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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 169, 20 July 1868, Page 2

The following numbers show the nationality of the members of which the present Legislative Assembly of Victoria is composed. There are in all 75 representatives. Of these there are 33 Englishmen^ VVelshmen, 20 Irishmen, 19 Scotchmen, and 2 Jews. It will be seen that both Ireland and Scotland are represented ' largely in proportion to the population of those countries respectively. In the Council there are 15 Englishmen, 1 Welshman, 5 Irishmen and 9 Scotchmen. The sentence of death passed on James Kelly at the late Beechworth Circuit Court, for deliberately setting fire to a house at Greta, in the night, three women and 13 children being in the building at the time, has been commuted to ten years* hard labor on the roads. The Cockney notion of where beefsteaks -come from is generally as vague as Topsy's notion of her own existence j he ' 'spects they growed.' It does not enter his mind that there is any connection between beef ..and bullocks, and consequently he cannot see clearly hovr the cattle plague affects him. ' House lamb!' said a diner the other day at the table d'hote of the Charing Cross Hotel; 'what is that?' 'It means hot-house lamb,' said his neighbor. 'Ah,, I see,' exclaimed the enlightened Cockney; 'grown under a glass case, lika cucumbers,. and that sort of thing.'