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

The ; Jamaica Question;— Wefirid the following ia the Mo'ritrdio Standard, 12th- Oct obef, under the heading* '•of “ ; our -Metropolitan 'Echo“The Eyre controversy threatens to- heconih Exclusively literary. It is; ho t-Of tea that literary iiieri thrust- th'emselveS forward in’propria- persona to chariipion their caused lmwever, Vigorously they may fighldehihgd.thS anonymous shield of journalism; baton 1 thfrquestiopi fdr some Reason, there is f ai strong array on either sidej ‘ -For. my own part I‘should be’quite content to’follow such deader s as Ruskin, the two Kingsleys, and Carlyle; arid I rejoice * 'to see how . earnestly the Defence -Cotrifriittee are- working -to baffle 'the sectarian prejudices of a narrow-mind- v ed clique, wlribh- should be ashairied.* of itself for so iriveterately persecuting* a man who believed be was doing his A duty, I see; by-the-bye. that Mb Carlyle has been credited with coining the phrase ‘from the teeth outwards* He is not the originator of it, though he might well be. You will find it ! iu one'lof. ;Hogg s s letters *to Scott, ia Lockhart’s Life ; and, if I-renaemher rightly, he only uses- itas'a quotation; Rumor—tile jade ! she 'is always say* inglsome'stupid thing—says Mr 1 Eyre • is narrative of the (Famaici affair/ ; I think 1 it is a pity ; for, howi ever hard it' may 'be to sit still under such a heap of 1 calumny, every word he utters in defence will be snapped 'Up'arid perverted by his enemies.* There’are plenty of-people able and willing to defend hiih^ririd ; he should leave the task to them! { *’ j: - • -

—-Admirers—and name is legign —-ofr‘. the jwqfks of Gust.ave 7 l)ore will be, glad, to : hear that aqqther field has been found .for his indefatigable pencil] .He is to illustrate Paradise fist,;] and those who,have.seen his JDon Quixote will agree . .that, no .fitter work/could - have, been.phosep .for the exercise of the-.quaint,. weird power. he possesses] What scope there is fpf him! ' tari.demoniuna will be seen, a'new light, and one can imaginei liow he will pile ,up the; Satanic architecture, lit. is; said the few. . .specimens shown .have caused an extraordinary deihandl .for among the trade. ~ .

The JJmpeess of .Mexico.-— From we, hear, .{says .tlie London correspondent; of" the Montrose Standard* writing under date. AO ib October,) the .unfortunate Empress : of Mexico,, has fallen .a ,victipn to the anxiety , attend'* .antbOUi hor ; husband’s.tion, and has becotne a time, .at all eyeafs..lt is a pitU'ulialo-, .1 think, this of a lady,. who,; i£»Jf all is. true, one.of the most, .amiable, Akin? epss.es;in Europe, being: sent kalf round globe {only/tp j&nd, aj tbft end,, of ferlijo.uruey,,; proposals; r ejected .and

|i^ae|{,.d^iedrT:for l , l so the, jstory.runa Yienna, p : Uneasy lies_tile,head thas wears' the crown,-’;, You’ih.say that’a pjot original.; but thatdoesn’t prevent it beliig.true—rand this is,another proof Of .It./ *: ■, ... j -,ii ' ' 'jii £

' well-known' General.' Bixkj * died .at Turin on tlie SZiiTSept'eniber* jtfter ;at,yer| ; ster^iliness^f'’"" V* . , ,1 GrARin4LM will, inwall, probability* vi§itiJEiiglaud in N'oveiiiber. «pro*} i&QepSWiii^xc}

% Reform Demonstrator at Glas -l gow.— The Home News, Oct. 26, says, —The greatest public demonstration that has occurred in Glasgow for a long ® series of years took place there oh the morning of the T6th October. During the Reform agitation of 1832 a large assembly of: Reformers, ' numbering about 70,000, met together on Glas* gow Green; the above morning a «imiar meeting, only one of twice the E size, .estimated to - contain - 1 about : Tbo,oob . persons, assembled on the .same spot, under c tHe auspices of the Reform League,, to pass, resolutions in favor of another Reform Bill. : A large trades’ v .procession, containing according tot.be most accurate estimate, from; 28,000 to 30,000 persons, was- formed ou the Green; at llu o’clock, .and marched with emblems l of their res- . pective crafts from thence through the principal streets of Glasgow and back, again to the starting point, where from various platforms several meetings were held simultaneously, and resolutions in favor of Parliamentary Reform Some better idea of the size of the procession than can be obtained by any vague estimate of the numbers it contained may be formed from the fact that, marching four abreast at a fair speed* .it occupied two hours in passing any given spot; and although .its ranks were kept pretty close to* gefcher, it. extended over a length of from four* to five miles. . While the main body of the procession was threading its way through the principal streets of the town, and before the tail-end had left Glasgow-green, the head of the line had actually completed its journey, and returned to its old place On the green. Resolutions of an earnest

