ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1189, 26 September 1882, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

i ™»nge to learn at this day tbat the jieail of Oluor Cromwell is still "in excel- ■ lent preservation,?, The Protector's head w supposed to have been blown down iTJh t0? f 08trainilt " H »", where Uhad been placed on a.piko for crows to fh! ihi " Seoonlcame to' the throne; and the head was then pTckod' up, sold tojMr Wilkinson, neirSevenoaks f .. . Thehair' and features areisaid to belife-like even'yet, and there' J the. hole m the skull; whererthe head' was impaled, and also " a holo where' a large wartbad been ont out." i'Four-peVtty'lpieoes are disappearing The Association of En R li,h Country bankers recommend (obaervna the In. aurance and Banking Record) that oil coins of th;s ( denomination 4 coming into f the handa-of:bankers should be with.* ce»sed:to issue these coins, and of England receives them, do nkjjfbow WMn, at their full .nominal value, Those withdrawn iii 1881, represented £4OOO. Ihe similarity to. the threepenny-piece / renders the fourpenny coin undesirable, T and; the sooner ii becomei obsolete the ' S'er. None have been minted since 1856. The principal sufferers «e the churches, which, through lhe •upplanlintr' of the coin of larger, Value by the three-penny-piece, have lost about 25 per cent, ot their offertory collections. According to figuren laid before the recent sitting of the Wesleyan Conference at Leeds that body is 100,000 stranger in numbers than it was 16 years ago. The total membership of the looiety m Great Britain it the present time is 293,680. The. Mayfly was ran down on July 22 off Dungeness by a sqiew steamer *'id the" captain and six of the orew drowned. .Six other sailors and four who wera on board ! wit' rauols injured. : : 'j '; ■ The French Chamber of Deputies have voted, to omit the. name of the Deity from the caths taken in courts of justice. The new formula is to be" I swear on my honor .and: censcience." ■ The Chamber : also, voted the removal of religious emblems from courts of justice. The" Salvation Army" had a field day on July 3, at the ilhhndira Palace, 5 at whioh about 30,000 persons were present . Aletter from the Queen was read, declining to subscribe to the purchase of the., Grechn Theatre, but expressing tier satfi< faction at learning that the movement had !' been suocessfulin the effprts tr.win peopld J to the ways 'of virtue, tempetaiice, ind" .< religion. ' '"• '•' There are in Paris no fewer than 1,343 journals. They are composed "as follows: and general, 209; illastrated, 88; fine art,~l9; railway, 10; instruction »ud education, 88; legal, 31J literature, 30; medical, 97; military, 17; fashions, 31; young people, 53; Catholic, 64!; .Tew»h, 2; Protestant, 24; scientific, 41; The romainder.are on music, advertisements, &c, . ■ .

ifrG. Perkins Marsh, United: States Minister at the Italian Court, died on July 23, at Vallarabroaa.

The number of persons killed- during.': the recent tornadoes in the United SiaieV fis. estimated at 130. and the valuo of the property destroyed at £700,000. A Wain leaviug Cork station on July!) was run into by an incoming train, and some 20 or 30 persons were injured, several very severely, . Princess Christian, on July 5 laid, the foundation stone ,oi a Cottaye 'Hospital at Eastbourne, which is to be ereotad in memory of Princess Alice. : The tugsteamer Alice left the Tyne on June 29 villi a number of passengers, for a pleasure excursion. The vessel struo on Bondecar Rocks, and 14 or 15 persons woro drowned. The Salvation Army held its first meet-/ Ing on' June 29 in Dublin, but the disturbance was great and so continuous that the intended speakers could not address the sudionce. The publio are notified in our front pan that Rapp and Hare are Belling. Men's' ; Tweed suits at 80s, we have seen tho ■: quality, and can testify of the same.— Aavr. '■•:'!