English News.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 98, 26 May 1876, Page 7

English News.

The Right Hon. Kobert Lowe has become President i of the West Kent Bicycle Club. „„."" : ■ The Rev. Mr Warren* Inniscorthy, has been selected as Jtloman Catholic Bishop of Ferns. Professor Max Muller has been named a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy. r : The Durham University hag declined sending a crew, to row at Philadelphia during the present year. Mr C. J. Parsons has been elected to an organ scholarship, at j£ebie College, value £100 per annum. To the regret of many Liberals, Mr Gladstone has withdrawn from the Westminster Liberal Registration So-i ciety. : ' ' * .".' • ■ ''• Two new secular schools in Paris have received the sanction of the Departmental Council of Public Instruction. ' The Vary Rev. Sidney Turner, who; wns lately installed Dean of Hipon, is about to resign his appointment in consequence of ill health. •• Spotted Tail, V chief of the Sioux Indians, has applied for space to erect 100 lodges in the grounds of the Philadelphia Exhibition. At Aston, near Birmingham, a cow charged a group of children. One child, seven years old, named Albert Bust, died from injuries sustained. A movement is on foot at Birmingham for endowing scholarships in connection with the National Training School for Music at South Remington. The Hereditary Grand Duke of Baden will, it is stated, matriculate at the University of Heidelberg at Easter, and devote several terms to the prosecution of his scientific studies. Marshal MacMahon rode in a tramway car from the Charles Elysee to try the new locomotive, working by. coin-; pressed air. The experiment is said to nave perfectly succeeded. A new society has .been, started in Paris under the name of " The General Association for the Study and Practice of Cremation." The presidency of it has been offered to Victor Hugo. Mr Chas. Mathews is attracting good houses at Brighton, in "My Awful Dad and other , comedies. This is yttp veteran comedian's -first appearance^ in England since his return from India. ' Up to the 22nd ins% 74,657 persons had petitioned the House of Comons in favour of the Women's Disabilities. Renip.yal BiU, 1 5,0 15* f hgaiast ' tKe . Burials Bill, H273 in favour o£tlje prevention i if vivisection. <;■.,'•■« „■> '"■',- !■*•. < ■ ' The elephant upon- which the Prince of Wales rode in the grattd^rbcessiPn at Agra is, the : ons: upon whose' back .Corel Lake rode : in 180,8;Wh f eri. ]ie went in. procession to. meet Runjeet Singh on the banks of the Sutlej. ••-> •■-■■ v , At a. teinperanca conference, the Bishop of Gloucester 'spoke approvingly of the Permissive Prohibitory Bill, and, promised that if* 'it ever came into the ,Hpnse of Lords while he had a seat there he would; vote for it. There; is • reason to /Relieve that the offer of £1200 per annum in perpetuity for the endowment vof a r Bishop for Cornwall comes from Countess Burdett Coutts, who has previously endowedthe three Bishoprics of .Adelaide, Capetown,.and British Columbia. A gentleman has offered to subscribe .£SOOO towards, a new infirmary for Bolton, if the directors, wpuldL provide therein for t&e, accombdation of the children, or failing to accomplish that, if they would add a Children's Hospital 'vwing 1 to the present? Infirmary. . A ' Times ' telegram,, from Rangoon says : — Fifteen conspirators: have been convicted of treason: and five of the abetting of treason. The head 1 conspirator is sentenced to be transported for. 21 years, and the others 1 to transportation for ten years, and lesser terms. '■, The trial lasted three weeks. Seven of the accused were' acquittecl. " j. , The second edition Tof Mr.) Adam's tc Twenty-five Years ..of Emigrant Life in the South of -New Zealand,*' is now published, and is a great improvement on the first one. From. 112 pages i it has swelled to 156, while the.illustrations, though not increased in number, are all* different, and are; better executed than ;those in the former edition. The Master of the Rolls, at Dublin, fave judgment in a case in whiph 'ranees Brew, r widowjbf a constabulary officer, claimed' ,a sum out; of the Irish Constabulary: Officers' Widow .Society By the rules of the society she was prohibited frotn receiving money, having married again her deceased sister's bus bandf . The l^dy, said she had a dispensation from the Pope annulling the riage. ;; His Lordship said the/marriage was invalid,, and gave judgment for Mrs Brew for the amount sued. for. . | .