NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 215, 14 March 1872, Page 6

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The report in circulation that the sentence of Henri Rocheforte has been commuted to banishment, is pronounced untrue.

A terrible railroad accident occurred near Nice on the 25th January. The train broke through the bridge over the Taglioni River, precipitating the cars into the water. Fourteen persons were killed and many others wounded.

The Pope's advisers are urging him to leave Rome.

A decree has been issued from St. Petersburg making compulsory the use of the Russian language in the schools of Poland. •

The Empress Dowager of Brazil has freed all her personal slaves.

The plan of the revolutionary uprising has been organised over the whole territory of the south of France. The movement was held ready for immediate commencement in case of Thiers' resignation of the Presidency, and would have resulted in the appointment of the Due d'Aumale or Marshal M'Mahon to the chief authority of the Executive. The Republicans keep the peace only subject to the Bordeaux arrangement for the establishment and maintenance of a Democratic form of government in France. Any authorised attempt which may be made for the restora tion of the monarchy absolves them from all obligation, and they wili proceed to take up arms.

Earl Granville refused to see t deputation of Republicans, who wished to urge the British Government to us* its influence to procure the substitu tion of civil for military courts in th( trial of the Paris Communists.

The Queen will not, as has bee; stated, open the approaching sessio: of Parliament in person.

At a meeting of electors in Binning ham on January 26th, a letter froi John Bright, expressing the hope tha he will be able to attend a portion c the forthcoming*session of Parliamem was read. He also advises efforts t decrease the expenditure of the Gd vernment.

A new York despatch says : —Ml Comer, Colonel risk's private secrJ tary, is the administrator of Eiskl estate. He went recently to thl Grand Central Hotel, and demandel the personel property taken from thl Colonel's pocket after the shootinal This property included Pisk's immensd diamond pin, his diamond sleeve but] tons, his diamond ring, and 1,500d01s in lOOdol. bank notes. Instead o giving up the property, the proprieto of the hotel presented a bill of 2,50( dols. for allowing Colonel Fisk t< die in his house. Mr. Comer repudi ated the exorbitant bill, and again de manded the personal property. Th proprietor refused to surrender it unti his bill was paid. Mr. Comer wil take legal action to recover the pro perty. Mr. Comer says that Fisk' estate will not net over 100,000doh The lawyers have eaten up nearl everything he possessed. Mrs. Fib has determined to sell her horses an carriage, and has reduced her estat lishmenfc. Fisk's life was insured fc a small amount. Such is the stor told by one of Fisk's intimate fHend Since then, Coroner Young told a r< porter that he holds the property take from Fisk's person in the Grand Cci tral Hotel, subject to Mrs. Fisk order. I

The indications are very strong th. the two great English-speaking natioi of the world will soon get up a panti mime of war which would be ye interesting but for the fact that it h already been played once too ofte When the new controversy which h arisen with reference to the Gene tribunal has reached that stage, whi we think is sure to be gamed — that

to say, when it is apparent that fl conclusion can be reached that will acceptable to both nations, there wl at once be inaugurated, on both sid(M a minatory and warlike bustle calcl lated to alarm the inexperienceH Orders will be issued to fit out ■ Plymouth the Megatherium and tfl Cephalopod with all the haste iinagiH able. Great; hammering and loud dfl there. Preparing for war surely herfl This will be followed on this side I the Atlantic with orders to fit out twi<M as many iron-clads with unpronouncß able Indian names, at Philadelphia Brooklyn and Norfolk Navy Yardß No freight will be put aboard thesß ships but powder, ball and shellsl Much sharpening of cutlasses meanl while, with threatening glances throwil across the " frog-pond." At the closl there will be the usual tableau — kinl dred nations locked in each other* arms ; horrors of war ; glories of ar bitration, and so forth. — " Alta Cali fornia." A New York Special from Parii says Thiers, in a discussion with Roths child as to a project for further evac cuatioD of France by the Germans, saidl " I would like to see the end of thel German occupation, if we had a stabla government and settled public opinion! As it is, if the Germans were gone we] would have worse demagogues than] ever. The Bonapartists would cornel forth, and in a few days all the calamities of a relentless part} strife would take place. I will yield, though with regret, to the general desire, as I consider that the presence of the Prussians' is a guarantee of law and order." The New To.rk "Times" publishes seven columns of figures derived from the investigations of the Committee of Seventy, showing in detail the fraudulent transactions of the department of Public Works when under Tweed's management in the purchase of supplies. It says thousands of dollars were thus obtained from the Bureau of Supplies on fraudalent vouchers approved by Tweed and certified to by his subordinates acting under his ordfs. The Committee of Seventy have nearly established the fact that all the supplies furnished to the city from Tweed's department, except in a very few instances, were purchased under his personal direction. Tha total amouut of supplies furnished under the exhibit to be published is 1,666,525 dols. Three thousand pounds was subscribed at a meeting, held in London on tne 30th. of January, in aid of the Livingston expedition.