English News.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 88, 16 March 1876, Page 7

English News.

Subscriptions are being raised for. the j establishment of an English Church in | Vienna.. The Duke of Norfolk has consented to sell to? the. Corporation of Sheffield his markets in the borough for £267, 000, the payment to -extend over 51 years, at 3 per cent. - . , The Edinburgh U.P, Presbytery hav9 agreed to petition Parliament to abolish the present method of proclaiming banns and substitute public notices at the offices of the various registrars. The rock mentions " a fact of much significance," that in upwards of 1 000 parishes within the (English) province of Canterbury there is neither a beerhouse nor a publichouse. Prince Bismark, a German paper states, sent his congratulations to Mr Carlyle on his birthday, and received an answer expressing unqualified sympathy . with the Prince's statesmanship. In a sermon delivered in' Westminster •Abby on Christmas Day, Dean Stanley drew a lesson from the luxury and selfishness of Imperial Rome, warning his hearers against extravagance in dress, in entertainments, or in furniture. The repaired statue of Nopoleon I. v was hoisted into its old position on the top of the Vendome Column at paris, on December 27th. The operation occupied the whole of the day, and was not accompanied by"*any public ceremony. Two members of a .' long firm," which has been trading for some time at Exeter, under the. title of " Jackson & C 0.," and victimising tradesman in various parts of the country, were convicted of fraud, and sentenced, the principal to five yerrs' penal servitude, and his confederate to 18 months hard labour. The opponents of capital punishment are, says a Paris correspondent, grieved to think that even women are still guillotined in France. Still, Sophie Gauthier was executed lately. It is true that she had, been convicted of murdering her children by sticking pins into them. It appears that since 1840, only 9 women have been guillotined in France. The ' Gazette des Tribunaux states that 149 persons were arrested in Paris on New Years Day, being so manifestly drunk that the most indulgent policeman could not avoid taking them up, in spite of laxity shown on those exceptional occasions. They were discharged when sober. The recepts from nine sales of Bengal opium and eight months' duty on Malwa opium have exceeded the estimated recepts by £221,148. 'Bengal opium has realised £434,852 more than the estimate, but the duty on Malwa is j £203,713 less then the estimate. j At Buckinghamshire quarter Sessions i a motion that. the police be instructed to prosecute in all cases, of employment of. children in violation of the Agricultural Children Act was lost by 18 votes to 13. Mr Disraeli voted in the majority. A salt mine at Boceina in Austria has been the scene of a great conflagration caused by an', inexperienced assistant engineer who, while cleaning the engine, allowed the hemp he was using to catch fire at a naked light. Eight lives were lost, six persons being killed in attempting to save others. The Birmingham Town Council discussed the proposed appointment of five intelligent persons, to be selected from the police force, to act as inspectors of licensed houses, at £3 per week each ; and eventually, by a majority of 44 votes to 14, adopted a resolution authorising the watch committee to make the appointments. The subject excited almost unprecedented interest, and the Council; Chamber was inconveniently crowded, with publicans. Another profession ! John Brown of Bell Tarrace, Kilburn, sweep and car-pet-beater, is desirous to dispose of his business, and will sell " dwelling-house, stabling, offices, horses, carts, machinery, and every thig connected with the sweeping and carpet-beating profession." It further appears that previous acquaintance with the mysteries of sweeping and carpet-beating is of importance, and John Brown, "if required, would devote a portion of his time in initiating the purchaser into the business." ■ New* York papers contain accounts ■ of a strange . explosion,. . At Boston ' a : gas main in the principal street burst tearing up the pavement and jroadway for a hundred, and fifty, yards, burying many people in the debris, and blowing* several into an adjacent river. A warehouse; was • also . shattered, killing .the manager instantly. The *j Herald' 'Says that several were killed and many injured> and that the river was being . dragged -for bodies, /The. explosion | came without warning.' J Its sound was j like the booming of cannon, and from j the chasm issued an enormous body of j flame. No. satisfactory explanation -of the. cause is ; given. '■-■■•■: ; " The Comrnander'-iri'- Chief s desire, to. raise the standard of the British army is reciprocated by all commanding officers, and efforts are. being made in all garrison towns in this direction, .it being considered that . modern warfare \ requins an pmount, of intelligence above the average of that possessed by young, men who usually -■ present themselves at the recruitifig stations, : and who in too many instances, from the \ previous - •loose nature of, their; lives,, are, unable; to submit to the discipline, and take, the. first opportunity "of deserting from . the army which they li a v.c sworn to? serve, • • 1

