HATTER IN HAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 404, 17 September 1856, Page 8

HATTER IN HAND.

.We are grieved to find that the printer of the ' Banner of Belfast' is ' out of sorts,' and altogether in a very ' bad case ;' as is evident from the folloAving virulent notice:— "To our readers.—ln consequence of our printer being afflicted with a bad hand, we are obliged to put in some matter which appeared in our next issue." Pathologically speaking ' Punch ' thinks the editor of the ' Banner' has acted very unskilfully by introducing virus into a bad hand, and critically speaking, he finds the editor guilty of a gross solecism in speaking of existing matter as having appeared in a future issue. In any event ' Punch ' must join issue Avith the editor upon the matter of putting matter into an issue—but this matter ' Punch refers to the Medical Journal.' "AN INTERESTING LITTLE BAROUCHE." Punch finds the following in the Sydney Morning Herald of the 2nd instant:— "Tub Nortuebk Gold Fimdb.—An interctftiujr Utile ' J*:. ou I cho, f^J u ) ' ,t t ,'«! e'««su«--dby Woolcott and Clarke, called a ' Guide to the .Northern Gold Fields, by an old BuKhma,,. It contains a map of the various routes to the diflownt gold mines; a IU of articles required for the road ; « .m<« for the road; the route to the Rocky River IWinebstarung from E«ymond Terracejthrough Stroud; hints /or the preservation ot health, &c, &c, " i T he Bld^ ey people aPPear t0 have a nomenclature ot their-own, la Long Acre they would

speak of a barouche having been built by Messrs. So-and-so, in plaeoof having "just been issued" • nor Avould even the penuy-a-liners on the Morning Post think of particularizing tho small maps and pamphlets which had been placed in the pockets of the vehicle. Then, again,. Punch cannot recognise the propriety of denominating a barouche, a " Guide to the Northern Gobi Fields." Such an appelation might apply" to the driver, but surely not to the carriage itself.

and Opinions. — Sentiments join man to , man, opinions divide them. The former'are elementary, and concentrate, the latter are composite,and scatter. The friendships of youth are founded on sentiment; the dissentions of age result from opinion. If Aye could know this at an early age—if, in. forming our own mode of thought,' Aye could acquire a liberal AieAv of that of others, and even of those Avho are opposed to ours—Aye should then be more tolerant, and endeaA'our to reunite by sentiment Avh at opinion diAided and dispersed. The reAised Estimates for the Army, published a feAV. days since, shoAV a reduction from the amount of the original Estimate of something like A revised Naval Estimate issued to-day, aatll slioav a reduction in this branch of more than £3,000,000, as it appears that, hi consequence of peace, only £16,568,614 of the; £19,876,665 —originally considered necessary—rwill be required for the naval and transport serAice.