CLIPPINGS FROM THE EUROPEAN MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 84, 9 April 1874, Page 2

CLIPPINGS FROM THE EUROPEAN MAIL.

Mr Holloway, the well-known vendor of patent medicines, who not long sincj devoted £100,000 to building two buildings out at Caterham, is said to have recently consulted a well-known member of Parliament a 8 to the disposal of no less a sum than two millions sterling in works of charity. A terrible explosion of a fish torpedo, one of the latest inventions for attacking ships under water, has occurred at Woolwich Arsenal. Six men were oiling the bearings and turning a screw to make the machinery work more freely, when tho air chamber exploded wiih a loud report. A young man, named Edward Baker, was killed on the spot, his body being thrown twenty yards; another had his arm completely crushed, was seriously hurt in the chest, and is not expected to live. Only one of the six men escaped serious injury, A gentleman of Croydon writes to a contemporary some account of his bicycling experiences. For three years he has almost daily ridden his bicycle up to town and back, a journey of 20 mites, and taken many excursions in which he has done 100 miles per day. From records he has kept he finds that he has ridden iv tho three yenrs 30,00j0 miles — a distance greater than the circumference of the earth. He has saved £115 in railway fares, reckoning Id per mile. He has never fallen or met with an accident, and the bicycle itself is in good health, and quite fit for another three years' work. A meeting of the New Zealaqd Trust and Loan Company was held on Jauuary 28, Sir Charles Clifford in the chair, The chairman said that there was very little to be done at this meeting, which wag convened merely to declare a dividend. At this time last year the falling off in the profits of the company in New Zealand, consequent : on the great amount of capital in the colonies at that time, was noted. It was then predicted that this would be only temporary, and that the result would be to encourage investments, for that in a short time the demand for money would increase. This promise had been carried out. Their last letters from New Zealand were extremely satisfactory. There was an increasing demand for capital, and that demand seemed to be founded on a very good basis. Railways were being made ; the country was being opened up and the great resources of the colony were being developed, and as it developed there must be a still greater deroaod for capital. The prospects of the company were as bright as they had ever been. He then formally moved that an intorim dividend of 5s per share be declared. This being seconded, was carried unanimously. A vote of thauks to the chairman, directors, and officers closed the proceedings. On January 29, the Lord Chief Justice began his summing up of the evidence in the Tichborne case. His Lordship commenced by a severe censure of Dr Kenealy's conduct. Frivolous -and intolerable objections, he said, had been urged and points taken, not so much from ignorance of the law as with the view of producing an effect upon the outside world. Witnesses had been misrepresented; facts perverted, and dates set at naught. A torrent of invective — of foul, black slime — had been sent forth to damage the characters of honorable and upright men and women. The Judges of the Bench had been assailed with open disrespect and insult, and with covert allusions to Scroggs and Jeffreys. Were the spirit of those judges still alive upon the Bench, Dr Kenealy would be at that moment f >st by his heels in gaol. And so his lordship went on to point out in detail tbe foul imputations which Dr KeDealy had thought fit to cast right and left. He had levelled against Lady Radcliffe not only a specific allegation of uncbastity, but with it another charge too horrible to be mentioned. He had accused tbe Jesuit fathers of deliberately corrupting and debauching both the minds and tbe bodies of their pupils. He had charged poor Captain Birketfc with scuttling his own vessel, and yet — having thrown out these hideous imputations without so much as a shadow of foundation — he had dared to talk of the duty of an advocate, and to declare that while he (Dr Kenealy) used tbe warrior's sword, tbe prosecution had had recourse to the poisoned dagger of the assassin, fcjuch an outrage upon all decency deserved the severest censure of the Bench; and the censure of the Bench would meet with the universal concurrence of the Bar. His lordship, leaving Dr | Kenealy to his own reflections, passed on to the case itself. In consequence of new works which have been carried out, and also of increased railway facilities, the coal production of the Pas de Calais and the Nord (France) is expected to be increased this year 1,500,000 toss as compared with 1873. Residents of Virginia City, Nevada, propose to present a silver brick to Lainberton Lorraine, commander of the British war-ship Niobe, for his manly action in the case of the Virginius. The brick will bear this inscription :— "Lamberton Lorraine : You are a • brick j U this is another — preeented by Americans who love humanity and its manly defenders. Virginia City, Nevada, U.S.A., 1873." l! The Parish journals announce the death of an old soldier, named Hoteland, who was ode of the drummers whose instrument drowned the voice of

Louis XVI. when he attempted to addres3 the crowd present *at his execution. The horror which tbe events of 1793 had inspired hitu with in hia old - age was so great that he could not sppak of them without a quivering of bjdy, and this had earned for him the nickname of "Le Trembleur " among his neighbors. -Every time the fatal word fraternity is written on th« walls of Parif, civil war, says the Vis Parisienne, is sure to follow. Iv the grant devolution, "fraternity" cost 2,022 s 9o3:iives; \/ 1848, 37,563, in 1871, 57,627. The word is also expensive, as in February 1848, 1500 barricades were raised in Paris, which, allowing 815 paving stones to each, would make a total of 1,267,500 torn up by the "sovereign people;" 4013 trees were also uprooted; 3704 lamps broken, and innumerable police offices were burnt down.