eoutonced in Court of Sessions lait wfok to tho House of Rofugo on Randall's Island. Ho had pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with robbing a gipl from Saratoga, whom he induced to ontor a saloon on Kivor street, of 10-tdols Payne was taken to New York on the lato train on Saturday night by Deputy ShorUF Everett Gray,of .lohnsonvillo. Superintend ent Jones,of thp House of Refugo,rcfused to recoivo tho prisoner, on tho ground that ho was ovor tho proscribed ago. Gr.iy loft Now York for this city with his prisoner lust ovoning, and, not anticipating that ho would attempt to escape, took oft" tho handcuffs, Gray and l'ayno occupind tho s-anio i-oat, tho latter sitting near Iho window, which was opon. A short time after leaving .Sing Sing, and when tho train was moving rap idly, Gray loft hw soat to got a drink of tra'er Ho had hardly left I'ayno's eMo

•n tho latter placed his feet, on tho scut .ml sprang from tho window. Gray muv tho net, and, rushing to tho renr platform, jrfmpcd from tho train. Aflor turning sev eral somersault.-) he piekod himself up and stnrtod in pursuit of L'ayno, who had ob tained a good lead, but Payne had boon so badly shakon up by his jump that ho could nottravul very fast, nndGray managed to kcop him in view. The runaway made for tho hills, but Gray did not lose sight of him, and after going nearly two milca was closo upon him. Then Gray drow his revolver and shouted :

"If you don't stop I'll put a ballot through you." Tho warning had tho desired effect, Payne coming to a halt. Ho was hand culled at once, and'wns placed on board tho next train for tho north. 'When the train reached Albany ho was put in a polico station, where ho remained until this fore noon. Ha was then brought to tho gaol in this city. Payne will bo rc-scntonced to morrow.

It is the opinion of tho physician that Payno is badly hurt internally. Gray is badly cut and bruised. A fow years ago Gray jumped from a movit.g tniin on tho Troy and Boston road and arro-tud a crazy mnn who had preceded him.— JN.Y, "Sun."

Poisoned by Sewer-gas.—A Curious Case.

An astion of considerable importance to house-buildors as well as householders lias been tried in the Queen's Bench. A mar ried lady named Lowndes? diod laat year from the effects of tho blood-poiaoninc in duced by the sewer-gas which escaped into her honpo at Croydon from a broken pipo. She had an income of £1,000 a year, which " died with her," and hor husband brought an action against tho owner of the house to recover compensation for the loss ho hud ms'-ii !• -It "as fhown that the owner hid made " fal*e and fraudulent" representations us to the healthy condition of' the house, and the jury awarded the plaintiff £-.2,228. The judge also ordered the agreement foi letting the house to bo rescinded.

Why She Wanted a Kiss.

" Kiss m 3 again." Sybil Sartoris spoke these words in a grave, calm manner that betokened the serious import in which she held them, and as Uarbirt Holdfast bent tenderly forward and pressed his lip? softly to hers, she looked up to him in tho sky, cat-on-tbo back-fence fashion that had so bewitched him in the golden-hued days of courtship, There WU3 no tint of deception in the puro nature of this girl, and her every act was the result of reflection, often profound. Brought up in Boston, sho had been all her lifo accustomed to put to its best use tho power of discernment which a thoughtful mind gave her. Surrounded a? she was by the mystic influences of Emorson, the Concord School of Philosophy, and several largo warehouses where mackerel were sold, it is small wonder that whon standing on tho threshold of womanhood, she beheld suiters for hor heart and hand approaching; she had analysed with critical care the hopes and fears of 6ach —had subjected tho character of evnry wooor to the rigid scrutiny of a mind that, soatod cro«i-legged on tho starry summit of psychological research, looked upon a man us only vivified protoplasm, and tho deepest emotions of tho heart as merely tho mani festations of a too active nerve centre.

Herbert knew this. Ho knew that this girl, the rounded curves of whoso figure imd tho dowy sweotnoss of whose lips would have made an anchorite leave his job without a pang, had naught of passion in her nature And so when ho had complied —oh, so gladly—with hor request, thero stalks from out of the banquet halls of his imaginati n, whore they had co long been unwelcome guests, the sheeted ghostß of doubt and apprehension. Ho knew now that Sybil loved him with a lovo that would ncvor faltor or fail—a lovo that, socurely built upon a foundation of rospoct and admiration, was now crowned withtho largo, roomy, mansard roof of n deathless, never-changing passion.

