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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 780, 5 October 1853, Page 4

New Zealand. —An absurd rumour has become very prevalent in Salisbury, to the effect that a respectable physician lately resident in this city, who, a short time since, emigrated to New Zealand, has experienced such difficulties in that country as to be reduced to the necessity of making and selling sausages for his support! The facts which gave rise to the report we believe to be these:—The doctor went out with the intention of cultivating a considerable extent of land, and pursuing the usual avocations of a farmer. He took out with him, among other

things, a will selected stock of pigs, and we understand that he has also found the advantage of doing so. Lately, he sent to England for a sau-sage-making machine, and the gossips of Salisbury immediately ran off upon a wrong scent, and inferred distress where only prosperit)' was indicated. The accompanying story about the sniimate affecting the tails of the pigs, so that would not curl, is attributable to a similar exaggeration. The governess of the doctor’s children wrote, we are told, for a pair of curling irons; these became magnified into a cargo, and the cargo of curling-irons we said to he for curling the poor pigs’ tails! It gives us much satisfaction to hear, on good authority, that the gentleman to whom the report we have noticed refers has every reason to be satisfied with his position in his adopted country, where his services as a physician arc not the less appreciated that he has combined with his medical practice the more profitable employment of farming.— Hampshire A dvertissr.

The Publication of Don Juan. —Went to breakfast with Rogers, who is in the very agonies of parturition ; showed me the work ready printed and in boards, hut he is still making alterations ; told me that Lord Byron’s “Don Juan” is pronounced by Ilobhouse and others as unfit for publication. Talked (with Murray) of “ Don Juan but too true it is not fit for publication: he seems, by living so long out of London, to have forgotten that standard of decorum in society to which every one must refer his words at least who hopes to be either listened to or read by the world. It is all about himself and Lady 8., and raking up the whole transactions in a way the world would never bear. Asked him (Hobhouse,) had I any chance of a glimpse at “Don Juan!” and there found that Byron had desired that it might be referred to my decision, the three persons whom he had bid Hobhouse consult as to the propriety of publishing it being Hookham Frere, Stewart Rose, and myself. Frere, as the only one of the three in town, had read it, and pronounced decidedly against the publication. Frere came in while I ivas at Lady D.’s ; was proceeding to talk to him about our Joint uinpireship on Byron’s poem when he stopped me by a look, and we retired into the next room to speak over the subject. He said he did not wish the opinion he had pronounced to be known to any one except B. himself, lest B, should suppose he was taking merit to himself among the righteous for having been the means of preventing the publication of the poem. Spoke of the disgust it would excite if published; the attacks in it upon Lady B.; and said it is strange, too, he should think there was any connection between patriotism and profligacy. If we had a very Puritan court indeed, one can understand then profligacy being adopted as a badge of opposition to it, but the reverse being the case, there is not even that excuse for connecting dissoluteness with patriotism, which on the contrary ought always to be attended by the sternest virtues. Went to breakfast with Ilobhouse in order to read Lord Byron’s poem: a strange production, full of talent and singularity, as everything he writes must be: some highly beautiful passages and some highly humorous ones but as a whole not publishable. Don Juan’s mother is Lady Byron, and not only her learning, but various other points about her, ridiculed. He talks of her favorite dress being dimity (which is the case,) dimity rhyming very comically with sublimity ; and the conclusion of one stanza is, “I hate a dumpy woman,” meaning Lady B. again. This would disgust the public beyond endurance. There is also a systematised profligacy running through it, which would not be borne. Ilobhouse has undertaken the delicate task of letting him know our joint opinions. The two following lines are well rhymed: But, oh ye lords of ladies intellectual Come tell os truly, have they not hen-peck’d you alt. Murray writes to me that Hobhouse has received another letter from Lord Byron, peremptorily insisting on the publication of “ Don Juan.” But they have again remonstrated. — Moore's Dairy,

TESTIMONIAL TO WM. BROWN, ESQ. A MEETING of ihe Friends and Snpporters of W. Brown, Esq., look place, according to advertisement, in the Odd Fellows’ Hall, on the evening of the 20lh inst. There was a very good attendance, notwithstanding the extreme inclemency of the weather. Mr. James George was called to the Chair, and, having read the advertisement calling the meeting, requested Mr. Makepeace to explain the object for which the meeting was called, which that Gentleman having done, it was most cordially responded to. A Committee of thirty persons was immediately formed to carry out its object, which was to present Mr. Brown with some substantial token of their esteem and confidence in his public character and conduct. On the 27th, a meeting of the Committee was held, at the While Hart Hotel, when a Sub-Committee consisting of the following Gentlemen was formed, viz:— Messrs. M‘Yay, Gcrrard, M‘Pherson, G. Smith, I). Crosbie, Schultz, Black, Sutherland, Commons, Makepeace, and J. George, to prepare subscription lists, of which the following is a copy, viz:—We, the undersigned, highly appreciating the character and public conduct of Mr-. W. Brown, are desirous of testifying the same by presenting him with some substantial token, to be decided upon (what it shall be) by the subscribers, at a public meeting to be called for that purpose, this day three months. And in order to carry out our intention, we subscribe the amount opposite our respective names. Such lists and the amount subscribed to be returned to Mr. James George, Chairman of the Committee, on or before the 27ih day of December next. James George, Chairman. September 29, 1855.