THE INTELLIGENT VAGRANT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4827, 11 September 1876, Page 3

THE INTELLIGENT VAGRANT.

(From the New Zealand Mail.) Quis scit adjiciant hodiema crastina summie Tempora Di Superi.—Horace.

If a number of grovelling people in this colony are unable to appreciate Sir George Grey's exertions in the cause of universal justice, it 18 gratifying to know that: those exertions are not unappreciated in; more powerful places. Mr. Kees has kindly favored me with extracts from letters received by the last mail by Sir George Grey. They are as follow: — FROM VICTOR HUGO. Sik Grey,—The Infinite includes the Infinitesimal. Ugliness is lost in Universal Beauty. With me you can appreciate these truths. I perceive, therefore, with pleasure that you are striving for the Infinite and the Beautiful, without which, what is humanity? Our aspirations lead to the same end. Paris is the type of the Infinite and the Beautiful in the highest sense; she is the world, for the world follows her. Paris thirsts for the Commune, that entity which alone contains the essence of universal justice My friend and brother, you are not.working for New Zealand; no! you are working for maukind; and Paris and the Commune, which are mankind, open their arms to you. ; ',i : ■, ■ FBOM. MOUItAD, SULTAN OP TURKEY. Be chesm, on my eyes be it. O Grey ,_ you desire to people the land where the moa is no more, and the bulbul and the morepork sing in the ti tree. Be it mine to assist;-thee, my pasha. My uncle, whom Allah has received, has left. behind him thousands of Odalisques, whose eyes are as the fawns, and whose voices are swest as the sighing of the pipi. They are yours, O pasha. Let them be settled with your young men on the lands which tyrants keep desolate, and. the earth shall be full of posterity.

FROM EX-MARSHAL BAZAINE. It is the lot of the patriot to be unappreciated. I lost Metz to save my country ; you have lost separation in the same cause. There is history to be written. The applause of the future will outweigh the scorn of the past.

TROM THE TOOLEY-STBEET LIBERATORS. At a general meeting of the Tooley-street liberators it was unanimously resolved, — "That whereas it appears that .Sir George Grey i 3 now advocating the principle on which this association is founded, namely, the giving of everything to everybody, and an equal.distribution of property every Saturday night : Be it resolved, that upon payment of the usual fees Sir George Grey be enrolled an honorary member of the association.

My friend Flush Martingale some months ago discovered an infallible method of making money at cards without the necessity of having recourse to certain arts held in contempt. His principle, which some may say involved a want of principle, amounted to this—Whenever he won he took care to get his winnings paid him in cash, whenever he lost he handed over to the winner lOU's, redeemable at an indefinite date. His plan was for some time crowned with success, but latterly it has been attended with failure, or rather he does not get the opportunity of putting it in practice, the select circle in which he was accustomed to carry out his plan now declining to be experimented on. Sir Robert Douglas and Mr. Wakefield had a discussion in the House this week on the relative merits of horses and other animals, in the course of which the latter expressed some peculiar opinions. On this Mr. Andrew wrote immediately—

Tho horse and ass are equine both, Yet Gcraldino is very loth To lot tho horse in außht surpass, His sympathies are with tho And the remainder does not matter. I have always known Mr. Andrew Young as a gentleman who, not to put too fine a point upon it, is up to a thing or two. But the last evidence of his " leeryness," if he will pardon me the expression, goes beyond me. He advertises quite-a number of horses for sale by auction, and the auctioneer "confidentially" writes that " they will be subject to any reasonable trial after the sale." I should think Some time since it was my privilege, as well as my pleasure, to tell a story of a clergyman who in a country church had dismissed his congregation somewhat curiously. The gentleman has acknowledged my courtesy in a

peculiar manner:byfsehdihg. me areceiptfor'a cold in the head, which'lie says' t he has ; himself used with infinite benefit. The receipt! is to rub your nose with equal parts'.of soft; soap and sulphuric acid.' -' ." '"'" I A hovel but not disagreeable jformof enter-, tabling has been started by a i '-batikmanager in, shall we say, Reynardsville. ,' One evening he invites to dinner all the married ladies and single gentlemen of the township: On another evening he asks the .'married 'men. and the spinsters. The result is commendably subcessful. None of the guests'complain of monotony. , Is this, which I find in. the San Francisco Evening Post, true?—"But this West Rainton purchase was not so remarkable as a sale of a.' young white woman, by her reputed father in open market at Auckland, New Zealand, about the year-1840. White women were then a novelty in the colonies, and this' one came up from the coast, with'her, guardian and a cargo of pigs.' Fresh/pOrk sold at ljd per pound, and when the last porker, had been weighed the young woman went to' scale by arraugement, and became.'tbe property of the butcher at-that price. .He had no difficulty in getting an advance on his bargain, and this female was some years ago at the head of a settler's household in the, bush. Such is the way of British life at home in the .colonies." I am afraid that the San' Francisco; man has been drawing upon his imagination.,; Anyway, suppose he has not. This little moral reflection on " such is the way of life,'' &°- d° es &°fc fit in well in a newspaper, jammed full of disgusting quack advertisements and puffs 'of astrologers. . ""'"■' ( . ; ' Seeing that What are called " Native Interpreters "have been the banes of t more than one negotiation with the Maoris here, I wish that they could be served as the Coreans or the Japanese serve their interpreters. I read that " on the return of the Corean Ambassador and suite from their inspection, of the, Japanese Navy yard, two of the interpreters received each five strokes on; the soles of'their bare feet for having perpetrated., some .mistake—what, it is not known." We all of 'us know a number, of interpreters in New Zealand to whom five strokes, or ten times five strokes, (not necessarily on the soles of their feet) would be of infinite benefit.' " i

I have been to see the clay.'model.by Signor Vescovo, from which the bust of Dr. Featheiv ston is to.be chiselled. I accompanied a reporter of the New Zealand Times when I went to see the model, and I therefore leave anything descriptive to' being most competent to deal with it.. ,'But in',conuection with the matter I may mention one: thing. Signor Vescovo keeps a register of his visitors, and amongst the names self-inscribed thereon I noticed one of a newspaper gentleman who had not omitted to put after his name the letters F.K.G.S. Under the circumstances, the affixed letters on which Dr. Panglots prided himself would have been more appropriate. An unfortunate landlord lately..advertised for, a barmaid.. I oall the landlord unfortunate advisedly, because by ten o'clock jof the morning on which his advertisement appeared, he had been interviewed by no less than fiftyrthree ladies of surpassing : loveliness and having exquisite taste in dress.; The agglomeration of female perfection was too much for the advertiser, who finding at eleven o'clock that- there were still twenty :young ladies waiting to see him, got but of ]his house by the back door and went visiting at other hotels whilst he deputed: the wdrkl of choosing a barmaid to a friend quite insensible to female attractions. . ■■■ : ;

A gentleman testifies in ah Otago paper to the merits of certain cough drops and says—"l derived an amount of.benefit from them at a very cheap rate (only,6d. per Jib)." ■ Well, we have all heard of queer things being sold by weight from honor down to • beer, but this' is the first time that benefit to health has been sold so low as 6d. per