Her words proved it. Novcr before had sho oven as much as hinted at a kiss, and when ho bad sought to take ono sho had submitted to his caresses moro as a dutiful than as an ardent lover. But now ail was changed, and it was she who sought tho blisa -that a large, well regulated, throe-story-and-bnsemont Idea alone can give. Tho thought wasocstacy.

" You lovo mo better to-day, Sibyl," ho said, "than you did yesterday. Is it not so, darling?" "No," nhoanswers, standing thoro calm and pulseless as a calm at high tido.

"Then why," ho says, me to kiss you?"

"did you ask

" Because," Sibyl replies, "I desired to ascertain whethor or not you had bcon drinking rum."

Little Wit.

The smull boy learning the alphabet is liUo a po-tago stamp; ho gets stuck on the letters.

" Woll my young gontloman, how would you liko to have your haircut?" "Oh. like papa's, please, with a littlo round holo on tho top."

Poucon—" Boys !boys ! you shouldn't play marbles today. Sunday's a day of rojt, you

know." Spokesman —" Yes, fir, wo knows it, but we ain't tired, sir."

Pretty Teacher —

"Now, Johnny A\rclla,

can you tell mo what is meant by a miracle?" Johnny—" Yos, tcachor ; mother says if ;-'ou don't marry tho now parson 'twill bo a miracle !"

" Grandma," said a young scapograco, "do old peoplo live very long?' " Somo times," said the stern old lady. "Do you think you will live to bo very old ?" per sisted the hopeful. " I hopo," said tho old lady, woarily, " that I shall livo long enough to see you grow up to bo a well behaved young man."

Littlo fivo year-old h.id boon watching tho raising of a Hag. Toward evening, ;u< ho looked at tho sun, ho said : "How does tho sun cot, anyhow, grandma?' "When you arc older you will understand;" was tho reply. "Oh, I know," said tho irrepres sible, after a momont'a pauso ; " God pulls tho string and tho sun goes down."

"Minnie, how do you manage to toar your clothes co badly? Why don't you try to be moro direful"' You keop mo mend ing all the time." "I do try to, mamma, but boforo 1 know it they are toared again." " Look at littlo Grace Sims. Now, why can't you be liko hor? Sho nover tojirs hor clothes at ill," " W«ll,mamma,it ain't any wonder she don't." "Why?'' " Sho don't havo hu'f at much fun aa I do."

Slid Bobby to tho minister at dinner: " (.'.'ui a church whistle V" "Why do you isk?' "Cos pa owes back pow rout, and he eny* ho's coing to let the church whistlo for if.'"

" My son," said a father, gravely, hand ing tho youth some monoy, "do you know why a£l is like a carrier pigeon ?" "Cer tainly, father," replied tho youth, pocketing the money ; "it Ilics so fust after it is once broken.'1

"Johnny, it would be a good thing for you to remember in lifo that wo novor get anything in thii world if wo don't ask for it." " Yes, wo do, pn," answered Johnny, promptly; " I got a licking in school to day, nnd you can bet I didn't afk for it."

"Johnny, what wore you saying to that dog?'1 asked a mother of her little son, "I was just talking to him. I told him, ''You havo a good timo of it. You don't have to wash your face or comb your hair, and you don't even havo to go to school.' "

Teacher—So you can't do a pimple sum in arithmetic. Now, let mo explain it to you. Suppose eight of you havo togothcr 48 apples, .S'2 peaches, and Hi molonp, what will each one of you got? " Cholercr mor gun!" replied Johnny Fizzloi;op, who is addicted to that malady.

Cool Letter from a Wife.

Ik the case of Seddon v. Seddon nnd Hall atoad, hoard in Adolaido last wook, tho fol lowing letter from tho wifo to tho husband, which tho presiding Judgo characterised as oxtromoly cool, was read:—" Adolaido, April Wild. Doar Bob, —I am sorry to tell you i am going up north on a station to livo with Tom. I promised to go tho timo you went to town and kicked up such a sproo. They sont for Job thon, but ho wns taken and tho man did not puto. Thoy have sont for Tom as boundary ridor. Can not brnik my promise to him, 1 will tako oil' two children. Hope you will take oare of yourself, and not go drinking as you always have dorm. Pay your clubs, and if anything happens you will have somothing to fall back on. If you novor want it it will do good somo day to your son. You havo your own self to blanio for this. You havo treated mo bad for tho last three or four years, and I havo boon waiting my chunco since then. Hoping you will tako these few words as thoy arcgivon you, and do well for yourself. Don't tell I am pone, only father and mother. No ono knows anything about it. If you don't toll no ono will. Got a tent and got tho things down in it and thon you will bo right. With bust rospsetE, I remain, Annie." Hia Honor said that ho should report tho allegations of im propriety provod.

