PHYSIOLOGICAL VIEW OF THE PREMIER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 238, 24 September 1862, Page 6

PHYSIOLOGICAL VIEW OF THE PREMIER

.. A 7nc^' icj^ journalist can do no more appropriate service ihari give;prominence, from time to time, to a good specimen of fine old age. Lord Palmeraton certainly claims*■ tliat attention at our hands. AH party and political consideration aside, we pronounce the Premier a physiological- phenomenon.---'--Politics, only explain Lord enjoyed so much'power and popularity as the Prime Minister, and there .arc'-fcw instances in winch the secret .of, power-has been less political,; Lord Palmerston s influence ii in a great measure physiolo;rieal--art influence on the temper of the country produced by las own temper and health and good spirits. The nobility, of England supply many fpecimena of a fine old age, but it is difficult to find one so strikiug as Lord lalmerston. Well nigh four score years hive passed away since His lift began. They have been eventful years, an I few men have had more to say and do in the events than the veteran Premier. In the year lß2Bliehad been for 19 years Sccrelary-at-War during four or five successive administrations, and was described by Lord Urougham-^ar other wonder of the physiological order—as a " sort of hereditary member of every Cabinet.'' It is unnecessary for our purpose to go into detail, lie hai had a hand in every European pie for more than 50 years. He -combines.in hw life the history, and in his person the qualities, ...of two successive generations.' lie iva* Seeretary-at-War in the daya of Waterloo ani Wellington, and is as ready'as younger men to entertainthe last suggestion of Sir William Armstrong. In 1809 he was in oflice ; and in T.8'52, after a life of responsibility that would Lave exhausted the brains or the strength qf most men, he is Pricis Minister, filling the high place in no merely formal and honorary way, but doing triumphant battle single-handed with his enemies with all the shrewdness of a^'e and aM the smartoes3 of youth.. There is no finality feeling iv iiim Jf he does not feel himself young, lie fancies the world is ntill in its youth. Men would forgive him if he put oil" his avinour and with fokled arms talkel of the past and. liis part in its ach;evement3 ; but he talks rattier of the future, and is r>\idy for anything the present seems to demand, whether it be a new experiment in mule, a.v extensi >v of the franchise, or a r< construction of our defenses ; and all this cordially wit!) the spirit and the spvi^litlincw of younger men. We say this is a physiological phenomenon quit? as much as a political one— an affair of temper and temperament, of health and habifs, wortliy of t!ie study of physicians as well n< poiitictan-j. in old ajjc to be abb to ride to Harrow or Kpsom and back again; to feel the world stili frc<h; tube conscious of no want of sympathy with w generation in which one's c,irly contain poraiie? can scarcely be detected; fo ba cheerful and %cnhl— able to make the Commons of Ktigland laugh and vote at pleasure, are threat qua'ities. Old age is the time for showing the difference of man who iv their middle age seem much alike. Why should advanced a.w be so often spent in feebleness anil fi-ailry ? Why should not the vgour of the middle period ba projected into the last? The answer to sneh queries mint be looke-.l fur in the study of such lives as that of Lord Palmerston. - We .should greatly reli-li a speech from the noble lord on the art <.f attaining to an enviable o':d age. Meantime we can only gae<s at the secret; but we have no doubt about essential part* of it—a certain cheerfulness oi disposition, exercise, good digestion waiting ou appetite, anJ withal temperance, especially in tho matter of drinks. Theie are oldfashioned, pla'tt expedients. They have been the thento of moralists aud poets and "physicians from 'time immemorial. Alas, that so inuiy who prai-eu did not practice them ■ May the Premier iive Ion.: as a proof of their power, and as a happy specimen of the mem vina Ta cirporesair>! — Lancet.

