BISHOP SELWYN IN AMERICA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 31, 5 February 1872, Page 2

BISHOP SELWYN IN AMERICA.

One of the true heroes of the Anglican C'.iurch is now in Canada; we refer to George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of Licbfield, who sailed from England to attend in America a Convention of Protestant Episcopal Bishops. We learn that the Right Rev. Prelate's arrival excited much interest Bmong members of the Anglican and other Churches on the other side of the Atlantic. The reception accorded himself and clerical companions in the States and throughout Canada has been cordial and flattering, and, we doubt not, has also been gratifying. The following extract from the address of the Bishop of Pensylvania, afc the recent missionary meeting in Baltimore shows the spirit in which Bishop Selwyn was received, and the appreciation of his qualities and services as a Pastor of the Church prevalent in the United States : —

" Wo have to-night with us, beloved ) one who, thirty years ago this very month was consecrated as a Missionary Bishop, to go forth far, far south, beyond where you can see these stars, beyond the equator, and beneath that glorious Southern Cross that glitters in the southern sky. He was sent there. The croBS was in the eky; but oh, the hearts of the men that lived beneath that cross were benighted. They knew not of him who hung upon the cross They knew not of the love that gave itself upon that cross for their souls. And be went forth in his youth as the standard-bearer, to hold up the cross on the land beneath, as God had held it up over the southern pole. He went there and he labored there, and his . labors, by the blessing of God, have been so blessed that one diocese of hia has grown into sixteen dioceses, with their bishops and their clergy; and that land which he found in a state of semi-barbarism, just, as it. were, coming out of the benighted state of intense heathenism, he has left nominally a Christian land. And may we not say that he has won for himself a crown? And, as over that Southern Cross as it hangs in the southern sky there is also the Southern CrowD, so to him who has borne the cross aloft in those far-off regions may we not say there remaineth the crown of righteousness which the Lord the Righteous Judge shall give him at that day for his whole missionary work ? That bishop it is my pleasure to introduce to you on this occasion, and while he has had a warm welcome from his brother bishops of the House of Bishops, while he has had a warm welcome from the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies, we to-night gather round him with our missionary hearts, full of love of Christ, and in the fervor of that love we bid him, as a miss'onary bishop, welcome to our missionary meeting and to the jubilee which we this day celebrate. I know, beloved, that you will rejoice to hear him speak practically of this mission work, and to tell you from his own lips the rich experience of a missionary bishop in the far-ofl regions of the South."— N.Z. Gazette, Nov. 11.

For remainder of news see fourth page,

A Cobn Exchange is to be erected at Christchurcb. Timber.— 2,l 6l, OOOffc. of timber were Bhipped from Hokitika in '71. Canterbury Papers state that three whales were in Akaroa harbor on the i3th. A Large number of men started to work on the Waikato railway on the 16th inst. A Man named M'Gurk, has died at Cambridge, Auckland, from the effects of a sunstroke. The South Melbourne Gas Company, ngw being formed, will supply gas at a minimum price of 9s. per 1000 feet. According to a local account, Mr. Hallenstein, mayor of QueenstowD, is likely to have a walk over for the seat in the Assembly vacated by Mr. Haughton. A Co-operative Company for the manufacture and export of butter is being formed at Kyneton. The capital is £1000, in £l shares. The recent rises in the price of wool represent to Victoria alone an increase of £1,055,000, or 30s. per bead for every man, woman, and child in the colony. A Heavy-weight Race, distance 100 yards, was run at Taupo, Napier, during the Christmas sports. There were two entries, the aggregate weight of the two contesting being 35 stone. A dead heat and a big blow was the result.

More than 150,000 acres of the best timber in America are cut every year to supply the demand for railway sleepers alone. In a single year the locomotives in the United States consumed 56,000,000 dollars' worth of wood.

A Sandhurst Broker received a commission from Melbourne, on October 14, to buy stock to the amount of £20,985, the largest transaction in a single line ever done in Sandhurst. Two years ago the whole could have been bought for less than £500.

The dividends from various claims in the Sandhurst district paid to one gentleman alone, amounted last year to the sum of £40,000, and had one been paid just inside instead of outside of the old year his income, from this source alone, would have averaged £1000 per week.

At the District Court, Auckland, on the 16th inst., an order was made for winding up the Cock-a-doodle Gold Mining Company, originally started by some Westport residents. The judge blamed the directors for getting so much into debt. Counsel said that there had been much crowing in the " Cock-a--doodle," but there was no money forthcoming.

