ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 922, 11 July 1871, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

The number of criminals who served under the Paris Commune is estimated to have been from 30,000 to 35,000. The population of Edinburgh, according to the census returns, is 201, 143, being 33,022 more than in JB6l. Chinese navvies are reported to be considered inferior to negro navvies in the Southern States of America. Two suggestions have been offered to Mr Lowe, but not accepted, viz., a tax on cats, and another on photographs. At Tintwhistle, fifteen miles from Manchester, a woman murdered two of her children and then hanged herself. Mr J. B. Buckstone, of the Haymarket Theatre, London, is in the Insolvent Court. His debts amount to LII,OOO. At Manchester, an Irishman has been fined 5s for threatening to assault an. Education Inspector with a poker. The strike among the boys and girls employed at Woolwich Arsenal has terminated, most of them returing to work. A serious secessionist movement is on foot in Corsica, the inhabitants being incensed at the French treatment of Napoleon. The Edinburgh Merchant Company are about to found a Chair of Commercial and Political Economy and Mercantile Law in the University of that city. The restoration of Exeter Cathedral is to be commenced at once, under the personal direction of Mr Scott. The work will occupy a year. A new process of grinding corn has been invented, by which millstones are dis- 1 pensed with. It is said to be both cleaner ! and more rapid than the old process. Murphy, the anti-Romanist lecturer, has been brutally assaulted by some Irish miners at Whitehaven. He is in a critical condition. It is announced from Berlin that Prince Bismarck will govern Alsace and Lorraine as Responsible Minister representing the Empire. Anurse and three children at the Crumpsail Workhouse, Manchester, have been poisoned by taking carbonic acid in mistake for cough mixture. The English Clmrchman declares authoritatively that the Imperial family have no intention of leaving Chiselhurst, as had been reported. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has declared itself in favor of the abolition of the days of grace on bills of exchange and promissory notes. The Prague gun manufacturer, Kruka, has invented a mitrailleuse which can be carried in the hand, and fires from 28 to 32 discharges a minute. The. vestries of old and new Greyfriars churches, Edinburgh, have been destroyed by fire, but the churches them- j selves sustained but little damage. Instructions have been issued from Versailles that if either Garibaldi or his sons enter France they are to be immediately arrested. While the match-tax -was being discussed, a single firm in Glasgow sent out eight tons of matches, their orders amounting to 10 tons. At St. Louis a man who committed suicide arranged the noose so that i* would , do its work while he was under the influence of chloroform. An attendant at the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment for having caused the death of a patient, who was scalded to death. On leaving Monte Video, the Duke of Edinburgh declared that he carried away from it more pleasant souvenirs, for the time he had spent there, than any derived from a similar sojourn elsewhere. Three topers at Musselburgh consumed at one sitting 17 glasses of whisky, two bottles and two half -pints of ale, and two glasses of cordial. One of them died soon afterwards. The Albany (N.T.) Express publishes the following advertisement : — " Wanted, an able-bodied Irishman, to hold my wife's tongue — she and I both being unable to keep it quiet." The Evangelical Alliance has sent a deputation, consisting of 55 members from all parts of the world, to complain to the Emperor of Russia of the persecution of Protestants in his dominions. General Sheridan, on the occasion of a recent visit to Dublin, refused to receive an address from the "Nationalists," stating that he was on official business from the United States. According to Lord George Cavendish, Mr Lowe made no less than 18 jokes in his Budget speech, each of which, taking the abandoned taxes as the basis of calculation, must have cost him LIOO,OOO. The Rev. Dr Nathaniel Paterson, of Glasgow, son of Sir Walter Scott's •' Old Mortality," died at Helensburgh on the 25th April, in his 84th year. He has a son in the Colonies. The largest magnet ever produced is in course of construction at Westminster. When completed, it will weigh nearly two tons, and be worth LSOO. The well-known Mr Bradlaugh was arrested at Calais under " urgent and imperative orders" from M. Thiers's Government, and was subsequently ordered out of France. Mr Bass, the famous brewer, is reported to have said that Mr Bruce's new Lincensing Bill will cost his firm above half a million a year. A petition from Manchester against the Bill was 264 feet in length. The annual meeting of the Baptist Mis-

sionary Society was hel^ in London on April 27. The report showed the income to be L 42,878, and the expenditure to be L 31,621. The national celebration of the Scott Centenary will take place in the Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, on the 9th August, under the presidency of the Duke of Buccleuch. j The Worcester Journal states that a mulatto woman, named Madame Angelo, | has accomplished the feat of walking 1000 miles in 1000 hours on a bowling-green at Tything. .-..,: -.'--J.V During the presentation of some hundreds of official personages to the Prince of Wales on opening the London International Exhibition, some amusement was created by a worthy mayor stumbling-and falling on his face. The Messrs Rothschilds' bank at Frankfort was lately broken into by some burglars by means of nitro-glycerine bombs. The explosion wounded a clerk, and a broker who happened to be in the bank at the time, broke the doors and windows, and cracked the walls. One of the burglars was apprehended. At the annual dinner of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Mr Lowe spoke in favor of education in practical matters as opposed to the classical education too common in schools. The Neve Freie Presse, of Vienna, publishes a telegram from Rome asserting that the health of the Pope is causing much apprehension. The same telegram states that a crisis in the affairs of the Roman Church seemed imminent, and that the Roman Conclave would probably meet at some place outside Rome. The United States Navy, as shown by a return just published, consists of 179 ships, of which 51 are classed as ironclads, and 29 as tugs. Of the total number on the Navy List, only 40 are in commission. Upwards of LSOOO has been subscribed in Britain for a national memorial to the late Sir James Y. Simpson, and Large sums are also being collected in America. It is proposed that the memorial shall consist of a great hospital, a monument in Edinburgh, and a bust in Westminster Abbey. At the annual meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, held on the 27th April, it was stated that there were now upwards of 4000 congregations under the pastoral care of the Society, of whom 464, besides a large number of catechists and teachers, are maintained wholly or in part by the Society. A sad story is told by the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. A child's funeral was going through a side street, when a shell fell in the midst of the cortege and exploded. The coffin and body were cut in two. The attendants and mourners fled, with the exception of the father and mother, who threw themselves on the ground. They rose to find the coffin and child in pieces. ■'■■•-■