THE RIGHT WOMAN IN THE EIGHT PLACE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 183, 28 June 1862, Page 6

THE RIGHT WOMAN IN THE EIGHT PLACE.

(FllOJf THE SIDEBOARD VIKW OF SOCIBTST, IN THE

• LONBfIN SOCIETY.) " Now, sir," lie resumed, "if y're not tired, I should like to name another family, as goes on quite a different line from all I've named before, that you may not think I find fault with all my employers; far from it, only I feel inclined to speak confidental to you. J&ut there's a house not half an hour's walk from here as it's a pleasure to go into —Laurel Lodge, down by P square. Ifc's not a fine house, nor a rich family, leastways nothing to speak of; but there's a comfort and a nicety, not to say a helegance, about that;'ere establishment as beats most places high and low as I waits in. The gentleman's something in tha city, a good-looking man though not handsome, nnd a bit hasty and wilful; but it's the lndy that's at the top and bottom of everything;. It's a house I like to goto, a pretty place,'with lotsof flowers and pictures, and no end of nice things, all put just in the right place, and as neat and tidy as if no one ever moved about, and yet not cumbersome. The lady is not to say a beauty, but pleasant-looking, and speaks so soft and kind. There's a large and a small drawing-room at one side of the hall, and a dining - room and a morning - room at the other. They never have what may be called a great spread there, never more than ten or twelve, and no champagne ; port and sherry and claret, but all very particular, I have been told; and they only keep three women —cook, housemaid, and nursemaid — for there are two pretty children, a boy and a girl, about four an' five year- old. Then they have a nice lot of plate, though, some of it is very oldfashioned, and there it is as clean an' bright aa a new pin, all laid out ready when I goes in, and theglass the swne ; and the missis, p'raps, will be putting fresh flowers in a pretty basket they use for the middle of the taDle instead a fieavy Spergne; and then she has just a few directions to give, so clear that it would be n- stupid indeed as would make a mistake; .and then away she goes to play with the children, or sing to them, or something. There's no kind of flurry in that establishment. The dinner is the same sort they have everyday, only more of it, and one or two perticular dishes, and hice p'raps from the confectioner's, what can't be done in the usual rvin ofkitchings, but everyone knows his own work there. They has these sort of dinners two or three times a month, and they are used to them | the cook, she is a steady one; and, though she has your supper right good and comfortable, with a first-rate pot of porter, takes good care of the wittles, and knows they'll be looked after the next day. Then tlie missis will be dressed an1 ready and glide in so quiet and composed, and sure of herself When everything's laid, to see all's right; and she's ready for the master directly he come home, with p'raps a pine or a melon or something good for dessert. Often the company comes before him, but that never puts either of 'em out, for they're somehow riot wanting to seem firmer at one time than another, and. the company's just the same. Mess your 'eart, sir, it would do you more gond than all the doctors in London to hear the laughing and fun, and the jokes that goes on ! The missis, too, has such a kind way with her, everyone seems to feel that he or she, as the case may be, is real downright welcome; and if she's a thought kinder or more attentive to nny one, you may be sure that's a poor relation, or some one as has been unfortunate in the city, orsomethink of thafc sort. And she can talk, ton, and has something' pleasant to say about everything"; but it's the way she has of listening, as if it was a pleasure to her, and makes everyone feel so light and good humored. Then, as to the wittals, "it's my belief," said Brown, solemnly, "that if I stood up before her and said, 'If you please'm, tho roast haunch, or the ducks, or whatever the principal dish might be, has fallen into the fire,' she would just say, 'Well, I hope there't enough left to satisfy the cravings of huugcr,' or something like that; nor, as long as shy could makepeople. happy, would she care two pins about seeming in applepie order, or better than others, or anything of tho «or,t. Then, you see everything being looked to in time, and working free from fear, as it were, seeing the missis so quiet an' easy, all goes right. I never was in a house where "there's so little fuss, and su few misfortunes. I sometimes think, when you don't expect evil, it doesn't came. ,The gentlemen don't sit long there, and there's such a pleasant evening afterwards. They sing and they play, and sometimes act plays, an' more times they get talking of such curious things, politics and the Qible, and paintinjr and books, and what things are made of. Why, sir, you'd think their whole lives depended on these here hout-of-the-way subjects; they go into them so earnest like, and seem to be so taken up with what they are saying—not the way they say it, but it does them a deal of good—they_ stay later there than almowt any other house I waits in, except it's a ball: and I always observe the company go away brighter and more cordial-like than they come in, as if they, had been warmed and cheered up body and soul. Then the misses nearly always settles with me herself, and lpoks. into the . pantry, and the kitching;. and last winter, when my wife was ailing a long time, she would make mo call the next day, aud give me with her own hand nice little odds and ends of aoups and sweets aud jelly, what I know as she had thought over as would be best. Now a good turn like that from a careful lady is quite a different thing'from being let to carry away a lot of broken wittles by the cook, which no one is thankfulfor, nor no one kind- enough to give. You'll excuse my speaking to bold, sir, but you see a man as waits hout has a curious lot of hopportunities, and sees a^deal of insides, and I can't help saying that, inparties of all kindsj more depends upon the misses than the master; for, though'-I am an ignorant man, I know p'raps better than a wiser, one what makes a dinner go off well. It isd't'-.the fine feed, nor the wery perticlar wine, nor yet the'grand people that's to drink it, but the spirit it's all clone in; and when the master and misses doesn't want to make things seem finer and bigger than they'll stretch to, nor to mortify nobody by overdoing them, but are just real anxious to please the company, and make'urn happy arid at home, it's quite wonderful what a deal of comfort and satisfaction cau be srot at a low figure."

