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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 46, 15 September 1864, Page 3

A. "Leader" from Bell's Life in Sydxey — Tlie following, which we extract from the Sydney 'Bell's Life' will bear reading: — " Our puerile contemporary with a periphrastic virility only equalled by his septuagesimal iconoclasm will no doubt in his next abdominal issue endeavour to overturn our arguments with his usual convivial superciliousness, but let him do his worst — we defy him ! and as for his best, as the Swan of Erin, Robert Burns, remarks in his " Young's Night Thoughts," — " There' 6 no such tiling." That he knows nothing we compute to his ignorance, and while we inculcate his allegations, we shed tears for the alligator, and though we pretcrnaturally declaim from the sardonic evacuation of personalities, we would venture to insert hydrostatically, that if he would dye his whiskers, live cleaillYi'aucl give the old woman her ninepen'ce, he ■WOullf be a better and wiser man. Our readers may not be aware that four beans do not make five, unless one be added to them, under which circumstances, -they do I and we defy any : 'calculating boy, ' let him be ever so eager to do nothing for liis country's good, to say no. Let him beware what he says, or, if he does so, he will have -the opportunity of trembling in his slioes for the nominal charge of sixpence' when he reads our 'next.: Let him reflect where would Queen . Ajine be if people. iiving-in. glass houses had no stones? Very: well then ! It isalmost useless to Bay ' more on this subject. We are iight; : Echp, mlo!-.and ngofc from .the cayes of the distant Pacific "Ocean says, 'A rolling stone makes the inai'B to go,' and &©1 riSeS-to the 'Bird in the Hand!" U .