English News.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 99, 2 June 1876, Page 3

English News.

A notice has been posted at Lloyd's that the Loch Laggan is missing. A race for the championship of ther Thames has been "arranged between- 1 Sadler and Trickett, of Sydney. The- Prince of Wales visited Malta, Gibraltar, Cadiz, and Seville on his way home. „: • _ A resolution has been tabled in the House of Commons praying* -the Qu en not ; to use the title of Empress,^' ., Miss Alice May's'^Operlfcjißouffe Company left India. en route' Sot Batavia, and is now playing .at Singapore. The climate of Acheen still affects the Dutch troops. Skirmishing is frequent. Spain is insisting on religious liberty, and has suspended parleying with the Vatican. ' ! . TJhe -Times, 'ia reviewing, the recent " stonewall " agitation in Victoria, strongly condemns the factious policy ofthe Opposition. , #;?. * ' John Muir, the California!! geologist, has counted sixty-five glac^sj t infmpu|n- ' tains of that State. Yoseniil^was dug out. ! by glaciers. ' • .... .Governor Jeryoise has f|>r^liy*^jac*% knowledged ' the obligations voF^he ."British.. Government to the Siamese Government and Rajah Quedah for their aid in the late outbreak. A letter in the Augsburg Gazette says that the Czar is weary of government, and proposes to retire — practically, though not nominally — from the conduct of public affairs. The Chalgrove hss put into Mauritius damaged. Thirty tons of the cargo were jettisoned, and a portion of the balance has been sold. The Chalgrove has, since completed her repairs. : The decree promulgated by Marshal Miic&lahon announcing that an international exhibition will be held, in .Paris in. 1878, is regarded as a proof of confidence in the existing institutions, and a general desire f„r peace. The latest Perak intelligence states th'at-Rajah Yusg, heir to the throne, has been, conimitting cruelties and . inflicting brutal punishment fbr imaginary offences. . His acknowledged brutality caused the Malay chiefs to endeavor to cut him off from the succession. The I. country 13, however, quiet, some rebels, notably Kota Lama chiefs and followers, ..showingsymptpms of submission. ,

I At. the County Police Court, Liverpool, on Saturday", acowkeep'er, named Henry Mitchell, of Tuebrook, was summoned for cruelly treating two cows, by neglecting to provide them with food. It was stated by an inspector that on visiting the defendant's ship'ponj he found eleven cows, five of which were in a very poor condition, their bones- almost' starting through their skin. They were, bellowing for food, of which there was scarcely any on the premises.. rThe bench convicted; the defendant, and there being* a previous conviction against; him, he' was 'now. fined L.5 and costs, with the alternative of two "month's imprisdnmeht. | sATIi a- Archbishop of Paris, ,in a letter to his clergy ordering -prayers to be 'bffered : inH'he ehu^phes^for the:new|Parliament, saysrthe.accoinplishnaent of the program mi^'adolited^by some members of the Legislature.— for instance! the separation of Church and State, 1 and the exclusion of religion^from public education and from pthes'social institu-tions—-would' be ffquiyal6ht!-to : the destruc'ionof: Fiance. -

The Siamese Government is vigor- : ousiy - pushipg- on a telegraph line to j connect Burmah with Bangkok, thence jto Penang. There will thus be to lines ■ from Singapore to England.. ". The Si -: | beriah fines have beehinucli inter runted 'lately. •

