NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 178, 6 July 1871, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

A nurse and three children at the Crumpsall Workhouse, Manchester, have been poisoned by taking carbolic acid in mistake for cough mixture. • On leaving Monte Video, the Duke of Edinburgh declared that he carried away from it more pleasant souvenirs, for the time he had spent there, than any derived from a similar sojouru elsewhere. The strike among the boys and girls employed at Woolwich Arsenal has terminated, most of them returning to work. A serious secessionist movement is on foot in Corsica, the inhabitants being incensed at the French treatment of Napoleon. The number of criminals who served under the Paris Commune is estimated to have been from 30,000 to 35,000. The population of Edinburgh, according to the census returns, is 201,143, being 32,022 more than in 1861. Chinese navvies are reported to be considered inferior to negro navvies in, the Southern States of America. The Edinburgh Merchant Company are about to found a Chair of Commercial and Political Economy and Mercantile Law in the University in that city. The Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise travel under the names of Lord and Lady Sundridge. The Princess of Wales is described as looking very thin and worn, with her lovely face so full of sadness as to be pathetic. A bill giving married women their separate earnings has been passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature. The restoration of JSxeter Cathedral is to be commenced at once, under the personal direction of Mr. Scott. The work will occupy a year. Two suggestions have been offered to Mr. Lowe, but not accepted, viz., a tax on cats, aud another on photographs. At Tinwhistle, 15 miles from Manchester, a woman murdered two of her children and then hanged herself. A new process of grinding corn has been invented by which millstones are dioponood -vvitti. It la aal\X bvr be butill cleaner and more rapid than the old process. Murphy, the anti-Romanist lecturer, has been brutally assaulted by some Irish miners at Whitehaven. He is in a critical condition. Mr. J. B. Buckstone, of the Haymarket Theatre, is in the Insolvent Court. His debts amount to L 1.1,000. At Manchester an Irishmen has been fined sa. for threatening to assault an Education Inspector with a poker. It is announced from Berlin, that Prince Bismarck will govern Alsace and Lorraine as responsible Minister representing the Empire. Three topers at Musselburgh consumed at one sitting 17 glasses . of whisky, two bottles and two half-pints of ale, and two glasses of cordial. One of them died Boon afterwards. The Albany (N.Y ) " Express " publishes the following advertisement : — " Wanted, an able-bodied Irishman to hold my wife's tongue — she and I bbth being unable to keep it quiet." Mr. C. E. Griffon, 0.E., haa. undertaken to raise the ironclad, Captain. The pauperism in LoadOTr.iafeAhown by recent returns to be considerably* less than last year.