THE ENGLISH SUEZ MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4315, 19 January 1875, Page 2

THE ENGLISH SUEZ MAIL.

The s.s. Wellington, with the Suez mail for Wellington (conveyed from Melbourne to POr Chalmers by the s.s. Albion), arrived in harbor' at an early hour yesterday morning. Prom the newspapers to hand we make the, following extracts ; ENGLAND. The Queen, accompanied by the Princes* Beatrice, returned from Balmoral to ..Windsor on the 21st November. Hallowe’en was celebrated in the usual ■' manner at Balmoral on Nov. 2. The servants and tenants, carrying torches, walked in procession up to the castle, where a bonfire wa« lighted and reels were danced. ■ The Queen,, Princess Beatrice, and the ladies and gentlemen of the household were present. Her Imperial Majesty the Empress of Eussia has been making frequent visits in the neighborhood of London. The Grand Duke Cesarewitch has joined the Duke of Edinburgh , and the Prince of Wales in their visits to more . than one of the metropolitan theatres, and has spent a few days with the Duke of Edinburgh at Eastwell Park for the purpose of shooting. The Prince of Wales’s 1 thirty-third birthday was celebrated, on Nov. 9, at Sandringham,' Windsor, and London, with the usual eclat. At Sandringham a large circle of guests of the Prince and Princess of Wales were assembled the principal of whom were the Oesarewitoh of Eussia, and a number of llnssiau prince* and nobles. The chief event of the day was the dinner given to 220 of the laborers on the royal estate, which was provided as usual in the large dining-room at the royal mews, and which was graced with the presence of their royal highnesses and their guests from the w house. 1 ■ ■ ' A convention general of the Order of Knight' Templars, the first that has ever taken place in Ireland, was held in the Masonic Hal!, Dublin, a few days ago. There was a’large attendance of knights, including noblemen and distinguished members of the order from all parts of the United Kingdom. Of course the proceedings were strictly private. The Queen is the patron of the order, and the Prince of Wales is the grand master. Much consternation has been, caused in Southampton by the news of the reception of ■ a communication from the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, notifying that their establishment At that port is about to be broken up. The very large staff of officials which have been employed by the company at Southampton have consequently .' received notice of discharge at the end of the year. The company’s ships merely touch at Southampton now for mails and passengers. Pive-and-thirty years' ago, the company selected Southampton as their port of arrival and departure, chiefly to avoid the dangerous navigation of the' 1 channel between the Isle of Wight and the Thames. Such, however, haa been the imjjrovement in navigation, that this is no longer dreaded. The company have selected! the Victoria Docks in the Thames for their ships, and a large outlay is about to be made there for their accommodation. Daniel Harker, schoolmaster of the National Workhouse, has been found' guilty of two aggravated charges of criminal assault on two female children of the workhouse, and sentenced to four mouths’ imprisonment with hard labor in each case. An explosion at the Eawmarsh pit has resulted in the death of twenty-three miners. Pour others are lying seriously injured. The whole of the bodies were found late on the evening of November 20, and during several days men have been busily engaged in clearing the roadways and improving the ventilation, with the view of facilitating a thorough inspection of the workings. The explosion is the most serious that has taken place in South Yorkshire since the accident at the Oaks pit. An accident occurred on November 19 in the Pirth of Clyde through one of the cutters belonging to her Majesty’s ship Aurora coming into collision with the Dublin steamer Duke of Leinster, opposite Prince’s Pier, The collision happened shortly after six p.in., and fifteen out of the twenty-seven officers and men who were on board the cutter have been either killed or drowned. ; On November 22 the wife of a laborer named Kidd was going home to Hoarcross in company with a little girl, when she was met by a tramp who solicited alms. The woman offered him twopence, which he refused. On her declining to give him any more, he drew a knife and out her throat almost from ear to car, and thenwalked away. Ho was arrested next day near Burton and brought before the magistrates, who remanded him for a week. The murderer, who gave the name of Hubert Taylor; has partly admitted the crime, hut appears ‘ perfectly indifferent. Portions of his clothes were saturated with blood. Since his arrest he has attempted to out his own throat.

