NEWS BY THE MAIL

Dunstan Times, Issue 489, 1 September 1871, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL

Unwarned by past disasters, the papulation of Paris are said to be as gay and immoral as ever. It is said tbatOermany, Russia, and Austria have entered into a treaty to preserve the peace of Europe. The gown which the Archbishop of Paris wore at his ere at ion has been cut into smail pieces, and distributed amongst the i Parisian clergy. The principal part bas been deposited in Notre Dame, where there are also relies of Archbishops Affre and Sibonr. The fVe-3.se says that ihe monarchical party are wanting in p triotism, and adds:— “As to France, the Republic, tire present Chief of the Execuive, or the Prussians who are occupying ourteritory, those appear to be mere trifles, of which no one condescends to take the slightest notice.” The National makes a vigorous apneal on behalf of a moderate Republic, which repudiates the Commune with hornr. It says:—“We are five, but stronger than the 18 journals who each bear a different banner in their bands, and which are, therefore, incapable of marching forward. The exploration of the servers is completed and many dead bodies in a horible coudit on have been found. They have been buried by night in the cemetery of Montmartre. The publication of the returns of the Bank of France will bo r snmod at the end of the week following tho issue of the loan. The public works of restoration, especi dly in the Eois de Boulogne, are being pushed forward with great activity. Great damage baa been done to the crops in Louisiana, Wisisippi, and Arkansas, by the recent excessive rains. One of the Siamese twins is lying at the point of death, at their homo in North Carolina. The other is in good health. In anticipation of death, arrangements have been made for the immediate separation of tho living from the dea 1 brother. In answer to a despatch from Sir Henry Barkly, Lord Kimberley has practically give his assent to the proposals to ann-x the Diamond district He has put it on tho ground that the country being occupied by British subjects, it is desirable to give it a settled Government. Payable quartz reefs and alluvial gold diggings are reported to have been discovered on the Limpopo River, South Africa. Advices from Buenos Ayres say the epidemic has terminated. A day of thanksgiving was set apart at Rio. The crops in Ind a this year arc reported to be the heaviest known for 23 years. A correspondent of the Sporting Gazette says;—“ It is rumoured in Courtly circles, that the Queen offered to elevate her son-in law to the rank of a Duke, hut that tho honor was respectfully declined, with the full consent of the Princess. I understand more ver, that Ibis sensible determination will be carried s ill further, and that, on her visit to the family of her husband, the Princess elects to be d- emed simply one of the family, and claims only the position which would have been accorded to any bride in his own sphere whom the heir to the house of Argyll might have se'eote A competent. Military Intelligence Department is to bo established in Britain. The want of such a department has long been felt, consequently the Topographical Department of the War Office will bo cx- . tended, and Colonel Fisher, R,E. will U | placed at its bead

