ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1674, 30 June 1875, Page 4

ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

llPp-ROM 0-__ LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) §1 London, May 4. CLERICAL SCANDAL. , I tPhere has been a terrible clerical scandal oria Anglesey, in the Diocese of Bangor, one of !|hose occurences which throw sad discredit Sipon the cloth inr the minds of tho ignorant *nd unthinking, A doctor in Beaumair's was failed in the other day to attend a young ;ady who had taken lodgings in the place. |_he was accompanied by an elderly gentlefsan, a clergyman, presumably her husband. jThe lady was attended through her eonfinejinentj and one evening, the doptor having (called prof-ssionally, was sitting by her side ;_nd in the act of feeling her pulse when the old gentleman came in and commenced an attack upon the doctor, accusing him of attempting to take improper liberties with his wife. The doctor (a married man) expressed his surprise and indignation, and said that he could only imagine his assailant to be

; drunk, and that he should call the next day j and expect an ample apology. Accordingly, [ the next day'he made hia appearance, he first . saw the young \a_y, wJ_o was in tears, and 1 who (unasked) proceeded to make a dreadful confession. ' She told the doctor, to his astonishment and horror, that the reverend gentleman Was not her husband, but her stepfather, and that he was the father of the child that had been born. An ample apology was made by the wretched father, whose parishioners however goi to know of the reason for his absence, from home for such a a proloaged period, and, proceedings having been taken, the guilty couple disappeared, and have not since been heard of. ANOTHER BOOK OF SCANDALS. Another book of scandals is promised to the world from the pen of a fille de joie. The difficulty is to find a London publisher, the trade in London being more squeamish than in either Paris or New York. It is said to be much worse than •the "Greville Memoirs." The "fair"

authoress is the wife of a prince now in prison. She has seen a great deal of the world from a certain unmentionable point of view, and when the MS. was- put into the hands of a well-known London publisher it iB said that gentleman's hair and whiskers literally stood on end with horror at the notion of putting his imprint to such a concern. But some one will, undoubtedly, be found who will be reconciled to father the" book for the sake of the immense profits that muat ensue. THE " STANDARD'S" CORRESPONDENT ON SIR GEORGi- GR_Y.

The Standard's Melbourne correspondent, writing on April 13th, s.ems to be of opinion that the action of Sir George Greyin the provincial ouestion in New Zealand must result in the defeat of the Bill of Mr. Vogel. He says : —Sir George Grey is about to step into the political arena as an opponent of Mr. Vogel- scheme to abolish the provincial form of Government in New Zealand. It was very donbtful whether Mr. Vogel was strong enough to carry the proposed measure before, in tho face of all the strong local interests concerned, and thia sudden determination of the former Governor of the colony to enter the lists against him will probably determine the fate of the bill. Yet to an outsider it is difficult to see the advantage of having Parliaments in every province. The only real, tangible, substantial good that ever came out of the system to my knowledge, was when a Superintendent of a province had a wilt out against him, and -gaze-ted. his house and grounds a prison. VALUABLE PICTURE SALE. Mr Quilter,* a picture collee.or, with wonderful judgment, has just sold hi« collection for £71,000 1 Mr Quilter is an accountant in the ci.y, and used to occupy -his leisure in looking up new pictures by unknown artists. His eye never tailed him, and he never bought rubbish, and never gave big prices. Mr Quilton has made a profit of 260 per cent, which'is not bad. It was chiefly in water colours that his money was invested. Formerly it was only oil paintings that brought top prices, but now water colour drawings of merit bring as much a/3 oils,