NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2109, 8 February 1870, Page 2

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

A contemporary says;—“lt is with unfeigned satisfaction that we afford to our readers this opportunity of accpiiring for a very moderate sum all the graces which go to make up a moral deportment. This advertisement comes from a country paper : ‘ Wanted.—A young man wishes to obtain board in a respectable private family-, where his moral deportment and example would be considered equivalent. References required.’ This is delicious ; the last touch, ‘ References required,’ is quite beyond tho reach of art. Evidently this moral youth fears that he might get into a family wherein his spotless deportment might become contaminated. But then a sinful household is tire only one in which he would be really useful. There are many such households, and to them we may- make the schoolboy remark, ‘ Don’t all speak at once, ’ ” On the occasion of the election on Nor. 23rd, of a dispensary doctor for Murroe, in tho County of Limerick, it was found necessary to occupy- the village by a force of 201) police, three companies of the 70th Regiment, and a troop of Hussars—forming altogether a small army 500 men, under the command of resident magistrates and their respective officers. The soldiers, we learn, were posted in the police barracks and the surrounding grounds with their arms “stacked/’ and the horses leady- saddled for active service at a moment’s notice. The police were drawn up in front of the dispensary, the causa teJerrima. of the impending battle being the choice between two village doctors. One can conceive how pleasant all this must have been for some old woman, perhaps waiting for her pills, yet only allowed to take them with “ all the pomp and circumstance of war.” According to the Freemason .« Journal, it is estimated that the Masonic Order at present contains about 1,300,000 members. Of this number, about 150,000 are in England, 100.000 in Scotland, and 50,000 in Ireland. There are about 500,000 on the Continent of Europe, 300,000 in the United States, and 50.000 in other parts of the world. Aside from Asia, the number in India will probably reach 50,000. Captqip Coles’ idea of a turret-ship is at length about to bo. practically- tested. Mr Childers has laid the keel of a new iron-clad turret-ship, the Devastation, which, although nearly- 2,000 tons burden less than the Warrior and Minotaur (4,400 against 0,000), will be by far the most powerful vessel ever constructed. She is to be purely a lighting turret-ship, and will have no masts or sails whatever. Her armor will be nearly three feet in thickness, arranged so that although it is barely twice the thickness of the Warrior’s, it will be nearly seven times as strong. Her crew will consist of only 250 men. We have it on the authority of the Observer

that the attention of the Emperor Napoleon has been drawn to the cheap dinners supplied in Norton Folgatc, and he has forwarded a request, through the French Ambassador, that Mr Tallerman would, as soon as possible, make arrangements for providing at Paris a dinner on a large scale on the same plan as that adopted in London, with a view of in; fluencing the working classes of Paris in favor of the Australian meat.