NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1117, 26 February 1872, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The Sublime Porte and KMive of Egypt have refused to purchase the Suez Canal, which was offered to them forsale. ; . A rather costly mistake is stated to have been made m the office of a member of the Liverpool Stock Exchange. The principal, perceiving on his desk what he supposed to be a qnautity of waste paper, hastily gathered it up and threw it into the fire, where it was speedily burned. Almost immediately afterwards he found that, with the papery he had thrown into the flames Bank of England notes of the value of LI4OO. The numbers of the notes are not, known. 7 Indian paperg received by tho mail contain accounts of the execution on the 4th. of November of the assassin of Mr Justice Norman. Before ascending the scaffold steps he was asked for the last time what his motives for the . assassination werej he merely replied with the customary answer that he was not m his senses when he stabbed the; Chief Justice, and that he was subject to epileptic fits, during one of which he must have perpetrated the deed. When the cap was drawn over his face he fainted. After the execution his body was burned. . . The San FranciscoL-BuKetfrn states that among, the curiosities of the hospital attached to the gaol m that city is a man whose heart has fallen into his stomach, and yet continues to perform its functions with unswerving regularity. 1 Placing the hand upon the stomach over the new location of the heart, one can feel the organ throb, and at the distance- of several feet the rising and falling of flesh can be seen as the organ pulsates. The patient suffers little pain m the breast, but is troubled with a swelling m his left leg. The heart fell while the patient was lifting a barrel of provisions; Sir David Baxter, Bart., has signified his affection for his native town" by another magnificent gift. At a meeting of the Royal Infirmary directors last month, it was announced that Sir David intended to erect and maintain a convalescent hospital, which would give accommodation to sixty patients.^ The gift it is calculated will involve an expenditure on the part of Sir David of from L 20,000 t0L30,000. Recently 'he gave a public park to the inhabitants, which cost between L 30,000 and L 40,000 j and his contributions to various philanthropic objects cannot be estimated at less than LIOO,OOO. The Philadelphia North American is confident that the' whaling' business is/ ruined m consecjuence of the extraordinary increase m the petroleum trade. It says :— The fact is that the whale has had his day r and though the era m which he flourished was a great one m; distant enterprise, it, is by no means to be regretted that we have found a better and permanent reliance. The whole fishery - may struggle on a few years longer, but its inevitable doom is as sure as anything can well be m commerce. As for tha trade based upon it m the Pacific, we must tax our ingenuity to substitute something else for it. * Another member of Parliament has avowed himself aßepublican. Mr Auberon Herbert, after speaking m favor of Mr Miall-s motion for disestablishment, and oE Home Rule m Ireland, referred to the agitation m favor of a Republic, and said ho was not m favor of any change during tlie life of the Queen ; but "if we asked ourselves what forai of government was the most reasonable, the most m harmony with ideas of self-government and selfresponsibility, and what Government was most likely to save us from unnecessary, divisions of party, and to weld us into one compact mass," he bad no hesitation m saying the weight of argument was m favor of a Republic. These remarks were received with "great cheering and groans." A vote of confidence m Mr Herbert was passed. . ' : - ' •■-■ The New York correspondent of the Bclw gives the following account of the successful efforts of the Associated Press. He says :— •" A very clever telegraphic feat was accomplished the other day, which, as far as I am aware, isj qu4t§ unique here. The London agent of the New ¥drk Associated" Press obtained, it ; would seem, an early copy of the Lpndon Times, of November 9, and at 6 a.m. sent a cable despatch, giving a. short synopsis of. the Times? remarks on the downfall of Tammany at the recent elections..^ This .< came through promptly to. the Associated Press, and reached the newspaper offices m manifold at 2 a.m. the same moruing, m ample time for publication; so that our New York morning dailies of the 9th, printed at 3 a.m., contained the fifth of an article m the London Times, published, say, at 5 a.m. The right of a child tp ; prosecute its . parents for whipping him, and to recover damages m a court of law, is m process of demonstration m Cincinnati. (The case is one which, from the wealth and high social standing of the parties, promises to, famish the great sensation of the day m that city. David Gwynne Minor is the plaintiff, an infant m the eyes of the law, who claims, of the. Court of Common Pleas, damages to the amount of 50,000 dollars from his parents,- for the- abuse and ill treatment he has suffered at their hands since 1858. The boy's petition tells a horrible and disgusting story. That portion which is .fit to appear m print recounts how he was thrashed with an iron ramrod and with rubber whips j how h£ was dragged about the house/and down two flights of stairs by the Hair ;' and how, by way of encouraging penitential meditation, he was thrust into a closet, under a tank of hot water, and kept there for ten hours, m such a position that he was unable to sit down or stand up. In New York four thousand persona crowded £he great Steinway Hall m Fourteenth street, . and took the liveliest interest m the lecture of Mrs Victoria C. Woodh'jll, who, m the course, of her re« marks on " Free Love," attacked, m the vilest manner possible, the institution oi marriage, declared all those marital unions where love did not exist to' be legalised prostitution, and finally appealed to the audience whether love did nat stand above law. She held all children born from such unions up to ridicule, and described them as decrepit and weakminded. Thisbroughta storm of hisses, which was, however, soon drowned by the .applause of those who approved Mra WoodhullV sentimente, and who weie really m the majority. Thus encouraged, she cried out— "Yes ! I am a free lover I believe I have an inalienable .right to change my husband every day if I like. I trust I am understood, for I mean what I say, and nothing else. I claim that

