ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 669, 3 May 1870, Page 4

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

♦ Sir William Mansfield will remain in office in India another year. It is said there are 100,000 houses "to let" in London. During December last 24,226 bales of cotton, valued atL385,593, were exported from Bombay. Mr Charles Egan has bequeathed L 200,000 to the Dublin charities. The number of wrecks reported during the first week in February was 51, making for the present year 277. A man named Green has been fined L 2 at Bradford for working an illicit still. John Patrick Williams, a master plasterer, has been committed for trial by the Shefield magistrates on a charge of feloniously receiving stolen property, the produce of a burglary. Edwin James Yates was charged before the Hereford magistrates with forging two bills of exchange for LSOO each, drawn upon Messrs Hance and Co., Liverpool, and wa3 committed for trial. Bridget M'lntyre, of Durham, has been committed for trial on a charge of murdering George Veasey, auctioneer, of that place, whilst making a distraint for rent. Accounts from the Tyrol state that the diligence which runs from Bregentz to Au, and which carries the mail, was stopped a few nights back and robbed of a sum of 14,060 florins (2f 50c each). A man named Kitchin struck another named Jackson in Ravald street, Salford, and killed him on the spot. Jackson was Buffering from heart disease. A despatch from Castlebar, Ireland, Bays that the cattle of several gentlemen in that district have been maliciously maimed. The body of a girl who had evidently been brutally murdered was found in a field near Corofin, County Clare, lately. From appearances the girl had been strangled. Mr W. Buller, manager of the Ashby branch of the Leicestershire Banking Company, committed suicide by hanging himself. At an inquest, a verdict was given of temporary insanity, caused by overwork. His accounts are all right. Mr Austin, the representative of an American shipbuilding firm, is to purchase the Government dockyard at Deptford for L 140,000. The original Admiralty price was L 144,000. The foot and mouth disease has broken out on the farm of Mr F. Bowler, Well Spring, Nether Loads, near Chesterfield. Prompt measures have been taken to stamp it out. Mr Barry Sullivan, it is reported, has received from a noble lady a cheque for the munificent sum of LIO,OOO to cover his losses at the Holborn Theatre. An industrial school has just been opened at Werrington, near Hanley, for the reception of forty boys, under 14, sent from any part of Staffordshire by a stipendary Magistrate or two justices. The Army and Navy Gazette understands that it is the intention of the War Office, after the commencement of the noxt financial year, to take steps for filling up the vacancies amongst the officers of the militia. It is stated thai; Lord Napier, of Magdala, before accepting the commandin- chief, took steps to record officially at the India Office his disapproval of the proposed reduction of the European regiments stationed in India. Mr Whalley, M.P., in a letter to the Rev. C. P. McCarthy, Cheltenham, says he is now convinced that "there is no more important or urgent questions than the abolition of the Church of England, meaning, of course, as a State Church. A sum of, about LI4OO has been subscribed, chiefly among men of science, towards the memorial to the late Professor Faraday. It is expected it will take the

