ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Evening Post, Issue 135, 14 July 1865, Page 2

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Mr. Cobden expired at lialf-paBfc eleven on Sunday morning, 2nd April, at his town residence, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall. For several years Mr. Cobden's health has demanded hig utmost care, more especially in the winter and spring, owing to the increas. ing susceptibility of the bronch'al tubes to acute inflammation. He had only ventured to come up to town from Midhurst on the 21st of March for the Canada debate, when he was fatally attacked by bronchitis. His last hours were soothed by the presence of hist friends, Mr. Bright and Mr. Moffat. A "Vienna medical paper publishes a letter from St. Petersburg, which asserts that there is a much more serious disease in the Russian capital than the Government wilJ allow to be acknowledged. Edinburgh has just witnessed a somewhat noteworthy event. An organ has been set up in one of the city churches, and was formally opened. It was commonly rumoured yesterday, and very generally believed, that Lord Palmerston had accepted the Lord Chancellor's tionMr. Marsh, M.P. for Salisbury, has announced to his constituents his intention to be away from England for six months. The honourable gentleman is about to visit his estates in Australia. The Hon. Mrs. Yelverton is said to be in a highly dangerous state of health. It was hoped several days ago that she had seen the worst, and beyond all doubt she was giving evidence of an improvement ; a lew day 9 ago, however, the fever returned, and since then she has been very much worse. The gravest apprehensions are felt by those in attendance upon her. The death is announced of General Kmety, whose name is associated with the events of the Hungarian ro volution and the Crimean war. He was one of the leaders in the Hungarian struggle for independence, and took refuge in Turkey when the cause became hopeless. Geueral Kmety then entered the Turkish service, receiving the name and title of Ismail Pasha. He had for some time resided in England. An attack of paralysis terminated his existence. He was only 54 years of age. A murder was committed in the mining village of Chapeltown, near Sheffield, the other morning. A woman, 61 years of age, was killed by Solomon Stenton, her grandson. He is 21 years of age, and is a labourer employed at the Thorncliffe Iron-works. On I caving a public house his grandmother urged him to go home. He then struck her over the head, knocked her down several times, and kicked her with great violence, and a surgeon who was sent for found the old woman dead.. When apprehended the prisoner said, "I have been in many scrapes, but this is the worst of them all." The youngest of the two daughters of the Key. H. Pratt, of Shepton Mallet, expired recently from the injuries she received a few days previously, when her dress caught fire and she was dreadfully burnt. She was with her elder sister in the act of lighting her chamber candle before retiring to bed, when she accidently set fire to the light dress she wore. Her sister, seeking to extinguish the flames, fell a victim in like manner ; for she

herself was burnt. The elder died first, and the second sister subsequently. Bethnal-greea keeps up its unhappy notoriety for deaths from destitution. Mr. Coroner Humphreys has held an inquest on the body of a poor man named Imag, who died from disease of the lungs aggravated by want of necessaries. His wife said he had received relief from the parish, and intimated that the parish gurgeon had negleted him. This was, however, strongly denied. When the poor fellow was in extremis he was removed to the workhouse, and died a few hours afterwards. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts There is hope for Ireland yet. The priests of Louth have returned to Parliament Mr. Kennedy, a Presbyterian, because they agreed with hia political opinions. Mr. Kennedy apparently made no religious con. cessions, and was really elected as a stanch Liberal, and in spite of his creed. In fulfilment of the will of Mr. W. Smith O'Brien, Mr. P. J. Smyth, editor of the Irishman, has been presented with a silver tea service, "who (according to the will) went twice to Australia for the purpose of trying to deliver me from captivity." Orangeism is still demonstrative in the North. On the 15th of April a body of 400 Orangemen, with fifes and drums, marched through the town of Lisburne. No disturbance, however, took place ; but before the processionists retired they discharged several 8 'Mr. John Rea, who has given the Mayor of Belfast such trouble, has been brought up in the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, for sentence. Mr. Justice O'Brien pronounced it. Mr. Rea is to be imprisoned in the county gaol of Antrim for two calendar months, to pay fines amounting to £60, and to enter into recognisances to Veep the peace for twelve months, or in default to suffer two montns' further imprisonment. On the application of Mr. Rea, the Court granted him a week for the purpose of allowing him lime to sue out a writ of error. „ The Presbyterian General Assembly (Synod of Ulster)ihave decided by a majority of 72 to 21 that no professor in their new Magee College at Londonderry shall be installed until he has subscribed the Westminster Confession of Faith. The tide of emigration from Ireland shows no sign of ebbing. On the 12th April, hundreds of people of all ages, from the grey-headed grandfather to the child in arms, pouren into Queenstown for embarkation in the National Company's steamer Louisiana, en route from Liverpool for New York, Hundreds more were expected to go by the Inman steamer next day. Emigration from Ireland to America has totally changed its aspect. It is no longer a matter of lamentation to anybody but the National Association and the priests, whose congregations are thinned, and their dues diminished. The Cork Herald says that " when the tender leaves the pier with its human freight, a hearty cheer breaks from the emigrants, which is generally responded to on shore, and a moist eye or sorrowful face is seldom seen among the throng." The Edinburg Industrial Museum, the foundation stone of which was laid by the late Prince Consort, is approaching completion, and it will be inaugurated, it is confidently expeteed, by her Majesty. The new theatre at Edinburg is to be erected on the site of the old one, and workmen are busily employed in pulling down the walls. The new house is expected to be finished by Christmas. A discovery of what appears to be an extensive and exceedingly rich vein of nickel has just been made on the Duke of Argyll's property In inverary. A petition of appeal against the recent interlocutors of the First Division of the Court of Session has been presented to the House of Lords, at the instance of Mrs. Longworth-Yelverton. A commencement has been made to the memorial which is to be erected in Glasgow over the last resting-place, in the Necropolis, of James Sheridan Knowles. The memorial, which will be 15 feet in height, is being erected at the expense of a few friends of the brilliant dramatist.