English and foreign Items.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 752, 13 January 1870, Page 3

English and foreign Items.

Sir Gideon Coxling Eaudlbz has been remanded, at one of the London Police-courts, on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences The solicitor for the prosecution intimated that there are "other cades" to be gone into when the prisoner is again brought up. It may be remembered that Sir Gideon was sen tenced iu January, 1868, to a term of 18 month's imprisonment for bigamy. His health, however, appears to have broken down in jail, and he was liberated on the understanding that he was to serve the remainder of his sentence in exile. Whether he fully complied with this condition we do not know, but it would seem that of late he has been living in England, and doing some swindling under the assumed name of Colonel Lei'evre. Miss Mary Walker died on her birthday, October 1,1869, at 9, Gibraltar-place, Chatham, aged IU4 years. An old man, whose Bight was defective, and who had to use glasses, was reading a newspaper on the tram between Wheeling, Va., and Washington, a few days ago. When the cars reached a tunnel, the quick disappearance of the light caused him to look up. Taking off his spectacles and wiping them, he replaced them, and again tried to read. Perceiving that all was still dark, he dropped both paper and spectacles, and exclaimed in a loud voice, " My God, I'm blind, I'm blind ! " This aroused the passengers, and it was a long time before he could be convinced what was the matter. On coining again again to the light, he thanked God fervently for his sight.— Chicago Tribune. A brigand, guilty of numerous murders, was lately missed from the jail at Civita Necchia, but the police, after a raid on the haunts of crime, succeeded in effecting his recapture. The man now avers that he did not break out of prison, but was taken out by an angel, whom the Madonna, touched by his sufferings, sent to deliver him. He demands an inquiry into the facts, and a juiicial recognition of the mi'-acle. The Americans say that they had Lieut. Saxby's storm. The night of the 4th of October will not soon be forgotten. Two residents of Newcastle, New Hampshire, report that they were on the beach at 10 p.m. when the"tidal wave, 13 feet high, rolled in. As they saw it coming they fled, but one fell among tho rocks, and clung to then), the wave going over him It ran 125 feet above high water mark. In three minutes afterwards there was no trace of it. The tide in the bay of Fundy, and at and near St. John, New Brunswick, rose to a height never before known. Thousands of cattle and sheep wer. drowned, bridges were swept away, and miles of railroad tracks destroyed, United States papers have given lamentable accounts of the disastrous effects of the floods. There is a professor in the University of Bonn who is a bold man. A short while since he ventured to lift up his voice against the practice indulged m by most of his pupils of wearing their hair in matted locks flowing over their shoulders. This displeased the students, who look upon a shaggy poll as indispensable to a scholarly

