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Speak Gently to the Little
Ones.

Chide thy little one,

’Tis a toilsome journey

It hath just begun;

Many a vale of sorrow,

Many a rugged steep,

Lieth in its pathway,

And full oft ’twill weep;

Oh, then, gently—gently.

Kindly, mother, kindly,

Speak in tender tone;

That dear Child, remember,

Echoes back thine own;

Teach in gentle accents,

Teach in words of love;

Let the softest breezes

Its young heart-strings move;

Kindly, mother, kindly.

Would’st thou have the setting

Of a gem most fair,

In a crown of beauty

It were thine to wear ?

Mother, train with caution

That dear little one;

Guide, reprove, and ever

Let the work be done

Gently mother, kindly.

Jamaica

That anything will be done to expi- ate this crime is very unlikely, and we fear it must be added to the many other abominations with which Eng- land seems to delight to fill her cup to overflowing. The attempt of Governor Eyre to throw the responsibility of this bloodshed on a letter of the Rev. Dr. Underhill, addressed privately to Mr. Cardwell, the colonial secretary, exposing the wrongs of the negroes, will help to arouse the dissenting body in England. This letter was to Gov. Eyre for his information, and by him published in the Jamaican papers! So that he alone is responsible for its ef- fect on the people, if any it had.

England must settle this matter with her own subjects, and before the tri- bunal of the civilized world; but it has a lesson which extends beyond the limits of her empire. Its instructions seem to have been providentially meant for us at this precise moment of our history. The state of things in Ja- maica, which has filled the hearts of the ruling class there with panic, and thus occasioned these horrors, is pre- cisely that which the rebel party in the late Slave States is trying to esta- blish there. Though nominally free, and even with the right of suffrage un-

der a property qualification which vir- tually disqualifies the great majority, the negroes are ground down by cruel and oppressive laws, and reduced to the most extreme poverty and misery. This reacts on the prosperity of the rul- ing class, and is fast bringing the island to bankruptcy. That insurrection will inevitably result from the state of things there unless prevented by wise measures of justice on the part of the home government, is plain. The fears of insurrections of which we hear as existing at the South are proofs of a sense of the injustice that provokes them. The planter-party here, exact- ly as in Jamaica, are not to be trusted with the making of laws for the gov- ernment of their region, nor yet with the execution of them. The American Nation and the British Empire are justly charged with this office, and will be responsible for the results if they neglect to discharge it rightly. An external force can regulate such a dis- turbed and disjointed machine as the government of a state passing from a foundation of slave labor to one of free labor. The English government left this responsibility virtually to the former slave-masters, and we see what has come of it-—poverty for the labor- er, ruin to themselves, and bloodshed and terrorism for all. It is for Congress to see to it that we do not make this same blunder, under circumstances far less excusable—-for the Jamaican planters had not dared openly to rebel thirty years ago. We are without ex- cuse, if we suffer the rebels at the South to avenge their defeat on the blacks there and on the whites here. They must be held in the tutelage of the nation until they have grown ac- customed to the new state of things, and content to allow the black men who are among them, and the white men who may come among them, to enjoy all their constitutional rights as men and as citizens, without molesta- tion. And this as much for their own sakes as for that of the parties needing present protection. This done, and the South country will soon rejoice in peace, safety, and prosperity, which will overflow and enrich us all. Neg- lected, the fate of Jamaica surely a- waits the guilty region, and the pun- ishment will be shared by us, who might have prevented it and refused.

Signs of Character.

"Trifles make up the sum of hu- man things," and it is surprising how readily an experienced eye can read character from the slightest and most insignificant data. Don't you believe it, reader? Just allow us to give you a few whispers on the subject-—a peep through our own special opera glass- es, at the world around us.

When you meet a young man with plenty of bad cologne on his pocket handkerchief, and a stale odor of ci- gar smoke in his hair, you may be sure that he was bold enough to con- tract a very bad habit, and not bold enough frankly to take the conse- quences of it. In cigar vs. cologne, the plaintiff has the best of it.

When you see a woman with her shawl fastened all awry, and unmend- ed fractures in her gloves, it is a pret- ty sure index that she reads novels and lies abed late in the morning. If you happen to be wife hunting, don't be misled by her bright eyes and cher- ry cheeks. A girl who cannot spend time to keep herself looking neat, ought not to be trusted with the care of shirt buttons and cravat ends, to say nothing of the husband appended to these articles!

When a gentleman hands up your fare in the stage as politely as that of the gorgeously dressed neighbor with- out reference to the fact that you wear calico and cotton gloves, rest assured that he is lacking in no courtesies to his own wife at home. And if a lady-—no, a woman-—ac- cepts his politeness as a mere matter of course, with no "thank you!," no ac- knowledged smile, then you may con- clude that she has entered into socie- ty on the bubbles of petroleum-—not on any merits of her own.

When a lady-—no, once again—-a female goes to the grocery in a rust- ling silk dress, and does her morning shopping in a diamond ring and a cashmere shawl, it is a sign of one or two things, either she does not know any better, or she has no other place to display her finery.

When a "nice young man" who is paying you particular attention, speaks shortly to his mother, or omits to pay his sisters the little attentions that come so gracefully from man to woman, it is apt to be a sign that his wife must put up with the same sys- tem of snubbing and neglect as soon as the first gloss of the wedding suit is gone.

When a lady finds Macaulay's His- tory a dreadful bore, and skips the historical part of Scott's novels, it is not an unfair inference that her brain is not very fully furnished.

When a gentleman cannot talk fluently on the subjects of ancient and modern interest, but "polkas" charm- ingly, we may conclude that his brains—-such as they are—have all settled down to agile heels.-—Now, we do not disapprove of dancing, yet we must confess to a preference for having the brains a little higher up.

When a girl entertains you with spicy ridicule of her gentlemen friends, "showing up" their various imperfections and weaknesses, take your hat and go. If you need any comfort, there will be sufficient in the fact that you will furnish your share of amusement to the next ar- rival!

Put not your faith (speaking from a feminine standpoint) in gentlemen that wear diamond scarf pins, and spend their leisure time on hotel steps, for it is very likely they belong to the extensive class of society for whom Satan is popularly supposed "to find some mischief still!" to keep their idle hands in occupation. Better lav- ish your smiles on the sturdy young carpenter in shirt sleeves and overalls, who works by the day; it will be more profitable in the long run.

When a woman finds Sunday the "longest day in the week," it is a sign that there was some woful defi- ciency in her early religious training.

