ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Evening Post, Issue 96, 31 May 1865, Page 2

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The Committee of the Housr of liords, appointed to investigate the circumstances connected with the ex raordinary affair of the Edmunds scandal, have applied to th« House of Commons for leave to examine the Chancellor of the Exchequer in reference to the subject brought under their consideration, and it is expected that the right honourable gentleman will appear before the Committee. I The Lord Clmncell »r was under examination by the Committee during the entire of Friday, | 24th March. | The Great Eastern will siil with the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, from Valencia, Ireland, about M ly, 1, and may be expected at Heart's Content, Trinity Bay, by the middle of that month. On the 21st March, 1C62 nautical miles of cnble were completed, and it is confidently expected that the whole 2800 miles will be made and on board of the Great Eastern in May. A lady was recently committed to Bristol Gaol, arrested for a debt of £50, when the governor informed her that in a month he would have to return her as a defaulter, when she would be adjudged ¦ a bankrupt, and her property, if any, divided amongst the creditors. She intimated she had no property and therefore mus*. abide the result. On being afterwards searched, according to the rules of the prison, £800 was found secreted in her dress. John Brown, a cottager, died ite, Leicester, a few days ago, at the n& The old man was, until a short period übiure his death, as active and nimble as a boy, and jin the enjoyment of all his faculties. He i xvfls the father of 10 children, grandfather to 57, great grandfather to 114, great great grandfather of 6, making a total of 187. Of this number 128 are now living. Feniiuusm has not been victorious in Tipperary. It, however, made such a demonstration as not only to astonish, but to cause alarm to the weak-minded at the extent of disaffection which revealed itself at the poll in Tipperary. By a majority of over 1150 Mr. Moore has been returned, but 880 voters, principally tenant-farmers, came forward at much inconvenience nnd at some personal expense to record their votes for Mr. Gill. In seeking to get into St. Stephen*, Mr. Grill lias departed from the Fenian programme, and for this desertion he was nigh having been roughly handled by his compatriots The Wtitcrfonl Mail statrs that he had visited Carrick-on-Suir and made several attempts to address the people, but the Fenians would not listen to him. They said they did not want a representative in the British Parliament, and would not Itt him spcik. After making some ineffectual ifforts to obtain a hearing, Mr, Gill was obliged to retire. A tunnel is contemplated under the town of Scarborough, which will connect the nortli and south sands by a pneumatic railway. At an auction at Cork, recently, a lady and gentleman, who were so placed that they could not see each other, kept up the bidding for an article after all the other competi f ors had given in. What was his suprise when the gentleman discovered he was bidding against his wife. It is slated that the Eveline, belonging to Peter Tait, Esq , of Limerick, has succeeded in running the blockade from Wilmington with a large carrco of cotton, and that Mr. Tait will realise £50,000 by the run. The /Owl states that the celebrated Sanci diiimond has been purchased by Messrs. Gerrard of the Haymarket, for Sir Jamseijee i Jgeebhoy, of Bombay, for £20,000. The historical interest attached to this stone is remarkable, and quite authentic. It formerly belonged to Charles the Bold, of Burgundy, thimpasstd into the possession of. the Sanci Lunily, from whence it took its name, ultimately became one of the crown j 'Wels of France, was worn nt the coronation of Loi'is XIV. and XV.. and was stolen at the sack of .the T-uileries> in 1789 ; it then passed to the qr.een of Ferdinand VII , of Spain, who gave i it to G'idoy, Prince tie la Pait, and from him •' was tiansf erred to the Dcmidoff family, its last possessors. The researches mnde in the grounds of Cnmbuskenneth Abbey have resulted in the discovery of the tomb of King James 111. The

