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(fpiiottw af itÍ1.1s. THERE ARE TO BE 117 polling-booths in Glasgow, at the approaching election. THE Church Review is informed that the Hon. Colin Lindsay has been received into the Roman com- munion. BISHOP DUGGAN has prohibited dancing of any kind in the Catholic diocese of Chicago during fairs or bazaars held for charitable purposes. A TELEGRAM from Paris states that Baron James de Rothschild died at seven o'clock on Sunday morning. A YOUNG DUTCH TOURIST has just blown out his brains at an hotel at Mayence, from having lost considerable sums at the gaming tables at Wiesbaden. THE LAST CENSUS taken at Florence shows that the population has increased, since the removal of the capital there from Turin, from 119,800 to 177,284. MR. R. S. HICHENS, who on Monday was re- elected chief magistrate of St. Ives, burst a blood-vessel on the following morning, and died in a few hours. Mr. H. J. BYRON is about to appear as an actor at the Theatre Royal, Manchester. THE MOST PROLIFIC of pantomime writers, Nelson Lee, has written one to-order for the Australian stage its title is £ s. d. THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS, both of whom have married Frenchwomen, have returned to America. The health of both is exceedingly bad. A YOUNG MAN named Nesle has been fined 10Of. for having brought a copy of the Lanterne with him from Brussels. AT TALCAHUANO, on the night of the 14th of September, the tide ran with great violence, the sea was hot, and fish was cast ashore cooked THE SPECIAL SERVICES under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral will be resumed in the first week of the new year. THE RESULT of the sale of Church property in Italy since November, 1867, is estimated at 69k millions of francs. A NEW CONE is reported to have opened on Mount Vesuvius, and to be emitting a large quantity of lava. ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, has de- termined to establish a Professorship of Law and Modern History, to commence with the new year. ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON Dr. Milbume, of the Blue-bridge, Halstead, while hunting with the Essex and Suffolk fox-hounds, fell from his horse and expired instantly. The melancholy event occurred at Chappell. THE Panama Railroad Company's steamer Parkersburgh was wrecked on the night of the loch ot September, at Amapala. The passengers, crew, mails, specie, baggage, and part of the cargo were saved. THE SALES OF ENGLISH WHEAT noted last week were 71,828 qrs. at 52s. 3d., against 67,671 qr3. at 70s. Id. in 1867. The London averages were 55s. Id. on 3,309 qrs. THE SWO JUDGES appointed to sit upon election petitions 3a Scotland, and to investigate and pronounce sentence in cases of "corrupt practices" and "undue influence," are Lords Cowan and Jerviswoode. A PARIS JOURNAL states that the Emperor Na- poleon is very much annoyed at the King of Prussia being selected as arbitrator in the Alabama dispute, instead of himself or the Czar. UNE OF THE PAPERS says that a new piece is to be performed at the Compiegne private theatricals, in which her Excellency Princess Metternich will have a part. It is to bear the curious title of La Mitrailleuse. Miss NEILSON has appeared at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, in a drama adapted by a Bir- mingham dramatist, named C. Williams, from The Captain of the Vulture, an early novel by Miss Braddon. THE MASSACHUSETTS HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY declare against the use of butter, which they aver contains no element of food required by the human family." THE Independance Belge says that the French government has just made a present to the Roman go- vernment of 20,000 muskets, 6,000 of which are Chas- sepots, an act of generosity which the Belgian paper thinks will not be over agreeable to Italy. THE NUMBER of private bills which will come before Parliament during the forthcoming session will exceed 300 and amongst this large number of private schemes will be found three legitimate direct lines to Brighten. THE TRIBUNAL OF PRAGUE has just condemned a priest named Hauscka, secretary to the archbishop, and preacher to the University, to a fortnight's im- prisonment for exciting his congregation to revolt by a sermon against civil marriage. IN THE OPINION of the European Commission of the Danube the produce of the navigation dues, originally