It is said that a petition to Parliament is to bo prewned in Scotland for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Esta li bed Churches of England and Scotland. Experiments have been made on tliolndoi uvopean lino, via Teheran, to work direct without any re-transmission between England ami India. This hitherto unprecedented result was actually attained. Communication was lirst established direct between Lon lonandfCurrachee.andthentheline was put direct through to Bombay. Bombay an I London then interchanged signals per-•v-otly, and a commercial message was sent from Bombay direct to London at 8,58 p.m., and was instantaneously acknowledgtd_ T.iis is the first occasion on which the telegraph has worked direct, without any rowan .mission, between England and India. The distance from London to Bombay by die In 10-European line is six thousand miles. The news of the University boa; race took four minutes only to r a.-h Bom bay by tlie Submarine Cable, an 1 thirty minutes by the overland Russian route. A telegram from New Zealand announces that t’ao next dividend of the Bank of New Zeal oid will be at the rate of 15 per cent., rod the Times that the 39,0001. will be. added to the reserve fun k It is assumed by the bank on the late issue of one thousand shan s at 31. per share Peak Downs copper is reported at 73/. for cakes, and 7-1/. for ingots, with a “stro, g mark t.” Dr. Featherstou is anxiously looke 1 for, so that he may enter upon his duties as Agent General for New Zealand So favorable an impression did' he create in London, in company with Mr. Beil, that every confidence is expressed in the manner in which he " ill manage the affairs of the colony He will receive a hearty welcome on las arrival in England. A- special telegram to the Eastern Budget, dated Constantinople, June 27, s ys.— “Lord Darling (Sir Henry Bulwer) has andied here. Hs represents that it will he impossible to keep the Suez Canal open much onger if it con dimes in the hands of its present possessors, and recommends the Forte to pin chase it, as the Khedive is not di.-posed to do so. He says that the means of the company are insufficient to prevent accumulations of sand, which will inevitably choke up the canal unless additional capital and labor be provided. Lord Dulling also urges the Government to undertake the construction of a Euphrates Valley railway for which purpose he offers to place English engineers at the disposal of the Porte. , The statement that the Marquis of Bute was .diouc to many Miss Fox is contradicted. It is stated that, when the allowance is asked for Prince Arthur, it will hr announced that he j.a; been created Duke of Ulster, and will fix ins pi-ncipal residence in Ireland. The step is a p unit; one, as the Irish have long felt that they are regarded as poor relations by the Royal Family ; but wo shall be curious to see if the offer pacifies the English malcontents who were so bitterly annoyed with the dotation to the Princess Louise, or w..ether they are capable of risi g to the i ea that the general be n elit of the Empire is Worth the sacrifice of a little money. The jury in the Tichborno rase privately informed the Judge that they were convinced that the plaintiff was an impostor, and that thei were ready to give a verdict to that effect, without hearing a single witness fur the defence. The Judge refused to give his consent, and the t ial will proceed. The census taken at midnight on Sunday, April 3rd, 1871, throughout Great Britain, has just been officially announced. The entire population of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, an I Die of Man, including the army, navy, an 1 merchant marine abroad, is : Males, 15,540, 271 ; females, 10,287,837 total, 31,000,910. The preponderance of females over males is 718,508. The Royal Commission on coal have ascertained tha - , assuming a certain annual increase in the rate of co. sumption, sufficient economically gottable coal exists in Great Britain and Ireland to last from 800 to 1,000 years. “ What is the value of a written testimonial? A member of Parliament has forwarded to the papers a copy of a le ter from a literary gentlemen, asking for a testimonial calculated t' aid him in competing for the office of clerk of the C lachmakers’ Company with the significant addition “J have much diffidence in applying to you as you have no personal knowledge of me,” How a Member of Parliament could honestly recommend a gentleman, literary or otherwise, for a post, of this kind without an personal knowledge of the object of his favnii , is nut even suggested ; but the matter of fact tone of the lott-r referred to r 3‘ onis to indicate tha to the writer, at least, the request did not appear singular. Possibly it D not singular, andthereisa certain uniformity of tone about what are called testimonials which is certainly suspicious. It is so very easy to get rid of a bore by recommending somebody else to put up with him, th dwe cannot help suspecting that this testimonial hunter represents a largo class, and that the only mistake he made was that of applying to a gentleman whoso conscience ia more than ordinarily tender on such poin'.s ” — the Graphic, What Josh Billings says:—“ The cock roach is a bug at largo. Ho iz one ov tho luxuries ov civilazhnn. The cockroach iz born on th first ov May, and tho first ov Novera 1 or semi annually, and iz ready for use in 15 form date. They are bom four from each egg, and cnnseiuo tly are all twins; their iz no such thi g in the anna’s of nature nz a single cockroach. Their food seems to consist not so much ov what they eat sa what they kan git into, and often finding one in tho soup inmy boarding-house I have cum tow tha painful co iclunhon that the cockr. ach kan’t swim, hut that he kan Cca. la ft long time.

It ii anounced that the Emperor William is “breaking.” winch may account for his willingness to give France a lit le peace. A thief in Calcutta lately stole a musical I’ox, thinking probably, from its ornamental exterior, that it ivas a jewel case. Having got off safe with his prize, he male his way to Wellesley square, where in the shrubbery, • grows a certain largo and bushy shrub. Close to this shrub resides the mallee who looks after the enclosure. The thief sat down in the shadow of the hush and proceeded to nick the look. The “ look,’’ however, was the spring to get the wheels com?, so that ell of a sudden the horrified thi»f heard In's jewel-case begin in a livelv manner to play ’‘ The Wind that Shakes the Parley,” He "mined un, flung up the bewitched bokkus iTo the bush, and fled. Meanwhile the ■nallee woke, listened—yes—lrs hush was resonant with sweet, sound. He sat un ; a 0 dd perspiration burst out upon him ; the bush he had tended from its twighood—which he had watched those many years with all a mallee’s p- ide—was decidedly bedevilled. The tune stopped—click-click—-and then began the‘-Mabel Valse.” This was too much for the mallee who fled from the accursed spot to the police Inspector. Swiftly the pair returned to the gar’em Cautiously they appro died the tree, just in time to hear the musical box, which had new gone through its repertoire, rattle off the last bars of a comic song. The inspector re'-ofinised the sound, dived into the lush, and extracted the musical-box. The Bishop of Manchester, speaking at the annual meeting of the Asylum for .Female Penitents, condemned “pleasure gardens, dancing saloons, and theatres” as 1 encies, u their present condition, more dangerous to the rising generation t : an “any number” of infamous houses in T)cns- ■ a’e. He went on to say, what is indeed genei ally known,' that the ranks of fallen women are largely recruited from domestic servants, and to condemn that great instiution of the kitchen, “the Sunday out.” Or. Fraser attributes much evil to the practice of “allowing” domestic servants “to have two or three hours to spend as they like on the Sunday evening.” Any one, he said, who passed along the streets of Manchester “after evening service” could see what was going on, and how their leisure was employed.