On November 7 a man was murdered at Dipton Colliery, near Cousett, under the most atrocious circumstances. His name was Bui ay ; ■ he was an Irishman. The murderer is Daley, another Irishman. Both men were pitmen. Daley-was brought home drunk and was put to bed. Subsequently the deceased, who was a companion of Daley’s, entered the house. Immediately after, Daley jumped out of bed and seized a poker. Upon observing him do scr Buriy ran out of the .house. He was f°lby Daley, who overtook him and felled him to the ground with the poker. He then returned to the house, but came back again to where the prostrate man was lymg,, ancl Ueat . him about the head until his life was nearly out of him. .He was heating him at the time the police came' up, and was taken into custody. The poor man died in half-an-hour. A man named' Duffy died at his residence, Howdeu-ls-Wear, on November 7, from the ' effects of injuries alleged to have been inflicted on him by one T'ippin. The deceased was a witness in an affiliation case at Bishop Auckland, and a general quarrel had broken out after the parties arrived home. A row had occurred in the village streets, and Tippen was seen to go to his own house and bring out a heavy coal rake, and strike the deceased a fearful blow across the head with it, from the effects of which he subsequently died. The murderer has been apprehended. On November 16 a frightful murder was committed at Steeple Morden, in Cambridgeshire. The victim was an old man about eighty, named Abram Chambers, and the murderer was his nephew, Charles Street, aged about twenty, the son of a small fanner of Guilden Morden. The old man had accumulated a little money, and it is supposed that the nephew’s object in murdering his uncle was to obtain part of the money. He shot him through the head with a pistol loaded with shot, killing him almost instantaneously. He then took possession of all the money he could find, and went to Ashwell, where he was employed. There he talked in the most cool manner of the shocking deed he had committed. Shortly afterwards he was apprehended. A very disgraceful scene was witnessed on November 15, at Zion Chapel, Nottingham. The appointment of Mr. Langford as minister is disputed by a section of the congregation, and at a meeting some days ago a scene of great disorder occurred. In the morning Mr. Langford got into the pulpit in spite of a request that he would not do so, and conducted the service, but in the evening the opposing body obtained possession, Mr. Langford being stopped at the pulpit steps. He then gave out a hymn, in which part of the congregation joined, the opposition party at the same time starting another hymn, thus producing great discord. Mr. Langford began to preach, _ and the minister appointed by the opposition party commenced reading a psalm. Mr. Langford preached his sermon while his opponents were singing, led by the harmonium. Some police officers were m attendance, but no violence occurred. One of the committee of management remarked that Mr. Langford was opposed under legal advice and to further the cause of Christ. The whole scene was most extraordinary and unseemly. A brutal murder was committed at Templepatrick, in the Country Antrim, on Oct. 30. An old man named Bell, who'lived with his niece, named Margaret Longtry, left his home to attend the Belfast market in the morning, leaving Mrs. Longtry, with three children, behind him. On his return about ten o’clock at night he found the dead body of his niece lying across the hearth, where she had been shot by some person, who afterwards plundered the house. A man named Bell, a cousin of the murdered woman, has been arrested on suspicion. A somewhat remarkable will case came before the Court of Probate on Nov. 6. The testator was the' Bev. Maurice O’Connor, a Homan Catholic clergyman, residing in Tralee, who died possessed of a considerable amount of property. The rev. gentleman had amassed a large sum by lending money to farmers, dealing in stocks and shares, and carrying on mercantile pursuits. He had, for instance, general shop in Tralee, which he carried on in his brother’s name. He quairelled with his brother, in consequence of which, as alleged, he determined to leave the bulk of his property to his niece. A will to that effect was executed, but it is alleged that subsequently, when in a state bordering on intoxication, he was induced to attach his signature to another will, dividing his personality equally between his brother and his niece, and leaving the shop in Tralee to the former. A couple of weeks afterwards, however, he executed another will reiterating substantially the previous will made by him in favor of his niece. This is the testament now impeached by the deceased’s brother. The case is at hearing, A Liverpool policeman named Jamieson was charged