News by the March Suez Mail.

Cromwell Argus, Issue I, 8 June 1870, Page 6

News by the March Suez Mail.

Bf !£be rumour which has boon freely H^^^"' s^4 v that the Prince and Princess of visit Belfast shortly after the Prince might inBelfast Albert Memorial, turns without foundation. Tho committee have mot, and forwarded a request to her Majesty to inaugurate the memorial. Should she be unable to comply with the •invitation, the' Prince of Wales will be invited. ''* '"' ! ' ■ j . J , The wife of the convict Roesa lectured at I j jTipperaryoh March 17, and received an j enthusiastic ovation- The hotel where nhe was staying, and some other houses in | the town, were searched by the police for I ! arms, but without success. On March 22 read for the first time in the Theatre Royal, Limerick. Kev debili was made the occasion of a regular furore by the Nationalists ; they are described as being wild in their onfchusiasm. The lady's elocution 3s said to bo abvae the averege. Everything passed off quietly. communication from Clare states that a farmer named Macnaraara was going homo in the evening, accompanied by another man, when a quarrel took plaee, in which the former received a serious stab from his companion, who is now under arrest There is very little hope of Macnamara's recovery.—A man named Gorman, a farm laborer, living near Clonmel, was murderd March 17 by a companion I Darned Curran, while going home from [ _ the town. No provocation for the crime |B is stated to have bien given. Curran has arrested, and fully identified. |»An extraordinary case of suicide has Mte occurred at Paris. A well-dressed man [■about forty descended the Quai des ■lories, and seating himself beside a Mil who was fishing, lit a cigar. He then 1 one to his neighbour, and after a ,! Tewminutes' conversation plunged headfore- ; most into the river. The fisherman dropped his rod and jumped in after him, but the first immediately struck out and swam \ away, and the other regained the bank. former shortly after returned, and, |jK": while swimming in front of his temporary HB acquaintance, drewthree napoleons from his Hgfcket and commenced tossing them in the B like a juggler. At the approach of a Bsiber of persons, alarmed by the cries of B spectator of this strange scene he 8110 wed the coins, and diving under the Ber did not ro-appear. His body was ■ found until the evening, and as nothing B discovered on it to establish his idenB it was taken to the Morgue. read in the Stadt Gend :—" Within days there has bson % pressing between the Belgian and HRBHish Governments respecting a someB serious matter. Mr Gladstone reBv received a letter in which a person, Bsignature w*s illegible, us«d violent him. Among other things B r stated that if Mr Gladstone R the measures taken with regard Varna Railway Company Bght expect to be stabbed or shot. Better had been written at Ghent, Bitcd in that city. The English GoB nt handed the letter to our ambasB? n London, who sejifc&ife, to our Bment for inquiry,t6 hsohsade. That Bias but not been [ Mcured. • I ' 7* * A horrible murjler was recently committed in the Rue Alhelot. A caipenter named Maillot, who occupies a small apartment on the fifth floor of the house Mo. i 3-ibis, received the following letter:— "My friend, — I murdered my wife at / ihree o'clock this morning, after a dispute master, M. Humbert. He reresponsible'for our child. He is the B cause of our misfortune. When you re- ■ /Oeive this letter I shall be dead.—Fraise." Hi This note bore the post-mark of Monp treuil, near Paris. Tho writer lived on the same floor as Maillot, who at once T 'hj notice to the Commissary-of Police, a the door of Praise's rooms having been open, a frightful spectacle presented no wom * n was lying on the bed Bh her head nearly severed from the Br, which was mangled in an indescribB manner. TJy>~sight was so shocking B a medic/lman who was sent for fainted By on entering the room. The woman [HHHTevidcntly been murdered in her sleep, man must hare remained with the for about four hours after the deed. I praise was employed as porter on the I Railway, and was thirty years of H )ge: bis wife was a year younger, and they Btaediono child, a girl of eight, at present in Buwpitul. The woman before her marboen in the service of M. HumBl had remained on friendly terms Burner employer ; on the afterBk)y ' n question she had been { Biadamo Humbert, who was* Bl and dined wjM Bk Maillot in the evening,. apparerr^ Bus w i^ e i B|^rrr£ivl'ar Bk and Big to Bo"kLi