Weary Women.

The benevolent pooplo who take an interest in securing scats for shopgirls should (says tho "Pall Mall Gazette") diroot their agita tion, it is clear, against the public and not tho fhopkeopors; for until they do their efforts aro likely to bo altogether wasted. Take, for instance, tho case of tho girls " behind the buffot" at tho Inventories. Tho stallholders were all offerod seats, it seem?, if they would allow their at tendants to life thorn, but in every instance tho offer wai refused because "tho public do not like our attendants to sit down; it looks as if no business wore being dono, and ladio? object to be served by people sitting down." Thore is no way of answering this argumont exebpt by making it untrue: and " ladies " and "tho public " cannot too quickly get it into their heads that for any cruelty to shopgirls and barmaids it is thoy who are roally responsible. Whon they have recognised tlii-s, and agrco to boycott all shops where propor consideratijn is not shown to tho attendants, tho evil will cease, but; not beforo.

Some idea of the difficulty of disposing of largo estate?, oven when tho attraction ola deer forest and extensive snooting and fish ing grounds are attached 1o thorn, may be gathered from the circumstance that nine Scotch prop:riies were put up for auction in tho City of London without one of them finding a buyer. In one or two cases there were bids, but considerably bolow the re eerve price. In tho other rases the auctioneer had not ono tingle offer. Tho most attractive of the properties thus ex posed for sale was Fvvie, in Aberdeenshire, with a rer.tvoll of .'.'10,000 par annum, and an old baronial custlo a* historical as any mansion north of tho Grampians. It was bough!:, in at £275,000. Lord Crawford's est.'it-j ■••:' Monecht, which h;is a rentroll of over JE.VJGO, a.id is famous tor tho observa tory erected by the late Earl, could not find a purchaser at £210,000.

RELIGIOUS GLEANINGS.

A Liberal View.

The "Jewish Times" says: "An ex change thinks it queer that Jewish congrega tions should at times worship in Christian churches, and that at the same time Chris tian churches should be thrown open to Jowish cengregations. We see- nothing queer nor peculiar in such a condition of things. It is not the house that has any thing to do with worship ; it is the heart and the intellect of the worshippers that constitute the reality of the religion mani fested. The Eternal One hears all, whether ho is appealed to in a Jewish temple, a Christian church, or an agnostic grove. Let us not quarrel over small things, sonsider ing how vast and immeasurable is the house of our Heavenly Father compared with the house of man."

Christianity and Mankind.

The New York " Independent " says : j " The one idea we are seeking to impress upon our readers is that Christianity, as we find it in tho Bible, is adapted to our situa tion, and in this respect just the religion that wo want. It salutes our faith with the averments and the authority of God. It solves tbe problem of ealvation from sin and its curse. It irradiates and relieves the gloom of death with light from another world. Many good gifts have come to ftarth from the great Father of Light; yet the ' unspeakable gift' has come in the person and tho work of Christ. Our greatest wants are those which he meets. Our purest joys arc those which he inspires. Our wisest lifo is the one he prescribes. Our supremeet good is in tho immortality which ho dis closes and guarantees. The wonder is that any ono who has the knowledge of his gospel should so live as not to share in its benefits, and subject himself only to the curse which it threatens." The Existence of God. Speaking of Monsignor Capel's lecture in this city, the "Catholic Monitor" says: "In these days of agnosticism and infidelity, whon scepticism in God's existence is so common, it is a real act of mercy to open tho minds of men outside the Catholic Church to the fact that proof of God's ex iatenco can be discerned even by the light of human reason. The Vatican Council de fined that reason could thus demonstrate tho existence of God, and Monsignor Capel undertakes to make this important fact clearly comprehensible to all his hearers. The old methods of assault upon the doc trines of the Catholic Church have become obsolete, and the modern style of attack is an organised denial of God's existence; hence it is well, not only for Catholics, but for all denominations of Christians, to be able to meet the non-beliovers of every com munity with accurate, intelligent and irre futable arguments by which to overthrow tho specious speculations of those 'fools' who not only say in their hearts 'there is no God,' but who constantly proclaim their folly before their fellow-men."