When a man speaks irreverently of sacred things, let it suffice as a warn- ing to trust him in no single matter. No matter how brilliant may be his talents, how fair his professions, there is a false ring to his metal. Don't trust him.—-Phrenological Journal.

Pres. Johnson's Popularity.

President Johnson is, perhaps, at this moment, the most popular man in the United States, or, at any rate, the man who is least assailed by detrac- tion. The moderate Republicans, De- mocrats, the Southerners, and the men who eschew all party ties, freely avow their confidence in him. Well, what has he done, and what is he doing?

Nothing whatever, unhesitatingly we reply, which can be construed into the faintest suspicion that he contem- plates the probability of another mili- tary contest. On the contrary, not merely the tone of his diplomacy, but the whole scope of his internal adminis- tration, indicates the fixed determina- tion of the American people to keep the peace. About this time last year, the Northern States alone were com- puted to have had a million men un- der arms. They have now barely 100,000, and these are being reduced to a normal establishment of 50,000. The work of "mustering out" has gone on with a rapidity that has as- tonished Europeans, and civil society has absorbed, and, we may say, as- similated, more than nine tenths of that immense army. There are doubts whether this disarmament has not been carried to an extent too great for the maintenance of internal order and security; but, as a nation, the Ameri- cans have acquiesced and approved. There has been a corresponding dis- mantling of a numerous and powerful fleet. Every kind of warlike expendi- ture has been similarly cut down, and Secretary M'Culloch is broaching plans for the extinction of the public debt within thirty years. All this betokens a settled purpose on the part of both the Government and the people to cultiv- ate pacific and friendly relations with foreign Powers. In short-America has buried the hatchet; and ,although she is too high spirited to bear an indig- nity, she is plainly indisposed to snatch up arms in a spirit of recklessness.

Mr. Chandler's motion was "tabled" —-that is, rejected—-in the Senate by two to one. His notice of it created general uneasiness in the States; its fate restored confidence, and was felt as a relief. Even if it had been carried, the President would probably have declined to act upon it. We may, therefore dismiss it from our minds with a sense of satisfaction that it has only served to bring out into stronger relief the disinclination of our Trans- atlantic kinsmen to be hurried into a quarrel with us. We can heartily re- ciprocate the feeling, and if in the fu- ture, as in the past, there be occasional word-sparring between them and our- selves, we shall yet cherish the trust that underneath superficial differences there is substantial unity of sentiment and interests, and that henceforth there will be less and less danger of any serious disturbance of the friendly relations in which it is desirable, for the sake of human liberty and progress, that Eng- land and America should ever stand towards each other. Ill. Lon. News

A Hundred years Ago.

One hundred years ago, there was not a single white man in Ohio, Ken- tucky, Ind, or Illinois territories. Then, what is now the most flourishing part of America, was as little known as the mountains of the moon. It was not until 1769 that the hunter of Kentucky, the gallant and adventur- ous Boone, left his home in North Carolina to become the first settler in Kentucky. The first pioneer of Ohio did not settle till twenty years after- wards.

A hundred years ago, Canada be- longed to France, and the whole po- pulation of the United States did not exceed a million and a half.

A hundred years ago, the great Frederick of Prussia was performing those exploits which have made him immortal in military annals, and with his little monarchy was sustaining a single-handed contest with Russia, Austria and France, the three great powers of Europe combined.

A hundred years ago, the United States were the most loyal people of the British Empire, and on the poli- tical horizon no speck indicated the struggle which, within a score of years thereafter, established the great republic of the world.

A hundred years ago, there were but four newspapers in America— with a combined circulation not ex- ceeding 2,000. Steam engines and cylinder presses had not been imagined, and railroads and telegraphs had not entered the remotest conception of man.

When we come to look back at it through the vista of history, we find that the century which has passed has been allotted to more important events in their bearing upon the happiness of the world, than almost any other that has happened since the creation.

A hundred years hence, who can foretell our developements and nation- al greatness? Loraine Co. News.

Freedmens Prospects in
Georgia.

Ex. Gov. Herschel V. Johnson in a speech delivered last Dec. has the follow- ing noticeable paragraph.

“We are now to enter upon the ex- periment whether the class of people to which we are in future to look as our laboring class can be organized into efficient and trust worthy labor- ers. That may be done-—or, I hope it may be done—-if we are left to ourselves. If we cannot succeed, others need not attempt it; and I trust that in the future we will have the poor privilege of being let alone in reference to this class of our people.”

A writer for the N. York Independent has made the following just remarks on the spirit of Georgians towards the Freed- men

“I bear you sorrowful witness that there spoke the true Georgian. He is sublimely ignorant of the fact that the negro is also a child of the republic —-sublimely ignorant of the fact that the war has restored him to certain human rights. He only sees so many machines, the mission of which it is to do his work, and asks you to let him alone in their management. He begs of you to give him this “poor privil- ege,” and gravely tells you that they cannot be made to work at all if this be denied him.”

If this be the spirit of Georgia, Mr. Johnson, we the friends of the Freedmen must not, cannot allow Georgia to be left to herself in her treatment of the Freedmen. We must by some means make Georgia willing to allow that the colored race are to have equal rights with the whites and the privilege of living peacefully and honorably among them even through it cost another war. Eo.

“In one town which I visited, an old negro man was horsewhipped at noon- day, on the public street, for asking a white man for money due him for services rendered. In another, a ne- gro boy was threatened with shooting if he did not quietly accept a dollar as the price of a summer’s work in a blacksmith’s shop. In another, a girl was hung up by the thumbs for twelve hours because she failed to ac- complish a certain task in spinning. In another, a woman was severely whipped about the head for asserting, that she was a free person. In still another, a woman was almost murder- ed by the cowhide—one white man whipping her while two others held her. At Columbus, a man said to me, with a quiet chuckle, that a right smart chance of niggers had been found dead in his county lately, with bullet-holes in their heads. At At- lanta, another told me that they re- cently had occasion to dredge a small river near his town, and brought to light the bodies of “about twenty big buck niggers.” Do not these facts set up a sign-board so large that he who runs may read ?

