CLIPPINGS FROM THE EUROPEAN MAIL.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 246, 6 December 1873, Page 2

CLIPPINGS FROM THE EUROPEAN MAIL.

His Koyai Highnass thr Duke of Edinburgh his beetffc appointed eonini •tulut of ih« 2ii<l Bittilion of Marines or the black Sea Fleet The batialimi will bear the name of " His Knyil Highness ihe Ltuke of Edinburgh's Second Bl>ck Sen* Mn lints." These<mer Mmfon, Ibe first vessel despatched by ibe Eastern anil AuHtialian t ompany to open the new mstil line I etwten S'mgitpote, Queensland, ami Nfew South Wales, vtn Tories St aits, lelt the docks oh Se timber '27. The Smifoo is 1400 m ons it gist ei, and i» commanded by C.ipain (J'ark, who has been lo.ig amjuain'ct .vitb the navig ition of te Straits She in fitted with cabin »nil saloon accommodation for 44 tiret-chist .hud 30 'secondcliss passcnguis Th new mail sen ice tbi'S p.;oj eted will be coir-nit need in November, and will alternate with the | m sent sen ice to Melbourne via Galle. -. Criukettis will be glid to lea in that Mr Grate's Eletf«j sail ficitii >** oi.tlii'iDptoii on Oclo 1 el 23 for Ai sitalin. \ 'I he (Jh'irtomeier is the name ofi a. iu>eful and in<re> I niuiis little iiifcliunii nt le. enlly imtntod. It is designed for Ihe rapid uieasuicmcnt uf dislnncts on maps. A .bin wheel is attached to the side of a email brass box, vtiy mud) like awa eh. On the other side it a fine of caidboard, wi h a scale i>ver wlnrh tiavils asi eel indicator If the instrument be hel . tir.nly, and the whe>l rim along the lin to be measuied, the <iis mi ice in milt sis at once,', bhown by the indicator. Of con.se, ll.e scale on the dial must cnmsponil with that of the m.ip. As the wl eel enrit be male to follow cures as well as s raight lines, the mostde\iois :ontts can be u.e:ibi.i td ly niuti-ft ot Hit ole» er n.eehaniem Fortune, suciess, position, ate never gnined but by piously, determinedly, biavely striking, growing, living to a thing In short \ou must cany a tiling though if you want to be anybody • r anything, no matter if it <i< is cost yon the pleasure the s miety, and the tliotis u 1 pe-u) y.gratitications of life. Mo matter tor thise fctick to the thing, and cury ie through Believe yon were made f^r it, and that no one else can do it. Put foith your wu<Ja energies lie awake, fleet rify yourself, and go tnr;h tonP task. Only learn to cairy ihjouj.h a thing in alliiscorapU't'iipst and' proportion., and you will Income a hero You will thiuk belter of you>selt, othtis will think better of yon. At a soirie of the frie nda of Intel national A: bit rot ion, held at Miinefu-sterj on r-rptrii.b«;r 30, Mr Jaccb Bright, M.P., who hid bft-n asked to picside, wrote as follows, exprr.q tr regret that lie could not uitetid,:-r*" The spread of knowledge ni:it<t be jour chief weapon., If the people had knowledge, w»-s would bernre indeed. Whatever Darbarism remains in this coun vy is, in my opinion, more due to the prolonged war* of the' past generation than to any other cause, for so much of the energy of tin? nation wns guen to lon i jjn conflict*, and m> litt eto the improvement of the mm I und uiaiiuersol' the peo -If." Kcolution* in buppmt^iift the objects of tlic meeting were passed, Mr* Luun, sisteriJn the R ght lion J >lm Bright, being one of tlio prLcipi^Jr speakers. At a confiremeol cler y which preceded the meet rur, one of tlie resolutions pas,-ed expres-ied m»rct nt theonthrcik ql the A-hantee war, and dec!iinn« ? t he confidence of t!>e niei'tin^ that t'u-y would liuve Mr John Bng t's an 1 Mr Grind** ne's sym.nat'n, agreed to the presentntion of mi address to three gentlemen, urging the u c if all re iconable endenv »ura to nvoid further recouroe to lioleul means in deidiug wit'i the A^linnteP''. Snne st«tistii-s of the Qermnn emigration to America were recently publish d. U appears that the Opvernnie t l>as become iiltrmed at the increase, nnd lims edieted a law prohibiting nil departure* from Northern Germany nf'er the age of sevciite'D. This year the limit is lixed at innet.cn yeur«, and next year it will be reduced to eighteen, and tbjgi to wventeen. The Gvrmims tliemselvea do not believe tSft the mea-ure will stay the ex(»dui<. V^rsoiM brenking the law w II s'mply lose their national rights, and be 'Oiuo naturalised as A nericnn^. From 0 -tobpr 1. 