MISCELLANEOUS

Dunstan Times, Issue 375, 25 June 1869, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

Many of those ladies in England who were disappointed at being refused the franchise are now quite contented to be without a vote, for they have been told that one of tho questions electors are bound to answer at tho polling booth is 1 ‘What is your age?” Mr. Jefferson Davis, 'when in England, made a speech at Leamington, on seconding a vote of thanks to a gentleman who had lectured on “Buried Jerusalem” before the members of tho Local Philosophical Society. Mr. Davis made various allusions to the Holy Land as the cradle, humanly speaking, of civilzation as well as of the Christian religion. Referring to the demolition of the Temple, he observed that, although all must regret the ruin of a structure so much connected with the early historyof religion, jot we might be consoled by the belief that it was necessary that tho Temple should fall, in order that tho Star of Bethlehem might he seen of all men. Ho expressed his gratification that the Palestine explorations had been inaugurated under the patronage of Englishwomen, and executed by Englishmen. It was becoming a woman—for she was tho last at the cross and the first at tho sepulchre—to commence the explorations in confirmation of the great truths of Christianity. And it was well for Englishmen to undertake the work of exploration, for their blood was mingled with that of the Norsemen, with tho Saxons, tho teachers of the harmonious conglomeration of liberty and law, community and independence, individuality and self-will, and with the troubadour, the knightly soldier, represented the Norman. These throe elements combined in Englishmen, led to adventure, to love of truth, and gave the heart to do whatever tho will might desire.

The discovery of gold in Sutherland is not new. In the sixteenth century it was found in valuable quantities at Durness, on the north coast, and, together with the washings of Enterkin, in Dumfriesshire, supplied tho bullion for tho Scottish money, and probably also for tho present Scottish crown, or part of it.