on Nov. 24 with stealing Old. from a beggar-boy named Sefton. The little fellow, whose age is ten, was singing in Bichmondterrace when the officer asked him if he would rather give him some money or go to prison. The lad handed him Gid., all the money he had, and the prisoner ..walked away. The boy followed him crying, and the constable took him to the lock-up on a charge of vagrancy. A gentleman who had witnessed the occurrence accused Jamieson of the theft, which the latter admitted, asking him to'“keep it quiet.” An investigation took place, and the prisoner then denied the charge, but he was seen to attempt to pass some coppers to a constable. He now offered no defence, and was committed for trial. The French papers report the arrival of Captain Gauthier de Eicheria, of the French navy, ex-6overnor of New Caledonia. The Gaidais says he has a fair excuse to plead with regard to the escape of convicts, for M. Thiers and his Government gave him instructions to be mild, clement, and merciful. It is stated that two Clyde shipbuilding firms have entered into contracts with the Government to build two new ironclad warships, the Nelson and the Northampton, of 5000 tons. The Daily News of November 21st, m respect of breadth, length, and solid contents, was the largest newspaper without a supplement ever published. Its printed matter was nearly equal to that contained in three numbers of the C'ornhill or the Gentleman’s Magazine, was more than is contained in the Edinburyh Revievj or the Quarterly, and exceeded the proportions of two volumes of the average novel. -The pieces of metal lying within the sixty-four columns were 1,044,000 in number. The paper on which it was printed was rolled on cylinders, a single one of which holds four and a half miles in length ; each copy was delivered from the machines printed on both sides and duly cut from the cylindrical web of paper ; and the whole edition was printed on five of the Walter machines at the rate of 50,000 copies an hour. THE NEW STOUT OF SIB BOOER. The New Yorh World, of November 5, contains a letter from Honolulu, dated October 8, stating that an old English sailor has given an apparently truthful statement with reference to the fate of Sir Boger Tichhome, according to which.he was buried in a desert island, Sydney Island, in the South Pacific, in 1855. This .. eld sailor, George Claridge by name, hears the reputation of being an upright, truthful person, and a man of deep piety. His ignorance on general topics would utterly preclude the possibility of imposition in his statements here given .if any object could exist for deception. It is quite impossible that he could have obtained fcilj knowledge of. Sir Boger Tichborne or his family Except from the lips of that gentleman ' iiljisdlf ip the manner he describes. As soon M .his joatter got abroad Ernest O. Stock, a leaiMg merchant on the Hilo, visited Claridge and exhibited to him a copy of the Illustrated London News containing engravings of tho .Tichborne family.-. He immediately pointed out tlio-likeness of Sir Boger and exclaimed, “Thatisthe man whom I buried in Sydney % Island.” This island lies south-east from tho island of Kotwnab, between 200 and 300. miles, and is occasionally visited by vessels in quest of beche do mer. Claridge is one of a thousand of his class of “rovers” who drift about tho islands of the Pacific and finally settle down in some chosen haven of rest to spend their old age. His statement is to the following effect “In the year 1854, as near as he could remember, ho left a ship at Kotumab. After ho had been on that island some

time a schooner named the Annie, engaged in the beche de mer fishery, called there. On [roicc on board Claridge found she was just out from home, and that off the Kiver Plate she had picked up a boat containing two men in a famished condition, and they were then on board the schooner. The master of the schooner, a Frenchman, told Claridge that one of the rescued men was an English gentleman, very sick, and that he spoke French as well as himself. Claridge engaged to go in the schooner to take care of the sick gentleman and to help to get a cargo. He thinks this was in the early part of 1855, but does not remember distinctly. The vessel, he believes, was an American, but he remembers no particulars about her, nor the names of any of the crew. Five days after leaving Kotumah they readied Sydney Island, where they found no inhabitants and plenty of bed l6 ' dn mer. Claridge, with some natives of Botnmah, went ashore to pursue the fishery, and the sick gentleman, at his own request, was also put on shore, ' with the vessel afforded to add to his comfort. Tho schooner sailed away, intending to return in a short time, but Claridge has heard no tidings of her from that day to this, and conjectures that she was lost. He