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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 972, 20 March 1871, Page 3

I am told (says the coi respondent of an English paper) that King William of Prussia is one of the most sensitive men in the woild. Bis feelings are so acute that his medical advisers were obliged to ibrbid his Majesty's visits to the wounded at the Palace. The sound of a death march, or the sight pi a military funeral produces a deep melancholy, and the aspect of the battle-fields on which were won his Imperial Crown and the immortal glory of Prussia and his House and name, has made him sick nigh unto death, and quite unmanned him for many hours afterwards. And yet his youth wan trained in war. He was at Versailles once before with a victorious German army. In his mature age he has gone through the fire of civil war ; he has since marched hi« legions to execute the orders of the Diet, which very soon afterwards he destroyed. He saw the claims of the Hapsburgs to the Empire swept away for ever in the rout of Kbniggratz ; the House of the Wittelsbach had to bow the neck to his mastery, and acknowledge the award of the God of Battles; the Guelphs vanished from their ancient seat at his word ; the Hohenstaufens had to accept the predominance of the Hohenzollern", and were the first to offer the Imperial Crown. And all these victories were won by the sword. If war were abhorrent to his natural character, no wonder that the King recognises a direct Divine superintendence. To him whom his tastes and feelings " forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne" a war in which blood has flowed like water has given an Imperial diadem, and he receives the congratulations of his Senate in the palace of an imperial dynasty founded by the sword, and by the sword smitten down, forever, within sight of the bright and brilliant capital of the world, within which more than two millions of men, women, and childred are being slowly starved to death in the iron grasp of his eagles.

The enterprise of some of the West Coast miners, and the difficulties with which they have to contend are shown by the following, supplied to a late "Westport Times by a party who had recently visited the Lower Karamea : "About thiity men engaged mining on the beaches in the neighborhood Hughs ton and party have completed a water-wheel, constructed to raise water a height of sixteen feet, a sufficient supply having been obtained from a neighboring creek to drive the wheel. A flumed race, nearly a mile in length, conveys two sluice-heads of water to the beach, where the party are working two boxes; and they purpose rigging a third pump to enable them to work an extra box. Makemson and party are bringing in a flumed race 28 feet high from the ranges, and, when completed, it will furnish an excellent supply of water. M'Meckan and party have expended eighteen months'labor in bringing in a flumed race, aho from the ranges, and they have now four boxes at work day and night. A few other parties are scattered over the beaches, but, having no permanent supply, they are dependent upon the rains to work the beach. The informant gives a deplorable account cf the journey overland. At one bluff, fully lifty feet in height, the only means of ascent or descent is a rotten rope, which renders cither ta.sk very perilous. The Government should cut a track round the bluff, or, at least, replace the rope with a chain to ensure safety. At other points, bluffs have to be passed, the passenger following the face'of the rock at a height of thirty feet above the sea. From what we can gather, the overland journey, in the absence of a track, is not alone an arduous undertaking, but attended with no little hazard to those desirous of testing the locality." Mental anxiety and pecuniary em barrassments, such as loss of property by tire, failure in business, or by bad debts, and also domestic troubles, disappointed affections, and the loss or the treachery of friends, will frequently

cause dyspepsia; too close rind too active intellectual labor is also a frequent cause. Editors, authors, and literauy men engender dyspepsia in this way. Much brain la&or requires much, blood at the brain, and an ever-working intellect uses up so much' of both blood and nervous force that : there is not remaining enough to do the work of di* gestion.: On the other hand, deranged digestion is sometimes- produced by*#oo little exercke of the brain. are frequently met with who have been in aotive business life, and, having accumulated enough to satisfy theit; ambition, have retired from business. Now although the brains and the'body retire from active life, yet <the poor stomachs very often have their tasks increased. If a man has been for a long time accustomed to eating heartily and working hard, either with body or brain, he had belter not relax his working habits without at the same time having a corresponding relaxation in his habits of eating. "He who will not work neither shall he eat," is not only a Bible injunction, but a law of the human constitution, the disobedience of which is very often attended with such derangements of digestion, and other bodily infirmities, as to render either life or property of but little value. : -Dr. Miller on Dyspepsia.