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Evening Star, Issue 3713, 16 January 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, January 15. The vital statistics for December are as follows : - Boroughs: Auckland Births, 53 ; deaths, 16 ; proportion of deaths per 1000, 1.25. Thames—Births, 19 ; deaths, 8 ; proportion of deaths per 1000, 0.99. Wellington—births, 54; deaths, 24 ; proportion of deaths per 1000, 2.27. Nelson—Births, 17 ; deaths, 15 ; proportion of deaths per 1000, 2.64. Christchurch—Births, 41 ; deaths, 22 ; proportion of deaths per 1000, 2.13. Dunedin—Births, 73 ; deaths, 42 ; proportion of deaths per 1000, 2.27. Hokitika — Births. 10 ; deaths, 30; proportion of deaths per 1000, 0.89. " Yesterday’s ‘Gazette’ contains a list of officiating ministers under the Marriage A.ct, 1874. The total number is 395. This includes the following denominations : —Church of England, 165; Roman Catholic, 60; Presbyterian, 84; Wesleyan, 51; other denominations, 35. January 16. Communications have been addressed to the Government from Ballarat inquiring whether the Government would be willing to pay the passages of, and offer suitable inducement to 5,000 immigrants from that district to %v Zealand. It is stated thet the number mentioned of highly respectable people and their families could be found there ready to transfer themselves to New Zealand within three months.

Auckland, January 15. The Wesleyan Conference opened last evening, when thirty-five ministers were present. The Church was crowded with visitors. The Rev. G. Buddie presided, and the Rev. J. Waller was unanimously elected President. There were missionaries .from Samoa present, including native assistants. The meeting was most impressive and imposing. The famed Conference hymn was sung with great spirit.

{From our own Correspondents.)

Auckland, January 15. Cecilia Allen has been acquitted on the second charge of arson. The jury evidently allowed the consideration that no provision is made for the punishment of young criminals to influence their verdict.

A fine screw-steamer, for the coasting trade north of Auckland, is to be launched tomorrow. She is of 140 tons register, has fine carrying capacity for 200 tons, and has a fine saloon.

Napibk, January 15. An immigrant in Napier, of the name of Wright, has written to the Auckland ‘Star,’ complaing that his sister died through neglect of the medical attendant. In reply the ‘Telegraph’ says Miss Wright had been ill about ten days, and hot till the day before her death was medical advice taken. On the morning of her death she was better. The doctor attended her, and at night he was again sent for ; but by the time the messenger arrived she was dead. If there was negligence on the part of anyone, it was on the part of her friends in not calling in advice till too late. The ‘New Zealand Gazette’ abolishes the East Coast District Court, and the jurisdiction of the R.M. Court at Napier is once more raised to LIOO. A horrible accident occurred to an immigrant by the Clarence, employed in quarrying. The earth slipped and fell on him, burying him beneath it. When dug out he was found alive, but had sustained adislocation of the hip and fracture of the thigh bone just above the knee. It is the most complicated surgical case that has ever occurred in the Napier Hospital. January 16. The cattle owners are of opinion that beef will be scarce and dear next winter in Hawke’s Bay.

THE SUEZ MAIL.

London. November 27.

In reference to the prospectus of the Australian Direct Steam Navigation Company, Edmund Thompson has publishe i a letter condemning the scheme as fallacious, both as regards time and profit. He also pronounces the St. Osyth and Whampoa as dangerously underrigged for an Australian voyage. Some of these statements have been denied, and a long correspondence has ensued.

The Firebrace suit has been postponed until next term. Mrs Firebrace sues for a restitution of conjugal rights. Cape of Good Hope advices represent * the Australian diggers lately arrived as doing well, John Anderson has been sentenced to death for attempted murder and mutiny on hoard the Satsuma,

New Zealand emigration continues at the rate of nearly 4,000 a month.

Mr Cowling’s mission to promote emigration to South Australia irom the south-west of England has been a total failure, as not a single response was made to the offeis of free passages to twenty laborers and twenty domestic servants.