The Earl of Derby has contributed £50 to the fund -for the proposed endowment of a Celtic Chair in the Edinburgh University. The Newgate magistrates have decided not to allow the written statement left by Henry Wainwright to be .published. Mr Spurgeon returned to England at Christmas time. He is said to have benefitted greatly. from his sojourn in the South of France. The Lord Mayor of Dublin has received from the Pope the Cross of the Order of Gregory the Great. A fire took place at Belfast on the evening of Sunday, January 2nd, resulting in the destruction of the splendid general warehouse of Messrs Lindsay Bros. , Donegal Place. An Irish paper states : Great numbers of Irishnen continue to return from the United States to their native land. The reason for this is — ■ the exceedingly dull state of industral occupations in the States. According to a statement made by the Times in its money colnmn, the number of failures recorded in Britain during 1875 was 1707, involving liabilities estimated to amount to £30,000,000. During the year 1875 the National Lifeboat Institution's boats were the means of saving no less than 725 lives and 29 vessels making a total of 23,786 lives since tho Society commenced its operations. Another attempt to blow up a steamer at Antwerp, with 150 people on board, has been discovered. The Sheffield detectives arrested a woman named Margaret Wilkes under the following circumstances : — She formerly lived at Darlaston in Staffordshice, and whilst there insured her children in a death club, a sum of £2 10s being thus secured at the decease of each child. Since residing afc Sheffield she has sent intimation of the deaths of six; children to the club and thus obtained £15. It is alleged none of the children in reality had died. The Oxford University authorities have resolved not to accept Max Mul-. ler's resignation,,.but to appoint a deputy and divide th6?salary equally between him and Muller, who will be allowed to uninteruptedly prosecute his studies of Indian literature. The Duke of Connaught, who went on a boar-spearing expedition in Morocco recently, on the invitation of Sir W. Drummond Hay, the British Minister, has returned. to Gibralter,, having had excellent sport. <His Royal Highness and party bagged a dozen pigs in two days. The Bishop of Bloemfontein' : sailed from Southampton on Christmas Day by the Union Steamship Company's vessel Danube for the Cape, on his return to his inland diocese, carrying with him a band of 22 helpers for his mission work, one beirig a daughter of the -Archbishop of Dublin. The recently, founded University of Calcutta has conferred on the Prince of Wales an honor whicli His Royal Highness will doubtlest cordially appreciate. It has made the Prince -a Doctor of Laws, giving to him the first honorary degree it has ever granted. A telegram from Montreal reports the destruction of the barracks arid armoury by fire. Montreal has in its day suffered nearly as much from fire as Chicago. Its Parliament House and library were burned daring the riots of 1849 ; and three years later, by a conflagration which lasted two days, 1108 houses were destroyed, involving a loss estimated at upwards of £340,00. ■ A mile race for the bicycle championship of England took place at Wolverhampton on December 27th, between the three crack ;bicyolists — Keen, Moore, and Cooper. -They all started at scratch, and kept close together till i the last round, when Cooper made a spurt and won from Keen by a yard. Moore was 50 yards behind Keen. The time was 3min. 13sec. The death is announced of Miss Hardy, the eldest daughter of Admiral Hardy, in whose arms Nelson expired. Miss Hardy vjf as the occupant of a suite of rooms in" .H&rnptbh Court, Palace, allotted to her by the Queen. The musket ball by which Nelson was killed was for many years kept as a memento by Captain Hardy," who had it mounted in Orystal- and silver as. a locket. It is believed, the .' Surrey Comet ' says, to be in the possession of the Queen. A riot broke out in the South Dublin WorKhouse on the evening on December. 30tb, in . consequence of riieasures •which ; the authorities.foundit necessary to take _! regarding ; the supper of the . The pau.pers.commenced- tfye, riot as they were proceeding to the "supper hall, beginning with cursing and swearing, and winding, up by. .smashing the windows . with stones, and assaulting the master and warders. The ringleaders, were, each, sentenced to a month's imprison -"' ment,; and twenty- two other rioters .to imprisonment for a fortnight. , A. village church near Beverley was, oh a Sunday rnornirig 1 lately the scene of-.an accidentof a probably;.unparalleled; kind.. . While service was beng.cop.-*---ducted, the clock weight came crashing' down frorp. /the belfry, -and fell ; uppn o a young woman sitting in one of the pews.:. The poor girl is not expected to recover, arid her?sweetheart,'iwho sat by ket side,* was also much ■ inj ured-.. . .What 'gives ; a .peculiarly melancholy aspect to the oc"'ctjrrencp is "the fact that the injured 1 persons' -were to have been married on. Monday?? - ■•;..-•• y

