EXTRACTS FROM THE LAST MAIL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 4, 6 January 1868, Page 2

EXTRACTS FROM THE LAST MAIL

The Empress Eugenie and the Prince Imperial, while cruising in the Mediterranean, found the sea too high to land at Biarritz, and started in the yacht's boat. The steerman missed the point, ran the boat on the rocks, and was drowned. The Empress and her son were carried through the surf, and safely landed.

A strange cargo has just arrived at Liverpool from Hamburg. It consisted of the largest elephant in Europe, weighing ten tons : two fine dromedaries, a gorilla, a cub lion, and other zoological specimens. The whole lot was valued at £7000. The corporation of Liverpool are likely to become the purchasers. The Royal Commission recently, appointed to inquire generally into the administration of the law in the various courts of justice, will commence its sittings under the presidency of Lord Cairns, early in November, and proceed with the examination of witnesses foithwith.

It is estimated that the sum already paid this year for foreign wheat imported into Great Britain has been at least between seven and eight millions sterling in excess of the total paid up to* the corresponding date of last year. Russia has been the principal gainer by the movement, and next to her Prussia, the United States, and Turkey.

The Central Pacific Railrord Compcny have roofed ten miles of their road passing through the snow region, and intend to cover all the worst exposures for winter travel.

The final burst of triumph with which the Paris Exhibition was to be closed, was that of a woman show. The handsomest woman was to receive a pair of earrings, value 600000f. (24000), which were on view at a jeweller's stand at the Exhibition. Everybody was said to be anxious to make part of the jury which is to decide this prize.

A meeting of butchers at Northampton has been held on the subject of torturing calves by bleeding them repeatedly before death, and skinning them and blowing them up before life is extinct. These repeated bleedings were defended by one person, because they made the calf ' die quieter,' and his flesh was not inflamed.

The intelligence of the conversion of Queen Marie of Hanover to Roman Catholicism, has been circulated in Hanover ; and it is added that the former Catholic paster Schalberg, who has been banished from Hanover, figures on Vienna Church lists as "Father Confessor to her Majesty Queen Mary of Hanover.!' The marriage of the mighty evoker of spirits, Mr. Home, and' Madame Moet, the champagne widow, is announced.

Madame Souskof, a Russian lady, has just obtained the diploma of doctor of medicine from the University of Zurich. Five years back this lady was pursuing her studies at St. Petersburg.

The trichinosis has reappeared in Berlin. Seventy persons, having eaten meat bought from the same pork-butcher, was taken. ill ; two are dead. • * *