NEW SOUTH WALES.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 409, 24 September 1861, Page 4

NEW SOUTH WALES.

NOTES OF THE WEEK. Friday, 13th September. A bill for tbe Better Regulation of the Goldfields has afforded an opportunity for discussing, to a certain extent, tho great ' Chinese ques-. tion.' And although this was done in.'committee, and without much fuss, the result was not the less important. Au amendment which had for its object the entire exclusion of Chinese from the gold-fields, was rejected by the large majority of 22 to 10. It was next sought to make tho power of restricting aliens to particular localities applicable to the. Chinese alone, but by the casting vote of the Chairman of Committees the existence of this power as to all aliens was retained.

The miner's fee was reduced from ,£lto 10sper annum. While the Assembly has thus been dealing more rationally than might, all circumstances considered,have been expected with«the Chinese question,' many anti-Chinese meetings have been held outside, and many petitions for the exclusion of this race race have been laid before Parliament. On the Other hand there have been several petitions for redress from such of taa as have been plundered and maltreated during the late riots at Burrangong. A large party, including three of the Mmisters and one of the Judges and many members of Parliament, assembled at Mr. Atkinson s, Sophienburgh, near Liverpool, on Saturday last, to inspect the surviving alpacas which are to be slaughtered and stuffed for the Great Exhibition

The Metropolitan District Court commenced Its sittings on Monday morning, with a list of CO7 cases.

Several robberies, and attempts at robbery, in and near Newcastle, have of late taken

place. The champion paddle race, on Saturday last, between Green and M'Gratb, although well contested, resulted in a comparatively easy victory by the former. The Rev. Thomas Smith, of St. Barnabas Church, preached,at the Lyceum Theatre on Sunday afternoon last, and it has been announced that the Rev. William Cuthhertson will preach there od Sunday afternoon next. The gold digger who, as mentioned in our last, was robbed of £145 by his mate, has succeeded, after a hard chase on horseback of 120 miles, in catching che thief, and recovering back ,£93 of the stolen cash

A little boy of South Brisbane, who had been bitten by a snake, is said to have been cured by arsenic in brandy'taken internally. Mr. Thomaß White, proprietor of the Burnett Argus, has been committed to take bis trial at Maryborough, for a libel on Mr. Haynes, police magistrate. It is stated that a subscription has been opened for the defence of Mr. Whitei and that a petition for the removal of Mr. Haynes is in course of signature. A quartz specimen prettily studded with gold Las been found among the stone quarried for street-making purposes by the Goulburn municipal authorities. Gold has also been discovered near the Yass river.

Arrangements are in progress for the erection of a new Church cf England Bishopric at Goul burn.

The Mudgeo mail having been recently robbed in a very mysterious maDLer without any one knowing, apparently, when or by whom the bag ■was taken, Captaiii Battye and others went out to solve the mystery, and have captured five persons, including the mailman himself, on suspicion of being concerned in it. The missing bag, with i>554 in notes, and four gold riugs, Lave also been recovered.

The subscriptions for tbe defence of tbe Burrangong rioters appear to be going on very slowly aud unsatisfactorily. The Bishop of Sydney has publicly expressed his entire concurrence with the clergymen'^ protest against the wroDgs inflicted upon the Chinese in this colony

Some fine specimens of Australian silk, grown and prepared by Mr. B. Lee, of Parramatta, are to be s«nt to the forthcoming International Exhibition.

All Van, a Chinaman, convicted at Bathurst of Laving feloniously abused a girl raore than ten years of age, has been sentenced to three yoars' hard labor in Bathurst gaol. John M-Kcnzie, a lad of sixteen, convicted at the same place of having violated the person of a girl ten years of age, has had sentence of death recorded against him.

Sir Charles Nicholsou lectured on Tuesday evening, on ' Recollections of his Travels in Italy and Egypt,' before the St. Benedict's Young Men's Catholic Society. His Excellency Sir John Young presided, aud many leading members of the community were ..present.

Double costs and a double amount for- witnesses' expenses were recently allowed in.the Metropolitan District Court, by way of punishing a defendant for having set up a mock

defence

The Judges have promulgated a new set of Insolvency rules, gome of which are very stringent. They are lo come in force on the 17th irssiant.

The monthly meeting of the Philosophical Society of New; South Wales was held on Wednesday evening, under the presidency of Sir John Young. A paper was read by Mr. Charles Moore on a few prevailing but little known scrub timbers of the colony, and two papers by Mr. Thomas Woore on new modes of constructing timber bridges aud of giving support to railway bar 3.

