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Masonic Chit-Chat.
and sound judgment . Of the henefit they have derived from their President ' s possession of all these qualities , the club beg to express their conviction , and to tender to him their grateful thanks ; believing as they do , that the efforts they have already made in the science of agriculture , have under his guidance , created a stimulus , which the club hope will , in due course , be productive of general benefit .
THE Chief Justiceship of Hong-Kong has been offered to no less than seven members of the English bar , ancl declined by them all , although the salary attached to the office is £ 3 , 000 a-year . —Query . SANDWICH ISLANDS PAPER . —At the last meeting ofthe Ethnological Society the first four numbers of a newspaper , published at the Sandwich Islands , in the native language , were laid on the table . This singular journal , a small folio size , is published once a fortnight-: the
circulation is about 3 , 000 , and the annual subscription 6 i < £ It is edited by an American missionary , and contains , in addition to the ordinary political and general news , political and religious dissertations , & c .
DREAMS NOT ALWAYS TO BE DISREGARDED . —Cicero furnishes us with a relation of tivo Arcadians , who , travelling together , arrived at Megara , a city of Greece , between Athens and Corinth , where one of them lodged in a friend ' s house , ancl the other at an inn . After supper , the person who lodged at the private house went to bed , and fallingasleep dreamed that his friend at the inn appeared to him , and begged his assistance , because the innkeeper was going to kill him . The man
immediately got out of bed , much frightened at the dream ; but recovering himself , ancl falling asleep again , his friend appeared to him a second time , ancl desired that , as he would not assist him in time , he would take care at least not to let his death go unpunished ; that the innkeeper , having murdered him , had thrown his body into a cart , and covered it with dung ; he therefore begged that he would be at the city gate in the morning , before the cart was out . Struck with this new dream , he went early to the gate , saw the cart , and asked the driver what was in it . The driver immediately fled ; the dead body was taken out of the cart , and the innkeeper apprehended and executed .
THE GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION . — The anniversary festival of this charity is appointed to be held on the 20 th April at the London Tavern , at which H . R . H . the Duke of Cambridge has consented to preside . The list of stewards contains the names of many of the Nobility , and other generously disposed friends . The leading objects of the institution are to afford assistance privately and delicately , through the Ladies' Committee to British governesses in temporary distress . To accumulate a fund , from the interest of which free annuities may
be granted to governesses in their old age . To assist governesses in securing annuities for themselves , on Government security , by their own payment . It is enough to observe , that as no class of society has such paramount claims on public sympathy as this estimable portion of Englishwomen , who , by education ancl moral example , are the means of guiding and improving the minds of female youth , so the institution may be viewed as a temple of gratitude—dedicated to the moral worth of those whose necessities have been too long unobserved—possibly only because thev were unobtrusive .
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Masonic Chit-Chat.
and sound judgment . Of the henefit they have derived from their President ' s possession of all these qualities , the club beg to express their conviction , and to tender to him their grateful thanks ; believing as they do , that the efforts they have already made in the science of agriculture , have under his guidance , created a stimulus , which the club hope will , in due course , be productive of general benefit .
THE Chief Justiceship of Hong-Kong has been offered to no less than seven members of the English bar , ancl declined by them all , although the salary attached to the office is £ 3 , 000 a-year . —Query . SANDWICH ISLANDS PAPER . —At the last meeting ofthe Ethnological Society the first four numbers of a newspaper , published at the Sandwich Islands , in the native language , were laid on the table . This singular journal , a small folio size , is published once a fortnight-: the
circulation is about 3 , 000 , and the annual subscription 6 i < £ It is edited by an American missionary , and contains , in addition to the ordinary political and general news , political and religious dissertations , & c .
DREAMS NOT ALWAYS TO BE DISREGARDED . —Cicero furnishes us with a relation of tivo Arcadians , who , travelling together , arrived at Megara , a city of Greece , between Athens and Corinth , where one of them lodged in a friend ' s house , ancl the other at an inn . After supper , the person who lodged at the private house went to bed , and fallingasleep dreamed that his friend at the inn appeared to him , and begged his assistance , because the innkeeper was going to kill him . The man
immediately got out of bed , much frightened at the dream ; but recovering himself , ancl falling asleep again , his friend appeared to him a second time , ancl desired that , as he would not assist him in time , he would take care at least not to let his death go unpunished ; that the innkeeper , having murdered him , had thrown his body into a cart , and covered it with dung ; he therefore begged that he would be at the city gate in the morning , before the cart was out . Struck with this new dream , he went early to the gate , saw the cart , and asked the driver what was in it . The driver immediately fled ; the dead body was taken out of the cart , and the innkeeper apprehended and executed .
THE GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION . — The anniversary festival of this charity is appointed to be held on the 20 th April at the London Tavern , at which H . R . H . the Duke of Cambridge has consented to preside . The list of stewards contains the names of many of the Nobility , and other generously disposed friends . The leading objects of the institution are to afford assistance privately and delicately , through the Ladies' Committee to British governesses in temporary distress . To accumulate a fund , from the interest of which free annuities may
be granted to governesses in their old age . To assist governesses in securing annuities for themselves , on Government security , by their own payment . It is enough to observe , that as no class of society has such paramount claims on public sympathy as this estimable portion of Englishwomen , who , by education ancl moral example , are the means of guiding and improving the minds of female youth , so the institution may be viewed as a temple of gratitude—dedicated to the moral worth of those whose necessities have been too long unobserved—possibly only because thev were unobtrusive .