MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1407, 15 November 1886, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

GJS3JSRAL SUMMARY. Mr Gladstone received a deputation of Irish : adies at Hawarden on October 24th, bearing a petition for Home Rule. The signatures number 500,080 Irish women. 'Jhe proprietor of anderson’a Hotel, London, appealed on October 21st to the Lord Mayor to discontinue the annual Blow, because it disturbs business and encourages riots. The coal mine owners of Fifeehire, gcptlapd, refused on October 14'h to give their men 1 10 por cent rice in wages demanded. As a result, 3t> 000 piiners throughout Scotland will suffer from a Ick Out. The Eoyal Enniskillen Fusi iers, stationed at Aldershot, went on riot on the night of October 6th, in resistance to a draft being made for service in Af ica. A savage Oght ensued, and the Irishmen were only subdued after a number of soldiers and police bad been wounded. Excessively warm weather prevailed all over the Continent on < 'ctober sth. The Paris theaties are described as veritable furnaces, and tbe attendance fell to onehfjlf. in London the thermometer was tjOdeg. Two shocks of earthquake were felt throughout Balt a, one' of the Shetland Islands, on the night of October 4th The betroth 1 (f Piince Albert of Wales and Princess Alexandria of Anhalt, is authoti'.ative y dented. Mr Parne’l, h a mother and sister will spend the winter in the #(uth of France, and will mt return to England before thp ro-tipenbig <.f Parliament. ' An Kugiiah tourist named Boyd mysteriously diVappeared at Basle, Swhz itlaud, on October 4-h He was an alniiie climber, and public opinion is

equally divided between accident and f( <al pi,y 113 tho c.iuso of his ois ~-pe»< anca. It is said the Canadian Pac fie ! ’ailr'iß' ! ' Company is pushing the building on the Clyde of eix rew ate inters to bo ueed on the route between Victoria, 8.0 . and Vustralia, China, and Japan, and the British Government will be u r ged to subsidise these lines. Ac sordine to St James Gazette of October 11th, enthusiastic Si cialists dec a r e that thousands of men regularlj drill in London, and they boast they are able to put 10,000 armed men into the Modente Sonialirts fear that the enthusiasts sedulous secret teaching Is telling dangerously in the East End, where there is much poverty and ruffianism A va'uaule petroleum spring was discovered on October 5 h in Sligo under a bouse which was being repaired. At a meeting of the National League, held in Dublin on October 12 h, the nightly receipts were stated at £20,000. The Secretary, Mr Hartington, said that many landlord! were making great reductions in rents, but that a large number of write of eviction continued to be served and executed. The Dublin Mail of 13:h October says that the Rev Augustus Stopsord Brooke, the eminent Unitarian preacher, has become insane, and has been committed to a madhouse. Affairs in Ireland are pursuing a course extremely satisfactory to the Government. According to despatches of October 16th, General Sir Redvers Bullet’s mission has accomplished much, aod landlords generoily me responding lo lord Harrington's I appeai to deal tenderly with the cenan s. There are no such sweeping evio'iona as were predicted. Even United Ireland admits there has been extraordinary reduction cf judicial rents, and says it only remains for the tenants themselves to carry out Mr Parne I’s 50 per cent reduction. Branches of the Irish Nation*! League in the cr unties of Cork and Waterford have been making enquiries regarding the condniona of farms in these districts, and have just re orted. They say that the harvests have been bad, that oats are selling at from 3i to 5s rei bushel, and that heavy losses in stock have rendered farmers unable to pay their rent. On accounted the bad harvest farmers demand a reduction of from 45 to 50 pe p cent in rents, and where the reduction is refused they will pay nothing. A number cf landlords offer reductions of 35 pet cent. Osman Digna’s Soudan stronghold, from which hi* followers were routed on October 5-h has been fully occupied by the British force and their allies. The whole region round about h*a been eff'otua'ly cleared of rebels. The report of the escape from Siberia of the famous Nihilist conspirator Detraisff is confirmed by a d.s a'ch of October 12th. He is now in Geneva. Degalaff planned and cseisted in the murder of Lieutenant-Colonel r-'udeekan, chid of the Russian polios, and one of his staff three years ago. Since Juno, twenty Siberian prisoners have escaped, including tao cavalry officers ard several stud-nts. On the 6*h Oc:ober 'Queen Christiana of sien-'d a decree, freeing the slaves in Cuba fr m the remainder of their terms, A cable deep-itch of B.h October says tho Uvea of some Spanish icaurgeats wore saved by the blunder of an Undersecretary, ' who miiunderittod (he Premier’s whispered communication th it the death sentence of the ' oart Martial was confirmed. He gave out that the prisoners were pardoned. At a Cabinet Council subsequently the Queen signed a decree commuting the sentence of the condemned insurg-mts. The production of an historic d-araa called 1 Quan z ; op, the M“xua” War” r.t the Theat e Chateau Diva, Paris, on October 6th, taused a tremendous noise in the house. ’• ha piav portrays in vivid colors all the phases of Maximilian’s career in Mexico. Paul de Caasagnac has published a moat violent article, denouncing the production as a national disgrace. The French Government purpose an outlay of 28,000,000 francs for the c>n»t»ucticn of men of-war, and of 12,000,000 f ancs for the construction of po tr of refuge, the entire work to be completed within four years. A proposition is made to convert Paris into a pc-yt of entry capable of receiving sea going vessels, by deepening the Seine until it will float craft drawing 20ft This wid cost something over £5,000,0* 0. Despatches of 12th October say the war feeling is increasing in Franca. In addition to the Star, a military paper, the Boulanger party had begun the issue of two new journals to advocate an offensive policy in vindication of the military prest ge of France. General B mlanger, how- > ever, disowns any connection wi>h the 1 papers. M Lavedor, a military critic, writes to Figaro that General Boulanger has prepared a well—conceived plan In conjunction with st«ff officers of hi?h rank for a Continental campaign Le Militaire says General B mlanger desires war, not for the purpose of recovering Alsace and Lorraine, nor to gratify personal ambition, but sb a step towards the solution of social questions. M L oheual, M nister of Commerce, has ordered the police to prosecute all persona selling hi x-s of toys imported from Germany and contsming a map of France without Isace. Too stride-1 taboo on every hing G-rmac. is b ing observed. At tbe same time a number of sandwich men wee anested in the streets of Paris on the 11th October, for dis-, playing placards on which were caricatures of Prince Bismarck. Herr Heiuchetter, tbe Bavarian Premier’s father-in law, after witnessing the trial and sentence of an editor at Munich on October 12. h, for libelling the Premier, run out of the Court room and shot himself. He had been depressed lately by seeing numerous editors fathers of families, imprisoned for email press offences. Count von Zydiz’i, who had served with distinction in the Prussian army, has been sortcnced to one month’s imprisonment in Berlin for keeping a gambling house. Tho G urt also served tn tho Union army during the Southern rebellion. M. Carl Rothschild, head of the great banking firm, died sudden y at Berlin on October 16 - b. of heart disease. Th® Pall Mall Gazette of October 3rd published a series of rasmorauda acdressed to tbe Admiralty by Lord Charles Beretford, Junior Naval Lord, in wh oh he eats he feels bouud to put on record his protest against the entire unreadiness of England for srar. He dwells at great length on the lack cf arrangements for defences and personalty declares there is at head quarters absolutely no plan of operation in case of an outbreak • f hostilities. Unless a man of famous energy and genius should be created by the need England would be face to fare with an irreparable calamity Sir I has. Warren, Chief cf the Lend n police, has matured plans for guarding public buildings sg-inst the dynamiters, which are likely to prove very effective. The bulk of the guards are dressed in plain clothes and work by a special code, ’ HOMICIDE By't’HE C£\R. The ttory that the Czir killed his chamberlain, Batoa de Reutem, at the Palace of Galana wi h a eabre or pistol is confirmed by d-spatches of October 23rd. The impression is that the occurrence was due to ungovernable- temper and an almost ’ 1 insane fit of passionate anger, to which j the Czar is notoriously subject, rather than to mere y a fear of personal attack, De Reutem i» brother of Mdie De Reutem, J With whom the CJraud Duke Alexis con- »

