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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 775, 11 February 1871, Page 3

An American pane.' gives the following reply to a supposed correspondent: —"There is no settled rule for writing love-letters. You should write on foolscap paper, and bear on as soft as you can, using words of such burning love that they w'll sizzle on the point of the pen. It is also advisable to sling in a hunk of pathos occasionally, such as ' Dearest Augustus, I love you with a love larger than an elephant's; 1 think of you every day, and by-and-by, when the days grow longer, I shall think of you twice a day.' It is also well to put an inkblot in the corner, with tlie observation, ' Darling, I kissed this spot,' or, 'I hove a sigh in this vicinity.' " An extraordinary bank robbery has taken place in Glasgow. A lad went to the National Bank to pay in £832, consisting of three £IOO notes, and thirty-two £l notes, which be placed upon the counter before the teller. A bystander, who professed to be shortsighted, asked him to fill up a blank cheque for him, and, while by was engaged in doing so, a third party took up the notes in question, and got clear off with them.

Mrs Hall, a midwife, but who belongs to the baby-farming sisterhood, was finally examined at the Lambeth Police Court on the charge of conspiring with Ann Augusta (not in custody) to foist a suppositious child upon George James Lee, and was committed for trial. The accused, together with her husband, was then charged with the wilful murder «f an infant, name unknown, at Chapel place, Cold Harbor lane, in February, 1869. The prisoners were remanded. The German representative at Brussels complains of the attitude of the Press towards Germany. The Minister replied that the Press was free, and had no control over it. Sir William Deuison delivered a lecture before the Leamington Philosophical .Society on " England and the Colonies." Lord Bury presided. The revival of the ancient system of colonisation was advocated under Government control, and with colonial co-operation. The discussion was postponed. The " Daily News '' fund on behalf of the starving French peasantry amounts to £IO,OOO. The Society ot Friends have raised £IO,OOO, and' the International Society for the Sick and Wounded, £300,000. Reference was made at a recent meeting of the Geographical Society to the successful journey from Swan Kiver to Adelaide lately made by Mr Forrest, and promoted bv Governor Wild. The leading journals condemn the suggestions of the Australian Federation Commission in favor cf the neutrality of the colonies in time of war. They contended that if war arose England must protect her colonies. A number of Fiji sponges have been received as samples in Christchurch. Some of them are said to be of superior quality, and would compare very favorably with many of the sponges imported from Europe.