EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE

Otago Witness, Issue 374, 29 January 1859, Page 1

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE

TO NOVEMBER Ist.

In consequence of our Melbourne papers not having been forwarded to us by the steamer Pirate, we are unable to give full details of the English news to the Ist Nov. which reached Melbourne by the Salsette. We however obtained one Melbourne paper, but it contains nothing beyond what we give below that is worth extracting. The arrival of the Lord Ashley has since put us in possession of news to Nov. 1, but the lateness of the week precludes our making further extracts. The news, however, presents nothing of any particular interest : —

The Lord -Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Eglinton, is about to be married to Lady Adela Capel, the only daughter of the Earl and Countess of Essex.

On Thursday night week Chas. Clancy, son of a farmer, at Tullehar (Clare), was shot dead within a few yards of his own house. His brother and cousin were in the house, and on hearing the firearms ran out, and saw deceased staggering towards them, crying out, "I am murdered ! lam undone ! " He died on being brought into the house.

Miss Mary Richmond, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Richmond, author of " The Dairyman's Daughter," was on a visit to Clifton. She was fond of botany, and on Sunday week, as she was endeavouring to reach a flower on the " Lion's Head Cliff," she lost her footing, fell over, and was killed on the spot. As she went down she struck against the projecting rocks ; the unfortunate lady had been previously cautioned about the danger of going to so unsafe a spot.

The appearance of the comet created an immense sensation in Egypt ; for several days all business and labour were at a stand still, the inhabitants believing that it foreboded some great calamity.

At Marseilles, at a banquet given to M. de Lesseps, that gentleman stated, in reply to a toast, " That the works of the Suez Canal will commence in three months, and that the canal shall be opened in three years."

Baron de Rothschild has presented the City of London School with a scholarship of £60 a year, in remembrance of the long struggle in the City for the emancipation of Jews from their last civil disabilities. The General Commemoration Fund has reached £2,400. One of the scholarships to be founded by means of this Fund will be given to University College.

The " Court Circular " states that Her Majesty has signified her intention of conferring the honour of knighthood upon Mr. John Thomas Smith, late Mayor of Melbourne.

Five companies of French marines have been ordered to embark at Brest, for Canton, to be established on the French territory there.

A Bantry correspondent of the " Dublin Evening Mail" cautions the Government against allowing the visit of an American regiment of militia, the 69th, to Ireland, and states that " secret societies have been discovered in this neighbourhood, as well as in other places in the west of the county of Cork. They are also creeping inland, and have made some progress in the neighbouring county of Kerry. A strange peculiarity pervades this movement. The members of the society bind themselves not to divulge their plans to the priests, and where spoken against from the altar they denounce the priests as despots, as bad as the rest, of their tyrants. They are supposed to derive inspirations from America, and money also. They declare their intention to rise in arms whenever there may be any difference with France or America.