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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 61, 9 June 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

A Photograph of the Priscess. — Shall I try ray haid at a pen-and-ink ph >tograph ? Her forehead is high, and has more breadth an 1 substance than th t of the Prince. Her eyes are blue, or blue *sh gray — for the authorities differ hereupon, although they all as;ree that they are of dove-like softness — and are of me - dium siz3. Her cheek-bones a-e raihar high, and some critics paid your countrywomen the compliment of saying that she might very well pass for a fair young Scotchwoman. Her nose is not so finely chiselled as that of the Empress of the French, yet it is well proportioned, gives character to the face, and is immeasurably superior to the nasal organ with which the photographers have accredited her. The face is long, like that of the Empress Eugenic, but altogether less pensive, and of a different order of intelligence. Her lips are full, and as to that next her chin " some bee had stung it newly." Her complexion is fair, but not of that alabaster whiteness which so easily changes into pallor. Jt was suffused by a fresh, heallhy yet delicate tint, that found an exact counterpart in the buds of the moss-rose which plentifully filled the space between her glossy light-brown hair and the top of her whi'e bonnet. Her smile is most winning and agreeable. At Cambridge House, where the royal carriage slakened its pace, she thanked the Prime Minister for the eloquent; tributes which he had paid toiler youth, beauty and amiability, by the most captivating smile that it is possible to imagine. Nor was her affabiliiy displayed alone towards the rich and titled along the more fashionable streets of the metropolis. When she had bowed to the occupants of great mansions, her eye instantly turned to the humbler classes who thronged the footpaths. Her'sweet smile indeed fell, like sunshine, alike upon rich and poor, and both seemed the bappier and better for it. Her beauty, her grace, her modesty, her winning manners, and her grateful sense of the welcome accorded to her, are the theme of general eulogy. In fact, we have all gone mad about hay. — London Correspondent of the Scotchman. Death oe Captain Meciiosk. — In our obituary of this date, we regret to say, will be found the death of Capt. J. G- Mechosk, well known in Victoria as the discoverer of the Tarrens;ower gold-field, the diggings at Jones's Creek, Kingower gold field, and also the important gold district which gave rise to the large and flourishing town of Maryborough. Captain Mechosk was appointed by Government to the command of an expediiion which went through parts of Queensland prospecting for gold about two years ago, but was not very successful. This gentleman was reputed a Polish refugee, and was said in the Melbourne papers to be the nephew of Lady Howden, a lady of Polish family, and the wife of the British Ambassador at the Court of Spain ; but although he was evidently a man of education, and one that had moved in good society, he has left nothing among his papers that throws light upon his history previous to his arrival in these colonies. He had suffered long from deafness, but disease of the lungs was the cause of his death. He had gone to Ipswich about three weeks ago, for the benefit of his health, and on his way back was so much exhausted that he was obliged to to remain three days in South Brisbane. On his return to his lodgings at Rostella House, on Thursday last, he said to Mrs. Cook, the landlady, that he had come to die with her. He was sensible up till the last, and seemed perfectly resigned to the great change he knew was shortly awaiting him. We learn that Mrs. Cook had waited upon him, and nursed him with the greatest assiduity. She has been indeed to him the good Samaritan. — Queensand Guardian, May 6th. New Mode of Striking Cuttings. — The following, says the Calif or nian Farmer, is recommended as a simple plan, by which any lady can rapidly propagate pinks, roses, geraniums, &c, without much trouble or loss. Take a large wide-mouthed pot, and fill into the bottom, to the depth of two or three inches, small stones or pieces of broken pots, for drainage, then take a pot two inches smaller, stop the drainage-hole of this with stiff clay or with a cork, to make it water-tight. Set this inside of the large pot, on the top of the drainage, so that the brims of the two will be on a level. Now fill the space between the pots with sandy loam, and insert cuttings all round the pot. This pot is to be filled with water. Now plunge the pots in a gentle hot-bed, or if it is summer, cover the Cuttings with a bell-glass. The moisture will find its way through the sides of the inner part as fast as the rootlets of the cuttings want it. After a suitable time the inner crock can be carefully lifted out to examine the cuttings, and see if they are rooted. If they are not it, can be restored to its place without injury to the cuttings. When the young plants are Started they can be taken off one at a time with a breadbladed knife.

