NEWS BY THE MAIL

Dunstan Times, Issue 497, 27 October 1871, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS BY THE MAIL

According to the Times corresponded, the insurrectionary spirit is rising again in Paiis. The Neue Freie Presse (Vienna), ■ speaking of the meeting between the Sovereigns of Austria and Germany, says we can see nothing but an act of courtesy, such as is usual among crowned heads on such occasions. The interview has no significance, but the absence of a meeting between the two Emperors would have had an extraordinary import. In the Departments of France the propaganda of the International makes every day fresh recruits, and extends its ravages through all the ' industrial classes. Letters from Germany state that the feeling of discon tentamong the working ■ classes beyond the Rhine is increasing Strikes have taken place at Mayence, Leipsic, and Berlin. In Austria, the Society is giving the Government some trouble. There is no defining the ramifications of this dangerous organisation. The tenents of these worthies are general disorganisation and confiscation. No State in Europe, it is said, is free from the machinations of the brotherhood. In Barcelona and other large towns in Spain, agents of the Society are actively at work, and their expulsion from the country has been mooted in the Cortes The Guardian hears that at a recent meeting of the Bishops it was unanimously reso'ved to recommend that the Athanasian Creed should be retranslated. The British Consul at Rome has received, through the Governor of Malta a petition from the inhabitants of that island, inviting the Pope to take up his abode there. ‘ Great rejoicing took place on the return of the Marquis of Lome at the “ home coming at Inverary when the ‘ Campbells’ present’ to the Princess Louise of a diamond necklace, worth 14,000 guineas, was made. Sir Alexander Campbell represented Australia. The new Act for disqualifying bankrupts from sitting or voting in the House of Lords (the last: statue passed this session), has just been issued. It is stated to be necessary for the dignity and independence of Parliament that bankrupts should be disqua ified from sitting or voting in Parliament. American papers state that the new planet discovered by Dr. Luther at Bilk, near Dusseldorf, was observe! in America by Professor Hall on the 22nd of April. The new planet is of the eleventh magnitude, and is the II 3th of the minor planets. It has been named by the Berlin astronomers, “ Amalthea." Information has been received of the death of M. Sommeiller, the constructor of the Mont Cenis tunnel. The payment by France of the war indemnity is proceeding so satisfactorily as to justify the hope that before the end of August the departments of the Soir, Seine, Seine et Oise, and Seine et Marne, will be evacuated by the German troops. Speaking of the recent riots in New York, the New York Times says : “ Anyone who has come in contact with the people, of whatever class, must have been convinced that the events of the past week in this city have produced an impression on the public mind that will not be permitted to die away without some kind of action, in the immediate future, with reference thereto. The overwhelming evidence of fraud,corruption, and official rascality that has been brought homn to men who now rule this city ought long ago to have aroused our citizens to combine together and hurl them from power, independent of their known affiliation with the “ dangerous classes who engaged in the late riot ’ The report of the Birkbeck Building Society shows that that the gross receipts since the formation have nearly reached eight millions, while those of the past year have been about one and a quarter million, being an increase over the previous year of nearly 200, 0001. The present available profits for the next distribution of bonus in 1873 amount to 52, 8751., and the number of members and depositors exceeds 22,500. The New York Home Journal of the 19 th ult. says : —Mr. Sims Reeves has been offered 100,000 dollars in gold for 110 concerts in this country. Mr. George Francis Train delivered an address at Cork—where he has recently arrived from New York—in which he describes his experience in France. He stated that he had devised a plan, which he detailed, of exterminating the Prussians in four days, but that at the critical moment Gambetta became jelous of him, and threw him into prison, where an attempt was made to poison him. He also stated that he had a claim against the British Government f0r430,0007, and that when he became President of the United States, his first act would be to hang the British Minister opposite 'White House. Recently as two fishermen were fishing for conger, at the mouth of the Rhynney river, they caught a shark five feet long. No sooner was the fish brought on the deck of the smack than it gave birth to twenty-four young ones, all alive- They did not suivive long, and the shark and its young are to be stuffed,