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EPITOME OF NEWS. 0 A NEW CABLE is to be laid between England and France. The cost is to be £ 100,000. CONSIDERABLE SHIPMENTS of rails for Russia are being made from the Tyne Dock. AT SOUTH SHIELDS John Wilson has been committed .for trial for throwing vitriol on a woman. THE ALLIANCE PARTy are preparing to hold a series of demonstrations in the metropolis. SIGN OH EUGENE SISMONDA, the well-known Italian geologist, is dead. M. Evrns OLLIVIER has received from the Regent of Spain the collar of the Golden Fleece. A NATIVE, weaver by trade, said to be 125 years old, has jast died in Hyderabad, Sind. DURING THE PAST YEAR, 183 men, 52 women, and 38 children were killed by tigers in Java, 158 parsons by crocodiles, and 22 by snakes. M. E. OOLLOMB is publishing a short; account of the ancient glaciers of France. His summary will be useful to geological students. A FREE TRADE CONGRESS of English and Foreign Political Economics will probably be held in London next year. THE COEDEN CLUB are said to be planning a volume of Essays on International Relations for January, 1872. THE DELIVERIES OF TEA in London estimated for the week were 1,894,9751b., which is a decrease of 164,0471b. compared with the previous statement. THE IDEA of an (Ecumenical Council to be summoned by the Orthodox Greek Church is gradually gaining ground in that communion. HER MAJESTY, accompanied by Princesses Louise and Beatrice, has left Windsor Castle for Balmoral. IT IS SAID that Madame Saas has refused an offer of 80,000 francs a month, nearly a million a year, to go to Rio Janeiro. She is afraid of the sea. A SCHEME FOR DRAINING CALCUTTA has col- lapsed, after a million sterling has been expended on. the work. THE POOR-LAW BOARD has sanctioned the erection by the Durham Guardians of a new infirmary at the workhouse, at a eoat of £ 3,500. REDUCTIONS HAVE BEEN MADE in the Bengal police involving a saving of £55,000 a-year. The dstective department has been abolished. SEVERAL NEW MILLS having been erected, there are now 12,000 in constant use in Holland for drainage. K As SOOY AS COLONEL EWART'S PLANS have been approved of, the work of patching and mending Knightsbridge Barracks will be commenced. THE CONSTRUCTION of a canal across the Isthmus ot Darien is reported by the surveying expe- dition to be impracticable. THE HIGHLAND ESTATE OF GLENOGIL has been sold in Edinburgh, for £ 26,225. It is situated in Forfarshire. TEE KING OF SIAM is seventeen years old, and simply known as Somdetch Phra Poramendz Maba-Chualon-Korn. He has no other name- THE SENTENCE of the court-martial held in Jamaica on Purveyor Pooley, cashiering that officer, has been confirmed. COLONEL HAMLET, the author of The Opera- tions of War," has been appointed to the command of the Staff College. IN THE BAVARIAN CHAMBER, a motion pro- posing tbe abolition of capital punishment has been defeated by 76 to 67 votes. IN THE COURT OF DIVORCE the decree nisi granted last year in the case of Vivian v. Vivian and the Marquis of Waterford has been made absolute, the Queen's Proctor having declined to intervene. A BOILER HAS EXPLODED in a flour-mill, in Pooibeg-atreet, Dublin, killing two labourers and injuring five others, two of whom are not expected to recover. The owner himself is slightly injured. A MONSTER AEROLITE has recently fallen in Fezzan, near Mourzouk. It weighs nearly 5,0901b., and it is thought to be the largest meteoric body yet discovered. DR. NEUMAYER, for some years director of the Melbourne Observatory, is about to start on an Antarctic expedition. The Austrian Government has furnished him with the necessary funds. THE STRIKE of the miners at New Backworfch Colliery still continues. Further evictions have been made. Both masters and men seem determined to hold out. RAIDS ON AFGHAN TERRITORY from Seistan still continue, but the Ameer makes no retaliation, his re- lations with the British Government rendering him averse to entering on a war with Persia. THE BISHOP OF CASHEL has lodged £5,000 in the Provincial Bank of Ireland to the credit of the Su&tentation Fund of the Irish Church. The Messrs. Kinahan have agreed to give £ 3,000. ACCORDING TO THE United Service Gazette the Admiralty have anthorised the monthly payment of a earn on account of half-pay to all officers on the half- pay list. VL" ARE TAppr TO LEARN that the Archbishop of ha3 so far recovered that it is antici- pated he he able to take his seat in the House of Lords o. t:) the end of the Session. MR. SnjjuiEON has recently announced his intention of delivering a lecture to rich men only; none will be admitted to the hall except he has £ 40.000. I: JIA- HTU N DECIDED to apply for an investi- gation !I" t II. Poor-law Board into the charges against ftu- and Mrs. Smith, master and matron of the Alnwick YVorkhouee. A FARMER named Richard Pomfret has been fined .