MISCELLANEA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 74, 5 June 1852, Page 7

MISCELLANEA.

Lord Palmerston and Lor» Granvilxe. One of those coincidences in which envious people are prone to indulge is to he found in the mottoes attached'to the coat-of-arms of the families, of Lord Palmerston and Lord Granville. The device of tlie ex-secretary for foreign, affairs is " Flecti, Nun Frangi," whilst tliat of the present foreign secretary is " Frawjas, Non Flecles" The similarity in sound, and opposition 'j^seijv.'se, of those two mottoes of the respective 'ijohle houses to which our late and present foreign secretary belong, will strike at once the curious in such matters, when it is considered how these devices were selected long ago'by the founders of those families when the /'present events could scarcely have presented themselves to their imagination. The ingenious will further amuse themselves by making the application to the case of the accomplished nobleman, who may have " bent" to rise again, but who may not yet be " broken."— Observer. Bj.oomertsm.— \ correspondent has sent us the'following note:—While the females of the present day are discussing the expediency of adopting the style of dress hitherto exclusively, confined to men, I would refer those of your readers meditating the proposed change/and who are yet desirous of bringing their conduct into conformity to the word uf God. to the xxii. chap, of Dent., v. 6, where it is written, " The woman shall not wear that which perlainelh unto a ninn, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God."— Bell's Messam/rr. A Novm. Steamboat.—There is a drawing in the Navy department of a new steamboat, about to be built in New York fur the Hudson river, and which is to make the trip from New York to Albany in five hours. She is intended to compete with the New York avid Albany Bailroad. Her proporiions are as follows:— Length of keel, 500 feet; length of deck, 350 feet. She looks like a sword lish. There is 75 feet of keel at each end, extending out from the deck, which shows itself above the water, and it is.sharp and pointed like the sword of a sword iish. Both ends of the boat are alike, and her engines are to work both ways. She is not intended t{j turn round, but to' work like a ferry boat. She is to be called the " George Washington," and to have accommodations for three thousand passengers. She will make the passage of 150 miles in 5 hours. She has been designed and modelled by Mr.Davison of New York. Walking on a Ceiling.—Some interest has been excited in Pittsburg by the performance of Mr. M'Cormack, who walks head downwards, on (or rather 'under) a sla.b of polished marble, to which his feet attach themselves, as he asserts, by atmospheric pressure. He made some six or seven steps, the slab being only under nine feet long. This experiment is said to be the result.of many years of research and labour, and involving philosophical principles, though shoes are used, it is stated, with mechanical contrivances in imitation of the feet of flies, which insects have heretofore been the sole performers of this kind of gymnastics. A large number of prominent citizens witnessed this and other experiments of his upon discoveries of others. They resolved that Mr. M'Cormack be requested 'to deliver a public course of lectures in Pittsburgh,a.nd that the meeting pledge themselves to assist him in the prosecution of his scientific researches — Mont.Courier. Troops for India.—The following is copied by the Madras Spectator, from an English journal:—ln future all regiments destined for service in India will go out to that country direct from Britain, and after ten years' sojourn to the East, will go on to Australia or its dependencies for a term of five years more ! The °hjes>-°f this arrangement* is to afford discharged men of good character and their families an opportunity of settling in these colonies, where grants of land, with "other advantages, ■W3\l\ie bestowed upon them on discharge there, under tiertain easy conditions, by which means an efficient body of Pensioners will be thus organized for local duty on any emergency." As the colonists, we believe, decidedly approve of military settlers, this regulation is likely to be as popular as it is prudent. We doubt, however, whether it will have the precise effect intended, which is evidently to secure a stron»English force in each colony. KOSSUTH'S EIVAL IN THE UNITED STATES. -|-Lola Montes, accompanied by her agent, arrived in the Humboldt, and was present in the cabin when the address was delivered to Kos-

suth. She passed some smart jokes upon the whole affair, and a gentleman informed our reporter that she had declared Kossuth to be a great humbug. It is stated they had some conversations during the passage. The Countess of Lansfeldt was a prodigious favourite among the gentlemen passeugersduringthe passage; she kept them continually in roars of laughter. She was not, at first, very well received by the lady passengers; but her lmnners at last secured her their courtesy. The gentlemen were all delighted with her, as she sang and talked to them most charmingly. She certainly is an extraordinary woman, and as she is an ambitious one also, we may expect something wonderful from her in the course o£ time. She is much lighter in her form, and more refined in .her features, than she is represented in the paintings. She has a remarkably fine pair of eyes. No doubt she will create a fuiore of her.