-.-; In a congregation" held at Oxford University; the preamble of 'a statute was approved establishing' a professorship | of Ghinese-to beheld- for -life, or as lo^ig '"is= lie shall 'see .fitUb ! hold' -it, \by Dr James Xegge, of the University of Aberdeen. The" University will gve a year.,: / A'similar sum-has be en raised by^ English merchants in Chiia/ ante » r CQrpuS.rChriiti>wiir assign one of its fellowships to Dr Le^ge, who is he first of living r!: Cfiinese'«cK6la r r"s\ fie bas'liyeol:3s years}in China as a irissionary, and has edited, with a tran^la-nofi^'and'a-con^mentary, the Chinese Classics, in ten volumes. A professorship of Celtic is about to bp founded by Jesus Cellege and the P^isrsity acting together,

■ Nearly- £3OOO has been subscribed in; i Norfolk for a testimonial to Mr C. S.i i Read, MvP. ; * £10,000 has been already contrib.ute.d | to the building 1 fund of the London | Liberal- Club ; . '..'•. I Two splendid sphinxes, it is stated, with inscriptions/ have just been riis- ! covered at Rhamses. . - •! The Royal Commission on Vivisec- ! tion Have signed their report, which | will forthwith be despatched to Her \ Majesty. The Holstein bred cows are attract-; y ing; much attention in various parts of America from their wonderful milking qualities. ! Prince Frederick Williamjieldest son; i of the Crown Prince of Germany, is ; about to reside in Breslan, the capital of Silesia. The sugar crop at Havana this year will probably fall short of that of 1875 by 30 per cent. This means a deficiency of about 200,000 tons. ' " ; The English Baptists have just purchased a site for the purpose of building another Baptist church in connection with their mission in Rome. Geo. Darby, the steeplechase jockey, died at Rugby, through injuries received at the Birmingham Steeplechase, where he was thrown when riding Pearl King*. At a town's meeting at Liverpool, the Mayor presiding, resolutions and a petition in favor of the entire closing of public- houses on Sundays were almost unanimously adopted. At the Chamberlain's Court, London, Mr Gladstone signed the usual formal application to the Court of Aldermen for admission to the freedom of the City of London as a member of the Turners' Company. The Prussian Field-Marshal Count Wucgel, will shortly celebrate his 92nd birthday. On the 15th of August, it will be precisely 80 years since he entared the army, which he did at the ear/ly age of 12. (The cremationists of Germany have resolved to hold an annual meeting in the month of April, at Gotha, where the Government has officially sanctioned their mode of disposing of the dead and permitted its public use. The Cambridge University Union have rejected, by" 224 votes to 92, a 'motion to the effect that the disestablishment and disendowment of t the Churches of England and Scotland would ibe beneficial to the nation. i We have heard it rumored that 'it Hs ; not? improbable that: ere long : tlje ,navy may be equally fortunate with the army, and 1 Have : as itis immeHiate chief, similarly' With!' the sister service,; a Prince of the- Wood-Royal.— '-Army- and Navy ;Gazette'.'j "j 'A > X . : : '■//■: \: ;, "f \ '■"-■■- The 99th anniversary of the Marquis of Tweeddale's birth-day was celebrated by : the- tenants and feua'rs on his lordship's property, dining, together, as ha's been, their, custom. for the last ten years, r in.'