NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2220, 18 June 1870, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

A correspondent of the I Court' r states that the precentor of a Free Chvweh has been suspended from his office for three mqnths, for dancing a his sou's th>’dinX / X Thaltitojv saiellb.be the largest merchant in t!je the Great Easternexospted—was launched at Glasgow on April 2. Miss Morgan* .of London, lately passed the doctor disputation at Zurich with great I'cluf, before an audience of more- than 4CO persons. She is the second' lady who . lias obtained the M.D. diploma at university. - ;■ . Sycd Ameer AH is now jo London... Hjs is the first Mussulman, who obtained ■ til?- degree of M.A. in the Calcutta. He is L.L.8., a meinbejxtf the Indian Bar ? and (Victoria Sehola?f is residing here with the purpose of being called to. the Engl sb Bar. In one day Lord Kcnzaucc granted decrees aid for the dissblutifif c*f fifteen maniiges. In thirteen cases-oufe ef the tifteexi the'husbands Were tire guilty parties. A live alliga' or was found in the Thames near London' on the Kith April. It was divided by ttyc v cclebrated “ Jamarcb."..who declared it to be a Jizard that bad escaped from one of.Lis storerooms.

A message, dated Calcutta, Aprils, halfpast twelve noon, was received by the fudoEuropean Telegraph Company at half-past ten, thus beating time by two hours. There is no railway between Monmouth and I’oss, though one is being made ; and the custom of the Judges' in passing from Hereford to Monmouth is to post the twelve miles between the. latter town Hues. A short tiyw since Baron Martin, who is 7b yours of\a\A walkVl the distance, and he repeated whi\cpei4r»nt parsing from Monmouth to Gloucester, dfcelinitfg all offers of a lift from the many\b?.rriste s who passed him in hltwVvebicles. Martin was the judge who,|'wben travelling the Ox? ford Circuit some years ago, rode on hprse* hack from Monmouth through the Forest ta Gloucester, passed unrecognised the sheriff and officials, who were, according to custom, waiting to receive him at And their sent a message that he was waiting to-re-ceive them iiAJie ■ - ■ H The in 'roe song*■ or “The Mistletoe Bough’ 3 jjaeo in Scotlandrcccutf^^vheffagnTagalnve, and ahoy aged thraa»hhe children of the 1 gardener at Mallany shut themselves in a large com chest in the stable. The lid hasped itself outside, and the oh ildrenwere not disctjK ered until they were dead. The llev. F. Hewlett, of East 'listed, Hampshire, reports that an enormous spot of very irregular form, but of one continuous surface, miles in' mean breadth, is traversing the hemisphere, and possesses a sujWHeial area of abdfit 1,0*20,000 sipijrfc mil*.'- addition to this great single spot* is a group 4f two fair-si/.cd spots in flic northern hemisphere, besides six other groups in the southern' hemisphere, mostly of a very scattered and Irregular description. ■ The total area of the wlude of these spots cannot bh estimated at less thaw J, 000,000,000 square miles. He has never duriim a. period of twenty years seen so great a disturbance.,,

As the Piincmof Wales,and Lady Downs wore (Living last week ftom viewing the. meet oA the Pitiwvilljpm Hounds at Catworth gohlppost, a couuVyman approached the pony cariwo, and hjl Royal Highness, &rid,v ‘ Pldase, miss, beyou the the Princess smilingly gave hup an atiirnudive ausAcv. , Tgleg^pmiokio^uiJfiication is no\v so far perfect that elect.ricistrips the course uf the sun, aa.it Iren neatly hap.* pens that messages transmitted from Calcutta

: >t nom to London are delivered by the IndoEuropean 'Holograph Company at 10.30 a.in. The communication between . .London and Teheran (the terminus nf the Indian Government lines) is aotually tp^an);W\us» A woman slept in Stonehouse wifrahause Plymouth, the other night,aapl pinety-twa years. She had walked froft Greenock to Tniro (Devon)', leaving the’‘former place six weeks before Christmas last. Her walk occupied her eleven weeks'and four da ;s, and she is now on her way hack to Scotland. The woman states, in proof o l ' her a<m, that she was barn in the 92nd Regimopfc’ and that in the year 1798 the regiment was sent to Ireland during the rebellion,. At that time she was nineteen of ago,