Miscellaneous.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 593, 14 July 1858, Page 5

Miscellaneous.

'.'"A; New Oed STORT.-^-And. theseare the iini ruly; ; that 'Louis' -PhiHipe" thinks- he cah: restrain.ihy.fett'ering; the ;press,^which oniyin- ;- creases his unpopularity. ;■ jMonarchs ayail themselves "of the indignation, which;is generally felt at any audacious crime' Attempted .against their' persons to' enact rievr and unconstitutional means' of-government;; forgetting that the indignation' subsides, while the despotism daily becomes more: irksome, v Thus ~ Bonaparte availed himself. •of the infernal ( riiachine to found. his imperial authority, "But where is the Empire? The Bourbons; availed themselves of < the crime of Louver to underininb the charter and.brihgback the oldmonarchical system. But where are the Bour 7 bons?,.;Lastly, Louis..Phillipe avails himself of the Fiesclii inachirie to draw tighter the reins on his turbulent subjects/1 No.- one can pretend to say what may happen, ;but few people will'doubt that, he :■ now. must regret, ?havlng; bartered the most. enviable -position that, a subject ever held for the' most,thorny/ and.■perilous crown ,that ever * monarch' wor e.—4liaike"s's"Jourrid ?,"*vol. .ii.',' p.p^2G7-8.; ' U' A y'y '■•'y' r-:\ :--- _'i'] '■■'■■ - '-;

/ CUTTING" OFF THEI'HklK' WITH A SHILLING.—•rThe: civilians carried; the doctrine of presumption sb.rfar as, to hold every will void In which the heir .was not noticed,? on the presumption that his father must have forgotten him.; ' From this, as Blackstpne. reasonably conjeCthres,'lias' ari sen' the -ground! ess-vulgar error of the necessity of;; giving i the heir a shilling, or some, other nominal sum itpjshow that he was in the testator's.remembrance., The practice is to be deprecated,'as it wounds unnecessaaily the feelings of a* disinherited child/ This'you may say- does not always' happen. An assembled family, as the legacy:to each was read aloud, sobbed; and wished that the' father had lived to enjoy,his own fortune 'At last came the bequest to'his beir—•' I will my eldest son Tom a shilling, to buy him; a rope to hang himself with:' 'God grant,'i:says Tom; sobbing like the.rest, • that my poor j father, .had. lived to enjoy it himself.' "— Lord St. Leonards''Handyßook. ..' . Count 'bis Ligny's Challenge.— It would be almost worth-while, if-brily 1 "for thefun of the thing," to bring before Mr. Speaker the case of the challenge; which: is said to have been transmitted tb "Mr! Roebuck from the Count de Ligny. Mr. Roebuck, it must be admitted, has been very' severe upon the emperor of the French ; and the: chivalrous' Count de Ligny, it-is' reported, has sent an invitation to the honourable and learned gentleman to.come to France for,the express purpose of enjoying the Count's hospitality and pistols. Of course the "Count had no eye to his own aggrandizement and promotion. He as, little thinks.of any sucli contingency as Raleigh did when he laid his cloak in,the, mud.under the feet, of Queen Elizabeth. But we look ,beyoiid ; the personal dispute. The Count de Ligny has evidently insulted Parliament: to call any mem - ?ber to aceburitfb'r words which he has spoken in ;his place in the House; is, a breach of privilege ; land it is a fair question to put to Mr. Speaker, •what shall "be .dpne in the case ? Probably Mr. 'Speaker Denisoh would see, the propriety of Isendirig the Sergeant-at-Arms to take the Count •into custody, and bring liim to the bar of the

