English News.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 90, 30 March 1876, Page 7

English News.

- ■ ~T~ — " r ~* l A violent storm has taken ■ place' at* Oran in Algeria. The damage is esti-; , mated at SQO,OQQf. - "..-.. The ' Daily Telegraph Y has had a deader strongly commendatory of the New- South Wales Legislathrej's vote of £4000 for a statue of Captain 1 Cook. Aii conflict is; waging between -the London School Board and the supporters of ragged schools. A•■ magisterial decision has been . given . against the latter on the ground of educational inefficiency. - ] . Some stir has been made by Mr Fyfe, agent: of Mr Plimsoll, at Liverpool^ having, telegraphed.: to -the 'Queen to stay the. departure of an unseawbrthy vessel. The matter was. referred to the Board of Trade. Twenty of the - orew:; ""had been sent to prison for refusing to -proceed to sea. -The subscription for the widow arid of Henry Wainwright' amount to about £1200. The Italian Gpyeitnment s _ia : s voted / £1000 for a scientific expedition to Cen- ' 'tral Africa. A movement is on foot in Crete for annexation of ; the island to Great > Bri^ tain. It isopposed by the Greek .party, •and'muchTagitatibn prevails, j Arrangements are being made at the Cape for the importation of Coolie -labor; the Government allow £7 per -head for every Chinaman delivered in' the Colony up to 1000. Emigration from Ireland, .is- on th6. -decrease. Last. ,} r ear it was nearly 7 -22,000 less than in 1874, and the.same ■comparison holds gdod in comparing* the latter year with 1873, which, while ■showing less than 100,000, had the ■largest emigration si nee 1856Doctor Hector, of New -Zealand, read -a paper on the Alps of the. Southern Island, at the Geologists'.. Association College. Great interest 'was manifested in the lecture, and , -some excellent colored sketches were • shown, illustrating the beauty of theNew Zealand alpine scenery. The new parabolic reflector at the Paris Observatory reduces the visual' -distance of the moon to about 70 miles. The tube is 7 metres long \(nearly 14| feet,) the instrument weighs <7 tons,.. -and turns on a pedestal of 10: tons. The parabolic mirror measures 1.50 % metres in diameter, and weighs 400' : kilogrammes. By means of lenses, -magnifying from 250 tb 2400 times, stars of the fourteenth magnitude can be observed with this .powerful tele- ■ scope. Mr Kenaaly printed in large letters the content-bill of the "Englishman" the dispairing cry, "No justice for. 'Kenealy." It certainly, remarks the 'World,' has ' hitherto appeared that ■such- was the case ; but honest men live in hope. ' The Pope has forwarded to a bazaar about to be held at Wagga, in aid of. the funds of a new convent, a rnagnifi- • cent cameo, bust of the Virgin Mary set 1 -in a brooch. The brooch contains 51 turquoises and' thirty- three sapphires in the setting*. .... Benjamin Franklin's original Print-; ing Press is to be shown at the Phila'delphia Centennial Exhibition, hy the iside ofa Hoe Lightning- cylinder press -of the latest construction. The man and dog fight, which excited such attention in England last ryear. has been capped in India by a man and , •cat combat at Hyderabad- in India. What became of the cat is not told, but the man's face 'is/reported to be in a shocking condition. '..'-,. A The ' National Sunday League ' /just issued a. letter in which, a. .strong; appeal is; made for funds to ; enable the •executive to, ''.demonstrate the will of the people," in obtaining^ f tie '.opening of the puhlic ' museums, .galleries, and libraries on Su'hdayf {afternoons. .'. '■ The annual sermons in : "behalf of the ! CKurc_- ' 'Missionary Society,, at the Church Ypf.„ 5t,. ,. Katherine - -Coleman, -Fenchurch-stree.t, : were preached by the -Rev. -T. S.- Grace, 'oife- of' the 'Society's missionaries from New Zealand. Victor Hugo asserts that what lie •chiefly learned during his twenty years exile ih. En gland,', .was to take a cold bath every morning*'. If he recommends that to Parisians, they will ;never elect him Senator. .: ... ■■ ' /'• * " The Emigration Society: of Rome is .about to send a circular* to the. Italian Consuls in America* asking them : to •make inquiries into the position of emi-grants-arrivinja: iri that country.. Ilhe Y_fournal of theT -, Spciety - will shortly publish important reports with regard Ytb;emigration to Brazil and New Ze'a- ; ■ Jand.; - : ; ; : ' An ., insane., , inmate , of the : Norwich '.A .Hospital recently jumped -from his" bed, * and' attacked severaldfthe other patients -- 1 - witha'pair of tongs. : ; 'Tttf-e'^bo^s were .and '. two ; jsptli'ers . tvery * ..-.'" severely .mair tre^ledi.: > : .One of the^ Gffiicers of the hospital armed himself with j a poker, ando'vircairie.the lunatic, who . isiiotv in custody; ■* * "''" "■ ' ; - ; ; At .the Burslem r Police, Court, a boy ; . >named : Marst was. charged * with * fifing a pistol at an engine- dri v-er/ named( Ashley, and. two vother M; .bQys^ -.'Beeston and*;.Hal^ ani^abett^g.'. r Jt. appeared- that ; 'the Jad/called' the attention of- his : c6mr T; -panione'-to-a-mid'^iajp-train"* 1 r and^ inctf- '. j >catang. the* engine' d-iver,* told : '* tbein. to " : tie , Jack^iix-th'e^b^-*-.' •" iS'eVetill bf 'thS^shpitSi -;fi?edj s truc4_ "A^e T Ao^me^rAx. *£#b t^oy Si*wefe brdered^td be 'jpn vately . ; wh jppedr .:•;".