:a .The amount of funds collected for j different; charitable- objects -during 1875 by the various Qommittees at the London Mansion House exceeded L 50,000. The oldest, of the Italian Ultramontane journals, tlie " Armonia," published at Florence, has just ceased to exist. The lo3s to the county of Somerset during the past year through foot-and-mouth disease is "reported at L 150,000. A correspondent in Rome telegraphs . that the first church erected there for Italian Protestants was dedicated on Christmas day. At the morning and evening services three hundred persons were present. Reports from Cognac stated that the quantity of brandy made there in 1875 is the largest on record, as well as of a high. average standard of quality. The Emperor of Brazil proposes to start on his second European tour in March* He intends this time to visit the United States, also, and will proceed, direct to New York from Rio. The Provincial Grand Lodge of Argyll and the Isles has been re-opened after being obsolete for a number of years. Brother Charles Dalrymple, M. P., has been installed Provincial Grand Master. His Holiness the Pope will be an exhibitor at the Philadelphia Exhibition. Tn response to the invitation of the United States Government, he has consented to send some of these works of art with which the Vatican is so richly endowed. A very naelanc'holy occurrence took place in Dundee, resulting in the death of a woman named Ann Hal-burton or Balbirnie, wife of a pawnbroker, -residing in Small's Wynd. While Mrs Balbirnie was at tea, a piece of meat stuck in her throat, and notwithstanding the exertions of the persons in the house, she was chocked before the meat, could be disloged. Lord Norfchbrook has resigned the Viceroyalty of India, which he has held since May 1872, He will be succeeded by Lord Lytton (better known as Owen Meredith), son of the eminent novelist, and presently Her Majesty's Minister at Lisbon. Lord Northbrook has received an earldom as an acknowledgment of his distinguished services. A number of Irishmen, who made a pilgrimage to the now notorious shrine of Lourdes, in France, last year, are going to commemorate their trip by presenting a splendid silver lamp to the shrine. It weighs 400 ounces, and is valued at L 260. The shamrock is its chief ornament, and tho inscription upon it declares it to be "an offering W thanks and love from a few of the children of St. Patrick, to Mary Immaculate." The ' Echo de Bruxelles"' publishes the following* details concerning* the health of the ex Empress of Mexico, the Princess Charlotte, daughter of the King of the Belgians, and, consort of the unfortunate Maximilian, brother of the Emperor of Austria, who was shot at Queretaro : — " Our readers will ■ recollect that tha Princess Charlotte i became insane in consequence of the [ tragical death of her consort. The mental situation of the ex -Empress Charlotte is very strange ; she appears to belong no longer to this world — she speakes to nobody, recognises no one, and lives in continual conversation with imaginary beings. Tbe persons composing her suit or attending her do not appear to exist for her; she looks afc them and seems not to see them. Society is irksome to her. Her, appetite is excellent, and she writes with -her own hand every day her bill of. fare with an astonishing intelligence of the changes which seasons bring for the usual alimentation. She gives for that purpose, as well as for other things, her orders in writing. She. has chosen in. the castle a table upon which she. puts notes, which are taken at. fixed 'hours: Under that head there is no hesitation and no confusion in her mind. , ,The Princess carries the _loye, for solitude to such an extent .that ; she refuses to be attended to. She dresses herself/ and evinces a particular r care and a '■; great. ' coqiieterrie' in'her toilet. She dresses her hair always in flat bands, as she used to do formerly. Her maid of the chamber is not admitted into her bedroom ; she performs - herself all the details of her toilet. She has preserved a remarkable memory of * the usual, things of life. Thus, on fixed days a; note orders her bath. If, when "she ■ has ordered a dish for one of her irieals;. that dish has not been served; for. one cause or another-, she .makes anobserva- '■ tion in Writing, without any reproach without bad ; humor, as a;person taking a note. .of an omission. If the; weather is fine she takes a .walk ia the park every day. .about; eleven 'o'clobk. She follows invariably the same road, walk-, ing very... quickly i It' isy needless to" to. say that she .is watched, from a distance, T : r'piraas[ii b i t|pa-r:/s. taken to 'proYect iier againstj-any ac- • ciderit. - She oftens plays .'lmusic:f. she draws and/paints^with'ia:)certai^ talent ; , music appears to console i arid-charm her ; painting absorbs andcaptiyafes her..- 1%. . thes.e dispo^itipns7of ; mind :it)is" difficult,; Jto pay 4o&x\, ayisit without-afflieting her. jjyeryWmp^ rnir^^; visit }tfie;)llustwoi^ patient^ : >The, Qujeenl^ccbpipa^ef. jij^^enerally 4 ; iri}this j visitL' lThe doctor^nqprre^aboutt : the; jbealt^qf shp. Princess, wlid ari>wsrsf \ •drily ;;^jßdiiig^pl^'.then- turnsher to him, arid.retiyfes."- 7 y.A - ;' { r.Ly

