NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 69, 22 August 1874, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mr Milburn, a compositor in the London « Timeß ' office, who produced a set of verses in honor of the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh has received an autograph letter of thanks from the Empress of Russia. The total cost of the Tichborne trial was £55,315 17s Id. The amount of counsels' fees was £11,450, of which £2644 was paid in 1871 ; in 1872-73 £4700, and in 1874, £5500. The witnesses were paid in 1 872-73 £8220, and in 1873-74 £8848 18s., and tkis year £4300. The shorthand writers got £3493, the jury £3780. It is stated that the Hon. Col. White intends to resign kis seat for Tipperary, and that Mr W. O'Connor Morris, Chairman of County Louth, will stand for the vacancy, on Home Rule principles. "The City of Buffalo at present contains sixteen Catholic churches and seven chapels in convents, together with religious houses for the Jesuits, Redenaptorists, Oblates, Franciscans and Fathers of the Congregation of the Mission. A great German magnate, Herr Von Schwertstock, lately said :—: — People talk abroad of the high standard of education among our German workmen ; the trutk is, our workmen just have education enough to read cheap newspapers, and to be misled by all the fallacies in them. Colorado was a howling wilderness, without a railroad, five years ago. Now the civilizing s(eam whistle shocks the nerves of the people for over seven hundred miles of that territory. There is something remarkable, though ntjt uncommon, in the vital statistics of Connecticut. There were 4r>7 divorces granted last yewr in that State. The population has increased 4265 over the preceding year ; but the number of marriages has decreased by 182. More than half the marriages were between foreign-born persons, or one of the parties was foreign-born. It is not hard to foretell the fate of the Puritan element in Connecticut. The great clock of the British House of Parliament has been •topped for cleaning on account of having lost a second in one month. The average variation of the clock does not amount to a quarter of a eeoond in the year. Amongst the " Strangers " inscribed in the Introduction Book of the Liverpool Exchange Newsrooms recently, was " J. Osaou Aushah, C'oomassie." The gentleman in question is a son of the predecessor of King Koffee. In a recent number of the ' Evening Post,' attention is drawn to the fact of Mr Vogel having a telegraphic communication carried to his own house, and expresses a hope it is not connected with the general system of telegraphy to enable persons, not sworn officers of the department, to read ordinary messages in transit. A lucrative bouquet was recently thrown to a r>opalar artiste at Tiflis — the flowers were held together by a, twisted band of banknotes. A San Francisco journal, in speaking of Dunedin, describes it as a British settlement not far from New Zealand. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, who arrived by the Australian mail, is at present in Italy, and will not reach London before the end of June. ! A new Irish magazine, to be called ' Now-a-Days,' is to be started, to which Mrs Cashel IToey, Miss Mulholland, Miss Katlierine King authoress of "Petifce's Romance," Mr W. G. Wills, and other Irish men and womeu will contribute. Nearly two and a half million lbs of tea were received in Lonuon during the week ending May 18, and there was a large falling off in the average receipts of preceding weeks ! In June last, according to English papers to hand, the Carlists had 101 battalions in the field. These were exclusive of guerillas and unarmed sympathisers. In a recent debate in the House of Lords upon the policy of the Government upon the Gold Coast, Lord Carnarvon stated that the mortality among the troops during the recent expedition against Ashantee did not exceed that of the metropolis — the rate being 23 in 1000. This of course does not include the loss of life in battle. His Lordship's facts are disputed by the press. In reply to a recent advertisement in the Melbourne ' Argus' for a clerk, salary £2 a week, 120 applications were received.