_ T^^S^k}\M^7'Tivkx^. containing military . ip£in\s janidpFnAaiv emhahkmeht near .Odessa on: the i£tb>_ instant ! The carnages were set on fire. Fftyjfour per- : - sons . were injured, and sixty-eight killed. -Confusion is said to exist in the ■"Orleans family. The' Dug de jNemours does not care a fig whether bis family be restored or not to the' questionable honors of a throne.: Then itb e Duke's .) political, career closed with the failure, two years ago, of his scheme to "fuse" the royal houses.' His father, Louis . Philippe, remarked, " De: Nemours. fs too much ; a gentleman to be popular " —'and disliked .by 'the; people he was, most cordially. He shows he is every inch a prince, and . the relative of the Sun— King — as often as. he can. ; Th« "New sTork detectives (says' the ' Wprld "'). Q re Y e ?X. . m^ c^ exercised over the whereabouts of "Boss" Tweed. One tfepdrt -represents him as having ta&en refuge in the Adirondacks, and. . another, as having been seen in Havan- , nah. • Weyhaye heard a rumor, which we t giye under, .reserve, that he :is in 'Madrid, actively engaged . with James ■Stephens, ex- Head-Centre, and Achille Bazaine, ex-Field-Marshal, in forming •a Co-operative Society for the Introduction of Patent Escape movements. -There ..will.. naturally be a branch in Geneva, of which M. Henri Rochefort .is '/the prospective manager; and as : Mr Alex ander Collie is also said to be in .Spain, his experience might be : availed -ot'..'.. Thero is an individual in . London zealously qualifying for a partnership. „ . ; On -the -28th December, George Scot Jeffreys, a telegraph operator at Waynesburg, Green country, Pittsburg, and Miss Lydia Culler, a telegraph operator at Brownsville, Penn., were united in marriage by telegraph, the ceremony commencing at 2 p.m. The officiating clergyman at Waynesburg read the ceremony to the groom, who telegraphed . the same to the bride, who responded by wire. All other business was closed between the two , offices during, the ceremony. This is the second marriage by telegraph in this part of the county Four years ago a Jady of. Pittsburg and a gentleman of Rome were married by Bishop Dominie, of this Diocese, by wire. The abolition of the Canadian agentgeneralship is still the topic of discussion, and -the opinion gains ground that the reason alleged — economy — is not thttiredl motive. It has now been asserted that 10 lines in the letter of the 'Times' correspondent from Canada, which appeared on the 28 th December, explain the tiuth. The writer said : — "The Roman Catholic clergy are paramount in the Province of Quebec, and again the Church of Rome manages to exert considerable influence in Canadian affairs. It is . well known that Mr Jenkins is not a person grateful to the priesthood, however well affected the head of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in this country, Cardinal Manning, may be to him on account of his Good' Templar proclivities. The real truth will, however, doubtless transpire." A letter from Rome gives a glowingaccount of the Pope's reception of the Lord Mayor ot Dublin in rich costume, with the cross of the Order of St. Gregory, and 150. bishops, priests, monk's, nuns, and layman, all Irish. The address^ read by the Bishop of Ossory, Cardinal Cullen's nephew, described. the feelings of faith, devotion, and fidelity animating Irish Catholics, and referred to their terrible struggles. A <rich offering* was presented hy Monsighore Kirby, rector of the Irish College. The Pope in t reply said :—"lreland has always possessed a wealth the most precious given us to enjoy in this 'world. That wealth is faith, which,; like a precious "and inexhaustible treasury, has always sustained Ireland amid the numerous vicissitudes with which it had: to struggle for several centuries. Ireland has always fought with the spiritual sword of faith, and with this -it has- obtained, if not complete victpries r at least an honourable truce, wliich is a sufficient proof of the efficacy of faith. • -You who are present are giying; a signal example of your faith. vSome of you have come expressly from "Ireland and, the : represntatives of the first city in your .island has come here to prostrate hiinself at the tomb of •the Holy Apostles; to renew the warmth of a devotion capable of every trial, and to show the energy of the faith which animates, the Irish Catholics." A. stupendous land-swindle has just been •.unearthed., in: South-eastern Missouri...; if iappfe'ars ..that . Heeds. to lands in .North... Arkansas; and south-eastern: Missouri have been .forged for some ' years- •past; and agencies for this wdrk were /established in Cincinnati, burgh, Philadelphia, New ' York, and Manchester, England., It. is estimated r ; 'tfiat s &edi r to-o9ei- f: il3,¥(ib';o66- acres ;of land.have \beep. ; fpi^ged.-and 'disposed bf, . r the J ' valuation " being ' ' 25,000,000 ; or : 30,000,000; dollars. The land operated yupg&jis owned by. noh7residents-,,-ancl;as ( line 5 freMoriiifcAvere mostly-' destroyed cliir- . ing the^eivil war, .the. Ring: had. every fa'cility"' "to- "carry out ' tlie' enoVnious ' swindle, and the deeds : have" been £oid : . ]all;pjver^h%liftite'd:Siates and -in En£- '. land." rfegsgranrl jury of Shannon cquntj^ jif^-has indicted Dr Thomas Bt. 'German, David D. Bingham, arid JamSS'.^iVLawton, for complicity, Lawtoft^seems to be the executive man, and ' 'Operated extensively in England.