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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4125, 10 June 1874, Page 2

One at least of the journals of New York was most strongly opposed to the Inflation of the Currency 13111, as it was called—or, in other words, a Bill to sanction the issue of a large quantity of inconvertible paper currency. The American Houses of Parliament—Congress and Senate—did sanction the measure, but it was vetoed by the President. The Ac?y York Herald publishes, under the title of “The Poll of Dishonor,” and surrounded by a mourning bonier, the names of the supporters of the measure in the Senate, with the following introductory remarks :— ■“ The following senators have placed themselves on the record as supporters of a measure which the fathers of the country regarded as 1 the bane of nations, the ruin of commerce, and the robber of the poor.’ ” A break in the Atlantic telegraph cable which was submerged in 1806 between \ aleutia and Newfoundland, was reported a few weeks ago as having occurred. Tho precise locality of the break, it would appear, had not been ascertained at the date of the despatch of the last mails from England and America, but it was supposed to have occurred in a very severe gale on the west coast of Ireland on the 13th of April last, within twenty-iive miles of the land. The line, at about that distance from the shore, was laid over a comparatively shallow ridge, beyond which the water gradually deepened, until the extremest depth at which bottom was found was reached. There are still two cal >les at work, and a third about to be laid ; but it is said there is more work to he done than even three lines of wire can accomplish. By the creation of her third son to the Dukedom of Connaught, her Majesty has fairly distributed her favors throughout the United Kingdom—Prince of Wales, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Connaught. Por many years, and until the creation of the Duke of Abercoru in 1808, the Duke of Leinster enjoyed the proud distinction of being “ Ireland's only Duke.” And now by tho addition of “our young brother of Connaught,” Ireland will be represented in the house of Peers by a triumvirate of Dukes. Unlike the Irish representatives in the Commons, it is to be hoped that the Lords three “will meet and agree,” although the province from which the new Duke hails has not been pre-eminent hitherto for its loyalty or its industry. EsmvrE J. Laysom, an American lady, who writes from Geneva to the Sisterhood in America, on the “ Women’s Crusade against Bum,” gives some sensible advice to her countrywomen, while she approves of their efforts to put down the consumption of spirituous liquors. She says that prayers should bo followed by works, and reminds them that the evil of drunkenness does not altogether lie with tho tavern-keeper. She says Search out the cause of your sorrow, which is not alone with tho seller of intoxicating drinks, but with the appetite that demands it. The great American malady is the malady of the stomach. Conscientious people become dyspeptics ; noncouscicntiou.s people become drinkers. Bear in mind this fact, that tho appetite for drink is not necessarily made by drinking, but in nine cases out of ten it is created and cultivated at your tables—in your children —by the use of coffee, tea, pepper, pickles, mustard, spices, too much salt, hot bread and pastry, raw meat and grease, and, above all, by the use of tobacco. The cry of a depraved appetite, an inflamed stomach, is always for something stronger. The uso of soup, milk and salad, prepared with good oil, should be cultivated. Xu slant, reform your tables if you would reform your drunkards and save your sons. Cure the cause and tho effect will bo but natural. Stop the demand by correcting appetite.” Very sensible advice, and not less good is the suggestion which follows ;—“ Instead of rye for whisky, raise grapes, that pure native wine may bo used when needed.” r l he Good Templar is more pronounced, however, than Mrs. or Miss Laysom. The vane that maketh glad is as obnoxious to him as tho beverage that intoxicates.