Mr Holloway, the Laborers’ Union commissioner, reports very favorably of New Zealand as an emigration field.

Several London journals have published leaders on Mr Vogel’s Polynesian scheme. ‘ The Times ’ and ‘ Spectator ’ are highly laudatory of his political career, but the ‘Econo mist’ is strongly adverse to the commercial scheme.

The Liverpool Autumn Cup was won byLouise Victoria, Thunder being second, and * 'ageant third. Twenty-one horses started. The betting was 11 to 1 against the winner, 20 to I against Thunder, and 25 to 1 against Pageant. The international match between Prince Charlie ami the French horse Peutotre, for LIO,OOO, was mu at Newmarket. The former won by half a length. Nearly L 100.000 changed hands over the match. The sum of L 10,000 was r.fasei £ or Prince Charlie, An Austiian lieutenant, Count Zubowitz, who undertook for a wager to ride from Vienna to Paris on one horse m fifteen days, acctßl* i'lwbed tffe task m tveivo m&ut'ffc witliio tuf

time. The bets exceeded L 200,000. The winner has been lionised in Paris, and has dined with Marshal Mac Mahon at the Elyaees. The horse is a cross strain of English and Hungarian blood.

Captain Boilton, attired in a life-preserving costume, crossed Dublin Bay, a distance of nine miles, under three hours. Lying on his back, he used a canoe paddle to propel himself. He fired rockets and smoked cigars in the water. In a bicycle match between Keen, Hicks, and Stanton, for the championship and a medal, Keen won by 180 yards. Stanton rode a twomile race on a bicycle against More, losing by 280 yards.

The statements so persistently made respecting the unsatisfactory state of r cruiting have been semi-ofticially contradicted; but, while discrediting the denial, the ‘ World’ draws an alarming picture of the state of the army, and the frequeue}' of desertions.

Dr Hardwicke has been elected coroner for Cential Middlesex.

Obituary. —Dr Anderson, formerly Professor of Chemistry at the Glasgow University ; Sir Denis le a archant, Clerk of House of Commons from 1850 to 1871; Sir Joshua Rowe, formerly Chief Justice of Jamaica; Dr Laukester, coroner for Middlesex; Mr F.' Hardman, ** Times ’ correspondent for twenty-five years; the Rev. J.JD.|Glenuie, secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, In the report of the Board of Trade on the nilway accident at Thorpe, forwarded to the different railway boards, Sir 0. Adderley states that in future the opening of single lines will not be sanctioned except under certain stringent conditions. Greater punctuality and discipline will be insisted on. The policy of the Midland Railway directors has triumphed. The statistical statements of the chairman have overcome the obstacles raised by a section of the shareholders and by rival companies. At a shareholder;,’ meeting at Derby the directors’ scheme was supported by the holders of six-sevenths of the stock. Mr Baines, leader of the malcon-

tents, was extinguished. His amendment, urging delay and consultation with other companies, was lost* The shareholders wisely resolved not to submit their business to the determination of opposing interests. Other companies threaten reprisals, and have resolved to continue the second-class at reduced fares. The South-Eastern has reduced its third-class fares.

Another goods distraint for the dominical tax at Exeter has been prevented by the threatening attitude of the crowd. Sir Watkin VJatkins has offered to pay the whole amount for which distresses have been levied till Parliament settles the question, but the clergy requite that the annual value of the tax bo capitalised. By the decision of the Master of the Rolls Epping Forest is secured to the public in i s ancient entirety. The encroachments and enclosures are condemned and lords of manors ordered to pay costs. This victory was won by the Corporation of London. On the 16th a deputation of ladies, headed by the hon. Mrs. Kinnaird, presented an address of welcome to the Duchess of Edinburgh, and also a handsome bible subscribed for by 7,572 maidens of England. The Duke and Duchess proceeded to Eastwell Park on the 25th, amid great rejoicing at Ashford. Mr Cecil Forester, Conservative, has been elected member for Wenlock by a majority of 319 votes over Mr Lawley, Liberal. A testimonial of a silver centre-piece has been presented to Mr Albert Grant by the Kidderminster Conservatives. A presentation has also been made to Mrs Grant. The Earl of Devon’s tenants have presented him with a porttrait of himself.

