CLIPPINGS FROM " ATLAS," IN THE WORLD.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 131, 19 October 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)

CLIPPINGS FROM " ATLAS," IN THE WORLD.

The gentleman who has the editing of the Times advertisement-sheet should be a HttJe more careful. The following odd specimen found its way into its columns: — " A comfortable home for citj r gentlemen, who would appreciate cheerful, musical, and select society ; and one or two ladies, who would occupy the same bedroom. Terms, moderate and inclusive." Chinamaniacs beware! I met the other day with an honest dealer (there are a few such), who told me frankly that some lovely little cups and saucers in his stock, of the most ravishing paste and most lovely decoration, were actually being made at this present moment in a private china-kiln in St. John's Wood. They sell in Bond-street at £5 a pair, as genuine specimens of a famous factory, and are eagerly sought after by connoiseurs. Appropos of British subjects in foreign service, of whom we hear a good deal just now, here is a reminiscence :—Many years ago I was in Ireland on post-office business, when Anthony Trollope was surveyor of the northern division. A friend took me to a botanic garden at Belfast, where Julien was giving a monster concert with the aid of the " band of the French Zouaves." One of the principal performers was missing, and, being of musical importance, the Zouave was sought for with the aid of the local detectives. And they found him. Where ? In an Orange lodgeroom, in the far-famed Sandy-row, piously inebriated, toasting the " glorious and immortal memory of the great and good King William III," ar?d singing the " Protestant Boys," with an accuracy of intonation and an impurity of accent quite remarkable in a Frenchman.