BISHOP STROSSMAYER'S SPEECH.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 263, 7 November 1871, Page 2

BISHOP STROSSMAYER'S SPEECH.

To the Editor of the KTblson Evening. : lf ajl. Sir,— '* John F. Rockstrow," in your issue of yesterday, publishes n statement similar to the one that I had contradicted; I Buppose be took this statement from the same kind of journal as that from which you took your information. He repeated, in substance what you, had taken fronvthe. Guardian; bus he .did never contradict my assertion that showed that Bishop Strossmayer had denied the accusation made 'against 'Mm) in' the' Titties, 'and asj long, .{as : h^e ; will ;> '4||H^u trad ict,'. . b y qyidfentproofs, tfiiß denia||of the Bishop, my assertion remains t ,^^e^h6t' ':the'' accusation aeaijast ;; the;^Biffiop l i wasj» iqrgery.^-ißish^pf' opponent to the opportuneness of the defi- ':'.. •.••'-•.'. -: :{«" .'l^®;''."'-, ',; !'.;•'_' ','""'■ ..■'.''■'■'"■.',.'", : ' '. „

nition on tbe plea that it would alienate Pagans and Protestants from the CatbToLic Church, but he believed in the infallibility. I will end iny remarks by the very words of the -'Bishop against the report which represented him to have " torn the dogma of the infallibity to shreds," and "declared that the believers in the personal and separate .infallibility .of the Pope must^be mad." " These facts," says the Bishop, " are more than enough to show that the above report about me is replete .with,malicious untruth. May I beg of you, sir, to insert this, contradiction. Kome, June 6th, 1870:" ''■ Yours, &c"., A. M. Gauin.

foar drills a month, i.e., twenty-four in six months; -within that time it is supposed to have become thoroughly efficient, and to have mastered the -Manual and Platoon, Squad and Company Drill, including skirmishing, &c. Is it : reasonable, I ..ask, to suppose that" the individuals appointed officers, , with no previous training, can become proficient; can it,!admilting their want of knowledge and experience, be wondered at if they give the few words of command they may have chance picked up, in a drawling tone as if— it is the Hon. Captain Fraser's remark— they were giving out a psalm to a Presbyterian congregation ? Depend upon.it a. word of commend, short, sharp, and decisive, electrifies a man in the ranks. The. question then suggests itself : Can a purely volunteer force, officers, and men, .betrained to such a state of efficiency as ■ to be relied upon in any aid every case of emergency ? Unquestionably not ! The next question that arises is, What steps can be tphen to raise a force that will be efficient at all times and places of emergency ? Well, all schools should be drilled, commencing with the setting-up drill, and slowly and by degrees put through the whole, and a certain number should >be instructed in the duties of . commissioned and non-commissioned officers. Pass pn act, making it compulsory that a certain percsntage of the youths from 15 to 21 years of age J bedrined.annually. Erect drill sheds, and at the outset let officers be appointed. carefully selected by Government, preference being given to experienced . . servicemen, and pay them, if only a trifle— say £50 to a Captain, £35 to a Leiuteuaut, and £20 to an Ensign. These terms, though small, might be acceptable, and would. stimulate — nay, make it incumbent on. them — to; exert themselves. Advertise - an annual examination by the Inspector, and let "those' who passed best be placed on his list for appointment to the first vacant .commissions. Let commanding officers be selected, not oil account of their monetary or political influence, but by reason of their practical capabilities; let them too be paid, for this would in the end be economical. Let the Adjutant have entire control of, and command at,' drill; let him have, as aides, one or more Staff-Sergeants; keep as much red-tapeism 'and- useless complicated returns as ; ;pbssible but of the system; let a storekeeper be appointed— 3ay the Senior Staff-Sergeant— and jet him. render the necessary accounts;' this would allow the Adjutant to be, always on the move and looking after his legitimate duties. Finally j what. of the Constabulary, who may be considered in the light of our standing army ? Are they drilled ? When, where, and how ? Could one out of six of their officers pass an examination or put a squad through its drill properly ? I would submit these remarks for your grave consideration and comment, and add in Horatian phrase " Si quid ndvist, rectius istis Candidus imperti, si non, his utere mecum." I am, &c., Ekic.

A JJAtE Southern Gross says : — " Here is something, for the members of our Agricultural Obeague to ponder over and discuss. On Monday last, as may be seen by reference to our shipping columns, the brigantirie Annie Moore arrived off Grrahamstown, with 90 tons of potatoes. It might be well thought that bringing potatoes from Tasmania to Auckland Province was very much like carrying coals to Newcastle. '. We send our money away to a distant colony for an article of produce the non-production of which we ought to feel heartily ashamed of. In 1853-s<£ large quantities of potatoes were shipped from Auckland to Victoria to supply the, western diggings of that colony. Seventeen years after this we find Tasmania called' upon to supply the Auckland goldfields with the same j description of produce. And in this ease | our farmers cannot complain of being placed in unfair competition with the sister island, for 1 the "potatoes grown in Tasmania at Sboalhav'eri, Brown's River, and on parts 'of the seaboard and river "frontages, come out of soil for which the tenant, farmers pay an annual ground ; rent of &2 per acre", and are compelled under, their leases to renew .the ppWiir^'6f ; \the:Taji,dever^.otti'er year with imported manure. It, is to be hoped that our. agriculturists will before •' long ' know the. reason ...why;-'- ithat Tasmania, at* a distance of • over 1000 miles, can run str'ch a 'tfdmp'etitire y race ;' against Auckland, w'ith o; -a" u m^jafecent^.'Bpil within cooey distance o^ita'pwa goidfield. ; There ;must be something wrong somewhere, and, the sooner the League discovers what and where it ie, the' better' for thejr own interests and those dependent on them.", A Nokpolk (Virginia) ipurnala repofits t;ha.f. recently ls,oo0 quartßof strawberries were Bhipped"|as: 'the first fruife l pfj/ibrie /pickingr \'iof tit* " x»atcb- of 100 acres'^iii'Hhe vicinity l of that city. A yield of this h ■mag»Uttdfi,TM^^«tatwl^ shows that