£10 at the Salford Borough Police-court for offering for sale the carcass of a calf which was diseased and unfit for food. LARGE NUMBERS of emigrants continue to take their departure from Liverpool for new homes in the west. Last week about 6,000 sailed for the States and Canada. A VIOLENT STORM burst over St. Etienne (France) last week, and the lightning fell in various prices; in one, striking a young girl on the head, killing her instantaneously. IT IS NOT IMPROBABLE that the Indian brigade vacant by the death of Colonel W. Fenwiok, C.B., 10th Regiment, will be offered to Col. H. C.Brewster, 76th Eegiment. BADEN-BADEN has had the effect of making people early risera. The morning concerts, which take place from seven to eight a.m., attract large and fashionable companies. WE HEAR A RUMOUR that the Duke of Suther- land is not unlikely to visit Wick this season, with the view of awakening increased interest in railway io extension to Caithness. THE LINES OF TRAMWAY now being laid down in South London are to be boxed up on the Derby day to prevent injury from the thousands of vehicles snaking use of the roads in that neighbourhood. T. FRENCH is engaged to ride M. E. Pould's Mmotaurein the French Derby; and M. Schickler's Valois will be ridden by Maidment. Fordham, J. Odborne, and Custance are also specially retained." COURT CIRCULAR OF HONOLULU.—His Majesty is enjoying very good health at Molokai, and is much interested in branding the calves of his largo herd of cattle there.-Honolulu Gazette. THE ROMAN CIRCUS IN PARIS is to be pur- chased by the Municipal Council of Paris, with all the interesting relics, the nation and the city each supplying the sum of 600,000 francs. MUCH ALARM was created at Sacriston, the other day, by the appearance of a mad dog, which after biting a number of other dogs, was at length disabled and killed, the bitten dogs being afterwards similarly dealt with. e IIN WILLIAMS, of the Oneida, having left a 1 ir mily in indigent circumstances, a subscrip- tion "eing made at Boston for the support and education of his children, which at last accounts amounted to the sum of 2,000 dollars. Mr. W. R. S. RALSTON has started for Russia, with the view of collecting further mate. rials for a work on Russian folk-lore, which he has been for some time engaged on, and which is likely to appear in the autumn. AMONG the more melancholy events of the week we must chronicle the death of Mr. H. King, the eldest son of Mr. T. C. King, the great tragedian of Drury Lane Theatre. This young and talented gen- tleman, had already gained golden opinions." A SPECIAL TELEGRAM to the Eastern Budget dated Rome, May 17, says :—" All the Austrian bishops are now here. Most of them will vote with the Opposition in the Council against the dogma of Papal infallibility." A FLOATING THEATRE.—The interior fittings of the old Dreadnought Hospital ship at Greenwich have been sold. It is rumoured the hull is sold to a well-known American speculator, who is about to convert it into a floating theatre. REPORTS OF THE GROUSE MOORS throughout the Highlands continue favourable. The grouse nests are namerons, and contain from six to ten eggs each. The birds are strong and healthy, and there is every indication of a good sporting season. Ir IS STATED AT OXFORD that the three leaders in the Christ Church outrage have been ex- palled. Two others have been rusticated for eighteen and twelve months respectively, and two others gated for the term. There will not be a prosecution. IT WOULD SEEM from the reports received by the Meteorological Department that the French are entering upon what is called in America a heated term." The temperature at eight o'clock is reported as 82 deg. at Toulon and 70 at Rochefort. THE HEALTH of Mr. John Bright is very much improved. He takes his favourite walks regularly on Llandudno Pier, and his strength recruits daily. Mr. Bright's family have joined him at Llandudno, intending to remain for a few days. THE FUNERAL OF LADY AUCKLAND has taken place at Cantley Church. The mourners were Lord Auckland, the Hon. Morton Eden, Mr. J. W. Childers, and the Right Hon. Hugh C. Childers, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty. MRS. GOAD, the defendant in the defamation