GENERAL NEWS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1062, 28 January 1879, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

— «, Mr Coxwell, the aeronaut, is preparing six large balloons for military purposes. The death is announced of Paymaster Matthews from the effects of fever contracted on service at Cyprus. Afc Manchester, Frederick Faulder, a dressmaker and miliner, has been ordered fco pay six separate fines of £3 and costs for infringing the law by overworking his shop girls. An Orange lodge, all the members of which are females, has been established at Montreal, uuder the title of " The Princess Louise Benevolent Local Orange Lodge, No. 1." The Duke of Norfolk has intimated an intention of allowing a reduction of 25 per cent, on his farm rents for the past six months, in consequence of the depres-si-ion in the agricultural. A colliery explosion has occurred at Lullavan, Indiana, by which 13 persons were killed. Mr Holman Hunt, the eminent artist has been very ill from typhoid fever, but is recovering. Madame Adelina Patti and Signor Nicolini asked £400 per night to sing next spring afc the principal theatre in Vi* nna. It is calculated that there is something like a consumption of seven hundred mi 1 lion oranges annually. The Paris Exhibition lottery tickets have been selling on the Bourse nt 25f. a-piece — a premium of 2500 per cent. Orders from the Homo Office h ive been received in Liverpool that reporters from the press will no longer be allowed admission to gaols to report the infliction of the lash upon garotters. If we may credit the ' Whitehall Review,' Lady RoseV»ery is no longer to be accounted a member of the chosen people. When she sent her annual donation of £20 to the rulers of the Synag ,«ue they returned it with an intimation that it could not be received from oue who had " left the fai h." Describing the departure of D-*&n Stanley from America, the ' New York Times' says he was " probec ed from the cold by an immense and very shabby cloak, a broad-brimmed, soft felc bat, very rusty, and looking even more shabby than his cloak, a black shawl wound about his neck, and black cotton gloves on his hands." The ufcility of the Smith vacuum brake was demonstrated afc Glazebrook, on the Cheshire Lines. A goods train had broken down and fouled the line on which the Manchester and Liverpool express was advancing, bufc the driver of the express, being warned by the prompt ex hibiiion of fche danger signal, was able by applying the vacuum brake to bring the train to a stand at a considerable distance from the obstruction. Europe is now paying to North Italy 10 millions of lrancs annually for its eggs. This year a s : ngle firm in Turin has despatched 1 388 wasrgon loads of eggs across the frontier to Germany, Holland, -Belgium, France, and England. Each -waggon is reputed to contain 130,000 eggs. The standard for recruits for theY infantry of the line is to be raised from sf& sin. to sin. 6in., and that for the, Royal Engineers from sfr; 6in. to sft;V6£in. The standard for recruits for rifle regiments remains as at present— namely, sft; :4£iu.V At the Coroner's inquest on bodies recovered from the Pomerania one of the j passengers, an English certificated chief ra^is, who jbined the vessel at Plymouth sis a passenger for Hamburgh, i»id; more; lives might have been saved if th§ J orew • had not been' so anxious to save themselves The captain did his duty like a man. The verdict of the jury was ,to. the effeotcthat there was no evidence -to *ho*** -how tlie collision qcou*****?-^

Perhaps one of the most striking of the recollections which the tourists in the Punjaub will bear away with them is the generally careful manner in which women muffle themselves up when not bathing, and the equally careful manner in which they expose themselves while performing their ablutions A lady who will modestly screen from V the gaze of a passer-by the whole of the charms at her command, excepting'perhaps a tiny bit of nose and a pair of* black * eyes, will as soon as she reaches the customary and public bathing place display in the most lavish, indeed most astounding, manner her whole artillery of beauty — a privilege truly which makes up with a vengeance for the seclusion fo the rest of the day. A Mr Godfrey, a shareholder in the Jersey Joint Stock Bank, which suspended payment some time ago, has been sued for payment of £320 for calls made upon him under the liquidation at the rate of £40 per share. He pleaded that he had been victimised by the Directors falsely representing the, bank to be flourishing (it wss paying 10 per cent.), whilst