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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 570, 20 April 1868, Page 3

j 1 he T)h:e or Edinburgh. —A Melbourne contemporary of March 27 has (he : —(>ur Sydney correspondent iu* jibrins us that Mis iioyul Highness (lie jJtuke of Ldiuourgti ha- so far recovered, as to be able yesterday to entertain the ueii;a:o lorc of tho o;; hoard the o •” latea. We also learn from a private source that the whole of the crew were special! v entertained by tho Duke, and that, iu the intelligible language of a private telegram, they h u d a “jolly good tuck-in.” Tho yards were manned on tho arrival of the part}-, and when they left a royal salute was fired. All the officers and seamen were delighted to see the Duke looking so well. The Galatea, we learn, sails on the sth Apni, but we have not been informed as to her course, llis Excellency (lie Governor has received another threatening letter through tlie post; and the non. If. burkes, Chief Secretary, has received two communications of a similar nature.

Potato Disease.— The Courier du Pas-de-Calais publishes (ha subjoined letter, which h.as obvious interest to agriculturists; —“I have good news to give you. Mona. Georges Tide, following his ingenious method of studying the vegetation of plants themselves, has just discovered the cause of the potato disease ; the cryptogamos are the result, not the source of the malady. Let anyone examine the experiments at Vincennes, and he will be convinced of this as I have been. In the experimental farm there may be seen a patch of potatoes, in five divisions, but all contiguous to each other: the first is luxuriant, with not a diseased leaf; the second is eaten away by the malady ; the third is as fine as tho first ; the fourth as diseased as the second ; and tho fifth resembles the first and third. Thus M. Georges Ville produces or avoids the disease at will. I therefore leave to him the pleasure and the right of explaining his invaluable discovery, of which he has made no mystery to me- I confine myself to announcing, as I do -with pleasure, that this gentleman has rendered an immense service to all our working agriculturists, for whom tho potatoe is so valuable a resource.—Believe me, etc., &c., Marquis D’Havhisgouri.”

i Wo max’s Rights.— At one of their first | interviews he asks her what she is thinking 'about: “ You would scarcely be interested. ,if I were to tell you.” “ But I should like ; to know ”“I was thinking of the vast ; difference there is between men and woimen.” I was certainly not prepared for such an answer, and I showed my surprise in my countenance. “I mean in the adjvantages they have in this world,” she :continued : “ I often think of it: it seems to me so unfair.” “ Are you, then, an advocate for woman’s ‘ rights,’ Miss Rivers ?’’ "hie turned towards mo quickly, “ Oh, not at all! if you mean by ‘ rights’ such nonsense as women having a voice in politics, or legislature, or anything which concerns ruling the nation. It is not our place, and we could no more fill it properly than men could order a household, or bring np children. I was thinking of something widely different.” “Of jwhat, then ? ” “ You are very pertinacious,” she said, and for the first time I saw her smile, “ and probably will not agree with me, when you (hear my opinion. I was thinking of the \ vast difference with which the same actions [are judged in men and women. Wo are made by the same Hand : endowed with the same feelings, impulses, and affections, and yet the world judges us as if wo were entirely separate creations.” “ The laws of society do,” I answered. “ The laws of society—yes, but who made those laws ? Were they not laid down by men, for their own advantage and against ours ? And yet they call us the weaker vessels, and profess to cherish and protect us ?” There was such an amount of contempt in her speech that she made mo feel quite uncomfortable : still I ventured to remark—“l am afraid you have no great faith in men, Miss Rivers.” “As a sex— no,” ?ho emphatically replied. “ And yet yon cannot complain that women do not command sufficient attention in England. It is just what it should be; but there is no country where ladies arc treated with such respect ns in ours. You must acknowledge that from entering a room first to deciding our fate in life we leave everything in your hands.” “ Oil! it is not ihat” she said impetuously. “I know men are gallant enough, in matters that are of no consequence, biff that has nothing to do with justice. Whenever we are opposed to yon in life, we go to the wall ; as long as we 'are content to walk iu the grooves you !havo laid down for us you avo merciful 'masters; but directly we step over them, jto imitate the license you permit youriselves wc have both sexes down upon us iat once. Now, I don’t want to hoar any iold platitudes on the subject ; we both ■ know it is the case, and we both know it I will never bo altered, but I say it is bit • Iterly unfair.” “But the nature of man, ; Miss Rivers, being so different to that of I the fairer sex,” I commenced ; but she :raised her hand. “Did I not say that I ■ would listen to no time-worn platitudes, (Mr Estcourt ? Besides, who made our natures different ? There is no controverting this fact, that men expect us to bear quietly from them what they would never from ourselves. But pray don t let ns go further into the matter; you pressed me'lVr the subject of my reverie, and you [have it- —The Confessions of Gerald fist- | court. By TTorenco Murry alt (Mrs doss ■j Church.)