PARLIAMENTARY BLUNDERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1851, 17 May 1884, Page 4

PARLIAMENTARY BLUNDERS.

In tho 45th of Edward the Third, the Lords and Commons granted, for nn aid to tho king, a subsidy of .£50,000, to be levied from every parish, at the rate of 225. 3d. each. The king thanked tham for their munificence, and since they hid perfoimed the part of loyal subjects so well, he gave them leave to depart to tln'ir homes ; the entry on the 101 l is, '' It titrnl /nn/ h Pa) ft went.'' When the king, however, proceeded to turn his shifts t(j an account, he found tli.it it must have been made on tho supposition that he had about foili/-fin (how-ami polishes in his dominions, when he had scarcely a fifth of the number ! He was, thciefoic, undei the necessity of convening anot'nei Parliament to rectify the en or :\vlirh they did, by augmenting the rate to IOUs. for each parish. The Act 5 I Georg, 1 11 . , c 2(5, i opcalinp tlic duties of Customs on Muddi / , and gi anting othei duties in lieu thereof, enacted, " th.it fiom <uid after the passing of this Act, the duties of cKs/oms ' shall ceases and deteimiue.'" A complete iepml of all the. iliiti/ on enjoins ' Heie was legislation with a \ongeance ' Luckily the Act contained a clause enacting that it might be alteied or amended in the same season of Pailiament. So a bill was hi ought in three days aiterwaids to lecfify the mistake, the vvonls on MAi>i>!-,it (the sex eial duties of customs on Maibh / ) wei e omited in the piccodiiv Act." " Now, to rectify such mistake, be" it enacted, &.C, , that the duties of customs on madder, mid no otln i dulus <>/ nt^tonii, shall be deemed and taken to be repealed."' The Parish Registry Act (25 Uco. 111, c- 1 Mi) piovides that any pci&on oi pci-.ons wifully making, or causing to be made, /-y/v trtinin in tho books of baptisms, Imitate, or imni.njes, " being theieof lawfully consicted, shall be deemed and ad]iidyed to be gndty of ft tow/, and -iliall be trau^oilid l</> the In in a f fvititc')) i/c"iy.'' And the succeeding dausc enacts, ' ' th.it our hull of all fines oi poii'iltu: to be levied in putsuancc of tins Act, shall «•) to tin pn y<nni ho s/nilt uifoi in oi *>/(( lii) th( umit ; dint tin' tciiitdinlv) i'l .such fines as shall be imposed an any ehuichwaiden, shall go to tin poo) llf fit p«l f-11. The only penalty imposed by the Act is tii'ii^pm tut nni In) Imiiliiii I/mi*, anil that i j to be (ijnt(//i/ divnl'tl b( t\v ecu the uijw'iiur and the pooi o/ /In' p"n h .

