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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 145, 23 October 1863, Page 3

It is a Curious Fact, that out of the eight essays sent in at Oxford for the Chancellor’s prize for the best Latin essay on the present American struggle—the subject proopscd by Lord Derby—all of them of more than average excellence—seven are on the Northern side. Moreover, several of the writers had begun their labours as true Southerners, but had been converted by the pure force of the considerations which a thorough study of the subject brought before them.— Spectator. An American paper states that the Pension office at Washington has lately recorded the nine-teenth-thousand application of wives made widow* by the war. Dilletanxe. —Well, really, if you insist, wo will put the question to our readers, and leave it for them to decide which is the more reprehensible—querist or replicant ? Q. “ When is a bean not a bean? R. 1 " When it’s notd bene." R. 2 “When it’s a scarlet runner.” So pointed an allusion to military men being highly incorrect, we hope every body will unite in “putting it down.” —Southland Sews, A certain noble lady, well known in the high' est political and fashionable society, is said to have lost £I,OOO on the Derby.—Covrt Jowtujl,