own as well as Kossuth, whose rival she is for popularity. Immediately on the arrival of the Humboklt at her pier yesterday morning Lola Montes, accompanied by her waiting maid, and attended by Mr. Edward Willis, and her agent and private secretary, proceeded to the New York Hotel, where suitable apartments were placed at her disposal by the proprietor of that establishment, Mr. Monnot. It was expected that the Countess—who has been styled "one of the feminine glories of the Continent"—would have visited the Broadway Theatre last evening ; and a private box was accordingly placed at her disposal; but the fatigue of the voyage, and the excitement of her peculiar temperament, consequent upon her arrival in the land of liberty, rendered it impossible for her to attend. The line of liberty, in its broadest and most comprehensive sense, she feels ; she has advocated it in the very heart of despotism^ and she will find it here, but not, perhaps, in the same shape or form. We understand that efforts are being made to secure the services of the fair danseuse ; but that, notwithstanding the many offers tendered her, she has, with considerable shrewdness, which has characterised all her movements, selected Mr. Barry, the gentlemanly and dignified manager of the _ Broadway Theatre, as her theatrical counseller. His high position in the profession, his private character, and his universal reputation as a gentleman and a manager, will insure to the fair Countess not only good counsel, but judicious direction of her movements throughout the States. Some idea may be formed of the estimation in which Lola Montes is held in the theatrical circles of Europe from the fact that in Paris a committee of 500 gentlemen offered her IOOf. each, which would make something about 10,000 dollars, for one evening's entertainment. Many stories are told of this great female llepublican, and many motives attributed to her, for thus coming before the public, but they are, we are informed, for the most part exaggerated. The pecuniary means of Lola Montes are not independent. She need not, if it were so, voluntarily embrace the toils of an arduous profession, as she said to a gentleman of this city, "If I was a woman of that description which I am represented, would I be compelled to go on the stage to earn a livelihood f—New York Herald. Madame Kossutu.—An address has been presented to Madame Kossuth by a deputation from the "Society for the Emancipation of Women." In addition to an expression of sympathy, this address contained the wish that the wife of the honoured hero of the day would communicate to those ladies her sentiments respecting their efforts to achieve the freedom of her sex. Madame Kossuth replied that she thanked them heartily for this proof of their sympathy towards herself, and through her, more particularly towards her country; that, with respect to her own views on the emancipation of women, she had in earlier years conlined herself to the circle of her domestic duties, and had never been tempted to look beyond it ; find that latterly the overwhelmingcourse of events had left her, as might well be supposed, still less leisure for any speculations of this kind. It would, moreover (such was the conclusipn of her little speech), be readily, forgiven in her, the wife of Kossuth—a man whom the general voice, not more than her own heart, pronounced distinguished—if she submitted herself entirely to his guidance, and never thought of emancipation." The admirable pertinence of this reply will be doubly appreciated, when it is mentioned that Madame Kossuth was altogether unprepared for the adi dress of these ladies.

Honolulu.—We have letters and papers from Honolulu, to the 20th March. A most outrageous violation of the mail by the ship " Game Cock," during her passage from San Francisco to Honolulu, bad caused much sensation in the latter port. It appears, from information which we have received from our own correspondent, that three leading members of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee were passengers by the " Game Cock," and that during the passage they broke open the mail bags and opened and destroyed a number of the letters. This outrage had been deposed to, on the arrival of the vessel, before the police magistrate at Honolulu, by Mr. James Henry Tanner, one of the passengers.—JS. M. herald.

A young girl of Tahiti, who possesses, it is said, a magnificent soprano, and who has great musical talent, has arrived in Paris. This young girl, who is fifteen years of age, has received her preliminary instruction in the primary school established by the French administration, and it was there she learned the rudiments of music. She is pretty, and gifted with veritable intelligence. Her name is Orea, and she belongs to one* of the secondary chiefs of the Society Islands. Queen Pomare, who, as is known, is very fond of music, takes great interest in her, and has caused her to sing in concerts which she has recently given at her Court, and which are often attended by the officers of the Naval station. She speaks French perfectly well, and sings in her national language the songs of Oceania, which produced such great effect on Bougainville and his companions. She comes to Paris to enter the Conservatoire de Musique, where she appears destined to obtain great success. The presence of the young Tahitian in the capital of France and of the arts will, we doubt not, produce great sensation. She will be placed under the protection of an honourable family who long resided in Oceania. — Paris Paper. A woman named Helena Jegado has been condemned to death after a trial lasting ten days, by the Court of Assize of the Ille-et-Vilaine for seven murders, being that number selected out of forty-three occurring since 1846; seven murders by arsenic in 1850 ; but the evidence showed that, although only seven cases had been selected as more recent, and therefore more easy of proof, not less than forty-three persons had been poisoned by her with arsenic:—" The victims were either her masters or mistresses, or fellow-servants, who had incurred her hatred. The prisoner appeared to have been actuated by a thirst for destruction, and to have taken pleasure in witnessing the agonies of her victims. The suddenness of the deaths in the families where she was a servant excited great sensation, but for a long time no suspicion as to the cause, for the murderess appeared to be very religions. She attended, in many instances, with apparent solicitude on the persons whom she had poisoned, and so successful was her hypocrisy that even the deaths of the mother and another relative of a physician in whose family she lived raised no suspicion of poison in his mind." Punch's Criminal Court.—Mr. Punch sat for the purpose of trying o (Fenders, some of whom, when brought to the bar of public opinion, at oTice pleaded guilty. The following are a few of the principal delinquencies : — An unhappy youth was brought up, and charged with maliciously cutting and wounding the English language, by asking, ' Of what sex is the National Anthem?' and then replying, ' Masculine ; because it's a hymn (him)/ Verdict, Guilt}'. Sentence deferred. A shabby-genteel looking person was next charged with uttering the following counterfeit joke:—' What tree is it which is not affected by the season, and brings forth neither blossom nor fruit; — The Boot-Tree.'—After the jury bad been absent for several hours, the foreman entered the Court, declared that there was no chance of their agreeing in a verdict. The Judge told them that under these circumstances, they had better go home, A youthful individual, with a vacant stave, was next put to the bar under the followingmelancholy circumstances. Having passed the evening in company with a friend, he was about to bid the other good night, when, turning suddenly round, he" exclaimed, in a very unusual tone of voice, ' When is Fleet-street like the country without a government ? When there's no cab-in-it (cabinet).' The jury immediately returned a verdict of acquittal, on the ground of insanity. The Court then rose.