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Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 659, 2 March 1859, Page 4

A Clkrioal Joke.—Dr. Webster, at onetime* minister of the Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh. * wit and a celebrated preacher was fond of ft <'r°l of claret; A friend on whom he had called one ilaj said he would give him a treat, and produced* bottle of the Doctor's favourite wine, adding that it was upwards of fifty years old. Being only a pin* bottle, the Doctor took it lovingly in his hand, iuw said, •"• Dear me, but it's unco Uttle 9' Us age,"

Ay/ATLANTIC TBtEGBAPH WITHOUT A CABLE; •~\W not try to telegraph; across the Atlantic witlout a cable P ,_ In Dundee^ve .have a scientific enthusiast .who, with all the^ devotion of .an alchemist, has attained results which will compare with, if they do not outrival, the most brilliant achieve- , ments of Faraday, Wheatstone, and Morse. Had i he been more worldly-minded, and cared for fame f or fortune, he would long ere this have been a dis- [ tinguished and opulent man, but studying everyi thing but his own advantage, he is almost unknown 1 -and has only just been raised by,a Government pen- ] sion from a lowly and arduous profession. Whoever I enters the .sanctum of that simple man/however, I must be struct with the evidence that he is rich in I the lore of the universe; and that he possesses | secrets which may yet enrich mankind. His sub- | marine telegraph without wires is one of these. I The other day we saw on his table a working model I which, were it placed t>n the table of the board- | room of the directors of the Atlantic Telegraph CoinI pany, would, we think, induce them to try whether Itjiey could not telegraph between England and Ameii'ica, without any cable whatever. This model consists ffsimply of a trough filled with water, on each side of > which are two small copper plates, the plates on one |f?ide heing connected with a common electric battery .^and it is.found that without any wire the electricity Ipasses. through the water and makes signals on the Mother side in the (ordinary manner—the theory %f,l>eing that the copper plateson the other side guide »¥the electric current in the circuit desired. It may be objected that the results obtained in this model - -would not be; obtained on a larger scale. Mr. ' —for that is bur electrician's name—has \~not been able'to carry out such experiments as he (^tyet couteniplates; but some time ago his system tried at Portsmouth, and found to answer per-: fL"I'fleetly across water of the breadth of half-a-mile; '*j9,n<L if it answers for that distance, there appears no Teason why it should not answer for any distance [,* on the face of the glohe.^-JDund^e Advertiser. " Raeet taming the Cettisee,—Accompanied i by one individual alone, ia nobleman of indisputable nerve, temper, and physical strength, Mr. Rarey f^*^proceeded to the encounter, As we have heard j| the story told, his injunctions to his comrade were f characteristic enough. "Whatever happens, my $ lord," said he, "don'tyou:speak,or interfere. At k least, not till, you see me down under his feet, h and him worrying me!" This compact made, he lesolutely walked into the arena, which consisted of ||; a loose-box divided by a half-door of some four |jf feet or more in height. Stepping quietly up to this barrier, he leaned his arm upon it, so that it ;' was just covered by the iron bar that ran along ',? the top, and looked' fixedly at the savage he inie tended to tame.' Cruiser, from whom muzzle, v*u * lieadstall, arid all such impediments had been 5 \ lemoved, we believe by some mechanical arrange-ments—-for ncme dared go near enough to touch I him —made his usual dash at the intrepid stranger, 1 to pounce on him as a cat would on a mouse. Raiey stood perfectly motionless, neither altering his attitude nor the expression of his countenance in the' slightest degree. Thinking he had his enemy by the arm, the horse seized and worried I at the bar as if hie would have bitten it through. •^ Again and again retiring for an impetus to the \>" further corner, he rushed at the mysterious stranger, * actually screaming in the uncontrollable violence of !his rage, Rarey sustaining these successive charges ■with the same sang froid that he had shown at the commencement of the engagement. At length, After more than an hour of this wild scene, with

