English News.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 124, 24 November 1876, Page 7

English News.

The eighth anniversary of the introduction of Good Templary into England was celebrated by a large meeting in Bradford

Queen Isabella, after a short visit to Spain, will return to the Hote! Basilewski on September 26 to winter in Parish

There are 286 trains coming in and going out of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad depot at Jersey City daily.

Lord Ardmillan died in Kdinburgh, of cancer in the stomach, on September Bth, aged 70.

In the year ended the 31st of March last tbe "gold sweep" of the Mint realised £3865 Is 6d.

Ogle R. Gowan, the founder and sovereign of Canadain Orangeism, has died at Toronto Before going to America.be held high office in the order in Ireland.

A strong effort is being made to erect a monument to Daniel Defoe at Tooting, where he lived and founded a Nonconformist place of worship.

The *' big tree," as it is called, which grew in Calaveras County, Oal , and contained 500,000 feet of inch lumber, was recently felled by five men. working 221 days, making 112^ days' labour. The death is announced of M. Michel Engalbert, the oldest living French organist. . He died at the age of ninety-six. He played the organ at Notre Dame at thei coronation of Napoleon I. . The preparations for the Paris Exhibition of 1878 are being vigorously pushed forward. The Prince of Wales, it is announced,- has consented io act as head of the British Department, and the Crown Prince of Germany has undertaken a similar office ih respect of the Prussian division. :

The imposing, ceremonial by which, the proclamation of the Queen's Imperial title is to be accompanied at Delhi is to he attended by upwards of 70 potentates— surely an assembly of royal or semi-royal vassals even worthy of a Sovereign on whose dominions the sun never sets.

."'"■ The inauguration ha l * just taken place of the canal from Amsterdam to the Kforth Sea. .It is sufficiently wide and deep! to admit vessels of the greatest tonnage, and is one of the most gigantic worlcs executed; since the cutting through of Isthmus of the Supz. The Times of India says that Mabel, the African dog which faithfully accompanied the body of Dr Living-stone from the interior to the coast, arid was brought' to Bombay in INovember last by Lieutenant Murphy, 1 has died, hayi n«r never recovered from the effects of that long march 1 by. the body of her old master. . ' Through'' 'exertion^ of the dowager Marchioness of Lot h'i aii, ! aided by other' leading rriemb'eW .of the Catholic laity, a Society has been!' established in Lohdnri for ''the relief of discharged ' 'atholic prisoner's," '•• with the - object .of raising funds to 1 help deserving prisoners. •■■••■ ' ■ ' , Edwai ; d':SuggfttP, aged 19', w.hile riding on a bicydle down' an incline near -Lowestoft,' was : thrown' ov'erthe front of his machine^, On rigrng. to his, feet, he remarked to a companion, "That's a funny topple', isn't 7-ix ?■ : I cati't draw my ;breath." He , then . lay down, became sick, and 1 'died' within' 15 minutes.

It is announced that Boston is to have a Sunday newspaper edited exclusively by ladies.

The French Government tobacco factory at Nice is temporarily closed, 7'2C women having struck.

The stamp duty on playing cards in the year ended tbe 31st oi March, amounted to £13,810 18s 9d.

The death is announced, at the age of 78, of Rabbi Aaron Levy, one of the judges of the Jewish Ecclesiastical Court of London.

The Prince Imperial of Austria will begin next autumn a tour through Europe and America. The journey is to last two years.

At the Manchester Licensing Sessions it was reported that there had been no convictions recorded against a licensed victualler for more than a year.

The Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill Railroad has used a tingle track of 130 mil^s for 30 years, and has never seriously injured a passenger or had a collision of trains.

A Harrisbrook alderman lately fined 38 of the employes of the Pennsylvania Kailroad Company four dollars each and costs for working on Sunday. The judgment was made under the Act of '1794.

The memorial to the lata Dr Dykes, the musical editor of" Hymns Ancient and Modern," has reached the very substantial total of £10,000, so that those who have profited by his labours have not been unmindful of them.

i woman in Liverpool has died from excessive drinking. She had been married for forty years, had been a habitual drinker all that time, and when she died an empty beer bottle was found by her side.

During the past ten years the screw has entirely replaced the paddle in Transatlp.ntic navigation, the weight of marine engines bas diminished one-half, the steam pressure has quadrupled, and the consumption of coal has decreased two-thirds.

