CLIPPINGS FROM THIS EUROPEAN MAIL.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 434, 27 February 1875, Page 2

CLIPPINGS FROM THIS EUROPEAN MAIL.

It is stated that the heir to .theJamieson estate, worth from .£700,000 to £1,000,000 has been discovered at Sfc John's, New Brunswick, in the person of John TV[._ ,B. a yonng man in poor oircumstances, recently fcaapioyed in paddling statioVeiy"; - "^.''.' ''> A,w, TJie Bishop pf Treves will $e*£eieased frora imprisonment on January I. 'ffilf^iary from the State falling, du^tp jjiw.on that^d^^makes full the amount in which-, he has been jfiii^, .No cause, therefore, remains foY hfs detention/; %£ Alderrain M'Swiney-was on D^ace^ra^,!, elected Lord Mayor of Dublin for, tbe second^ tims.. He fe Catlolic and Liberal, but promised to introssp6 J iio politics during his stay in office. -'■*} . The new lifeboat, on the pflan of the National Lifeboat Institution, which we stated in a recent issue was to be forwarded to New Zealand, has been jshipped," It is to be stationed at Port Napier. The Anniversary of Shutting the Gates of Derry, one of the two ewuts which the Apprentice Boys rejoice to eg mnrem orate, was ushend in and celebrated after the manner of forruej? displays. The Rev A. $ailey preaohed the anniversary sermon at the cathedral. Afterwards the procession paraded the city, and th<3 outdoor proceedings terminated with theorem tti >n of the effigy of -General Lundy, " the traitor," in the presence of a large assemblage. A-)rop)s of the death of the Marquise' de Bellfssen, not long since deceased at a gw?at>age, we may relate the following :: — •* Tiie Duke of Wellington, when peace was made in 1814, gave a grand dinner at Toulouse. Having learried that the Marquise de Bailissen au I her sister," Madame de Mauleon, both granddaughtersof Admiral de la Galissonniere, who in 175G had, before Minprca, worsted the E\»glis'i fleet, commanded by th'e urifoVtunate Admiral Byng, were in that town,, the English, general eutre ited those ladies to accept two places of Kbnor at his table, thus -chiytalroiisly wishing, at the moment when fortune was contrary to us, that those seats should be occupied by the descendants, of a Frenchman who bad defeated an English admiral." "To possess," says the Gaulois " a great name, the title of duke and marquis, millions in prospect and the most extended and brilliant relations ; to call oneself the great nephew of Saiut Fraincois de Saiis — all that for a professor of mathematics, forms a singular antithesis. Nevertheless, such is the case with the y-ung Marquis de Ferrars, son of the Duke de Galjiere. Formerly a p'ipil of the Normal School, he wishes to live by his labour and nothing else, and ever since he has anived a* years of discretion he bus declined to accspt a single maravedi from his father—forty times a millionaire^ Nor must it be suppose I that there is any coldness between them ; oti the contrary, they are on excellent terms. But the marquis thinks that he alone is tit to live who can gain iiis livelihood"." The Paris Accliniatisition Sjciety has received a larj;e number of emus from Brazil with 1 the view of breeding them on' their farms. It has possessed some specimens for a considerable time, and they ar6 perfectly acclira it isftd, and lay reguUrly. They are imported to ba perfectly hardy, bear the coldest \ weather without inconvenience, and itarive on the coarsest fjod. The society believerohav the great size ami good quality ot tiie flesh of these southern ostriches, their large and plentiful, egsrsr,., and thtir featheis, would render theo* highly valuable as domestic fowls. A large sale of Tat cattle and sheep, reared' by the Duke of Beaufoi^t has taken place at Badminton. About -200 of the former and 300 of th«- iatter were disposed of. The great majority were purchased for London butchers, the remainder goin to Bath or BristoK The .prices obtained w j re ex-, traordinarily high, the average quotations fur oxni being from 90s* to 9i>3. per cwt ; whilst some of the Scotch bljCgk polled oxen reached as high as £5 per cwt, " many of the ewes fetched as much as £3 153. to £4. each. These amounts must have represented 10|d. per pound retail. Mrrf. Fawcett delivered a lecture on December 10, at Cross Hill, near Glasgow, on soaie of the women character* oi Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot. She observed that Di^ens's heroines were, as a rule/ imbecile and idiotic, fascinating and undersized. Dickens drew some splendid caricatures of female f&ilinga and some" -tfbndfeifully amusing characters, but they were unlike any person who ever lived. He lacked true insight into women's hearts. The women of Thackeray and George Eliot, on the other hand, breathed and lived before us ; with thht, however, the likeness between the women of Thackenvy dud George Eliot ceased. A congregation, which tilled the building fa oVeiv ftawmg, flasumb'ed at Sfc Jainei's Ciiapel on December 13, in expectation of hearing a Bermon froru the Bishop of Nat->J, in fulfilment of public annouHceuVntit, Great anxiety was shown to obtniu

