CORRESPONDENCE.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor op the " Evening Mail." Sir,— After reading the advertisement in Saturday's Mail " published by the authority of Air Pitt's Committee," every unprejudiced person/, must I think now clearly see that whatever Mr Pitt may say to the contrary, he is working in accord with the Roman Catholics, who are strongly represented on his Committee, and who in exchange foe his

— — T» In La Union, Salvador, there is a natural curiosity in the person of an earleaa iHan. The gentleman who employs him writes that where the ears should be there is not eveftja semblance or mark of theto. His neck and jaws, where the ears should be. are as smooth as the palm of the human hand. Ho is of course deaf, and he is also dumb. Bnt he is very intelligent, can understand anything that is told him by signs, and is useful either to deliver written messages or to go to the stores for different articiea. In discharging these duties he is thoroughly reliable. The Russian naval Authorities bare ordered from the Joblochkoif Company some ap- - paratus for the lighting of two men-of war, containing sufficient power to supply the officers' cabins and all the other lights of theship ; but when required, these lights can be concentrated in a most intense form, and thrown to an enormous distance when it be* comes necessary to look oat for torpedo* boats, sunkeu reefs, or any other of the thousand and one dangers that exist for 6ailors. With 400 people in the hospital at Larnacs, and only eight physicians in all Cyprus, the outlook f«r English soldiers and tourists is anything but bright. Eire of these doctors are at Larnaca, two at Limasol, and one at Nicosia. In none of the other districts is to re a single doctor or a single apothecary's shop. At Nicosia, which bas a population of 16,000, there is one apothecary, and even he complains of no business. The Chinese population of San Francisco numbers 32,000, classified as follows:—Merchants and professional men, 1000; cigar makere, 6000; laundrymen, 1500; servants, 7000; boot and shoe makers, 2000; slipper makers, 800 ; gamblers, 140! t ; makers of clothing, 3000 ; pedlars, 2500 ; fishermen, 1000; labourers, 1000; other occupations, 3800; women, 2000. A French steamer of 750 tons, called the Junon, arrived at Gibraltar recently, having started on a voyage round the world, which is to occupy 10 months San Francisco, the Sandwich Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and the Australian ports are included in the programme. The passengers are of various nationalities, bnt there is no Englishman among them. Sardines have been thi3 season unusually abundant in French waters. Originally 'he ) chief supply came from the coast of Sardinia ■ — whence the name sardine — bnt for a long : time they have been mainly caught along the ', coast of Brittanny, where thousands o£ men, j women, and children are employed in the ! business. j In an article on Colonial Governors in the | Melbourne Imperial Remew, the following re- : marks occur :— Sir J. Vogel spoilt his career < by taking the Agent- Generalship. There • arc rumors of his return to New Zealand, and we think it ia the right place for him He is ! only acting a part in those feeble efforts in ■ the way of magazine articles on the empire. Let the Blaehfords and the Lowes do the i twaddle, while the Beacons fields and Vogels : act. But the fact is Sir Julius Yogel is too ! fond of luxury. London is bis Capua. ] Wellington was. While Graham Berry kept ', the little grocery shop in Prahran, Sir J. ; Yogel was the out-at-elbows reporter at Inglewood. He missed bis ambition of getting a seat in the Victorian Assembly, and went in a huff to New Zealand, or he might have guided the destiny of the Australian continent. According to the report of the truant officer, a boy in the Western Addition started for school the other day, aud before he was four blocks from home lie lamed a dog, lost his geography, scared a horse, broke his slate, and had three fight3 This, at any rate, was his excuse for not reporting at school at the proper hour. He was excused.