case brought in the Lahore Court by Miss Bathurst, a governess, is now suing her husband, Major Goad, for divorce, on the ground of adultery, committed with Miss Bathurst. Two YOUNG GENTLEMEN, relatives of the Rev. J. Webb, vicar of Hartishead, travelled from a town in Dorsetshire a distance of over 300 miles on veloci- pedes, having taken a little over a. week to perform the journey. MR. D'ARCY IRVINE was removed the other afternoon from prison and conveyed to Dublin, where it is believed he will be placed in an asylum. A large crowd collected at the terminus to see him off, but the train was backed to the ticket platform where he got in. He seemed much excited. AN IMMENSE PETITION from Great Britain) containing between 100,000 and 200,000 signatures, praying the Holy Father and the Council to place the Church under the special patronage of St. Joseph, was presented by his Grace the Archbishop of Westminster to the Pope two weeks ago. THE TREASURY RECEIPTS and expenditure from April 1st to May 14th show that the revenue during that period amounted to £ 7,499,765, while the issues from the Exchequer represented a sum of £ 8,887,994. The balance in the Bank of England on May 14th was £ 6,561,577. WHEN LADY MUNCASTER found that she would inevitably be taken by the brigands, she speedily took off her beautiful rings and put them into her mouth, fearing that the barbarians might cut off her fingers to obtain the more speedy posses- sion of her jewels. VAGRANCY continues to increase in Scotland,. as appears from the report of her Majesty's inspector; There appears in the reports of the chief constables for the year ending 15th March last 74,755 cases of vagrancy, being an increase of 7,581 over the year before. THE REV. M. E. BROWNE says there is aIiL instance of an Eleventh Commandment being found on the wall of a chancel at Leek Wooton Church, near Warwick. The chancel was built about twenty- five years ago, and the commandments newly painted about the same time. Sue NORMAN MACDONALD LOCKHART has died at the age of 25. He was educated at Eton, was a deputy lieutenant and a magistrate for Lanarkshire, and lord of the baronies of Lee and Carnwath. He is succeeded by his brother, now Sir Simon Lockhart, who was born in 1849. A YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE in the City of Edin- burgh, during the past fortnight, were blessed with their first child. This child has two grandfathers and two grandmothers, four great-grandfathers and four great-grandmothers, all living, aud most of whom have lived all their lives in Scotland. MAJOR-GENERAL GALL WAY BYNG PAYNE, Colonel Commandment of the Royal Marines, died at Torquay. He entered the army in 1831, and served in Spain during the Carlist war of 1838-39. During the Russian campaign he commanded a battalion of Marines at the defence of Eupatoria. THE SEASON.—In some of the gardens in Queenstown, Cape of Good Hope, grape vines have shot out afresh with fruit; apple trees are in full bloom and bearing again; peach blossoms have ap- peared, and rose trees which bloomed in spring have thrown out some splendid buds. THE Journal Officiel contains an Imperial decree, appointing M. Emile OUivier ad interim Minister of Foreign Affairs during the absence of the Duke de Gramont. M. de Gramont has gone to Vienna to take formal leave of the Emperor of Austria. COLONEL BLANE, who was commandant at head-quarters in the Crimea, and is now military secretary to the British'Embassy at St. Petersburg, was about starting for the Caucasus with Prince d'Arenberg when the expedition was so horribly frustrated by the murder of that officer. THE OTHER DAY some person threw down the chimney of a house at Bromley a canister of gun- powder, which immediately on reaching the fire ex- ploded with a loud noise. The force of the shock threw the servant girl on the Soor, burned a portion of her hair off her head, and scorched her severely. THE LORD-LIEUTENANCY OF LONDONDERRY, now vacant, will be offered to Mr. Baron Martin, who has property in the county to the extent of between jB3,000 and £4,000 a-year. The learned judge, who has been for 20 years on the bench, expressed the wish last year to retire from active judicial service. A BELIEF IS RAPIDLY GAINING GROUND among the lower classes in the North-West Piovinoes (says a contemporary) that the increased income-tax is to pay for the expenses of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to India, and they are most devoutly praying that the Queen will keep the rest of her ohUckfts at