NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3922, 18 September 1875, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

At a sale of blood stock at Kaston Lodge, Mr Tattersall sold for Laptain Ray, Gladiateur, winner in 1865 of the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, and St. Legcr. It may b>: .•om?Kiber<Hl that this Frenchman was knocked down to Captain Ray three yea's ago at the sa'e of the late Mr Bh nkironV stud for 7.0u0 guineas, ant n>*v tho horse hemg sold Co "dissolve a toi tncrtdiip," C.'tp : ;iiu h«y Win the p>."-ohasir at 4 SOO guineas—rather a sfrff price, seeing that the hor.-e has now been nine years at the stud without begetting anything at all worthy of following in his own footsteps. King Lud has been sold for 6,000 guineas. The • Manchester Guardian' statea that a tombstone was recertly erected in tho Soucomformist portion of the Bolton cemetery upon which there was the following in--caption to a man seventy-eight years old :■—■ " Lei gods attend on thiugn which gods must know ; Man's only care relates to things below. Ncscio Deoa.' Th ; ; town council ordered the effaceincnt of the in cnj.ti n. hj. discovery ot hidden treasure has just made at Buckingham Palace. Dming

i,-:.-:o alterations, arid while tho workman w->cc engaged in gulling down a wall, a Urge ■ luntity ot vuluabln gold ana silver plate > i about the time of Oourge lit, aud auppos'.-'' l to be worth sever 1 thousand pounds, was • usuovered in a placrf of concealment. The Hon. Mr Sherman, whs defended 'eecher on the late trial, addressing au assemblage at the City Temple, on Lhursday, alluded to American kissing customs, and showed that it was the common practice for gentleman and clergymen to kiss the wives of their intitnat- friends, and said Mr Beecher was lc j s given to this familiarity than the clergy generally. A medical student named Turner, while bathing at the Blackrook Baths, Dublin, lately took a header off a twelve-feet springboard in+o three feet of water. His head struck heavily against the sand, and he was stunned. He died in a few hours afterwards. The Ita'o-American Methodists iu I'ome have just paid a large sum for a very eligible plot of ground in the Piazza Poli, next to the Church of Crocifferi, upon which they propose to build a chapel. There will be only a partition wall between the Roman and the Methodists churches.

A marriage has been arranged between Mr William Gladstone, eldest son of the Kighfc Honorable W. E. Gladstone, and the Honor able Gertrude Stuart, y ungeßt daughter of Lord and Lady Blant re, and granddaughter of thtf Duchess of Sutherland J Numbers of people have lately been repairing to a hiil near Genoa where it was alleged the Virgin had appeared. A local paper announces that an innkeeper and his daughter have been arrested on the charge of simulating the miracle for the purpose of attracting customers to their houae. of the Kuropean Sovereigns has actually resolved to disband his army, and even dismiss his militia from their liability to service. It is true that John 11., I'riuce of Lichtenstein, the ruler referred to, did not maintain a bodyguard of more than fifteen soldiers, but they were b.-.cked by a patriotic 'sharpshooter corpj," ninety strong, on a footing betwet-n th it of our mi itia and volunteers. The maintenance of the forces had to be pro-.ided for out <-i the pus'.;of the Sovereign, which is fed from private estates in .Ui-tria: the * \\\w. tra-.t tint forms the princ.pali y yielding lirt!. revenue but thac got from jso ns s Stili, principle is everything, and it ia a >;reat matter to find a prince yielding to the voic« of his legislature. The representatives of the 7,000 Lichensteinera met in due convocation had counselled the step, thq army being much missed in the fifteen mountain farms "ut of v.'bich it is drawn. Mr Gladstone, the ' Atbeiiseuin' has collected his three easays. ''s he Vatican Decrees,' "Vaticanism,' 'The Pope's Speeches,' and added a new preface. The volume will be published by Mr Murray, under the title of 'Home and the fewest Fashions in Religion.' Mr K. G. Haliburton will publish in October a number of esays ou Colonial subjects. The most important one is entitled, 'How we Lost an Jfcmpire a Hundred Years Ago.'