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Evening Star, Issue 4184, 25 July 1876, Page 4

It is stated that France demands 6'00,000f. as compensation for the widow.and orphans of M. Moulin, the French consul assassinated at Salpnica.

Mr 11. C. Bowen, of the ' New York Independent,' was on the 18th nit. excommunicated by Plymouth church for "slandering" Mr Beecher.

A Circassian named Hassan, incited, it is believed, by the mother of the late Sultan, attempted the assassination of the Ministry who deposed him. He called upon the War Minister, who was attending the Council at the Prime Minister's residence. Tho guards believing him to he an aide-de-camp, permitted him to enter, and Hassan, tired point blank at Hussein Anvi Pasha, Minister of War, with a revolver. While other persons present were pressing-forward to seize the assassin, Ruschid Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, a servant of Midhat Pasha, named Ahmed Ghabar, and a soldier were killed, and Kaiser Tepasha, Minister of Marine, and another soldier wounded. Hassan has been executed.

A meeting of sympathisers with Orton, the Tichborne claimant, was held on May 10, at St. James's Hall, for the purpose of supporting the movement for the prisoner's release. Mr A. W. Biddulph presided, and he was supported by Mr G. H. M.P., Major O'Gorman, M.P., and Mr Guildford Onslow. Notwithstanding a charge of Is for' admission, there was a tolerably good attendance ; but tho reserved seats at 5s each were nearly empty. Shortly before the commencement of tho proceedings the claimant's wife and children appeared on the platform and wera cheered. After a speech from the chairman, who declared that the claimant was his cousin, Sir Koger Tichborne, Mr Onslow mentioned that shortly he and Mr Biddulph would visit the claimant at Dartmoor. A Miss Lizzie Anderson, who was on the platform, stated that she had met the claimant in 1859 at Castlemaine, in Australia. He was known there as a baronet's son, and was quite a different person from Castro. A resolution was adopted urging that every constitutional means should be used for securing the claimant's release.

We have been shown a letter (says the Melbourne ' Echo') addressed to a lady, which has taken twenty-three years to reach its destination. The letter concerns the disposal of about L 3,000 worth of property in England, and hence the authorities have put themselves to more than ordinary trouble to see that it fell into the hands of the person to whom it was addressed. It bears tho dateof Apr 1, 1853, and has circumnavigated the globe twice. It has sought its owner in Sydney on two different occasions, and failing in its mission to the Southern Cross, it fell into the London lead Letter office, where it remained for five years. At last it was forwarded to California, and was perused by the rightful party nearly a quarter of a century after it was penned. in the protracted interval that elapsed between its penning and delivery, the estate to which it related was"wasted by costlylitfgafiorrj- aud isnow scarcely worth the trouble of going to look after it, " ,