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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 275, 22 November 1870, Page 2

Bass's Ale. — According to the Licensed Victuallers' Guardian, Messrs Bass & Co., the bitter beer bre\ver3, usa up 5,200 quarters of malt per week. The greatest quautity of malt brewed during tlie yenr was close upon 190,000 quarters. Qjautity of land to grow the barley, at 4J quarters per ucre, 42,200 acres. The quantity of hops used in the same period was 23,000 cwt. Quantity of coals used • luring tlit) brewing seasons, 160 tons per (lav- Amount paid for malt tav, £189,314, and license duty, £8,994, or a little over £500 per day. Amount of six months traffic by rail to and from the bre -very premises 1 34, 1 95 tons. Quantity of trucks used during the same period, 69,654, or 452 per day. Amount of carriage charged by the railway companies during the same period, £67,598 7s. 4il. per month; this is exclusive of many thousand tons of goods received and forwarded by highways. Number of casks in use in the trade, 500,000. Number of men and boys employed in Burton alone, 1,834. The amouGt paid in wages is over £2,000 a week. Number of horses, 70 to 80. Number of locomotives, 26, equal to 543 horses. Extent of private railway, over five miles. The following must be taken with the proverbial " grain of salt ": — "The San Francisco Courier publishes a letter from the Gaulois. which states that at a place called " Jaumont," some Prussians having destroyed the homes of four peasants by burning their houses and offering violence to their daughters, the men determined to have signal aud awful revenge, which they oht;iined in the following manner. They offered themselves as guides to the Prussians, and led them to a place the Prussians thought impregnable, little knowing the awful doom that awaited them. The place ' where the Prussians had been led to was a mountainous district of the Garonne, with large excavations underneath, which the French had greatly eularged, and supported with with pillars. After the Prussians had ensconced themselves in their stronghold as they thought safely, oue of the guides weut and informed Bazaine of their whereabouts. Bazaine then attacked them iu front, aud Canrobert, iu the rear with, artillery, fired at the supports of the hill under which the Prussians were. After an hour's firing, the supports gave way,

aud 20,000 Prussians were engulfed in this human tomb. Their cries were heard four days after, and it being impossible to extricate them, tbe Prussians had to employ Belgians, at 10f. a-day to fill up the cavern with sand, thus completing the most awful revenge ever heard of. Woman's Spheee, — At the Saratoga Woman suffrage Convention, the only new thing uttered was by a Mrs. Blake, who said that woman's sphere had been bounded on the north by her husband, on the south by her baby, on the east hy her mother-in-law, aud on the west by her maidenaunt ; they now proposed to enlarge it. The San Francisco correspondent ofj the Ballarat Miner writes : — " The Chinese question is becoming oue of great importance on the Pacific Coast, and lately in tha Eastern Stales aud Congress. They are here iu large numbers; there are fully 90,000 ou this coast, 40,000 in this State, and 14,000 in San Francisco. They come into immediate contact with the lower class of Irish Roman Catholics in the labor market. The Chinamen, after making a liberal allowance for the thieves, gamblers, and vagabonds among them, are quiet, industrious, plodding, aud persevering people. They make good houee and farm servants, and iu these walks come into direct, conflict, with the interests of Biddy and Molly, Pat and Mick. If these are impertinent and rude, they are at once replaced by a clean, tidy China boy, or young man, who will perform much more work for a great deal less wa^es. Bridget and her sex scolds and curses John, Pat and Miuk fiud stones, bricks, aud clubs bard arguments against Jolm, but John suffers and gets the wages." The Sydney Morning Herald of a recent, date says: — "The Ministry have justly acquired popularity by their steady avowal of free trade principles at the recent Conference at Melbourne. The course of affairs had indeed proved that free trade is the true policy of this country. Not only is there a large increase of spontaneous manufactures in this colony, but we have the experience of the sister { colony to warn us from following a bod example. The effect of protection there bas been to foster certaiu manufactures. Their growth not being natural, has advanced far beyond the internal demand This forced production has filled the warehouses, but it has not provided customers; and the distressed manufacturers are now uttering complaints heard for the first time in these colonies. Of course, the remedy for this distress is said to be an increase of protection ; for it requires at least the ordinary intelligence to perceive tbat no colonial market can be afforded to meet an over-stimulated production." Bismarck, who is an old contributor to the Berlin Punch, and somewhat of a humorist, has grimly remarked thafc the cost of the war will be trifling — Only two Napoleons.

Protection. — A Protection League, of which Mr. James Williamson is President, lias been formed in Auckland. The ■objects of the League are stated to be : — let To advocate by public addresses, by writing, by discussion, by organization, and otherwise, the encouragement of local industries, by means of direct assistance, hy bonuses, and through the medium of the tariffs. 2nd. To piomoie the election of the House of Representatives of members pledged to support the encouragement -of local industries, as indicated by the kst section.

A Berlin letter, iu the Cologne Gazelle, says : — ' W'iut shall we do with all the captured Frenchmen?' was a question which was asked during the incessaut arrivals of the last few weeks ; much more now, when 70,000, including 50 generals, have-, been brought to Germany. Meauvvhile, our chief prisoner, Napoleon, causes us some embarrassment, not of a diplomatic kind, but with regard to accommodation. The distinguished gentleman carries no less than 85 horses with him ; there is a deficiency of stabling at Wil helm shoe, and inquiry has therefore been made here on the subject. Seeing the great solicitude which is manifested towards the extraordinary prisoner, •counsel will, doubtless, be taken on this point."

Beauchamp, i!ic Mormon Elder and Apostle, who lately endeavored to gain converts in Wellington, is proselytising in Melbourne. At a meeting held by him at CJarltou, he "stated most distinctly that polygamy was tlie essence of the religion, and that he would state that opinion in public if his disilke to the pillory treatment of being pelted with bricks and •rotton eggs was not so great."