ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 690, 21 June 1870, Page 4

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

M.M. Emile Ollivier and Jules Janin have been elected members of the French cademy. : The Paris General Omnibus Company; has voted 1000 franca for the relief of the 1 poor. -Prince Pierre Bonaparte has given' LBOO to M. Gonin, the Mayor of Totirs, for the relief of the poor. The Private Secretary of the King of Holland has been in Paris, and very; busy. The object of his business is unknown. M. Ledru Rollin has arrived in France, and is staying at Fontenay, near Paris. Small pox, which has. lately been raging in Paris; is subsiding. There were only 81 deaths during the week ended March 26, against 112 the previous week. M. Gustave Flourens, the celebrated leader of the Rochefort emeuti in February, after successfully dodging the French police for a long time, has turned up in London, where he complains he is dodged by French spies. The French Government has made a further slight concession, by- agreeing to reduce the military contingent from 300,000 to 90,000 men. : • . „ The Prince Imperial attained his fourteenth year on March 16. He will shortly, go to the Camp at Chalons to complete bis military instruction. (> ..< ■ •• -. ;. ; ... M. Rochefort's journal, t La Marseillaise, is again in trouble, the gerant, M. Barbaret, having been summoned before the Police Tribunal for publishing unauthorised portraits of various persons connected with the recent trial at Tours. Negotiations between the Russian Government and the Chinese Embassy have come to a standstill, having been broken off on the return of Mr Brown to St. Petersburg. Three suicides have taken place, within a week at Monaco by persons ruined at the gaming table there. One of the number was a former actor at the Italian Theatre at Nice. A Munificent Donation of LIOOO from an anonymous donor under flic initials F. 1 G. N. has been received by the secretary of St. George's Hospital. Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, youngest daughter of the Queen, atattained her thirteenth year on April 14, having been born April 14, 1867. It is found that a sheet of ice 3in thick affords a perfectly safe passage for infantry or horses marching in single file, and for light carriages ; with a thickness of Gin it will bear all sorts of waggons and cannon. % The Comptroller of Her Majesty's Sta-tionery-office calculates that in ( the year ending March. 31, 1870, the consumption of pens in the public offices supplied by luiq amounted to 15,030 gross of steel pens and 553 y 79t quVlb. Their cost amounted t0L3,039. The Poultr? OiiapeZ :ia to nold y it is i said, for L 70,000, and a newjplace of wor> ship of great magnitude will be erected for Dr Parker on the Bite of Claremoht Chapel, Pentonville, within two minutes' walk of the Angel. . . : : — The Rev. Peter Mackenzie, a Wesleyan preacher, in Sunderland, was garotted by four men on March 28 in a bye-lane in the outskirts of Bishopwearmouth. He was very badly treated, but escaped from his assailants with his watch and about HO. ■ .. A marriage is arranged between Lady Alexina Duff, third daughter of the Earl of Fife, and Mr Aubery Coventry^ second son of the Hon Henry Coventry. A correspondent of the Inverness Courier states that the precentor of a Free Church has been suspended from his office for three months, for dancing a reel at his son's wedding. : The testimonial to Sir W. Stirling-. Maxwell, subscribed for by the Conservative tenant farmers of Perthshire, will be presented at a banquet to take place in the City Hall, Perth^ on April 22. The Earl of Mansfield will occupy the chair. Some of the Church papers announce that the Bight Rev Dr Eden is about to resign the bishopric of Moray and Boss, and to be translated to the bishopric of Edinburgh, from which Dr Terret is about to retire. Maryland proposes to punish prizefighters and then: trainers by imprisonment of from one to five years, and spectators of a prize-fight by a fine of from 100 to ICOO dollars. President Grant announces that he will soon transmit to Congress a special message, recommending the passage of a law granting universal amnesty to all persons lately in rebellion. The completion of the Pacific Railway has stimulated a direct trade in teas between China and Japan and United States cities in the Mississippi Valley and on the Atlantic seaboard. Sir Charles Mbrdaunt, ah American paper says, will leave England at an early day for America, intending to spend a season in the enjoyment of the sports of the Western prairies. A furious rain storm broke over New York, Brooklyn, and the vicinity, * on' March 27. Many buildings were blown down, and several persons were killed or injured. An American paper announces that Mrs Dr Walker has received notice "that when she appears in the streets of New Orleans, it must be 'without' trousers." By a telegram through the Atlantic Cable we learn that the Supreme Court of the United States. has decided on reconsidering its recent decision to the effect that contracts made since 1862 are payable in coin. During the month of March the public debt of the Union was reduced by 6,750,000 dollars. Outrages of all sorts, especially the hanging, flogging, and otherwise maltreating negroes, have attained such' a head in one of the counties of North Carolina, that the Governor has 'been obliged to proclaim it in a state of insurrection, and to call out the State militia. If they fail to restore order, he threatens to call inthe national military forces. The New fork papers, state that the Peabody tomb was entered on' March 30 by bnrglars, who stole the silver plate and handles from the casket. The thieves were arrested on the following day,' and the plunder was recovered. The result of the trial has not yet been received. The salaries of the head constables of police serving in Ireland have been? recently increased, in consideration of the more arduous duties they have had to perform. " A singular rumour appears in a Dublin paper. It is that Captain GrevilleNugent, the member for Westmeath, will be put forward at Longford, bis present seat being considered insecure. The Dublin Express mentions a rumor