was some two years on that island before it was again visited by a vessel. For some time after landing on the island, the sick gentleman said but little to any one ; hut as he got worse, he called Claridge to him and told him that he was near Ins end) and requested him to procure a quill from one of the wild birds that frequented the island, to make a pen of. He had a scrap of paper in which had been wrapped a bit of cheese, from the schooner, and on this, with blood from a bird, he wrote something. _ This paper he gave to Claridge, and told him to keep it sacred, and the first ship that came, to have it copied; to keep the original himself, but by all means to make it public whenever lie got to a civilised land. He then informed Claridge that 1- his name was Boger Tichborne. This happened on the tenth or twelfth day after landing on the island. After this the sick man was frequently delirious, until he died about the eighteenth day after landing. In his lucid moments he stated that he sailed from Bio in a ship deeply loaded, that she went down in a squall, and that himself and seven others got into a boat which drifted about until all perished except himself and one other person, and that they were forty days in the boat before being picked up. He said that if he could get to Hongkong he should find plenty of friends and money. In his delirium he frequently spoke of his father, with whom he appeared to have quarrelled, and he often fancied himself talking to, his mother, whom he addressed in French. Claridge kept the paper as directed and showed it to - the captain of the ship, who eventually took him from the island. It met with no attention. After getting to Wellington Island a New Bradford hoy, named Mandell, copied a part of the writing (some of it being in French), but Claridge does not know what disposition he made of it. Mandell was on the whaling ship Miles Standish, and promised to transmit the paper to the relatives of Tichborne through the first British ship or consul he should meet with. Whether he ever had that opportunity is unknown.” The original paper, written by Sir Boger Tichborne, is now in the possession of Claridge. It is a soiled and dilapidated scrap, and the inscription it bears in the blood of a bird has almost completely faded out. The signature, however, can still he traced. The remainder will have to be subjected to some chemical process with great care for restoration sufficiently to be deciphered. The British consul at this port has already taken steps to secure the statements of Claridge in official form, and possession of the paper mentioned. MARRIAGE OP MR. JAMES BKOGDEN. (From the Western Mail, November 27.) On Thursday Mr. James Brogden, of Tondu House, near Bridgend, was united to Mary Caroline, daughter of Major J. Picton Beete, in the venerable and ivy-clad churcli of Ewenny. The deepest interest was felt in the auspicious event by all classes of society, beyond its proving a connecting link with two important county families. Mr. Brogden has been long and honorably connected with an important commercial firm in the district, and in that capacity had in his private relations formed early friendships which have never been dissevered. He has always maintained the principle that property has its duties,as well as its rights, aud by his urbanity to all classes, and sympathy with all deserving objects, he has endeared himself to the various grades of society. Of the lady to whom he was on Thur day united, it may suffice to state that she belongs to a family of an ancient lineage, and during her residence in the Principality she has won golden opinions. The fair bride will have the opportunity of judging of the esteem in -which her husband is held in these parts, and sharing with him the respect which lie has always obtained. The close connection of the bride with the Tubervill family led to the happy idea of celebrating the wedding in the historic church of Ewenny, and it is stated that for upwards of 300 years no event invested with like importance has been celebrated in the grand old edifice founded by Morice de Londres. The church was yesterday thronged by anxious spectators desirous of witnessing the happy union. The ceremony took place at an early hour, and was most impressively performed by the Venerable Archdeacon of Llandaff, assisted by the Vicar of the parish, the Bev. John Jones. The bride was attired in a white silk dress with satin trimmings, and she wore a wreath of orange blossoms and tulle veil with embroidered border. The bridesmaids wore white muslin dresses, niby velvet trimmings, mob caps, and wreaths of Virginia creepers. The bride carried a splendid bouquet of white camellias. Their attendants had also bouquets of red aud white camellias. The bridesmaids were the Misses Llewellyn (3), Mies Lloyd, and Miss