ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1089, 24 January 1872, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Mr Ruskin has been elected Recio.r of St Andrews University. Lieutenant-General Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, of Crimean fame, is "dead. Buckstone'hasirejMwed from his re* cent illness, but is'aa deal as a post. A new -Episcopal church has? been erected in Glasgow, at a cost of L 20,00&. Tweed, the "boss" of the Tammany Ring in New York, has been' re-elected. Twenty-eight ladies have matriculated at Edinburgh University during the present term. In Chicago new brick houses are springing up in every dir.ec.tfon, as if by inagib.* Three fatal colliery explosions have occurred in England, destroying 36 lives. The Caledonian and North British Railway Companies have agreed to amalgamate. ..:■ ' V Agrarian outrages have been committed in Donegal, and trade outrages ac Sheffield. The damage done to France by invasion is now officially stated at 821,087,908 francs. , ■ : • The damage caused to the turnip crop. in Britain by frost is estimated? at 13,000,000. J^ The bakers iv Madrid having stjtk/ the Government made sqldiers do thei* work, ': . : \, Several French towns have : petitioned for leave to have [gaming establishments opened in them. ...,.., There are now 186,000 members of the Internationals in England, 30,000 of whom are in London. : It is reported that the Bank of France intends to, double its capital, making it equal to L 15,000,000. " ' At Paris the thermometer has fallen to 13deg below zero, and the Seine has been frozen over. - - The late snowstorm on the PaciGo Railway is said to have been the' heaviest known for several years. . >. A" disastrous fire, whicih caused " tremendous excitement," broke out in Geneva in November 13. An Imperialist: denibnstratiqn was. iftadq. in the streets of Paris oh Nov. &." .'She police did not interfere. "' An important discovery of • coal has been made at Hales, Owen, near Dudley. at a depth of 904 ft. - Lord Lawrence lately met with an accident by falling down a flight of steps at the Guildhall, London. The Pall Mall, Gazette says thaf the American system of "interviewing" is extending in England,. A Linlithgow laborer choked himself by trying so swallow a pjec.e, of Bteak three inches long and one tod a-h'ajf inqn broad. ' ■ ■ • The iron trade in the north of England is said never to have been in a more flourishing condition then at present. A Liverpool policeman has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude for stealing eightperice from a juvenile black. •: • , ? ' Mr Walter, M.P., chief proprietor of the Times, is about to be made a peer, with the title of Baron Wokiugham. An American writes that J)r Livingstone has been killed in the newspapers tbMyseven times during the last seven yeara. An extensive strike of telegraph operators has taken place in England, beginning in iLiverppol. . During the acting of a drama at the

Rochester Lyceum, one of the actors was stabbed in reality by his brother. A portion of Greenwich Hospital is to be utilised as the location of the Naval University shortly to be established. A Royal Commission is to be appointed to enquire into the revenues and property of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Several extensive employers of farm labor, near Newcastle, are about to give the laborers the Saturday half holiday. The latest betting on the Tichborne case is 10 to 1 against the claimant. That individual has been suffering from an attack of bronchitis. The tramway between the west end of Princes street, Edinburgh, and Leith, has been opened. 12,000 persons travelled by it the first day. The Algerian pilgrims drowned by the steamboat collision off Alexandria, were weighed down by the gold they carried on their persons. A tire occurred at Warwick Castle on December 4th, destroying invaluable pictures, ancient armour, and many other valuable antiquities. Mr Gladstone lately visited the Royal Alfred Theatre, London. On his entering and leaving the Theatre, the audience rose en mouse and loudly cheered him. . Fourteen prisoners lately escaped from gaol in Malta, but were soon recaptured in different places, one at the Opera, whither he had gone in his prison dress, turned inside out. The winter in England set in unusually early, and promises to be severe. Provisions are at very high prices. In London 17 deaths from cold and starvation occurred in two days. The Paris Figaro says that orders have been sent to Cherbourg and Brest to have vessels prepared for cruising about the coasts of France, and represents that these naval precautions are taken to prevent what it calls " another return from Elba." The Anglo-Brazilian Times has the following : — " Near Theresapolis died lately a seventy yean widow 131 years old, leaving four sons, all over 80 years of age. Three days before death she walked five miles, and she was able to sew without spectacles." . Says the Scotsman : — " Leave Ireland to be Home-Ruled on the principles of the Irishman and the Flag of Ireland, and before a generation was over the only hnman remains to be found on the ( gem of the sea* would be two pairs of coat tails somewhere in the neighborhood of Kilkenny." A New York telegram, dated 10th December, Bays : — "The intended|procession of Internationalists which was forbidden by the police authorities, did not occur to-day. It was feared that there would be an attempt to parade, and a disturbance was anticipated. Prominent internationalists, with red, neckties ap4 red feathers in their hats, were at the Cooper institute, where they were to form, and walked around an hour. The police were on hand to prevent the parade and disperse any crowd that might collect." A moat (singular "find" was that in Cavuga, Canada West, lately. In digging on the farm of Daniel Fredonburgh, in that township, the workmen found, about 6ft below the surface, a pit filled with gigantic human skeletons, judged to be at least two hundred in number. The skeletons are those of men of gigantic stature, some of them measuring 9ft, and very few of them measuring less than ?ft. Some of the thigh bpnes we?e found P be at least half-a-foot longer than thpse at present known, and one of the skulls, being examined, completely covered the head of an ordinary person. They were piled in regular layers, each skeleton having a string of beads around his neck, and some of them having pipes of stone in their; jaws. . A number of stone axes and other implements of the same material were found m this charnel-house.