Queen bus graciously signified her wish to erect I a memorial Btone or cross over the remains of her royal ancestors Jatncs 111 and his queen, Margaret of Denmark. Dining the excavations, several hirge oak trees were found in one of the foundations. These were carefully removed and placed in the tower. Having lain for 700 years in a wet soil, the oak has become of quite a black colour. At the Donegal Assizes, Francis Bradley was placed on his trial for the rhiri time for the Avilful murder of Adum Grierson, in Apr!: IBG3. At the two former trials the jury disagreed. Grierson was steward to Mr. Adair, and lived at a place called Ghnj veagh, in the county of Donegal. lie superintended an eviction of tenants, and Bradley' B father was amongot the evicted. It was supposed that this was the motive which induced the prisoner to commit, the crime. Grierson was shot, and died in a few hours' having, before his death, fully indentified Bradley as his murderer. The jury was locked up, an.l finally discharged without an aarcnient. The pjisonerwas discharged. The Empress of the French has issued a circular to the queen sovereigns of Europe suggesting the propriety of building a new Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem the dome of the present church being in a most delapidated condition. "The majesty of the new sanctuary," says the circular, •' should as much as possible equal that of the | associations which are recalled by the sacredness of these places. For these reasons a competition might be opened, in which the architects and artists of ell countries should be invited to take part, and an international jury might select from among the designs sent by them that which, in a purely artistic point of view, might be deemed the most worthy of so great an idea. As to the funds necessary for commencing and completing without delay the new Church of the Holy Sepulchre, they could be furnished by a universal subscription, at the head of which all the Christian princesses would no doubt vie with each other in inscribing their names." A few days ngo twelve men were released from gaol at Cork, where they had endured a year's confinement for military drilling. When they got free the people of Bnlincoliiir and other suburban districts ntHemhled to the number of 2000 and gave them an ovation. A meeting has been held by the tenant faimers of Tipperary, for the purpose of founding a "National Club" for the defeuce of " free thought and action " against the attempts of the priesthood— as seen in the late election of Mr. Moore — to " control the one and unduly influence' the other in matters strictly temporal." This gathering took place at Clontnel, and has caused quite a stir among the priests. It is a direct flying in the face of. Arehbihho.j Leahy, who selected Mr. Moore as a candidate, passed resolutions in hi 9 favour at a meeting of the clergy, and forced him upon un unwilling constituency, by bringing all the power of the Church to benr in his interest. There is, as the step taken by the tenants farmers shows, a strong feeling in Xipperary on the subject of what they themselves call •' Clerical dictation," and they declare that they have t'onndud this club as the " sm'est means of counteracting such undue (influence, and securing in future the full and uncontrolled exeroise of the franchise." This movement is entirely one within the Roman Catholic ranks, and it will, in all probability, make itself manifest during th" approaching elections. ASt Petersburg letter says •— " The contagious malady which has been for some time raging in the Russian capital is acquiring fearful proportions. Several hundreds are being carried off daily. The hygienic measures prescribed by the Committe of Public Health have been thus far of little avail. The same epidemic fever has appeared at Moscow, and there are fears that, from the prompt communication which at the present moment exists between St. Petersburg and Warsaw, the malady may reach the latter city, and thence spread the test of Europe." The Barcelona journals announce that the Queen of Spain has granted a free pardon to Don Claudio Fontanellas, who was recently | condemned to hard labour for a term of years, on a charge of having f nlsely pretended to be the sun of the late wealthy banker of that name. The case was reporte I at some lengtliinthisjourn.il, anil our readers may remember that the young man, on his return from South America after a long absence, wtis at first joyfully welcomed and acknowledged by his relatives, but afterwards areited find prosecuted by them a3 an impostor. The Court of Appeal of Denx-Ponrs (Bav.iriiin Palatinate) has just decided a case of considerable interest to German^Proteatants,

A lady, of the Cathofie persuasion, died there a short time ago, leaving her husband, by her will, sole arbiter of the religious education to be given to their four children. The father, being a Protestant, of course decided upon educating the children ia his own religion, to which the Catholic co-guardian, a* 'he instigation of the Catholic clergy, objected, bringing the case before the tribunals. The above Court of Appeal has decided against the con> plninant, laying down the principle that tribunals are not competent to take cognisance of any dispute relating to the religious education of children, even in the case of written agreements between the parties. This decision has excited great interest throughout Germany. Extradition Law. — A caso bearing upon the extradition treaty of criminals between England ani France was brought before the police magistrate at Marylebone Police Court. Two Frenchmen, having in their possession a sum of £15,000 and other property supposed to be stolen, were arrested at Euston square Railway Station as they were about to start for Liverpool, and one of them confessed that he had robbed his employer at Havre, and was about to proceed with his companion to New York. But it appears that the extradition treaty only applies to cases of fraudulent bankruptcy, forgery or robbery. The magistrates therefore decided that the case did not come within the terms o£ the extradition treaty. The prisoners were discharged from custody. A private letter from Paris states that at a masked ball the other night three men, personating Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon I. respectively, were walking arm in arm amidst roars of laughter. Coesar was dressed like an ancient Roman exquisite and scratched his head with his finger. When the crowd interrupted his movements the great Roman rebuked them with humorous gravity by saying, " Happy the people who understand and obey us : woe to those who disregard and oppose us."