Jteform character were proposed from $ variousstands, and carried unanimously* In the evening there was a great indoor meeting at the City-hall, which Mr

. John. Bright, M.P., addressed. In *' the course,of his speech Mr Bright : designated the present Parliament as ** putrid,” and asserted that any 658 men pasaing through Temple-bar would make a better Parliament than this one. After detailing, the usual Reform arguments, the h n. member, .who spoke for nearly an hour concluded as follows: —“1 should,like to ask if there are any ministers of religion in this audience? (Several voices‘Yes, yes. 5 ) I have sometimes thought that I should like an audience of 4000 or 50U0 ,of them to whom I could preach a political sermon, and to whom I could tell something which I fear their theological schools have failed to teach them. An eminent man of your country, the late Dr. Chalmers, in speaking of the . question of free trade and particularly of the srruggle for the abolition of the com laws, uttered these memorable words:—-He said he thought there was nothing that would so tend to sweeten the breath of British society as the abolition of the corn laws. I believe now that there is nothing which would so tend to sweeten the breath of British society as the admission of a large and generous number ; of the working classes to citizenship and the exercise of . the franchise. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) Now if my words should reach the ears and reach the heart of any mau who is interested in the advance of religion in this country, I ask him to consider whether there are not great political obstacles the extension of civilization and morality and religion within the bounds- of the United Kingdom. We believe these ministers you and I; we belliv<3 in his omnipotence; we believe and we humbly trust in his mercy; we know that the strongest argument which is used agaiust ihafc belief by those who reject it is au argument drawn from this misery and that helplessness, and if that darkness could not be touched or tra sformed, I myself should be driven to admit the almost overwhelming force of that great argubut I am convinced that. just, laws and euligbtened administration of them would change the face of this ‘ country;- ~ (Loud cheers.) 1 believe that ignorance and suffering might be lessened to an incalculable extent, and thaf many an Eden, beautious in flowers ana profuse in -fruit; might be raised up in the waste wilderness which *Bpreads before ns. But no class pan do that£ the cjhss which has hitherto ruled in tniel has failed miserably. j; It revels in pdwer and wealth, winl&t at y ittflooty a teitibie peril for'its future, Hes-ajniuititude which it has neglected. (-Uh|e^a>)^-If a-class has4kiled,vlet -us iry the

our faith, that is our purpose, that is cur cry. Let us try the nation, (Cheers.) This it is which has called together these countless numbers of the, people to demand a change. And as I think of it and of these gatherings, sublime in their vastness and their re- * solution, I think I discern as it were, above the hill-tops-of time, the glimmering of the dawn of a better and a nobler day for the country'and for the people that I love so well. (Loud cheers”) . '

E XTBAORMNARY Wheat.—We were, • shown yesterday a single plant of ripened wheat, the ordinary White variety, grown on the'farm of Mr J. B. iWootton; of Matakan'a, which had no ! less than between 70 and 80 perfect, ■ears upon it. The plant had been taken from a field of wheat, one of the last crops in the neighborhood, and the chief cause of its productiveness was a dressing of bone-dust applied to "the land. This is indeed working old stuff into new. The bones were ground at Mr Soppett’s mill, in Freeman’s Bay, and probably will be ere many months, re-ground in the shape of wheat upon . the same premises, and appear again -as bread upon the same tables from which the bones were sent not six months ago. We have been strenuous advocates for the use of bone-dust as a manure more especially in the north. Bone-dust is not only immediately productive but it is lasting in its effects, and probably Mr Wootton’s next crop, whatever it # may be, will be even superior to the present one. Bone-dust is fast changing the appearance of the north, and will be found to he the best and cheapest friend of the settler. An application of six or seven hundredweight is not costly. Its effects will be directly seen for years. Indirectly also it should place a careful farmer in a position to keep up and mantain the fertility once imparted to the soil. —New Zealand Herald.

- ’ r. . Irish Statistics. —The Home News says:—“ The statistical report of the Registrar-General for Ireland, for the present year, shows that the produce and population of the inland is still on the decline. There is a further net decrease of 128,725 acres in area of crops, but, as a set off, the area under “grass” is increased by 210,425 acres, and the bog and unoccupied lands decreased by 86,664 acres. Oats and potatoes are the most extensively grown crops, the former occupying 1,697,648. acres, aud the latter I, acres. There is less wheat, oats, barley, here and rye, beans and peas, turnips, and mangold and beet root cultivated in Ireland now than in 1862. Potatoes, cabbages, and some green crops are more extensively cultivated than in that year; and the flax crop has largely increased, although the produce is less this year than in 1864. Cattle, pigs, and sheep have increased in number, but the number of horses has decreased. Fixing the value of each animal at a certain sum, tlie Registrar-General thinks that the result is satisfactory; and expresses the hope that the value of live stock in Ireland will soon be equal to what it was in 1859. In the first seven mouths of the present year 74,195 persons emigrated from Ireland, being 11, more than in the same period of 1869.”