traded h secret marring t‘.;n yea'B or mord"'' *3O The mad the present Czar a-iii the lale Cz ;r furious, acd the latter finally declared it void. °ther accounts 'ay De Reutem made an attempt to kill the Cztr, and the latter fired In selfdefence, A STRIKING SPEECH. A speech delivered hy Lord Randolph Churchill, at Dartford, on October 3rd, has created iotanse excitement among politicians, and baits everything since Mr Gladstone’s conversion to Home Rule. He baa put Irish questions in the pack ground. The Tory party was opposed to that me* hod of restoring efficiency to Parliament known as the Cloture, to land reform, to the abolition of glebe lands and tithes, to local Government reform and democratic solution cf the licensing question known as local option, and to free education. Now if Lord Randolph Churchill s speech means anything, every one of these reforms maker a part of the Tory platform. His reference Vo foreign policy was equally as bold. He did some- • thing more than support the Premier’s speech. He pledged tn express terms not only the sympathy but the support of England to Austria in her anti-Russian policy. Sir 0> arles Dilke. who is again mingling thinks Lord Randolph Churchill unwise. The Conservatives will have no difficulty, in Sir G. Dllke’s opinion, m remaining ii power for at least five years, and, if nothing extraordinary happens, will probibly last ten years. He tbiuks the Liberal party Is not nnitable at present and the situation will not be improved when Mr Gladstone dies op retiree. It is a matter of gossip that Lord Salisbury is dissatisfied at his rdipee by Lord Randolph Churchill, and now contemplates a measure of ref -rm connected with the peerage allowing Peers a right to sit in the House of Commons The country pa.tv, through Mr Henry Chaplin, have raised the flsg of revolt against L .rd R. Churchill’s speech, as representing the new Conservative democracy cf towns Mr Chaplin has written a letter in which be shows contempt for and dhtrust cf the new leader.