ENGLISH NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 336, 28 August 1868, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

(Erom the Some News.) A memorial has been presented to the Queen, praying that the proposed disendowment of the United Church in Ireland be not allowed, signed by 145,000 women.

Among the deaths of the month ia that of Eobert Chambers, the exchampion of the Tyne and the Thames. There has been another terrible

explosion caused by nitro-glycerino. It occurred at Quenast, in Belgium. The nitro-glycerine was to be employed in blasting operations. It wa3 being unloaded from a waggon, when the explosion occurred. Ten persons were instantly killed —literally blown to atoms, and great damage was done in the immediate neighborhood. Fenianism is now fairly dead at Home —strangled on tbe gallows on which Barrett was gibbetted, and finally extinguished by the feat of O'Farrell at Sydney. Ireland is once more in perfect tranquility, and would remain so if only the sympathisers and grievance-mongers would leave her alone. Messrs. Sulivan and Piggot of the Nation and the Irishman, have been released from gaol, and, of course, their first impulse was to blaspheme the bloody Anglo-Saxon, and to swear eternal hostility to that cruel oppressor —cruel mo3t of all in this, that he persists in not oppressing. The notorious George Francis Train appeared the other day at Liverpool on the Exchange, but was received with such a storm of hooting and hissing, thae he was glad to take refuge in a cab. He has since delivlecture or two ; but, in spite of his piquant placards, no one will go to hear bim snd so that dismal buffoon is played out. In Canada, it is confidently affirmed that the Fenians under their new general (O'Neil), intend to make another raid thi3 summer. Something of the kind is urgently needed to keep up the subscriptions from the Irish servant girls. There has been a great meeting of tbe brotherhood in Philadelphia, and an address from the president, announcing that the time had come for vigorous measures, and for revenging the wrongs of Ireland by taking possession of Canada. In furtherance of that very Irish proceeding, it is declared that there is a Bum of 250,000 dollars ready in the treasury. But that will scarcely do more, it has been suggested, than pay the railway fare of the Fenian army to the borders. In the meantime, the Canadian authorities are fully on the alert, and should the Fenians be mad enough to carry out their threats, they are assured of a proper reception. From the Continent there is rumor of a new attempt by Garibaldi upon Eome, the knowledge of which has eome to the French Government, and has led to sharp correspondence with Italy. I'c is searsely probable that the Italians will once more afford an epportunity for a French intervention, but any thing may be expected from the daring of Garibaldi The visit of the Prince Napoleon to Hungary, and thence to Turkey, has beon invested with a good deal of political significance. The quid-nuncs will have it that the Prince is* kind_ of traveller in the political notions of his cousin, and ths»t there is a secret design for a new alliance against Russia and Prussia. None of the warlike preparations to which I lately called attention on the part of France have been suspended, and every now and then a spiteful article appears against Prussia. Bismarck having been recently ill, it was maliciously suggested by the French that his complaint is "delirium tremens," induced by brandy-drinking.

" BEATTITUL FOR EVER." The fame of Madame Rachel is world-wide, but recent disclosures exhibit an audacity on her part almost sublime, and a degree of imbecile credulity on the p«rt of one of her dupes that affords an admirable companion picture to the case of Mrs. Lyon, The tale diTulged last week at the Marlborough Police Court shows that there are depths of human gullibility quite unfathomable. Mrs. Borradaile, a woman well advanced in years and wrinkles, deposes that in 1866 she called on Madame Eachel, for the purpose of being made " beautiful for ever." She waß told that it •would be a costly process, and also that if Bhe did not mind further paying heavily an advantageous matrimonial alliance might be arranged for her. Then followed what Mrs. Borradaile's counsel truly said was almost incredible. The widow advanced £ 1000, used the prescribed cosmetics, and took baths at a particular house. After she had done so she was told that the bath she had entered was so constructed that those within could be seen through crevices, and that in this way a nobleman had been permitted to observe her, was smitten with her charms, and was impatient to marry lier. Instead of resenting such treatment as an outrage upon her sex, the frail woman was taken in by the clumsy story, and had an interview with a person who personated Lord Ranelagh. she afterwards entrusts Madame Eachel with one large sum after

another for the use of this romantic inamorata. £I2OO were paid for diamonds to adorn a coronet, which were returned with a penalty cf £IOO, but the money w«3 never disgorged by Madame Rachel. Next she buys a trousseau which is sent for her to tbe same obliging friend, and isnevsraeen again. Other sums go to the pretended Lord Ranelagh for volunteering purposes : and altogether she is plundered of some £4OOO by tee conspirators. Awaking at length from her delusion, her love and confidence were changed to hate and revenge, and ehe ha 3 commenced a prosecution against Madame Rachel for conspiracy and fraud. The woman decorator had to find sustantial bail. Lord Ranelagh is, or course, perfectly innocent of any complicity in the vile deception. The hearing of the charge againot Madame Rachel was reaumed on Tuesday. Mrs. Bor rodaile was again examined, and in the course of her evidence made some extraordinary statements. She declared positively that Lord Ranelagh, who was in eourt, was the gentleman to whom she was introduced by Madame Rachel in IGB3, and 'she adhered to this through a long and searching cross-examination at the hands of Mr, Digby Seymour. His Lordship's name was also introduced into a pacoage :n the witness' previous history, wherein her husband was represented as having slain a man in a duel in corijeqiience of the intimacy between the murdered man and Mrs. Borrodaile. The further hearing of the case was again adjourned ; Lord Ranelagh repeating what he had already stated, " that he had nothing whatever to do with the case." To this Mr. Seymour, the leading counsel for Madame Rachel, replied, that " no member of LoixLßanelagh's family need blush for any part that his Lordship had taken in the affair."