Mr Gladstone has fairly broken wjth the Pope and the Papists. His pamphlet, on the Vatican decrees has acted like a thunderbolt in ecclesiastical and political circles. Germany is delighted aud surprised. The. Pope is angry md vituperative. Many English Liberals rejoice at the dissolution of an unnatural alliance with the Papists, while the discussions on the subject, opened by Archbishop Manning, have already revealed wide divergencies among the English. Catholics. The battle among the English Catholics rages arouud the question of prior allegiance to the Queen or the Pope. Important issues, it is fbreseen, will follow this manifesto. Archbishop Manning has been summoned to Rome.

In addressing his Huddersfield constituents, Mr Leatham expressed his conviction that if Mr Gladstone could overcome his objection to disestablishment the Liberal party might be re-united.

At the Manchester conference, the Liberationisms showed a determination to push the agitation without reference to party exigencies, and to insist on much more stringent disinteration than that imposed on the Irish Court. There is to be a change of front. Disestablishment is to be regarded as a foregone conclusion. LI 00,000 is to be raised to support the movement, of which Yorkshire contributes L 25.000.

The London Hospital Saturday Council report probable receipts at L 7,000 minus L 1,500 lor expenses. They vindicate themselves against the charges of extravagant expenditure in consequence of continued defects in the machinery. The Lord Mayor’s Show on the 9th was unusually attractive. The weather was beautifully fine, and the number of spectators immense. The civic banquet in the evening wns attended by most of the Ministers. The Premier indulged in historical retrospects, but divulged no political secrets He was specially complimentary to the French Ambassador. An invidious comparison drawn between the liberty enjoyed by English working men and foregn noblemen has occasioned great hubbub. It was understood to refer to Count Arnira’s arrest, and the receipt of a remonstrance from Berlin is suspected, for on the following Monday the ■ Times’ inserted a communication from Mr Disr teli, disavowing such reference. The Premier is much blamed tor this step, which is regarded as humiliating to England. Mr M'lver, Conservative, has been returned for Liverpool by a majority of 947 over Mr Still, Liberal.

A railway up_ Mount Snowdon, on the plan of the Eighi line in Switzerland, is proposed. There has been a virulent outbreak of typhoid fever at Darwent, in Lancashire, 1,200 cases and 44 deaths having occurred within about one month. A Government inspector was sent down to investigate the outbreak, the origin of which is attributed to the abominable filthiness of the place, the result of local parsimony.

An old English sailor had published a circumstantial statement to the effect that'after rescuing Roger Tichborne from a boat drifting in the Pacific, they were lauded on Sydney Island, whex’e he nursed him for eighteen days, till he died, and then buried him. Before his death he wrote a statement with the blood of a bird. This, however, is now faded. The British Consul at Honolulu is investigating the affair.

Arthur Orton’s Wapping residence has been purchased by the Board of iVorks, and will be demolished for improvements. Orton’s sisters have presented a petition to the Queen for the claimant’s release, on the plea that he is not their brother. The Home Secretary has refused to grant the request. Mi's Mina Jury is pursuing the career of a hotel and lodging-house larcenist She lately escaped from Macclesfield gaol, but was recaptured next day at Leek, and sentenced to six months’ hard labor. The Tichborne estates in Surrey are to be sold. Dr. Keneally’s trial for libelling Mrs Pittendreig commenced on 23rd. Sir Vernon Harcourt was retained for him. Baron Cleashy granted a. writ of habeas corpus to produce the claimant at the trial, but Mrs Pittendreig being unprovided with witnesses, a verdict of “Not guilty” was given. An application for a postponement of the trial had been refused. The claimant was looking well. A crowded meeting at Peterborough resolved to present petitions for the removal of the three judges who presided at the Tichborne trial, and the abolition of Gray’s Inn. cTi he ,? riv y P r ° r uncil has extended tho patent of the Martini-Henry rifle for four years longer, limiting the royalty to 2s on each rifle supplied to the Government.

