HOME TALK.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 2, 14 January 1867, Page 1

HOME TALK.

, (From tho, Home News,, 26th Oe toiler.) ', , 1 THo i’emple, 26th Oct, : Our.Qqeen ,is^still, inJaypr^.pcqtlapd. Her Majesty r was' pleased to . select-this ipart of her domiqionsas the.locality where she first made- J a‘/'spefecK] ; in : 'her-Boyal character, sinppfhc death pf thp Consort.; The occasion was the opening some waterworks at Aberdeen;; ; The- irreverentr' Baid; her. Majesty ought''.fo haye|! beeh* attehided | !by' Mr- Walpole, the wiping - Minister, \ whose would ,h? v .® been apgfcoa hydraulic occasion. Prince, Helena) are'wifch : the Queem "’The‘PrihceM is state 4 $ 0 „; ;be Jikely t to increasq, happiness I of the Royal family by-increasing its u-um-ber. ,T am. bqt:;idS).rm|dvthat the iialike was. entertained in regard 3 to "the pafrt r of the ! one and his bride, liaS ' direason of the Queen giving away the Princess was-thatfthbPrince'; of ; gales' refused to do so, and I am -informfid, by o>.lady who was entitled to be present at the ihaaqsofa ,Htt(e, -pf. that; tact which.';'ladies - mone.possessi'tp avoid sacrificing" 1 her J own *by eha«hg ftlie bride--groom,; and - y et- doj - avoid the >see ming' to JjvofgA|&. ; fdr -the; ■disllkOii'Pft-,the match some 'glad to be assured ■j^&k-.thpbPrific^ss l dhrfrtiau isjthe,party principally; concerned,,is^pec-: TheTrfece bf rWhiesfrs-,en- : cPenmark, qndi-fPrincess Thy .who are Prlnces3pfWal.es] Princess Dagmar, is. ini e^oufi'^to^Ce&irewitch'l-faaviog,: to 019 elder brother, who dieqLpreraatureiy, t

i '.haye; notiiiihg to add to my bf royalty *ekcept < whenj jm Scotland,'rideq about on her pony,' at-; r^epdo^by.?? r 9 wrn ) evinces./the; of.her. neighbors—it 13 in no. spirit of cyriiJ pism c that^pu^' th'e ihatier, aS 'I binfrolH A ( do, even more pointedly, dn<l say ; th'atlbio y'm.ag®^xiiatrph J/ can ,! fek)S ‘more, ’ of her frien& is. tffiep. pyijib excellent Queen of 'England. This_ fribmely ,’peculidrity . iha* royal lady ihherilti 'from Q-eorge the Third. ' ,i ' l y At the Wimbiedon"sh66tmg' this year, many Belgian. -murkajuap-pame overhand werp very hospitably .received.;They were, pleased, land an invitation in; return /was given to;British volunteers to go.oyer .to, the. Belgian; &V this year., Qvpjr a thou•sand went, for y ourß ritisher is; locomotive. no one could bare been prepared , for .the; splendid receptioa. with ,w,hich ; ..tfre Belgians repiad our rough, and .ready campcourtesies. The Hjngjjofficials,* the people, .halve,. aU vied in doing honor fro. ;glißh, and magnificent entertainments, ;reyiews, and. theatrical, displays, haye. been , the features, of, frhe period, while fhe. private , hospitalities of ithe haie forced upon their, guests. / ,1 amihappy to say that the volunteers behavedivery.vwell; on.the: whole,, and that, if; some of; 'them, got tipsy, , it was' bnly in company 1 with: :tlieir hosts, who .were, gratified .that : such .should .have been ..the case., . The.Jjo.rd Mayor - of London, Mr Phillips, was 'sent for, and he' rode about; in a carriage with the King, and confirmed the continental belief that . next to the Queen the Lormaire. is tlie greatest man in England. The organisation of the whole-business, oh Jthe part of the. Belgians, . was so. perfect . that; I shudder to think of the blundering that will attend our endeavor to • repay their eourtesy in kind." ! ’ I have resigned myself to the belief that it will'be iny fate, foi* an indefinite period, to insert a Jamaica paragraph in this letter.' I endeavor to avoid it, but I canrot do so, there is always something to add. The committee who desire to prosecute Mr Slyre have discovered that they cannot Hope to- do so without» £10,000,. for, which, therefore, they are bow sending round the Uat. - • ut * the - sort of-- folk who gush, and weep and howl over Q.uashibungo, are : not frhe sort of folk who are very ready to draw cheques, and it may be that the raising this fund-will take some time/ unless, for a political reason, some of ■ the leaders make up the money. NeiLiberal nor; Tory Government will have anything to do prosecution; .Mr Forster, the Radical 1 members ifer .Bradford, who held office under Earl Russell, had the courage to declare at a large meeting the other iiiglit th'afc it Would be wrong > to prosecute, becauso it could not be-sizp-posed that Mr Eyre acted from a wrong motive; for which caudid and honorable 'dhclara 3 ion fllr' Forster has since been furiously ;assaiied'by .thb fana'tic’ iiegropliiles. Qh the' other haiid, the Defence Committee increases its numbers, and. Alfred Tennyson,' though, as a ' sort of. official tlie Laureate cobld not jwbll 11 tkke'jiaft in tlie 'work/lias' seiit a subfeenptibn to thefubd. 'With and Tennyson as" one’s friends, it free'ms possible to ; bear bu utilimited quantity of yelling 3 -from other persons." But T am sorry for'the whole business.,. ~.. • ail* //.’ .;j.. j, ■ , Our frienda thc Ritualists,.those who are trjing to as sjmiiate the ceremonials of the :.;si - Church: of; England fro those of Rome, are; and : - unless; frhe j hierarchy .do;, something, I fear that “.popular ’ aettop wfil be .taken. incense, m diluted .cup, prostrations,. a murpbleji liturgy,, the., elevatiou of the, wafer, .being, .directly.l copied. from, Rome,, thej priests, ,are , to discourage.marriage in the priesthood, and; they tryfrery! hard to. get .people, to confession, .and :.isucceed;..with, .the-; foolish.- vThe.hishops do notknow ; what to : do; but the fact is thatfrhere;are no . strong men on our episcopal bench. If;-there wer® half-a-dozen, they would first discover Whether;tiiey had p ovv br dr not,-and if * they ’ had nbt'frhey ■'would* unite and obfraih':i<; frqjia' -Parliament." ! Bht* ; they are iiibs^ly’ 'wyil-meaning, Excellent meh/ ! w]io . dislike ah^kifrd'bfVcanddrand/disturhiihce;' *aufi it' must' be l a'4ery 'grdafr' 1 that * mhves tlfrmr /They bould Dir Cdlehsoi butfrhey k'uiSw 'th|t ,i t i hey ! Wpr'e i obeying, not leading the opinibh b'f ! the! majority,in ffrnfrhisj jqupsJjpnifrhpy;. grp^ j ip-artiy Igr, h§ying; .coupfen^%c|d r; a 4esd df ,pqw j so oWo|iou3, : ‘ j^yo^s-|xi|^res^xx. dislike any Bdrk bf

