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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 281, 29 June 1860, Page 3

'■ .William King.—-The Wangamci Chro'nich says thal^Williarti^King"'^^'^^'^^^'. ■incapable, fromhis.drinking habits, of any^ :''mental ior bodily exertion, and has since the "commencement of hostilities, beefy in safe keeping in the inland pah in the ,push> So^that. were he taken,, the disturbance w t ould not be quelled. _; ; IMMORALITY.---)^lpral;evil should be discpuragec^ frowned down, and chased out of societyj by everybody, much more by the Ghief.pieniri oxvr Oour'tsofJustiee.'MovaMty Js. supreme in its: dejoiands upon every human, cprisciencej; arid Vno man ought to be punished or exposed for pleading for strict morals; in society, or for complaining when he sees ,them violated. ;:It is■.monstipuf thstt^ey'Wynian-wlibse faults are' reproved shpuldj fee justified by legal, functionaries in seeking any sort of revenge. ■—-Pleader. '■' ■.-■■.': v.;', '/';'- :_'H ' ~ Peter the Great.and the! Lawyers.—In, Russell Lee's Stones of Russia, &&-, we are told of Peter the Great, that "on being, taken to Westminster Hall^jie,eagerly asked who were all" those people" "so busy in black gqwns and wigs ? On being answered that thoy werel lawyers, /he exclaimed with much astonishment, Lawyers! why I have only two in all my dominions,' and I think of hanging one of'them , the moment I get home f\ v What a wise desppt! It is presumed that he sagely judged that one tyrant and his ,hangman were, better than tens'of t thousands of thpse worse;tyrants who prey om the.peace and prosperity of a,law-plun-dered, people.— •Q&Mmiinicated. .