NEWS BY THE MAIL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 8, 21 June 1873, Page 9

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

. Ssnob, Caivo, the Spanish Consul at Paris, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling £14,000, the property of Spaniards who feate died in Paris. Before the end of fche Session, it is rumored, the House of Commons will be asked for an additional grant for the Prince of Wales The death is announced from Paris of M. Ameuee Thieu-y, the celebrated French historian. A report hus reached London of the murder of Sir Samuel and Lady Baker, and the remnant of the expedition, which numbered a thousand when it left Eg} pt for the interior of Africa three years ago. A steady stream of emigrants from southern Europe continues to pour into Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. In Buenos Ayres four thousand emigrants arrived in a fortnight, The American peace Commissioners were massacred by the Modoc Indians; the assassination created profound sensation in the United Stated. At Woolwich the naval authorities have been trying a new torpedo of enormous power and de^lruetiveness, one which is calculated to destroy a ship ut half v mile's distance. Her Majtesty has contributed £250 to the testimonial to the lute Mr Mucguire, M. P. At the York Assizes, Vyvyan Henry Moyle, Vicar of Eston, near Middlesborough, who had pleaded guilty to forging a scrip representing £22,000, was sentenced to- seven yeuro penal servitude.— — In a riot between Whites and Blacks ar, Uolfux, in Louisiana, 100 negroes were killed and many wounded. According to the U. S. census of 1870 which has just Veen published, the whole population of the United States is, in round

