ENGLISH ITEMS.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 361, 29 March 1871, Page 3

ENGLISH ITEMS.

Some Russian journals express anxiety at the improved relations between Germany and Austria. New boilers are being built for the Grreal Eastern, which is at present lying in ihc Medway. An American paper states that in Detroit, Michigan, fashionable young men have taken to wearing earrings. More than LGOOhas been subscribed ai Campbeltown for the purpose of purchasing a marriage gift to the Princess Louise. | The affairs of a duke, two earls, and c lord were before the Court of Bankruptcy in one week. The death is announced of Mr Serjeani Glover, who was for some time proprietoj and editor of the ' Morning Chronicle.' Mr Gladstone reached his 61st birthdaj on Thursday. Mr Disraeli attained hit 65 fh year on Saturday. At Bolton a hairdresser named Orrel has been fined 5s and costs for shaving customers on Sunday. A Glasgow merchant was relieved o; L6O while in a house of ill-fame one night. Three woiren are in custody on a charge of stealing the money. When his Excellency the Viceroy Oj India made his entry into Jeypore about a fortnight ago, the elephant procession was fully two miles in length. The Town Council of Glasgow have resolved to present an address of congratulation to Her Majesty on the occasion oi the approaching marriage of the Princess Louise to the Marquis of Lome. It will no doubt be interesting to many in Scotland to know that the Life and Letters of H-ugh Miller, edited by Mr Peter Bayne, may be expected to be published in a few days by the Messrs Strahan. Mr and Mrs Sanson of Chicago filed cross bills ior divorce. He testified that she poured a panful of boiling water over his head, and then scraped the hair off with the pan, he submitting — " to see how far she would go." The Dublin police magistrates have recently fined a number of dealers in heavy sums for vending ''poisoned confectionery." iThe confections were adulterated with chromate of lead and terra alba (pipeclay). . • Generally speaking, the frenchmen who are out of France are not the most estimable part of the population, nnd they will be coldly received when they return to their own country. Ihoy are said to swarm in England and Belgium, and a Marseilles paper quotes a letter from a person just turned trom Italy, which says that in that country there are not less than 200,000 Frenchmen who have find from France tj avoid military service, and who inhabit, for the most part;, Florence, Milan, Turin, nnd Nnp'.^s. — Bordeaux correspondent oi ' Times.' Mr "Disraeli's Dedication to his Wife. — Messrs Longman and Co. have just, published a new edition of "Sybil," 'in one volume. The ex-Premier, in the following lines, dedicates the work to Viscountess Bcacon.«ficld : — •'* I would inscribe this work to one whose nohle spirit and gentle nature can prompt Jier to sympathise with the suffering 1 ; to one whose sweet voice has often encouraged, and whose taste and judgment have ever guided its pages ; the most severe of critics, but — a pwrfect wife." The approaching marriage of tun Princess Louise with the Marquis of Lome has £ivon rise to many romantic anecdotes ol The manner in which the young people first became conscious of a stronger incentive to each other's society than mere friendship. The ' Musical Review' vouches for the fact that music was the medium. It appears that Princess Louise possesses a very cultivated soprano voice; and the noblfs Marquis is a tenore leggio oi considerable taste, and both sang fre--quentlv *U amateur concerts given at, Holyrood Palace. One evening the Princess snn g nr, in musical parlance, rendered — a ballad entitled "Parted," which is described as a song peculiarly expressive ; the Marquis then gave a response bearing the title " Empress of my Soul," and with such fervor that " the dawn of love " between them shortly after broke into an onen confession. Should any musicseller possess copies of these songs he might realize a handsome profit by their sale, as Recording to the usual practice — every young 1 l:»dy who can sin»-, and every young m.in, D whether he can sing or rot, will be considered out of fashion if these songs know them not. A ' New York Herald ' by the last mail sa y S ; — The condition of the Egyptian people is pitiable. The Viceroy has well ni^-ii destroyed the spirit of his people The fellahs, or children oi the soil, are the most miserable people on the face of the earth. In a land where the soil is productive beyond any soil under the sun the people starve, and grinding taxation makes them homeless. In some parts of the I country tho villages are deserted, and fot the reason that they cannGtpay taxes, and four stripes and imprisonment. A miserI able imitator of Napoleon, the Khedive builds opera houses, theatres, circuses, multiplies his harem?, squanders millions upon his concubines, but rottenness reigns all round. It will be a blessing to the poor Egyptians when some European re volution shall make an end of the reign ol Tsmail Pacha. He has banished every member of his father's family from the land. He has mada himself" the richest man in tha world. He is the one irresponsible ruler — the one absolute monarch on the confines of civilisation. The Suez Canal will make his reign memorable, But, unless we greatly -mistake, he will be the last Mahommedan ruler of the land oi the Pharonhs. His hundred thousand j mcii armed with breechloaders do not amount to much. Egypt is the highwivy by which thp. civilisation of the West seeks the East: hut the Government of Ismail Pacha, with his sham Parliament, is an obstruction. ;

