NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 137, 22 September 1870, Page 7

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

A trial, which, it is said, will be one of the most gigantic on record, is about to take place in Hungary. The accused are brigands, 300 in number, and it is expected that 200 of them will be condemned to death. Russian journals announce forthcoming mighty musters of warriors, which must make Aldershot, and even Chalons, feel rather small. At least three-fourths of the colossal Russian army is to be exerci.ed this summer in thirty-four camps, formed in every part of the empire. One hundred and thirty-eight regiments of the line, fifteen of infantry, forty brigades of artillery, each of three batteries, and the whole of the cavalry, will be put through the course. The first series at the camp at Warsaw will alone, and without counting the engineers and the administration, include 80,000 men, disposed in six divisions of infantry, two of cavalry, six battalions of light infantry, and six brigades of artillery. The " Chattanooga Times " states that on the 17th of June Messrs. Koopmanschap telegraphed to the superintendent in charge of the construction of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railway : — " Can deliver in 30 days at Chattanooga 1000 or 2000 good Chinese labourers for 60 dols. per head. Waj^es, 16 dols. per month and board. Free passage back." The superintendent replied, "We will take 1500 able-bodied Chinese labourers at once." A great fire has occurred at Panama, destroying property estimated at 1,000,000 dols. It has caused much depression in trade and distress from loss of furniture. The insurance offices had £104,600 to pay. No clue has been discovered as to the cause of the firs. Great excitement prevails in Bolivia through the alleged discovery of some inch silver mines, and nothing else is talked about there but starting for the mines at Lima. An extraordinary case of sequestration has just been disclosed before the Court of Assizes of the Manche, a man having been kept concealed, chained to a bed. for a period of forty years, by his own father first, and by a brother afterwards. In the year 1830 a farmer named Bouillaud lived .with his wife and four sons — Charles, Jacques, Francois, and Julien — in the commune of Romagny. Julien, who was then twenty-two years of age, had shown some signs of deranged mind, the result of a fright while walking out at ni^hr, and the father, to escape the trouble of guarding the young man, had him chained by the two wrists ou a bed from which the son was never moved. The result of the captivity was that Julien's limbs became at length completely paralysed from inaction, and he became a perfect idiot. The father died in 1852, having previously shared his fortune betwsen the three other sons, on condition that Charles and Francois should each pay a sum of 200f. annually for the wants of their brother, while Jacques was to board and lodge him. The unfortunate man continued chained to his bed until 186-1, when, as he could no longer make any movement, the shackles were taken frDtn him, but it was not till the present year that the facts came to the ears of the judicial authorities. A descent was made at the house, and Julien, now over sixty years of age, was found lying almost naked and in a miserable condition on a litter of straw, placed in a dark hole for concealment. Jacques Bouillaud being arrested, was now brought up for trial, and pleaded in his defence that he had only continued a state of things commenced by his father. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and he was set at liberty. " Woolooloomoo-shout " is the last novelty bearing upon matters in the "agony column" of "The Times." The advertisement appears just as we have copied it, nor has any explanation yet appeared. A colonist sends the following for publication : — " Sir, — Having just landed from a return voyage to Melbourne, I have, during the voyage, made the discovery why so very few newspapers and books sent by post to Australia and other colonies are received by those for whom they are ' intended. It is because the mail-bags containing newspapers are made a kind of circulating library to the passengers, and although some papers, pamphlets, .or magazines are, after being read, returned to the bags, a very large number are otherwise disposed of. Hence our friends complain they are forgotten, and say we never send them newspapers ' from home.' " The promoters of a literary institution for the southern part "of Edinburgh, on the basis of the Philosophical Institution, have, we are informed, already obtained subscriptions to the capital building fund to the extent of £3000. The Southern Institution, which will comprise a library, readingroom, and lecture-hall, is expected to be in operation next winter session. A citizen of Dundee expresses his willingness to emigrate in these terms : — " For forty years past I have taken an active part in carrying out all good measures, both general and local, for the good of my country and native town. Perhaps in doing so I have culpably neglected my own and family's interests, and led to my want of success? in business. I have, therefore, turned my thoughts to emigration, I wish to go to New Zealand,