f more can be made from one. acre in strawberries than from ten in com; The Pluck of Englisel^Touth — The following is from Land and fVater :~~ When the Iron Duke ■ retried .that Waterloo was won in the r'playing-fielflsjof Eton, he referred generally to the tone "engendered in English youth by Eaglish games, and to early habits of discipline. But, apart from that, if any. sport more than another can make a man steady under fire, it would be a bit of cricket on .an ofi-day upon a crowded school or college ground, half a dozen wickets pitched; parallel, within fifteen yards apiece of one another — a couple of bowlers, with the pace of catapults, one down anil the other come on— ground rather ,lumpy, the best levels being reserved for match-playing — and a constant fusilade from right and left, as first one, then another, of the other batsmen in line cuts a ball sharp to cover point, or hits to square leg, within a' few inches of his fellow-batsman's skull. Tbis would, we fancy, unsettle the nonchalance of many a Prussian similarly. located. But. an English lad swipes away as unconcernedly as if there were at the moment. no one but him-, self and the bowler "in the world. ' The oarsman who though three lengths ['behind at Chiswiok, bears down his adversary by an unflinching stern chase through Coruey Reach, or who, pressed night; after night to a question! of, inches in. bumping, races, keeps his head and his spurt j for -the critical finish at the Cherwell, and saves His flag by- a timely spurt witha beaten crew under the barges, would, not have surrendered Metz off hand like Bazaine. The horseman who does not flinch from a thorny bullfinch, nullo penetrabilis astro, or, who unswervingly urges a tired and stumbling steeplechaser twenty miles an hour at. the fence into the winning field would need no stimulaut to take his pai tin a cavaly charge. And the sport of half'-an-hour?s scratch play, as above described, on an Englisn cricketground, would. read the lesson lo a foreign looker-on, that an Anglo-Saxon has not yet found his equal for cool steadiness under fire. Among the Patagonians. — The San Francisco Bulletin- of the 31st of May publishes the following . statement : — " Three or four days ago the schooner Hutchinson arrived at this port, having on board Joseph Lorritz, a young man who was reared in this city. Some time since an account of the loss of the British brig Propontis was published. The steamer Princess Louisa sailed from Scotland last March for a South American port, and at one of them Lorritz was engaged. The captain, hearing of the loss of the Propontis, went to Punta Arenas, and there obtained arms, with which they started forth to avenge the murder of the officers and crew of the Propontis. The Princess Louisa when off Port Gallant, a cove in the Straits of Magellan, lat. 53*41, long. 22, saw two canoes and one Europeanbuilt boat filled with natives, pulling from the shore toward them. The captain had no doubt that these were the very same savages who had fallen in with the Propontis, and immediately prepared to receive them. On the canoes approaching the vessel he rah one of them down, sinking it and drowning all hands. The boat avoided the bows of the steamer and ran alongside; but in attempting to board the natives were one and all killed. In themeantime the remaining canoe made its escape and returned to shore. The Princess Louisa sailed on, but that night ran ashore and became a wreck. The crew found no difficulty in getting to land, and busied themselves all night in removing provisions and other stores from the ship to a tent which they erected on the beach. Just before dawn, while the seamen were coming up loaded,, from. the edge of the water, preceded by a lantern, which the foremost man carried in his hand, they were suddenly .set upon <by; a horde ;of savages, . avmed with spears,- bows and arrows, rough hatchets, and stones., A d esperate ' fight ensued .. " The sail ors defended themselves without avail; two of them were killed -on the spot, and the rest were overpowered'. " Lorritz ran ior his life, but was caught, tied and laid on the ground... His.co.mpan.ious were served in the same way. For three weeks they all remained in captivity, allowed to wander! abouf\ : with 'their* captors during thVday, tied , at , night, and fed on what Lorritz called *' blubber." At the end of these ; three weeks Lorritz one night .contrived, toTshufiJe. ,off his bonds. He crept down, to the. bba<ph ; v , got into one of the boats Iying p t!iere; "'and' put off into the channel,, where next morning. he -was fortunate' , '".enough £6 fall" in with, th^ schooner" ;^'utchinson; on * board of which he has cdns tor this city. ;The fate of his corapanioi'spwfao he flays were 3 aLl ; Scotch'-^ faei^'lU.uifl&owa to HimjWclih'e'is^nablK to tell more than thC'Chrißtian names of the captain and crevy,..,?. Xorritz is about forward. .oMkniampystmtk- h^mwi^mm