The Newest Religion .

The United States are tho chosen homo of novelties not less in tho speculative than in tho practical field, and the soil is as fertile of new beliefs as it is of new machines. The speculative and tho practical faculty sometimes combine with curious results, as when a now policy and almost a new State are founded on the monstrous caricature of Christianity which forms the creed of the Latter Day Saints. For a practical people tho Americans havo a wonderful lovo of crazos, and tho latest and not least remark ablo oxamplo is supplied by sober and superior Boston. It is called the mind cure, and partakes of tho nature partly of a religiaus, partly of a pseudo scientific, movement. Its founder is stated to be a Mrs Mary B. G. Eddy, and its principal vo taries consist, it appears, almost entirely of women. Mrs Eddy was in the year 1866 tho subject at once of a euro and of a revela tion. She was, or was Euppoaed to bo, dying from paralysis, brought on from spinal injury caused by a fall. Her pastor had called to adminiaterthe last conaolations of religion, and she btgged him to call again in tho afternoon. But in the intorval some thing occurred. Mrs Eddy was not co near aa had been supposed to the end of her re sources. It occurred to hor that illness was after all only a mistake in preeence of the divine determination for good, and " she realised that hor hurt wae but an error which when supplanted by iho truth would disappear." Fortified by this now knowledge, she rose from her bod, and when the clergyman came expecting to be called upon to comfort i\ bereaved family she met him at the door. What she had done for hersolf sho felt she could do for others. It was only necessary (o got them to look at things rightly in order that they should bo righted. Sho has bocomo tho apostle of a now sect called tho " Christian Scientists," and of a new medicino which dispensos with tho doctors. Sho has a church which is crowded every Sunday an hour before the service begins, and she has drawn away co many per sons from other creeds and places of worship that a serious commotion has been oxcited among tho orthodox clergy of all denominations. One of these has after a careful study, pronounced Mrs Eddy's re liction to be ''a mixture of Pantheism and Buddhism," and describes tho whole system as " a port of witch's cauldron, in which every concoivablo heathon and Christian heresy is seething and simmering." Another reverend gentleman devotes himself every Monday to a lecture in de nunciation of the new religion, and con ferences of tho clergy are , held almost weekly in order to consider what shall be done. In epito, however, of all this clerical hubbub, the thing goes on and increases portentously, and the original heresy of Mrs Eddy has givon rise to a whole crop of subordinate heresies, differing in the moans employed and some of them having no con nection whatever with religion, but nil of them apparently producing equally good results in tho shape of "mind-curing." It would almost seem that there must be a large number of hysterical persons in Boston,

Monsignor Capel on Science and Religion.

MoNHiGNORCArEL, the distinguished Roman Catholic prelate who it no w makings lectur imr tour of the United States, delivered a lecture in San Francisco on " The Existence of God," which was challenged by the Marquis of Queensberry. In replying to tho Marquis, Monsignor Capel writes : — " In my discourse I was very careful to draw the distincton between the Atheist and tho Agnostic. The formor denies absolutely tho oxistenco of God, tho latter doea not. And here I stated in Huxloy s own words what he, who was the inventor of tho word Agnostic, meant by it. Of the correlate term Agnosticism ho says: '1. Agnosticism Is of tlio G3SGiic© of scionco, WQQfclisr iiiioicnt or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say ho knows or bolievos that which ho has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believo. ... 3. I have

no doubt that dciontifio criticism will prove destructive to the forms of supernaturaliem, which onter into the construction of existing religions. , . But true Agnosticism will not forgot that existence, motion, and law-abiding operation aro more stupendous miracles than any recounted by the my thologies, and that thoro may be things not only in the heavens and earth, but boyond the intelligible universo, which are X >t dreamt of in our philosophy.1

" These are Huxley's own words, and they pretty accurately present Lord Queens berry a position about his belief in God, for which ho has suffered at tho hands of his bather Peers, While believing in a 'di vine, almighty, inecrutablo power,' his Lordship objects to ' an attempted defini tion of this unknown force or power,' as woll as to ' tho name God.'

