English News.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 207, 28 June 1878, Page 7

English News.

The municipal taxes of New York are about L 5 9s per head of the population.

The Seine is rising rapidly, and the foundation of the Exhibition building is in danger;

It is alleged that some of the readymade clothing sellers in Liverpool pay thirteenpence only for making a pair of black cloth trousers.

David Cohen, a Polish Jew', has been imprisoned by a Paris Court for marrying ten ladies with money, one after tne other, most of them being still alive. A New York paper calculates that the amount of money spent in newspaper advertisements in the United States exceeds L 60,000,000 annually. The calling out the men in the Army Reserves will cause upwards of two thousand men to leave their employment on the Great Northern Railway, At Warwick a man of 27 has been sentenced to penal servitude for life for having broken into and robbed a warehouse in Birmingham, and then set fire thereto.

All Liverpool steamship companies who have steamers trading with India, have placed their vessels at the disposal of the Government for transporting troops to Malta.

Mr Gladstone, answering an Irish letter of thanks, declares that the Sunday Closing Bill deserves the support of all prudent and impartial men in England and Scotland, and that he will continue to act in that belief to the end.

The most strenuous efforts continue to be made for the 'discovery of the murderer of Lord Leitrim. In addition to the stimulus offered by the Government reward of LSOO, the young nobleman offers Ll o,ooo for the discovery of his uncle's tiaurderer.

Mr Frank Buckland has been making an examination of the conger eel, which died lately at Southport Aquarium. Its weight was 961bs, of which 7^lbs consisted of ova, and it was found that the number of eggs must have been not less than 14,551,000.

The late Lord Leitrim was personally a frugal man, and did not spend more than L2OOO a year ; but he habitually kept from Ll 5,000 to L 20,000 at his bankers in order to meet the demands made upon him for the expenses of the lawsuits in which he was always engaged.

At an American back wood hotel the novel method of charging for luncheon and dinners "by weight " has been tried. A gentleman who went IJthere with two bricks in his pocket which he slid under the table, says thai; on coming out of the scale they had to pay him 2g 6d.

The inhabitants of Bathgate have had their water supply seriously interfered with. A young baker, who was employed in the town, has committed suicide in tha reservoir, and the inhabitants insist on having it emptied and refilled before they will drink any more water from it.

The *' unbridled Inxury " of some of the parvenues of Western America bids fair to surpass anything of the kind in the old country. The latest instance is that of Mr Mackay, the Bonanza millionaire, who has furnished Tiffany and Co. with silver ore from his mines, out of which they are to manufacture a dinner service of 150 pieces, to cost Ll 8,000.

Princess Mary of Teck is so patriotically warlike that she is called the " Queen of the Jingoes." The other day bhe Premier was dining with her Royal Highness. "You have," she said, " the Queen with you, Parliament, and the country, what more do you want ?" Lord Beaconsfield glanced at his plate, and solemnly replied, " Potatoes, ma'am." — Truth.

It is announced that tbe Earl of Ayleford will commence running a fourhorse coach from Coventry to Birmingham and back. He has obtained three first-class teams for the purpose. The distance from one town to the other is about 20 miles, Such is the favourite modern pastime of many members of the " oldest and proudest aristocracy in the world."

Great efforts are being made to raise recruits in Sutherlandshire for the 93rd Regiment It is stated that an extra premium of Ll is offered by the Duke of Sutherland to every man in the country who enlists, but unfortunately the number of available men in Sutherlandshire is smaller than it was before enforced emigration thinned its once populous glens and straths. — Northern Ensign.

A poor rich man has just died at Cincinnati, leaving property worth considerably more than half a million sterling. He lived up an alley in one small room, dressed in rags, and looked like a penniless tramp, and yet he owned more than 100,000 acres of land. Another citizen of Cincinnati has just offered to present to the city, his valuable art collection, worth L 40,000, on condition that a fire-proof building is erected in which to store it.

The St. Petersburg papers publish a telegram from Tiflis, announcing the close of the trial of Prince Davedoff, charged with having incited some Circassians to smother a lady; whom he thought had proved unfaithful to him. The prince has been deprived of all his rights and -sentenced to twenty years' incarceration in the mines of Siberia. Gabisoni6, the man, who effected the murder, has been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude; 1 .

