The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1868.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 118, 20 May 1868, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1868.

The following conclusion of the telegram we published as an Extra, last night : — The receipts of Mr Dickens's four nights' reading at Washington were over 10,000 dollars, and for eight readings at Philadelphia over that sum. Mr Dickens would return to England in the middle of April. The Dowager Lady Tichborno has died suddenly, and an inquest has been held on the body. The Australian claimant to the title and estates stated that £1000 had been offered to his servant to procure his death. The verdict attributed her death to natural causes. A discreditable scene took place at the funeral, at whieh the Australian claimant figured prominently, carrying off her ladyship's body from the other relations of the family. One of the most atrocious tragedies that has ever been committed in England, has taken place at Todmorden, in Gloucestershire, exceeding even that committed some . years ago by Rush. A weaver, named Weatherhill, being denied permission to visit his sweetheart, a servant at the Rev. Mr Plow's, conceived the horrible idea of murdering the reverend gentleman and his household, and succeeded in killing one servant and Mr Plow himself, and fearfully beating Mrs Plow and an infant, which has since died. The lobby of the house is said to have resembled a slaughterhouse, being so saturated with blood. Weatherhill has been tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Mr Justice Lush, who tried the prisoner, characterised the offence as atrocious almost without parallel in the annals of crime. The Queen wrote a letter of condolence to Mrs Plow. The capital sentence passed on Thompson and Mullane, the Manchester Fenian convicts, has been commuted to penal servitude for life. ' The will of the late Mr Walter Powell, of Melbourne, has been proved in the London Probate Court. The personality in England alone is estimated at £25,000. Australian Securities maintain their prices. The Oriental Bank has declared a dividend for the last year of 6 per cent. The London wool sales have been spirited for all descriptions. A rise of |d. per lb. has taken place. The Conway Castle, from Glasgow to Melbourne, with a general cargo valued at £40,000, run ashore on Black Water Bank, but was got oif. The number of vessels on the berth for Victoria was 15, and for Sydney 11. Obituary : — Lady Harriett Corry, (wife of Mr Lowry Corry, First Lord of the Admiralty); Baron Ben thick, the Earl of Rosebery, Lord Byron, Sir J. B. Gibson, Sir Henry Floyd, Sir Richard Digby, Mr Neave, M.P,, Rev Dr Tidman, General Mildmay, Lord Carrington, Rev Dr Robert Lee, of Edinburgh ; Rev John Healy Bromby, the oldest clergyman ih England, father of the Bishop of Tasmania, and of the Rev Dr Bromby, of Melbourne. CONTINENTAL NEWS. A disturbance has taken place at Toulouse and Nantes, caused by the dislike of the working population to the drawing for the Garde Mobile. Crowds sang the Marseillaise, barricades were erected, and several arrests effected. Prince Napoleon has visited Berlin on a diplomatic mission. The late King Louis L, of Bavaria, has left a fortune amounting to more than £9,600,000 sterling. It is asserted in Government circle s in Berlin that the King of -Hanover has at his disposal 40,000,000 francs. An assembly of cardinals and prelates has been summoned at Rome, for the pur-

pose of consultation on the question of the revision of the Concordat with Austria. A serious conflict took place at midnight on 26th March, at Brussels, between troops and rioters. AMERICA. New York, Mnrch, 18. It is reported that Mr Stanton, apprehending a guerilla raid upon the War Office from Virginia, has ordered the garrison at Washington to be held in readiness. An armed organisation is being effected in Teunessee, to take forciblo possession of the central state. A Government bill to admit Alabama representatives to Congress bas been recommitted by the House of Representatives to the Reconstruction Committee. The Senate Court met on March 13th, for the trial of President Johnston. The Court ordered the President to file his answer to the articles, of impeachment on or before 23rd March, when the President's counsel filed the answer, denying all charges, and applying for a delay of 30 days to prepare for the trial. The Senate refused the application by 41 votes to 12. The House of Representatives filed a reply to the answer of. President Johnston. The reply affirms all the charges.