numbers, 33,000,000 whites, and 5,000,000 negroes, 55,000 Chinamen, snd some hundreds of thousands of Indians and half castes. The Queen visited the East-end of London on April 2, and received an address in Victoria Park. The weather was propitious, and immense crowds cheered Her Majesty. Mr R. W. Jackson) M.P., has given notice of his intention to mov.e the rejection of Mr Plimsolls Shipping survey Bill when it comes on for a second reading on the 14th May. Great excitement was created in Cork, owing to the number of Irish passengers known to be on board the Atlantic — about 200, including many women and children. — The Emperor William has reviewed the lsfc Fusilier Company of Infantry Guards, just armed with the Mauser rifle. The men fired fourteen times per minute, a number of discharges which admits of being nearly doubled. Mr Weightman, the barrister charged with stealing a book from fc..e Inner' Temple Library, has been" sentenced to six months' imprisonment.— —A Bill has been passed authorising the laying of a cable between America and Asia, the United Stater furnishing yess-els for the soundings and the lading of the cable. ■>• Mr Liebrcich, the oculist, has invented a school-desk, intended to obviate the injuries to the sight induced by children sitting in a lopsided position to write.— —Prince Bismarck proposes that Germany should spend about ten millions sterling oh fortresses and fortifications. It is stated in financial letters from Germany that mortey is more scarce there than at any time since the termination of the French war* — =*O'Eelly, the imprisoned correspondent of the ' Wow York Herald,' reports that he wus p-esent at a recent engage nent, wheu the victorious Cubans butchered the wounded Spaniards who fell into their power. — —New York was in darkness througli a gasmen's strike, bat the strike proved a failure. The trial of the Tichborne Claimant was to commence on April 29. Preliminary proceedings have been taken. An action has been commenced against Mr Routledge for publishing a book entitled " The Tichborne Romance," a publication considered to" be Very pre* judicial to the plaintiff's case.-^-~Cainbridge was again victorious in tho University boat race, beating Oxford by three and a quarter lengths, the time was 19min. 36sec, the fastest on record. — -Thi long illness of Count Bernstoff, the Prussian Ambassador, terminated fatally on March 24 According to the Berlin correspondent of the ' Times,' Count Bernstoff's successor as German Ambassador in London will probably be Baron von Werfchern.thePrussianEuvoy at Munich. • At Thorn, in Prussia, the four hundredth anniversary of the birthday of Corpernicus was celebrated on February 19. Speeches were deli* vered by several scientific men, and a ball was given in the Town Hall. Copernicus was born at Tliorn in 1473. Mr Plimsolls movement again&t unseaworthy ships is attracting great attention. An enthusiastic meeting has been held iv London ; several Board of Trade in* quiries have been Diderad. Another result has been that a Parliamentary Commission upon the loss of life at sea was constituted. Lord Neavos has been installed as Lord Rector of St. Andrew's University. The Btudents are described as behaving "in their usual noisy and 1 demonstrative manner." Earl Russell's book on Christianity, to appear in the course of March, is " The Rise and Progress of the Christian Religion in the West of Europe, from the reign of Tiberius to the end of the Council of Trent." Lord St. Asaph, son of the Earl of Ashburnham, has joined the Catholic Church. General Belknap, the new War Secretary, and General Sheridan, are visitingthe Mexican frontier, with the object of establishing forts there for" the protection of the new railroads. The ehil war in Cuba is still carried on with its old ierocity. Cespedes, the President of the Cuban Republic, is reported to have declared that whatever might happen in Spain, the Cubaus would accept no terms short of independence. A Royal decios has been issued, formally taking possession, in* whole or in part, of the property of sixteen convents iv Home, for purposes of " public utility."—- — Baron Haussman, the famous Pre* .feet ot the Seine, who built Imperial Paris, is again showing activity, and reviving business habits." He is now on his way to Constantinople" to engage in some financial enterprise, where ho will meet M. de Lesseps, who is negotiating about the Suez canal difficulty.— *— Thff jewels belonging to Mrs Lizardi, whose husband lias absconded, Were, sold, and realised a total of £lI,OOJ. One necklace ulone fetched £2700.- Brigham Young has resigned the leadership of the Mormons, and goes to Arizona, He divides his immense property among his sixteen wives and his sixty children. Some old Mormons, probably, will follow him. The Mormon problem in Utah is considered to be solved. A. lady named Boyec, win hud been despond* ing, threw herself into the Litfey at midnight on February 8, and wasrescued by a young man. She had upon her at t|ie time £6000 in; bank notes and securities. M* Mitchell Henry, M. P., h»s been elected a member of the Irish Home Government Association. In & letter to un officer of the association Mr Henry says that " Englishmen and Scotchmen look i*pmi Ireland and Irishmen with undisguised dw* like and distrust." The latest accounts of the loss- of the Atlantic state that 560 persons were lost, including 350 women aud children: 415 persons were" saved, 60 of whom bel.nged to tho crew. No woman was saved. One little child of all the children on board was snatched at the lust moment from- the wreck.— -—President Grant has signed a convention with Enveden reducing the rate of postage between the two countries' to ten cents. It is rumoured that Jumes Gordon Bennett is making preparations to establish a new daily in London, which is- s«id to havebeen a favourite project of his father's, who held t u at a London daily conducted on American principles aud with American enterprise, must reach an enormous success. — — Abd-el-Kader is lying seriously ill at Damascus. A series of the literary productions of the most distinguished Irishmen is about to ba published by Mnyth, Dublin. *- The Rig Veda, Sauhita, and Pada texts, a* edited by Professor Max Miiller, will shortly appear in four octavo volumes of 400 pages each. A now transition of " Faust" by one of the most accomplished "Faust scholars" in England— the Rev C.Kegan Puul— is announced as to appear very shortly. A good deal of disappointment has been expressed in Dublin at the absence of any announcement in the Queeu's Metsage relative le

Government purchase of the Irish railways. The • Times ' has a powerful leader deploring the labour famine in New Zealand and Australia, and urging upon Working-men emigration to our own colonies as the most advantageous course possible. The Army Estimates for the present year show a total of £13,231,400, a decrease of £408,000 upon last year, and of nearly a million and a half in three years. Mr W. Fowler, M.P., will move, on taking the Army Estimates, a reduction of 10,000 men.

The • Hour,' a new Conservative organ, writing relative to Russia and England in Asia says :—": — " We have one way and only one way of checkmating Russia. If we employ the interim of peace which may be allowed us, be it long or short, and the longer the better, in convincing the people of India that their interests and ours are one and dentical, and in welding together their selfishnes with ours, we miy defy Russia."

The London correspondent of a Plymouth journal says : — One of our best known Oxford Professors when paying a visit to town lately was induced by curiosity to visit the head-quarters of the Positiviste, who hold a sort of service on Sundays at a house in Bedford row, a district known to attorneys. He found there the chief apostles ot the sect, Professor Beesly, Mr Oongreve, and Dr Bridges. I believe that they constituted the whole congregation, for on being asked what he had seen there, the distinguished Oxonian replied that he had found three persons and no Q-od. Severe as this mot was, it was scarcely unmerited.

