NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 194, 26 October 1871, Page 7

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

London intelligence states that it has been discovered tha.t Tichborne, the claimant to a baronetcy, was at one time a convict on. Cockatoo Island, Australia.

The amount spent last year in America for ministers, churches and missions, home and foreign, was about §8,000,000, and that for artificial flowers — which are vanity, $15,000,000.

The " Times," speaking of agrarianism in Ireland, says : — During the year 1870, 549 families, comprising 2J622 persons, were evicted in that country. 104 families, comprising 528 persons, were readmitted to their places, leaving the number of families actually evicted at 445, and persons, 2,094.

A young lady at the Ohio camp meeting asked the prayers of the assembly because she could not set her eyes upon a certain-young man in her neighbourhood without feeling as though she must hug him to death.

The Davenport (Ta.) printers seized a circus and menagerie the other day, for not paying its bills, and now each editor is the happy owner of a swinaophalus, or giasticutus, or a hippopotaiemise, or an Alaskian sea lion. When subscribers rage, and a man comes in and wants to know " who wrote that article," the editor unchains his menagerie, and the insulted fellow has a sudden call to- " see a man " elsewhere.

The Tlchborne claimant creates great excitement wherever he goes in England. At Liverpool his lodgings were continually surrounded by a curious throng, and when he appeared at the windows a great cheer was set up. The managers of the theatres invite him to accept boxes. All trades and traffics run him down, bat so far he does not seem to let the disagreeable attention wear on him. His face is fat and ruddy, and he is in continnal good humour. There is no restraint placed, on his movements, though he is well aware that' private detectives follow him. like shadows.

The Prinking Fountain. n»A Cattle Trough Association of London is working very successfully. A circular-waiiedx by the Association "shows how wide and--beneficent lias been its working. In one day 4,142 horses; it was found, drank at four troughs ; and witbin the Same short time 8,000 persons are known to have drunk at one fountain. In hot weather it is computed that 300,000 persons daily avail themselves of the water supplied to them.

On the 16th August an inquest was held at Mossley, on the body of Daniel Berry, Unitarian minister, who had been bitten by a cat. Mr. G. 11. Brumwell, a surgeon at Mossley, concluded from the first that the symptoms were those of hydrophobia from the bite of an animal. He had occasionally severe paroxysms or convulsions of the muscles, and other symptoms, and a constant dread, or fear, or anxiety, with a special aversiou to cold watei. He had no doubt the deceased died from hydrophobia ; and Dr. Fletcher was of the same opinion. He did not know auy natural disease which would produce the same symptoms in their en tirety. The jury returned a verdict oi " Died from hydrophobia." The cat has been destroyed.

A "News of the World" Dublin telegram, of the sth September, state> there was fierce fighting all night. The police, driven to their barracks, received reinforcements, and charged the crowd desperately. They were driven into the barracks again, however, and the rally was repeated several times, but with the same result A bar of iron thrown from a public house at the police led to the entering of the house and capturing its inmates. An attempt was made to rescue them -by the mob, and in the battles which followed, the bouse was completely wrecked by the mob in il.frantic rage. Half of the policemen engaged in the affrays were injured. The prisoners sang national songs all night. There is great excitement, and it is increasing. The prisoners were cheered, and the police hissed. The women helped the rioters.

The 1 Dublin correspondent of the London "Times," of the 9th August, describing the Dublin riot, says P. J. Smyth, member of Parliament, was proceeding with his speech, when suddenly there shot into view round the corner of the Wellington Monument, a considerable body of police, truncheon in hand, who, without ut-tering-a word of warning, notice, or expostulation, began to strike mercilessly on all sides. If an impartial enquiry be instituted by Government, 1 believe it will be found that throughout the period during which so many dreadful wounds were given by the police, no resistance was offered, and none could be offered. No defence was attempted beyond the use of umbrellas, in a few cases, to ward off the showering blows of the loaded truncheons. Every one within reach was assailed. News paper reporters (conservative and liberal), many of them with cote-book and pencil in hand — some personally known to the police for years-pasfc as members of the press — were as savagely attacked as anyone else. Flying victims were tripped, in order that while on the ground they might be bludgeoned. A person was quielly walking, away alone, when some policemen ran at him, and one of them dealt him a fearful kick on the hip, which staggered him ; before he could utter a cry, another blow from a truncheon felled him to the earth in gouts of blood.

We (" News of .the World ") have just inspected a splendid nugget, which is now lying iv- the Mint, winch was obtained from a hydraulic claim at Forest Hil), Sierra County. It weighs, quartz and all, 921 ounces, and contains approximately nearly 700 ounces of gold. It is probably worth from 311,000 to 314,000. The. claim being in litigation, it has been placed for safe keeping in the hands of C. N. Felton, United States Assistant Treasurer, and General La Grarge, Superintendent of the Mint. It is a pity that it cannot be exhibited among the other ores aui minerals at the Fair.