M. Victor Schcalcher,. the French Senator, has arrived at his residence in London. He has lately made some valuable additions to his remarkable collection of engravings, -vhich now numbers twelve thousand specimens.

One of the largest droves of cattle ever sent from Texas w«« a few weeks since driven from Captain King's ranche in Neuces County, to Kansas, ft numbered 30,000 horned cattle, and needed 700 drivers. They were disposed of for £60,000.

The first railroad in the United States was chartered 50 years ago, and at the close of 1875 there were in operation 74,658 miles, costing 4.658.208,630 dollars, or more than twice the present national debt, and earning for the year the sum of 500\0f>5,505 dols. The net earnings were 185,508,438 dols., and the dividends paid amounted to 74 204.208 dols.

A mechauical hare, invented by a Mr Geary, has been successfully experimented, with near London. . Its object, is to obviate the necessity of using living hares in greyhound racing, and it appears likely to do so, as the hounds pursued it engerly, not once merely, but several times. It is expected to do for greyhound racing what the gyropigeon is doing for pig°on shooting. Mrs Robb, of Corpus Christi, is fairly entitled to her name of the " Cattle Queen of Texas." She owns 75,000 acres 'of land, enclosed by 23 miles of fence, on which 15,000 beeves per annum are fattened for market, Her husband, who died some years since, refused an offer of 110,000' dols. for one brand of his stock, which has been largely increased since. A decision against pigeon-shooting is reported from the United States. It seems several members of a pigeonshooting, club at 'Washington were arrested as a test case, and brought.before judge Weaver. Odmpetent counsel were engaged on both side's, but the Judge finally decided that the wounding of the pigeons' caused "unnecessary suffering." '

The. curved stones over the grave of John B.unvan, whose remains for nearly two hundred .years' past have rested jn. the BurihiU-fieldS Nonconformist,burying ground, : will, unless - steps are speedily taken, become almostunrecog.nisahle'. Although 'restored so lately as ' .1.863, owing .partly to, atmospheric causes, but more to.the vandalism of tourists visiting the- shrine, the more' prominent portions of the sculpture are rapidly disappearing; . '• A shocking occurrence is reported from "Roxburgh, a! suburb of Limerick, The daughter of a farther named Law--lor was married to a neighbouring farmer, and the usual festivities were going on when fhev were brought to a

sudden and melancholy' close by the discovprv that -^he bride's 'fa'tlie-* had banged himself to a" beam in an adjoining room. He had 'been' opposed to the marriage .chiefly because" of" haying to give a dowry, with his daughter, which, ; iri hisAcircumstances, he could ill ; ,afford : ;

The execution of the' monument of Ging Robert the Briice, to be erected on the esplanade of Stirling Castle',!. ori. a site granted by the War Department,, h as been entrusted to "M r '* A nd. Ourrie, the, sculptor'o'f ' : tlie ! fri'onumerit of Mtingo' Park ..and,, the. pp£t , Hogg, erecteaViti 'Ettrick Forest. The Bruce monument, which was designed . hy--Mf George Crtitcksh^nk, and: has been approved of Ao^the'-'Qu'eenj-r'wilH^ colossal statue, r of the patriot King, representing him as sheathing- his sword in the ni'oui'eut of victory.

The largest, passenger train on record arrived at Philadelphia August 3". It was made up at Pittsburg and, along 1 the way, and finally numbered Ilo_cars in eleven sections, carrying over 5000 passengers. — Chicago Railway Age. Some aniusement was caused in & court at Sincoe, Norfolk, by a female witness who, on the' onth being administered, repeatedly kissed the. crier of the court instead of " the book." It was sonle time before she could be made" to understand which was the proper subject for osculation.

The Jewish Herald reports a steady return of Jews to Palestine from ail parts of the world, but especially froui, Russia. The Hebrew population of Jerusalem has doubled in 10 years, and is receiving " great Accessions" daily. The Jews in that city have quite overflowed their own quarter, and now inhabit all parts of the town, while more are always ready to rent every house that is to be let.

