The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1867. EPITOME OF EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 197, 23 August 1867, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1867. EPITOME OF EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

It is announced to be the intention of her Majesty to hold a review iv Hyde Paik, during the Sultan's visit, of allthe troops that cau be conveniently assembled. A naval review will also take place. Tbe Queen left Balmoral for Windsor Castle on the 18th June. A Drawing-room was held by the Princess Alice, on behalf of her Blajesty, on the 15th June, which was very numerously attended. The Prince of Wales has also held levees, at one of which exGovernor Eyre was presented, much to the dismay of the Exeter Hall party. The Princess of Wales is much better, being now able to move without risk of disturbing the afflicted knee-joint, and will soon be able to drive out. But whether she will ever entirely recover the use of the limb, the medical authorities do not venture to decide. The Princess is oxpected to stay for several weeks at Trentham, the seat of the Duke of Sutherland, aud will then probably take the waters at Bath, where a house is said to have been engaged forher. On dit that the Empress Eugenic wrote to the Princess to try and persuade her tb come and live wilh her for a few months, insisting ori the fact that a complete change / of air might be beneficial to her health, and assuring her that she would receive from her all the affectionate care of a . sister. The Duke of Edinburgh left Gibraltar for Madeira onthe llth June. He was then to proceed to Rib Janeiro, and thence to the Cape, where he would remain for a month,, and then, should the advices respecting the epidemic fever at Mauritius be satisfactory, would visit that island, «n rou fe for Aastralia. The whole voya/o was to be made under canvass. Net programme'bad; yet been made kuown of the Prince's proceedings on his arrival in Australia^ but. it. was. certain that he woull return round Cape Horn, and would be in England -again in the course ■ef Vtwefvempnths. It is said that an at--tachment exists between the Prince and a ; daughter of ;. the ~ ex-King of Hanover, - "^hich liasinot received the Queen's ap- -:, .prbvalj.ju> consequence of.the parties con■\Vcern^ "■'"..

Prince Arthur bas been created a Knight of tbe Garter. It was generally understood that Par> liament would not be prorogued till tbe second or third week iv. August, and tbat a geueral election would take place early iv the spring. The Emperor and Empress of Austria were crowned Kiug and Queen of Hungary on the I2th June at Buda. General enthusiasm is said to have been displayed; but the joy of all must have been sadly damped by the recent cruel death of tbe Archd uchessMathilde, -vvho bas been burnt to death through treading on a lucifer match, and by the uncertainty which hung over the fate of the Emperor's brother, the Emperor Maximilian, who, it will be remembered, was betrayed by his principal general, Lopez, who, for 3000 ounces of gold, admitted the forces of Juarez iuto Queretaro, thus capturing Maximilian and all his principal officers at once. Tbe Loudon papers state that Escobedo, the general who commanded the besieging forces, had ordered a court-martial to assemble ou the 291h June for the trial of the Emperor, who had engaged legal aid for his defence from Mexico, through the Prussian Minister. It was reported in Paris on the 23rd June that a despatch had arrived at the American Legation at Vienna from Secretary Seward, stating that the Emperor had been sentenced to exile from Mexico, and tbat ho had left for Europe, and would laud ia England. The telegram, however, which is , obviously of much later date, states that the Emperor had been shot. It was thought advisable that the news of the perilous positiou of the Emperor should be communicated to the Empress, who has for some time past been suffering from mental aberration and who is still at Miramar, near Trieste, in the hope that it would create a reaction from the state of mental prostration under which she was laboring. It had the desired effect; the poor priucess suddenly recovered all her former clearness of intellect, and shows great calmness and resignation under her afflictions. The Empress is first cousin to Queen Victoria, beiug the only daughter of Kiug Leopold of Belgium, by his second wife, a daughter of Louis Philippe. The Commission appointed to inquire into the working of the trades unions at Sheffield were still sitting. The secretary, a wreich named Broadhead, has given evidence that he has been for years employing murderers to carry out the rules of the unions, and has paid meu to shoot, maim, or blow up with gunpowder artisans whose only offence has been a violation of the edicts by which the price of labor has beeu kept up. The victims were marked out, watched, and shot at by assassins who knew nothing of them, and merely carried out for hire the orders of the chief miscreant. Those who know anything of the proceedings ofthe so-called "Young England party" on tbe turf, will be prepared to hear that Mr Naylor of Hooton has become the purchaser of the Duke of Hamilton's Loudon residence Arliugtou-street, and that the Marquis of Bute has purchased Loudoun Castle in Ayrshire, the ancestral seat of the Marquis of Hastings, for £350,000. A petition has beeu presented to the French Senate, praying that the remains of Louis Philippe may be transferred to France, as those of Napoleon I. were brought from St. Helena during the reign of the firsfc mentioned monarch. The Belgian Volunteers were to be conveyed over for their return visit to England,- in the magnificent iron screw steam troop ship Serapis, 4173 tons, leaving Autwerp on the 10th July. From Gravesend the foreign visitors would be conveyed in small steamers up the river, and conducted their quarters. On the 12th they would march to Guildhall, to receive the welcome of the Lord Mayor and Corporation, and with the civic feast the round of entertainments would begin. : £5500 had been promised in subscriptions for the entertainment of the Belgians and for the competition at Wimbledon Butts, aud if they go through the programme . conscientiously, they will have a Lard week's work. Lord Brougham and Vaux had arrived in London from Cannes in excellent health. The obituary for June contains the following names: — Sir Thomas Phillips, Q.C., Mayor of Newport at the time of the Chartist riots in 1839, and Chairman 'ofthe Society of Arts ; Mr J. C. Grundy, senior member of the print establishment in Manchester, and long connected with.

