GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 4, Issue 174, 27 November 1880, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Tii" oilier Sunday morning the Hidmp of I'-terlmro'igh, preaeMin ; al the (.'ath • drill, said, in the e.eir.-e "f his senu m : When a in in who wis to mike I' o laws of his country took Ihe I I; in In., hand and premise 1 allegiance t.i Ungland's C;esar. he did ill tile nam • of Coil, and when, he said "So help me ti.wl." he invoked as tho witness of the c pact between him and his Sovereign the coinDion Judge of both. Alas I'oi liberty and order, if from out of public acts and deeds of the nation we llmm by blotted out the recognition of the name of (.i.id : A naiioii of atheists iniisl he a history of revolution marked liv intervals

of grinding, cruel. pitil"ss. and imrepressed slaughter, beeaiisc for weakness there would he no appeal to the supreme power against present tyranny. It was impossible to say that th • throne of Knglaugiiiiglitii.it in sum,, distant time be occupied by an unpopular in march—and what then'. Would the lb rone be .secure merelv by the graces and populaiity of the monarch ' " Not so. . The throne of Kngland, the order and goverinnent of Kngland. must rest upon a deeper basis than affection ; ii must rest, if it was to abide, upon the Christian principle of loyallv, or sooner m- later tho whole and noble fabric of English liberty and order would perish.

The Ghugnir //WW,/ understands Hint i\n net ion has boon raised at tin- instance of the liquidators of the City of Ulasgow Hank, against Mr. William M'Kinnon. formorlv one of the directors of the bank, concluding for £120,000 in ropout of certain .American securities taken over l>y llio hank, ami upon which a loss ncerncil.

The testimony in support of the gieat medicinal properties of the Knmilyilm ff/«butiu is increasing every year. Few districts in Kurnpc had u more evil reputation than the Campagna as a veritable hot-bed of pestilential fevor, and people who know the country round Home may remember the monastery at Tre Fontane. on the spot, as tradition tollls that St. Paul met hi* death. Life in this monastery meant death to the monks, but since the Kneali/tiiit has been planted in the cloisters fevor hns disappeared and the place has become Imbltable. Again, in parts of Corsica and Algerin, whore the tree has been planted for the linke of its reputed virtues, endeunc fivem have been stamped out. .Similar testimony also oniuo* from Holland, the south of France, itnly. Oalb forma, and many oilier pnrtnol'the w -Id, as to Hie febrifugal attriluites nflln'U" •, which mini make it Inerensing'y v li ■ able in the PVOB of the Tnsmnni ins.