ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1667, 22 June 1875, Page 2

ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

(FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) London, May 4.

EVENTS OF THE MONTH

The past; has been by do means an uneventful month in England, and the difficulty of a correspondent lies not in the dearth of subjects, but in the choice of the one which he is to select with which to open the ball. He who has once received his baptism ia ink will not however hesitate long a,*, such a small obstruction, and I will just take up my old note-books and see what 1 can find that will interest you. I should have begun with the installation of the Prince of Wales as Grand Master of the English Freemasons, but as I . understand you have specially engaged a ! Master-Mason who had the honour of being, present on the occasion, to send you a full, true and particular account of the same, I can only lament that the ground has been cut from under my feet and admire your journalistic enterprise.—[The special report here referred to by our London correspondent will appear as soon as our space permits. Ed. -E.S.] SIR GEORGE BOWEN". Sir George Bowen bas been honored in the manner peculiar to Englishmen. He has been publicly fed at Willis's Rooms, and I need hardly inform you that cur portly, elderly, and (perhaps) slightly conceited friend was not in the leash degree lowered in his own estimation by the honor conferred on him. The Duke of Edinburgh presided, and many a gay reminiscence of his Highness's "Rakes Progress," through the outlying possessions of his mother, was the source of mirth at that festive, mahogany. There were a lot of howling swells present, besides a lot of old colonials, amongst whom were Dr Featherston and Mr A. G. Francis ; Major Hamley also was there, still remembered by you through the medium of your gun club. Sir James Fergusson was amongst the lions of the night and caused great cheering when he announced that Mr Vogel had negotiated the formation of the last remaining link.of telegraphic communication between England and New Zealand, and had also secured important modifications in'the tariff. The Duke proposed the health of Sir George in the style usual on such occasions—of corpse every one is always a perfect paragon of excellence when his health is about to be drank. And then came the reply. I don't think Sir George was ever famous for decrying himself and his merits, and he quite kept up his reputation on this grand opportunity for indulging in a few of his tall sentences. He shewed how his presence had made the fortune of poor Queensland, a colony which when he landed in, was literally not worth a shilling; he read leaders from the Times to shew what a noble fellow he had been and what an angel of mercy he had been to Brisbane and its people. Then he came to New Zealand, and shewed the working of his beneficent policy. At the conclusion of his speech, which was very long, Sir George gave his notions as to the probable future of the Australasian Colonies.*

COLONIZATION OP NEW ZEALAND.

Lord Carnarvon, too, whose domestic affliction has prevented his being present at any of these banquets, has been speaking on the subject of colonization. He was waited on a few days since by a party of gentlemen, members of the Colonial Institute, amongst whom was Sir James Fergusson, asking for the annexation of New Guinea as an important addition to our colonies, and as necessary for the security of the colonial trade. The Colonial Secretary was very careful in his reply, but the tone of it left the impression that the Government would not be unwilling to secure the place if they saw their way clear to it. As he very truly said, there is very little known so far about .New Guinea, and it would be somewhat rash to undertake responsibilities without knowing something of their probable extent. One thing is certain, a Tory Government will never permit any. other Government to annex New .Guinea. A very little presatire from the Aflntralasfaa Celenieg

themselves would do wonders, and I have no doubt that a strong expression of feeling on the matter from New Zealand would have itsjfull influence. Earl Carnavon indeed, said :—" I feel that on such a question as the annexation of New Guinea ♦ the interests which are primarily. Tjv|ay say most closely, concerned are really x'^ rather than English interests ; ai L> v v the Australian Colonies to she A*^t greater sense of the value of that - t . Potion and to show a certain desire to co-operate very freely indeed in the matter. It is f OP them to take the first step. At present I am bound to say that whilst I believe there - is a very general disposition on the part of many of the colonies of Australia to see New Guinea annexed, still- I cannot trace any extreme anxiety or desire for jt. Of course the time may come when it may be otherwise, and the importance of it 'may grow upon them very quickly indeed. Circumstances are so rapid in their develop, ment, and events move so quickly, that a very short time hence the feeling may be very different from what it is now. But I say I that whilst I do not underrate imperial duties or imperial obligations, I do say that the primary interests in the motion lies in Australia and the Australian Colonies rather than in this country." The great question to be decided is—can Englishmen ive in New Guinea ? If not, we could not for a moment entertain the idea of taking it in hand, but if Captain Moresby is right in saying it is perfectly healthy, and the colonists express a strong wish that way, I feel aure the addition of New Guinea to our colonies, may be regarded as a certainty. MOODY AND SANKEY. Some of the Pa>yal Family have been " moved "to hear Moody and Sankey. The Princess of Wales has been several times and the revivalists have presented her with a grandly bound copy of their hymns. Rather a good story is going the rounds about a daughter of Mr. Moody's who does not quite go with her father in the matter of religion. One evening she had been at the theatre and in the morning her father saluted her with, " Well! child of Satan ;" to which she naively replies "Good morning papa." They are preaching at present in Her Majesty's Opera House, and. lots of nobility attend the services. The Sadducees are raking up all kinds of yarns about the profits made by the Evangelists, but*l don't believe there is anything in it. Their expenses must needs be large, and their financial affairs are managed by a committee. One thing is certain, revivalism is more expensive than regular church work. These Americans are spending, they say, about £24 000 per annum, which is nearly £10,C00 a year more than the largest income of an English Bishop. DP... KENEALY AND THE TICHBOENE AGITATION. Since my last date of writing, the star of l Dr Kenealy has set very low. For weeks the member for Stoke had kept his notice of motion on the order paper, but had made no attempt at -bringing it forward. In the interim he continued to stump the country with his umbrella, Mr Whalley, and Mr Onslow and to excite mobs of gallows-birds with foul mouthed invectives launched at the heads of all respectable people. In his newspaper—the Englishman, a scurrilous and libellous print he kept up a filthy discourse, charging every decent person with perjury and every sort of crime. This kind of thing could not last for ever, and the House was getting thoroughly sick of this shallow vagabond and his yelping followers, so pressHre was brought to bear on him . and he appointed a week for the bringing forward of his motion. Mr Disraeli then gave him a Government ni^ht, and on the appointed evening before a full House, Dr Kenealy brought forward his long threatened motion for a Royal Commission to enquire into the conduct of the case of Regina v.

