ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 349, 6 December 1848, Page 4

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The Sentiments of the Soldiebs in the present crisis. — A letter in the Times, signed by a * Non-commissioned Artilleryman,' in making some remarks upon streetfighting, winds up with the following observations as to the feeling which prevails among the soldiery : — ' It is true that disciplined troops hate riots and mob fighting,,,and they hate also riotous times ; for in riotous times our guard duty becomes heavy, and anight duty (arm 3 almost in hand) is put upon us ; our wives and children are sent off; o.ur;furloughs are at end, and sudden movements to djstant and inferior quarters impoverish us ; and when thus barrassed, provoked, and impoverished, we look about for the cause ; and we find the cause to proceed from a party about to play the game of plunder, confusion, and murder, of from that sullying Irish party which has ever shown a rebellious front when thunder-storms mutter in foreign lands, we know where our hate, is due, and we, know also, that the day of reckoning is reserved for us, afier some three or four hundred of /#atfoots, and cavalry have been, (as; the .Repealers have it) 'cut up,' ana\ 'cut down.' We can give this positive assurance to all those who would play the fool at the cannon's mouth — that when real fighting ip required from British troops, the artillery will stand to their guns, and every cannon ball they send upon its dead march will do a fearful and terrible duty. 1 * ' _ ,

DISINTEKESTED AND UNEXAMPLED GrEr nekosiiy. — Mr. Warren, the,author of V Ten Tti'gusand a Year," and " Now, and Then," in the coarse of alecture delivered in, th^Hall

of ihe Law Society, in Chancery-lane, "On the Moral, Social, and Professional Duties of Attorneys and Solicitors," recounted the following beautiful incident : — " A short time ago," said Mr. Warren, " a gentleman of fortune, a man, in fact, worth his £40,000, was indignant with his only child, a daughter, for marrying against his wishes. He quarrelled with her — he disinherited her — left his whole property of £40,000 to his attorney, and to, two other gentlemen, all of whom were residing in Yorkshire. ■ What did the attorney do ? He went to his two co-legatees, got them to sign their respective claims over to himself, and then — made over tvery sixpence of the £40,000 to the daughter and her children ! When I mentioned this circumstance, to a friend of mine, one of the most distinguished men at the bar, he exclaimed, ' God bless that man !' " The above gratifying circumstance is literally true. The gentleman of fortune was a manufacturer in a town celebrated for its linen manufactures within the district of the circulation of this paper, and the disinterested attorney is one of the brightest ornaments of his profession in the West Riding of Yorkshire, enjoying the fruits of an ample fortune relaised by his own industry and talents. We could mention his name, but we feel that his honourable nature would shrink from the publicity thus given to a circumstance which is comparatively unknown, except to a few of his own immediate friends. — Leeds Intelligencer.

Comfort for the Kich. — Wheu the time drew nigh that the oxihydrogen microscope should be shown at the Newcastle Polytechnic Exhibition, a poor old woman took her seat in the lecture room to witness the wonders that were for the first time to meet her sight. , A piece of lace was magnified into a salmon net — other wonders were performed before the eye of the venerable dame, who sat in silent astonishment, staring open-mouthed at the disc. But when at length a milliner's needle was transformed into a poplar tree, and confronted her with its huge eye, she could no longer hold. "My goodness," she exclaimed, " a camel could get through that ! There's some hopes for the rich folks yet 1"