ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5679, 12 June 1879, Page 3

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

The Liverpool Corporation'haVing received a letter from Melbourne upon the subject of the forthcoming International Exhibition to be held there in 1880, have declined submitting the matter to a committee—the usual course. Very different has been the conduct of the. Lublin Corporation, the Lord Mayor there, Sir John Barrington, having taken such an interest in the matter, he has signified bis intention of going out to Melbourne to be present at the opening of the' Exhibition, when he will be accompanied by Alderman Harris, of Dublin, both of these distinguished personages having accepted the invitation of Dr. Beaney, the medical Victorian Commissioner now in London, to be guests at his house in Melbourne.

Lord Loftus, the newly appointed Governor of New South Wales, has arrived in London from St. Petersburg, where he was ambassador. His lordship will not leave for Sydney before the end of May, when he will proceed via San Francisco—his servants and carriages going via the Cape. Lord Loftus has two sons—the elder of whom, Mr. Henry J. Loftus, will be his private secretary. We understand that Sir Hercules llohinson, the late Governor of New South Wales, is a relation of his successor in office.

The Lord Mayor of London, Sir, Charles Whetham, is Chairman of the Scottish Australian Investment Company. The Emperor William, on hearing of the attempted assassination of the Czar, sent an aide-de-camp to the Russian Embassy to express his sympathy, and immediately afterwards despatched a telegram to . the Emperor of Russia congratulating his Majesty on, his fortunate escape. As soon as the news of the attempted assassination, and the .Emperor’s safety reached the Russian Ambassador : a solemn Te Deum was sung in the chapel attached to the Embassy. , American papers just received give an account of the assassination of Mr. Elliott, Chief Judge of Appeal, who was shot down by Cplonel Buford on the, steps, of Louisville Court House in revenge' for an adverse decision. The murderer when arrested owned his motive, and declared he would have killed the other Judge als» but for his large family. Intelligence has been received at Berlin of a valuable now find made by the, German excavators at Olympia. The exhumed is the head of a statute .representing the fiver god Klaedos. The head is in.a good,state of preservation. The G ermau Minister at Athens, Herr von Radowitz, happened to be present when the head was discovered. . , > ■; The death is .announced from Baris >of Adolph Str'odtm'ahn, well known for His excellent translations .into’ German of the works of Tenuyaon, Shelley, George Eliot, and others, and as a biographer of Heine, and of' Gottfried Kinkel, whose intimate friend he! was. ■' ......

■The Pope, it is stated,'is making great reductions in his personal household, .observing that it is useless to keep up au ; enormous kitchen where nothing is. cooked; liis dinner consists of a soup and one plat, Of. personal service he requires very little, so that,,his retainers will be reduced to one-third ~o£. their number. , "...

Mr. Baird, who was sent, to Upper Egypt to take measures for relieving the starving population, has sent in a report to, ,the Egyptian Government in which he fully confirms the appalling extent of the famine, and proves by statistics that 10,000 persons havp, died from starvation alone in Ghirgeh, Keceh, .. and Bench. He attributes' the, famine . to_ overtaxation of the people, and says- that if the over-taxation continues another bad Nile will produce a still worse famine. ~ - . ;■ That wonderful man , Edison, of. electric light notoriety, has so far improved the telegraph as to render it possible to send four messages at once on a single'wife. This feat was performed the other , day s with great' success, and now we hear he contemplates a plan for sending six messages by the same wire at ,one time. His improved- telephone, enabling persons to converse at'four miles distance, was exhibited in the city of London the. other day to a select circle of mercantile men, who were perfectly astonished at the results. The Prince of Wales, as'President of the Society of Arts, has addressed a letter to Lord Beaconsfield, asking, bn behalf of the association he represents, for tlie’appointment of a commission whose duty shall be to collect information respecting the water supply for the population of England. Lord Beaconsfield writes in reply that he has referred the matter to the Board,of Treasury for the careful consideration of their lordships. Mr. Joseph Tritton, treasurer of the Baptist Missionary Society, has given £SOO towards Bending out additional agents to assist in the Congo River mission. The Rev. H. J. ; Martfn, of Preston, a Congregational minister, haa' goue, oyer to , the Church of England. Mr. Martyn was educated at Cheshunt College, which is hot an exclusively Congregational institution, but he! has been an Independent' minister for . nearly twenty years. '