SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Southland Times, Issue 2676, 6 February 1877, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Vifcount Stratford de Bedcliffe com* pleted his ninetieth year on the 4th inst. The Venerable peer is suffering from a alight attack of gout, but ii in the enjoyment of all his faculties, and takea an activeintereflt in the great questions of the day. The action for libel, in which Mr Butt, M.P., claimed LIO.OOO damages from the Dublin Daily Express, haa been withdrawn. A telegram from Malta announces that the Duchess of Edinburgh gave birth to a daughter there on Saturday erening. The Court newsman remarks that the present addition to the Royal family it the Queen's sixteenth granddaughter and twenty-fifth grandchild. The Arabian charter which Omar Paßha presented to Lord Raglan, and which carried him throughout the Crimean campaign, died at Dunelg, Ontario, oh the anniversary of the battle of Balaolava, October the 26th. Mrs Beecher Stowe will shortly publish a work entitled " Footsteps of the Master." Mr Mark Twain is said to be engaged on a book named, "The North Pole, and How We didn't get There.* Anew edition, edited by the author, with several later poems; wSF^-^fKSSshed about Christmas,' by Mr WJXtI Bkytift. Mr Reed, M.P., at the NorfolkX&araber of Agriculture, ftaSsedl that corngrowing in England does not pay, and that the cultivation jof/ v wheat this year has been a dead loss to farmers. The hon. gentleman recommended paying for harresting by the acre, and" commencing harvest earlier, so as to utilise favorable weather, and prepare for autumn cultivation. Anew drama by Mr Tennyson, entitled "Harold," is announced for immediate publication by Messrs H. S^ King and Co. .• . . . Mrs Victoria Woodhull is, it if said, coming to England to play Lady Macbeth. No one, however, seems to Jcnow what theatre is to be honored by ber presence,