fcotna. AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL an inquest has been held on the body of George Skeggs, aged 13 years. Deceased was employed at Mr. Lee's farm, Banting Bridge, Essex, and as he was driving three horses into a field one of them kicked him and smashed his skull. Verdict, "Accidental death." THE AUSTRIAN REICHSRATH has been dissolved by Imperial decree, and new elections to it are ordered. By another decree the dissolution is ordered of the Cisleithan Diets with the exception of that of Bohemia, and Bew elections to them are to take place without delay. THE TRINITY HOUSE AT HULL have given notice that in the course of about three moEtbs four leading lights will be exhibited on the northern or Yorkshire shore of the Humbgr, for the purpose of facilitating the navigation between Paull and Kingston-upon-Hull. Mlt. ZERAH COLBURN, the well-known civil engineer, died at Belmont, near Boston, U.S.A. on the 27th ult. Mr. Colburn was formerly editor of the Engineer, and afterwards proprietor and editor of Engineering. He was also the author of a number of papers read before the Institute of Civil Engineers, of which he was a member. He was in his 37th year. A SOLDIER of the 4th battalion 60th Rifles, named Bray, lately shot himself whilst on sentry at Aldershot. It appears that he loaded his rifle with ball cartridge and discharged the musket, placing the muzzle at the lower part of his face. He left his post and entered the marquee to commit the act. THERE WILL SHORTLY be an examination at I the London Academy of Music for six scholarships of the value of fifteen guineas each (open to any musical student desiring to make the art a profession) for singing, pianoforte, violin, and violoncello, entitling the successful candidates to one year's free musical instruction. THE MURDER IN STAFFORDSHIRE.—At the ad- journed inquest a verdice ef wilful murder was re- turned against Elizabeth Goodwin, wife of a collier at Brownedge, Staffordshire, who killed her infant aged ten months, by cutting its throat, and then inflicting wounds upon the throat of another child, a girl ten years of age, and upon herself. THE GOVERNMENT ARE DETERMINED to abolish the whole of the list betting at Epaom, and the Clerk of the Course and Messrs. Barnard and Langlands have already received notice not to let any part of the ground they hire from Mr. Briscow, the Lord of the Manor, for list betting. There will also be an attempt to put down the bag-men. WITH THE VIEW OF ARRESTING THE DECAY of the stonework of the elocktower of the Houses of Parliament, the Board of Works have given orders for its coating with the preservative composition of Colonel Szerelmey, which was applied with such good results to another part of the building about twelve years ago. A PROJECT is now under consideration for en- larging the present Gloucester and Berkeley ship canal, and making it navigable for vessels of 2,000 tons. Should this scheme be carried out, the Stafford- shire iron trade hope to reach a port for about 6s. 6d. per ton, instead of 10s., which they now pay to Liver- pool. INTELLIGENCE has been received at Vienna of Messrs. Worms' arrangement for the temporary suspension of action on the London Stook Exchange relative to Austrian stock. Mr; Henry Worms is in active communication with Count Beust. Count Potocki's negotiations with the Czechs at Prague have terminated unsatisfactorily. THE DUKE DE MONTPENSIER and his eldest son arrived at Madrid unexpectedly.. The funds fell one per cent. in consequence of this, as some allege, but as other authorities state, through Marshal Espa.r- tero's refusal having induced Marshal Prim to adopt and to urge the grant to the Regent of full regal functions, and thus prolong the interregnum. LORD HENRY G. LENNOX, M.P., has been suffering for nearly ten weeks from the effects of an attack of influenza. His lordship is now improv- ing, and has removed to the Isle of Wight, but it is to be feared he will not be sufficiently recruited to. be in his place in Parliament during the approaching discussion on the navy estimates. KOSSUTH is said to be writing his autobio- graphy. It ought to be an interesting book;, for his life has been one of the most eventful of his generation. Autobiographies are the fashion now. Mr. Disraeli is said to have one on the stocks. Mr. Gladstone has given us a chapter or two of his. Perhaps Napoleon will follow suit ? THE Musical Standard learns that the Three Choirs' Festival is exposed, to far greater danger of extinction than has hitherto been supposed, a "cold ifit" having