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TALE ON 'CHANGE.
" I will bay with you, sell with yon, talk with you."
-SHAKSPKAKB.
"Quamquam ridentem dicere venim
VUID vetat tHORACE.
I wonder whether any Minister in a
vacant hour turns to the pregnant es
says of Francis Lord Verulam. I never
do without meeting some principle laid down
which might be accepted aa a foundation
stone of good government, or a reproof of
bad. Take, for instance, the inBensate
parrot cry of Liberal Ministers about the
privileges of the Assembly, and then turn to
what the sage says in his essay upon " Great
Place "" Preserve the rights of thy place,
but stir not questions of jurisdiction, and
rather assume thy right in silence and' de
facto," than voice it with claims and chal
lenges." Now, are we not kept in one wild,
shrieking whirl of claims and challenges?
Again, how useful it would be to the Minister
of Railways tif he would accept this philo
sophic maxim-" Preserve likewise the rights
of inferior places; and think it mora honour
to direct in chief than to be busy in alL" His
Excellency upon a late, occasion doubtless
remembered the hint on " Negotiations,"
thus" Letters are good where ... it
would serve for a man's justification after
wards to produce his own letter; or where it
may be danger: to be interrupted or heard by
piecemeal." The Premier, whti waa so very
anxious to protest against the Governor's
action being discussed in Pariiartmnt, would
much sooner have been without that inno
cenfeloaking, but able, memorandum which.
bins him to his tripartite, dislocated m&stire
of reform.
Many a time and oft I have lamented in
these oolutnns the lack of public spirit in
Melbourne in regard to the absence of a
Merchants' Exchange wotthy of such a city.
In Sydney a fine exohange, admirably con
ducted by Mr. Ayes; baa for some time
existed. At;last our nptoach is to be re
moved. A large pile of bfaUdings has been
ribing, almost unnoticed by the public, be
cause it dote not directly abut Upon infcin
Streets. Thenew lSxch&nge, however, will be1
gadflyaooMiiblefrtom (MUritnel (fiijrikijifa,*
fhe Hell of Commerce), Queen-street, 4p<l j
Flindets-lane. What may be wintliigjti
ptemal architectural display wiH be amply
compensated for by spacious internal acoom
dation of the most complete kind. Mercan
tile men have no idea of the surprise that is
in store for them when Hie new EafChanjjeU
opened -probably in February nekt ' Itis
intended to follow closely the Sydney ayiie^i
in the conduct of the rooms, and, if
to improve npon it Mr. Hayes haa beep
offered 'the secretaryship at a
salary, bat can't be seduced from Sydney.
Information which now is posted in a some
what laggard fashion will be fitrniafced with
the utmost promptitude. Extensive refresh
ment and billiard rooms will be provided,
and the business of the city which gravitates
to this position will be there more thnmngfofy
consolidated than ever. For the
which has provided this new and costly
home of commerce the public iB indebted to
Messrs. William Sloane and Co., the princi
pal owners, and to the energy of Mr. H. Byron
Moore, in whom the chief management is
veBted. Mr. Moore has found a much wider
scope for his abilities, and doubtless a more
profitable one, than within the narrow groove
of a Government department, which left him
on a Wednesday morning.
In the Ballarat Star of 19fch December
there is a letter, evidently written by one
familiar with liis subject, which nlnima th«
attention of thoBe in authority in respect of
prison discipline. The subject is one which
cannot be discussed in the columns of
a newspaper; but it should certainly be
made the Subject of inquiry in the prisons,
and especially in the reformatories. The
horrors of some of the old Van Diemen's
Land Pandemoniums are not, I fear, yet
extinct.
The best and most useful exhibition, in
view of likely material results, ever opened in
Victoria is the Juvenile Industrial, inaugu
rated - in the Eastern Market on Tuesday.
His Excellency placed it first amongst
young people's Bhows, and he has had the op
portunity of seeing most of them. One can
not fail to be animated by the liveliest satis
faction in perceiving the sterling excellence
and beauty of many of the exhihifr. It gives
hope that the emulation arising from com
petition amongst the young workmen may be
the death blow to the prevalence of
operative shoddy which iB the curse of
modern artisanship. This exhibition to a
great extent answers the mocking question