estimated at 1,071,000f. for the current year, will reach a sum of 1,200,000/ which will be devoted to the formation of an effective reserve fund. THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT has ordered measures to prevent the taking away of any article of value frem the palaces which belonged to the former Elector of Hesse. The guard at the palace has been doubled. A CABLE TELEGRAM, dated New York, Thurs- day Nov. 12, says The fight between O'Baldwin and' Wormald* for the championship of the world has taken place at Wechawken the former was the victor in one round, in which Wormald had his jaw broken." THREE SPECIMENS—one male and two females -of a bird rarely seen in England, the parrot crossbill, have been observed in the neighbourhood of Great Malvern. Their appearance is considered an indication of approaching severe weather. THE MARQUIS DE CLERMONT TONNERRE has let his mansion, Rue Lascoges, to the eldest son of the Viceroy of Egypt, for £ 1,500 a year, which is a fresh instance of the increasing value of houses in Paris, as last year the same house only let for £1,000 a year. THE BARQUE ZtTUS, of Shields, Captain Turn- bull, from Sulina, with a cargo of maize, has been irrecoverably wrecked on a reef on the south-east coast of Malta. No lives were lost, and the upper spars and sails were saved. SIR JOHN YOUNG, accompanied by Lady Young and Mr. Francis Turville, his private secretary who filled the same office during the right hon. baronet's governorship of New South Wales, has left town en route for Canada. THERE HAS BEEN a terrible fall of snow on the Alps. The Courrier de I'Isire relates that more than 8,000 sheep have been buried by the snow upon the mountains of Allevard, thereby entailing upon their owner a loss of £ 5,000. THE CORK PAPERS report the death of the Very Rev. Morgan O'Brien, P.P., of Mitchelstown, who for many years held a conspicuous and influential position amongst the clergy of the diocese of Cloyne. He took a prominent part in Irish politics. AT GUILDHALL on Monday, witnessing the nomination, were his Highness Hassan Pacha, son of the Viceroy of Egypt; Nubar Pacha, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by Colonel Campbell, Mr, Charles Oppenheim, and other gentle- men. THE STATEMENT to the effect that the claims on the North-Western Company arising out of the Aber- gele accident have been settled is contradicted. A firm of solicitors write to the Times that they have three actions now pending against the company, and that they are aware of another claim of between £ 20,000 and >230,000 unsettled. ANOTHER NEW GUNPOWDER.—A new kind of gunpowder has been invented by a M Halm. It con- sists of 367-5 parts of chlorate of potash, 168-3 of sulphuret of antimony, 18 parts ot charcoal, and 46 parts of spermaceti This gunpowder can be conveyed without any danger of an explosion, provided the chlorate be added only at the moment of using it, in the proprtion of 46 parts of that substance to 29 of the others. THE Sporting Oazette announces that Ladv Elizabeth, The Earl, Equerry, and The Duke, the perty of the late Marquis of Hastings, will be brought to the hammer early in December. The Earl, for whom a large foreign offer has been made, is not unlikely, how- ever, to be disposed of in the interim. It is reported that Mandrake and Paul Jones have been sold to go abroad. IT IS STATED that an aggregate of about 1,000 candidates are appealing to the constituencies of the United Kingdom, and of those 420 are Tories, the re- mainder (580) being supporters of Mr. Gladstone. 481 members of the late Parliament have offered themselves for re-election, and of these 31 appeal to new con- stituencies. Seventy-seven old members have retired altogether frcaa Parliamentary life, There, are 525 new candidates. Two IRISH GIRLS who were plucking a cabbage in Milford, Massachusetts, preliminary to the celebra- tion of Hallow E'en, were fired on by the owner of the garden, also an Irishman, and one of them, by name Bridget Murray, was killed. A REQUISITION having been presented to Mr. Chambers, the present Lord Provost of Edinburgh, to allew himself to be nominated for re-election as Lord Provost, his lordship has consented, and will doubtless be re-elected unanimously. LORD DARCY OSBORNE, in shooting the other day, at Thorp Perrow, Yorkshire, made a very re- markable shot. His lordship fired at a hare in the long grass, killed it, and