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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 65, 18 March 1868, Page 3

necessary to maintain the precautions : which have been adopted of late against Feuian outrages in the metropolis. Wayfarers passing through St. James's-square will see a policeman keeping guard before Lord Derby's house. Mr Hardy, who as Home Secretary is mainly responsible for the executions at Manchester, is specially looked after by the police, and he never stirs out withont having some detectives near him to ward off possible attacks. Verily, the seal of office is almost as uneasy a possession as a royal crown. Mr Prevost, a famous silkworm breeder in California, writing to the American Board of Agriculture, says: — Just a mouth ago I was in Sacramento, and think how pleased I was to find that over 3,000,000 of mulberry trees were growing there finely in different places. And I found also that Mrs Haynie had a fine crop of cocoons — the finest I have ever seen yet. The question is now settled that the mulberry tree and the worms succeed finely all over our State ; but by what I see Sacramento will be the first silk district of California. I think that for the next season they will have there food enough for 10,000,000 silkworms.

Some months back several men were tried at Bathurst, N.S. W., for the robbery of the Mudgee mail, uear Crown Bridge. Among the passengers was a Mr Charles Sidey> and from him was taken a gold watch and chaiu. The prisoners were all convicted, and sentenced to heavy terms of penal servitude. Mr Sidey, through the Eoraan Catholic clergymau at Bathurst, lately received his watch and chain ia the same condition as when he lost it. The Melbourne papers publish the prospectus of the * Maribyrnong Stud Distribution,' by raeaus of which Mr. Charlei Fisher purposes to distribute his magnificent stud throughout the Australian Colonies. The drawing is to take place at the Exhibitiou-buildiug, William-street, Melbourne, on the 6th prox., and there are to be 2000 members at £10 each. Each horse will coustitute a prize, and in the event of any one of them dying before the time of drawing, 500 soys. will be substituted for him. Full particulars of the pedigrees and engagements of the different horses are given in the prospectus. The Lancet reports a remarkable surgical operation which lately took place in the theatre of University College Hospital. It was performed by Mr Christopher Heath, in the presence of a large number of visitors. The patient was a man, 32 years of age, whose appearance was most extraordinary from the enormous enlargement of the lower part of his face. An idea of this may be gainei by mention of the fact that a line taken round the chin, from one ear to the other, measured 19£ in. ; and from the lower lip (which was dragged down) to Adam's apple, 13 in. The operation was performed with singular expedition and facility, and but very little blood was lost. Mr Heath was assisted by Mr Erichsen, Sir Henry Thompson, Mr Marshall, and Mr Berkeley Hill, who illustrated exactly what good assistance should be. Mr Clover managed the chloroform (in spite of the difficulties of the case) so cleverly that the patient was kept under its influence throughout the operation. It may be noted that the tumour is the largest of its kind on record since Mr Syme took one away of the same weight, in 1828. John Patterson and a man named Hafcchell, in gaol at Franklin, Indiana—the former accused of the murder of David Lyons, at Greenwood, Indiana, and the latter supposed to be an accomplice of Patterson, also accused of committing murder in Kentucky— were forcibly taken from the gaol at night by a mob, and conveyed to Schofield's Woods, near the town, and hanged. Hatchell nearly succeeded in making his escape while on the way to the place of execution, but was fired on and recaptured. At the first attempt to hang Hatchell the rope broke ; but an* other was procured, and the deed accomplished. An 'English paper, under date of the 14th December says : — It is etill thought