NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1050, 8 November 1877, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

It, is said that the Turkish soldiers have received 6trict orders not to fire at a Russian genera], lest he should be killed or disabled, and replaced. A terrible accident occurred on the Yolga on tho evening of the 27th August. Two steamers ran foul of each other; one of them sank almost immediately after the collision, when upwards of 200 passengers on board perished. Tho single scuJl race for £4OO and the championship of the Thames, on October 6th, from Putney to Mortlake, between Biggins and Boyd, was won by Higgins. The betting was 7 to 4 in favor of Boyd. Mr W. G. Grace, the well-known cricketer, has been injured in one of his eyes by the accidental discharge of a gun while shooting on the Earl of Westmorland's estate at Apethorpe. The shots were extracted, and it is hoped the eyesight will not be lost. 111-health is likely to compel Mr Delar.e to retire from the editorship of the "Times." In the event of his deeming such a course to be imperatively necessary, he will be succeeded in the editorial chair by Mr Henry G. Calcraft, the present head of the railway department in the Board of Trade. Next season will witness the revival of knee-breeches and silk stockings as a part of gentlemen's evening dress. The Prince of Wales is said to be warmly in favor of the proposed revival, and so, probably, will all gentlemen be who are blessed with shapely legs and unexceptional calves. But how, it is asked, about those who are not so blessed ? General Grant, at the Lord Provost's reception in Glasgow, said —" Though I may not live to see a general settlement of national disputes by arbitration, it will not be very many years before that system of settlement will be adopted, and the immense standing armies that are depressing Europe by their great expense be disbanded. The arts of war will be almost forgotten in the general devotion of the people to the development of peaceful industries. I want to see, and believe I will see, Great Britain, the United States, and Canada joined with a common purpose in the advancement of civilisation, and an invincible community of Englishspeaking nations that all the world besides could not conquer." A telegram from Pesth states that another letter has appeared in the Hungarian journals from M. Kossuth, who asserts that the interests of Austria-Hungary and Turkey in the war are identical, and that the ruin of the monarchy is inevitable if it does not join with Turkey against Eussia. After condemning the policy of the Vienna Cabinet, which, he says, observes a neutrality favorable to the .Russians and hostile to the Turks, M. Kossuth advises the Hungarian Parliament to force the Government to pursue a policy in conformity with the unanimous wishes of the nation, which otherwise would find itself obliged to take into its own hands the defence of its existence.

The Telephone is coming into use in New York, no less than five of the instruments being now in operation in that city. One of these connects the office of the Clyde steamship line with the wharf from which its vessels sail, and another connects the piers of the Brooklyn Bridge with the Superintendent's office, so that all the movements of the " travellers " in carrying the wires across from pier to pier can be communicated and directed without the use of signal flags as at present. The current of sound in these telephones is carried by a single wire in either direction. All that it is possible to do in ordinary conversation between two persons sitting within two feet of each other in a room can be done at the distance of five or ten miles, or even a greater distance, by simply raising the voice and speaking a little slower than naturally. The Telephone instruments themselves are very simple, consisting of two wooden tubes, one of which is placed at the mouth, the other at the ear. A telegram from Q-eneva states that Mr Lewis and Mr Paterson, with three guides, the brothers Knubel, left Zeymatt on Sept. 7th to ascend the Lyakanim; all five were killed by the bursting of a glacier. Mr Lewis and Mr Paterson were buried in the English cemetery at SJermalt. The guides were married men with families. Subsequent information states that the party left the Riffol Hotel about 2 a.m. on September 6th with three guides. As they did not return that evening, a party started next day to see whether they had gone down the» Italian side, but they returned with the news that all had perished, owing, so far as they could make out, to the giving way of a cornice of snow on the edge of the mountain. The whole fivo bodies were precipitated a distance of 3000 ft or 4000 ft, and death must have been instantaneous. The accident is the most terrible that has ever occurred here, and a universal gloom is spread over the place. All the guides havo left wives and children, and a subscription is being opened for them. A duel, which ended in the death of both combatants, has taken place at Wilmington, Delaware. It arose out of a paragraph in a paper burlosijuing a younger brother of a

youth named Young, himself only fifteen years of age. Having demanded satisfaction of the editor, Mr Brown, who instead of giving it knocked him down, a challenge to mortal combat with pistols was immediately given by Young, and accepted by Brown. The combatants were placed on each side of a railway track. "When they approached the rails the order waß given to fire. At the first discharge the ball from Young's revolver entered Brown's breast, and that from the hitter's revolver the lower part of Young's abdomen. Brown continued firing at his antagonist, but Young, finding that his revolver did not revolve, closed with Brown, when both fell, and began pummelling each other with their pistols. The seconds then interfered and separated the men. They were laid out on the railway platform, both in a dying condition. Brown died a few minutes later. Young lingered until next day in great agony. The other day a sailor was charged before the Hertford county magistrates with riding on the G-reat Northern Railway without having previously paid his fare. As the Scotch express was leaving King's cross station a man was noticed lying upon the footboard of one of the carriages. The train does not usually stop until reaching Peterborough, and travels at the rate of fifty miles an hour. A telegram was despatched to Hatfield to stop the train, and on its being brought to a standstill the man was seen to roll off the footboard, and was at once taken into custody. He stated that he had only just arrived in London from Melbourne, and after being paid off, and getting very tipsy, he went to the station to see three of his mates off to Glasgow. The last thing he remembered waß drinking something out of a bottle through the carriage window, and then he knew nothing more until he found himself, somewhere between London and Hatfield, riding full length upon the footboard, and when the train stopped he rolled off. He had no intention to ride upon the train, and did not wish to leave London. The magistrates dismissed the prisoner, thinking, probably, that he had already been exposed to sufficient danger. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, speaking at a banquet given by the Mayor of Carlisle to the corporation of that city, said:—"The past session was more onerous and more wearisome than any session I ever remember. It has now become a question of physical endurance. I suppose that in future, when we come before our constituents for re-election, we shall not say we are sound politicians, hut we shall declare that we are sound in wind and limb. The public will not canvass our merits and say, * How does he talk ? ' but' How does he walk ? ' We shall not puff ourselves before the public as sound Constitutionalists, but as men who have sound constitutions, able to sit up for twenty-six hours at a stretch. You laugh, but I am sure that, joking and laughing apart, no one in this room does not regret the performance of last session." "There had been," Sir Wilfrid said, " exceptional circumstances in which exceptional proceedings had resulted in producing the desired effect, as in the case of Mr Plimsoll. There was, however, something exciting, dramatic, and alarming about his performance, whereas in the performance of the Irishmen there was nothing either exciting, alarming, or dramatic. There was really nothing more stupid than listening for twenty-six hours to all their twaddle, and nothing leßs likely to produce the desired effect, if any effect be desired."