House. And: it is not to: be_ doubted*that the j Emperor, in his. ; magnanimity, r would assist the ! officer of the House of Comfnbris by promoting the extradition of the Coiint'^-Sfieelator. - > —.-.. -. I TnE.Nßyv'LpnD,pHANCEi,i^bß.— ln" stature he is fully six''feet,:'arid he looks'every inch a chan-/ ceflbr^ >The'last; half-dozen-chancellors were, it '■ must be admitted^a-.very ,vfishy lot." -Begin-., riing with Lord J3rougham:ap'd'ending with Lord Cranworth, they were singularly deficient in the physical, qualities essential /for, the dignity of their 'office.' '' Brbugha'ih's ribse ; was' a perfect picture; but ev4n;"'this' extraoEdiriary member might have, been overlooked, were it not for the undignified, but, perhaps necessary jpractice ofscratching ; bis Jiead, in which, the noble arid ileariied'lordjCOrtstahtly indulges/;1 The late Lord :Cbti!enhani,' although a good lawyer,- was a, very 'queer-lobkirig chancellor";' andl- his successor, Lord Truro, resembled a retired butcher, who ihad put on a full-buttoned-wig for a "lark." Then followed Lord'St..Leonards,,the.-greatest lawyer of them all, but so diminutive, in stature, jand so indistinct in utterance, that when he sat as a.judge.of appeal;-the,woolsack .bad,-to be imoved from its place, arid brought' half way Jdown the middle of the ffoqr, in order that tlie {witnesses,-and counsel might see as well as hear ;the presiding judge. Lord' Crariwbrth/the iiriimediate ex-Chancellor, wliO'may be regarded as [the luckiest man alive, was taken one fine mornling out of .the Court/of—Exchequer, where he ■ was 'sitting.at prius- and' ■■ lecturing .a/common ijury, and plumped ;dpwn nisi on the woolsack, |with.:^l;2;ooo'.ayear and a coronet. The go- | vernment of the day was hard up at the time >. for. alayyyer .qf^respectable antecedents ,and in- i !d'ep"endeh't' position to takb the; custody of'the- : great< seal, and -as-;the suitors 'at, Westminster | Hall; could spare, the baron,very well, he accepted : the .proffered prize. . When the new' Lord Cha'n- }• cellpr, made his.appearance in the "house 'On Monti day-.' 'evening,-' 'there was: a general; buzz; He I wore a: -niagnifi'ceht ■' fuM/bottomed 'wig, falling j over his shoulders, a court dress qfi black velvet, j with silk "stockings and diamond i shoe-buckles, j and over all an- aniple silk; gown,,that fell in | graceful, folds..around; his .figure. /On. taking his sgat.-he was cordially'Yelcomed'by geve'ral peers |and Lord-Wensieydale especially' shbbk him j warmly.by the hand, and appeared delighted-at-j findings a- cbn'geriial spiritloh the. woolsack.-., ( , The I ex-Chancellor, took no-notice of his successor | until the debate/fwas nearly^oyer; but when | Lord Clarendon resumed Ins, seat, the noble and 1 learned lord ci-ossedthe'floor pf the house and | snook/hands-' with the : newiChancell'or^' The I greeting.- appeared : to ;be pepuliarly | ; cordial, but fyoumay form your, own,estimate of the amourit, .-of sincerity that dictated it^Fre'enian. , / ' ; The..'.Caucase' states-that .within'the'-'memory" lof man/ so-mucb' snbw riot: fallen in the | mountains of the Caucasus/in any" winter as ! during the present year.' The village of Sabak- ! mai^iiear Kutai3, has been, cOmpletelyiburied; -12, .' houses were...brushed:by -avalanches'- ; from.,the i mountains', and 17' persons "killed/- "In' other : parts .similar accidents, had happened, and seve- ;;, r'al";persbhs 4lost their lives- One iman-was got |; out aliye, after having been buried 24 ; hours. .:

A merry doctor said the other day.that people, : who were prompt in their payments- always re- ; covered from sickness, >as they were gbod cus- : tomers, arid physician- could hot afford to lose ; them. „ .-. . r- „, .. t . „,:,,.,,.. „.. ....