NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2302, 22 September 1870, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The Matrimonial News, of London, pr.nfs more than two hundred announcements of candidates for marriage. London is not a paradise. Only 500,000 of the population attend public worship; 140,000 people (many women among them) are habitual gin drinkers; 200,000 individuals are arrested ycaily for being drunk upon the streets ; the men who live by gambling number 20,000; the known adult thieves 30,000; and the trained juvenile criminals at least 20.000. Berlin is growing more rapidly than any city in Europe. In 1860 it was the eighth in the order of European capitals, its population being 250,000 ; in 1860 it was the third, only London and Paris its superiors, its population being 800,000. ♦ In Russia the telegraph is now chiefly worked by women, and they have proved so efficient that the Minister of the Interior has laid before the Imperial Council a scheme for their further employment in the public service. A correspondence has passed between two English Church dignitaries of high rank, relative to the Church’s duty in the event of the infallibility dogma being promulgated. The Archbishop of Canterbury (who is one of the writers) thinks anything m the way of protest would be out of place, aud unnecessary, and that Rome should be left to promulgate or not, as to her may seem lit, a dogma affecting herself only. . . The ladies in Belgium seem to be taking the place of gentlemen if we rightly interpret the following announcement from Nethen in that free, and, let ns say, easy land : “ There will be given a.bonnet to the lady who can drink the greatest quantity of beer during a given time.” This jew innocent is to take place during the coming great fair, and the notice bears the signing authority of the Bourgmester and the Secretaire. The Russians take extraordinary steps to instil a love for the Czar in the hearts of their Polish subjects. At all the theatres in Poland, on the termination of the o dinary performances, the police - close the doors and permit no one to leave. The curtain arises, and a large portrait of the Emperor Alexander is discovered. The actors dressed in black, and the actresses clothed in white, make a becoming obeisance to the effigy of His Majesty. The orchestra plays tb r Russiad national hymn, and the entire audience takes up the chorus. The police keep their eyes and earn open to discover those persons who abstain from singing. At the termination of the chant the doors are opened, and the audience are permitted to depart. They have a simple and effective system of secret voting in the little island of Malta. A list of electors is first published, subject to correction, and, after a certam time has elapsed for the consideration of complaints before the magistrates of police of persons whose names have ben omitted or unduly introduced, a corrected list is made public. A paper is then circulated. to each, elector ny a commission duly appointed to direct the elections, indicating the electoral office in tbo district where he is to vote, with printed extracts from the law relating to elections. This certificate the elector gives np at the electoral office to the Assistant-Commissioner in charge, who, after identifying the person named in it, gives him, in exchange, a voting ticket on which he may write, unseen, the names of four persons out of the eight to be elected. The voter then deposits the card in a scaled urn These cards are checked every day by the Commissioners, the AssistantCommiss : oner returning a certificate for every card deposited in the urn. Tim voting lasts about a week, at the expiration of which time the tickets are substracted from the urns and read out to the public by the Commissioners. Sand is used instead of blotting paper in the electoral offices, so that no traces might be left to show to whom the elector had given his vote.