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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3701, 4 November 1880, Page 3

Edwp.rd Eyan, charged with poisoning the race-horse Starlight, was committed to take his trial at next Quarter Session, which is to be held on the A6tK November. Bail was allowed—one surety in £100. and two sureties in £50 each. The case lasted three days*

The Belgian capital has just produced a truly Eoyal veil, yet more precious than any^i^g that has of late years been made with bobbin, pin, and pillow; and this exquisite work, the cost of which has exceeded 25,000f., or £1000 sterling, is a bridal present from the city of Brussels to the Princess Stephanie. For some days it has been publicly exhibited at the Hotel de Yille, that noblest of Netherland Gothic buildings; and the association will suggest a bond of art that holds together ia a common sentiment the most solidly enduring and most delicately fragile work of human skill and patience. This superb veil, which has employed 125 workwomen for three months, measures about 3| yards in length, by rather more than 3 yards in width. In the middle are the arms of Austria and Hungary, flanked on the right andleft by the arms of the city of Brussels. The border contains the arms' of the nine provinces of Belgium, those of Austria, and those also of the Belgian kingdom, connected together by a wreath of flowers; a narrow border runs all round ; and the intervening spaces are filled with flowers and jdanta.—Draper. . A manuscript of the Gospels, written on purple parchment in silver ink, and adorned with miniatures, was recently discovered in Calabria by Messrs O. yon Gebhardt and A. Hardaek. A set of reproductions of the miniatures has just been published at Leipzig, and a collation of the text is promised. The M.S. contains St. Matthew and St. Mark. The discoverers would fix as early a date as the end of the fifth century or beginning of the sixth for both the miniatures and the text. - An Irish gentleman once remarked in the House of Commons that the French were the most restless nation in the universe—adding very pointedly, '' They will never be at peace till they are eneaeed in another war."