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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 725, 26 March 1853, Page 3

Mr. Dargan, finding that his former munificent gift of £20,000 for the building of the Great Irish Exhibition of 1853 would be inadequate for the works that have been found necessary, has generously come forward with a further advance of £6OOO, making a total of £26,000, to be placed by him at the disposal of the committee, for the purposes of the Exhibition. Considerable progress has already been made with the building, as well as with the other arrangements for rendering the Exhibition successful, and creditable to the country. Resignation of the Rev. VVii.mim Jay,— The venerable pastor of Argyle Chapel, who, as our readers are aware, has lately been prevented by a severe and dangerous malady from attending to his ministerial duties, has resigned his pastorate over the Independent congregation in this city. Mr. Jay has been pastor over the same church for upwards of 60 years. It being clear that Mr Jay would not be able to resume bis duties, the resignation was accepted ; and a resolution was also passed to the effect, that an annuity (the sum to be decided hereafter) should be granted to the rev. gentleman during his lifetime. — Bath Journal, On Sunday evening last, the congregation at the Wesleyan Chapel, Norton, near Askern, was thrown into great excitement by the alarming and sudden demise of Mr. James Calvert, of Heslington, near York, whilst reading the beautiful parable given in the 15th chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel. The congregation were lisening with the deepest attention, evidently mov. d with the simple and forcible passages of Scripture contained in the chapter in question, when all of a sudden, after uttering the words, “I will arise and go to my and fell down in the pulpit and almost immediately expired. This sob inn incident mad ■ a deep imprest ion on the mids of the cc ngregation.- Watchman. The Sea a great Cemetery.— The sea is the largest of cemeteries, and its slumberers sleep without a monument. All other graveyards, in all other lands, show some symbol ef distinction between the great and small, the ricli and the poor : but in that ocean cemetery the king and the clown, the prince and ibe peasant, are alike undistinguished. The same wave rolls over all—the same requiem, by the minstrelsy of the ocean, is sung to their honour. Over their remains the same storm beats, and the same sun shines : and there, unmarked, the weak and the powerful, the plumed and the uiibonoured, will sleep on until awakened by the same trump, when the sea will gve up its dead. We may think of sailing over the slumbering but devoted Cookman, who, alter his brief but brilliant career, perished in the President—over the laughter loving Power, who went down in the same ill-fated vessel, we may have passi d. In that cemetery sleeps the accomplished and pious Fisher ; but where be and the thousands of others of the noble spirits of the earth lie, no one but God knowetb. No marble rises to point out where their ashes are gathered, or where the lover of the good or wife can go and shed the tear of sympathy. “ Leave Your Implements.” — At the entrance of the large ,-a'oons in New Orleans in which the public balls are held, you are requested to leave your imp'ements, by which is im ant your bowie-knives and n reivers; and you leave them as you would your over-coat on going into the npi-ra, You bear the pistol gnd bowieknife keeper in the aims room call out “ No.* 45—a sixbarrelled r> peater.” “ No. 100—one eight-barrelled revolver, amt bowie-knife with a death’s bead and cross | bones cut on the handle.” “ No. 95—a brace of double- ! barrels.” All this is done as naturallyias possible, I and you see fellows fasten on their knives and pistols as coolly as if they were tying on a comforter or putting ou a coat !