Phillips. Tho best man was Mr. B. W. Llewellyn, Court Colman. At the conclusion of the ceremony, Major Tubervill and his lady entertained the guests at a sumptuous breakfast in the Abbey, after which the happy pair started for Bridgend, and left by express for the continent. The following valuable presents were male: — Major Turbervill, a riding horse, travelling bag, locket, blue enamel and pearls; Mrs. Turbervill, bracelet, bine enamel and pearl ; Mrs. Brogden, clock and candlesticks in old Dresden; Mrs. Saunders Cavies, pearl tiara; Dr. Picton, coral necklace; Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Brogden, ormolu inkstand, Egyptian ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brogden, diamond bracelet ; Mr. and Mrs. George Brogden, enamelled inkstand and candlesticks ; Mr. and Mrs. Budgett, pier Dresden China figures, silver glass centre piece ; Mrs. Eyffe, shawl brooch ; Dr. Leahy and agents, of Tondu and Macsteg, silver tea and coffee service ; tenants of Ewenny, gold chain and locket, set with pearls ; Mr. Jeffreys, casket with scent bottles; Mrs. Nicholls, dressing case; Mr. Nlcholls, fan ; Mrs. Lloyd, pair of match-stands ; Sir James Eitzmayer, fan ; Lady Fitznmyer, Ilampoon Chuddar shawl ; Mr. and Mrs. Busfleld, travelling clock; Mrs. Birch, gold brooch and earrings ; Mrs Llewellyn, photographic album ; Miss Blandy, Japanese cabinet; Miss Dunbar, paper weight; Major and Mrs. Ansell, writing table set; Mr, Robert Llewllyn, brooch and earrings; Mr. R. K. Prichard, set of studs; Mr. William Llewellyn, Florentine mosaic brooch ; The Misses Llewllyn (3), Florentine mosaic locket and earrings ; Miss R. Llewllyn, photograph framo ; Mrs. Lvnch Blosse, china flower basket; Miss Blosso and Miss M, Blosso, photograph frame: Miss Fanny Blosse, Shetland shawl; Miss Lloyd and Mrs. Saunders Davies, topaz brooch and earrings; Captain and Mrs. Phillips, set of dessert d’oylcys, painted ; Mrs. Phillips, gold tlumblo; Mr. and Mrs. Picton Evans, fan; Mrs Moggridgo and the Misses Moggridge, pearl and ruby ring; Mrs. Turbervill (Langham House, near Trowbridge), pendant with pearls; Mrs. Hamilton, locket, blue enamel and pearl; Mr. and Mrs. Thomson, pair of Worcester china brackets; Mrs. Yerbury Moggridge. Normandy gold and crystal cross ; Mr. and Mrs. F. Moggridge, silver and crystal pendant: Mr. and Mrs. Silver, antique Normandy cross; Mrs. C. Tabourdin, laco handkerchief; Mrs. Connop and the Misses Cannon, lace handkerchief: Dr. and Mrs. Lewis, fan; Mr. and Mrs. Cubitt, photograph frame; Mrs, Henry Connop, silver Inkstand : Miss Warlow, sketch book and paint box; Mrs. Powell, chatelaine prayer-book; Mr, Bella, scent bottle, carved walking stick : Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, Japanese cabinet; tlic servants at Ewenny, silver card case, a glove box ; school children of Ewenny, ivory church service ; Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins, ormolu inkstand and candlesticks : Mrs. Rees, teapot; Mrs. Morgan, pair of vases; Mrs. ‘ Saunders, china cream jug: Mrs. Burgess, china cup; F,van Lawrence, pair of light Brahma fowls. The day’s proceedings were wound up by some local sports, held in tho village of Ewenny. SINGULAR CHARGE OF ABDUCTION, At tko Chipping Norton Couuty Bench, on November 18, before Earl Ducio and a full bench of magistrates, William Timms, of Idbury, Oxon, was charged with having fraudu-

lently detained, for motives of lucre, one Annie Sophia Timms (formerly Annie Sophia Power Turner), aged fifteen years, against the will of her father, William Power Turner, of Bathroad,' Worcester, gentleman. _ The prisoner, who resides on his farm, and is fifty-six years of a"-e, was on intimate terms with the prosecutor, from the fact of his having resided for a number of years at Cherriugton, Gloucestershire, of which parish JVIr. Turner s father is rector, and his brother curate. About six years a"0 the prisoner purchased of the rector of Cherrington the life-interest he-had in some property at Ashborne, Warwickshire, and also the reversionary interest in the same belonging to the prosecutor’s brother, the Bev. D. P. Turner. At Michaelmas last, prisoner quitted Cherrington for Idbury, where he has since resided on his own farm. Prosecutor’s daughter at this time was at school at Evesham, but about October 1 went to her parent’s residence at Worcester for the holidays. On Sunday night, October 4, the young lady retired to rest as°iisual about ten o’clock. On the following morning, about six o’clock, the servant, as was her custom, went to her young mistress’s room, when it was discovered that she had left the house, and notwithstanding that every search and inquiry was made, nothing was heard of her until October 7, when the father received a letter from her, the envelope of which bore the Oxford postmark, but