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Colonist, Issue 12, 1 December 1857, Page 1

A Truism.—An immigrant has no right to expect that he will realise the moment he steps upon the sliore all the national advantages which he has left behind, but which would not give him bread; or to suppose that he can obtain at once an equality of position with colonists who have labored for years, and through trials and privations which the more recent population would not endure fora day.— -Sydney Herald. ■

We were favoured lately (says the Adelaide Register)^, by Mr. Todd, Superintendent of the Government Telegraphs, with an inspection of an improved' magneting self-registering machine, on Professor Morse's principle with double action; by which messages may be transmitted along a single wire to and from each terminus station simultaneously, and at the same time registered on a slip of paper, which is made to pass over a small cylinder for that purpose. The mechanism is somewhat complicated, but appears admirably adapted to the purposes intended. The machine is to be used in connection with the Adelaide and Melbourne line.

Two miners named Joseph Parkes and Peter Gowrie, of Ararat, were going from the alluvial diggings to the reef, taking with them the produce of their week's washing iip, consisting oi about twenty-four ounces of gold, besides £16 or cash. When nearly halfway, two pistol shots were fired at them, one of which took effect ort Parkes, striking him on the head and the lower part of the arm. Immediately after the shots two men came out of the bush, and after threatening to blow their brains out if they said a word, took' from them all the gold and money, and although Parkes was bleeding profusely, and in great agony, bound both him and his mate to two trees, and left them.— Melbourne Leader.

AChinese Termagant.—These Chinese termagants work themselves up into such a passion sometimes for very slight things, and their imprecations or curses are quite fearful. One night an old woman in Ningpb had a couple of fowls stolen. Next morning, when she discovered her loss, she came outside her door, and began in the following strain:—" I have lost two fowls; some one has stolen my two fowls. May he never thrive who has stolen my fowls !"-~and then a dead dog caught her e^ye as it was floating down the river—" May he die like that dog! May his body never be buried! May his children never visit his tomb !". and so on. 1 forget if this old lady went quite off. Many of them gtop short and get pacified before they reach the climaxi —Fortune's Residence among the Chinese.