Between Augusta and Milledgeville, I rode in a stage in which were also two delegates of the convention-—both of them intelligent and well-informed men of mature years. I had been ask- ing some questions about the Georgia school system, and had just remarked that I hoped the time would soon come when school-houses would be as numerous in Georgia as in Massa- chusetts. “Well, I hope it never will come,” said one of them; “po- pular education’s all a d––d hum- bug, in my judgement.” “I think so, too,” answered the other. “I used to be in favor of it; but since I’ve seen what it leads to in the North, I’m opposed to it.” “That’s just it,” con- cluded the first; “it’s well enough to give boys who are to be professional men a good education; but reading, writing, and arithmetic are full as much as ought to be taught the com- mon people.”

From the average Georgia stand- point, he is half insane who talks of educating the negro. “What, build school-houses for niggers?” exclaim- ed a citizen to a Cincinnati gentleman, with whom I sat in the public room at the Macon hotel. “Well, when we do, I’ll just let you know.” Some of the leading men see and say that the interests of the state will be promoted by educating the freedmen; but nine-tenths of the people sneer just as the Macon man did. Yet, within four blocks of that same hotel I saw a negro porter in a store labor- ing at his spelling-book in the corner, when no customers were in; and a young negro woman with her spelling- book fastened to the fence, that she might study while at work over the wash-tub. Yet I’m everywhere told that the nigger can’t learn, and money spent in educating him would be mo- ney thrown away.-—N. Y. Indepen- dent.

Hobson's choice.

At Cambridge, England, one sees an interesting street or alley called Hobson's Alley. It was here that the stables of that very Hobson who gave us the proverbial expression of "Hob- son's choice" stood. Hobson was the keeper of a livery stable, and each horse let out was placed furthest from the door, the next hirer being requir- ed to take the horse that was nearest the door, that being the one longest unworked. People could select the horse, but it was managed so that it should always be that nearest the door; that was "Hobson's choice."

Bangkok Recorder.

The following timely notes have been prepared by one who justly claims to be pretty well read on the great sub- ject of International law, and we think we do well in giving them the prominence we now do in this No. of the Recorder. It seems to us high time that the question of Naturali- zation should be discussed here in its relations to the subjects of the Siamese government. If we have been cor- rectly informed, many of the subjects of the government who have been proselyted to the Roman Catholic reli- gion by French Missionaries are bold to assert that they have consequently removed their allegiance from the Siamese government to the French, and hence claim exemption from paying the duties that are requir- ed of them by the servants of the government. A little reflection should be sufficient to convince them that this notion carried out in practice must be preposterous. We trust there- fore that their religious teachers have too much good sense to propogate this mischievous doctrine.

Consuls their duties, powers,
Naturalization

Wheaton observes (Chap. II. Sec. IV. fol. 215) "the municipal laws and institutions of any State may operate beyond its own territory, and within the territory of another State, by special compact between two States. Such are the treaties by which the consuls, and other commercial agents of one nation are authorized to exer- cise over their own countrymen, a jurisdiction within the territory of the state where they reside. The nature and extent of this peculiar jurisdiction depends upon the stipulations of the Treaty between the two States. A- mong Christian nations it is generally confined to the descision of controver- sies in civil cases arising between the merchants, seamen and other sub- jects of the state; in foreign countries to the registering of wills, contracts, and other instruments, executed in the presence of the consul; and to the ad- ministration of the estates of their fel- low subjects deceased within the terri- torial limits of the consulate. The res- ident consuls of the Christian powers in Turkey, the Barbary States, and other Mahomedan countries exercise both civil and criminal jurisdiction over their countrymen, to the exclusion of the local magistrates and tribunals. This jurisdiction is ordinarily subject, in civil cases, to an appeal to the supe- rior tribunals of their own country. The criminal jurisdiction is usually limited to the infliction of pecuniary penalties; and in offences of a higher grade, the functions of the consul are similar to those of the police magis- trate or "judge d' instruction." He collects the documentary and other proofs, and sends them, together with the prisoner, home to his own country for trial."

This view is supported by Phill- emore (Vol. 2. Part 7. chap. 1. Sec. CCXLV. fol. 239.) "The status of the consulate therefore at the present time seems to require a two-fold divi- sion viz:—

1. The Legal status of Consuls, in Christian countries.

2. The Legal status of Consuls in the Levant and in Mahomedan coun- tries.

The duties expected from such con- suls and the mode of performing them are fully explained by Phillmore in chap. V. fol. 271. And Sec. CCLXXVII. Fol. 274. contains an extract from the treaty of peace be- tween Great Britain and China in 1842-43, article 13th, granting pow- ers of an extended character to consuls, requiring in some respects the exercise of judicial and executive functions.

It appears to me that Siam comes under the last category, which, whilst it grants to consuls more extensive powers than in Christian countries, does not authorize them to act con- trary to, or at variance with, the laws of Siam.

Having thus briefly pointed out the position and duties of Consuls in this country, and the power under which they act, it remains to be examined whether they can grant letters of na- turalization, and to whom. This ques-

tion is one which presents no great difficulty. VATEL says that a nation or the sovereign who represents it, may grant to a foreigner the quality of citizen, by admitting him into the bo- dy of the political society. This is called "naturalization". In Siam the point, is who is entitled to the protection of the flag of a particular nation? The English Consul grants such protection to those who can pro- duce proofs of having resided a cer- tain time in a British Colony, such as Hongkong, Singapore, Malacca, Pen- ang or British India in so far as Asia- tics are concerned. But the French have only Sri-gon, Pondicherry, an Bourbon from which they can derive similar rights. To recognize as entit- led to the protection of the British or French flags, citizens of Bangkok or inhabitants of Siam, is not, as far as I can trace in the books written on the subject, legal, and is contrary to the laws of nations. Moreover change of religion does not justify exchange of allegiance on the part of the subject. He may leave the country and seek another more tolerant and less restric- tive, where he may at the end of a series of years apply for letters of "naturalization"; but he cannot in his own country, and of his own free will renounce his allegiance to his rightful sovereign and place himself under the protection of a foreign flag; neither can a Consul or Ambassador extend such protection to him (see Wheaton fol: 172 and appendix fol. 910 and following. Phillimore Vol. I Chapter XVII Section CCCXXIII, fol: 348 and following.

Wildman Vol II. fol : 42; on na- tional character mentions that in the case of Factories in the Eastern parts of the world, European persons trad- ing under the shelter of those establish- ments are conceived to take their nation- al character from that association under which they live and carry on the na- tional commerce; but these factories, such as were possessed by European nations in the East in former years, have mostly ceased to exist, and con- sequently the laws which regulated them have also lost their force, and cannot at any rate be said to justify indiscriminate naturalization.

