NEWS BY TIIE MAIL.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1123, 4 March 1872, Page 2

NEWS BY TIIE MAIL.

Frenchwomen are subscribing liberally toward the Gorman indemnity. A. B ungarian loan of three millions has been placed. A slight shock of an earthquake was felt at Sheffield oh the 4th. A violent thunderstorm has occurredat Manchester. Three thousand additional Communists have been ieleased. The New Year's official receptions at Paris, Berlin, and. Rome passed off quietly^ ; .. . */ The Pope, on the plea of indisposition, declined to receive Victor Emanuel on New Year's Pay. Thirty thousand Limerickers, '.with bands and banners, received the home rule advocates. ' ■ The American Government's claims for prolongation of war are estimated at four hundred millions. , •.. ,■) At the banquet to Mr Butt, at Limerick, 200 guests were present. Mr Butt claimed industrial and municipal privileges for Ireland. , The TUnes and oHier 'English journals are bestowing increased attention upon the Alabama arbitration. The former considers the demands fully answered. The French Jfational r Assembly has rejected the iucornertax^and voted an augmentation of 400,000,000 francs to the circulation of the Bank of IVance. ■ All officers of the Indian Staff Corps are transferred to the British establishment. The Royal warrant fixes pay and half-pay allowances to lieutenants 1 and sub-lieutenants. ... The Swiss National Council has prohibited the settlement of Jesuits in Switzerland as well as their educational and ecclesiastical teaching; The Jesuits will not be allowed to erect new or to re-estab-lish old convents. The deaths are announced of Lady Seorgiana Cathcart, the widow of General the Hon. Sir George Cathcarty G.C.8..-

----who was killed at the battle of Inkerman; of Lieatonant-General William Manle Karosay, eldest son of the late Lieut enantGeneral Hon. John Ramsay, and heir presumptive to the earldom of Dalhousie; of Mr Justice George, one of the judge? of the Dublin Court of Qaeen'a Bench, and formerly member for Wrexford County ; ol Btr R. R. Blame, Judge of the Marylebone County Court; and of Mr Thomas Gaspey, for more than sixty years connected with English periodical literature, and editor of the evening editions of the Morning Chronicle, in which " Sketches by Boz first appeared. One of tho largest fires .which has been witnessed in London for some years took place last weekatßotherhithe. Occurring in the granaries of Messrs Bennett and Co., some of the largest storehouses of corn which exist in England, the fire destroyed a great quantity of grain. The circumference of the burning ruins was nearly three-quarters of a mile, and standing in the midst of them waß a perfect mountain of grain far exceeding in height the loftiest house in the adjacent streets. Numbers of houses in Rotherhithe street were seriously damaged by fire and water. At Blackbnrn, a mill belonging to Messrs Pilkington Brothers was burned down, and damage done to the eitent of LIOOO. On the same night a destructive fire broke out in the oil manufactory of Messrs Peter Forbes and Co., of Port Dundas, Glasgow. For some time the whole city

was illuminated by tho flames, and tho loss is estimated at over LIO,OOO. Fiity thontiani gallons of paraffin oil, valued at LBOOO, have bcon destroyed. The Golons, discussing the contingency of a war botween Russia and Austria, warns Count Andrassy against precipitating such an event, and observes that it would create such excitement and confusion in the Auatro-Slavonic territories "that perhaps even beforo tho hostilo armies could meet there would bo nothing but fragments of tho Austro-Hungarian army left. If tho Austrian diplomatists atill have any doubts as to the real sympathy of tho westom and southern Slavonians kinsmen, theso must be completely dispelled by a reforenco to the events of IS4«. I; would certainly be painful to us if Russia wero placed in tho necessity of again entering thoso districts where the Russian soldier was recoived with bread and salt in 1849— where the namo of ' tho whito C'2ar' was mentioned with hope and blessings, and our flag was looked upon as the banuer of freedom." Tho Lord Advocato for Scotland has announced that tho Ballot Bill will hu introduced first, and then the Scotch Education Bill. The Marquis of Hartington, in addruastni! his constituents, advocated firmness ir* repressing rebellion in Ireland! E location and tho rights of tho Press would be duly cared for. It would be unsafe to reduce tho Indian Army any further, bnt a complnte system of military organisation was intended. Tho Earl of Derby, in addressing tho Liverpool workmen, criticised tho action of the Gladstone Administrarnn. Monarchy be considered safe. Tho House of Lord 3 lib regarded as capable of improvement. The programme of the Liberals, he thinks, is now exhausted, and Conservatives will predominate on tho questions now before tho House of Commons. The Bon. John Paddington, in addressing the Conservatives of Rochdale, stigmatised tho sensational and extravagant policy of tho Government as unsuccessful in Ireland. Mr Card well, in addressing his constituents, said tho feeling evinced during the illness of the Prince of Wales was an example of tho sympathy existing between a Constitutional sovereign and the people. A small first-rate army was desirable. Two damsels of Bedford, Ohio, are considering a proposition made them by a local pugilist. Ho offers to teach them the art of boxing, paying their expenses whilo under tuition if, after becoming proficient, they will givo public cxhihitions of their skill, provided he pays 100 J ol per month to oach for her services. 'A new kind of typo for the blind has been invented by Reuben Voso, a New York broker, by the use of which it will cost only two dollars to print a Bible, inatead of fifty dollars, .13 at present, and to farther complete tho system, a printing press has been constructed by which the blind can print for themselves, enabling them to carry on correspondence with their friends as well as thoso with eyes.