ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 714, 16 August 1870, Page 4

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Sir J. Cockle, Chief Justice of Queensland, has boen elected a member of the London Mathematical Society. Dr Featlierstone and Mr Bell, have both been on the Continent enjoying themselves lately. Mr Nankivell, one of the members of the council of the Agent-General of Victoria, is about to return to Victoria. On the 2nd June, Mr George Verdon was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. The Rev. Dr. C. J. Abraham has completed his resignation of the Bishopric of Wellington, and will act henceforth as ! coadjutor of the Bishop of Lichfield. Amongst the calls to the Bar, on 10th June, was that of Mr Thomas Prout Webb, 8.A., of Melbourne University. A small piece of news, which Bend.igo people will be sorry to hear of, has been -whispered. A successful miner, who 'brought home with hini, well, perhaps, 1 L 14,000 or L 15,000, a few years since, in-' vested the whole of it in some firm in the grain trade, which has lately failed. A village near Genoa has been destroyed by fire. Through this calamity 55 families are without a home. Mr J. E. Fitzgerald, formerly Chief Secretary of New Zealand, and now Comptroller of the Colonial Exchequer, has been gazetted a Companion of the Order'of St. Michael and St. George. The 12th, 14th, 18th, 40th, 43rd, 50th, 57th, 58th, 67th, 68th, 70th, and 96th regiments are henceforward to bear the name of New Zealand on their colours. Sir Charles Mordauut has determined to appeal to the Honse of Lords to reopen the suit for divorce, which was refused to be considered in consequence of the insanity of Lady Mordaunt. The marriage of the Earl of Derby and Mary Marchioness of Salisbury is fixed for July 5. His Majesty the King of the Belgains arrived at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on June 2, in an open carriage, drawn by four horses. His Majesty was conducted on board the Marie Henriette. Soon after embarking the steamer left her moorings for Ostend. The Prince of Wales signified his intention to Lord Bury to take command of the Civil Service rifle volunteers on the occasion of the annual official inspection of the corps, which will take place shortly either in Hyde Park or Wimbledon. On June 5, while the Rev. Mr Armstrong was preaclung a sermon 011 the uncertainty of life, in the Wesleyn chapel, Baliol Road, Bootle, a young woman, 25 years of age, named Ann M'Clusky, fell back, in her seat, and died instantly. On June 9, we heard that the sum of one thousand pounds was left at the bank of Messrs Ransom, Bouverie and Co., for the British Hospi'al for Diseases of the skin, 56 Great Mariborough street, W., and 33a, Finsbury Square, E.C., from "V.S.T." There is now living, at the Brentford Union, an old woman who has reached the age of 103 years. She was born at Broseley, Salop, and was baptised Febrnary 15, 1767, at the parish church of Broseley. An ideahas been for some time prevalent in military circles that arrangements were being made for raising a force in this country for the service of New Zealand. It was certainly a part of the mission of the Colonial Commissioners (Dr. Featherstone and Mr Dillon Bell), to make arrangements for organising such a force should iheycleem it practicable ; and those gentlemen whose service on behalf of the colony have been most unremitting, have been in communication with the authorities at head quarters on the subject. The Duke of Cambridge promised to render assistance to facilitate the volunteering of officers for New Zealand, but an insuperable difficulty appears to have presented itself with reference to the means of securing the service of levies made here on arrival on the other side. This and other difficulties whehhave presented themselves have caused the Commissioners, after

inatm-e deliberation, to decide on no raising a force in England for the service in New Zealand. The provincial papers are at a loss to account for the extensive emigration that is now going on from all parts of Ireland. If the country were in a depressed condition, or threatened with a bad harvest, the exodus would not be remarkable ; but for many years the prospects of the agricultural community have not been so satisfactory. " Strange to say," writes a correspondent from a midland county, " the prospect of one of the finest harvests I ever remember, at this season of the year, has not tended to diminish emigration. From all quarters the young men and women are taking their departure in such numbers that one would be inclined to the opinion that they anticipated a bad harvest, or that some other calamity was impending. That tliere will be a scarcity of hands in several localities at harvest time is inevitable." Another correspondent, writing to the Evening Post from a north-western county, states that "of upwards of 200 young men who made an appearance at the last calling out of the militia, a dozen could not now be mustered.*'