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Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 154, 17 December 1853, Page 5

A Ret.ic —Mr. Brown, lately engaged in sinking the shafts for the Hersey Coal Company, met with many impressions of shells in the clay shale ; but the greatest curiosity he encountered was a fossilised bat in limestone, some forty feet below the surface, in a disente-o-rated stratum. The creature had been arrested in full flight, and its head, body, and outstretched wings are distinctly and accurately marked. We have to thank Mr. Brown for this specimen preserved in stone probably before the flood, and shall be happy to show it to the scientific enquirer.— Hobarton Gazette.

A Sthong-minded Woman.—Miss Lucy Stone, in a recent lecture, delivered at the Metropolitan Hall, Boston, U.S., gave the following definition of woman's rights :—" I want the woman who must labour to elevate that life of labour. I want the woman who has talent, and genius, to go out on the highpays of life and ennoble her being. If she be a sculptor, I want her genins to find scope for full developement. If she wishes to become a phrenologist, I want Fowler to afford her the same opportunity to learn the profession that he does to men. I want her to have the same chance of displaying her talent. I want her to go into the printing office, if she have a taste for it, and ennoble her profession. I want her to be a merchant if she choose to be. But New-Yorkers will not, perhaps, thank me for that; however, I do not care whether they do or not. In Philadelphia, many ladies are already employed in»stores. I want the women to be physicians. I think the time will come when men and women wont get sick ; that they will know how to take care of themselves. But, so long as people will take pills, let the women have the right to administer them. I want women to be ministers. The time may come when men will be their own ministers and lawgivers. But we have some female ministers already, prominent among whom is the Rev. Antoinette L. BroWn. It was not easy however, for her to obtain licence to preach, so • strong was the influence against her in certain localities. I want women to be not only merchants, and physicians, and ministers, but lawyers also. I hope the day will come when the world will live without quarreling, and, therefore without, lawyers ; but, so long as they are necessary, let woman have an oppnrtunity of filling this office also. I know what it will cost for woman to thus go out of her sphere, as it is called ; I know the scoffs and the sneers she will have to meet. But let her not lie discomfited. Times have already changed in this regard, within a few years. It was hardly safe for a woman to attempt to speak in public a few years ago ; but now it is easy for me to stand here in the Metropolitian-hall, and who thinks of mobbing a woman ? and what but a mean press thinks of making unbecoming remarks about her appearance here ?" In Latahd's New Book we find the following characteristic epistle : —" My illustrious Friend, and Joy of my Liver, —The thing you ask of me is both difficult and useless. Although I have passed all my days in this place, I have neither counted the houses nor have I inquired into the number of the inhabitants ; and as to what one person loads on his mules, and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship, that is no business of mine. But, above all, as to the previous history of this city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusion that the infidels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islam. It were impossible for us to inquire into it. Oh, my soul! Ob, my lamb ! seek not after the things which [concern thee not. Thou earnest into us, and we welcomed thee ; go in peace. Of a truth, thou hast spoken many words, and there is no harm done, for the speaker is one, and the listener another. After the fashion of thy people, thou bast wandered from one place to another, until thou art happy and content in none. We (praise be to God)'were born here, and never desire to quit it. Is it possible, then, that the idea of a general intercourse between mankind should make any impression on our understandings ? God forbid. Listen, oh, my son ! There is no wisdom equal to the belief in God. He created the world ; and shall we liken ourselves unto him, in seeking to penetrate into the mysteries of his creation ? Shall we say, behold this star spinneth round that star, and this other star with a tail goeth and cometh in so many years ? Let it go. He from whose hand it came will guide and direct it. But. Thou wilb say unto me, ' Stand aside, oh man, for I am more learned than thou art, and have seen more things.' If thou thinkest that thou art in this respect better than I am, thou art welcome. I praise God that I seek not that which I require not. Thou art learned in the tilings I care not for; and as for that which thou hast seen, I defile it. Will much knowledge create thee a double belly, or wilt thou seek "Paradise with thine eyes ? Oh, mv friend, if thou wilt he happy, say, 'There is no* God, but God.' Do no evil: and thus wilt thou fear neither man nor death, for surely thine hour will come.—The meek in spirit (El Fair) Im.aum Ali ZAm." —Turkish Letlcr.