NEWS BY THE PANAMA MAIL.

West Coast Times, Issue 608, 5 September 1867, Page 4

NEWS BY THE PANAMA MAIL.

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On Friday, June 28, a scene of a most exciting nature occurred at tbe Zoological Gardens, Regents-park. It appears that a countryman, while looking at the bears, accidentally dropped his hat into the pit, and to recover it had the foolhardiness to descend the pit. As soon as he got to the bottom he was seized by one of the bears, and immediately two others came from their cave and also seized him, and began dragging him towards it. Some sticks were thrown to him by the excited lookers on, but fortunately one of the keepers ■went to the man's assistance, and succeeded in setting him free. On June 29, at the Wakefield courthouse, Mr John Micklethwaite, solicitor, of Sheffield, who is charged with conspiring to defraud, and also obtaining money by false pretences, was committed for trial at the assizes, but admitted to bail,himself in L3OO and sureties in LSOO.

An imperial decree has been issued authorising the bank of Russia to issue temporarily thirty-five million of roubles in paper money guaranteed on Ti'easury bonds. The object of the issue is the promotion of commerce.

The "British Medical Journal" says Mr George Pollock, of St. George's Hospital, has accepted the appointment 6f examiner to the army (and India) medical boards, vacant by the resignation of Mr Prescott Hewett.

It appeal-* from a calculation in the "New York Times" that if the public debts of each of the individual States be added to the public Federal debt the total of the national obligations of the United States must be at least L 660,000,000. Assuming that the average rate of interest necessary to enable this amount to be kept afloat will be six per cent., the annual burden will be the same as if the debt consisted of L 1,320,000,000 consols.

A Florence letter, in the " Situation," five some details of a tragical event which as taken place in Count Pallavicini's household. This general, who belonged to a noble Genoese family, enjoyed a high position in the esteem of the Italian nation and army. It was he who received Garibaldi's swoid at Aspromonte. About a year since he married a young and beautiful Calabrian lady, in that extreme Neapolitan province, where he commands with full powers, for the repression of brigandage. Ihe general seems to have had reasons for distrusting his wife ; and some days since, on returning home from parade unexpectedly, he saw what drove him into an excess of fury, and with his sword, at a single blow, he killed the countess. The letter adds that the paramour escaped. When her Majesty opened the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum, near Bagshot, on June 29, after the ceremony was over she planted a commemorative tree. Of course the tree she planted was the Wellingtonea gigantea. Why in the world was it not an oak ? That is ths true English tree : that is the tree whose timber floated Nelson and many another great sea-captain to victory : that is the tree whose growth suggested, the form of our staunchest and least perishable lighthouses : that is the tree under which our ancestors held their public meetings, and which gave its name to the royal county — for Berkshire is Bare-Oak-Shire.

Colonel Wilson Patten was, on July 1,-re-elected for North Lancashire without opposition, upon his acceptance of the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

The Duke of Richmond, Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr Walpole, Mr Cave, and Mr Hunt have been named by the Government to confer with the committee of noblemen and gentlemen from Ireland who have been in communication with Lord Derby upon the subject of the purchase of Irish railways by the State. Sir E. Lacon, M.P., who will lose his seat by the disfranchisemenfc of Great Yarmouth, is to be put forward for the representation of the new division of the county which it is proposed to create by the Reform Bill.

The Princess of Wales has promised to lay the foundation-stone of the new St. Thomas's Hospital, if the state of her health permits. On the occasion of the visit of the Belgians to Windsor, as arranged by the reception committee, her Majesty will entertain them at a grand banquet. The Inventor of the Blake'ly Oeenance in two Suits. — An action, in the course of which several remarkable circumstances were related, was heard in the Court of Exchequer on Friday, June 21. The plaintiff was Captain Blakely, the inventor of the Blakely gun ; and the defendants were Messrs Nieholay, furriers, of Oxford street. The plaintiff had resided with his wife in Park lane, but had separated from her. He left home, and on his return to the house found that Mrs Blakely had gone to reside with her uncle, and had removed a large quantity of property. Amongst the articles taken away was a sable-trimmed cloak which plaintiff had purchased in Russia for his wife. It cost 400 guineas. Hearing that the cloak was in the possession of the defendants, he went to their shop, and learned that it had been entrusted to them for sale. He told them that Mrs Blakely had no authority to dispose of it, and that it was not to be given up to any one exceptupon his own instructions. Notwithstanding this the cloak was returned to Mrs Blakely. The, object ofthe present action was to recover the price of the cloak. In cross-examination the plaintiff admitted that he had deserted his wife, and had run away with Lady forth. His wife had worn the cloak two or three years. It was when Mrs Blakely learned that he had run away with Lady Forth that she went to reside at her uncle's, and took with her wearing apparel and other property. On his return to the hou-e he took with him the lady with whom lie had run away. Mrs Blakely was called as a witness, but upon an appeal from the Chief Baron she was not examined. A verdict for the defendant was entered. On the same day, in the Divorce Court, a decree nisi with costs was pronounced against Captain Blakely as co-respondent in a suit promoted by Mr Edward Cholmeley Dering, the husband of the lady mentioned above.

The Tichborne Title and Estates. — Mr Giffard, Q.C., instructed by Mr Holmes, solicitor to the person who is seeking to establish his right to the name, title, and estates of Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, Bart., the eldest son (supposed to have been lost at sea) of the late Sir James Francis Tichborne, Bart., applied on June 28 to ' Vice-Chancellor Wood for leave to serve notice of motion for an injunction, and for the appointment of receivers in two suits which have been instituted, "Tichborne v. Mostyn" and " Tichborne v. Tichborne." The applicajfcjori was granted.