A Doctor and his Fees.— The District Police Court was occupied for a long time yesterday,' hearing a case in 'which Dr. Hunter sued Joseph" Thomas for the sunr of £9 95., being his charge for two visits at two guineas each and for performing ah operation on the defendant. The defence was that the charge was excessively, high, that .£4 4s. had been paid, and that Dr. Hunter had conducted himself in such a way as to injure the health of his patient. The evidence went to show that Dr. Hunter had been called in to consult with Dr. Blair regarding the health of the defendant, who was in a dangerous state. Dr j Hunter made two calls, and performed a surgical operation, and it appeared from the evidence that on the second occasion when he called he demanded his fees, which Mrs. Thomas said she would not pay ! until Mr. Thomas was in such a state that he could be spoken to on the subject, whereupon Dr. Hunter went into the bedroom of the man who was apparently dying, and demanded his keys, and inquired where he kept his money. The Doctor then went and took from a drawer L 4 4s. in the presence of Dr. Blair. According to one of the witnesses for the de-. fence, he then said that this money was in payment of his fees. In the course of that evening Mr*. Thomas instructed a solicitor to write to Dr. Hunter that he would not be required to call again, as the excited manner in which he had conducted himself was calculated to injure Mr. Thomas's health. On the following day Dr. Hunter called at Thomas's house, and, according to his own statement, gave the L 4 4s, which he had taken on the previous day to Mrs. Thomas, or at least left it on the table. Mrs. Thoma", on being put in the witness-box, said she had never seen the money, and Mr. Thomas said he had not received it. The court gave judgment for L 7 7s. less L 4 45., already paid, with 2s. 6d. costs. — Age. Frrnch Academy of Sciences — At the last sitting a letter was read from M. Goldschmidt, the well-known amateur astronomer, announcing that, in endeavoring to find Mr Clark's satellite of Sirius (the Dog Star) he was much surprised to several of them besides the former, at distances from the principal star, varying between a quarter of a minute and a minute. Unfortunately, M. Goldschmidt's instrument was not equal to the task of measuring the distance exactly ; but one of the new satellites is a little further away from Sirius than Mr Clark's. Next follows another on a line with the two latter, an almost imperceptible point ; to the east of Sirius there is another; and then two more in intermediate positions, making five in all. — Galignani. An Iristi Piacard — \ placard has been circulated about Dublin, addressed to " Irishmen, citizans of Dublin," full of lamentation that St. Patrick's Day finds [reland "a fettered slave, the spoils of aliens, the Niobe of naiions," while "Poland has risen from her bondage, crushed and dismembered, defeated two empires, and v constitutional tyranny.'' Her nobility, her peaspntry, her artisans, her students, her holy Churchmen of all grades, arm and strive in the cause freedom ; but the Irish nobility are abroad, the Irish peasantry decay, Irish students aspire for the trappings of foreign rule, and the holy Churchmen of Ireland, with few exceptions, bow to foreign political influences. Alas! alas! for Ireland. But the memories of A. I). 1014 and 1782 prevent the writer from desparing. " Who cares for the flies that gather to the corruptions?" — that is, "the threadbai'e poltroons •' who would go to hear the hand, and see Lord Carlisle wear a bunch of shamrock in the Castle yard. "The sympathies of the people, I ' says the placard, will "be elsewhere. They have never abandoned the cause for which Emmett perished on the scaffold, and M'Manus in exile." The placard concludes with the formula, " God save the people!" — European Times. Arresting a Pisiest. — An exciting scene occurred at Treforest, near Cardiff, a few days ago. Two sheriffs officers went to that place to arrest a Roman Catholic priest, but the Rev. gentleman became very abusive, and several Irishmen were called in to assist him. A scuffle ensued, during which the priest wounded one of the officers with a stick containing a spiing dirk ; the weapon entered the mouth of the officer, and the priest, with the Irishmen, made his escape. Further assistance was sent to Treforest, and the officers had just arrived at the railway station when the priest had taken his seat in a carriage for Mountain Ash. A number of Irishmen crowded around the priest's carriage but the officers dashed into the carriage, and pulled ontjtheir man on the platform just as the train was about to leave. The howls and cries of the Irish were tremendous, but the officers retained fast hold of the priest, and the down train to Cardiff ariving, they placed him in it, and in less lhan an hour afterwards he was safely lodged in Cardiff gaol.-^-Bristol Mercury. Earthquake at King's Island. --The following is an extract from a letter from the superintendent of King's Island Lighthouse, dated 2nd April, ]863, received 2nd May: — "On the 7th March, at daybreak, namely, 4.55, we had a shock of an earthquake, the tremulous motion of the earth lasting about two minutes, shaking the doors and windows continuously ; but the vibrations seemed less sudden and jerking than those I have felfc in India and New Zealand, which I attribute to the sandy nature of the ground here. The man on watch at the tower describes the agitation as shaking the tower — the vibrations causing the copper plates of the cupola to rattle against eacli other with much noise. I cannot perceive the slightest indication of injury to the tower in. any part." — Hobart Town Mercury.