ITEMS BY THE MAIL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1101, 23 August 1871, Page 2

ITEMS BY THE MAIL.

Perhaps one of the most interest inn items of intelligence to hand by the mail via San Francisco is that contained in brief telegram to the News of the World. It is dated from Hague, July 7, and says 5 —" The Second Chamber of the Parliament of the Netherlands has ratified the treaty for the cession of New Guinea, m the Pacific Ocean, to England." It is estimated that 80,000 men in Pa, ris have become unable to support their families, and that there are no fewer than 240,000 persons dependent upon charity, Certain photographs exist of the ruins of the Veudome Column, in which the portraits of a number of National Guards in triumphal attitudes are plainly reeog. nisable. Each of those heads, after having been enlarged, has now been placed in the hands of the detective police. A, series of views of the principal barricades, also were published just before the troops entered Paris, and several hundred por. traits of the insurgents are given. The likenesses will in many cases lead to the condemnation of the men so depicted. There was a slight fall of snow in she neighborhood of Shields on the night of the 23rd June, and on the 26th a sharp frost in London.

Bichard Burke, the Fenian leader, on whose account Clerkenwell prison was blown up, is to be released on the same terms as those granted to Bryan Dillon, namely that he presents himself once yearly to a magistrate, A late English paper remarks: —lt is desirable that a royal residence should be established in Ireland, and it is certain that Prince Arthur is the most suitable representative of thy royal family that could be selected. He is a general favorite, willing to take part in public cere* monies, does not shoot pigeons, and can make a good speech. His sp_eaking is. always creditable, and ou one occasion last week was exceedingly good, This, is a not unimportant qualification for

such a country as Ireland, and Prince Arthur is the only member of the royal family that possesses it. The Secretary of State at Washington has under consideration a new extradition treaty with England. It will contain provisions for extradition for all crimes known to our laws above the grade of mere petty larcenies. Of five monarchs of France, in the present century, the reign of only one has been closed by death The belief in witchcraft still survives in Somersetshire, England. The Wincanton magistrates have been hearing a charge preferred by Ann Green, of Bruton, against a laborer named William Iligbam, for assaulting her. The defendant had long labored under the delusion that he was " overlooked " by the complainant, and in order to break the spell had stabbed her twice. The sleeves of the garments which were worn by the complainant were produced in court, sa-. turated with blood. The prisoner informed the bench that he did it to destroy Mrs Green's power over him, but that he had not yet found any relief. The prisoner's mother said she had not been able to rest for a fortnight past, as* he was constantly saying that Mrs Green was " overlooking" him, and that it would kill him. He was ordered to find sureties, or to be imprisoned for three weeks.

vvcei^a. On Saturday afternoon, <June 24, as the eldest son of Mr G. E, Cotteriil, pf Harrow, a member of Harrow was acting as umpire on the pricket. ground, he was accidentally hit behind the ear with a cricket ball, and killed instantly. A fire occurred some weeks ago at Penny Oaks Mill, Bradford, and one of the walls being in an unsafe condition has been removed, The rubbish was, placed on an upper floor, which afterwards gave way. Alice Newton, a weaver, was killed on the spot, and an* j other young woman was seriously injured. At the Cheshire quarter sessions, held at Cheshire, lately, it was stated that small-pox was rite in that county. It is, alleged that in many cases the disease has been spread by persons who had been infected whilst visiting Liverpool. It was resolved to direct the attention, of the Home Secretary to the subject, with a view to the adoption of steps for re-, pressing the epidemic.