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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 692, 2 August 1870, Page 3

In the House of Commons, the bill removing civil disabilities of clergymen who resigned their sacred functions, was strongly opposed, and got a second reading by only eight majority. The Viceroy of Egypt has ordered the sale of lands adjoining the Suez canal. The estimated value is £10,000,000 sterling; the proceeds to be divided between himself and the Canal Company. The steamer City of Rogusa left Liverpool on May 31, for New York. She is only twenty-one feet long, provisioned for three months. The captain counts on making the passage inside of fifty days. The crew is one man beside the captain. A Newfoundland dog goes as passenger. New York is the nominal point of destination, but the captain will make any convenient point in the United States. A large crowd witnessed the departure. Pope Pius IX entered on his 79th year May 14. The hair-dressers' shops of Madrid are crowded with girls anxious to sell their hair —so mueh misery is there in Spain. There.are four Hebrew Synagogues in San Francisco. They are all in the neighborhood of Union Square, and all but one are among the most costly religious edifices in the city. Transfusion of blood from a man's to his wife's veins, has just been successfully performed in England.

Great Britain has £160,000 miles of macadamized roads. Russia is to construct a national railway to Sebastapol. There are now 250 steamers traversing the Danube —of nearly all nationalities. An old soaker replied to a temperance lecturer by the following poser: —"lf water rots the soles of your boots, what effect must it have on the coat of your stomach ?"