THE LATEST PANAMA MAIL.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 313, 1 August 1868, Page 6

THE LATEST PANAMA MAIL.

ENGLISH EXTRACTS. On Tuesday, May 12th, his Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales formally inaugurated the Leeds Art Treasure's Exhibition—one of the finest provincial displays of the kind that has been Been 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 Elibank family, was totally destroyed by fire lately. Al the. Prince of Wales Theatre, Livee-Mol, on a recent evening, there ,£(oy> 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 chdd of the Eeginient," 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 : " Prince Alfred's life is saved, The traitor's hand he's braved, Long may he live. Wel come h itn home a gain, 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 waving 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 siuce, stepped upon the long dress of a lady and was thrown down. The lady walked on, and a crowd gathered. Theymlice 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! ahigh hone. A Border paper notes that a farmer in the neighbourhood of Hawick, being shoft of horse-power, has put one of j his servant girls into the harrows. An elderly lady who has just died j at Milverton, Taunton, has "Mb £2Ol to her servant' to mautain and care for : a favorite cat. j There is a prisoner in Whiieeross street debtor's prison, London, who, has been incarcerated twenty-four I years. Vice-Chancellor Gifford, Justice Hannen, and theJLord Mayor 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.