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Colonist, Volume XIII, Issue 1300, 11 March 1870, Page 4

A large number of emigrants are leaving Ireland for Algeria. His Royal EransEss Prince Leopold is suffering from a severe illness. Medical men are understood to be almost constantly in attendance upon him. Dr Elizabeth Black well has commenced (he practice of medicine in London. She is the daughter of a Bristol sugn- refiner, who emigrated to the United States in 1832. The rank of cornet and ensign is to be abolished. These grades will accordingly disappear from the Army List at the commencement of the next financial year. Dr. Wilberfoece was confirmed Biyhop of Winchester at Bow Church on December 11. There was no opposition, and he was formally enthroned in the cathederal of his now diocese on December 16. Sxow Storm in Scotland—Four Mun Killed.-~ A heavy (all of snow commenced in various parts of Scotland on Christmas Day. On December 28, two engines, with a miow plough and van full of surfacemen, left Aberdeen to dear the Great North of Scotland Railway of snow. About two miles frrmi Htmtly the snow plough broke, and both the engine were thrown down an embankment GO feet deep. Four men who were upon them were killed, and one escaped. The men in the vim were not injured. Tn>: south-eastern section of the East London Railway, which connects New Cross with Wapping and Shadwett, vr-'s formally opened on December 6. This line, which utilises the Thames Tunnel, is about three miles in length. Th r London correspondent of a provincial journal says •" —"I understand thai the accouchuient of the Prince of Wales wa« quite unexpected. At eleven on the night in question, the Prince eaine home and retired to rest, and ho did the Prince's; but by half-past-twelve o'clock the young Princess was in the arms of her nurse." Her Royal Highness was churched at the Chapel Royal, St.Jame*'s, on December 20, and the infant Princess was christened on December 2-A. | Tn£ miners' exodus will soon receive a further impetus, as about thirty miners, nine smiths, carpenter*, and masons have been engaged for the i treneial P.razilian Gold Mining company. At length it ha* been decided to make no reappointment to the office of Master of the Mint. The present Deputy-Master, Mr. Freomantle, will preside over the establishment, which will he attached to the TreasuryA " World's Fair" is to be held at Washington in 1871, and subscriptions equal to £240,000 are said to have been already obtained from persons willing to guarantee the required funds, President Grant being among the number for £1000. We (Ofa//o Daily Times) aregiad to observe from the English papers that Mr Fairlie's combined steam carriage is about to be subjected to a thorough 'trial. One of these carriages is to be placed on the line of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, by whom the urrangmeuts have been finally completed, for the purpose of testing its suitability tor passenger traffic. As the line named is one on which the passenger tralh'e is very great; the carriage will be subjected to as severe a test us possible, and the result will therefore be awaited with interest; by many both in England and the colonies. Pkjvatk advices have been received in London from Now York, stating that the honor done to the remains of the late Mr. Peabody, and to the fact of our Government having conveyed his body to ! America in a ship of war, bus had a great effect on the States, avsd libb gone far towards doing away with tiie ill-leeling caused by the Alabama difficulty. There is a story going about to the effect that the special correspondent in London of a well-known American paper lately telegraphed to ask his employers what line he should hike upon the Alabama question. The reply, through the cable, was " Let. the matter drop; it's played out." Orkat excitement has been caused in New York by the assassination of Albert D. Richardson, journalist, by Daniel M'Farland. The motive for the murder was revenge on Richardson for marrying M'Farland's wife, who had obtained a divorce in consequence of bad treatment. M'Farland, by last advices, was in prison awaiting trial. Simple whitening reduced with cold water to a thickness sufficient to cover scalds or burns, is recommended by a writer in the Sydney Morning herald, us »n efficacious remedy. HollowaVs Ointment and Pills.—As autumn is usually the season when constitutional weaknesses develop themselves, uovv is the time for prompt and decisive intervention. With Hollowny's twin remedies, applied in conformity with the instructions folded round them, every invulid may avert the threatening ailment, and escape both its sutt'erings and its perils. These medicaments eau be safely

ijaivi by ihfl flfflii!t»>(l of evo'ry iiR'I*, Wink, mA floiiclitionj they renvvi' iiil dia^ea wl)icii tfinl to vitin to the vital fluid : they reduce all disordered -functions to regularity: they purity, cool, and heal. No miilady, however trifling, should be permitted to remain untr.at d, when such easy and effective means of thoroughly eradicating the very seeds of disease are placed within every patienl's reach. — Advf.