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Shearing under Difficulties. — Some ot tbe woolgrowers of Southern Riverina, reports the Pastoral Times, "have had extraordinary difficulties to coutend against iv shearing their sheep. Many of them have been shearing all over their runs, wherever they could get a dry spot and shelter. At Calimo, on the Edward, 26 miles below Deniliquin, shearing operations just finished, partook largely of the nautical business — they had to gather their sheep through seas of water, using boats for the purpose. The poor sheep had to swim and wade in some cases for miles to the shearing localities." From: a fresh series of the Emperor's private papers, it appears he was daily su/plied, from the Black Bureau of the General Post Office, with copies of letters passing through it. By an understanding between the postmen, specially promoted aud extra paid for the duty, and the servants of houses, the thing was done. A document has turned up of his exMajesty's investments in the stocks of all nations except France, and representing sixty millions of francs ! Napoleon, in in addition to being historian, Julius Caesar, and publicist — the Ham pamphlets — was also a novelist. He had laid down Kiel for a romance ; the hero was a grocer (the most obnoxious trade in France), who left the country in 1851, a rather ominous epoch, and after a Rip Van Winkle slumber in the United States, returns to Paris, and is as surprised at its growth as Jonah must have been at his gourd. Napoleon kept himself his payments of pin money to the mistresses of his Ministers. The private papers of the late Minister of Police, of his; ex-Majesty's private secretary, and his physician, have been all seized, so that we are a long way from exhausting this cloaca maxima. It is no wonder that some bigwigs of the late dynasty are committing suicide iv advance. Judge Delesvaux has shot himself with the 'pistol, he who figured in the Baudin trial, another concoction bF the police. A fragment of a letter fromthe Empress has turned up, in which she gives her husband a Lochiel's warning about attempting a second coup d'etat — the first led to the transportation of 14,000 persons, for resisting tbe violation of the Constitution. It is to be hoped that Comte de Chambord will not forget that France has finished with " Saviours of Society," and is about undertaking that work herself. The Manners and Customs of the Californian s. — A correspondent who has taken the pains to carefully peruse the News of the World writes to a contemporary as follows : — ln the last number, under the head of " Californian Items," there is some curious information, as for instance, it records that in broad daylight, a woman, ou board a steamer near San Francisco, deliberately drew a pistol and shot dead an American Senator, who was quietly sitting beside his wife and daughter. This would not call for any special remark, but in the appended biography of the murderess it is said that "last August, a young man was smitten with her and married her, and on the Bth of October a divorce followed." Surely this is rather free aud easy work for the law to tie a couple together for life, and in two months after to cut the knot and leave them free. If this became general throughout the world, what bewildering complications would arise. Next, we have particulars of a fatal affray in Sacramento, the second city of the State, where gambling seems to be quite legitimized, for the paper speaks as a matter of course of " the gaming rooms over the Union Saloon." Here, owing to the abominable practice tbat permits the carrying of loaded lirearras in cities, three men were able, first in the staircase of the hotel, and then iv the street, to blaze away at each other till one is shot dead and another mortally wound cd. Next comes an account of a gigantic lottery, where gambling has been expressly sanctioned by the Legislature for a benevolent purpose. Then there is the horrible details of some Chinamen in San Bernandino, a town of 3000 inhabitants, seizing a poor wretched woman, tying her to a stake, piling up fagots, and burning her alive. Non 6 of the other inhabitants seem to have interfered, although the census returns give only 16 Chinese out of the 3000 residing there. Yet,: in the same San Bernandino, there appears to be law and order, for it is stated "that an inquest is being held over a Spaniard found stabbed dead.* All the foreging is coolly .stated in one page of the News of ike World..