MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2695, 6 October 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Three powerful turret-ships and seven corvettes are to be added to the Herman n«vy. G’he Bank deposits in Ireland amount to upwards of L 60,000,000, 1 ' A mania for exhibitions pervades Europe. Three are now open, and |wo' mtife Will ' bp bpjd next year,'*

The foundation of a new graving dock, to cost L 61.000, has been laid at Greenock. Seventy thousand passengers left Liverpool during the second quarter of the year. Only seventeen came to New Zealand. A patient whose jaw was broken by a dentist in pulling a tooth, has obtained LIOO damages. At Clerkenwell Police Court a druggist has been fined L 3 for selling poison without labelling the bottle. * At a recent lecture. Archbishop Manning said that three cities had been destroyed for their sins—Jerusalem, Rome, and now Paris. 500,000 tons of jute are annually produced in India. N early the whole is sent to Britain to be manufactured. Mattresses stuffed with sponges dipped in glycerine and then well pressed are coming largely into use in Britain. The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia are said to save nearly a million thalers a-year out of their income. At a meeting of the Union Bank of Australia, held on the I3th of June, a dividend of 6£ per cent, for the half-year was declared. The net profit for the year was L 84.015 ss. There are 1,178 pictures and drawings at the Royal Academy Exhibition this year, being 143 more than last year. 2,500 pictures were rejected. Higgs, who committed the great fraud on the Worcester Gas Company, some time ago, surrendered to the chief constable of Worcerter on June 29. The Rev, Dr Amot, in a recent speech, said that “there is more in the publichouses of Glasgow to stir the spirit of a minister than all that Paul saw at Athens.” It is stated that the Government of St. Petersburg has made another attempt to obtain Hammerfest, the most northerly Norwegian harbor which does not freeze up. The Swedes had claimed Spitzbercen, but the Russians say it is theirs, and they will only give it up for Hammerfest and the intervening wilderness. The Norwegians are not likely to sell the harbor, but such a transaction would be a great advantage to Great Britain. Hammerfest would become the great Russian arsenal and naval station, the Baltic being only defended by monitors, and would in the event of war either for Constantinople or India be well within the British guns. It is a curious fac% revealed in Lord Brougham’s-letters, that William IV. always believe ) in the imminence of ar Russian invasion of Great Britain, and half convinced his Ministers,