going to pick it up, to his astonish- ment found five partridges, all killed by the same shot. THE FOLLOWING gentlemen have been nomi- nated for the Rectorship of St. Andrew's University, vacant by the termination of Mr. John S. Mill's term of office-Mr. Disraeli, Sir R. Murchison, Sir John Hersehel, Mr. Ruskin, Mr. Browning, and Mr. Charles Dickens. THE RECONSTRUCTION of the grand cupola of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem has just been termi- nated in perfect conformity with the tenor of the pro- tocol signed on the 5th of Sept., 1862, at Constantinople, by the Ambassadors of France and Russia, and by the Grand Vizier, Aali Pacha. IT MAY, we believe, be stated that the commis- sion at present sitting has determined to abolish the Oxford Circuit, and to make certain alterations in the Midland to abolish the Home Circuit, and extend the London sittings into August; and to give Lancashire a circuit of its own. A FIRE BROKE OUT the other day at Sutton House, Shrewsbury, occupied by Mrs. Phillips, her daughter, and two servants. The flames spread with fearful rapidity, and the inmates only escaped with difficulty in their night dresses. The house was com- pletely gutted. THE THREE BOYS who lately attacked" and en- deavoured to stab another lad near Manchester, have been sentenced to a rather extraordinary punishment. ihey are to be imprisoned for a month, flogged with a birch rod every day during that term, and, at its expira- tion, sent to a reformatory for five years. PRINCE WILLIAM OF HANAU, according to the Morgenzeitung of Cassel, has brought an action at law against his father, the late Elector of Hesse, who has withdrawn from the Prince the appanage of ten thousand thalers, which had been assured to him on the conclu- sion of his marriage. A MAN named Henry Perkins, whose home was in London, died at Leeds the other day. He was en- gaged as the showman of a giant horse on exhibition at the fair, and the animal gave him a tremendous kick in the abdomen. He was removed to the infirmary imme- diately, where he died. THE INQUIRY into the recent collision at the Nore was concluded on Saturday, the decision of the Court being that the collision was due to the careless- ness of John M'G. Wallace, master, and W. H. Hendry, first mate of the North Star, the steamer which ran down the Leitchardt, and their certificates were ordered to be suspended. THE John Butt says that the Worshipful Com- pany of Salters, who, through their large estates in the North of Ireland, are specially connected with the Protestants of Ulster, have just unanimously elected the Bishop of Oxford a member of their company an honour which he alone of the bench shares with the venerable Irish Primate. KING CHARLES XV. of Sweden has recently refused to sign a death warrant against a woman con- victed by one of the tribunals of poisoning. His Majesty declared, at the same time, that for the future no capital execution should take place in his kingdom, and that if the death penalty were not abolished by law he desired it to cease in fact. IN THE MIDST of a long list of subscriptions in the Temps to the Baudin monument of not more than 2fr., 3fr., or 5fr. there appears one of 200f. from M. Henri Rochefort, editor of the Lanterne. M. Louis Blanc writes to the Temps from Brighton that he joins heart and soul in the Baudin subscription, and puts down his name for 20fr. THE CONVOCATION of the prelates and clergy of the Province of Canterbury was on Fridaj dissolved in the Bounty-office, Westminster, pursuant to the Royal writ, by the Vicar-General, Sir Travers Twiss, under a commission from the Dean and Chapter of Can- terbury, guardians of the spiritualities during the vacancy of the Archiepiscopal See. MR. JOHNSON, the President of Bridewell Hos- pital, attended Divine Service at the Foundling Hospital on Sunday morning, and after the conclusion of the service was seen to stagger and fall upon the floor. He was picked up, and a medical gentleman, who was quickly in attendance, pronounced life to be quite ex- tinct. INTERESTING ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY.— Some soldiers, in digging a trench at Hildesheim, found about 50 vases, cups, candelabras, and other objects in massive silver and richly chased they are evidently the work of Greek artists, and apparently date from the time of Augustus. Among them is a goblet with orna- ments in relief representing Hercules strangling two serpents; and a second, with satyrs, bacchantes, and other similar figures. DISTRESS [N WOOLWICH.