ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Evening Post, Issue 95, 30 May 1865, Page 2

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The telegraph wire* are getting into rare force—a few days now suffice for communication between Calcutta nnd London. We hear from China in three weeks, and our papers of yesterday gave intelligence from Melbourne dated 24th February (just 29 days). 'Tis really a wonderful &gp, and henceforth nothing may surprise us.— London Paper. The Parisians are introducing steel ornaments for ladies in lieu of gold, and have arrived at a wonderful degree of perfection in the manufacture. A statue of Napoleon 1., in white marble, ordered by the late Duke de Moray, has just been placed in the library ol: the French Legislative Chamber. Kelly his responded to the challenge of the Australian champion, and £10 a-side is deposited for a match for the Championship of the Thames and £'200 a-side. No articles have yet been drawn up, nor is it likely any further steps will be taken until the arrival of Groen. May is supposed to be the month in which the race will be rowed. The restoration of the cross at Winchester, one of the antique ai chitectural relics of that city, has been commenced. The church of the famous St. Cross Hospital is also about to be restored and beautified. It is asserted that Cambridge-house, Piccadilly, the residence of Lord Palmerston, will be taken down to give h site for the talked-of lioman Catholic cathedral in honour of the late Cardinal Wiseman. The story is that the lease is about to expire, and that the ground landlord, Lord Sutton, who is a Uoman natholic, has pledged himself to devote the site to religious purposes. The Rev. John Davis, the ordinary of Newgate, died very suddenly the other morningThe rev. gentleman got into an omnibus to ride to the prison and fell baok fainting on

the seat. He was carried to Newgate and removed to the governor's room, and there it was found that he was dead. An inquest was held on the body in the evening, and a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. The medicc-l evidence was to the effect that the deceased hud died from disease of the heart. At the soiree of the College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, the other day Professor Bluekfe siiid :— There is no class of men in Edinburgh from whom I derive so much knowledge as the medical man. (Applause.) I never hear a medical man speaking without hearing something to make me wiser, and if I make use of the knowledge, a better man. I am sorry I cannot say the same either of the clergy or the hwyers. (Laughter.) That is no fault of theirs, I suppose. (Renewed laughter.) Whenever I hear the clergy preach, and they preach often enough in this country— (laughter)— I think a great deal too often — instead of being wiser and more orthodox, I become a rebel and more heterodox. (Renewed laughter.) I think if we had fewer preachers — if wo would select good men who really had the gift of preaching, and not put up every miserable fellow who drivels, and who cannot preach — if we would select good preachers, and expect them to give fewer aermons, the sermons would have more effect. The more a man preaches to me rtbout orthodoxy, why the more original sin in the shape of heterodoxy springs up within me. (Laughter.) If men would speak out there is a great deal of heterodoxy in the present day. Even & great many old ladies aud young ladies who used to be orthodox are not so. (Renewed laughter.,) The Correspondence of Napoleon the First, now in course of publication in Paris, costs the French government 432000 a volume. As 16 volumes have been published this brings the cost to -£32,000. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was not wrong when he predicted that we should have carriages m;tde of paper when the duty was i ft. The prophet has been waiting some time for his prophecy to bear fruit, buD it comes at last from Birmingham, which has, it is said, just established a joint-stock company for the production of paper-mache vehicles. The cost of the vehicles will be very considerably diminished, and the hardness of the material will make it as durable as wood. The swindler John Morgan, who played such a remarkably clever trick at Shrewsbury a short time ago, has been tried at the assizes in that city. It will be remembered that he professed to be a detective, and took Mr. Cliarles Ashworth, of Manchester, into custody on a charge of having robbed an hotel at. Carmarthen. He succeeded in hoodw inking the magistrates of Shrewsbury, who behaved very stupidly in the mater, and got oil with a quantity of Mr. Ashworth's property, of which he had taken possession. The defence was that the whole affair was got up for a wager to obtain possession of a ring which had been given by a lady to Mr. A shworth. The juryj ury did not credit the defen cc, but found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.