NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2655, 21 August 1871, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

The International Exhibition is still at. tracting a number of visitors, and is, I think, likely to prove a commercial success, Cole, 0. 8., will be in the seventh heaven, notwith. standing that he has been the subject of three consecutive articles in the “ Saturday,” m reiiessly exposing his weak points, and proc'annul" to the world that he is the biggest humbug going, not even excepting Barnuro, .Humbug he may be or not, but he is-clever enough to get Iris own way and keep it when he has got it. It is said that he is going to add to the South Kensington collection the great Kentucky giant, and Millie and Chr’ssie, the two-headed young lady, who is exhibiting at preseiit at Willis’s Booms. She (or they) is (or are) an exceedingly curious phenomenon, (or phenomena) for with only one body—chest, stomach, and so on—there are fou - legs, and'two decidedly different heads, the mouths of which sing duets very prettily. What is morp, they have "not the woe.begone look of r the Siamese twins, but really appear to enjoy themselves,' Miss Swan, the. Nova Sco ian giantess, adds dig. nity to the show and,.after seeing her, you may go and Princess Felicie. the dwarf ; so that tailing it altogether, we are doing a good trade in abnormalities. The “ Anglo-Australian in London” says : —“ In my no ice of the Royal Academy last mouth, I omitted to mention a very effective painting by J.. Gully, of * Mount Cook and the Southern Alps of New Zealand, ’" 'ihe A.rohbishop of Canterbury liad an , interview on his way back to England with Dr Dollihger. In the words of the Jfeunte Naclirichtcn, “he wished to make personal acquaintance of the man who first had the courage to tell the German bishops of their weakness, and also to give him information respectingthe numerous ‘couverts’ who have returned to the Church of England since the dogma of infallbility was decreed.”

The Oxford commemoration, too,- has been a failure, being morj empty of attendance than ever known, and the undergraduates in the theatre beh avihg like a'parcel of young Tomnoddies. ', In fact, so bearish, ami n n&y were they, that a change will probably be made in the arrangements, arid only those admitted who promise to be gooclbqys. The degree qf D.O:U-i Vas conferred on J)r DolUnger, of Munich, a very proper oompli’ meut on the part of the University. The most'amusing literary venture of the day is the “Independent Reviewer,” “in which all ‘ ‘rejected copy” will dud a home at the rate of a penny for five lines. It really must be a capital spec, for in addition to the amajiing quantity of matter waiting to be in* serted, there will of course be , as. many readers as writers. The e.liro.'s berth will be an easy onej Tor he will neve, be required to read‘his contributions. ' ’

Vanity Fair sums up the_ Tichborne case in » very few words. There is a large cartoon of the claimant in all the amplitude of hj s twenty-six stone standing in the witness-box, and underneath is put the pregnant question —baronet or butcher? Judging from appearances, one would prefer the latter alter, native. Yet the impression is that the balance of evidence is, upon the whole, in favor of the plaintiff. His case is full of improbabilities ; that of the defendant contains several impossibilities. If ever the soi distant Sir linger obtain the title and estates he Will have earned them. To be cross-exam-ined for fourteen days by Sir John Coleridge is lan ordeal which few persons, guilty or innocent, would care to go through. The late telegrams state that the trial is postponed till .November, Long before that period the jury will have forgotten all they ever knew about the'case, and it will be necessary to commence de novo. Mrs John Wood, the celebrated comic actress, is tp pay the Colonies a visit. The Emperor of Germany is said tpjbe particularly anxious tp reward the Minister to whom he owes his crown in a liberal spirit. If the- Empire is worth anything, the Emperor-maker ought. not indeed to go without some tangible, acknowledgment The latest project ascribed to imperial liberality by the Prussian press is the purchase of the handsome valuable estate of Krotoschin, in Posen, at present in the possession of Prince r l burn and Taxis, whose family under the old regime held the monopoly of the Post Office throughout the Empire. The estate pays T20.000 thalers annual rent, and the Ovedownik repoits to have agreed to pay the owner 2,400,000 thalers for it,, in ordet td band it over to Prince Bismarck, as a slight token of his gratitude, . The London correspondent % of the Melbourne Aryus says “The Illustrated London News is, said to be. in the market at the modest little sum of L150,0U0.”