Sib J. Ltjbbook is preparing a Bill to be brought forward earlynext session, having for its object the preservation of the^ megalithic monuments of the United Kingdom. Mr George Smith telegraphs from Moussou] — where he is prosecuting his search for Assyrian records— the welcome intelligence that, having been permitted by the Turkish Government to commence operations, he ha« already made several discoveries, and has written and despatched some long letters. ciir G. B. Airy, Astronomer Eoyal, has received from Washington a telegram announcing the discovery of a new planet. It is a small member of the system, being of the eleventh magnitude, with a rapid north motion. The s*ile of the first portion of the engravings. from tne works of Turner was concluded on March 28, the five days' sale realising upwards of £20,000. *

Peospebity, a telegram says, has been restored throughout Persia. Good order and a most abundant harvest are credited with the production of this happy state of things. Among the charges at Hammersmith police court arising out of the University boat race, was a case of pocket-picking, in which the offender pleaded that, having a wife and family to support, he was " bound to do something for a living." Hannah Mellor, a woman living at Shipley, has been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for throwing vitriol over a man named Kay.

Ma Archibald Dttniop, who has just died in the neighborhood of Troy, New York, many years ago broke an engagement to marry j and now he has left the jilted lady a snug ten thousand dollars. A monument to the poet Campbell is to be erected in the city of Glasgow. Over £500 has already been subscribed. An effort is being made to raise a memorial to the late Sir James Brooke, Rajah Brooke of Sarawak, who died nearly five years ago, and of whom no memorial exists. The Carmelites are about to establish a new convent in Baltimore. Formerly, suicide was of rare occurence in high life in Russia, whilst among the lower classes it was unknown. To-day, the cases of self-murder are getting more numerous every year. This is regarded as one of the fruits of the insensate policy of the Administration. Advices from Holland state that herrings are so plentiful in the Zuyderzee, that navigation is almost impeded by their shoals, and they are caught by hand from the shore.' Mr McCarthy Downing has accepted an invitation to preside at a great tenant right conference, to be held in Dublin on the 17th April instant. The four provinces will be fully represented, and a large, nuinbev of M.P.'s will be present. The ' Pall Mall Gazette ' says. — The ' Borsen Zeitung 'of Berlin publishes an account of the forces of the great Powers of Europe, from which it draws the conclusion that " several of the Powers which have hitherto been ranked as of the first class will, in consequence of their military development not having kept pace with that of other great Powers, bo incapable of going to war in future unless they have allies. This is especially the case with Austria and England, and also with Italy. The strongest military Power, says the writer, is Russia. The Russian army, is now raised to 228 regiments of infantry with 684 battalions, 228 ville battalions, 250 reserve battalions under the new army organization, 72 regiments ot" the Guard and of." cavalry of the line, 50 vegiraentß of Don Cossacks (for Bervice in Europe) with 660 squadrons, and 308 batteries of eight guns each. Of this force 96 battalions, 20 squadrons, and 16 batteries belong to the Caucasian or Asiatic army, so that there remains a force of 81b" battalions on active service, and 250 reserve battalions for disposal in Europe. Next comes Germany. This Power, reckoning only the troops which are ready for the field, has 148 regiments of the Guard and infantry of the line (equal to 444 battalions), 24 rifle battalions, 302 battalions of the Lanclwehr, 120 cavalry regiments with 556 squadrons, and 382 batteries (including 72 reserves) of six guns each. The French army will under the new organization, consist of 148 infantry regiments (including fouv Turcos regiments) and 30 rifle battalions, making in all 518 battalions on active service, and 288 reserve battalions. To these must be added 64 cavalry regiments with 384 squadrons and 360 batteries of six guns each. Austria has only 80 infantry regiments (240 battalions), 40 rifle battalions, 41 cavalry regiments, and 176 batteriet of six guns each. Her 160 reserve and 140 Landwehr battalions are as yet raw troops, which it would take some time to train fo'* active service. The Italian army is similar in strength to that of Austria. It consists of 80 infantry regiments, 10 of Bersaglieri, 20 of cavalry, and 10 of artillery — 270 battalions in all — and 160 batteries of six guns each. The last of the European States as a military Power, concludes the Horsen, Zeitung, is England, which can only muster for service in Europe 107 battalions, 92 squadrons, and 84 batteries of six nd eight guns each.