" But it will be i-omarkod that while Hux ley himsolf, as soon in tho above extract, regards ' existence, motion, and law-abiding operation as more stupendous miracles that any recounted by the mythologies,' still ho does not hojitato elsewhere to define those. Why, then, hesitate about naming and defining 'tho divino, almighty, in scrutable power' admitted to oxiet by Agnostics ? "Tho drift of the arguments adduced by me from the general consent of mankind, from the design, purpose and motion in the universe, also from the voice of conscience as monitor ns well as judge, was to show the existence of intellect and will, and therefore of personality, in this 'divine, al mighty, inscrutable power.' Under such circumstances definition and name were of primary importance, and I opened my lecture by naming and defining what 1 meant by God. Cardinal Newman's worda were cited : 'God, who is numerically One, who is Per- FOH.il; tho Author. Sustainer, and Finisher of all things ; the Life of Law and Order ; tho moral Governor ; One who is supremo nnd ; like Himself, unlike all things be si.JoH Himself, which all are but His crea ture ; distant from, independent of them nil; One who ia self-existing, absolutely in liniie ; who has ever been and ever will bo, to whom nothing is past or future ; who is all perfection and the fulness and achetype ofevery possible excellence, the Truth kaelf,

Wisdom, Love, Justice, Holiness ; One who is All-pov.'srful, All-knowing, Omni present, Incomprehensibls.' To this de finition and description of God given by the Cardinal I added the words of the Coun cil of the Vatican : ' There is ons true living God, Creator and Lord of Heaven and Earth, Almighty, Eter nal, Immense, Incomprehensible, Infinite in Understanding and Will, and in all per fection. He is distinct from the world.' And I closed this part of my discourse by reference to Professor St. George Mivart's statement: ' God is no complex mixture of substances, as is the material universe, but is the simplest of all possible simple substances, and such may evidently have existed uncaused for all eternity.' Surely in all this a First Cause becomes thoroughly thinkable."

The Duke of Westminster on Sunday Opening.

In the Freemasons' Hall, London, under the presidency of the Duke of Westminster, and subsequently of Mr George Howard, M.P., the tenth public annual meeting of the Sunday Society was held, and was well attended by lady and gentlemen supporters of museums on Sundays. The Duke of Westminster (the retiring President) expressed great regret at the fact that they had not been able during the year to do as much as they had hoped to have done, and that their progress had not been so rapid as they could have wished. (Hear, hear). But still there had been progress, as they had with them the feeling of some of the ruling bodies; for the trustees of tho British Mueeum and of the National Gallery were in favour of the Society's movement. (Hear, hear). That of course was of great importance in itEelf. Still, it would have been very satisfactory to the meet ing if he or the future President could have announced the opening of the doors of the museums and other institutions to those who, he believed, were most anxious to enter in, and for whom Sunday was the only opportunity for that purpose, and for whom practically those groat national collections were now altogether closed. (Hear, hear). One of the great objections which had been taken to the opening of those places of innocent recreation was that it would entail a great amount of Sunday labour. He would not allude to that further than to say that tho statistics in his presidential address had effectually disposed of that objection. The Duke of Westminster then expressed his regret that, owing to indisposition, he was not able to attend to vote in tho close division which took place in the House of Lords on tho Sunday opening question. It would be remembered that the vote on that occasion was an equal one. Butstillthe ques tion could not be decided by the illustrious body to which ho belonged, and it practically rested with the House of Commons, and looking to the state of Parliamentary bueiness he feared that, notwithstanding the exer tions of his friend who was about to take the chair, Mr Howard, they would have to look to anothor Parliament to deal with that and a good many other questions of importance. They must, however, go on as they had done for the past ten yeaH, knocking at the doors of intolerance and prejudice, hoping to soe the day when they would bo open to common sense and common justice, and to tho groat bonefit and the elevation of the character of the large portion of the population of the country. (Cheers). His Grace then introduced the now president, Mr George Howard, M. V., who took tho chair.