Miss Cushman has retired from the stage. A breakfast has been given to Messrs Moody and bankoy at the Shel bourne Hotel, Dublin, as a mark of appreciation of the evangelistic ivoik they are conducting A large company was present, representative of tho various m?i heS Giuistian Chunh. Spectator’ believes that China has been coerced, mto settling with Jsjptm j'V

mosa difficulty by Russia. During the _ negotiations the Emperors Kung—was degraded, but afterwards reinThe Aahantee King, finding himself p°wwr less to recover his ascendancy over the neighboring tribes, has settled down quietly, andis desirous of resuming trade relations, in® Houssa force at the Prah having been guilty of pillage, a white will be sent to control them. A great meeting of chiefs was called for the 28th October, to discuss the slave trade and other subjects. King Coffee’s deposition is reported. Tidings have been received of Colonel Gordon’s expedition. Thefe had been fighting with the natives between Reganda and Gondo Koro. A new lake had been discovered by Colonel Long. There have been numerous railway collisions during the month, involving considerable injuries to passengers. On the -Midland line an accident happened to the Manchester express, in which one person was killed. The cost of the Thorpe disaster to the Great Eastern Company is officially calculated at nearly , L 20.000. | The Portobello Free Church has been totally destroyed by fire, from over heating of the due. I The damage is LBO.OOO. Fresh evidences are continually occurring of the shipping disasters during the late gales. Among the vessels supposed to be lost are the ' Newcastle steamer King Leopold, with a crow of twenty-four men, and three Hull steamers ; the Helena, with twenty hands ; the Viceroy, : with twenty-five; and the Stadbrugg with her crew.

SPAIN.

The great military evenfr of tfi© month WM the defeat of the Carlists near the French frontier. Don Carlos, anxious apparently to inspect his wavering followers, recently bombarded Irun, and meeting with an unexpectedly stubborn resistance endeavored to fire the town with petroleum shells. The Madrid Government, roused to unusual vigor, sent General Loma to the relief of the town by sea with 100,000 men. The Carlists, under General Eli, endeavored to intercept their march to St. Sebastian, but were fiercely attacked and driven from all their positions. They were,pursued by Loma, whose mien ravaged and burned the district through which they passed. This reverse closed the Pretea ier’s principal road to Franee, and greatly disheartened his troops. The Republican soldiers were anxious to follow up the victory, and finish the war ; but orders came from Madrid to rc-erabark the troops, and return to the line of the Ebro. The generals and the soldiers were,enraged, and murmurs of treachery freely uttered. Throughout Europe the general impression was that Marshal Serrano, for some unknown reason, did not wish to terminate the war.

Murillo’s celebrated painting of St. Anthony has been stolen from the Seville Cathedral. The municipality offered 50,000f. reward for its recovery.

RUSSIA AND THE EAST.

The sensational accounts of the discovery of a vast conspiracy in Russia, implicating ladies and persons of high and threatening the life of the Czar, has been declared an entire fabrication. Nothing is known of it in St. Petersburg, and no arrests have been made. The protracted disabilities of the Russian nonconforming sects have been removed by a decree. They number fully 10,0QQ,000. Some difficulty appears to be brewing in the east of Europe, which is exciting several foreign powers. Roumania, under cover, of making treaties and forming an alliance, is striving after independence, which Turkey resents, but Roumania is supported by Russia, Austria, and Germany. The Baroness Rozu, abbess of a convent, ban been convicted of forgery and extortion, and senten-ed to three years’ imprisonment' and eleven years’ banishment to Siberia. The Russian invasion of the Khivan Khanate has destroyed the Khan’s power. The Turcomans refuse obedience, withhold taxes, and attack Persian and Russian subjects. A new expedition is probable, and annexation isconsidered inevitable. , A sentence of twenty years’ imprisonment has been passed on thirty-two persons implicated in murderous outrages at Podgoritza, in Montenegro. The punishment is considered inadequate.