the fine arts j Lady Nortbbrook, daughter of Mr H.C. Sturt, of Critchell, and widow of Lord Northbrook, late Et. Hon. Sir Francis Thornhill Baring; the Earl of Pornfret, unmarried, in his 43rd year, by whose death tho title. becomes extinct; the Very Hey. Principal Dewar, of Murischal College; Sir Eric K^T. Farquhar, Bart., son of the "late Sir W. Minto Farquhar, who died last year, and is succeeded by his brother Miuto W. Farquhar, lately resident in New Zealaud; the Countess of Gifford, better kuown as Lady Dufferin, the eldest of the three daughters of the late Mr Thomas Sheridan (son of li. B. Sheridan), and a favorite authoress aud composer; Dr Auster, LL.D., Regius Professor of Civil Law in Triuity College, Dublin, and a well-known literary character; Dr F. H. Ramadge, au eminent writer on medical subjects; Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., of Bray ton Hall, Cumberland; Eev. Harry Dupuis, vicar of Eichmoud, and late assistant-master at Eton; Sir S. L. Hammick, Bart., one of the most celebrated surgeons of his day, aged 91; Lady Charlotte Greville, sister of the late Earl of Warwick; Lady Albiuia Foster, sister of the Earl of Buckinghamshire; and Eev. E. Baukes, 8.C.L., Canon of Gloucester aud Bristol Cathedrals, and Chaplain to the Queen. The will ofthe late Countess of Jersey, granddaughter of Child the banker, has been sworn under £300,000. Dr Howson, head of the Collegiate j School at Liverpool, has beeu appointed Dean of Chester. Mr Pope Hennessy has received the appointment of Governor of Labuan and Consul-General of Borneo. It seems tbat the announcement which appeared in all theEuglish papers, which, it is said, was originally copied from a West Country paper, stating thatthe Queen had determined to expend the magnificent sum of half a million sterling upon the erection of a convalescent hospital iv connection with St. Bartholomew's Hospital, at a convenient distauce from London and iv an eminently salubrious locality, has turned out to be simply a very improper hoax, played off at the expense of royalty. The statement was put forth so positively aud with such circumstantiality of detail, that it was impossible to doubt 'ts truth. The Times however has declared won authority" that there was not the slightest foundation for the tale, no such idea having flashed across the Queeu's mind, and so the affair has ended. The report, too, that Mr Chaplin, out of his Dorby winnings, had given £12,000 towards the restoration of Lincoln Cathedral, was equally untrue. The gentleman did not see that he would be the gainer by any such transaction, and declared that ho never had the slightest intention of doing anything ot the kind. At the illumination which took place at the Opera House, Paris, on the occasion of the ißinperor Alexander's visit, his initial letter cculd not be added, as originally intended. In fact some difficulty was experiencod'in placing the A; it was not polite that it should follow the N and the E, the iuitial letters of the Emperor and Empress of the French, and to put the A before them would.have afforded irresistible fun to small jokers, as such of our readers who are acquainted with the French language will readily perceive.