Mr Mark H. Judge (the Hon. Secretary) read a satisfactory report, stating that dur ing the past year there had been open on Sunday seven separate art exhibitions, and the statistics aa to ths numbers attending showed how highly the particular object of the Society was appreciated, and the small amount of Sunday labour that was entailed to secure this rational enjoyment. As evidence of the growth of public opinion the Committee pointed to four important events during the year. First, the art department of;the Social Science Congress had, after discussion, voted by eighty-six to four, in favour of the Society's objects ; secondly, the trustees of the British Mueeum, by a great majority, bad resolved in favour of opening thonatural history departmentof the Museum on Sundays ; thirdly, a majority of the trustees of the National Gallery had come to a similar decision with regard to the institution under their care; and fourthly, that the recent national conference of the Society proved that actual experience was on the side of Sunday opening. Although not desirfng to dopart from their rule to avoid politics, the Council had decided to submit the question of Sunday opening to the Parliamentary candidates at the next general election. The income of the Society for tho yoar was 1E899, and the expenditure £834. Mr Howard then delivered his presi dential address.

Healing by Faith

An* association has been organised in Eng land entitled "The International Faith- Healing Conference." At one of its recent meetings an American lady, Miss More head, declared that after in vain trying many doctors, she had at length, by the ex ercise of faith, been cured of a fibrous tumor weighting from fifteen to twenty pounds— rather indefinite -and now was perfectly cured, Miles Grant, an American clergy man, averred that he and his children had repeatedly been relieved of serious illnesses simply by faith in miraculous remedy. He had no recourse to pills, or jalaps, or sooth ing syrups. A lady of France. Mme. Junof, perhaps a doscendent o: one of Napoleon I.'a Marshals, who addrossud the confeience in the French language, and Miss Larny, of Switzerland, who addressed it in German, both declared that they had recovered from mortal diseases simply through the efficacy of prayerful faith. Mrs Brodie, of Honduras, was cured by the same means of severe illnesß, when all natural means had failed and her physicians had given up her case as one beyond remedy. A married lady of Birmingham, named Cleaver, who for twenty years had suffered terribly from a disease of the hip and internal abscesses, attended the conference ono day, was an nointed, and tho next day walked without assistance into the hall and handed up her now unnecessary crutches to those on the platform. The Chairman, Mr Tod, said that he and his children had over and over again been healed by the anointing of sacred oil.

A Mr Wood, of South Australia, attended the conference, and gave testimony that one of his children fell sick with a large lump undor her chin find a high fevor. He said to her : " Come, my darling, the Lord shall heal thee." And the lump and fever disap peared at tho same iubtant. Of those pre sent at the conforonce, between a hundred and a hundred and fifty, by rising to their feet, gave thoir personal evidence that they had boon cured of ono disease or another by " faith." Sometimes the euro was slow in coming. It was not always instantaneous, although in sotno instances it had been. But all this would bo moro satisfactory if it wore vouched for by dispassionate witnesses, rather than by persons who might have been subject to aolf-dolusion.

Frightening the Little Ones.

With painful frequency we hoar of cruel "practical jokes " perpetrated upon little children. Again and again cornea to us the old atory of a child frightened into convul sions by a play-fellow who " only wanted to have a little fun." Ono would think that incidents like this had been enacted and told with ghastly itoration often enough from generation to generation to watn off the most incorrigible fun-lovers and fools from the perilous ground. The progress of the witless plot is generally the same up to a certain point. There is neither original ity nor variety in the favourito mode of exe cution. It sounds trite in the telling. A figure wrapped in the conventional pheet, lurking in a dark corner ; a Bpring upon the unsuspecting victim selected, because he is the most timorous or delicate of the family or Echool; dismay, shrioks of anguish blent with goblin laughter -then a difference in the ending. Somotimos no apparent harm is done, unless that one child is made more timid, another moro cruel. Again, the nervous system is unbalanced co far that a swoon, or, as in the case before us, convul sions ensue. Once in a while the innocent subject of the practical joke pays for his tormentor's prank with his reason or hie life. In a less flagrant manner incalculable mis chief is dono in many nurseries by tales of ghosts, bogies, the black man who comes dotvn the chimnoy to catch children who will not go to sloop quietly, etc. That mother is culpable who, when she finds her child unduly timid, does not watch for indi cations that tho nervous organism of her offspring has been tampered with, and who, should her suspicions be confirmed, doea not follow tho clue to its source and banish the criminal from her household.—"Baby hood."

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ORIGINAL POETRY.

SONGS OF THE NEW MOTHERLAND.