The discovery of a boiling lake in tl c island of Dominica has excited mucb scientific interest. Investigations ofthe phenomenon are to be made by geologists. It appears that a company exploring the steep anj -forest-covered mountains behind.the town of "Hbsseau came upon the boiling Jake about 2,500 ft. above tho sea level and two, miles in circumference. On the wind clearing away for a moment the" clbuds^bf surphurousi ' steam With which the lake was covered, a mound of water was seen 30ft. higher i than the general level of the surface,, caused by ebullition. The margin of the lake consists of beds of sulphur, and,' its overflow found exit by a water-fall of great height. The effect of li«;ht in reviving life has just bi en illustrated near Athens, by Processor Hendreich. The mines at Laurium consist for the most part ofthe scorise produced by the workings of the ancient Greeks. Beneath these scoriaei have lain in a dormant state for at least 1500 years, the seeds of a kind of poppy. 1 These scoriae have lately been removed to furnaces for the extraction of Filver; and this plant has sprung up with its pretty yellow pettles over the whole space which was uncovered. Unknown in modern times, it was described by Pliny and Dioscorides, and had disappeared from the face of tlie globe for fifteen dr twenty centuries. A new society has just been started in Paris tinder the name of " The General Association for the Study and Practice of Cremation. *' The health of the ex-Empress of the French is, it is said, in a very delicate state. She has lost all her strength, and with difficulty can walk about for a few minutes at a "time. A change of air has been repeatedly urged upon her ; but as long as the French elections ai;e undecided, she is unwilling to leave Chiselhursr, whence she can keep up a more regular and uncontrolled correspondence with her supporters than in any other country where she mio«ht fix her temporary abode. There is some talk of her son, Prince Napoleon, going to America in the Spring, to be lionised at Philadelphia. Speaking at a crowded meeting at Woolwich, on February 10, Mother Stewart, who is tho prime mover in the women's whiskey war, said that God having weighed men in tlie" balance and found them wanting, had appointed women to pleadnvith thorn on behalf ! of humanity. J^ff men would not do the work fjiven to t-tam to do, they would have to take " back seats," for ever, and would probably find themselves, represented by women ,'iv their Parliaments, Keferring. to the factt>MSii^ocomo*-•faves-on the Fell principle being manufactured at Bristol for the New'Zeafand Gover-Menr, the r 4^gineering,' the leading railway organ,\,says :—-" Our own opinion of the Fell system is well known, and we cannot but consider it singular that after ihe cxi eri -nee which has been gained ivith it it should have been adopted in INew Ze dand. Wecannot anticipate anything but great wear and tear, aud general trouble, from its use."

The Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace on the 24th February, and it was attended asr usual by a brilliant assemblage. Amongst those who were honored with notifications to attend were the Agents-General of several of the Australian Colonies, including Dr Featherston. The Misses Feath.ers.ton were also : presont.

A meeting of a number cf persons believing themselves to Jae the heirs of a " Lord Mar,- who left ..Scotland' to save his head in 1745," and came to America, where he died in 1 1792, has been held at Hamilton, Ontario. A committee has l-e-n formed, and a sum of money subscribed, to work up the case. Further developements are waited with curiosity. A curious circumstance is reported in connection with the wreck of the Strathmore. Some time ago one ofthe owners of the Strathmore received a letter from a ladyjjjtatingythjai, a spi ritualistic medium had been informed by f the spirits"* that the ship had been lost upon a desolate island, but that a number of the people on board her had been sayed. Opinions will differ as to whether this was merely a happy guess or the revelation from the invisible world that it- professed -to be. The 'Times' has a letter from Pera commenting on the Sulran's recent indisposition. ■ The writer says the most ominous rumors were spread about as to the gravity of the illness, and speculation was afloat as to what people might be looking forward to should affairs come to the worst. The Sultan's scheme about altefirig'the order of succession: to the-throne -seems to have been abandoned, and the heir is not the Sultan's son, but his brother. "An inquest has been, held at Croy xlqn on the remains of an infant named William Hall. The «snothfsfc of .the chiloV en : awakifig, found a cat lying lengthwise on tbe infant, with its "fore, paws 'oh the child's thr at and its -'mouth' 'clbfee to that ofthe child.- She knocked the cat off, and on looking at the child found it. was dead. The medical gentlemen were. of opinion that death was caused from asphyxia, aud a verdict in accordance was returned.