(TIIE STUDENTS AND THE PItIESTS IN NAM/ES. —Letters from Naples, describe some violent scenes which have just taken place between the students and a section of the populace. One of the Lent preachers, Guiseppe Cocozza by name was holding forth in the church of San Severino to a crowded congregation, packed with Caraoristi, bigoted women, and a few of the students of the University. The preacher, after dwelling !in indignant terms on the great subjects of the day, invsighed against the professors and students of the University, calling them atheists and irreligious, and advising the people to rise against such persons, and.drive them from the city. He concluded by saying, "Don't send your children to the Government schools to ruin them with Protestantism. Wait for the angel St. Michael, who will come from Home with his exterminating sword." The students present gave signs of their resentment, .and an impression got abroad that the priest would. be ill-treated —an impres- | sion which, it appears, was industriously and maliciously circulated. On their leaving, therefore, they were followed to the university by a crowd of ignorant zealots, and all who were in the university were made the objects of an indiscriminate attack by the excited multitude, and revolvers were fired, and stones, the great arms of the Neapolitan populace, were hurled with effect. A body of the National Guard, however, were immediately bu the ground, and order was restored, after three or four of the students had. been wounded either with pistol shots or stones. The preacher Cocozza has been arrested, as have also two other priests, and a processo is being institnted against them on the ground of their inciting the people to disorder.

Religious Persecution in Spain. — The Clamor Publico, of Madrid, has the following:— "Dn. Manuel Matamoros, Dn. Angel Alliatna, and Dn. Miguel Xrigo, confined in the prison of Granada on an accusation of having offended against religion, have just been condemned to eleven years of penal servitude. The same lot has been awarded to Messrs. Vasqnez, Lineira, and Moreno Eebolla, with the only difference that their captivity is to be shorter by two years. We frankly confess that so cruel a sentence has made a profound impression upon us, because it inflicts a wound and injury on men whose offence consists in professing a creed differing from that of the established religion. Our sorrow is increased when we consider what would become of ourselves —ardent and sincere Catholics as we are—if, in other countries, where fortune or misfortune should oblige us to reside, we were treated like the unfortunate persons who are groaning in the prisons ot Granada. 'For is it not a contradiction that the Spaniards residing in England, Fiance, Germany, and even in Morocco are able to wor--1 ship the God of their fathers as their heart and conscience dictate, although the dominant worship is very different from ours; while here, those who do not conform to the established religion are persecuced,proseeuted,condemned, and martyred? Is it just, is it creditable to us, that the fanatical sectaries cof the Koran should give-us lessons of tolerance? -'What should wo say if, on the pleaot reprisals, our brethren livirigin Protestant countjie's were condemned to renounce their religion under" pain' of being punished for. exercising it with the brand of the reprobate and the chain of the convict."

A PROCLAMATION Bringing into force certain regulations touching the carriage of passengers from New Zealand to other English possessions in Australasia. By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Com ■ mauder of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commauder-in-Chiof in and over Her Majesty's Colouy of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of.the same, &c., &c, &c. .

