MISCELLANEOUS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 906, 28 December 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr Maegregor has been navigating the Zuyder Zee in a Rab Roy cauoe. "In a fortnight spe'it among the Dutch," he says, " I have not seen one beggar, or blind man, or idiot, or shoeless or drunken person." At Kidderminster, Mr J. B. Edge, a volunteer, firing at 500 yards range, made 350 points at 100" consecutive shots, He wagered that he would Bcore an average of centres and won with 25 to the good. Republican clubs now exist in Birmingham, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle, Dundee, Glasgow, and other large towns. In London a paper entitled the "Republidan," has been started as the official organ of the movement. At Listowel, Kerry, a panic was caused by a rumor that all the children in the National School were, by order of the Government, to be branded with the letters V. R. The parents, in frantic haste rushed to the school and hurried their children away. If we bad an enemy whom we did not wish to till, because killing would deprive us of the pleasure of torturing him, we would certainly send him to collect aocounts, and in order to test the efficiency of Holy "Writ, we would send him to professed religionists. He would then find that people who adopt all the means of grace will tell flagrant falsehoods about their accounts ; will by deputy say they are ."put" when they are in; will say call again on a day when they intend to be .-: inany / miles away, and will give a finishing stroke to the work by insult->-.ing the collector, Some person has said " Death before dishonour." We say—" Anything before debt, which is the worst kind of dishonour as at present contracted." Two vessels of the Swedish navy have fetched from Greenland three aerolitieß, the largest of which weighs nearly 30 tone, and whic! ire to be closely examined 'phoj >u ■> ■' „,- 24 mdes on floats brought i'rju. Sweden for the purpose. I

"Confessions" aro heard regularly at niue o'clock nightly at St. Albania, Holborn, Loudon. The "confessionals " are somewhat novel—banners of violet stuff, fixed in position in the left side aisle, on oue side of which is a chair for the " priest, " and on the other a kneeler for his penitent. Here is the experience of an afflicted Dutchman's wife: " Xataiiua, I like to know who fgief you de brivilege dat you shall go and spent me fife cent for to puy dat ploo ribbon vat you got died arount your vaterfalb ? You vant to brake me me up in peesines, seh ? II pet you dem tings don't nefer happens agin in dis famify, pecause I schlap you town so flat as you can't stant, ain't it? Ooom, Shake," turning to a friend, " let' go ; lent us a half tsllar, ant go on a sphree out mid de Scheutzen."