ENGLISH ITEMS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 960, 9 April 1872, Page 3

ENGLISH ITEMS.

Small-pox is alarmingly on the in- ..-.••!■ in Dublin and Halifax. a imi Is were recent'y : 'of ■. .;ii ii by a single Cape !ii Good Hope. .. ntermitional exhibition is to be held in Brussels in 1874'. A wine merchant at Salisbury has been fined £IOO for refusing to qualify for the office of mayor. The number of steel pons annually produced at the factory of the late Mr Joseph GKllott is 150,000,000. A young lady was lately hissed off the stage of one of the Glasgow theatres for wearing too little. In London last Christmas 19 infants were killed by being " overlaid" by their mothers. At Manchester, a church was destroyed by lightniug. The Liverpool Magistrates are going to publish the names and addresses of drunkards, besides fining them. The Dr Livingstone Search Fund has reached £SOOO. The expedition sailed on Feb. G. It is said that a lady of title, fourth and only unmarried sister of an English Duke, is about to bestow her baud upon the celebrated singer, Signor Mario, the widower of Mdme. Grisi. An old man died at Seymnndstown the other day in his ninety-ninth year, leaving seven daughters living who have had 150 children amongst them — rather over twenty-one each. At New Ross, Ireland, a scoundrel caught a Newfoundland dog, and pouring paraffin oil over him, set him on fire. The wretched animal ran through the streets until he reached his owner's premises, and rushing against a large hay-rick, set fire to it. The dog had to be killed instantly, and a considerable quantity of the hay was burned. The brutal perpetrator has not been discovered. The Roman Catholic clergy of London have announced ro their flocks that they will not attend the funeral of any person over whom a wake has been held. It is also stated that .they will not take part in any which is not conducted with the greatest order in the streets, both going and returning from the cemetery. The conduct of the low Irish at these wakes and funeral processions has lateiy become matter of painful notoriety. Mr Jarvis, a perfumer, of Walthamstow, borrowed a couple of envelopes in which to enclose a couple of letters. The envelopes bore upon them a crest; and for usiug armorial bearings without a license Mr Jarvis has been fined five pounds, with costs. The Ilford magistrates considered that he had not intended to evade the law, and imposed the smallest allowable penalty, and even thi3, they thought, should be abated.