suddenly supervened after the pre- liminary attempts made to. arouse residents to a sense of the necesaity of collecting £8,000 on the part of the city and county within three years. THE DEATEl IS ANNOUNCED of Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart, at th& age of 25. He was educated at Eton, was 1'1/. deputy-lieutenant and a magistrate for Lanarkshire, and lord of the baronies of Lee and Carnwath. He is succeeded by his brother, now Sir Simon Lock hart, who was born in 1819. THE SHOEMAKERS OF CABUL are said to have petitioned to tee relieved from giving security to.make none but English-pattern, &hoes, as required to. do by the governor of the city. Shere Ali was much dis- pleased, and replied that the shoemakers should either make English-pattern boots aud shoes, or give up shoemaking altogether! HENRY LEWIS, aged two years, and his sister Louisa, lately went into a neighbour's house, and seeing a large boiler on the fire which was filled with boiling water, they tried to lift it off. The- boiler upset, and the water went over the deceased and his unfortunate sister. Louisa had extensive scalds on the face, shoulders, and body, while the lad died. THE REV. BRAMWELL SMITH, of Birmingham, a clergyman of the Church of England, has com- mitted suicide. The deceased was the chaplain of St. John's Church, Deritend, an elective office, which he had held since 1842, and a Past Provincial Grand Chaplain of the Freemasons. No reason is assigned for the act. JEREMIAH DACEY, who was convicted at the last sessions of the Central Criminal Court of a robbery with violence, and sentenced by the Com- mon-Serjeant to seven years' penal servitude and 25 lashes with the cat," has been flogged in the gaol of Newgate in the presence of Mr. Sheriff Paterson, Mr. Under- Sheriff Crosley, the Governor (Mr. E. J. Jonas), and Mr. Rowland Gibson the surgeon. IN SEVERAL PLACES of North Yorkshire quite an uneasy feeling has prevailed for some weeks in consequence of the unprecedented number of mad dogs. Several very alarming cases of being bitten by rabid dogs have occurred in the vicinity of and within the towns of Scarborough, Pickering, Malton, and Kirby, in the North Riding; and the district generally seems affected by a mad-dog epidemic. THE UNDERMENTIONED PERSONS, charged with breaking insulators on the telegraph posts, have recently been convicted and sentenoed to hard labour. or to pay fines, viz.At Leioester three men, Ben. jamin Dickens, John Cheney, and Jonathan Cheney, were sentenced to twenty-one days' hard labour and Christopher Hornby and Robert Russell, were fined 40s. each and cosis. THE OTIIU MORNING a number of boys and young men were bathing in the river off Rotherhithe, when a boy named Joseph Smithers, aged fourteen, got out of his depth, and immediately disappeared. His brother, who was standing on the shore, at once jumped mta tha water to his resem.9, when he went under and disappeared also. A cry was raised, and assistance was almost immediately at hand. Every- thing was done to save the boys, but without avail. A FEW DAYS AGO a farmer living near Dunleer, Louth, sent into the village for some glauber salts, to be used as physic for his cows. The doses it ap- pears, were administered in the usual way to seven of the cattle; but the same night five of the cows died, which led to an examination of the medicine. It turned out to be saltpetre, which had been given in mistake. A WALKING MATCH is reported to have come off for a thousand guineas between a noble lord and a baronet. The thing to do was to walk up a high mountain in Scotland, the nobleman walking back- wards with heavy boots on, the baronet walking for- ward, but with an open umbrella, the match to come off on a windy day. The umbrella man was de- feated. DR. LANKESTER has held an inquest on the body of a carman, Christopher Lanman. The man had been sent to London from Elstree with a load of hay. In Regent's-park the horses took fright, it is supposed at the blowing of a railway whistle, and the carman was knocked dOivn and run over. His leg was so crushed that amputation had to be per- formed, and he sank under the operation. A SECOND MEETING of the Jockey Club Com- mittee on Turf Reform has been held. At the recent meeting it was decided as a preliminary step that letters should be sent to all the trainers requesting their opinions upon the subject of early foaling, two- year-old racing, and yearling breaking, and what effect the present system of racing has upon our thoroughbreds. AN UNSOLVED TRAGEDY.