[tlrs [Yester Arms Hotel, /Gifford, East Lothian. ,^_ i ' Walter Sheldon^ jtged 19> when taking part in a football match at Crookes, Sheffield, . ran , Jbjeadlong: , into a stone quarry, and received such terrible injuries to his isktiH'a'hd spine that lie now lies at the infirmary not expected to live- many, hours. >. '.I V ; At a meeting of the Curators of Euinburgh'XJnivei'sity/it was agreed to .appoint the Rev. It. Flint, Professor of Mpral . Philosophy, St. Andrew's University, as' successor to the late Processor . Crawford in the chair of Divinity ;^n Edinburgh University. . '_ At the annual meeting of the Women's Education' Union, held at Willis' Rooms, London, Sk Charles. Read presiding, the Princess Louise was present, and was re-elected President. Lord Aberdare and the Right Hon. J. StansfMd, M.P., spoke in support of the objects of the Union, and a resolution was passed pledging the .meeting to continued exertions on behalf of the higher education of women. ; ; " : I Apropos of , the small numbe? of National Guards who were killed during the seige of Paris;, and the 221 men who fell at the final effort to break through the German lines on 1 the i&th of January, the ' Figaro ' says :— " We are perhaps over the mark in saying that 10,000 National Quards did battle on the day in question j and how many demands for the Legion of Honor do you think were made ? Over 28,000:!' The agricultural returns show that the cultivated area of Jand.in 1875, was -41,8n»000- acres for the whole United Kingdom; exclusive of heath and moun- ■ tain: pastures r and woods and-planja- : tions^ . .'This is an. increase of 171,0(00 over , 1874; ; The stock of cattle "are numbered > over 10,000,000, and sheep i' 'and ' l lambs nearly 33,500i000 tor- the i. United Kingdom. ■ Compared with i 1.874= there was.a decrease of about 4 per" cent, in sheep and lambs in Great C Britain; last year. - / ■ \ "j v The. Maharajah ; qf Burdwae has sent • a letter to the * Times,' in which he cxv presses a, wish to present a silver-medal ' to each of the boys, of the 3 GolKtli who s- s si^nally distinguished themselves on ihe I (OcaMpn j of^the bur j nirig : of that: wssel. i :.■' I.'may^'.'tii(B , MaharajahuSays,! '* haye f been forestaliedin tthis. wish, but I trust si that 1 1 be allowed to do something, i j of the kind, as, coming -from India,] it, i'^-'will''prove' ) t6 ! 'lthe'''bbys I ' ? that' : dee& like. . theirs have noVirierelj a" local Time, > but.j.arej markeef i;» n A appreciated jby{ their fellow-subjects in the most distant r parts of Her Majesty's Empire," The ; Maharajah encloses a draft to, cpver the I cost of t^e medals.

' Sir Ju/ig Bahadur presented to the Prince of Wales, besides; other things a fine collection of Hying wild beasts and birds. * ... - Tn the diocesFof Mantua fifty heads of families of the parish of Halidano rer cently entertained at a banquet their pastor, Don Paolo Orioli, and his curates. Toasts were drunk to the principle of parochi •) plebiscites and to Mr Gladstone, the illustrious English statesman who had advocated and subsidised the cause. x : %:^ In order to enable the Lowland congregation at Tnverrtray to procure the services of a preacher capable of preaching with edification both in the English and Gaelic languages, the Duke of Argyll has guaranteed a stipend to the amount of £180; but,, at the same time'; has warned his friends that their limitation in the-selection ot'.,a pastor, imposed by the supposed necessity that the minister of tha Lowland charge should be able to preach in Gaelic, is one which cannot be long maintained. Nor is it necessary that it should, for, said his Grace, tha In veraray Highlanders can speak English better than the vast majority of Englishmen. i The unusual verdict of "excusable homicide" was returned by a Salfdrd coroner's jury who had inquired into the death of a publican named Thomas Clowes. The deceased received a blow on the nose from a person, whom he was endeavoring to eject from the "vault," and the hemorrhage which followed caused his deatß He .urns **very druuk" at the time of the occurrence. The man who struck the deceased was called, and he stated that he had acted in self-defence, whereupon (he jury returned a verdict in the. terms stated.