A. very curious plan is under consideration in Paris for doing away with horses.in the tramway seryice. The new system consists in placing the tramways in motion by means of air, which it is proposed to compress within a receiver. The supply of air will bo made large -enough for the entire beat ofa carriage, and may. be renewed from time to time by nveans of a large sized apparatus, which will stand at each end of the, line. The. new system is to be experimented upon,- and will soon be applied to all French tramways, if* it is . found to answer. An interment ofa most oulrh character took place at the village of Hatfield, near Doncaster. The deceased was a gentleman of property and good family, whose real name was Pilkington, but who refused to answer to any other name than Hawley, "Squire Hawley" some people called him but " Jack Hawley" was the designation he delighted in. He was buried in. his own garden, the ground being specially consecrated for the purpose by the Romish priest of Doncaster, to whose church the deceased had belonged. The body wasT carried to the grave on a board, and then placed in a stone coffin, weighing over a ton, which was lowered into the grave by means of a crane. The grave itself was situated between two favourite cows of the deceased which had died .during the rinderpest. His old Pony, Nance, was shot and buried at his feet with saddle on (a Patagonian custom),; and his dog and an old fox were buried at his head. The whole of the deceased's property was left to his. groom,; on condition that the latter had the. funeral performed in accordance with his wishes, failing which the property was to revert to the priest at Doncaster for the benefit of the Roman Catholic religion. Deceased was 52 years old ut his death. According to the 'John Bull,' the following is the origin of Mr.Sankey's most famous hymn.. During the American Civil War a very critical engagement took place in Altoona Pass. In the fort there were stored tup^lie sup-plies-of the Federal army. For a long time thesmoke was so dense that General Sherman could not communicate, and he became very anxious. • At last he went up Kenesaw. Mountain, and after a time succeeded in attracting the attention of the beseiged. He then signalled to them, " Hold the fort for I am coming," and hold it they did. A Methodist Episcopal Church was ;; opened at Rome on Christmas Day. The congregation numbers about 200, the communicants 90. They are for the most part Italians.. Though American in origin/the church is heartily supported by evangelical Protestants of all denominations in Rome. The Ultramontane papers, of course, are furious over it. Afc Sheffield Quarter Sessions Earl Wharncliffe presiding ■— Mary Ann Bennett, spinster, 40 years of age, was indicated for having maltreated an infant named James Brannan at the Rotheham Workhouse. The prisoner, who was employed as nurse in the hospital ward, was subject to frequent outbursts of anger. During one of those paroxysms she beat the, child, and then dipped it into a bucket of boiling / water. The child screamed fearfully, j its feet being severely scalded, the skin . \ ot the legs peeled off, and hung in shreds nearly, up to the "knees. The ! wouian had been previously convicted of breaking windows through her evil temper. She was found guilty, and the Chairman; in passing- sentence of two years'' hard labor, .described the case as one of the most horrible offences ever tried before. him. . The. American papers describe and announce, for sale an ingenious but appeareritly somewhat complicated substitute for that much-abused instrument the pen. It does all in. the way of writing that the pen -can do, and does it more quickly and more legibly. It is as superior,,: indeed, . for executive purposes to the pen as is a field-gun of the iatest. pattern to, the . "harmless, necessary sword .V with which the; pen is so often contrasted. It costs, according / to the advertisement, no . more than a sewing riaachine— -which however, since s.ewj-pg machines are; of various prices, gives but a vague idea as to its selling value.. Its. action is compared to that of the piano,and a writer who has learned the use of the new apparatus may, with moderate dexterity,throw off from it his thirty or forty words a minute, while a literary liszt, or. Leopold de Meyer can -turn. -out as Vmany as.sixty., At this latter-rate, a. brilliant performer on the writing. ; machine would produce suffigien to occupy a column ofa newspaper jn twenty; 'minutes, and might, .wi th , patience; and perseverance furnish '*■ enough (as. regards the raera j question ofi space) to fill the entire num- ! in" a very few -hours. Writing is ; thus rriade at least as rapid a process as ! speaking ;7and writers who have something to .s'ayi. and are prepared to say ifc j .witout'jKesl^ by em- i plpymg «'. machmer| ;, 'to ; lighten their labpurs£yeryimktenally. 'Printers, two, u^ili:rpro|lt by r.the,.new inyention if it shouldiever.be generally adopted. .. The .writing^machine;. » giyes -forth not the ' ; f;a^j^ari^ call ' Jt^.i^te|(^|^i^e,{llbui; printed charactersas; unmistaicable^^ \rightorvwrong, as a e *keye(| The ?Tagi(^erfprmer^hos9 phrasi-njg is im~ 7 tpei^ct^r^h^inake¥ faults ?bf; a morej7i| rjid^enf^ |a|^ssmn^7^^ %dsivel)ut. hot sufficiently correct pian^l ]h Ayyy :.\ AjM