NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 837, 15 July 1871, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The subscriptions on behalf of the Glasgow University Building Fund have reached £140,000. A Bill for the cession of Dutch Guiana to Britain has been introduced into the Dutch Parliament. The population of Newcastle-on-Tyne is ascertained by the late Census to be 127,618, and that of Leeds 359,200. Mr Gladstone refused to receive a deputation of ladies in support of the political enfranchisemnt of women. M. Thalberg, the famous pianist and composer, has died at Naples, aged 59. The recent dangerous illness of the King of Sweden is said to have been caused by his use of a certain " hair restorer."

It is the intention of the Admiralty to commission one or two more training ships for boys almost immediately. The "War Office Scandal " has resulted in the Accountant-General of the Army and the Chief Clerk of the Department being asked to send in their resignations. Mrs Riddell, the novelist, while walking in Cheapside, was robbed of her purse, containing £3OO, the thief escaping in the crowd. Numerous bodies of women, dressed in semi-masculine attire, have been found on the battle fields before Paris. The Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise travel under the names of Lord and Lady Sundridge. The Princess of Wales is described as looking very thin and worn, with her lovely face so full of sadness as to be pathetic. A Bill giving married women their separate earnings has been passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature. A Republican Club has been formed at Dundee. Murder and arson continue to be common in many parts of Ireland. The prospects of the fruit cropiu England this year are very good. The ex-Emperor Napoleon is still Buffering from severe rheumatic pains. Mr J. L. Toole has been making £3OO a week at the Eoyal Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool. 573,004 persons visited the Zoological Gardens, London, in 1870. On the 31st December there were 2118 animals in the managerie. "General" Tom Thumb and his wife have arrived in London from their colonial and Indian tour.

By a recent edict the Berlin police are allowed to smoke while on duty. A diamond valued at £25,000 hai been found at the Cape of Good Hope. At Oldham, recently, one millowner was pelted with mud, and another ducked by his own men. Mr C. E. Griffen, C.E., has under, taken to raise the ironclad Captain. Pauperism in London is shown by recent returns to be considerably less than last year.' An attempt is being made to found a College of Agriculture for the North of England. There were 1,464,000 fewer sheep ia Great Britain and Ireland in 1870 than in 1869. Another theatre is to be built in London, Goswell-street. Upwards of 1200 Methodist churches were built in the United States in 1870. The Rev. Dr Guthrie intends paying a visit to America this year. Strange to say, the Census returns show there are more males than females in Utah Territory. Scurvy is reported to be on the increase in the British mercantile navy. The Prince and Princess of Wales will visit Ireland in the second week in August. At Victoria West, Cape Cokraj, 100 lives have been lost and £25,000 j worth of property destroyed, by the I bursting of a water-spout. j Mr Spurgeon's health is causing 1 his friends much uneasiness. | Mr Southern " Lord Dundreary," 1 has been ill, but is now recovering. Fashionable dogs in New York a* H to wear silk neckties this summer 5 A steam type-composer is s«5 wow m in the International Exhibiiion, &»' B A large number of hsnds are employed in South Staffordshire in the a manufacture of velocipedes. ■ 2662 fatal smatf-pox cases tooKB place in London in ten weeks. Ojm these, 1212 were of persons who badß not been vacrmated. -A The Rev. Dr Duff, the well-knowoM missionary, declared at a meeting oIM the British and Foreign Bible SocietM that Mr Darwin's new work " is not toS be tolerated." H The unlucky match tax is said to 9 have given rise to a difference betwee™ Mr Gladstone and Mr Lowe. 9 The Column Vendome at Pans eonm tained about 360,0001bs of bronze. ■ A nurse and three children at th« Crumpsall Workhouse, Manchester have been poisoned by taking carboM acid in mistake for cough mixture. ■ On leaving Monte Video, the Du*»

0 f Edinburgh declared that he carried . ffa y froufcit more pleasant souvenirs, f r the Mj he had spent there than derivedWom a similar sojourn elsewhere. The strike among the boys and ffirls employed at Woolwich Arsenal lag terminated, most of them returning to work. A serious secessionist movement is 0D foot in Corsica, the inhabitants being incensed at the French treatment of Napoleon. _ The number of criminals who served under the Paris Commune is estimated to have been from 30,000 to 35,000. The population of Edinburgh, accordto the Census returns, is 201,143, being 33,022 more than in 1861. Chinese navvies are reported to be considered inferior to negro navvies in Southern States of America. Jhe Edinburgh Merchant Company je about to found a Chair of Commercial and Political Economy and Mercantile Law in the University in that city. The restoration of Exeter Cathedral w to be commenced at once under the personal direction of Mr Scott. The tjork will occupy a year. Two suggestions have been offered to Mr Lowe, but not accepted, viz., a tax on cats and another on photographs. At Tintwhißtle, fifteen miles from Manchester, a woman murdered two of her children, and then hanged her«elf.