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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 29, 4 February 1870, Page 2

A Russian Corvette in Chinese waters has all her crew of 250 men armed wifh English Snider rifles, and great guns which are all Armstrongs, " excelling in appearance any thing ever seen in those waters before." The Prussian Government have given permission to the Jews to erect a synagogue at St. Petersburg. This will be the first building of the kind that ever existed in Russia. An enormous silver nuggefc valued at 26,875 francs, has been presented to the Pope by a Californiau. A Young Man recently wrote to his sweetheart, saying: " There is not a globule of blood in my heart which does not bear your photograph." He had it very bad hadn't he ?

Woman's Eights.— The JVew York World complains thafc the stock heroines referred to by the advocates of woman's rights are getting somewhat stale, and observes: — "Womanhood, with eras of history and ita ambitious present, ought to present a fresh heroine for every day in the year. No one suggests herself more commendably at this moment than the mistress of the Grand Hotel at Lisbon, which navy people recollect so -well. This ornament to her sex is an Englishwoman, about 55 years old, a lady of cheerful and polite manners, a capable business person, who carries on the concerns of the great hotel for which she has rented one ofthe palaces of Lisbon, is a wealthy woman, and the mother of 32 children ! Any one of the officers of Commodore Goldsborough's last expedition will verify this character. The woman who has shed so much honour on her sex is pronounced popular aud society-loving, the centre of private parties so agreeable that it was a favour to obtain admission to them. Her children are the care of a retinue of teachers and nurses, her husband is book-keeper of the establishment, and this capable woman presents to the world an hotel perfectly managed and a happy family scrupulously cared for ? Can one woman do more ? Will the woman's party write this among their illustrious heroines and examples ?"