the letter contained no address ; this she signed as “ Annie Sophia Turner,” and asked forgiveness from her parents for her absence, promising to send them particulars of her whereabouts in a few days. . Nothing more, however, was heard of her until October 27, when she wrote informing her parents that she had been married at Dover. This letter bore the signature of “Annie Sophia Timms.” The father then traced her to the prisoner’s residence at Idbury, where she was living as his wife. On Saturday last prisoner was apprehended by warrant at his house and was brought to Chipping Norton, where he remained in custody until Monday, when he was bailed to appear on November 18. When apprehended prosecutor’s daughter was living with the prisoner as his wife, and up till the present time she is still out of the custody of her parents. The parish clerk at St. James’s, Dover, deposed to the banns being duly published, wherein the prisoner gave his age as fifty-six, aud that of the lady as sixteen. The marriage took place at the abovementioned church on October 22, the vicar officiating. On the advice of his solicitor prisoner reserved his defence, and he was formally committed for trial at the Oxfordshire Assizes in March next. Bail was opposed by the prosecution, notwithstanding that sureties were forthcoming for any amount the bench might name. After a. brief consultation the magistrates refused bail, and prisoner was removed from the court in the custody of the police. The young lady is the only daughter of Mr. Power, and is presumptive heiress to considerable properties. Much interest has been occasioned in the neighborhood, and the court was crowded during tho hearing of the case. ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE OF MRS. MINA JURY. The other day, says the Manchester Guardian, we reported a very clever capture by Mr. Sheasby, the Superintendent of the Macclesfield police force. Mrs. Mina Jury, who became notorious by her evidence in the Tichborne case, came to Macclesfield at the berinning of the present month, and under the name of Madame Caradena, from Loudon, succeeded in pilfering various articles from the principal hotels and lodging-houses in the town. She was apprehehended and brought before the magistrates on a charge of felony, and remanded until inquiry was made as to her character. These inquiries have resulted in her being “ wanted ” at Warrington, Stoke, Stockport, and many other places. Last week she was brought up on remand before the magistrates, but she applied for, and was granted a further remand, in order that she might employ a solicitor. On the night of November 14, the lock-up keeper entered the cell with her supper. While he was remarking upon some of the internal arrangements of her prison house, Mrs. Jury, who has shown great tact and ability during her incarceration, embraced the opportunity of escaping. She closed the cell door, which fastens by a spring lock, and left her gaoler inside. The cries of the lock-up keeper attracted the attention of the constables about the station, but not until the prisoner had had a good start. The next difficulty that presented itself was how to get without the precincts of the lockup. For some time there had been improvements going on at the Town Hall, and Mrs. Jury mauaged to escape through a hole in a temporary, door, her bonnet being found among the debris. All her letters referring to the Tichborne trial are of course in the hands of the police. She was recaptured a few days afterwards at Leek. ANGLO-NEW ZEALAND NOTES. Two lifeboats are now on the way to New Zealand. They are despatched by the National Lifeboat Association, and are said to be intended for Napier. The Victorian loan has all been taken up in the London market. The St. Osyth, named after a Saxon saint of that name, daughter of the first Christian King of East Anglia, carried out a number of mins ( and sisters of mercy. Eor South Australia she took, under the charge of Sister Mary of the Cross —a daughter of the late Alexander Mackillop, Esq., of Melbourne—fifteen postulates. There were also three Dominican nuns for tho same colony, and three “ good shepherds ” for Melbourne. An ecclesiastical student also formed one of the party. Two priests were on board ; one, the Bev, M. Murray, of the county Kilkenny, will join his uncle the Bishop of Maitland ; the other, Father Murtagh, has bad considerable experience in missionary work in Canada, his new field of labor being within the district of Dr. Quin, the Bishop of Bathurst. Mr. B. H. Horne has just completed a New Zealand historical tragedy in five acts, under the title of “ Te Aie’ Ya, or Maori Wives and Daughters,” the publication of which will shortly take place. Australian playgoers will have little difficulty iu translating the name of Miss Dolores Drummond into “Dolly Green” —“the eminent Australian tragedienne,” who is playing a round of Shakesperian characters at the Boyal Standard Theatre with considerable success. She made her debut in Loudon as Hermione, and has followed it by Catherine and Lady Macbeth. