THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3856, 3 July 1875, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The late Mr Mitchell, the member for Brideport. has bequeathed L 240,000 to the Metropolitan Board of Works. The half-yearly report of the Civil Service Association states that the gross profits are at the rate of 1-93,000 po • annum. Sir George Campbell, a Liberal, has been returned for the Kircaldy Burgh by a large majority over Barker. The members of the London School Board were entertained at the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor The Hoard has added 100,000 children to the M etropolitan School roll. < The Indian revenue bears the expenses of the Prince of Wales’* visit. Delhi is to be his headquarters. Joseph Bulthout, secretary of the Norwich Building Society, has been sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude for embezzlement and forgery. Eighteen Liverpool gentlemen were brought before a magistrate for participating in a 'cockfight, and thirteen were fined L 5 each. . The opening of tho Brighton Aquarium on Sunday is pronounced illegal, and the Court of Queen’s Bench decided, on the appeal in special cases, that the company are liable to a penalty of L2OO for every offence. A formidable miners’ strike in Belgium necessitated an appeal to the military. Simi lar disturbances are reported from many districts in France.

In Savoy, an entire village was burned by children playing with matches in a barn. The ‘ Kcho ’ declares that the increasing distension among the Bonapartisita causes great anxiety at Chiselhurst. ,M. Rouher, Who is not popular with the country mem hers’ party, was cent for by the ex-Emprcss who desired to know the actual state of affairs before proceeding to Spain with the Prince. Cardinal Manning assured the German Bishops of the sjmyathy and concurrence of the Knglish Catholic priesthood with them in the conflict with the State. Several more Bishops have beem exiled, imprisoned, or fined for ecclesiastical offences Riots have occurred in Western Prussia, occasioned by the unpopularity of clerical appointment'. They were suppressed by the military. Press prosecutions aro increasingly numerous. The ‘Dailj Telegraph’s’ correspondent has paid a second fine of 60 thalers.

The Tiber Commission has reported against the exclusion of the river from the city. Mr Justice Grove and a special jury have been engaged for three days in the hearing of a most extraordinary action for seduction. The plaintiff was Mr J. Smedley, formerly the landlord of the Midland Hotel Leicester, and defendant the son of a hosiery manufacturer of the same town. The action was brought to recover damages for the seduction of Sarah Ann Smedley, daughter of plaintiff. The girl was put into the witness box and distinctly swore to the defendant’s having met her on several occasions, having taken her to a house of ill-fame in Leicester, and having eventually seduced her. On the other hand, the defendant swore he had never walked with Miss Smedley and had no recollection of ever having seen her. Defendant’s father admitted paying the girl a sum of money previous to her confinment, but said he had done so without the knowledge of his so si, wl o was at that time preparing to take his degree, and who would, he feared, be anno.' ed by being informed of the matter.— r Justice

Grove, in summing<up said, the case was one of mistaken identity, or th' re had been gross perjury on the one side Or the other.— After a short deliberation out of court, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffdamages LIOO. Miss Moody, daughter of the American revivalist who is now preaching i i London, not sharing her father’s view. o , went to the play, and coming down late to breakfss next morning she was greeted by him with “Well,. child of Satan!” to which i he calmly responded, “Good morning ;,ipa ” This is how a Yankee paper sp ass of the dispute on the Royal Family on the, qnes tion of precedence:—“MrsDuchets, dinburgh and Mrs PrincesslLouise Lome haven’t quite settled it as yet as to which outht to walk behind the other’s obignon and bustle when they go out to the races or bare bail.” ; The following is an extract fron a letter written from Singapore by a man-ii d >dy to her parents in Penean e;—“ Wc th ■ •= the other evening at Mr W.’s with r Orton, a brother to the claimant 1 He is eu like him : the same heavy looking head If I had believed in him until then' i slkv.il i have done so no longer; They are an nsi [ exactly alike, but this one is not so stoat. > He would have come to the trial, but they

would not not give him e aflicient money to mnkfjit pay hi >i to coi. e I* i.iHe is a captain of a vessel ” A Biusaels paper at tos '.‘..a. Or.ire a maiTiag i has j Bt tais . r ace nhein the i>r de Mas yoa r s old, PHit t>li«.s biaiogroons sixty J ears of age. Thi.-. ini-.ie, who has hail foiu husbands neoitles -ho jf c 'Bt on;, has b.ea much m Tried in L_-i tiiuj. The Kußsisn Ooven meat hj 3 forbidden te o’ saraure of the Pap J.ibi’ec. Thi a'ep baa b.ien taken on tha % .mini that sm-h no authorised i.hur.hfei iv'.U ;ro iusti n-. <\ W-i the objfC of • xoiti.> a ioirli mfu hj i Pop.i ,md tho p iesti, a d nr.; coiuequ. , .ly •in ll>e highest degree pernicious to tho iuleiests of the State Moreover, such festivals, wliinh nre onb instigated the fierc st super-lition, a' - 1 >Vj very demoralising for the people, by causing them to neglect their work and imbuing excess and debauchery,- -[Paris { l,nh 11) corresp ndent of the * I ondon ' irms’]. Dr Ive ica yis ad ; to .i> earning at L at» of 1.12,000 a - c:v. ar iy from the pr ■ iita of the ‘ - uglishm u ' s • I partly frem tLi proce- ds 0' tho meeriogs hj. holds about t’ o country. The Jardin d’ c-; imation, Paris, baa a chimpanzee which ineanm s four feet in height, is perfectly tunc, and extreme! ■. gentle. While its masle; lived at Sierr Leono it p rfon.u d in ihe house the fu 10 tious of a servaut, .aluting visitors, ■ ; ; tha door for the ” cscor ing them ov» l , ami offering them tl ir hats.