THE LATE CAPTAIN STIRLING.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 209, 31 May 1848, Page 4

THE LATE CAPTAIN STIRLING.

Captain Stirling, late die of the leader- waters of the Tunes newspaper, (tied »t .m advanced age, a few days ago, at his residence at Knighlsbridge. This gentleman's leaders obtained for the Tones the name of the "Thundeier." They weie full ot vigour, and always to the point. The late Daniel O'ConmU was li's principal target, nnd the arrow of Mr.Stirhng never missed the bullVpye. It was by I lie peculiar style of the writings of this gentlemen that he culled forth the expression from the lute " Libeiator" of the " bloody o'd Times" in the House of Commons. The mortality of the Times office is a very shoit space of time is worthy of notice. It has of late years lost by death, Mr. Thomas Barnes, the principal editor, nhohc talents as a wnter were well known; Mr. Bacon, the subeditor, a very clever writer ; Mr. AUugPi whose city aiticlc was so much admired and bought for ; the next was the gicat pillar of the establishment, Mi. John Wulters, whose biography appealed in the Times some time since. His moßt intimate fiirnd and companion in sickness, Captain Stn hup;, did not survive him above a month. The captain has not written foi the Times for the last six or stveu years, but, we belitve, he was in the pay of the establishment up to the time of his death. A correspondent of the Liveipool Chronicle thus describes him :—": — " Mi. btii ling's hame and physi ognomy might be considered as typical of lna mental capabilities — he li»d the eye and beak of an eugle, quick to perceive, and snuff as it were afar oIF every point, in the political honzon — in person he was tall and commanding, with o frame well knit. For the last two years, the great medical skill and attention ot | Dr. Cahiil, one of the most eminent West End physicians, were in daily requisition by the distinguished patient. I have not been any obihmry of the depaited gentleman in the columns ol thai journal which bis ■writingb has made incompaiable" Hint and Rrhukr. — A Clergyman having preach, cd during Lent, in a small tjian in whuh he had not oiilc been invited to dinner, said, in a sei mon exhorting his parishioners against being scrim ed by the prevailing vice of the »ge— ' 1 hnvepieaehcd against every vice but luxurious living, having no oppoitunity of obseiving to what extent it is curried iv this town." —~Amej ican Traveller. At a dinner of the Cincinnati fiiemen, recently, tbo following sentiment was proposed: — "The Ladies! their eyes kindle the only fhme which we cannot extinguish, and against which there is no iii6Urarce !" An old man named Timothy Brcnnan, a native of Callan, aged 1 17 yeais, came into this city on foot, and returned the following day, without exhibiting the least inconvenience fiom his journey. This venciable patri arch is in full possession of liv mental (acuities, and perfectly lemembcis thegicat host of 1741), he being then nine years old.— -I Vaterford Mail,