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Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 671, 13 April 1859, Page 5

Not Qualified. —James Gordon Bennett, editor of the' New York Herald,' having been announced in Reveral papers as a candidate for Congress, thus sets the matter at rest:—" There is evidently a mistake in this. We can't be a candi- . date. We pay our debts ; we never were indicted j as an alderman for taking 100-dollar bribes. We don't visit low grog-shops, nor chew tobacco, nor drink bad whisky, nor carry lobby fees of 10 dollars in our breeches pockets, as Greely did for Matheson. We are, in a word, not qualified for a seat in Congress.

How to Treat a Cmallisngk—The late eccentric mathematician, Professor Vince, of King's College, Cambridge, boing once engaged in a conversation with a gentleman who advocated duelling, is said to have-thrown'his adversary completely hors do combat by the following characteristic reply to his question! " But what could you do, sir, if a man. told you to your face,' You lie ?' " —" What cud I do P Why I wouldn't knock him down, but I'd tell him to pruv it,' I'd say. If ho cudn't, he'd he the liar, and then I should have him ; but if lie did pruv that I lied, I must c'en pocket the affront, and there I expect the matter would end."