English News.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 825, 1 February 1868, Page 2

English News.

Outrages on the police in London have recently been very frequent. An American paper begins a short article —“The attention of dogs is called to an advertisement in another column.”' We (Army ami Navy Gazette) are sorry to learn the applications of officers to retire from the army are unusually large at present. The London Underground. Railway has carried in six months’ time over 12,000,000 passengers, or about three times the population of London. It is stated that the Royal West Indian Mail Company has lost during the twentytwo years in which it has carried on the mail service twenty ships valued, at two millions sterling. To prevent bread, riots in Paris, the Government have had. recourse to the clumsy expedient of fixing the price _of bread, promising the bakers compensation for their losses out of the Government funds. A new name has been invented for the Reversible Waterproof Overcoat. In compliment to the Earl of Derby, Mr Disraeli, and the party of which they are the leaders, on having turned Reformers, it is called “The Conservative.” A “strange vessel,” looking like a frigate, and supposed, of course, to be a Fenian, is reported to have appeared off the coast of Ireland. There has been a rumour that Emperor of Abyssinia has issued letters of marque, and that some of them have found their way to America. A villager in Estremadura having been drowned in attempting to cross the Tagus on horseback, the mayor ordered a search for the body. His edict gave as means of identification the following particulars “Dark complexion, tall, marked impediment in speech.” The Paris Exhibition of 1867 was visited by nearly all the sovereigns of Europe, and by some of the rulers of the Eastern world. Those monarchs who did not go are —Queen Victoria, Queen Isabella of Spain, King Victor Emmanuel, the Sovereign of Persia, and the Emperor of China. One day last week the keeper of some offices adjoining the Bank of Liverpool found in the basement of the building a strange looking piece of hollow iron, like a spear-head, and charged with detonating powder. It bore the words “Improved bomb lance.” It is said that a servant girl found a similar thing a few days ago, and using it as a poker caused an explosion which did considerable damage. During the removal of articles from the Paris Exhibition, in the Italian section, a workman called on one of his companions to assist him in lifting an immense cheese, which had stood against a wall, into a packing case ; the men stooped and put out all their strength, but what was their surprise to find that the article was as light as a drum. A family of rats had installed themselves in it, and nothing but a mere shell remained A fearful collision between two vessel occurred off the south of Ireland on the 6th instant, between the ship Esmok, bound from Liverpool to Calcutta, which left the Mersey on the 2nd December, 1867, and the French ship Alma, from Callao to Havre. The shock was so severe that the crews of both vessels were obliged to take to the boats, and they fortunately succeeded in reaching Queenstown in safety. The Esmok "was afloat when her crew left her, but the Alma sank in deep water Shortly after the collision.

Advices from Lloyd’s agent at St. John’3, Newfoundland, report that on the 9th of October a terribie storm, with a heavy fall of snow, swept the coast of Labrador, destroying nearly all the vessels lying in the different harbours. Upwards of thirtyseven lives were lost among the vessels th t foundered. The inhabitants also greatly suffered; the'r stores of provisions, &e. , were swept away by the storm, and they were in a sta.ving condition.