Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-03-27 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ABORIGINAL CRICKETZ.RS FROM AUSTRALIA. —The Australian aboriginal cricketers from Victoria, Australia, are expected (says the Field) to arrive in this country in May. They are thirteen in number, and are veritable Australian natives, with the straight hair and peculiar organisation of the Australian aborigines. Their training in cricket has been received from Mr W. It. Hayrnan, formerly of Devonshire, and for many years past a squatter in the Wimmera district on the Glenelg River, Victoria. They will be accompanied to England by Mr Charles Lawrence, of Dublin, formerly of the All England Eleven. In Australia they have attracted considerable attention, and last year won 17 matches out of 22. At the time of the last mail leaving they were about to play the Duke of Edinburgh and the crew of the Galatea at Sydney.  - A correspondent of the Daily News is making a journey through Central India. He describes the opium factory at Patna as "the largest poisoninc agency in the world." The opium packing for 1867 was just over at Christmas, and nearly 39,000 chests of China opium had been sent down to Calcutta, worth about .£4,000,000. Each chest contains forty cakes. The dark, sticky stuff is ingeniously enclosed in a coating of dried poppy leaves, so that each cake (weighing about 21b) presents the appearance of a Dutch cheese or a cannon ball. This has given rise to the saying that in war we give the Chinese cannon balls of iron, and in peace cannon bale of opium, thus giving them the chance of being shot or poisoned, and making them pay smartly for their attention. Ii return for this they teed us with tea and clothe us with silk, which seems to chew a truly celestial spirit.  The English Independent, in an article on the Todmorden murders, without any wish, as it says, to extenuate the murderer's guilt, tells the following story : —" When Miles Weatherill was an infant in his cradle, his father happened to come in one day during his mother's temporary absence, and was seized with some cruel impulse to take the child out of his cradle, and put him in a drawer. When his mother remrned, and inquired for her child, the father professed ignorance, and aggravated her distress by telling her that he had seen a woman PIM by some time before, who had doubtless stolen him. For two hours he allowed her agony to continue, until by accident she found the child in the drawer where he had placed it. Such story anyone may hear in Todmorden to-day. If vices run in the blood as well as other things, surely here was a germ of murder, or any cruelty that might develop itself fatally in generations to come." A characteristic letter from General Perronet Thomnson on the Ir sh qui ation appears in the Eastern Morning News. He recalls the time of his youth, when there was an idea that shou'd Napoleon make a descent upon England he would declare all land to be this property of the tenants. There is no fear of Bonaparte now, but the General believes thdt "the whole devil of the division of property" is upon us. " Any man proposing to transfer the landed property of Ireland from the friends of English connection to those who are not so, should be treated as an accomplice before the fact. And there is another point connected (sec), which is, that the thing would not be done without a civil war. Why are the Protestants in Ireland to be told the time is come when they are to be as if William had been bestow at the Boyne? Will not the next step be to tell us that the Battle of Hastings was a great impropriety, and all property which can be traced to that decision should be at the mercy of the Grand Rego. lator ?" Thirty years ago, after a contested election, two men stood upon the hustings at Maidstone. The winner was Benjamin Disraeli, who had thus secured an entree into the House of Commons; the loser was General Thompson. Time has placed the former in the position of Prime Minister of England; time has left the latter where he was at the repeal of the Corn