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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 23, 10 January 1844, Page 3

An Irish Catholic Emigration Society haii issued a prospectos. The object it has in view is great and benevolent, and at an early opportunity we may examine t : :e principles involved in the Society's scheme, and the mode in which it propuses to conduct its opeiations. Electric Telegraph.—The velocity of Whe»4« sone's messenger has reached a maximum, which can sa'ely be i-a'd of but tew things. The speed is abont 120,000 miles per second. A message could go to Biistol or Biiminghain in I-1400 of a second, or round the gloDe, if wire could be laid for its travelling upon,in one sixth of a second. The messages upo& the blackball rai way, upon part of the<jre«t VVesern railway, and some other are carried at'this extraordinary rate. The bell* in the House of Commons are rung by it, and its uses are extending. Swear by tour Chins.—The Pp.cha of Egypt has lately issued an cdiot commanding all his subjects to shave off their beards—such mandate by a less powerful monarch of a bearded population would probably cost as many lives as hairs ; however, thougn absolute rebellion was not the consequence, strong remonstrance followed. " What shall we swear by," <vas asked, " without our beards ?"—"swear by your chins !" answered the remorseless exterminator of mussulman dignity, Happy will it prove for the Pacba, if, undeV these inauspicious circumstances be preserves bis bead, though he sacrifices his beard , but should,any insurrectionaly symptoms occur, let him in«t»nt[y resort to RrwunDS Maca-sar Oil, which in Grand Cairo, as throughout all parts else of tha world, is in high repute ; the celebrated specific will then have to boast a new celebrity, re-bearding the whole male pop> la'io ' of an empire, restoring unity, preventing the etlusion of blood, and saving a Pacha of Egjp' dew impending annihilation.