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Kumara Times, Issue 1141, 26 May 1880, Page 4

The Boston Sunday Herald thus forcibly expresses the principle which ought to settle the school question for ever What the State needs is good citizens, and not goo i Congregationalists, Methodists, Catholios, Unitarians, Baptists, Presbyterians, Spiritualists, Jews, Mahommedans. But there is one error which many worthy people fall Into; namely, that this is a Protestant Government. It is nothing of the sort. It is purely, und one religion is as free as the ot her. In this respect we would have the public schools like the Government. Curious comments by a judge, even in the presence of the prisoner, though extremely rare, are not unprecedented. Mr Justice Mania once addressed a phenomenon of innocence in a smock-frock in the following words s— *• Prisoner at the bar, your counsel thinks yon Innocent; the counsel for the prosecution thinks you innocent; I think yon mnocent; but a jury of your own countrymen, in the exercise of such common sense as they possess, which does not seem to.be ranch, have found you ‘guilty'; and it remains that 1 should pass upon yon the sentence of the law. That sentence is that yon be kept in imprisonment for one day; and, as that day was yesterday, you may now go about your business.” The unfortunate rustic, rather scared, went about his business, but thought that law was an uncommonly puzzling thing. tbe P IMB Prepared by Herr Jjablstrom, to whom a preliminary concession for the enterprise has been granted, the OToposed ship canal from the Baltic to tho worth Sea will be traced from the Bay of Kiel to Brnnsbnttol, in the estnary of the I* 1 ® 6 - Its depth throughout is to be 20 feet 9 foc|ies; its width at the surface of the water 160 feet, and at the bottom 64 feet, tn« banks consequently having a very gentle Provision will moreover be made, by the adoption of a peculiar system of locks ana reservoirs, for increasing the depth of or feet, whenever it may bo desirable to do so; and this depth will allow of the passage through the canal of the noavlest German ironclad afloat-the Konig Wilhelm, • vessel of 9603 tons displacement. Mid tile largest ship in the German naw, draw ng on ] y 26 feet. The canal can, it is «loniated, be completed in six years, and £ *■ estimated, cost L 3,760,000, or noout two millions and a quarter less than made a few years ago of the cost of constructing a canal 31 feet deep and 'Wide at ttte Surface of the water. ’ he added, the proposed Baltic and Worth Sea Canal does not compare unfavorably with the Suez Canal, the width of Oda »tthe surface of the water being 1724 70 feet * * ad the o®pU» about 26 feet 8 inches,