ed in this way; and at the bottom of
Fortune's Passage, St. Mildred's, a hair watchguard, with two gold
keys and a seal attached, was taken from the river; and at another
spot a portion of a mourning ring was picked up."

We may expect, after the publicity we are now giving to this affair,
that the outskirts of Canterbury will soon be turned into a "Canvas
Town," and that there will be an unprecedented demand for fishing-tackle
to supply those who will make a rush to the goldfishings. It will be
observed that the Canterbury gold discoveries are superior in many
respects to the Australian, for while in the latter the precious metal
is in its rough state, the gold found at Canterbury is met with in the
very convenient form of gold keys, seals, and sovereigns.

Some people have been puzzling themselves rather seriously with the
inquiry, how it is that gold has been found in the river Stow?--but we
have no hesitation in accounting for the fact by stating, that this
wealth must be the result of the washings of the adjacent see, which is
well known to be one of the richest, if not the very richest, in the
whole world. We mean, of course, the See of Canterbury.

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A LIKELY JOKE.

According to the _Liverpool Standard_, the Irish have been quarrelling
amongst themselves at Liverpool; but from our contemporary's version of
the affair, we are inclined to doubt this intrinsically very improbable
circumstance. That narrative states that the row apparently originated
as follows:--

"An Orangeman complained that a Papist boy had thrown some dirt at
him."

Orangemen never complain groundlessly of Papist boys, and Papist boys
never throw dirt--either literally or figuratively. Dirt!--how are they
to come by it? Who ever saw or smelt any such thing as dirt in any the
most remote connexion with a "Papist boy?"

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CHANGES IN THE CAMP.

It is found that the late wet weather at Chobham has had a most
singularly contrasting effect upon the potatory propensities of the
officers who have been stationed there. For while the bibulous have been
reduced to most unpalatable tent-and-water, the temperate have been
rarely known to get to bed without a thorough "soaking."

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[Illustration: THE NEW ACT. _Hansom Cabby._ "H'M!' SIXPENCE. YOU HAD
BETTER KEEP IT. YOU MAY WANT IT FOR YOUR WASHIN' OR SOMETH