1873, tha soldiers will get a shillinz a div pay "in the clear," no deduction be n« from tnat date madp <or mtions. It is not quite cl< ar that this will be an ju iinixed peeuninry ailvnutaae to the runk and file, but the offl-ers are 1 knly to bt« henefitted by the abolition of threeliiiU'pemv a d.iv Avhicli » now deducted from their \ny tor rnti-ms when servini abrond. On April 12. 1606. the Union Jack— -t ho fl«B that hns wmed in so ninny blood* and victorious ba'tle* by »ea and § i, , r( . — fi Ps f niiide its npiiearance. From Kviners "Fjsdera, ' and the nnnaU of Sir James Ualfuur, Lord Lyon kinji of Inns, we lenm th«t, some ditferertces himng arisen between ships of the two count riet nt sea, Irs M»ijest_v "rdiiined that ane\ flatr be adonted, with the crown of St. Audnrw and St G-orge interlticed, by placing the latter fimbiiiited on the* b'ne flasr of Scotiami' as tlie groun.l thereof. This fi«g all s'tiuiwtre to enrrv at fl>eir mnin-tops but English frhips were to di^plnv St George's red cros>» Ht their Hteriu.Hiid the 8-ott's'i the while saltire of St Andrew. The l'm<">n Jm^ li.iwever, was not adopted by the troops of either couutm till their PiHiiimentnrv tin oil ii 1707. In Munr.»'s uccnunt of th/B expelition with aLnk>i\'rt regiment in Denmark, lie stated that ijn 1636 the rirol* in the Diinsh army persisted in carrying their national flag, and refuted to place the Danish eros? upon it. We hear that it is intMi'led to c»rry out in this country, in mi extinsive way, the French invention of innknir | in ep from the sheath ot the hop-stalk, when the bnter skin has been removed. The sub-tnnce made from this material is of i>rrnt suppleness aud delicuev, ami by its employment in t'tU inHnuliifiure a new and considi rable eourie of profit will be op. ned for the hop urower. The import fl'ice of tins diicnvery to Kentish farmer* cannot well be exngui rated, for if the wi»on should not pio\e fay iiabl«, and fail to j>roduee fint rate bops, the fwper-mnking n alerinl will eoinrrn*n c for the deficiency in Mi ia, respect. No doubt the gr<#h of hops will be introduced i>i future in many di»tn>ts where they are not htiowu at present, ns the large amount of material which they will FUppJy for paper-mak ng w ill alone ensure h good neliipn for their cultivation. The price of the nrticle is very high at present. A curious' judicial »■«' dent ha« ju.»t occurred in Paris, which sliows that sentiment isstrongei than law. Some little timenu'o the shop of M. Spiun It. of the P.iluts-Bovnl, whs broken open, and jewellery to the value, of about £6.000 abstracted. It soon beeume clear thai S,«inelli's son nnd a cousin of Ins were the eul rils, nnd, in fnct, the twov-ung gemlemen were upprehended at tl c VrmituT with • portion of the plund. red pro; erty in d brought bnok to Pans. A.« S, inclli minor is under sixteen of n«e I o could n< t bp tried for robbing his parents, i-o Loi«e«u apt tared at the bur alone, nnd wns acquitted on the ground of the otrrr inl|in imt being obliyed to appear. In accordance wall prectdint, Spiuclli pore lia« comuiitted Spinelli fits to pnol <or one cn'riidnr month, and liaiihu* ottered up his son to justice. I It is not often that a professional mnn l>a- tbeopp- rlimitrj or perhaps Teela <qiuil to the effort, of returning two fece ijfj 1.000 Buiiens pac.i in the caurte of tlie *aii'P ynr. MM un ler-too.d. however, that this bus occurred with Sir Henry] Thompson this year. The first ocension whs <n coin pilicnl with tho illness of the Emperor Napoleon 111., wben Sir Ilfiir-»,in the jn»i-t tlrlUale niifl k uctlx 11 «> 1 f f . uluin.d hull liis fee of 2.000 guinens ; nnd the mcoik! iann inMni cc yet moie highly honoiirnble to professional delicney. Called tot he betUido of i. wealthy frieu 1 in the Highlands, neHr whoiie shoot ing lodge he wns passing bis vaention. l;e ,c| ent line dn\§ in nnremittinc nttenda'i cc." At the end' «' cinque of 1.000 guineas wns haudedio him, but was firmly d«cnned, on the ground that the attendance was given to a friended during a holirinv. In the Oxford Local Examinations the very first in the list of two hundred nnd llfty competitors — male and feinnV, ITnglish, r-ish, and Wt-lsli"— was n'lady, a Tery jouhb J«dy too, being only seventeen. This "uweet i>ir4 graduate" i»| Miss Rmer, dauulit?r of Professor Thorold R«i^?, now occu* pyine a Ciiair in the London University. Slit was first in a number of Mibjects, anil well up in nearly all. In languages chew a* /ocile princrpt, having no rival in classic*, and t«ry fow in French or German.