EUROPEAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3509, 22 May 1874, Page 3

EUROPEAN NOTES.

The * Bombay Gazette* says that the study of. Shakespeare is becoming . very common among native students in India. Eight persons have been bqrhed to death and a large number severely burnt by a strange disaster which occurred on the Great W estefu Railway pf’Oabada, between London and Kpkoma, apput dusk on the 2§th of February. A fire broke put in the watercloset of a car from a lamp falling on the floor, and it quickly spread through the oar, fanned by the draught caused by the rapidly moving train. The. passengers rushed to the rear end of the car, crowding so closely that the door could not be opened. Some got out of the windows, but most of them were horribly burnt. There was no way of stopping the train, and it ran for three miles before the driver could be communicated. wtb. Thp wp Wft? consumed the train stopped, some- Ssi* minutes after the fire Lagan. Scarcely ‘anyone in the car escaped without injury, 4 It is stated that the Prince Imperial, having distanced all his competitors at the Y oolwich Anademy examinations, for which ne nas been studying for some time past, baa been awarded the first place on the list. - t latest matter of interest in connection v Brighton aquarium is the successful hatching of some 180 salmon, which are ft 0 /? Pressing very favorably in one of the table tanks, where great pare is deyoted tp thepi the naturalist and thp curator, who are excusably proud pf their success, so fay. The young fish arc fed on $ mixed beefsteak is a principal ingre. The British steamer Laconia, from AlexSrro **l* ar . r^ve( \ at Algiers on March 14 with 278 Algerian pilgrim who had been to Mecca. Before weighing anchor at Tunis 117 were washed overboard by a tremendous wave, and drowned. The ‘ Academy ’ states that an edict has been issued by the Emperor of China, commanding the rebuilding of the famous summer palace, which was destroyed by the French and English armies during the last war. This work will cort a very large sum, and the Imperial edict sets forth that,

in consideration of its national importance, it is hoped that the faithful subjects of the Emperor will cheerfully bear the increased taxation necessary ior the purpose. A Frenchman has jusc been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment by the Assize Court oi the Seine for crying in the streets of Paris, “ M‘Mahon has betrayed us ; M‘Mahon, calling himself President of the Republic, is a scoundrel and a traitor.” In reference to a paragiaph wh ch had been published to the effect that Kossuth was living in the utmost penury and desolation, Mr Gilpin, M.P., writes to the London papers stating that the story is a pure fiction. Mr Kilpin visited Kossuth a few months ago at Turin, where the patriot is surrounded by his family, and very far removed from indigence.