rho Into Mr Charles Kgan, wholesale woollen merchant, of High Street, Dublin, . has by will bequeathed a very large mm • of money, amounting to somewhere about , £240,000 in personalty, and funded property and real estate of the value of £ 1800 i P er annum, to Cardinal Cullen, for Roman Catholic charities and other purposes. The , bequest is an absolute one, but the will is not unlikely to bo contested by some of , the testator’s relatives, for whom but slender provison was made, and the point to bo raised is whether the gift of personalty , is or is not void for remoteness. . The North-German Parliament has abolished capital punishment by a vote of 118 to 81, in spite of a strong speech from , Count von Bismarck, and a threat that the Federal Council would reject the common Penal Code. On March 15, the dei bate upon the penal code was resumed in the North German Parliament. On the clause relative to the punishment of political oflences the House adopted a resolution moved by the National Liberals to the effect that political offenders shall only be confined in gaol when their acts have been , traced to dishonourable motives. In other qases they are to be confined in fortresses. A letter from Cracow, dated February , 25, states that Barbara Übryk, the nun who was confined in a cell in her convent, and rendered insane, as was alleged, by the cruelty of the treatment to which she was subjected, has just died in the hospital of the Holy Spirit. A popular demonstration being feared, she was buried privately. Mr Bateman explained to a large audience at the Royal Institution, on March 18, the plan of himself and Mr Rsvy for connecting kngland and France by means of a submerged tunnel. The tunnel proposed would be about twenty-one miles long and thirteen feet in diameter, the sides of the chamber being of cast-iron, eight inches thick. Mr Bateman explained in detail how such a tunnel could be laid. The work would, he estimated, be done in five years, at a cost of eight millions, and he hoped it would be accomplished. The largest photographic portrait lens ever made in Kngland has recently been completed by Ross. It is an achromatic lens of great power, and will take portraits of any size, from the smallest miniature up to very near life-size. It is made of glass of the whitest description, and its size admits so large,a volume of light that photographs covering a space of lOin. x I2in. may be done in eight seconds. The lens renders in the photograph all that is seen i in the optical image, and this so truthfully that the coarseness and exaggeration appertaining to large photographs taken with inferior lenses are altogether absent. In the open air groups of 15 to 20 persons (each face about the size of a sovereign, and the whole picture 24in. x 24in.) can be taken with the short exposure of ten seconds. The cost of manufacturing the lens was upwards of £2OO, but it may be said to be worth its weight in gold. Mr Charles Dickens, jun., lias made a successful appearance at the old theatre at Richmond, in the character of Toby Heywood, in Douglas Jerrold’s comedy of “ The Rent Day.” There is no truth in the report that Mr Dickens intends to adopt the stage as a profession. a pAt, the Richmond Theatre he has of a company of amatourd r only by a few professional Billiards.—Cook, jun., v. Robsrts, sen. The fact that W. Cook, jun., and J. Roberts, son., had not played together since the memorable 11th of February, when Cook wrested the title of champion billiard player from John Roberts, senior, was in itself sufficient to fill Mr Vickers saloon, the Horse and Groom, Walworth, almost to suffocation on March 16, stand-ing-room only being available soon after i the commencement of the game. At 8.25 | Roberts broke the balls by trying to screw I in off the spot; but failing to score, he let j in his opponent, who at once gave a sara- | pie of his execution by making 65 before breaking down. Roberts, however, was the first to complete the first 100, and at one time (after a fine break of 101) was 240 to Cook’s 108. The young champion, nothing daunted, quickly responded to this by breaks of 177 (44 spot stroks) and 67, the latter being a grand specimen of allround play. When the interval for refreshment took place, Cook had just added a magnificent sum of 204, which comprised 48 consecutive spot strokes, and in which his precision in hazard striking, his wonderful delicacy of touch and knowledge of strength, were fully exemplified. On resuming play, Roberts at one time lessened the great gap between himself and his opponent, but his efforts were all in vain, as Cook at 11.40 had scored his 1000, and went out witli an unfinished break, the hy 245 points, Roberts scoring 755 SggftgFobruary 26, W. Cook, the' chama match at Aylesbury witli Mpy|lito n i the latter receiving 250 point# iprlOOO. Cook won by 540 points, Ippfing his 1000 in the remarkably short space of one hour and forty minutes. His opponent's longest break was 52, but amongst the champion’s were—lo<\ 81, 09, 95, 75,140, and 417.—Brilliant jvh was ifciSJllM-QnAbis. occasion, be f ■