MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 403, 7 January 1870, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

The Earl of Derby died on the 23rd of October, after more than a week’s unconsciousness, and was buried at Knowsley. Mr. George Peabody, the American philantrophist, died in London on the 4th of November, after a few days’ illness. The Marquis of Westminster is dead. Disastrous gales have occurred on the north-east coast of England, and caused an immense number of wrecks. The “Morning Star” newspaper, which was estaqlished some tWelvt or fourteen years ago, under the auspices of the Manchester party, has ceased to exist, and has merged into the “Daily Telegraph.” Sir Roderick MurchiSbA has received letters from Dr. Livingstone. A new route to Australia is projected, via Milford Haven, New York, San Francisco, and New Zraland. Arrangements have been made fora meeting of colonial deputies in London, for the purpose of discussing the system of colonial Government, and circulars have been sent to most of the colonies. New Zealand flax is in great demand in the London market, and realises very high prices. In Paris eight thousand shopmen have struck against low wages and long hours. Some speculators succeeded in raising the price of gold in the United States to 160. The Government, ho.vever, ruined the scheme by sending four million dollars into the market, and the speculators lost to the amount of upwards of thirteen millions of dollars. The steamer Stonewall was burned on the Missisippi, and two hundred passengers perished. The scheme for importing Chinese labor into theSouthernStates is assuming gigantic proportions. In Spain the election of a King is causing immense excitement. General Prim supports the Duke of Genoa and the Union party the Due de Montpensicr. The Suez Canal was opened on the 17th of November, in the presence of a great gathering of illustrious visitors. A funeral service in honor to Mr. George Peabody has been celebrated in Westminster Abbey. Tramway omnibuses, constructed to carry forty passengers each, commenced to run in Liverpool on the first of November. The omnibuses are drawn by three horses each, and are a great improvement upon the old fashioned vehicle.

The wreck of the Royal Standard, bound for Melbourne, has been sold at Rio. The missing raft, with tho survivors, has been recovered.

The Board of Trade Register shows that the total number of tvTeCka bh the English Coasts during the year 1808 amounted to two thousand one hundred and thirty-one of which six hundred and twenty-nine were totally lost. The loss of life, as far as can be ascertained,. was eight hundred and twenty-four. Two young men, one tho son and the other the son in law of a farmer near South Molton, have been sent to Exeter gaol for having been discovered by a ghmekeeper in search of rabbits. They had not succeeded in snaring any of those “ feeble folk ” the conies, but the intention to do so was deemed sufficient ground for their conviction. Both the sitting magistrates were clergymen. William Adlam, a gimmaker, aged fifty, met his death on the 30th October in consequence of portions of a quid of tobacco he was chewing having been drawn into the chink of the glottis. By the substitution of light for the heavy wire hitherto used for submarine telegraph cables, a saving of felly fifty per cent, is expected to be made.

The Southern portion of the Thames embankment was to have been opened to the public on the 24th of November. A boy named Hogan, a pupil at Rossall College, North Lancashire, by way of experiment, mixed some arsenic with the sugar intended for the use of one of the masters. Fortunately the sugar was not used.

A respectably dressed man threw himself over Southwark Bridge, on October 13, crying out as he 'Mat over, ‘-Gone for ever.”

At the Central Criminal Court "on Oct. 26th the case of Professor Risley, who was charged with attempting to abduct a girl under the age of sixteen from the custody offer parents, and also with assaulting her, came on for trial. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Clarence Holt, as the Free Lance, in the drama of that name, commenced a short season of six nights at Astley’s on Saturday, the 30th of October. Mr. Holt is accompanied by his daughter May, of whom the critics anticipate great things. A man named John Dolan was charged before the Liverpool magistrates on the 23rd October with having in his possession a number of treasonable documents connected with the Fenian brotherhood. He said that he found them in a bank passbook as he was going to work. He was remanded.

Te'e Dublin “Daily Express” states that some Irish members mean, next session, to bring under consideration the subject of the royaf residence in Ireland, and have pledged themselves te support a measure to carry out the object. Richard Lister aged twenty six, butcher, was indictea at the Old Bailey, with the mauslaughter of Charles Swift by throwing him into a copper of boiling water. He was sentenced t6 nine months imprisonment, with hard labor. . A correspondent of the “ Northern Whig ” states that Mr. Nicholson, of Balrath, who was fired at in his carriage some days since, when his coachman and female relative were shot, h<s determined to sell his farms and leave the country, and that two hundred laborers have already been discharged.