ENGLISH NEWS

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 320, 15 June 1870, Page 7

ENGLISH NEWS

There are 10.000 bakers in London. A telegram from Constantinople states that the Pope has excommunicated seven Armenian Catholic ecclesiastics. Meanwhile the Pope has placed the great church of Pera at the service of the dissenters. The new Post Office buildinars in London are making great progress. The contract for the building amounts to L129,718, and the works are to be completed by the 31st December 1871. In contradiction of recent rumours, it is stated, " on the very best authority," that Calcraft still retains the office of hangman, and has expressed his intention to the authorities not to resign it. The death is announced in Dublin of John Casey, one of the men who underwent a long detention in Mountjoy Prison owing to his supposed sympathies with Fenianism. At the Carnarvon County Court on | Saturday, a surgeon's apprentice was ! | charged with causing the death of a woman whom he attended in the capacity of accoucheur. After hearing evidence, the Magistrates sent for the master of the youth j and, on his arrival, included him in the charge of manslaughter. Ask a person at Rome to shew you the road,and they will always give you a civil and polite answer; but ask any person a question for the same purpose in this country, and they will say, " Follow your nose, and you will find it." — Dr. Guthrie. The law of Japan insists that each child shall be daily exposed to the air without clothes, and with its head shaved, and in spite of both rain and sun. During infancy the child's ordinary playma tes are a ; fat, short- legged dog, and fatter tailless | cat. I Burglary by a young gentleman. — A youth of 17, named Doxat, who is respec- I tably connected, has been sentenced at the Hampshire Lent Assizes to twelve months* hard labor for burglary. He bad stolen silver spoons boots, and other articles from a widow, at Broughton, entering the house Iby the dairy window. An attempt to prove the prisoner insane failed. An unknown gentleman, had contributed L3OOO to the Bradford Infirmary, and L3OOO to the Bradford Fever Hospital, and it now appears from the annual report, just published, that the Bradford Eye and Ear Hospital has received also a donation of LIOOO from the same gentleman, who appears to have taken peculiar care to prevent his name being known. In tbe debate on the proposed abolition of the Malt Tax, in the House of Commons last week, Mr Fielden said he believed that the consumption of beer in Bavaria was enormous, but one never saw in tbat country what we called " a beastly drunken person." The Government was a paternal one, and official beer-tasters went round to prevent adulteration. If they found any beer tbat was not wholesome, they pulled the plug out of the vessel containing it, and let it flow away. That was the penalty on the person who bad adulterated it.

