FURTHER NEWS by the SUEZ MAIL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 121, 5 March 1872, Page 6

FURTHER NEWS by the SUEZ MAIL.

—o — Three additional Communists have been released. » The new Lectionary has been adopted in ; England. 1 The ex-Empress Eugenie sold her jewels for £BO,OOO. The Princess of Wales hj expected to be \ confined in February. The famous greyhound, Master M'Grath, died on Christmas Day. The Easter Volunteer Review is fixed to take place at Brighton. Mr Llewellyn Dawson is the leader of the Livingstone expedition. Frenchwomen are subscribing liberally towards the German indemnity. Women are largely employed as bank clerks in Sweden. There are now twenty-one daily political papers in Paris. A central committee, for the promotion of women's suffrage, has been formed in London. ■ An undertaker in Quebec has a large silvermounted coffin carried about the streets as an j advertisement. The Royal Geographical Society offers one hundred guineas to any messenger bringing a letter from Dr Livingstone. Whilst three boys were skating on a pond near Tarn worth, the ice broke and all of them were drowned. Two children were burnt to death in a fire at Kings's-square, Finsbury, caused by the upsetting of a lamp. The Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise are on the Continent, and the Duke I of Edinburgh is visiting them at Hockheim. There has been a great meeting of employers in England to concert measures to I resist further encroachments on the part of: : the workmen. Mr Frank Vizetelly, the well-known correspondent of the Illiiitratal London Newt, was j I drowned while on a voyage to the Cape of j | Good Hope. It is officially announced that there is con- j siderable decrease of insulation in the Atlan- | tic cables of 1835-60. A direct cable is pro-; jected from England to New York. The Attorney-General, in his speech for! I the defence in the Tiehborne case, said that ! Sir Roger had never quarrelled with hi i\ ■ father. He read letters t > prove that the real referred to was a gentlemanly ', man. He would call a young nobleman who I ! had himself tattooed the real Roger. Great excitement exists in Spain relative [ jto Cuba. The United States are assuming a threatening attitude. Six war vessels hive been despatched by Spain, taking 10,0D0 ad-; ditional troops. A reign of terror exist; in the island, consequent on the atrocities pe;petrated by the volunteers. Atneric iis likely to interfere. A young man named William Cattl \ 19 years of age, employed at the ext msive works of the Parkgate Iron Company, Limited, near Rotherham, was killed in a horrible manner. It was his business to attend to the fire of a large boiler, and when the men left work on Saturday he was told to blow off steam, so that the boiler might be cleaned during Sunday. He opened asteam valve, and it is conjectured something had partially stopped up this valve, and so prevented the steam from

escaping. Being in a hurry to get home. Cattle at once loosened the screws of the "man-hole," thinking that the boiler contained only a little steam. Hardly had he begun, when the "man-hole" plate blew off with fearful violence, and Cattle was dashed against a wall some six yards off, while an immense quantity of boiling water and a furious rush of steam poured on his body. Several men were ne ir at the time, but they could render no assistance for a few minutes, as the steam and water prevented them going near the place. When they picked up the body of the unfortunate young man, they found that his head had been dashed against the wall, while his body was literally boiled. Death must have been instantaneous.