English News.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 896, 10 April 1877, Page 3

English News.

» The Irish and their descendants have given the Catholic Church of the United States the majority ot its clergy. As an instance it may be stated that there are to-day 400 priests in this Republic bear, ing only Irish names. They are as follows: — Brennan, 15; Brady, 22; Carroll, 13; Doherty, 16; Kellv, 25; Lynch, 21; McCarthy, 15; M'Guire, 14; Meagher, 14 ; Murphy, 33 ; O'Brien,! 24; O'Connor, 24; O'NeilJ, 18; Reilly, 34; O'Sullivan, 18; Quinn, 16; &yao,j 31; Walsh, 33. The total number of lives lost in the fire at the theatre at Brooklyn is now stated to be 370, and of these less than 200 have been identified. Professor Levi states that the Seven Years' War cost England £83,000,000, the revolt of the American colonies £98,000,000, the old wars with France £83 1,000,000; indeed about £1,000,000,000 would be perhaps a more accurate estimate—the two opium wars with China £8,800,000, the Kaffir war £2,000,000, the Bussian war £69.000,000, the Persian expedition £900 000, the New Zealand war £800,000, and the Aby«ejnian war £8,000,000. This does not represent the actual cost of war as it presses on the taxpayer. Perhaps it represents little more than one-tenth of the money England has had to pay for the luxury of fighting with her neighbors ; and, if that be true, war then must have cost this country, in the course of a century and a quarter the monstrous sum of £ 1 1 ,040,000,000 sterling. The Germans are now studying at Passau a system for preserving egg* for the army by means of drying them. There is no foundation for the statement that Sir Arthur Guinness has either refused or been offered a Peerage. Even now the Slades and Humes are prophets to millions of men as spiritualists on the ground of manifestations that are clumsy and vulgar compared with what Heller does ; but Heller is not claused with the prophets, because be declares in downright plainness "tliftt it is all trickery. — • New York Herald.' 1 The negro does not seem to feel exalted bj his appointment a» ," a ward of the nation "~at least, in certain part* of this State he does not. Many a chicken goes to roost at night, and does not live to tee the morrow's sun, because our colored brother's prehensile paw is too black fora chicken to notice in the 4ark. : -' Brooklyn Argus/ _

