ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 684, 7 June 1870, Page 4

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

It is estimated' 'that 'the reduction in fadia -will effect an suinuat saving of „ L400,000J Ci '■:...- Exeter Cathedral is to be renovated by MrG. G^Scott. , . . A new story by Mr~ Mortimer Collins, entitled "Ti^e Vivian. Romance," is in preparation. '" Signor A. Biaggi, of Milan, has just finished a memoir' of Rossini, 500 pages long. With a i view, to encourage trade at Port Canning, the Government of India have abolished port dues at that place. * The Marquis d' Abrantes, rendered Famous for .his ..attachment to the Don Miguelite party, is dead. It is stated that the Slave Treaty of 1842 between England and Portugal is about to be revised, and that several of the clauses will be modified. The King of Prussia has abolished a long-standing Hanoverian law, which forbade the' opening of on the eve of Sundays and fete days. The Khedive , i has ; lately engaged American officers for the Egyptian fleet instead of Frenchmen ; this has invited a remonstrance from the Porte. The long anticipated interview between King Victor 1 t Enimahuel and Francis Joseph, we are assured, will take place at Vienna withiita w.eek.or two, The February weaiher in America is described ,as having been very severe. In Chicago, four soldiers 'stationed at Port Abercrombie ( w.ere frozen to death. The Prussians are surveying the Arabian coast in the hope of obtaining, some convenient spot for opening a new port, and establishing a Prussian station. The cost .attending the observations made in India of the solar eclipse of 1868 is set down at L3OOO, one-half of which is to be paid by'the Home Government. Marshall Prim has been pelted with stones iri the streets of Madrid by a crowd, who in angry cries expressed their disapproval of ithe conscription. .■ On March 21, the Madrid Epoca published a Malaga-telegramy saying that Mr Blight had promißed,to restore , Gibraltar nn ; 'to.Stiain!, ;.;; '- ■_ '. v ; ■'■ < '' 'The ' Spanish Government are about to augment the funds of the Treasury by 'n '< Ilaeuing' sb'md d'f theliriihes^and -salfa works of the country. The Italian MinisteiJof Warhas;ordered the dismissal on unlimited furlough of the soldiers of the class of 1866: The total' of, trpops^ dismissed now. amount X *?1 ifii#it«,ted'46'*be the generalimpreasion

in Spain that the promulgation of the infallibility dogma would be detrimental to the prestige and. interest of the Catholic Church in that country. Alexandie Dumaa the elder will leave Paris for Italy very shortly. It is said that he is greatly aimoyed at Garibaldi for having published a novel without having first consulted him. The herbarium of Von Martins, the Bavarian botanist, containing considerably over 300,000 specimens, is waiting for spine University to buy it. His library is to be sold by auction this month. It is now definitely announced by the German papers that "Janus " is not the work of Dr Dollinger, but of Prof. Huber, who has been long known in Munich as a strong opponent of Papal claims. ' ,'lt has been stated that a marriage is arranged between the Archduke Albert of Austria and the daughter of the ex-King of Hanover. The Emperor of Austria has at last given his consent, which he had for some time withheld. On March 20, Mr Thoma3 Smith, a banker's clerk at Darlington, was found with his throat cut, under circumstances of a suspicious character. His wife has, it is said, been taken into custody. . It is stated that the Emperor of the French intends to push forward the execution of the Saint Gothard Railway. 4 ' Nature" has been informed that Her Majesty's Government has determined to issue a Royal Commission to inquire into the present state of Science in England. Music fills a large place in the Bavarian capital. No fewer than 93T persons are attached to the Court Theatre ; and the Chapel Royal gives employment to 103 more. It is rumoured in Paris that M. Hugo will shortly permit the performance of the two un-acted dramas that are.known to lie in his portfolio.., "Torquemada" has, it is said, been received at one of the theatres, and will be put in rehearsal in August and acted in October. " Nature " regrets to learn that a wing of the Emperor's Palace in Pekin has been burned, containing the imperial printing-office, with large stores of books and block-types. The books printed at the imperial cost for the last two centuries have issued from this printing-office. A young farmer named Macaulay was married at Armagh, near Limerick, and he celebrated the happy event by a feast. A piece of meat which he was attempting to swallow lodged in his throat, and he died from suffocation before aid could be obtained. Two men, named Wood and Hodgson, accused of killing William Wilson, a lunatic, who was placed in their care at the Lancaster County Asylum, were on March 5 found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to seven years penal servitude each. A frightful murder has been committed nearJClonmel, the motive apparently being jealousy. Two farm laborers, named Curran and Gormau, quarrelled about a young woman, when Curran struck Gorman with a stone, causing instantaneous death. Cnrran is in custody. Lieut -Col. George Hyde Page, late Deputy Quartermaster-General at Melbourne, will be appointed Deputy Quar-termaster-General and Acting Deputy Adjutant-General of the Cape of Good Hope, vice Colonel Elmhirst ; but we regret to say all the rest of the Australian Staff will be reduced. The Russian papers announce the death of Gil Migoter, the postilion who had the honor of. saving Napoleon from falling into the clutches of the Cossacks^ when he was leaving Moscow, by his skilful riding, in' "the affair of the Rue St Nicaise, when an attempt was made to blow up his ' Majesty, he was saved by the rapid driving of his coachman Csesar. ; ■ At Accrington a .young woman named Susannah Horsfall went to have some teeth extracted. The teeth were difficult to extract, and the doctor administered chloroform. After having pulled outithe third tooth he observed that his patient was dying, and life was soon extinct. She had had chloroform given a week before, but it did not take effect. Under date February 26th, we are ! informed that rumors were rife of an im- ; pending attempt at revolution, and that, military and police measures of precaution were being adopted by the Gover))- --; merit. It is generally believed that ;the precautionary steps which the Govern-, ment are taking are merely electioneering tactics. At a fire which broke out on March 16, in Baldwin's place, Leather lane, a serious accident befel Captain Shaw, the chiefofficer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. The roof of the building upon which Capt. Shaw stood, suddenly gave way, and he was precipitated on to the charred flooring beneath, a depth of several feet. Ho was at once conveyed to St Bartholomew's Hospital, and the latest reports state that he is going on well. Canada has sent a special commission to England to arrange for the emigration of practical farmers and agricultural laborers. These are not the people in whose behalf the London societies solicit State aid. Canada .wants both labor in the rough and clever skilled employers. Sending for practical farmers is no good without sending for laborers, and the commissioners may bo made to see tins, and lend a helping hand to the distressed who are anxious to emigrate. A sum of nearly LSOO, which remained unexpended from the Highland Emigration Fund, has been transferred to the British and Colonial Society, "to be applied in aid of the emigration of entire families from the Western Highlands and Scotland to a British colony ;" and any further repayments which may be received from the Colonies will be appropriated in like manner. .The American Steamship Company's vessel Ocean Queen is appointed to leave Stettin for New York on Apiil 2, with nearly 1000 German emigrants, and will be followed on April 21 by the Rising Star. The emigrants that select Stettin as their port of departure are the poorest class of peasants with their families from the, extreme easterly provinces of Prussia,' situated on the. shores of the Baltic. The steamers will call for passengers at Copenhagen, as they did last year. William Lindon, late of 21 Walbrook and Strand, London, a merchant in extensive business, was lately an absconder, having forged bills of lading to a large amount. A reward of L3OO was 'offered for his apprehension. His arrest was lately effected at Valencia, Spain, and Sergeant Heancock, of the city of London police,. was sent to bring him to London. He was under detention by that officer, and on board the steamer Romer, Jand when off the port of Liverpool the prisoner