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. • FBANCE. A Bonapartist journal, a few days ago,, invited Prince Napoleon to return the considerable sums of money he bad received during the Empire from tho Civil List and the funds of the State. The journal estimated these sums at 44,365,000 f. The same journal publishes a letter from M. Branson, the prince’s secretary, iu which lie says that the prince had not. received more than 14,330,000 f. from the Empire. The commercial and industrial situation of France (says tho Dibats) is improving sensibly. The taxes, which during the first two quarters of tho last year were considerably below the estimates, recovered in the third. The deficit, which had been in the first half of the year 27,000,000 f., or about 4,500,000 f. a month, was in the following quarter 7,500,000 f. only, or 2,500,000 f. a month. Galiynani states that the French Stamp Office has just purchased the secret of the composition of an ink absolutely indelible, aud which resists the strength of all known reagents. Owing to that discovery, it will be’ able to put an end to the numerous frauds which are constantly committed to the prejudice of the Treasury, and which consists in restoring to stamped paper already used its original purity. Tho annual loss to the revenue on.‘that head is calculated at 600,000 francs in the Department of the Seine alone. A ROMANTIC TRIAL. —“ LA COLONELLE.” The permanent court-martial sitting in Paris are still engaged every now aud then in trying Communists. The other day a very remarkable case came on, that of one of tho “ Amazons” of that stirring period, who went by tho nickname of “ La Colonolle” Vinot. “La Colouelle” is a fine, dashing -looking young

woman of the Lola Montes type, with a profusion of dark hair, and fine eyes. She appeared in court dressed with great elegance, and it was difficult to realise the fact that she had commenced life as a common washerwoman. Her manner is good and perfectly self-possessed. Before the Commune she had married a man named Bediet, whom she describes as a “ poor creature,” and when the Commune came she became the caniiniire of one of the insurgent battalions, and soon captivated its colonel, one Vinot. He promoted his mistress, and she used, in a dashing uniform, to ride at the head of the battalion, and is said to have repeatedly taken it into action, and repeatedly reviewed her corps in the Champ do Mara. In fact, she was one of the celebrities of the day. She was specially charged with having taken a leading part in the massacre of the priests and gendarmes on the 26th of May, 1871, in the Rue Haxo. She admitted that she had “ done duty” during the insurrection, but emphatically denied that she had had any share in the massacre. She explained that her lover, Colonel Vinot, had been badly wounded at a barricade, near the Bastile, on the 26th, and that she had taken him to an ambulance, where she remained until the 30th. The prosecution admitted that, but maintained that she only entered the ambulance after the massacre. The prosecution felt it necessary to explain how it was that action had been taken against “La Colortelle ” only four years after her offence. It seems that in September, 1873, she was arrested on a charge of forging the Inland Revenue Stamp on lucifer matches, and sentenced for that offence to three years’ imprisonment. A search at her lodgings led to the discovery of a number of papex-s and pliotograras establishing her connection with the insurrection, and especially with Colonel Vinot, who had long before been sent to New Caledonia, One of the photograms was her own portrait in a sailor’,s dress. The judge who had charge of her case had conducted the investigation into the massacre in the Rue Haxo, and he remembered that several witnesses had spoken of a woman in a sailor’s dress who made herself conspicuous in this but chery, and one of these witnesses identified her. Another witness swore positively that she had. entered the ambulance on the 25th, and that she had never left it—and on being pressed as to whether it was the 25th, said he was sure of it; moreover, it was on a day when heavy rain fell. The observatory was applied to, and its answer confirmed the deposition of the witness who established the alibi. The Court thereon acquitted her on the charge of participating in the murders in the Rue Haxo ; but, as she herself admitted her participation in the insurrection, she was sentenced to transportation, and “La Oolonelle ” will have an opportunity of joining “Le Colonel” in the Isle of Pines.

