ENGLISH NEWS

Colonist, Volume XX, Issue 2342, 29 January 1878, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS

On the night of December 4, the steamer Breeze, bound from Antwerp to West Hartlepool, tank two vessels. First the Hanoverian galliot Orient, and at a later hour the steamer Sunbeam, of Goole. She managed to save the crews of botb vessels. ■ While the ship Westfield, of Liverpool, was proceeding from Callao to the Guano islands, the crew mutinied. One man was shot^dead, andjthree others were severely wounded. The mutineers (most of them negroes) have been brought to Liverpool for trial, ' ': '■■'■■■'..',■ Cardinal Manning has been seriously ill from an attack of bronchitis.

i Sir H. Rawlinson's collection of Arabic" manuscript* has been purchased for the British Museum. Two young .women, siitera, named Joyce, have .been found;drowned; in a pond at Morden, Surrey. It is believed they were blown infd the pond through the violence of a gale, while they were on their V»y to pay a visit to a married sister. ■ \ :v 1 The steamer Miz pah came into collision with some unknown Teasel off; Beachy Head. Both vessels Bank immediately, and only one man was saved from the Mizpah. How many, lives were'lost will [probably never be known, but twelve were ldstfwitb the steamer. Some are of opinion the vessel did not sink, but was lost to view by those on the Mizpah owing to the fog. Seven of the crew of the steamer embarked in a boat, which capsized, and alliwere drowned save one. . , _ ■' The late Mr Stewart'i Working Women's Hotel at New York is just about completed. It has cost two million dollars, has five hundred and two rooms, and a library which at present has nearly three thousand volumes on its shelves. It will give ample accommodation for one thousand permanent boarders, and has cooking appliances for five thousand. Six hundred persons can easily dine together in the diningroom. The most effioient women procurable have been appointed its superintendents, and all the comforts of a first-olass home are provided. A spinning mill has been destroyed by fire at Bury, Lancashire, causing one thousand persons to be. thrown out of work. Damages fully £15,000. Messrs Boddington and Leigh's corn store at Manchester has been destroyed by fire. The damage was very great, and is named at £50,000. On the night of December 18, Honolulu (Sandwich Islands), experienced its greatest conflagration, which devastated the lower or esplanade part of that seaport. The Government wharf, sheds, and warehouse, were destroyed. The estimated logs, is put at 258,700 dollars, and the insurance at 63,100. The Pacifio Mail Steamship Company's loss is given at 26,000 dollars. The shipping had to put to sea for safety. J The captains of the ships Calabar and Olga have been fined at Liverpool, for not exhibiting the proper lights to show their Teasels were laden with gunpowder. The Harbor Board's solicitor stated' that if the vessels had oome into, collision Liverpool would' have been blown up. ': ; •; Off the Start, on the night of December 1, the ship Carnarvon Castle sank the Dutoh brigantine Hasard. No lives were lost. , Owing to the prevalence of small-pox on the island, vaccination has bean made compulsory in the Isle of Man. • Miss Godwin was killed while showing to some visitors a mortuary chapel in Haokney churchyard. The aroh of a vault fell, and Bhe was buried by a mans of earth and brickwork. ' It is stated the siege of Plevna cost the Russians fifty thousand men. Little dependence can be placed on these figures, for if all the reported Russian and Turkish losses were* taken into [account, they have lost the total number of their armies repeatedly. Correspondents are apt to exaggerate in order to give importance to the different battles. ; , \ Egypt sends to the aid of Turkey additional troops, ! comprising 12,000 infantry, 4 batteries of artillery, | and 1000 cavalry. \ The suspension of Meura Whitehouse & Co., tube 1 manufacturers, of the Globe Works, Birmingham, is announced. The steamer Moravian, which arrived at Liverpool on December 11, brought 8000 head of dead poultry from Canada. . Sir Julius Yogel has written a paper in the Nineteenth , Century in favor of ohoap telegrams. Sir Julius thinks the time has arrived for sixpenny tele* grams in the United. Kingdom. Hit paper has attracted much attention. The Mansion-house Indian Famine subscriptions reached £482,400 at the end of November. Three gentlemen, named Wright, Gar lick, and Bertner, attempted to walk on the sands from Southport to Lytham (Lancashire). They were overtaken by the rising tide, and the two latter were drowned, Wright managing to get to shore. A rich and extensive gold quartz lead has been discovered in the Cariboo district, British Columbia., Ornaments and weapons, manufactured of gold and copper hare been found in a newly discovered tomb on the Acropolis of Mycente. At Osman Ba*ar all the best houses have been converted into hospitals for the reception of the sick and wounded., . ; ~.: The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Atacama, bound for Callao from Valparaiso, was lost off Caldera. Only 18 persons were saved, and an she had 40 of a crew and a large number of passengers, the loss of life has been great. Her cargo was a very valuable one. The Central National Bank of Chicago hai suspended payment. A monument to the patriots killed at Mentana in 1867 has been inaugurated at Rome with a great public demonstration. The ceremony was very im> ■ posing. • At the last assault on Ears the Russians had 1 general, 30 officers, and 500 men killed, and 43 officers and 1790 men wounded.

Lord Henry Percy, X.C.8., V.0., brother of the Duke of Northumberland, was found dead in his bed on December 3. He greatly distinguished himself in the Crimea, and was wounded at the battles of Alma and Inkerman. Just two months prior to his death he was appointed a General. During a gale, James Manning and his wife were drowned by the swamping of their boat in He j bridge Basin, North Essex.

At Leicester, John William Swift, aged 19, James Satohwell 23, and John Upton 38, have been exeouted for the murder of an old pedlar named Joseph Tugby. The North German Lloyd steamer Amerioan came into collision with the Italian barque Outile, west of Gape Clear, on Not. 27. The latter sank, with her captain and three hands, and the steamer returned to Southampton for repairs. The Woroester Theatre was totally destroyed by fire on November 24.

On December 3, the steamer Pennsylvania came into collision with the Nova Scotian ship Oasis, off the Skerries, the latter vessel sinking. All her crew w«re laved.

The Queen has giren twenty acres of land for a public park at Heywood. The gift cost £10,000. A railway bridge over the Alan river, near Llanercbymedd (Wales) gave wty while a goods train was passing OTer it. One man was killed and two injured. It is rumored that Anderson and Go. bought four Pacific Mail steamers for £270,000.

Severe hurrioanes hare visited the British coast. Twenty-fire Teasels went ashore near Margate. The jetty was washed away. ■ Visoount Hintou, heir of Earl Paulett, is playing at a London Theatre, under the name of Oosman.

A double tragedy ocourred at FarnmHe, Virginia. Colonel Barkley, an eminent lawyer, wag shot at his own door by Captain Kennedy, who then ihot himself. The cause is unknown.

The deaths are announced of the MarohioneßS of Northampton ; Lady Catherine Harcourt; John Gutbrie, of Guthrie Castle; C. St. George, formerly M.P. for Gal way j Lady Gomm; William Furner, formerly Judge of the Sussex County Court; Richard Hornsby, of Grantham, one of the oelebrated agricultural implement makers; General Anderson, O.B.; Hon. T. Fitzwalter Butler ; Sir E. Hoskyni, Bart.; Dowager Lady Graves; Admiral H. Bagot S. Smirke, R.A., F.K.S.; Admiral J. Y. Fletcher.