—The Petite Presse states that the other morning some women engaged at the Paris Central Markets in unpacking the paniers, in which pork was generally packed, found in one of them two human heads freshly out off! In- formation was at once given to the police, and an in- vestigation commenced. In the course of the day a journeyman butcher was said to be implicated. A SHOCKING AND FATAL ACCIDENT has occurred at Blackwall. A young man named Richard, Heath was mooring a barge down the river. The barge was laden with bricks. When off Blackwall, Heath's hat fell off into the water, and while he was reach- ing over the side of the barge he slipped, and fell into the river. He disappeared under, water, and his body was not recovered. MISS MORSE, daughter of the late American, Consul-General in London, has written to Senators Sumner and Morrill, complaining of th3 way in which her father has been treated. He has been removed from his post, she says, without cause, merely to make room for a pet of the president's "-General Adam Badeau, who has written a life of President Grant. THE INTENSE HEAT IN PARIS has been some- what mitigated by a thunderstorm, which lasted for several hours, and must have been violent in many places, though but little rain fell. Every drop of rain now is worth gold. The greatest anxiety is felt about the harvest, on account of the long-continued drought. In some parts of the country people are mowing green wheat to keep the cattle from starving. AT TOTTENHAM, AN INQUEST has been held on the body of a lady found in the River Lea. The body turned out to be that of Mrs. Chesnut, the wife of a clergyman, who had been living for two years separate from her husband in lodgings at Tottenham. It was stated that she had been in the habit of drinking immoderately. She usually consumed nearly a bottle of wine a day besides brandy. The jury found that she was of unsound mind. AT THE STRATFORD POLICE COURT Mrs. Wilson, the prosecutrix, in a case recently brought against a policeman named Moriarty, has made an application to the magistrate, Mr. King. She said that she had been persistently and continually annoyed by friends of the policeman, and' that serious wounds had been inflicted upon her by his partisans. The magistrate at once granted' sum- monses against the assailants of the applicant.' ALFRED WHITE, who had. been arrested on a charge of attempting to murder Mr. Buxton, M.P., has been brought up at Bow.street. The hon. member for East Surrey detailed the circumstances of the out- rage, which agreed substantially with the accounts first published. Mr. Buxton added that he had lately noticed something very strange in the prisoner's conduct. He was committed for trial, and the l ) fence to be set up is that White waa insane. A PLACARD having been put up at the Edin- burgh College gate by the official who writes out such notices, reminding students that if they appeared at the funeral of Professor Simpson they should do so in mourning," they felt insulted by such an instruc- tion being specially addressed to their "class, as if they had not as much common sense as to know that without prompting, and, therefore, added to the placard "Professors may attend in reefing jackets." THE IRON TRADE DISPUTE in the Glasgow dis- trict has come to a crisis. About a fortnight ago the puddlers in the Blochairn Works struck for an increase I of wages, and at a conference of ironmasters it was agreed that unless the strike came to an end by Saturday, the 21st inst., a lock-out should be resorted I to. The strike, it now appears, is to be persisted in, and accordingly the masters and men will try the strength of each other. AN artiste of tho, Gymnase, at Marseilles, was strongly hissed by the pit, but as his engage- ment terminated the same evening he bore the marks of disapproval with great resignation. The next day he met several young men in the street, who recalled the misadventure by another sibilation. But time and place materially altered the cir- cumstances of the case, and the artist retaliated by giving the whole of them a sound thrashing. THE NEW PORTION OF THE ELGIN ROOM, British Museum, ie. now open, and will shortly be- occupied by sculptures from the aational collection. This addition extends so far as the walls of tbe studies of Dr. Gray's department, also to the Print Room, and completes the enclosure of an open space bounded by the Egyptian Saloon, the Print Room and the studies below it, the- Elgin Room, and the Phigalian Salosm. AN INQUIRY HAS BEEN HELD at Notting-hill, touching the death of the Rav. Thomas