NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3639, 21 October 1874, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The Mersey Docks and Harbor Board have intimated to the gas company that they hold them responsible for the destruction of the landing stage, through the carelessness of one of their plumbers. Mr Pugin continues his attacks, and during a hearing at Bow street on the libel charge brought against the proprietor of the Westminister Gazette,’ a writ was served °“ Mr Herbert, at the suit of Mr Pugin, which provoked a disorderly scene in Court, and scandalised the magistrate. Mr Pugin has been committed for trial for libel, and hail accepted. • 't T eader ’ kas been mulcted m L 2,500 damages for alleged libel in exposmg the rottenness of a public supply association, and one farthing in another action, for condemning the management ef the Liverpool Theatre Royal. r Saddler has accepted the challenge of George Brown, of Nova Scotia, to row for J. 500, and the championship of the world. The date of the race is 19th October, at Coleraine, Ireland. A ladies’ cricket match has been played in Bucks between two elevens. The N ash ladies in one innings scored 115, against 86 in their opponents’ two innings. One lady contributed 61 runs. A cricket match at Brighton, between Sussex and Notts, ended m a decisive victory tor Sussex. The Henry-Martini rifle is about to be issued to the army without delay, and annones are being manufactured at Woolwich >u ~p k°H 100,000 new weapons. he frightful increase of crimes of a brutal character, and especially kicking to death, is provoking an indignant outcry against the absurd leniency of the punishments inflicted, and even magistrates declare that the savage ferocity gaining ground must be met bv repressive legislation. J Mrs Scott Siddons goes out to Calcutta to giro dramatic readings.

Cremation gain a gi.-uud in European Opinion, while in America German societies are springing up for burning the dead. A terrible tragedy jccurred at the Princess tduh, Manchester, on 25th August, where a young merchant named L?rge, after shaking oands witli another named Maclean, shot him dead and then instantly slew himself. A ver.iict of temporary insanity was returned.

J1 he reconstruction of the Pantechnicon in eight separate sections, and provide 1 with double wreught-irou doors, is rapidly proceeding. r

The Yarkand expedition is regarded as a great success, as establishing an outpost of oustrvation agaiusb the Russians. Mr Shaw remains there as v’inisLcr.

A Hungarian has passed from Siberia to Bombay. Lady doctors are proving a great success -Native ladies flook to them. Ihe o’d Catholic experiment in and has collapsed, and Per© Hyacinihe, trading the ecclesiastical forces too powerful, has resigned his Geneva cure ; there have been several insurrectionary disturbances in Italy.

be.ne German woi king men have written to • Tines Bismarck, stating that reprisals will be visited on Catholic bishops for any future attempts to kill him, and successful sssa-nnation be followed by the death of the Pope himself. A railway to the summit of Mount Vesuvius is projected. A swimming race for the amateur championship of England took place at the Welsh Harp, Hindoo Bix men swam one mile in still water, and H. Davenport won by eighty yarns, in 3lmin 9aec,

At Huddersfield, Jupp’s Eleven, with two innings, were beaten by a twelve of Lascelles’ Hall, m one innings, in the return match between Sussex and Gloucestershire, the latter made 412 runs in one innings and oussex 438 in one innings and part of a second.

A Philadelphian society, established to assist Englishmen in distress, recommends the temporary suspension of emigration to America, and is helping hundreds to return. The cruel misrepresentations of agents in England are strongly denounced, aud artisans especially are warned against leaving England Ihe quality ef men sent oat is much complained of in Canada The ‘Times’ pronounces against Canada on account of the severity of tho climate, aud recommends •New Zealand and Tasmania in preference : yet large cargoes are still being shipped off. , ve hundred laborers and their families left last week, and the aerici? tural strike having collapsed, Mr Arch threatens wholesale deportation to Canada, Mr l aylor, secretary, has gone over on a tour of inspection. Irish emigration has greucJv declined. ISO emigrants from Shetland have left in the steamer •-chiller for tv,- /. ‘aland. Eighty deceived emigrants hive Just returned from Draail to Berlin in a wretched condition. A number of English Catholic ladies are preparing an address of sympathy to the ladies of Munster, (Jermany, for bravely testifying their devotion to the imprisoned bishop.

