ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 695, 2 July 1870, Page 1 (Supplement)

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

The Lord Chancellor of England is an active Sunday School teacher. The Duke of Edinburgh is going to publish a record of his voyage to Australia, China, Japan, and India. Count de Montalembert left a fortune of 650,000 francs. There are now 600 Protestants and 5000 Jews in Rome. A Royal Commission is about to be issued to inquire into the present state of science in England. The women in France are almost without exception in favor of capital punishment. A movement has been started to erect a free library as a memorial to Lord Brougham. It is reported that Patti's collection of jewellery is more extensive than that of the Empress Eugenic. The Queen of Madagascar wants to marry an American clergyman. Kossuth is writing his autobiography, which is to be published in six languages simultaneously. Prince Napoleon is writing a history of the whole Napoleonic dynasty. The project of a ship canal from Liverpool to Manchester is again being revived. The Emperor Napoleon refused to see Prince Pierre Bonaparte after he had returned from Tours to Paris. The latest scandal in New York is of a married lady who fell in love with her daughter's jfamce. The daughter suspecting it, dismissed her lover, who went to Europe, the mother following him in the next steamer, with her maid. Little Henry Wolff, of Commerce, Mo., America, shot his little three-year old sister, the other day, because she would not eat her supper. Ad English paper polietly calls Reil (the leader of the Red River insurgents) " a vulgar bombastic ruffiian, who sold his mother's only cow to buy himself a flushy uniform." A forty-mile velocipede Tace has just taken place in France. Fifteen compeditors started, and the winner was Leotard, who accomplished the journey in three hours and forty-four minutes. The Lancet says Lady Mordaunt continues in much the same health as she has been for many months ; her mental condition being neither preceptibly aggravated nor preceptible relieved. In the British House of Commons, May 4, a petition for woman-suffrage, by nearly 10,000 names, was presented by Mr John Bright, who then moved the second reading of the bill removing the. eligibilities of women to vote. A short discussion followed, and a motion for the previous question was carried, by 124 to 91. The result was received with cheers. Queen Victoria is the richest widow in the world. She hast an income that is large enough to render any man happy at her domestic fireside. Her allowance from the British Government is L 385,000, to which must be added L 35,000 from the Duchy of Lancaster, making a total of L 410,000 per annum, besides at least a dozen rent-free castles, palaces, and mansions. As she accepted a legacy from Mr Neeld (who passed over his own relations to enrich her), as she inherited LI, 000, 000 from Prince Albert in 1861, and as she has not spent a third of her allowance, since his death, it is estimated that Her Majesty's cash capital, well invested, is at least L 2,000,000. The execution of the convict Rutherford, who is under the sentence of death for the murder of a gamekeeper named Hight, on the estate at Eriswell of the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, is fixed to take place at Bury St. Edmunds Gaol on April 11. There are great doubts, however,' as to the possibility of executing him, for he possesses a malformation of the neck. He was severely burnt when he was young, and now his chin is connected with his neck by a band of flesh in a straight line. Dr. Macnab, surgeon to the gaol, fears that any attempt to hang the unfortunate man would be attended by prolonged suffering, and might cause a very unpleasant scene. The matter having been reported to the Home Office, a Government inspector, on April 7, made an examination of the convict. Notwithstanding that he came to the conclusion that there was nothing in the injury to prevent the capital sentence being%arried out in the usual way, the man has been reprieved. An extraordinary phenomenon has taken place in the harbor of St. John's, N.B. Immediately beforeihe commencement of a snow-storm, whilst the wind was rising, a strange noise was heard in the harbor, and soon afterwards it was seen that about twenty feet by seventy of the old ferry, hitherto several feet above water, had disappeared, and a frontage several hundred feet running from the Hue of the demolished wharf towards the breakwater, had also gone down, leaving a steep embankment, and near where the portion of the wharf . settled away, and where a moderatelysized vessel used to ground at low ' water, there was between six and seven fathoms at low tide. According to the i rise and fall of tides at this port it is > inferred that the .bottom sank nine or ten i fathoms. . A melancholy accident, involving the ; death of two children under very painful i circumstances, took place lately, near I Balerno. The sufferers were a girl of five i and a boy of three years of age, residing l with their father,Mr Knox, who is a gards ncr at Mullany flax mills. In the course of , the day they left home for the purpose of : going to ace their brother, who was work- ■ ing at a garden at no great distance from L the house. Under these circumstances, • no notice was taken of their absence till a : considerable time afterwards, when the f brother, on returning from his work, l stated, in reply to his mother's inquiry, ) that he had never seen them. A search t was forwith instituted, but for; a time it i proved unsuccessful. At length, howl evr, it occurred to some one to open the > lid of a large corn-chest in the stable, when , the ill-fated children were, found lying ■ .dead inside. The secret of their mysl terious disappearance was now only too api parent. The little creatures, instead of I going to their brother, had betaken themr selves to the stable. While frolicking , there they had gone into the corn-chest, t and either pulled down the lid or allowed » it to fall ever them. Once down the lid a was caught by the hasp outside, when ' of course, it could not have been opened by great force applied from within. The re- , suit must have been speedily suffocation. i — Scotsman. I A Vienna correspondent of a London ■ journal, writing on February 26, says:— X < < Tho ofrnL-Q liaki of ill .^AMIgMMHI

vided with funds. Yet the employers hold out, for it would be simple ruin to the Vienna journals if the men's demands were granted. The seven principal papers have not only made temporary arrangements to meet the emergency, but are endeavoring to make themselves independent of the trades altogether. For this purpose women are being instructed to do compositors' work, and the plan is being carried out with great energy and success. The strike is, I hear, supported by trade .societies in Switzerland, France, and even in England. At Pesth, the compositors have returned to their work without obj taining any concession from their employers. 1 " .