and metaphysical brain ; and they went at midnight to howl at the professor, who was then just«gettiu'g into bed. Instead of recanting, however, the professor put his he»d out of the window and treated his pupils to a few homely truths couched in practical language. He iold them he had lately visited England, and seen that at Oxford and Cambridge youths combed their hair and were none the worse for it. Furthermore that Oxonians and Oantabs managed to abstain from gashing their faces with rapiers in absurd duels, and from making a habit of getting drunk with beer; and that nevertheless he found them much more scholarly and more civil than the gentlemen he had' the honor of addressing. This said, he shuc the window, and the students, doubtless impressed with the solemnity of the harangue delivered by the erudite professor in his nightcap, withdrew to their homes, most likely to dream of hair cutting. The Figaro has the following: Notwithstanding the strike of the shopmen, or perhaps from that very reason, there was a large number of customers at the M'agazins du Louvre yesterday. This is the commencement of the winter season, and the female thieves are perfectly well aware that this is the period most propitious to their operations. All at once somo piercing cries were heard from the midst of the crowd. Everyone hastened to the spot, but the terror was changed to amusement as soon as the cause of the emotion was discovered to be a superb living crayfish clinging to the fingers of a woman who had attempted to take a portemonnaie from a pocket not her own. Madame K. then told the persons present that, having been robbed last year, she had thought of this means of catching the culprit. A new route to Australia (says the Home News) is under consideration. It is said that influential parties are engaged in promoting the establishment; of a new line of communication for the Australian trade, between Mil ford Haven and a North Atlantic Port via the Union Pacific Railway to San Francisco, and thence by a new line of steamers to Australia, China, and India. The Great Western Railway Company have undertaken to afford every facility for the transport over their line of this new and important traffic. It has transpired that Boyd, one of the victims of the horrible Wood - Greon tragedy, had succeeded in inducing a widow lady he had met in London to marry him about 16 years ai;o. She had then £2,0C0, and one child, a girl of two years. Boyd spent the whole of her £2,000, and then ill-treated her in a most cruel manner. Indeed she became almost destitute, and when Boyd at last left her, she had to return 10 her family. While with-them Boyd wt'ote to her asking her to return to him, but she refused to do so. After that she heard that he had left England, and she was not aware of the fact that her husband committed bigamy by marrying another lady in Japan. The remains of the young woman .Death were interred on October 3, at Tottenham, by public subscription. The parish were about to place her in a pauper's grave, but when the mob saw a brown pony hearse before the door of the house where her body lay, they paid the parish undertaker 27s to give up the funeral arrangements to them. The inhabitants of the neigh borhood then raised a subscription, and gave her a decent burial. The father of the young Scotch woman, Margaret Robertson, who lived with Boyd, sav an account of the murders in the newspapers, and he has come from Glasgow to take his daughter home wifcii him. At the Central Criminal Court, on October 27, an application was made for the postponement of the trial of Frederick Hinson, the murderer of the man Boyd and the woman Death, at Wood Green, on the ground that there had not been sufficient time to prepare the defence and get the necessary evidence as to the prisoner's state of mind. The application was acceded to, and the case stands over till the November session. We are informed that £l6O has been raised for the defence of Hinson. Of this, £SO was collected at a single public-house. A most interesting ceremony took place at the uncovering of a monument to the late Leigh Hunt by Lord Houghton—the Monckton Milnes of other days—in presence of a large number of literary men, among whom were the sons and grandsons of the poet. Lord Houghton paid a very eloquent tribute to the genius and character of Hunt. It was said that Noah Skim- ' pole was drawn from Leigh Hunt. Dickens, ' perhaps, did not understand the peculiarly ! sensitive nature of the man :—"He was," his lordship said, " regarded and held up , to shame as an enemy of religion ; whereas he was a man from wh.o3e heart there came a flowing piety, spreading itself ovei all nature, and in every channel in which l it was possible to run. I remember a 1 passage in one of his writings, in which he ' says he never passed a church, of however ' unrcforined a faith, Avithout an instinctive wish to go into and worship for the good • oi mankind." On October 11, a handsome tomb tc ' the memory of Samuel Lover, the poet. ' was completed at the Xcnsal Green Ceme tery by Mr Gaffin, the sculptor. Tin I tomb is of white. Carrara marble. Tht I inscription is very simple, and is as follows :—*' Samuel Lover, poet, composer, novelist, and painter, born Feb. 1727; ; died July 6,18 GS. 'Thy rod and thy staff comforted me.'" t The schooner yacht Norma, Mr Marshal ; Hall owner and master, is being laid u{ fat Brightlingsea, Essex, for the winter I having returned from a Norwegian cruise i She experienced several gales, but hai i suifereel no injury whatever. The Norrui / succeeded in penetrating to the fiirthes

.extremities of several fjords, where never jyachfc 1 iaci been before, and her owner, who jis ft member of the Alpine Club, has partially explored, and even laid the foundation for a rough survey of several portions of the large tracts of iee of which at present but little is known. He purposes to continue his efforts next summer. Mr Hall has also made geological investigations of the remarkable terraces very common in the inland valleys of Norway, more cially as regards the time in formation. Professor Kjerulf, of Christiana, has also been occupied with this subject. On the arrival of the Liverpool express at Crewe Station, soon after 5 o'clock on October 9, the man whose duty it is to tap the wheels of the carriages saw under one of the vehicles an object rather foreign to the situation. It turned out to be a little boy, who on being told to " come out" aid, " Don't say anything; I have lost my friends and want to go to Bristol." He was interrogated by the railway officials, and he told them he had hung on by his arms and legs to a slender iron stay only three quarters of an inch in diameter, the whole distance from Liverpool (34 miles) When we consider the speed the express train travels at, the constant draught, dust, and vibration the lad must have had to put up with, to say nothing of the Limestreet tunnel (not over agreeable to pass through under the best of circumstances), we cannot but admire the remarkable spirit exhibited. If the traiu had gone much fur. her witl o it stopping, the poor boy could not possibly have held on, as his limbs were quite numb when he was discovered. I ■gcrgrr: , —~- . ~ —. ■