GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4456, 1 July 1875, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Thp Court of Queen’s Bench has decided on an appeal on a special case that the Brighton Aquarium Company are liable to a penalty of £2OO for every Sunday the aquarium is opened to the public for payment of money. A little demonstration, which threatened to lead to a serious disturbance, took place at the Chatelet Theatre, Paris, on a recent Saturday night. It was the first night of a new hut very dull drama, entitled “Cromwell." In one scene there is an apology for regicide, which winds up with the words “ ces miserables Royalists.” The actors uttered them with more than theatrical energy, and loud applause burst out in the gallery, which was followed by some hisses from the boxes. A tumult then arose, and between the acts the rival Republicans and Royalists came to blows downstairs, and the police had to interfere to prevent a regular scrimmage. Having thus vented their feeling, the modern Roundheads and Cavaliers allowed the drama to end in peace. ' „, Mr. Benjamin Whitworth, the Liberal candidate for the representation of Kilkenny, has triumphed over his two Home Rule opponents, having received sixty-four more votes than they together wore favored with. Sir John Gray, the late member for the borough, stepped on to the Home Rule platform at the general election in 1874 ; when ho was first elected in 1865, he simply described himself “a Liberal of advanced views, in favor of the granting of

of a charter to the Homan Catholic University.” Mr. Whitworth is the thirty-fifth new member who has entered the House of Commons since the general election. By twenty-three against twenty votes, the Traces’ Council of Glasgow have resolved to petition Parliament in favor of the Permissive Bill. , The Philadelphia Ledger says that Mark Grayson, who has undertaken to walk round the -world, was to start from the City Hall, New York, on Saturday, April 3, and return to the same place on Thiu-sday, November 23, 1576. The distance included in the entire route is 19,220 miles, which null require from him a daily walk of a little over 32 miles. He is to do much of his journey on board ocean steamers, but has each day to perform his regular distance just as if he was on shore. The Army and Ahai'y Gazette learns that exKidingmaster Hankins, of the 4th Dragoon Guards, who has just been superseded for being absent without leave, has now the command of a cavalry regiment in the Carlist army. Mr. Hankins served with Garibaldi when only sixteen years of age, and afterwards enlisted into the 15th Hussars, from which regiment he obtained his commission from the rank of sergeant-major. A wealthy gentleman, late a captain in a crack cavalry corps, accompanied Mr. Hankins to Spain, and has also entered the service of Don Carlos. A singular case was heard recently in Banbury. A grocer was summoned for selling coffee which Mr. Young, the analyst for the counties of Leicester, Northampton, and lintland, said was adulterated with 20 -per cent, burnt acorns. Dr. Lethbury and another analytical chemist said the coffee was perfectly pure. .The Bench dismissed the ease, and agreed to pay the defendant’s costs. The case created great interest from the fact that some people have been convicted on Young’s certificate for having sold adulterated coffee, and proceedings are pending against others; It is understood the summonses will be withdrawn. It is likely the matter will come before Parliament.