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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 223, 21 September 1870, Page 2

The Strongest Kind of Hint. — A young lady asking a gentleman to see if one of her rings will go on his little fiuger. Nature has not conferred upon us a responsible existence, without giving us at the same time the strength rightly exerted, to perform its duties. "Cuffy, why don'fc you kick that dog?" "What am de use ob kickia' ebery cur what snarls at you ? Don't you know dat am de way he wants you to bring him into notice ? " " What makes you look so glum, Tom?" " Oh, I had to endure such a sad trial to my feelings." "What ou earth was it ?" " Why , I had to tie a pretty girl's bonnet while her ma was looking on." For remainder of News see Fourth page.

Forgery by a Naval Officer. — At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Wellington, Horace Baker, a midshipman of H.M. ship Challenger, was charged with Forging the name of Commodore Lambert to a bill of exchange. The Commodore, on examination, said that prisoner had in September or October of last year applied to him to endorse a draft for him, which he did, but also telling Baker not to make such a request again, as he would not endorse any more. [The bill of exchange was handed to Commodore Lambert, who said the endorsement was very like his handwriting, but was not his.] Examination continued : I had some conversation with the prisoner on Wednesday in the forecabin of the Challenger, in the presence of Commander Brownrigg and Mr. GKlbert, and gave the prisoner a letterT . had received from the bank authorities in Europe — a notice of dishonorment. I asked him for an explanation. lie replied that lie had signed my name to the bill referred to iv the letter. I then taxed him with having forged my name to tbe bill I had seen at the Union Bank as well as to the dishonored bill. He also admitted this. I asked him if he knew he had ! been guilty of forgery. He denied it was ; forgery. He said a forger was one who imitated bank-notes ; but he saw no harm in signing my name. Prisoner, who re- . served his defence, was committed for trial, bail being fixed at £600, the prisoner in £200 and two sureties for a like amount each. Another Miracle. — We are indebted to the Garten lanbe for the following ac--1 count of a Papal miracle : — " Shortly after Easter an event occurred iv Eome which had but few witnesses, and has since been cautiously and timidly whispered through the streets. As it, however, throws an interesting light on the state of things in the Eternal City, and on the views of the Pope regarding his own person and office, it deserves to be known iv Germany. The scene is at Monte Mario, in the neighborhood of Villa Melini. Leaning heavily on the arm of an attendant the Pope climbed the first ascent, the impersonation of corporeal weakness and decrepitude. Every road and path about Rome is constantly beseiged by beggars. The blind, the halt, and the sufferers from, the terrible malaria solicit everywhere the charity of the passer-by. Among a troop of mendicant 3 there was one lame of both feet, who seemed to have a particular claim to the compassion of the benevolent. As his Holiness drew near, the withered couutenance of the beggar brighteued up ; he raised his hands, and every feature seemed to say : Master have pity on me !' Pope Pius went up to him, and when we recollect his very decided •penchant for miracles, and his firm conviction that he himself is a wonderful instrument of Divine Providence, we can easily comprehend the sequel. Profoundly agitated, he raised his hand and said to the infirm mendicant, 'Arise, take up thy bed and walk !' It is hardly possible to form an idea of the effect produced on the poor sufferer by these words issuing from the mouth of infallibility. He stood a moment as if electrified, and then with sparkling eyes sprang up, and advanced two or three paces. The countenance of the Pope beamed with rapture, but in a few seconds the seemingly heakd beggar fell heavily to the ground. Like a soldier pressing forward with desperate energy to the attack of an impregnable fortress, the Pontiff cried a secend time, "Arise and walk ! " but when the patient sprang up again only to fall down anew, the hands of the Pope trembled, his voice became hoarse, and he repeated the command a third time stammering. Yet another couvulsive effort, and the eyes of the half savage and filthy Lazarus revealed horribly all his suffer in "rand his disappointment. The face of Pope Pius became deadly pale, and he was borne half-fainting to his carriage, in another moment the vehicle was rolij ing away at a furious pace, while the unfortunate mendicant lay writhing on the street and groaning, 'Madonna, Madonna 1' ! This anecdote is highly characteristic of 'Pids IX. His self-assumed omnipotence laud his mania for personal infallibility are in him not policy but earnest conviction, though his undoubting faith in himself has no doubt, been dexterously made subservient to the fayorite policy of others."