The ' Christiau. World ' remarks tha the agricultural laborers are e? identlj destined ere long to exert their propei influence on our national policy, am nothing can be more short sighted of th< clergy than a line of conduct calculatet nniy to exasperate and provoke to a bittet liofltiltty what will yet be an importan -foment in the decision of these greal ecclesiastical questions which are rapidlj coming up for settlement. Just now London is being visited by f iliNtinguirthed , foreigner, to wit, . th« Esquimaux chief Olnik, who is returning the visit which, our Artie voyagers mad< 7<> him in the region of frost and -now. He thinks London a very .bip place, and he is lost in astonishment al the crowds of people, and wonders whithei they can all be going. He Has been to th« Z«»o, and was greatly delighted with the monkeys, and was glad to recognise old friends in the Polar bears. He hai brought his chiefs dress with him and wears it on great occasions. Chief- Justice Taney was a- slave of tobacco. He ate and drank little, but smoked incessantly. When hisphy*ician prescribed a short allowance, he would reduce the supply to thirty or forty cigare a day. — ' New York Tobacco Leaf.' It was elicited at an inquest held respecting the death of a labourer at the London' Docks,- who died from excessive drinking, that the laborers are in the habit of j growing the cases of brandy about until some of the bottles get broken, and they then turn the cases up and suck the brandy out of the. cracks. Political economists who tell us that France can never prosper unless her population increase should award a prize to a certain farmer's wife at Nancy. She has just been confined of her 23rd child, and has only been married nine years. She has always had triplets, all are living, and all are girls. — Correspondent of ' Glasgow Herald.' [There appeaas » slight arithmetical difficulty here that requires solution] Doctored whisky, sold to the people by itinerant vendors at the numerous country cattle fair 9, of which there are more* than 1000 every year, is answerable for half the crime in Ireland. This stuff is so strong that a glass or two taken fasting makes maDy a man temporarily insane, and it is so worthless that the owners have been seen to pour the residue of their stock away rather than have the trouble of carrying it back. The Act of Parliament places the duty of detecting adulteration in the hands of the police who attend every fair, but they never interfere, because, we are informed, they have no funds to buy samples. — * Times.* The number of pilgrims who assembled last year at Mecca is stated by Consul Beytz, in his commercial report on Jeddah, for 1875, to have been 140,000. In addition to the destitution prevailing among the laboring classes of New York, the distress in the Pennsylvania coal region is becoming alarming. The Greenock Town Council have, by seven votes to five, agreed to petition in favor of the bill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister. The remains of a balloon have just been found on the coast of Iceland. In the car were some human bones, forming an incomplete skeleton, and a leather travel, ling bag in a very bad condition, containing papers so deteriorated by wet that the writing could not be deciphered. A conjecture is formed that this is the balloon in which Price ascended during the siege of Paris, being the only one that was not accounted for. The Punjaub may boast of containing the smallest pony in the world, if the following, as published in the Lahore paper, is true : — " His Highness the Nawab of Loharoo sent a remarkably diminutive Nepauli pony, which is only 8 inches high, as a present to the young Maharajah of Puttiala. The pony is a perfect miniature of a well bred horse, and is highly valued by the natives " The present high price of mutton in England has led several Canadian shippers to make the trial of importing live Bheep from Canada. From the first importation some weeks ago no less than 2000 have been landed. The Allan mail steamer Polynesian brought 250 in excellent condition into Liverpool. A case of unusual interest has occurred at the London Hospital. Mr James Adams, F.R.C.S., was removing the lower limb at the hip joint from a boy 12 years of age, when, during the progress of the operation, alarming symptoms of collapse occurred, and the patient seemed about to sink from exhaustion. The operator immediately proposed to personally supply blood by transfusion, and more than eight ounces of blood were injected from his arm into that of the patient with most beneficial results. Mr Adamß afterwards completed the operation, and the patient is at present progressing favorably. The beautiful white marble statue of the late Earl of Derby, erected in Preston Park two and a-balf years ago, has been bedaubed with paint by some idiot or fanatic, as yet unknown. The money for tbe statue ($2000.) was raised in peuny subscriptions throughout Lancashire. Sir Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, lately sold bis share of the business parried on in his name for one million of .money. A thrilling incident occurred at a recent general review of cavalry at Vienna. Just as a flying tquadron were charging at a mad gallop, a little girl, four years old, came from the line of spectators out into the open field right in front of the squadron. Her death seemed inevitable, when a stalwart hussar who was in the front line, without slacking his speed, threw himself over by the side of his horse's neck, seized the child and placed her safely upon his saddle bow. The thousands of people applauded him ; the Empress and mother of the child both wept tears of ioyj and the Emperor,

t taking from bis own breast a richly I enamelled Cross of the Order of Marii r Theresa, hung it at once upon the breas 1 of the brave hussar. 8 The following extract from a lettei 1 written by Mr Carlyle to a friend, referr ring to Darwinism, has just been pubt, lished at Homer— " A good sort of mai t is this Darwin, and well-meaning, bu 1 with- yery(little; intellect. / Ah, it's/sad,,! terrible thing to see nigh a whoii i generation of men and women, professing b to be cultivated r Joaking around in a, pur X blind fashion, and finding no God in thii > universe. _ I suppose it is a re-actioi I frdinthe Veign of cant and hollow pre- ; tence, professing* to believe what, in fact t they do not believe. And this is what wi r have got to. All things from frog spawn ! i> the gospel of dirt— the order of the day 1 > The older I grow — and I now stand upot 1 the brink of eternity— the more comet I back to me the sentence in the Catechism 1 which I learned when a child, and the deeper its meaning becomes, ' What it . the chief end of man ?— To glorify God ; and enjoy him for ever.' — No gospel oi i dirt, teaching that men have descended [ from frogs through monkeys, can ever set ) that aside !"