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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 129, 1 June 1881, Page 4

There is a melanoboly coniolaiioa in heariog of a Home of Commons almost if not quite as disorganised »c our own. The House of Commons at Ottawa recently eat till eight o'clock in the j morsing, when the last of the twentyfive amendments to the Canada-Pacific Railway resolution^ moved by the Opposition was rejected by the Go?eroment party, and the bill confirming the contract made wiih the original syndi Gate of capitalists pasted through i<e flr*t reading. The sceces in ibe House during the " all-night aitiiog " just oefore (akirg the notes are described as having been of the most thrilling kind. Chorus sc.naa were song to the accompaniment of toy trumpets, tin whistle?, and "dinner-horns;" while some sleepy members were used as target?, and pelted with wads of paper and bjue r books. Tha Government party Jet the members of the Opposition* So all tht ipeakins on the amendmen^, ttyeply pi which were disposed of |Q ,tb,e iij*teen hcurb' sitting, but iaurraptiota wei;e 10 frequent that no epaecbee in the ordinary acof piationof the term were io reality attempted. The night, 4t»e staged, was " a.raecqorable v one v in the annals of Parliamentary; history. 11 From Lima there^comea a very horrih'e account of the, condition o(^thetoity after the battle of MiMore.B,ji|anl.Pis,fQre the.Cbilian troopß had entered |t, ,aod restored or!er. Id the evening, or r the day r after the Peruvian defeat,^sinister groups be^.an to , par,a(je the threatening the i passers- b,y, apd.boastiog of jthe Bflcrib'oes they made (or the country. Lsier on, stimulated by thf liquor their leaders bad u<iven $bern, and, moreover, fearing no c,ODßequenc» — for tbe authori ties bad s^udooed (be city — they gave themselves up to the greatest disorder during the whole of the night. Under the pretext rf hunger they began to «sck and barn,*!) the Chinese shops, ever to the larger and more elegant stores filled with silks and other precious stuffs of Chinese manufacture Of these nothing remain* hut smouldering and blood-stained rump, for there was murder added to the robbery ajjd ; fire. No fewer tbaie three hundred, Chinamen are Jbplieyed to have perished in the streets of the city and the neighboring farms. Onfr of the wf altbiest Chinese merchants provea bis losses to «Bcend &o £.149,000..; The LTte Geobgb Eliot- — A correspondent of "The Queen" writes as follows concerning Geprge Eliot :— "" She and I were schoolfellows at Mrs Wallington'a boarding school, Nun^atoi), at tbafc.time a very wej.l , kaqwn ,es^ tablfshment. There <wete about -forty' pupils, and Marianne h.yarjß joined jis at tHe a^e of thirteen. Although two pr three years the younger, I cjan,recall many little incidents wi^h regard to her. She was of mpdpafce height, neither stout nor thin, with fair hair {md complexion. She was,- decidedly pot a pretty girl,. ibiifc jftie jcerteinly could boast ot a beautiful set of white, even teeth. lam very fond of music, and soon after her arrival I was attracted toward the drtmrng room, w]be;e she wa,9 ; pi?wti«ij3g ;^he air of Bißb«p|?rf '^id,tn^^i«course/ an4-;W^b,,-Child as I waV I knew "wak befog played with the greatest taste and feeling. \Bnfc ,whflit calif dvM^ ."ipV! childish admica,tio^ and; winder -the ijaosi; was the awning .rapidity with which she x mas|;er,e,d, all herJespQO^, contents of pages being made hep own by simply reading their-, once jor : twice qver. She was ever at the head of her j class, apd certainly jloyed Jearnjpg - for. l^rning^s saW ; , s,p deyotej. , i n 4?ed, was she to it t|ia ! tj ) |9 1 iJi / qia < Btonißhment, and perhapi cjiflguat, o bf -tyr, rSf&oqlr fellows, she always cried when L the 1 holidays came. She learned besides English and music, dancing and French, and Wfts jponsid@red a ,go^ French Bchiplar.:, $&ej w^a^pf quiet studious habits, and , generally preferring book |o pjaj, >wa» ; neverthelesg a favorite among vi." Future Prosprbitt. — The Melbourne Age says :— "With ,the. aid pf, the new process for freezing food and. transporting it from one side of the world to the other, there is no limit to the trade which will spring up betw^n Australia and Europe.* >for, Viiiiit. The seasons in the one hemisphere are exactly opposite .tp^hqee, ..of tjhe , .ot^er;.". In March and April, when grapes are

most plentiful in Australia, they are almost unknown in England, and the United States, and a shipment deapatched.from Melbourne or Adelaide so. as to arrive in London in May, the very height of the season, would command prices which would astonish the growers in this colony and South Australia. A similar r asult would accrue from shipments of oranges in Juno and July, pineapples in April, and peaches in January. A traffic smallor, but quite as. profitable, might be carried on bo a tween Australia and India, whoro the inhabitants, native and European, are only prevented from becoming largo consumers of British fruit by its excessive price. The year 1880 will long be memorable in Australian annals from its being the year in which tho Molbourne Exhibition was held, and in which the feasibility of transporting perishable commodities in ico was iirst oh- j tablished. There seems to bo no limit! to the career of prosperity upon wjiieh we are now embarking." Curious Antipathies. — Tho learned Dr. Beattie tells us of hoalthy strong men who were always unoany on touching velvet, or on seeing another person handle a cork ; Zimmerman, tho naturalist, of a lady who could not boar to touch silk or satin, and »huddoi'(ul when feeling the vclvoty skin of tt peach. One of tho Karls of Burry , more considered the pansy an abomination ; and the unfortuoatu 1'HnoOBn ; Lamballe looked upon tho vtolut n» a thing of horror. Scaligor turned jmlo at tho sight of watorcroiWM, anil neither he nor Peter Abono could ovor drink milk. It is said of Cardan that he was disgusted at tho sight of eggs. We have heard of a valiant soldier fleeing without shamo from a aprig of rue. The author of tho Turkish Spy tells us that, provided he had but a pword in his hand, he would rather encounter a lion in the deserts of Arabia than feel a spidor crawling on him in the dark ! William Matthew s, son of the Governor of Barbadoes, liad, like the above, a great avers ion-to the harmless spider. One day the Duke pf .^.thole, ..thinking this antipathy somewjiat affected, left him and his friends in the room, and came bapje wi|h ,a; closed hand. Matthews ■thp'jight J[ie a spider concealed there, and becoming furious drew his sword, and would have done damage to $#iD- u k& pr liimjself, had. riot .his fr^n^s naL