Castro and into certain events which had transpired subsequent thereto. In the course of his address which was listened to* throusnout with the utmost attention, the ex-serjeant, went in for all his charges of prejudice, dishonesty, venality, &c, against judges, jury and witnesses. He tried to frighten the House with the bugbear of the , mob anxiously waiting the result of the • division of that night. He made the wildest assertions unsupported by a scrap- of evidence " and left bis audience, both members and Grangers, under the impression that after all he was but a poor dull fellow, a much over-rated sham, with precious little in him after all His strength evidently lay in mendacity, for his subsiding wa3 the signal for denials of several of his assertions as statements made by honourable members and others. I rather fancy that the Kenealyites will soon die out, for the move- » ment was chiefly upheld by the promises made by their prophet to utterly demolish Parliament and put his foot on the neck of the Speaker, &c. There are thousands of people who will believe all that sort of talk if they see it in type, and will spend their money freely in the support of its author,, but then, happily, they require some show of a fulltilment. They like to have, value for their money as much as any other folk, and when they see that their leader, so far from crushing Parliament, has been most thoroughly sat upon by the House, they will begin to think the fellow not quite such a clever fellow as he has been represented in his own paper. In the Englishman of last week he announced in a sore of tearful wail that his client must die in prison. This won't suit the dirty tag-rag who read his paper for the sake of the threats and blasphemy which it; contains. Ribaldry and libel will pay. Water-gruel and tear 3 won't. And he did get horribly beaten on his motion in the House. Kenealy and Whalley were the tellers, and the noble army of one which marched into the lobby consisted of a member as big as three ordinary M.P.'s. It was no less an idiot thaa Major O'Gorman, the buffoon of the Souse of Commons. As tor the Englishman, now that the matter has been forcibly brought under the notice of the House, it is understood that the Government will not permit the atrocious language hitherto indulged to continue to appear in its columns. The Scotch have done credit to themselves in the matter of Kenealyism. When the Doctor lately went to address the people of Edinburgh, he could not get an audience to listen to him, and they made such a row that he could not hear himself speak. At the door he was jostled a good deal, and got so angry that he struck out at the people's noses. The Scotch maintain their reputation for shrewdness. A paragraph is going the round of the papers, , stating that the following is an extract from a letter written from Singapore, March 21, 1875, by a married lady to her parents in JPenzance :— "We dined the other evening at Mr W —'s, with Mr Orton, a brother to the claimant. He is so like him ; the same heavy-looking head. If I had ■ believed in him until then, I should have done so no longer. They are almost exactly alike, but this one is not so stout. He would have come to the trial, but they would not give him sufficient money to make it pay him to come home. Heis captain of a vessel." The French have got*a dramatised version of the Tiehborne affair on the Parisian stage. It was to have been called the "Affaire Orton," buf. at the latest moment the authorities interposed, and it wa* altered to the Affaire Coverley. The thread of the real story is only partially 'worked out. There are no law proceedings or anything of that sort, and the whole turn of the drama rests upon the fact of an old mother persisting in recognising in an impostor, the person of her only lost son. There is a. rail way scene in it, in which the , impostor gets smashed up by a train, and / this delighted the Johnnie Crapepus in*"/:J ffiensely, in fact they insisted on havißg we^g train brought on at the close of tbiat particul** « act and giving it an ovation.