From the foregoing it may there- fore be gathered that consuls have somewhat more extended powers in this country in a judicial point of view, but that such powers do not give them authority to afford the protection of their flag to people who are not legally entitled to naturalization by a residence lengthened or a possession in the country which the Consul re- presents.

Domestic Animals of Siam

Our friends abroad who have a de- sire to become better acquainted than they are with the manners and cus- toms of Siam will, we are inclined to think, be glad to have us give them occasionally a chapter on the domes- tic animals of the country. And as the Recorder is largely devoted to communicating all sorts and kinds of information relative to the Siamese, we propose now commencing a series of articles on the subject above men- tioned.

We begin with the subject of Dogs as this animal is the most conspicuous of all the Siamese domestic animals, the monstrous Elephant, even, not ex- cepted.

The Dogs of Siam are almost ex- clusively of the breed vulgarly deno- minated pariah. Their physiognomy bears a striking resemblance to that of the jackal family. Five tenths of them, we judge, are of a light sorril color—two tenths dun—two tenths black, and another brindle, speckled or spotted. They are generally rather small. A large dog is exceedingly rare. There are a few lap-dogs to be found here and there among the more afflu- ent classes who feel able to keep such pets; but they are exotics.

Dogs may be counted by tens of thousands in the great metropolis and by millions in all the kingdom. A large majority of the families of this city have full as many canine mem- bers of their households as human. The reason of this extraordinary propor- tion of dogs is not because the peo- ple have any unusual attachment for them, but rather because they know not how to get rid of them, and not commit a sin that would be likely to ruin their characters as good Bud- dhists. The sin of killing animals is ac- counted by all Buddhists as one of the most henious. And the reason it is so considered results, probably, in part from the dogma of the Buddhist religion that each animal is possessed, or in part occupied by some spirit of mankind in a state of transmigration from the spirit world. It may per- chance be the spirit of a father, or, mother, or brother, or sister, or wife, or husband, or child, or one of the long since departed of ones ancestors, or of others who were noble or igno- ble good or evil. Possibly the spirit of a future Buddh may be inhabiting the body of the dog, or cat, or fish, or snake which one is tempted to kill. O how sad, thinks a pious Buddhist would it be in the progress of intermi- nable ages to find that myself had dishonored so august a being by driv- ing life out of the body in which he once lived! — There is also another motive leading all Buddhists to dread killing animals, which is the apparent unmercifulness of the act. They hold that all animals love life as much as man does, and that it is as painful and horrifying for them to die as it is for man, and hence that to kill them evinces great cruelty and a spirit the farthest possible from a happy hereaf- ter. Now if they can steer clear of this sin, they seem to regard themselves as being very holy. The most com- mon mode of speaking in praise of ones own moral character is to say why. I have never designedly killed any animal! And this is the lock which always closes fast the door against all conviction of need, of any help out of themselves to save from sin.

Hence we may conclude that it is mainly a desire to save themselves from future misery which leads these Buddhists to suffer their dogs to be- come so inordinately numerous about their houses. The hope of any parti- cular benefit from them as guards of their property must, we think, be quite feebly developed.

The question naturally arises here, —How is it that the people are not absolutely overrun by dogs if they are so opposed to killing them? Our an- swer is that by far the largest part of them die from sheer starvation while but a few weeks old, another large part die from the same cause in the course of a year. Another large part are so beaten and wounded by even the pious Buddhists that they die of their wounds; and finally an- other large part are killed outright by impious Buddhist and others in fits of anger.

A very common mode of getting re- lief when greatly annoyed by too great an accumulation of dogs in any homestead, is to catch them and carry them off in a boat to some temple far away, or to a desolate place where they will not readily find their way back again. It is not accounted a henious sin to be thus unkind to them however sure they may be to perish ultimately from the change, provided one does not directly take their lives from them. But this mode of deliverance from dogs is not often of long continuance, for the creatures will often times find their way back again, even swimming the broad river, espe- cially so, if their old home had been in the main a tolerable one for them. And should they not return, their pla- ces are quickly filled by other dogs in the neighborhood, who, being forced by oppression and famine are quick to discern where they may improve their circumstances, and finding an eligible vacancy run in and fill it. Or what is quite as likely to happen, some person in some distant part of the ci- ty will bring his canine nuisances and set them at liberty in your own yard in the darkness of night. Hence this plan of disposing of dogs amounts to little more than a system of exchange. Many dogs are ploied or let loose in the courts of temples where they are expected to eat the crumbs that fall from the priest's table, or the fragments of their last daily meal a little before twelve o'clock. But they get nothing to support their carnivorous natures, and are compelled to change their natures to granivorous for they must live alone on rice and learn to love it. But it is a miserable subsistence they get in the priesthood. While they are exempted from being beaten and wounded as they would be daily at all other places and are no longer lia- ble to be subjected to the cruel sys- tem of being cast away among utter strangers, they are compelled to fight with one another desperately for their daily pittance. Consequently you will see the strongest of them full of the most loathsome sores which they have got by the bites of other dogs, and the weaker classes shrinking up into mere skin and bone by absolute starvation. And you will see these mere skeletons attempting to bark but not able to raise much more than a whisper. It is so much the nature of Siamese dogs to bark, that they will always attempt it, even though their legs will not bear the concession it produces, and though some thing tantamount to crutches has to be emi- ployed to support them under it.

But the barking and growling and howling of the dogs that are able to raise their voices is often unutterably doleful. Whole neighborhoods of them will unite on a moonlight night and have a grand concert of barking together. And when they turn to howling one is tempted to fancy that last plague of Egypt has fallen on the neighborhood or is about to come.

As intimated above, there are even Buddhists who will in fits of anger kill dogs with brickbats and clubs and other missiles by which they die a lingering and cruel death. And when dead they will drag their carcasses into the river or into some street or lane for the crows and vultures to feed upon. Hence the many canine carcasses you daily see floating in the river.

The more pious Buddhists will try to make a good conscience of feeding their dogs a little, just enough to keep them alive, thinking it a work that will redound to their good in some future state of their transmigration. Others while they dare not kill them, will leave them without food as they do fish, when they take them, without their vital element water. They fancy that in so doing they cannot be charge- able with killing them because they die themselves. If we take a gun and put an end to their misery at once they shudder at our conduct and pro- nounce us very irreligious: and when, finding ourselves overrun with dogs, we take what appears to them a little milder course because bloodless, and destroy them with strychnine, they cannot help thinking that our future happiness is, to say the least, greatly imperiled by such treatment of ani- mal life.