" At nt Li\D\ : " I ( V de life o' me, chile, I c.iwii't niagin why jose so little." Winnie • " Wh.it a M iuUlus question. I was b'on little— d.its why," A Tmi'ii.wci Colonisation Society has been founed in Canada, which pioposes to fill a ti.icl ol land two million aoics in extent with scttleis who will engage ncitlu r (o make, impoit, nor sell intoxicating liquois. I'm. Countess de C'loi lic\ lllc, who lias iccently dud at Tom , ii.is lett her entile foituno, amounting to time million ot fiaucs, to a com descent hospital tor chddien, with the condition tli.it it shall continue to be managed by the Sisteis of 3leic\ . In ISS2 the lai ge-t nnmbei of patent; c\ei know n m a single \ car weio taken o'lt in the United Kingdom, namel\, (j2fl In J.i'iuaiy of this }p.u, as tin* lesult ot the new laws, '2JSS applic.itions weie icceivcd fui new patents A ni i. no who has been aiiested in a Mibttib at Cincinnati, has conic -sed to the nuiidci of se\cial poisons, in oidei to sell then bodies to the Medical College No blaii'H is slid to be attubutabio to the Collar authonties Tm. oidei ot St. Jchn of hius.ilcm has .iw.udod a gnl named Juli.i If itch'-i, oi M.iinlnill, near Sahsbmy, a niud.il foi her lnaAiiiy in sawng the lite ot -James Loddei, .1 boy, who had times goided and tos-iud b\ a bull, 111- slid that the loss inclined by tlie ISiitish Post olliee tluough the paieels postis\eiy eonsidei.ible, and that the Chancclloi of tlie Exehcquei in his bud get will ha\e to annoume .v deficit of considetablj over U 00,000. It is piojioscd to make cciLim ( lunges m the lanfT, and one of these alteiations will be a leduetion ot tlie eh.uges foi delheiy within shoit distances. Tin. oldest Pi elate or tlie Scotch Episcopal Chinch is the Eight Jvc\ . Robeit ]oden, Bishop of Mor.i> and llo^s (In inus of Scotland), aged 7') ; the \oungcst, the Eight liev. James Rolicit A. Chin ncry-llald.inc, Bishop of Aigjle and the Isles, aged 40. AVm.\" it is desiicd to examine a .small object, and a miuoscopo is not at hand, an extcinpoie one may be <jui< kly made by iillmg two small while gl.is-. bottles (such as homeopathic medicines aie put up in will do) withwatei 01 other clear liijiud (Jioss these at ) iglit aisles o\er one another, and Joolc at the ol)|cct tluough the ci o^s, when it will be seen eonsideiably mainlined (ioiN(, home late one night the lite Mi Tsa u J>ultwas acLOstod bv a dt-^poi.itp looking ii. lh, in in oih of the subuibs of Dublin, and a>!a'd what he was goinu r to stand. " Well,' leplied ]Jutt nvekly. ' lin \eiy I can't give you much, m\ fiieml, lint what 1 h.ue we w ill shaie "' "J-Jcie,' ! he continued, diawmg a ie\ol\ei fioin his pocket, "is a weapon which lias mx chambeis, I "will gi\c you thice, and "but heie the law 3 - er ionml himself alone. ' No, .lo'-eiih tiie steam hcatint, (Oiii jiany w,is not ioimed fm the junposc of heating steam. Steam is heated br-foicit is maile — lli.it, is losi\, when yon heat the strain —no, w lien yon make the steam —no — well, (onfound you, don t you know that lenn is hot anyway, anil doesn't ha\e to be heated bj a company .' ' " (Jnod moinuig, John, "' said one of the leading pastois of Seiantontoa young inoiul whom he met on the sticct the /it st watin day of the season ; " how <loesjoui fither stand tlie heat 9 " The young man mad'' no leply but went away with a eloudid blow. And when the good pas to i learned that the \ouug man's father had died only a week beioic, he undcifetood w hy his coidial gicoting wab met so coldly. " I '-) i, \ oni ,ii e blowing a moustaclif, (■'coige," said .she, as she eaiessid the lappcl ot Ins coat " Ve-e-," btanuneied Ueoige," bln-hing fuiiou-dy, " I— l am tiyingto culti\ate, Aiabella." "Don't it fi c 1c 1 tunny on \oin lip," she asked. " Well, no,' he laughed, legaiiiing his coniposuic, "it seems to be unite natuial.' 1 "I wondei how a mustache ■would ieel on my lip,' she .said, with a iai-awa\, absent look m hci cjes. " You needn't wonder long then." George, as he bent down "Oh, \ou iorwaid tiling ' ' she exciannod : " I'\ca good mind to mnkeyou take that back again." And he did. Tnr. Ornrux or Covi-'i^TNn Jrnons troai vr and Drixk.— The Cothic nations weie famous of old, in Eiuope, ior the quantities ot food and dunk which they consumed. The ancient Gcim.uis, and then Saxon decendants in England, wcie lcmaikablo foi theii hea\y meals. Clnttouy and diunkenjiess" were &o veiy common, that those vices wcic not thought disgraceuil ; and Tacitus icprcscnts the foimcr as capable ot being as easily oveicome by stmng think as by arms. Intempeianee was &o gencial and habitual, that no one was thought io be fit for seiious business after dinner ; and under this persuasion it was enacted in the laws that judges should hear and deteimine causes fasting, and not after dinner. An Italian authoi, in his '• Antiquities,'' plainly ufh'ims that this regulation was hame'd for the purpose of avoiding the unsound deciees consequent upon intoxication ; and Dv Gilbert Stuait veiy patiently and ingeniously observes, in his " Historical Dissertation concerning the Antiojuity of theliiitish Constitution," p, 238, that from this propensity of the elder Britons to indulge excessively in eating and drinking has proceeded the restriction upon juiors and jurymen, to refrain from meat and drink, and to he held in custody, until they hud agreed upon their verdict.