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Southland Times, 24 April 1868, Page 2

Rigid Impartiality. — Sydney Smith, calling one day upon a fellow contributor to the " Edinburgh Review," found him reading a book preparatory to writing a critique on it, and expostulated with him. " Why, how do you manage ?" asked his friend. "I never," said the wit, "read a book before reviewing it ; it prejudices one so." Not so Black as they Seem. — Many lessons may be learnt by civilized nations from the savage. We speak within the bills of mortality when we assert that pocket- picking is an offence absolutely unknown among the aborigines of Australia. This speaks volumes, not only for their honesty but "for their simplicity of costume. An excellent bon-mot is attributed to a right reverend prelate, who for eloquence cannot be excelled in or out of the pulpit. Some one asked the bishop how it was that a noble lord, whose oral faculties are unhappily deficient, should have been put on the Ritual Inquiry. " Why," responded his lordship, "you see that the Government in appointing the commission must needs put something def-in-it."