NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 31, 6 July 1874, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

We extract the following items from the " Argus" general summary : London, May 15. From the series of recent papers written by Dl Livingstone, extracts from which were read before the Geographical Society, hopes were expressed that, with the assistance of Waingerhardt, a conuected narrative of his late history might possibly be compiled. A report is current that Mr Stanley is under instructions from Mr Beunett, proprietor of the "New York Herald," to attempt the discovery of the sources of the Nile. Dr llayman has been appointed to the rectory of Aldingham, Lancashire, with £IOOO per annum. The Uev W. Jones, Vicar of Summer towns, lias been nominated to the bishopric of Cape Town.

A I. the annual Grand Lodge of the English Fi'cetu.'isons the Marquis of Ripon waß installed Grand Master. There is a split in the ranks of the Home Killers A scrutiny of the voting at the PetersuVhl election unseated Captain Jolliffe, and lie; seat was awarded to Mr Nicholson, the Liberal candidate. The member for Wakefield having lie.' n unseated for bribery, Mr Sanderson, Conservative, has been returned. Mr Waring has been unseated for Poole, on the ground of treating by agency. The Royal Russian yacht haviug grounded at Flushing on Tuesday night, the Czar was unable to arrive in England at the time arranged. He landed at Dover instead of at Gravesend, reaching Windsor late on Wednesday night. A grand banquet was given at Windsor last night, and there was a review at Aldershot to day. The budget remissions were voted by Parliament after some important discussions. Mr Gladstone disappointed everybody by declining to explain and vindicate his projected fiuancial policy. Apart from a mild protest against the concession in relief of local taxation, he praised the scheme of Sir Stafford Northcote. Should the annexation of Fiji be decided upon, the governorship will probably be offered to Captain Glover. Gold has been found in the Bokkevld district, ninety miles from Cape Town. The quartz yields four ounces per ton. The mails via San Francisco from Sydney on the 14th March, were delivered here on the 4th May, three days late. The delay was owing to the slow passage of the steamer across the Atlantic. The White Star Line has offered to employ fast steamers to carry the Australian mails. Mr Andrew Cassells having been appointed a member of the Indian Council, has resigned his seat at the Board of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China. The appointment has given great satisfaction in mercantile circles. Mr Lowther, replying to Sir J. Lawrence, said the subject of free immigration to Western Australia was considered and decided by the late Government, who thonght themselves not justified in asking a vote of money for that purpose. Long despatches have been received by the French Government from the Governor of New Caledonia regarding the escape of the Communist prisoners, but they have not been published. Strong precautions will be taken in the colony to prevent further escapes. The new Bill amending the Licensing Act was introduced on April 27th, and has incurred the condemnation of both publicans and teetotallers. There is to be a uniform extension of half an hour for keeping open publichouses. The special provision against adulteration is abolished, and liquor-sellers are left to the ordinary law. The endorsement of trivial offences on the back of the licence is withdrawn. The exemption in favor of night houses is repeated. On the sth inst, the victuallers held a conference; at which resolutions were passed declaring their confidence in Mr Disraeli's Government: The bishop of Peterborough has obtained a select committee to inquire into the laws relating to patronage, simony, and the exchange of benefices. The new Juries Bill is before Parliament. The appointment of a commission of inquiry into the canse of the recent railway accidents has been agreed to by the Upper House. A bill for the purchase of the Irish railways by the State was rejected, although supported by the bulk of the Home Rulers. The debate and comments of the English press ou Earl Russel's question respecting peace prospects, has occasioned considerable excitement on the Contineut. The Colonial Clergy Bill has been read a second time. In the House of Commons Trevelyan's Counties Suffrage Extension Bill was rejected on the second reading by 287 votes to 173. The effect of the Durham strike was to send up house coals 6s per ton. A serious accident has occurred at the Alexandra Palace. One man was killed and eight injured by the fall of a cornice. The Music-hall, Glasgow, capable of accommodating 4000 persons, has been destroyed by fire. Over 40") persons have been thrown out of employment by an explosion at the shipbuilding works of Messrs Scott, at Inverkeithy. The French transatlantic steamer Amerique was found derelict in the Channel, and was towed into Plymouth by two vessels. On examination she was found only slightly injured. The crew and passengers had abandoned her in a panic, during a storm. She has returned to Havre. £150,000 has been claimed for the services rendered by the two vessels. A collision took place in the Channel during a fog between the Bangalore and the Prince Rupert. The former was slightly damaged, and the latter has not since been heard of. The steamer Hiberia, bound for the African coast, is believed to be lost, wreckage having been found. The Rev Newman Hall's petition for divorce has been withdrawn, he paying the costs. The latest reports from Calcutta state that in the famine districts of India there are now 1,342,000 persons ou the relief works, 200,000 receiving charitable relief, and 450,000 supported by advances or sales of grain. The condition of the people is generally better, but severe distress occasionally breaks out, famine telling cruelly upon the children, hundreds of whom are nearly fleshless. Distress is extending rapidly among the cultivating class, who eagerly seek grain advances. Bains have been falling in some districts, but not iu sufficient quautity to allay anxiety. About £IOO,OOO has been remitted to India from the Mausion-house fund, besides several large sums from Manchester and other northern cities. OBITUARY. Mr Owen Jones, decorative artist ; Professor Phillips, of Oxford, through falling down a flight of stairs ; Canon Woodgate, Worcester ; Mr Thomas Farley, private secretary to the Duke of Wellington ; Major Saunders, K.N., of African fever ; Lady Ellcnborough ; Mr Richard Brenner, African traveller ; Lord Thurlow, Countess of Guildford, Lieut-General Bird, Lady Kenyon, Mr John Lucas, portrait painter ; Mr Mowbray Morris, late manager of " The Times" ; Captain Morrison, editor of " Zadkiel" ; Sir A. Wilson.

