MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Southland Times, Issue 1138, 9 April 1869, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

I m It is said that the coats on both sides in the St. Alban's Ritual trials amount to £20,000. ! Queen Olga, of Greece, sralks in the streets of Athens with her baby in her arms, stops and talks with all the mothers she meets, and compares babies with them. Singers are right royally treated in Russia. An Imperial carriage was placed at the disposal of Madame Patti to convey her to St. Petersburg, and on her first appearance she was recalled some 40 times. If rumour can be credited, Dr Russell, the late unsuccessful condidate for Chelsea, and the Timescorrespondent during the Crimean war, is to be the historiographer of the Royal party in the East, and will write an Eastern book of travels. Sheep-stealing has become so common in the Isle of Man that the Farmers' Club ha* resolved to take steps — first, to invite the aid of the Legislsture to suppress the crime ; and, secondly, to form an association for the prosecution of such felonies. Mr William Blanchard Jerrold has been oommissioned by the Government to enquire into the oondition of the pauper asylums of Europe. The object doubtless is to gain information as to how other nations deal with the great difficulty of increasing pauperism. It is believed that the highest price ever paid 'or a single book was at an auction sale in London in 1811, when the Marquis Blanford paid £2,260 for a copy of Valdafar's first edition of Boccaccio's " Decameron." It was issued in 1471, and is supposed to be the only copy in existence. The citizens of San Francisco have formed a committee to enquire into the means of preventing or lessening the destruction of properly by earthquake. The bricks used in building are reported, to be very defective, and it is proposed to adopt a method of bracing buildings with iron rods. A gentleman, so he is called by the reporters named Q-eorge Roberts, has been fined 5s by the Dewabury magistrates for singing a song, to the tune of "If I had a donkey," in church when a funeral service was going on. He was drunk »t the time. Miss Nelly Moore, the actress, died of typhoid fever in the middle of January. This loss to the stage is every way regrettable. As an actress she exhibited the promice of great excellence, and already, at the age of four-and- twenty, she had attained a very good representative position. As a private lady, her life was pure, and without that reproach which unhappily may be levelled at the majority of her sister associates. The further proceedings in the case of Madame Rachel will, it is understood, be taken under the auspices of the law officers of the drown. The Telegraph says it can scarcely be expected that Mrs Borrodaile should incur the expense consequent on the argument of the writ of error in the Queen's Bench, and the Treasury has accordingly undertaken the responsibility. A French paper states that every seventh diy ex-Queen Isabella recieves a small parcel containing the chemise which Sister Patrocinio h:is worn during the preceding week, and that she wears the dirty garment for the next seven days. This is indeed realising literally the schoolgirl's bad translation of " the lust shit of love," — " la derniere chemise de V amour." A jury at the Montgomeryshire quarter sessions found a tramp guilty of theft, but at tlxe same time recommended the loan to morcy. ♦' On what grounds?" asked the chunnan. The foreman replied first that he did not know, but after a lengthy conference with his brother jurymen, he thus seriously delivered himself befor> a laughing court — "We recommend him toineroy because no one seed him commit the crime." The rejoicings in Limerick over the failure of the petition against the sitting members oontinued through two nights. Tar barrels bkz jd in various districts. At the " Treaty Stone " four wero set oa fire, and a similar number veve placed on the O'Conaell monument. An 0^.47 of dir Peter Tait was burned amid the mock " keening " of the populace. The police patroled the streets, but no disturbance occurred. A " Free Labor Society," which is on principles directly antagonistic to those adopted by those unions, was established at Manchester on the 28th January. Each member ia to sign a declaration that he will not " aid or assist, by word or deed, in preventing any person from making hia own termß with his employer, or from peaceably following hia employment under such terms or contract. " Lord Egerton, of Tatton, has accepted the presidency of the society.