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Whereas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, j passed in the Session held in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth years of ■ Her present Majesty's reign, iutituled " An Ast to empower the Governors of the several Australian Colonies to regulate the number,of dassengers to be curried in vessels plying between Ports in those Colonies,'1 it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of each of her Majesty's Colonies already or hereafter to be established in Australasia, by any Proclamation Ito be by him from time to" time issued for the purpose (which Proclamation shall take effect from the issuing thereof, if no day shall be named therein for the purpose),to prescribe such rules as he shall think proper for determining the number cf passengers to be canned in' any passenger ship which shall proceed from any such Colony to any other of Her Majesty's possessions for the time beiug in Australasia, and for determining on what deck or decks and subject to what reservations or conditions passengers may be carried, and also to prescribe such penalties for the infraction or nonobaervance of such Rules as to snch Governor may seem proper; and r it is also enacted that from the time when any such proclamation \ shall take effect, and so long as the same shall continue in force, the rules and enactments contained in " The Passencers Act, 1855," relating to the. number of passengers to [be carried in any passenger ship, and the deck o I decks whereon they are to be carried, shall cease to apply to any vessel to which such proclamation shall be applicable, save only as to the'recovery and application of any penalty for any offence committed against the said Act before such proclamation; shall take effect: Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zeaiaud, in exercise of the power vested in me by the above recited Act, do issue this my proI clamiltiou, to take effect from the 10th day of June, j one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and I do hereby prescribe the rules hereinafter set forth for determining the number of passengers who may be carried in any passenger ship which shall proceed from the Colony of New Zealand to any other of Her Majesty's possessions for the time being in Australasia, and on what deck or decks and under what reservations or conditions passengers may be earned, and the penalties for the infraction or non-observance of. such rules, that is to bay : — A.- Sailjhs Vessels. " I.' No ship propelled by sails only shall carry a greater number of persons (including every individual on board) than in the proportion of one statute adult to every two tons of her registered tonnage. 2. No ship shall carry under the poop or in the round-house or deck-house or on the upper passengerdeck a greater number of passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twelve clear superficial feet of deck, alloted to their use. 3. No ship shall carryon her lower passenger-deck a greater number of passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every fifteen clear superficial feet of deck alloted to their use,provic!ed, nevertheless, that if the height between such lower passen-ger-deck and the deck immediately abeve it shall be, less than seven feet, or if the apertures (exclusive of side scuttles) through which light and air shall be admitted together to the lower passenger-deck, shall be less in size than in the proportion of three square feet to every one hundred superficial feet of the lower passenger deck, no greater number of passengers shall be carried on such deck than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twenty-five clear superficial feet thereof. • ■ , ■ ...7 4. No ship, whatever be her tonnage or superficial space of passenger-deeks, shall carry a greater, number of passengers on the whole than in the proportion of one statute adult to every five superficial feet clear for exercise on the upper deck or poop (it secured, and fitted on the top with a railingor guard, to the satisfaction of the Emigrant Oflicera tthe port of clearance,) on. any round-house or-deck-house. 5. In the measurement of the passenger-decks, poop, round-house, or deck-house, the space for the hospital and that occupied by such portion .of the personal luggage of thfc passengers as the Emigration Officer may permit to be earned there, shall be included. B.—Steamers. The number of passengers who may be carried on hoard of any vessel propelled by steam power shall be ascertained and determined in. manner following, viz :— .•.■....■ . ■ ... . _ ,, t ..,. 1. Measure in cubic feet the clear space alloted to fore-cabin passengers be.tween decks, and divide the cubic contents by 7-i. 2. Count the number of sleeping berths exclusively provided for the accomodation of fore-cabin passengers, and adJ to it the number obtained as above. 3. The total number thus obtained is the total number of lore-cabin passengers who may be carried. 4. Proceed in the same manner with the space alloted to after-cabin passengers. The results of the said computations shall determine the number of fore-cabin and after-cabin passengers respectively who may be carried on board of a vessel propelled by steam power, and'all passengers on board thereof shall be included in one or other of the said denominations. PENAI/TIES. If there shall be on board of any ship or vessel at or after the time of clearance a greater number either of persons or passengers (except by births at sea) than in the proportions respectively hereinbefore mentioned, the master of such ship or vessel shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds nor Ipss than one pound sterling ior each person or passenger constituting such excess. Given under my hand, at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this sixteenth day of M°iy, in the year1, of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. G. Gkky. By His Excellency's command, William Fox. God Save the Queen !