No. 1. I've como to theo. sweet motherland, From o'er the billows wide, for thou dida't beckon me, and lo I I'm standing by thy Bide; I soe thee, thou are very fair, So young, and yot, I ween. There is not in the universe So sweot or fair a queen. Thy throno is on the Southorn Alps, Thy footstool is the eea. Thy robes aro woodland coronets, Tho forest and the lea; And Lke a goddess thou art decked In majos;y and pride; With graceful mien and royal Bhoen, A fair and lovdj brido. And in tho golden suHTise That gilds the orango bloom. Or in tho purple sunsets, Or in the evcuiDK gloom, Thou'rt ever fair and lovoly. With fragrant breath divino. God bless thoo, sweet Zcalandia, Fair motherland of mine! W. E. Wills.

MISUNDERSTOOD.

Oh ! if you could ray spirit road, And learn how Tory dear to me lo lore's aweet sympathetic meed. Yon would not so unfoeliDK bo. If truth and lore can win return. Oh ! let mo llnd Borue token sweet; In that cold heart may tsnder germ Of lovo'a sweot fragrance kindly keep. I met you in the silent hour 01 tender thought and pensive mood; You only emilcd, ani coldly said, •' I think you havo misunderstood. " I never said you were to sit Boaids me whilo you heid my hand; I did not STen deem it fit, So please in 1 Mure understand " That you and I muot walk ipart. No more let such rash thought intrude. Till you have learned to know my heart; You really have misunderstood." Oh! With a burning senso of shame, I loft you standing at the prate. If auwht could soothe my spirit's pain, 'Twas only this. I still would wait. And let you find how true and fond The heart remains with love imbued. Say, darling, havo you changed you mind Or am I still misunderstood 1 I thought when last I chanced to meet Your little figure passing by, You looked so loving, smiled so sweot, That I yet onco again would try To win you for my own sweet lovo, And prove how deep the lovo I boar Towards ray darling, whoso reproof Once made my life ao full of care. So let me ask in tonderost tono That o'on might melt the sternest mooi, " Oh! can you yot my love return, Or havo I still misunderstood ?" Jenny When. Thnmnn. August 1S««.

WE GIVE THEM BACK THE LIE.

Shamo on the men who would destroy The grand old charter of our race. Who every cruel art employ To btand its teaohingß with disgraco! And shame on those who Bland aside While others grapple with the foo. Who watch unmoved tho rising tide Roll on its waves of Bin and woe! 0 brothers! shall tho covert sneer. The bolder blasphemies and lies; The foolish dreams of bard or seer, Destroy the elorlous truthß wo prize? Give back the fearful lie to those Who cherish, yet with filial care, Tho name so dear to freedom's foes, . The bold, blaspheming, vain Voltairo, O mother I for your country's sake. And for tho sake of those you love, Keep back your boya from those whomake A by-word of the God above. To thOBO you cherish still bo true, Thehousehold buds thatround you twine, And Bbie:'i them from the alien crew Who sneer ateverything divine. Guard wo the faith for which our sires So nobly gave their lives away, The faith thattriumph'd o'er tho flros Which Bought i ts onward march to stay; Nor let the truth for which they died, Tho freedom which they held ao dear. By social Vandals thrust aßide Cease to fulfil their mission hero, And thou, whom once I loved so well, The idol of my youthful days, Wilt thou unite with earth and hell Truth's noble battlements to raze? 0 Mansey I talents such as thine, Which hallowed once the scenes you trod, Aiound a nobler cause should shine; Be true to us, and true to God. E. S. Husband. Auckland, July, 1885.

A PICTURE OF LIFE.

