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Evening Post, Issue 212, 12 October 1865, Page 2

The Illustrated London News says :— " And so ' The Life of Cusar » is a gigantic failure. Uncut copies of the first volume have been advertised at Is. 6d. each by those unhappy library companies who placed their trust in princes, and believed that the name of an Emperor could at once elevate him to the rank of & popular writer. How the remaining volumes ' will go ' cannot be much of a secret, since public curiosity made whatever demnnd there was for the first volume." The reception of the book in Germany contrasts strongly with the small sale it has met with in England. Trun ktions in Polish, Bohemian, Swedish and Arabic are announced. One of the daily papers— Le Pays— in a critical account of the dog show, which has for some days been open, has this astonishing piece of intelligence :—": — " The citizen of free England who occupied the kennel No. 186, is a bull dog, highly appreciated on the turf of the city, and he hunts rats like a perfect gentleman." A case was partially heard at the Ararat police court last week, which, says the Advertiser, "We are sorry to state, does not Btand alone in the domestic history of th« colony. A man named Patrick Boyhan was brought up, charged with being a dangerous lunatic He presented all the appearance of nervous prostration induced by a free indulgence in liquor, and, according to the evidence of the police, was found wandering not far from Crowlanda, in a state of seminudity. The constable, in his evidence, said he could bring witnesses to prove that Boyhan had sold his team of bullocks, and had expended the proceeds in debauch, and that when the money was all expended, the landlord of the hotel where he was staying placed him in bis spring cart, drove him a considerable distance from his place, and turned him out on the other side of the Wimmera, where he was found in a semidelirious state."