ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 239, 27 January 1877, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Gjn3r.ll Sir Gi:;i;t Wulseley's appointment to the India Council has caused not a little surprise in L >ndo:i. lb is usually regarded as a qialificition for that body that t:e candid ite 3".a1l bs an experienced Indian servant, and possess t'le quality of a jo, to giv-s all tie weight t .at amies with years to whatever advice he may be cdLdupoi to oiler to the India 1 Seer.ary. B.it Sir G. WolesLy is n.itheran old man no: an exparieiued Indian s.-r----/ant. Heimy, however, be presumed to wiveago >1 knowledge of *.i:ilituy matters, uid it is for this reason that he has been ■ijleeted. T.io Lilian 0 ilej are about to ittempt a swe.piuj reform of the; Indian Lt-suy ; hence the u cjss'ty of a safe miliray adviser of fie m > ler.i sehojl at Ln-d Salisbury's vijht hand.

fc'ome excitement has bsen causae! in Warrington, Lancashire, by the Jirrival o i person from Australia, who claims a" state of considerable value, which is now ,"n possession of a member of the Warringion Town Council. The claimant is Mr. John Aklerson, who inaerits property from his mother's side. His uncle, a Warrington glass manufacturer, who was one of his f ither's txjeutors, died during the claimant's absence, and. uider power of Lis wiL, t'.ie property was sold on a chance title. The heir-at-law having saibd for Australia, he was reported to be d.-ad ; but, contrary to expectation, he has returned to England to enforce his claim. A wtil-known baronet is a member of the family interested, the father of the present baron-it having married au aunt of theclaimant. Noticj of the ejectment has been served upon the present .older of the estate, and alsj upon the tenants, and ltgil proceedings have been instituted by the claimant to gain possession. The aolion will be heard in Lmdtn next term, unless the defendants change the vtnue. Mr. Aklerson has been absent from England twelve years, and, during that time, has be n successfully engaged in business in Melbourne.

The new Sultan is thus described by a en-respondent of the London Times: "A long narrow lu-ad, a stern resolute expression, indicative of energy, of intelligence, an earnest and not very placable disposition. It seems to me the countenance of a ruler capable of much good or much evil, but knowing his own mind, and determined to Lave his own will. Then there was an air befitting a highbred man, conscious of himself, and bent <>n exacting his due.

Signor D. De Vivo, late agent for Mdlle. De Murska, has been heard of from New York, and is endeavoring to secure another great musical star for Australia. Signor De Vivo'intended going to London and the Continent. His ambition is to obtain Mdlle. Lucca or Mdlle. Tittjens, who are spoken of as the most likely to aacnt terms satisfactory to the entrepenneur. Both these ladits have, at various times, entertained the idea of visiting Australia, but of coursa it is all aqu stion of terms. Th.3

enormous tak : ngs of Dd Murska- have pavtd the way fur ot'iers. We cannot expect to hear Patti, Nilsson, or Albane as yti, but it is a mere public furore which raises them above artistes Ilka Lucca and Tietjeus, both of whom arj unequalled in certain spheres. Mdlle. Tietjens made overtures of her owu accord, about three

years ago, to visit Australia, or, at least/ expressed her willingness to come, with other artistes, but it could not be arranged. It is said oE Professor Holloway, whose advertisements may indeed be termed universal, and are even to be seen posted on the Pyramids, that, early in his career, he resolved to prove his gain or los 3 by advertising. For one year he withdrew all his advertisements, relying on the reputation he had gained. He found, on calculation, after allowing for the amount formerly expended in advertising, that his sales for that year were £30,000 less. It need hardly be said that the Professor has protitted since by the experiment. If a merchant publishes his stock as " the best and cheapest " in the market, he need not expect everybody at once to take it for granted, but as he continues to affirm this clay after day and week after week, people become convinced of the fact just from its

repeated insertion. The O'Leary is dead; the last and wildest of the wild sept of O'Leary ; an accomplished physician, an admirable linguist, an audacious wit, a blithesome boon companion, and a strumous steeplechase rider. Light lits the turf on the light Irishman's heal! He had his faults who has not ?—but he was worth a thousand of the faultless. A contemporary of H nri Murger, in Paris, and a friend of his fellow Cork man, Frank Mahony, he lived to offer his sword to small Denmark against the inroads of big Austria and Pros ia (for w ich he received the "Dannebrog.") World. ■ A Chatham correspondent writes : The work of breaking up the useless and obsolete vessels attached to a steam reserve at Chatham is being proceeded with. as fast as the work now in progress will permit. Already a large number of the unarmoured wooden steamers and sailing ships which sn long encumbered the channel of the Med way—the placj where they were kept moored being facetiously termed '•Rotten-row " —have either been sold out the navy or broken up, the number including several of the magnificent specimens of naval architecture of the early portion of the pres.nt ontnry. One of the last of the steamers taken in hand ta_ -Ji be broken up is the Virago, a pa*'' wheel sloop of 1,590 tons, and of 545 horse-p:>wer, which was built about thirfcy years sinc-3.

