General News.

Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1013, 28 May 1878, Page 7

General News.

!» ■- '■' There are 157 daily newspapers published in thei United Kingdom. According to the census held on the Ist cf January laßt, the population of Madrid is 40*,588 peraons. MM. Dumas and Sardou haye new comedies ready to be brought out before the openiug of the Paris Exhibition. On a Sunday ,j lately, a new line of railway which connects the systems of France and Spain was formally .opened. '' , The declared value of beef imported last year "fresh or slightly salted" increased in the United Kingdom from £462,947 to £1,266,280. The funds of the registered friendly societies in England exceed £9,330,949, and the building societies show an aggregate total of £12,600,000. Victor Emmanuel, strange to say, expired on the 9th of January, the same day five . years previously ,tbat ■ the Emperor Napoleon breathed his last. The Emir of Kasbgar escaped falling into the hands of the Chinese when they captured that town. He has arrived at Ferghana, on Bussian territory. Mr Tennyson has, it is stated, several new poems yearly for publication. One of them is something in the style of the 'famous " Northern Farmer." The Bishop of Lichfield consecrated a cemetery at Longton Staffordshire, lately, and spoke strongly ia favour of funeral . reform. A rumour is current at the Turkish capital that 860 persons, mostly Greeks, have been massacred at Kavarna by Circassians. New Tork telegrams state that numerous failures of commercial firms have occurred in that city and other parts of 'the Union. A t Brighton, Jane Hurrel, a woman of independent means, has been sentenced to a months hard labour for being drank and disorderly. This waß her 23rd appearance in Court. Efforts are about to be made to utilise a discovery made Borne years ago of veins of lead ore on the beach at Lebacq, on the west coast of Jersey. ' In the last 12 months the declared value of, steam-engines exported from Great Britain, was £1,982,513. - There was a falling-joff as to Russia from £148,318 in s 1876 to £93,414 in 1877. .; It is stated thatj thanks to the public favours vouched to "The Sorcerer," Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan have agreed - to write a new operetta for the Opera Comique; London, for Easter. Vice -Chancellor Malms decided on Monday that a holder of shares in a limited lability company has an absolute right to' transfer his shares to whom he pleases, and that the directors have no right whatever to enquire into the object of such transfer. Under the poetic Ctitlaj "Murmurs of the Tied," a San Francisco paper recounts a year's wreck on the shoals of married life. Therewere 243 divorces in that city during 1877- On the other hand there were 2000 marriages. The death is announced of one more of the seven contributors to "Essays and Reviews"— r Nr. C. W. Goodwin assistantjudge at Shanghai. Mr. Goodwin, -who was a brother of the Bishop of Carlisle, wrote the essay on the " Mosaic Cosmogony." The New York papers announce the death at Omaha. Nebraska, of " Colonel" O'Neill the Fenian leader who headed the attempted raids on Canada some years ago. O'Neill was a native of the county of Monaghan, and served in the Confederate army during a great part of the civil war in America. * A soldier in Millmont Barracks, Drogheda, while cutting a raw potato discovered at its core what is pronounced to be the larva of the Colerado beetle. The potato, with its embry, is deposited in a seed shop in Drogheda. The appearance closely corresponds with the printed descriptions of the insect in the larval state. Mrs Annie Besant, whose name was very prominen tly brought before the public a short time ago in connection with the government prosecution for the publication by her and Mr. Bradlaugh of the " Fruits of Philosophy," has received notice from the solicitor of the Rev. Frank Besant. of Sibsey, that an application is to be made to the Chancery Division of the high < ourt of justice the object of the appilca— tion being to deprive her of the custody of her daughter, on the ground 'that the conviction for publishing (the Knowlton pamphlet disqualifies her from being the guardian of her child. The application will be resisted.