NEWS BY THE MAIL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 41, 7 February 1874, Page 12

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

We continue from last week our news by the mail :—: — iHELvyc The probate granted in Ireland ot'the will and codicil of Valentine O'Brien O'Connor, of Dublin, was sealed ut the principal registry, London, on .Nov. 4, the aggregate peisonal estate in England and Irelaud being eworn under 3O'J,OJ(M. The noting executors are Major 1 William Ulouut, Miss Margaret O'Connor, and Mrs. Monica O Connor, the relict 'I ho widow gets a residence with furniture, and 5,000/ per annum for life, charged on estates which the testator bought of Lord Derby ; and these estates aio, subject thereto, settled on testator's oaly son. The residue of his property, after payment of some legacies,' testator gives upon trust for his four dau^htoss. The Laic Bishop of Waterford. — The lata Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Di. O'Brien, has bequeathed considerable sums to -the several educational and other institutions in tho city and diocese, and the residue of his property to tha completion of Sb. John's Cathedral,

An earnest appeal has been published for the erection of a slab, monument, or memorial of some sort, over the still unmarked restingplace of Father Prout in Shandon Churchyard— beneath the shadow of tho church whose bells were the subject'of his famous lyric, " The Belli of Shandon." Several literary gentlemen have already subscribed. Tbe Freeman ha* been officially informed that the Chair of Chemistry, Tacated by the retirement of Professor Sullivan, has been filled by the appointment of Dr. J. Campbell, M.8., M R.I. A., who for several years past hap occupied tho Chair of Chemistry in the Carmichael School for Medicine. The Earl of Lisburne. — We have to announce tho demise of Lord Lisburne, at Crosswood, his seat in Cardiganshire, on Nov. 8. The Bight Hon. Ernest Augustus Vaughan, fourth Earl of Lisburne, in the peerage of Ireland, Viscount Lisburne, of Lisburne, in Antrim, and lord Vaughan, Baron of Fethard, in t'le county of Tipperary, was the eldest son of John, third Earl, by Lucy, daughter of William, second Viscount Courtpnay, and sister of the ninth Earl of Devon. He was born in Oct. 1800, bo that he haa just completed his seventy-third year. The Eev. Dr. Spratt. — A most elegant and appropriate monument htw just been erected over the honoured ashes of this great philanthropist, social reformer, and exemplary priest. Above the vault, to which the remains have recently been removed from their temporary resting-place, the monument has been eree'ed, adjacent to that where Ihe dust of his illustrious fellow labourer, the Very Rev. Monsignor Yore, reposes, under the shadow of the O'Connell Tower, inGlasnevin Cemetery. The vault was built in what is known as the " new circle," at the expense of tho Cemetery Committee, and the monument was erected by the Rev. James Spratt, 0.5.A., the pious and worthy brother of the deceased. It consists of a finely chiselled Irish cross, eighteen feet higl>. most graceful iv its proportions. On the North side of the base the Rev. Dr. Spratt ndministering the pledge to persons kneeling is represented in relievo. On the east side, also in relief, the front of S. Joseph's Night Hefuge is well displayed. On the south side, in a similar ftyle, the exterior view of the Carmelite Church, Whitefi iar street, is carved, and on the west side is engraved a happilychosen inscription. SPAIN. Cnrlist advices from San Sebastian announce that a jjreat battle, in which the Carlists were victorious, tock place near Tafalla, in Navarre, on Nov 7. The battle, it is stated, commenced at 6 o'c'ock in the morning. Fighting between the Carliats and Republicans was resumed on Saturday morning, Nov. 8, but shortly afterwards was interrupted by the nun. The engagement recommenced in the afternoon and coutinned till nightfall. Further fightiug took placo on Sunday morning, and ended towards noon. The Carlist loss was 217 killed and wounded, that of the Republicans is estimated at about 130'J killed and wounded General Moiiones ia said to have left about t*onfcy waggon* of ammunition in tne hands of the Carlists. A Te Deum was sung on Sunduy at the church in Estella by the Bishop of Urgel. That the battle of Monte Jurra w;\s a fatal one to General Morone9 there can now be no doubt. In his despatch ha asserted that he had succecJed in driving the Curlists from their posit, ons — a falsehood such as no really brave soldur would h ive ever corideseen led to write. Iv fact, the Carlist leaders wore so well assured of victory th-it they only biou»ht seven battaliors, or 8,0()0 men, ag linst Mo lores, although they had at Estella fifteen battalions, all of which might havo b"cn brought into the field. The great superiority of t lie Royal force-*, both in discipline and courage, in ly be measured liy the f vet th.it the Republican array consisted of 18 000 foot, 2 000 l.orsc, and 28 guns. Almost ail the country north of the Ebro wow acknowledges the authority of ' it; Charles VII. It is nmiouncsd f 1 Hondaje that on Nov. 14, between Andoain and Villabonti, near - n, General Loraa, while endeavoring to revictual Tolosa, was su ed by a Carlist force under Lizarr;ig-i. An engagement ensued, in . . icli General Loraa lost about 200 killed und wounded, and was compelled to return to San Sebastian without being able to eflVct his purpose of getting supplies into Tolos ». Advices from Estella stat«> that the Carhsts have manufactured at their own founrl/y a new steel gun, which, on being tried, has proved satisfactory. They are al-o said to be producing 1 ; 000 muskets weekly in their own mam.f ictories