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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 83, 10 April 1871, Page 2

Be Gentlemen at Home. —There are few families, we imagine, anywhere, in which love is not abused as furnishing a license for impoliteness. A husband, father, brother, will speak harsh words to those whom he loves best, and those who love him the best simply because the security of love and family pride keeps him from, getting his head broken. It is a shame that a man will speak more impolitely, at limes, to his wife or sister, than he would dare to any other female, except a low and vicious orje. It is thus* that the holiest affections of man's,, nature prove to be a weaker protection to women in the family - circle than the restraints of society, and that a woman is usually indebted for the kindest politeness of life to those not belonging to her own household. These things ought not so to be. The man who, because it will not be resented, inflicts his spleen and bad temper upon those of his hearthstone, is a small coward, and a very mean map. Kind words are the circulating medium between true gentlemen and true ladies at home, and no polish exhibited -in society -caa atone for the *~ harsh language and disrespectful treatment too often, Indulged in between those bound together by God's own ties of blood; and the.'still im6re sacred^ bands of conjugal love. I

We clip the following from the Sau Franoisco Netos Letter —" One colored editor has just been fined forty dollars for spitting in the face of another colored editor. The new man and brother begins well ; ten years ago no one would have dreamed he possessed the intellectual grasp to so readily comprehend the theories of journalism, and the boldness to so unflinchingly assume its responsibilities. " A curious document has been published lately in Breslau, signed by the Director and eleven Teachers in the Catholic Gymnasium of that city. It denies the dogma of Infallibility, refuses to recognise the absolute power of the Pope, and asserts that the late Council was not in reality a strictly (Ecumenical one according to the meaning of the term, aud therefore holds all its decisions to be null and void. Jenny Lind.—We take the following paragraph from Woodhall and Clafirts Weekly oi the 7th instant, published in New York :-—" Jenny Lind's husbaudhas at length run through the splendid fortune with which she retired from the lyric stage, and she is compelled to teach music for a living. The ill-matched pair have separated by mutual consent, and, the spendthrift must now shift for bimse'^W The Reported Cession of Pon%iCHERry. —Referring to the eonsternatipft created in Poudicherry on the announcement that Count Bismarck had asked for the cession of that town, and the public meeting of the inhabitants which was called to sign a protest against being unceremoniously handed over to Prussia, the Madras Mail says : — {iHow Bismarck will sneer at this "kick of a crushed fly. The Government of Pondicherry has possibly in some small degree brought this calamity on their own heads. Had they remained perfectly quiet during the war, their existence might have been ignored as heretofore ; but having set about buying up all the coal in India, and making a fuss over their insignificant fortifications, they attracted the attention of the voracious Chancellor, who has determined to gobble up the settlement. Having asked for 20 ships, the coals ready to supply an Indian fleet on the beach at Poudicherry followed as a necessary consequence. It is true that Monsieur Bontemps acted under instructions from Admiral Renault de Gernouilly, but it would have been easy to find some pretext for delaying the purchase, the more so as the coals had to be bought on credit. If Count Von Bismarck succeeds in getting the French ships and Pondicherry, pur empire in India will be hard to hold. With our seaports bombarded by a German fleet, and the hordes of Russia pouring over the North-west frontier, we may only be too glad to give up the country and escape with our bare lives. In the hour of his anguish, the ' desolated ' Frenchman may hug to his bosom the delicious thought t\\sxi perjide Albion has earned the wages of her neutrality. America will magnauimously waive the Alabama claims in view of the humiliation of her hated rival, and the curtain will fall over Bismarck and the Russian Czar dividing the spoils of Greater Britain, while the star of England sets for ever. So Continentals thiuk. But there is a large reserve of good stuff in Old England, aud we do not despair nor despond regarding her."