I its frantic fury'on one side, and its calm scientific I superiority on ihe other, the redoubtable Cruiser, I blown, exhausted, dripping with sweat, and comI puzzled in Ms equine mind as to the prof; perties of this figure, which he oould, no longer I believe to be human, came quietly close to it, and I true to his nature, warped as it was, smelt at it, |. '-and touched it with; its hose;' then Rarey threw |f open the half-door and walked boldly up to him. I The last sentence speaks volumes. It was a trait I not of the system, perhaps, so much as of the man. | But what confidence the man must have had in his f system, thus to preserve his coolness and equani- | miiy in a position which to every one but himself | would have been of-mortal danger. The " salt was | now on the bird's tail/ and when his own peculiar i method had been resorted to, and Cruiser, conV verted infio'a'^met,. docile, and not particularly : showy Ti^acky bad1 been ridden before astonished I hundreds, the ho¥se;tamer was universally recogr nised as such, and both the papers and the public I „ expressed themselves satisfied with Mr. Rarey.— \ •' Frazer's Magazine;'-—[Mr. Karey was lately at \ Stockholme. He tamed several: violent horses therein the presence of the Prince Royal, and his royal highness presented him with:a gold medal. Mr. Rarey proceeded thence to St. Petersburg. He is now in London again.J A very pretty Berlin danseuse was lately performing at the capital of Prussia. Mademoiselle Lithienthal executed some beautiful dances on a tgrand night at the Royal Theatre. A very rich millionaire of Vienna, M. Camptoir, who was passing some days at Berlin, fell in love with the graceful attidudes of the young, lady. He asked this ;girl in marriage. It might be supposed, perhaps, that the offer was immediately accepted; but this was not the case. She only consented on the following conditions:—First, separate apartments; secondly, a carriage and servants, specially for her--self; thirdly, 15,000 francs nearly for her toilet; and finally, in case of separation, 300^000 francs. . M. Camptoir agreed to these conditions, and all ihe fashionable people- of Berlin attended at the cathedral to assist at the'marriage of the millionaire and the pretty danseuse.. The melancholy murder of General de Salles by a maniac half brother, Cotoriel de Chanaleilles, has caused a profound sensation in Parisian society. The general is known from having commanded the French corps d'armee on the left position in the *iege of Sebastopol. He was, apart from his services in the Crimea,,a distinguished soldier, and was of noble. birth arid an accomplished scholar^ The wife of the unhappy maniac also possesses a certain interest in English eyes from being the daughter of the famous Count de Las Cases, the ■companion and historian of Napoleon in his exile, and from having passed the greater part of her .youth in St. Helena. A dreadful affair occurred a few days ago at Rauville-la-Place (Manche). A soldier on furlough named Risbey,,on a visit'to" his family, was recently attacked with mental alienation, and as he was very violent, a physician directed that he should be closely watched; but happening to be left alone for awhile he seized a hatchet and killed an infirm brother, who was in bed. He then set fire to the house, and with his hatchet menaced the people who went to extinguish the flames. He next rushed across the fields, and meeting three peasants, who having'seen the conflagration were hurrying to render asssistance, he killed two of them, named Fauvel and Meslain, by blows on the head with his hatchet, and would have done so to the third if the man had not taken to flight. He then went to the church, and meeting the aged sexton, he with iwo blows laid, him dead at his feet. He afterwards" entered the church, and laying aside his hatchet went to the altar, where he took the sacred vessels, wine, and consecrated wafers, and proceeded to imitate a'priest performing mass. The unfortunate maniac was engaged in that way when the curd and some gendarmes arrived. The former with a voice of authority ordered him to descend from the altar-~the man obeyed, and was then secured by the gendarmes. The house to which he set fire was with its contents entirely consumed. Who first ran for the Oaks? Charles the Second, at Boscobel,

■* A New Artillery Gamp.—lt is currently reported that a large and permanent artillery camp is to ho formod in South Wales, and that Pembroke is to be tl.o locality. Rumour assorts that a body of 5000 nieiv will bo located there, this arrangement arising from a large contemplated increase *in that body. The barracks at Carmarthen are now unoccupied, and it is said that a small body of troops from Pembroke will be placed there. It is stated that a divisional headquarters of marines is about to bo form ed and stationed at Pembroke.

A. letter in a Paris journal states that General Garibaldi is at present living in strict retirement at Nice. :