MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1431, 14 December 1886, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, November 21. The Council of the Social Democratic Federation sent a letter to the Marquis of Salisbury on the 16th November demanding that be should receive a delegation of the unemployed workmen on Sunday, the 22ud Inst, and for that purpose that he should forego hia usual practice of going into the country on Saturday Sunday was selected, because the delegates were compelled tj spend all their time on other days of the week seeking work. The Right Bon Beery Ch.plin, M.P , li a epeeoh on November 14th to the tenants, farmers, and laborers of Lincolnshire, proposed Protection as remedy for the present depression in English agriculture at d manufactures. The London Local Government Board, in its reply to a Utter recently add eased to it by the Social Democratic Federation, calling attention to an alleged increase of paapers, says U'o percentage of pauperism in • tciober, 1886, was two to 1000 of the population, white in the same month of 1808 the percentage was 42 to every 1000 Lord Charles Beresfotd baa offered to find and command a volunteer crew to man a ship to be attacked by torpedoes. He has no faith in the torpedo system

The Birmingham Gasworks and 5000 tons of cot-e were destroyed by fire on No'ember 11'h.

A pr z ■ fi 0 t for £IOO and the championship took piece at Burlington, Middlesex, on November Hth. One of the combatants was killed.

Ward, the Socialist, who was arrested in Trafalgar square on Lord Major s Day f>- disturb' o / -he peace, was fined 10s on Noverabr 12h.

The Vatican denies that dlp'ornaf'c relations have been established with England.

Advices were received ft Plymouth on November 14th that the Chinese steamshi , Tatokuman was horned while running under pre-sure in a gale off Nayagatn, and that ninety-six persons who were on board perished, including the officers, who wort Englishmen. Lord Lon*dale, whose name has been connected with the actress VioletOameron, and for whom he was acting as manager in Nl ew Fork, left for London hurriedly on October 29ih, called thither by business troubles and strikes at his coal mine.

The Vatican is about to issue an Encyclical letter condemning and stigmatising the Italian Government. The river Po and Adige overflowed on the 10th November and submerged the country along their course. At Albanea, at 1 igh water, it dislodged the railway bridge whi e the train was passing, p e oipitating the cars and passengers into the river. Five persons were drowned. It is said three Italian ironclads have been ordered to join the British fleet at Malta.

Great distress amongst the unemployed in Germany during the pre ent winter is predicted by the Dcmtsig Zeitting - Trade according to this paper Is paralysed. Hampton Court Palace was set on fire on November the 15'h by the bursting of a lamp. The fire started in apar 1 merits shutting on the tennis c >urt. All were destroyed. • The report of the Vliddleaboro’ Oh«mber of fonmeros, made on the 19th, shows that British steel ra Is are driving German rolls out of 'he ma'ket.

Th" Lo'd Mayor propo»es a ’ ’ommlsaion of I qn'ry into »h« prevailing distress, with a view f aff rding rell-f daring the coming w nter. A met tin 4 of British anarchists has been called to assemble in Cleveland Hall, London, on Nov inter 23cd to protest against the action of the Chicago Court, which tried and se r t3nced th anarchists’ colleagues. The Hon Aaberon Hsrbert. brother of the Earl of Carnarvon, will probab > presl ie. Tjord Randolph OhurohUl created a tremendous sensation bv denouncing the Lmdon O rporation. He told the mem-be-s that although being in coit'ol of the metropolis they repr sented in fact but-a small fra”ion of population, and inti mated that the best solution of the metropolitan government d fficulty would be the traorfa r of ther powe to a central representative b' dy.. Toia 'a eors'de-ed anotbe- move by Lord Churchill to push himmlf forward a- the expense of the Prime Miots'cr,

Th' National 0 invention of Irish N=»tlona’ists hdd at Liv rp >ol or. Nov-mber ♦he 7 h is reported t' have been large as to numbers and imposing in influence Mr John Dillon, M.P , reports that mmv of 'he 1-rgest land! uda have recently rhnwn a riirposi'i n to act far more reasonably than in 188*1, a ! thongh a number ’f them refu-e a reduction and p-esa tenanis tor rent. Soma mem ers of the Parnell party are slso pushing their tenants rera traelea*ly. Among these are Sir Jos-ph N«ale McK" -na. member for S"" ! h Mmaghan, a-d Wm. J Corbett M P fo- the Fast Dlvis’ou of the county of Wicklow These ParDdllteS; and -cores of ernaller landlords o p the same oa-'y, are servi-ig writs. a>d evicting whole.-a’e, the resistance to which is growing stronger and stronger in all par’s of Ireland The coutem lated dismissal of Sir Rob ire ttami’tm fom the Permanent Under-Seo r et\ryshlp of Ireland because of his known Home Rale views has created some stir in Irish circles, and it is thought that trouble will ensue in Ireland if this panose be carried into effect. The Court <■( Q icon's Bench was crowded on November 17th by fashionable and distinguished people to witness the trial of the second action for libel brought against Lord Chief Justice Coleridge by his son-in-law, Adams. Adams declared th't the Lord Chief Justice wrote a letter, explaining to certain personal friends why he opposed the marriage of his daughter Mildred to Adams and in the letter it is alleged the plaintiff endeavored to obtain his daughter’s by compromising her so that she wou ; d be cnmpe led to marry him. The publication of this libel, Adams contended, consisted in showing the letter to Lord Melbourne the Lord High Chancellor, and to the Earl of Iddeslelgh, who were indn-ed to act as referees In the other action for libel, based on th" Lord Chief Justice’s letter to bis daughter, endeavoring to dissuade her fr <m marrying the plaintiff by making severe attacks on his personal character. It is now said that the story of the murder of Count Deventern by the Osar in a moment of passion, or while apprehending fear from him, has not the slightest foundation, but is a He from b»ginn’iir to end. No such person as the Count existed in the Czar’s household.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Fb an cisco, November 22. Jessie U. Lord, editor of the Scientific American, was found dead extended <>v*i bin wife’s grave in Old North Cemetery, Hartford Conn ,on November 10th. Be had shot himself with a revolver. Judgment for 2,00d,00 1 dols has been friveo by the United S >tes Supreme Court against ’he United S’atea in favor of the Chastal (I idlan) nation, and in sei'lemenr of the I diana’ claims. Tremendous storms have neen experienced on the Great Northern Lakes, involving many shipwrecks and much loss of life. It was onrren*’v r- n oted in Detroit on November 20ihth*ithe aw ■ a conspiracy on foot in murder Mi n il Uavi'.t, because of his opposition to the extreme measures proposed by the O’Don van Robba l iah faction.

