The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1865-07-22 (London, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  Vesuvius continues to emit the from its principal mouth. In the opinion of competent persons, however, there appears to be no reason to apprehend an imminent complete eruption. - -  .. Booth, the murderer of President Lincoln, had invested eighty dollars in one share of Western oil lands. When he died it was worth 15,000 dollars.  Our Victorian neighbours (says the South A,,stralian ReTistrar) are g*ing into the culture and manufacture of tobacco with great energy, and, we understand, with considerable success. Tobacco is added to their local industries, and promises to become an important branch of colonial produce.  A strange case of piracy is related by the captain of the Liverpool barque Irene, now in the Mersey. He says he was attacked and beaten by a party of Kroomen and Europeans, imprisoned for a week, and his ship was robbed in the interval, He seeks redress from the Government.  The King of the Belgians is again seriously ill. He is unable to leave his palace, and his physicians are in constant attendance upon him.  The youngest daughter of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was lately married at St. John's Episcopal Church, in Hartford, Conn., to an Episcopal clergyman from Boston. The ceremony was performed by Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island.  A Belgian journal says: "Prince Napoleon proposes to undertake a scientific voyage to Kamscbatka, in which he would be accompanied by several naturalists; and the object of the prince's present journey to Havre is really for the purpose of seeing what changes would be required in his yacht, in case the project should he carried into execution.' _ _  The friends of the London Hospital for Sick Children, in Great Ormoud-street, will be glad to learn that the institution has just received a signal mark of Royal favour. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has been graciously pleased to give a donation of .1:50 to the funds of the hospital, the wards of which are now being enlarged to receive fifteen additional patients. Thin charity was established in IS3'2, having but twenty beds—it now has seventy-live beds. • -  The "Dublin Post" reports the committal for trial of "Captain" Hamilton (alias Manderstein, Mauders, and Norris), William Harris, and Charles Somerville, charged with. having fraudulently obtained from various parties in the City a quantity of goods and a considerable sum of money, by means of forged post-office orders.  -•- _ The inquest on the body of the man Lynes, who was shot by a voter named Glass, on Wednesday night—the night following the polling day for Cheltenham election— has terminated in a verdict of "Wilful murder." Glass has been committed for trial on the capital charge. An interlocutor in the Breadalbane case has just been issued by Lord Hareaple, finding it proved that "John Alexander Gavin Campbell (G len falloeh),:Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, is nearest and lawful heir" to the late Marquis of Breadalbane, to the exclusion of the claim of Charles William Campbell (Boreland).  A man named Peter Eashiee, of St. Annell, Cornwall, walked to Trenarren, a distance of three miles, accompanied by two or three persons, for the purpose of attending a prayer meeting at a Wesleyan meeting house there, said while in tho act of praying ruptured a blood vessel, and died almost immediately.  An inquest wag held on Saturday on the body of Wm. Loath, aged thirty-two. On Thursday afternoon the deceased, who was employed at the Lames embankment, was standing on a gangway six feet high, taking up some metal, when another man endeavoured to pass him, wbea the deceased suddenly lost his balance, and fell into the water and was drowned. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."  The Dunkirk Coal Company's, or Astley Deep Pit, Dalciulield, has been on fire for several days, and, notwithstanding every exertion, night and day, to check its progress, the fire increased for a time. The lire originated in a seam of coal Lear the shaft. This is said to be the deepest pit in the world, being