NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3806, 10 March 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

(fkom; our own cqbbesponbent.)

Bibmingham, January 22. Steps aro beiDg taken to send more gan-boats to the coast of Ireland.

The fairway at Hamburg" is full of drift ice, but navigation is not stopped. Hundreds of men hare been thrown out of employment in the Tyne shipyards.

Access to the port of Copenhagen, except for steamers, has been closed by the ice.

Several gales and rain have interrupted telegraphic communication in various parts of Spain. *

In the Diamond Fields a meeting has bean held to sympathise with the Boers of the Transvaal.

Brigadier General Sir Evelyn Wood has left London for Plymouth en route for the Transvaal.

The King and Queen of Italy continue to be warmly received in their progress through Sicily.

Professor Huxley has accepted the position of Chief Inspector of Fisheries, held by the late Mr Frauk Buckland. It is stated that Ahmed Moukhtar Pasha will be appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish forces on the Greek frontier. New York advices indicate that the hitherto rival telegraph lines, the Western Union and the American Union, will consolidate.

The Mormons of Utah have lit their streets with electricity, besides erecting four powerful lamps on the dome of the Towu Hall.

The Queen of Sweden, travelling as Countess Haga, has arrived at Queenborough on her way to .London to spend the remainder of the winter. The Birmigham gunmakers say that from 60C3 to 8000 constabulary revolvers have been sent to Ireland within three months—not for constabulary use. Mr Henry G. Barlow, E.N., .secretary to Vice-Admiral M'Donald, dropped dead on Friday morning, while transacting official business-at Sheeruess. The Daily News understands that the Queen has notified her intention to grant a pension of £200 a year to Mr Alfred 11. Wallace, the eminent naturailst. The Sultan is stated to have issued orders that his Ministers are to decide without further delay upon the terms of the note to be addressed to the powers on the Greek question. The London Gazette contains a Privy Council order scheduling the Isle of Wight, including the boroughs of New-*

port and Hyde, as an area infected with foot-and-mouth disease. The order takes effect from the 21st of January,

The funded debt of the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks has become such a popular investment that the debt is now being sold at £103 10s for every £100. The rate of interest for loans on mortgage has been reduced from 4 to 3|- per cent.

The Medical Press and Circular says that the office of Physician to the Queen in Ireland, vacated by the death of Dr Hudson, has been conferred on Dr Benjamin George McDowel, son of Dr Ephraim McDowel, an oqually valued physician of his day.

Itgis stated that the trustees under the will of the late Mr E. Harris, of Prestoa, purpose founding in that town an orphan home and a science and art school. They will expend on the first-named institution a sum of £100,000 and on the other £50,000.

By the will of the late Mr Stanford, F.R.5.,. recently deceased, a munificent bequest is made to St. Mary's Hospital of the sum of £25,000. With this fund a wing will be erected, which will bear the name of his mother, Mary Stanford. — British Medical Journal.

A procession of about 300 men, in the employ of the Bradford Guardians at test labour, walked the streets of Bradford the other day, making a demonstration in front of the Exchange, 'they left their work +a show their miserable condition in the street.

The Athenaeum says that a volume of " Extracts from the Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Crimea," by the late Lord George Paget, who, it may be remembered commanded the Light Cavalry Brigade at Inkerman and the Techernaya, is to be published by Mr Murray. A correspondent at Dublin telegraphs that disquieting rumors continue to be received by the Irish Government. The Government majority in thedivision on the Coercion Bill consisted of 261 Liberals and 176 Conservatives'. General Grant has accepted the office of president of the New York Commission arranging for the Exhibition of 1883. From Agram it is reported that earthquake shocks have been felt on the Istrian coast town of Bucarri, and at Ottocac.

A cast of the head of the collossal lion sejant at Ch»ronea has been placed in the centre of the great hall in the British Museum. The amount realised by the sales of the works of art at the autumn art exhibition in Liverpool is between £11,000 and £12,000.

It is understood that Professor Huxley, awhile accepting the Inspectorship of in succession to the late Mr Frank Buckland, resigns his appointment as Naturalist to the Geological Survey. The Electrician understands that Mr Fawcett has handed over to the Civil Service Commissioners the right exercised by previous Postmaters-General to nominate candidates for the telegraph service. • A telegram from Cairo, to a German paper announces the unearthing, near Saggarah, to the north of the site of Memphis, of two pyramids of the sixth dynasty, the inner walls covered wife!* several thousand inscriptions. .<■-'

? The Ardhbisliop of Canterbury is to hear the other side of the question raised by Dean Church's memorial. The .Record says that a meeting of Evangelical clergy has been held, at which a counter memorial was resolved upon.

The Madras Mail says:—" 366 bullocks, 413 cows, 151 calves, 87 buffaloes, 113 sheep, 114 goats, 20 horses or ponies, 15 asses, 27 dogs, and 2 pigs, were destroyed by tigers and cheetahs in the Madras Presidency during the quarter ending September 30th."

Private letters from Callao inform the BullioDist that the success of the Chilian operations against Lima is believed to be assured. The unhappy intimation is added that the town, when taken, will be given over to the Chilian soldiers to be sacked.

The Divinity Faculty of Aberdeen University has declined to receive Dr Cunningham, of Crieff, as the General Assembly's Lecturer on the Pastoral and Homiletical Training of Students, on account of bis connection with the volume of " Scotch Sermons."

Mr Eli Johnson, a sculptor, a resident of London, died at his father's house, at Northampton, from congestion of the lungs. Among his works were a bust of the late Mr Charles Gilpin, who, like the sculptor, was a member of the Society of Friends, and another of Mr George Palmer, M.P.

The bill to amend the Municipal Elections Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1868, prepared and brought into the House of Commons by Dr Cameron, Col. Alexander, Mr Duncan M'Laren, and Mr M'Lagan, was issued on Saturday morning. By this bill the masculine gender, wherever it is mentioned, is " to include females."

It appears to be at last definitely settled that Wagner's "Parsifal" will be produced at Bayreuth during the summer of next year. The King of Bavaria has come to the assistance of his friend the composer, and besides placing at his disposal his whole operatic cotnpauy and his orchestra, will give him the sum of £15,000. It is said that the work is not to be performed anywhere except at Bayreulh.

A Corporation report just issued states the cost of the 'i'einple Bar memorial to be £10,690 6s-, 7d. Of this £5,260 is payable to Messrs Mowlem and Co. for the foundations, scaffolding, granite work, masonry, carving, and modelling; £2,152, to Mr Boehm, E.A., for the statues in marble of the Queen and the Prince of Wales ; £1,081 to Mr Birch. A.R.A., for the 4i Griffin " in bronze and £1,603 15s for the basso-relievos.

At the approaching National Exhibition at Milan the Italian Typographical Association intends to exhibit a complete collection of Italian Periodicals published in the Italian language in- Foreign countries, with an acoount of the machines, paper, and ink employed in their production. As there are more than 1,800 daily journals published in Italy, the collection, to which a catalogue will be made, cannot fail to be interesting. ■'% '■'