shape of a statue or monument in the British Museum. At Headworth, near Sheffield, anurseryman, named Jonathan Jackson, has been burned to death in his house. Two cottages were burned, but others escaped. A fire broke out in the AssemblyBooms at Great Yarmouth. The fire raged furiously for some time, and -was not extinguished .until three rooms and their contents had been completelydestroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown. A citizen of St. Polten, called Mathias Schlaginweit, died at the age, it is believed, of 126 years. Of his numerous descendants, only six, four grand-children and two great grand-children, survive. The Washington Chronicle makes the startling statement that the agitation of the question of removing the capitol "has already cost the people of Washington not less than $12,500,000 within a year in the depreciation of real estate." Mr William Black, formerly of Glasgow, and the author of "In Silk Attire," is about to publish another novel. The title, "Kilmeny," is borrowed from one of the most charming poems of the Ettrick Shepherd. The story will be published in the ensuing month. Two daughters of a thrifty farmer in Princeton, Illinois, fifteen and seventeen years old, completed on the 17th January the task of walking eighty miles within twenty consecutive hours for a prize of lOOdol. They had one hour and thirtyseven minutes to spare. Herr O. Lichreich has proceeded with his important observations on the action of chloral on the organism, and has found that it may be employed with good results as a counteractive to poisoning by strychnine. On the other hand, the evil consequences resulting from an overdose of chloral can be averted by the use of strychnine. It is said that Sir George Chetwynd intends to relinquish the turf, and sell all his horses in training. A schoolmaster, named Henry Wise, for whose arrest a warrant had been issued for embezzling sums of money amounting to L9OOO, was arrested near Colchester Barracks, and was removed to the lock-up to await his examination. Two cases of incendiarism have occurred in the neighborhood of York. One of them was at Sutton-on-the-Forest, where the damage was not considerable ; the other was at Youlthorpe, not far distant, where four stacks were fired. A female servant is in custody charged with having committed the last-named crime. Several persons charged with uttering and selling indecent prints and papers, lately seized by the police, were tried at the Middlesex Sessions on Wednesday, and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Amongthem, Charles Grieves, publisher of the Ferret, was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor. The Cork police arrested, on a telegram received from the Liverpool constabulary, a young man dressed as a Benedictine monk, who is stated to have absconded from Liverpool with a large sum belonging to a public board. He gave the name of Waters, and is about twenty-six years of age. He was on the point of leaving for America. A local paper says that Mr Samuel Morley, M.P., during a recent visit to Nottingham, gave directions that thirty old workmen should be added to the list of persons to whom he allows a sum of 7s per week. The total number of workpeople in the town and neighborhood to whom a weekly allowance is thus made exceeds, it is said, 100, and something like L2OOO per annum is paid amongst them. Mr Samuel Henry Watson, J.P., of Lurnclone, County Carlow, has shot himself dead. He was supposed to be in embarassed circumstances. He has been a Magistrate for some years. The deceased used a revolver to commit the fatal act, and his wife had previously ordered all arms to be removed from the house. A young man named Noble has been charged with the murder of the woman with whom he cohabited. Both were standing on Westminster Bridge, when the deceased suddenly disappeared. The prisoner made no efforts to save her, and his movements were regarded as suspicious. Pending the discovery of the body the prisoner has been remanded. The family of the Rev. C. J. Sympson, rector of Kirby-Misperton, near Pickering, became alarmed at the continued absence of the rev. gentleman, and on their going to his bedroom he was found bleeding from a pistol-shot in the head, the weapon being laid on the bed. It is not known at what time the discharge had occurred, as no one heard it. The unfortunate gentleman has since died. A letter from Veatka, in the Official Messenger of St. Petersburg, states that a fearful crime has been committed in the village of Nijnaia-Toima, district of Malmydge. A peasant named Babonschine, his wife, daughter-in-law, and a little girl, four years of age, were found murdered in their house, which had also been plundered. A Tartar beggar, of Bazan, has been arrested on suspicion of being the perpetrator of the crime. He had been seen at the peasant's cottage on the evening preceding the discovery of the murder. The Italian journals contain accounts of a murder by a priest named De Boni, at Feltre, near Balluno, in Lombardy. He was some time back tried for an assault on a youug woman of his parish, with whom he was believed to be on terms of improper intimacy. The charge could not be clearly proved against him, but he was condemned to imprisonment for illegally carrying arms. He was released a few weeks back at the expiration of his sentence, when he immediately returned to Feltre, and killed the woman who had deposed against him. The punishment of conjugal infidelity by mutilation is still not uncommon in Tndia in spite of the severity of our codes. The French seem to have the same difficulty in putting down the practice in Algeria. A man tried in Constantia for cutting off the nose and upper lip of his unfaithful spouse, said he had offered to divorce her if she would return the 375 f for which he had bought her. She had already run away from her first husband, taking with her her dowry, and the prisoner waß determined she should not sell herself a third time. The Arabs blamed the prisoner for giving way to passion without having first recourse to the specific for jealousy and infidelity — placing the head of a snake in the folds of his turban. The sentence was eight years' hard labor. A very alarming accident occurred at Castle Hedington. A horse attached to a carriage took fright, it is Baid from a band of music. The carriage was being

driven into the village. The horse dashed off at full speed, and ran into a shop. Two ladies who were inside were thrown out by the overturning of the vehicle. One was killed on the spot, and the other expired on the road to East Suffolk Hospital. She was the wife of a farmer of Obington. The largest importation of serpents which has ever taken place in Liverpool occurred lately, when no less than sixty serpents of the largest and most extraordinary species were landed. Two boa constrictors, whilst in a dormant condition, measured eight feet and ten feet in length ; and one of the pythonesses, whilst on the voyage from the West Indies to Liverpool, gave birth to no fewer than thirty-eight pythons, all of whom, notwithstanding that they we^e enclosed in a box not larger than an ordinary Foyle salmon-case, were in good condition on being sent ashore. There were also two blue-faced gorillas of the largest kind, a baffalo, a blue maccaw with gold-fringed eyes, a griffin vulture, and a porcupine rat — the only one that was ever imported from the West Coast of Africa. Messrs William and Edward Gray, photographers, have just entered on a bold and spirited enterprise, being nothing less than photographing the principal objects of interest in the Land of the Pharaohs. With this object in view, they sometime siuce purchased at Glasgow a small screw steam-yacht of 16 tons burden. Steam is kept up by burning oil instead of coal, and the little craft left the Clyde on February 9, via the ' Forth and Clyde Canal, the Straits of Dover, the English Channel, and thence by the Languedoc Canal, across France, and up the Mediterranean to the Nile. In England lately a photographer came near losing his establishment by fire, the result of leaving the lens of his solar camera exposed to the sun. The day was cloudy, and, thinking it would so continue he carelessly left his lens exposed. The sun came out, however, about the middle of the afternoon, and, shining obliquely upon the lens, the warm rays soon began to tell upon the woodwork inside, and shortly the enlarging room was a mass of flames. The astonished and careless photographer was attracted by the crack- • ling of the wood, and barely succeeded, with his assistants, in suppressing the mischief. An explosion of an extraordinary character lately occurred in the ironworks of the Emperor Ferdinand's northern railway at Prerau. The piston-rod of a locomotive was brought to a forge to be straightened. The first time of heating was not sufficient to enable this to be completely done, and on its being laid in the fire a second time it exploded in all directions, so that one workman was killed and four others were severely wounded. An examination of the various pieces has shown that the iron was exceedingly porous, and damp may have collected in the pores and caused the explosion on the second heating. The convent case of Saurin v. Starr and Kennedy is now understood to be finally settled, on the following terms, viz. : — The L3OO dowry to be returned (which is tantamount to a verdict for the defendant) ; each side to pay their own costs ; the suit in Chancery to be set aside, each party also to pay their own costs ; all papers which have passed in the suit to be returned to the respective parties, and all imputations on both sides to be withdrawn.