forward to the communion rails?, arid stated briefly that the Bishop of Loridon had prohibited Dr C/lenso from preaching there, T.ie itniiourioament was mads in the quietest possible manter, but its effect iipDn the cougreg.itidn was astonishing, for the statemsnt w.ts scireely coaclnlsl when hisses burst forth on every side* and expressions of dia* pleasure wero freely uttered* Such a demonstration has prohibly never before'been known in a church of the Establishment, and, although it was necessarily ot short duration, it was so pronounced and .remirkabls that it will not quiekl-y be forg itten. A' little bustle and stir ensued as persons hurriedly left the place, and then the ssrvica proceeded in the customary in-inner. New arrivals increased the throng,* which had only been partially thinned \fy hasty departures, and when the time arrive! for the delivery of the sermon the chapel was crammed in every port. Probably noticing that the e xcitement, while kept within due bounds, hal by no means subside 1, Mr Brooke supplemented his statement with an explanation, whioh he said he consider >d I to bs due 'from him, us mwy haci'djuhtles* come to hear Dr Cjlenso. Tae f.icfc was th it late on th£ previous night, when it was too late for him to contradict the advertisement b9fors published, 1 Hfe received a letter from the Bishop of London, stating that he had seen the. announcement, b^t hopeH the intention would be-quietly given up, otherwise ne should be obliged to ask his secretary t> prepare jtju inhibition. In answer to this commuuiCition, Mr Brooke wroto to siy th.vt he regretted his lordship should have thought it necessary* to do this, but under the circumstances he had no opinion but to submit. Afc the same ■ time he felt bound now to add that the B shop of I London had acted courteously in' the matter, for he could, had he been ko disposed, have inhibited Dr. Colenso at the door of the chapel on that morning, instead of sending an intimation beforehand. His< lordship had also spoken with much sympathy of, the effects made by Di; Cjlenso to bring about'''justice in a case to which public attention haii* lately been directed in the colony of which he Was bishop. No manifestation of feeling followed these observations, aud the service proceeded without further interruption., The Bishop of Natal, ike Echo is informed, writes to a friend }— "TljgKiHgtoop of London says that he syni path iv^e\^ sincerely mth my noble efforts in defence of £he naCi^es^^ite.- colony against oppression ; but" adds -Dfc --^pfep%/" he cannot see th.tt whatever I have done^a .felbratter worthy of his sympathy, it is only IsforaUkhity — - the Christianity of Christ, not ef tl|e Chiivpaes^which has compelled me to do it." In, cdmjejffience of the-ißishop of London's inhibition. , tho^BifeJbiQp of Natal ]iviH, we understand not be able to Is^til "himself of an invita^an^sejit Ity »^e Rev. H. fe.kaweis, Ij ictimbent' of Stj^ii^s^ifj^yjebone, to preach in' his church next S^^fffj^-i The 'Archbishop' oprdnIjerbury has, we'belie.Ve, intimated to Bishop Ooilenso that, he-oopsiders his ecclesiastical i ,siatus as aj|i>|jop of the Church to be as valid as *tl*at of \ny)/ptsQg member of the Episcopal Be^oh..— - C J^~ '.|xL-