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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 179, 29 July 1880, Page 2

A remarkable statement was made by Lnril Craumore and Browne in the House of Lords in referring to the appointment of the Marquis of Jtipou, a Roman Catholic as GovernorGeneral of India. It was to the effect that no single constituency in Great Britain had < returned a Roman Catholic as its represents- i tive in the House of Commons at the last election, <

It appears ffofln the official returns that in New Zealand 1 person in every 13 of population is a Savings Bank depositor ; in England and Wales, 1 in 14 ; Victoria, 1 in 19 ; New South Wales, 1 in 38 ; Scotland, 1 in 70 ; and Ireland, lin 79. New Zealand, tbereforej shows well as regards frugality. What; the natives of India call rausa gardi or a plague of rats, has appeared in the Cawnpore district. These animals cut down the unripe com, and. strip off. the partiallyfprmed grains. Thi3 is the more curious as the grain is unfit f6r food, and is left by the rats scattered on the groiiud. The Wellington Chronicle, referring to the question of education, says: — "Students of English History will remember the words uttered on a memorable occasion: 'That in the opinion of this House, the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, aud should be diminished.' We might parody tbißby saying: 'The expense of the Education Boards has increased, is increasing, and should be dimished.' Nay, more, we might justly say that Education Boards should be cut off altogether as ou excrescence, on an otherwise excellent system. We cordially endorse the principles of the Education Act. We wholly disagree with its administration. The Mayor of Wellington, himself an ardent supporter of the principles embodied in the Act, said in his place iv the House a few nights ago that the expenditure on education might be reduced by about £40,000 without doing any injury to the national system of education." The Irish correspondent of the New York Tribune says : — Every vessel that leaves Queenstown for New York in carrying as many emigrants as our laws allow. An agent of the White Star Line told me yesterday that they had been forced, three days ago, to refuse to book any more steerage passengers by the Germanic She will carry out nearly 1100 emigrants to-morrow. The town is full of working men and working women who have come here to sail for New York as soon as they can get a passage. The prospcts are that the emigration from Ireland this year will be larger than it has been in any one year since the famine of 1847. If the coming summer should be as wet a3 last summer, and the potato crop should fail again, the West of Ireland will almost be depopulated next spring. The only true way to health is that which common sense dictates to man. Live within the bounds of reason. Eat moderately, drink temperately, sleep regularly, avoid excess in anything, and preserve a conscience " void of offence." Some men eat themselves to death, some drink themselves to death, some wear' out their lives by indolence, and some by over- exertion, while Dot a few sink into the grave through the effects of vicious practices. All (he medicines in creation are uot worth a cent to a man who is constantly and habitually violating the laws of his own nature. All the medical science ia the world cannot, save him from a premature grave. With a suicidal course of conduct, he is planting the seeds of decay in his own constitution, and accelerating the destruction of his own life. The discussion on the reduction of the honorarium on Thursday night is thus referred to by the Post:— ln vain Sir Maurice O'Rorke, the Premier, and others bore public testimony to the zeal, ability, and integrity of the officers whose salaries were proposed to be reduced or offices abolished ; the committee were determined to do their duty, and did it accordingly. They were the surgeons, and did not feel the knife. At length the question of honorarium came before the committee, and with it arrived the necessity for turning the knife upon the skilled political surgeons. Mr Murray undertook the task, and proposed to bleed them to the extent of half their honorarium, but they answered as Portia did to Bassanio when requested to do ft great wrong for the sake of a liitle right — " It must not be !" Mr Murray was accused of seekiug popularity told he belonged to the Antedeluvian age, charged with "religiously taking the full amount out of the Treasury," though he always voted against it ; was jeered at, coughed at, interrupted by all sorts of unseemly noises whenever he rose to impress the House with his sincerity. Eurther proposals for reducing the honorarium 20 per cent and 15 per cent, were without success, and the squabble which ensued almost beggars description. As Mr Macandrew put it, it was a " nice question," an " unsavory question," owing to a variety of conflicting interests, in which patriotism, a desire to please constituencies, " and that supreme self-love and self-preference which leads a person in his actions to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interests, power, or happiness, regardless of the interests of others," were mixed up. There was no very great objection to knock off the pay of Legislative Councillors, " but don't touch us " was the cry. Mr Pyke insisted that the amount now paid "would not recoup any member who lived like a gentleman," and as . he further stated that it did not recoup him, | it is to be presumed be leads a gentlemanly life. He thought that it might do well enough if an honorable member liked "to carry home a steak and cook it on a fork," but of course that could scarcely be expected in the pride of Vinceut County. He therefore set his foot resolutely upon any reduction of honorarium while members had to live in what he termed " this pitiful village of Wellington"; and so the debate— if the unseemly wrangle may be so dignifiedwagged on till, at a-quarter to two a.m., tho committee agreed to sacrifice themselves to the tune of 10 per cent., when they retired, many being comforted with the thought that it might have been worse.