ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL (Via California.) v w \ V EUROPEAN ITEMS. London March* .2 2.

Waikato Times, Volume 459, Issue VIII, 27 April 1875, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL (Via California.) v w \ V EUROPEAN ITEMS. London March* .2 2.

.22. H. L. Bateman, the well-known theatrical Snanager, died to-day. Messrs Moody and Sankey have i^eld a conference with ministers of all denominations* to consider the question concerning the revival mbvemant in which they have opened witrustah v great success. It was arranged that Mr Moody 1 sngfjf by telegraph, invite to England some of the "most popular preachers in America and Australia. Count de Jarnac, Ambassador from France, died yesterday of pneumonia. '" --. \ Paris, 3&arch 22. General Cabera haS issued another manifesto explaining his recent declaration isi favor of Alfonso.

viuivu is to gam the esteem of his country by peace- ] A ful means. Cabero says he was hot against war c< whilst the country was plunged in Anarchy ; but ii now that a prince has been crowned who boasts t< that the designation Most Catholic is his proudest a\ title, Spaniards wili incnr grave responsibility if ci they continue to promote internal discord. tl Dublin, March 22. g< A conflict occurred here to-day between Bishop a Moran's and Father O'Keefe's parties, during which a much violence was used, and O'Keefe's chapel was b completely wrecked. a London, March 28. li It is reported from Estella that deputies from n four provinces occupied by the Carlists have met to s consider the request of Don Carlos for contributions, t and have replied that the country is exhausted ; r that Don Carlos ought to procure funds abroad — \ and this position they have obstinately maintained, \ notwithstanding Carlos threat to retire from r Spain. Despatches from Madrid report that Don \ Carlos has ordered all persons found reading Oat brera's manifesto to be shot. a The Government announces that six Carlist c generals, with three colonels and many other \ offices, have entered France and declared their ad- t hesion fxj i^Honso. A telegram from Santander i asserts, o£|tbe other hand, that the hope of settling t the wjjt by a Convention is fast dying out. Geueral LomaVKexpected there to meet the threatened invasion vrt^e province. Don Carlos, with sixteen battalions and artillery, is marching on Ramales, twenty-five miles from Santander. Secretary Fish has been tendered the mission to England, but he declined. It is now discovered that he intends to become a candidate for the Presidency, and expects to contest with Senator Conkling for the support of New York State. Memphis, March 27. A piivate letter received here states that on Thursday last Louis A. Middleton, editor of the West Point Miss., " Times," was shot and killed by D. L. Love, editor of the West Point " Citizen," for an offensive article written by Middleton. Love demanded a retraction, which being refused, he drew a pistol and shot Middleton four\times, killing him instantly. The murderer escapdd.O In Kansas, the husband and wife, under tflo \w, enjoy equal rights and privileges in ail w^in^L save the right to the elective franchise. Thevjrii holds all the property she had at the time of her m\-riage and all she acquires afterward in her own right, the same as the husband does. The wife may buy, sell, trade, and carry on business in her own name, the same as her husband. And when she dies her property descends, one-half to her husband and one^ halPtQ her children, and if no children, tharf^the whole goes to the husband. The same rijle applies to wife an&ychildren in case of the d^ath of the husband, .■* ** The Virginia (IGqvada) "Enterprise" of February 21st says : — Some wohderful 'coal discoveries have just been made in El DjMjado Oanon, a few miles south-east of Dayton. A^si^prt time since there occurred a flood in- the canon which swept away the toll-road leading up \png its channel and tore things to, pieces generall^^ VEhdhmd being washed away, f it appears that no oVejntd to^travoCthrough tj^ravine. A day or two since, however, £he Vir*gi.nia City Coal Company, whose mine is well up towards the head of the canon, sent some of their^ employes out to examine the road in order to tee if it were possible to repair it. In travelling down the canon these men came to a place where the water had torn up and swept outj the whole bed of coal. The coal has been torn up aad washed down the stream, and there remains a regular pavement of it across the canon and foj: a considerable distance aloug its course. ' \ A Ciilifornian contemporaryijays : — A gentleman i who made a trip by the Suez route between Europe , and Hindostun, sends us a statement that two of ■> his fellow passengers, who started in good health, died of exhaustion from the heat. The thermometer often stands for days between 110 deg and 120 i degs, and when the steamer runs with the breeze ) the oppression is fearful. On one occasion a captain . turned about and steamed against the wind for one j hundred miles to save the lives of six passengers, who were in danger of dying otherwise. The sfieam- - ship company, after paying a fine of $5000 for de- , tention of the mails, instructed the captain to keep - straight the next time. > Washington, February 17. While Congress was in session this afternoon, and the galleries and corridors were unusually > crowded with people, an unknown man committed 3 suicide in such a frightful way as to send a thrill of horror through every person in the vast building. - It was a bold and swift leap into instant deaiyb, and l* i to those who were without the eastern front of the 3 Capitol, or standing at the windows of .the House hall looking up through the bright sunlight of a 3 winter day, it appeared as if some hu^e india-rub-s ber ball had been pitched from the top of the dome, s and had gone bounding and rolling down over the ! curved iron ridges of its surface, clearing the second „ collonaded gallery in its descent, and falling 190 feet i below to the very edge of the apex of the roof of the ; | eastern front, where it was recognised as the limp f and mangled form of a lifeless man. There it lay for hours in full view from the outer gallaries of the dome and the upper windows of the House, awaiting !- the arrival of the coroner. After an inquest was c held, and it was found to be suicide, by jumping Irora the top of the dome, of a poor labouring man driven to desperation through poverty, l- the body was lowered by ropas from the roof c of the main building to the grfcunc^ Where r his head struck, the copper roof was indented several r inches. It was impossible to encoffin, the body on the roof and get it down through Ihe crooked stairy ways of the dome. A large crowd of people viewed ;- tho remains during the afternoon and witnessed their removal. The faes was unrecognisable and j. every bone in the body above the knees appeared s to have been broken into splinters. The name of 3 the suicide is Thomas McMahon, a young mechanic, l- who resided in the northern part of Washington. He left his home this morning evidently depressed, jt for want of work, and went to a pawn-shop where he pawned a vest for seventy-five cents. Thence he i- went to the Capital and asked for, food and money, but was warned by a policeman not to beg in the y building. Ho then ascended the\ dome and descended to his death.