Lambarde, who was found with his throat cut. The evidence showed that the deceased had been suffering some time from bronchitis and asthma, and that. he had recently been eccentric in his habits. The jury re- turned a verdict to the effect that the deceased had committed suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind. THE DEATH OF MB. D. O. HILL, the distin. guished landscape painter, is announced. The Edinburgh Gourant remarks that Mr. Hill's name will over be associated with the cause and progress of art in Scotland, for it was in no small degree. owilng to his unwearied exertions that the Scottish Aoademy owes tho high position whioh it has attained j For many years the deceased held the situation of secretary to the Council of the Academy, from which useful office he retired some time baok. A GREAT AGGREGATE MEFTIING of the Jewish congregations of Manchester has been held in Man- chester, when it was agreod to send a petition to Parliament in favour of tho University Tests Bill. The petition stated that three men professing the Jewish religion had obtained respectively the senior, seoond, and fifth wrajaglershipa at Cambridge, but had been prevented taking fellowakipa owing to their conscientious objections to subscribing to the Thirty. xine Articles. A THUNDERSTORM OF G.RSAT VIOLENCE HAS passed over tha Saie of Thaa^ succeeded torrents. of much-needed rain. The storm culminated in a. clap of terrific force, resembling the sudden crash of the discharge of a park of heavy artillery. The electric current struck a substantially-built villa residence in the upper part of Ramsgate, knocking down a stack of chimneys and the head wall of the house one storey in depth, and passing out of a window. THE EXODUS FROM THE MERSEY has again com- menced to assume large proportions, and two steamers have sailed for New York, having on board between themnoless than 2,281 souls. The National Company's steamer France had on board 1,276 passengers, the largest number that ever left the Mersey in any vessel, either steamer or sailing. AT AN EARLY HOUR the ODher morning a fire broke out at the wool works of Messrs. T. and J. Shaw, of Aston, near Birmingham. Two little girls, aged five and seven years respectively, who were sleeping in the attic of an adjoining house, died of suffocation. The premises on which the fire occurred were completely gutted. THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND HIS CHAPLAIN were recently the heroes of an amusing incident, which might, however, have had a serious conclusion. While being driven from Lapford to Chawleigh, the bottom of the carriage in which they were riding fell out, leaving no suport for the feet of the occupants, who, as the vehicle was a closed conveyance, had to shout vociferously before they could make the driver acquainted with their uncomfortable situation. Apropos of the rejoicing to celebrate the "fete of the plebiscite," it is said that M. Chevan dier de Valdrocne, being asked if there was to be a. To Deum," replied: Why a Te Deum ?' There were no enemies; there were neither conquerors nor conquered. The Emperor thought that the Constitu- tion of 1852 required altering in a liberal sense. He asked the country to approve of the changes. It is no victory over enemies of France. Why then a. 4 Te Deum ?'" THE INTER-UNIVERSITY RIFLE MATCH.—The return match with the Cambridge University took place the other day at Oxford, at the rifle butts of the City volunteers, between four Cambridge marksmen and four of the best shots from the Oxford University Corps, the distances being 800, 900, and 1,000 yards, 15 rounds at each range. After a spirited competi- tion the Oxonians were successful, winning by 3S points. On the previous occasion the Oxonians were defeated, when the match took place at Cambridge. A WELSH ELOPEMENT CASE has been heard atthe Liverpool Police-court, where a young man named W. Jones, a farmer's son, was charged with having com- mitted perjury in making a false declaration before one of the registrars of marriages for Liverpool. It seemed that Jones had eloped with a rector's daughter, and it is alleged that the perjury was comitted in order to obtain the young lady in marriage. The defendant was remanded, but admitted to bail. ANOTHER DUEL is reported by the Levant Tiin, s,, thietime with a serious result. Two young men, one th3 son of a well-known Pera artist, M. Pres siozi, the other the nephew of a Galata financier, M. Via-abo, foolishly quarrelled about a Frenoh actress, and determined; to fight about her, which