GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4432, 3 June 1875, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

The autograph of Mary Queen of Scots . cost an enthusiastic Englishman £57 at a late London sale.

Sport and Play is the title of a new cheap weekly paper to be brought out in London next month.

An autograph letter of Queen Elizabeth to Henry IV. brought what is accounted the large price of £B2 at a recent London auction. Germany is about to have a periodical called the Anticritic, especially devoted to the service of authors who wish to answer objectionable reviews.

Henry Schliemanu, author of “Troy audits Remains,” spent five years of his life behind a counter in a little grocery store in Meckleu-burg-Schwerin. They have just put up in Paris a statue of Jeanne d’Arc, which was in fact made originally as-a statue of the Prince Imperial, and is very like him. Count von Arnim’s latest appearance is in a duel. He acted as second to the Hungarian Baron Atzel. The Baron’s adversary, Count Jarvezewski, was wounded by a shot in the hip. The completion of Merle d’Aubigne’s “ History of the Reformation in the Time of Calvin,’’ being volumes six and seven of the work, is promised this spring by Longman and Co.

At the trial of the Guicowar of Baroda a man testified that he was a punkawallah. In all the hard names called in Brooklyn no one has equalled this. . Neither Beecher nor Tilton has called the other a punkawallah. The Tichborne madness runs so high in England that Lady Eadcliffe—the cousin Kate Doughty of the story—has been compelled to leave her residence in Staffordshire, in consequence of the brutal impudence of the people near of the lower classes. In the last published part of the German history of the war this order appears as issued August 30, 1870 ;—“ In case the enemy should pass on to the Belgian territory, and should not be disarmed immediately, follow without awaiting further instructions.—De Moltkb.” If any officer had blundered into Belgium on that occasion they might not have punished him severely. Mr. W. 0. Hazlitt will issue this spring a new “ Shakspeare’s Library,” which will include, in five volumes, all the novels, tales, poems and plays on which the immortal dramas of Shakspeare were founded, with all the lives in North’s “ Plutarch,” which Shakspeare used, and passages from Hpllinshed’s “ History of England.”