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Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 156, 31 December 1853, Page 10

The Melbourne Argus, in a sketch of the Criminal Court of that city, states, " The regular old'scale of "She banking at one" tfme^ls becoming quite inadequate to the necessities of the case, and two or three hangings at once is the improved system at present in use. Two men were handed on each of the first two mornings of this week;'three men were hanged at-one-time' only-three~weeks™ ago, and" a" few days before that, two others were handed at once. The criminal sessions are perpetually being held—no respite being allowed the overworked judges, so heavily and constantly is the calender filled: and more than a million sterling, or upwards of £<1 per head for eveiy soul in the colony, is to be expended next year in the suppression and punishment of crime." On the 23rd of October and two following days, 2270 emigrants arrived in the harbour at Melbourne. Two ships, The Goldfinder and Tasmania, brought 1090 passengers. A Church of Exglaxd College, in permanent alliance Mith the University of Sydney, and under the sanction of the Bishops of New Zealand and Newcastle, is about to be founded at Sydney. The subscriptions already advertised exceed £6,000. We subjoin the" Prospectus as given in the Sydney Morning Herald. "It is proposed to establish,.'in yermament alliance with the Sydney University, a Church of England College, in which systematic religious instruction, domestic supervision, and moral discipline, with elementary'teaching, and efficient assistance in preparing for the University Lectures and. Examinations, shall be provided for ;,t.u!eius of the University whose guardians or parents may desire to secure such advantages for them. And thus, while the acquishion\v them of all other useful knowledge will be facilitated, aud that union of the Tutorial and Professorial systems be attained, which is so important in academical education, the great object will be kept in view of instilling'Vuto their minds a reverence for the doctrines and tenets of our Church ; and learning will be consecrated, as it ever should be, to the service and honour of God." A. Novel Phoject.— An "Umbrella Association" has commenced operations in London, for the purpose of hiring out umbrellas and parasols in wet and sultry weather, the borrower _I'}Jl>dge.a.shi!Jijjg J'ur ihe.s;ife. reluriv-of-the-hi---■ Ucle, and to pay one penny an hour for the loan. The compauy have already laid in a stock-of i 25,000 umbrellas and parasols,; and intend forming .several district depots iii London, j

Mr. Bkoivne, an American traveller, who has. just written an interesting account of his travels in the East, gives an amusing "account of the examination of his party at one of the offices of the Neapolitan Government. Turning 'to an Englishman present, the head officer said, " Your name, Signor ?"—"Mine! My name is Norval: on the Grampian hills my father feeds his flocks, a 'frugal swain." "Excuse, Signor, what did you say ?"—«' Smith, John Smith, if you like it better!"— "Va bene, Signor; put that down ; Giovanni Smiz ; no, Semmit—Giovanni Senimit." A man with the tails of game-cocks in his hat put it down. "And your name, Signor?" turning to Mr. Browne. "Sir," said the latter with a dash of honest pride in the thought that he was giving a name known in the remotest corner of the globe, " My name is Browne—John Browne, Americano, General in the Bobtail Militia."—" Grazia ! Signor," said the officer, bowing even more profoundly than he had bowed to John Smith. "Put that down — Giovanni Brovveni." " Browne, " said the traveller, for he had no idea of having an honest name so barbarously Italianized. " Si, Signor, Jiruvven." "No !" said the American sternly, " not.Bruvven —Browne,'Sir." " Si, Signor, Bruin"—"No, Sir! do you take me for a bear, Sir? My name's Browne, Sir."— " Gerto, Signore, Bruin!". And Bruin was written down, " and so," says Mr. Browne, "stands uiy name to this day in the official archives of Syracuse—Giovanni Bruin, or John Bear."