It should, in conclusion, be said that there are a few tolerably good looking dogs among the pariah breed in the city, and it is thought that a little training with good feeding makes them very trust-worthy watch dogs. We need say but a few words about the continual nuisance of this immense herd of dogs in the city from their natural propen- sity to bite.—No person is safe in walking about the city without a stout cane which will not break by striking it over the head of a dog, or an um- brella which he can suddenly open and interpose between him and his canine enemy. The cane will rarely need to come to blows if you keep it continu- ally flirting behind your back to fright- en your pursuers from your heels. A better way is to have one of your men following you closely with a boat pad- dle in hand with which to beat them off.

It is very remarkable how few cases of Hydrophobia are heard of occurring in this city. We, who have been here more than 30 years, and much of the time in large medical practice, do not recollect of having seen more than two cases nor to have heard of more than a dozen occurring in Bangkok during all that time.

Attack of Pirates.

March 10th 1866, at daylight, fine weather and moderate breezes, north- erly, weighed and made sail, and stood out of the harbour of Hong- Kong bound for Bangkok, in company with the Ham. bark "George Henry", and a Norwegian brig. 2 P. M. abreast of the Ladrone islands, when we observed a Loreha rigged craft, which had come out with us from Hong Kong, keeping along under the land, and being join- ed by another craft of the same rig, they both hoisted stinkpots to there mast heads, and stood right across our bows. On seeing this I had the ship cleared for action.

As soon as we had passed some dis- tance ahead, they steered right for us, keeping in our wake, so that our broadside guns could not bear upon them. We could distinctly see the men on board of them, who had red tur- bans on their heads and sashes on their waists. They now commenced firing grape and musketry, on which I hauled the vessel on the starboard tack, with her head towards the Lad- rone islands, so as to bring our broad- side guns to bear upon the pirates, but the man at the wheel getting wounded, the vessel got into the wind and lost head way, and while we were backing the fore-topsail, one of the pirate run under our stern, and through a grap- line on board, at the same time throw- ing stinkpots on the poop. The other pirate sailed round us firing and throwing stinkpots on board.

The stinkpots forced us to retire and leave the poop, when about 30 of the pirates boarded and took posses- sion, and a hand to hand fight com- menced, we defended ourselves on the main deck, being partially protected by the boats on the davits. In the mean time the ship gradually filled and shot ahead, one of the men cut the grappline, and the pirate dropped astern, when we made a sally and drove the pirates who were on our deck overboard, leaving most of their weapons behind them. The other pirate coming close to our starboard side, re- ceived a shot in the bows from a six pounder, which shattered her consider- ably, when they both kept off for the Ladrone islands.

We had one man killed, eight Chinese and four Siamese wounded, more or less severely.

Neither myself nor my chief officer, recognized any of the pirates; but the Chinese on board said that one man amongst the pirates had been cook on board this vessel.

To the Editor of the Bangkok Recorder.

Sir:-— The Parisian correspondent of the Penang Argus, an extract from whose writings appeared in your last issue, alluding to a "curious cabalistic calculation" respecting the present Emperor of the French, does not relate it in its entirety, and as it may prove of interest to some of your readers, I will now give it to you.

The revolution which overthrew the Bour- bons and led to the overthrow of Europe, occurred in ..... 1789 Which figures added together, give ..... 25 which added to the above, give ..... 1814 the year of the first restoration. The second restoration happened in ..... 1815 which figures added up as above, give ..... 15 brings us to the revolution of ..... 1830 and these being added as above, give ..... 19 and point to the year of the death of the ..... Duke of Orleans, which Louis Philippe in- fluence never recovered ..... 1849

But here the chain appears to break: Amateurs of "cabalistic calculations" are not to be defeated by such a trifle, so they have continued from another epoque.

The Revolution which drove the second branch of the Bourbons into exile took place in 1848, and by a similiar process of arithmetic as above we reach 1869. "Napoleon III. was declared Emperor in 1852," says the correspondent of the Argus, "and it is predicted he will fall in 1869." Whether events will justify the calcu- lation remains to be seen; I doubt the Emperor's faith in his star being shook by such a puerile array of figures,

LOCAL.

About twenty dwelling houses were burned down in the village of Banana on the evening of the 15th. That village is about a mile north of the palace of the Wangna on the northern or right bank of the river. The fire is reported to have began in the mansion of Phya T’ep—that one of his slaves in car- rying a lamp or torch into the bedroom where his lord lay sick accidentally set fire to the mosquito bars of his bed, which almost instantly involved other equally inflammable materials about it; and quickly seized the wood work of the house with such power as quite to petrify the inmates with terror. We have not learned that any human lives were lost in the fire. Most of the build- ing’s are said to have been made of teak wood.

This is another warning to be added to the multitudes that have happened in this city within a few years past, and the lesson is, that the greatest cau- tion should be used in bringing lamps or lighted cigars, or opium pipes into close proximity to cotton mosquito bars, which in the degree of their inflammability are but little removed from gun powder. This caution is especially necessary in a dry and windy time such as we have had in the after- noon and evenings of the last fortnight. A lamp set down but a few feet from the bars is in danger of setting fire to them by a gust of wind bringing the loose ends of them over the lamp. It should be accounted a crime to lie down to read, or write, or sew under a cotton mus- quito bar of only the ordinary size, even if the bars be well tucked up, for the person doing so is in danger of dropping to sleep with his lamp burn- ing, and then what wonder if he soon find his bed on fire and his house in flames, and a large community invol- ved in the same catastrophe?

Murder.

On Sunday the 8th inst. a Siamese boy about 11 years old was found dead in the vicinity of Wat Râk'ang. It ap- pears that some monstrous villain had murdered him in cold blood from the despicable motive of stealing from his person a pair of silver anklets worth a- bout eight Ticals and a small gold lock- et said to be worth four Ticals. On examination it was found that his neck had been broken by wringing it and four of his ribs stove in probably by stamping on his side. The child is reported to be the son of a Siamese medical doctor named Nai Sook who with his mother live in the village called Ban Lao not far from Temple Råk'ang. The lad is said to have gone out to fly his kite, and was murdered in his absence. We are not informed whether the murderer has been found or not, but hear that the king is deter- mined to adopt some stringent meas- ures for forbidding parents to allow their children to go about unprotected wearing silver, gold, or jewels in any of the usual forms.

