What Everybody Says.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2504, 15 January 1877, Page 2

What Everybody Says.

" In multitude of counsellors there ii safety." —Old Pkovbkb

Everybody lias been more or less interested during the past week in the 'actions, or rather sayings, of the recently elected County Councillors. Novelty, like music, has charms, and everybody wanted to see what the County Councillors would do, and many came to hear them. They sat—not everybody, for they couldn't get seats—but the Councillors both by day-light, and gas-light, or rather kerosene-light, and adjourned from time to time until their next meeting, fixed for Tuesday next. The chief want appeared to be a very common one, namely a want of money, but it was agreed to get on terms with some obliging Bank, and by holding out hopes of what they would do in the future arrange means by which-they could meet their present difficulties. Perhaps the next chief feature of the meetings was the evident fondness displayed by some of the Councillora to display their ability to read. Section after section of the Act was read through, oftpn more than once, although every councillor had a copy of the Act before him, and might have been supposed to be capable of reading it for himself, until the proceedings grew wearisome and everybody .seemed tired. Perhaps as they get more arcustomed to their business they will be able to expedite matters.

There was a conference as everybody knows of the Borough Councillors and County Councillors. The object was to discuss the question whether the Borough should be merged into the County.. Everybody knew that not much good could result from the meeting in a practical point of view, as the ratepayers and not the Councillors will have to decide the question, and it seemed .rather odd to some body why three hours should be taken up in discussing a measure which could not be decided on, save as a matter of opinion, and to form or rather to express, such opinion, much less tbau one hour would suffice. Some of the Councillors expressed their determination not to give a silent vote, and they certainly did not, but spake, nor once or twice, but so frequently that the proceedings grew wearisome. A .conference may be a very good thing in its way, but it ought to lead, or be able to lead, to some result, as the gentleman remarked who sent us tho following lines :-—

Full was the Council chamber when Some score of grave and learned men ATet to decide on, there and then?" The fate of the Thames.Borough. Of what was said on either side, How ea<;h one spoke and each replied, And sorely listeners' patience tried, It needs not now to speak of. For three Io 1- g hours they talked and talked, Eacti with his neighbor fuviing fault, Until at la-t the Doctor walked Away from this same Council. By his example some took heart, ' And, Ions: ago inclined to start, Did, following him, at once depart . Aw iy from that same Council. One felt inclined to raise a row (Not W. ; no, really no), As he esj'ied them quickly go From out this self-same Council. At last tho motion by the Mayor, Who, as was, rig ht, > i course, was there, And occupied, of course, the chair, Was put and carried.

The chase is an exciting pastime, as everybody who cares for hunting knows well. Men, and women too for the matter of that, indulge in it, and perhaps .one of the prettiest sights to be seen is that of a lady taking a " five-bar " gracefully without the horse touching the gate with a hoof. The chase, however, is often indulged in under difficulties, not on-ly those which arise from a bad scent, &c, but from the scarcity of objects which are to be pursued. Man as a rule is prone to hunt something, and the passion is carried to such an extent that people not only hunt rats and mice and rejoice to see them torn to rags, but also hunt mosquitoes. Everybody, however, should be careful, supposing they pursue this pastime at night and in a room—more especially if that roora'be a bed-room fronting a street —to pull.Sown the blinds first, which hide their proceedings from the public gaze. These remarks are made because last week two people, one of either sex, were seen at a late, hour chasing mosquitoes, and they were dad, as if with a view to immediate rest, in robes de nuit.