subsequent investigation showed that it had been hopelessly insolvent for some years. On tLe ground of its alleged prosperity, the Directors sold shares to the dtf-ndaufc at a premium of 60 per cent., and ten months afterwards the Bank collapsed. The Court found that fraud had been clearly proved, and gave judgment for the defendant.' A new is-ue of Consols, there is reason fco believe, wi 1 be made by the Government at An early date. A parr, from the expense of a war with Afghanistan, which England would be in part required to meet, a heavy floali* gdebt has accumulated in fche form of Exchequer and Treasury bi Is aud bonds. An is-ue often or twen*y millions of Cotisols w v d by this mean** en tirely sweep a way the flouting debt ; and such an issue wiil tend to depress the msiket for English Government stocks. To some extent the funding operation wil be but an exchange of stock for the terminable securities now held by bankers and others who have advanced to the Treasury, but banking money will go into bills when it will nofc go into stook, and the issue of new stock will, therefore affect the Consol market adversely, although the operation will no doubt be delayed until the money market regains a position of ease. The Bishop of Carlisle has withdrawn the license of the Rev. Michael Haslam, curate of Maryport, for having protested vehemently in the parish (nofc having been allowed to preach a sermon he had prepared on tbe matter) against the impropriety of fruit having been placed on the Holy Table afc a recent harvest festival. His Lordship wrote : — "You have left me no choice, and I am compelled most reluctantly to withdraw your license. This I accordingly hereby do. You have an appeal to the Archbishop. As I observe you have an unfortunate propensity to send my letters to newspapers, I confine to this bare notification of cancelling your iicense." S.r Wil i*>m Lawson, speaking at a crowded Permissive Bill meeting at Ipswich argued that neither religion nor education could prevent drinking. If education could do it, when was ifc to begin ? Mr Gougb, after twenty years' absence from England, found the evil as bad as ever. The reason why the temperance movement did nofc succeed was the legalised temptation to drink. Those who allowed the Itish Sunday Closing Bill to pans admitted his wbole case. It was true public opinion in Kngland was now against bim ; bufc he believed public opinion would, ere long, turn round. M de Fonrtou (says the ' Gauiois') has the reputation of being a very good shot. Tbe day before the duel he went to a shooting gallery and hifc the bull's-eye four times running. Tt was on account of this superiority of M de Fourtou thafc M Cleme-nt-au obtained the condition that the duel shoull be fought at thirty five paces, so as to equalise the chances M Gambetta knows very little about pistols, and M B in de Bourdon, who is said to be the longest legged member of the Chamber, was deputed to measuie the distance. There was a thick fog prevHiling at tie time, and as M de Fourtou is short-sighted and M Gambetta ha- only ond eye, there was little chance of their hitting each other save by accident. Mdc Fourtou wore his eye-glasses. The ' Figaro ' says that M de Fourtou choose pistols, and nofc swords, in order to make the duel a fairer match on account of M Gambetta's corpulency. It is announced by some papers that the Prince of Wales has sent a messags to M Gambetta, congratulating him on the safe issue of his duel. Some difficulty seems likely to arise under the Berlin Treaty as to the right of Russian troops to pass from Bulgaria through the Dodruscha, which is now parfc of the Principality of Roumania. The question was under discussion in the Hungarian Chamber, when . Count Andrassy, in reply to Dr Falk, admitted that Russia had demanded that her troops shonld be allowed to pass through the newly-acquired Roumanian territory, but that she had since declared herself satisfied with tbe temporary right of passage granted by the Berlin Treaty. As to the report that an arrangement on the subject had been ar-. rived at between Russia and Roumania, Count Andrassy was not prepared to make a positive statement, but Austria, he added, could not consent to the evasion of : any single point of the Berlin Treaty. The* ' Goloß ' says that a land communication with.the, army of occupation in Bulgaria is a necessity, as communication by Varna and Bourgas could be stopped by England lor Turkey. V A telegram from Buchareat denies that Russia has demanded a permanent right of way. All she asks is a fright of jp^sage dn ring the occupation of Bul|an£ii}^^ v