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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6533, 3 February 1882, Page 3

A Frenoh newspaper informs its readers that a veterinary surgeon, residing at Charleville, has succeeded in amputating the gangrened leg of a cow, and replacing it by a wooden one. Thd cow, it is said, ii now perfeotly well, and walks easily upon the artificial limb.

The Grand Virier, in the name of the Sultan of Turkey, has written to the Bey of Tunis, requiring tie Tunisian Government to pay a large sum oi: money to the Moslem re* iugees in Constantinople from Sfax, for losses by the bombardment of that place by the French. The Bey was much perturbed, and forwarded the communication on the subject to the Frenoh Minister.

i SirT. Braßsey, speaking at Maidstone to the toast of the Navy, observed that never sinos the days of Nelson had the English nation held a more prominent position as a naval power than it now occupied. France and ; Germany seemed to have given up their ambition to constitute themselves maritime powers, while. if ever the American and Italian navies began fighting there was more probability of their being arrayed on our tide instead of against us. M. Paul Bret has been experimenting at the Jardin des Plantes disseoting-room on the respiratory organs of some crocodiles whioh were recently sent him as a present. He gave their fleßh to some of the servants in the menagerie, recommending them to cook and eat it. They did so, and " found that crocodile flesh is tender, delicate, appetising, and like both salmon and lobster. It has, however, a slight taste of musk." Becently at about 3 o'clock a.m. a party of masked men, numbering between seventy-five and one hundred, took from the Oxford (U.S.) gaol, John Brodie and Shadrack Hester (coloured), charged with the murder of T. M. Lynch, and hanged them in a small grove near the spot where the murder was committed. The gaoler was taken from his home and forced to open the doors, while the guards were disarmed and shut up in the guard house.