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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 211, 7 September 1870, Page 2

The Saturday Review quotes the following advertisement from Lloyd's I\ews of June 5 :- —" Adoption. —A good house, with mother's love and care, is offered to any respectable person wishing her child to be adopted. Premium £5, which includes everything. Apply by letter only, to Mr. Oliver," &c, &c. The Saturday Review thus commentß on it: —"About this there can be no mistake. Here is aD offer, scarcely disguised, to get rid of inconvenient babies for ever, at the very moderate figure of £5. No exercise of the most exuberant chanty, not the wildest fanaticism of philanthropy, can delude herself into belief that this advertisement means anything but infanticide." The English Press is bewailing the increase of infanticide, and helieves that baby-farmiD£ is an organised system for destroying children. Preachers and Preaching. —The Rev. Newman Hall communicates to the New York Independent an incident which recently occurred in one of the out-door meetings which he had been holding. A free thinker who happened to be present rose and said he came to hear about temperance, but in his opinion the man who invented gas had done more to enlighten the world than all the parsons. Quite a disturbance ensued, but a friend of Mr. Hall at once begged for a fair hearing even for the objector; and then being bimBelf called up, he said : " Mr. Chairman — I'm for free thought and free speech; and yonder gentleman has a right to speak and think for himself as much as I have. (Loud cheers from the friends of the objector.) That gentleman says he considers the man who invented gas did more to enlighten the world than all the parsons. Well, if that is his opinion he has a right to hold it and maintain it. But, whatever our different opinions, there is a time coming to us all which we call death, when most men are somewhat serious, and like to get advice and comfort respecting the world they are going to. Now, when this season comes to our friend, I would recommend him to send for the gas-man." An immense sensation with a tumult of applause followed this sally, which, as Mr. Hall eays, was better than a sermon, and not likely to be forgotten. He adds that the impudent boys of the neighborhood where this occurred still, when at a safe distance, shout out to the man round the corners of the street, •« Send for the gasfitter."