Did you ever Btand in the crowdod street, In the glare of the city lamp. And list to the tread ol the million feet In their quaintly musical tramp 2 As the surging crowd go to and fro, 'Tis a pleasant eight, I ween, To mark the florurea that come and go In the ever-changing scene. Here the publican walks with the sinner proud. And the priest in his gloomy cowl, And Dives walks in the motley crowd With Lazarus, cheek by jowl; And the daughter of toll, with hor fresh young heart, Aa pure as her spotless feme, Keops step with the woman who makes her mart In the haunts of sin and shamo. How lightly trips the country lass In the midst of the city's ills, As freshly pure us the daisied glass That grows on her native hills! And the beggar, too, with his hungry eyo, And hia lesn, wan face and crutch, Gives a bloSßing the same to the passer-by Aa he gives him little or much. When Time has beaten the world's tattoo, And in dusky armour dight Is treading with echolcss footsteps through The gloom of the silent night. How many of thesß shall be daintily fed And shall sink to slumber sweet, While many will go to a sleepless bed And never a crumb to cat! Ah me! when the aours go joyful by, How little wo Bto.i to heed Our brothers' and sisters' despairing cry In their woe and their bitter need. Yet such a world as the angels sought This world of ours wo'd call, If the brotherly love that the Father tanght Was folt by each for all. Yet a few short years, and this motley throng Will all have passed away, And the rich and the poor and tho old and the young Will be undistinguished clay; And lipa that laugh and lips that moan Shall in silence alike be sealed, And some will lio under stately stone, And some in tho Potter's Field. But the sun will be shining just as bright, And so will the silver moon, And just such a crowd will be here at night, And jußteuch a crowd at noon; And men will be wicked and women will sin, As ever since Adam's fall. With the same old world to labour in, And the same God over all. " Boston Transcript.'

IMPH-M.

Tuno—" Goo-wo-Neddy." Yo've hoord hoo tho do'il, aa ho v.auchel'd through Bolth, Wi1 a wife in ilk oxtor, an ano in his teeth, When some ano cried oot, " Will yo tak1 mine m the morn?" w He wanc'd his auld tail, whileho cockit his horn. But only said, ' luiph-m '— That useful word • imph-m'— Wi' Bio a bIK inouthfu' he couldna gay, A-y-o! When I was a laddio, langsyno at tho schule, The maiater ava cad me a dunco an' a fule ; For a' that ho paid. I could no'or un'eretun1, Except when he bawled, ■ Jamie! haut oot yer han!' Thou I gloom'd, and Bald ' Imnh-m,' I glunoh'd, and Slid 'Imph-m — I wasna owre proud, bntowro dour to say— A-y-e! Ao day, a queer word, as lansr-nobbit's himecl'. Ho yow'd ho would thraßh mo if I wadna spell Quo' I, ' Maistor Quill,' wi1 a kin' o' a swither, 1 I'll spoil ye the word, if yo'll spell mo anither ■' loot's hear yo spoil' Imph-m,' That common word' Imph-m.' That auld Scotch word, ' Imph-ni,1 yo kan what it means—A-y-ti!' Had ye soon hoo ho glowr'd, hoo ho scratch'd bis big pate, A' shouted, 'Ye villain, get oot o'my sate! GetafFtoycrscat! yer theplaprueo'tho echulo1 Tho dei'll o' me kona if ycr nmLst rofjuc or fulo ! But I only Baid ' Imph-ni,' That common word ' Imph-m,' That auld-farran ' Imph-m,' that Btan's for an— A-y-e. An' when, a bri»k wooer, I courted my Jean— O1 Avon's braw lanscs. th" r.ridc an' the queen— Wlion 'neath my Rrey plaidie, wi hourt boatin' fain, I speircd in a whimper, if slin'd lie my niii1 She blush'd and oni-i ' Tmnhm,' That clmrmin:: word ' Imph-m,' A thoosan times bott-r, an' oweoter than— A-J-0 ! And noo I'm a dad wi 1 a lions?, o' my ilinrr A dainty bit wife, an1 niair than ac wean j* Bnt tho warst o't is thi«, when a question I spcir They pit on a look ana nul<i -farran' an queer But only fiav 'Impli-ni,' Thatdaft-liko word ' (mrh-m ' Thatvulsar word—' Imph-m '-they winnaßay Sac. I've Ri'on owre tho ' Iraph'ra'-It's no a nice When printed on paper It's pcrfootabsurd • An if yo reowro lazy to open yer jaw Just hand yo yor to»Kue. an'say nnetMofr ava • But never Bay Imph-m,' s»>», That daft like word ' Impti m'— It's ton times malr VUl?arfhan even braid— A-y-c! .Tames Nicjiolsox. t That compound nasal aflinoative indulged in by those who do not cheoso to open their mouths and i ay yes.

Woman's Friend. -A mother's advice to mothers: "Kfop l>y you, for yourselves and daughters. Mrs l)r. Stimrt's Komale ICejuedies. [ have lu've m-I w.'h ,;iiy mc<ifri'-'in I'O wcil meriting then uueof ' Woman'*Friend.' They are luvmuablo tor the weJknrasees, lieadacheß, and other troubles experienced by females Road.—[Advt,!'

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