FRANCE. The French papers have been full of contradictory reports respecting the movements of the Count de Chambord. Some journals have traced him to Versailles, and alarmed their readers with suggestions of fresh .ntrigues. Evidence, however, is tolerably complete that he has only journeyed between Frohsdorf and Vienna. Great sensation was produced in political circles three weeks ago by an indiscreet speech by M. Piccon, deputy for Nice, who advocated the restoration of Savoy and Nice. Twenty-nine Internationalists have been tried at Lyons. Two of them were acquitted, and the remainder sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from five years to three months. GERMANY, &c. Prince Bismarck's health is improving, but he has aged very much in appearance through suffering. The Emperor pnid a Tisit to his Chancellor on the 7th May, and remained with him for an hour. The Paris correspondent of the " Times " haß published the substance of Bismarck's conversation with King Victor Emanuel on the visit of the latter to Berlin last year, in which he confesses to two mistakes in connexion with the war of 1870. He overestimated the military resources of France and under-estimated her financial resources. The German troops should have overrun the whole country, and have demanded an indemnity of 600 millions. He suggested that Italy might reclaim Savoy and Nice, and that Prussia, on plea of inability to desert her ally, might commence a final <var with France. King Victor declined the bribe. The official press both in Berlin and Rome have been instructed to contradict the statement. It is stigmatised as a bold invention. intended to discredit Germany's pacific professions. The Russian scientific expedition to the Valley of Amudaria is completely organised, under the leadership of the Grand Duke Nicholas. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of the King of Holland was celebrated at the Hague on the 11th May. INDIA AND THE EAST. Ceylon, June 5. All fears of food scarcity in Ceylon or Northern India have subsided. The burstof the monsoon has been unusually mild this season on the south-west, but a cyclone visited Madras and the Bay of Bengal early last month. Timely warning being given from the observatory, not much damage was sustained. Bishop Jermyn, of Colombo, has been forced to leave for Europe, the second within a year, from dysentery. He had only been two years here, and is not likely to return. A revival of Budhism seems likely to take place. Regular preaching has been established by priests in Colombo. In Kandy, on the contrary, the most sacred of Budhist temples in the whole world, the Moligavia, is likely to come to grief from dissensions among the priestly and civil managers, arising out of the appropriation of funds by the leading chief, the Dewe Nilleme. Cholera has carried off Mr Le Poor Wynne, secretary to the Foreign department, Calcutta.

A dispute is said to have arisen between Russia and Kashgar, the state with whose ruler we have just entered into treaty. The Guicovrar of Baroda has married, with great ceremony, a woman of low caste, whose husband threatens an appeal to the British Government.

The survey of the Indian coast is to be resumed under the direction of Captain A. I). Taylor, late of the Indian navy, generally directed by the Indian Surveyor-General.

The first examination of arts in connection with the Bombay University, just held, resulted in 74 students passing, of whom 55 are Hindoos, 10 Parsees, five Christian, and four Mussulmen. The Madras Government decided that Mr Parkes' scheme for constructiug a harbor at Madras shall be carried out, and power to raise a loan of £OOO,OOO has been asked from the Supreme Government. The three episcopal bishops in India have earnestly appealed to all true churchmen for assistance, both collectively and individually, in advancing the missionary cause in India. Money becomes easier in Bombay as the active business season approaches.

THE STRAITS, CHINA, AND JAPAN. General Van Swieten, suite, and the larger portion of the Dutch troops have returned to Batavia, where Blondin had the honor of performing before them. Cholera rages in Samarang, Sourabaya, and Batavia. The Irreconcilables in Acheen are likely to give the Dutch a good deal of trouble in the future, and even now there is more or less of fighting. Governor Clarke has headed a successful expedition against a band of robbers and pirates who had fortified themselves on the border of British Malacca. The Emperor of China has been on a journey to the Western Tombs. A party of foreigners, including many ladies and a consular officer and his wife, have been stoned at Hankow. No serious injury was inflicted. The serious riots in the French settlements at Shanghai early in May arose from the authorities making a new road, which interfered with the Ningpo graves. The mob stoned the foreigners, and sacked and burned their houses. The police fired, shooting several Chinese. The volunteers were called out and sailors landed before quiet was * restored. The English settlement was not affected. Major-Geneial Whitfield has gone home from Hong Kong. Admiral Shadwell has transferred his flag from the Iron Duke to the Cadmus. The former goes into dock in Japan. A report is current that a coolie ship, which left Macao some months ago, with 800 for Brazil, arrived at Rio with only 150 survivors. JAPAN. The expedition to Formosa has been countermanded, and it is now expected to go to Corca, where some shipwrecked sailors have been executed because they were Japanese. The sale of the Mikado's photograph has been forbidden. The Ex-Minister of Justice, who headed the recent rebellion, has been captured and executed. His detection has been owing to his photograph, he himself having introduced this mode of identifying offenders. The British schooner City of Niagara has foundered off the Grotto Island, and it is upposed the captain, officers, and some of the crew bave been drowned.