The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-24
ENGLISH NOTES.

Considerable excitement exists in England
over the gold discoveries in the Transvaal and
the event has occasioned a great amount of
speculation.
The health of Mr.. Herbert Gladstone, NJ. P.
for Leeds, has been delicate of late, and he
has been ordered to the seaside.
In order to provide for the many thousand
poor of London, the Lord Mayor
fund to send families to Manitoba.
From some cause or other, this commendable
project has failed for want of funds.
Mr.. Guildford Onslow and few Of the
friends of the Tichborne claimant recently
visited him in prison. He was looking well,
but said he did not feel so, and expressed
doubt as to whether he would ever come out Of
Jail alive. He still maintains that he is Sir
Robert Charles Doughty, Tichborne, Bart,
and many believe it.
The Princess Marie, of Nuremberg daugh-
ter of the Dnke Of Waldeck- Pyrmont, and sis
ter of the Princess Helena, Duchess of Alba
ny, and Of the Queen of Holland, recently
died in childbirth, few day safer her sisters,
the princess Helena's, wedding. The Primo
ess Marie was born in 1857, and married in
1878. She leaves two children.
Warbo, son of Ja-Ja, King of Opobo, a
South African monarch, who has gained much
questionable reputation by his wars with the
king of Bonny, was sent to England last year
for education. He was placed at the private
school of Rev. R. Berwick, and showed con-
siderable aptitude for learning, which gave
promise of good future, but he caught chill
whilst playing at cricket, which induced an at
tack of inflammation of the lungs, which end.
ed fatally.
Judging from the fact that, in addition to
the ordinary number of steerage passengers,
four hundred and seventy-two saloon passen-
gers recently left Liverpool in the Cunard
steamer Servia, it would appear that we are
having larger number of visitors than usual
or lot of immigrants of better class. The
number of saloon passengers is by far the
largest which ever crossed in any steamer at
one time.
The proprietors of United Ireland have
commenced an action against the Bright Hon.
orable w. E. Forster, NJ. P. late chief secre-
tary for Ireland, in which they claim $Io2,
600 as damages by reason of the seizure of
their paper. As the law now stands there is
little or no chance of recovering any such
amount from the government.
London is we'll provided with charitable
snstitutions. They number 1000 including 81
hospitals, and AZ dispensaries, and have an
aggregate annual income of twenty million
dollars.
London is at last to have "boss" hotel
furnished on the American principal, after the
style of the Palace hotel at Frisco. 1t will be
will be about three times as large as any exist
ing hotel, and will contain sixteen hundred
suites Of rooms. Mr.. Mackay, the American
millionaire speculator, is at the head of the
movement and the estimates show that ten
million dollars will be required for building
purpose.
DR.. J. NJ. Toner, of Washington City, has
donated to the library, of Congress his entire
private library, containing some &c, 900 books
and pamphlets, mostly medical and scientific,
as free gift. This collection, the lifetime
accumulations of the donor, who has passion
for rare books of this character, is to be so
placed because the doctor desired not only to
obtaina safe repository for his valuable workes,
but also to afford students an opportunity
to consult them. This donation he desires
shall be known as the Toner Collection.
A convict recently waited upon Gov Porter,
of Indiana, to say that having written several
letters asking for pardon, to which he re-
GREETED to say he had received no reply, he
had escaped and come to talk the matter over.
The governor, not to be outdone in politeness,
and at the same time priding himself on his
shrewdness, told his visitor that the pardon
would be considered after he had returned
to prison. Apparently satisfied, the escaped
convict politely bowed himself out, but he has
not yet returned to the Jacksonville Peniten-
tiary.
A Washington correspondent sayes: One of
the familiar figures of Washington is Gen.
Joseph f. Johnston. He is the most military
looking little old fellow that ever was. He has
a quick military gait smart military n'ustache,
and when Tecumseh Sherman and himself are
and laying their heads together
over their wine glasses at dinners and suppers
they are perfectly happy. Gen. She man
thinks Gen. Jnhnston the greatest living SOL