The Northern Pacific Railway la nego- * iaiing the purcnaae of the Oregon Navigation Company’s Paget Sound Si wmeri*. with a view to offering greater competition to the Canadian railroad people for the control of Victorian, British Columbia and Poget Sound trade Mr Jus'ico Gillies, of New Zealand ncromp mied by his daughter, Itft San Franc'RC > for Europe, via Chicago and New York, on November sih. A syndicate of Canadian residents in Minnesota have acqu ,ted a tit e to about 50 000,000 acres of pine timber In the north-western pa-t of th>t tate, and is arranging to “ gobble up” the rest of (he vmt timber belt in the north slope, incladipg about one-ha f of the entire State. The Rev Henry Ward Beecher, the popular Ameri an preacher, returned on October 31st in better health than in temper with English people. The Plymonth Church divine was not wanted In the Old Country where his orthodoxy was challenged on all bauds A fight between J >bn L, Snlllvan, the Boston “s’ogger," and the American chamoion, Paddy Ryan,|took place at the Pavilion, San Francisco, on Saturday night, November 13th. Ryan was defeated in three rounds. < he only interesting part ponnected with the encounto is *hat the contestants shave 10,000 or 12 000 dollars gate mouey, Beforp visiting Australia Sullivan will g» to England. The condemned 'anarchia s of Chicago are respited till March next. New York working men have|:akan their favor] .. - i .Jl

There '■ a scheme afloat among some restless spirits in Texas and Ariz to invade three north-western States of Mexmo and lower California, and establish what they call a S icUliat Repnblic .The movement grows out of the recent Catting trouble at El B»?co Anxiety is felt in Chicago that anarch• ists may take measure to daduge the city There are dark hints of bl -wing down the water towe- with dynamite, and firing the city in several places at the same time. Henry George, the defeated candidate for the New York Mayoralty on the social reform ticket, has been severely criticised in a pis’oral letter by Archbishop Ooongan Be is preparing a reply, bat confesses himself somewhat stag mred by being SO heavily aat npon by the Church. A convention of Catholic priests belonging to the Arch d’ocese of New York, as— - gambled in the city on the 17th* The priuo pal business was to consider the growing tendency of married people to divorce and to take measures to counteract it. The Turkish Government is poshing the factories of Hartford,,Conn., with orders for war material. Mr Greenhaum, latelyComul at Samoa arrived at 'Frisco, from Apia, on October 30th, by the Mariposa He states h e resignation as Arne man Oonsni was given in consequence of an agreement between England, the United States, and Germany to wi hdraw their Oonsals-Gknetal from the islands. Mr Greeobanm will represent Hawaii at Samoa The Monarch Steamship Company, of New York, are building an enormous steamer for the Japan and China trade, with a view of diverting it from San Francisco and bringing it direct to New York. Ben Most, the anarchist, has written a letter in opposition to Henry George and George's movement. He denounces the author of “Progress and Poverty” as a mere mercenary who has doomed himself bv Ms book.

The steamer leaving San Francisco for the col mieson >h» 16 h proximo willcarry to A ckhiid 2,500,000 fish eggs from the Un :t ed Statea.

T be question of negotiating • treaty between Canada and tbe Sandwich Islands i- an ier consideration by the Dominion O'-vrr’imant.

The Canada and Pacific Railway bridge, spanning the St Lawrence at Laohine, was fioixhed on November 12th, It has twelve piers bnilt in the water 18ft to 35ft deep, a 7* mile current. 1 idi a 0 < mee ings were held at St J hn and F -de-ickton, N 8., on November 15th, consequent npon the decision o F the <> minion Government to make Portland. Maine, the terminal p «t of •he ocean mail service. It is the opinion of in Montreal that neither Halifax nor ?t John’s can compete with Portland.

i’hi f Engineer Menooal, of the United States Navy, has lost faith in the Panama Ca-al. As yet tbe work has been attached only on twenty-three of the sever.-ty five kilom t'e- ompislng the Canal prop r. Ha tbit ks it better to abandon the route a id start a new canal a r - some rther p-df-t.

Despatches of N vemt e - 18th state that he Co'umb aa ‘onset at ew York, Senr.r Calderon, has received information that the work o > the canal had practically stopped, and that th«re was trouble berw- en the Con raotors and the Canal Company in regard to payments for the work performed.

The Legis’stiva Connell of^Jamaica baa passed a r. eolation asking that the islands he permitted to make arrangements with the fTnFea it-s or Canada on some basis of r.-cipr-iclty. in order that the sugar producers may find a favorable outlet nearer home.