We have heard of splitting a hair; but never before was word of man—parole of honour—broken with such nicety. The flaw is so delicate, it is hard to say where it begins or ends. In future, perhaps, when an Irish convict gentleman waits upon an Australian magistrate, to surrender, on paper, his "comparative liberty," the magistrate, before perusing the document, will take the precaution of shutting the office-door.
The Milky Way in Lancashire.
Many of the farmers about Preston are giving their cows apples, in consequence of that fruit being more plentiful, and so much cheaper, than potatoes. We wonder whether this difference of diet produces any difference in the milking; and whether a cow, so fed, instead of yielding so many pints of milk, gives now so many bottles of cider; or whether it was a combination of both—a sort of milk-cider? In the cause of temperance, we pause for a reply.
Caledonian Fiddle-de-dee.—The irritation of the Scotch agitators may be only skin-deep, but the disorder nevertheless may prove contagious.
PAYING CULPRITS THROUGH THE NOSE.
WE see that old Kentucky is going ahead in the practice of humanity towards an unfortunate and degraded class of beings. Witness the New York Journal of Commerce, which contains the subjoined paragraph:—