English and Foreign Items.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 773, 28 March 1870, Page 3

English and Foreign Items.

The Home News says:—'Spite of all the opposition o'iYered to him—and it has been peculiarly stormy, and of a character not easily overlooked—Dr Temple is Bishop of Exeter. Afc his consecration remonstrances were urged and difficulties thrown in the way, but the ceremony was carried through as though they existed not. Every step in his advancement has been beset with difficulties. When Mr Gladstone recommended and the Crown nominated, when the Chapter fulfilled its functions and elected him, at his confirmation, and when he did homage to royalty, great was the tribulation of those who feared him. On the 29th December he was enthroned, and had such a reception as few ecclesias tics of modern time have had accorded to them. In the course of the sermon preached by Dv Temple, referring to the Bible, he said : —"I can read other books which are fill of moral wisdom ; I can find in them the loftiest, the most religious sentiments; I can find in themlhe wisest advice, but for all that, go where I will, I never find in any other book the strange power which bows down the soul, whether we will or no, and makes it acknowledge the presence of the Spirit of <Jod. I read Igveat moralists of ancient days; I am struck with the religious feelings of Plato. I read great teachers of the early church; I am struck with the extraordinary power of insight into divine truth which I find in St. Athanasius and in St. Augustine, but still there is wanting in them, whenever I read them, this one thing, which marks the Bible out from every other book that has ever been written : that this book, and this book alone, seems to realise that description which i* given of the teaching of our Lord—'He spoke with authority and not as the Scribes.' "

The following obituary notice of the late Duchess d'Aumale .appears in ike Home News, December 81: —Maria Caroline Augusta de Bourbon, Duchess d'Au. male, whoso death took place at Twickenham on Monday, December 6, was a daughter of Leopold, Prince of Salerno, of the Neapolitan branch of the Bourbons, and of Marie Clementine, an Archduchess of Austria. She was born at Vienna on the 26th April, 1822, and passed the early years of her life at the Court of Vienna. There, too, she was first introduced to the world under the care of her mother, the Princess of Salerno, and of her godmother, the Empress Caroline, third wife of her grandfather, Francis 1. of Austria. She was, therefore, by her mothor's side, a niece of the Empress Marie Louise, and a niece in the second degree of Queen Marie Antoinette. The young princess was in the bloom cf youth when her family returned to take up their residence at Naples, and negotiations were opened in more than one quarter for her marriage. Her choice fell on the fourth son of King Louis Philippe, Henry d'~rloans, Due d'Aumale, and heir of the House of Coude, a prince of about her own age, but who had already, at 22, acquired no common distinction in the worid by a brilliant campaign in Algeria, ■and especially by his exploit ol the capture of the Smalah of Abcl-el-Kader. The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale were married at Naples on the 25th of November, 1811. Their lot was destined to great vicissitudes of fortune—to splendor, to exile, to celebrity, to retirement, to great enjoyments and great sorrows, to distant journeys, and to the simplicity of domestic life; but in all these changes and accidents the duchess bore her part with an entire and deroted sympathy in the fato of her husband. Several children were born of]

his marriage. But of these only one sarives, the Due de Ghiise, born at Twiokeratani on the sth of January, 1854, now the last representative of tho Conde branch of he French royal family.' -Of the otherchildren of this marriage two boys died in infancy. The eldes'yknown : as the yoang Prince de Conde;, who; was born at St, Cloud on the 15th 1845, was a nan of singular promise; but he, too, was pursued by the fatality which seems to have attached itself to that illustrious name. Having sailed on a voyage to tho Australian colonies and further East, he caught a typhus fever at Sydney, and died there, a few months after he had left England, on the 21th of May, 1866. From the loss of her firstborn, under those painful circumstances, the Duchess d'Aumale never wholly recovered, and in her last hours tho thought of rejoining her son appeared to 'illay the pang of parting from those sho (oved on earth for ever. In the earlitr years of their married life, the politio.l and military duties of the Due d'Aumale in the service of France fixed his residence as Gfovernor-Greneral in Algeria, where his young wife accompanied him, and where her name and his are not forgotten. The event?, of February, 1843, drove them into exile, and fixed them in England, which they from that time regarded as their home. It will be remembered hereafter to the honor of the princesses of the French royaljfamily with what remarkable dignity and resignation they accepted an altered position, and among them the Duchess d'Aumale was conspicuous for the part she took hi the pursuits and amusements of her husband. She accompanied him to Spain, to Sicily, to Switzerland, to tho East. She even shared his taste for tho hardier sports of the field. She presided over the liberal hos; italities of Twickenham ; but of latter years her favorite residence and mode of life'was at Wooduorton, the Due d'Aumale's farm near Evesham, in Worcestershire, where she er j vyed without alloy the pleasures of English country life and the undivided society of her husband and surviving son. Nor did she take a less cordhl share in the politic;J interests of the illustrious family to which she belonged, both' by birth and marriage. She hud adopted with them the proud motto, l 'J : aUsndrai" and if she lived not long enough to see again the land of France, she waited at least in resignation and hope until the will of Providence removed her to another world. Conscious of the danger attending the malady from which she had been suffering the last sis. week ■•, she called on Sunday, December 5, for the last sacraments of the Church, received them with devout piety, and on the following day, blessing her son, and with her eyes stiil fixed on him who had been to her the supreme object of all earthly affection, gently expired. She was buried on the L3th December at Weybridge, where previous members of the same illustrious house have b:en interred. At Twickenham and other places marks of respect were paid to the memory of the duehesse. Twenty-four mourning coaches followed the hearse to the place of interment, containing many distinguished personages. The carriages of her Majesty and tho Prince of Wales also accompanied the procession.

Mr Joseph Bundle, storekeeper of " Par Consols " Mine, in Cornwall, has recently died at St. Blazey. He had lived to the age of eighty-one years, and it is reported that in all that time he never slept one night out of the parish in which he was born.

A fearful item of news from the Eussian press is the burning of the town of Jeniseisk, Eastern Sibei ia. The fire originated in a turf moor which had been smouldering for some years, and during a violent storm burst out into a sea of flames, which seized the nearest house about 11 o'ciook in the forenoon, thence spreading quickly over the whole city. At 8 o'clock in the evening 1,300 houses (mostly wooden, but 35 of great size), six churches, two cloisters, all the stores, an immense amount of grain (about two million pounds) were destroyed. Ttie fearful rapidity with whiiMi the flames spread, prevented the people in almost every case, from preserving their goods. Over one hundred corpses were found charred in the street, and as many more are said to have been drowned in the water. Many of the inhabitants fled to the vessels in harbor, but these, too, were caught up by the flames. The city is now desolate, and its former residents ars strewn around in the neighboring villages, and the various cities of the QoveWi* tnont,