NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Southland Times, Issue 1812, 28 October 1873, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

— ♦ ■-. The Czar and all the members of tbe Imperial family of Russiv will assemble at Livadia to receive the Duke of Edinburgh. His .Royal Highness will return to England in October, and will proceed to St. Petersburg in December. His nuptials with the Grand Duches3 Maria will be celebrated at the Russian capital in Jauuary. M. Rouher and a distinguished circle of adherents of the Empire attended the Napoleonic fete at Chislehurst. The French deputation included a number of youths bearing a flag inscribed to Prince Napoleon, and also three of the Great Napoleon's veterans. A short service was performed in the chapel, and afterwards an assembly formed in front of Camden House. The Prince delivered a short speech, declaring that he would always be true to the motto of his dynasty, " All for the people and by the people." The magnificent harbor works at Tlolyhead, which have cost the country £1,500,000, and ben 25 years in construction, were opened by the Prince of Wales on August 19th. Charles, Duke of Brunswick, who was deposed by the German Diet in 1830, and who fled the Duchy, leaving the throne to his younger brother- William, died of apoplexy in Geneva. He was immensely rich, the valua of the real property left by him being estimated at a million sterling. His will containi some curious stipulations, one of them being that five medical men shall examine his body to see that he has not died of poison. The increased consumption of foreign potatoes is remarkable. In the last seven months the value was £1,820,153, against £353,005 in the same periffd last year. A Koman Catholic priest has been sentenced in Prussia to a fortnight's imprisonment for publicly preaching that marriage among Protestants is mere concubinage The Scotch papers state that the Princess Louiso, Marchioness of Lome, will shortly make an addition to the house of Argyll. Coal has been successfully cut by machinery at Pelsall. The Birmingham News believt s this to be the first successful application of machinery to coalcutting in Staffordshire. An anonymous donor has placed £500 at the disposal of the Society of Arts for promoting economy in the use of coal for .domestic purposes. The -Council have therefore determined to .offer prizes for carrying out- the purpose or the donor. ; The death is announced of the Swedish statesman, Count Manderstroem, Minister of Foreign Affairs under Charles XV. The autobiography of the late Mr Mill is far advanced in printing, and may be expected to be out in October. There can be no doubt now that the Vienna Exhibition has proved a failure. Vulgarly speaking, "it has not paid." There is, indeed, a growing impression that no great exhibition in future can be a financial success. The world is tired of exhibitions. They are no longer novelties, and therefore no longer attractive. The new English and American Protestant church in the interior pf Borne, erected on the Piazza San Silvestro, from the designs of Commander Apolla, is nearly terminated, r; ah& will soon be open for Divine service.'

Mr Thomas Holloway, the proprietor of the well-known pills and ointment, has commenced upon St. Anne's Heath, Surrey, the erection of the asylum for the reception of lunatic patients, which he intends to present to the British nation. The site of the asylum is opposite the Virginia. Water station of the Staines and Wokinghain branch of the London and South Western Eailway. The asylum will cost £100,000, and is intended to accommodate about 400 male and female patients. It appears from a telegram referred to in the Bombay Gazette of August 1, that the Sultan of Zanzibar, who had contemplated a visit to this country, has been informed by the Home authorities that it is not convenient to receive him at present. One morning, while the workmen were engaged on the foundation of one of the piers at Taybridge works, Dundee, the ; air-bell at the top burst, and out of j fourteen six were drowned. i Sub-Inspector Thomas Hartley Mont- j gomery was banged within the precincts of Omagh Gaol on the 26th August for the murder of Mr Glaese, the manager of a bank at Newtownstewart, in June, 1871. Two women have been sentenced, at Clerkenwell Police-court, to two months' imprisonment for " telling fortunes." Mr Disraeli, it is stated, will deliver l bifr inaugural address as Lord Sector of the Glasgow University about the middle of November. r -. Mr Carlyle, who is in excellent health, *ia at present residing at Dumfries. „ The, authors of the great Bank forgeries have each been sentenced to penal servitude for life. The Tichborne case is likely to last through the year. There are 150 'witnesses for the defence. Mr T. E. Fuller, the Emigration Commissioner for the Cape, although he has ? been but a few days in England, is already actively at work. His advertisements 'appear in numerous newspapers read by working men, and the various- classes of artisans wanted at the Cape are .specified. ■ Most of the Japanese students, 100 of whom are in England, have been recalled. Two thousand troops are about to proceed to the West Coast of Africa to destroy Coomassie, the capital of the Ashantees. < One steamer with arms and ■tores has already left Woolwich. -.< A fearful storm, inflicting great disaster on shipping, has occurred at Newfoundland and on the Atlantic. . The Treasury bave intimated their intention of paying the expenses of the defendant's witnesses in the Tichborne ' case.'-"' ' ■ _ ■' , ; . During the week ending the 9th . August no fewer than, 70 vessels arrived in the port of New York, bringing 23,654 immigrants ; of these 13,415 were from Liverpool, 2,092 from Glasgow, 5,010 from London and Havre, 5,792 • from Bremen and Hamburg, and from all other ports 1,865. Since the Ist January toe total immigration was 83,912. Mr Joseph Cowan and four other members of the Tbwn Council of New-castle-on-Tyne, purchased at a cost of , £25,000 the Elswick Hall estate, and have thrown it open to the public as a free park. It is intended to erect on a suitable place in the centre of London, statues to the memory of Wycliffe and Tyndale, rin connection with their efforts to secure *' a free and open Bible " for the people. " An address and a cheque for £1000 ■' was presented to Mr E. Jenkins, recently an unsuccessful candidate for Dundee, from a number of his supporters on that occasion. During a severe thunderstorm in the South of England, the lightning came down the chimney of a house, and forced its way through a kettle, leaving a hole in the bottom as if penetrated by a bullet. The Portsmouth Times says:— " The > eldest son of Mr Tennyson, the PoetLaureate, will shortly be gazetted a baronet. Her Majesty, it is said, recently renewed her offer to signalize Mr ~ Tennyson's services to literature. This J hie has for himself declined, but has accepted the honor for his son, now at Oxford. This son has already shown, at ■ Marlborough College and elsewhere, that be inherits some of his father's abilities in poetry." * The Trade Unionists are going to bring ■ forward candidates at the next election. The Miners* Association will contribute • £3000 towards their candidates' election expenses. - At the inquest on the bodies of Mrs 1 Everett and Mrs Constable, who, bavins been missing for two months, were found dead in the ruins of the Alexandra Palace, evidence was given that they bad agreed " to go together to the Palace on the 25th of June, and that the wall under the Viailen brickwork of which they were found fell on that day. The jury returned a verdict of " found dead.