freedom means to be free." This pleased the audience amazingly, and lecturer and hearers were now of one accord — the little band of Conservatives m the hall being well aware- that any further demonstration on their part would only result m a riot. The lecturer proceeded by declaring that illegitimate ceildren generally turned out to be the noblest men m the world, and said that the late Admiral Farragut and Senator Fessenden were illegitimate, and no other two men had received greater plaudits from their countrymen for the services rendered to the Republic. This somewhat stunned the audience, bat they swallowed it, and listened attentively, to the end of the discourse. On the next day some of the New York journala called upon the police to arresfc this Mrs WoodhuD, owing to the nefarious doctrines she preached ; but ridicule was the only an&wex to auoh demand*, I A good sto;/ is told of Mr E. Hudson. Superintendent of the Peoria railroad, and a gentleman well known to railway men. Upon hearing of the burning of Chicago, his first act was to telegraph to all agents to transport free all provisions for Chicago, and to receive such articles to the exclusion of freight. He then purchased a number of good hams, and sent them home, with the request to his wife to cook them as soon as possible, so that they might be sent to Chicago. He then ordered the baker to put up fifty loaves of bread. He was kept bu&y during the day until five o'clock. Just as he was starting for home, the baker informed him that toe hundred loaves of bread was ready. " But 1 only ordered fifty," said Ed. "Mrs Hudson also ordorea fifty," said the baker. "All right," said Ed. and he inwardly blessed his wife for the generous deed. Arriving at home, he found his little boy dressed m a fine cloth suit, carrying m wood. He told him that would not do ; he must change his clothes. "But mother sent all my clothes to Chicago,'' replied the boy. The matter was getting serious. He sat down to a supper without batter, because all that could be purchased had been sent to Chicago. EThere were no pickles— the

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poor souls m Chicago wouldjrelish thorn so much. A little " put out," but not a bit angry or disgusted, Ed. went to tho wardrobe to get his overcoat, but it was not there. An interrogatory rovealed the fact that it filled tho box real well, and he ' needed a new overcoat anyway, although he had paid 50dol for the one m question only a few days before. Further examination showed that all the rest of the clothes fitted the box real nicely, for not a dud did he possess, except thoag he had on.. While he admitted the genorosity of his wife, he thought the matter was getfang entirely too personal, and turned to her with the characteristic inquiry-: "Do you think we can stand an encore on that Chicago lire 1 " At Derby there has been another antiDilke demonstration. Sir Charles had been announced to lecture m the Temperance Hall, but his opponents mustered m such large numbers and were so turbulent that he could not get a hearing. Mr J. C. Cox, a county magistrate, presided, and he and Sir Charles and their supporters were received with cheers and groans. On a working man attempting to move a resolution approving the principle of the Land Tenure Reform Association, a serioua fight took place. " Forms were pushed asido, blows were dealt, jackets and even shirt 3 were torn off, and several bloody faces showed how fierce had been the fray." The Mayor refused to send for the police, and said he had no power within ihe building. A cry of " Cheors for the Queen " was met by the Rev. W. Griffith, a Wesloyan Reformer, calling for thirty cheors for a Republic. The mooting broke up at nine o'clock, the promoters of tho meeting giving three cheers fof a Republic, for Sir Charles Dilke, and Mr Odger. The opponents replied by singing "Rule ßritannia" and " God save tho Queen," and as the promoters retired the others scrambled on to the platform. The following extract from " Scribner's (New York) Magazine" for January is of interest: — "Tho Jesuits appear to have received orders along the line to attack the Freemasons. The Ultramontane journals ■of all Europe have begun a fearful and united crusade against them, especially those of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, and Baden.- They vie with each other m most violent outbursts of temper and serious accusations. They are called a 'most dangerous league of rascals for the mutual protection of criminals.' This campaign of the Jesuits seems to be set m motion . because of the increase of lodges attendant on the quasi rebellion from tho Catholic Church. The Masons are making great accessions to their numbers m all parts of Germany, and the Grand Lodge, enjoys ' theprotactorato cf the Emperor. Wherever Ultramontanism has been strong, there new lodges havo been established, as m Augsburg, Munich, Bamberg, and Wurzbnrg. Tho Grand Lodge of Italy has transferred its seat to Rome, and there ' will shortly be hold m that city a general assembly of all its Masons, under the very oyes of tho Popo. Tho battle between the Masons and tho Jesuits is waged perhaps with even more acrimony than that between the ecclesiastical antagonists." There is a lady of an unusually adventurous spirit providing amusement for the public m Germany. She has gone through a variety of characters m male costume with eminent success, acting successively as groom, coachman, valet, &c., to various employers, giving perfect satisfaction,and obtaining excellent characters, her masters never suspecting her sex. The late war roused nobler ambitions within her. Prefixing the title " von" to her name, and donning the blue coat with an iron cross upon it, Miss Bertha Weiss made her debut as a wounded Prussian officer. Passing through various towns ahe enlisted everywhere tho sympathy of the inhabitants, who received her as an honored guest, and nhe is said even to have made some havoc amongst young ladies' hearts. Unfortunately she was found out just when her success was at its highest, and, placed before a tribunal, was sentenced to several months' imprisonment as a punishment for her masculine aspirations. So perfectly, had she acted tier role, however, that up to the moment when the verdict was pronounced Bhe found advocates m the press to defend her manhood. The imprisonment has not moderated the lady's ambition, for although only shortly released, she has turned up once more m manly guise m the very last place where a female would be looked for, viz., m a monastery, hear Breslau. The prior declares that she came to him with so truly penitential an air, disguising her sex admirably, that he could not find it m his heart to refnae her. She has lived among the monks undiscovered, her noviciate being a severe one ; yet she underwent all the rales of the order with the fortitude of an ascetic up to the last moment. Tired however, at last, of the monotony of a conventional life, she gave the monks the slip after a four months' visit, disclosing her sex only after her departure.