ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 126, 31 July 1866, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

The number of persons on the Federal side who perished in the late civil war was less than has beeu popularly supposed. The Provost Marshal General has completed a careful statement from the muster rolls cf all the deaths in battle, from wounds and from disease, in every regiment and company of every loyal State from the beginning to the close of the war. It appears that 280,739 officers and men have lost their lives in the service. Of this number, only 5,221 officers and 90,886 enlisted men have been killed in action or died of wounds, while 2321 officers and 182,329 enlisted men have died of disease, or, in a few cases, from accident. Considerable interest prevails in America concerning the discovery by General Lyou, late of the Confederate army, of the ruins of a city in Mexico unknown to Mexican archives. The country containing these ruins is called by the Indians Metaltaloyuca, and is situated about 100 miles west of Tuxpau, in the State of Vera Cruz. The overland Russian telegraph has been completed to Vancouver's Island. Telegraphic communication between Washington city aud Victoria, Vancouver, a distance of 7500 miies, is now complete, and on April 25 congratulatory messages were exchanged between the authorities of the two cities. About 24 hours were required for the transmission of the message aud the return of the answer. Prince Alfred visited Edinburgh on Saturday, March 19, and opened the Museum of Science and Art. His royal highness arrived early in th'e morning. He took luncheon with the Lord Provost, and in the course of the afternoon proceeded to perform the ceremony of the day. Mr. James Christie, an elderly gentleman, residing at Clapham, has just committed suicide by hanging himself, in consequence of the depression he experienced from fear of the loss he might sustain by his connection with the Bank of London, in which he was a considerable shareholder. The whole of the sailors now in the port of London have struck for an advance of wages, and unless the shipowners yield serious iu convenience must arise from the detention of the outward-bound ships. The men urge the high price o.f provisions and clothing as a reason for claiming an increased rate of pay. For ships bound to Australia and round the Cape they demand £3 10s. per month, being an advance of 15s. or 20s. Aid is asked for the sou and two daughters of Robert Bloomfield, the poet, who are old and in destitute circumstances. They are at present residing in a small lodging at Hoxton"and one of the women," writes acorrespon, dent, "is, apparently, not far from her end." An International Horticultural Exhibition was opened in Kensington on May 22, and proved a complete success. The display of flowers and foliage plants was superb beyond all precedent, aud the attendance had to be reckoned by thousands. It is announced that Dr. Cuilen, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, has been made a cardinal. The new cardinal is the first Irish bishop who has been elevated by the Holy See to this dignity. A horrible story is reported from Manchester of a child being worried by a pig. The animal had been won at a raffle, and was kept Irish fashion, in the house of its winner to fatten for sale. The child being left asleep on two chairs, with no one to protect it, the pig. by some means pulled it to the ground, tore off one of the arms, and when disturbed had almost devoured the whole of the limb. The child was uot quite dead, but expired in a few hours.