that Mrs Howard intends shortly to bring an action of ejectment against one of /the, tenants oh ! the, Wicklow estate in order to bring her claim before a common law court in Ireland. ' ' _ 1 Mr Bernal Osb, orne has nojtified that he will apply to the judges that the venue in ithe case of the bribery petition against himself shall be changed from Waterford to some other place. , .Subscriptions are . in course of ublleciiola -for |he defence. On April I 0; oil thie arrival of a steamer from Fleetwood at Belfast quay, the. constabulary seized a suspicious-looking box, which, w heii opened, was foundto contain pike*' "rifles/ and \& quantity of ammunition. It was directed to a person in Belfast, who has claimed it. It is in the possession;o£;the police^ f ; . £ J The commission sent* out to Australia in. connection with the suit of Sir Roger. casslsliow only waiting f# the. Court] of) Probate to fix a day for hearing in the ensuing term. Sir Roger is at present residing at Harley Lodge, Brompton. The man Dyer, who was charged three months ago, upon his own confession, with having murdered one George Wilson, at the Loddpn gold diggings, Victoria, has' again been brought up before the magistrate at 'Bovr street, in consequence of a telegram received from Captain Standish, the Commissioner of Police at Melbourne, .saying. ]tbat the prisoner's statement was "strongly corroborated," he was again remanded. Large numbers of emigrants for the United States, British America, and Australia, are leaving Belfast by the Liverpool packets. They , are described as coming principally from' the northern counties, and as including several operatives from the town itself* ---- The Thames Subway -between Tower Hill and Tooley street, which has been constructed at a coat of L 16,000, is now open to the public. It is a very remarkable wori^ considering the speed with which it has been constructed, and the small cost. '' ;; ; The distress in San Francisco is at present so great that; the Mayor has been authorised to give employment on public works to the numerous idle and suffering laborers of the" city. The laborers, dissatisfied with the Mayor's dilatoriness in availing himself of ' this 'permission, have made several public demonstrations of a kind that caused fear of a riot; A fearful affair took place on April 18, at a house in the Rue dv Cardinal Fesch. A stranger rushed at a banker named Eapir, as he was going out, and dealt him a blow over the head with a loaded cane. Espir stood back, drew a sword-stick, and ran the assailant through' th© body.- Both are dangerously, it is believed mortally, wounded. > .: = ; ■ . . The lady -who bought the splendid diamond necklace ,of the ex-Queen of Spain for 850,000£ wore it' the other gyening, for the first time, at the opera. a curious -accident the ex-Queen of Spain was present in the opposite box. This caused some sparkling reflections, it may be well believed. The Portuguese Government is about to send further reinforcements to Mozambique, in consequence of the, bad news respecting the Zambesi expedition. The King of Portugal^was onhis way to Cintra a short time since when stones were thrown at his carriage. Troops were sent for, and on the return journey the road was patrolled and the carriage guarded by soldiers. The stones are supposed to have been thrown by unemployed workmen. A great sensation* was created at the I sitting of the Spanish Cortes, on April 2, by the appearance of Senor Capdevyle, a Republican deputy, who had recently been condemned to death. After much resistance he was persuaded by his friends to leave the Chamber. The impression is that the unfortunate man is insane. It is believed that he will be arrested. A shocking tragedy was perpetrated on April 6, in the village of Prinlaws, near Lesile, Fifeshire., A. man named Wyse -shot his wife through the breast with a gun, and then committed suicide. A son, who worked in ah adjoining quarry, on going to dinner found the mother and father dead, in a pool of blood ; one barrel of the gun* was loaded, and it is supposed that after shooting his wife he missed himself with the first shot, then reloaded and discharged with the ramrod. Wyse, who is a rabbit catcher, had displayed sigus of great mental excitement several days previous to the frightful occurrence.

