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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 6, 8 January 1869, Page 2

The Gothenburg left Hobson's Bay at 4 p.m. on the 26th uit., passed Port Phillip Heads at 7 and Cape Schanck at 9 the same night; experienced fine weather aud westerly winds during the passage; passed the Solander at 11 a.m. on the 31st, and entered Bluff Harbor at at 4.30 p.m. the same day; discharged 100 tons cargo, and sailed at 4 p.m. on the Ist inst., and arrived at Port Chalmers at 9 a.m. on the Sad; discharged 90 tons cargo, and sailed at 6 p.m. on the 4th; arrived at Lyttelton at 2.30 a.m. on sth ; discharged cargo, and sailed at 6.30 p.m., arrived at Wellington on the 6th, at 12.30 p.m. Sailed at 12.?.0 a.m., and arrived off Nel-on at 12 noon yesterday. Under the name of s Jumpers,' a new sect hSs been formed in West Prussia. At iheir 'Marriage with the Heavenly bridegroom,' as they call it, they fall iuto •ecstacies expressed hy wild jumpings. 'The whole congregation rises at a certain moment iu . crder to imitate David's dancing before the Ark. Tbis new sect is -chiefly recruited from a village near. Saatzig, where some years ago a virgin j commenced prophesying with great success, until fiie Cxovernm.nfc sent her to the •ivqrkhp'use. .7 --■ ■Coleridge! was descanting, in the presence of Charles Lamb, upou the repulsive appearance of the oyster. 'It is'nt handsome, Cf.'l. ridge,' said Lamb; *l>ut 1 it has the advantage of you in one thing.' •' What is that. ?' queried Coleridge, who, -as every ono know., was an exhaustless toJker. ;, 'lt .knows when to shut its ' .mouth.' was the repiy.