The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY MAY 27, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1684, 27 May 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY MAY 27, 1874.

The cm* of Punch against Kinselk m the Warden's Court,, adjourned from Wednesday last until today, was this morning further adjourned.

Ws received tho following telegram yesterday subsequent to the public ition of the Star t —" Hates p»r Star pigeon. Elterslie, 2 p.m.. The ground i» very wet. In the steeplechase every horse fell. Rustic 1; , B«ey2." .

As an illustration of the interest in the 'mult of the Tichborne trial case, the Standard containing the result of the trial was being sold in Fleet street at sixpence a copy within fir* minutes of the sentence being pronounced in Court.

An actor, Robert (-Hover by name, has been, ■eatenced to one month's imprisonment in Dahedin for stealing a quantity of wearing apparel* and three gold studs. We believe the »m« gentlemen has several previous convictions recorded against him.

CaPTAWTuttis was lo hare lectured at tit* Academy of Music last night on "The Whale and,its habits," but the audience was

small and the introductory portion of the lecture did not appear to meet the approval of those who were present. Some confusion then arose, and'the entrance money was returned; the lecture being brought to an abrupt conclusion before the lecturer had well commenced his subject.

Th* following figures, compiled by a competent authority, show the income and expenditure! of the Melbourne Argus: Daily circulation, 7676, copies; income derived therefrom, £58 17s; daily income derived from advertisements, £237 4s; the entire mechanical and literary staff numbers 89; the) annual income of the office is £92,367. 12s; the working expenses, £34,800 —net yearly tacomt, t £57,687125.

Tans was but a poor attendance at the

Theatre Boyal last night, and the manager very wisely declined to put the piece adver- , . Used oa the stage. To-night Mr. South will 1 take a' benefit u»der the pa|ronago of His Worship th» Mayor, and officers of the Thames Fire Brigade. Messrs. Reed and Wright are to assist, as also are the Cornish CHse lingers. The attendance to-night should be good; Mr. South having on every visit he has made to the Thames, done hi* utmost to please his patrons. To-night should be a bumper.

As illustrative of the prosperity of the -mining districts, a Staffordshire paper relates the following anecdote ; —" A professional nan entered .a provision dealer's shop in one of the mining districts, arid pointing to some sealed tins, enquired what they contained. <;'' Grouse and partridges, sir,' replied the ' dealer. * How many birds are there in each tin, and what do you charge ? ' ' There's one bird in each tin, and they are half-a-crown

each.'. 'Thank you, that ii more than I can ' afford.' ** No offence sir; but we did not lay them in for gentlemen like you—we got them for the miners. A miner called with his wife tolf-an-hourago, and asked tho same question as you have. When I had answered them he said, ' Missis, we'll ha* two of them for ;*•*•"•, " „■ :; . AMOXCt tho British noblemen who 4 in consequence of reduced circumstances at home, birrs taken sefuge in the colonies, is the Earl ■ of Mount Cashel, who is residing in Canada, at a very advanced age. Hopelessly entangled as his Irish estates were, Lord Mount Cashel ■ betook himself, several years ago, to a remnant .of colonial property belonging to him, taking up his residence at Lobo House, near London, Ontsrio. Here lie devotes himself to agricuUani pursuits, and may often be seen driving his waggon, loaded with produce, into tho town of London, clad in homespun,, like „ a.ny other farmer. Ibis Earl of Mount - Oashcl is • connecting link between to-day •ad times long past, being the identical "Lord Mount Coffeehouse, the Irish peer," satirically referred to by Lord Byron.— N. 2. TabUt.

""' ' Jx a speech on Education delivered by Mr Boebuek at Sheffield, he is reported to have , Mid:—" The Bible is the most beautiful book

.that the English have. In the English language the only thing that approximates to it ii the OodJike intellect of Shakespeare. Tu»Knglisa language i* founded upon the Bible* If I want to teaoh ray countrymen English I would open, that book to them, andsay'Btudy it.' I am not now talking doctrine. lam not now talking in any way of Uling it ai an instrument of turning men's ■ minds to this opinion or that, but I jam simply looking upon it as an instrument of education, •ad I say it is the blindest folly, it is grevious and most humbling ignorance to say that this great book of ours aball nofc be employed among the English in teaching them their mother tongue. The greatest orator of the t -present time, and I"Have, heard them all—l mean in England—is Mr John Bright. I know I am on safe ground in saying this, that there it bo more sedulous reader of the Bible than h», not merely for the doctrines that he finds there; not simply for the holy wisdom which he derives from those pages; but for tilt wonderful knowledge nod rhotorical in- ' sjtnotiM the* he hat k«iu...u X uieanj of *s*s»««l book." - -"'■•

Thb following testimony to the curative effect! of galvanism is communicated to the Taranaki Herald by Mr. P. U. Gledhill :— On the evening of the 14th instant, I galvanised Mr. A. Dalby, of this town, who waß suffering from looked-jaws, which had continued three days, and prevented him taking any support except by sucking a little gelatine between his teeth. This affliction was accompanied by severe paiu in both jaws and in the sides of the face. In a few minutes (being unable to speak) he wrote, " the pain is gone." The next morning tho jaws were relieved and freo from pain.

Mr. S^OUT does not believe that Provincial Councillors are any the better for daily prayer. Such, at least, was the effect of some remarks he made in the Otago Provincial Council on the sth. Soon after the Hon. the Speaker had read the usual form of prayer, Mr Stout ventured to give expression to the opinion that it would be sufficient if it was road at the commencement of the session, and at tho commencement of the session only. The practice he said, of reading it at every sitting generated into mero form, without having any apparently beneficial effect upon honourable members. Mr Stout did not table a motion on the subject; he only spoke suggestively, leaving honourable members to decide whethor this method of saving time was not worthy of their serious consideration.

The following is the paragraph which has brought the proprieter of the Wellington Tribune into tnelaw courts for libel:—" We congratulate the present dramatic company perfovmiog at the Theatre Royal on their success, but we deplore the depraved tastes of that section of the community which bestows suck patronage on this motley company. Of all knock-kneed dingle-dangle performances, we never before witnessed the equal of last night's, and how enlightened people can look on and tolerate jt we are at our wii's end to imagine. With two exception?, the company ore the greatest lot of muffs that ever walked the stage,/and to-night we are promised the production of Hamlet, and the role of the hero is to bo personated by one who does vary well in the higb-falutiu tall talk Yankee style, but as to having any pretensions to histrionic ability, the thing is the merest delusion. The worst feature is thst a whole lot o? larrikins are there, posted up the mysteries of rowdyism and drunkeneas, the only species of performance in which the players appear to be thoroughly up to the mark. . .■_ '