—The recent action of the authorities in discharging great numbers of work- men who had been employed in the Royal Arsenal Dock- yard, &c., has resulted in great distress to some hundreds of families. In a very short time 1,200 have been dis- charged from the arsenal alone and, on the Military Clothing Store being removed to Pimlico, between five and six hundred women will have to seek fresh employ- ment. JOHN DAY V. AiDmxRALdous.-There is now every probability that this action will come into court, notice of trial having been given to the Admiral's solici- tors, Messrs. Walters, Young, and Walters. The case has been set down to be heard at the end of this month or the beginning of December in the Court of Queen's Bench. Messrs. Vallance and Vallance are the solicitors concerned for John Day, and the damages are laid at £ 5,000.—Sporting Life. IMPROVED GOVERNMENT FOR THE METRO- POLIS. With a view of early action in the new Parlia- ment, on the now most urgent question of the govern- ment of the metropolis, the Metropolitan Municipal Association have given the requisite Parliamentary no- tices for their bills to establish municipalities, and a corporation for London, with the intention of proceeding, at the earliest opportunity the farms of Parliament will permit, in their discussion. BIRMINGHAM DOG SHOW.—The list of entries for the annual exhibition of sporting and other dogs, to be held at Birmingham simultaneously with the ap- proaching cattle show, is now completed. In the divi- sion for sporting dogs there are 504 entries, and in that for dogs not used in field sports, 302, making a total of 806. Last year the total number was only 691, being 460 sporting and 231 non-sporting dogs. THREATENING LORD How.E.-An elderly man named John Hill has been committed for trial by a magistrate at Leicester, for sending a letter, in which he threatened to murder the whole family, to Lord Howe. No motive was assigned but the prisoner had lived on a farm under the noble lord, and had preVli nsly suffered two years' imprisonment for making use of similar threats. REQUIEM MASS FOR THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.—The following account of a recent func- tion in a ritualistic place of worship we copy from the Church Nes :—« St. Clement's, Cambridge.—On Tues- day a requiem mass was sung at this church for the re- S°jUl tte ]ate Archbishop of Canterbury. Both then and at the ordinary dailv mass a large number of the faithful were present to iorav for the deceased prelate. THE LONDON THEATRES are drawing fr°m music halls rather largely. Two masculine comic singers are now assisting in two sensational dramas. Mr. E Marshall goes to the Globe Theatre. Miss Kate Santley is now performing at the Queen's, in the burlesque of The Stranger. Miss Nelly Power will appear at Covent Garden Theatre. Miss H. Coveney goes to Drury Lane and an engagement with Louie Sherrington has lately been made for another of the west-end theatres. AN OLD FASHION REVIVED.-The present geaSon in London will probably be chiefly remem- d on account of its having witnessed the reintro- d r n of powdered hair. Perhaps the ladies who so S'L to grace themselves were moved by some dim sense of propriety in choosing the opera-house as the scene of their first experiment; for the practice of powdering the hair is said to owe its origin to certain ballad singers who whitened their heads in order to lend point to the wit of their songs. However, powdered hair has again made its appearance amongst us and, on Monday evening at least, certain graceful young persons I were to be seen in Covent Garden boxes, looking not unlike,a living portrait of Madame the Marchioness de i Pamjpadaur,—London jgmm* THE COBRA POISON.-In an interesting pam- phlet on the cobra poison, Dr. Francis has called atten- tion to the dislike which cobras and other venomous snakes have to emsote, and he suggests that it or car- bolic acid shgvld be freely used in homesteads and in the neighbourhood of cattle-stalls or sheds, to keep the reptiles away, seeing that there is good reason to think that the milk of animals bitten by cobras may convey the poison to those individuals who make use of it.- The Lancet. INTERESTING SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERT.