NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 338, 16 October 1868, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The Princess of Wales is rapidly reco\ erin:.'. ■’The infant, has been baptised Victim a Alexandra Olga Mary. 'I he same evening the Prince and Princess visited the Circus in Holhorn. . ■ ... Hjs.Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh will start in October next on a cruise in H.M.S. Galatea, round the world. The following is the mute decided upon. Starting from Plymouth the Duke, will proceed to Madeira, Fayal, Ascension, Cape of Cood Hope, . Mauritius, Bombay, Trincomalte (Ceylon), Madras, Calcutta, Penang, Singapore, Jlong Kong Manilla, Yokohama (Japan), down to Sydney and New Zealand, then to Honolulu, and the beautiful South Sea Islands, Valpairaso, Lima, St. Bias, Magalliacn, San Francisco, and Vancouver’s Island, and so returning home. This trip is expected to last one year and ton months.. Jeffers n Davis and family ha->e arrived at Liverpool. The o’d Atlantic cab’e has broken eighty nine miles from Heart's Content. _ The Great Eastern has been cngiged laying the new cable between i ranee aiuf'A merica The first 0 private execution took place on the loth. The Overseers placed twelve hun drod women on the New Klcctoral Roll at Salford Others are following the example. Five thousand women claim votes in Manchester. Lockwood, the lucky Australian digger,, was defendant in a breach of promise case ; the. damages were laid at 500f. Admiral Farragut has been entertained by the Duke of Edinburgh on board the Galatea, and afterwards visited Osborne. A Cork jury gave schoolmaster 7Of. damages for being called a Fenian. . . Two young women, servants at Huiifshill, having been accused of immoral conduct, drowned themselves the same night in a; farm pond, where their bodies "were found locked in each other's arm's .;■;«*• The Go verument Intend to oorapeneate the Abyssinian r , USi » Mr. Spurgeon the pt|»er ; .day was sodding certain oF bis. followers who declined to interfere iii polities on the ground that they were.*! not of- 'thisworld *’, This, he argued, ; was-, mere metaphor.: "Jfiofl as. he saifl, “feeing ( fehoftp oif the,Loyd, dociiae to eit.ft mutton chop on the p oa that it would feO 'cannibalLim.

Her - Majesty * ia “ia Pwitzeflaml, : travelling incognita, as the Countess i of-Kent, attended by Lord Stanley. 1 ] She passed through Paris on her way to Lucerne, visited the Emperor and Empress, and the Prince-- Tasperial was introduced to hot. „ • The Queen urged the Empress to use her influence to prevent war. The Limited Mail Train ran into a 1 train loaded with petroleum, which caught -tire. Thirty- three persons ; were killed or burnt to death, including Lord and Lady Farnham. A bailiff and a constable have been murdered in Tipperary. The land lord and-four ©there were-wounded. Fourteen luivq ;been shot for conspiring to effect the death of Prince' Michael of Servia, The officer commanding the firing party was killed by a ball glancing off a post. The appointment of Sir James. Ferguson to the Governorship of South Australia has been confirmed