Seven million lbs of spurious and. filthy ten, has been sent to England from China. Her Royal Highness rhp Princess of ' Wales has contributed L26 5s to the Norwich Jenny Lind Infirmary for sick children. At the Liverpool police court recently, » police officer on duty suddenly threw up his arms and expired — as is supposed from disease of the heart — while the business was proceeding. Three keepers of houses of ill-fame at Sheffield have been fined L3O each at the police court for selling excisable liquors without a license. The ' Irishman ' traces the return of Mr. Heron to " the combined opposition of Clonmel and Nenagh, the Sodom and Gomorrah of Tipperary." It is said that the profits of Mr Bass, the brewer, are equal to the rents of the Marquis of Westminster, or about LIOOO a day, Sundays included. Abetter of George Washington's occupying twenty -two. pages, has been sold in London for L35. At the same sale a letter ] of Voltaire's was sold for LC 10s. The body of a child, out in pieces, has been found at Pantin, the scene of the Troppmann massacre A woman has been arrested; she is supposed to be the mother. A Boston musical journal states that the "Italian organ grinders of Boston have just purchased a real estate near Ferry Street, to the amount of 200,000 dollars." The * Times ' characterises the Prince of Wales's letters to Lady Mordaunt as " stupidly honest," and adds that they " are not such as to entitle the writer to a place in the next edition of " Walpole' s Royal and Noble Authors., " At the Western Company's Gas Works, Kensal New Town, on Saturday evening, a yonng man, named Camben, smashed his father-in-law's head to pieces with a rod of iron, because the latter had struck his mother-in-law, who was a confirmed drunkard. A new School of Telegraphy, under the auspices of the Post Ofßce authorities, has : just been brought iuto working order. It is stated that no captain will after the Ist of April be allowed to retain the command of any of Her Majesty's troops if he has completed his fifty-fifth year. A return on the sums expended on British Embassy Houses and Consular Buildings since 1840 has just been published. The sum voted for the Embassy House at Paiis since tb-it time w.s V?7 ?49 18s 9d ; Madrid, L6809 19s ?d ; Consulate and Embassay Houses, Constantinople, L158,226 15s 5d ; Embassy House, Therapia, L<_1,029 ; Consular Buildings, China, L171,563j Consular Buildings, Japan, L_7,oooj and the British Mission House, Teheran, L16,000. Something like a curve. — A writer in the 'Atlantic Monthly/ describing a journey by rail from Pennsylvania to Minnesota, says : — Our cars are thi- morning attached to the regular train, a long one, which labors slowly up the steep grade of the mountain. As we creep about the immense " horseshoe curve," we at the rear end of the train look over the chasm and see with astonishment the forward end coming back towards us like the head of a snake. It is so near that we readily appreciate the humor of the story related of an engineer who, passing this bend once with a long train, reached across and demanded a " light " of the rear brakeman. The Mordaunt Divorce Case. — The London correspondent of the ' Edinburgh Courant' understands that Sir Charles Mordaunt, dissatisfied with the decision of the jury in the Divorce Court, does not, as had been stated, propose to have the question as to insanity barring the right to sue for a divorce argued in the same Court, but intends to take che case at once to the House of Lords, with the object, of preventing the child, whose paternity Lady Mor- j daunt ascribed to others, succeeding to his j estates. i For condensed news, no paper in the world, we should think, can equal the J San Francisco ' News Letter and Californian Advertiser,' and it exhibits humor, wit, and audacity enough to set up half-a-dozen comic publications, as times go. We pick a few items : — Chicago propels vigorously in the direction of total de- ; pravity. Pelting of a preacher. Duchman j drowned. Ghastly gashing of some pvu-h---ing girls. Man Minced. No more coal miners roasted since last week The last was nnderdone. Rawlins dead ; will have monument that Rawlins living would never have been thought to merit. Moral, die. The London correspondent of the 'North British Mail ' writes : — We have not yet heard the last of the Waterford-Vivian divorce case. You are aware that a decree nisi was granted some time since by Lord Penzance for a divorce between Capt. Vivian and his wife. The decree would have become absolute if within six months cause was not shown or affidavits lodged. I learn that affidavits have been filed, alleging several matters as reasons for the rehearing of the suit. The Marquis of Waterford, subsequent to the elopement, declared his intention of marrying Mrs Vivian so soon as the divorce bad been obtained, and I believe that he still adheres to that determination. His family are, however, greatly dissatisfied with this step. It is they who have intervened, and it is said they are prepared to go into a history of the intimacy between the Marquis and the lady prior to the elopement, to,show that the husband (who, no doubt, was deeply engaged in official parliamentary duties) was about the only one who did not apprehend something like what actually occurred. This, I believe, will be the line taken as cause against the decree. The intervening parties undertook to let matters run their course if the Marquis pledged himself never to carry out his declared intentions but this he declined to do, and hence their action.