The Birmingham Town Council havejß .decided to erect assize cij&rts for them boroigh nt. a cost of from- %.1 00.000 toB i Lloo,ooo. .:M "At the- -ITorncliffe - quarries, neaqj Ilaslingdon, two men luive been buiiedM uniU- a mass of ror;]c and killed. ;!■ Tim Wellington .monument, for whichl! 20 years afro Parliament voted the sumfl of 1i20,000. is how, says the « Citjfl Press,' actually approaching completions and the cnrrent year will see it erectediM in St.. Paul's Cathedral. Cm The Unitarian Church at Broakfieldfl Ma* s . has decided unanimously to snb-B stitute water for wine at the communion,] and to abolish the deaconate, creating!! instead a " pastoral council." ; j There are signs of a movement!! among the Episcopal Churches of theii United States, tending* toward %c abb<|| lition of the sermons, especially at tbefi second service of the day. Tm Wm. Tra vers, a man employed attfl the Chillingtori Iron Works, Wolver^fj hampton, went to an undertaker's and m ordered a coffin for himself. Ten mi-ll nutes afterwards he jumped into a pool 1 near tho works, and' was drowned be- 1 fore ho could be got ont. | At a lecant public Qnle of Clydesdale | stallions at Blooming-ton,. lllinois, the y highest prices were- 2500 dollars fo r | " Young- Donald Dinnie," 2400 dollars I for " Forfarshire," and 2200 dollars forj| " Scotsman." Seventeen were sold for'! 21,150 dollars. Ai The Brazilian Government has signed "•= a Contract with a London firm of con- A tractors for the construction of the ■'! necessary works for supplying ,l<io<f Janeiro with water. The stipulate^:! cost is L 2,000,000 sterling. . .^gjjll New Zealand hemp is only^so% £rd retail purposes. Superior medium samSl pies are quoted at LlB to Lisf , Liquor shopkeepers inyvarjous pam : 3 of Calcutta, and more espee'iall^^'B^^pl" Baszar, hove r&ently broff^fei^fe practice a novel^d in^niou : §nlft©4s of selling liquor 'a^i^'^pecifiod -'^^Hj The plan adopted is : ' ; 'o^^ tube, whicb, being- passed 'flfr6ufs%*| chink or hole of a door, the door itself ?£ being closed at the right time, enables >! late customers to procure liquor at ■ almost any hour ofthe night. A series : of precautionary signals are exchanged between tte vendor and his customer, to guard against surprises. \ At the Birkenhead County Court, an action has boen^ brought by Mr Robert C. Mellor, described as a gentleman, to recover L.95 from Mr and Mrs William Speight, of Argyle-streetj /-fciijfeeiffiead. The lady, in 1872, had answered an advertis 3ment which the plaintiff inserted in the « Manchester Examiner/ - and the two arranged to be married. A deed :i pjf'.se|.tlement was drawn. up. At the laf^^Sen^^lady rJfu«sisto \ fulfil he^prom^and Uhe p>in®fnW sued her and ; yhd-genttemnn sho afterwards marrietfcfor the amount he had paid for drawing up the deed and other legal expenses. After evidence had been heard, the jury gavj, a verdict for the defendants.

' The income of the Peabody Donation Fund was L. 1 8,425, which, added to the amount of the fund given in the last report, made the total, on the 31st of December last, L 612,053. Within '" the year the trustees laid out,, -fn, the purchase of land and the erection of" bu 1 iings, LG9,092, and the>sura in% their hands at the end of the twelve- ;y months, available for future operations, y,' was L 162,670. In April last, the new i buildings in Dukc-stree^ Stamfordstreet, were opened, ancl^'n^nly those in Bermondsey, giving'ac&dwm'orfation to 421 families. The twelve new blocks of buildings in Southw ark-street, for ' '363 families, are now finished and beino* occupied. Twelve blocks of buildings" of 200 tenements, near the Grosvenorroal, Pimlico, are rapidly approaching completion, and will be opened durinothe summer. When thesa are occupied the trustees will have provided accommodation for 1846 families. Tho average ..weekly earnings; of the head of each family in; residency at the close of the year was L.l 3s ;l^^The average rent of each ten^iuent^v^|^Lp^d per week, and of each.4:poin;;lrt'^*|^^^ A correspondent mf^ih^y 1 Delhi Ga.« zetteVsays : — " reaches 1 me fr£m Calcutta,- wni^h I give for • what if is worth. It isslvid that during the ; visit of his Royal Highness thn Prince of Wales to that place, his Royal Highness desired the ex-Nawab'of Lucknow to come and haye an inter* view with him. He reolied to this invitation, saying that if he be considered in the light of a sovei egn.— whioh, according to his ideas of thinking, ho was not,— there whs no necessity for the Shah to go and see the Prince j but . that, if he be considered an exile and a fakir, there was hardly any ciroumstance;.f hich would allow him to approadb. t^fe august presence of so lllustrious an" heir-apparent. This reply ' very much struck his Ifcoyal Highness, who resolved to pay a piivate visit to ">; the ex-Nawab. Grand preparations/^ w<? re m.ide by the^t^vJufix^t^a^W^ tion of his ' course of con versation, itH affiF&etif lus i Royal Highness pro hised the ex Nawab i thithe%ould speak on his behalf to C Her- Most Gracious Majesty. Before : his Royal Highness departure the ex- i .JNawah presented him with a stick set with diamonds. There are some who i p'elge their faith to this version of 'he y stury, and anticipate the restoration of y O.udh to ita ex-sovereign ayoner or i; later. ~ ■ " : '' T - 7