ENGLISH ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume VIII, Issue 311, 5 February 1873, Page 2

ENGLISH ITEMS.

? The birth of a young hippopotamus at the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, has been announced. The animal, which is about 3ft 6in long and lOOlbs in weight, has been named Guy Fawkes, from the circumstance that it first saw the light on Nov. 5. The importation of guano in the last nine months amounted, in the declared value to ,£815,977. Thirteen 35-ton guns have just been completed at "Woolwich, and the first portion of them will, in a fiw days, leave the Royal Arsenal for service afloat. In the last nine months the declared value of gutta percha imported was £296,413. The declared value of hams for the same period was £32 1,499. A large whale has been captured near Stornoway : they seldom venture so near the coast. The University of Oxford is nnu-" sually full this Term, there being nearly 400 fresh men, of whom 24 are unattached students. « ¦ - . " The Meeting between Livingstone and Stanley," is nightly performed on

he Boards of one of tho New York heaties. Two allegorical paintings have been ntroduced into the new Chamber of Commerce at Chicago — one representing the Fire Fiend hovering over the jity, and the other the Angel of Mercy conducting other angels to the relief af the inhabitants. Sporting men are taking time by the forelock. The Two Thousand of 1874 has obtained 82 subscribers; «nd the One Thousand 61. For IST3 they number respectively but 71 and 52. Lord A, P. Cecil, son of the second Marquis of Exeter, has to the Dominion, where he is preaching in connection with the Plymouth Brethren. A sister of Mr. Spurgeon has been preaching vrith much success at Willninghatn, in Cambridgeshire, where her husbaud is a Baptist minister. The Lords of the Admiralty have placed 'their own yacht, thi Ihiebintress, at the service of Sir Bartle Fret© and suite for his anti-slavery mission to Zanzibar. The Enchantress left. Portsmouth for Brindisi on . 12th November, where she embark Sir Bartle and thence proceed via the Suez Canal to her destination. The saw mills of Mr. Daniel Boss, Bermondsey, covering: an r &ore |of ground, have been completely. , destroyed, and s considerable 'damage' tia% been done to the adjoining properties. One of the stokers of the fire engine was killed, and nine l lf%fa severely injured. Sir James Hannen has ibeen appointed Lord Penzance's successor in the Probate and Divorce CourK; , A fire has ocjcumd'atthe&ill of Messrs, Simpson and &ing, cotton spinners, Swinton,* whereby, damage to the amount of £15,000 was caused. The coalmastera of 1 .Wales, in conjunction with thoselp£ ; the|Fproat of Dean, are about to establish -on association for their protection against labour. At a meeting of the Birmingham Republican Club, held on 20th November, it was resolved— "That; it is desirable to elect a Republican '^6 represent Birmingham, and we|sedge ourselves to give him- our support," The number of desertions from the army, not including those from the Marines and Militia, has, amounted to 8,360 in twelve months,! ,and: desertions are continuing at the* rate of 700 or 800 a month. These facts, we are told, are causing qonsictefable astonishment and anxiety- at quarters. .. Mr, Grant Duff has declintd to stand again .for the office of Lord Rector of Aberdeen University. The contest will therefoijß) lie between Professor Huxley and the Marquis of "Huntly^M/.A.t ' ljO ifar'JiO'J The Tichborne trial has been fixed to take place in April next, tiffd then it will be " a ttial at bar." Paul Mai, the young German indicted for. the murder of :his companion at Ghelseayhas been acquitted. Mr. Francis Peek has promised-to contribute £7,500, provided that the governors of .I^ulwich, t^p!lege r will dedicate' for tftV public übe" I*6\) Stores of their estate and form and maintain the same as a park.