they did with small swords. M. le financier was run through the body near the seat of his affection—his liver. His adversary was only slightly pricked in the hand. M. Vlasto's life is now out of danger. MR. D'ARCY IRVINE drove into Enniskillen the other day, with his son, carrying a revolver in his hand, and a number of revolvers and guns were deposited beside him. About four o'clock he alighted at the White Hart Hotel, and shortly afterwards Inspector Kirtland and a body of police entered the hotel. and arrested him on a warrant, charging him with assaulting a constable on the previsus evening, and firing a shot at his house in the main street. A large crowd followed Mr. Irvine through the streets, to whom he shouted, Ireland will be free after this." ON MONDAY APTEBNOON an accident hap- pened to Mr. E. T. Streeton, an undergraduate of Corpus Ohristi College. Mr. Streeton had been out in a canoe on that part of the river passing through Granchester Meadows. By some mismanagement, it is clearly evident th-tt he upset his canoe and was drowned. Great exertions were made to save him, more particularly by Mr. Coward, of Queen's, who dived after him, and eventually brought his body to shore. All! attempts at resuscitation, however, f ailedi A LARGE SWARM: OF LOCUSTS recently passed over Coleabertg, Cape of Good Hope. The town com- monage has- been in fine condition since the last rains, and every one was in hopes of a favourable winter for stock, but prospects have changed with the advent of the "invading host." We learn from Mr. Venter, of Bosehark fontein, that the pasturage on that and neighbouring farms has been eaten off by locusts. From Platberg, we learn that large swarms of locusts are causing great damage to the pasturage.—■Ooleaberg Advertiser. MARY GREEN, who is charged with the; murder of the infant received from Bristol by the I Cork police, has been re-examined at Cork. Evan Jones, butler to Captain Willis, deposed that the child,was sent dead to him by the prisoner, who had been in Captain Willis's employment, and he returned it to the Cork police. He denied being the father of the child. Mr. Beamish, surgeon, stated that the child was born alive, and had been suffooated. The magistrates committed the prisoner for trial on the. capital charge. THE. Fiji Times., giving an account of the accent death of Tui Levuka, states that he had been nominally Christian for many years, but did not show decided principles. His early lot was among the Wes- ley ans, then for a short time he was a Papist, and he died among the Wesleyans. The captain of a British man-of-war once put to him the question, What is your religion p." and his reply was, My right hand is Wesleyan, and assists Mr. Calvert; my left band is the Pope's religion, and assists the priest;, but the rest of my body is vakatevoro (heathen). THE DEATH OF COLONEL GEORGE MACDONELL, C.B., has taken place at the advanced age of 90. This officer, who was a cadet oJ the ancient and loyal Scottish house of Macdonell of Glengarry, was the son of an officer who served under the flag, and who, we have been told, was on the Staff of Prince Charles Edward Stuart at the battle of Culloden, where he was severely wounded. His son, the oolonel now deoeased, was born in 1779-, or early in the following year, obtained his first commission in 1796., and was nominated a Companion of the Bath in 1817. THE PRESENT HOUSE OF COMMONS is prone to express its views of men in the shortest of ways therefore, in accordance with Mr. Osborne's sugges- tion, it henceforth designates one of the Ministry as. The noble savage." One distinguished member, an ex-minister of India, is known as the goat. Another, one of the Irish law officers of the Crowa, passes as "the leopard. Bernal Osborne is the "Universal representative." "The people's Wil- liam" all know. Bright ia Turnbull." « The Nin- eveh Bull" has disappeared; but we have still tho Bengal tiger," the Pundit," and the Rappasee." A YOUNG WOMAN NAMED THERESA DAVYS, daughter of Mr. John Davys, of Sheffield, has destroyed herself by taking some vermin-killer." Deceased, who was only eighteen yeara oft age, was found by her mother-late in the evening an question lying on ths sofa in the drawing-room, apparently in great pain, Two, doctors were at ones, sant for, and before Jisheir arrival the girl confessed,to her father that,she had takea poison. Remedies were at once administered, ^sad for a time it .was thought the un- Sprtunate girl's life would be. saved.j but at aboat, ij midnight stvi}; in a suddq^.psepj^m of pain.