An amusing incident happened at ithe Thames Hegatta. Two men fell off the paddle-box of one of the steamers. One of them was rescued with difficulty, the other perished. When the man who was rescued was stripped he was found to have on his person live shirts, four waistcoats, and five pairs df troUsers; a pleasant apparel with the thermometer at 80 deg. He explained that he made his person his wardrobe, because he had no other place of safety for his clothes. American papers, of August,. 24 publish the report of the master of the schooner Newport, who, when eight days out, was boarded by a gentlemanly man who gave his name as Charles Matheson, aad was navigating a srriidl decked boat 16 feet long. He' wished some sailing instructions, • being bound for England. The only, persons on hoard were Matheson and a lady, ahd the former intimated that the adventure' was an elopement. He was warned bf the danger of attempting tb reach EngJ land, but laughed and said they had hd fear.

Edinburgh has been startled by & terrible tragedy which took place bd the 16th September. A man ti'a'rned Alexander Clark Murray, who Had formerly been a grocer bat vi*hd .had turned slate merchant, &nd whH resided m Koslyri street, Pilrig; murdered with an axe his two children, aged five years and fourteen months respectively, and then committed suicide by putting his head on the rails just in front of a goods train on the Leith branch of the North British railway. Murray was ri superior man, but very reticent and bent upon making money. He was also a; man of a highly nervous temperament, and an ardent Spiritualist. He Had lately lost a gocd deal of money, ahd this is supposed to lanve so preyed upoii his avaricious disposition as to "produce! insanity. A car jsropelled by steam has beeii very successfully run at different timesi on the tramway between Edinburgh and Portobello; and its efficiency, has been fully demonstrated. The car is of the usual size and shape, containing an ordinary locomotive engine of 12-horse-power in the front; Only one man is needed to drive it. The. srtioke is entirely consumed j the glow of the furnace cannot be seeU, ho cinders _are dropped on the road, ahd the puffing has been so thoroughly abolished that not a sound is to be heard eveii wiled standing bythe engine... In fplct .the universal verdict is that the steam cdr is too silent, and will require a bell/ to give warning of its approach.. Wfcen heavily laden it is still capable of ascending a gradient of 1 in 20 at a rate of 10 miles an hour. Its cost is -£650, and it is, a patent of Messrs Henry Hughes: and (Jo., Loughboropgh. A similar car is now in use in Leicester, and another af Wantage.. The Directors of the Tramway Companies of Edinburgh and Glasgow are testing it and one or. two other patent steam cars; and tbe most serviceable and economical one will, be adopted;

! Before it has had time to recover J from a recent destructive' conflagration, A Montreal has, once again been attacked f by fire ; and three of iteprincipal streets. . (including' the Post. Office, ithe Market,* - the Court House, three banW, several [•factories,? 80 . stores, and. 500.. other : ' buildings); have been, burned down, one. i huridredAfatn'ilies have been made house--less', and. da mage' 'to the , extent ot ivfd, " million, dollars* has . been ; .sustained. . , IJn/ortunately 'Montreal is not a stranger' ;: to visitations of this,. ,l_i'nd. In 1849, - , during a riot, it' lost its Parliament. House and Library ; in 1852, .1108 of its houses were destroyed ; arid,' as" we have already intiniated, a great disaster of a similar kind was only recently sustained. A .; -,'•;' Great excitement was caused in' Dub- . lin on the 7th. August, by, an : accident, to Lulu; the trapezist. ;. She waSito' be shot 1 by machinery some fifty 'feet into: the air to a trapeze/ "htii the^^ apparatus' . ' failed to, work . prop,ei*ly, : arid \ she' fellA from the great height , to 1 which -she' bad '; been' proj ected,' her" .back Striking, prfe' ' the orcliest.ra sea'tsr.. The s"c#ue iri the' • theatre wa§ one of the wildest excitement, baffling; descriptiohv and : at the. :timej It was. believed that Lulu's injuries were fatal: To everyone's' astonish-: ? ] m'en'j,- however,* ;they,, pro vedAhtft; sli^ht^' and' it is stated '.she #illvasain i tempt; '.'••.? Pro yidehce Shortly by " esssiyiug' '''a^s/n^i-j'^^; lar f;eatv Yet; the '^people; who. ffouknto^ J .such sights for t( a'm'uyem'erii'-'' affect to* be greatly. shoc,k^d / '^7^ e r<^-9*?^V'^,. I acfsiperpWrated 'by' fl^ '* atici&m l<