ENGLISH & FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 703, 26 July 1869, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[PfiOM PAPERS BY THE MAT MAIL.] We have awful news to communicate from America. Worse by far in the eyes of many persons than the conquest of Canada, and more important to some than the completion of the Pacific .Railway. Chicago, the Porkopolis and Cornopolis of the United states, the wondrous city which upon pig killing and corn-dealing has sprung to vast proportions more quickly than ever before did any city, is about to deal a fearful blow against the interests of the British tourist. To those who visit the States for their pleasure the sight of the stupendous Falls of Niagara is the great natural object of attraction. If the reports which hare reached the New York Tribune are well founded, there is actual danger of the destruction of Niagara Falls. Chicago contemplates cutting a canal 1,000 feet wide and 60 feet deep from Lake Michigan to the Illinois River. The Yankee projectors of this scheme asserts that so vast a quantity of water would be drained by such a channel from the great lakes into the Mississippi, that Chicaso would become virtually a seaport, the Falls would dwindle to one-tenth their present dimensions, and the St. Lawrence would be nothing but a creek. Cobden reproached Oxford with the taunt that no one of her students could point upon a map the position of the city of Chicago within 500 miles, but as the destroyer of JSiagara she may be come known even to Oxford. Yet worse than this is in store for us. General Grant is reparted to have determined upon the construction of the Darien Canal, and Captain Silas Bent —whoever he may be —has shown (in a lecture) that the G-ulf Stream will force its way through the cut, and " England become a region of almost Arctic cold." Telegrams from Dublin state that two men named Murray have been arrested on suspicion of being accomplices in the murder of Mr Anketell. informations were sworn against them by a Mrs Brown, who lodged in their house. She was hooted and threatened yesterday by a crowd in Mullingar, and the police have brought her and her husband to Dublin for safety.

The case of " Saurin v Starr" was before the Court of Queen's Bench on April 30. Mr Meliish, Q.U., who appeared for the defendants, said that since the trial the case had become fuither complicated by Miss Saurin having filed a bill in Chancery, in which, after declaring that the verdict of the jury proved conclusively that she had been improperly dismissed from the convent at Hull, she prays that the property of the convent may be ascertained and realized, and the proceeds divided be tween her and the other persons entitled thereto. This rendered it necessary that he should move to reduce the damages absolutely to £2OO, as she could not have back the £3OO and also claim a right to a share of the convent property. He also moved to enter a verdict for the defendants on the third and fourth counts, which charged them with false imprisonment, conspiring to procure the expulsion oi Miss Saurin by making false charges against her to the bishop, and libel; and the learned counsel added, he was obliged to move for a new trial, because the damages were not apportioned between the third and fourth counts. The Lord Chief Justice said he regretted that by an oversight damages had not been found separately on those counts, but no doubt the parties would agree to divide them. Mr Meliish said he was also instructed to move for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was against the evidenco, but this point, after some discussion, he did not press. He was only anxious that it should not be said in the Court of Chancery that they admitted the correctness of the verdict. A rule nisi was granted. In the matter of the Countess d'Alteyrac otherwise Willoughby, an application was made to Mr Commissioner Holroyd at the Court of Bankruptcy on April 30. The lady, who has been made bankrupt, is in custody of the sheriffs, not in the debtors' prison, but at a place in Chancery-lane, known as Bream's-buildings, and she now applied for an order for her release from custody, under the 112th section of the Act of 1849. Her ladyship's name has recently been before the public in connec tion with the proceedings in another court, which were taken against Lord Willoughby d Eresby. She is- described as Junia Maria d'Alteyrac, of 32, Park-street, Gros-venor-square, commonly known as the Countess d'Alteyrac, otherwise Willoughby, of no occupation, now a prisoner for debt in Bream's-buildings. She ascribes her failure to insufficiency of income, law expenses, and pre9ure of creditors. The detaining creditors are Mr E. Huggleby, lodging house-keeper, of Grower-street, whose debt is £3B, and the London and South-Western Bank, Regent-street, £lO3. The total debts are £5L74. The principal creditors are—Mr de Longchamps, of Park street, Grosvenor-square, 2563 ; and Messrs Little & Co., of Sloaue-street, Chelsea, £602. The application was opposed on behalf of the detaining creditors. Tha bankrupt, in examination, stated that she was entitled under the awa' d of Mr Vernon Harcourt to £IOO a month ; from a nobleman, £SOOO down; and £IOOO a year for rent. Hitherto she had only received about £SOO. Most of her debts had been contracted since the award. The house in Bark-street which she occupied was half furnished. She had no intention oi leaving the country. In support of the application, Dr Ferriani was called, and deposed that the bankrupt was suffering from nervous debility, and that her longer confinement would endanger her life. Her nervous debility arose from disease. It

was asked that the bankrupt Bhould be required to give bail; but his honor said that, looking at the facts which had been disclosed as to the award, he did not think this necessary, and hd ordered the release asked for. The whole of the guns and revolvers stolen from the shop of Messrs Neill & Co., of Belfast, have been recovered, and it is satisfactory to learn that the robbery was not in any way connected with Fanianism, or had anything to do with political partv feeling. It was an ordinary case of housebreaking, for the purpose of carrying off plunder, and the weapons were recovered in this waj :—On Saturday evening, about six o'clock, Head-Constable Porter and Acting-Constable Dale, who were on special duty in connexion with the burglary, were passing through Croraac-street, when their attention was directed to a boy going into a pawnbroker's shop. The boy had been acting in a very suspicious manner, as if trying to avoid the police, who followed him into the 6hop of Mr Smyth, pawnbroker, to whom he offered a revolver in pawn. Mr Smyth, having heard of the robbery, properly refused to take the revolver, and the police coming in at the time took the young fellow into custody, and he gave his name as Dorrity, of 15, Lagan-street. Head-Constable Porter was proceeding with him to that address, when he saiJ he had told a lie, and that he had lived in another part of the town. The boy, being allowed to walk freely to his house, made a bolt and ran off through two or three streets before he was again caught. He was taken to the police-office, and on tho way a woman said he was " Young Berry," and that he lived on the Shankhill-road. The boy eventually stated that he lived in Beresford-street, and that his father's name was Mark Berry. Jhe policemen went to the hou k se pointed out, and arrested the hoy's father. They, on searching, found the missing lirearms, with two exceptions, concealed beneath the floors.