A most amusing story of Irish, charac ter ponies from Buahire, where . Her Majasiy's ship Dryad was lately an chored. There was also a sailing yes sel from Cork, which one day dis played the ensign of the Royal Yacht Club, which is so like the flag of an admiral of the fleet that a Persian might well be supposed not to know one from the other. The commander of the Dryad sent his first lieutenant to order the captain 1 of the ship from Cork to haul down the flag. The cap tain Baid he would not take it down, wherenpon the lieutenant took theinat ter into his own hands, and carried off the flag. Next morning another flag of precisely the same description was run up the masthead of the Cork ship. Again the lieutenant started, and re turned completely baffled. Then, as the story goes, the captain of the Dryad himself visited the obnoxious ship. The master said he would not take down the flag, as he had a right to fly it. The captain of the Dryad then told his men to take it down, but they couid not, for it was nailed to the mast and the mast was well greased, so that no one could climb it. There upon, it is stated, the captain of the Dryad] read out to the master the penalties of disobedience, which had the required effect, and after a whole day spent m scraping the mast the flag was taken down and stowed away.
TERRIBLE COLLIERY EXPLO SION IN WARWICKSHIRE.
