ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 172, 8 November 1876, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

It is said that some of the bookmakers had a pretty rosy ftme of it at Ascot. One of the fraternity throws in f->r £IO,OOO, afiid another for £8 000. As evidences of " tall betting," it is reported that Lord Dudley had 6,000 to 5,(X)0 about Julius Ctesar for the IVince »>f Wales' Stakes at this meeting. T.ie horse w;ts third. He also took 7.000 to -1.000 about Forerunner for the Cup, and the horse was likewise third. Further, he took 10,000 to 4,000 about Talisman for the Alexandra Plate. The horse was unplaced. 7.000 to 5,000 on Tangible, and, to finish up with, he had 10,000 to 5,000 on Petrarch in one bat. and it is also stated that lie bet 12,000 to If,ooo on the same horse when Coltntss beat htm, and tbat, as before hinted, he he had tost 20,000 by the week. T..is lias gone the rounds of some of the papers, and it is very likely to be true. According to the London correspondent of a eont«nip)or;iry there is wt dit about town that the Marquis of Stafford, eldtst son of the Duke of Sutherland, will shortly tead the Princess Beatrice to the altar. If 9<>, fu> says, the marriage will be infinitely more popular than the importation of another beggarly tJyrman princeling, and the country will gain appreciably thereby. At a fair in the neighbourhood of Lyons the other day. loud crit-s wt-re heard issuing from the booth of Mdtte. Laurwt, a serpent-charmer. Hiiai»fiiß people hastening to tiie spot they found t.iat the alarm arose? from tUe brother of the proprietress, a young man if twenty-one, having been seized by an enormous boa-constrictor. Tue reptile had got his right hand in his jaws, arid was enveloping turn in his folds in a way to eats.i Intn. The sister, seeing what Wfwj going on. saisud a bucket of c:>ld water and threw it »»ver t ie »-ngaged arm. As t-ie liquid entered the snake's taroat it rt-Linquislied its victim, who was til-Hi freed from its folds, and t e r'erpent was afterwards tasily returned to its box. " A pamphlet by Earl Russell, entitled ' The Foreign l\>l«ry of Oreat Britth; in IB7t>,' " the Pf.e.T MnH says, " has net-it privaftfly printed. Hiwiug the qto-sfion 'ls the Turkish Empire wofta preserving and answered in tlie negative, Ertrl Russell comes to the conclusion that tiierc is but one remedy, and that is to change the sovereign—to place the crown on the head of a Christian, and to deprive the Sultan of a sovereignty incompatible with truth and justice. His general conclusions point to a federation, consisting of —first, Servia, capita! Eelgrade, reigning prince, Prince Milan ; second, Croatia and Herzegovina, csipital Ragttsa, reigning prince, an Arehduke of Austria ; tiiird, Roumania, comprising Wallachiaand HHoldavia, capital Bucharest, reigning prince, Prince Cnartes ; fourth, Bulgaria, capital Adrtanopv, reigning prince, an Archduke appointed by the Emperor of Austria; fifth, the Kingdom of Greece, comprising TEtessaly and Epirrts, capital Athens, retgeinjj prince, tue King of Greece. The Queen of Great Britain to b',' the protector of the Dar.ubran Confederation by sea, and the Emperor of Austria by land : and the limitations on the entrance of ship 3 into the Black Sea to be abolished." The lisat in Lyndon during July and August has been intense. One of the papers de/ares that "London never knew such a summer." As an illustration of it, a conference of delegates from the South African Colonies, which were sitting at the Colonial Office, adjourned for two months in the hope that by that time the weather would be cooler. Even men accustomed to the heat of the land of lion 3 could not stand the heat of London this summer.