THE LATEST PANAMA MAIL.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 312, 31 July 1868, Page 2

THE LATEST PANAMA MAIL.

ENGLISH EXTRACTS. On Tuesday, May 12bh, his Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales formally inaugurated the Leeds Art Treasure's Exhibition—one of the finest provincial displays of the kind thathai been seen since the celebrated collection at Manchester. The whole ceremony, from first to last, passed off with unexampled smoothness and success.

Ballencrief House, Scotland, the country seat of the Elibauk family, was totally destroyed by fire lately. At the Prince of Wales Theatre, Liverpool, on a recent evening, there was a great demonstration of feeling in regard to the outrage on England's " Sailor Prince." Though the weather was most unfavorable, a large audience was attracted. Immediately after the first piece, " The child of the Regi-

ment," the National Anthem was sung, the audience standing up uncovered. The utmost enthusiasm was evinced when Miss Matthews sang the following additional verse, which had been written for the occasion, and which was printed on the programmes for the evening : " Priuce Alfred's life is saved,

The traitor's hand he's braved, Long may he live. Welcome turn home again, May we not cheer in vain, But sing with might and main Long live the Prince." The cheers which greeted the singing of this last verse were enthusiastic and continued; aud several times she had to repeat the lines—the audience wa ving hats and handkerchiefs in the" wildest manner each time it was repeated. A Victim to Fashion.—William Murray, a retired publican, aged seventy-eight, while walking along

Basinghall-streeet, London, a few evenings since, stepped upon the long dress of a lady and was thrown down. The lady walked on, and a crowd gathered. The police and some" men then lifted the old man, and carried him to the hospital, where he died from the effects of a fracture of the right bone. A Border paper notes that a farm r in the neighbourhood of Hawick, being short of horse-power, has put one of his servant girls into the harrows. An elderly lady who has just died at Milverton, Taunton, has "left £2O to her servant' to mantain and care for a favorite cat.

There is a prisoner in Whitecross street debtor's prison, London, who has been incarcerated twenty-four years. Vice-Chancellor Grifford, Justice Hannen, and theJLordMayor of Dublin, have received the honor of knighthood. A lady has arrived in London from Batavia who plays simultaneously on the piano two different airs with each hand at the same time, and likewise sings a fifth. The East Indian damsel has completely dethroned Blind Tom, the negro.