ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5118, 18 August 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NEWS.

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Prince George, second son of the Prince of Wales, was seriously ill on July 16. In the House of Commons on July 16 it was announced that the rinderpest had broken out at Bethnal Green.

The Queen, with Princess Beatrice, attended Divine service in Crathie Church on June 10. Theßev.Dr.Tulloch, Principal of St. Andrews, preached the sermon. A young mau at Bradford, having quarrelled with his sweetheart, killed her with a poker, and then cut his own throat, dying immediately. Two steam boilers burst on June 26th, at Ravensdale Works, near Tunstall, killing six men and two boys, and injuring a number of others.

The annual cricket match between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was played at Lord's on June 25 and 26, resulting in the victory of Oxford by 10 wickets. Miss Mary Carpenter, well-known for her philanthropic effects on. behalf of reformatories, was found dead in her bed on June 1 i at her house, near Bristol.

The Hungarian Press comment very bitterly upon the war agitation in Servia, and demand that tho Austrian Government should assume a firmer position in reference to-the Eastern war.

Mrs. Bassett, wife of a clergyman in Corn--wall, has been committed for trial upon a charge of assaulting and ill-treating a servant girl. She was also fined for assaulting her cook.

Tho shipbuilding yards on the Clyde are still closed, and great distress exists among the workmen, who, however, do not appear disposed to yield upon the point in dispute—a reduction in wages. Colonel Carr Lloyd, a DeputyrLieutenant and Magistrate for Sussex, was found in his stable, shot through the head, and died the next day. It is believed the case was one of suicide.

The rope used for lowering an iron cage in a mine, near Helston, took fire from friction, and being burnt through, tho cage fell to the bot-; torn of the pit, lulling two men who were at work below.

A Berlin correspondent says :—Yakoob Bey, of Kashgar, died after a short illness. Kalu; Boy, his eldest son, ascended the throne. Chinese troops are slowly advancing into, Kashgar. . . . The Judges of the Common Pleas made an order on June 14, for the removal of Mr. Henry Joseph Grueber from the roll of solicitors, for misappropriating money intrusted to him by a deceased client for the benefit of an old servant.

So many Indian officers have applied for leave with the intention of " looking in" on Turkey and the Danube on their way home, that furlough to England is refused unless the promise is given " on honor" not to visit the scene of war.

An iron beam, weighing 25 tons, intended to form part of the railway bridge now in construction over the Tay, fell into the river through the breaking of tho chains by which it was being raised, and striking one of the workmen, killed him on tne spot. The death is announced of one of the few remaining Peninsular veterans, LieutenantGeneral W. A. Le Mesurier, who died at Exeter at tho ago 'of .9.0. He" was present at the sieges of Ciudad Itodrigo and Badajoz, and the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, and Orthes. In the House of Lords on June 19 the report of amendments to the Burials Bill was considered. Several new amendments were proposed, but the most important was that again moved by Lord Harrowby, -permitting religious services other than that of the Church of Eugland at funerals in churchyards. The Government opposed the amendment, but it was eventually carried by 127 to 111.

At Montreal on July 3 there was a row on the steamer Queen Victoria, while en route from Ottawa to Montreal, with Papal Zouaves on board. The Zouaves hauled down the

Union Jack from the peak of the steamer and substituted the Papal flag. The captain on remonstrating was roughly handled. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal issued a note announcing that no more excursions of a semi-religious character will be allowed to take place without his consent. The steamer Lady of the Lake exploded a boiler at Silver Lake, Massachussetts, on June 28. . Six persons were seriously and perhaps fatally scalded, and twelve less dangerously. The engineer was severely scalded. He reports he had SOlbs. of steam on and plenty of water. The boat was set on fire, and several women were severely burned. The ticketseller on the boat thinks all oh board are accounted for. One old lady and a child probably will die. The others, it is thought, will recover.

The captain of the United Kingdom fire team writes to the agent of the Associated Press, in Boston on July 10 in regard to the approaching match at Creedmoor as follows : —" We have decided to sail for New York on the steamer City of Richmond on the 16th of August, so as to have time to get'settled before the match. The Times says the council of the Rifle Association having no funds applicable for expenses of the Centennial team to America, appeals to all interested in rifle shooting to aid in raising the requisite Btim of £1500." Mr. Webster connected the telephone between Piedmont and Oakland on July 13, a a distance of three miles. It worked very satisfactorily. Conversation was successfully carried over the wire ; music and singing here were distinctly heard in the office at Oakland. It was first tried on the line with a battery working through three sets of instruments, and worked successfully ;. but was more satisfactory when the instruments were removed, using the wire with ground connected alone. The experiments were all very satisfactory and highly interesting. In the House of Commons Mr. Mundella asked whether Hobart Pasha, who was engaged in active Warfare against a friendly Power, retained his rank and pay as a British officer. Mr. A. Egerton said no answer had been received from Captain Hobart to the intimation which had been sent him that he must elect between remaining in the Turkish or the British service. As the time which had since elapsed was sufficiently long to admit of an answer having been received to that intimation, and no such answer had reached the Admiralty, Captain Hobart's name had been struck off the list of the British navy. (Hear, hear.) A plot was discovered on June 20, by the Egyptian Government, which had for its object the destruction of the passage of the Canal, by blowing in the banks at a point between Ismaila and Port Said. _ The intelligence comes from Cairo via Paris, and is published by the Daily News. It is.added in the despatch that England requested Egypt to watch the Canal with renewed vigilance, and that consequently the Khedive has appointed a commission for the defence of the CanaL composed of. General Stone Pasha as President, with Admiral Mackillop Pasha, Admiral Frederigo Pasha, and Captain Morice Bey. Troops have been sent to patrol the banks of the Canal. ;

On June 10 the Pope gave' audience in the Hall of the Consistory to the representatives of the Catholic Press, assembled from all parts of the world to offer congratulations to his Holiness on the part of their papers. They were led by Monsignor Tripedi, and Monsignor, Parocchi, Archbishop of Bolonga, who was himself once a journalist, read an address in the name of the Press, to which his Holiness replied. A number of gifts were presented. The Spanish journalists offered a valuable collection of gold coins. Each pressman presented a copy of his paper, handsomely bound in an album, containing addresses of congratulation from every Catholic journal, many of which were splendidly illuminated. The number of journalists present; was about 400. It appears certain, says the Broad Arrow, that Russia has succeeded in obtaining a loan from a syndicate, or rather small association, of foreign bankers in Paris and Berlin. The exact amount is not correctly known, but it is certainly not for more than-a few millions sterling. It is surprising that- Russian stock "have the audacity," as a weekly contemporary put it a month or two ago, to remain at their present height. Of course* a serious battle lost by Russia would depress them instantly. What will happen then, or what; will happen if the war lasts for many months, or even weeks ? The St. Petersburg Government would probably " drop " a coupon, or pay it in, paper money. That would send Russian stocks down with a drop of twenty or thirty, from which they would only recover but slowly. If the war is really a long affair, or if it becomes general— absit omen —a good many coupons would be dropped, and a good deal of Russian paper money would be flying about England.