It is time that these native parents were thus checked in such displays of their pride and vanity on the persons of their children on all occasions. While we have occasion now and then to re- port cases of murder in the city of Bangkok, it must be allowed that this crime is of rare occurrence here as com- pared with other populous cities in this Eastern world, and we are happy in a- warding to the Siamese people and na- tion this meed of praise. A large ma- jority of the cases of murder that do occur in Siam it is believed are com- mitted by Chinese, Malays and others. The Siamese are very far from being a blood thirsty and murderous people. This is attributable, it may be, to the re- markable prominence their religion gives the 6th Commandment.

Our Buddhist Champion
again.

We have just recieved another ar- ticle from our Buddhist Antagonist. It is written in Siamese and we have got time to prepare it for the present is- sue. We shall endeavour to give it the thorough attention which we conceive it demands. The author's proceeding effort was in our opinion so feeble that we thought (perhaps imprudently) that he had "run out at the little end of the horn" and that that would proba- bly be the last that we should hear from him. Consequently we thought it not sufficiently dignified to reply to that effort by any formal argument. This hasty thought in us appears to have a- roused our Goliath to unusual acuteness and vigor, and we shall need to take a little extra time to study a suitable an- swer for him. It would be very sad to have the Bible and Christianity now overthrown by a Buddhist Champion after so many thousand years of progress from conquering to conquer.

Our friend Mr. J. Thomson the Photographer, we think, has returned to the city; but from whence he comes, or how, we know not, as we have not heard a word about it, and saw only the shadow of his head in Captain Ames' boat yesterday.

Monstrous Oppression.

In one of the late issues of our Si- amese Recorder we had occasion to point out very oppressive conduct on the part of a petty of band government officers in seizing and beating and kicking and torturing people in Bang- kok Noi without judge or jury or any kind of trial whom they charged of smoking opium illegally. It seems that a royal edict had sometime before been issued to seize all drunkards and opium smokers and press them into the work of building the Pramane for the cremation of the royal remains of the late second king. And hence the royal constables and sheriffs were sent out to make diligent search for such characters, and that, when found by legal search and proved guilty, to compel them to go and serve the king in that particular business. The report we gave of it, and which has since been fully corroborated, was, substantially, that among the few guilty ones there were many entirely innocent who were seized by the royal constables, so that a great panic had taken the whole settlement and many families had a- bandoned their houses and fled into the county. If the man of the house could not be found the wife was taken. If the persons had able and influential lords or other friends in whom they could hope for redress they would follow their captors, and not think of offering a bribe for free- dom. But if they had no such aid to fall upon, they would get clear by presenting a bribe ranging from 20 to 180 Ticals, out of which, it was affirm- ed, the constables would take care to replenish well their own purses. If their victims had no money to offer as a bribe, or being innocent and noble spirited were determined they would not plead guilty, they were thrust them into the stocks and closely pinched and thus tortured to force them to confess, and that oftentimes they were scolded and kicked like the vilest dogs while in the stocks because of their apparent obstinacy in pleading not guilty.

Many persons of influence and char- acter have since expressed their grati- tude to us for exposing that pit of in- iquity which none dared to broach to the king. And we are glad to learn that that revelation has brought down upon those abominable officers the just indignation of the supreme power, and will in all probability result ultimately in great good. Thus do we feel en- couraged to go on with our papers even with a constant pecuniary loss.

NECESSITY OF A SURNAME.

But there happened to be one man among the constables pointed out by the name Nin, and as there are many of the same name without a surname to distinguish one from the other, a man by the name of Nin living, per- haps in the same neighborhood or em- ployed in the same government services, fearing that he might become unjustly confounded with the other Nin has sent us an article for our Siamese pa- per, the object of which is to prove that he cannot be the man concerned in that monstrous oppression. We hope and trust he may be innocent.

The peculiar trials of that Nin whoever he be, has started a new thought in our minds. It is that the time seems now to have fully come, for all the families of Siam to have a fixed and legalized surname. Hitherto there has been no such thing. Each man and woman and child has only a personal monosyllabic baby name, much as it used to be in the infancy of the all the European nations. But now the Siamese have come into such intimacy with the western nations, are going so deeply into business with the people of those nations—-and business, too that must needs be often greatly em- barrassed without some better plan than at present of designating individuals, are we not quite right in judging that no delay should be made on giving every man and woman in Siam a sur- name? England felt obliged to do so as did all the nations of Europe when they passed from a state of childhood into full manhood. Has not Siam at- tained to her majority? Why should all her people longer live with only their baby names? Let that Mr. Nin be called Nin Lee or Nin Bee or Nin What-not and he will no longer be in danger of becoming confounded with forty dozen otherMr. Nins.

Queer Statistics.

We find the following curious data going the rounds. They are interest- ing, however reliable or not they may be.

552,000,000 are of the Mongrel

190,000,000 are of the Etheopian

176,000,000 are of the Malay.

1,000,000 are of the Indo-American

There are on the globe about 1,288,- 000,000 of souls, of which race. race. race. race.

There are 3,648 languages spoken, and 1,000 different religions.

The yearly mortality of the globe is 3,333,333 persons. This is at the rate of 91,584 per day, 3,730 per hour, 60 minute. So each pulsation of our heart marks the decease of some hu- man creature.

The average of human life is 36 years.

One fourth of the population die at or before the age of 7 years-—one half at or before 17 years.

Among 10,000 persons one arrives at the age of 100 years, one in 500 attains the age of 90, and one in 100 lives to the age of 80.

Married men live longer than single ones. In 1,000 persons 65 marry, and more marriages occur in June and December that in any other month of the year.

One-eighth of the whole population is military.

Professions exercise a great influ- ence on longevity.

In 1,000 individuals who arrive at the age of 70 years, 48 are priests, orators, or public speakers; 40 are agriculturists, 33 are workmen, 32 soldiers or military employees, 20 ad- vocates or engineers, 27 professors, and 24 doctors. Those who devote their lives to the prolongation of that of others die soonest.

There are 335,000,000 Christians.

There are 5,000,000 Israelites.

There are 60,000,000 of the Asiatic Religion.

There are 160,000,000 Mahome- dans

There are 200,000,000 Pagans.

In the Christian Churches:

170,000,000 profess the Roman Catholic.

759,000,000 profess the Greek faith.

80,000,000 profess the Protestant.

Making free with the
Commandments.

The late Dr. Lockhart, of the Col- lege Church, Glasgow, when traveling in England, was sojourning at an inn, when the Sabbath came round.