An extraordinary case of mistaken identity is said to have occurred at Dolgelly, Merionethshire, where a man named David Jones was charged with bigamy. He pleaded guilty and was sent to prison. But, strange to say, the woman who swore he was her husband has since sworn that another man who afterwards turned up is her real husband. In this dilemma ihe Home Secretary has been appealed to, and he has ordered an inquiry to be instituted into the affair.

In the House of Commons the other night, the debate about Sunday closing in Ireland, a distinguished member of the temperanoe party openly broke the pledge amid the laughter of the House. Mr O'Sullivan, the representative of "silent whiskey," was perorating, when Mr Sullivan (without the 0), wishing to prepare to follow the debate, thought it well to take a pull at Mr O'Sullivan's tumbler, which contained, as he thought, only water. It was half of whisky; the wry face and despumatory gestures of the hon. and teetotal member when he discovered his mistake convulsed the

House.

At the Bristol Assizes Thomas Smith, indicted for maliciously wounding Police-constable Perkins pleaded guilty. The Judge — Yours is a very serious case. You stabbed this policeman. The prisoner — I wish I had killed the — - — thing. The Judge — you stabbed him in the breast, and it is no fault of yours you did not murder him. The prisoner (with oaths) — I wish I had. The prisoner was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. While leaving the dock he used terribly profane ana disgusting language, and his lordship recalled him and added three years' police supervision to the sentence.

A remarkable movement is reported among the natives of India east of Tinnevelly, No fewer than 16,000 have sent in their names to Bishop Caldwell and placed themselves under instruction for baptism. His lordship writes : — " Village after village is laying aside its heathenism, and seeking admission into the fold of Christ." The four evangelistio tours of the Bishop last year and gratitude for English help in the famine aro assigned as probable causes. The Bishop asks the Propagation Society to send ten additional clergy and seventy additional catechists. For this purpose the society has just made a special appeal.

That strict temperance and regularity of life are conducive to longevity is abundantly proved by the unusual duration of life attained by the members of tbat estimable and pious body — the Society of Friends. From their organ, the Friend, of January last, we gather that in that month the deaths were 20 ; the average age at death waa 65 years, the highest age obtained being 91. In connection' with the body, and confined to its members, there exists a life Insurance Society, with a reserve fund of one and a quarter millions. Owing to the low rate of mortality, as above shown, the premiums in this office are considerably lower than those ruling in most of the British offices, and the bonus additions proportionally higher.

At a meeting of the Preston Board of Guardians on Tuesday, the clerk stated that a man who had been a pauper inmate of the workhouse for thirty years, and who Borne time ago took his discharge, was now living on the rents of some cottages be had purchased with money actually saved while he was a pauper. The money was principally the accumulation of gratuities presented to him as the workhouse messenger. The Chairman (Mr Jackson) said the man was probably the slyest fox the Guardians had ever had to deal with. He had managed somehow to accumulate this money by slow degrees through the long period of thirty years, to keep it a secret, and to prevent it falling within the grasp of the Guardians.

The 50 mile walking match at the Agricultural Hall, London, resulted in most extraordinary race. Fourteen competitors started, but before half the distance had been covered Howes and Arthur Hancock, both of London, drew ahead of the rest. Howes had gained a quarter of a mile upon Hancock early in the race, and exactly this distance separated the men for the last thirty miles. Neither could gain on the other, though repeated and severe efforts were made. Tne times from. 25 miles upwards were considerably the best on record. Howes finished his 50 miles a winner by 410 yards in the unprecedented time of 7 hours 57 mm. 44 sees. Hancok's time was also far better

than anything previously done, being 7 hours 59 mm. 56 sees.

The Bradford Observer pnblishes the following list of legacies for charitable purposes bequeathed by the will of Mr

Henry Brown, of Bradford, all being free from legacy duty : — lO6 shares in John Crossley, Sons, and Company, Limited, to the Trustees of the Crossley Orphanage Home and School ; LSOOO to the Airedale Independent College ;

LSOOO to the Bradford Girls' Grammar

School ; LSOOO to the Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds; L2OOO to Milton Mount College for the Education of Daughters ofCongregational Ministers ; LIOOO to the Bradford Tradesmen's Home; LIOOO to the Bradford•;Mechanics Institute ; LIOOO to the Bradford Spinsters' Endowment Fund ; LIOOO to ths Bradford Tradesmen's

Benevolent Institution ; LSOO td the

Bradford Infirmary. There are also .about 20 other legacies of from L3OO to LIOO to various other Bradford charities.