EXTRACTS FROM ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 68, 23 May 1866, Page 3

EXTRACTS FROM ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS.

The Queen has written an autograph letter to Mr. Peabody, acknowledging his munificent benevolence, and has presented him with her miniature. Her Majesty regrets that he will not accept the honor of knighthood. The report of the inquiry into the wreck of the London states that the loss of the ship was due to the unshipping of the engineroom skylight. Mr. Dennis published a letter from his brother, dated Thursday, January 10th, " Farewell father, brother, sister, and my Edith (little daughter, now an orphan), Ship London, in the Bay of Biscay. Thursday, 12 o'clock noon. Reason, ship overweighted cargo, Too slight a house over the engine room ; all washed away from deck. Bad poop windows. Water broken in. Storm not too violent for well-ordered ship." Dr. Whewell, Master of Trinity College, is dead. Bishop Colenso was formally excommunicated on the 7th March. Another bishop has been appointed. Bishop Colenso has no legal appeal. A man, arrested in Brussels, states that he murdered Briggs, for which Mueller suffered death. A libel action, damages laid at £50,000, has been commenced by the parents of Miss Constance Kent, against the Edinburgh Daily Review. In all directions there are indications of the interest which the country takes in the Reform Bill, Derby and several other towns have had their meetings and spoken out for the bill. During the next fortnight there will be at one place or another meetings every day; and some of these are likely to be more stirring gatherings than have been seen since the great anti-corn-law agitation roused the people. Fenianism. —On March 16 the Lord-Lieu-tenant proclaimed the Baronies of Narrah and Rheban East and West, Ealkea and Moone, in the county of Kildare. On the same day a vessel containing several hundred barrels of gunpowder was seized by the Customs officers in Carlingford. Forty-five of the more notorious Fenians confined in Kilmainham have been conveyed, under escort of cavalry, to Mountjoy convict prison. A considerable number of them have held commissions in the North and South American armies. The Fenians in the provincial gaols, despite every care, are known to be holding communication with their friends outside. Twenty-five large bayonets were discovered in the town of Monaghan, on March 14, concealed in a ditch close to the police barracks. The trichine disease has made its appearance in Paris. The Panama Star says that the telegraph has lately been extended far up Fraser River en route for Russia, and is now in working order from New York, via San Francisco, to a point 400 miles above New Westminster on Fraser River, making in round numbers about 6,000 miles. ("""Green robes, it appears, are now very much the fashion on the continent. The charming wearers, however, will learn, not without some degree of alarm, that Professor Maschka and Dr. Lerck, of Prague, have analysed a green dress, which was recently worn at a ball in Vienna, and discovered in the 36 metres of which it was composed no ■ less than two ounces of arsenic. """At a ball at the Duchess of Bojan's in Paris the other evening, her sister, the Princess of St. Elia, appeared as the Press in a robe covered with the pages and titles of several journals printed on satin. The Tycoon has sent seven yonng Japanese to Russia to learn the language and to study naval aud military science. The celebrated traveller Ruppel, has proceeded again on a journey of discovery into Abyssinia. The Senate of Frankfort has unanimously assigned him 1,000 florins annually for seven years as an encouragement. The Catholic World says that within the last fifty years no church has been so prosperous in the United States as the Catholic church, and adds : —"About 2000 churches and chapels have been built, an increase of

1800 clergymen, mostly from abroad; 100 schools established for the catholic training of 18,000 boys and 33,000 girls. Moreover there existed in 1857 — 66 asylums, with 4963 orphans of both sexes; 26 hospitals, with 3000 beds; 4 insane asylums, besides many other charitable institutions, all established and supported by the private charity of Catholics . .