We used to think an archbishop was not badly off as regards this world's goods r but be is a pauper compared with an opera singer. Primz Donna Patti, so a theatrical pap«r asserts, gets about £28,000 a year, which is very nearly twice the income of his Grace of Canterbury ; f.nd she need not give away a penny of it in. charity. She is threatened, however, with a rednction cf her income, for her health is delicate, and the doctors are doubting if she ought to winter in Russia. If she does not she will, lose £3OO a night.

Saj-s " Atlas" in the World:—"I do not think I s :onld much care for, and I am quite sure I am not fitted for, the life of a bookmaker. Still, I should like to be Mr. Steel just for a few days. They tell ma he laid money against every horse for the Liverpool Cu;>, save one—the winner, whom he backed to win him just a thousand or two. Also, that he won some- ; t'iing over £50,000 on fie Cesarewitch, and about the same on the Cambridgeshire. Ido not know how true all this may be, but it sounds good. Think of what a lot a man might do who was believed to be possessed of about £150,000.

We have recently had an interesting discussion on the way they manage things generally in America, the controversybeing opaned by a French Duke, and continned by the Times. Here is a little paragraph cut out of an American newspaper just to hand, which appears to have some bearing on the subject:—"During a discussion on political papers between Justice Walker and Constable Eissenberg in a saloon on Saturday night, angry words ensued, which were quickly followed by blows. After a short struggle the combatants were sparated by friends.'' With a country where a Justice and a constable meet in a liquor saloon on Saturday night to discuss politics, come to blows, and after short struggle are separated by their friends, and when the little matter is recorded in small type and without comment by the newspapers, it does not do to be too particular.

Wo says that Russia is hostile to the spread of mlightentnent 1 She actually pt-rmits 337 foreign newspapers, 107 of which treat of politics, to cross her borders. The majority of these journals are German; but there are 55 English, 30 Slav, 19 French, 16 Swedish, 12 Italian, 10 Greek, and 1 Hebrew. Tae latter, presumably, is devoted to the innocent interests of Old Clo', and the others, when

arc riparjpited 1 with » »ew of printer*' ink. The Rnssi&n censor, n » he presses hia soiled index-finger to hb brow, complains that hb ©ftiea b no sinecur-v A ludicrous incidunfc b reported by the £i'i.rf()/I /'W to have occurred during Mr. and Mrs. Bandman's perforutaiio of " Hamlet" at tho new Tueatre ttoyaf. An elderly gentleman, who had taken a B«ut in the dress-circle, rumainud a (juiet Bp«cta*or of the pkcj titif.it the elt.autscune, in wide"* Hamlet plays Potouiutis. Seuintj the sword o£ the rpinuj olun ,'ud tlirtnitfh the arras, ami the body of t!'»e fl( je(t cuurtier fall seemirgty dead upon the staitfv he jumped vsp> in a state of evident dfcvptdation, and exclaiming, "It is most disgraceful that all these can sit qntetly here and see an aged person deliberately murdered," rushed out of the circle. The boxk«ep«r» endeavored to calm his fear<» and to explain to him that it was a'i a dramatic illusion, but he refused to f>e cuiiviucud, and bounced out of the honse_ Tie fyitwttrtif lioo'utve says: London m-uy hj) sar'uly declared to be the moat *Xtm')vdiu:i.."y capital in, the world, tonally us to s;au an I contents, ft is tle great In art, not on'y o; the Brubh Empire, bud also- of t ».u kiMWj iftobe. It cov rs within itajtirblictio'i. "nG a-ntiru tniles -: its a:'oa en»-bp:i« !» 73 ©(» aor. a. tt contains fwtti* million* of irthahtPanta, increasing at the rate wt* T »,0l» a ywa", of wh-vou* nationalities.. Lou.tou wmtain-* mor, Jows than Fittest! Tv, more Irish than Dublin, more Sco'eh than Edinburgh, and mora Koumn Catholics than Uome-