On entering the public room, and about to set out for church, he found two gentlemen preparing for a game of chess. He addressed them in words to this effect:—-

"Gentlemen, have you locked up your portmanteaus carefully ?"

"No! What! are there thieves in this house ?"

"I do not say that," replied the doctor, "only I was thinking that if the waiter comes in and finds you making free with the fourth command- ment, he may think of making free with the eighth."

Upon this, the gentlemen said there was something in that, and so laid aside their game.—-British Workman.

Slavery as a punishment for
Crime.

[The Anti-Slavery Prohibitory Amendment declares that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist, except as a punishment for crime". The ex-slaveholders have fastened their keen eyes on the phrase which we print in italics, and some of them think that it will be quite easy to re-establish slavery at the South under the exception therein expressed. Witness the following extract from the Southern correspondence of the Boston Daily Advertiser:]

In the South Carolina Convention, one of the leading up-country deleg- ates, during the debate on the slavery prohibition clause of the Constitution, said, substantially, that the condition, as well as the name, of slavery should be prohibited; and in this view he took exception to the phrase "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist except as a punishment for crime," etc.; for, he argued, it will be very easily possible for the legislature, if so disposed, to re-establish the con- dition of slavery by a system of crimes and punishments impliedly authorized by that clause. I noticed the argument at the time, because it was identical with one made last winter in the Sen- ate by Mr. Sumner. Down here in Southwestern Georgia is the man who furnishes the practical illustration for the argument. He is called Gen. John T. Morgan, and he has been making a speech on the negro question, which the editor of his county paper indorses as "sensible." "The grand point in his speech," says the editor, "was that in order to wield the bone and muscle of the negro effectively in the various in- dustrial pursuits of the South, we must put him in competition with white laborers; and we thought he was very successful in its demonstration." The abstract of his views on this point is very brief; but it is full enough on the main question as the following para- graph shows:

"He urged that, as the Constitution gives the power to inflict involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime, a law should be so framed as so to enable the judicial authorities of the state to sell into bondage again those negroes who should be found guilty of certain crimes; and, in conclusion, said he thought that this, in connection with the whipping post and the pillory, would do more to check vagrancy, theft, robbery, and other crimes among the negroes than all the penitentiaries which could be built.

POSITION OF THE COLORED RACE IN EUROPE.—Europeans do not under- stand that antipathy which American affection pretends to feel against the colored race. Alexander Dumas, the quadroon, was the guest of princes in Europe; his father, the mulatto, was a renowned general in Napoleon's time; his son, an octoroon, has just married the widow Princess Narishkin. Count Pushkin, the great Russian poet, too, was a quadroon; so was Baron Feuchtersleben, under-secretary of pub- lic instruction in Austria; and, if we go back to older times, the first Duke of Tuscany, Alexandro Medici, who reigned from 1530 to 1537, was a mulatto, and the Emperor Charles V. had so little antipathy to negro descent that he gave his daughter Margaret in marriage to the mulatto duke. His portrait, with woolly hair and thick lips, is still seen in the public gallery of Florence, among the Dukes of Tus- cany; and it gives one always a pe- culiar pleasure to show his dark face to the Americans, who speak with ter- ror about miscegenation. Had Messrs. Mackay and Sala studied the question in Europe before they went in the United States, they would not have made themselves so ridiculous in their correspondence.—Cor. Tribune.

THE NEW EARTH.—But I do love mountains, and I do hope that, if ever we inherit "everlasting life," it may be on this earth—this beautiful first home of ours, with all its wealth of precious memories, with all its pleas- ant friends and sweet associations, with all its sin and curse removed, and with its "wilderness like Eden, and its desert like the garden of the Lord." I wonder if the often-noticed light gladness of my nature, and the ever-felt undertone of sadness, do not both grow out of the same character- istic—my intense appreciation of life. I mean of living and of having my friends and all God's creatures living about me! Earth, air, and water, with all their countless forms, are so beau- tiful; friendship and love are so sweet; knowledge is so interesting; and truth so sublime; existence, in its sum total, is such blessedness, and the "passing away" of it is such an infinite loss, that I am always happy in the present; and sad in the past, in which I see so much of it already gone; and sad in the future, at so little distance down which I see "come the full stop." Oh! if we have not at least a chance of immortality, it would seem almost wicked in our good Father to mock us with life at all. Do not these con- tradictory terms prove, with at least the force of a strong probability— strong enough to found a strong con- fidence upon—that we must live on! And then those glowing promises, that could not come to us only from him and through men full of inspira- tion: "To them who, by patient con- tinuance in well-doing, seek for glory, honor, and immortality, [he will give] eternal life."—Prof. C. F. Mansfield, May, 1865.

THE "SANCY" DIAMOND.—The his- tory of this diamond (weight fifty-four carats) is curious. Nicolas Harlai, Signeur of Sancy, its possessor, wish- ing to raise money upon it for the be- nefit of his friend, Henry IV., intrusted it to the care of a faithful servant. The man was beset by robbers and murder- ed. His master recovered the body, and calculating on his late vassal's fi- delity, opened the stomach, where, as he expected, he found his lost treasure. He then carried out his intention, pledged it to the Jews, and was never afterward able to redeem it. In 1649 it belonged to Henrietta Maria, Dow- ager Queen of England, from whom it passed to the Duke of York. After his abdication, the unlucky James sold it to Louis XIV. for £25,000. During the memorable days of September, 1792, it was stolen with the rest of the regalia: it reappeared in 1838, when the Princess Paul Demidoff bought it from an agent of the Bourbons for £76,000. Last winter it was on view at Messrs. Garrard's, in London; and finally it has returned to its native land, being purchased for £90,000 by Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, of Bombay.

ONE OF THE ANOMALIES OF LITER- ARY HISTORY is, that is has often been the lot of those men who have con- tributed largely to the mirth or recrea- tion of others to endure more than an ordinary share of misery and want in their own lives. The most enter- taining portions of literature have been written by men whose hearts have been bowed down by sorrow, and at mo- ments when that sorrow has been heaviest. It was in the gloom of a mother's death, deepened by his own poverty, that Johnson penned the charming tale of "Rasselas;" it was in the chill desolation of a bare and fireless garret that poor Goldsmith, the beloved vagabond of literature, sketched the brightest pictures of domestic happiness the world ever had; it was from a sick-bed, in sore distress, and in a necessitous exile, that Tom Hood shook all England with laughter. The enchantment of Scott, the satire of Jerrold, half the gems of English wit and humor, have been thrown out by genius in its most sorrowful moments.—-Dublin Univer- sity Magazine.