We now come to the greatest and most painful event of the week—the total destruction by fire of the fine ship Sovereign of the Seas, lying as Campbell's Wharf,

Dr. John Bowker West has been appointed medical attendant to the aborigiues in the New England district.

Mr. IT. Hamburgher has received a quantity of cotton seeds of various kinds from the Manchester Cotton Association, and is prepared to give small supplies gratuitously to bona fide cultivators, by way of testing the comparative valuo of these seeds.

Some very line arrowroot.has been produced by Dr. Gunst, at Clarence River, and it is probable that this valuable plant will be more extensively cultivated in that district.— Sydney Herald, Sept. 14.

The World —Creditors never annoy a man as long as he is getting up in the world. A man of wealth only pays his butcher once a year. Let bad luck overtake him, and his meas bill will come in every morniDg as regularly as breakfast and hungry children. Again we say never plead guilty to poverty. So far as thit world is concerned, yo U had better admit that yw m a scoundrel.

[TELEGRAMS TO SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.] LAMBING FLAT. Sept. 12. The late accounts from New Zealand are ct using great excitement. Many are leaving. MELBOURNE. Sept. 13. Tho Ola^o rush is greater tuau ever. The Empress of the Sacs and Lightning cleared with 1400 passengers. Sept. 14. Miners are still rushing to New Zealand. ADELAIDE Sept. 14. The flour market to-day has shown some activity. Best brands are £14 to .£l4 55., and other brands, £13 10s. to £13 5s ; wheat, ss. sd.toss. 6d.

Over Work.—But do we work too hard ? ' It is better to wear out than to rust out, said Bishop Cumberland. 'There will be time enough for repose io tho grave,' writes Arnauld to Nicole. 'Don't talk to me,'said Dr. Adam Clarke, ' about having too many irons in the fire. Poker, tongs, shovel! keep them all going! Life is no filligree, dilettanti-work. There must be honest, hearty, manly endeavor. Laborare et ware. All this may b9 granted. Yet the fall remains, that in no other country, and at no other epoch, have the educated and professional classes ever toiled aud moiled and drudged under so heavy a strain of anxiety as in this our England, under the Victorian era. Brain disease, heart disease, a thousand subtle forms of nervous disease, baffle the skill and defy the drugs of the physician. ' You work too hard,' Medicus is saying all day long to patients of all ages from the professions and from counting-houses. ' Died of too much work,' should be cut upon tbe vaults in the cemeteries of all large towns. — London Review.

How to get Rich.—We hear much of bad times, but the times are just what people make them. Wanton speculation, over-trading, and trusting the untrustworthy, bring many to grief; but in the majority of cases it will be found that undue personal expenditure is the real cause of sorrow. The rule we have to propound is very simple, but practical and effectual. It is this:—That every one one should live withiu his income, and if he receive twenty shillings and or.ly spend nineteen he may be accounted rich, because he is independent. Cash transactions are the things that right evils i.nd deliver from tbe danger of embarrassment. It is a common complaint that credit is given to the reckless, aud in every community there are persons who subsist on insolvency. But who are to blame ? Why, tbe trrdesmen who trust.' Expensive habits are easily contracted, but not easily laid aside: aud the facility credit offers for their indulgence is one of the grievances of the day. It is by this means that the spendthrift exists at the expense of the industrious and enconomical, who are virtually compelled to pay black mail. It is time these matters were mended, and that all should forthwith discharge their pecuniary obligations.

' Where did you prig that shilling from ?' said Buttons to Sambo. ' Prig it, sir ?' was the- response, ''I'll make you prove vat you say, ear. I found that shillen in master's trouser pocket, and be hab gone out out of town for a month.'

Ourselves. —The old English blood has not stagnated in our veins. The population of the country is rapidly increasing despite of the enormous drain of emigration—nor has the race degenerated iv any respect. Most of the suits of armour in the Tower would be found too small for the stout limbs of tlie young Cumberland reoruits who join the ranks of our household troops. The duration of life has increased. It is a mistake to suppose that the increase of luxury has sapped the vigor of the English people. We have still a practical monopoly of the coal and iron of the world, and increased skill in using them. Better still—we have absolute freedom of aotion and thought.— Once a Week.

The leish Protestant Church.—-I have always compared the Protestant Church in Ireland (and I believe my friend Thomas Moore stole the simile from me) to the institution of butchers' shops in all the villages of our ludian Empire. 'We will have a butchers' shop in every village, and you Hindoos shall pay for it. We know that many of you do not eat meat at all, and that the sight of beef steaks is particularly offensive to you ; but still, a stray European may pass through your village, and want a steak or a chop; the shop shall be established, and you shall pay for it.' This is English legislation for Ireland I—Rev. Sydney Smith.