PROVINCIAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 205, 4 January 1872, Page 7

PROVINCIAL AND GENER A L.

A Tasmaniaiiiijournal gives the 'following list of offices held by a fortunate. indrvMual Hjenry Buiten Mh .JBuifer-ie- also a tnedical maij in practice, but it is scarcely possible that he can find much time to attend to, his patients : — Member far Brighton), territorial to Pourt of General Sessions, Ministbr'6¥iia^AB r &naWw)ißj()pjpipiasiorier. of Crdwii Lar^ds, "Surveyor- General, Immigration' Commissioner, member of the .Tasmaniaft Council of Education; -Chairman of the" Board of Education, riiember of the "Court of Medical Examiners,' Crimmisisioner to Hospital for Insane,, New Norfolk, Salmon Commissioner, Trustee to Acclimatisation Society, Manager of the Hobart Town Sayings- Bank. j

. One of the peculiar uses to which the telegraph has been put,, and is ' often put, is that of bidding at auction tsales. On the occasion of the late sale of Inangahua mining property in .Charleston,, says, .the "Charleston Herald," the auctioneers, "Dwan and Co., received a large number of bids by telegraph', some of which verged close" r upon the 'a'monnt for which the shares were knocked down This is -one of the adyantagfes accruing from a cheap telegraphic tariff. The " "Courier Diplomatique," pup1 fslied jn Paris, contains a letter, from a*!&ondo'n correspondent, which gives an awful picture of the danger threatening England from the- spread of socialistic doctrines. . The writer says, f The whole of this vast empire i& permeated by sGc'ro't'so'cieties. The Internationale _here holds its meetings almost publicly. It is snid the greater number ol the dispossessed Prinres. of India, a. good number of oflicers- belonging to tHe army and navy, as well as "triem'bers of Parliament and even Ministers, are' affiliated' to it. The G-overninent is aware of the infernal plan by, which, at a given moment, the public. buildings of London are to be exposed to the fate which befel so many in Paris. Boats are already waiting on the Thames to receive the treasures of the Bank of England — an easy prey, says the conspirators — as soon as the main artery of the Strand shall have" been burnt, and the j public' buildings — the barracks especially — shall have been blown up, as was three years ago the Clerkenwell Prison. Careless by nature, and too much engaged with "business to think of the morrow, spoiled by a long established liberty and a fabulous prosperity, having for many generations forgotten the scourge of war, foreign or civil, we allow ourselves to .drift on without taking heed, of the sign of the times." A letter states that for years past Queen A r ictorfa has believed that the soul of Prince Albert is invariably present with' her, arid that she can hold .communication with him. So impressed ,is she with this patheHc belief that 'she will frequently, it is said, order a knife and fork to be laid for .him at : her table," and 'cause the attendant fbdtmaiv to place every course before the empty chair as if their master still occupied it. Every morning a pair of bopts are cleaned and set down atf the" floor of the room formerly tenanted by Prince Albert, and- by innumerable other -signs the widowed Queen testifies to her faith in her dead husband's actual presence on earth. Prince Albert, it is well known, was' a free thinker, and there is little -doubt that the Queen was during his - lifetime ' made well acquainted with many of the bold and ingenius, but somewhat mystical theories of certain German philosophers in relation to ~the~future state of the soul. " New -York" Herald." '

-A ne^vdefinitidn'of the word " civilization " reaches us from, Japan. Lately, a Japanese visitor t£ the .English Club was induced to take some champagne, and, on putting^ away his third tumbler, exclaimed with great fervor, " I like civilization ! I like, civilization ! "

Polite scorn. — A. . San Francisco editor thus • addresses an Oakland brother : " You', wallapus you ii chyodorulite jpu.^ bogus haminocbrysos, you — you Oaklander ! " , The Yokohama correspondent of the " New York Tribune," of February 5, gives a striking account of the extraordinary progress made by. Japan in a single decade, "' Ten years ago," he says " not a single- steam, engine was to be found in the whole empire of Japan, and even a Square-rigged ship \vas unknown. To-day- there are no less than twenty steamers,, owned and manned*' entirely by ' Japanese', in the offing before the capital." 'And he adds that at two of ijhe open ports the . manufacture of .iron * steamers, it actually in ' -progress. A 'telegraph is now stretched along the great h*igh road to Yeddo, and-will soon be extpnde,d from_one / T end ,ofl the .empire tothe'other.' A railroad 'is v also cdntrac- , ted for to connect- the -two great cities qf Japan^. -Eour lines of steamers run regularly to Europe/ America; and the Chinese ports. A" considerable \cpasting .trade,-, besides, is carried on by- fifst-ciass- steamers- and sailing vessels. Kaw silk is. the ehiti support of the European'steamers. Next comes tea, which furnishes the great bulk of * freight for the American very little going 1 to either Europe or its colonies. Silk.worm, eggs furni&h the third export ; they go chiefly to Italy aad France to re-establish the stock of vrorms suflfering._frQm_ .disease; The export of worms alone^ last year amounted to 'ifeafly 5,06j3,0dd ; dolors ;

•the value tif raw Bilk was %ot far' from ,10;000,000 .' dollars ; tea was' 'from 3,000,900 t<s 4,000,000, dpUare; land 'other * products tronT %W)o>6oQ'| <to £,000,000 dollars.; making a'sum total of 20,000,000 dollars. , An ingenious ; phattnace'uti^ ,has lately adopted the xnethod pf rocking cpd-liv(br w oil .into butter for the p"ur-. pose of t>eirig administered to patients -who find an objection but the oil itself. This is .done' by combining the oil'wjth a concrete or butyraceous fat, -thus bringing it into a form in which it can be used as butter on bread, or made into pills. .-' It is said that a cure has been discovered for leprosy. A Burgeon in Khundwa, India, reports, the case of a wretched old man who came ,to him from Bombay, having been abandoned by his friends because of this terrible disease. He was treated with soap and water, and then with carbolic acid and oil, and was completely cured.

American cheese is rapidly, supplanting English cheese in the English market' itself. During the four weeks ending September 1,263,600 boxes of it ' were imported iuto England, amounting in weight to sometning over 5,000 tons. It sells there at about s|~d per pound for fhe fine qualities, which is l^d less than Engish'cheese can be sold for ; while it is said to be tjuite equal to" English cheese >n quality, flavor, and condition. Even the famous Dutch cheeses suffer by the American competition. Six years ago the difference was, the other way, and the change is owing entirely to the skilL and pains of American dairymen in improving the management of their dairies.