Tremendous Explosion of Guncotton. —From the Home News we learn that just previons to the departure of the Australian mails, one evening about dusk, much excitemeut prevailed in the town of Woolwich in consequence of the loud report of an explosion, which appeared to proceed from the Royal Arsenal Marsh. It appears that a few months since a magazine of immense strength, was the canal, and bordering on thfiriumstead Marshes, for the-sole purpose of storing that extremely powerfnl agent of modern warfare known as gun-cotton. The walls of this of very thick brickwork, having a vaulted roof, and it was considerably detached from any other structure. Immediately on the report being heard, several officers and a number of the arsenal police hastened to the spot, and it was then found that the gun-cotton magazine had been blown up, completely destroyed,*and the debris scattered in all, directions. A few minutes before the! explosion a police-constable was close to,. the The-cause of theexplosion is as yet unknown.- 0 *

Death of William Thompson.— The Daily Southern Cross, Ist Jan., informs us that “ intelligence reached l{ town yesterday that William Thompson; the renowned Maori leader, died on , the way between Cambridge Matamata. He expired on tne 28th December, while being conveyed across the Maungakawa yahges. We believe that Thompson .wrote to Mr Firth, stating that he would die on the 28th; and accordingly at half-past four o’clock bn that day he expired. Up to the hour of his death Thpmpspn used,his influence in favor of the. peaceful settlement of the cquntry ; by leasing land to ..

Murder 1 and Suicide.-— The Home News says Considerable excitement prevailed the other night at Wafeingham, in the Wear Valley, on the report of a murder having been .committed. It appeared that a young man named Bowman had for some time past been paying his addresses to a servant girl, and that she. had lately rejected him. He became jealous of some one, and on a recent evening laid wait for her at her master’s back door, and as she was coming out for some coals, seized hold of her, and with% pocket-knife cut her throat from ear to ear. She died instantly. Bowman made off, and it was not until the following morning that he was found to have committed suicide. His footsteps were traced from the scene of the murder over the churchyard and towards the edge of the Waskerley Burn, and after a brief search his body was brought to the surface. It presented a shocking spectacle. His throat also was cut from ear to ear, and in his pocket was found a large pocket-knife covered with blood.

Fatal Accident. —A shocking and fatal accident has occurred at New-ton-with-Scales to a gentleman farmer named Richardson, living on his own estate. It appeared that Mr Richardson went into his garden with a loaded double-barrelled gun, for the purpose of shooting. Unfortunately, however, he stopped to pick-up some fruit, wheu the butt end of the gun, which he had over his left shoulder, beeame entangled in one. of the trees, and one of the barrels exploded, , The contents entered his left thigh, and tore off the flesh for five or six inches. He then fell, and his clothes having been ignited when the gun was discharged, he was burned iu a shocking manner, from the lower part of the body to the throaty. Some shot that he had in a bag with him was melted. He survived but a short time.

Quack Medicines.— The folly and danger of giving quack medicinea to children has been shown by a case which came before the Middlesex coroner. A man, who said he had been cured of cholera by a “ celebrated red mixture,”, gave his little girl, five years of age, six spoonfuls of the stuff. She died. An examination, proved that the child had swallowed enough opium to kill two children of her age. The proprietor of the medicine entered on a defence of it, referring the death to an overdose. The jury returned a verdict of “ Accidental Death.”

Sir Roderick Murchison and the Eyre Defence Fund.— At a meeting of the Eyre Defence Committee on Wednesday, the ; following letter wa read: —“ Bagshot, October 2. -Sir, — In apologising for not being able to attend the committee on the Eyre Fund to-morrow, I enclose a cheque: for my subscription. I rejoice, to fiad that we are going on so well, and I trust that the fuud will be so increased that we may be able to hand over to myJistiDguished friend the Ex-Goyer-norcftestimonial worthy of a man who saved a greal British Colony.—Your obedient servant, — Roderick Murchison.

The Post says:—“ Letters from Paris state that the result of the harvest will cause-about three hundred million francs to he gradually sent away for the purchase of corn. It is, however, expected that increased exports will in some measure neutralise the results of the expected withdrawal of bullion.” .

It is positively stated by the Copenhagen journals that iu a. day and a half 20,000 inhabitants of North Schleswig*-signed the memorial presented atfSenin for the restor&tion of -that, province to Denmark.