A meeting of Catholics will shortly be held in London to eympa,idee with the persecuted bishops aud c eigyraen in Germany. A meeting of ('rangemea expressed satisfaction at Mr Disraeli supporting the Public Workshop Bill, ami pronounced against -Ritualism A monument to W ra . Tyndal is proposed to be erected in St. Paul’s Cathedral at a cost of LIO.OOO. Twenty thousand persona paraded the streets and suburbs of Dublin at the Home Pule manifestation. Mr Butt addressed a monster meeting at -Monaghan, and said that he believed a nation like England would grant to the Irish people the right to manage tueir own affairs. ri* *' e f f™I ,reß3 . of Pu»sia proceeds to the Isle of V. ight in November to attend the accouchement of the Duchess of Edinburgh. Advices from Get re-my report a serious split in the Ultramontane camp, and a reaction in favor of the Government palicy. *n address of sympathy, largely signed, has been forwarded to Prince Bismarck. Rumors are iu existence of a widely spread conspiracy to assassinate Prince Piimaick. He and Count Moltke acc mpany the Emperor on a visit to Italy. , writing to the ‘Times, 1 suggesta that the self-supporting Colonies should bear the expenses of vessels of the Imperial navy cruising in their waters. It is the practice of Dutch Colon!- s. The Press generally thinks it is worthy of imitation. H.M. stoop Sappho is to be immediately commissioned for service on the Australian station a. Mr Gladstone, in a letter to the ‘Guardian, denies the statement industriously propagated that the Queen had endeavored to influence hw conduct with regard to the Public Worship Regulation Bill. IHE LATEST PILGRIMAGE. Pilgrimages are becoming quite fashionable. A number of holy pilgrims are about to start for the shrine ’of St. Edmond of Canterbury at Pontigny. St. Edmond of Canterbury lived six hundred years ago; he left Ea -land in disgust because the authorities of his day disapproved of his cursing everyone who incurred his d spleasure, and died at Pontigny. To intercede at his tomb for the Holy Father, who is rather in difficulties, is the oV-je t of their pilgrimage, rbe latest novelty ”in connection with the subject is a stick which looks like an ordinary walking-cane, but which, on having a spring pressed, shoots forth a small figure of a saint holding a taper, which is war. ranted to remain lighted for a procession of ordinary duration.

A REMARKABLE OLD MAN. The other day John Ro.-ebury, a hawker aged 105 years, of Leeds, applied at the Mahfax borough police office for the purpose of having his pedlars certificate endorsed. He was born at Whitby on the 30fch of it)!* ’ t kas Vl ‘d in Leeds since 1793, the year in which his father died at the age of 98 years. L, addition to his father and his wife, he has brried at Leeds seventeen sons and live d:nii»liters. His wife died on the 20tb April. 1869, at the age of 99, He followed every ono of them to their grave. The eldest of lus children died at the age of 81, on November 5, 1872; and the youngest at the age of twelve. His present residence is at Leeds, lie bas a surprising memory. For four years he lost the use of both eyes, but the sight of one has returned. He never travels by coach or rail, but walks all his journeys.—Leeds paper. THE LATEST DELICACY. The combs <#f Spanish and Leghorn fowls are. utilised in tome parts of Europe as choice delicacies for the mlates of those who sigh for fresh appetisers. Under the name o Cretes de Voq. a supply of these morsels nas been recently imported hither from Rans I ho eoiubu arc of large size, both single and lose, an arc put up in white vinegar in long tubular glass bottles holding about a pint, sealed with black wax. When we say that these anall bottles cost at whole m Pans rnm-e than a dollar in gold each, the reflection is forced that many a Wcombed roster -ay in future be sacrificed to mammon as heretofore were offered up to Lsculapius ABDUCTION IN AMERICA, niiladcdphia has been greatly excited about a crime winch, until this case occurred, was not known in that section ofjthe country, t a the afternoon of the Ist August

two boys, aged seven and four years respectively, were stolen from their home in the northern portion of the city by two men, who drove off with them in a light waggon. After driving an hour or two the men left the elder boy in the street several miles from home and disappeared with the younger. This child of four years, named Charles Brewster Ross, has not since been found, but two or three days after the abduction his captors began writing letters to his afflicted parents, indicating that they had stolen him for ransom, and threatenirg to kill the boy if the money was not forthcoming. The letters from the thieves, which were sent by post, demanded 20,000d0l ransom, a sum which the father was at first unable to raise. For about ten days the corresponde ce between the thieves and the father went on, ho advertising his replies in the ‘ Public Ledger.’ The detective police set industriously to work to ferret out the criminals, but they have not been able to accomplish much. The father, it is believed, despairing of the police operations resulting in success, has managed to borrow the money demanded, and is now willing to pay it for his child, his mere recent advertisement indicating this intention. But here a strong public sentiment has intervened, the case having attained wide publicity The people are determined that the crime of child-stealing fcr r msom shall not be introduced here through success in this instance, and the authorities, while relaxing no effort to detect the crimina's, are at the same time on the alert to prevent any compounding of the felony. The active interest taken in the case is shown by a meeting of leading Philadelphians, who raised a fund of 20,000d01., which they have given the Mayor to offer as a public reward for the recovery of the child and the apprehension of the criminals. The painful interest which this subject excites can be imagined.