ENGLISH NEWS.

Evening Post, Issue 276, 27 December 1865, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

? Lord Palmerston had Bat in 16 Parlia^J* ments, and been elected to sit in the 17th He served in official positions four monarchß—George 111., George IV., William IV., and Queen Victoria. The well known animal painter, Mr. J. F. Herring, sen., died, on October 23, in Iris 71st year. The deceased enjoyed a very high reputation in the sporting world, and in the estimation of the general public he ranked after none but Sir Edwin Landseer and Mr. Ansdell. Following the wake of Miss Garrett, who has received her licence to practise medicine, another lady, Miss Colborne, has passed her preliminary examination, with the view of entering the medical profession. An attempt at suicide has been committed at the Abbey Mere, Plymouth, an establishment of Miss Sellon's Protestant Sisters of Mercy. At the bottom of the abbey grounds is an inlet of the harbour known as the Millbay-bridge Lake, where a young lady, an inmate of the abbey, mounted the parting wall and threw herself into the lake. She was happily observed by some persons in the neighbourhood, by whom she was promptly rescued. A pile of building, called the Laundry, at Dunrobin Castle — the Duke of Sutherland 1 seat — was destroyed by fire the other morning. The loss is estimated at about £2000. The well known S. G. O. of the Times is an advanced reformer, but the following story proves that theoretical conversations are not generally efficacious. S. 6. O. recently devoted himself to the salvation of a certain rustic, whose past life had been spent in an atmosphere of wickedness. The wretched sinner took kindly to the reverend gentleman's teaching, and his conversation was apparently an easy task.

In a short time after receiving lessons from *" his excellent the reformed sinner addressed his benefactor as iollows : — " Before I kne.v you, Mr. Osborne, I cared neither for God nor devil ; now I love 'em both." Turkey has been startled by the rumour of a great innovation perpetrated by the Sultan. It is said that he is having his portrait painted by a French artist, M. Guillemet. Hitherto, as is well known, all representations of the human form have been deemed profane by the true Mahomedans. A miser, aged 81, has just died at Gaudenzdorf, near Vienna, in possession of a fortune of nearly 2,000,000f., the whole of which he has left by will to the Pope. He had for many years lived on a life annuity of lOOOf., of which he contrived to put by a third. The only condition contained in the bequest is that the Pope shall pray personally tor the soul of the donor. At Bishops-Canning. Wiltshire,a revivalist undertook to raise to life a person who had been recently interred. The turf was removed from the grave and the fanatic prayed over it, but without result. The friends of the deceased had sheets with them in which to wrap him when raised. One of the Chicago theatres, known as ji the Museum, was ou a recent evening the scene of a tragedy more genuine than those usually represented on the stage. George B. Beach, one of the actors, 27 years of age, was shot in the green-room by his wife, a young and beautiful woman, aged only 18. They had been married a little over a year, but separated soon after the wedding on account of disagreements, aud had lived very little together during all the time of their married life. The husband had filed a bill for a divorce, and his wife insisted ou his withdrawing it. This she could not induce him to do, and therefore determined to take his life. {She did not fully succeed in her design, however, as the wound iuflicted, though a severe one, was not considered necessarily mortal. She was arrested and committed, but seemed to have no compunctions regarding her bloody deed. The New York Times states that the steamers City of Boston and Erin took out 1,000,000 dollars in bonds for the use of the " Embryotic Irish Republic," and that these bonds have been subscribed for by people whom the British Government least suspect. It is also reported that with the bonds go out printed proclamations for circulation in Ireland.— A meeting of the Grand Central Council of the Fenian Brotherhood has been held at As tor House, at which delegates from all the centres were present. The eventa trans* piring in Ireland were canvassed, and the meeting decided to call a special general congress of the entire order to assemble at Philadelphia on the 16th October, when business ofthe utmost importance would be brought before it. — The Fenians are reported to be very active in Canada, particularly in the neighbourhood of Toronto. Large sums of money are said to have been raised, and a number of of formidable circles organised. It is understood that the Canadian authorities have them under close espionage, and are prepared to quell at once any attempted outbreak. A letter from Constantinople says : — " What between the cholera and the great fire, Constantinople has been like a deserted city for some months past. It is now commencing to recover a little from the effects of the fearful scourge, and men are beginning to come back to their haunts of busiucss again, but only very slowly. Galata is not yet like itself. The worshippers of Mammon have discovered that there is another power besides that of gold, and another God who it above the idol of worldly wealth. During the time the cholera lasted it was pitiable to see the fright of those who used to boast that they had no religion and no oreed save that of nature The young Turkish school of Moslems, who* h/id many of them thrown off even a semblance of a belief in the Koran, were in a greater fright of death than any men I ever saw. The Christians were fcad enough, at least such amongst them — not a few— who had led lives not exactly in accordance with their creed. The Armenian, Latin, Greek,

and other churches were crowded every day with men and women hearing mass and going to confession, who for months, perhaps years, previously had never put foot inside a sacred edifice. Many of the priests were actually prevented going to administer to the dying by the importunity of the living for the consolations of religion. Now that allj fear of the cholera has passed, every one has returned to his old ways."