fcU'i 3 Jlfr 3 "-.i f!: i'11" r'W' l ; 1 * *1 '-■ 1 1 ' : 1/body wbo believes that he is doing good, .b^ualists..say, . with a certain ‘frruth,' tliaf the lower , orders, are utterly without! any v fr«yjigipn ! ,at / . .a|ll, jand as. atfrend'the ordinary'churches, and .could nok/if they 'dm,.,undeirstahar what was said: .frOj toepb wpyqffrayiug hpla of by, dazzling mg thehr senses. The' answer ia- obvious, but in the meantime the ritualists point'to .frhqbideQUSfqqqditiouqf.the lqwestclassea,; . and. th.afejqtiMionary work is being' • d 9 ne ,*;' So the. bishops, jbewail “ epcpntricities,)’ and efrercise graceful hospitality., ..1; hope, no? to. hear that ultra-Protestants ( haye taken the law, into, their own.hands. The obituary for the month does..not contain any great.name,, but it. holds two. .names which have been heard of in* divers plUces. O'no is thafc of 'Mr Rarey' the who cainte over to instruct us inj thp .art of ; taming;and managiqghorses y v^thp > ub ‘briitality. L hafi the honqr r of heing'fidmitfced fro his Tecfrijires, at a'iime* when they-were Very, costlyi and when'you were • rpade to -proniise -that you would' not revealuthe secret,.of hisi treatment. , .This; treatmenfr I- saw.practised upon that, fiend! in!horsey, form, Cruiser, ana upon several wild' beasts; of the saine charailer.. J Mr Rarey* was- io-quack] and no person' could; fail to" agree with him in'much that: he -urgedi in favor of.the poor horse. This,, one of, the jnost inquiring, sensitive,, and in one sense delicate of creatures, We hand, over for instruction 'to ! the 1 : i , cdttrse ! st 'and roughest brutes who bear the'name 1 of man, .and :who terrify, beat and: brutalise' , him, into demoralisation. . Mr Rarey, used first fro preach; the.lesson pf kindness., and patience iriVway that cornthanded the regard of us all. But then' lie proceeded ! to 'deal with the untaught, or the demoralised ; horse. 3 He allowed,: of icoursei that it;was •. .necessary to make the animal understand, .once for all, that man was his superior, and that he must obey. The mode of making this known to him was then exhibited. Tha wild horse was turned into the circus, and. faced his tutor. The latter aprqachcd him.: gently, and when lie turned away, followed him up. Thehorse ’ kept off, arid* Was, either angry or distrustful ; Mr Earey's* perseverance rendered it a matter of small consequence which. At length the late and acti-e American closed, 1 as it were, with the horse,-and after a brief struggle the latter found that he had.three legs,only, the usually the off fore leg, being secured by'a strong strap which kept 'afr in a bent position, painless, blit •crippling.., Then the horse flew into a rage, Wad-van her®, end;tjhere,; Mr Rarey keeping at his inane, and even stimulating his exertiopsi After a time the' uhna'tural attitude/and the consciousnessof being in the hands of a powerful* were tomuch! for the animal, he foamed] struggled a littied more, and fell on'his ride, on the tan of the circus then.Rarey let hipi recover, himself a little, patted and soothed, him, ; or if he desired another in order : to'convince' himself that he was beateh/ he was allowed to have it..; Butihe; usually > sue-! cumbed .with, the first encounter. . It was. strange to see liow soon tha aiiimal gave ‘way. 'He ceased to resent to Mr Rarej’s ■ ; touches/and alloWed-himself to be carossedi After a.time the:strap was removed, i but the rega ming liberty did pot .bring back; ferocity,, and he rose, accompanied. Mr! Rarey about the place, and took food from his hand. The lesson had to be repeated perhaps several times, but in the end tlie .horsertamer. was always conqueror. ; The grand proof was in that beast Cruiser, who was the nearest.approach I ever heart! of, to the man-eating horse kept by certain In- ' diari princes. The cVeature was as savagh as a. tiger, and llo_was utterly rougli: and dirty, because he wpuld not allpw himself ,to groomed, and he was marked all lover with blows he had received from vengeful grooms. "WhenTfirst 'saw him, lie had, been conquered]'Mr Rarey’s* devices - for! getting at him'without ibeibg murdei’ed having been very hold and clever, but;lie was iu a sad state. When I last saw him,: lie had been groomed, and liis good coat; shqne,. and altogether'iie,.was a newbeast,! “ eating, , clothed/aridfru his right ihind.”] There could "be rio 1 deception here, and I had a private l letter fromfrlib nobleman -who. owned Cruiser,,assuring.,me oi.the genuineness ,of the copquesjt. Mr,Rarey, (a very modest, resolute, uuassuming man) , ' tauglit'a good many people 1 liis art,' but lie j did better, by* • teaching them to tiiiiik for.-themselves about r the' horae, ; and-1 daresay many, a hasty hand has beep sfraypd .by, the recollection, of .what:.was- heard. But, of course, the majorityjff horses are still illfrreattd ( by the. brutes who teachrihci thein, ! and aIl one 'Cari"dd ; is ;: tc#»iit: one’s-eyes, to daily sights, land hopjMfeat;! compensajtiou wilt be madq .to the horse and.tp the mam, * :