The German Parliament" Imb passed the new marriage law, or law of religious ceremonies for the Empire, which is of the most comprehensive kind. Under its provisions the civil contract is compulsory, though, of course, it may be followed by any religious ceremony ; the baptism of children is left optional with parents, and all graveyards are open to all sects. Men above twenty-four and women above twenty-three may marry without their parents' consent, the marriages of priests and nuns is legalised, and all relatives usually entitled to marry .in Christian countries may marry, with the additwi apparently, as in France, of uncle and niece. Divorce is made a civil process exclusively, and se^aWtion " a mensa et thoro "isto be divorce. No widow or divorcee can marry again within ten months, ancl in cases of adultery the parties cannot marry each other. It is stated that since the adoption of civil marriages in Prussia seventy-five per cent, of all marriages in Berlin have been unaccompanied by religious ceremonies, and only thirty cent of the children lorn have been baptised. . \

A concert, nnder the auspices of the entertainment committee, took place at the Court-house, last evening. Anangements were hurriedly made in order to take advantage of the presence of a little help whioh was temporarily available. Under such circumstances it was scarcely to be anticipated that the proceedings could be characterised by an absence of nervousness on the part of the performers, and consequent inaccuracies. A violin was to have arrived by the coach for one of the performers ; but alas, the fiddler was doomed to disappointment, and so were the public. It would not so much have mattered had the non-arrival of the instrument deprived the audience altogether of the violin solos (we call them by this name for want of a better) ; but a " cremona " was procured, and the misled violinist was expected to produce the crying, pleading, beseeching tones at will, for which the violin — when even moderateiy well played — is eminent. He tried his best, but 10, when the bow was plied, a noise was emitted greatly resembling the cries of a member of the feline species, and wider and yet wider did the mouths and eyes of the auditors open, and greatly did the performer wish that his bow had been greased. Sorry were they then who had been the means of providing the instrument of torture. Many of them cleared out to console themselves with a weed. Some of the aongs, however, quite compensated for the shortcomings of the poor deluded fiddler. And the reading by a most popular assistant at these entertainments was appreciated by everybody. We must not omit to mention the pianoforte solo by a young lady which opened the entertainment, and the duett on the same instrument by two ladies — farther on in the evening. They were both good and greatly applauded. We presume that the entertainment of last evening was an additional one, and that it will not interfere with that which should take place in a week or so, when the respected Chairman, who possesses the talisman to bring the performers together will have returned to the district.