ENGLISH ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 759, 3 November 1876, Page 3

ENGLISH ITEMS.

. , —o— Tarpey of Dublir, was unanimously elected Lord Mayor for 1877. At Glasgow on Sunday it was discovered that ia man named Andrew Murray had been beaten to death by his wife, who has been apprehended. Mr Grantham, the night siperintendont at Bvth railway station, was so agirated on receiving intelligence of a goods train of 3,7 trucks running olt the line that ho dropped dead. A midwife was severely reprimanded at an inquest held at Nottingham recently on the body of a newly-born clrld, who bled to death by the woman in ignorance cutting the tongue to make it free. Lord Carnarvon has selected Mr John Bramston, now Attorney-general of Honrr. Kong, and previously Attorney-general of Queensland, as Assistant Under-Sec otary of State in the Colonial office, in the place of Sir -Tuliati Paunceforto. . The crowning of our Lady of Lourdes, by command of the Pope has attracted an array of bishops to that town, and a telegram in the Universe says “This morning there has heed a miraculous cure, Madeleine Lancoreau, of Poitiers, aged 61, known by a large number of pilgrims as being unable to walk without crutches for 19 years, has been radically cured during the mass by the Nuncio at the Grotto.’’ Two more American revivalists are going to England to mako the Britons sorry they did not all repeat when Moody and Sankey were there. The Order of the Sisters of Charity now numbers over 50,000 members throughout the world. The Wesleyan connection in England report an increase during the past year of 11,359 members. A despatch from San Diego, dated August 12, states that Bernard had received orders to have his company in readiness to leave for San Francisco, thence to duty on the plains. The Union, relative to their leaving, says !—“ This force is necessary to protect citizens along the border from pillage and murder, and their withdrawal will compel Bottlers to abandon their homes, A real danger confronts a numerous body of American citizens on the frontier of this county, and the withdrawal of troops will be a serious calamity;”

The Boston (U.S.) -New Ago says “As a civilised nation wo ought to know bow to deal with a few thousand savages in a way to mako them friends and secure peace at less cost than their extermination. Wo have not the clean hands wherewith to inflict vengeance. The wrongs they have Buffered might stir even a less savage people to viohmco ” The Watchman of the sortie-city also enters its protest against the ext irrninating policy. Seven milch cows belonging to farmers in the parish 'of Clancane, County Cork, Ireland, have died of a very rare disease called charbon. The farms where the animals died are in the same parish, but some miles apart, so there could be no communication between the animals. They Were all attacked on the same dav, and one of them died in four hours. The stomach of this animal was cut in small pieces and thrown to ducks and geese, which ate them up, and in less than five minutes began to reel about, and fell down dead. The veterinary surgeon attempted to bleed the animals, but the blood would not How. •It was of the colour and consistency of tar. The Government Inspector has visited the farms. In the House of Commons, recently, Major O’Gorman asked the Home Secretary if any person came forward and proved himself to c Arthur Orton to the-.isatisfaCtion of the Government, would protection be given him after such proof to leave the ‘country Withmt molestation, to which Mr Cross replied hat it would be certain'y unless he should ie accused of some crime, which addendum ,ave rise to loud laughter. A novel just published in Russia has ;rcated considerable sensation in that ■ourftry. The future king of England is, mder a transparent veil, introduced amongst he characters of the book, and is, in insultng terms, described with much detail for the Russian reader as a species of highly educated animal, the slave of a passion for loasure. His visit to St. Petersburg on be occasion of bis brother’s wedding is decreed by the mouth of one of the characters f the novel who was attached to his suite on the part of the Czar daring his stay in •t. Petersburg. As everybody knows, the ensorship of the Press in Russia is one of he most arbitrary in the world—nothing nay be printed save what pleases the Government, and the inference is that this ;oarse and insulting treatment of the Prince f Wales is not wholly distasteful in high daces in Russia. The energy of the Daily Telegraph will ;ost Mrs Biavo a large sum. Sir Henry I imes has been retained by that lady to watch in her behalf the second inquest at Balham. For this service the late AttorneyGeneral hKs had a retainer of LIOO ; another MOO was marked on his brief, and he is to lave LIOO a day so long as the inquiry lasts. This, according to present appearances, will he for many days. But Sir Henry James is •eaten in the matter of fees by another ex-\ttorney-General—he is of the Confederate States, Mr Benjamin, who argued so well in lie Franconia case that the judges were .ill ■it sixes and sevens. He hid a thousand guineas ftarked on his brief, aud L2OO a day as a refresher. The effect of the great depression in the mines of Cornwall lias been to reduce not only the working miners, but the small shopkeepers in the mining districts, to the borders of starvation, and all who can raise money by any means are emigrating. The b-ead-winners are leaving the country by hundreds, and leaving the women, children, old and infirm, to be supported by the narishes. It is reported that in one parish alone there are 500 women and children thus left, though many of them receive aid from their a bait mail kindred as soon as money can bo earned elsewhere. Groups of emigrants may be seen almost daily at the railway stations on the Cornwall and West Cornwall lines.