Important if True

A correspondent of the Scientific American says: "If you have a boat that leaks badly, and it is a strong cur- rent, or if you are towing it up stream, all you have to do to keep it dry is this: Bore a hole through the bottom and insert a piece of tin or iron half round through the hole, letting it ex- tend a few inches below the bottom of the boat, and all the water will run out without any labor. I think a ship at sea could be kept afloat, if you could keep her going four miles per hour."

The Philosopher Answered.

A Frenchman who had won a high rank among men of science, yet who denied the God who is the author of science, was crossing the Great Sahara in company with an Arab guide. He noticed, with a sneer, that at certain times his guide, whatever obstacles might arise, put them all aside, and kneeling on the burning sands, called on his God. Day after day passed, and still the Arab never failed; till at last one evening the philosopher, when he rose from his knees, asked with a contemptuous smile, "How do you know there is a God?" The guide fix- ed his burning eye on the scoffer for a moment in wonder, and then said solemnly, "How do I know there is a God? How did I know that a man, and not a camel, passed my hut last night in the darkness? was it not by the print of his foot on the sand? Even so—-and he pointed at the sun, whose last rays were flashing over the lonely desert—-"that footprint is not that of a man."

Where Wealth Begins.

Wealth begins in a tight roof that kieps the rain and wind out; in a good pump that yields you plenty of sweet water; in two suits of clothes so as to change your dress when you are wet; in dry sticks to burn; in a good double-wicked lamp, and three meals; in a horse or a locomotive, to cross the land; in a boat to cross the sea; in tools to work with; in books to read; and so in giving, on all sides by tools and auxiliaries, the greatest possible extension to our powers, as if it added feet, and hands, and eyes, and blood, length to the day, and knowledge and good will.—Emerson.

Be Good Humored.

The Chicago Journal commences a "plea for good humor" as follows:

Our readers have remarked that we sprinkle our columns with things sub- stantial. We do this on purpose, and with a purpose. We believe in "run- ning" the cheerful, as well as the cloudy side of human affairs. Life is sober, the times are stern, people are grave or mad. There is little jollity in America. It's the all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, which predominates in the American dispo- sition. Leisure is rare, sport is rarer and laughter is rarer than all. Grav- ity becloudes the countinances of men street. Men look sober and women sad. Business! Business! There is no end to business.—The social circle is broken up, home is a remembered dream.—Men and women meet occa- sionally, and but to bow and say good bye

Odds and Ends.

A golden rule for a young lady, is to converse always with your female friends, as if a gentleman were of the party ; and with young men, as if your female companions were present.

The greatest objection to those who mean well is, that they seldom find time to carry out their intentions.

A good deal of the consolation of- fered in the world is about as solacing as the assurance of the man to his wife when she fell into the river. " You'll find ground at the bottom, my dear."

A Southern paper thinks that "something is on foot in South Caro- lina." She herself is on foot. She used to ride "the high horse," but can't now.

A specimen of scientific quartette singing the verse given out runs thus :—-

That saw the Lord arise ;

Welcome to this reviving breast,

And these rejoicing eyes.

And the choir renders it :—

Wow—kaw, waw daw aw raw,

Thaw aw thaw law aw waw :

Waw—kaw, taw thaw raw raw yaw

raw

Aw thaw raw jaw saw awz.

A Cleveland speculator fell asleep in church, from which he was waked by the pastor's reading. Surely there is a vein for the silver and a place for the gold where they find it." Jumping to his feet he shook his book at the minister, crying, "I'll take five hundred shares."

The fretful Christian wrongs his master sadly, for he seems to tell every-body (what he knows is not true) that Christ's yoke is hard and his burden heavy.

Some fellows who tried to rob a hen-roost in Winstead, Conn., found when they went to go out, that the door had blown too, and fastened them in. The cries of the hens alarmed the proprietor, who released the fel- lows on their paying £25, and they requested the newspapers should say nothing about it.

Life is but a field of blackberry and raspberry bushes. Mean people squat down and pick the fruits no matter how black their fingers; while genius, proud and perpendicular, strides fier- cely on, and gets nothing but scratches and holes torn in his trousers.

What is the worst seat a man can sit on? self con-ceit.

fection.

People behind the time should be fed

on ketchup.

Epitaph on a portrait painter—Taken

from life.

He who has good health is a rich man,

and rarely knows it.

The attempt to read many books often ends in thoroughly reading none.

He who enters upon a career of crime must come to a halt, or a halter.

A man hanging is better than a vagabond; he has visible means of support.

You needn't have such a reverence for truth as always to stand at an awful distance from it.

He that can keep his temper is bet- ter than he that can keep a carriage.

A man that can be flattered is not necessarily a fool, but you can always make one of him.

A fellow who got drunk on election day, said it was owing to his efforts to put down "party spirits."

It is the opinion of the doctor that the lawyer gets his living by plunder, while the lawyer thinks the doctor gets his by "pillage."

There is a whole sermon in the saying of the old Persian : "In all thy quarrels leave open the door of reconciliation." We should never forget it.

Dr Johnson says : "The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year."

Impure words always leave there stain. No story, however funny, should ever be told, if it will leave in the memory unclean associations.

The true secret of happiness is al- ways to have a little less time than one wants, and a little more money than one needs.

Many persons have their best so- ciety in their own hearts and souls —-the purest memories of earth and the sweetest hopes of heaven; their loneliness cannot be called solitude.

It is difficult to unite tranquility in accepting, and energy in using the facts of life : but it is not impos- sible; if it be, it is impossible to be happy.

Lord vs. Laborer.

The following story of an English peer is going the rounds. Lord S. is an amateur boxer, who prides himself upon his strength and dexterity in pugilism:

Dining one day with the great bank- er R——-, Lord S. hearing some stories of the prowess of a farm laborer on the estate, at once made a note of the man's name and address. Next morning his lordship mounted his horse and rode off in search of the celebrated athlete. He found him digging in his garden.

"My good fellow," said the peer, dismounting, pulling off his gloves, "I've heard a great deal of your strength and skill; let us have a fight."

The laborer looked at his visitor for a moment without speaking; and then, suddenly grappling with him, flung him over the hedge,

"I say my good man" cried Lord S. as soon as he recovered his senses "will you do me a favor!" "What haven't you had enough yet?" ex- claimed the laborer, sulkily. "Oh yes as far as I am personally concerned, but please throw my horse over too."