r , The other demise is frhatrqf the "conjurorDon^on^has American artist' who calleyhi piself *» Col. 11 Stodare.-;; ; Hb effected the diffielilt'trick Of beeping this fastidious and iZdwXpopulation talking phoutihimfrot a wLoJe s.eaapiry,and his .ispjhipx.. trick, though simple enough when explaiiied/was a rih'guikriy good jug'Therefore l’et'his'premiature'death bb recorded; ‘ He leaves a-brother] who states ' himself to be asclever as thfet’ Colonel/ and ••with whonij the., latter ifpi 1 -some xponths what appeared, to he dtd war; of, Jioefcile adveitisemen|s]! Jbi%it r kay only have freenhn means hf •keehing JtKo' name before the public. • ; Oh (H()l horn-hill; thereiised -fro w be.' t wo s Shoe* makers, andthey abused

hideously for add I .* 'tslhe'd T milch h'Ofp'riety/ '- ; made lup,.' and they became 1 partners,! bnt -..they kr.e.w', better .than, tqdiscpaatiinie frh? .. ahuse; which madq ,them fro sit" together arfahgijigfrhmplacards irt. which each denoiinypd'the ;• worst' person' wh6m l ßrovidehce''tit’el''p-et* .mitted to; live; ;• I! believe: theyiwarenbotb :yery honestjfellpws., - , .c . - ' ,1 have little, tp add. Weber,, the, composer, is bemgmuch hurlesquaa just frohr ; at the theatres,But'he Has avenged-hitrlb'dlt] or-Zamiel has avenged oWe ofitliem, the.'Standard] which. was., to . the ..ground on gundpy.hjst, after oyer niglit,. of a ‘Tfeumwnfy but Londori Eashada theatfre m i 'H6lbprh -Added 1 toß'erilist, sofrh’afc'-wokeep- bp-tihe jnumher. An illhaion .on ihe.subject of the -Deal boatraen is ia..course of: being, cleared up., We are. always hearing sentimental stories of these **gallant fellows” and 1 theit chivalry.’ Wearein tlie way 6f beiiig;cort- ’ vinced thatthough from constant iirtiiit'Ourse *\yith the. sea they learn; to. hraye ifcsrrpprilu, ;tliey are a,m ost. extortionata se'fr of aqd[ that theyjdeUglit hifrhp .wrecks/that bring them pliinct'er. 1 So goes another tradition. ; J ‘ ...