During a recent inspection ar Chath.am by the Lords of the Admiralty, Mr Childers went to No. 4 dock, in which the Cerberup is being completed and prepared for its Australian voyage, and examined the vessel with deep interest. She will leave for Melbourne about May next. Yankee Penny-a- Lining.— The New York papers are great in gutting up long accounts of ordinary events. The following, cut from the account of the suicide, shows how they do it :— " The horror of this tale will for a brief moment light up injnen's eyes the vast expanse of social disease, and disquiet and injustice, and seething dim rage which heaves justice, and seething dim rage which heaves arrtund and berieath our splendid modern civilisation, even as/a lighting fl sh reveals in the blackness of midnight the great wastes of some stonn-suaken sea. Sir Boyle Roche, the. Irish moirber, was great in bulls, " I wish, " said he, one day, when opposing an anti-ministerial motion, '" I wish, Mr Speaker, this motion at the bottom of the bottomless pit. " At another time, in relotion to English connection, he observed, "England, it must be allowed, is the mother country," and therefore, I advise them (England aud Ireland) to live in filial affection together, like sisters, as they are and ought to bs." A- question of smuggling practices on the Shannon being imder consideration — " I would," said Sir Boyle^ " have two frigates stationed on 'the- opposite points of the mouth of the fiver, anil there they should remain fixed;- with strict orders not -to stir ; and so by cruising and cruising about, they '.would' be able to intercept everything that should attempt to pass betweei them."
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 645, 8 March 1870, Page 4
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