—The Master of the Mint, Mr. Graham, has discovered that the metals palladium, platinum, and iron have the property of absorbing a hundred and even sometimes a thousand times their weight of gas. It appears that the gas is not merely held in the cells of the metal, but in- corporated therewith, for a piece of palladium gave off no gas whatever, though enclosed for two months in an exhausted chamber. Mr. Graham lighted on his discovery while analysing a piece of meteorite. A LEGAL DILEMMA.—In Chicago a fellow named Reed was arrested, charged with passing two ten dollar counterfeit notes. The charge was fully proved, whereupon Reed proved that he had stolen the bills from a comrade. The fact that he stole the money was considered evidence that he supposed the money to be good, and the fact that the money being counterfeit was not money in the eyes of the law, it was contended that no offence was committed in the stealing of it, and he was forthwith discharged. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—The driver of the last train from Warminster to Salisbury, a few nights ago, when about a mile from Heytesbury, felt a jerk as if some obstruction had been placed on the line, and on arriving at the Heytesbury station was alarmed at finding blood and particles of flesh on the wheels, and one of the iron-guards of the engine broken. Assistance was at ence sent down the line, where the body of Mr. Elling, relieving officer of Sutton, was found almost cut in two, and otherwise horribly mangled. NARROW ESCAPE OF A GUNBOAT. Her Majesty's gunboat Starling, while on her way from Hong-Kong to Labuan, was caught in a typhoon, which carried away her boats and dismasted her, and the crew were obliged to throw overboard part of their coal and cannon-balls. After being 35 days out, Captain Bradshaw found himself about 20 or 30 leagues from Cape St. James and, half his crew being laid up sick, he resolved to put into Saigon, which he did, and arrived there on the 6th ult., having been towed up the river by the French war transport L'Aveyron. A NEW SENSATION.—They are going to bring out a new drama in Paris at the Theatre du Chatelet- the title of it, Theorodus; and two new actors are to appear in it-a couple of serpents. Horses have been brought on the stage, and dogs, and pigs, and parrots, and cockatoos, and bears, and even those familiar insects to whose bite the Prime Minister once compared the national debt. But this, surely, is the first appearance of snakes upon any stage. No doubt, ere long, we shall have to hail in London these interesting debutants.— Daily News. THE BELGIAN TIR NATIONAL.—The prizes won by the English volunteers at the Tir National, Brussels, have been forwarded to the Anglo-Belgian Prize Fund Committee, through the Belgian minister, but they are detained at the Dover Custom-house for the compliance with some requisite formalities required for their being passed free of duty. The hon. secretary to the Anglo-Belgian Prize Fund, Colonel Beresford, on the eve of his departure for an absence of some months on the Continent, resigned, and his place is likely to be shortly filled by a gentleman pos- sessing high qualifications for the office. SHAMPOOING SHEEP.—The sheep-farmers in Australia have a shrewd eye for business. Some of the leading men among them have recently spent con- siderable sums of money in the construction of apparatus for sheep-washing with hot water. From water at a temperature of 110°, into which they are first plunged, the sheep -are floated to a tank of cold water, where the cleansing is completed with a kind of douche. So much grease is taken out of the fleeces by this process, that henceforth Yorkshire will be willing to give a better price for the woel. LATE THE OTHER NIGHT a woman dressed in black passed through the toll on the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge, and at once proceeded to the second recess on the east side of the footway, where she seated herself, and remained sobbing and crying. At length she got up on the seat, and threw herself into the river. As the tide was running rapidly up, she must have been carried under the arch. She at once disappeared, for no signs of her could be seen by those who were almost instantly on tte spot. A tollman knew her as being a woman 80 years of age, called Nelly Nash. M. PAULIN, the son of a man who made a fortune by the Illustration (the French Illustrated News, of which he was the founder), committed