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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 265, 6 October 1875, Page 4

The Wealeyana atv to biild a chapel in Rome. The plans have been selected and the site fixed. The structure will be a very haadsotne one. Two divers, who were engaged in clearing a wreok near the island of St. Honoret, on the French coast, were seized by a gigantic octopus, whioh olatohed tfeens io its slimy, hideooe folds. Ooe ot the diver's fortunately bad his arrxsa free, and raag the alaram. ball, wbioh brought down a crowd of Jivers, armed with piok-ases aad a&ea, with which they cat the monster lo pieces. He was found to measure three metres. Three hundred and forty horses are inscribed for the Grand Prise, to be ran for at Longcbanops ia 1377. Of these there are 126 English horse?. The engagements for this race never before attained such a high figure. A story is told of . a coloured girl in TeoDtsaf-.e who has been kept in slavery ever since the war. She was allowed no means of learning anything, and only recently learnt that slavery had been abolished. Mr. Rhodes, a schoolmaster at Nant- . wich workhouse, who has been in the habit of ( ' beating the boys black and blue," has been called upon by the Board of Guardians to resign. Mrs Ogilvie, a member of the Society of Friends, who haa established a home at Ipswicb, is about to place £30,000 in the hands of the Society for benevolent purposes. There are 250 female students in the faculty of mediciue and surgery of the St. Petersburg University. China painting is an art which occupies many women at Stoke-on-Trent another places in the Staffordshire pottehie^' They are able to earn from £80 to £170 a year at this occupation. The first Baptist church that was bmlt in San Francisco, was recently sold for a Chinese opium manufactory. Gambetta, w& was recently elected a member of the London Gobden Club, has returned" thanks in a letter highly eulogistic of Albion as, the friend of Franca. The Turkish Government has issued a decree authorising the free circulation of the Bible throughout the Empire. Duriog tbe four months' stay of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in London, 1,000,000 copies of .their hymn books were sold every week. By an Act recently passed by the British Parliament, and which has received (he Royal assent, it is enacted that any clerk, officer, or servant, or other person employed, who shall alter or falsify an account, book, or paper, with intent to defraud, abal! be liable penal servitude for seven years, or io imprisonment not exceeding two years.