There are 7000 oyster saloons in New York. Tbe Siamese Twins are at Berlin where t_eir exhibition draws immense crowds. . Eighty persons died of small pox in Paris during the week ending l£bh ol March. Day and Martin's blacking establishment in London has been totally destroyed by fire. It is reported that a new book is about to be published by Her Majesty as a companion to the *' Life of the Prince Consort." It is proposed to provide u public park in Sheffield in memory ot the late Samuel Bailey, who bequeathed over a hundred thousand pounds to the town. The Queen of the Netherlands has been on a visit at Windsor Castle. Tbe ohjuot is s«id to h_ve been a matrimonial alliance between a youthful scion of thtHouse of Orange and one of the Princess-** of Great Britain, but which has fallen through. A paragraph having been extensively circulated to the effect that Mr Elliott, steward of Earl Malinesbury, had abscondi'd, his son writes denying the statement. — his father's body having been discovered in the river Stour on Suuday morning. Princess Czartoryski (says the ' Westminster Gazette') has just entered th? v^ry convent of the Carmelites at Cracow concerning wbieh the world h«ard so much a little while ago, in connection | with the insane nun, Barbara Übyrk. I A new musical instrument has been inj troduced at Paris under the name of the ; typophone. It is played like the pianoforte, but in effect is said to resemble the harp, and its admirers assert that it is destined to take the place ot that instrument. A Russian Opera Company has bepn affording some amusement to the New York critics. One of these gentlemen says that each artist has a name only to be pronounced by '* sneezing three times, coughing twice, and then saying through your, nose * Skoldivorinski.' " A correspondent says that some amusement was caused a few days ago by the remark of a young lady in company : — -* It is really fortunate that these twius are brothers. How shocking it would be if two persons not related to each other were to be united in such a manner !" Almost the only man of our time who has recognised the claims of woman to equality with his own sex in rights and duiies, was President Lopez, of Paraguay, who drilled and armed a corps of women and sent them to fight against the Brazilians. We believe that Lopez bas not yet submitted to the allies, and perhaps a settlement of Paraguay might be facilitated if Miss Faithfull would offer to him the post of sub-editor of the ' Victoria Magazine.' — * Saturday Review.' From Constantinople it is stated that Izet Pacha, formerly Govornor of Jerusalem, who had appropriated L16,000 belonging to the public revenue, has been condemned to restitute the amount, with a fino of L3OOO and three years' exile at Konicb. His accomplice, Mustapha Effendi, is to pay LSOOO and five years' imprisonment in the fortress of St Jean d'arc. Messrs Wm. and Edward Gray, photographers, have just entered on a bold and spirited enterprise, being nothing less than photographing the principal objects of interest in the Land ot the Pharohs. With this object in view, they some time since purchased at Glasgow a small screw steam yacht of 16 tons burden. Steam is kept lup by burning oil instead of coal, and the little craft left the Clyde on February 9, via the Forth and Clyde Canal, the Straits of Dover, the English Channel, and thence by the Languedoc Canal, across France and up the Mediterranean to the Nile. The whirligig of time (says the ' Spectator ') has never brought abont its revenges with more picturesque effect than by bringing a colored member for Mississipi, Mr Revels, to that same place in the Senate which was last occupied by Mr Jefferson Davis. Mr R«vels took his seat this day week (26fh February), being i admitted by " a strict party vot« " of 48 to 8. He is the first negro who ever sat i in Congress, and has reached the Senate at a single step. Ten years ago, whon Mr Buchanan was still President of the United States, and the South hardly yet ! prepared even for secession, Mr Revels was one of those " wpak things of the world, and things which are not," which God has called to confound the mighty things of the world, and to bring to naught the things which are. Surelv the deliverance of Israel from Egypt itself was not more conspicuously a work of Divine power, or more conspicuous4y disregarded as a sign by the generation which witnessed it. [What would our Peers think of the sd mission of a negro into the House of Lords ?] A Sham Bishop. — Mention has been made, says the * Mail, ' of a pretended bishop who had ventured to take part in the proceedings of the (Ecumenical Council. The correspondent of the * TTnivers ' confirms the fact and gives the following details upon the authority of the Roman police :-— " The person in question engaged a tailor in Rome to make bim a complete costume of an Oriental Bishop. When the costume was finished, the ill» advised joker dressed himself up, and at one ot the sittings of the congregation made his way into the hall of the Council, and sitting there with grave face and modest looks listened attentively to the addresses, sometimes affecting by respectful gestures to express his admiration of certain remarks. This disgraceful fraud he repeated on several occasion*. At length, however, he was discovered. The gendarmes warned aud posted for the purpose, sp-zed him, and he is now in a Koman prison, to which the tailor has also been consigned."