O'Keefe, one of the liberated convicts, has issued an address "to the Irish inhabitants of America," in which he warns his compatriots that it is the merest folly to attempt to scare England by " threats of military violence." England, he says, "will meet man with man, horse with horse, rifle with rifle, and cannon with artillery." The thing to be* done is to destroy the linen trade of Ulster if the political prisoners are not set free. ' ( The property of Ulster must be. held responsible in America for the lives and liberties of Irishmen in and out of prison," and it is assumed that: "sooner, than let our exiles imperil their goods the Ulster men would break open every gaol in England ; they would subvert the throne." There appears to be an enormous accumulation of capital, which is seeking employment. Very recently this tendency has further developed, not only inLondon, but in France ana elsewhere. We may cite as an evidence of the eagerness with which investors seek to place their money in respectable securities, that the Orleans and Chalons Railway, for the purposes of an extension, invited subscriptions for L 1,250,000, 250, 000 in obligations of L2O each, and when the list* was closed, there .were found to be no less than L 17,386,600 applied for — not from a few large capitalists, but from 46,546 different persons. The somewhat sudden and unexpected departure of the Queen of the Netherlands from Windsor Castle has been accounted for, on very good* authority, by the failur :of the negotiations Her Majesty had undertaken in order to secure the union of one of the princes of the House of Orange with one of our own princesses. At the same time a fashionable contemporary announces, in its usual mysterious manner, that "there is a rumor, which will much interest this country, of the speedy marriage of a German prinoe with a princess twenty-two years of age." The parties are stated to be our , Princess Louise and the Prince of Orange. There was a heavy equinoctial gale at New York, on March 27, which caused great destruction of property and the sac-, rifice of human lives. The storm had full sweep in the .bay and the East River, and the tide, influen^edvbV the easterly wind/ rose^a^utiUßM'Melnl: Intneafteiv noon, the large unfinished five-storey brick

building, 627 West Forty-sixth street, fell with a terrible crash. ■■■ The side wall on the west side toppled over on a one-storey brick building, occupied by Benjamin Donnelly, his wife, and four children, who were buried |in the ruins. All, with the exception of a boy named Charles, were found in a heap at the front door. Charles, aged seven, was sitting astride a hobbyhorse when the crash came, and when found by Ahe searchers Was lyijjg beside it. Both legs were- broken, and he was otherwise shockingly bruised and cut. Much damage was done in both the eastern and western districts of Brooklyn.'. A three-storey, frame-house on Bushwick Avenue, near Moore street, was wrested timber from timber. A three-storey brick house, corner b/RichfirdsjaAd Partition Streets,' lost ila roof.* Trefes were uprooted and fences blown down in every part of the .city, and a great amount of damage done by the tearing of Vawmngss arid breaking of skylights. At Baltimore, twenty buildings, some of them in course of erection, were blown down or partially demolished, and several houses were unroofed in different sections of the city. The following items are from the English papers just received :— The preparations for the expedition of the first section of cable to be laid by the Great Northern Telegraph (China and Japan Extension) Company are making progress. The Danish frigate , Tordenskjold has arrived at the Thames, where she will. take on board a portion of the cable, for the remainder of which the company have chartered the steamers Cella and Great Northern. About four hundred miles are now finished in the tanks, and the remainder will be completed by the time the ships are fitted up and ready to receive- their cargoes. It is expected that before the end of May the whole will be on its way to .China. This would seem to promise an early increase of traffic to the Great Northern Telegraph Company. After many 'disappointments the public at length appears to have ' secured to it the benefits of practically almost instantaneous communication with India. I say instantaneous, because four to six hours, for all practical purposes, may be called instantaneous ; and because, owing to the difference of time, messages are actually arriving in this country before the hour at which they are dated as being handed over to the Government Telegraph Offices in India. One of the most marvellous telegraphic feats ever achieved took place on the Budget night. The substance of Mr Lowe's speech was sent along, the Indian wires, and appeared next morning in the Bombay papers.