hanged himself. The vessel arrived in Liverpool with Lindon's body on board. He was 55 years old ; and had a large number of Bank of England notes on him when he absconded on tho 22th October last. A terrible fire broke out at Chapelled'Huin, near Pontarlier, France, when the church and four of the adjoining houses were destroyed. Two persons who were descending into a well to fetch water fell to the bottom and were drowned, and a third lost his life from suffocation. On the same day, an important manufactory of bed coverings was consumed by fire at Beauvais. The loss is estimated at 200,000 francs. The Figaro denies a current report that the differences between the ex-Queen Isabella and her husband Don Francisco have been arranged, or that the legal proceedings instituted by the latter have been withdrawn. The Figaro is enabled to assert upon good authority that peace has not been restored between the Royal pair, and the ex-King justifies his course by alleging that during the eighteen months that the ex-Court of Spain has been in France the Queen has expended not only the income from 25,000,000 f. of which she could dispose, but has also got rid of 4,000,000 f. of capital. Another discovery, remarks the Asiatic, has been made by Major Swayne at Midnapore. This gentleman, while boring ior water for the supply of the New Central Jail, came upon a coal bed which measured 13ft in depth, and an analyzed specimen of which was afterwards pronounced to be very good. This depth may possibly be an over-estimate, as the bed may be inclined, and the boring was vertical. How far the bed extends is uncertain, but the borings, which are now being conducted under the superintendence of Major Swayne will furnish data for estimating the value of the newlydiscovered coal deposit. It Jias been decided to organise in each regiment a corps of artisans iv lien of the Pioneers, as at present constituted. The artisans are to be exempt from ordinary fatigue duties. Regiments and other corps are to execute their own barrack damages, and soldiers will be employed in the works of the War Department. His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Coni-manding-in-Chief has appointed a committee of competent officers to draw up Regulations, which will be published very shortly. A disastrous fire took place at Middleton, near Manchester, on March 14. The flames broke . out in the third storey of the Old Hall Spinning Mills. The mills, which contained 76,000 spindles and gave employment to 200 persons, were completely destroyed, notwithstanding the effort of several fire brigades. The mills were the property of Mr Thomas Dronsfield, and were occupied by Messrs Schofield and Buckley. The damage is estimated atL7O,OOO, which is partly covered by insurance. A man, named Samuel Standring, was killed by the wheels of the Heywood engine passing over his head. A correspondent informs the Pioneer that the Duke of Edinburgh met with very indifferent sport at Ulwur and Bhurtpore. Only one tiger was bagged. He was lying on a steep hill side inaccessible to the j elephants. A line of guns was formed nearly along the crest. The Duke, in taking up his position, saw the tiger some distance below him, fired, and wounded him badly. A rattling fire then commenced along the line, which drove the tiger down to the foot of the hill. He was deemed too far gone to be able to do much mischief. The whole party accordingly gave chase, the Duke and some guns on one side, and Sir Neville Chamberlain with some others on the opposite. On seeing the tiger a second time, the Duke fired a second shot, but this actually seemed to give new life to the animal, who, on a second shot being fired: by Sir Neville Chamberlain, charged fiercely up the hill and at the General, clearly intending mischief. At this critical moment, Sir Neville's second barrel missed fire, and - the General had to exemplify the truth of the maxim that discretion is the better part of valour by running for his life. Fortunately, the tiger was dreadfully knocked about, and tho ground was dead against him, and at tho critical moment, when not many ynrds separated the old Pujjjaboo from the enemy, a number of clogs that had been let loose turned the enraged animal.' After this effort, the tiger was exhausted, and could not charge again. The dogs then worried him, though, ho occasionally struck one down with Ms paw. But if the sport was not good, the reception at Deig and Ulwur by the chiefs of Bhurtpore and Ulwur was splendid. Ulwur especially spared no expense to make the reception of the Prince a right royal one, and it certainly was such.