TELEGRAPHIZED NEWS NOTES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 121, 24 May 1877, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIZED NEWS NOTES.

Charlotte Fanoy, Counters Poulett, died at her house. io Hanover-square. At the annual meeting of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, Mr Thomas Carlyle was unanimously elected President for the ensuing year, Field-Marshall'Sir John Foster Fitzgerald, G-.C.8., Colonel of the 18th Regiment of Eoo*;, died at Tours. The French Minister of War has ordered the commander of troops stationed at Tours to take measures for rendering suitable military honors at the funeral of the deceasad officer. 'A dam at Stafford ville, Connecticut has broken,, flooded the surrounding country, sweeping away a number of Mills and houses, and damaging others. There has been little or no loss of life, but the damage done to property is variously estimated at 500,000 dols., to 2,000,000 'd015. The flying Scotchman, from the North to the South, ran off the rails just after leaving Morpeth Station, on the 21th March. In a moment the front part of the train was a wreck and was heaped up in one mass of ruin. The driver, Enoch Shipley was seriously injured, but tbe fireman escaped. Some of the passengers were jammed in the the timber of the carriages others were heard shrieking for assistance from underneath the wrecked oarriages. Five were found dead. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets, Peter Suther,^M.D., died aged 87. Tho steam works of Mr Brindsley, Salisbury-lane Beamondsey, and the premises of Messrs Starley, Carr and Co., also a building 80ft. by 40 ft., used as a manufactory and stores, with a dwelling-house and fourteen rooms contiguous, were burned completely out. Though there were msny hunhundreds of written and telegraphic addresses/ the Emperor opened them all with bis own hand, and in all instances sent immediate replies. Colonel G. S. Digby, C.8., commandant Royal Marine Artillery died, aged fifty-six. He served in the Crimean war, where he was in command of the Royal Marine Artillery in th^ flotilla of mortar-boats employed against Sebastopol. An extensive fire took place in Romford Market-place, completely burning down the premises of Mr Norden, pawnbroker, destroying all the stock-in-trade, and very seriously damagicg two adjoining shops. The new Turkish Parliament was opened on Monday, the 19th March, by the Sultan in person, and a " Speech from tbe Throne' was read by one of the Imperial secretaries. There was a very numerous attendance of the members ot both Chambers, and the ceremony of inaugurating tbe infant institution was brought to a close by prayer being offered for the Sultan. A steam boiler exploded at Messrs Smith, Boyd, & Co.'s steel works at Sheffield, causing fatal injuries to some of the wotkmen. In a colliery near Swansea, nineteen men were killed by an explosion. Admiral Sir Edward B_lcher, whose name was so familiar to the last generation as one_of the most enterprising of our Arctic explorers, died aged seventyeight. The block of buildings in Bond-31., New York, owned by Robbins and Appleton, general agents for the American Watch Company, was burnt. The loss in tbe building is 250,000 dollars; stock, probably 300,000 dollars; fully insured. The Grand Lodge of English Freemasons has, without discussion, confirmed tbe grant of £4,000 to tbe Royal National Life-boat Institution, lor the purpose of founding two lifeboat stations as a memorial of tbe thankfulness of tbe craft at bis Royal Highness's safe return from India. Mr G. W. Williamson's india-rubber manufactory in Sr. George's road, Peckham, was almost wholly destroyed by fire. A testimonial was presented to the Earl of Beaconsfield by the factory operatives of the United Kingdom. It was in the form of a beautifully emblazoned address, framed and glazed. Lord Shaftesbury headed the deputation. The Marquise da Montebello died in Paris from tbe eff-jcts of injuries which she received by her dress taking fire. A frightful explosion, resulting in the los3 of five lives, took pbc9 at the Great Boye' Colliery, Sale-lane, Tydsley. President Hayes was inaugurate- at Washington on March sth. Presidents Grant and Hayes were conducted from the White House to the Capitol by a procession. General Grant and President Hayes, with the Congressmen, the Diplomatic Corps, and tbe Justices of the Supreme Court, were conducted to tbe Senate Chamber, crowds filling tho galleries and floor.