(humorously responded to on an occasion by
Sir John O'Shanassy), "What are we to do
with our boys Y'
It is rare indeed in this country that a
person of ample private means undertakes
clerical functions, and is willing, like Tom
Pinch, "to play the organ for nothing."
Within my knowledge a sincere fihri»«ai»
gentleman of Melbourne, quite independent
in money matters, has undergone a course of
study and preparation, and has just tainm
holy orders. Religions belief of any kind is,
of course, most nniashionable, and faith,
now-a-days, is regarded as merely supersti
tion. It was different, wrote Young,
" In an age
When1 men were men, and not ashamed of Heaven."
Ihe Irish Times, published in Dublin,
appears to take extraordinary interest in dis
tinguished Victorian citizens. The genius,
the virtues, and the wrongs of Dr. Beaney
formed the subject of several lengthy articles
in its leading columns. Such gratuitous
consideration for a stranger was really de
lightful, and shows the national character in
a charmingly unselfish aspect. Thus one is
not surprised at meeting with the following
interesting narrative, which was not, I
imagined, furnished " by authority," as the
Government Gazette would in that case have
enjoyed the distinction of publishing a first
edition
"Sir Bryan O'Loghlen is the hero of a
scene in the Victorian Legislature. He dif
fered with the Colonial Attorney-General on
a question of debate, and the controversy
becoming personal, resulted in a challenge
to mortal combat and its acceptance. The
County Clare man was as punctual with his
pistol as any of hia race in the time of Harry
Lorrequer, but the law's officer was late, and
had to be sent for. An accident had delayed
him, but he turned up all right. The brass
triggers were loaded, the ground measured,
and the principals were about to take their
places when one of the seconds, a sensible
member of the Assembly [Tytherleighf], who
had previously tried to arrange the matter,
again interposed, and being this time sup
ported by the other accessory, the mediation
was successful. Bather few affairs of honour
have been so happily arranged at the eleventh
hour,'but it appeared there was a palpable
misunderstanding, which Only needed clear
ing up to make the foes friends once more."
Now, this is news indeed!
The police in many parts of England are
provided by the local bodies. In a York
shire village, as in some other small places,
there was not, a few years ago, sufficient re
venue to pay a constable, and the plan waa
adopted of appointing one of the tradesman
of the place' constable' for the year. Prac
tically, this resulted in the conscript paying
a few pounds a year to a substitute, *Who was
invested with the office and did the work.'
A decent caiidlemaker;had!tliu8 by deputgr
filled the office once, and was subsequently
elected. On the second occasion he was in
woree circumstances, fcould not Afford to pay
a substitute, and determined to perform the
duty iumself. He went to liis fbrmer defcuty,
explained the pontiff and alsked tf, the '
latter«tuld give1 him any feint* aa tb1j«nrto -
cond^ibeeffioeefocH^aMk And it is his
brief. and I think ph36eo{ft>ic, maxtms.WKl
sne yeete&ay at Imidh/'whidiTiav* induce®,
this fcrifabe. uThtrea»:iust two tfcingS, tt/
you nfini\ tfcfem, tbtti wfll#atf jr&ti flusjMfc;/
If ydit for to' '
man and his wife-don'fflo.
fidiSfeKi and you are called M '
i It waa really kind andjpriL*!)"
For dl that,* jMfwii
to toy. '4$tteiie '
station tktaiM

for. The gilding might compensate a modest
minded man for the possible rust.

About East Charlton they don't all spell so
well as they grow wheat A selector who had
had occasion to obtain an advance Borne time
ago does not forget his creditor. I saw a letter
from him yesterday commencing agreeably
thus-"Dear Sir,-I send you one lb. inte
rest" If enclosures were always as acceptable
the orthography might rery well pass.

A lady who had long put off a trip to
Europe, on the ground that she dreaded the
"knocking about" which a voyage would
entail, lately announced to her friends her
intention of undertaking it A friend con
nected with the Railway department was
incautious enough to remind her of her
previously-expressed objection, implying in
stability of intention. But the lady was equal
to the occasion. "I have," she said, "tra
velled two or three times in railway, carnages
over a continuous brake. Being knocked about
has no longer any terrors for me i"

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