suicide on Thursday, at his residence, No. 3, Rue Grange Bateliere. After starting in life with an income of upwards of £ 3,000 a year, he ruined himself by gambling at the Bourse and the German gaming-tables. At Homburg and Baden-Baden he frequently played the maximum and broke the bank. He was often heard to say that when he was thoroughly cleaned out" he would kill himself. He fulfilled the threat by enveloping his head in linen soaked in enormous quantities of chloroform. TWO DESTRUCTIVE FIRES occurred on Thurs- day, one at Skipton and the other at Brighouse. At the place first named the fire was discovered in the top room ef the corn mill belonging to Messrs. Wilkinson, and damage to the amount of j62,000 was done. The other fire was still more disastrous. It took place in a seven-story mill at Brighouse, in the occupation of Mr. Jonathan Stott, cotton spinner. The engines available were not of sufficient power effectually to check the progress of the flames, which rapidly consumed a great portion of the premises, and did damage roughly stated at 220,000. Between 500 and 600 persons will be thrown out of employment by the accident. PARISIAN MORALITY.—The following-conver- sation, which well illustrates Paris life, was overheard lately in the Cafe Anglais What a pretty woman Quelle belle femme Yes, she is charming." And that monsieur, is it her husband ? H Øh, no," replied the friend, sipping his absinthe, I should say certainly not; for I have seen them driving very often, and indeed they were at Baden together." Paris morality and Paris manners are odd, are they not ? Don't you go out so often with your wife, or you will get talked about," was the advice lately given to a friend of mine. AN IRISH WILL.—A will has been declared void in the Irish Court of Probate, which was rendered invalid not only by the framer, the Rev. James Ryan, P.P., having had it signed by the witnesses in the kitchen, and not within view of the deceased," but by the assets having been subsequently distributed without proving the will. The testator, a farmer named Gleeson, of Nenagh, left £ 1,200 in bank, besides two valuable freehold farms, and his nephew and heir-at-law disputed the will. As to the.1witnessing of the instrument, the Rev. Mr. Ryan thought the moral presence" of the parties was quite suffioient.. BRIBERY AT SHREWSBURY.—Considerable ex- citement prevails in Shrewsbury in consequence of statements by Mr. Robert Crawford, of the Reform Club, who is the second Liberal candidate for the repre- sentation of the borough. He says that he has had three interviews with a person who offered him Y,800 if he would consent to retire from the contest. The first offer was of £ 700, in addition to X100 being afterwards made. He parleyed with the agent who offered these terms, intending to take the money and divide it amongst the town charities. He has been advised by his solicitor to let the money alone. The Conservatives disavow the agent. ALARMING ACCIDENT.-On Monday evening Lord Mahon and Sir H. Watson Parker, the Conservative candidates for the borough of Greenwich, had just en- tered their private broughams, each of which was drawn by a pair of high-mettled horses, when unfortunately the animals, frightened by the noise of the rabble, took fright and bolted. The greatest alarm ensued, and every effort was made to arrest their headlong career, but without avail, and ultimately both carriages were smashed to pieces and the horses considerably injured. Fortunately, both gentlemen escaped without injury, but their escape from a violent death was most miraculous. Hackney cabs were immediately obtained, and both gen- tlemen departed for Woolwich. AN AFRICAN MISSION.—A mission from his Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar, accredited to her Majesty, has arrived in London, and is located at the Langham Hotel. It consists of his Excellency Sayyid Mahommed bin Salim, and Sayyid Ahmed bin Suleiman, two Arab chiefs of the highest rank at his Highness's Court, and Hajee Mahommed Bakushmir, the con- fidential secretary of the Sultan, accompanied by nive Arab attendants. The object of the mission is con- nected with the suppression of the slave trade on the East Coast of Africa and the revolution at Muscat, where Sayyid Thorwenee, the elder brother of his Highness, was sojqs ti^A ago cruelly murdered by his o wn son.

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