English News.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 893, 30 March 1877, Page 3

English News.

« Lord Fal mouth proposes that foreign horses shall not be allowed to run on English courses unless English horses are permitted to contest all races in the country to which the horses belong. At Cardinal Patrizi's funeral 15 cardinals were present. At Antonelli's there was only one. The latest proposal for utilising the Alexandra Palace is to turn it into a huge smallpox hospital. Mr Walter Bentley is now a member of the Lyceum company. Mr Heller is doing well with his display of wonders in New York. According to a return recently compiled, in compliance with a Parliamentary request, no fewer than 900,000 men have passed through tbe ranks of the volunteer force from first to last. As a large proportion of these men would return to their colors in case of any serious ■emergency, and as a man never wholly forgets his drill and ride exercise, this represents a genuine factor in favor of the volunteers. The extraordinary fecundity of the orangft-tree is noted by the Gardener? Chronicle, which mentions that a single tree at St. Michael's has yielded 20,000 oranges fit for exportation. The Duke of Connaught, commanding the Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade, gave a Christmas box to each man of his battalion of 5s ; privates with three goodr conduct stripes received 2s 6d extra ; while sergeants had £1 each. Dr Alex. Williams, who has beep Secretary to the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council since its establishment, has resigned in consequence of continued ill-health. Tbis department is now in course of reorganisation, and the appointment, which is worth £1000, will not be filled up. The Dublin Corporation have resolved to alter the names of Murdering Lane and Cutthroat Lane to Cromwell's Lane and Roundhead Row respectively. A sack of flour can be converted into loaves of bread in ba)f an houi by the improved process for making jprated breaa 1 . Mrs Amelia Berrian, a phonographic writer of New York, wrote the other day the extraordinary number of 1054 words in four minutes, an average of 2s3£ words in a minute. She wrote §07 words in one miuute of the four. A line of large powerful steamers originally constructed to run between Liver? Dool * n< * estl C° ast of America, via Cape h\>:*« » re » b ° ttfc J to be laid on to tbe Melbourne aZ* S J dne 7 trftde » ™ the Cape. To furnish tbe ivory which is impou? d into England alone, 50,000 elephants have to be killed every year. The best ivory comes from Zanzibar. A year of war with Russia would, it has been estimated, add eighteen or twenty millions to the cost of the bread supply of Britain. This 10 not a matter to be overlooked in considering, as Lord Beacoosfield said he had to consider, ' the ; interests' of the country. Silk stockings striped with lace insertion are the latent novelties of the Parisian toilette, while many fashionable ladies have their stockings powdered with gold dust, Or made of a mixture of silk woven with silver. Lace mittens are taking the place of gloves for balls, and are worn reaching to the elbow, sown with seed pearls or ornamented with ribbons and flowers.— ' Graphic/

A leading Sheffield firm, Sanderson Bros, and Co., are transferring their steel manufacturing business to the State of New York. , Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to offer a drinking fountain to the parish of Esher. Complaints have been made for some time past respecting the water obtained from the parish pump, and the Queen's gift comes at a most opportune moment. JL terrible storm is reported from Gibraltar. " Peals of thunder crashed through the air, while rain and hailstones of large size fell in sheets, lashing roads and hill-sides into perfect foam, and turn* - ing water channels into veritable torrents." A registrar of a parish in the west of Ireland states that the absurd custom still prevails with the peasantry of dipping infants ia cold water to harden them, "and (he remarks) so it does, for I registered two or three this quarter, killed, I am sure, by the same thing." — ♦ Sanitary Record.' Janet Dreghorn, aged one year and six months, was accidentally drowned in a tub containing about nine inches of water, near her father's door, at Caprington Cottage, Dreghorn. She had been out of her mother's sight for about ten minutes when she was found by her brother with her face downwards, and only the upper part of her body immersed in the water. Life was quite extinct when the child was lifted out. The chief signal officer of the United | States of America, in his annual report, states that during the last fiscal year |over 88 per cent, of- his " probabilities" of the weathers were verified. He thinks that an average of 90 per cent, is attainable. Owing to lack of appropriations the receipt of signals from the West Indies has been suspended. There are 145 signal stations in the United States. I Three-fourths of the people of France extract their living from the soil. Of the British less than one-fourth are maintained by agriculture. Calaghan, the lad of 17, who is now lying in Liverpool under sentence of death, was born in gaol, and his father I died in gaol. A lad named Stone, of "Wyke-Regia, aged 14, has been convicted at Dorchester of stealing a loaf of bread. It was given in evidence that the lad, bis brother, and two sisters, were found lying on bare boards at home, and that they had only a sack to cover them. There was no food in the place, and their parents were at the public-house. Tbe prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and four years in a reformatory.