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Globe, Volume V, Issue 582, 1 May 1876, Page 4

A memorial, signed by oyer 700 persons, including ten magistrates, has been presented to the Mayor of Liverpool by a number of p arsons interested in the temperance movement, asking him to call a town’s meeting on the question of closing public-houses on Sunday, The Mayor deferred his reply. The returns of emigration from the C’yde for 1875 show a considerable falling cff compared with the previous year, the number of emigrants being 18,000, against i 6,500 in 1874. Six sevenths of this decrease is attributed to the diminution of emigrate n to America. Earl Stanhope, on succeeding to the peerage, ceased to bold the bordsbip of the Treasury which he filled as Viscount Mahon, and the office has been conferred upon Viscount Crichton, M.P. for Knuskillen, eldest son of the Earl of Brre, who was made a baron of the United K'nuom on the lllh January Lord Crichton, who is thirty seven year? of age. has represented Enniskillen since December, 1868. The aid of spiritualism has been invoke'* ' in China to make a p Loner confess, T case of one \ ang nai wu, a sche’ ihe of aiding a woman to poise*- ~ar accus- d is said that the liters' . her husband, it the case ia hand j chancellor, who had to elicit » ' lOo k the fo'lowing method P rlß ' confession : —One niyht, while the _,aer was b'fore him, all the lights were suddenly put out, After waiting a while, the Chancellor said, “ Did you not hear what that spirit said ? I know all about this affair now, so you muy as well own up ” The prisoner then confessed guilt. Ihe other officers were railed, light brought in, and his confession taken down. The Academy of Science has ordered the reprinting of a dissertation, published in 1751, by M. Lemonnier. on the ancient junction of England and Franco, That modest geologist predicted the gigan’ic tunnel about being commenced under the Channel, and even after 124 years, engineers find his book of valuable assistance. The prospects of the tunnel are as bright in an engineering as in a financial point of view. The soundings of the bays been accurately takeo to

England. Tt is demonstrated that the tunnel can be confidently pierced through a uniform mass of impermeable grey chalk. The boring will present no difficulty, and the Brunton machines will dispense with blasting. When the sea, forcing a passage, separated England and France, it resembled a saw cutting vertically through the strata of hard and soft chalk ; so that if the Channel were dri d up its bed might be compared to a street, France and England representing the houses on each side, and the various strata of chalk corresponding to the stories.