Mr St. John in his ' Wild Sports of the Highlands,' narrates the following: — "A shepherd, once to prove the quickness of his dog, who was lying before the fire in the house "where we were talking, said to me, in the middle of a sentence concerning something else, 'I'm thinking sir the cow is in the potatoes.' Though he purposely laid no stress on these words, and said them in quite an unconcerned tone of voice, the dog who appeared to be asleep, immediately jumped up, and leaping through the open window scrambled up the turf roof of the bouse, from which he could see the potatoe field ; he then, not seeing her there, ran and looked into the byre where she was standing, and finding that all was right came back to the house. After a short time the shepherd said the same words again, and the dog repeated his look-out ; but on the false alarm being the third time given, the dog got up and wagging his tail looked his master in the face with so comical an expression of interrogation that we could not help laughing aloud at him, on which with a slight growl he laid himself down in his warm corner with an offended air, as if determined not to he made a fool of again."

Hebe is good downright style of talking for a woman. Mra. Stanton, an advocate of woman's rights, lately gave a lecture in San Francisco on Marriage and Maternity, which is thus summarised : — "The idea that woman is weak inherently is a grand mistake. She is physically weak because she neglects her baths, because she violates every law of her nature, because she dresses in a way that would kill a man. I feel it my mission to arouse every woman to bring. up her daughter without breaking her up in doing so. I early imbibed the idea that a girl was as good as a boy, and I carried it out. I could walk five miles before breakfast, or ride ten on horseback. After I was married, I wore my clothing sensibly. The weight hung alone on my shoulders. I never compressed my body out of its natural shape. Another idea : it is of more importance what kind of child we raise, than how; many. It is better to produce one lion than twelve jackasses. We have jack-, asses enough, let us go into the lion business. bate anew; type of womanhood. We need it more than gold. The old ; ide«t'6f tlie oak and vine i& pretty,; but it is mere poetry ; the emergencies of

life prove its falsify — the lightning strikes them both alike." True, true. But in our new country we must beg leave to make a trifling substitution in one of the cast-iron lady's aphorisms, and say — It is better to produce twelve lions than twelve jackasses. After al!, Mrs. Stantoo, you may have only one, and that a jackass. A Piece of Ground in London at the corner of Queen Victoria-street, Mansion House, has been let by the Metropolitan j Board of Works for £5500 a year, which is equal to about a sovereign per square foot. The ceremony of tying the knot is very much simplified in the Hoosier State, as the following scene will show: — "What is your name, sir ? " " Matty." " What is your name, Miss ? " "Polly." "Matty, do you love Polly?" "No mistake." " Polly, do you love Matty ? " " Well, I reckon." " Well, then [ " I pronounce you man and wife All the days of your life." The Price of Cattle in England.— ; •' Mighty roast beef is an Englishman's food; it accounts for the humor that runs in his blood," and if, as Mr. Disraeli said, a short time since, we are physically degenerating, our degeneration must be attributed to this selfsame mighty roast beef being so conspiciou3 by its absence. The prices of beef that English workmen and laborers have seen for some time past must have grown fine by degrees and painfully less, and in too many cases beef must have disappeared altogether from the poor man's table. Bearing in miad such unpleasant facts it is positively with a shudder that one reads of the enormous prices realised by the sale of stock. The other day at Holkar Hall, Lancashire, where the sale of the Duke of Devonshire's pedigree cattle took place, the auctioneer, Mr. Strafford, obtained for thirty-one cows no less than £7691 55., being an average of £248 2s. 2d. a-.piece. For twelve bulls the aggregate of prices amounted to £2658 125., being an average of £221 11s. per head. Altogether the forty-three animals realised the immense sum of £10,349 14s. 10d., being an average of £240 133. lOd. per aoimal. These are doubtless very agreeable prices for the breeders of cattle, and connoisseurs of beef brought to perfection ; but looking at the matter as affecting the question of food supply, such enormous sums are anything but plaasant to think of. I believe I am right when I say that within the memory of the present generation beef and mutton were never bo dear as they are now. The bovine and ovine race of animals have, in fact, not increased in numbers proportionately to the increase of population. As compared to the carnivorous mass of the United Kingdom, we have less meat now than ever. Hence, the natural increase of price. I have tasted numerous kinds of preserved meats, but, notwithstanding all that has been written and said about these viands, in no one case have I found this tin-meat equal to the genuine article. la fact, preserve me from preserved meat, say I, but still I am charitably and philanfchropicaUy inclined, and think this preserved meat is capital stuff— for others 2 While good English meat is so scarce and dear, it is a scandalous shame to supply it to our prisons whilst the honest poor outside cannot get. any., I would hay e, only the preserved descriptions of beef and mutton supplied to these great criminal" repositories ; but stop ! I would see to it ; that prisoners had a fair proportion^ of; horse ! , If^jthis were to give rise to a horror of the prisdo, so much the better.— -Home Papar.