, 1877-01-27

that the British Government bas %yolunta-
rliy offered to carry out the old Treaty
until the new one can be completed He
has replied shat he is perfectly really to
respond. The Exfradition Treaty is there.
tore again in working operation, aud it was
high time it should be, as already most
serious cases of oppression on board ship
have been found practical y unpunishnble.
An American captain accused of numbering
his sailors had only to take shelter in a
British port, to be beyond capture by his
countrymen or any one else. An occur
renee OF the kind has created the greatest
excitement in Hong Kong, and in few
months we should have had offences on the
high seas punished by lynch law.
Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of
New South Wales, having to entertain the
Governor of Victoria at Albury, a frontier
town between the two colonies, made on
DC ob'r 81 a strong speech in favour of
Federation. He pointed out the necessity
which is springing up for q common
system OF defence, OF railway gauges, Of
te.egraph8, and mail communication with
Europe, OF immigration, and Of dealing
with the great problem of Chinese l%aocur,
and drew IL brilliant picture OF the y sSible
future OF Australia in the year 1850. 1t
would then, he thought, contain thlrty-one
and a quarter millions of people, aud be
one Of the great Powers of The world.
Sir George Bowen heartily c.inciJed, and
added that Australia, with her two mill us
Of people, and fourteen millions of revenue,
and ninety millions Of ira e, was already
among the ten or twelve great Dations Of
the world. An Australian Republic, with
thirty millions Of people, and an India TO
her hand in he islands OF the Indiau Archi-
peIago, ought 10 be a most powerful factor
il the world but she has some serious
problems TO solve first, and among them,
how to overcome her burning local ieu-
%lousies, which are at prese It as bitter as
the feeling which once existed between
England and Scotlaod.
The P%russian law of divorce provides
that before man and wife can obtain a
decree Of separation or divorce, both par
ties must lay their Case before q Clergyman
or a civil magistrate, who is to use his
utmost Efforts to reconcile " the quarrelIing
couple" The rule is absolute, aud the
practice far from unsuccessful. In 1874,
for instance, out of 1890 couples desiring
separation, no less t.au 2,638 were recon
ciled, while 1,042 cases were still pending.
and 1856 couples had been reconciled for
the second time. The Times in publishing
the figures seems to think something Of the
same kind might be tried in England, but
forgets that the reasons for divorce or sc pa
ration allowed by law are much graver
here than in Prussia. A great number Of
quarrels in Old Prussia, where alone the
system exists, are, we have heard, quarrels
on pecuniary grounds, wife or husband
fearing ruin from the acts of the other ;
and in such cases judicious advice, follow
ed by promises, may be Of the highest eff
cacy. 1t is remarkable that in Prussia,
where thu reverence for the clergy is not
great, quarrelling couples almost invariably
prefer the pastor to the magistrate.
Dr.. SchliemAnn's excavations at the
tomb Of A%gamennnn in Myceoae seem to
produce clear evidence both Of the great
antiquity of the tomb, and Of the high ar
tistic development Of the ago 10 which it
was closed. Besides the bronze swords,
stone srrow.heads have been found in it,
though the Sc TIiad'' ReemS IN hova M ro