MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1758, 24 March 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

■ ' + Some land in the centre of Glasgow was sold recently at Ll4 per square yard. Mr Cardwell has again been compelled to reduce the standard for recruits by half an inch. Three dozen collier lads were fined 103 6d each at Nottingham the other day for going on strike. A new pulpit, said to be " exceedingly ornate," has been erected in Peterborough Cathedral. At Jarrow, near South Shields, a deaf and dumb woman named M'Nichol has been roasted to death. More than L 5,000,000 worth of foreign bacon was imported into Britain during the last financial year. Some pearls from the fisheries on the north-western coast of Australia, have been sold by auction in London at high prices. During the month of November, 92,122 fishes, weighing twenty-nine tons, were seized at Billingsgate as being unfit for human food. Sir James Colquhoun, of Lus3, and four attendants, were drowned in Loch Lomond on December 18th by the upsetting of a boat. The authorship of the Pope's last Encyclical is attributed to Father Curci, the favourite preacher of the Catholic ladies of Rome. During astorm at Glasgow, on December 16th, the wind blew a gate against a boy's head with such violence, as to kill him on the spot. The estimated cost, according to the accepted design, of the public aquarim and baths to be constructed at Hastings, is L 60,000. The value of the season's crop in the district of Adrianople is put down at L 70,000. The crop is grown for the manufacture of otto or attar of roses. The Bhistrated London Neivs says Sir "William Bovill's estaie has been sworn under L 70,000, and that of Mr George Crawshay under half a million. At an inquest held at Dubliu on the body of a soldier who died suddenly, it was stated that he had drunk in the forenoon a pint of rum and three quarts of porter. Two immense ateamera have recently been launched on the Clyde, the one being 4200 tons and the other 4800 tons, register. The latter is said to be next to the Great Eastern, the largest merchant vessel in the world. It is intended for the Liverpool and South American trade. At the Manchester winter assizes, James Woodall was convicted of attempting to destroy by fire his premises at Preston, with intent to defraud an insurance company. Sentence of penal servitude was passed upon him. According to advices from St. Petersburg, the Russian Government has under consideration a railway project for a direct route through Siberia to the principal Chinese and Japanese harbours. The fine will be 7000 versts in length, and is estimated to cost 360,000,000 roubles. A New York paper says that a gentleman of that city recently addressed a letter to "Her Majesty Queen Victoria, London, England," asking for her autograph. He received the following reply : — " Sir Thomas Biddulph begs to return the enclosed photograph to Mr , and to inform him in reply to his circular that the Queen's autograph is never given away.— Buckingham Palace, London 27th October, 1873."