Untitled

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 985, 17 January 1883, Page 2

In the course of the excavations at Pompeii, - a small shrine has been discovered containing six bronze- statuettes* representing Apollo with a lyre, Mercury* Hercules, AEscutapius, and two; Lares, The bronze lamp which burned before the shrine was found hanging in its place. The first act of the new Bey of Tunis has been to dismiss dar, who was his brother’s favonme Premier, and to replace him by one Avho has been always favorable to French interests.

German explorers have discovered some pre-Christian sculptures of a most interesting .character: in the EuphratesiYalley , near the Ante-Taurus Mountains. i' The elections to the Norwegian Storthing have resulted in a crushing defeat*q£ the Government. Four-fifths of the members returned belonging to the Radicals and Republicans. The New York, Chicago,and St. Ldiiis Railroad, known as Nickel Plate road, has been bought by a syndicate of Western Railway magnates, reported to be in the Vanderbilt interest. Immigration to the United States is decreasing; 158,021 immigrants arrived in the country last quarter, against 171,805 in the same quarter last year. A telegram from Helsingsfors states that a terrible conflagration has occurred at Uleaborg, by which, twenty-four houses have already been destroyed. The losses are described as enormous. It is reported from Tripoli that the Bedouins there are offering for sale. large quantities of firearms and other property. It is believed that these are proceeds of the looting at Alexandria. A loaded coal car on an inclined plane, leading from a colliery near Williamsport, Pennsylvania, recently broke loose _ and rushed down hill, Three men' were killed and two fatally injured. The car demolished the buildings at the foot of the plane. The damage done to public and private property in the fourteen inundated districts of the Southern Tyrol is estimated at 1,559,300 florins'. The amount subscribed up to the present in aid of the sufferers is 250,000 florins, exclusive of the contribution from, the Emperor’s privy purse. The deaths are announced from Berlin, at the age of seventy-two, of the portrait and historical painter—Julius Jacob—who, from 1850 to 1865, lived mostly in London and Vienna, and transferred to canvas many of the celebrities of the day;;,and of the historical and animal painter of Berlin, Adolf Eybel. One of his most notedpictures represented Richard Ca*ur de Lion listening to Blondel. v The French newspapers announce that counterfeit Bank of England notes for large amounts have been successfully dis-, posed of by two Englishmen in Paris. They succeeded in defrauding one great banking establishment alone of £16,000,. and the total nominal value of the worthless notes which they got rid of is. so far as is : ascertained hp to the present time, no less than two" millions lofftfrancs, or. £BO,OOO. • .