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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1105, 28 August 1871, Page 2

A monster review of all the Volunteer companies in the Province of Auckland is in take place on the 9ih of November. A beginning has been made with the standing army of New South Wales. The officers have been gazetted, and will of course come into the enjoyment of their titles and their pay. Each of the two companies of infantry has a captain and two lieutenants. The battery of artillery has a captain and a second captain, and to the whole there is one commander, and one pay and quarter-master j in all, ten officers to the proposed force of 300 men, Having found the officers, the next thing will be to find the men. When the relief ship Megasra arrives, there will be two crews paid off in Port Jackson, Some of the men having served their time will be entitled to their discharge, and would probably make useful hand§ at the big gun§,

mVUlfc'Mrltiai:!; •ffEANCisftUE Sarcex reports ia the <3aulois a conversation he had with an ■*« illustrious physician who had lefc Paris for a few honrs, and was about to return," and who expressed the opinion that one of the chief causes of the terrible scenes which accompanied the final suppresion of the Communist outbreak was a " contagious mental alienation." The miuds ,of the Parisians, he said, were gradually •unhinged by the privations of the siege. The revolt of the 18th of March, gave the last blow to brains which were already shaken, and at length the greater part of the population went raving mai. The .records of the middle ages are full of similar examples. * * * Women are, under such circumstances, fiercer and more reckless than men. This is because their nervous system is moie .developed, their brains are weaker, and their sensibilities m >re acute than those of the stronger .sex ; and they are con sequently far more dangerous and do much more harm. * * * None of them knew exactly what they were lighting for ; they were possessed by one of the various forms of the religious mania , that which impelled the Jausenists to torture themselves with strange delight in pains of the acutest kind. * * * The men who threw themselves on the bayonets of the solders in a paroxysm of passion were seen ten minutes after utterly prostrate and begging for mercy. They were no more cowards in the last state than they were heroes in the first—they were simply madmen.