where I have some friends, and where X can do for an honest living what I Would not attempt here." The largest salmon ever caught in the Tay was landed with the net at one of the fishing stations near Newburgh lately. The fish, which was a perfect model as regards shape, measured -H feet in length, 2 feet 8 inches round the shoulders, and weighed 711 b. This great fish, the "largest salmon of modern times," was secured by Mr. Charles, of Pimlico. Mr. Buckland has taken a cast of it, which he is to place in the museum in the Horticultural Gardens. At wholesale price the fish was worth £9 12s 6d, equal to the cost of three prime sheep. A number of shows and merry-go-rounds have lately taken up their position in the cattle-market, Dundee, and have been largely patrorised by those who did not avail themselves of the stoppage of the works to go out of town. One day last week, while the market was crowded with holidaymakers, a loud cry of horror was suddenly raised, and in a moment everybody was crowding to the spot whence it arose to ascertain the cause. It was found that one of the hobby-horse merry-go-rounds had broken down, whereby several people had been seriously injured. The merry-go-round in question was worked by steam, and at the time of the accident was in full swing. There were a good many people on the horses, and, as is ordinarily the case, there was a large number congregated round them. One of the iron poles by which the wooden horses were suspended suddenly snapped at the top, the great velocity at which the machine was going pitching one of them out among the crowd. Two men were killed, and several other persons seriously inj v red. "The New Zealand (G-uaranteo of Loan) Bill passed through committee." This is a verbatim copy of the "Times" parliamentary report of the proceedings on this question. The reports in the "Morning Post" and "Standard " were equally exhaustive, and contained exactly the same number of words. The other morning papers failed to mention the " little affair." Mr. Charles Wilmot — Australians will be interested to hear — has moved with the Lyceum company to the East-end of London. So much did he make of the characters he assumed in "Chilperic" and "Little Faust," that both have been re-written and considerably extended, so as to afford this capital actor an opportunity of adding still further to the attractions of the plays in which he appears. An extended tour is arranged for the company with which Mr. Wilrnot is connected. The other day at Leamington, Robert East, a carpeuter, was summoned for allowing his son, Walter East, to become chargeable to the Warwick Union. Mr. Passman appeared for the guardians, and Mr. Havvkes, of Birmingham, for a genlteman whose name rumour has unpleasantly associated Avith the case. The facts were of an extraordinary character. East, it appeared, in 1855 was married to a woman whose maiden name was Jessop. They cohabited for about a year, and a boy was born, who was registered by the defendant as their son. Three weeks after the birth of the child the mother suddenly disappeared by night, and took the infant with her, and the defendant never saw it again until the lad was left at the Warneford Hospital three weeks ago, with a broken wrist. During the fourteen years of bis absence he had passed by the name of Walter Barnard, had been educated as a gentleman, and was at one time at Katcliffe College, Lsibestershire, and subsequently at Oxford. The meney for his maintenance was paid by Mr. M'Keen, the bailiff of the Rugby County Court, who admitted that it was not supplied by Mrs. East, but he declined to say from whom he received it. Mrs. East lived in good style for several years in London, but six or seven years ago went out to India, where she married a gentleman named M'lver, who about three weeks ago obtained a divorce from her in the London Court, on the ground that she was the wife of East. Evidence was given by M. M'Keen to prove the identity of the boy now destitute as the child of Mrs. East, and the bench made an order of maintaince on the defendant, who very reluctantly consented to take charge of the boy, and only did so on the bench intimating that they must commit him to gaol if he refused, and that when discharged his liability would not cease. An atrocious crime has just been discovered in the county Tyrone. The body of a girl named Lee was found by some labourers in a ditch, and the head, which had been severed, about 150 yards distant. Many reports are afloat as to how the deed was committed, but the most probable one is that the deceased, who lived in a farmhouse, had been on intimate terms with a young man who had been seen in her company several times, and that they had intended to get married and go to America, the unfortunate girl having in her possession a sum of money. This man and a comrade of his have been missing since the disappearance of the murdered girl, and it is believed that she was decoyed out and brutally murdered by her lover and his companion, and that tliey have gone to America.