NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

Kumara Times, Issue 1082, 19 March 1880, Page 4

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

Great excitement has been created at Manchester by the murder of a young woman named Eoberts, aged nineteen, who was in service at Mr Eichard Green' wood’s, at Harpurhey, near that city. Mr Greenwood was decoyed on a recent evening from home under false pretences, and during his absence a neighbor, hearing the girls screams rushed into the house, and found the girl weltering in her blood and dying, some person having given her five fearful blows with a blunt instrument. The motive fur the murder is obscure, but it is supposed that it was perpetrated by a rejected lover of the young woman’s, though there is no proof that she had one. Mrs Greenwood heard the girl’s screams, but being an invalid she could not leave her room.

The number of lieutenants in the English Navy is to be raised to one thousand, being an increase of four hundred.

Last year, 5480 men deserted from the English army, showing a decrease of fully 2500 as compared with the desertions in 1878.

The old Brompton Oratory was closed on January sth. A cathedal, on the model of St, Peter’s in Eome, is to be built in its place. As fifty thousand has been already subscribed this building will be commenced immediately. At Glennan, Antrim, Ireland, a woman has been murdered, and her duaghter has been apprehended on suspicion. The motive is supposed to have been a desire to obtain possession of some money, which the deceased had just had bequeathed to her. . In about six weeks, no less than sixty milch cows died at Carrick-on-Bur, from a disease known to farmers as “ black leg.” They died very suddenly after being seized with the disease.

The Empress Eugenie will embark on board the German at Southampton on March 26 for South Africa, and will thence proceed to the spot where the Prince Imperial fell in Zululand. The break up of the ice in the Seine, and the rising of the water in that river, have caused a great destruction of property all along its course in Paris and the western suburbs. It has been ascertained that five of the passengers and six of the crew of the Borussia have arrived at Baltimore, having been piched up in a very destitute state by the barque Giacomino, from Aberdeen to that city. The death is announced of the Comte de Montalivot, the last surviving Minister of Louis Philippe. He was born in 1801.

Mr Charles Morris, who was present in the Donegal as midshipman at the battle of Trafalgar, died at Chitterne a few days ago at the age of 94. Two young ladies—one a daughter of the Rev. Doyley Snow, the other a daughter of Major-General Prichardlost their lives the other day by falling through the ice while skating on the river Stour.

Messrs Rothchild have paid L],000,000 to the Oaisse of the Egyptian Public Debt on account of the mortgages and sequestrations standing prior to the Rothschild mortgage. They have also paid a sum of L 500,000 to the Imperial Ottoman Bank, and LIBO,OOO to the AngloEgyptian Bank, in repayment of advances on account of the Domain Loan.

A prise of L2OO has been afforded by the Rev. E. Wyatt-Edgell, through the Sanitary Institute of Great Britian, for the beat essay that may be sent in by August Ist next on “The Cause of Hereditary Tendencies in Health and Disease.” The Council of Institute expect to receive many valuable contributions in competition. The dignity of K.C.M.G. has been conferred on Mr Rivera Wilson, the head of the Egyptian International Commission.

The Japanese Government have dispatched five thousand pounds of silk to Moscow to create a market for the article in Russia.

Mr Gladstone, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, which occurred on Dec. 29, received at his residence, flawarden Castle a number of addresses and presents sent from various representative bodies in England and Scotland, and presented by a deputation. One hundred and sixty thousand persons are suffering from famine in Upper Silesia. A grant of six million marks has been asked from the Prussian Diet for the relief of the sufferers.

The death is annouced of the Earl of Roden, one of Her Majesty’s Lord-in-Waiting. General Sir John Low, K.C.8., died on January 10, of bronchitis, aged 91 years.

The Marquis of Lome and H.R.H Princess Louise have presented a solid silver loving-cup, about 9 inches high, to the Toronto Bowing Club. The sum of L6OOO has been offered to the town of Dunfermline towards the establishment of a free library there, by Mr Andrew Carnegie, of New York, who was born at Dunfermline.

The death is announced in his 90th year, of Colonel Francis Le Blanc, one of the few remaining officers of the Walcheren, Peninsular, and Waterloo campaigns.

The estate of Mr Potter, one of the directors of the City of Glasgow Bank has been allocated as follows :—LISO 000 to the liquidators, L 25.000 to the creditors, and L 9,000 to Mrs Potter,

The Mormons seek to have Utah united as a State, which, as they hold the power, would enable them to expel their opponents by taxation. They are also making overtures to several Indian tribes for an alliance.