Gold from Irok Pyrites.—A discovery—the result of an experiment—has been made within the past few clays, which, if as successful oh a large scale as in experiment, will have the effect of giving a value to what has been for a lcugth of time cist aside n useless by the miner, and of also adding considerably 10 our escort returns. Mr. Thomas Carpenter ha 3 been retained by the United Catherine Iteef CJaimbolders' Company to make some metallurgical experiments, the result ofoneof which has been the demonstrating that tha iron pyrites, met with in large quantities in quartz-mining, contain a proportion of gold which is highly remunerative. The quantity dealt with by Mr. Carpenter was fourteen pounds, and the result was over one pennyweight and i v half of gold, or something like eight ounce* to the ton. The gold shown to our reporter, as produced by I the experiment, is as line as flour, and it dark amber colour, from the acid used in recovering it. The rationale of tha process, so far as we are let into the i secret, is the trituration of the .stone, reducing it by stamper (for experiment, nestle and mortar), and then cleansing it by acids. The company are, we believe, sufficiently satisfied with, the result of the experiment for them to erect suitable works for the reduction of the merfll in largo quantities. The works, which will be, at least for a time, under the superintendence of Mr. Carpenter, will be erected and st-irtod in about a fortnight. The large amount of tailings belonging to the company i* all snore or less charged wit'i pyrites, and will, if the experiment upon a large scale bo successful, ba treated in like manner.— lirndiyo Advertiser: Sept. 6. DItKAMS DON'T ALWAYS GO BY CoXTRAHIES.—OIir Clunes correspondent writes as follows :—On Saturday last a man nrane'l Hosie, who has recently been employed as a laborer here, after a short absence returned with sums very rich specimens of auriferous quartz, the produce of one week's prospecting. Oiie or' the stone*, weighing 7 Jbs., when broken up proved to contain 32 ouuees of jiold. The locality of this rich lode is on the borders of M'Cullam's Creek, about 14 miles ft'om here. Another party is working a separate lode near to the one from which these specimens were taken, which ha* given 2J ounces to the ton. Ho&ie states that the night before he tried the lucky spot, be dreamt that as he was passing it he sank in «nd was almo-st suffocated. The whim seized him, and the first blow ot the pick on the following morning discovered to him his fortune. So much for a dream.— Star. Going Straight to the Point.—There was many ellectin ties which made me hanker arter Betsy Jane Her father's farm jined our'n; their cows and our'n squenehttheir thurfct at the fame spring ; or.r old mares both had stars in their forrerds; the measles broke out in both famerlies at nearly the same period ; our parients (Betsy's and mine) siept reginriy every Sunday in the same meetin-house, and the nabers used to obsarve, "How thick the Ward's and Peasley<air!" It was a surblimo site, in the Spring of the year, to see our scycrnl mothers (Betsy's finl mine) with thdr gowns pin'd up so thay couldn't sile 'em, affecshunitly Bilin sope together & aboozin the nabers. Altho I hankerd intensly arter the objeck of my affecshuns, I darsant tell her of the fires which was rnjan in my manly Buzzum. I'd try to do it, but my tung would kerwollup up agin the roof of mv mowth & stick thar, like deth to a c!eiea«t African or a conntry postmaster to his oftiss, while'my hart whanged agin my ribs like a old-fashioned wheat Flale agin a bam door. Twas a carm still mte in Joon. All natur was husht, and nary zeffur disturbed the screen silens. I sot with Betsy Jane on the fensd of her farthers pastur. 'We'd bin rompin threw the woods, kullin flours & drivin tie woo Ichuck from his NattT Lair (so to speak) with long sticks. Wall we sot thar on the fense a swingm our feet to and fro, blushin as red as the Buldinsville skool-house when it was first painted, and lookin very simple, I make no doubt. My left ai'in was ockepied in baUnsin myself on the fense, while my rite was woundid luvinly round her waste. I cleared my throat and tremblinly *ed, " Betsv^ you're a gazelle." I thought that air was putty fine. I waitid to see what efteck it would hay upon her. It evidently didn't fetch her, for she up and sed, ,"You're a sheep!" Sez I, "Betsy, I think very muchly of you." I don't b'leere a word you say—so there now cum!" with -which obsarvashun she hitched away from me. " I wish there was winders to my Sole, eed I, "so that you could see some of my fcelius. There's fire cnuff in here," sed I, striking my buzzum with my fiat, "to bile all tire corn beef and turnips' in the naberhood, Versoovius and the Critter ain't a circunistaus!" Sho bowd her bed down and commenst -'chawing the strings to her sun bonnet; .'** Ar, could you know the sleeplis nitos I worry threw with on your account, how vittels has seized to be attractir to me & how my Urns has shrunk up, you wouldn't dowt me. Gase on this wastin form and these 'ere sunken cheeks"—l should have continnered on in this strane probly for sum time, but unfortnitly I lost my ballunse and fell over into the pastur ker smash, tearin my close and seveerly damagin myself generally. lietsy Jane sprung to my assistance in dubble quick time and dragged me 4th, Then drawin herself up to her full hite she said—"l won't, listen to your noncents no longer." Jes say rite strata out what you're drivin at. ;If yon mean gettin hitched, I'm in!" 1 considered thot air enuff for all practical purpussps, and we projceeded immejitly to the parson's, and was made 1 that verynite.— -ArtemusWard's Courtship. RKMOvi.I. OPaiRB. VrSB FBOH NjSWOATE.— —Mrs. "Vyse, acquitted, of the murder of .her two children, at the late sittings of the Central Criminal Court, on the ground of insanity, and "one who was ordered, by the judge to be detained during Her Majesty's pleasure, has, by order of the Home Secretary, ; been, removed from the gaol of Newgate to Bethlehem* Hospital, Sti (George's "fields; Lambeth, where she'.wlllba kept as a'criminal Itin atio for the remainder ~'of Her fiays^'ifiHe^Syill, however,-be permitted the occasiorial iiVißite''lcf- ber''.husband,;iber surviVing children, and'other relatives. Mrs,' Vyse appears completely overwhelmed at her position, and at interyala weeps bitterly.