We have now no less than five Volunteer Companies organised iv this city, three of which have been in existence for many months past, and the movement generally ; shows uumistakable symptoms of vitality; yet we have heard nothing said about supplying either of the Companies with that necessary and picturesque accompaniment to every military body — its distinctive colors. Ensigns have been appointed to four Companies, who come forth on parade and gala days resplendent in all the glories of scarlet cloth aud silver lace, but as yet they have not been supplied with their standards, literally the insignia of their rank, aud the guardianship of which is their peculiar duty. This deficiency is the more remarkable because we have good reason to believe that the Volunteer movement is regarded with peculiar favor by the ladies of Nelson, and we cannot doubt that many a fair finger would gladly be employed iv such a service. The example has been set iv the other provinces, and we feel confident that the matter has only to be ventilated- by our ... lady friends, to insure the speedy realisation of this object. It seems far from improbable that we may shortly be honored by a^Eoyal visit, for the scant programme

— '.. ' , r?.-!^ •-"-"!■: fs.-rrrß', 1 :—■■■ ■-" ' '.», - ,'t - which ha 6 heen placed before us of tha movements of our sailor Prince in this hemisphere can. hardly be regarded as th© definite aunouncement. of his intentions, and will, in all likelihood, be considerably modified on his arrival iv obedience to the recommendation of the local powers that be. It is therefore doubly necessary thafc the ladies of Nelson should bestir themselves, and by the formation of committees, etc., insure the object to which we have adverted. We regret to hear that a very painful . accident occurred to Bir Arthur Collins, at his residence, Hillwood, Wakapuaka, on Wednesday last. As far a3 we have been able to ascertain, Mr Collins was engaged in assisting iv carting some hay, and whilst ou his way to the stack the frame of the cart on which he was seated, and which had not been properly fastened, suddenly shifted, and he was jammed between it and the body of the cart. Unluckily the horse, a youug one, became restive, aud the result was that the small bone of the left leg was broken. Dr Cusack was very promptly in attendance, and we learn that under his care, though slill sufferiug severely from the effects of the accident, Mr Collins is going on very favorably. An instance has been brought under our notice which serves to illustrate the facility with which the provision of the Licensing Act, 1867, framed with a view to the prevention of habitual intemperance, may be eluded uuder certain exceptional circumstances. It seems that a well-known inebriate in this city, who was, we believe, the first individual tabooed under the new Act, yesterday entered a. hostelry in oue of our principal thoroughfares, the barman of which, a stranger, being personally unacquainted with him, without hesitation supplied him, on his demand, with liquor. We can now understand why the Canterbury legislators, providing for such a contingency, enacted that photographs of these unfortunate persons should be furnished to every public-house in Christchurch. Up to the time of going to press, no telegram had been received, notifying the arrival of the Panama Mail at Wellington. We have to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of three maps of the Cobden, Westport, and Karamea townships, made by the Provincial Surveyor, and admirably lithographed by Mr T. Hodgson of Hardy-street, under the authority of the Government. Holloway s Pilk. — Palpitation of the heart is frequently not only felt, but heard; it prevents sleep, and begets the utmost dread of impending suffocation. These Pills are particularly recommended for removing this affection, because they strengthen the nervous and the debilitated, who are much more liable to this malady than other persons. Holloway 's Pills so improve the digestion, increase the action of the liver, and give activity to the bowels, that giddiness, headache, and nausea depart as the palpitation diminishes, and the sufferer at once experiences the most indescribable relief from anxiety. Holloway 's form the best alterative and aperient in all cases of convalescence from fevers, inflammations, neuralgic and all chronic diseases which have impoverished the blood and brain. 3039