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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 396, 18 April 1871, Page 2

A correspondent writes frotn Paris during the siege.—The only very fat butcher's meat that 1 see is dog. It was my fate to eat some mutton broth the other day, —that is, dog broth with a dog cutlet in it. The cutlet was very fat, and in passing by a butcher's stall to day in the market St. Honor. I was struck with the beauty of a saddle of mutton. Never after the cattle show in London have I seen a fatter saddle of mutton—it was a saddle of dog at three shillings a pound. Yes, people eat their dogs here with touching devotion. It is even said that a little lady here gave up her precious lapdog Bijou to be oaten. Bijou was killed; Bijou was cooked; Bijou was eaten. And Bijou's mistress was observed at dinner to put Bijou's bones aside on her plate mechanically, and was heard to remark, with a sigh, " Oh, how my dear little Bijou would have enjoyed these bones!"

An accident occurred about 1 o'clock yesterday, at the Imperial Crown miue, by which a miner employed there, named Thomas Trevarthen, was severly injured. He was shifting a bucket, when he slipped from the platform, and fell down the shaft, a distance of about twenty feet. He was cut in.several places on the head by the fall, but was able to walk to the Hospital.— Advertiser, 14th instant.

In Britain (apart from Ireland) the Roman Catholics number about as many as the entire population of Scotland. There are more Roman Catholics in London than in Home.