ITALY.

The results of tfye elections are favorable to the Government. Of the members returned 356 are on the side of the Government. All the Ministers were re-elected.

Some English Catholic bishops are in Some, conferring with the Papal ecclesiastics as to the attitude to be assumed in the conflict precipitated by Mr Gladstone’s pamphlet. In a letter to Cardinal Cullen, acknowledging the receipt of L 2,600 of Peter’s Pence, the Pope eulogises those Irish bishops who have faithfully condemned the nefarious doctrines taught the scientists. . J

Verdi, the composer, has been created an Italian senator.

GERMANY.

Several Vienna papers are being prosecuted for publishing the indictment against, Kulhnan before the trial.

The re arrest of Count Arnim deepened the painful impression previously existing. His health is quite broken, and his black hair has turned grey- His heavy bail has not been refunded. The reason for the second arrest is stated to be that Count Arnim sent some of the missing documents of the Foreign Office bv his counsel, and not under seal. The advocate was interrogated, but refused to give evidence as to his knowledge of their contents. Various stories are afloat respecting the missing despatches. The ‘Liverpool Post’ affirms that those documents wore sent from England to Berlin recently, while from America we loam that an ex-secretary of Count Arnim has been discovered at St. Louis, having portion of the papers in his possession. The charge of stockjobbing, while ambassador in Paris, has been proved to be a calumny, bat the statement that just previous to his arrest Count Arnim had negotiated a loan to & considerable amount was substantially correct. His intention was to travel in Southern Europe. Thirty Westphalian ladies, including the Countess of Nesselrode, have been condemned to fines and, imprisonment for illegally prupnting a,n address to the bishop of the diocese; Prince Gortsohkoff’s visit to Berlin and dosetings with the Emperor and Prince Bismarck are understood 4 to indicate Eastern complications.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

London, December 3 to 15.. A letter published from the Comte de Chambord recommends his adherents to do nothing which may tend to delay the restora. tion.

The insurrection in Buenos Ayres has ended. General Mitre, the commander of the insurgents, having surrendered with his entire army A telegram published by the ‘Times’ states that the Russians are making a campaign, against the Turcomans. February 1 Cnt reaßßem^e oa the 6th The kingdom of Darfur has accepted an* noxation to Egypt, which the Viceroy has for some time been negotiating. Mr Arhurthnot, a member of the Council for India, is dead.

rp, . ~ , Pabis, December a iTie Assembly has adopted a Bill sublet • all foreigners who are bom in France to* 'Vf? tary service in the French army. mm- . ~ . . . Baroda, Novembr An attempt has been made to poises £ , Phayre, Political Resident, by W P. olo . nel poison into his sherbet* -reducing

n. "When the news of Sir I*. Petf °® m her 8. ment to supersede Colonel Phavw oy 8 anjointat Baroda, the Goekwar gave ▼ J was rece ired ing of satisfaction by feasting his feel, and distributing immense ou- ,4 v!?r Brahmins, meats. 1 anti ties of sweet*

Upwards of 7,000 deaths*' lA ’ Dcoember 10. axe already reported. St rron i a ,® Earthquake etiU to furnish statistics. dVora * districts have The transit of Vemv . served here. Tho Itali' .1 wa *successfully ob. but trtd iff

Venus were obtained with an ordinary speculum. Professor Tmechini observed details relat ing to the planet’s atmosphere. At Kooree over 100 photographs were taken. Elsewhere the results are generally fair. Kubbachee, December 9. General Addison’s arrangements for taking observations of the transit were most elaborate and all his previous computations were correct. The first external contact happened before sunrise, at lOmin 26sec. past six ; the first internal contact was when the sun was about four or five of his diameters above the horizon, at 13miu. before seven. The second internal contact happened about 25min. to eleven a.m.; the last external eontact happened about 11.3 a.m., when the planet quitted the sun not far from its highest point.