ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 537, 26 June 1869, Page 3

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

♦ Pennsylvania has produced a new order known as " The Jolly Corks." A Bill has been passed in Kentucky prohibiting marriages between first cousins. German laborers are rapidly taking the place of negroes in upper South Carolina. " Drawing-room cars" are being intro duced on all the first-cla»s American railways. During the past week, forty-nine wrecks were reported, making for the present year 859. A Southern circus announces, " Admission 50 cents ; children and white folks half price." All the negro regiments but two have been " consolidated" out of the United States army. There are fourteen convicts under sentence of death in the Maine State prison — eleven for murder and three for arson. The Dublin Express records the death, at Corbally, Tipperary, of a woman named Rachel Abbott, aged 113 years. A newspaper correspondent in America has just brought a suit for §30,000 worth of false imprisonment against General Butler. The New York Revolution newspaper declares its mission to be " to turn everything inside out, upside down, wrong side before." According to the Friend of India, the late Nizam's favorite' amusement was to drive a hansom cab round his gardens with the groom inside. Mdlle. Lucca goes to Cairo in the autumn, tempted by an offer from the Viceroy of 80,000 f. for a few representations. Finlen, the ex-demonstrator and orator, and his four children, have been received into the Holborn workhouse. They had been living in a miserable underground dwelling near Gray's Inn Road, the total furniture in which was said to be under the value of ss. A most interesting ceremony was performed lately in North Yorkshire. The inhabitants of the Oswaldkirk postal district have presented their post-messenger with a silver teapot and stand and a purse of gold as a mark of esteem. Mr R. Metcalfe, the lettercarrier who has been thus honored, has held his situation twenty-one years, and has never failed to walk seventeen miles per day in all kinds of weather. In acknowledging the gift, he said he had walked a distance, in the twenty-one years, equal to four times round the world, and eleven thousand miles over. He still performs the journey daily of seyenteen miles. Mr Tinue, the President of the Oxford University Boat Club, has accepted the challenge from America, to row a four-oar race in August from Mortlake to Putney. Some anxiety is beginning to be felt about Livingstone. The last mail from the Cape brought a report that he had left Zanzibar on the Ist of January for Aden and Suez. He would have been heard of long ago had he done so, and Sir R. Murchison has information which makes it csrtain that the report is untrue. He inclines to believe that Livingstone is making his way to the West, and will be heard of next at Congo, or one of the Western Portuguese settlements. Polemics run high across the Channel, but the Irish Church is not the only bone of contention amongst our excitable neigh' bors. In Cork, where Bishop Gregg officiates, the Protestants and Catholics are now fighting over a graveyard. The latter charge the former with showing favoritism, through the managers of a cemetery, to dead bodies of their own faith. The specific indictment is that the Protestants were put in dry, snug lying, while the poor Catholics were placed in wet and undrained ground. A grand debate took place on the subject in the Cork Town Council. Under date Havannah, March 30, the New York papera publish a telegram announcing that the British Consul had sent Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Heron to Caibarien to investigate the affair of the British schooner Jeff Davis, which was captured in Bahama Channel, and two of the passengers shot. The captain and crew of the Jeff Davis, were still in prison at Caibarien. The British Consul was expecting a fleet of several vessels, which had been ordered to cruise in the Bahama waters.