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Otago Daily Times, Issue 224, 8 September 1862, Page 6

Kx-Wardtn Musgrove Wrou^hton Amk-nwn is Ktill in Now Z Ttl-iMd. The action ho has jriveii notice of to the proprietors cf the l)t'd;i Timer., for libel, hits not y<-t come oii', and will probably l>c- two mouth?, h-fore it is tried. ho will tike no apulnjjy, but is .ieter.nincd to try his luck nl law. It is -.veil known he wou'd not have the girnst of a cha:iCi» before v .\fe!i*,iirn<;j'iry, but it is vjruiixH t?a* people of JJiuiodin, bein;j niixtly Scotch, have .some queer notion-; about the law of Hlx-1, and that it's no "canny" lmin.fr.nythin..; t<> d-> with a Dunedin jury. 1 don't believe t'lis, as no doubt they nn; just as forward ia umut.-iiniu-^ '.Ik- freedom of the I'rc.-.s in Otatro as j in Victoria.—Melbourne Cune-iposutent liallarut Tii'june. " Goon M^hniscj." — We liave bfaTd, v\/m autho-'itv f ■:■ whirh'we must <-!aiai the ere lit of bi-ing j undoubiei. xs it v.m given by an otikki very high; up. who.it- Mieasure, tiken by vel uipe, would l>e I somethin<r exlen-ive, tint General Scott managed to i arct a:i iuu-i-vit'w with tlu Emperor of the French, and j roposed to him a coalition !>et«een France and ; north America against Kn^land, should the worst cow tin' wor.it; fir .vbien g.»l s»-rvic<; bU Majesty mi'jht ask and have what should s'^em to him a sufficii-iit reward. The Emperor turned a cold s!ioul(k-r and deaf e'ir to the proposal, and bade General S'ott th«*ittil!t>t of'gooil mornings," with' t!io ;i.-iiur.'!iiec liiat KnjEjlaud was l:u warm ally, and he would a.^t as sui-h towaids her. More he did, for he cuinuiunic.it'-d t!m fact to the Kn^lhh Uovf-rn-nient. — Court Journal i The I'niNCE Ijii«E!Ual.—We extract the follows in^ num tli-- Parisian gos-ip cominunicit^d to the ('aleu'ttt liiig!i.ihiimn- "Whatever may be the desire oft!se ' Latin lions'for a change of di-t, the Hmjiorur iH.-i!fis to regard the future of bis son and heir with as much tranquillity as the 'riponinir' of the fjuestion. now uppermost in Italy. The little fellow is not only most carefully trained in his studio, d<-p:-.rtin»nt, hor.^innnship, rxerci.se, and diet, but i» bf-ing put through a course of swimming, mit at iill, it is n'p-irtt'd, to his own Fftti.*-fdcti"»n. The Ktnperor was a e:i|>ital swimmer in liis pre-rheuiuatte diys, and i* «-iid to hnve saved in,re than one drown- j hi,' iiii'iiv-duid by bis skill iv the art of plunging. The j Kmpn.-*» is <i-ie of the br.st swimmers a!i\e,' b-ing ?i.s much at h.»:ne a:uon.,' the waves as or. liorseb;M:k. But the yf)unir--' >i>aof the liunerial house basa true Fronciiman's dWike fbr cold water; ami though his atfe<> tionate parents have fouiit a beuuliful marble swimming bath for him, in the sani« wing of the Louvre in which i.s hii ri'iingroitm, the daily plunge id | jus; now the princionl thorn in hNyouthfuffxistence. I The KiujH-m:-, justly di.mpproviug of a s-'ilitarv educa- j tion, even in the case «if .so expeptloiiallv-exaltcil a ! *l.rir-'of humiiiity -rw "the heir of the Nispohjons,'' | allows the-ehil I a littii; companion of his own :t?.,« ; but, in orJtr that he may not fill into f.ivjriMs:n[ these childr,;ii are coust»ntly chanj^l. Tlu-y ar« i sroneraily c':io>cii from amongst the enfant de troupe. \ of the Army of Paris; are carefully scrubbed an«f i brushp«l fur the oce-i-Mon, and have the honor of romping with tlieir pi«s]H-ctive sovereign, and >liarin^ his j walks, Tiie only one of those little coiapaui<j:is"whf> Ins Ueen idlowcd to become, fur a time, a fixture at the pihii-.;, is a fat rosy, merry little fellow, the son of a- cu-poral, who feo:n.s to have come into the world with (>troir.*!y ampliibious instincts. He is as fond of water as the little prinyj i^ of dry !a;id, and regularly a"eoiiip:tnies the latter when, at 11 n.Tn., their uiiwillin^ charge is man'hed off to the marble tank aforesaid, by his governess, an <-.|ii-jriy. and a couple of valet*. The little soldier jump<o;it of his uniform in "no time," tumbles \\<';v\ over heels into the basin, where he swims about like a fi.sh and cuts as 'iiany giimbnls as apor|»(.i,c. Hut his example has hirherto been only sli-jhrly efficacious to hu Imperial companion, afthou^h. in consiiler;:tiou of the coldness ot the season, and the extivmij diiiike of the Prince to cold wat r', the bath v slightly warmed ; and it in with the utmost re!iiftanc« that the latter allows himself to Ise divfßted of Jiis fiilitsi trousers, tunic, etc., and be otdy filters the bath after a^ood deal ofcouinp, and a little scolditifj fr um his troverness and the equerry. The Prince greatly prefers payins a visit to the aquarium in the new jranlen of acclimatisation, and \\iu> taken an especial fancy to a sea porcupine which boasts of 4,000 bristles on each fo it, and is in various other respects a (juet-rand amusing creature.