The following are the latest items, dated London, April 26 :— A panic has been caused partially by unfunded rumor of change in the Russian policy in the East, aud differences have arisen between Count Andrassy and Norikoff. The panic has since sub* sided. ■ ■•'•'> The Queen's title of Empre»s\of"lndia is approved of in Russia..i ; , 1 The Queen is visiting Gotha,^ accompanied by Bari Carnarvon and Lord Derby. During her return journey to „, London Her Majesty had a lengthy interview ; with the Duke De Gazes, in Par&,, ..;. „.... , ' ;"■.., ■'■• |M . The;- mail ; . steamer Surat sailed from Southampton, on .thpjS.rh April, and was toYed into Lisbon SVith a tlaWged I shaft. ...;.• ... T",, .",.,,.., ,-" w .~m On the 18th April the Emperor of Germany visited Queen -TOtam at Coburg. ■'■' .*■■:'» "'tf'tf •«■>*'. 20,000, colliers' .%\ and Derbyshire have struck "owing 1 * to a reduction of wages. .•-'.' '' .■ •" Lord . Lytteltdn committed^ suicide! .during*,. a^'t, of meiahchojy.' V^ 1 .. r , . A-orace lor the . chain pionsh i p '. at theThames "has Wen' aVruhg-ed 1 btefcween Sadler and Trickett. ... „-r .... I The.Londonand.Coiomal..W.ool salea were resumed.' The opening 1 sales exhibited "a 'languid tone, nnd prices rul«di a penny lower.* ;'.' ) The wheat market is du11.,, , The ' Norde Deutsches'' dtctUros thafr, the agreement betw.ee* the. thjrea Great; Powers remains. uiabvpkehj.sVndi Austria,' Germany; 1 and' 'HW«' will ; »nlf takofurther action m the pastern qjiiestion, after other guaranteemg Powers make* , some mawnaeat* . - > s '',} j The * Journal of St. E^tersbiirg '• re^, produces a ..'Vienna semi -official article, •declaring that tlie entente cofdiale be • tween Austria .and Russia continues, and appeals to the public to. Uisqrediol the alarmist . reports circulated durine* ' the recent panic. . . \ r " f ... .„ A revolt occurred in ' Noj?(»hlM»n ! Bos-, nia, and horrible cruoltieaytrerepraorisedi by the i.nswjgeate towards, the nAUyes, wha refused to join th«. wmlts of thel rebels^ .: | The Governor of Bosnia announced{ tW defeat of l^OOJasupgefttSi t ; The Turks officially admit -defeat at; Miksisseh after six days' /fighting tha, supplies, far- trbopis having been, inter-, ceptiecj;^:; .-.-.rr:::. ."' : ,Oi\ ri iYL The Porto bas, balled the atte^tioA of 1 the Great Powers to. the attiludfe, o^ B Servia in reorganising; /: The arnjy.in Spain is insisting on re-. liberty being siaspe^ded^ a.n.d i^ parleying with the Vatican- } An Arab rising has t4kenj: place in, Algeria, and further. chanvesJare made, in the EreacU pratectoratft.' j . The American -C ongress, instituteti an inquiry into the charges brofigH^agains^ S«hi&ncke' and D.elkha^ii^rv^feVeAce to, the Emma mjne v The * Times* publish©^ ao, counts of siel^ness arid native plague «t Hillah Va^ -Kngdad. The French Chsinflber^alroost unanii mously agreed to, the aliltlition of the, State of Siege. JtstatWl tjijif thfi Czar, of Russia, weary of the,; twuble of governing his vast Empire;,' , will retire, (practically^under- a \ Regein.Oyv) f^tn tha conduct of public affairs, but nQm.inally he retains aia nositioa. r : •: *. - ./_