GERMANY. , Various reports have been circulating lately respecting another letter from the Pope to the Emperor, wherein he appeals to the Christian feeling of the latter, and begs him to end the persecution against priests and bishops. The Emperor is said to have answered that these priests and bishops could at any moment end the “ persecution ” themselves, and that the measures taken against them did not arise from any enmity to the Church, being a simple necessity in order to the preservation of the unity of the Empire, and as such they were in accordance with the wishes of the great majority of Germane. Germany intends to hold her newly-acquired province against all comers. Besides the fact —specially mentioned in the speech from the throne—that the Alsatian Budget will come for the first time before the Reichstag during this session, an imperial order has just been issued, constituting a provincial hoard for the whole of the ceded territory, which shall have the management and control of its internal affairs. To this local Parliament all drafts of bills concerning the province are to be submitted for discussion and counsel unless it be those which specially pertain to matters of which the Reichstag claims direct cognisance. The members of this hoard are to be nominated by the various distinct hoards in the province, and not by the Emperor or Chancellor direct. The members are to be salaried, and to have an allowance for travelling. The incorporation of lilsass-Lothringen into the German Empire is almost complete, and all exceptional legislation as well as administration is to cease. The old “Reichland” is to he more than a name. RUSSIA. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the North'German Gazette prepares the public for a season of active reform in all directions in Russia. There is, he states, not a Ministerial department which is not brimful of new schemes, in which the Czar takes a personal and lively interest. The statements published in certain newspapers in reference to the alleged discovery of a conspiracy in Russia to assassinate the Emperor, and of numerous arrests having in consequence been made, arc declared upon good authority to be entirely false. AUSTRIA. The Emperor and Empress have gone to Bohemia to have a week’s sport with the hounds at Pardubitz. This latter place is the sporting centre of Austria, where every autumn the aristocracy, not only of Bohemia, but of Austria generally, congregate. The Prussian correspondent of The Times says that in wishing Rouraania to conclude a commercial, treaty with her, with or without the consent of Turkey, Austria has two objects in view. In the first plftco Hungary, who in seven short years of independence has managed to get her finances into a mess, means to turn an honest penny by selling spirits in large quantities to the Danubian Principalities ; and secondly, the Vienna Government, finding Germany has slipped away from them, are anxious to prove to Russia that they intend to support her politics in tho East, and deserve her countenance in East and West alike. The writer considers the Roumanian affair the first step in a new direction likely to affect the general course of European politics. ITALY. A sensational trial of a gang of brigands is now proceeding at Potenza, in the province of Basilicata, and again the public appetite for horrors is amply gratified. The accused are eight in number, of whom Aliano is the chief, and Maria Parente, a young attractive girl, who clung to him in his dangers, tho one who commands most attention. The prisoners are enclosed in a kind of cage with iron bars, so great is the apprehension their very presence awakens. Aliano, or Captain Aliano, as he always insisted on being called, affected political attachments, and was an enthusiastic admirer of Francesco 11., still more of his effigies on a good silver piece. He and' his baud formed a portion of that of the once celebrated Cappucino, and his appearance in court is not unlikely to strike a panic into many of the witnesses who have suffered from his brutalities, for his dress is that which he wore on his lawless expeditious, and he only wants the pistols and the dagger in his red girdle and the double-barrelled gun thrown over his shoulder to make the character complete. Aliano is accused of many assassinations—murders accompanied by sequestration—of many extortions with violence, of cutting off ears, noses, &c. This man was arrested while returning from a visit to ilia sweetheart in Mersico-Nuovo. On being challenged by a patrol lie replied witli a pistol-shot, which went through the jacket of a carbineer. Many pistols wore then fired at him. SPAIN. Tho Carlisle have been firing petroleum shells into the town of Iran, and ou Nov. 5 nine' houses had been burnt, and the town much shattered. But with more than usual promptitude, General Loma carried out the relief. This was not very difficult. According to advices received at Paris, Messrs. Buekland and MacGahnn, correspondents of the New York Times and New York Herald, have been arrested by the Republicans near Irnn, and incarcerated at Fontarabia. Mr. Buekland has since been set at liberty, but Mr. MacGahau is still in prison, and stops are being taken to obtain his release. He had been somewhat profuse in his denunciations of the local authorities who arrested him.