The New York herald., 1870-03-08

Chelsea and Greenwich pensioners are to be paid
| their pensions In full. Notwithstanding that they
may be inmates OF warehouses or IN receipt OF out
] relief
| Eight members OF the famous East India Mysore
family have proceeded 10 England TO complete their
| education there. Four oil them inteno to prepare
themselves for the civil service examination and
f0nr for the bar
Mr.. Disrael entered tho British House OF Com
mons on the 2lst OF February ana remained Tor
short time. On taking his seat he was warmly con.
graduated. The right honorable gentleman looked
pale after his attack OF illness &
A statue or the eminent Nonconformist, Robert
Hail. ~ about TO be erected Al Leicester England ~
cost OF l,0O0 subscriptions nave Dcen received
from the Earl or Shaftesbury, rne bishop VI 81.
Dayid's snd the Lord Mayorof London.
The Sultan OF Turkey called together his principal
military and naval chiefs lately, and received from
them minute details Of the actual working 0rganiza-
sstsScon AZ se rssrms s and advances made
The Italian corvette vedetta has left the port OF
Genoa Tor Massowah, In Aoyssinia for the PURPOSE,
O. naca I'm ~ 1as cbe or
the purpose OF searching for coal.
Preparations are being made for commencing the
long talked Of lighthouse on the Great BASES z
most dangerous and decetful rOcK to the southeast
OF Ceyion. II was begun years ago ana more money
has been expended ON the preliminary work than
tue entire iabric should have cost.
An English deputati0n has had an interview with
Mr.. Shaw Leievre M. r., at the Board OF Trade, to
recommend the legallstion or metric weights and
the Metric act OF 1861 and the legal SUBSTITUTION Of
metric weight for Inc troy weight which the Stand
ard commissioners propose TO abolish.
Pho Non0's latest joke Is told thus:--The bishops
cost his Holiness 00 daily so tnat he mas mad TO
pay for two months discussion the little sum OF
6OG ooo ~ PR q. m aMese q aS,s @ sald ms
no Jdttne" lin their ea9erness 10 make me infal-
tiDfe they will make me fail.
The agricultural statistics of Ireland for 1868 have
been issued In London. They state that there are
SAT acres under crops 0990 1898 grass or pasture
ITO fallow, 322, 25S woods and plantations and
4,42s l92 Dog and waste unoccupied. The number
OF hodings not exceeding one acre decreased BY
08l since 1867 and the number not exceeding dfteen
acres decreased by I,435s
1t Is Just now told OF the Rev. Charles Townsend,
the recently deceased Oct0genaran rector or Kings
t0n-by Sea- England, and the friend Of Scott, Byron
and Wordsworth that ne penned the following witty
epgram aprop0s OF the invasion Of Q re0E0ry by
thlevos:--
They and prigg'd my stockings, linen and my
they prg for they prssd be-
FORE
The Manila and Hong Kong Submarine Telegraph
Company mas been announced IN London, with
capital OF $3.50 0oo in So 900 shares OF flo EACH OF
which &7O0OO, IN fully PAID up shares, Will be taken
graphic communication between Manila, the ada
cent ISLANDS, Hong Kong and singapore, through an
exclusive concession from the Spanish government
for forty years.
A letter from Constantnople dated the 7th OF Feb
ruary reports the state or the weather thus:-Win-
ter has for some eight or ten days bound us IN his
ICY chains here. couple OF weeks ago we were en-
joying sort Of unnatural summer. hard frost
and quantity Of snow are now with us; SO we have
at present-and apparently likely to last-a regular
old.fashioned English winter, without, however
any Of its seas0nable enjoyments
In suit In the Court OF queens Bench London,
stewards OF the Chetenham steeple chases for In
]nries received by the breaking down OF the grand
stand. The Court held the Defendants LIABLE
although It was expressly found that they had en.
pioyed competent contractors 'inasmuch as public
caterers might make stpulati0ns to indemnify them
anlrn vwha IA nnh had n
Austrian onicial returns or the progress OF the
railways OF the empire have been published, whence
1t appears thar the total length OF lines opened III
1857 was Sl5 miles; in 1865, 2,920 miles, and IN
1852 315. The result Of the extensions Is shown IN
the returns for passengers and goods tranc, which
former ana twenty.fOur per cent for the latter,
giving an increase to the Old lines Of seventeen per
cent
The son Of French merchant established there
made trip on business TO near settlement. and
was no more heard OF for long time. Recently =
large box was myster10usy received IN his store,
which, on being opened, proved to contain the de-
composed body OF the missing youth, which had
been packed with q number Of scorpions. No trace
found.
The French Geographical Society has just held its
meeting under the o. the Mar
read statement on the progress OF the science IN
1892 NJ. Barbie du Bocage, reporter Of the commit.
francs given this year Tor the nrst time announced
that the award OF that body had been In favor OF
| Ferdinand de Lesseps, who Dy cutting through the
| Isthmus Of Suez accomplished the work most usctu
| to the commercial relations OF France.
Tho printers Of Manchester, England, memorial
| izsd the Chancellor OF the ExcneQuer on the sub
ject OF the income The memorial sets forth the
| hardships indicted by assessing the tax upon
holders OF weekly situations, the precari0us nature
Of the occupation OF the memoralists, and that In
! . number or cases the average earnings did moi
amount to the sum for which they were assessed
Mr. Lowe did not the matter in the light OF the
| memoriaiistS. "fhe Chancellor OF the ExcheQueI
desires me to observe" writes Mr.. Rivers wilson IN
] reply, that il you and your fellow workmen are
| earning wages equal TO fl0o year there appears
no good reason why you should be exempt from
| Income tax any more than poor clerk or curate
VINO. with equal or greater demands upon them, ar,
| earning no more.n