EXTRACTS.

Auckland Times, Volume 2, Issue 78, 9 July 1844, Page 1

EXTRACTS.

Going a-Head.—Lieutenant Morrison has, we perceive by a recent Liverpool paper, published ... a description of a steam vessel "invented by himself" It is to be called the Buyh Leviathan* 32,000 tons burthen, and to be propelled by three. Steam engines of 800 horsft power each. She is to be 600 feet long and 174 feet broad ; to haye a, gran4 saloon 150 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 15 feet high, and to have 1,000 private cabins: her crew and passengers will amount to 5,650 persons. She will cost £26b,000, and leave a net profit 0% £130,000 a year to the proprietors, The area of her upper deck will be a little ahove two acres. There will be a kitchen garden and observatory on, deck, which will be fitted, up with' tents, alcove, &c. and round the upper deck there will be a drive for horse and carriage exercise, which will be more than a third of a mile long. There will be a theatre, with a regular dramatic company,' lectures on various sciences, a series oi shops, and although last, not least, a daily paper will be published on board. It is calculated that the passage from England to America will be made in ten days and steerage passengers finding their own provisions will only be charged £l. . We imagine the "inventor*' will be found a valuable assistance to the Wakefield school of colonizers—he will be enabled to transplant a colony with all the institutions of the mother country complete,'at one trip.— Sydney Herald*

The Greatest of Monsters, —Some people have a horror of housebreakers. A strong fellow in a fustian jacket, with a piece of crape over his face, and a pistol in his hand, is certainly a disagreeable visitor to a country gentleman in the mid* die of a dark night in December; the hoarse whisper, conveying a delicate allusion to your money bags or your life, is far from a pleasing method of carrying on a conversation ; and therefore without descending to any more minute particulars, and pluming myself upon any personal immunity from such visitations on the score of having uo house, I agree at once that a housebreaker is a detestable character, and worthy of all condemnation.—A murderer, also, I am not prepared to vindicate. A knife forced into the stomach of an eldeily gentleman in a half sleepy state after a bottle of old port, —a razor drawn across a beautiful barmaid's throat, or a bullet scientifically inserted through the earhole of a deaf old lady engaged in secreting her half year's dividend in a black trunk in the garret —are disagrea* ble objects of contemplation to the philosophic mind, and £ therefore at once coincide in the fervent execration in which a murderer is held by every person I have ever conversed with on the subject, except the Students of anatomy, and two or three popular authors or the conclusive school. But there is another miscreant, for whom 1 have no commiseration • a wretch compared with whose atrocities house-breaking becomes meritorious, and murder innocent; before whose negro-like blackness—to borrow the language of Charles Phillips—the darkness of annihilation becomes white as snow; whose benediction is a curse; whose breath is a pestilence; whose name is hell ; over whose sunless memory shall settle the conflagration of a fury, and whose soul shall shudder beneathappaling convulsions of a fathomless doom for ever. After this description need I say that I mean tha unhallowed monster who neglects to pay his Newspaper Bill I—Blackioood'* Magazine.

A Con,—Why is the man who beats his wife every day like a good husband ?-<* Because he so-laces her*