The German Emperor is reported to be quite ill. It is stated that the ex-Queen of Spain r will shortly visit the ex-Empress Eugenic. The subject for the Cambridge gold I; medal poorn next year will be Sedan. : 5 In San it is said that rings in the nose are coming into fashion. j Smallpox is spreading to an alarming i extent in London. An orphan girl in Virginia has just t smoked herself to death at the age of 10. c Tobacco is injurious. Joseph Daniels, a Waterloo veteran, has i commitced suicide at Bolton, while under r the influence of drink. Daniel Fleming, aged seventy, residing b in the Srrand, London, died from taking r too hearty a dinner on Christmas "Day. Two baloons, supposed to be from Paris, T were seen to pass over London at a very 3 high altitude. The Great Eastern Railway alone I brought into London during Christmas ;■ week between 40,000 and 50,000 turkeys and geese. ■ f A tailor was startled the other day by the return of a bill, which he had sent to s the ma^osine editor, with a notice that the " msinuscript was respectfully declined." f Mr Paulton, a London comedian, ap- ■ pears in a new burlesque in the character 1 of Count Bismarck. The make-up is said to be wonderfully good. The Governors of the Bank of England ■ have resolved that all clerks in their emf ployment shull retire from their appoint--1 monts on arriving at the aga of sixty-five. A Committee has been appointed, with Captain Beaumont, R.E., M.P., as President, to carry out experiments on the ' utilization of balloons for reconnoitring purposes. ' A few days ngo, Madame Tlamelin was ! ' discovered dead in bed in a garret of Bfllle- : ville, of cold and starvation. Her husband ' had been, under Louis Philippe, ambassa- ' dor at Constantinople. — ' Paris Letter.' The ' Westminster Gazette ' says the Catholic ladies of England, following the example of the ladies of Rome, contem- ' plate presenting an address of sympathy to the Holy Father. There are every morning, at eight o'clock, from ten to fifteen gentlemen who | bathe in the Serpentine — a piece of water on the south side being kept clear from ice ; for the special purpose' On Thursday morning there were a dozen bathers. • An act of Dickens-worship recorded in : the United States is that the librarian of i the Boston Public Library is providing it ' with a " Dickonsiana," including all printed ecraps which can be included under ' this somewhat vocrue name. 1 The Queen has written an autograph , letter to Mr Bright, expressing her regret r that the state ofjiis health should render ? nnoPSS^ r y his withdrawal from the cabinet. Mr Bright has of late years been a favorite i with the Royal family. ' New York was visited on the 15th De- ' cera'iftr by a severe wind storm, which. ! among other dumnge caused, blew down a • larsre" building eight storys high, just i erected for a piano factory. In falling it crushed two small houses, killing four per- j sons who were in them. One of those phenomena so interesting to scientific men — a shower of red-colored ■ ra i n — occurred recently near Sulpte Springs, Texas. It lasted for eight or ten seconds, and from the color of the drops has been termed by the people of the vicinity " a shower of blood." Abraham had a number of servants in 1 his employment, and what do you suppose he called 'them ? Why, he called them i souls— the souls he had gotten in Aram. Now, the gentlemen in Liverpool and Manchester, what do they call their work- ; people ? Hands. That's all. — Mr Spur-g-eon at Liverpool. ' Mr Spuro-eon has published an address fo Louis Napoleon and the King of Prussia, containing 1 some remarkable strong lani f?tmg*e. He is by no means complimentary to either of the monarchs. He conclude? : — " Yon fiiiht for glory, do you? Don't. ; be ?uch fools. lam a plain-talking En--1 o-Hshman, and I tell you that the English i for glory is damnation, nnd it will bp your lot, O Kings, if sou go on cutting and i hacking 1 your fellow- men." A lady correspondent writes from Edin- ■ burgh to a Glasgow contemporary : — i Amona 1 the very many gratis sights for; ' little eyes this season has been a pair ol 1 waxfln effigies repressnting the Marquis of i Lome and the Princess Louise, in the i window of a shop ar. the extreme west end of Princes streft. The bridal pair are some \ thirty inches high, and I was told that the '■ Marquis had been made to order. Indeed I he bears a striking resemblance to the cartes of the young nobleman. He is s dressed in the Campbell tartan, very neatly s made, with purse, dirk, and brooch complete. The Princess is in a white eilk » train with a blonde over^kirt, trimmed s with fine lace ; her hair is done in fashions able style, and she is altogether a very 1 pretty counterfeit. The pair stnnd hand I in hand, and revolve slowly on a moveable • stand, to the admiration of crowds of s youngster?, and older folk?, too, who mob , the window from morning till night. i Nearly all the " kilted '' dolls exhibited for s sale are ticketed " the Marquis of Lome." s According to the ' Delhi Gazette,' a constable at Jubbul-wre, in giving evidence F before a magistrate the other da}', gave a r clear definition of " martial bearing," s which is probably not inacurate as regards i many of our soldiers in that country. • The constable having apprehended some i men as deserters, was asked by the magis- : trats, " What led you to suppose they , were desertprs ?" ''Their martial bear-; ! in£," replied the constable. " What," f inquired the magistrate, " do you mean I by their martial bearing ?" " They were i very free, said the constable, " with their ' 'money, were drunk, swore a great deal, i. and wanted to fight." "And that, re--1 joined the magistrate, "is your definition | i of mariial bearing?" "Yep, sir/ was the reply.