English News.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 891, 23 March 1877, Page 7

English News.

Seven Walter presses are now in use in the office of the ' Daily News.' Imported English plum puddings are the latest New York Christmas dinner delicacy. The Cornwall china clay laborers to the number of 2000 (unionists) are still on strike. Wishaw is to have a new reservoir capable of holding 70,O)0 gallons of water. The cost of the work is estimated at £6267. A deeerter from the 73d Regiment was found at Ayr, hidden under the chaff mattress of a bed, on which a man was found lying apparently asleep. There was no business to dispose of at the Greenock Police Court one day lately, and for the first time in the history of the town the Magistrate was presented with a pair of white gloves. A marriage has been arranged between B. L. Farjeon, the popular author, and Miss Jefferson, the daughter of Joseph Jefferson, the eminent actor of "Rip Van Winkle." The Princess of Wales is one of the grincipal heirs of the late Queen Dowager Josephine of Sweden, who has left a fortune of £1,000,000. Statistics of the Brooklyn fire. Bhow that 284 bodies were interred, of which 183 were identified. One hundred and one unidentified bodies were subsequently recovered. The death of Mary Ann Minty or Crossan (45), residing in Glasgow, bas just resulted from, it is said, a dose of tartaric acid supplied her by mistake for cream of tartar. Some days ago the police of Greenock were deprived of their sticks, but the harbour men are to get them restored, as a terror to the urchins who attend the unloading of sugar-laden ships. At one of the Glasgow police courts the Baile ordered John Alexander to be confined two months for almost binding a young woman by blowing soot through the keyhole of his door, at which she was acting the spy on a domestic quarrel. Operations have been commenced for a new hotel in Glasgow. The building, which is estimated to cost £20,000, will have a mansard roof surmounted by a high tower, while it will also be fitted with a Steven's hydraulic lift for the convenience of visitors. The Scott-Moncrieff compressed airdriven tramway car will be used in the working of the ordinary passenger traffic on the Paisley Road and Govan line. This will be the first duly sanctioned mechanically worked tramway line in the kirgdom. A fireman named Ingram in the employment of the North British Railway Company fell from his engine on Saturday, in some way as yet unexplained, and was killed — the whole train, it is believed, having passed over him. His body waß frightfully mangled. The train was a mineral one, and was proceeding from Portobello to the Monkland district. The Directors of a Seaman's Friend Society in a seaport town on the Clyde have refused the offer of a gentleman to present the library with the complete works of Sir Walter Scott, one reason assigned among others being that Sir Walter having dealt severely with tbe Covenanters, some of the officials did not consider such literature suited for sailors. The police reports of Birmingham state that 50 per cent, more petty offences are committed by the non-shelter cabmen than are by those frequenting tbe huts j whilst there is nearly twice as much drunkenness among them. Latest reports from Bombay show no change in the prospects of the crops. Upwards of 200,000 people are now employed on the relief works. Large quantities of grain are pouring into Bombay, from which place they are being sent to tbe distressed districts. In a breach of promise of marriage case Wilkin v. Williams, tried in the Queen's Bench Division on Thursday, judgment was allowed to go by default,^ and a verdict was entered for the plaintiff with £1000 damages. The plaintiff was an assistant to her brother, the proprietor of the Quadrant Hotel, London, and the defendant was stated to be a colonel in the Spanish army. At a meeting of the Commisgiopera of supply for tbe county of Edinburgh held yesterday, attention was drawn to the fact that a post-mortem examination on a body had recently taken place in. the open air oil a public roadside near Lasswade, and it was agreed to request the Lord-Adrocate to take steps to render it impossible that either in that country or any oth,er in Spotlapd such a thing should occur again. Going for a Shilling and Getting Five Years. — William M'Loughlin, aged 17, a skinner, has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude at Liverpool, for having attempted to obtain a shilling from the Liverpool Corporation by fraud. The case against the prisoner was that he set fire to a quantity of straw in an empty house, gnd that immediately afterwards he informed the police that the place was on fire, his object being to get a reward of a shilling, a sum which the Corporation are in the habit of giving to persons who convey alarms of fire. The ' Moscow (gazette ' of January 1 (n.s ) prints, the following communication from a correspondent at Constantinople ; — " Lord Beaconsfield, cot placing entire confidenpe \u his colleague in the Cabinet (the l^arquis of Salisbury), sent out to Constantinople a secret agent of his own named Johnston, who passed through Russia, stopping at Kischinef on the way. Having arrived at his destination, be began to assure the Turks that Russia .was not ready for war, and to urge them to reject all the propositions laid before them without fear of the consequences. Lord, Salisbury, it is said, becoming aware

of his designs, and of the intrigues of Sir Henry Elliot, -telegraphed to London that if Elliot was not immediately recalled he would at once leave the Conference and Constantinople— in consequence of which Sir Henry Elliot was ordered • to go on sick leave.' "